Longevity for You
Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases of humanity.
You have to understand that in many ways you are responsible for the disease. Get a handle on why you may have made yourself prone to that disease in the first place. Everything happens with a reason, though it may not be too apparent to you. Once you understand the reason, you may be able to control, if not get rid of, the disease completely.
Probably as old as life itself, the disease has been around humanity for ages, but only in the second half of the 20th century did the number of cases begin to explode. The sudden surge of this devastating disease was probably due to:
· The drastic changes of high-stress lifestyle
· The overuse and misuse of drugs and pharmaceuticals
· The inferior quality and the huge quantity of junk food available
· The excessive use of chemicals and extensive exposure to environmental pollutants
All the above were not around, or at least not as rampant, a hundred years ago.
Contrary to popular belief, cancer is not a mysterious disease against which you are powerless. If you understand its causes and take positive actions, and if your body has enough time to make the necessary adjustments, you can still win your battle against the disease.
Do not despair! Find out everything you need to know about malignancy from the American Cancer Society information to make yourself knowledgeable about the disease.
What are some of the causes?
Cancerous tumors begin to develop when cells that are more cancerous are being created in an environment promoting their abnormal growth.
Refined sugars and carbohydrates fermentation
Refined sugars and carbohydrates may create a carcinogen-breeding environment. Your body has to produce a lot of insulin to get the excessive sugar out of your system, and this fermentation may feed the cancerous cells in your body. That is why you should avoid refined sugar and carbohydrates, which are abundant in processed foods.
You body has billions of cells, and among them cancerous cells are always being created in your body. They must ferment sugar in order to produce energy for their growth. Though they survive in the fermentation, some of them cannot perform any normal functions, so they may multiply and grow, thus becoming malignant cancerous cells.
Low oxygen levels
Increased amounts of carcinogens, pollutants, and toxicity often incapacitate your cells to uptake oxygen efficiently, resulting in their low oxygen levels. Given that low oxygen levels in cells may be one of the fundamental causes of the disease, increasing oxygen levels in cancerous cells to higher levels may help kill them.
High acidity
Research has shown that cancerous cells tend to thrive in an acidic environment. Therefore, alkalizing your body is critical to combating the disease. A balanced acid-alkaline body (a balanced pH level) may make you disease-free.
Remember, the following are acidic; avoid them like death:
o Processed foods
o Chemicals and pollutants from the environment
o Pharmaceutical drugs
The more acidic your cells are, the less oxygenated they are, and the more cancerous they may become.
In general, degenerative diseases develop because of acid wastes accumulated over the years. That is why most degenerative diseases do not occur when you are young. Therefore, it is important you take action to reduce the acidity of your body so that it can eliminate effectively and efficiently acidic wastes in your blood and cells.
Acid-Alkaline Diet provides excellent information on how to alkalize your diet. Many experts believe that a balance of acidity and alkalinity will make you free of cancerous cells. An acid-alkaline diet is anti-aging and anti-cancer.
Fungal infections
Candida or other fungal infections may also be the culprit in carcinogen development by undermining your body’s immune response to cancerous cells.
To determine if you have Candida, on rising in the morning, spit your saliva into a clear glass of water, and observe it for up to an hour. If you see strings streaming from the saliva, or cloudy specks suspended in the water, you may have Candida. If nothing develops in thirty minutes or so, you may probably be Candida-free.
Take the following steps to void fungal infection:
o Abstain from eating barley, corn, peanuts, sorghum and wheat, which are often easily contaminated with fungal poisons called mycotoxins.
o Avoid the use of antibiotics, which may destroy the normal, protective gut bacteria, thereby enabling intestinal yeast and fungi to grow unchecked.
o Strengthen the thymus gland with selenium and manganese to protect your immune system by activating your thyroid hormones.
Brazil nuts have about 2,500 times as much selenium as any other nut. Wheat germ, wheat bran, leafy green vegetables, beet tops, pineapples, nuts, and seeds are all good sources of manganese, which is an antioxidant enzyme to boost your entire immune system.
Metal toxicity
Heavy metal toxicity in your body may result from years of exposure to highly toxic heavy metals. Heavy metal toxicity may have come from the environment, your silver amalgam fillings from your dentists, your injection of vaccines and infusion of certain drugs, and your consumption of certain fish with elevated mercury levels. These heavy metals may play havoc with your immune system over time.
EDTA chelation therapy is medically equivalent to to the expensive I.V. chelation therapy to cleanse your system of metal toxicity. Instead of intravenous infusions or large quantities of nutritional supplements, EDTA chelation therapy is highly recommended to immune your body from the development of cancerous cells.
Free radical damage
Every chemical and toxin in you body may cause free radical damage, which not only harms your DNA but also causes some cells to mutate abnormally into cancerous cells. You body needs potent antioxidants as scavengers of harmful free radicals.
Avoid processed foods as much as possible because they generate more free radicals than whole foods, and have fewer nutrients to act as free radical scavengers to help protect you from those free radicals.
Always eat natural! The Ultimate Organic Lifestyle shows you how to eat natural.
Low enzyme levels
Enzymes are instrumental in killing cancerous cells in your body. However, enzymes are easily depleted, if not destroyed, by heat and chemicals.
Your digestive system is capable of processing raw food, which is rich in enzymes to predigest the ingested food in your upper stomach where it may sit for 30 - 45 minutes. When the food reaches your lower stomach, your pancreas excretes more enzymes to complete the digestion.
However, when you eat cooked and processed foods, in which enzymes have been killed, the food is not predigested in your upper stomach. Therefore, when it reaches your lower stomach, your pancreas must work extra hard to break down the undigested food, often resulting in only partially digested food. Undigested food causes more toxic build-up in your colon, resulting in hardened fecal matter.
According to many scientific studies, low enzymes levels are often implicated in carcinogen development in your digestive system,
To preserve your enzymes, eating a raw diet on a regular basis is the way to go.
The Raw Secrets shows you how to go on a raw diet to reap health benefits. This is one of the most informative books on eating raw, with excellent recipes to satisfy the most insatiable palate.
Conventional treatments
Mainstream treatments mostly involve surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
· Surgery removes cancerous cells from your body.
· Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancerous cells, and there are at least over fifty different chemotherapy drugs. Chemotherapy targets not only your cancerous cells but also your good cells. After the slaughter of cancerous cells, hopefully, your malignancy is quite dead, and that you are only half-dead on the road to full recovery.
· Radiation is one of the three common forms of treatment used to fight the disease. It can be used alone, or in combination with other forms of treatment. Radiation therapy - also called radiotherapy or X-ray therapy - involves using high-energy rays to kill cancerous cells, shrink tumors, and prevent them from growing and spreading.
Essentially, it damages cells by destroying the genetic material that controls how cells grow and divide. Radiation is much more harmful to cancerous cells than it is to normal cells. While both healthy and cancerous cells are damaged by radiation, the goal of radiation treatment is to destroy as few normal, healthy cells as possible.
In addition, it is hoped that normal cells can recover from the effects of radiation more easily and quickly than cancerous cells do.
In mainstream treatments, more than half of the patients receive some type of radiation therapy to kill cancerous cells.
o Radiation therapy may be applied in conjunction with other treatments, such as surgery and chemotherapy.
o Radiation therapy may be used before surgery to shrink a cancerous tumor, during surgery to direct large doses of radiation at a tumor, or after surgery to inhibit the growth of any remaining cancerous cells.
o Radiation therapy may be used with chemotherapy to destroy cancerous cells.
o Radiation therapy is sometimes used to shrink tumors to decrease the pressure, pain or other symptoms they may have caused.
Each of the three most common treatments today - surgery, radiation and chemotherapy - is invasive, each has devastating side effects, and each treats only the symptoms. Moreover, their rate of success is often considerably overrated by the medical community.
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The Oriental approach
From the Chinese perspective, there is no such a disease as cancer.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, patients with many symptoms quite similar to those diagnosed by conventional Western medicine are never identified as cancer patients; in fact, many of them might have recovered without ever knowing they had that disease diagnosed by Western doctors.
In conventional Western medicine, disease is diagnosed by its many symptoms; in traditional Chinese medicine, it is identified by the pathogenic conditions of the patient.
To illustrate, a patient diagnosed by Western doctors as suffering from stomach cancer might be described differently by Chinese physicians, because the pathogenic conditions of the patient could vary. The patient could be suffering from energy blockage of the spleen meridian, from poisonous heat in the stomach system, or from accumulation of fire at the intermediate level. In addition, Chinese physicians would not be so concerned with the spread of the disease, or the level of its malignant growth. Rather, their focus would be on clearing blockage of the spleen system, eliminating poisonous heat in the stomach system, or dispersing fire at the intermediate level. Once these pathogenic causes are removed, recovery of the patient will be only a matter of time.
(For more information on Chinese cures, go to my website Chinese Natural Healing.)
Combating the disease
It makes little sense to use chemotherapy and radiation therapy that damage cells and weaken your immune system, especially when the problem in the first place is that your immune system is already too weak and that your cells are already damaged.
Even if tumors go into remission, these aggressive and invasive treatments may have damaged other healthy cells, making them more likely to turn cancerous later on.
Even worse, many people only do chemotherapy and radiation therapy, but do little to support their immune system to fight against the disease further down the road. All too often the malignant tumor continues to grow, or may come back a few months to a couple of years later.
If your immune system has been wiped out by chemotherapy or radiation, your body becomes even more toxic, acidic, and poorly oxygenated; malignancy is bound to overrun your body even faster than before. Once the disease comes back, it may be fatal.
Your immune system, unless it is supported by good nutrition, will be in worse shape than before after the conventional treatment.
Today, treating cancer is a huge business. Every 30 seconds another American is diagnosed with the disease. Every 55 seconds or so, another American dies from the disease. Remember, many get to profit from the treatments. Just think about that!
The essentials
To combat this devastating disease, there are certain essential things you must do, and you must do them strictly without any compromise:
· Detoxification
A malignant tumor is no more than cell proliferation due to toxicity. Therefore, you must stop infusing your body with more toxins. Initially, you must go on a strict vegetarian diet, with absolutely no animal products, not even dairy, for at least some months. Avoid all refined or processed foods. Alcohol, caffeine, oils, spices, and sweets are taboos. Stop completely poisoning your body!
A strict diet based on the Oriental way of utilizing food energy to promote health and healing may reverse the course of toxicity your body has embarked on. The Chinese believe that the malignant diesease is no more than an energy disease that affects the human cells turning them cancerous. As these cancerous cells grow in number, they begin developing their own energy that competes with the human energy for control of your body functions. If the cancerous energy gains the upper hand, then the human energy becomes blocked, rendering therapeutic outcomes impossible. Always maintain the free flow of your qi (internal life energy)!
(For more information on qi, go to my web pages: Anti-Aging and Natural Healing For Longevity Health.)
The Oriental treatment approach is very different from that of Western medicine, which focuses on a different biological understanding of the disease, often involving aggressive and invasive procedures to kill, remove, or transform the cancerous cells.
The Oriental way, on the other hand, focuses on the overall well-being of an individual, attained by diet, exercise, and balance. Restoring balance to your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being may go a long way in combating the disease! For more information on the balance and harmony of Chinese healing, go to my website Chinese Healing.
· Elimination
In addition to not taking in more toxins, you must aggressively eliminate toxicity already present in your body.
Fasting is most effective in eliminating toxins from your body. Begin with a longer fast of at least several days to several weeks to thoroughly cleanse you internally, and then followed by a one-day fast every week or bi-weekly for an extended period.
Make sure you have at least two to three bowel movements a day. Make doubly sure your body organs are functioning optimally, in particular your liver and gallbladder, to eliminate any excess from your body. Internal deep cleansing is necessary in combating any form of malignancy!
(Read Fasting For Longevity.)
· Rejuvenation
Address any nutritional deficiencies, due to environmental toxicity or bad choice of food. Herbs are a good way to remedy these deficiencies. Herbs are foods that are better assimilated by your body than chemically synthesized vitamin or mineral pills. In addition, herbs also have trace elements that promote their action, which synthetic products do not. Heal your body with natural herbs! Do away with off-the-counter drugs. Natural Herbal Cures and Remedies is your highway to natural health.
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The importance of diet and nutrition
Researchers have investigated just which lifestyle factors produce high rates of malignancy. In the prestigious Advances in Cancer Research, they conclude that poor nutrition produces the highest risk rate.
Good nutrition - vitamins, minerals, fiber, fresh fruit and vegetables, juices and medicinal herbs - can do wonders against many types of malignancy. Of course, you need to discuss a treatment plan that is right for your type of cancer and your body with a medical professional, preferably a naturopath physician.
You do not need scientific research to prove that fresh vegetables, fruits, juices, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and fiber are not harmful to your body.
You do not have to avoid chemotherapy or radiation therapy in order to receive benefits from good nutrition, which supports your body such that chemotherapy and radiation therapy will actually work better, if you decide to choose these treatment options. In addition, your immune system will be stronger and be better able to keep tumors from developing again. Do not rely solely on surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy as if they were miracle cures. To combat the disease, you need to go an extra mile.
Do not forget that chemotherapy and radiation therapy may have damaged enzymes in healthy cells, having overloaded them with toxins, so they may have become more likely to develop into cancer. As a result, the underlying cancer-causing conditions may have worsened, not necessarily improved. The malignancy may return quickly a second time unless you make drastic changes to support the health of your body through good nutrition. It just makes sense that you should supplement your chemotherapy or radiation treatments with nutrients, and correct the underlying causes of malignancy earlier on when the odds are still in your favor.
You are the sum total of what you eat. Your nutrients are your best bullets in your fight against malignancy.
The importance of vegetables in anti-cancer diet
The following are some of the best vegetables for combating the disease:
· Asparagus
Asparagus has a cleansing effect on your lymphatic system and kidneys. It also normalizes your cell growth.
· Avocado
Avocados have the best overall source of essential fats, and are a great provider of protein for cancer patients who wish to abstain temporarily from meat.
In addition, avocados are easy to digest, making them an ideal food for your recovery from surgery or other cancer treatments.
· Beet and radish
Beets and radishes support your liver and have anti-cancer properties, such as betaine. Beet juice promotes your regular bowel movements to eliminate toxins from your body. Include beets in your daily diet. You may not like their taste, but they are good for your detoxification.
· Bitter melon
Bitter melon is a potent inhibitor of prostate cancer. Juice it with green peppers, green apples, celery, and cucumber (known as the five greens ); or simply steam it.
· Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts
They all contain a natural compound produced in small amounts by humans and some plants, which detoxifies environmental carcinogens and estrogenic tumor promoters.
· Broccoli, Brussels sprout, kale, cauliflower, carrot, and green onion
According to research at John Hopkins Medical School, sulforaphane, a potent anti-cancer compound in these vegetables, greatly increases anti-cancer enzymes in cells.
In particular, eat broccoli sprouts, which contain up to one-hundred times more sulforaphane than broccoli.
These vegetables also contain nutrients that enhance your carcinogen excretion, especially estrogen related to breast and cervical cancers.
Broccoli, the king of vegetables, contains substances that may prevent carcinogens from damaging your cell's DNA.
· Carrot, sweet potato, collard green, cantaloupe, squash, apricot, fresh pumpkin, kale, spinach, mango, papaya and yam
These vegetables contain beta-carotene, one of the most promising anti-cancer agents. Beta-carotene may also prevent a second tumor in patients, who have been cured of an initial cancer and who now stand at an increased risk of developing new cancers.
Carotenoids have best assimilation if taken with fat such as flaxseed or olive oil.
· Celery
Celery contains an abundant amount of phytochemicals to inhibit cancerous cells. They are capable of detoxifying many carcinogens, and are of particular help in reversing some of the damage done by cigarette smoking.
· Chili pepper
Chili peppers contain capsaicin, which may neutralize the carcinogenic effect of powerful carcinogens in your stomach. Capsaicin may also block carcinogens in cigarette smoke from locking onto DNA - possibly preventing genetic damage that may lead to lung and other cancers.
· Dandelion root
Dandelion has excellent anti-tumor effects on mammary carcinoma in mice.
· Garlic, onion, leek, and shallot (album vegetables)
According to the National Cancer Institute, garlic is one of the best foods for protection against malignancy. It contains the anti-cancer mineral selenium, which stimulates white blood cell production and induces cancer cell death. Eat fresh garlic, not the supplement! Use fresh garlic, not garlic powder, in your cooking.
Album vegetables contain compounds stimulating the production of enzymes not only to neutralize the free radicals linked with cancer but also to enhance carcinogen excretion.
· Green vegetable, chlorella and spirulina
They all contain chlorophyll, which is an antigenotoxin that inhibits the mutagenic activity of certain chemicals. According to one study published in the journal Mutation Research, chlorophyll is a more effective anti-mutagen than all known anti-cancer vitamins, including vitamins A, C, and E.
· Potato
Potatoes provide a rich source of alpha lipoic acid - a powerful antioxidant that strengthens and regenerates other antioxidants in the body, especially vitamin E. Potatoes contain compounds which inhibit cancers. The peels of potatoes are especially nutritious - do not throw them away; use them to make broth.
· Spinach
Leafy vegetables in general offer the most nutritional value for the least carbohydrates and calories of any food group, and spinach is one of the very best. In addition, according to a Japanese study, carotenoid, a powerful biological antioxidant found abundantly in spinach, may help your body fight prostate cancer. Eat raw spinach to maximize the benefits.
· Sea vegetables
Sea vegetables, such as wakame, kombu, hijiki, arame and nori, contain alginic acid which possesses anti-tumor activity, guarding against the initiation and recurrence of cancer. Put them in your salad or soup.
· Tomato
Tomatoes contain lycopene, which is effective against several types of cancer. Eat them raw together with flaxseed oil to maximize the efficacy of lycopene.
· Turmeric and cumin
These spices contain curcumin, an anti-mutagenic agent that supports your liver in detoxification of carcinogens and helps you block environmental carcinogens.
Curcumin inhibits prostate, breast, skin, colon, stomach and liver cancers, and is especially suitable for use in conjunction with chemotherapy.
· Watercress
Watercress contains a compound that is effective in preventing nicotine-induced lung cancer.
The importance of fruits in anti-cancer diet
The following fruits are beneficial to cancer treatment:
· Citrus fruits
Citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C. Their peels contain a remarkable anti-cancer substance. Small bits of organic orange peel go well in your salad, or add them to your green tea.
The plant fiber of citrus fruits inhibits metastasis in prostate tumors, especially in preventing the successful establishment of secondary cell colonies.
· Cranberry
Cranberry, which contains the anti-cancer constituent, proanthocyanidin, has an antioxidant capability many times greater than that of vitamin E. Eat the fruit but do not drink its cocktail or juice, which is often loaded with chemicals and sugar.
· Figs
Figs are effective in arresting tumor progression, and have a paralytic effect on tumor growth.
· Grapefruit
Grapefruit contains the flavonoid naringenin that slows down the growth of human breast cancerous cells.
· Grapes
Grapes, rich in antioxidants, contain compounds that not only inhibit the development of breast cancers but also induce anti-progression activity in leukemia.
· Pomegranate
Pomegranates contain ellagic acid, which blocks your body's production of certain enzymes used by cancer cells. Ellagic acid is particularly effective in the inhibition of lung cancer caused by tobacco.
· Red grapes
Red grapes contain substances that not only protect your DNA from free radicals due to radiation and chemicals, but also slow down the mutation of cancerous cells. Do not spit out the seeds; chew and swallow them - they too contain many antioxidants!
· Rhubarb
Rhubarb has shown anti-tumor activity due to two of its compounds, rhein and emodin
.
· Tangerine
Tangerines contain tangertin that inhibits the metastatic process of cancerous cells.
The importance of grains in anti-cancer diet
In a temporary anti-cancer vegetarian diet, grains play an important role. Grains contain phytic acid that binds to iron and reduces the free radical effects due to too much iron. Whole grains are filled with vitamin E, the B vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber and many other phytonutrients. They contain a substantial amount of insoluble fiber. Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, contain soluble fiber. The combination of these two forms of fiber promotes bowel regularity and protects against the accumulation of toxins in your body.
Always use fresh whole-grain flour. The next best thing is to buy the whole-grain flour stored in the refrigerated section of your local health food store and keep it in your refrigerator or freezer at home.
Eat a lot of organic brown rice as your anti-cancer diet.
The importance of the mind in healing and recovery
Cancer can be very devastating to your mind, which may be further impaired by your ailing physical body.
Hope is greater for the optimist who banishes all negative thoughts and gets on with the business of living - cancer is not the end of the world. A positive attitude holds the key to full recovery.
Accept the fact that cancer is one of the natural consequences of aging and that over the years you may have inadvertently created optimum conditions in your body for cancerous cells to grow. A change of lifestyle, however, may reverse those conditions. There is no need for you to add the undue stress of despair and worry. For more information on stress control, go to my website World Religions on Stress Control, as well as to get the state-of-the-art STRESS ERASER to erase your stress instantly.
Meditation is also an effective way to de-stress yourself. Go to my website Meditation Techniques.
Remember, your body has to recuperate as much as your mind.
The Importance of physical fitness
Exercise moves waste products through your intestines more quickly, thereby reducing the time that your intestinal walls may be exposed to carcinogens.
Exercise boosts your immune system by increasing immune substances circulating in your body. One study showed that exercise more than tripled the circulating level of killer T-cells to fight against carcinogens.
When you build muscle mass through exercise, the muscle itself burns more fat and therefore helps your body maintain its leanness. Once you are lean, it is easier to stay lean. Increasing your muscle mass actually enables you to consume more calories without increasing your body fat. This is an important factor in weight control.
Dr. Kenneth Cooper, an aerobic expert, conducted a study of 13,000 men and women for fifteen years.
He concluded that the incidence of all forms of malignancy was due to a lack of physical fitness, and that the combination of a high-fat diet and inactivity account for as much as 60 percent of all colorectal cancers in men and 40 percent in women.
Unfit men and women were 300 percent more likely to develop malignant tumors. The study concluded that a half-hour of exercise several days a week could dramatically lower your risk of malignancy.
In another study of 8,000 men over twenty-one years of age, those with the lowest resting heart rate had the lowest risk of colorectal cancer.
Anti-Aging Fitness Program is the first of its kind to combine fitness innovation and anti-aging breakthroughs. It shows you why the traditional “diet and exercise” hype has not been able to resolve your “middle-age syndrome." Anti-Aging Fitness Program provides a fitness program to help recovery from cancer.
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Cancer
by
Stephen Lau
What are some of the causes?
Conventional treatments
The Oriental approach
Combating the disease
The importance of diet and nutrition
The importance of the mind in healing and recovery
The importance of physical fitness