CANCER CAUSES

And Treatments Your Doctor Doesn't Know About....

by Lori E. D'Ascenzo

CANCER. The word strikes fear in virtually everyone. It is an insidious presence that has touched everyone's life, whether personally or through a loved one. We treat it like we would an invading foreign enemy, attacking, bombarding and trying to eradicate it with all the aggressive force of a military army. No disease in the history of mankind has provoked such extensive research, massive expenditures, and expensive treatments. It is a phenomenon that supports political, corporate and economic machinations so complex and filled with intrigue and self-interest they could inspire novels. Cancer is big business. We can't afford to cure it.

Over the years, so many treatments, and outright cures for cancer have been squashed, hidden or dismissed because there is no real money to be made from them or because they are not understood or accepted by traditional medicine. These treatments or preventative measures may seem entirely too simple, or may detrimentally affect big business. Some cannot be artifically-replicated, or tested by traditional methods.

And so millions of people die every year--often unnecessarily and in great pain after barbaric and invasive treatments like surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Adding to the destructive tolls of the disease, they leave behind anguished families who love them.

This is not just another article on cancer treatments. It would take volumes to cover all of the acknowledged cancer causes and treatments, even if we only covered those treatments that are natural. If that is the kind of information you seek, there are reams of information available in health foods stores.

What we have chosen to do is approach cancer from an holistic perspective, to delve into the less tangible aspects of an insidious disease that will inevitably touch you personally at some time in your life-either though a loved one, or your own experience.

To understand how to prevent or treat cancer, you must recognize the causes and conditions which must be present for it to exist. Volumes of textbooks have been filled with this information. However, in a nutshell, cancer is a condition in which cells degenerate and begin to divide in a disorganized manner.

Normally, cells replicate themselves by splitting in two. Anything that interferes with this normal cell division is considered a carcinogen. These can be environmental pollutants, food chemicals and additives, metabollic toxins.

Even if 99.9999% of your cells were to divide normally, you would still produce about 5,000,000 potential cancer cells each day. This means that the potential for cancer always exists. The odds greatly depend upon the number and severity of the carcingens to which you are exposed, regular preventative measures, the degree of alkalinity that exists within the body, levels of oxygen within tissues, nutritional deficiencies present, and the strength of your immune system.

But there are other, more subtle factors that play a role in triggering cancer. At the most minute levels, electromagnetic fields affect the orbit of valance electrons around our atoms. Essentially the spark of life, the speed and direction of these electrons determines the strength and quality of your vital life force, and the quality of your cells.

Electromagnetic fields emanating from anything electrical, particularly household appliances, wiring, computers, televisions and automobiles, significantly affects these valance electrons. Anything that disrupts a radio or television signal is similarly affecting you at the atomic level. When you see a television screen disrupted, picture your atoms affected in exactly the same way. The greatest influence occurs during the first two hours of sleep, when most cell division occurs. However, the kitchen is also an extreme danger zone.

Emotions, too, are rarely considered as the culprit for disease. Yet, with every thought and every emotion, chemical neuropeptides are released into the body. These neuropeptides send messages to the body to trigger physiological responses. There are at least 1,000 different peptides, some beneficial, such as endorphins, and some that are harmful when they accumulate or compound with other chemicals, such as adrenalin.

Even the most subtle factors can play a critical role in triggering cancer. Nutritional deficiencies and emotional traumas alter the body's pH levels and create chemical, glandular and organ imbalances. The shock of emotional trauma causes visible lesions on the brain. It also makes us suppress deep breathing which deprives the body of vital oxygen.

Those who suffer depression or emotional trauma breath in a shallow manner. This deprives the cells of vital oxygen, and allows carbon dioxide to remain within the body too long. High emotional levels also cause acidity. Lack of oxygen and low alkalinity create the ideal environment for cancer to proliferate.

If you spend your life being negative, unhappy and unfulfilled, or if you bury emotional trauma instead of dealing with it, you are risking eventual illness. The chances of recovery are lower, too. If you do not nurture yourself on an emotional level, so how can your body nurture you on a physiological level?

By the same token, love, positive emotions and attitude can play a great role in healing disease, since these feelings trigger the release of beneficial neuropeptides and allow us to breath in a deeper and more relaxed manner. In fact, you have a 75% greater chance of surviving cancer if your attitude is positive and you have emotional support from family, friends or a support group.

Do genetics play a part? Families are likely to be exposed to the same carcinogens and environment, as well as subscribe to similar diets, dental and medical practices, emotional patterns, and lifestyles. This is going to increase the odds of incidence within families if cancer does appear.

Taking a New Approach to CANCER

Holistic medicine takes an all-encompassing view of illness and disease. It recognizes the integrated and inseparable roles of our emotions, psychological state, lifestyle, environment and genetic makeup. Modern medicine, on the other hand, tries to isolate an element-a gene, a component, a factor that will trigger a disease. Researchers then try to isolate an element or component that will halt or reverse the process.

In holistic medicine, we see this as addressing the symptoms of a disease, rather than discovering the actual cause of it. The danger in addressing the symptoms without eliminating the cause, is that the disease or a similar condition, is bound to re-appear. Symptoms are really only the body's way of attacking the cause and trying to overcome or eliminate it. Suppressing or eliminating symptoms may make you feel more comfortable, but it only postpones the inevitable-a re-occurance or different manifestation of the same problem.

Illness never derives from one isolated element. It comes from removing bricks in your foundation until it can no longer support you. You are comprised of a complex integration of physical matter, energy, emotion and intellect. Focusing on only one facet-say the physical, or one aspect of the physical-and ignoring the rest, is a little like trying to build an entire house with nothing but plaster! It's not really liveable without electrical wiring, plumbing, the framework, a protective exterior and roof, and furniture.

Cancer thrives in carbon dioxide and acidic conditions. So, the simple act of mineral supplementation, particularly calcium/magnesium/vitamin D, along with deep breathing exercises to inhale higher quantities of oxygen, will go a long way toward keeping your cells healthy. Be certain that your minerals are colloidal, electrolyte, homeopathic, or at the very least chelated, so that your body can properly assimilate them.

In nature, plants absorb minerals from the ground and transform them into a digestible form. Our bodies were designed to receive nutrition in this organic form. Inorganic minerals-those directly from the earth- cannot be assimilated by the body and may even become toxic to us over time. These types of minerals are commonly added to fortified foods such as breakfast cereals and bread.

Colloidal, ionic and homeopathic minerals and electrolytes are broken down into particles so minute they can be immediately absorbed into the cells. In addition, they contain an electrical charge that allows the cell to utilize the nutrient. Absorbed directly into the body by placing under the tongue or by swishing the solution around in the mouth, they do not need to pass through the digestive tract. As a result, about 98% of the nutrient is of value to the body within moments of taking the supplement.

Chelation binds inorganic minerals to an amino acid to increase absorption to about 38%. However, since 50% of the dosage is a carrier, you really only obtain the benefit of 171 mg of mineral from a 900 mg dose. As a result, you have to ingest more than 5X the dosage to receive the RDA!

Pay attention to the foods you eat. Apart from the health hazzards of 3,000 chemical and additives and colourings, food irradiation, pesticides, and genetic engineering, foods alter your body's pH as they are digested. Acid ash producing foods such as fats and oils, meats, dairy products, grains and sweets impair the immune system, cause free radical oxidation, limit nutrient absorption, kill off friendly intestinal flora which hampers digestion, and leave you more vulnerable to stress. Healthier alkaline ash forming foods include vegetables, fruits, spices, teas, and sprouts. They will help you to feel calmer, more balanced, energized.

NEVER overcook foods! In addition to a loss of nutrients and the destruction of enzymes, overcooking produces carcinogens. Barbequed meats pose the worst threat.

Enhance your diet with digestive enzymes and acidophyllus to assimilate food, nutrients and supplements more efficiently. Eat more raw or lightly cooked foods. You may even want to try sprouts, sea-vegetation, super food supplements, fresh juices, or a macro-biotic diet.

Apart from the high nutrient content and alkaline-forming properties, live foods possess a higher vibration, which causes sympathetic resonance within the body. This is measured in hertz. The qualities and energy of any food is passed on to whoever eats it. Therefore, avoid foods which are deformed, blemished, or genetically-altered. They will pass on their damaged or altered DNA to you.

Avoid irradiated food, as well. Radiation may destroy parasites and insects, but it also deadens food by killing the nutrients and lowering its vibration. Unfortunately, in North America, irradiated and genetically-altered food does not have to be labelled. Consumers often have no choice or no awareness that what they are eating is hazzardous to their health.

Advancements in the science of nutraceuticals now recognize energy properties of food as equal in importance to the nutritional value. Potent superfood supplements are now being created based on enhanced energy fields. Super food supplements combine a variety of whole green foods containing a broad spectrum of essential nutrients along with chlorophyll. Comprised of elements such as blue/green algae, sea vegetation, and grasses, they provide superior nutrition as well as detoxification. They can be sprinkled on food or mixed in juice. Be sure to include a super food supplement if you choose to undergo chemotherapy or radiation. The benefits are pronounced!

Sprouts are living foods, packed with dietary nutrients, all the essential amino acids, enzymes, and chlorophyll. They possess a much higher vibration and energy field than "dead" food such as meat, or ordinary vegetables. Awakened within each tiny structure of a sprouting seed is everything a mature plant will need to grow and flourish. Imagine the awesome power and raw energy unharnessed and what it can do for you!

Broccoli sprouts, in particular, are extremely high in sulforaphane which prompts the body to produce an enzyme that prevents tumors from forming. Barley sprouts help to cleanse the lymphatic system which rids the body of toxins. Red clover and wheat or barley grass are also ellent detoxifiers.

Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, a variety of Blue/Green Algae is another important dietary consideration. It has the unique capacity to trigger a mass migration of cyto-toxic T-cells from the blood to tissues where their main function is to perform immune surveillance and eliminate cancerous and virally-infected cells. No other substance is known to trigger this movement at such a high rate. Blue/Green Algae is recognized by the American Cancer Society as an effective cure for cancer, particularly when used in conjunction with digestive enzymes and acidophyllus. It has tremendous detoxifying qualities, as well as being a nutritionally-complete whole food. Therefore, it can significantly raise your energy levels and may initially make you feel light-headed. Be certain to start with fractional dosages and increase gradually.

Long-term environmental and metabollic toxins can compromise the immune system, hamper body functions and damage cells. Unfortunately, metals, inorganic minerals, dental amalgam, food additives, preservatives and chemicals are now a regular and unavoidable part of our diets, hygiene and lifestyle.

Artificial or inorganic substances such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, metals, refined foods, and food dyes or additives cannot be properly processed by the liver. Instead, they accumulate, often for years, triggering allergies and recurring and often dangerous side effects, while hampering the liver's crucial functions.

Metabollic toxins occur on many levels. Constipation and other elimination problems allow dangerous metabollic waste by-products to accumulate and remain too long in the body. They leach through intestinal walls and contaminate other body systems. Long-term infections within the body, such as those trapped by dental root canals, also result in high levels of unreleased toxins which eventually migrate and contaminate cells.

Parasite infestations and candida produce toxins from their excrement. This migrates thoughout the body via the lymphatic system and bloodstream. Present in more than 75% of the North American population, parasites kill off beneficial intestinal flora and consume vital nutrients, leaving organs and body systems depleted.

The lymphatic system was designed to rid the body of metabollic wastes. However, it does not have its own pumping system. It requires physical exercise, manual stimulation, or increased pumping from the heart to keep it properly operating. Those who do not or cannot exercise suffer a sluggish lymphatic system.

Bouncing on a mini-trampoline is wonderful for stimulating the lymphatic system and clearing the lymph nodes. Lymph cells have a one-way valve which opens to discharge toxins only when you change direction. Lymphatic drainage massage is also very beneficial. However, it is not recommended once lymphatic or beast cancer has developed, since it can allow these cancers to migrate.

As a preventative measure, it is wise to practice regular detoxification by eating liver and bile-stimulating bitter greens such as dandelion, burdock or rappini. Essiac tea, a Native American herbal tea is also an excellent overall detoxifier. Green leafy vegetables, blue/green algae and herbs, all high in chlorophyll, aid in drawing toxins and heavy metals out through the stool rather than through the skin.

Spring and Autumn administer a good quality herbal detox program and parasite cleanse available from your health food store. Heavy metals can be removed using homeopathic preparations such as Metalogin. For heavier toxicity choose intravenous chelation administered by a health professional.

Emotions are rarely considered as the culprit for disease. Yet, with each thought and every emotion, chemical neuropeptides are released into the body. Neuropeptides send messages to the body to trigger physiological responses.

There are at least 1,000 different neuropeptides. Some are beneficial, such as endorphins, and some, such as adrenalin, are harmful when they accumulate or compound with other chemicals. Peptides remain in tissue until they are released through massage, exercise, increased oxygenation, or cleansing by the lymphatic system. Consider that you have in excess of 10,000 thoughts per day! If those thoughts are continually negative or influenced by stress, the resulting accumulation of neuropeptides can, over time, be very detrimental to your health.

Traumatic emotional or psychological experiences also create visible lesions on the brain that may later cause disease. The subjective emotional content at the moment of the trauma will determine the lesion's specific location and how it will later affect you.

Physical and emotional pain or depression also causes us to suspend or minimize our breathing for extended periods. We can survive without food or water for days. But we can only last about 4 minutes without oxygen! Shallow breathing deprives the cells of vital oxygen and allows carbon dioxide to remain within the body too long. Without sufficient oxygen we feel lethargic, tissue cannot heal, body systems slow down, our pH becomes acidic, cancer and parasites begin to proliferate.

Take time for a good belly-laugh now and then. Do something that makes your heart sing. These types of positive emotional releases trigger beneficial neuropeptides that can promote a sense of well-being as well as help to heal. If you must live with undue stress, go for a massage or Shiatsu treatment regularly. Take walks, ride a bike or swim. Consider it a wise investment in good health, as much as relaxation.

Moderate exercise allows the lungs to expand and the heart to beat faster, oxygenating the body. However, overexertion can actually cause more harm than good. Strenuous exercise causes a build-up of lactic acid in tissues. It alters hormones. Tissues also suffer oxygen deprivation from the increased demands placed on the body.

Moving meditations such as Yoga, Tai Chi, or Qi Gong involve an awareness of deep breathing incorporated with ideal movement patterns. While they will not build muscle or bulk, they do draw in higher levels of energy as well as lower brain waves to stabilize emotional and psychological balance. In the long run they are healthier for you.

Breath Therapy is an alternative to exercise. It not only teaches deep and relaxed breathing techniques, it also facilitates the lifting of emotional, psychological and even physical trauma that would otherwise continue to be damaging. Energy levels and mental acuity increase. Elevated oxygen levels will also reduce the amount of any chemotherapy required.

Hypnotherapy takes a unique approach to cancer. It creates a deeply relaxed mental and physical state with lowered brainwaves. This allows the brain to produce seratonin and melatonin. Cell division more readily occurs in this state. Like meditation, or REM sleep, this is beneficial in and of itself.

Hypnotherapy can also be used as an anesthetic to relieve pain, to heal existing emotional trauma, or as a means to communicate with your body. Through Hypnotherapy you can discover the emotional elements and cause of your cancer or disease, as well as re-program your attitude and beliefs to help overcome it.

Trauma must be lifted in order to heal any lesions on the brain and halt the production of damaging neuropeptides. When you ignore the need to heal emotionally, tremendous effort and energy must then be directed into burying or denying the trauma. Eventually this becomes exhausting, debilitating and distracting to both body and mind. Adrenalin, which is released during stress, is addictive over time. To fulfill our need for the energy rush adrenalin provides, we may unconsciously draw continual chaos and discord into our lives.

If you spend your life being negative, unhappy, and unfulfilled, or if you bury emotional trauma instead of healing it, you are risking eventual illness. The chances of recovery diminish, as well. Statistic show that cancer victims who have a strong emotional support system such as church, family, support groups, and friends, have a 75% greater chance of surviving the disease. Love, emotional support, positive emotions, optimism, prayer and attitude can play a critical role in healing anyone.

Why? Positive thinking produces beneficial neuropeptides, less adrenalin, and decreases emotional stress. It allows you to breath deeper and in a more relaxed manner.

But, there is another more critical factor. Quantum physicists now understand that consciousness/intelligence actually resides within valance electrons-the unpaired negative charges randomly orbiting our atoms. In other words, every thought, idea, belief, attitude and emotion you have is contained within your entire body's electro-magnetic or auric field, not within your brain as once believed. Your brain is only the hard drive, not the software.

This means that your thoughts are continually affecting you throughout your body even at the most minute atomic and cellular levels! And vice versa.....That is why energy therapies can be so effective in restoring health.

Alternative therapies such as Reiki, Seichim, Therapeutic Touch, Polarity Therapy and Qi Gong affect multi-level healing, often without even touching an individual. Practitioners learn how to channel their body's own magnetic field through their hands to stimulate the magnetic field of another person, pet, a plant, or even the environment.

The principle of magnetic attraction is simple. Everything is comprised of atoms. Within each atom are both a positive and negative charge. And, there are extra negative charges. Known as electrons, these are drawn to the perimeter of the atom where they orbit randomly seeking their opposite. This is what creates a magnetic field.

The direction and speed of these valance electrons determines the state of health. The quicker they spin, the more energized you feel. If these electrons are orbiting in a clockwise direction, your polarity is reversed and you will feel tired, dull, and be much more succeptible to illness and stress.

Energy Therapies employ magnetic fields to stimulate and correct the orbit of valance electrons, as well as to attract hemoglobin to the affected area. Hemoglobin contains iron, which, when passed between two magnetic poles, creates electricity. It carries oxygen via the bloodstream. Oxygen cleanses, heals and sustains cells.

Because of the marked increase in hemoglobin drawn to an area, healing is much more rapid. Cells are restored. Energy increases as valance electrons are stimulated and their orbit corrected. The body begins to quickly heal itself. Pain is lessened or eliminated as blood capillaries dilate. pH becomes more alkaline.

Consciousness and intelligence within the valance electrons is also affected. As a result, emotional and psychological healing often simultaneously occurs. The individual feels a profound sense of well-being and balance. In affecting a multi-level treatment, the true cause of the disease is eliminated.

The best part of Energy Therapies, is that they can easily be learned by anyone and can be used on oneself in addition to others. Like meditation or self-hypnosis, they can become a method for you to heal yourself from within. These days, this is particulaly important.

Man-made electro-magnetic fields from electrical wiring and household appliances are becoming one of the greatest carcinogens. Unnatural magnetic fileds vibrate at a much greater speed than our body's own fields. As a result, the increased stimulation and static from these fields stresses our body and our psychological well-being. It increases acidity. In addition, it often reverses our polarity.

When these fields occur, especially during sleep, it can result in cell mutation-cancer. Most cell division occurs during the first two hours of sleep. An absence of sufficient energy from the earth's magnetic field, and the presence of man-made electro-magnetic fields creates chaos at the cellular level.

Vibrational therapies use sympathetic resonance to correct imbalances on all levels. If you could see sound or energy you would observe its movement in patterns known as fibinacci spirals. Sound waves corkscrew at a concentric angle of exactly 51.3 degrees. In nature, this specific angle conducts energy. The matrix of DNA is a fibinacci spiral.

Vibrational therapies use light or sound to exactly mimic the correct resonance or vibration of DNA. As fibinacci spirals bombard DNA, sympathetic resonance restores its correct vibrational rate. As with energy therapies, vibrational therapies affect healing on all levels. In some cases the damage is reversed entirely. Healing is swift and complete.

Eliminating or reducing highly carcinogenic elements from your life is the best cancer preventative. Unfortunately, we don't always know all the carcinogens to which we are daily exposed. As cancer rates begin to soar and our medical profession continues to take an adversarial attack-and-destroy approach, we must begin to make choices.

Do we want to perpetuate the current slash, burn and poison approach to cancer treatment, knowing that it destroys the good along with the bad? Do we want to support a medical system that continually buries cures because it is more concerned with profit than with our best interests? Can we adopt a medical system that incorporates the best of both types of medical practices-holistic and modern, to serve the best interests of mankind?

You do call the shots. You can make informed, intelligent choices regarding your health care. Your voice, your attitudes, your preferences are what creates change. Amazingly, most people would opt for the extended pain, limited lifestyle, and time off work traditional medical care perpetuates. But, that only proves, yet again, that most illness has an emotional origin. You seek pain and illness because you need its gifts.~~