1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors..
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Diets that have changed our lives.
1. Gerald Green's The Anti Candida Dietary Regimen formulated by Nikki Zalewksi . (We found this in a little book called the ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day a medical researcher from Britain. We heard him speak and bought the book at the seminar. (Both these links are to Phillip Day's website www.credence.org . We would honestly recommend all of their publications. Not all that well edited but great life-changing info for people with chronic illness, allergies, cancer, or people who want to avoid them.)
The diet is basically - absolutely no yeast, no sugar(including sugary vegies such as root vegetables) no lactose, no gluten. Avoid most processed foods especially processed meats.
This diet made the most significant difference to our health. At the height of our CFS we both had live blood testing on the advice of a Naturopath. In both our cases we had ridiculous numbers of Candida Albicans in our blood stream.
This is a damaging fungi present in everyone's gut but out of control in many people because of our high carbohydrate western diet. It gets into the bloodstream through a tiny perforation in the bowel one day, then multiplies in the bloodstream depending on how healthy or unhealthy you are. Apparently 70% of people in Western civilization would have it in their bloodstream to some degree. Look at your tongue in the mirror. Does it have a white coating? This is a sign of Candida Albicans - often known as Thrush.
When we found the Anti Candida Diet we thought 'we need this'. (Craig's tongue was completely white and slimy to the tip, Lauren's was white but not so slimy to the tip) So we tried it.
At first we thought what DO we eat? It looked like the ultimate alfalfa diet but that was because we didn't know much about using nuts & seeds for cooking at that point. But we were diligent and prepared to do anything because we had nothing to lose and everything to gain. We threw out everything in our pantry that didn't suit the diet.
Craig was not working at the time but living on the lounge and Lauren was working full time. We had no children so we could experiment with cooking on ourselves. Lauren did most of the cooking and Craig admits he never would have done it if he didn't have a crazy and desperate wife who is prepared to try new ideas. Lauren admits she would have given up very quickly if she didn't have a husband with great consistency and follow through.
The diet suggested 3 months. We did it for 12 months with no breaks. The difference in our lives was so worthwhile and it created some awesome habits which we now consider 'normal' and can't believe we ever didn't. After that we began to relax a little and moved onto the Food For Thought Lifestyle Regimen by Philip Day. We basically live by that now (Except when Lauren has given in to sugar cravings while pregnant.)
The diet is basically - absolutely no yeast, no sugar(including sugary vegies such as root vegetables) no lactose, no gluten. Avoid most processed foods especially processed meats.
This diet made the most significant difference to our health. At the height of our CFS we both had live blood testing on the advice of a Naturopath. In both our cases we had ridiculous numbers of Candida Albicans in our blood stream.
This is a damaging fungi present in everyone's gut but out of control in many people because of our high carbohydrate western diet. It gets into the bloodstream through a tiny perforation in the bowel one day, then multiplies in the bloodstream depending on how healthy or unhealthy you are. Apparently 70% of people in Western civilization would have it in their bloodstream to some degree. Look at your tongue in the mirror. Does it have a white coating? This is a sign of Candida Albicans - often known as Thrush.
When we found the Anti Candida Diet we thought 'we need this'. (Craig's tongue was completely white and slimy to the tip, Lauren's was white but not so slimy to the tip) So we tried it.
At first we thought what DO we eat? It looked like the ultimate alfalfa diet but that was because we didn't know much about using nuts & seeds for cooking at that point. But we were diligent and prepared to do anything because we had nothing to lose and everything to gain. We threw out everything in our pantry that didn't suit the diet.
Craig was not working at the time but living on the lounge and Lauren was working full time. We had no children so we could experiment with cooking on ourselves. Lauren did most of the cooking and Craig admits he never would have done it if he didn't have a crazy and desperate wife who is prepared to try new ideas. Lauren admits she would have given up very quickly if she didn't have a husband with great consistency and follow through.
The diet suggested 3 months. We did it for 12 months with no breaks. The difference in our lives was so worthwhile and it created some awesome habits which we now consider 'normal' and can't believe we ever didn't. After that we began to relax a little and moved onto the Food For Thought Lifestyle Regimen by Philip Day. We basically live by that now (Except when Lauren has given in to sugar cravings while pregnant.)
Friday, April 3, 2009
Minerals Minerals Minerals
One of the first things we discovered when we started researching natural alternatives was that we needed to take a liquid or colloidal mineral supplement. The results were instant and obvious to both of us. More energy, less need for extra sleep, less cravings, better skin, generally higher resistance to illness (all a big plus for those of us wanting to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome).
Why minerals?
Our bodies cannot produce minerals. We need to get them from food sources.
Why supplement our food?
Our modern farming methods have over stripped our soils and without the ancient (& biblical) techniques of rotating crops, composting & leaving fields fallow (ie empty of sown crops) for long periods of time our soils have no opportunity to re-mineralise.
So our plants and animals (and ourselves) are mineral deficient. The adding of nitrogen and phosphorus etc to soils makes the vegies look amazing and large but they are mineral deficient. Some of the figures we have seen show things like the iron in 1 tomato 50 years ago was nearly 1000 times more than the iron in a regular tomato today. Even the organic varieties although they are heaps, heaps better and worth buying (or growing yourselves!) are unfortunately not a patch on what we could have had 50-100 years ago.
What mineral supplements do we take?
We take an all natural colloidal mineral supplement - e-mail us if you want to know which one - some are synthetic. We take this twice a day 10mls approx at a time. Our kids have been on it from the time they could drink from a cup and talk about energy. They are also very rarely sick.
Plus we take a multi - vitamin and mineral tablet. Lauren takes a women's and Craig takes a general.
It is our understanding that the natural, colloidal minerals are the most bio available, much more than synthetic and much more than tablet. However, multivitamin and mineral tablets are good because you need minerals in your body to take up vitamins so good ones include both. High quality (which unfortunately usually means higher price) is absolutely essential. Check your wee. The cheaper your vitamin the more your kidneys expel and the brighter yellow your wee.
Why minerals?
Our bodies cannot produce minerals. We need to get them from food sources.
Why supplement our food?
Our modern farming methods have over stripped our soils and without the ancient (& biblical) techniques of rotating crops, composting & leaving fields fallow (ie empty of sown crops) for long periods of time our soils have no opportunity to re-mineralise.
So our plants and animals (and ourselves) are mineral deficient. The adding of nitrogen and phosphorus etc to soils makes the vegies look amazing and large but they are mineral deficient. Some of the figures we have seen show things like the iron in 1 tomato 50 years ago was nearly 1000 times more than the iron in a regular tomato today. Even the organic varieties although they are heaps, heaps better and worth buying (or growing yourselves!) are unfortunately not a patch on what we could have had 50-100 years ago.
What mineral supplements do we take?
We take an all natural colloidal mineral supplement - e-mail us if you want to know which one - some are synthetic. We take this twice a day 10mls approx at a time. Our kids have been on it from the time they could drink from a cup and talk about energy. They are also very rarely sick.
Plus we take a multi - vitamin and mineral tablet. Lauren takes a women's and Craig takes a general.
It is our understanding that the natural, colloidal minerals are the most bio available, much more than synthetic and much more than tablet. However, multivitamin and mineral tablets are good because you need minerals in your body to take up vitamins so good ones include both. High quality (which unfortunately usually means higher price) is absolutely essential. Check your wee. The cheaper your vitamin the more your kidneys expel and the brighter yellow your wee.
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