Living with Cancer

Cancer is a natural function of the body. It is not some type of disease you can 'contract' by being in contact with another Cancer patient. Moreover, Cancer really isn't a single disease at all. Cancer is a collective term for a variety of disorders which are characterized with the 'out of control' regeneration of tissue (or cells).

Regeneration?

At first, take a look at Cancer itself. Cancer is a healing response. A natural healing response that was unable to stop healing naturally, continues its life as a Cancer. This is a very natural process. It is part of our regeneration and healing processes.

Understanding where Cancer comes from requires us to examine the body's healing process in its simplest form.

Homeostasis

The body is constantly attempting to maintain Homeostasis. That is, the body is looking to create a 'Livable Balance' and, when it's able, an Optimum Balance. It does this very efficiently. Millions of years of evolution have had a significant impact on the way our bodies' have been able to cope, heal and fend off attacks from pathogens.

In the last 100 years, mankind has been able to synthesize and reduce chemical compounds and produce toxins and pollutants at a rate, faster than evolution has been able to catch up and adapt; and its impact has been far reaching. Our bodies have simply not been able to adapt to the modified foods and environmental toxins as quickly as we've been able to create them.

Coping

Yet, our bodies cope. They find a way to encapsulate or repair the damage done by the toxins but their ability to store and bind the toxins is limited. Some toxins can't be eliminated through our Urine or Bowels. Some toxins stays in the Liver, others are processed into Fats and stored in Toxic Fat in our bodies.

Unfortunately, some toxins cannot be processed or encapsulated at all. These toxins attack the tissues and our bodies' only coping response, is to heal the damage after it has already been done.

Healing Wounds

If you cut your finger, your body starts a period of rapid growth around the wound. The damaged tissue is removed and 'absorbed' while new tissue grows and heals the damage. The cells which are involved in the healing response grow more rapidly than the cells which are normally in that area. This is advantageous because you want a wound to heal in only a few days rather than take a few months. The cells are programmed for accelerated healing growth.

Normally, the cells which are programmed this way, quickly burn out and self-destruct. They're able to reproduce rapidly and once the wound is healed are taken over by normal growth cells.

Stop healing

When the tissue damage is healed, these special cells are meant to die off, to be replaced by normal cells. This process is known as Apoptosis, or Programmed Cell Death. This stops the healing response and allows the newly formed tissue to participate as the surrounding tissue.

Even under the best of circumstances, some of the cells did not get the message. That is, they didn't self-destruct. This can be caused by the cell dividing so rapidly during the healing process that the cell didn't get the right instruction, it could be caused by toxins in the body which influence the cell and it could even be caused by the fact that the surrounding tissue is still under constant attack (being damaged) and in constant need for repair.

Of course, as the body is constantly encapsulating toxins, the storage for these toxins are not well maintained (fat deposits receive very little, if any, irrigation) and some areas are simply difficult to monitor for cells which are out of control.

Rogue cells

When the tissue damage is healed and there are rogue cells which are still in 'accelerated growth' mode, the body simply destroys them. This is a normal occurrence for a healthy individual. Unfortunately, modern bodies are under a lot of pressure and constant repair is needed. Tissue cannot be repaired at the same speed it is being damaged and these rogue cells are no longer destroyed in a timely fashion and left to multiply. A Cancer is born.

Living with Cancer

We all live with Cancerous cells in our bodies. The body's maintenance usually takes care of them and we continue living a healthy life.

• What if your Cancer has been left to grow?
• What if the cells continue to multiply on their own?
• What if your immune system is overwhelmed and can no longer contain the 'Rogue cells'?

Then, your Oncologist decides your course of treatment. This is legally the only way you are allowed to treat Cancer in Canada or the USA. In other countries you have more choice, but in our advanced country, you may not treat a Cancer patient using alternative medicine.

Treating Cancer?

Well, interestingly enough, in Alternative and Holistic approaches to Cancer, we do not 'treat' the Cancer itself, we treat the patient. Treat is, in my opinion, not the correct term anyway because conventional Cancer treatment fights the Cancer itself with too little regard for the root cause or the patient undergoing the treatment. The Cancer Patient suffers the treatment with relatively little effect on the outcome. [You may be interested in reading Death by Medicine by Gary Null, et al. or the book review ]

Fighting Cancer

Conventional Cancer Treatment fights the Cancer itself. The most effective Cancer treatment is when the Cancer cells form a 'growth' and this growth can be surgically removed. When, however, the Cells are all over the body, it is difficult to target each individual cell and Doctors resort to Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy.

Attacking the Cancer cells depletes the body's life energy and causes more stress. Chemotherapy itself is a carcinogen and attacks all fast growing cells, including hair, nail, skin, mucous linings, etc. etc. and overloads the immune system. Remember, the immune system was already overloaded in the first place!

What are the alternative approaches?

When the Cancer can be safely removed through surgery, we've reduced the heavy body burden immediately. This is, in most cases, the quickest way to reduce the body burden.

Considering where the Cancer originated, removing the Cancer is not the end of the treatment. In Alternative Cancer Treatments, this simply isn't taking care of the root cause of the Cancer in the first place and the Cancer re-appears (especially after the damaging effects of Chemotherapy). Detoxing/Cleansing and taking care of the immune system and reducing/removing the toxic load and increasing the body's ability to heal itself is the only way Cancer can be prevented, managed and reversed.

We do not treat the Disease - We Treat the PERSON

To quote Charlotte Gerson of the Gerson Institute: "When a person is healthy, it is impossible to support a Cancer - or any other disease, for that matter." [DVD Suggestion: Foodmatters by Ian Brighthope ]

Our approach is to educate and treat, adjust and monitor lifestyle and life choices which underpin this disease. Boosting the Immune systems with Nutrition, Food Choices, Supplements and Life Choices. (Inc. Eliminating food choices, etc.)

You may be surprised to learn how many of your choices were influenced by commercial marketing and how the truth about our foods is manipulated. There's no time like the present to simply change how we understand food and nature and treat ourselves with knowledge and logic.

MAKE THAT CHOICE TODAY!

Treating and Preventing Cancer go hand in hand. Experts agree, the prevention of Cancer IS THE TREATMENT.

Looking at various treatment clinics throughout the world, Cancers of all kinds and in various stages of development are being managed and treated with Herbal and Nutritional Choices and clearly includes Lifestyle choices also.

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