Natural Healing is a style of healing in which you assist your body to increase its powerful self-healing ability. This is done by creating a lifestyle where you: Eliminate those things that create disease and increase those things that create powerful health. When your body is healthy and strong, it can and will heal any disease, and repair and rebuild itself.
Your body is a self-healing machine.
This is easily seen with a cut. You cut your skin and you bleed. Your blood eventually clots and you form a scab. Your tissue and skin then starts re-growing. Eventually, the scab falls off and you are miraculously healed! Even though we take this basic healing function for granted, no medical doctor and no hospital can ever do this for you.
On a microscopic level, your body may be invaded and infected by foreign pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Your body has numerous organs, systems, and blood cells to take care of any unwanted visitors. You have white blood cells like macrophages and certain T cells that work to kill the invader immediately, and immune chemicals like interleukin and interferon that help speed up these cells. Other cells create chemical poisons to kill off the invaders in the same way your B cells use immunoglobulin to create specific antibodies that attack foreign pathogens.
Without a doubt, our bodies are amazing repair machines ready to take on any illness or disease. But eventually, because of genetics, lifestyle and just plain aging, your body may not be up to the task of healing or repairing you. This is usually when a person seeks out outside help, usually from a medical doctor.
A medical doctor’s approach is to take on the healing themselves, fighting and killing the disease with a barrage of chemical drugs and often getting the body functioning again by performing surgical procedures. This form of healing can work but can be very dangerous. Medical intervention is so harsh and extreme it often hurts other organs and causes other diseases. It can also leave you with irreversible surgical impairment when it involves your organs being altered or removed. It is the best form of healing for those people who absolutely will not take any responsibility for their health and refuse to make any healthy lifestyle modifications.
On the other hand, Natural Healing is for people who are willing to make healthy and positive lifestyle changes. As a Natural Healing doctor, I help my patients to dramatically raise their overall level of health, which in turn, dramatically increases their body’s ability to heal and repair itself. Doing this is simple! As the sign in my office says, “You can heal yourself of anything, just STOP doing what is making you sick and START doing what will Create Powerful Health.”
Natural Healing is simply helping your body to become stronger and healthier, so it becomes a more powerful and effective healing and repairing machine.
In my clinic, I discovered that with most people, it doesn’t take much to get their body to heal illness or disease. I usually just had to get them to STOP killing themselves. Most of my patients’ diseases were caused by what they were doing to themselves.
In other words, their body was trying to heal itself, but it was too weak, or running too much resistance, or both. This could be simply a lack of nutrition caused by a bad food program, all the way to a buildup of sludge in the body, causing everything from constipation and coronary-artery blockage to dementia. Most of my patients just needed a good cleanup and a new, healthy lifestyle, and they were on their way to health. However, my patients who had spent years damaging their bodies, ignoring their ill health and disregarding their many disease warning signs, were now in a serious disease crisis and they needed more aggressive health programs.
Regardless of the level of my patients’ illnesses or diseases, even in the worst stages of degenerative diseases, I always saw Natural Healing work as a powerful medical intervention. My patients were always able to regain their health and, in fact, create powerful health by simply leading a very healthy lifestyle.
Often, the healing results are in balance with how many positive, healthy changes a person is willing to make. Sure, for some, it took a lot of work, but when you compare it to the drama, trauma, pain, torture, and expense of medical intervention, for most people with good common sense, it’s a no-brainer. In fact, when you look at it this way, it is obviously the only real healing.
To sum all this up, Natural Healing is a style of healing where you assist your body in charging up its powerful self-healing ability by creating a lifestyle in which you eliminate things that create disease and do those things that create powerful health.
When your body is healthy and strong, it can heal, repair, and rebuild anything. An old Chinese proverb says: “Focus on the good to eliminate the bad.” In the same way, Natural Healing is about focusing on Creating Powerful Health and letting your body do what it knows how to do better than any doctor, and what it does best, which is repair and heal you of anything.
Herbal medicine has been THE medicine of every single group of people, of every single culture, and in every single country on this entire planet, since the beginning of time. But still, I am asked all the time, “How do herbs work?” Click if you dare and prepare to be enlightened…
A number of years ago while I was out shopping, I ran into a woman who was a wonderful customer. She told me that she used and loved my herbal medicines. She then told me how much success she had, healing herself over the years from a few quite serious illnesses. She also was pleased to tell me that she had also helped some family members, too. Mainly, she wanted to hug me and express to me that she felt so empowered, to be able to heal herself, and to help others, especially loved ones, to heal themselves. But most of all, she loved NOT having to run to the medical doctor or hospital emergency room anymore, every time someone had some illness.
But then she told me that she gets a lot of ridicule from her husband, who is a pharmacist at a major drug store chain. He told her that herbs don’t work at all, they are just hocus-pocus and a load of bull, and that any benefit that she thought she had, was all in her head, and at best, just a placebo effect. She was very upset and with tears in her eyes, she asked me for my response.
How Herbal Medicine Works
First, herbal medicine has been THE medicine of every single group of people, of every single culture, and in every single country on this entire planet, since the beginning of time. Herbs grow wild on this planet, and have been THE medicines of the people on this planet, forever. Chemical medicines are the new kid on the block, the new fad, and have only been around for a few hundred years. And, most drugs were originally made from plants anyway.
Herbal Medicine has recorded roots dating back over 6,000 years in China, India and the Middle East, just to mention a few places. Even today, the vast majority of the people on this planet still use herbal medicine as their first-choice medicine, and do not trust pharmaceutical drugs, at all. In fact, 50% of all drugs are either made from botanicals or synthesized to duplicate a chemical that was originally found in a plant.
Digitalis, the most famous of all heart drugs, gets its name from the herb Digitalis lanata, the Foxglove plant that it is made from. This plant, like many plants, contains some very powerful chemicals, often referred to as phytochemicals meaning “plant-chemicals”. The most powerful chemicals in this particular plant are called glycosides, specifically cardiac glycosides that affect the heart muscle in many ways. This is just one small example of one herb that has now become one of the most famous drugs used today. I could list over 1,000 additional drugs here that are plant-derived, but I just wanted to make a point.
How Do Herbs Actually Work? Well, it is actually very simple. All foods and plants (basically anything that grows) contain chemicals. And when you ingest plants, your body breaks the plant material down, using everything from saliva to digestive juices, and then your body assimilates these various chemicals.
One of the reasons that we eat food is so that our body can assimilate the Phyto-chemical nutrients from the plant. Nutrients that sustain life, like vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, protein, fat, carbohydrates, etc. Without plant nutritional chemicals, we couldn’t survive.
Herbs are also foods, but usually people don’t consume them for food, as they taste stronger. Sometimes we do, like raspberries, artichokes, dandelion, burdock, etc. But, when it comes to the stronger tasting ones (like coffee) most cultures have discovered that these plants have more medicinal uses, instead of nutritional uses. These stronger tasting plants taste stronger because they have stronger chemicals in them. This is one way that nature protects us and tells us the difference between food and medicine–raspberries taste great, digitalis does not.
Anyway, when we ingest these medicinal herbs, the same way as food, we breakdown the plant and assimilate the chemistry in the plant. But, with many herbs it is these stronger medicinal chemicals that we assimilate, instead of nutrients.
So when we consume medicinal herbs by just chewing them or using herbal teas, tablets, capsules or liquid extracts (like tinctures and tonics), instead of nutrition, we assimilate the medicinal plant chemicals or phytochemical medicines. The way in which herbs work is not rocket science and is actually very basic chemistry.
Then Why Do Medical Doctors Often Ridicule or Condemn Herbal Medicine?
Well first, you must understand that they have no training in Herbal Medicine, nor even in Nutrition. So asking the average medical doctor about using herbs, or about your food program is like asking your plumber about the condition of your home’s electrical system. They may have an opinion, but it is probably not a valid one.
The second reason is insecurity. Many people, including medical doctors, are very insecure about anything they don’t know or understand. They either fear it and condemn it, or will tell you to stay away from it. A better, more enlightened answer would simply be, “I have no training in herbal medicine, so I suggest that you seek the advice of a qualified herbal doctor.” But, you will NEVER hear that answer from someone whose ego is not in check.
Another reason why medical doctors generally condemn herbal medicine is that modern medicine is a TWO TRILLION DOLLAR a year business in the US. Additionally, Medical Groups spend more money influencing the government with lobbyists in Washington than any other private business organization. Considering that doctors and hospitals don’t want to lose your business and since pharmaceutical companies are making more money than any drug cartel ever thought of, well, you can expect that you are going to see and hear some occasional negative publicity warning you about any competition, and consequently not to use herbs. Either you will be warned that herbs are dangerous and unsafe, or that they are totally ineffective. (You’ll notice these two answers completely contradict each other.)
Usually, most of these warnings come from medical doctors who work for a system that makes a living off of helping people managing their diseases, but never quite actually healing them. (An example is that no diabetic ever heals his or her pancreas using insulin. In fact, when the pancreas detects artificially induced insulin, it gets weaker.) The medical cure of most diseases in America is not actually a cure at all, but more accurately, management. In fact, the use of the term “Health Care” would be more accurate—and more appropriate—if it were changed to “Disease Care”.
First Choice Medicine So back to the beginning. Look, I am not saying that we don’t need medical doctors, drugs and hospitals—we all need them in emergencies, like serious trauma.
What I am saying is that herbal medicine should be the FIRST CHOICE medicine for everyone. This simply just makes good com- mon sense. Why?
#1: IT IS SAFE Herbal Medicine is milder than harsh pharmaceutical drugs, so it has fewer side effects, usually none.
#2: USE IT WHOLE Herbs used in their whole and natural state are generally naturally buffered and more effective. In other words, isolating chemicals from herbs, and then concentrating them (like when making drugs) is not a safe thing to do. Herbs have many additional chemicals in them, beside the medicinal chemicals that act as buffering agents, making their actions smoother and safer.
An example is that many herbs in their natural whole state will make you vomit before you can overdose on them–a natural protective response that is lost when you turn them into drugs. It has also been proven that the most effective way to use plant medicines is using the whole herb. (Numerous studies, even published by the AMA, have now proven that whole herbs are much more medicinally effective than their individual isolated chemicals.)
#3: IT IS INEXPENSIVE Herbs are much less expensive than drugs, not to mention a lot less expensive than medical treatment and hospitals. Their low cost makes them the perfect financially sustainable health care choice, instead of creating a health care system that we cannot afford.
#4: IT IS EFFECTIVE Herbal medicine has proven to be a powerfully effective treatment for illness and disease, especially when used in conjunction with living a healthy lifestyle. ALL of these reasons underscore why it just makes good common sense that herbal medicine, not chemical and invasive medicine, should be the FIRST CHOICE MEDICINE.
Finally… In my life, I have healed my own life-threatening illnesses and injuries and helped tens of thousands of patients heal themselves, too. I have seen these herbal gifts–these blessings from God–heal every disease known to man.
Maybe I could have saved my breath for this woman, since she told me that she and her husband were Christians, and simply sent her husband a bible… “…And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.” — Ezekiel 47:12
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If an area of your body is sick or diseased, you have to get that area back alive. Excess waste and constipation can clog and smother every cell and organ in the body.
The immune system has one main objective: To protect you from harmful microbes and invaders or self-mutating cells. Any substance that is not you, or worn-out parts of you, must be dealt with by your immune system.
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My first cousin told me about his 22-year-old granddaughter McKenna having Relapsing Poly chondritis. When I see any disease that ends in itis that tells me the root cause is inflammation/ In almost all diseases inflammation plays a big part in it. And this holds true in any and all autoimmune diseases.
Q: How many words ending in itis in the dictionary?
A: There are 163words that end with ITIS.See also.
What does itis in medical terminology? Medical Definition of itis: a disease characterized by inflammation arthritis, tendinitis and those other itis’s
What is itis in English? -itis in American English suffix. a suffix used in pathological terms denote inflammation of an organ (bronchitis; gastritis; neuritis) and hence, in extended senses, nouns denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. (telephonitis; baseballitis)
Is itis a root or suffix? Example: pericarditis (prefix) (root) (suffix) around heart inflammation What words end in itis?bronchitis.cellulitis.cervicitis.dermatitis.fibrositis.gingivitis.laryngitis.meningitis. What is suffix in medical terminology? The suffix usually indicates a specialty, test, procedure, function, condition/disorder, or status. For example, itis means inflammation and ectopy means removal. … Occasionally, a medical term may consist of a prefix and suffix. For example, apnea includes the prefix a- (without) and suffix -pnea (breathing).
“itis” indicates infection or inflammation. “Osis” means lots of. The prime example is diverticulosis, which is the generally non-dangerous condition of having little out-pockets pooching out of the intestinal tract, especially the colon. In the US, a third or a half of all people over 55 or so, have them. Diverticulitis means one of those pockets has gotten infected.
It causes pain, fever, abdominal tenderness, and can even lead to perforation. There are, big surprise, some exceptions; or, at least, terms that only use one or the other. Tuberculosis, for example. There’s no companion term Tuberculitis. OTOH, there are very few “osis” variants of most “itis” infections. Prostatitis, parotitis, etc.
What is inflammation? What are the symptoms and signs of inflammation? Symptoms of inflammation include: Redness. A swollen joint that may be warm to the touch. Joint pain.
What does the prefix itis mean? itis: Suffix meaning inflammation. For example, colitis is literally colon inflammation or figuratively inflammation of the colon.
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What does inflammation mean? Inflammation refers to your body’s process of fighting against things that harm it, like infections, injuries, and toxins, in an attempt to heal itself. When something damages your cells, your body releases chemicals that trigger a response from your immune system.
What does the word itis come from? More commonly known now as a food coma, this phrase directly alludes to the stereotype of laziness associated with African Americans. According to Mic, it stems from a longer (and incredibly offensive) version n—-ritis.
Design of an anti-inflammatory diet (ITIS diet) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis – ScienceDirect. Diets fall in and out of favor, but the Mediterranean diet has stood the test of time. Decades of research have shown that a plant-based mix, including vegetables, fruit, legumes, olive oil, fish and whole grains, can improve or prevent many chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and arthritis.
Scientists trace the diet’s benefits in part to its positive effect on the microbiome — the rich ecosystem of microbes, or microorganisms, that inhabit our bodies, especially the gut. What you eat can encourage or inhibit the growth of certain types of gut bacteria, increase or decrease overall diversity and influence metabolites the microbes produce, which are key players in activating inflammation. An unhealthy microbiome — one that’s less diverse and unbalanced — is associated with autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in susceptible people.
Mediterranean Diet 2.0 “We know the Mediterranean diet is good for patients with rheumatoid arthritis,” says Monica Guma, MD, a rheumatologist and researcher at the University of California, San Diego. “But there also might be something better.” That something is what she calls the ITIS diet. It’s the Mediterranean diet supercharged with anti-inflammatory foods and herbs that may improve gut health and arthritis symptoms.
She and her colleagues spent a year designing the diet. At four different stages, they consulted patients to make sure the diet was affordable and was one they could stick with for the two-week study period. They made a few changes as needed. The diet includes a lot of things the standard Mediterranean doesn’t, including: A home-made green drink (green vegetables and fruit) every morning.
Oily fish such as sardines, salmon or tuna at least twice a week. A high daily intake of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) from avocado, nuts, sesame seeds or sesame butter (tahini) Daily chia seeds and flaxseed oil. Unsweetened yogurt and miso, a fermented soybean paste Fruits high in enzymes, such as pineapple and papaya. Daily green tea Turmeric (used with black pepper for better absorption) and ginger. It also excludes some things the Mediterranean diet allows: Wheat flour and gluten Tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant, which may worsen arthritis symptoms in some people.
Combining protein with grains (spaghetti and meatballs, for example) Red meat, sugar, soda and processed or fast foods are out of bounds in both the Mediterranean and ITIS diets. ITIS Diet Study ResultsTwenty-two highly motivated patients with doctor-diagnosed RA followed the ITIS diet for two weeks. They continued taking prescribed medications during the study. Half experienced a 50% improvement in pain and swelling as well as in subjective measures such as fatigue, often in three or four days. A few patients went into complete remission.“They got better really quickly,” Dr. Guma says.
What about the 50% of patients who didn’t respond? Dr. Guma says everyone felt better, had more energy and less fatigue. But it’s not clear why some didn’t have less pain and swelling, too. Dr. Guma says the patients who saw the most improvement had better diets and microbial diversity to begin with. It’s possible the others may have needed more time. It’s also possible a subset of people may never respond due to certain conditions that inhibit the microbiome from changing as quickly or as much. This is especially true if the microbiome gets off track early in life.
Caesarean birth, for example, prevents infants from picking up healthy microorganisms in the birth canal. Antibiotics in infants and kids can wipe out most gut bacteria, which may never completely repopulate in a healthy way. Many other factors influence gut health, too, including childhood stress, trauma or poor diet.Despite the remarkable success of the diet for some people, Dr. Guma emphasizes she’s not suggesting it can replace arthritis drugs.“Many patients need meds to slow out-of-control disease.
But diet can complement regular medical care; it can decrease the need for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories and other drugs and may make it possible to taper off them at some point.”The study has several important limitations: There was no control group for comparison. It’s also impossible to know if ITIS has long-term benefits. In studies of the Mediterranean diet, the benefits disappeared when people stopped following it.
Dr. Guma plans to conduct longer trials with more participants who will work closely with dietitians. “People often want to change their habits, but it’s difficult to change them all at the same time,” she says. “This was a short trial just to see if people could follow the diet. About 80% of the participants said it was easy to make these dietary changes. Some are continuing to follow the diet on their own, but there will be times when they don’t. We just tell them to do the best they can.” Relapsing Polychondritis is an autoimmune disease in which your immune system is attacking cartilage tissue (ears, joints, etc) in your body.
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I am 71 years old, have been vegetarian for 41 years and a vegan for 12 months. I am a lifelong nonsmoker and have always been teetotal! I have led a healthy active lifestyle and weigh 160 pounds. The only thing that I may have done wrong health wise is that in my job as a painter and decorator and house renovator was that I never wore a mask to protect myself from dust and paint fumes. I was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal pancreatic cancer 23 months ago. My father died of pancreatic cancer at the age of nearly 87 so it could well be that there is a genetic consideration involved.
Thank you very much indeed for allowing me to join your Pancreatic Awareness Group. 15 months ago on 18th August 2020 my life changed forever. I received the devastating diagnosis of terminal, inoperable pancreatic cancer and was given a 50% chance of living for three months. Fortunately I was one of the people who survived this first time scale and was lucky enough to have time to research possible alternative medicine to hopefully address my disastrous condition. After 8 months I had repeatedly read about the beneficial effects of fenbendazole with regards to treating cancer. Fenbendazole is a repurposed drug which is becoming more and more in favour in treating not only cancer in animals but also cancer in human beings. I was told by my oncologist before my last three month scan that I could not expect to have any further reduction in the size of my tumour from chemo treatment as by now the cancer cells would have built up resistance and mutated to prevent further destruction of cancer cells. During this three month period between scans I took an advised dose of fenbendazole and was thrilled to find that I had achieved a 90 % reduction by volume in my latest scan.
My oncologist, who I hadn’t told about fenben, was very surprised and also pleased that there had been such a massive reduction of 90 % in the size of my tumour. She even asked me if I would like to have a chemo holiday for a couple of months at Christmas which I gratefully declined. Only 15 months ago I honestly believed that I would be dead by now and never in a million years would I have ever believed that I would ever have achieved such a strong partial remission. I have been vocal on a number of Facebook cancer sites as have hundreds of other cancer sufferers who have their own first hand personal stories regarding the efficacy of fenbendazole. However there are still millions of other cancer sufferers throughout the world who could possibly benefit from its anti cancer properties. I would be absolutely delighted if, by the power of your wonderful Facebook group, you could include my post in your group. I come to you all as a 71 year old guy who just wants the very best for everyone in this world and who wishes to spread the good news regarding fenbendazole. More information can be found by Googling Fenbendazole for cancer and on the Facebook Fenbendazole Cancer Support Group. Thank you so very much for taking the time to read this post and for potentially giving cancer sufferers throughout the world a powerful ray of hope into alleviating their life or death condition. Please tell me if my post contravenes any of your group rules so that I can modify it accordingly. Many thanks, Noel.
People who know me will be aware of my passion for property and bitcoin.
However, I have now changed my new, major and more vitally important passion to spreading the word of fenbendazole to as many cancer sufferers as possible and to the general public who, themselves, now have a 50% chance of contracting cancer at some time in their lives. Please tell all your friends, relatives and people you meet in the street about the anecdotally proven beneficial and even curative effects of fenbendazole in relation to cancer. Lets all get together and start saving lives today! https://www.faim.org/a-cure-for-cancer-hidden-in-plain-sight https://www.facebook.com/groups/476254899648556
A few months after my diagnosis I honestly thought that this was the end and I was definitely going to die. I thought that there was no hope whatsoever and I was just going to become yet another pancan statistic. I always believed in what the doctors and oncologists told me, and it was only by my good fortune that I managed to survive for 8 months without realizing the importance of alternative medicines. Doctors and oncologists tell us nothing about alternative medicines which to my mind is massive neglect and abuse! I don’t blame them as they are only doing what they are told by the FDA and big pharma. However our main agenda right now is to try to keep ourselves alive in the most productive ways that we possibly can. I now believe that stage 4 pancreatic cancer is not an automatic death sentence for many of us!
Pancreatic cancer. Please give me some advice.
My mom has the same cancer and I give her one 222mg a day.
Start fenbendazole today. Capsule is 222 mg. How many pills to take daily?
Emma Butler I am always researching and learning more about alternative medicines, but this is my protocol so far: I take 2,000 mg of fenbendazole per day (4 X 500 mg tablets), 45 mls. of chlorine dioxide solution (5 X 9 mls.) per day, 5 mls of DMSO diluted with 50% water applied topologically to my feet and legs every day and about 16 grams of taurine per day (2 X 8 grams). I do take a few more supplements which I often rotate or change from time to time. These are vitamin E, curcumin, melatonin, turkey tail mushroom and alpha lipoic acid to name but a few. I do struggle sometimes regarding the best time to take these supplements so that they do not argue with each other and would never claim to have the perfect protocol. For example CDS is a wonderful oxidant but other supplements may be antioxidants so have to be taken at different times. We just all need to try to make sense of the sometimes confusing messages we get in an attempt to not have some supplement cancel out the effects of others. So much of this is trial and error and doing the best we can for ourselves. Sadly though time is at such a premium when considering the speed of pancreatic cancer.
Noel Watson Author Milka Maslovaric I take 2,000 mg of fenbendazole per day (4 X 500 mg tablets), 45 mls of chlorine dioxide solution (5 X 9 mls) per day diluted in half a cup of water each dose, 5 mls of DMSO diluted with fruit juice every day and about 16 grams of taurine also diluted with fruit juice per day (2 X 8 grams). I do take a few more supplements which I often rotate or change from time to time. These are vitamin A, B12, D, E, turmeric, high strength melatonin 180 mg every night, turkey tail mushroom, berberine and alpha lipoic acid. I am always on the lookout for any other highly effective alternative medicines that I see recommended or have researched online.
The Universal Antidote – The Science and Story of Chlorine Dioxide‘church of bleach’. Briefly the alternative medicines that have been instrumental in keeping me alive, positive and reasonably healthy are fenbendazole (the repurposed dog wormer), chlorine dioxide solution (CDS), the water purifier, DMSO the natural organic solvent, and more recently taurine. If you take a look at my Facebook page there are masses of links regarding these wonderful and possibly life changing alternative medicines. I still have my chemo infusion of gemcitabine three weeks out of every four but I have no doubt whatsoever that it will be the use of these and other alternative medicines that will be responsible for any medium or long term benefit to my terminal diagnosis. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you think that I may be able to add a ray of light to your condition. My number one passion in life now is to help alleviate the suffering of others.
My medical notes on my diagnosis 23 months ago refer to me as having stage 4, inoperable, terminal pancreatic cancer. The stage 4 diagnosis was due to me having artery and vein involvement making it impossible for me to have surgery. I was given the opportunity to go into hospice care but my wife wanted me to stay at home so that she could look after me until my inevitable demise. She was provided with all the necessary equipment such as a syringe driver which a nurse would have come to fit at a moment’s notice. I was unable to eat or drink more than a tiny amount and my weight went down to less than 9 stone, I may be surviving and thriving now after 23 months but things were a whole lot different after my original diagnosis when I was very ill indeed and certainly not expected to live for more than a few weeks. After 8 months of chemotherapy my tumour increased in size from 6 cm to 10.4 cm. I was in agony because the tumour was pressing against the nerves in my stomach.
I had to be escorted in my sister in law’s car to hospital and put into a wheelchair to have a CT scan as I was totally unable to walk even a few yards. The reason that I am so vociferously proclaiming the merits of alternative medicines is that not one of the doctors, oncologists or MacMillan nurses ever mentioned that I could improve my chances of longevity or survival by taking control of my illness and complementing the chemotherapy with my own choice of alternative medicine. Indeed after questioning and seeking advice from literally dozens of oncology nurses and healthcare staff during my chemo treatment over the last 23 months not even one of them has mentioned the possible curative effects of alternative medicine. It took me a full 8 months before I realised the dangerous inadequacy and negligence of the whole medical industry in failing to mention to me that I had any further options in my treatment. In my mission to spread the word regarding the possible lifesaving importance of alternative medicines I hope to reduce the unnecessary misery, carnage and death suffered by fellow cancer patients.
August 26, 2022 · Pancreatic cancer, as some of you already know, is the worst of the 15 common cancers and just does not hold hostages. I truly believe that one must be extremely proactive regarding one’s prognosis right from the start. I was one of the lucky ones who wasted at least 8 months’ time before realizing that alternative medicine would dramatically increase my chances of survival but was still alive to tell the tale. During these 8 months when I hadn’t even heard or considered alternative medicine statistically speaking, I should not have survived. So many people claim that they are fighting for their lives but in fact are just passively allowing cancer to take its inevitable course.
Relying on traditional medicine of chemo, radiation and surgery is not being proactive and is vastly reducing one’s chances of longevity. I understand that a lot of people do not need convincing regarding the essential benefits of alternative cancer but how to convince the doubters of this is quite another matter. I think that it is all about knowledge and having an open mind and above all having a strong will to live. I am always asking myself ‘Am I doing the best I can to keep myself alive?’ and even in my case the answer is that I can never do enough. There is always more knowledge to be learned, more papers to read, more videos to watch and more or better alternative medicines to trial. None of us can ever do enough to maximise our time on this earth but at least we can do something to increase our chances of greater longevity.
I believe in an integrative approach to cancer, that is to take advantage of both traditional and alternative medicine. In trying to convince doubters of the merits of alternative medicine we must use solid, logical and irrefutable facts regarding both approaches to treatment. If you Google the damaging effects of chemotherapy, you will find masses of negative facts which show that chemo is incredibly harsh on the body and can have permanent damaging effects on the body. If you Google any of the alternative medicines, you will find very few such damaging facts. Alternative medicines in comparison to chemo are very safe and gentle on the body but at the same time can have remarkable beneficial effects. For example, if one considers the reasons for taking fenbendazole that it kills cancer cells in five different ways and even kills cancer stem cells why would one not take it? Any slight potential damage to the liver can be overcome by taking milk thistle, serrapeptase or tudca so the problem is solved. If fenbendazole is attacking cancer cells in five different pathways, then the cancer cells become confused as to which way to mutate. Without these extra lines of attack the cancer cells can mutate producing a stronger more virulent cancer cell. In other words, the use of prolonged chemo can actually make the cancer cells stronger and even more lethal.
Regarding chlorine dioxide solution (CDS) , why would one not want to use a harmless, well tolerated simple oxidiser to remove all the viruses, bacteria, fungal infections and heavy metals from the body thus leaving the immune system strengthened and more able to fight the cancer cells? This same reasoning can be used regarding all the alternative medicines that we have researched ourselves and wish to trial. What are the dangers in relation to what are the benefits? Pancreatic cancer is real and raw and not a walk in the park. We do not have the luxury of regaining time if we have not used it effectively and to maximum benefit. As pancreatic cancer sufferers we need to remind ourselves constantly that we are fighting for our lives and that every single day can make a difference as to our eventual outcome. We need to be proactive, take control of our illness, empower ourselves and fight our cancer diagnosis with every weapon at our disposal.
Sheridan Stull Vecchio If you go to the success stories on the Facebook Fenbendazole Cancer Support Group you will find many such stories. There is a Telegram chat group regarding chlorine dioxide solution (CDS) and The Universal Antidote where there are a multitude of good reports of the healing powers of CDS/MMS. There are 111 anecdotal stories here on how CDS/MMS has been beneficial to cancer sufferers. https://mmstestimonials.co/cancer There are many alternative medicine cancer groups giving details of how alternative medicine or integrative medicine has had successful outcomes. There are thousands of papers written about how each individual supplement alleviates the symptoms of cancer and improves cancer prognosis. There is a great wealth of information online where one can learn about the benefits of both traditional and supplementary medicines. Sadly, one often has to look into the information in more depth as it is a known fact that pharmaceutical companies try to mislead the general public away from the healing attributes of supplementary medicines. They actually pay people to write articles and news broadcasts in order to mislead the public into believing that these supplements are dangerous and toxic. The confusion and disheartening of people comes from the claims from the proponents of allopathic medicine that cancer can only be treated by chemo, radiation or surgery. It has been shown time and time again that an integrative approach presents the best possible outcome for cancer treatment.
Jeanette Lotter Crazy, I joined this group Aug. 2019 when my dad was diagnosed. He decided to do chemo. Someone else had mentioned this protocol. So I told my mom and she spoke to him, and he would not try it. He said the doctor knew best. Instead, he let them fill him with chemicals so toxic that he had to close the toilet lid before flushing and had to use gloves to even hold a pill. Needless to say, a year later, last August my dad went home. A couple weeks ago I saw something online about Ivermectin as a possible cure for cancer…. I looked up Ivermectin and cancer and I cried and cried. I will always wonder if he took it, would he have been here right now. My life will never be the same. What’s also crazy, a friend of mine told me her friend was just diagnosed with a diff type of Cancer. I told her to please research Joe Tippins…. As soon as I sent it to her, she told me that is what she decided to do and it has already helped. Another crazy thing. I have not been back to this group since my dad passed, the pain is just too fresh. I just came on to mention the studies in the medical journals… so people could research. The first post I saw was yours. There has been a huge increase in cancer rates in the last year. Even on here, it seemed like every single post was someone else just being diagnosed. I don’t remember it being like that last time I was here. Thank you so much for posting this. God bless you… I pray people listen and lives are saved.
In simplistic terms what is disease of the body. Miscommunication of cells into a rapid division. I only thought I would research disease for one year. However, for the last 16 years my research always leads me back to emotions going array somewhere in the human brainstem, the solitary nucleus, also called nucleus of the solitary tract, nucleus solitarius, and nucleus tractus solitaire stem and resetting the vagus nerve – Bing video
He created a special healing approach, the Body Mirror System, after he cured himself of a terminal illness in 1975. Supporting many people in his dedicated practice of more than 30 years, his healing system is now taught worldwide.
Since 2014, his wife Annick Brofman and other Body Mirror System instructors continue the legacy of his work within the Brofman Foundation and around the world. Martin Brofman was a former Wall Street computer expert and a student of psychology and comparative religion, developed the Body Mirror System and the Vision Workshop through his experiences of releasing himself of a terminal illness which traditional medicine had considered hopeless – untreatable – and returning to perfect health.
During his own healing process. He learned much about the Body Mind Interface, the relationship between the body and consciousness, and how it works. He then developed a model in order to clarify these ideas for himself, as well as to provide a vehicle for teaching them easily and quickly to others.Martin Brofman has been teaching these ideas around the world for more than 35 years and has trained other people who continue to teach his techniques.
His books have been published until now in 16 languages, and are widely acclaimed for the clarity with which his ideas are expressed. Tens of thousands of students world-wide have learned to use his techniques. This is his story as he tells, excerpt from his books “Anything can be healed” and “Improve your Vision”: The shift that saved my life — Martin Brofman – Complete Wellbeing
I had terminal cancer in 1975 and was told that I had just one or two months to live. The tumor was in my spinal cord – in the neck – and as it grew it was pressing the spinal cord against the inside of the spinal canal. My right arm had become paralyzed, and my legs were spastic. An operation to remove the tumor had been unsuccessful, and I was told that for various reasons chemotherapy and radiation therapy would not work.
Doctors warned me the end might come very suddenly, any moment, if I coughed or sneezed. I was faced with a reality in which each day was possibly my last day, each hour my last hour. One thing I knew for sure – for whatever time I had remaining, I wanted to be happy, just being myself.
For that reason, unappealing special diets made no sense to me, despite the claims they may help. Each meal was possibly my last meal and I wanted to eat what I really enjoyed. I had to be true to myself, to be real in all that I did. My values shifted. I lived in the present moment and everything I did was for its own sake, because I really wanted to do it.
Some things that had seemed important before suddenly weren’t any more. The only important thing was being happy and to me that meant doing whatever I felt happy doing, and not doing anything that made me unhappy. Two months later, I was still alive; I had run out of time, but I was still alive!
One month later I was on overtime, and still alive. I wondered how long it could go on. New Year was five months away and I decided that if by some miracle I was still here, I would celebrate with a vacation in a tropical paradise. What I didn’t know then was how that vacation would save my life. Five months later, I was celebrating the New Year in Martinique, having a mind-expanding talk with a man who was there to teach Zen meditation.
He said to me: “Cancer begins in your mind, and that’s where you can go to get rid of it”. It was like someone had switched a light bulb on – it was so clear. I knew what he meant and could see how cancer was a metaphor for things held in and not expressed. I saw how my former lifestyle and way of being had led to me killing myself in many ways.
I realized there and then that if I changed my way of being, I could somehow release the symptoms. I could use my mind as a tool to accomplish the changes in my way of being, and in my body. For the first time since I had been given the diagnosis, I was able to consider the possibility of turning around my condition and getting rid of the cancer.
I could save my life!
Several weeks later, I listened to a talk about Silva Mind Control, which teaches people how to use their mind as a tool. The idea presented was that our perceptions create our reality, and since we choose our perceptions, we can choose to change any aspect of our reality. My consciousness has been the effect of programming; in the same way that a computer produces results based on how it has been programmed.
I could reprogram my consciousness.
My perception had been that I was terminally ill, so I had to reprogram my consciousness to create the perception that I was well. I was not prepared for such an abrupt shift. For some considerable time, I had perceived myself as being in a state of deterioration, getting closer and closer to dying. I realized that I could much more easily create the perception that I was getting better and better, until I was eventually well. I knew the turnaround could happen at any moment. It was a matter of turning a switch in my mind, and insisting on knowing it had been turned.
I decided that if the moment of change could be any moment, then let it be now. The shift in my consciousness was immediate, I felt it, and I knew then that I was in a state of improvement. I also knew the importance of maintaining the integrity of my decision. From that moment on I knew that my perceptions had to reinforce the idea that I was now getting better and better, so I would eventually be well. As I ate whatever food I wanted, I told myself it was exactly what my body needed and was asking for in order to accelerate the healing process.
Physical sensations similar to electric shocks in my body had previously reinforced the idea that the tumor was growing. They still came, but now I chose to perceive them as evidence that the tumor was shrinking. My mind looked for more and more ways of knowing the improvement was happening. I knew I had to stay away from people who insisted on seeing me as still terminally ill, not from any lack of love, but rather to maintain my own positive attitude toward the healing process.
I had to be with people who were willing to encourage me on this seemingly impossible task I had set for myself. Whenever someone asked how I was doing, I insisted on answering, “Better and Better, thank you.” I researched mental programming techniques and learnt that if I put myself into a relaxed state and talked positively to myself for 15 minutes, three times a day, then within 66 days I could get myself to believe anything. And whatever I believed to be true would be true.
Martin Brofman – September 1, 2019 I knew that it was vital to maintain positive programming. That putting myself in a relaxed state of mind and talking positively to myself for 15 minutes, three times each day, was a part of the programming process I should in no way interfere with. There were temptations to not do the relaxations, and then I would remind myself that my life was at stake. Any such temptation, then, was something that stood between me and my life, and had to be removed, so that I could live.
This may all sound very simple, but it was not always easy. At times – especially early on – it was very difficult. Sometimes my thoughts or words acknowledged something other than the idea that I was improving. On such occasions I had to be honest with myself and see that I had ‘blown it’. I would start again, telling myself I had been on a practice run, and the real moment of change was now.
It did get easier. I was able to maintain positivity for just hours at first, then a day, then two days, and then I was solid. The program was working. My doubting voice would occasionally make itself known, but I knew it did not represent the truth. The encouraging voice within became my guide, leading me back to stable health, enabling me to maintain the single-mindedness of knowing positive changes were happening.
When I was not feeling a symptom, I told myself that perhaps I would never feel that symptom again. If I did then experience the symptom again, I would tell myself the process was not quite complete, but to acknowledge I was feeling the symptom less often and less severely than before.
All was going well.
I had to know positive changes were happening now even if they were not always evident. I would tell myself they were possibly just at the threshold of my perception, so I could eagerly anticipate evidence to justify this. I was always able to find something positive, and assure myself it wasn’t all imagination. There was much encouragement from my daughters, Jacki and Heather.
Heather was only four years old at the time and she knew that love heals, so she frequently gave me magic healing kisses – every morning and every night. I could also sense six-year-old Jacki’s belief in me, and in my ability to somehow come through this crisis. No other possibility was acceptable to her. In her eyes, I could always see her connection with me.
During my relaxation periods, I would visualize the tumor and imagine a layer of cancer cells dying and being released by my body’s natural elimination system. I knew the change was happening, even if it was not obvious and noticeable. Each time I released waste products from my body. I knew dead cancer cells were being eliminated. I insisted on knowing this was true.
I knew the cancer represented something held in and not expressed. With the tumor located right by my throat chakra (energy center) I also knew this meant I had been holding back the expression of my Being. Since I wasn’t exactly certain what this meant I decided it was imperative to express everything: every thought and every feeling.
Whatever was in my consciousness and wanting to come out, I expressed it, knowing it was vital for my health. Before then I had held the perception that expressing led to discord, but now I saw how what I was expressing and communicating what I was expressing was appreciated by those around me and resulted in harmony.
Another change in perception!
Before, I had had the belief that if I expressed what I really wanted to, something bad would happen. I had to reprogram that to the belief that if I expressed what I really wanted to, something wonderful would happen. I made that decision, and it was so. I found myself having less and less in common with my old friends.
It was as though we had shared a common vibrational frequency before, say 547 cycles (whatever that means), and suddenly I found myself at 872 cycles, with few things to communicate to the 547-cycle people. I had to find new friends who were also at 872 so I could have someone to talk with. I found myself attracted to the 872 crowd, and them to me, as though I had become selectively magnetic.
Certain elements of my reality were being released which were no longer in accord with the new Being I was becoming. Deep within I knew the process was inevitable and should not be interfered with. I developed a sense of compassion and understanding and knew my life depended on releasing all elements not in accord with my new vibration. The process was simple, though not always easy.
I began each day as a process of self-discovery, with no preconceived notion of who I was, but with a willingness to discover the emerging me. There was a sense of delight with each new discovery. Often I would imagine the scene in the doctor’s office after my work on myself was done. I would see him examining me and looking puzzled because he could find no tumor.
I imagined him looking baffled and saying, “Perhaps we made a mistake.”
I played this scene in my mind each day, during my relaxation periods.
About two months later I went to be examined by the very same doctor who had pronounced me terminally ill. He examined me and he found nothing. And guess what he said? “Perhaps we made a mistake.” I laughed all the way home. An unexpected but wonderful side benefit of my healing process was that I no longer needed the eyeglasses I had worn for twenty years. I used to be nearsighted and also astigmatic, but my vision changed, and my eyesight was tested as ‘normal’.
I have transformed my way of being.
My lifestyle has changed dramatically. The work I do now as a healer and teacher is meaningful to me, important to others, and of service to humanity. I feel a ‘high’ when I heal and teach and I know that I am doing my life’s work. The process of transformation is an integral part of the healing process, whether you’re healing your vision, releasing some serious illness, or if the imbalance exists on the mental or emotional level and has not yet reached the physical level.
After my healing I was seeing the world quite differently, in a figurative and a literal sense. My outer vision had been transformed along with my inner vision. Curious about this ‘side benefit’ of my healing process I also decided to research into what others were doing in the field of vision improvement. I read all the books I could find on the subject, not because I needed to find out ‘how to do it’, but rather to discover ‘how I had done it’.
I found eight books, and seven of them referred back to the eighth, which was Better Eyesight Without Glasses, by Dr. William Bates. He was a pioneer in the field, and his ideas had startled the conventional medical community back in the 1920’s. Dr. Bates presented many remarkable ideas, but the style of his book was way too technical for many people, so others like – Margaret Darst Corbett and Aldous Huxley by simplifying his ideas for the general public.
Dr. Charles Kelley of the Radix Institute in California was the first one who seemed to add new ideas, regarding the correlation of particular personality types to particular types of impaired vision. More recently, Dr. Richard Kavner, a behavioral optometrist, added some new information regarding brain/mind correlations and he achieved remarkable success through his work with children.
The constant factor in all these areas of vision improvement was the process of personal transformation – just as in my own personal experience. With the insight I gained by reading the works of those mentioned, I was able to build on their ideas, using my personal experience for additional insights.
I began talking to people about these ideas and helping them to explore the links between their own vision issues and their way of being. After a while, those I spoke to were giving me their eyeglasses, saying they no longer needed them.….I began teaching others the self-healing tools I had used sharing the insights I had gained during my own process. Some of those who came to me asked me to heal them. I was reluctant at first, feeling that each of us has the power and the ability to heal ourselves.
Some people, however, had a difficult time accepting that, or didn’t know how to generate for themselves the degree of clarity and objectivity necessary for the process. They believe more in my ability to heal them than in their ability to heal themselves. No matter how much I insisted that they could do it themselves, they held the perception that I should be the one to do it for them. If I refused, they left without being healed, and I didn’t feel good about that.
I thought if I were writing the script of this scenario. I could have done a better job, seeing an ending in which they were healed when they left, so I agreed to participate in the role of the healer in their process. As I worked with more and more people, I could see more and more the relationship between what was happening in their bodies and what was happening in their consciousness.
Gradually, a model developed which seemed to contain all the ideas I had explored, and which also reflected my experience, as well what I had seen in the healings in which I had participated. The model developed in a system of healing that I decided to call the Body Mirror System, to represent the idea that one’s body is a mirror of one’s life.
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” Emory Austin Good Day!!! Oh the truth in Emory’s statement…. how I wish it wasn’t so! But it is true – we have natural “highs” and “lows” and some days there isn’t a song in our heart. So what do we do on those days? How do we embrace life and be positive on the days when the “spark” just isn’t there? We do just as Emory suggests – we “sing anyway.” And we sing loud enough to wake up that spark. One of the things cognitive therapy reveals is that when we consistently “act as if” we “become.” Sometimes we have to force a behavior in order to do it consistently enough to internalize it. On our “down days” it is more important than ever to en-gage in behaviors that fight the negativity in our minds and the sadness in our souls. You don’t have to accept a mediocre day. You don’t have to accept a mediocre life. In fact, I en-courage you to accept nothing but the best. Sure, you will have days that start out “low.” Fight back. Sing. In any given moment you have the power to change your day. You have undoubtedly heard the quote “Fake it until you make it.” On those “low” days, shout out your affirmations. Write them over and over. Even if they don’t feel sincere, keep say-ing them. Our words have power, and they have the power to transform the mediocre into the mag-nificent.
Your Turn: Draw the rooms of your life like an architect would draw a floor plan. In each “room” write down what potential you have and how you might grow. Your Affirmation: I have the power to transform the mediocre into the magnificent. I learn their names right off the bat. Valerie and Ben are parents to twins Garrett and Alissa, both 31, as well as a younger daughter Jenna, who is 28.
We sit around the dining table together, sun streaming in from the deck, laughter ringing gaily throughout the room. You’d never know what they’ve grappled with, struggled through as a family – unless you asked.
It seems like everyone you meet today either knows someone battling cancer, is a survivor themselves, or has lost a loved one from what the American Cancer Society estimated (back in 2015) would claim the lives of about 1,600 people daily.
If you’re wondering about the numbers, it equates to approximately 590,000 deaths due to cancer. In one year. Garrett was 16 when he was diagnosed with ALL – Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. The doctors at Albany Med offered him two options. He chose the second one – which would be harder and take longer – but would also allow the medical community to study the disease, its treatment, and his recovery.
“I knew it would be better if we could bring more education and awareness to this type of cancer,” Garrett tells me. “I felt it was the least I could do – help the next person suffering from it.” Alissa, his twin sister, says she felt phantom pains all the time. “Whenever mom and dad brought Garrett to the hospital for a procedure, the wait was unbearable.
I panicked. It felt as if I was going through it with him. I’d call dad to ask if my brother had this or that done to him that day. It was like I always knew.” There was guilt, too. “I couldn’t understand why Garrett was enduring this hell while I was healthy.
It was horrible. I cried a lot, felt defenseless and alone.
What if the other half – the better half of me died? I couldn’t imagine life without him.” Garrett knew his sister felt helpless. “I needed Alissa to understand this wasn’t her fault. We sat down one day, talking for a long time. I hugged her and said she was going to have to be strong and healthy for both of us.”
Chemo, shots, IV drips, 25 different pills every Friday – it sure seemed like it would never end. It was tough for the family to carry on with normal activities, but they coped, doing the best they could under the circumstances. Thankfully, Garrett saw another birthday, then another, and yet another – growing stronger with each one. Doctors still keep a close eye on him, but cancer moves further away from his life every day.
Jenna talks softly, remembering a momentous day during December 2016. It was time to come off of her parent’s health insurance. “I was crying like a baby, complaining about how much it was going to cost. Man, I was young – I didn’t want to think about spending my hard-earned money on things like that.”
She had a long conversation with her dad, deciding it was the smart, grown-up thing to do. Securing medical coverage would help her worry less over the ‘what ifs’ in life.
Thank goodness she made that decision.
In January 2017 she was attending a press conference for her job as a sports anchor for ABC/Fox. By then, she was living and working in the Rochester area. She wasn’t feeling well and recalls being drenched in sweat. Coworkers asked if she was okay and Jenna wasn’t able to shrug it off. Her temperature was 104.
At the hospital, she was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Her team of doctors would be from The Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center. My 26th birthday didn’t start the way I expected. Instead of celebrations and cake I was met with my next challenge.
On January 25th 2017, I was diagnosed with Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma- Stage III B. I know there will be a long road ahead, with chemo treatments and intense side effects and even the possibility that I lose my hair. But I want you to know that I will not lose hope.
I have an incredible team of doctors and even more than that, I have you all, an amazing support system of friends and family. So yes, 26 didn’t start out the way I thought, but I want everyone to know I plan on making this my best year yet. I am confident but more importantly, I feel loved…truly the best blessing of all.
Thank you for all the kindness and positivity. I know in my heart we’ll get through this together. The family was in disbelief. How could this have happened again? How would they ever get through the journey of another child suffering from this terrible disease?
“Friends and family rallied around us both times,” Jenna tells me. “They brought food, lent an ear, and offered a helping hand. We were never alone.” At first, Jenna says she was angry with the news, grappling with the questions of “Why me? Why our family? Why a second time? Why Anyone?”
She’d shared a bedroom with Alissa over the years, the sisters were very close, even after she’d moved away. “It was so hard for me to watch,” Alissa says, tears brimming from her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. “Once again – I was healthy and a sibling wasn’t. Why?”
It was terrifying for Garrett as well. “I felt terrible, all-consuming guilt. Memories of my own personal journey with cancer came flooding back – I didn’t want my younger sister to suffer any of what I’d gone through. I was her big brother, yet there was nothing I could do to spare her from what I knew was ahead.”
Jenna’s journey was a tough one as well. Some days were good, others were bad. 12 rounds of treatment came wrapped up in a lot of different emotions, sickness, depression, hope. It’s an experience she wouldn’t wish on anyone. “I learned how tough I am though,” she tells me, “how strong my family is, how supportive my friends are. Cancer taught me more about the human spirit than any other experience could have.”
Over the last two hours, I feel as if I’ve opened a wound that’s only just scabbed over. I search five sets of eyes and see raw emotion. When they speak their mouths quiver. The love they have for one another is evident and very powerful.
“It’s important to talk about cancer,” one of them tells me. In the beginning, during and in the aftermath. “Cancer changes your perspective on life,” another one says, wiping tears from her face with the back of her hand. “Look,” Garrett pipes in. “You can have a bad day – you just can’t live there.”
Valerie and Ben hold hands and look at each other. “It’s been an emotional roller coaster. We’re just so grateful the kids are okay. They’re all doing well, have great jobs, keep up with doctor appointments, and are closer than ever. Most importantly, they’re living the best lives they can. We’re extremely proud of all three.”
Each one hugs me tightly as I prepare to leave – with bear hugs that don’t need a single word. Jenna points to her parents. Garrett and Alissa follow suit. “These two,” she tells me. “They’re why we’re still here. They wouldn’t let us give up or wallow in pity. Rock-solid people, our parents. We’re so lucky to have them in our corner. After lymphoma diagnosis, survivor says: ‘I learned up-close and personal how precious life is’
Since childhood, Jenna Cottrell has been a sports fan. In her early teens, she played soccer and started watching sports, activities that provided an escape for her. Back then, she had no idea this passion would turn into a career and an escape after a cancer diagnosis in her 20s.
In fall 2016, at age 25, Jenna started having headaches, fevers and fatigue, but they didn’t slow her down much. She continued life as normal — working as a sports reporter and anchor for WHAM-TV in Rochester and even meeting her boyfriend at a Halloween party.
By January, the symptoms had worsened. She had a lack of appetite, terrible night sweating and extremely uncomfortable fevers. She lost almost 15 pounds and often felt an intense fatigue she described as “tired in my bones.”
She also had some back pain, but she attributed that to carrying around a heavy camera for her job. On Jan. 13, while covering a Buffalo Bills press conference, she was sweating so profusely and looking so ill that another reporter felt the need to ask if she was OK.
She wasn’t.
She had been to the doctor already about the problem, but after that experience, she returned. A few weeks later, she learned she had stage 4 nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma.
“You know from that moment on, your life will never be the same,” she says. “It seemed almost insurmountable. I think a huge part of being diagnosed with cancer is just the mental portion of it. Physically, it’s like all right we’ve got to get through this, but mentally, sometimes it’s even more challenging.”
The week before she started treatment at Wilmot Cancer Institute, her fevers soared, reaching 105 degrees at one point. Luckily, chemotherapy brought the fever down quickly. She received chemotherapy every other week from mid-February to July.
During this time, she lost her hair, which was devastating, but her boyfriend and family were there to comfort her. Her mom even moved in with her for a little while to help. “The role of a caregiver really can’t be understated, how important they are, in every sense.”
She says.
She took about a month off from work and then started up slowly when she went back. Just the routine of waking up every morning, getting dressed, and driving in helped her feel better. She took it a little easy at work, staying near her desk instead of covering stories all around the region.
She’s grateful to her team at WHAM-TV for their support throughout her treatment, from verbal encouragement to bringing her food to helping her purchase a wig. In addition to her co-workers’ generosity, she believes the nature of her work really helped her through treatment.
“I really think sports being a part of my job is what got me through this and being able to focus on something else other than myself and what I was going through,” she says. “I love sports because it’s usually someone’s best day.”
She added the people she gets to meet really inspire her.
“Seeing somebody who has struggled or has gone through loss and then goes and plays a game and excels because they’re channeling their feelings, little things like that just make it really cool to cover,” she says. Jenna also credits her team, including Paul Barr, M.D., and Maureen Tremaine, R.N., M.S.N., who were compassionate and eased her fears with a treatment plan from the beginning, making a difficult situation a little bit better.
“You don’t want to be here, but the fact that the people here are so kind makes it that much easier,” she says. It’s been more than a year since her diagnosis, and she continues to be in remission. Having cancer has shifted her outlook. She practices yoga now and tries to live a healthier lifestyle. She also is more conscious of taking time for what matters most in life to her.
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4 Surprising Symptoms Of An Unhealthy Gut You’ve Never Heard About Story by Georgia Dodd • Saturday
Some people say that the gut is the body’s second brain. So, when you have an unhealthy gut, it can affect your entire body. Your digestive system contains a healthy amount of bacteria, which helps regulate your digestion, and benefits your immune system. When the bacterium in your gut becomes imbalanced, you’ll likely experience surprising symptoms like digestive issues (such as bloating, constipation, diarrhea, or excessive gas), frequent infections or illnesses, also skin problems (such as acne, eczema, or rashes), and even mental health issues (such as anxiety, depression, or brain fog).
To learn more about these unexpected symptoms of an unhealthy gut, we spoke with Cindy Wilson, a certified nutritionist and owner of Nutri Inspector, and Lori Walker, a registered dietitian, freelance food and nutrition writer, and recipe developer at Easy Kitchen Guide. Find out more below!
1. Digestive Issues One major symptom of an unhealthy gut, as you’d expect, is digestive issues. This can include anything from bloating and constipation to diarrhea and excessive gas. Digestive issues, Walker says, can be the result of a gut bacteria imbalance or inflammation in the gut lining. “Bloating,” she says.” can be caused by a buildup of gas in the digestive tract due to poor absorption of nutrients from food, also known as malabsorption syndrome.” And, if you are suffering from abdominal pain, this could be an indicator that there is inflammation in the gut lining. “Excessive gas,” Walker states, “is often caused by improper digestion leading to food fermentation in the intestines which produces extra carbon dioxide and methane. Constipation and diarrhea may result from inadequate fiber intake or eating foods that your body cannot easily digest such as those high in sugar and fat.”
2. Frequent Infections Or Illnesses Another sign that you might have an unhealthy gut is if you find yourself under the weather frequently. Chronic infections or illnesses are the results of a weakened immune system. Wilson notes, “Frequent infections can also occur when the gut microbiome is compromised and unable to fight off harmful pathogens.”
3. Skin Problems And, if you’re noticing your skin suffering from irritations like acne, eczema, or rashes, you might be suffering from an unhealthy gut with a gut bacteria imbalance. Skin problems can also be related to gut health because, Wilson says, “the gut and skin share a connection through the immune system.”
4. Mental Health Issues Another surprising symptom of an unhealthy gut can be an increase in mental health issues like anxiety, depression, or even brain fog syndrome. But, what is brain fog? Brain fog is defined as confusion, absentmindedness, and a lack of focus. While this syndrome is usually caused by overworking, a lack of sleep, or stress, brain fog is sometimes the result of poor gut health. “Mental health issues can be influenced by gut bacteria,” Wilson explains, “as the gut produces neurotransmitters that affect the brain.” Similarly, Walker says that, “Fatigue can be the result of an imbalance of gut bacteria leading to poor nutrient absorption and impaired energy production.”
Ways To Improve Gut Health So, if you feel that you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, you may have an unhealthy gut and you should reach out to your medical provider or doctor. They may suggest some tips and tricks for improving your gut microbiome. First, eat a balanced, nutrient-rich diet of fiber, fruits, vegetables, and fermented foods. Avoiding dairy and instead opting for a healthier dairy replacement like coconut milk can also help your gut. Drink plenty of water and limit alcohol and caffeine consumption to stay hydrated. Managing stress and getting enough rest is also an expert-recommended way to boost your gut health. And, finally, you can also take probiotics or prebiotics to improve your healthy gut microbiome.
“Eating more fermented foods such as kimchi, sauerkraut, miso soup, and yogurt can help increase beneficial bacterial populations in the intestines while avoiding processed foods [that] contain artificial ingredients and preservatives will reduce inflammation in the gut,” Walker suggests. “Additionally, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and reducing stress can all help improve gut health by promoting better digestion and nutrient absorption. Lastly, taking probiotic or prebiotic supplements may be beneficial in restoring the balance of gut bacteria and improving nutrient absorption from food.”Healthy Bacteria – Probiotics – Bing video
Are you suffering from stomach pain after eating, bloating, stomach cramps, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, or excessive flatulence? Your gut could be in a major state of dysbiosis and in need of a reboot. This blog will show you how to repair your gut and bring an end to your suffering.
My name is Pete Rowe and this website is my story of how I beat chronic dysbiosis 8 years ago, and in the process cured myself of a number of other dysbiosis related conditions I’d suffered from since childhood, including IBS, acid reflux/GERD, and hemorrhoids.
I’m also predisposed to Type 2 Diabetes and my blood sugar levels were steadily rising as each year passed. I’m happy to say that my blood sugar is now back to normal and it’s all down to developing and following The Dysbiosis Diet. The definition of dysbiosis is a microbial imbalance inside the body. We have evolved with bacteria over millions of years and formed a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria that inhabit our digestive tract. The bacteria that live on and in our body are collectively known as our microbiome. We give our microbiome food and shelter and in return it provides a number of benefits, including the regulating of our digestive system. When the balance of good and bad bacteria becomes imbalanced, we lose these benefits and enter a state of dysbiosis. This leads to chronic illnesses such as IBS, acid reflux/GERD, constipation, hemorrhoids, and many more digestive related illnesses.
The principles laid out in the Dysbiosis Diet are designed to rebalance our microbiome. Our microbiome is key to our digestive health and our diet is not only key to an optimal microbiome, but also to our overall health. However, first we need to lay the foundations for our microbiome to grow and thrive so we can start benefiting from it, and that means reducing the number of pathogens, healing the tight junctions of the intestines, and providing the right environment that our commensal (good) bacteria will want to set up home in. Gut Brain Axis Research – Bing images
Dr. Pamela Wartian Smith, M.D., MPH, MS is an internationally known speaker, author, and physician in the area of Anti-Aging, Functional, and Precision Medicine. and has been a medical doctor for 44 years. She spent her first twenty years of practice as an emergency room physician with the Detroit Medical Center and then 24-years as also an Anti-Aging/ Functional Medicine specialist. She is a diplomat of the Board of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians and is an internationally known speaker and author on the subject of Precision Medicine. Anti-Aging Expert Dr. Pamela Smith Discusses Transition to Integrative Health – Redefining Medicine – Bing video
She also holds a Master’s in Public Health Degree along with a Master’s Degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine. Dr. Smith is in private practice and is the senior partner for The Center For Precision Medicine with offices in Michigan and Florida. She is the Founder of Precision Medicine Consultants, helping medical professionals build their brands. She has been featured on CNN, PBS, and many other television networks, has been interviewed in numerous consumer magazines, and has hosted two of her own radio shows.
Dr. Smith was one of the featured physicians on the PBS series “The Embrace of Aging” as well as the on-line medical series “Awakening from Alzheimer’s” and “Regain Your Brain”. Dr. Pamela Smith is the founder of The Fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative, and Functional Medicine and is the past co-director of the Master’s Program in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine at The Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida. She is the author of eight best-selling books. Books – Pamela Smith MD (mdpamelasmith.com)
Her newest book: “Max Your Immunity,” has just been released.
Why you are passionate about studying the microbiome and/or what motivated you to begin studying microbiome therapeutics:
”When I was 25 years old, I delivered my first child. Ten days postpartum I had a volvulus and infarcted off my ileum all the way to the ileocecal valve. Consequently, as an adult, I have never had a normal GI function until now. This life-changing experience has made me a much better and more empathetic physician. In addition, it has also motivated me to become passionate about studying the GI tract.“
What are 3 tips you would share with fellow healthcare professionals if asked how to support a consistent healthcare journey for the patients who struggle with staying on the road to success through a tough healing process? 1. Meet the patient where they are if you want to be successful in helping them be healthy. 2. Always show the patient charity, grace, and mercy. 3. Remember it is all about balance.
♫ Redefining Medicine with special guest Dr. Pamela Smith (iheart.com) There are no results for Stress, Our Perception, Oxytocin, And Nervous System. There’s a study that tracks 30,000 American adults for eight years, and they started by asking people, how much stress have you been experiencing for the past year, they also ask if you believe that stress is harmful to your health?
They then use public death record to find out who passed away; people who experience a lot of stress past year has a 43% increased risk of dying, but that was only true if they believe that stress is harmful to their health. On the other side, people who experience much stress, but did not view stress is harmful to our body, had the lowest risk of dying much like those who suffer very little stress.
In fact, over the eight years of tracking death, 182,000 of American dies prematurely not from stress, but from the believes that stress is bad for you! That is an estimation of about 20 000 death per year, just from our perception. Studies have shown that when you change your mind about stress, you can change our body responds to stress, all controlled by our nervous system.
Your body is energized, and preparing you, to meet the challenge, it pumped the heart harder, to help us takes in more oxygen for the brain (1). In another study conducted at Harvard University, researchers put participants in a stressful situation, but they were told to view stress as an energizer for the body to help meet the challenge. They were taught that the pounding heart and the rapid breathing is normal, as these supply more oxygen to the brain.
As a result, they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident. However, the fascinating part is their physical stress response. While their heart was beating hard, their blood vessels stayed relaxed. As for those who have the perception that stress is harmful to their body, researchers found that their blood vessels constrict – part of the reason why chronic stress may lead to cardiovascular disease like heart attack, angina or stroke.
Normal constriction of blood vessel during stress.
Relaxed state of blood vessel during stress from a changed belief system about stress. Similarly, in the moment of joy and courage, our heart is pumping hard, but our blood vessels remain relaxed. This difference in biological changes could be the difference between people that had a stress-induced stroke or heart attack at their 50s, then those who live well up until their 90s. The new stress studies reveal that the way we perceive stress matters (1). Another misconception we usually view stress is that stress isolates us from everyone else, on the contrary, it makes us social. Oxytocin (also known as the cuddle hormone) is a neurohormone, it fine tunes our brain social instinct, it primes us, to do things that strengthens close relationships. Oxytocin also makes us crave for more physical contact, with our friends and family, it increases our empathy, and it even makes us more willing to help and support people we care about.
However, most of us do not realize; Oxytocin is a stress hormone! There’s a part of our brain called the pituitary gland that pumps this hormone out as a stress response. It triggers the stress response just like adrenaline hormone that makes our heart pound. When our brains release oxytocin, it is a stress response. It is motivating us to seek support, and it’s nudging us to tell people we love how we feel, instead of keeping it bottled inside. Our stress response is indirectly telling us that when somebody is struggling, we should be supporting each other. When life is difficult, our stress response compels us to surround ourselves with the people who care. So, oxytocin is a natural anti-inflammatory, it helps the body to stay relax, and most importantly, oxytocin helps our heart tissue to regenerate from damages, as it also strengthens our heart.
So, all of these physical benefits of oxytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support. So when we reach out to others under stress, our body releases more of these stress hormones, oxytocin, our heart becomes healthier, and we recover faster from stress. Our stress response has a built-in mechanism, govern by our nervous system, for stress resilient, and that mechanism is human connections (1). As such, our optimal well-being and health are deeply associated with our nervous system. Our physical well-being (spinal alignment) affects our psychological well-being (perception of stress), and hence our physical stress response (Oxytocin release).
As much as we now know that human interactions and connections reduce stress, the biomechanical and physical well-being of our body allows us to live a better quality of life (1).
Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of “science help” which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. Mainstream media articles about inner-conflict-related aspects of modern lifestyles regularly quote her. A longtime advocate of self-compassion and mindfulness as stress-coping strategies, McGonigal has altered her focus on the problematic aspects of stress; in a talk at the TEDGlobal 2013, she emphasized the importance of an individual’s subjective belief in themselves as someone who is able to cope successfully as being a crucial factor in their actual response to stress.
When Daniel Biljanoski was 12 years old, he had a cancerous brain tumor the size of a goose egg removed from his head. His doctors in upstate New York weren’t initially hopeful about his prospects for recovery, but Daniel and his family weren’t about to give up without a fight, and neither was the staff at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
“Nightline” first started following Daniel’s remarkable journey from survival to recovery in December 2007, when he was first admitted to St. Jude Children’s Hospital for treatment. Despite the odds against him, today Daniel is 17 years old and living a full life, with no evidence of disease, according to his doctors. “Nightline” anchor Cynthia McFadden caught up with Daniel again this summer as he was graduating from high school. “I feel great — there’s nothing really from any of my treatments that I feel inside of me that inhibits me,” said Daniel, who graduated 12th in a class of 300 students. He said his battle with cancer had shaped his life. “You can’t ever forget about treatments, because they make you who you are,” he said.
Daniel’s journey began in 2007. When he was diagnosed with atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, or AT/RT, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that occurs most commonly in children. The tumor involved a quarter of his brain. “The chief of neurosurgery, his neurosurgeon, told us that if it is the AT/RT, we could be looking at 12 months [to live],” Daniel’s mom, Lisa Biljanoski, told “Nightline” at the time. “It was terrible. It was horrible. Nobody should ever have to hear that — about a child, nonetheless.” Daniel asked his oncologist what he would do if his child were diagnosed with AT/RT, and the doctor recommended that Daniel seek treatment at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. So 15 days after brain surgery, Daniel and his mother left the rest of their family in Auburn, N.Y., and traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to the largest research hospital in the world for childhood cancer.
A cancer diagnosis can be a huge financial burden for many families, but St. Jude covers the cost of treatment for every patient. “You will never get a bill from St. Jude for anything,” said Joanna Jackson, the registrar who checked Daniel and his mother into the hospital in 2008. “If the insurance company says we’ll only pay 20 percent, St. Jude will cover the balance. What can I say? It’s a wonderful place to be.” And strangely perhaps, it is also a happy place: a hospital that encourages sick kids to still be kids. Toddlers ride tricycles in the hallways, there are parties for the patients and uncomfortable needle pricks are rewarded with a trip to the toy chest.
On his first day at St. Jude, Daniel displayed his usual positive attitude. “I honestly feel awesome,” he said. The hospital’s researchers were still investigating and perfecting treatment for AT/RT, and Daniel was soon introduced to his vast medical team: a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a social worker, a teacher and numerous nurses and doctors. The same size team works with every patient at St. Jude.
“I think it’s different because the whole infrastructure is different,” said Tabatha Doyle, a registered nurse who is the coordinator of the brain tumor program. “It’s a teamwork perspective. Everybody works together to make sure the patient is completely taken care of — there’s not anybody who feels like they are a more important member of the team than anyone else, even the physicians.” Dr. Amar Gajjar, Daniel’s primary physician when he was admitted, described his role. “The best way I can describe it is that I’m the conductor of the orchestra, so I make sure everything we’ve got designed for Daniel and his care is coordinated, and everything is going as we expect it to go,” he said at the time. For more than a decade, Gajjar has been pioneering an experimental protocol for children over age 3 with AT/RT.
A protocol that could potentially save Daniel’s life. “Most patients have some side effects, some headaches, some nausea and vomiting,” said clinic nurse Dori Parker. “[Daniel] comes in the clinic every time with a smile on his face and gives me a hug and tells me how happy he is to be in the clinic. And to see us. I mean, you can’t get better than that.”
Hope for ‘Hopeless Children With Hopeless Diseases’ St. Jude is a research hospital, and to be accepted there a child must have a form of cancer under study, as Daniel did. Actress Marlo Thomas spearheads the hospital’s fundraising, which raises $600 million annually, making it one of the largest charities in the United States. Her dedication to the hospital is lifelong — it was founded 51 years ago by her father.
“We are studying what we don’t know, because we are a research center,” Thomas told “Nightline” in 2008. “We are moving our science from the laboratory to the bedside to the patient very quickly.” Thomas said her father’s commitment began long before he achieved fame and fortune as the star of TV’s “Make Room for Daddy.” “He literally had $10 in his pocket, and it was going to cost $50 to get me and my mother out of the hospital,” she recalled. “And so the sermon that day at church was on St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases. … So he took out those little envelopes that they used to put in the baskets and he wrote on it ‘Dear St. Jude, no one’s more hopeless than I am. … Just give me a sign that I’m going in the right direction.’ “The next day he got a call to play a singing toothbrush on the radio and the pay was $75. So all through his life he kept having these signs and so he kept saying to St. Jude, someday I will build a shrine to you and for you, and so that’s when he decided that he would build a shrine that would be a living place of children, hopeless children with hopeless diseases.”
Hopeless children like Daniel. Dr. Thomas Merchant, the division chief of Radiation Oncology, told “Nightline” in 2008 that Daniel “had great surgery, he’s getting excellent radiation, he’s going to have very strong chemotherapy.” Still, Merchant acknowledged at the time that the survival rates for this type of cancer are “very low.” “I just can’t even bring myself to say — survival is not very common,” he said. Daniel underwent a series of MRIs to determine if the surgeons in upstate New York could remove the entire tumor in his brain and to see if cancer cells were still spreading. He and his mother, Lisa, then met radiation oncologist Dr. Larry Kun, who informed them that there was no sign of spreading to the spine, “which is good for you and good for everyone.”
“I actually stayed up late one night researching. They say once it gets to the spine you have to take action immediately,” Daniel said at the time. “The spine just connects to all the organs.” “That’s true,” Kun added. “And your spine looks perfectly good.” Surviving Treatment With ‘Strength, Hope, Faith’ Despite the good news, at the time Daniel still had a difficult journey ahead as he began a rigorous and painful course of treatment in an effort to save his life.
“He was on a protocol that is very intense, probably one of the most intense in the nation for this type of tumor, so we have to hope that there are children who are going to survive this,” said Merchant. Daniel’s radiation dose needed to be big enough to stop the cancer from returning, while doing as little damage as possible to his brain. It is a dose too strong to give to children under age 3 without causing significant brain damage. Throughout the treatment, Daniel was relentlessly optimistic, saying he feels mentally and physically strong and doesn’t ask “Why me?”
“Hey, you can’t change it, so why bother?” he said. ” [I] would rather me than other kids who probably couldn’t take it, and I was the person who before all of this was afraid of needles and stuff like that, so I pretty much right now am not afraid of needles as much as I was before.” “Daniel and I talked the first night the neurosurgeon told him that it was cancer, and we were curled up together in the hospital bed, and I said to him, ‘You know what Daniel? I’m going to turn off all my emotions right now except for strength and hope and faith,'” said his mother Lisa. “We have to get through this, and I said to him, ‘I’m not going to cry about it because I can’t. I have to stay strong.’ And he squeezed my hand, and ever since then we’ve just thought this is something we have to do.”
Chemotherapy for Children: ‘I Was Horrified’ By the end of January 2008, Daniel had received 31 radiation treatments. Doctors were delighted with his progress, and he was finally allowed to go home to Auburn, N.Y., for the month of February. To the family’s surprise, the entire town was abuzz with ways to reach out to Daniel. There were fundraisers planned and thoughtful gifts, like a handmade quilt. “Everyone sewed a little patch for who was praying for me,” Daniel said at the time. “It’ll keep me warm; it’s just amazing what everyone in the community does for us and our family.” And best of all, during the short respite from the hospital, Daniel got to get outside for some old-fashioned fun with his friends — sledding. “I love the snow. It’s like I was born into it,” he said. “I didn’t want to hit my incision, so mom made me wear a helmet that’s bigger to fit around my head.” The month was both precious for Daniel, and a painful reminder of all he was missing. “I’m feeling a little anxious about going to St. Jude,” he said, before returning for chemotherapy. “One, I just don’t want to leave the house and my family.”
“The chemotherapy has been described to him as poisons that are going to be put into his body and they’re going to kill the good cells as well as the bad cells,” Lisa said. “And so that’s something that’s scary for him, thinking that a poison is going to be put in his system.” The chemotherapy turned out to be even worse than they feared and Daniel was violently ill for several days. “I was horrified,” Lisa said. “I wasn’t strong. I was calling my mom, my husband, my best friend just in complete disbelief of how sick the kids actually become. I know it’s necessary in order for him to get better. So it’s just, put the mom hat on and OK, this has to be done, there isn’t a choice. … Let’s just plow forward and get it over with.” In June 2008, after three months of chemo, Daniel’s treatment came to an end. It had been seven months since his cancer was diagnosed, and Daniel was feeling weak but proud. “I did it!” he exclaimed. “I feel so lightheaded right now, I’d trip over my own legs. I’m drugged!”
St. Jude: ‘The Best Place’ The following month, after regaining some of his strength, Daniel headed home. Waiting for him at the airport was his grandmother and a group of family friends. “Today is very special. … We can’t believe this day has come,” said his grandmother Beverly Centers at the time. “Words cannot explain how I feel,” Daniel said when he got off the plane. “I am so happy and excited.”His journey through that year, through cancer, had been a long one, but four months after his homecoming Daniel was back at school. Although the cancer treatment slowed his ability to process information slightly, Daniel remained a straight-A student and every day he is getting stronger.
“It’s fun running around again. I’ve gotten my strength back!” he said. “I don’t have the stamina I used to, but I am trying to get my stamina back.” Almost a year to the day since his ordeal started, on Nov. 4, 2008, Daniel turned 13 years old — that alone was a cause for celebration. “He wasn’t even expected to be here for his 13th birthday, and he’s already had his 13th birthday and many more.
Now, 15 years later, Daniel is 27, and he is cancer-free. Attributing the success to his rigorous treatment. The results from the research trials that he participated in have already propelled new protocols that will benefit future patients. The fact that he is healthy and has not lost his humor or sweetness from all that has happened is a tribute not only to him but to those who cared for him: his family and his team at St. Jude, who never lost sight of the boy by only seeing the disease. “I still find it a happy place,” said Daniel reflecting back. “I feel like St. Jude made it so great for me, as well as my doctors, that I want to go back into the medical field and help other people like I was helped.” Daniel attended Siena College, majoring in biology, and through a special program, he has already been accepted to medical school. “If you look back fifteen years ago, it didn’t seem like this night was going to happen,” said his mother Lisa. “It shows that there’s hope out there and for other people not to give up. and you can make the best even out of a really tough situation.” For a boy that was given less than a year to live after his initial diagnosis, Daniel has done just that.
Lung Cancer Rates Are Soaring Among Unlikely Groups — an Oncologist Explains Why
FACT: About 13% of all new cancers are lung cancers. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for lung cancer in the United States for 2019 are: About 228,150 new cases of lung cancer (116,440 in men and 111,710 in women) About 142,670 deaths from lung cancer (76,650 in men and 66,020 in women). Research has shown that nonsmokers who reside with a smoker have a 24% increase in risk for developing lung cancer when compared with other nonsmokers. An estimated 7,300 lung cancer deaths occur each year in the U.S. that are also attributable to passive smoking.
An average smoker gets about 200 hits of nicotine a day, and over 70,000 hits per year. Ten puffs per cigarette, times 20 cigarettes a day gives you about 200 hits of nicotine a day. Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke is typically breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream.
Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled into a small rectangle of rolling paper to create a small, round cylinder called a cigarette. Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for recreational drug use because the combustion of the dried plant leaves vaporizes and delivers active substances into the lungs where they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and reach bodily tissue.
In the case of cigarette smoking, these substances are contained in a mixture of aerosol particles and gases and include the pharmacologically active alkaloid nicotine; the vaporization creates heated aerosol and gas into a form that allows inhalation and deep penetration into the lungs where absorption into the bloodstream of the active substances occurs. In some cultures, smoking is also carried out as a part of various rituals, where participants use it to help induce trance-like states that, they believe, can lead them to spiritual enlightenment.
The first explanation of why rates of lung cancer in women have increased: Many started smoking later than men, pushing back their peak in smoking-related lung cancer diagnoses Women also started smoking in the years when filtered cigarettes were most commonly used. This led to an increased risk of a type of cancer called adenocarcinoma due to the way cigarette filters distribute tobacco smoke to the outer parts of the lungs.
Some studies suggest that women are more susceptible to the carcinogenic effects of exposure to tobacco and cigarette smoke, including second-hand smoke, and may develop lung cancer after fewer years of smoking compared to men. However, it’s important to note that most people diagnosed today with lung cancer are not active smokers. About 20 percent of women with lung cancer have never smoked — higher than for men with lung cancer who’ve never smoked.
Lung cancer risk factors Besides smoking and secondhand smoke, there are several other lung cancer risk factors. These include a family history of cancer and exposure to asbestos, radon, and air pollution. Exposure to carcinogens in the workplace in the form of inhaled chemicals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, silica, and nickel is still a concern in some parts of the world. The potential lung cancer risk of e-cigarette and marijuana smoke is still under study but is of potential concern.
Recently, researchers have also found that geneticscan playa role in lung cancer risk in some patients with a strong history of lung cancer. Studies of these families have helped identify potential susceptibility genes for lung cancer and environmental risk factors. Like BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer, alterations in genes that promote or protect against tumor development can contribute to lung cancer development.
Researchers have yet to identify specific mutations that may predispose individuals to lung cancer. However, studying familial genetic predispositions can help elucidate how lung cancer develops and lead to new biomarkers for early cancer detection in high-risk groups.
Lung Cancer Rates Are Soaring Among Unlikely Groups — an Oncologist Explains Why.
Screening and diagnosis In 2021, the United States Preventive Services Task Force updated its lung cancer screening guidelines to include younger patients with less smoking history. Now, lung cancer screening is recommended for adults ages 50 to 80 who have smoked at least one pack per day for 20 years, current smokers, and former smokers who quit smoking within the last 15 years. Women at risk for lung cancer can talk to their doctors about ordering a low-dose CT scan for lung cancer screening.
Nationwide, more than 70 percent of eligible women undergo breast cancer screening, but less than 6 percent of all eligible smokers pursue lung cancer screening. Researchers estimate that these new screening guidelines will increase the number of women eligible for lung cancer screening by 40 percent by including those at a younger age who have less smoking exposure.
In recent years, increasing understanding of the genetic changes that can lead to cancer and how to harness the immune system to treat cancer has led to new targeted therapies and immunotherapies that have improved the prognosis of patients with lung cancer. Women tend to have a better lung cancer prognosis than men, especially if they have never smoked and have tumors with molecular changes that can be treated with targeted therapies.
However, lung cancer symptoms may go unrecognized in women. Symptoms of lung cancer can include coughing, shortness of breath, overwhelming fatigue, and pain in the back, chest, or shoulder, which could be confused for other ailments. Because women tend to be slightly younger when diagnosed than men, patients may be able to tolerate symptoms longer and delay seeking medical attention. Physicians also might not attribute these symptoms to lung cancer due to a patient’s younger age.
Recognizing the early symptoms of lung cancer, expanding lung cancer screening eligibility, and testing for genetic biomarkers to select the best therapy are some of the steps that could help address the global epidemic of lung cancer in women.
Oncologist Julie Brahmer is trying to understand why more women who have never smoked are developing lung cancer. (Non Smoking men are, too, but to a lesser extent.) Toxins in the environment, genetic predisposition and interactions with hormones may hold clues to why this is occurring.
This topic—and dozens more health concerns—will be addressed at A Woman’s Journey, the annual Johns Hopkins Medicine conference that offers insights on women’s physical and emotional health.
That’s how Brahmer views her studies on women and lung cancer.
In recent years, Brahmer, director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Johns Hopkins and an international leader in lung cancer clinical trials, has witnessed rising rates of lung cancer in her female patients who’ve neither smoked nor had regular exposure to tobacco smoke.
Brahmer will share her clinical experiences, research and success with new immunotherapies—cancer treatments that boost the body’s natural ability to fight cancer—at the conference.
Brahmer’s session on lung cancer in women who have never smoked will likely draw strong interest, says Yasmine Sursock-Khouri, a marketing project manager for the event, because the news is so alarming.
But for nonsmokers between the ages of 40 and 79, more women than men are at risk for developing lung cancer. The latest data show an incidence rate in nonsmoking women ranging from 14.4 to 20.8 percent. For nonsmoking men, the rate is between 4.8 and 13.7 percent.
Brahmer says, “Patients who have never smoked are shocked and ask, ‘Why me?’” It’s not clear whether the causes are environmental, hormonal or genetic, she adds, “but we’re looking at this carefully and pressing the government to do the same.”
Brahmer acknowledges that exposure to secondhand smoke and high radon levels, as well as family history, can also raise risks. “We haven’t been able to find a particular gene,” she says, “but having a sibling or parent with lung cancer also increases your risk.” She also wants women to be aware of symptoms that can alert a patient and physician to lung cancer before the spread of disease.
Red flags include shortness of breath, an incessant cough and overwhelming fatigue. Brahmer chose to study lung cancer in the 1990s because treatment for the disease was then in its infancy. Her interest was also personal: Several of her family members died from lung cancer. All were men, but in her practice, Brahmer began noticing that more women who had no exposure to tobacco smoke were developing lung cancer.
From the outset of her career, she’s been working on lung cancer treatments. For the past dozen years, she’s been helping to develop immunotherapies to treat patients with lung cancer. Brahmer’s clinical trial results led to the approval of immunotherapy to treat non-small cell lung cancer.
The side effects of immunotherapy differ drastically from those of chemotherapy, notorious for causing extreme nausea, Brahmer explains. Immunotherapy can cause inflammation of organs, including lungs, colon and skin. But the number of Brahmer’s female patients who require treatment for these side effects, she says, is only 15 percent. And those symptoms can be relieved by steroids.
Spending time with patients inspires Brahmer to press harder for more clinical research dollars. “To see people respond to therapy—and for these women to be able to see their kids graduate from high school or have grandchildren—has been gratifying,” she says. With more funding, she adds, “we can have an impact on how well patients do, and, over the next 10 years, we think it will be possible to cure more patients with this disease.”
Brahmer has been a featured speaker at AWJ in Palm Beach as well as Baltimore. “It’s been a great experience to see so many women vested in their health,” she says. “People need to keep lung cancer on their radar; it’s not just ovarian or breast cancer that can strike women.”
AWJ has taken place in nine locations, including Palm Beach and Naples, Florida, where the topic of rising rates of lung cancer in nonsmoking women will also be covered. In recent years, in partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the program has expanded to Bermuda and Saudi Arabia. Employees receive a 10 percent discount for registration. Continuing education units also are offered by professional groups.
This ski champion is very famous for her superb energy workouts and grueling cardio sessions, however, she also counts upon two very important things: data and dozes.
Mikaela Shiffrin has been compared to the abilities and skills of Lindsey Vonn, Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps, and so, all eyes are on the skier whether in PyeongChang or any other country she will next move forward to. Bu this comes with a lot of people wondering about her diet and workout routine to boost her energy levels. In fact, staying persistent and consistent is a part of her success and here we will discuss what makes her so consistent. Shiffrin got back three gold medals in her competition in South Korea and is now “the youngest-ever Olympic slalom champion,” according to CNN. “With Mikaela it’s a combination of hard work, being really talented, being really focused, and having the drive and wanting to win,” her agent told CNN.
Just. Be. Careful @ brittanykonsella . Mikaela Shiffrin (@mikaelashiffrin) • Instagram photos and videos A little over 3 yrs ago, I was run over by my own car after I fell and it backed over me on a slight incline just as yours is here. Though it wasn’t moving fast, it still thrashed me and dragged me with unbelievable force. The tires broke my neck and femur as they rolled over my body and I had cuts in my head that bore into my skull. I was Flight for Life to Denver where I spent 2 weeks in the hospital, a week of which was in the ICU, and had 3 surgeries to repair my mangled body.
I still have permanent nerve damage in my left hand, a vertebral artery occlusion which puts me at risk for stroke, and my neck has lost a lot of mobility due to having 5 fused vertebrae. I am grateful and extremely lucky to have returned to full activity, despite what doctors originally told me. But I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.
Let alone America’s greatest skier I always thought if I got really hurt it would be doing something more… extreme. As you know, weird stuff can happen when you least expect it so please be careful around the car!
Mikaela Shiffrin Workout Routine Believe it minor not but whether in training or competition, the 24-year-old competition does not really practice whatever others do, like yoga, meditation, or some visualization techniques. In fact, for her, things are rather simpler. This is something she needs above everything else and that is: sleep.“Sleeping is my meditation,” Shiffrin says.
“It’s the only time you can recover, physically and emotionally, at the same time.”https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5-K1nDKTA/Well, it is pretty understandable that with a routine like Mikaela Shiffrin, it is rather easy to fall asleep because she needs some extra zzzs. She is always under the watchful eyes of her coach, Jeff Lackie, and she is sure to train as hard as any other athlete. On any typical day, she would wake up at 5 or 6 am, grab a quick and healthy breakfast, and then perform some exercises to activate her core muscles. Then by 7 or 8 am, she is only to be found on the mountains, practicing runs and other workouts for the next 2 to 5 hours. After lunch and of course a small siesta, she is out in the gym again, working on some conditioning and mobility exercises. After that, it is followed by relaxing at home with some dinner and probably a movie, and of course some more rest too. It’s the same next day.
Mikaela Has a Workout Routine Designed for Balance & Glute Strength
Can Mikaela Shiffrin become even better? – Sports Illustrated Mikaela Shiffrin’s workout plan is not always the same but most of all, it is designed to center on balance and glute strength. “…you’ll see her juggle while skipping between balance disks (like we said, balls to the wall!), walk on top of standing dumbbells, and triple-step jump up the stairs. All things to improve her balance (crucial on the downhill) and develop serious glute strength to power her turns,” states Women’s Health Magazine. She also does a lot of cardio to improve her agility and flexibility, and sometimes sprints while dragging a sled with weights, according to CNN. Jeff Lackie, her trainer, told to NorthJersey.com: “You have to have the strength to resist those forces as well as be able to move really quickly,” he revealed. The newspaper informs that Mikaela Shiffrin “does 90-minute workouts twice a day, five times a week, to keep in top shape.”
Mikaela Lifts Weights to Increase Her Body Mass.
Mikaela constantly posts photos on Instagram revealing her involvement in weightlifting routines. CNN broadcasts that Shiffrin has managed to put on some mass. “Shiffrin stands 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds, similar to four years ago but with more ‘baby fat’ converted to muscle,” the news site reports.
According to CNN, Shiffrin’s weight workout has a lot of focus on a particular exercise, squats. They say, “and various types of lifts with a weighted bar, emphasizing ‘eccentric overload training.’” That is the “phase when the muscle is lengthening, which is a more efficient way of targeting the muscle than concentrating on how much she can lift,” CNN reports. She also employs a device to track her progress called GymAware, according to CNN. That device is a whopping $2,200, “looks like a small bomb, and measures lifting metrics like bar angle and velocity,” according to OutsideOnline. If anyone is trying to follow the footsteps of this ski competitor, then it is pretty ok to follow Mikaela Shiffrin’s go-to workouts to help build some muscles in the legs. YOu can do it once a week, or just like Mikaela Shiffrin, 5 times a week, with a lot of naps in between because with exercises as strenuous as hers, you are bound to fall asleep anytime. Here are a few of her favorite exercises for lower body strength that she likes to add to her routine:
1. Isometric Band Clamshell https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeKPulFZbc/ Take a mini resistance band and put it encompassing your legs, just underneath your knees. Recline on your left side with your glutes and knees bent at a 45-degree angle. Put your right leg above your left leg, with your heels placed together. Putting your feet unitedly and left leg on the ground, lift your right knee as high as you can without your heels spreading separate. Stay put for 30 seconds, then change sides and repeat by completing at least 2 sets.
2. Step-up Jump Put your right feet over a step up or a box with your arms crossed in front of your chest. You can even hold some light weights or according to your strength like Mikaela Shiffrin does. The first movement would be squeezing your hips in a forward position and extending your right leg up. Push from your heels to take a jump above the box. You can reverse this movement and then return to start. This would be a single rep. Do 6 reps on each side and then repeat. You must do at least 4 sets.
3. Barbell Lateral Lunge Put a barbell or any kind of bar across your upper back. Put your feet high apart. If you are just a beginner, you can use lighter dumbbells or no weight at all. Step to your right with your right leg bent in a position to form a side lunge. Keep your back straight and your core tight. Take a push from the right foot to return to the start position. That is a single rep. Do 8 reps on each side and complete three sets.
4. Glute-Ham Raise https://www.instagram.com/p/B_fhW6Aj4gG/ Put your feet next to the footplate of a glute-ham or back extension machine as you lie on your stomach with your knees just behind the pad. Criss Cross your arms in front of your chest and drop your trunk toward the ground. You can increase the intensity of this exercise by taking a resistance band with both hands as Mikaela Shiffrin does. Press your hamstrings, glutes, and core to stretch your trunk up till it’s upright to the floor. Rest, then gradually revert to the starting position. That’s one rep. Do 12 for a total of three sets.
5. Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift with 1/4 Squat Stand with feet wide apart till shoulder length holding a pair of dumbells on your side. Keep your back straight with a little bend on your left knee. Hold your core and by keeping it tight, raise your right foot off the floor and slowly move your trunk downwards towards the floor. Your right foot must be extended in the air behind you.
Once the weights reach the knee level, twist your left knee to drop into a one-fourth squat. Push through your foot to stretch your left leg, then press your hips to revert to a standing position. That’s a single rep. Do six of them and then switch sides and repeat. A total of four sets should be completed.
Home Workouts Mikaela Shiffrin has not stopped working out even in quarantine. She constantly posts videos and pics on her social media stating her workout routine: “With so many people in self-isolation right now, I’ve seen a lot of really cool workout ideas circulating online and on social media, and I thought I’d share the workout I did yesterday! Explanation below with substitution ideas if you don’t have any equipment.
Mikaela Shiffrin workout routine – Bing video Of course, every time you see a workout video out there, use your best judgment on your own comfort level and ability. The most important thing is that everyone stays safe. There’s no need to get hurt at home doing any of these workouts, especially when hospital care and resources are so limited.
Set 1 Bike intervals: 30 sec. hard, 20 sec. rest x 5-10 90º/90º hip openers with activation x 4-5 per side Plank row x 8 per side (try to keep everything solid, no twisting your hips or shifting weight). Dead bug SLOW x 5 per side (count to 3 each rep, with or without weight). Straight into full sit-ups SLOW x 10 (my strength coach would say “savor it!”, lower back to the ground slowly and with control, with or without weight) Pull-ups x as many as you can do. (if you aren’t able to do one, you can use a chair to start at the top and then do slow-eccentric let-downs- try to count to 5 or 10 seconds as you let down.) Repeat ALL 2-3 times
Set 2 Sideways monster-band walks with scapula-stabilization x15 steps each direction Single-leg glute burners x 15 per side (with or without the band, stand on one leg with slight knee flexion and extend the other diagonally backward. Keep your lower back solid, the motion comes from your glutes/hips, not you are back! Use a wall or pole etc. to assist with balance) Body-weight overhead squats x 15 (with or without band) Single-leg stair jumpers x 6 per side (drop down onto one leg fast, and then explode up from that same leg onto the step) Double-leg continues stair hops x 10 (jump up and down on the stair continuously.) Optional bonus: Handstand push-ups x 6 and handstand walk-outs x 4. Repeat ALL 2-3 times (substitution detail in comments)
Substitution Ideas https://www.instagram.com/p/B4sz7-bDmXk/ “I’m thankful to have some equipment at my home, but obviously, not everyone has equipment available, i.e. a bike or pull-up bar,” she said. You can interchange a bike with jumping jacks, high knees (kind of like moving in the area but you shuffle drawing your knees up to 90 degrees as quickly as you can), or running sprints if you are suitable to go outdoors. If you have something that might exchange SAFELY as a pull-up bar then reach for it, but you could likewise replace these for different upper body workouts like push-ups.
If you don’t have resistance bands for Mikaela Shiffrin’s exercises like the monster-walks and scap-stabilization, you can do an isometric wall-sit (actually just sitting against a wall with knees at 90º). Concurrently keep your arms out to the bottom perpendicular to your body, palms folding ahead, forcing your arms behind against the wall, and produce a snow-angel movement on the wall from perpendicular to hands above your head. (pull your shoulder blades up & down like in shrugs through the whole motion, as if you are deciding to press a pencil in between them).
Almost everyone can get easy access to theaters, but if you do not have one, you can replace it with jumps. You can replace both single leg and double legs stair jumps to do some great squat jumps on any surface that you want. The handstand work is not required at all, you could exchange this with added push-ups or your preferred arm/upper body exercise or just jump that collectively. I really find those to be a surprisingly excellent and enjoyable method to work shoulder strength and endurance- which in turn corrects my posture and back stiffness remarkably.
6 + 1 Rules to Stand By
1. She warms up with some light cardio and stretching. For an Olympic athlete, who is always on the move, she starts her day by warming up because that is crucial. This previous summer, Shiffrin was working out at the U.S. ski team’s buildings (called the Center of Excellence) in Park City, Utah. According to The New Yorker, she began her workouts with a 10-minute warm-up on the stationary bike and stretching. A good suggestion: If an Olympian can take out some time to stretch, so can you.
2. Lower-body strength training plays an important role. Her trainer, Jeff Lackie, told CNN that strength exercise is a primary focus of Shiffrin’s program. She usually achieves this through “squats and various types of lifts with a weighted bar.” Lackie describes this system of training as “eccentric overload training.” This basically implies that the strength movements concentrate on the lowering part of the exercise, preparing the muscles to be more powerful in the extended position—for a skier that intends to be able to be secure and durable in a squatted position. Her interval training workouts are no joke.
3. Her interval training is very tough and no joke for regular people. It is filled with movements like sprints, pushing and pulling a weighted sled, squatting, working on the rowing machine, and skating. The interval training gets very intense but she puts through it all. However, she always makes it to finish through the workout so that she could move to the next part of it.
4. She tracks the intensity of her workouts—and they’re usually really, really intense. As The New Yorker reports, Shiffrin ranks her exercises on a range from 1 to 10. Most maximum times, they’re launching the high end of the scale. “We have a grading scale that I fill out for every workout. Ten are dying or passing out. I rate nine fairly often.” And while she agrees to come close to retching from an extreme workout, she never has. “I’d pass out before I’d puke,” she says. (And you held your HIIT class was cutting…)
5. She also spends time working on her balance. Anyone who has tried to ski or does ski knows well that it is all about balance which is hard to maintain to make it down the hill in one piece. After she completes her workout, she does some balancing exercises which include movements like walking on a slackline. She also posted a video of herself on Instagram where she was seen walking on bolsters while juggling. If that isn’t an impressive feat, I don’t know what is. She also posted another video where she was walking backward on the top of her dumbbells! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1joQXwDuez/
6. She is her number one source of motivation. It may appear like the whole United States is encouraging and throwing positivity on Shiffrin, but when she exercises, she has a precept against too much positive reinforcement. According to The New Yorker, her mantra is, “The motivation must come from within.” Although her trainer would help her put through the intense working out sessions, in the end, it is she who has to go through all of it alone.
7. She sleeps nine hours each night, on average, and naps every single day. Shiffrin sleeps so much and so frequently that she’s got the nickname Sir Naps A Lot, according to NBC. She thinks that her bed is her most prized territory and has an obligated regular nap break. She’s even dropped napping on ski lifts and in the snow were a race. Taking adequate zzz’s is a vital portion of any exercise program—you have to make your body heal after a hard workout so it can grow back more powerful. After all that laborious exercise, it’s no surprise that Shiffrin gets some shut-eye whenever and wherever she can make it appear.
Shiffrin’s programming is very well considered by the experts, and it focuses on the abilities and powers she needs to be strong — and quick. Of course, lower-body strength is crucial because the effectiveness she feels going into a turn is extensive. “If you took a skier making a giant slalom turn and then stacked five of that skier on top of herself, that equals the forces you are dealing with for that turn,” she says. “That is why we are in the gym doing max squats — you have to be able to hold your legs strong and your entire body because that force is coming down on every part of your body.”
Mikaela Shiffrin also makes sure that she is working on her balance
Along with her strength and she likes to take it slow. “One workout I love to do is a 45-minute plyometric workout on an outdoor staircase with like 30 steps,” Shiffrin says. “I do single-legged jumps up the stairs, two or three or four at a time, and try to make my landing time as short as possible. The idea is to reduce the impact but still get the power and strength and explosive motion from taking off.” Although she gives a lot of importance to her leg training, she does not neglect the other parts of her body in the course. “You can have the strongest legs in the world, but if you don’t have core stability, you’re not going to survive — you’ll blow out your back on the first turn you make,” she says. “Ski racing is really hard on your back, so skiers tend to have over-developed back muscles. To balance that, you have to make sure your core is really strong.”
And considering her runs can be anywhere from 90 seconds to three minutes, Shiffrin usually works out both her anaerobic engine and her cardiovascular standing. “One day a week, I go for a long bike ride where I will do longer intervals for endurance,” she says. “But I also run or train on the rower or the Assault bike doing 45-second all-out intervals for the duration of an hour. It is the most grueling thing; it almost makes me want to stop ski racing!”That was all about her workout routine. Here’s something about her diet plan which gives her all that energy to put through her grueling workouts.
Mikaela Shiffrin Diet Plan What Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin Eats in a Day to Stay in Such Good Shape (goodhousekeeping.com) As any good athlete should, Mikaela Shiffrin eats to fuel her body and does not follow any specific and restrictive diet. “With all the strength training I do, protein is an essential component of my meals but so are carbs,” she says. “One of my biggest sponsors is Barilla pasta, which has been a sponsor of mine for six years now. Part of that is because I love pasta — who doesn’t? — but they also have a whole line of products made with whole grains and extra fiber as well as their Protein Plus product that has extra protein infused into the pasta. So, yeah, please don’t make me do Paleo! Bring on the gluten and the carbs!”
Pasta makes it to almost every one of her meals because she loves it so much but she also balances all the carbs with a portion of healthy lean protein like chicken or eggs and some healthy fat sources like avocado. “I try to avoid sugar, but I love dessert, so it is a constant moral battle,” she says, laughing. “Everything in moderation. I’ll treat myself with a dessert now and then but not daily.”https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQh9evDzjk/ Pasta is also very compact, which comes in handy when Shiffrin goes to lands where her prospects are restrained. “If I stay in a hotel for a weekend, I will actually give them a box of pasta and have them cook that for me instead of the pasta they have in the kitchen,” she admits. “It’s also the only thing I can stomach before a race since it is easy to eat and digest.”Some quirks about her diet habits:Mikaela Calls Pasta Her ‘Super Food’.
Despite many people trying to avoid carbs for some reason, Mikaela Shiffrin never really avoids it and in fact, loves pasta. She has called pasta her “superfood.” She includes carbohydrates into each meal, according to Good Housekeeping. “They’re essential in providing the energy I need, especially on race days that can last 12 hours,” Shiffrin said, according to the magazine. “I wouldn’t eat a 1,000-calorie bowl of spaghetti for dinner, but I’ve always loved pasta and think it’s a good addition to any meal and a great base for pretty much any vegetable. It’s also great when I have a nervous stomach before race day.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-pbdZ1DBZ6/ Although Mikaela Shiffrin loves to eat pasta a lot, her diet revolves around balance and moderation, according to Good Housekeeping. “Balance and moderation are the basis for my diet, though, so I also make sure to incorporate plenty of protein, fruits, and veggies throughout the day,” she told the magazine. “I feel like I have the metabolism of a pregnant woman! I have to watch what I eat,” Mikaela told Clean Eating Magazine. “It’s important. I go through phases where I write down everything I eat, and I keep track of calories. For the most part, I have a pretty good gauge of the portions that I should have carbs versus protein, versus vegetables. The easiest way for me to have energy is to have some carbs. I always have pasta after a race and after training to fuel me up and get me ready for tomorrow.”
She Eats 3,000 Calories a Day According to Eating Well, Mikaela says, “I usually try to eat 3,000 calories. Carbs are an essential part of my meals—I can’t survive without them, especially on race days, which can last 12 hours.”She expressed her special meal plan to
Eating Well on days when she is competing: “Breakfast is two eggs and two pieces of toast. Or sometimes cereal (or oatmeal) and fruit. Lunch is chicken or fish, plus salad and a carb, like pasta. Dinner looks a lot like lunch for me: chicken or steak, pasta, and salad, or some other vegetables.” She loves to snack on nuts and seeds and dried mangoes, according to the site. The ski competitor, Mikaela Shiffrin, says that it is all about the strenuous routine that keeps her grounded to follow a healthy and nutritious diet. Here’s a sample of it:
Breakfast “I’ll do two eggs and two pieces of whole-wheat toast and sometimes, cereal or oatmeal and fruit, says Shiffrin. “I rely on breakfast to give me a kickstart of energy in the morning, so I choose my foods accordingly.”
Lunch The Olympian sticks to lean protein, like chicken or fish, for her lunch meal — but she regularly makes certain to receive in salad and a portion of carbs that provides her energy. “I really rely on carbs because I expend a lot of energy during the day,” she explains. “I especially love Pasta, Pasta Sauce, and Recipes | Barilla because it has a lot of options that complement my activity level. They have a great veggie line that provides one full serving of vegetables per portion, but my favorite is probably their multigrain ProteinPLUS because it gets in fiber, ALA omega 3, and protein from simple ingredients like flaxseeds, chickpeas, and egg whites.”
Snack Moving along is key for Shiffrin, who loves to grab on a mix of nuts and seeds while she’s on the hills simply because they are healthy and convenient. “They not only fill me up but are convenient to carry around all day,” she says. “Dried mangos are always a good bet, too.”
Dinner And here comes so much more pasta in her diet. “I do chicken or steak, pasta, and salad or steamed/roasted vegetables,” says Shiffrin.
Shiffrin — who really co-operated on a cookbook with Barilla — says her ideal recipe is a Farfalle pasta with edamame, lemon, black pepper, and pecorino. The exact recipe can be found on her social media handles which she has shared.
“My whole thing is simple, well-balanced meals,” she says. “I have to say, though, that I really like dessert. I try not to eat dessert every day, but I’ll have dessert now and then.” Dessert meaning “Dark Chocolate!”
For her, cooking is always on the menu but only when she has time. And clearly, she spends most of her free time napping and resting but hey, cooking is pretty relaxing too! She says, “I’d say 7 when I have the time. My mom and I love cooking together. And I make a mean mac & cheese!” She likes to eat desserts but tries not to eat them every single day. She explains her favorite dessert saying, “I try not to! But I really like dessert. One of my favorite things is to have something sweet at the end of dinner, like dark chocolate–covered berries.” She loves to experiment with food wherever she travels and with her latest stop being PyeongChang, South Korea, during the Winter Olympics she had some favorite delicacies waiting for her. She says, “I’m hoping to leave the Olympic Village (at least a little bit) and explore the local culture and food. I’d love to try authentic bulgogi [Korean grilled beef].”
That’s all about the workout routine and diet plan of Mikaela Shiffrin!
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In addition to the books, Justin has written articles for many leading cannabis-information websites, including Medical Jane. He is also the founder of The Cannabis for Cancer Declaration, which seeks to enable access to cannabis medicine for cancer patients across the world. Throughout college, Justin was a member of the University of Maryland, College Park SSDP chapter. He also interned for the national organization in 2012. He encourages individuals to donate to the organization at SSDP.org. – Search (bing.com) I have written several books about cannabis medicine, including The Comprehensive Report on the Cannabis Extract Movement, Enhancing Your Endocannabinoid System, and Cannabis for the Treatment of Cancer. I have presented at several conferences about how cannabis fights cancer. Events include the Inaugural Australian Medical Cannabis Symposium 2014, Patients Out of Time 2015, CannaCosta 2015, Annie Appleseed 2016, and SSDP 2016. Cannabis as an Anticancer Treatment: The Scientific and Human Evidence – YouTube
Recent Articles By Justin Kander Natural Ways to Enhance Your Endocannabinoid System Health and Fitness: Alternative • Published: February 19, 2015 The endocannabinoid system is arguably the most important system in all vertebrates. It plays a role in maintaining homeostasis, preventing disease & ensuring overall health. Using natural techniques to enhance this system is imperative to living the best, most healthy life possible. The Use of High-Cannabidiol Cannabis Extracts to Treat Epilepsy and Other DiseasesHealth and Fitness: Alternative • Published: November 26, 2013 The news coming out surrounding high-cannabidiol cannabis oil is simply miraculous. Families are moving to Colorado to treat their children for rare epileptic conditions that no other medicines work against. Even the most powerful pharmaceuticals in the world are proving completely ineffective against conditions like Dravet syndrome, Doose syndrome, infantile spasms, and more. However, through the use of high-CBD cannabis oil, these families are finding hope. The majority of patients using this oil are seeing massively beneficial effects, including near-complete remission. This medicine is going to change the world, and it’s only a matter of time until it is available to every human on the planet. The Facts on Kombucha Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: September 12, 2013 Kombucha is a type of fermented tea that is rapidly gaining popularity around the United States. As with anything, it is important to understand the nature of this popular beverage and what goes into it.
Special Nutrients in Kombucha Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: September 10, 2013 Kombucha has long been touted as a wonder drink, but what’s in it that’s responsible for those claims? As the research indicates, many compounds in kombucha possess legitimate medical properties, which undoubtedly contribute to the positive experiences of kombucha consumers. The Special Nature of Kombucha Probiotics Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: September 3, 2013 All types of probiotics are immensely beneficial to the human body, and should be a part of everyone’s diet. But kombucha cultures have a special power to them, and any consumer will attest to the magic of kombucha and the healing effects it confers. The Key Components and Benefits of Kombucha Tea Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: August 30, 2013 Kombucha is a powerful drink that possesses many benefits that everyone should benefit from. From potent probiotics to rare acids, kombucha has everything we need to be healthy and thrive.
Selling Your Used iPhone Communications: Mobile Cell Phone • Published: July 26, 2013 If you want to make the most from your cell phone, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. Selling your phone the wrong way could result in less value for you, if executed improperly.
The Science of Wheat’s Health Problems Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: November 21, 2012 Wheat has a number of inherent problems, which have been greatly compounded by the genetic manipulation of the grain back in the 1950s. This article describes the science behind how wheat hurts the human body. Buying Wheat Free Products Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: November 21, 2012 If you are interested in going gluten free, you may also be anxious about how you can maintain such a lifestyle. This article has great tips on what you can do to make this kind of life work for you, and to make it stick. The Mechanisms by Which Wheat Causes Health Problems Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: November 21, 2012 Many people are coming to learn about the health problems associated with wheat. Several components of wheat, including gluten, gliadin, and amylopectin A contribute to its harms.
Special Advantages of Hemp Seed Nutrition Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: August 13, 2012 There are many characteristics of hemp seed that separate it from other health foods. Not only does it have protein and fats, but the composition of those macronutrients and the other micronutrients in hemp seed make it nature’s perfect food. How to Avoid Debilitating Partially Hydrogenated Oils and Trans Fats Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: August 3, 2012 Partially hydrogenated oils are one of the chief contributors to obesity in the United States, and can be found in a wide variety of foods ranging from bread to salad dressing. This article provides more insight into these chemical additives as well as provides advice about how to avoid them.
Going Vegetarian to Dramatically Increase Energy Levels Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: June 26, 2012 One of the most powerful ways to improve your energy is to stop eating meat. In this article, you will learn just how effective vegetarianism can be for energy along with a wide spectrum of other health benefits. Replacing Butter With Coconut Oil Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: June 26, 2012 One of the best things you can do for your body is replace butter with coconut oil. This eliminates dozens of bad compounds and introduces dozens of good compounds! Simple, easy, and effective. Transforming Yourself With Hemp Nutrition Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: April 23, 2012 If there was only one thing that could be used to change your life, it would be hemp nutrition. This tiny seed is capable of creating powerful changes in your body when used properly.
Hemp Seed Oil for Omega-3 Nutrition Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: April 23, 2012 Everybody’s always talking about how to get more Omega-3 into their diet. The issue of Omega-3 deficiency has even reached the level of national discourse, and the most prominent solution for this problem has been fish oil. But there are many problems with commercial fish oil, including sustainability, contamination, and the fact it is not vegetarian. Hemp seed oil is 100% vegan, has both Omega-3 and Super Omega-3, and is much safer and cleaner to use than any other mainstream alternative. Fighting Pain With Nutrition Health and Fitness: Pain Management • Published: April 1, 2012 Using pharmaceuticals long-term can only do you harm, not good. Fight your pain with nutrition, and you will experience benefits that go far beyond the elimination of pain, as meaningful as that is. Quick Tips for Improving Your Diet Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: April 1, 2012 By making a few easy changes to your diet, you can revolutionize your health. In particular, this article provides three simple things you can do that will take your eating habits from mediocre to extraordinary!
Rylie Maedler takes cannabis oil once in the morning, during lunch, at dinner and before bed. The Delaware teen has been taking it since she was 7 after being diagnosed with aggressive giant cell granuloma, a rare type of tumor. Rylie’s now made it her mission to help other sick kids get the medicine they need. She’s already helped pass three laws in her home state.
In 2013, at the age of 7, Rylie was diagnosed with aggressive bone tumors that disintegrated her facial bones. Her mother, Janie, learned about the efficacy of cannabis oil against cancer and decided to give it to Rylie hoping it might help minimize her bone tumors and prevent recurrence. With the help of whole plant cannabis oil, Rylie defied everyone’s expectations. Rylie’s smile returned!
I was 14 years young with a ton of experience already as a patient fighting for my and other children’s rights to have access to quality cannabis medicines to help quality of life. I’ve advocated for and helped pass several laws (Rylie’s Law SB90, the MMJ School Law SB181, Pediatric Autism, and the Right to Try SB24) and I travel globally to help stimulate practical medical cannabis policies in other countries. In some states or countries I am brought in as a “disruptor.”
How This Girl Changed Cannabis Laws in Delaware – Hempster Thank goodness I am young because I’m not finished and there is much work to be done! I expect it to take the rest of my life unless a miracle happens globally. I was able to garner enough community support to start Rylie’s Smile Foundation 501c3 in 2014 to help my goals of supporting families in their times of need & help push for legislation.
Rylie’s Smile Foundation – YouTube Then in late 2017, I was able to start Rylie’s Sunshine to bring quality formulas into the marketplace. We also started hemp farming the summer of 2019 in Virginia on our family farm to supplement our formulas and Rylie’s Sunshine company. I have the motto that I have learned from generations of my family which is do it right or do not do it at all which I apply to my company. So, we may be small, but we are mighty! https://ryliessmilefoundation.org/about-rylie-smile…/
The summer of 2013, I started experiencing breathing issues, extreme exhaustion, loose teeth, and my face was becoming uneven. That early fall, I was diagnosed with Aggressive Giant Cell Granuloma Bone Tumors (AGCG), which ate away the majority of the bones in my face. My case was one of the worst ever seen. AGCG is an extremely rare aggressive tumor which eats away any form of bones, primarily in the face for most cases. This tumor can cause serious facial damage, as well as deformation.
It has an extremely high recurrence rate, and my tumor team warned my family that IF the tumor was to be successfully treated, it would more than likely return. The tumors ate away my palette, maxilla, sinus, left cheek, and the bottoms of my eye orbits. My doctors told me I would be deformed for the rest of my life. They told me I would have no teeth as well. I would need many reconstructive surgeries, and get teeth implants at 16. The “only way” I could treat my condition was with chemotherapy for a term of 18+ months.
Patient Testimonial by Rylie Maedler – YouTube After one of my procedures, on top of these issues, I also developed Epilepsy. My mom was looking for ways to help me with my pain and swelling, and came across cannabis online. After some research, she decided to try it. Right away, we saw pain relief, but only a few months later, we saw bone regeneration, my teeth roots regenerated, and tumor shrinkage (which was definitely not expected). We later found out that cannabis also helped me with my epilepsy. Although I didn’t use chemotherapy, I was able to return to normal by using cannabis. I still use cannabis today for my epilepsy, and to make sure that my tumors don’t come back. I’ve been in remission for 7 years and have tumor check ups yearly.
Why and How I Got Involved: After I left the hospital, I felt guilty about the kids who were still there, fighting for their lives, cooped up in hospital beds. A while after I left the hospital, my mom told me that my medicine was illegal. I wanted all of the sick kids still there to have access. Almost a year after my diagnosis, with improving results my mom admitted to a couple of my doctors how we achieved these results and asked for their help in finding a way to get it legally. We were sent to a specialist who said I was the perfect candidate for cannabis after he had studied my medical records. He said his hands were tied though, and he wouldn’t be able to legally help me since it was against the law for children to have cannabis. I asked, “Why can’t I change that? So I could legally take it as well as other kids.” He said that it would be impossible to change and that he was sorry. He wouldn’t even charge us that day because he was so sad for me.
Rylie Maedler – Tumors Shrank and Seizures Stopped | alphaExtract (alpha extracts.ca) I soon started the Rylie’s Smile Foundation to educate, advocate for better and safer access, and to support research of less toxic therapies. I felt bad that so many children’s families didn’t know of cannabis, much about it, or didn’t have the opportunity to try it. It was taboo to even speak about! During the early days of our foundation, we gave Apple iPods to children, in order to be able to reach out to families easier and find the opportunity to educate them on medicinal cannabis. In 2015, with a lot of work, Rylie’s Law was signed by our Governor which allowed sick pediatric children to have access to medical cannabis in our state. I’ve continued to advocate for better laws for children through Rylie’s Smile Foundation. The following year I advocated for children to have access to their medical cannabis on school grounds and it became law in 2016. In 2017, my nonprofit wrote a petition to add Pediatric Autism as a qualifying condition and it passed. In 2018, I advocated for Compassionate Care which would allow our doctors to recommend medical cannabis for patients who have limited treatment options even if their condition is not on the qualifying list. Currently the foundation is still working to improve better access for families, reduce the stigma and support research.
In 2017, I also started a cannabinoid company, Our Farm | Rylie’s Sunshine (ryliessunshine.com) Janie, COO Rylie’s Sunshine LLC, a R&D manufacturing cannabinoid company targeting specific diseases. To help provide safe, tested, quality products for patients. Through this company we are able to support the nonprofit’s larger goals of helping families with access and furthering research. We have a registered cultivation and processing license in Virginia where we can ensure everything is done with the best standards.
February 18,2019 Child Advocate Rylie Maedler Free of Facial Tumor After Cannabis (rxleaf.com) We are partnered with Front Range Biosciences to research plant performance in the MidAtlantic Region. With their help we are also able to reach our goal of providing access to families in need. Rylie’s Sunshine is able to donate half of our finished product to Rylie’s Smile Foundation in order that families in need are helped on a larger scale. As we grow our ability to help families also grows.
July 14, 2022 On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks with Rylie Maedler. Rylie was diagnosed with aggressive bone tumors at the age of seven. Her parents decided to secretly begin giving her canna oils to help with the seizures and tumors in her face. Ever since then, Rylie has become a fierce advocate for canna in her home state of Delaware. At the age of nine, she helped pass a law in Delaware named “Rylie’s Law”, which allowed children under the age of 18 to use canna oils to treat intractable epilepsy and dystonia. Today, she is the CEO of her very own canna business: Rylie’s Smile. BONE TUMORS & CANNA | RYLIE MAEDLER – YouTube
What Do I Want? Rylie Maedler has been working as a Chief Executive Officer at Medical Marijuana Clinics in Delaware – Cannabis Doctor – Canna Care Docs for 8 years. Canna Care Docs is part of the Business Services industry. I want to legalize medical cannabis for pediatrics globally, and de-stigmatize it as well. If cannabis is de-stigmatized, people will actually see it as a medicine. Without it I wouldn’t have a life nearly as good as mine today. I am a Honors Student, have great friends, speak internationally, and am very active despite my seizures and having had tumors. I know cannabis can be a life-saver to so many, and help people live the best quality of life possible. Isn’t that what we all deserve? Rylie Maedler: Changing the Medical Industry Around the World | Rylie’s Smile Foundation to Help Sick Children (Rylie smile foundation.org)
Rylie and Janie Maedler, Delaware – Americans for Safe Access (safeaccessnow.org)
Janie & her daughter Rylies were the driving force behind Delaware’s Law SB90, allowing Medical Cannabis Oil for Pediatric Patients, which was named Rylie’s Law, after her daughter, SB181, allowing Cannabis Oil to be on school property, Autism as a qualifying condition and SB24 “Right To Try.” Janie’s goal is to help those in need of education & assistance in navigating this commonly misunderstood life changing medication. Janie’s goal in Medical Cannabis is to help other families in a way that it has helped hers. She is also a Cannabis Educator, COO of a 501c3, Rylie’s Smile Foundation, while still working to ensure that our Medical Cannabis Laws are improving to be the best that they can be for our children.
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