Author of the book “Cancer-Free -- Your Guide to Gentle, Non-toxic Healing”
308 pages in paperback -- 212 pages in e-book format
http://www.Beating-Cancer-Gently.com
I have a theory. If you agree with it, maybe you will continue
reading this article. And maybe
you will join me as one of the "Fearless Crusaders" fighting
against cancer ignorance and myth.
My former wife, Marjorie,
was terrified when she got her first diagnosis of ovarian cancer in 1990. Four years later, on November 1st, 1994, she
succumbed to the cancer. The four years were literal hell for her. Numerous surgeries and chemotherapy cocktails literally destroyed her while she endured constant, severe pain.
Watching her go through it and trying to
help was extremely difficult for me. I
loved her. I now know the torture she
endured was the result of our ignorance and the myths surrounding cancer causes
and treatments in the U.S.
and the rest of the world.
Don't Be A Victim
My
theory is that if I help you take the mystery out of how we get cancer
and how it progresses, you will be more willing to accept one or more
of the many gentle, non-toxic, proven treatments for this abnormality
in our body. You might even pay
more attention to your lifestyle and prevent cancer.
Let's
see if my theory is correct. I'll give you some of the most popular cancer
myths and the truth about them. Don't
take my word for any of this. With
the Internet, you have the ability to verify my "truths" yourself with very little effort.
If that resource had been available to Marjorie and me in 1990-1994,
maybe she would not have been a victim of the cancer "system."
I have
spent years researching this subject.
My research has covered many fields such as psychoimmunology, neurology,
microbiology, nutrition and fitness. I
have read thousands of case studies of people cured of "terminal"
cancer by means dismissed by "traditional" cancer doctors (oncologists) as "quackery."
Hundreds of cancer patients all over the world have used the "quackery"
information I provided them to get well.
MYTH #1: Cancer is caused by some mysterious foreign substance.
TRUTH: Cancer is a malfunction of our normal cell functions and our immune
system.
The
average adult human body contains 75 trillion cells.
Here's the number again: 75,000,000,000,000. Our DNA, the "instruction book" in
each cell, determines whether the cell will be part of an ear or a finger. Amazingly, within the 33,000 or so genes in
the DNA of each cell are "suicide" genes and "proofreader"
genes.
When
a cell division occurs, the "suicide" gene in the DNA decides
whether that cell is correct and needed.
If not, it kills it. One example we’re all familiar with: a healing cut. When enough cells have gathered and multiplied
to heal the "breach," the suicide genes take over and kill the
rest. Otherwise, every cut would
grow new skin cells indefinitely. Your
body would be drowned in new cells.
Another
portion of the DNA, called the "proofreader" gene, takes a look
at the new cell. If it finds an error, it kills it.
Third Line of Defense
Our
immune system is extremely complex, consisting of 130 or so different
kinds of cells -- all with the function of "policing up" the
foreign substances in our body. One type of foreign substance it gobbles up
are the abnormal cells produced by our own cell division process.
It is the third line of defense guarding against abnormal cells
in our body.
How,
then, with all this protection, do we get cancer?
Good question. It's a matter of numbers. Remember 75 trillion -- lots of zeroes? It has been estimated that all those cells (with
a few exceptions in your brain and nerves) get replaced every seven years on schedules that vary from hours to weeks. That works out to about 29 billion cell divisions
every day of your life. Some of
them are visible to you: growing finger and toe nails; growing hair; peeling skin, for example. Most are invisible. They occur inside our bodies.
MYTH #2: Cancer Is Extremely Complex and The Cause Is Unknown.
TRUTH: The cause of cancer is well known and is rather simple.
With
the exception of the 5% or so of cancers caused by inherited genes, cancer
cells are the result of damage to one of your dividing cells.
What kind of damage? Well,
the loss of the "suicide" gene in the DNA for one.
The "suicide" gene is just one of a group of 100 or so
genes in the cell’s DNA called the “oncogenes."
"Onco" is a Greek word meaning "mass, bulk, tumor."
When the “suicide” gene gets damaged, the cell "forgets"
how to kill itself and it begins multiplying out of control.
When
the "proofreader" gene misses the cancer cell and the immune
system misses it (because they have been weakened by our lifestyle choices),
this abnormal cell begins dividing and producing cells like itself (no
"suicide" gene) and we have the start of a tumor (or leukemia, if the cells remain in the blood stream, or lymphoma,
etc.). The actual process by which
the out-of-control cells migrate to a particular organ (skin, ovaries,
lung, liver, etc.) or remain in the bloodstream or lymph system is poorly
understood. It appears, however, to be related to the stress
experienced by those organs as they endure your chosen lifestyle. More smokers get lung cancer than non- smokers. More sun-worshippers get skin
cancer. More alcoholics get liver
cancer....and so on. There is actually
a theory (among several I’ve read lately about the cause of cancer) that
all cancer patients suffered a severe emotional trauma of some sort about
two years before the cancer became visible to the doctors and the patient.
How Do Genes Get Damaged?
So,
roughly 95% of cancers are the result of damaged genes.
How do they get damaged? Well,
there are random mistakes. These
you don't have any control over. But,
you needn't worry about them, either.
They happen in small enough numbers that your
triple line of defense takes care of them.
The
second way your DNA gets damaged is by "free radicals."
What are free radicals? They
are compounds that have one unpaired electron in their atomic makeup.
This causes them to bounce around wildly bumping into normal cells,
damaging the DNA.
You
cannot avoid free radicals. They are in your body and in the atmosphere.
They result from the process your body uses to break down food,
among many other causes. But, and this is the "bottom line,"
their numbers are multiplied and can be controlled by the lifestyle decisions
we make every day:
- Cigarette smoking causes the largest number of free radicals of any lifestyle activity. Eventually, the number of free radicals it produces overcomes your body's elaborate defenses and you, the smoker, get lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, and many more maladies.
- The more fat you take in, the more free radicals you produce.
- Most of the food we eat not only has been robbed of nutrition by the way it was grown and processed, it contains lots of chemicals which our body can’t handle and which produce lots of free radicals.
- Certain foods, vitamins and other supplements provide “anti-oxidants" which can kill off the free radicals by the millions.
- Exercise not only strengthens your bone and muscle, it also beefs up the mitochondria in your cells (the energy source of the cells) and boosts your immune system.
Lifestyle choices like these are cumulative
-- for better or worse. In addition to
cancer, free radical damage also causes senility, arthritis, hardening of the
arteries, and the declining function of your immune system as you age.
MYTH #3: There Is No Cure For Cancer.
TRUTH: Many alternative therapies, unlike conventional cancer therapies, permanently eradicate cancer cells from your body.
There
is not room here to go into the "politics" of cancer and the
drug industry it enriches. Many books have documented this subject. If
you know only a couple of facts, however, you will know enough.
Fact #1: Despite the U.S. government's declared
"War on Cancer" in 1971 and the $100 billion of your tax money spent
on cancer research, the death rate from cancer (adjusted for population aging)
has risen every year since 1970.
Fact #2: Despite thousands of documented cures by dozens
of "alternative" cancer therapies over the past 70 years, the
cancer "establishment" has not chosen to research even one of
them. All have been dismissed as
"quackery." The proponents,
including many medical doctors, have been harassed, hounded, driven underground or
out of the country and jailed.
Conventional
cancer therapy--surgery, chemotherapy and radiation -- leaves some cancer
cells in your body. It also destroys your immune system. The result is that cancer usually recurs.
Sometimes weeks or months later.
Sometimes years later. Usually
in a much more aggressive form.
To cure cancer permanently, a treatment is
required which continuously boosts your body's natural ability to locate and
eradicate any cancer cells. Finding a
doctor or clinic willing and able to assist you with this process is the key to
never dying of cancer.
Because our cancer treatment system
in the U.S. is corrupted
by drug company money, you must learn to be an effective co-doctor.
You must get enough knowledge to know when to seek a second, third
or fourth opinion. You must be able to help your doctor evaluate both the effectiveness and the permanence of the treatment you receive.
As I mentioned above, you are indeed fortunate.
You live in a time when the knowledge to be an effective co-doctor
is readily available, primarily by way of the Internet.
Books, newsletters, search engines, clinics, discussion
forums--all of these resources help you zero in on the most effective
source for your treatment.
God bless you in your search for knowledge!
Bill
Henderson
Bill Henderson is the author of "Cure
Your Cancer" and “Cancer-Free.” He
has published 80 newsletters updating his books. Purchase of his latest book includes a “coaching”
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