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 CANCER SUPPORT
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is a great deal of legitimate research and published studies on
non-traditional or alternative cancer treatment and support. A doctor or
any physician’s lack of knowledge in this area will never begin to make
the research or the incredible results of some of these treatments
untrue. In many cases presented it is shown that non-traditional
therapies actually yield better results. In fact the research found by
John Boik states that in the United States roughly 40-to 60-percent of
cancer patients use some form of complimentary medicine including the use
of herbs, vitamins and antioxidants without the guidance of their
oncologist or scientific studies. Because the use of complimentary
medicine in the area of cancer support is growing so rapidly, we are more
able to establish the powerful results of alternative therapies in
supporting the treatment of cancer.
There are many differing opinions on the battle against
cancer. One opinion that is shared is that cancer is not able to grow and
develop as long as there is a sufficiently strong and aware immune
system. We all have precancerous cells in our bodies and our immune
system is made to trigger the dying-off process of these cells each day.
Many cancer victims feel that they have been very healthy and have lived
very healthy lives and always wonder how this happened to them. This
process never happens overnight—it begins with years of family and job
stress, lifestyle choices, bad food choices: lack of nutritional value,
food additives, consumption of sugar, and wrong fats and oils, misuse of
alcohol and drugs, overexposure to environmental toxins (cleaning
solvents, pesticides, air fresheners, metals), bad water, lack of proper
and vital nutrients, and so on (according to cancer organizations as much
as 80% of all cancers are related to diet and lifestyle). This
degeneration process of the body takes place over time and by the time you
have been diagnosed there has been an entire process of metabolic
breakdown throughout the body that needs immediate attention. Fighting
cancer is very difficult and takes a great deal of commitment. In
deciding to save your life, you owe it to yourself to take advantage of
any products, food sources, and treatments which may extend your life,
reduce pain and suffering, and allow your body to have an opportunity to
heal itself. It is estimated that when most cancers are diagnosed they
have already been developing for 5 to 10 years. The time that it took your
body this to develop these abnormal cell growths is an indication of the
time and commitment it will take to begin to repair the damage done.
We must add in that physicians are taught nothing about
diet and nutrition and its role in healthcare. Asking a doctor about
nutritional supplementation and diet in supporting cancer would be like
asking a pilot how drive a race car. Always be certain that when you have
questions, you ask questions of the professionals who are trained in their
particular field of knowledge. Physicians uneducated in an area of
alternative medicine often are fearful and recommend the termination of
support that may very well be part of the choices that save your life.
Remember, feeling good is not necessarily a gauge for
being healthy or for wellness in general. It is vitally important that
you be very diligent and aggressive regarding nutrition, lifestyle, and
supplementation program in order to re-establish the body’s immune system
and all other systems affected so it can once again have the ability to
fight cancer cells. If you are only interested in doing a few of these
things, I would not recommend wasting time and money—it takes every aspect
of health and well-being in order to be aggressive enough in this
battle. If a house if falling apart at the foundation, putting a few
windows and doors on will not prevent it from falling to the ground.
Dietary choices are hugely important here. We know that dietary choices play a role in the
suppression or initiation of the immune system. No matter what form
of cancer you may be dealing with, the following additions and
eliminations to diet should be followed in order to remove the stress or
the depression of immune function from the body.
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Eat a Paleolithic-based diet
(The Paleo Diet, Loren Cordain, Ph.D.). Eliminate all foods that
depress immune function such as sweeteners or sugars, wheat flour,
potatoes, and foods that you have been tested for an allergy or
sensitivity to, or foods that you know your body does not agree with.
Remove all processed or chemically modified food sources such as canned
or pre-packaged foods with additives for shelf-life (i.e., nitrates in
meat products).
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Removing most grains at this
time is a good idea—small amounts of almond or rice flour and Ezekiel
bread (which is made from sprouted grain) are good options. Also the
addition of Kamut, Amaranth, Quinoa as a side dish at a meal is a great
addition, just not as the main part of a meal.
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Unfortunately pasteurized
milk has had all of its health benefits destroyed by heat and therefore
has many qualities that people have severe sensitivities to. I highly
recommend that as a healthier choice you drink Goat’s Milk, Almond Milk,
Hazelnut Milk, or Rice Milk as a replacement. We find that 85% of all
people tested for Cow Dairy have an extreme sensitivity to it. Make
sure to be tested when deciding on a replacement to make sure those are
not a sensitivity for you.
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Eating adequate amounts of
healthy foods that are non-starchy, such as vegetables, animal protein
from animals that were raised organically and free range/grass
fed—hormone and antibiotic free (these animal proteins can be found at
Wild Oats and Whole Foods Market for purchase—New Zealand beef is best
known). Pesticide free vegetables and fruit can also be purchased at
these local health food stores under the “organic/pesticide free”
labels. Cooked vegetables often are digested more easily by people with
cancer than raw vegetables, however having raw juiced vegetables 2 times
per week would be fine. Raw fresh fruit should be eaten no more than
1-to 2- times a day.
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Avoid shellfish and stay away
from seafood high in mercury such as tuna, swordfish, and orange roughy
(see table of seafood under Nutrition). Mercury is a deadly
neurological poison. Also lunch meats, hot dogs, and beacon are full of
chemicals called nitrates. These are very harmful to the body--healthy
replacements to these products can be found at Wild Oats and Whole
Foods. They have many “nitrate free” beacon, hot dogs and lunch meat.
Remember, because they are nitrate free they will also not “keep” as
long so they must be consumed faster or kept frozen until used.
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No fried foods—french fries,
onion rings, tempura, chips (unless they are baked and contain no added
oils). Eliminate any food which contains any hydrogenated oils of any
kind. If you are stir frying or baking and must add in oils, please use
coconut or olive oil. Avoid Mayonnaise due to the hydrogenated oils
therein.
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Removal of all environmental
toxins which depress the immune system such as pesticides, herbicides,
fungicides, chlorine, fluoride, mercury, lead, cleaning solvents, and so
on. You can purchase safe cleaning solvents at your local health food
stores—Vitamin Cottage, Wild Oats, Whole Foods Market—which work just as
well if not better with no harmful side-effects.
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Make sure and drink at least
3 quarts or more of a good clean bottled water a day. El dorado, Fiji,
Volvic, and Calistoga are a few recommendations. Please DO NOT drink
distilled water—it has an open bond which has the potential of carrying
out of your body the supplemental products you may be putting in.
We are here to educate you on the changes necessary to
improve your health, and through individualized testing and
supplementation begin to recover and repair metabolic pathway destruction
and re-establish normal cell growth and proper immune response. With
these supplementation protocols our goal is to begin to change the
biological terrain of your body so that it is no longer able to house the
abnormal cancer cells, while building the body’s immune system so that if
successful, there will be potential to re-establish normal cell growth and
prevent reoccurring abnormal cell growth.
RECOMMENDED READING
“The Paloe
Diet”
Loren Cordain,
Ph.D.
“Selling
Sickness”
Ray Moynihan
and Alan Cassels
“Food
Politics”
Marion Nestle
“The
Cancer Industry”
Ralph Moss
“Confessions of a Medical Heretic”
Robert
Mendohlson
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