Cancer Protect

had uterine cancer last summer. Luckily it was Stage 1A and surgery took care of everything. I didn't need chemo or radiation. I tell people I had cancer for two weeks, because by the time they found it, I had surgery and waited the 6 days it took for the "all clear" pathology results to come back - only 2 weeks had passed!

It was just kind of a blip in my summer. Part of the reason it was only that was I am fit and in excellent health and do a lot of things right. My cancer usually happens to people who are obese (I'm not even close) or diabetic (not that either). The 3rd cause is making too much estrogen.

The purpose of this article is to share a few "cancer prevention" tips I've learned, because as easy as I had it, I'm not planning on getting it again!

I've always taken a ton of vitamins. A lot, I've recently discovered, are recommended by cancer researchers to prevent cancer or help fight it if you have cancer. Take this combination daily:

Beta-Carotene - 25,000 iu

Folic Acid - 400 mcg

Selenium - 200 mcg

Vitamin C - 3000 mg (divided)

Vitamin E - 400 iu (slows tumor growth and the spread of malignancies)

Multi Vitamin

1 B Complex

Calcium - 1500 (divided)

NAC - 600 mg

You should also cut out red meat and trans fats and way back on sugar, salt, soda, alcohol, fat and artificial sweeteners. Fill up on fruits, vegetables, beans and especially: tomatoes, grapes, spinach, broccoli, potatoes, cauliflower, kale, Chinese mushrooms, onion (best raw), citrus fruits, carrots, cabbage and green beans.

Drink lots of green tea, carrot juice (it has anti cancer carotenes) and green juice.

Eat 100% whole-wheat pasta, whole grain breads and brown rice. Have a half teaspoon of rosemary per day and use olive oil.

Do something every day to de-stress and think happy, thankful and positive thoughts. Meditate or use guided imagery to picture a healthy body. Cooking healthy meals at home and sharing them with family while unwinding at the end of each day will also add much to a healthy lifestyle.

In 1931, Otto Warburg, a German scientist won the Nobel Prize medicine for his discovery that the primary cause of all cancer was the lack of oxygen getting into the cells of the body,- a condition known as anaerobism. He discovered that anytime a cell was deprived of at least 35% of it's oxygen requirement, a normal cell could convert into a cancerous cell within 48 hours. He was able to prove this by inducing cancer in 40 different species of animals within 3 days. He said that acids in the body fluids (acidosis) expels oxygen from the body, therby inducing cancer.

Cancer above all other diseases has many secondary causes. Almost anything can cause cancer, but in every case of the cancer development, two factors are always present with cancer no matter what else may be present. Those two factors are acid pH and the lack of oxygen.

pH: What does it mean? pH is the abbreviation for potential hydrogen. The pH of any solution is the measure of it's hydrogen-ion concentraton. The higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is. The lower the pH reading is, the more acidic and oxygen deprivehe fluid is. The pH scale is from 0 to 14, with 7.0 being the neutral. Anything above 7.0 is alkaline, anything below 7.0 is considered acidic.

If you have a health problem, including cancer, most likely you are aidic. Research shows that unless the body's pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself. So, it means that means that no matter what type of treatment or modality you use to take care of your health problem, it won't be effective unless the pH level is up. If your body's pH is not balanced, you cannot effectively assimilate vitamins, minerals and food supplements. Your body pH affects everything.

If your body pH is around 7.4, it's in the normal range, but if it's between 6.5 and 5.5, you are already developing a degenerative disease.

The "law of attraction" is the hottest topic in spiritual development talked about in The Secret and by talk show host Oprah Winfrey, writer Louise Hay, producer/publicist Rhonda Byrne, and many others.

The basic idea of the law of attraction is that on a conscious or subconscious level, we invite people, objects, experiences, and even cancer into our lives. What we give our attention, the idea goes, we experience in our lives. That's true whether we welcome it or we fear it. If we think about it, it comes into being for us.

So if you have cancer you must have brought it on yourself, huh.

That's what you can hear from a lot of New Age Fundamentalists. I have a different take on the law of attraction and cancer.

Let's assume that the law of attraction is a valid expression of a life truth, and consider visualizing a shiny red convertible and getting it.

You imagine getting a shiny red convertible. You're enthused about the possibility of getting a shiny red convertible. You chant "Shiny Red Convertible, Shiny Red Convertible" 250 times a day for a year, and one day you hear a knock at the door and Publisher's Clearing House has delivered you a shiny red convertible.

So how do we explain this?

Well, obviously, one expert on the law of attraction might say you had been inviting red things into your life. You bought Rome apples on sale at the store, you invested in a red ski hat, and you got a paper cut when you filled out your tax return. All that concentration on redness brought something else red into your life, a shiny red convertible.

And another expert on the law of attraction would say, no that's all wrong, you have been bringing shiny things into your life. You had a shiny nose, you stocked up on Windex, you bought a new mirror, it was only natural that you would get a new shiny red convertible.

And yet another expert on the law of attraction would say, balderdash, it's all about convertibility, things that roll up and down. You cleaned the blinds and boom, you get a convertible.

And, sure as my name is Robert Rister, they'd all be wrong.

If you believe in the law of attraction, and I'm not discouraging that, and you have cancer, look beyond the cancer to see what's coming with it. That may be the experience you are bringing into your life.

And whether it's a blessing or a curse to you, accept it, rejoice in it, and move on from it. According to the law of attraction, that's how you move on from cancer.

There are few more dreaded diagnoses than cancer of the pancreas. Although some people actually survive pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and there are things you can do to increase your chances of being a survivor of pancreatic cancer, many patients and their doctors treat the diagnosis as if were a death sentence.

It doesn't have to be.

If you are the patient, no single medical intervention and no single holistic health practice is likely to save your life, but small efforts add up. Each and every doctor-directed treatment and each and every change in diet, addition to natural therapy, or nutritional supplement just might be the one intervention that makes remission possible.

Curcumin, the versatile and potent antioxidant extracted from the orange-yellow curry spice turmeric, is a nutritional supplement that may help in advanced pancreatic cancer. A daily dose of 8,000 mg of curcumin has been tried for up to two months. Two months, as you may know, is a very long time to be treating the condition in an advanced stage. And this result in people is completely consistent with the results of investigations in the laboratory.

Scientists at the University of Texas at El Paso have found that the compound "untangles" DNA that may have been distorted in a precancerous cell. And researchers at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom discovered that tetrahydrocurcuminoids "recharge" the outer membranes of pancreatic cells so that they can attract the regulatory hormones, amino acids, and glucose they need to move into the cell so it can stay healthy.

You can't go "completely natural" and get enough curcumin to do you any good. The only way to get enough of this antioxidant to have an effect on cancer is to take a supplement. You should not take it without letting your doctor know first, and it is not advised if you take any kind of blood thinning agent or agent to stimulate the production of white or red blood cells.

You have cancer!

Even though I was expecting it, that was still the most dreadful moment of my life. The surgeon went on to tell me that "these days it isn't necessarily terminal". My ears heard him... but I didn't take it in. I was simply too overwhelmed with what seemed the enormity of the situation. Regardless of what he said, I knew that my death was imminent.

But perhaps I have been good in another life... it was prostate cancer and I was lucky... we caught it in time! I had the surgery and seven years later there is no sign of its return. But the worry is still there in the back of my mind. My father died from prostate cancer complications so that creates a higher genetic risk for me. I am very much aware that I must do everything I can to protect my body from a return visit in some other organ.

I didn't know much about cancer seven years ago, I don't know much about it now; but these days I'm hyper-vigilant... I'm always open to exploring alternative ideas and therapies.

I began a program of high quality anti-oxidant food supplements as a first defense. But what I didn't know and what doesn't seem to be common knowledge, is that Alkaline Water produced in a High Quality Ion Generator can have as much as eight times the anti-oxidant power of Vitamin C if drank within a few hours of production.

But even then ...when "ionized alkaline water" came into my life a few months ago I was not looking to it to have any beneficial effects in regard to cancer. It completely relieved my wife of long term (30 years) acid reflux symptoms and it healed a vicious skin rash I had had for 8 years. Medical science had brought minimal relief to either of those conditions.

But back to cancer and alkaline water... here's what I found:

Dr. Otto Warburg, a well known cancer researcher, wrote about oxygen's relationship to the pH of the internal environment of cancer cells. Since fermentation was a major metabolic pathway of cancer cells, Warburg reported that cancer cells maintain a lower pH, as low as 6.0 (acidic), due to lactic acid production and elevated carbon dioxide. He firmly believed that there was a direct relationship between pH and oxygen. Higher pH (i.e. higher alkalinity) means higher concentration of oxygen molecules while lower pH (more acidity) means lower concentrations of oxygen.

In 1931 Dr. Otto Weinberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme. He showed, among other things, that cancerous cells can live and develop, even in the absence of oxygen.

In a published lecture he stated: "Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. Almost anything can cause cancer. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen ... in normal body cells by fermentation of sugar".

What does this mean to you?

Drink alkaline water and you will reduce the acidity of your body, combat the action of free radicals and create an environment where it is difficult for cancer to thrive.

Often times, as part of cancer recovery, western holistic detoxification methods emphasize the use of herbs and foods that deplete energy significantly as toxins are released.

While this approach may work well for individuals who are healthy and strong, it can create additional fatigue and weakness for individuals who are already deficient in energy due to chronic illness, chemotherapy or radiation therapies.

The Chinese approach to balancing the liver and releasing toxins is much more gentle and less depleting. It also does not involve:

* fasting
* extreme dietary shifts
* a predominant use of energetically cooling green supplements such as alfalfa, seaweed, and chlorophyll.

Instead, the Chinese medicine approach considers the overall constitution of the individual to create a custom formulation of herbs that not only detoxifies the liver but also facilitates building strength of the liver and other internal organs.

This two prong approach of detoxifying and strengthening is important for people who have serious chronic conditions such as cancer, fibromyalgia, diabetes, liver or kidney disease, endocrine imbalances and other conditions that involve internal weakness of the organs.

A trained herbalist might include the following gentle detoxifying herbs:

* chai hu
* chrysanthemum
* mai men dong
* bai shao
* huang qin

Gentle tonic herbs such as

* di huang
* dang gui
* shan zha
* gu ya
* rou cong rong

An effective pre-made formula for balancing the liver energy is Free Easy Wanderer which contains a nice blend of herbs to detoxify and strengthen the liver and other internal organs.

However, before you purchase this formula, be mindful of the brand as many of the pre-made Chinese herbal formulations contain impurities such as heavy metals and chemical preservatives that are toxic.

Plum Flower (Mayway) and Guang Ci Tang are the two brands that I trust in my practice, as they are produced in GMP certified labs that meet FDA standards for purity control.

On the western herbal side, nettle leaf is also a very gentle liver cleanser and can be combined with milk thistle.

Nettle leaf is also a natural antihistamine that can help your body cope better with allergens to reduce sneezing, congestion and other allergic manifestations.

Millk thistle weed contains silymarin, which protects the liver against toxins.

If you smoke, drink or are exposed to toxic fumes such as paint, nail polish and certain household cleansers regularly, milk thistle may benefit you.

I use Gaia brand of phyto-extracts of nettle leaf and milk thistle as this brand contains a highly potent yet gentle formulation that is standardized in terms of strength.

Consult with a trained herbalist to determine the correct dosage for your particular energy and health conditions. Also, if you are undergoing chemotherapy, check with your herbalist and medical doctor as some herbs that detoxify the body may also reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

Here are some ideas that I believe you will find helpful.

First of all...be specific. A willingness to help in any way she needs is often overwhelming. She may not have the energy to address and think through what all her needs are. Take the time to look at her home, family, medical and social needs. Then give her a small list of things you can either do or help with.

Second, if you have a personal care skill such as hairdressing, manicuring or massaging, offer your services for a session free of charge. Come to her home if at all possible. Any of these things will delight her! All of us know there is nothing like a little pampering when we don't feel our best.

If your time is limited or you live a distance from your friend...the following list of items can be given individually or in a lovely gift basket.

It is wise to choose lotions and potions that are fragrance free since many cancer patients have a low tolerance to odors during treatment. You might also want to ask a family member if she has any skin sensitivities or allergies. Include organic products as much as possible. Because they do not contain chemicals and preservatives they will be better tolerated.

1. Nightcaps: homemade or purchased

This is a wonderful gift for your friend if her treatment will cause her to lose her hair. Be sure the fabric is soft and washable and that any elastic is covered and not too tight. Ask her what pretty color or pattern she would like if you are making the nightcap...or surprise her!

2. Nightgowns or robes that open in the front

Ease in dressing is extremely important both during any hospital stays and once she is home.

3. Extra moisturizing body lotion

Remember to keep the ingredients fragrance free and organic if possible

4. A natural bristle hair brush that has extra soft bristles

Again, this is if your friend will lose her hair with treatment. She (or you) can lightly brush her head to stimulate healthy new growth AND it feels great!

5. Purchase a copy of Beauty During the Cancer Journey

It is a simple read where she will find support and help in beauty related issues

6. Lastly, how about purchasing a beautiful bouquet of silk flowers to match the colors of her home?

She won't have an allergic reaction to them and no one will have to remember to water them!