Cancer Files - Dr. Symeon Rodger PDF
Cancer Files - Dr. Symeon Rodger PDF
Cancer Files - Dr. Symeon Rodger PDF
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9. If you are ever diagnosed with cancer, youll quickly learn that theres no reason to panic. 10. Youll learn exactly how you need to react to a cancer diagnosis. 11. Youll learn all about the three conventional cancer treatments chemotherapy, radiation and surgery and what each can or cannot do to help you. 12. And, best of all, after youve learned this information and introduced a few simple changes to your life, you will never have to give cancer a second thought ever again!
Contents
Prevalence of Cancer.........................................................................................6 EM Causes............................................................................................................9 Chemical and Dietary Causes..........................................................................11 Perspectives on Cellular Behaviour...................................................................17 Emotional Causes................................................................................................19 Diagnosis..............................................................................................................26 Conventional Therapies......................................................................................31 Food is Medicine.................................................................................................36 Energy and Belief.................................................................................................45 Inner Life................................................................................................................53 Detoxication.......................................................................................................55 New and Suppressed Therapies........................................................................58 How to Get Good Information...........................................................................63 Preventing Breast Cancer...................................................................................65 Preventing Prostate Cancer................................................................................70 Recommended Online Resources ...................................................................74 Recommended Reading...................................................................................76
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Prevalence of Cancer
zz Put simply, cancer is the growth of abnormal cells. It is what happens
when a group of cells grow out of control and do not respond when the body tells them to stop growing. Cancer is thus fundamentally a problem with the bodys normal regulation of its own growth.
zz Cancer has always been present in the human race. We can trace it
through archaeological and historical records back through the most ancient civilisations, but it was always very rare. Cancer has never been as prevalent as it is today. Incidence of cancer has risen by over 44 percent since 1950 alone. Think about that. The industrial age with all of its environmental problems was actually better off than we are in terms of cancer, despite advances in medicine.
zz The human cost of cancer is something that were all at least somewhat
familiar with. The nancial cost gives a window into the scale of cancers impact on society. In 2008, that cost was $201.5 billion dollars in the United States alone. Of that, $77.4 billion was spent directly on treatment and healthcare. Think about what 77 billion dollars could do- and where that money is going, which well get to later.
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zz The point of all this is not to scare you with the scope of the problem,
which many of you already know, but to impress upon you the abject, abysmal failure of Western allopathic medicine to nd a winning strategy against cancer as a whole.
zz Think about it. In just a few generations, Western medicine all but wiped
out most of the contagious epidemic diseases that used to cut us down in droves- cholera, typhus, typhoid, polio, smallpox, plague. Theyre all still around, but they dont kill us off in droves in the developed world anymore.
zz Every week, you can read or hear on the radio about some new cancer
treatment thats just around the corner, but while some will individually succeed in improving the prognosis of certain very specic types of cancer, very few of them will make any signicant dent in any of these statistics.
zz This is a global failure of approach, and that is really what this series is
about, nding a new (or very old, but different) way of approaching the problem of cancer as a whole. This is not a problem that society can afford to take one cancer at a time, one incremental step at a time. We made the incidence of cancer go up, and its still going up worldwide as more and more people learn to repeat the mistakes of the developed world.
zz So were going to start by asking what these causes are that are
creating the global cancer pandemic.
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zz Most of the time when we talk about causation, were actually talking
about correlation- a certain percentage of patients have x in their background, or, in a certain research population, those with x had a higher rate of developing cancer.
For most cancers, it is likely that a number of these risk factors have come together and cancer has resulted.
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EM Causes
zz One of the major unrecognised causes of cancer is exposure to
radiation.
zz X-rays and other ionising radiation are linked to genetic mutations. zz Heres how it works. X-rays are basically high-energy photons. These
photons impact electrons orbiting the atoms of the cells in your body. These electrons, kicked out of their normal orbits, impart energy to whatever atoms and molecules they collide with, energy greater than any normal biological reaction. The victim molecules, including DNA, are deformed.
zz This is not to say that medical radiology has no benets. Rather the
argument is that:
XX 1. It is used too often XX 2. When it is used the dosage is much higher than it needs to be despite the existence of technology to reduce radiation exposure.
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cell-phone EM elds present danger. According to one study in the Internal Medicine Journal, People who lived within 328 yards of a power line up to the age of ve were ve times more likely to develop cancer, specically leukemia and bone cancer. Those who lived within the same range to a power line at any point during their rst 15 years were three times more likely to develop cancer as an adult.
zz Why dont you hear about this? Well, the US Environmental Protection
Agency would have reported these as probable carcinogens, but it seems that certain obvious interest groups got there rst. Military radar stations, in particular, have time and again been linked to high cancer rates.
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Back in the Renaissance, lead was the culprit. Oh, and it still is today. Laboratory testing in a study by a Canadian environmental group has shown that lead is in up to 96% of our cosmetics today. 20% showed traces of arsenic and cadmium was found in 51%. These are by-products of the manufacturing process and do not have to be labelled.
zz For a list of common household products that may increase cancer risk,
see the list of top cancer-causing products from the National Cancer Prevention Coalition in the accompanying material.
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rats, and that many of the studies paid for by the manufacturers were awed. Under industry pressure, both the FDA and the US attorney hired to investigate aspartame swept the issue under the carpet. Among other effects, aspartame exposed to heat in the body breaks down into methyl alcohol, a poison.
Free Radicals
zz So what is it about these things that is so pernicious? Well, for at least
some of these substances, the answer is that they create free radicals in the body. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules which are produced naturally in the metabolic process and which the body uses as part of the immune system. Your body has mechanisms to neutralise excess free radicals, but when too many of the molecules build up, that system is overwhelmed. Part of the problem with x-rays is that they produce free radicals in the body. Because of their reactive quality, free radicals tend to damage or destroy cells.
Sources of excess free radicals include: zz Radiation from x-rays and microwaves; zz All the heavy metals we just talked about zz Chlorine and uoride in drinking water, zz Sodium Laurel Sulphate in toothpaste etc.; zz Propelene Glycol in toothpaste, hair products, over the counter meds zz Cigarette smoke; zz Hydrogenated trans-fatty oils, such as shortening, deep-fryer oil and
non-dairy creamers; these fat molecules have been modied through long-term exposure to heat or chemical process. They oxidize much more quickly than ordinary fat molecules, releasing free radicals at a rate that kills or damages the host cell.
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zz Other
sources are less obvious. Parabens are a class of chemical in cosmetics and personal care products, including deodorants, shampoos, shaving gel, toothpaste, lotions and sunscreen, and even pharmaceutical and food additives. They accumulate in the body and behave much like estrogen.
By ingesting or coming into contact with articial hormones, you destroy your own hormonal balance and create a cancer-friendly environment.
zz Metals, including the heavy metals weve talked about, may also
behave this way in the body.
Teon
zz Teon in non-stick pans releases particles of a substance derived from
uoride called peruorooctanoic acid or PFOA. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that PFOA is likely a cancer-causing agent in humans. It disrupts the endocrine system, which as we will see is a key factor in cancer incidence.
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Other
zz Propyl gallate, used as a preservative in cosmetics and food, has been
shown to cause thyroid, brain, pancreatic and adrenal tumours in rats.
zz BHA and BHT, used to stabilise fats and oils in processed foods, also
causes cancer in rats.
Summary
To recap, the list of things you want to look for on labels includes:
zz Aluminum in any form zz Talc zz Propelene Glycol zz Propyl gallate zz BHA and BHT zz Sodium laurel sulfate or sodium lauryth sulfate zz Aspartame zz Parabens- Methyl paraben, Propyl paraben, Isobutyl paraben, Ethyl
paraben, Butyl paraben, E216
zz Fluoride zz Soy zz Chlorine zz So-called silver dental llings zz Teon zz Biphenol-A plastics
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zz Two, the viral theory and the oncogene theory, hold that the problem
is genetic, that your own genes, or mutation of your own genes, are somehow causing cancer.
zz The tumour suppressor gene theory proposes that the body also has
a countermeasure against these cancer-causing genes, and that the countermeasure itself can fail. This is now a subject of advanced cancer research.
The Immune Deciency Theory proven and of most states that some cancerous cells interest to us is the Immune exist in everyone but are kept Deciency Theory. This theory states that some under control by the immune cancerous cells exist in system. everyone but are kept under control by the immune system. When the immune system is weakened by radiation,
pollution, toxic chemicals, unhealthy lifestyle etc., normal cells mutate, the immune system loses control, and cancer results.
zz This is the theory that everyone accepts, because they have to. We
know that prevalence of cancers jumps when theres been a nuclear accident like Chernobyl or a chemical spill. This is the theory, in other words, that explains why environmentally-caused damage to the immune system is a large factor in cancer development.
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zz The body can keep cancer at bay. One of the great myths is that
the immune system cant ght cancer. The body can repair the DNA of cells that were damaged by chemical or radioactive agents. The immune system can ght cancer. It happens all the time. The trick is to nd out whats preventing the body from doing its job.
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Emotional Causes
The Importance of Inner Life
zz Where does inner life t as a cause of cancer? We know and can
demonstrate, for instance, that smoking radically increases the risk of lung cancer. But there are lifelong smokers who never develop lung cancer or any of the other cancers associated with smoking. What is different about them? Or, to turn it around, what gives some smokers the extra nudge toward cancer?
zz As early as the 1960s, Dr. David Kissen, a chest surgeon in Britain, noticed
that victims of lung cancer tended to have an unusual degree of emotional repression. He designed studies which demonstrated that these patients had poor emotional outlets, and that the risk of lung cancer in men who couldnt express themselves emotionally was ve times higher. The more severe the repression, the less smoke needed to cause cancer.
zz This is not to say that the smoking didnt contribute- all those who died
of lung cancer in this study were smokers- but it is to say that we now have a risk factor that seems to bridge the gap between physical and chemical risk factors and the disease itself. That factor is the inner psychological life of the individual.
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How It Works
zz The idea that the body and the mind are separate systems is an artefact
of the Western mindset, and though increasing volumes of research support the interdependence of these systems, there is still resistance within the medical and scientic communities to fully exploring the body-mind relationship. The discipline of Psychoneuroimmunology combines immunology, endocrinology, neuroscience and psychology in order to study the interaction between these systems, and especially between the personality, the brain and the immune system.
the thymus gland, the spleen and The idea that the the lymph nodes, have abundant boy and the mind connections to the nervous system and are separate systems act in response to impulses received is an artefact of the from the brain. Likewise, white Western mindset. blood cells and lymph cells provide feedback to the brain, because they are capable of secreting almost all of the hormones, endorphins and messenger chemicals the body produces, and can also read these substances when sent by other cells.
zz The hub of this system are the glands that answer the phones, so to
speak, in the bodys defence system. These are the adrenals, pituitary and hypothalamus. These are the organs that dispatch adrenaline and cortisol to activate the bodys defences when a threat is sensed, whether physical, emotional or health-related.
zz This switchboard gets its instructions from the emotional centres of your
brain. It doesnt know the difference between a hungry tiger and an unsatised emotional need or constant low-level stress. All that this system knows is when we achieve whats called consummation, when weve done something to remove the danger or relieve the tension. If we cant do that, the system stays active, and that activity wears down all of our bodys defence systems. Worse, it becomes, as well see, a self-fullling prophecy.
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zz Studies have shown that lymphocytes, cells which help in the DNA
repair process, have a reduced ability to repair damaged DNA in patients who are depressed. Experiments on laboratory animals have shown a similar pattern with constant external stress.
Hormones
zz Many cancers are hormone-dependent, either arising in organs directly
related to hormone production or else linked to the endocrine system. Cancerous cells have receptors for hormones that can promote cell growth, including sex hormones, one reason that hormone-blocking drugs are prescribed for certain cancers.
zz It is not just the presence of the hormones but the regulation of the
hormones that matters, and hormone regulation is disturbed by chronic stress. In a study of female monkeys, for example, disturbances manifested whenever a monkey was in social subordination to other monkeys.
The Cancer Files 22 from cell division by the hormone cortisol, cortisol levels may be raised for long periods due to stress, leading these cancerous cells to lose their susceptibility. A study at the University of Rochester found that people with these cancers had often experienced a recent emotional loss or separation causing profound stress and anxiety.
Metastasis
zz Stress also profoundly impacts
the ability of cancer to grow and to metastasise, or spread to different parts of the body.
takes cancerous cells to double in numbers, varies not only according to the type of cancer, but according to the environment in the host body. Breast cancer doubling times range from a few days to one and a half years. Starting from a single cell, it would take about eight years to become noticeable at the latter rate.
A large proportion of cancers that are going to metastasize have done so by the time they are clinically detectable.
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zz Emotional repression/ inability to express emotion zz Submissive personalities, inability to stand up for yourself zz A feeling of constriction in life, personal creativity or personal autonomy,
and
zz Anger, resentment or hatred, particularly when repressed. zz Finally, of course, all of these conditions create constant emotional
stress, which is ultimately what causes the immune system to weaken.
zz The rst is the combination of an abusive father and an insufcientlyassertive mother. In this scenario, children will often follow the mothers lead in repressing their true feelings, and they will learn the behaviour of ignoring their own needs, desires and pain in order to cater to the needs of others.
zz So, like their mother, they repress these feelings, and work extra hard
to be perfect in order to maintain their relationships with their parents, since the parents cant put in the energy. They dont share their own pain with anyone, and especially not with their parents. Sometimes they are starved for affection, sometimes just for attention. Before long, every interaction with a parent becomes work, an exercise in selfcontrol, because they are trying to keep up the relationship. Then this spills over into every interaction in their lives- they become the one who needs to be perfect and hold things together and repress their feelings and needs in order to make things work.
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Diagnosis
zz One of the most common questions is how to tell if you might have
cancer, because while a few people might develop a visible or palpable tumour in time to do something about it, that is often not the rst symptom for many cancers.
zz First obviously is a lump that either doesnt go away or grows rapidlyokay, that ones pretty obvious that you should have it looked at.
zz You see how some of these are less than helpful, if you can imagine
getting checked out every time you have persistent cough or hoarseness.
zz Youll notice that pain is not an usual warning sign of cancer in its early
stages.
zz As you know and can guess from this list of early symptoms, early
detection of cancer is far from reliable. That said, the very best course of treatment is prophylactic, making sure that you do the things that will make your body and immune system the least hospitable environment possible for cancer.
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zz You can probably guess the general course of diagnosis, blood tests,
x-rays, MRI and CT scans, ultrasound etc. that can be used to determine if you have cancer. If a tumour is found, it will be biopsied, a piece of tissue removed to determine whether the cells are malignant or benign.
Denial
zz Denial of persistent symptoms is one of the worst possible obstacles to
successful treatment, which often hinges on an early diagnosis. This goes for alternative medicine just as much as for conventional medicine, but for different reasons. The more time you have to transform your bodymind organism, the better.
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zz There are two basic reasons for denial, or rather two different kinds of
denial personalities:
XX The rst is the tough guy (or girl), the stoic personality for whom pain, illness and asking for help in general are signs of weakness. Many of these are athletes, soldiers, or businesspeople. Many have had prolonged experience of jobs or life situations where others depended on them to be strong. Many have also been taught by their families from an early age to be tough-minded, not to show weakness, to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, as it were. XX The second type of denial comes from a feeling of vulnerability, of being unable to face the prospect of chronic and possibly terminal illness. XX Both of these are manifestations of harmful emotional states, and the tough guy attitude in particular is a direct manifestation of one of the personality types we talked about that is prone to cancer.
zz Second, there are the approaches that come from resignation and
victimhood. Maybe its my time, look at the statistics, its Gods will, its karma, etcetera. Well, in a certain sense it is karma, but its your thoughts and actions in this life that have manifested it for you. Thats not a sign that you should go on suffering, but that you should change your life. One thing that needs to be made very clear is that its not Gods will, its your will, or the will of the society that created the environment and the conditions that lead to cancer, but it is certainly not Gods will. We got ourselves into this cancer epidemic, and we will get ourselves out, one person at a time.
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Prognosis
zz Weve mentioned that we have a tendency to treat doctors a little too
much like God, and this extends not only to treatment, but to prognosis as well.
zz The worse the prognosis, the sharper the wake-up call, and the more
radically you have to become proactive in changing your own life.
The presence of cancerous cells can mean different things for different cancers.
Types
So, what are the types of cancer, and what do they mean?
zz At the most basic level, we know that cells can grow out of control,
and they tend to do so in groups in particular areas and form masses or tumours.
zz Not all tumours are cancerous. There are growths that are quite happy
to keep to themselves, and may eventually go away. These are benign tumours. They should be taken as a warning sign to address everything
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The Cancer Files 30 that weve just talked about in terms of causes, but a tumour is only cancerous when it starts invading other areas and stops being selfcontained- in other words, it becomes malignant.
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Conventional Therapies
Chemo
zz Chemotherapy is the most popular form of cancer treatment. zz It uses what are often toxic chemicals to combat cancer. zz One popular class of chemotherapy drugs, called nitrogen mustards,
are close relatives of the mustard gas used in World War I.
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zz Another thing to watch out for is that there are harmful interactions
between chemotherapy and herbal and other natural therapies. It is imperative to consult knowledgeable sources and seek experienced advice before combining the two.
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Surgery
zz Surgery is primarily effective in the early
stages of cancer.
zz Cancers of the skin, breast, stomach, bowel and uterus, for example,
can often be completely cured by surgery if detected early enough.
zz When it can be done relatively safely, surgery is the best tool in the bag
of Western medicine to combat cancer.
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Radiation
zz Radiation therapy, which typically uses targeted X-rays and gamma
rays to destroy cancerous tumours, can be successful in treating certain cancers, such as:
XX Early Hodgkins disease XX Lymphosarcoma XX Inoperable local prostate cancer XX Localised tumours of the head, neck, larynx or cervix XX Testicular cancer XX Childhood leukemia
zz Radiation is not a cure for most cancers and rarely extends life
expectancy for cancers not on this list.
zz People who have had radiation are more likely to have their cancer
metastasise, spread throughout the body.
Conclusion
zz To wrap up our segment on conventional Western medical treatments,
the news is depressing. At best, the evidence is that some of them work, some of the time, while exacting potentially high tolls on your health.
zz One statistical survey by Dr. Otis Brawley, published in the journal Cancer,
suggests that in areas where screening for prostate cancer is widely practiced, the number of men being treated goes up, but the death rate from the disease remains unchanged. If anything, death rates increased slightly, as did the susceptibility of the men being treated to other cancers. On top of this, there is no way to know if a treatment regime for prostate cancer has been successful, since in many cases men can live with it for years untreated and die of something else, and the really malignant prostate cancers tend to kill very quickly. It may seem incredible that the medical community is sticking to a treatment regime that appears to be largely ineffective, but that is exactly what is happening.
zz In light of this study and many others like it, the many stories from
cancer patients of doctors who ignored documented health risks of a course of diagnosis or treatment, or who continued chemotherapy or radiation treatments well beyond safe limits, seem less odd. There is an industrial complex behind cancer, and its shape is easy to see when you realise how many prominent members of the American Cancer Society and similar organisations have also worked for large pharmaceutical companies.
zz The paramount message here is that you need to take control of and
be responsible for your own health, rather than leaving it to the doctors.
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Food is Medicine
zz The most direct way of resetting your internal environment to promote
health and diminish cancer is through the food you eat.
zz If youve seen recent articles on my blog, youre familiar with the dietary
changes that should accompany any kind of poor health. For cancer, the diet is similar, but even more rigorous. Quite simply, the purpose of this diet is to get everything working so well that there is no room for illness.
zz To alkalise the system means eating alkalising foods. This does not refer
to the pH balance of the foods, but their ultimate effect on your system. Fresh fruits and vegetables, teas and some spices including garlic are a good start.
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Antioxidants
zz Antioxidants are natures counterbalance to free radicals. Your body
produces some antioxidants, but to deal with the articial sources of free radicals weve added to our environment, it needs help. Vitamins C and E, Beta Carotine, D3 and B complex, as well as certain amino acids either act as antioxidants or stimulate antioxidant production. The herbs ginko and ginseng and the spice turmeric likewise have antioxidant effects, and certain fruits, such as wild blueberries, are high in antioxidant content. Increasing your vegetable intake also helps.
Soy
zz Has been billed as a health food for cancer zz Asian soy-rich diet often correlated with low cancer rates zz Soy has been correlated with broid tumors zz The only safe forms of soy are fermented forms such as tempeh. Tofu is
not a fermented soy product.
Burn Fat
zz So, weve reduced protein and carbs, so what should your body be
burning? Ironically, high-quality dietary fat from sources such as avocados, butter, coconut oil, olives, olive oil, nuts and eggs. This will not only help you to cut down on body fat once your metabolism is switched over, it will reduce your hunger.
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zz Capsaicin, the compound found in chili peppers that gives them their
spicy taste, has also been shown to assist in triggering apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells.
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zz The herbs you dont have to wait for are the ones in your cupboardturmeric and green tea. Studies at the University of Texas have linked turmeric, and specically the compound curcumin which it contains, with potent cancer-ghting abilities. Curcumin not only seems to differentiate between healthy and diseased cells, it heals by changing the epigenetic tags of the DNA within the cancer cells, thus going right to the heart of the problem. It Studies at the University can both promote healthy cellular of Texas have linked activity and destroy cancerous turmeric with potent cells. It also inhibits the growth of cancer-ghting abilities. tumours and the multiplication of cancer cells. To top it off, turmeric has been used by Ayurvedic medicine specically for its ability to promote the health and drainage of the lymphatic system, which is both the mechanism that eliminates toxins which promote cancer and one of the means by which cancer spreads, so by using turmeric and turmeric concentrates, you get on top of a large number of problems.
zz Turmeric has so many different health benets due to its ability to affect
the bodys signalling molecules that it affects many different diseases, including, heart, lung, neurological and autoimmune disorders.
zz Green tea has been shown to have a large number of positive health
effects on conditions ranging from diabetes to glaucoma. According to a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, it contains a powerful antioxidant that induces apoptosis in cancer cells. Studies have also shown that green tea may protect against oral cancers and that three cups a day substantially reduce the risk of breast cancer. A compound in green tea may also reduce the growth of prostate cancer.
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Interactions
zz Once again, it is worth reiterating that combining alternative medicines
and conventional drugs can lead to dangerous side effects. This is why it is important to do your research- you can start with the sources on our reading listCombining alternative to make sure that you arent medicines and conventional putting yourself in danger, drugs can lead to dangerous and to stand up for yourself side effects. against drug therapies that do not have any proven record of success.
Selenium
zz Selenium deciency has been linked to a wide range of health
conditions from cancer to heart disease to dementia. Most of us should be getting about 55mcg of this antioxidant a day, whether from foods or supplements, while for those with cancer, 200mcg per day is a safe dose that encourages apoptosis and inhibits neoplastic proliferation.
Vitamin D
zz Vitamin D is a steroid hormone and one of the most potent ways to ght
cancer. It has been introduced directly into cancer cells and been shown to destroy them in short order.
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zz Vitamin D can enter cancer cells and trigger apoptosis, reduce the
spread and reproduction of cancer cells, promote cell differentiation (cancer cells are often undifferentiated) and reduce vascularisation which could feed new tumours.
Note on Supplements
With all the possible supplements we talk about, you must do your research to nd out which brands contain live specimens of the food or vitamin with the molecules your body needs intact, and which are simply dead powders. Little differences in processing can make 100% difference in the impact of the supplement.
Exercise
zz Exercise is a crucial part of immune-boosting, and to get all the benets,
you need to do not only aerobic exercise, but also stretching, strength training and endurance. Short, intense bursts of exercise stimulate the production of human growth hormone, which in turn boosts the immune system.
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zz If you are looking for a quick and easy way to get all of these aspects in a
concentrated form, I recommend a program called TACFIT, developed by Scott Sonon for law enforcement and special forces training. All you need to get started is a mat, a pair of 10-20 lb. weights, twenty free minutes a day and access to the Mass Assault video series. The routines are deceptively simple and quick, but as long as you pay attention to the advice on body mechanics, you will nd them to have amazingly high impact. TACFIT is designed to change the anabolic state of the body, creating the conditions for muscle growth, something that very few tness programs do up front. That feeling of muscular energy is the manifestation of a physiological change that translates into much higher benet from any form of exercise you do. For a very small time investment, you get an immediate and noticeable result that will motivate you to keep going.
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zz If the mind can control this, how much else can it control? zz It is believed that 1/3 of all healings can be attributed to this mechanism
rather than medical intervention. And yet, the medical community is happy to ignore this effect, to refrain from studying it or any links between the mind and the bodys innate healing capacity.
zz The truth is that the crude matter is not crude at all. We are all energy
that just happens to be moving differently than the energy around us. All particles vibrate on a specic frequency. All particles communicate with other particles. We, the environments we live in, the food we eat, the people we know, are all basically energy that happens to perceive itself as matter and happens to organise itself through chemical means.
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zz I say normal because all living things do emit light. Fritz Popp was able
to put a plant in a darkened space in front of the right camera, and get a perfect image of the plant in its own light. A similar procedure carried out on the hands of a healer showed coherent streams of
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The Cancer Files 47 light emanating from them. Popp has been able to show that DNA is the control mechanism for the frequencies at which this light is emitted. What makes light from living organisms extraordinary is its counterintuitive tendency toward coherent oscillation. Ordinary light is not coherent. It interferes with itself and thus is limited in the distance it seems to travel. Coherent light, like that produced by a laser, travels much farther. In a phenomenon dubbed superradiance, the light emitted by a living thing acts like a single frequency.
zz So, we are beings of light and our intention is expressed as light. We are
transmitting information, but are we receiving?
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zz So, plants do receive. What about animals? Fritz Popp discovered that
eas transmit, receive, and retransmit light to each other, as though providing updates. But it was Korotkov who used his equipment to monitor the reaction of humans to intention transmitted by other humans. The light discharge of the recipient of the intention changed markedly according to the emotion being broadcast.
zz Today, we know that this isnt true. We know, for example, that certain
cancers appear to be passed down genetically. But research has also shown that adopted children exhibit the same predisposition The genome is more like toward cancer and other a set of building blocks diseases as their adopted family. than a complete blueprint. A new branch of science called epigenetics explores how genes are expressed.
zz Identical twins with identical DNA, for example, will start life with the
same set of epigenetic predispositions that govern how their DNA is expressed. As they go through life and their experiences start to diverge, those epigenetic tags start to differentiate, to the point where the twins may end up looking very different, experiencing different health challenges etc.
zz So how does the body know which pieces of information to express? zz Morphogenetic elds, the elds of energy that surround every organism,
are believed to be the organising principle for the growth of an organism. Without these elds, there is simply no scientic explanation for the coherence of growth patterns throughout the body.
zz Each organ and cell emits its own eld within the eld, and of these, the
heart eld is by far the most powerful, inuencing all of the other elds. The heart eld also changes measurably depending on emotion, sharing a different kind of information with the rest of the body. The pattern becomes more coherent with positive emotion, and less coherent with negative emotion.
zz The heart thinks: Studies have shown that the heart responds faster
than the brain to outside stimulation. Not only that, but it can react in a way that predicts a future event. In one study, participants were monitored as they sat in front of a computer. The computer would, after a delay of several seconds, select an emotionally-stimulating picture from a database and show it to them. The reaction of the heart to the picture preceded the selection of the picture and corresponded to the emotional stimulus.
zz Within the heart, there are many neural cells, and specialists now believe
that these cells act to imprint the hearts substantial electromagnetic charge with the information needed to regulate the cells of the body.
zz But on the other hand, it isnt that simple. Once information is in this
eld, it can not only communicate throughout the body, but it can be retrieved by the body at any time. Some experiments even suggest that highly complex information, such as language and memory, exist more in the eld than they do in any particular part of the brain.
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The Cancer Files 51 classes. Guo Lin reportedly helped hundreds of cancer sufferers attain remissions while prolonging the lives and easing the pain of thousands more. Qigong energizes the bodys vital forces, balances yin and yang, strengthens blood circulation, and improves the patients emotional and mental states while increasing their willpower. Thus, it acts on all levels of the problem- physical, psychological and energetic.
zz Cancer patients almost always have someone praying for them, and
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The Cancer Files 52 Christ says very clearly, Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Without this, without the total identication with the other, without the ability to move oneself aside and let universal love enter, without the conviction that healing and not sickness is Gods will, without discarding fatalism altogether, prayer can yield no positive result.
zz It can, however, yield negative results. Studies have shown that when
family and friends of recovering alcoholics pray for them, they tend to do worse than those being prayed for by strangers. Cancer, which is subject as we have seen to very similar emotional dynamics, is probably no different. The family and friends may simply be reinforcing the baggage that brought on the condition in the rst place. Healing, then, is a collective affair.
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Inner Life
zz Weve already talked about the effect of prolonged negative emotions,
like anger or frustration, on our biological systems and the chemical processes that it sets in motion. But by transforming that negative emotion into a positive one, rapid and palpable physiological and chemical changes take place, on the order of 1400 distinct reactions. The more love, forgiveness, appreciation, joy you feel, the healthier you will be.
The Cancer Files 54 was terried of having children due to her childhood experiences, and ended up creating a tumour that led to infertility. This is a more obvious example, but a lot of cancers come down to self-sabotage, which may require a lot of inner work to identify.
zz One thing that many cancer patients dont consider or ignore is that
there may be something in their life, their emotional makeup, their relationships, that they desperately need to change. Temporary stress relief people understand, but what they often dont understand is that they may need to make an opportunity to get themselves all the way out of the world that they have constructed for themselves, whether in terms of emotional baggage, relationships, obligation, job, climate. Some people do have to entirely reinvent themselves in order to recover.
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Detoxification
zz Detoxication is important for a number of reasons, some of which you
can guess from our previous discussion.
zz The rst and most fundamental detox to undertake for almost everyone
is the colon cleanse. After years or decades of a diet consisting of too little ber, too much rened food, unwise food combining, not to mention too little exercise, your colon will have failed to excrete all the waste material youve been putting through it. Residual waste lines the colon and turns into a thick, blackish rubbery substance that is quite unlike normal excrement. It is usually referred to as intestinal plaque.
zz The existence of this substance in your lower digestive tract and many
people have well in excess of ten pounds of it interferes with proper assimilation of nutrients and also creates toxins that leach into your blood stream, compromising your immune system.
zz There are two types of cleanses that can easily remove this plaque. The
rst is colonic hydrotherapy, which involves lling the colon with water, optimally in conjunction with fasting. This approach can be done at home with equipment costing approximately two hundred dollars or can be performed on you at specialized clinics available in most major urban centers.
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If toxicity of the colon is not addressed rst, it will interfere with the effectiveness of any general system cleanse.
zz Third, cancers produce their own chemicals, their own hormones, and
because theyre damaged cells, functioning incorrectly, a lot of what they produce isnt good for you, so you want that out of your bodys chemical environment.
zz When were talking about releasing not only articial substances that
you have absorbed, but the chemicals your own body is producing that may be out of balance, that may seem strange to some of you who are used to thinking about detox in a certain way. But consider that many traditional cultures around the world had avenues of detoxication that had less to do with getting rid of harmful chemicals, because they had fewer to deal with, and more to do with cleansing the body on an emotional and spiritual level, by cleansing the internal chemical environment. The sweat lodge in particular is a great example of that.
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The Cancer Files 59 pharmaceutical multinationals, unable to patent or claim exclusive rights to the vitamin, launched a propaganda attack against B17, despite the fact that studies by dozens of medical doctors worldwide have been able to substantiate its effects in treating and preventing cancer.
zz New York City physician and cancer specialist Dr. Nick Gonzalez was
inspired by a dentist, Dr. William Kelly, to focus on treating cancer using a nutritional approach which included diet, supplements and detoxication. Under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Good, the president of the Sloan-Kettering foundation at Cornell Universitys teaching hospital and the father of modern immunology, Gonzalez designed a study to test his protocol which included 50 terminal cases that survived due to this therapy. Patients with rapid terminal pancreatic cancer who used his protocol properly survived an average of eight years, unheard-of results with this type of cancer. Despite this, not one journal would publish his articles or any of his case histories, and his book remained unpublished. When he was invited to conduct a further study, it was systematically sabotaged. The principle investigator on the study had helped to develop the chemo drug the protocol was being tested against, and many aspects of the study were improperly handled by the organisation.
zz Similarly, the Gerson Therapy, developed by Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920s,
used methods including organic foods, juicing, detoxication and supplements, to activate the bodys healing potential. Despite a long history of research and outstanding results with very difcult cancers, it remains in obscurity.
The Cancer Files 60 peer-reviewed journals- many alternative approaches, however much evidence they gather, face resistance to publication from the medical establishment. If Poly MVAs claims of zero toxicity are true, however, it automatically has a leg up on traditional chemotherapy.
zz Resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, grape skins and other fruits
and vegetables, has been used to overcome the insensitivity of cancer cells to treatment, and thus acts as an adjunct to chemotherapy. It may do the opposite in some cases, so more research is required. It has also been shown to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.
zz Human trials are in their early stages, but the truth is that side-effects
of the treatment are still unknown, and may include neurological effects and liver damage. Worryingly, DCA is derived from a known carcinogen.
The Cancer Files 62 particular virus. We hesitate to endorse any of these theories for two reasons: rst, very few even in the alternative medicine community will corroborate their research, and second, there are so many traceable contributing causes to cancer whose activity we can demonstrate that there seems to be little room for parasite-based hypotheses. Still, we await further evidence.
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studies does not make it trueone poll by the British Medical Journal found that one in ten scientists and doctors have witnessed a colleague falsifying a result, and as many as fty percent of studies are designed to give biased results. The
Make use of all the sources available to you, and approach everything you hear with a combination of informed skepticism and an open mind.
incentives to support the insupportable can be quite high, and the structural support given to the cancer industry by the American Food and Drug Administration in particular has been quite brazen.
zz A big reason why a lot of the information we have provided does not
get out is that there are legal restrictions in the US and other countries about telling people that something can cure, mitigate or prevent cancer and other diseases if it is not a patentable drug that has gone through drug approval processes. Since things like Vitamin D certainly cant t that bill, they are considered dietary supplements, and no specic claims can be made by their manufacturers or retailers.
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Mammograms expose
you to far more radiation than a normal chest x-ray. According to cancer expert Dr. Samuel Epstein, The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decades screening... A 2010 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that around 4 deaths per 10,000 women were avoided because of mammography. According to a study by the Nordic Cochrane Centre, a network of physicians and scientists in northern Europe dedicated to evidentiary evaluation of medical procedures, for every 2000 women screened, one will have her life prolonged, while ten healthy women will be treated unnecessarily due to false positives. 80% of breast cancers are found through breast self-exams, and survival rates do not improve by adding an annual mammogram to physical examination. There is also a false positive rate of around 6%. Thermography is far more effective and detects cancers earlier by mapping the redirection of blood ow to cancerous cells. And of course, its radiation-free. Doppler sonography has also been used to detect vascularisation of breast tumours.
zz Vitamin D- raising your Vitamin D levels is one of the surest ways to cut
breast cancer risk, and many studies have substantiated this. A trial at Creighton University of 1,100 post-menopausal women, for example, showed that the group taking Vitamin D had a 77% lower incidence of cancer than the control group. Other studies have come up with
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The Cancer Files 66 numbers between 50 and 60 percent. According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, women with lots of long-term sun exposure had a 50% reduced risk of developing advanced breast cancer.
Raising your Vitamin D levels is one of the surest ways to cut breast cancer risk.
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The Cancer Files 68 key elements, but the core problem usually has to do with emotional expression and personal fulllment. For this reason, it is important to get some means both of clearing emotional and traumatic blockages, such as EFT or BEST (there are dozens more), but also of dealing with interpersonal and family dynamics that may be toxic and nding ways to start living the life that you want to live, rather than what others want from you or what you have been taught to settle for.
Exercise is crucial, both in preventing breast cancer and in improving prognosis with it.
studies stated that active women have a 20-30% reduced risk of breast cancer compared with less active women. A study at Harvard Medical School found that breast cancer patients who exercised 3-5 hours per week had a 50% better survival rate than sedentary patients. What should that exercise consist of? The body responds very well to a combination of relatively low-impact exercise and brief, high-intensity exercise. Additionally, of course, maintaining a healthy body weight in itself cuts your risk of cancer, and since increasing abdominal fat increases estrogen levels, youre doing yourself an additional favour.
zz TCM has used breast self-massage for breast health and as a preventive
measure against breast cancer for centuries. There are also qigong exercises that can be used specically for this purpose.
zz The
nutritional strategies we have already discussed apply. Cruciferous vegetables, rich in isothiocyanates, have been shown to limit the growth of breast cancer cells. Watercress, which contains an anti-angiogenic compound, can slow the vascularisation of breast cancer, and thus its growth, according to a study at the University of Southampton. Likewise, turmeric, which contains curcumin, has a great deal of literature to support its cancerghting abilities, and it has been shown to inhibit metastasis of breast cancer cells in mice. Another herb under study, commonly prescribed for menopausal symptoms as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy, is black cohosh. Studies have shown that an extract of black cohosh is able to induce apoptosis in breast cancer cells. It does have a number of interactions with conventional therapies, however, so seek expert advice before combining the two.
zz Studies in mice have also shown that two handfuls of walnuts a day
may reduce breast cancer risk by 50%, and cut the growth of existing tumours by the same amount.
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The Cancer Files 71 are a major source of dangerous bloodstream infections. Once they have the cells, they may look like cancer under the microscope and not behave like cancer in the body, or vice-versa.
zz So, if you are facing symptoms that could be prostate cancer, whats
the alternative? One new technique is a colour Doppler sonogram, which, as the name suggests, uses sound-waves to map the prostate, locating tumours through their vascularisation, that is, the blood vessels that feed them.
zz Risk factors to avoid for prostate cancer are little different than other
cancers. Everything we said about estrogen-like chemicals and their effects with breast cancer also applies here. This may sound counterintuitive if youve been told that prostate cancer has to do with testosterone. It does, but its the disruption of the hormone balance with these synthetic estrogens in the environment that is ultimately to blame. Prostate cancer incidence is highest among men at exactly the age when testosterone levels naturally diminish, while meanwhile theyre exposing themselves to articial estrogens.
zz High calcium levels, associated with dairy intake, have been correlated
with prostate cancer. Studies have shown that high calcium intake can almost double your risk of metastatic prostate cancer. Calcium, weve been told, is a good thing, but it needs to be balanced by magnesium.
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Like breast cancer, prostate cancer is heavily linked to emotional issues and trauma.
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The Cancer Files 75 Mercola on Soy- http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/13/ soy-controversy-and-health-effects.aspx Personal Care Products Database- http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2007/05/ new-and-improved-skin-deep-database Power Lines- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?orig_cmd=Search&term =%22Internal+medicine+journal%22%5BJour%5D+AND+2007%5Bpdat%5D+A ND+Lowenthal%5Bauthor%5D Radiation Study- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RMP/index.html Traditional Chinese Medicine and Cancer- http://www.healthy.net/Health/ Article/Chinese_Medicine_and_Cancer/2006 Vitamin D Sources List- http://www.mercola.com/Article/Vitamin-D-References.htm Blessed Herbs Cleansing / Detoxication Kits: http://www.blessedherbs.com/
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Recommended Reading
Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment, What Doctors Dont Tell You Dr. Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself Lise Alschuler and Karolyn Gazella, The Denitive Guide to Cancer Film The Living Matrix William Bengston with Sylvia Fraser, Chasing the Cure Dr. Gabor Mat, When the Body Says No Dr. Robert Wiehe, Alternative Medicine and the Treatment of Cancer Ralph Moss, The Cancer Industry Barry Lynes, The Cancer Conspiracy Albert Sanchez, Overcome Cancer
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