Cancer Info Part 3

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water.. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

f. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

g. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

h.. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

Phew!

No crash, Craig's made it through the worst with a few timely day sleeps, extra supplements & a lot of SCENAR.

We have also made a pact to go to bed early & this has resulted in a few early morning exercise sessions. Brisk 10 minute walk, 7 minute run & 10minute walk home.

Perhaps it's the sunshine returning that has inspired him but it is nice to see that he doesn't seem to crash & burn anymore.

There is hope.

Why doesn't everyone have CFS?

Watching T.V. last night, (Top Gear & Desperate Housewives are our two shows for the week - both on Mondays) I couldn't help but wonder that everyone doesn't have CFS?

Every other add was for some kind of 'mask your pain' medication, or 'kill the bacteria the toxic way' cleaner or 'get your vitamins & minerals the cheats way' food. ie eat ice cream for your afternoon calcium!! What is that?

Do people believe these adds?

Or do they believe the ones for preventatives; fresh food, quality supplements, exercise & health, products that do not harm the environment or our health?

It is so confusing when people can basically advertise whatever they want and everyone is trying to 'educate' through their 30 second grab. Why on earth would you believe any of it!

When everyone has an agenda or a sales pitch it is so hard to know who to believe.

There is a great website called the Campaign for Truth in Medicine you might want to check out. Interestingly they say their campaign is being hindered by people with alternatives pushing their own barrows a bit too much rather than cooperating for the truths' sake. (These are the guys who wrote ABCs of Disease that helped us so much with a good diet.)

http://campaignfortruth.com/home.htm

Wouldn't it be awesome if we didn't have this problem. I often wonder what it would be like to live in a time when environmental illness wasn't an issue. But I guess living in a fallen world we'd have some other issue.

Maybe this is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.....(part 5 SCENAR)

Craig returned to Physiotherapy part time in June /July 2004. In October he began looking to buy his own practice so he could be in charge of his own hours permanently. In December 2004 we purchased a small practice on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

At this point Craig was at about 85%. Able to work and rest and play a little. Over the next 2 years focusing on his health he made it to about 95%. Able to exercise regularly but still needing a heart monitor to avoid a sore throat after exercise. In May 2006 we had our first son. A wonderful answer to prayer and possible due to our healthier lives. However, as most parents know, with this great blessing comes a new kind of exhaustion - sleep depravation.

Craig’s CFS symptoms worsened. We negotiated that Lauren would do the night shift & week day shifts alone so that Craig could have extra sleep. When our son was 6 months old we fell pregnant again. Enabling Craig’s extra sleep became difficult with the new pregnancy. So when we heard through the Physiotherapy Association of Australia (APA) about a new kind of treatment out of Russia called SCENAR, that helped the body to heal itself, we decided to give it a go. We longed to get Craig’s CFS get out of the 80-90% rut.

Craig had 5 sessions of SCENAR treatment and purchased a multi-layer therapy blanket to sleep in. His therapist said his condition appeared to be the result of his body being “stuck” on “fight and flight mode” and being unable to switch on to “rest and recovery mode”. He said all his efforts to care for his body naturally had been worthwhile and his body was in great condition, just needed reprogramming! After the treatment he began to be refreshed by sleep for the first time in 8 years! One day after the fourth session, he ran up the stairs. He started telling jokes again. We knew things were different when we went to a social event with strangers soon after the treatment. For the first time Lauren could remember there was no need to negotiate or plan how Craig would recover from the event. We simply enjoyed it.

Lauren also now sleeps in a multi-layer therapy blanket as she found it helped her be refreshed by sleep, despite there not being a whole lot to be had with 2 boys under 3 and being currently 7 months into our third pregnancy. Craig has trained as a SCENAR Therapist and uses SCENAR in his practice. He now treats a much broader range of patients.

Maybe this is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.....(part 4 Becoming Alternative Weirdos)

At this point we decided to become proactive - Lauren started reading, reading, reading. We went to our first Naturopath we listened to tapes/CDs & watched videos/DVDs and went to seminars about health. We decided that we already knew what would happen if we didn’t do anything besides listen to GPs and Specialists.

Strangely enough it was at this point of research that we discovered Lauren also had diagnosable Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We were surprised because Lauren’s symptoms were manageable with our slower lifestyle at the time and compared to Craig’s were nothing to complain about so she had never sought medical help. We found out by doing a questionnaire, like the one on the CFIDS Association of America website.

So what did we have to lose? We became alternative health “weirdos” and we started to see results. We got rid of all chemicals in the house, our food, our personal care products. We changed our diet cutting out sugar, yeast, lactose and gluten. We went as raw as we could and we started taking supplements.

Lauren’s results were much faster than Craig’s understandably. But Craig’s return to work this time was a lot faster and more permanent.

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.