Alternative Cancer
Treatment
Below are the things I recommend for
cancer patients. I'm not a doctor but I am an expert in electromedicine and
understand how to reverse cancer as good as anyone else. My emphasis is as much on reversing the cancer "trend" in your body as it is fighting the tumor(s).
Since toxins and cancer-causing microbes play the
biggest roles of all in cancer the most important steps
are to:
1. Detoxify the body and remove the source of the most
potent toxins known to man which come from infected teeth and root canals.
[see info below] Fastest way is to do a grape juice
fast.
2. Use my electromedicine devices to get rid of all the cancer-causing microbes.
If you go to a treatment center that only focuses on killing the tumor then you can go home tumor-free but you are most likely to have a recurrence of tumor growth since you haven't done much to cleanse the body of that which causes cancerous tumor growths (chemicals/toxins and cancer-causing microbes).
Here is a 3 step approach to kill
the tumor(s):
1. Take anti-tumor supplements so that they
will be abundantly in the bloodstream for step 2.
2. Create hyperthermia (high heat) in the tumor
which makes it more acidic* and increases the effects of all anti-tumor
supplements circulating to the tumor via the blood.
3. Apply the DC Electrifier to acidify and
oxygenate the tumor.
* I know that most people think that an acidic
body condition is one factor that allows cancer tumors to grow and that it
is crazy to create more acidity in the body. But the truth is that it's
not the acidity that allows cancer to grow, but the toxicity that has
acidity as a byproduct. (Dr. Howenstine says that toxic substances (carcinogens)
cause the membranes of cells to function abnormally by failing to
permit oxygen to enter the cell while glucose is still able to enter the
cell.) All human tissue (tumors included) can only live within a certain
range of pH and will die when it becomes too acidic or too alkaline. That
is how tumors often sief-destruct. They become so acidic that the acidity
kills them. So what I'm proposing is increasing the acidity in the tumor
which can cause its death by this pH extreme. This extreme is beyond what
they need to have a runaway growth. (The body as a whole should be made
more alkaline by the near-vegetarian cleansing diet.) Also I know that acidifying and
oxygenating a tumor sounds like a contradiction in terms since acidic
tissue is naturally low in oxygen. But the oxygen we create in the tumor
is independent of the body's own regulatory pH balancing system since it
is created by breaking apart water in the tumor into oxygen and hydrogen
(hydrolysis). The main question people have is whether this approach,
although destroying tumors, will also promote new cancer growth in other
parts of the body. My answer is no if the cancer patient first cleanses
the body from cancer-causing toxins and viruses by grape juice fasting. (People question the efficacy
of this though because cancer loves sugar and grapes have sugar. Actually
that is true but grapes have anti-cancer substances and polyphenols which
are inhibitors of glucose metabolism.) To only use hyperthermia would be a
mistake. My approach requires all aspects working together as a
synergistic whole. For those with widespread cancer I recommend the
opposite of this approach which would be to alkalinize the tumors much
beyond what you could do with diet alone. This is possible with Ionic Cesium. With this approach you wouldn't want
to use hyperthermia or my DC Electrifier.
ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENT
DIET/SUPPLEMENTS
Most cancer patients
are acidic and hypoxic (low oxygen),
which is evidenced by a higher-than-normal
breathing rate. Until after the tumor is killed this actually
works in your favor since our therapies are synergistic with high
acidity and hypoxia. Tumors can be killed with either acidity or
alkalinity. Since the DC Electrifiers
acidifying effect is localized and independent one can still begin
to eat an alkaline diet with the main purpose of cleansing body
toxins. This can be done by using grape
juice fasting to start which also reduces excess body fat to raise immunity, then a
sugar-free low-protein low-grain
salt-free diet with anti-cancer
supplements. The hardest part of fighting cancer is sticking to
the cleansing diet. But it is essential to retrain your
eating habits to make sure you don't have a recurrence of cancer
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ANTI-CANCER
SUPPLEMENTS
There are many cancer fighting herbs such as
Una de Gato, Graviola and Oleander. These and other herbs should be
ingested every day before your hyperthermia treatments which will
increase their absorbability by the tumor. Non-herbal supplements
that have direct anti-tumor properties are Ellagic Acid and IP6/Inositol. [Click here] |
ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENT
HYPERTHERMIA
Tumor tissue is thermosensitive, especially at decreased
pH (acidic) and with subnormal oxygen (hypoxic). Hyperthermia
increases the cellular metabolic rate, breaking down glucose to
lactic acid and thus decreasing pH to very low levels (ie: acidic).
High acidity and hypoxemia also damage the vessels that nourish
tumor cells, thus choking them off from the blood supply. High
temperatures kill cancer cells and increases potent effects of
herbal and nutritional anti-cancer therapies. Hyperthermia also
damages the membranes, proteins and enzymes of cancer cells, making
them more sensitive to other therapies. Immunological and biological
effects due to heat are: accelerated emigration and migration of
peripheral blood mononuclear cells, activation of effecter cells,
induction and secretion of cytokines, and expression of heat shock
proteins which reduces the growth of cancer cells. In an ideal
treatment, temperature will be gradually raised up to 40c degrees
(104 f) that lasts approximately 60 to 90 minutes. |

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| To achieve this you can apply
an infrared heating lamp to the cancerous
area (read more) or increase the temperature of the
whole body to around 107 degrees by hot baths or steam saunas. ( read more) |
ELECTROMEDICINE
Each
day should begin with usage of the Microbe Electrifier and Maxi-Pulser to fight all cancer-causing
microbes in the blood. After each days therapy of hyperthermia and
anti-cancer herbs you can start electrifying the tumors with the DC Electrifier. In addition to using external
electrodes to electrify the tumor you can also use the OMF Generator to fight the tumors. So four
electromedicine devices can be used against the cancer, three of
which having been reported as successful against cancer by
themselves. And if something even stronger is needed then your
doctor can use the even more powerful ECT
Device or the IRE device (both created by
myself) with needles injected into the tumor to more directly
electrify it and kill it with acid/alkaline extremes or irreversible electroporation. Also
my Candida Zapper can kill any candida
infection that may be contributing to cancer by lowering the
immunity. [cancer and
electrotherapy] |
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ACUPUNCTURE & CHINESE
HERBS
These are known to increase immunity, rebalance
hormones, increase energy, and cleanse toxins. Anything that
enhances body functioning as a whole also enhances immune function
which is essential for fighting cancer and staying cancer-free from
now on. So Chinese medicine is one of the most perfect treatment
modalities that is completely wholistic in its approach. All cells
respond to chemicals (natural and synthetic) and energy (natural or
induced by electromedicine). Acupuncture influences cells by
enhancing the natural electrical energy flow in the body in a
painless way. Chinese herbs influence cells with their natural
chemicals in many ways. Together they can bring the body back into
balance for complete disease-free health.
(see video: Acupuncture for Cancer) |
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ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENT
REMOVING DENTAL
INFECTIONS
Research shows that anaerobic bacteria and
toxins from dental infections, through a chain reaction, prevents
your immune system from responding to the cancer in your body. Click here to read all the scientific
information concerning this very important discovery. The doctor who
has made the most use of this information has been attacked by
mainstream medicine misinformation centers on the internet. Click here to
read my defense against their ignorant and deceptive attacks. This
information is really extremely important and not to be ignored by
any cancer patient unless they want a recurrence of cancer
tumors.
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IMMUNE BOOSTING
SUPPLEMENTS
One of the most intriguing immunosupportive
agents is the hormone melatonin, administered once daily before
bedtime. Multiple clinical studies in Italy show that this regimen
tends to have a very favorable, statistically significant impact on
survival in patients with advanced cancer. There is reason to
believe that the chief reason for melatonin's positive effect on
survival in cancer patients is an immunostimulant effect that boosts
the activity of natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic T
lymphocytes.
Another immunosupportive measure is taking pills of
the good intestinal bacteria, lactobacillus and bifidobacteria.
These have been shown to exert immunostimulant effects, mediated by
their polysaccharide cell walls. These bacterial polysaccharides are
partially absorbable, and interact with so-called "toll" receptors
on dendritic cells to boost the ability of these cells to promote
the growth and activation of NK cells and cytotoxic lymphocytes.
BioBran and Colostrum have also shown strong immune boosting
effects, increasing the natural killer cells as much as 3 times
their previous level as well as increasing the immune systems B and
T cell counts. (recommended
supplements)
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CHIROPRACTIC
ADJUSTMENTS
Correcting spinal misalignments returns
normal nerve energy flow to organs which contributes to every aspect
of health, including cancer fighting. |
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ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENT
MASSAGE (acupressure &
general massage)
Acupressure and general massage are
great at releasing muscular tension that continually expends bodily
energy that could be used by the nerves and immune system to fight
cancer. |
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EXERCISE
Gentle
exercise stimulates the respiratory and cardiovascular system for
increased oxygenation of all body cells. Otto Warburg proved that it was a
low cellular oxygen level (-35% due to body acidosis) that allowed cancer
to appear and grow. Oxygen, at normalized levels, cannot kill cancerous
cells but can contribute to stopping of tumor growth. Walking or
stationary bicycle pedaling is all that is necessary to increase body
oxygen levels.
COUNSELING
Since cancer
provokes much fear of death, counseling can help alleviate that fear to be
able to face each day with optimism and strength of spirit. Even though we
believe you can stop almost all cancers we acknowledge that negativity can
cause the body to resist all attempts to correct the dysfunction that
cancer is. The most obvious form of resistance is to diet change. When
someone is resistant to positive change then there is an obvious
resistance to all change. Whereas life itself is continual change, we can
only consider a "solidified" attitude one that encourages the process of
death in the body, which is what cancer is. Someone that is resistant to
positive change but that says "I want to live free of cancer" is basically
speaking out of both sides of their mouth (metaphorically) at once by
saying that they want to live to continue their death-encouraging
solidified attitude. A good therapist will not force change, only help
people joyfully accept positive change, which is what life is all about. Stress management, by writing about your emotions, is
also a very useful tool for positive self change.
ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENT
FOOD ALLERGY
TESTING
Your pulse rate reveals if there is an immune response
to food allergies. Allergic reactions divert immune system energy from
cancer fighting. So it is important to determine your food allergies so
you can conserve body energy for the most important task at hand. We
recommend the book "The Pulse Test" available from www.amazon.com
Contact Form:
Cancer Clinics:
I am not really a fan of any existing cancer clinic because their
focus is always too narrow. Cancer is too aggressive to only rely on a few
methods. It is a strong enemy that must be fought with all available
artillery. The article Do alternative methods improve cancer survival rates?
provides objective evaluations of the records of the following clinics and
regimens:
The Livingstone Wheeler Foundation Medical Center, San Diego,
California
The Biomedical Centre, Tijuana, Mexico (Hoxsey
Center)
The Gerson Clinic
The Kelley/Gonzalez regimen
The
Contreras Clinic (Laetrile/B17)
Oasis of Hope Hospital in Mexico. cost:
$25,000 to begin with. Click here for unbiased reviews.
My opinions on various alternative
anti-cancer methods:
Ozone therapy: Although it is good at fighting
microbes, it also harms healthy cells since it is a free radical. Doing
blood electrification will kill the microbes circulating in the blood and
my OMF Generator can kill microbes in any given body location. Both do
this without any harm to healthy cells.
Alkaline diet: I know a cancer patient who went on
a totally vegetarian alkaline diet with alkalinized water and was only
able to slow down his tumor growth. I believe an alkaline diet is an
important part of cancer therapy but I don't think it is a cancer cure. An
acidic diet encourages cancer growth and an alkaline diet discourages
it.
Intravenous vitamin C: It is helpful to improve
immunity but the amount needed to provide concentrations high enough to
kill cancer cells is difficult to acheive intravenously. I wouldn´t do it unless I also take Alpha Lipoic Acid to increase its tumor killing potential. (read
more)
Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda): Dr. Simoncini in
Italy has popularized this. It is proposed by many as a cancer cure that
can be taken by mixing it in water and then drinking it. But the successes
Simoncini had were by injecting it into the tumor. By drinking it you can
effect a slightly more alkaline blood temporarily which has some
anti-cancer effects but cannot generally be considered a cancer
cure. The only cancers it can truly affect are those of the
gastrointestinal tract since the "alkaline" water will be in direct
contact.
Oxygen therapies (hydrogen peroxide, hyperbaric
oxygen): Oxygen as a cancer cure is a myth
because cancer research throughout the world involves tissue culture
techniques in which cancer cells are grown (optimally) in the presence of
air, which is 20% oxygen. I'm not against oxygenating the body to help
fight cancer but I don't believe oxygen kills cancerous cells. It probably
helps detoxify the patient and fight against cancer-causing microbes
though. But we use electromedicine to fight microbes and a near-vegetarian
diet to detoxify the body. Here's a very revealing testimony: Carol from La Verne, CA writes: "I've
been a fan of Earth Clinics remedies for a long time. Had success with oil
pulling, leaching out fluoride, ACV with baking soda, but one remedy I
have to warn against is the oxygen therapy for cancer. I have breast
cancer and tried the HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy). It was $6,000 for
40 sessions. At the end of these sessions my tumor grew from a large grape
size to a large grapefruit size. In addition I tried soaking in Hydrogen
Peroxide and taking Bill's spray. This irritated the tumor and sprouted
another tumor in my lymph node area under my arm. So I just want to warn
those of you with cancer to be wary."
Rife frequency treatments: Click here to see my reasons I am no fan of Rife
treatments. I've heard of too many people with cancer dying because they
relied on Rife machines to cure them.
The United States is the
Worst Place in the World to Get Cancer
Treatment
In 1998 the percentage of chemotherapy users that survived
for 5 years was only 8%
Chemotherapy Side
Effects
Doxorubicin:
Leukemia, heart failure, infertility, vomiting, mouth
sores
Etoposide: Leukemia, nerve damage, inability to
fight infections, vomiting
Cisplatin: kidney damage,
heart damage, nerve damage, infertility, vomiting
Cancer Drugs make tumors more aggressive and deadly
My phone #:
Michael Forrest-
593-89-582-353 (my cell phone # here in Ecuador. Add 011 as the prefix if
you are calling from the USA.)
How to Starve Cancer Out of Your Body
By Dr. Mercola
Dr. Christine Horner began her career as a board certified general-
and plastic surgeon, performing breast reconstructive surgeries on women
who'd had full mastectomies due to breast cancer.
In this interview, she shares her extensive knowledge about breast
cancer—its causes and its cures, and the pro's and con's of various
screening methods.
Her interest in breast cancer began while she was still in college, when her mother developed the disease.
Thirteen years later, when her mother's cancer returned, Dr. Horner became very active with the American Cancer Society.
For a time, she was a vice-president and the Kentucky state
spokesperson for the American Cancer Society on breast cancer issues.
"We were trained to say that we don't know what causes breast
cancer and we have no known cures; the best things that women can do are
breast exams and mammograms," she says.
"… In my practice, I was watching women get younger and younger when I was doing breast reconstruction on them.
Finally, I was doing women in their 20s. I thought something is
way wrong with this picture." I thought why don't we just look through
the medical literature and see if there's anything that research shows
that women can do, that's within our control that will lower our risks. I
had no idea what I was going to find… But when I looked, I instantly
found thousands of studies that show exactly why we have a cancer
epidemic…"
What's Causing the Cancer Epidemic?
What Dr. Horner discovered was that there are a number of habits we've stopped
doing in our modern culture that are highly protective. We've
dramatically altered our diets—shunning our native, whole-foods cuisine
for highly processed fare—and engage in very little physical activity,
for example.
"We're telling women that all they can do is mammogram [screening], and it's extremely disempowering," Dr. Horner says.
"You feel like you have no control over it. But if you look at
epidemiological studies… we know that people that live in Asia have a
very low incidence of breast cancer or prostate cancer… [W]e have the
studies showing that if an Asian woman moves to the United States and
adopts our American diet and lifestyle, within one generation her risk
will match that of an American woman's. It's like "Hello? What are we
doing or not doing that they're doing or not doing that's making such a
big difference? "
Dr. Horner was eventually introduced to the system of Ayurvedic
medicine, and the more she learned about it, the more she felt there
were answers therein that needed to be shared with people on a wider
scale.
'[T]here are so many really simple things people can do that can have a dramatic effect on their health," she says.
"Basically, the more you learn about natural medicine, the more you'll
realize that we're just telling our patients lies– not on purpose, but
from what we have been taught from the pharmaceutical companies and so
forth."
She pitched the idea to television stations in Cincinnati to let her
talk about complementary and alternative medicine, and ended up being
the first syndicated segment on the news related to complementary and
alternative medicine, which ran from 1999 through 2002. At that point,
she decided to quit her surgery practice to focus on teaching people how
to become and stay healthy naturally, and wrote the book: Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer,
which contains all-natural approaches for protecting against and
treating breast cancer. Dr. Horner's book won the IPPY award in 2006 for
"Best book in health medicine and nutrition."
"[W]e have the answers to the breast cancer epidemic," she says.
"We truly do– and it's very simple. If you have a terrible diet and
lifestyle and you do just one thing, you cut your risk in half. You do
more than one thing and they will multiply up together. They don't add
up together. They multiply up together, so it becomes extremely easy to
dramatically lower your risk of breast cancer."
It's worth mentioning that the same strategies apply for other types
of cancer as well. Prostate and colon cancer tumors, for example, are
similar to breast cancer tumors, as certain hormones cause them all to
grow. Hence, protective strategies that are effective against breast
cancer also work on these other types of cancer. Cancer prevention
strategies will also virtually eliminate most other chronic disorders.
The Problem with Conventional Cancer Screenings
While diagnostic screenings have their place, some cancer screens are just about worthless… The wisdom of using the PSA test, for example, which checks for prostate cancer, has recently been questioned. Ditto for mammograms.
"Looking at the diagnostic tests that are currently available, none of them are perfect," Dr. Horner says.
"Everything has its pros and cons… [M]ammography produces radiation,
which has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer. It's like,
"Why are you doing the test to look at a disease when it's actually
causing the disease, too?" … It does pick things up at earlier stages,
but the problem is that it's not very specific. So when it looks and it
sees something… that looks suspicious, it is wrong 80 percent of the
time. In the United States, there's roughly a million breast biopsies
done per year, and 800,000 of them are unnecessary."
One of the best cancer screening methods is self-examination. But you
need to make sure you're doing it correctly. For more information about
how to do a breast self exam, please see this previous article.
MRI's, which do not use ionizing radiation, are not a practical tool
as they are very expensive, and, like mammograms, MRI scans are not very
specific. Ultrasound is another technique used in Western medicine. The
traditional ultrasound can see whether a mass is cystic or solid. But
while a solid mass is generally considered to be something that might be
of concern, this is not 100 percent certain either, as cancer tumors
can sometimes have cysts in them.
"Now there's a relatively new ultrasound that uses a color mode," Dr. Horner says.
"It's called elastography. But there aren't very many centers in the
United States that use it. I go to the Center of the Hoxsey Clinic, to
Dr. Arturo Rodriguez at Tijuana. It has a color scale that measures the
elasticity of the cell membranes. Cancer cells are very stiff, whereas
normal cells have more fluidity to them. It'll show up as red if it has a
lot of stiffness to it, as a cancer cell, or blue if it has elasticity…
It's a very good tool."
On Thermography
Another form of cancer screen, which is still considered
controversial in conventional medicine, is thermography, which gives you
an infrared image of your body. By looking at heat and blood vessel
patterns you can determine whether there are areas of concern.
"[B]efore you even get a tumor formation, the very first thing
that happens is new blood vessels start to grow into the area where the
tumor may form. Those blood vessels grow abnormally. They grow an
abnormal amount of patterns and they produce an abnormal amount of heat.
That's what thermography is checking for," Dr. Horner explains.
As with most new technologies, thermography hit some snags in its
earlier stages, and fell out of favor in the early 70s. However, the
technology has gotten a lot more sophisticated over the years, and is
now computerized; eliminating the need for highly trained technicians to
evaluate the results.
"The problem we still have today with thermography is that we don't have standardization," Dr. Horner explains.
"We don't have a uniform way that people are tested and trained with
uniform equipment, and so forth… But there's definitely a movement… to
do standardization, and to get that technology available for women,
because this is a technology that has no health detriments associated
with it. It does not use radiation or anything harmful to your body."
Unfortunately, the advocates of mammography perceive thermography as a
threat to their business model. So there's tremendous pressure against
it, including from the federal regulatory agencies.
"It's unfortunate," Dr. Horner says, "but our country is
run by big business. It's just is, so anytime we want to shift anything
culturally like that, and we're going against established business, we
have trouble because it's all about money."
For example, many of the presidents of the American Cancer Society
were members of the Radiological Association, which is the industry
supporting the mammography component. The entire medical field is
littered with massive conflicts of interest.
'We can see that everywhere. You look
in the FDA—there are people from Monsanto that work in the FDA.
Unfortunately, people think, "the United States is not very corrupt."
But actually, it's extremely corrupt," she says.
Still, there are many good reasons for considering thermography. To
ensure you're getting the highest standard of care, Dr. Horner
recommends using a practitioner certified by the International Academy of Clinical Thermography,
an independent non-profit organization that provides objective,
third-party certifications. Their website lists qualified thermography
centers across the US, Canada, and some other countries, such as France,
Trinidad, and Zambia.
Most Natural Prevention Strategies Can Reduce Your Cancer Risk by Half...
Through her research, Dr. Horner has gathered a large number of
cancer-prevention strategies—about 50 in all! Even more astounding is
the rate of effectiveness of many of these strategies.
"[I]f you look at the studies, virtually every single thing that
has an influence [causes] almost a 50 percent reduction in cancer risk…
and if you combine them, like I said, you'll get these synergistic
results where they'll multiply up as far as their effect is concerned.
I'd say the most important thing is what you do or do not put in
your mouth… because you can have huge influences by the foods you
consume– the spices, the herbs, and so forth. And, the things that you
avoid, that's going to give you the biggest results. … Vitamin D cuts your risks in half. Turmeric and anti-inflammatories cut your risk in half.
I could go through each thing—and I'm telling you the research shows
that there's about 40 to 50 percent reduction [in risk]—so… to say that
one is necessarily better than anything else, that's a really hard thing
to claim."
The Top Four Cancer-Promoting Foods
Dr. Horner brings up an excellent point, and that is that in order to be effective, you must first STOP doing that which is promoting cancer growth (or poor health in general), and then
all the other preventive strategies have the chance to really have an
impact. Addressing your diet should be at the top of your list, and
rather than adding certain foods, you'll want to eliminate the most
dangerous culprits first.
Naturally, processed foods and soft drinks do not belong in a cancer-preventive diet...
Dr. Horner, believes red meat from animals reared in confined animal
feeding operations (CAFO's) is also a MAJOR contributor to cancer. These
animals are given antibiotics, growth hormones and other veterinary
drugs that get stored in their tissues. Additionally, cooking the meat
over high heat creates heterocyclic amines, which further add to its
carcinogenic effect.
While I do recommend eating meat, I agree that there is absolutely NO
benefit to eating CAFO beef. The ONLY type of meat I recommend is
organically-raised, grass-fed meats. It's hard for a lot of people to
grasp the difference between CAFO and organic meat, but truly, they are
like two different species in terms of their nutritional content. One is
health harming while the other is beneficial.
So when we're talking about the detrimental impact of red meat on
your health, especially in terms of feeding cancer, please understand
that we're talking specifically about CAFO beef, aka "factory farmed"
meat. Next on the list of cancer-promoters is sugar (this includes ALL
forms of sugar, including fructose and grains).
"To me, sugar has no redeeming value at all, because they found
that the more we consume it, the more we're fuelling every single
chronic disease," Dr. Horner says. "In fact, there was a study
done about a year ago… and the conclusion was that sugar is a universal
mechanism for chronic disease. It kicks up inflammation. It kicks up
oxygen free radicals. Those are the two main processes we see that
underlie any single chronic disorder, including cancers. It fuels the
growth of breast cancers, because glucose is cancer's favorite food. The
more you consume, the faster it grows."
Next is the type of fats that you consume. It's important to remember
that every cell membrane is made out of fat, as is your brain.
According to Dr. Horner, bad-fats in the diet are a major contributor to
ill health and cancer. On the list of fats to eliminate are:
- Animal fats from CAFO-raised animals
- Trans fats
- Partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats
Healthy fats of particular importance for cancer prevention are
omega-3 and omega-9. According to Dr. Horner, omega-3 in particular
serve to effectively slow down tumor growth in estrogen-sensitive
cancers such as breast-, prostate- and colon cancers. Fourth on the list
of cancer promoters is ANY item that contains xenoestrogens (chemicals
that mimic estrogen). This can become a rather long list once you start
including any food contaminated with such estrogen-mimicking chemicals,
such as BPA, found in the linings of canned goods and in plastics. The
list gets truly unwieldy when you include personal care products that
contain such chemicals as well…
"There are case reports of five- and six-year-olds going through
secondary sex characteristics because of the shampoo that they were
using... There are all sorts of different sources where we're exposed to
these chemicals from our foods and from the products that we use.
What we're seeing is younger and younger puberty. Around the
world, the average age is about 16 years old. In the United States,
it's 10 years old now, and sometimes even younger. The problem is that
with each menstrual period there is a surge of estradiol, which is the
strongest, most abundant form of estrogen, and the one that's most
associated with breast cancer. If you start your period very young,
you'll have more periods in your lifetime than what a person would have,
obviously, if they started at an older age.
In addition to that, when a girl goes through puberty, her breast
cells become really sensitive to environmental toxins, radiation, and
so forth. They're considered immature. They haven't differentiated– as a
more scientific term for it– so there's a longer period of time that
they're exposed to these toxins where they have a greater sensitivity."
Dr. Horner reviews a number of other important factors that influence
your cancer risk, so for more details, please listen to the interview
in its entirety, or read through the transcript.
Eating for Cancer Prevention
According to Dr. Horner, the research clearly shows that the one food that is the most important for optimal health is plant foods.
"Plants are packed full of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that
are crucial for our health. They also have hundreds of phytochemicals
in them. These don't have any nutritional or caloric value, but they are
like natural medicines, and some of them behave exactly like
chemotherapy," she says.
"Every plant has some anti-cancer properties to them. There are
some that are standouts. Cruciferous vegetables are something that I
really recommend. They're a family of vegetables that include broccoli,
cauliflower, kale, collards, and Brussels sprouts…
All of them have several different chemicals in common. They've
got indole-3-carbinol, Calcium D-glucarate, and sulforaphane. They have
big anti-cancer properties to them, and they inhibit the growth of
breast, prostate, colon cancer and a variety of other ones. Of all the
families of vegetables to consume, [cruciferous vegetables] are the ones
to be aware of, so you can make sure you're including that in your diet
frequently."
Naturally, you'll want to make sure the vegetables are fresh, and
ideally locally grown and organic. Besides cruciferous veggies, another
standout plant for cancer-prevention is flax seed. The lignans in flax
seed inhibit the growth of cancer in about a dozen different ways,
including the exact same mechanism as the anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen and
Arimidex, which shut down an enzyme in fat cells called aromatase that
converts androgens into estrogens.
"I hear from patients, "Oh! My oncologist told me not to take flaxseeds, because they're estrogenic,"" Dr. Horner says."They don't understand how plant estrogens or "phytoestrogens" work.
There are all sorts of different strengths to estrogens. Let's
say estradiol, which is the strongest, most abundant form– if it hooks
on to the estrogen receptor, it may cause a thousand cell divisions. But
if a plant estrogen hooks on, it may cause one. When you flood your
system with these plant estrogens, I'd say it's kind of like a game of
musical chairs. There are only certain numbers of receptors, and whoever
gets their first, gets it. They're blocking the strong estrogens from
getting on, so that's why it has an inhibitory effect."
Other Lifestyle Factors that Influence Your Cancer Risk
Other lifestyle factors that have been found to have an impact on chronic disease and cancer include:
- Vitamin D—There's overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that vitamin D deficiency plays a crucial role in cancer development. As mentioned earlier, you can decrease your risk of cancer by MORE THAN HALF
simply by optimizing your vitamin D levels with sun exposure. And if
you are being treated for cancer it is likely that higher blood
levels—probably around 80-90 ng/ml—would be beneficial. The health
benefits of optimizing your levels, either by safe sun exposure
(ideally), a safe tanning bed, or oral supplementation as a last resort,
simply cannot be overstated. In terms of protecting against cancer,
vitamin D has been found to offer protection in a number of ways,
including:
- Regulating genetic expression
- Increasing the self-destruction of mutated cells (which, if allowed to replicate, could lead to cancer)
- Reducing the spread and reproduction of cancer cells
- Causing cells to become differentiated (cancer cells often lack differentiation)
- Reducing the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing
ones, which is a step in the transition of dormant tumors turning
cancerous
To learn the details on how to use vitamin D therapeutically, please review my previous article, Test Values and Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency.
- Getting proper sleep: both in terms of getting enough
sleep, and sleeping between certain hours. According to Ayurvedic
medicine, the ideal hours for sleep are between 10 pm and 6 am. Modern
research has confirmed the value of this recommendation as certain
hormonal fluctuations occur throughout the day and night, and if you
engage in the appropriate activities during those times, you're 'riding
the wave' so to speak, and are able to get the optimal levels. Working
against your biology by staying awake when you should ideally be
sleeping or vice versa, interferes with these hormonal fluctuations.
According to Dr. Horner:
"If we, for instance, go to bed by 10, we have
higher levels of our sleep hormone melatonin; there's a spike that
occurs between midnight and 1am, which you don't want to miss because
the consequences are absolutely spectacular. Melatonin is not only our
sleep hormone, but it also is a very powerful antioxidant. It decreases
the amount of estrogen our body produces. It also boosts your immune
system… And it interacts with the other hormones.
So, if you go to bed after 10… it significantly increases your risk of breast cancer."
- Effectively addressing your stress: The
research shows that if you experience a traumatic or highly stressful
event, such as a death in the family, your risk of breast cancer is 12
times higher in the ensuing five years.
- Exercise—If you are like most people, when you
think of reducing your risk of cancer, exercise doesn't immediately come
to mind. However, there is some fairly compelling evidence that
exercise can slash your risk of cancer.
One of the primary ways exercise lowers your risk for cancer is by
reducing elevated insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment
that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells. Additionally,
exercise improves the circulation of immune cells in your blood. Your
immune system is your first line of defense against everything from
minor illnesses like a cold right up to devastating, life-threatening
diseases like cancer.
The trick about exercise, though, is understanding how to use it as a
precise tool. This ensures you are getting enough to achieve the
benefit, not too much to cause injury, and the right variety to balance
your entire physical structure and maintain strength and flexibility,
and aerobic and anaerobic fitness levels. This is why it is helpful to
view exercise like a drug that needs to be carefully prescribed to achieve its maximum benefit. For detailed instructions, please see this previous article.
Additionally it is likely that integrating exercise with intermittent fasting
will greatly catalyze the potential of exercise to reduce your risk of
cancer and stimulate widespread healing and rejuvenation.
More Information
For more information, please see Dr. Horner's book, Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer. You can also learn more about Dr. Horner on her website, www.DrChristineHorner.com.
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