The Effect Glyphosate 0n Humans

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Ken
Lets talk about Glyphosate and what its doing to our guts?
By Theresa Lopes
Well first lets talk about signs of a leaky gut… 
just to name a few…
@chronic diarrhea, constipation, gas and bloating
@nutritional deficiencies
@poor immune system
@headaches, brain fog, memory loss
@excessive fatigue 
@skin rashes and problems such as acne, eczema or rosacea
@cravings for sugar and carbs
@Palindromic rheumatism joint pain
@Depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHA
@ autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, celiac disease or Chron’s
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538578/
Have you ever had the GUT FEELING that something might be zapping your life force.
Well you might just be right?! I hate to be the bringer of bad news but someone’s
got to start waking the sleeping humans! 
Have you heard of GLYPHOSATE?
Its the main ingredient in the weed killer known as ROUNDUP. Roundup is used as a “pre-harvest applicator as a drying agent since the early 1980’s. When you expose wheat and soy to this toxic chemical it releases more seeds resulting in a greater yield. It “goes to seed” as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed,” says Dr. Stephanie Seneff. 

So here we are today after nearly 40 yrs of living and breathing this toxic cancer causing chemical. Its in all of our bodies, even in our babies umbilical cords and our mamas breastmilk. How bout 85% of tampons. OR our rain water here in the midwest! 

Dr. Seneff has found out that “Glyphosate disrupts the shikimate pathway, an essential biological pathway in plants and many microbes. It is argued that glyphosate is nearly non toxic to humans because human cells don’t possess this pathway. However our gut microbes use this pathway to produce the aromatic amino acids which they supply to the host. These are essential building blocks of proteins and precursors to a long list of important biologically active molecules, such as the neurotransmitters serotonin, melatonin, dopamine and epinephrine, thyroid hormone, melatonin, and the B vitamin folic acid. As discussed above, just a deficiency in serotonin alone can cause a host of health and mood problems.”

So ask my why I even care about this issue? Well I never did care. Until I moved to the midwest two yrs ago, I found out first hand what GLYPHOSATE does to a town. I’ve met people and continue to meet people daily that are suffering from  autoimmune disease, low energy, leaky gut, foggy brain, excessive gas, bloating, overall sickness, headaches, skin problems, sugar cravings, oh and mental illness and depression. Yikes that list goes on… 

Im a single mother to two great children. My first priority has been to fuel and feed their bodies with the best things on the planet. We have always ate organic and kept toxic things out of the house. Just about the time we moved to the midwest my superfood company came out with a brand new product called BIOMEDIC. I was dabbling in our products but once this stuff came out i jumped in head first. I wanted to see how this magnet like substance was going to pull the glyphosate out of my gut 74% in 6 short weeks. So we detoxed and took the BIOMEDIC with a loading dose of 4 pills a day, I started to feel extremely good. I was waking up in the morning with so much energy and zest for life. My bloating had gone away and my energy level was thru the roof. My low level depression that would creep in around my moon time.. had vanished. I was feeling renewed and strong. My gut was purging all sorts of black stuff and unwanted yuk from my body and boy were those some giant poops! Even my kids 11 and 6 were experiencing some big poops and purging. The feeling is hard to explain but feeling better then you have ever felt in your entire life is really something to write home about. 

I thought I moved to the midwest to pursue my career as a Waldorf teacher, but now I know I’ve come here to share this healing plant medicine with the world. Not only does the BIOMEDIC heal the gut and repair the villi but it also helps decrease C-reactive protein by 75%. Which is the precursor to inflammation and dis`ease in the body!
Can you believe this combination ~ prebiotics and probiotics, humic ore and fulvic acid helps with the chelation of toxins, pesticides, glyphosate and heavy metals. I just don’t know how I would be feeling here in the midwest if it weren’t for this amazing gut healer. I am still in shock at how many people are suffering in silence at this atrocity happening out our own front door! 

Did you know 13 billion lbs of this stuff is sprayed evert year. At your local parks and your children school grounds, I even see little ghost buster guys with Monsanto back packs spraying at the stores and shopping centers here in Kansas. 

If you would like to learn more about this global issue, and how these billion dollar industries are serving us GMO toxic cancer causing agents on the daily I suggest you get this book. The Toxin That Came To Dinner by Dave Sandoval. If you would like to experience what it feels like to have your energy back and living at your top potential I suggest you have a look on our website below or better yet give me a ring and we can have a free health consult over the phone. Email me at  fungolove@yahoo.com 
BE BLESSED and keep detoxing tolive a happy healthy full
Life!!
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More on Glyphosate—Shaking Up the Shikimate Pathway
By Larry Law On September 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment · In Medical, Nutrition
A significant problem involves how glyphosate works in plants. Glyphosate impedes the building of important essential amino acids like phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan by interrupting the seven step shikimate pathway in plants. The GE industry proudly proclaims that only plants and bacteria have this pathway—humans do not. They misrepresent this fact to imply there cannot be any health risks to people because it only affects plants. Unfortunately, they forget to point out that the plants normally build these important amino acids called aromatic amino acids and they are essential to our diet. Essential amino acids mean humans do not make them and must get them from their diet. But if the plant is not making them, we aren’t getting them either! We need these amino acids in the foods we eat but glyphosate destroys the pathway in plants that make them.

This is an example of GE marketing deception. It reminds me of the lies told by the tobacco industry! The lack of essential amino acids, the toxicity of the poison to our gut bacteria and the synergistic effect of glyphosate and modern gluten create a perfect storm of sickness and disease that is largely untraceable. Rather than testing GMO foods before releasing them for public consumption, we have become the guinea pigs in a massive GE experiment. It certainly isn’t surprising that we are now seeing an exponential increase of disease due to GMO foods.
Another problem relates to the retinoic acid signaling pathway in animals. It is like the shikimate pathway in plants.

Research by Giles-Eric Seralini, Robin Mesnage, Manuela Malatesta, et. al., found that Roundup™ at levels of 1 part per million (ppm) to 20,000 ppm causes cells of the human body to die. At 50 ppm it delays cellular apoptosis which is essential for the normal functioning and regeneration of cells, body tissues, and organs. (Giles-Eric Seralini, Robin Mesnage, Manuela Malatesta, et al., “Long Term Toxicity Roundup Herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” Food and Chemical Toxicology, Vol 50, Issue 1, November 2012.)

A study published in March 1999 by Swedish scientists Lennart Hardell and Mikael Eriksson showed that non-hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is linked to exposure to a range of pesticides and herbicides, including glyphosate. Prior to the 1940s, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was one of the world’s rarest cancers. Now it is one of the most common. Between 1973 and 1991, the incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma increased at the rate of 3.3 percent per year in the United States, making it the third fastest-growing cancer.

People exposed to these chemicals through the use of glyphosate in their community or through ingestion of its residues on industrialized food products become even more vulnerable to the damaging effects of other chemicals and environmental toxins they encounter. What’s worse is the negative impact of glyphosate exposure is slow and insidious over months and years as inflammation gradually gains a foothold in the cellular systems of the body.
Chronic inflammation undergirds almost all disease.

In addition, glyphosate is a mineral chelator. This means it binds to trace minerals like manganese, iron, cobalt (cobalamin) and molybdenum, and copper and makes them unavailable to the body. Our gut bacteria need minerals to work properly. For example, Lactobacillus depends on manganese. According to Dr. Seneff who is a researcher at MIT, these bacteria have an unusual mechanism to protect themselves from oxidative damage, which involves manganese. But they can’t get at it because the manganese hides inside the glyphosate molecule.
Mike Adams compares glyphosate to VX (venomous agent X) nerve gas. Both glyphosate and VX are organophosphorus synthetic chemicals and both act like weapons of mass destruction when unleashed in the environment. Glyphosate will brown plants within 6 hours and kill them within 12. GMO plants are built to be resistant to glyphosate but humans are not. Because glyphosate is water soluble, the majority of the herbicide makes it into our drinking water and rain. In the Mississippi River area, glyphosate is detected in at least 75% of the water samples. There seems to be no escaping it.
These are all reasons to get non-GMO and organic produce. The effects of just this one herbicide are mind boggling! As consumers, we need to make our wishes known by purchasing the foods that will not harm us. Grocery stores and farmers will respond–the market drives supply and demand. We need to use our dollars for real food that is not laced with these dangerous chemicals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JILp1C5eGBw
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The Science of Gerson Therapy

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ken
Cancer is a baffling condition, its diagnosis capable of turning anyone fearful or depressed. > See George Lane on Facebook For Supplement recommendations. https://www.midwesthealthandnutritioninc.com/ecommerce/ultra-inf-zyme-211.html

About fifty years ago in China, Premier Chou EnLai, who was dying of terminal cancer, commissioned a survey of the nation’s cancer rates as his personal legacy. The Cancer Atlas published in 1970 mapped cancer rates for more than 96% of the population in China—880 million people. The result of this massive undertaking showed a high incidence of cancers in some counties that neighbored areas with a very low incidence. Considering that almost 90% of the population in China is of the same ethnicity, the findings suggested neither a genetic nor a random pattern and raised the question:  Was it something in the environment?
Intrigued by these findings, two scientists at Cornell University (Prof. T Colin Campbell and Dr. Junshi Chen) designed a follow up study, also in China, where 6,500 people in 65 rural counties were surveyed, sampled, and analyzed, this time for all diseases. As one might expect, in poor areas there were malnutrition and diseases associated with poor sanitation, but among the diseases which clustered in affluent areas were diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Why? To think that a comfortable lifestyle and a diet of meat, dairy, eggs, and confectioned foods could put one at such risk was — and still is — hard to accept.
According to the Cornell China Study in the 1980s, the subjects had lived in one place and consumed the diet typical for that region all their lives. Then came fast food, the great equalizer—and Eggs Benedict became Eggs McMuffin. Besides the democratization of our diet, many people today do not stay in one place anymore, blurring many other parameters, and in fact making the findings of this landmark study all the more significant.
Ignoring prior independent studies that also suggested an association between diet and disease, research followed the money, which instead poured in to study “carcinogens”— cancer-causing chemicals found to damage the DNA of individual cells. The reasoning went something like this: if we could avoid being exposed to carcinogens, our cells (and our diet) would be safe. In reality, we are exposed to over 100,000 environmental chemicals; testing, let alone eliminating all of them from our landscape, is impossible.

Plus there are viruses, toxins, radiation, and many other dangers, too numerous to count. This carcinogen exposure hypothesis was abandoned almost twenty years ago, yet it remains entrenched in the public’s mindset, which demands testing and labeling to no end. This much we know: Rich and poor, we are all exposed to agents that damage DNA—our cells cannot avoid an initial insult. However, only five percent of damaged cells escape repair by our immune system and pass the mutation to their progeny. It is a long way for this line of rogue cells to get promoted to tumor status.  Abnormal cells are being pushed and pulled for years, promoted and anti-promoted for decades. Most importantly, cells in the cancer promotion stage and even at the progression stage have some degree of reversibility — which we can influence with our choice of food. In other words, central to this balance we call health is none other than our diet. Food is chemotherapy that we take three times a day. To be clear, our bodies need the active biologicals present in whole plants. We need to consume integral plant food—for the prevention of cancer, as part of treatment, and certainly for maintenance.
On top of that, eating a whole foods plant-based diet can also arrest and reverse other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. It is important to understand this: science has yet to recreate the synergistic interactions that occur in foods (many yet unknown) in one pill. Myriad active substances in food (vitamins, phytochemicals, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatories), are like the many musicians in an orchestra, none of which can alone play the symphony.  If we take for example an apple, there are thousands of known chemicals that act together with vitamin C to produce the benefits we ascribe to the whole fruit. Adopting a whole foods plant-based diet makes it easy to reach a healthy weight, in itself protective, and gives us energy to stay active. Do not be tempted to just moderate your present diet. Find the help you need to make radical changes.
Perhaps by offering him two important books to read: The China Study by T. Colin Campbell took off where the Cancer Atlas left us and has been the source of many more questions and answers on diet and disease. I also recommend Dr. Campbell’s follow-up book Whole—essential reading for understanding the value of eating whole foods rather than fragmented nutrition. I will end the story on this note—If you met a young Premier Chou EnLai today, how would you convince him to eliminate the cancer promoters in his diet (meats, dairy, eggs, and processed foods) and arm himself with anti-promoters (leafy greens and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, plus fruits, nuts, and seeds) every single day?  
Source: https://beatcancer.org/blog-
posts/the-positive-science-of-food-in-cancer-prevention < Anonymous Statesment Below This Line From Gerson Persons.

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The China Story taught me that a meat derivative diet may be a major cause and effects to
the foreign bacteria and virus we take into our diets and that abnormal IGF-1, also known as insulin-like growth factor 1, is a complex and interesting hormone due to its potential to have both beneficial and harmful effects on your health, depending on how much your body produces. IGF-1’s most important job is to promote cell growth (hence the name). IGF is known as a growth factor and is part of a group of tissue and cell-building hormones that also includes epidermal growth factor, platelet-derived growth factor and nerve growth factor. And with abnormal levels cancer growth along with what I’ve read in
the China Study,  Dr. Colin Campbell stated, “Casein is the most significant chemical carcinogen ever discovered.” Which is not to be taken lightly. [in my world]  

Earlier in Life about 80 or 90 years ago Dr. Max Gerson on his therapy, stated we must be so darn careful to remove all toxins, all foods that have any link whatsoever to cancer… foods that slow down healing, foods that stop healing… so if baffles me that this one element remains in the diet, casein, in the form of yogurt (and the colostrum.. which is another bovine/cow sourced supplement). “Whole” is Dr. Campbell’s second book. A bit more challenging to read, but excellent information.  🙂
http://nutritionstudies.org/casein-consumption/  

Also: There is a new documentary out called, Cowspiracy, which reveals that the beef/dairy industries are responsible for a huge % of our air/water pollution and most responsible for climate change (www.cowspiracy.com for more info on that). There will come a day in the not too distant future when dairy products will be as shunned, as smoking, and use of them for any reason will be discouraged, if not outright banned. The main difference between vegetarian and vegan, in my experience, is dairy. Most vegetarians are still consuming cheese, milk products, butter. That’s a huge red flag to me. Plus, there are many unhealthy vegetarians and vegans… plenty of junk food in those categories. The key is whole foods, plant-based, with no cholesterol, little or no saturated fats (in general). I only know ONE person who has been vegan all his life (and he’s a physician in Maine, who includes nutrition in all his patient care). I follow the science and the numbers. Most of us likely ate the Standard American/Western Diet prior to illness striking. As Dr. John McDougall says, “It’s the FOOD.” He calls our current health crisis what it is… food poisoning. Food is the #1 cause of death and disability in the U.S. https://fanaticcook.com/…/t-
colin-campbell-let-there-be-n…/…

Dr. Gerson believed if you cleanse the body of toxins then eliminate any chance of those toxins returning your body had a chance of healing itself.
Second question… could a non-dairy, fat-free, salt-free yogurt be used in place of cow’s milk yogurt? WHAT IS IT in the yogurt that Dr. Gerson deemed necessary? (I looked through the books last night, but couldn’t find the answer to this question). I don’t know if this is helpful or not but after leaving the clinic, one of my follow-up blood tests showed sugar a little elevated. My Gerson doctor told me to add yogurt to my diet. I thought it was to counteract the elevated sugar and give some protein. My sugar was normal after that. I just attended the International Conference on Diabetes this past weekend in DC. Diabetics. Folks with Type II Diabetes can completely reverse this disease by eliminating all animal products, especially dairy, and all added oils. https://www.pcrm.org/…/c…/
diet-cancer/facts/prostate-cancer…

I would think that a number of the non-dairy yogurts would need to be ruled out due to the source ingredients. Soy, almond, etc. Then there are the added ingredients. Then, too, consider how the products are processed and, possibly, refined. Also, I remember Charlotte emphasizing raw milk in the making of yogurt and cottage cheese. Once milk has been pasteurized it is adulterated, thus changing the nature of the product. Perhaps the answer is not in the aspect of the casein, but in the aspect of raw milk as the starting product..

Later on in his years Dr. Gerson
added flax oil to his therapy after studying the work of Dr. Johanna Budwig…. who was healing cancer/heart disease and other patients with her protocol which includes a diet similar to the Gerson diet and flax oil blended with quark ( non -fat cottage cheese ), and when the two are blended together, the flax oil becomes water soluble when mixed with the sulphurated protein of the dairy and goes into the system to help heal cancer and other diseases. The Gerson Institute had a source for quark they with the flax oil.  In those days, the doctors at the Gerson Clinic recommended eating the flax oil in the cottage cheese as Dr. Budwig advises. 
Another point is that if you read the China Study carefully, you will see the bad effects of the dairy were if one ate over a certain percentage of dairy daily and the amount recommended on the Gerson Therapy ( and the Budwig Protocol as well ) is well below that amount. I am not a doctor, so I am writing this from memory with no actual figures, so forgive me. 
Anyway, I was healed on the Gerson Therapy and so have thousands of others using non-fat yogurt or cottage cheese along with the rest of the protocol; I really think adding the flax oil to the dairy is key and I don’t know if the present Gerson doctors are recommending this, but when I did the Therapy, they sure were, as was Charlotte Gerson. Of course I am not advising anyone to do anything they don’t want to do, but just wanted to add my 2 cents. And if I wanted additional protein I would consume spirulina?
A SHORT video worth watching: https://nutritionfacts.org/…/
protein-intake-and-igf-1-pro…/…
(Dr. Greger of NutritionFacts.org reads every English-language medical/nutritional article written, each year… “so you don’t have to,” as he says
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  I need to be more specific and say the Gerson practitioner was concerned specifically about loss of muscle mass.  Again, plant protein is plenty sufficient for building muscle.
🙂 This is my favorite example of strength and agility on a totally plant-based diet (don’t try this at home, folks… this guy is incredible!):  http://youtu.be/RFPsvF3UOdo  Remember: what makes the difference to whether dairy is good or not is blood type!  Some who are  a type B might do well on a bit of dairy while those who are type A  don’t do as well?
I realize we all have individual physical differences… but dairy to me, and a lot of folks in the plant-based nutrition world, view dairy as exceptionally bad. Mammals all produce milk for their infants, and we are simply not baby cows. All the growth factor, hormones, antibodies, fats, are for a MUCH larger animal. A calf goes from about 90 lbs at birth to 900 lbs in less than a year, so we (humans) have no business putting that stuff into our smaller bodies. 
There can be no biological requirement for one species to consume the milk of another species… we are the only ones who drinks milk as adults, and the only ones who drink the milk of another species. It’s bizarre when you think about it. Adult COWS don’t even drink milk….
so why do we? Time to wean. As for cancer… there are mountains of studies linking dairy products to cancer: breast, prostate… animal protein in general, with dairy proteins being high on the “do not eat” list. I got rid of my arthritis a few years ago, by giving up dairy…. and then all animal products shortly thereafter. I feel SO MUCH BETTER.
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The key is prevention, and I realize it’s too late for those already dealing with chronic disease to prevent, but the rest of our families can prevent by not consuming the very foods that have these direct links to cancer. (animal products). I know of zero plant foods that are linked to disease (whole foods; I’m not talking about processed soy products or vegetable oils).
Vegans (people who consume NO animal products whatsoever, and no added fats like oil of any kind) are the lowest risk group for all major diseases. If this was public knowledge, there would be a lot less cancer, heart disease, MS, Lupus, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s… you name it… far less degenerative diseases. 
So… it starts with what we put into our bodies, and giving ourselves the healthiest living environment possible. I’m thankful that this GT forced me to purge all chemicals from our home, and made me learn about chemical-free cleaning methods (and recipes… good ole water, and vinegar!). I can clean our whole house mostly with water, and special microfiber towels… Message me if you want info on that. Over the years, we became reliant on FAR TOO MANY chemical potions to clean, wash, shampoo, color our hair, wash our cars… and all that chemical exposure adds up. Get rid of the chemicals, eat clean, living foods (and not dead, rotting flesh), make movement a regular part of your day…. and we’ll all live long, healthy lives.
Another Aspect we must consider is our genetic disposition to diet is varied from region to region.

 Where My body feels better on  mostly plant food and an emphasis on raw, but not to the exclusion of cooked. It always reacted negatively when I deviated, although I did not always listen to its messages. The Gerson therapy has its flexibility aspects and does allow the occasional use of some foods such as beans and, previously, rice for certain people. From the testimonies of these people the therapy was for them, just as successful. I have chosen not to use dairy at all (and I was a dairy-lover at one time). The essential components of the therapy go without question, but the books never insisted, as far as I can remember,
that we had to have the dairy.

So if your against dairy why would Gerson recommend cows or pork liver ?
It is interesting about the calves liver, though ( even though I don’t like the idea of eating animals ), that the Gerson Therapy had apparently a better success rate when the carrot/liver juice was part of the therapy. Might be because the healthy calves liver helped to rebuild the sick liver of the cancer patients. I sure wish we had Dr. Gerson here with us today as I know he would be constantly perfecting, experimenting, changing and improving his healing therapy. The colostrum used in the GT is bovine/cow, and is the first liquid secreted, before the milk, for a newborn calf (just like humans secrete colostrum). It would make perfect sense for us to be using human colostrum! (but not available, I’m guessing) It’s loaded with antibodies.
For some that take protein power is called ImmunoPro — The Finest Biologically Active Non-denatured Whey Protein.
Charlotte described it and the reason, at the clinic. Seems the pork liver contains an enzyme not in anything else. How it was decided to use it, was, if I remember correctly a doctor studying pregnancies in about 1907 was curious about how cells proliferated in the womb, but after fetal development it stopped. Again if my recall is correct, he discovered this enzyme activated in a woman for a very short time, then disappeared. In further study this enzyme was found in the liver of pigs. Gerson adopted this to destroy cancer cells. The liver caps. that are also used in Gerson with the carrot juice was added a number of years later, because it acted as a precursor to vitamin A. 

This information was discovered by Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, who discovered Abscisic Acid (ABA) a naturally occurring plant hormone has been identified in this invention with potent properties to fight cancer. ABA is able to produce a hyperpolarization condition on plasma membrane through a decrease of intracellular Na+ and K+. Such phenomenon is produced in cancer cells by mediation of ion channel and activation of the signaling G-protein pathway. ABA aborting sustained depolarization in malignant tissue will produce a change in the configurational state of cell from damage to a normal state. Additionally, a positive polarization of hCG outer layer accomplished through a removal of electrons will permit immune system cells coming close to cancer cells for destruction. The ABA discovery functioning as a cytokine in human granulocytes and anticancer properties late researches, confirm ABA as the key substance used by immune system cells against cancer. ABA can’t be biosynthesized and degraded in a cancer anaerobic metabolism lacking in oxygen. 
And this is what is derived when you take desiccated liver enzymes.  
Liver with Carrot juice helps produces abscisic acid which is a precursor of Vitamin A which attacks the tumor.
Note:  Are you taking Wobenzyme or Inf-Zyme? If it were me, I would add those and take them on an empty stomach a few times daily. I considered that 2 hours before food. and one hour after if taking enzymes.

Interviewing a Plant Based Doctor–Ana M Negrón MD

…The Standard Gerson Treatment…
A) 3 pancreatin, & 3 Inf-Zyme on an empty stomach in the morning, 45 min before breakfast.
B) 2 Acidol, 1 B17 500 ml tablet, and 1 Armour thyroid right before breakfast
C) All the other supplements (sometimes with the 8:30am green juice and sometimes with the 9:30am carrot.
D) 1 Selenium with the 10am apple/carrot juice
E) 3 Pancreatin& 3 Inf-Zyme with the 12 noon green Juice, and the 1 Armour thyroid
F) 2 Acidol, 1 B17 500 ml tablet, right before LUNCH
G) All the other supplements with (sometimes with the 2pm green juice and sometimes with the 2pm carrot.
E) 3 Pancreatin & 3 Inf-Zyme with the 4pm green juice.
2 Acidol, 1 B17 500 ml tablet, right before DINNER
All the other supplements with (sometimes with the 5pm apple/carrot juice and sometimes with the 6pm carrot/apple.
3 Pancreatin with the 7pm green juice.
**** You might want to incorporate the CURCUMIN in this schedule. Help!
With in Dr. Gerson’s therapy it was originally raw calves liver/ carrot juice… Since in later years, unfortunately, it has become
hard to find healthy calves liver juice so they recommend desiccated liver capsules with the carrot juice. Dr. Gerson had a better success rate when
the liver capsules and carrot juice was part of his therapy…
 
If you eat a big salad for a meal you do not HAVE to take the Acidol. 
It is only necessary if you eat something acid forming or. any time you have cooked food, take your Acidol. Raw food has enzymes naturally so if you are just eating a salad, like George said, for example, you don’t need the Acidol. Once you get use to Gerson Therapy and as you progress on the therapy, the gas will decrease!!! Also what helps gas if you take a probiotic 45 minutes before breakfast the Pancreatin and Inf-Zyme should be taken an hour after eating.
Although for some it works the other way around they digest cooked food well, but everything  raw comes out practically undigested. Even the lettuce leafs.  and end up taking 3 acidol instead of two, 10 month and take lots more digestive enzymes as well. I am not sure what that means  but if you digest your raw food better taking Acidol, then by all means you should eat raw food. I do know in Aryuveda the Vata type is not supposed to eat all raw food, it is too cold….
I saw a program on Gaiam TV about this, it sounds interesting. 
(there are also questionnaires to find your body type.)
Also its kind of hard having a totally empty stomach when on this therapy. I should actually have said best to take the Pancreatin/Wobenzyme or inflazyme away from meals. Some take Pancreatin about an hour after eating or just before going to bed.  You can take selenium anytime during the day; but it is important to take selenium when you are taking iodine, but they do not have to be taken at the same time, just sometime during the day.

These Are Anonymous Statements From Gerson Patients: For anyone on here healing for non-malignant chronic illnesses, I would highly-highly recommend reading “Stop the Thyroid Madness” to help determine the amount of thyroid you need. I am slowly upping mine the way they recommended it.  If you are taking Armor, I learned you should either chew it up or take it sublingually. They changed the composition in 2009 and some people were having trouble getting it into their system. No problems though if you chew it or stick it under your tongue.
Joy Smith Selenium and Iodine in supplement form are good thyroid boosters either way so perhaps that could help things be more normal?  Selenium also supports the production of glutathione peroxidase.
  One of the purposes of the coffee enema is to stimulate the production of glutathione in the liver. It’s what helps the liver break down toxins. It’s also the master antioxidant, master anti-inflammatory, chelator… It serves many roles in protecting the immune system. Glutathione peroxidase is the active glutathione enzyme.  Glutathione production is the key to the whole healing spectrum that makes GT so important and that’s why the CE’s are so important for starters but every bit helps.. 
I should be clear though that they tell people that you can’t really supplement Glutathione itself and have the same results – it’s things that help the body produce it’s own that makes the most difference. Glutathione is a fragile molecule (mainly the cysteine of it). The majority of what we ingest is broken down in the digestive system. Also, the molecule is actually too large to pass through the membrane of the cell, so the fractional amount that does make it through the digestive system intact is not intracellular where it is needed most. There are supplements that provided the building blocks for it though.
I would totally hurl if I had to use Armour sublingually, i react to it much like I react to coffee lol. Those of you taking it for years are used to it I’m sure and I take all of my other supplements that I can, sublingually as it’s the most assured way of getting most of the dose in without issues of digestion changing the actual absorption to something different/less than what we’re taking and all of that..  Most folks have the best results with Naturethroid or their other Natural Thyroid Hormone called WP Thyroid, both are made my RLC Labs. http://rlclabs.com/# I have taken my Natural Thyroid Hormone sublingually for over 28 years and it truly is the best way to take it. I let the tablet melt under my tongue with my niacin tablet and a sublingual B12 ( don’t copy me ) , I just made this way up for myself and it has worked great for many years.
I am not clear what you mean when you say it is not the usual sort of thyroid? Do you mean because it is natural and not synthetic? Here is information about dosing with Natural Thyroid

Hormone: http://www.
stopthethyroidmadness.com/natural-thyroid-101/
When you have time, look over the whole Stop the Thyroid Madness site; it is very informational about thyroid health. I know that we have to keep T3 and T4 balanced and that syntheroid, does not so I’m looking for balance first and non animal derived second. Actually, iThroid is an iodine product. They only sell two kinds of Natural Thyroid Hormone, Naturethroid and WP Thyroid. They are dosed the same as Armour thyroid. 
However, sadly, most doctors these days are not trained in giving their patients natural thyroid hormone and give synthetic like Synthroid, which is called ‘ SynCrap’ by many who have been harmed by it. luckily for me I just couldn’t stomach it long enough to let it do me that much harm but I still have all the symptoms and haven’t been able to find a natural form that wasn’t animal derived. I get ill whenever I try to take animal derived products so it’s an effort in futility to try anymore. I’m grateful that these offer other choices. I have good internists with ND’s and they offer products like Thyrostim which can be helpful for a lot of people but one would have to call and see if it had anything in it that wasn’t GT. 
 I understand about not wanting to use something animal derived; however, porcine thyroid is the closest to human and has worked so well for folks for over 100 years. Whenever I take my thyroid I say to myself.. “God Bless the pigs!”. Important to note the Gerson Therapy utilizes some animal materials to help folks heal. Liver, pancreatic enzymes for example. I don’t know of any natural product that works as well as porcine for hypothyroid folks, although iodine and selenium support the thyroid, it is often not enough. Dr. Gerson used on his Therapy . He used Natural Thyroid Hormone for a reason.
If there was a way to get organic pigs – i probably wouldn’t have as bad of a problem but since i’m chemically sensitive and pigs are the bottom feeders of all land creatures it’s about as safe as eating something that feeds off the ocean floor… full of chems and crud and yeah. After having a long term chem exposure with molds etc any time I take something that isn’t clean it makes me hurl. I know a lyme doctor likes to use either Naturethroid or the compounded T3..  People are having the best results with Nature-throid and WP Thyroid, both are made by RLC Labs, I posted their link above. Armour and the Canadian Armour called ERFA are not yielding good results since they changed their fillers. WP Thyroid has the least fillers. http://wpthyroid.com  
With ERFA just before the message came out that people were having probs with it. We’ll get it figured out Since it was formulated in 2009, many say it does not work that well for them. I take Naturethroid and it works very well. You can find it further down on the following page. I think they call it ‘Thyroid Natural’ or ‘Nature Thyroid’ , but I believe that is Nature-throid.  Here is where you can get Nature-throid without an Rx. It is further down on the list and they call it ‘ Thyroid Natural’ or ‘Nature Throid’. That is the one I take. Read the book
 HEALING THE GERSON WAY, by Charlotte Gerson, read Chapter 23, “Life After Gerson.” it contains information about your thyroid 🙂
  So you would not be able to do the full Gerson Therapy because of the Pancreatin ( which is from pigs) although they do make some from sheep pancreas, and the desiccated liver? and the crude liver injections?  Also Remember that the Gerson Therapy is a two year plus program depending on the patient and the condition they are healing. What articles have you read that say staying on the Gerson Therapy is not good for long term health? I healed on the therapy over 30 years ago and have stayed VERY close to the principles of the therapy and have enjoyed very good health in all these years. Of course one does not continue all of the coffee enemas that are recommended in the beginning of the therapy, or continue to drink all the juices; however, the organic diet, including some daily juices as well as a coffee enema daily is absolutely fine. When one is healed on the therapy, it is good to exercise common sense.
After I was healed on the therapy, my Gerson doctor told me it would be smart for me to continue taking 2% Lugol’s solution my whole life ( which I have continued to do as it is so amazing for the human body on so many levels). I also take Pancreatin or InflaZyme in between meals, a good digestive enzyme with meals, I still take dessicated liver with meals, niacin a few times daily, and a sublingual B12. I have added a few other non-Gerson materials as well. I continue to eat the Gerson way and twice yearly follow the recommendation of Charlotte Gerson…spring and fall, I do a kind of mini Gerson Therapy for about a month…6 to 8 juices and two coffee breaks daily. along with the Gerson medications, and if I don’t experience any healing reactions, then I stop. Charlotte Gerson told me that if I do experience healing reactions while doing these ‘tune ups.’ then it would be a good idea for me to go on the therapy strictly for about 6 months. In all these years I have never experienced a healing reaction during these twice yearly tune ups.
FRIENDLY ADVICE; Because of the “Gelatin or Gelatine capsule scare (from Latin: Gelatus meaning “stiff”, “frozen”; compare with gelato) is a translucent, colorless, brittle (when dry), flavorless food derived from collagen obtained from various animal by-products. It is commonly used as a gelling agent in food, pharmaceuticals, photography, and cosmetic manufacturing. Substances containing gelatin or functioning in a similar way are called “gelatinous”. Gelatin is an irreversibly hydrolyzed form of collagen.” Some are breaking capsules down and poring the contents in juice.
However most capsules are made from a different form, are the capsules vegetable based or regular bovine gelatin? Even the food grade form can be an issue when it comes to this line of thinking. But th here are somethings that are designed to not dissolve too quickly. That is my first concern. Milk Thistle for example is meant to be dissolved at a certain spot. Pancreatic dissolves after it passes some of acids in your stomach so it can do what it is designed to do in the body. This is going to take some research. That is why I like Pancreatin or Inf-Zyme in tablet form, enteric coated to be release further down in the digestive tract. I use Enzymedica Digest Gold “mixed in juice” in green juice after my meals.
I have been opening all of my Desiccated liver capsules into the carrot and carrot Apple juices for the last few months since I read in Dr. Livingston Wheeler’s book on treating cancer with diet and immunizations, that the Desiccated liver helps to pre-digest the plant hormones like abscisic acid, which are responsible for inducing dormancy in plants and, she also thought this hormone caused dormancy in tumors. She recommended a spoonful of the powder in every juice. But I don’t put anything except the potassium compound solution into the green juice as per the Gerson book.
Yes. I taste it. It took a bit of getting used to, but nothing that bad. Now I’m used to it. You’d think after having carrot juice several times every day for almost a year I’d be sick of it, but I’m surprised that I’m not. And I never liked carrot juice before. I thought it tasted bitter. But now I like it and miss it if I am late making my juice. It goes to show that your taste buds do change. It only took a few days, maybe a week, and I was tasting things differently.
But if you cheat, you have to start all over again. Nothing tastes that bad to me as feeling good feels!
I am continually amazed by how this therapy is changing me. Now, I pray that it’s enough to completely cure me!
Kathleen Blake states: many years ago I went to a Cancer Control Society Convention and
Dr. Livingston-Wheeler and Charlotte Gerson were on the same stage together, they gave each other a hug and you could see they both respected each other very much. It was wonderful to see the both of them together. It’s also for a few years after completing Gerson Therapy, its important to get blood work done once a year. Mostly to check my thyroid levels.   To be successful with any cancer alternative it extremely important to keep following advancement and continue on a learning curve!
https://alivenhealthy.com/
2019/05/15/livingston-wheeler-
diet-abscisin-based-diet-and-
immunotherapy-protocol-for-cancer/
https://www.alivenhealthy.com/
2019/05/27/livingston-wheeler-immunotherapy-for-cancer/
https://
responsibleeatingandliving.
com/favorites/charlotte-gerson-interview/
https://healthfully.com/
316172-gerson-diet-for-a-healthy-person.html
https://www.healthnutnews.com/dr-max-gerson-cure-cost-life/
https://www.cancertutor.com/gerson-therapy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quuvi6Gvvmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yL19r-MttI
http://wwww.doctoryourself.com/charlotte.html
http://sedonawellnessretreat.com/Gerson/
http://encognitive.com/node/2582
Charlotte Gerson, who passed away peacefully on February 10, 2019 at her home in Italy. Charlotte was a sharp, charismatic, caring and passionate woman who forged a path that contributed to the movement in health and where it is today.
And her spirit lives on in internity  […]
To learn more about Gerson Family’s work, and contact the Official Gerson Institute!!
visit their website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YluxDR9LaxE
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A Real Life Ghost Story

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Ken
For me: I remember back in 2006 shortly before my father passed away of Leiomyosarcoma.
I went to the National Shrine in Carey Ohio for prayer and a peace of mind. On the drive home receiving a vision for a blog which I felt best to follow through on because it was true calling for those in need. At the time I had no idea how I would pull it off. Because at that time – I didn’t even know at the time how to type, let alone the internet or how to start a blog. Shortly there after I started running into people that would help guide me to the next step and help assist me to carry out that vision. Which each blog I post today, I always feel my fathers presence dotting my (.i’s) and crossing my (.t’s) 

However, Janis Heaphy Durham was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1951,  her family moved to Hamilton, Ohio a few years later —  where she spent her childhood. It was like when she was 9 or 10 years old when her father and also minister of the Front Street Presbyterian Church was walking down a narrow street next to the church when she stopped to ask him a question, “where is heaven?” Thereby, is when he stood still looked her eye to eye and recited
John 14: 1-2: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 

Then he gave an example of our family and the love we have in our home here on earth,
He said it was like that in heaven. And he told me that just as he and my mother would never desert me or stop loving me, so God in heaven is the same. God too, has a safe place for all of us to be one day. Then he ended our little talk by telling me that God is infinite, living with us and within us,, not only, here but also in heaven when we die/ My father also taught  me something else that has remained with me for a lifetime — that there is no compromising on the truth.

She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and taught junior high school English following graduation.  Several years later, she moved west to Los Angeles in pursuit of a less conventional life. Feeling a deep-seated pull to newspapers, Janis applied for a job at the Los Angeles Times, was hired in the advertising department. During her 15 years there, she rose to senior vice president of advertising.
 
In 1998 she was recruited by a headhunter in a nationwide search and named the first publisher in the history of the fabled Sacramento Bee, the flagship newspaper of the McClatchy Company. Responsible for all facets of the newspaper, including news and business operations, she was at the helm for a decade. During her tenure with the Bee won two of the five Pulitzer Prizes awarded since it was founded in 1857.
Janis retired in 2008 and lives between Idaho and Florida.
The Hand on the Mirror is the story of an unusual personal journey.
It begins with the untimely death of her husband Max in 2004 and follows with a series of otherworldly events that startled her at first, and then intrigued her. Ultimately her newspaper instincts kicked in and she decided to research whether or not our consciousness survives death. Simply put, she wanted to know if we continue on in another form after we die. Unfolding over eight years, this is the story of her spiritual and scientific journey into the unknown.  For more information about her book click here.
To read a book review on click here.

This widow’s chilling true tale will make you seriously question the afterlife.
On Sunday, May 8, 2005, my reality changed. However, that was when she discovered a handprint on the bathroom mirror in her home. The day it appeared was the first anniversary of the death of her husband, Max Besler. They had been married for four years when he was found, at the age of 56, to have esophageal cancer. Six months later, he was gone,
this was a devastating for her and 14-year-old son, Tanner.

In his final two months, Max spent a lot of time during the day with our friend and housekeeper, Helen. He insisted that I continue working— Janis was the publisher of the Sacramento Bee—so she went to the office and drove home at lunch for visits. One day, Helen and Max were in the kitchen. The sun was shining outside—until it suddenly poured. “We both just stopped and looked,” Helen recalled. “I told him, ‘I know you don’t believe in God, but this is something God created for us today. After you’re gone, if you can find a way, let us know that there’s something out there, that it just doesn’t end.’”

Max agreed he’d try. “But it will be up to you two to see it,” he said. When The Hand Appears A year after Max’s death, Tanner and I were still working through our grief. On this Sunday afternoon, he and I were sitting at a table in our yard in Sacramento, California. I was comforted to have him there, and I smiled as I noted his habit of moving his lips while he read.
I was catching up on reading from work.
After a while, I got up to go inside and bring us a snack.
Our home was U-shaped, and on the right side of the U were our kitchen, a guest bedroom suite, a laundry room, and the exit to the garage. Max had spent the last month of his life in the guest room because he was more comfortable in a bed by himself, as he was in grave pain. Before entering the kitchen, I stopped in the bathroom in the guest suite. That was when I saw the handprint. It hadn’t been there when I’d gone in an hour earlier. I froze. Had someone played a trick? That was doubtful—Tanner and I would have seen or heard anyone.

I shouted, “Tanner, come here. Hurry!”
“Mom, what’s wrong? Are you OK?” he asked, running over.
“Look,” I cried. “You didn’t do this, did you?”

As I spoke, I knew that Tanner couldn’t have made it, because he’d been next to me the entire time. Still, I asked him to hold his hand up next to it. It was much larger than his and shaped differently. It was no ordinary handprint. Seemingly made of a soft, white, powdery substance, it showed the entire bone structure, as if it were an X-ray. Like most wives, I could recall precisely what my husband’s hands looked like. The wide palm with the long, narrow fingers was reminiscent of the shape of Max’s hands.

[pullquote] “The clock had stopped at 12:44, the exact time of Max’s death.” [/pullquote]

We stared at the print, speechless and awestruck.
We knew we were witnessing something astounding.

“Mom, I don’t get it. What is that?” Tanner asked. “I’m not sure what it is, Tanner.” Then I asked him, “Do you think there’s any relationship to Max, since it’s the first anniversary of his death?” “Maybe, but how weird is that?
And how could he make it happen if he’s gone, Mom?” Tanner asked.
I had no answer, only a sense that I needed to remain calm and inquisitive. “I guess for now we don’t know. Why don’t you go out to the driveway and shoot some baskets?”
I hugged him and said I’d join him in a few minutes. I grabbed my camera and took several photographs. I should have done more, like taken a sample of the powdery substance for analysis or asked a forensics specialist to examine the fingerprints.

But I was so stunned that it didn’t occur to me.
Was Max visiting to let me know there was more?

I’ve always been open in life, and I wanted to be open now. But I was scared too. Entering the unknown was intimidating. This wasn’t the first unusual occurrence. Max died in our living room at 12:44 p.m. on a Saturday in May 2004, surrounded by family and friends. In the backyard beneath the overhang of the roof just outside the door were two heavy wind chimes that he and I had hung. Both were sizable—one produced a deep musical sound, while the other one reminded me of the gong of a buoy at sea. I thought it was fitting that they both rang the instant that Max died, filling the house with rich, melodious tones. As a group, we stopped to listen. And as we turned our heads to watch the chimes, we noticed something peculiar: There was no wind.

Then, one week later, I took Casey, our yellow Lab, for a walk. It was Saturday around 7 a.m., and Tanner was asleep. I returned an hour later, and as I was unhooking Casey’s leash, I glanced up at the large, round clock over the fireplace in the living room. The clock had stopped at 12:44, the exact time of Max’s death. At first, I didn’t process it. I thought, Time to get Tanner up for breakfast. Then it sank in.

How could the clock show the time of Max’s death instead of eight o’clock, the proper time?
I walked to Tanner’s room. “Wake up. Wake up. You’re not going to believe what I just saw,”
I told him. He stumbled sleepily down the hallway with me to the living room. I was half hoping that when we got there, the clock would be correct. “Look, Tanner,” I said, pointing at the clock. His eyes became big, and he muttered two words: “No way.” Tanner knew what that particular time meant as well as I did. The night before, the clock had been normal, and no one had been in the house. Besides, it was too heavy and awkward to lift it and change the time; neither Tanner nor I could manage it.

“Mom, maybe it needs a new battery. We can’t change it, but we can get some help to pull it down,” Tanner offered. “It’s probably just a coincidence that it stopped at 12:44.” “Yes, that’s probably it,” I said, uncertain but unwilling to consider the idea that it might be more. I wanted a neat answer. The shock of Max’s diagnosis, his battle with cancer, and his sudden death had taken a toll on me. The clock stayed at 12:44 until Wednesday, when Helen, our housekeeper, arrived. After I came home that evening, I found a note from her. She said when she was there, the lights had flickered and the clock had restarted.

“I think Max may have paid us a visit,” Helen wrote.
The handprint unmoored me in ways that the clock hadn’t. Not only was I sure I hadn’t imagined it—Tanner had also seen it—but it was too shocking to ignore. Shortly after we saw the print, something else strange happened. Max, Tanner, and I had been planning a trip to Italy before Max’s diagnosis. He had been excited because he was knowledgeable about Italy’s artists, poets, and musicians. I told Tanner we’d go in Max’s honor. I thought of it as a way to spend time with my son and consider what was happening.

We toured Rome and Florence, and I tried to relax. But there were painful moments when I craved Max’s presence. Yet as we toured the cities, I began to unwind. Curiosity was replacing fear. Tanner and I went next to the Italian Riviera. One day before sunset, we were strolling in Portofino and the afternoon sun was casting a magical glow. I handed my camera to a passerby, who snapped the two of us. After we got home, I had the film developed—this was pre-digital cameras.
I went through the photographs until I came to the one with Tanner and me at the harbor.
Behind us in the photo was the stern of a boat anchored 30 yards away. Its name was lined up between my shoulder and Tanner’s, where Max would have stood if he were there. I squinted to read the name on the boat and saw three letters: MAX. The odds of this occurring seemed astronomically low. From that point on, I decided to learn as much as I could about these incidents by talking with experts and reading.

My journey would span eight years and take me across the United States to speak to different scientists, professors, and spiritual practitioners. One of them was Dean Radin, PhD, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is devoted to the study of consciousness and phenomena that don’t fit the prevailing scientific models. In 2010, I sat in his office and showed him my photos of the handprints—a powdery print appeared again on that very same bathroom mirror on the anniversary of Max’s death in 2006 and in 2007.
Now it was time for me to ask my question: Had he seen anything like this before? He told me he couldn’t think of anything exactly like my experiences, but he and his colleagues regularly came across similar things in their research—thousands of similar occurrences, in fact. The clock stopping at 12:44? He said he could have written an entire book about clocks stopping for inexplicable reasons associated with emotional events.

  “I went from believing my story was extraordinary to learning that these types of events are happening to many people. What was extraordinary was the very ordinariness of it.”   

After I left Radin’s office, I wondered what all of this meant and how it would affect me going forward. And then it hit me. Since Max died, I had lived with a subtle but nagging fear that my exposure to these stunning occurrences meant that I wasn’t normal. Now, for the first time,
I had confirmation I wasn’t that unusual.

I remembered something I had read in Radin’s book The Conscious Universe. He cited Andrew Greeley, a Catholic priest and a sociologist, who found that 67 percent of American adults had reported having psychic experiences. Greeley also said that many widows who reported contact by their dead husbands had not previously believed in life after death.

According to Greeley, “People who’ve tasted the paranormal, whether they accept it intellectually or not, are anything but religious nuts or psychiatric cases. They are, for the most part, ordinary Americans, somewhat above the norm in education and intelligence and somewhat less than average in religious involvement.” This was a pivotal moment in my personal journey. I went from believing my story was extraordinary to learning that these types of events are happening to many people. In other words, what was in fact extraordinary was the very ordinariness of it. I realized that it was time for me to start talking openly, without shame or embarrassment. From this point forward, I vowed to myself, I would open up not only to those I was interviewing but to my family and friends.
And if I could comfort anyone, what a privilege that would be.
It was a breakthrough. I felt free.
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Carl O Helvie – Spirit of Sharing

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Ken
Beat the Odds. Avoid Chronic Illnesses and Prescribed Medications
The Holistic Health Show with Carl O. Helvie teaches you how using Mind, Body & Spirit, Relationship, Environment, and Political Interventions.

Dr Carl O. Helvie, R.N. received a B.S. (NYU), M.S. (U of California), M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. (Johns Hopkins U). Advanced degrees are in public health and wellness. He has over 60 years experience as a nurse practitioner, educator, author and researcher and received national recognitions including the Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association and listings in Wikipedia. Carl has author of 10 books, contributor to 3 others, has over 100 peer reviewed articles and presented research papers around
the United States and Europe. 
While in academia he developed a theory of nursing and health that is used internationally and received national funding for and administered a health care program for homeless and low income individuals and families. He has been interviewed on over 200 radio and television shows over the years.  At age 87 Carl is still the active hosts of the Holistic Health Show on BBS Radio and is President/CEO of the Carl O Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation. 

As the founder of the Carl O Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation (HCF) his interest in using a holistic natural approach for health problems including cancer began when he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1974 and that has never wavered. Back then Carl was offered chemotherapy and surgery and given just 6 months to live by conventional medicine. By Following prayer and meditation it was clear that he should avoid chemotherapy, surgery and cure his cancer using the Holistic Approach.
 In addition, as a registered nurse with two masters and doctorate in public health. Carl had learned through his own experience that health and illnesses are processes resulting from the interaction of multiple factors in man, its agents they come into contact with and the environment and from this perspective he feels there should be multiple factors involved in the treatment and resolution of cancer and other disease processes.
 
Carl knew IF he treated his cancer with surgery and chemotherapy. As a registered nurse with two masters’ degrees and a doctorate in public health, Carl knew that he would need to address multiple aspects of his life in order to heal. With this knowledge, as well as a lot of prayer and meditation, Carl decided to use a natural, holistic approach to try and cure his cancer rather than extending his life by a mere six months with chemotherapy and surgery. His logic was that he wasn’t feeling bad when he was diagnosed, so if he was going to die, he certainly didn’t want to be debilitated by chemotherapy during his final six months of life. 
Instead of dying, Carl spent over two years working with an alternative medicine practitioner to fully heal his body and has remained cancer-free ever since, living healthily for another 45 years to date. His cure consisted of a combination of nutrition, exercise and mental/spiritual interventions.

The Successful Use of the Holistic Approach for Cancer.

Nutrition —
Carl’s alternative doctor prescribed many natural, non-invasive physical interventions, including but not limited to:
A vegan diet consisting of 75% mostly raw fruits and vegetables, nuts (except peanuts) and some grains
Laetrile (Vitamin B17) and apricot kernels
Zinc
Pancreatic enzymes
High dose Vitamin A

Exercise —
Carl stresses the importance of exercise as research indicates daily exercise
will reduce cancer risk by 50%.

Mental/Spiritual —
Carl added his own regimen of mental and spiritual interventions, which he says were just as important for his lung cancer recovery as the dietary changes and supplements prescribed by his alternative doctor.
Positivity: Carl worked hard to not only change all his negative thoughts to positive ones, but also to make others around him more positive so they wouldn’t influence him negatively.

Faith: Carl has a very strong faith in God. In fact, his diagnosis was a result of a dream telling him to go for a chest x-ray, which he believes was God’s way of guiding him. Carl took comfort in God being with him and looking over him.

Purpose / Helping Others: Since Carl’s alternative cancer treatments caused no pain or side effects, he continued teaching as a university faculty member, working with students, writing and doing research. This kept him very busy, and he had little time to wallow in his disease. Today Carl recommends helping others as another intervention to keep us healthy, because it provides a sense of purpose and joy while distracting us from negative thoughts.
Emotional Support: While initially Carl’s family, friends and colleagues expressed doubt about his decision to forego surgery and chemotherapy, they did provide him with emotional support during and after his two-years of recovery. Emotional support from those around him was so important to remain positive, optimistic and not allow fear to creep into his thoughts.

Meditation: Carl mediated daily during his cancer recovery and still meditates to this day. According to Carl, there is research to support patients who meditate have 31% lower stress symptoms, and 67% fewer mood disturbances
Visualization: Visualizing himself being well and healthy had profound effects on Carl’s mind-body connection and also aided in improving his immune function.
Carl sees fear of anything as the opposite of faith. During his cancer experience, his optimism far outweighed any possibility of succumbing to the disease. ALL THESE YEARS LATER, Carl says he has never even thought about a recurrence,
because his faith and optimism are so strong.

Giving Back —
Although Carl is partial to alternative & holistic cancer treatments, he supports any decision a patient makes about their own treatment. He does stress the importance of researching ALL treatment options and allowing the cancer patient to choose the one that is right for him/her. Part of healing is taking back control of one’s health, and making your own decision about cancer treatment is the first step in this process.

In order to help others, Carl established The Carl O. Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation to educate people on alternative cancer treatments. This gives people with cancer the opportunity to pause and research all their options, as well as short and long-term side effects, before leaping into any particular approach.

When going through cancer, Carl says there is ALWAYS hope, despite what your well-meaning doctor may say. It is important to remember that decisions about your life are yours. His recommendation is to “ask your doctor for all of the information you need to make decisions about care… [Then] collect as many health care helpers as you need to implement the plan, but you should remain the captain of the team who makes the major decisions.”

Additional information on Carl’s story and his foundation can be found at
The Carl O. Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation (www.HolisticCancerFoundation.com)
and in his books:
You Can Beat Lung Cancer: Using Alternative/Integrative Interventions
Reducing Your Cancer Risk (A Holistic Approach)
Healthy, Holistic Aging; A Blueprint for Success

Bottom line:
A few years before Carl was diagnosed with lung cancer Carl had been learning about Edgar Cayce and his healing of people with different medical/health conditions using a holistic approach. Thus, it was natural for him to add mental, spiritual, relationship, environmental and political components to the natural non-invasive physical interventions prescribed for me by my alternative doctor for life challenging lung cancer.  After seeing that the approach was successful for cancer and equally successful for other health problems occurring as I aged, 
I wanted to share this information through my books and articles,  hosting a radio show on holistic health for the past six years and now through this foundation.

A holistic approach consists of combining physical, mental and spiritual modalities as well as considering the environment, relationships and politics because all of these elements influence health and wellness (cancer and recovery) and may need to be assessed
and included in any treatment plan.

An important part of any cancer program is education for those who have cancer or want
to prevent it as well as lawmakers who influence cancer programs and public access to these programs through the decisions they make. Likewise, because we evolve in a dynamic environment cancer causation changes over time and consequently ongoing research is needed to identify and find solutions to these changing causes. 
In today’s world where harsh invasive drugs and procedures that often compromise the immune system have evolved as the treatment of choice for most medical conditions including cancer, medical coverage is often denied those who wish to find treatment outside the conventional realm. These cancer patients are subsequently often required and frequently unable to pay for their treatment of choice. This gap provides a rationale for both funding patient care and involvement in the political process to bring about necessary changes in cancer care and funding.

 Last October: I had the Honor of visiting with Carl at his home along the Chesapeake Bay in Hampton Virginia. then in May of this year the privilege of being Interviewed with Carl on the Holistic Health Show. In our (my rare interview) Carl mentions that he found all parts of his protocol extremely important and not one proponent can be done without the other. Carl believes faith and optimism, affirmations, and visualization were all important in his recovery from lung cancer. As well as the physical aspects of laetrile, pancreatic enzymes, vitamin A and other modalities prescribed by his alternative doctors.
I myself hope you will get as excited as I am about the value of a holistic approach in the resolution of cancer and other health conditions.
http://www.positivehealth.com/
review/you-can-beat-lung-
cancer-using-alternative-integrative-interventions
https://elynjacobs.com/
alternative-and-complementary-therapies/
https://elynjacobs.com/2014/
03/24/healing-lung-cancer-naturally/
https://
cancercompassalternateroute.com/detox/
This is a Link to Carl O’ Helvie Interviews
This show could save your life by providing you with comprehensive holistic interventions for staying well and overcoming illnesses.
Staying healthy and overcoming illnesses involve a combination of body-mind-spirit-environment-
relationship-political interventions. I believe these should be the most effective ones available and also the least caustic and invasive.   Go to the Holistic Health Show
Something Within Your Heart!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jl5A2bOkG8
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Walking Through the Flames

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Ken
Personal problems isn’t a “disease” any more than cancer is a “disease”; you can’t “catch it”, and you don’t become contagious. However, Just because it’s not contagious does not mean it is not a disease. Personal problems can lead to diseases like cancer. 
They are habits that can be broken when one has the desire to break them.
Even with the very addictive nature of alcohol and tobacco, the addiction can be broken when one is intent on doing so. That’s my personal belief, anyway.
I have never been to an AA meeting, but I do know one thing…… If you cater to a drunk, he’ll remain a drunk. That’s not a “disease” by any of the old standards. Cancer isn’t anything you can “catch” or should be cater to either it just happens. Even the normal process of cells splitting and dying to make room for a new cell, can go awry. If the dying cell isn’t removed by the immune system, it can begin to grow on it’s own, without control; Nothing but a malfunctioning or weakened immune system, would be the reason.. We can’t blame everything on a “disease”, and if/when they stop accessing blame to non-instrumental causes, perhaps they’ll find the cure for cancer.

For many cancer resulted from unhealthy lifestyle choices: toxic people in their life,
poor diet, prior excessive alcohol and tobacco use. Therefore, cancer is the result of environment and diet, though why we got it and not others under similar circumstances can never be explained……
If it were a simple illness we wouldn’t be still hoping for a cure. Its complexity, the innumerable pathways that it has to develop and spread, the various cells
it can mutate from….etc.

If survival of the fittest has any validity at the species level, surely it might too at the micro/nano level, with cancer cells competing against healthy cells as well as other cancer cells to survive and multiply-sort of like cock roaches…..they get used to one insecticide (chemo) after which you need an even stronger one (2nd,3rd line chemo)……

If cancer is not a disease, what is? 
It’s genetically passed on as cancer CAN be. Not always, but it can be. Also, supposed someone worked with asbestos for years and developed cancer then did it just happen. Some things cause cancer, you can’t [well, maybe you can:-)] dispute that. I do agree with you that sometimes it just happens too.

Some people are born with a pre-disposition for certain things. Homosexuality, cancer or alcoholism to name a few. To say that they are not diseases really distances oneself from the situation I think.
Of course there are always exceptions.
As far as cancer? The reason some get cancer from all those carcinogenic things, while others do not, should be self-explanatory in a totally mundane way.

Sure, genetics can be a problem, why not?
But being vulnerable to cancer is due to the immune system not doing it’s job, and a genetic quirk could possibly (and probably) cause the cancer. While some immune systems falter and others do well. But there isn’t an oncologist or cancer specialist in the world, that would deny that the immune system is important in the fight against cancer. They won’t give chemotherapy to one with a compromised immune system, or one that’s already fighting a disease; the reason is evident.

The chemicals used in chemotherapy are all well known carcinogenic. Radiation is a carcinogenic. Some of us will get second, unrelated cancers from those “remedies”, while others will not. Some smoke all their lives and never get cancer, and others blame their cancer on second-hand or even third-hand smoke. Is it the “causes”, or is it just the immune system not doing the job it was intended to do?
Again, the answer should be evident.

And since every “type” of cancer survives by the same very basic  process of life (fermentation), the banter about all “different kinds of cancer”, and all the necessary forms of drugs that are needed to kill cancer, is a real big drift from reality.
As the industry continues to baffle and obfuscate; they will do their best to tell you that it’s a complex matter that takes billions of dollars and years of research, yet never seems to resolve the real problem in any way, shape, or manner.

How can they? They’re not addressing the real problem.

You can call it what you want, but I don’t consider cancer a disease; I consider it an immune system problem….. And I’m among quite a few that feel strongly in that view; and some are well embedded in the field of cancer research.

I hope we all can find our remedy….. soon.
Just my point of view. One way to be healed, is that you need your cleansing regime to get your immune system working.

“Some people are born with a pre-disposition for certain things. Homosexuality, cancer, alcoholism to name a few.” This is the part (I think) that I meant to get across. I don’t think people choose to be gay. It certainly is NOT a disease.

Like I’ve said, cancer has many causes. Some you can control and some you can’t.
Some people swear the reason they live to be 104 years old is that they drank, smoked and ate fried foods. We’re all different so it’s hard to compare one person to another. These are the types of things that make cancer such a tough nut to crack. If there was only one cause of it I think it would be easier but it’s not like that. 

Even the word “Dis`ease” has many definitions. I think we both can find one that defines cancer to make our own point. We can call it whatever we want. My Dad used to say “Just because you call a horse a cow, it doesn’t make it one” which I will add “if you step in poop does it matter who pooped?”

Another expletives, sunglasses are good if you are out in the bright sunshine a lot. But for those that seldom do, they are very susceptible to cancer. Wearing sunglasses prohibits the eyes from telling the brain that it’s daylight, subsequently, the body doesn’t prepare itself to absorb the vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 is detrimental in the fight against cancer. Even though you’re taking 5000 units of it, you still maybe lacking in vitamin D3. So you need some sunshine.

Tumor forms itself in an attempt to hold all the bad cells that the immune system can’t destroy. If the immune system is weakened eventually the tumor cells travel through the lymph nodes to other organs. By feeding the right foods to the immune system, getting sun light, staying positive we can put up a good fight. We are all different and have different nutritional needs, we should all seek to naturally help our bodies.

“Another answer to cancer is an acidic environment causes cancer.”
Ok, “Life accordingly needs balance”:

For awhile, I was caught up in that PH thing too. The fact is, that the body maintains a near constant PH for your blood, and too much deviation from that can result in an untimely death. Your system will keep a near perfect balance, in spite of what you eat, or how much or little you eat. The idea of just eating a well balanced diet instead of
trying to control things with diet, is a pretty damned good idea, when you study the facts.

Your digestive system is more acidic than you can possibly imagine, and trying to make it more alkaline will end up causing you major digestive problems. Your system needs that acid to digest food, without it, you’re going to be tossing away an awful lot of good things that you are eating, every time you defecate. Cancer uses glucose at a faster rate than a normal healthy cell.

The cancer cell steals the glucose away from our system, so trying to starve a cancer cell by withholding glucose, will starve the good cell first, while that cancer cell will roll happily along. The cancer cell uses glucose in the fermentation process that it is using for it’s basic survival. The waste from a cancer cell, is lactic acid. Lactic acid is also converted to glucose by your liver… So does it make sense to believe that a cancer cell likes an acidic environment? I don’t think so…. If anything, it would love an alkaline environment. The cancer cell’s methods of survival causes the system to become a bit more acidic, and the liver does it’s best to correct that situation.

I really don’t understand why there’s so much misconception and misunderstanding, regarding cancer cells; it’s as if the confusion is being promoted by some multi-billion dollar industry… The cancer cell, once a good cell, is trying to stay alive. It’s lost it’s means to communicate with it’s host (like our normal cells do), and begins surviving on the most basic of life methods. There’s nothing complex about how a cancer cell starts, or stays alive.

Chemicals designed to kill the cancer cell will kill it just fine, but there isn’t a good and accurate method to deliver that dose. The best means to single out a cancer cell, is with the immune system. And ironically, the average immune system does just that, naturally. Some of us have a quirk; a malfunction with our immune system, and our system didn’t do the job it should have.

Researchers are now apparently figuring out that the immune system can “learn” what a cancer cell is, and it seemingly does in many cases after a bulk of cancer cells die. When living things die, they release compounds and chemicals that are usually kept contained; a cancer cell is no different. The immune system can be sensitized to the chemicals that are released, and begin to search for more of that chemical in an effort to remove it from the system.

If the research is correct, it would be an explanation why so many patients are having better results from a rapid and short chemo treatments that leaves the immune system healthy, instead of long, drawn out chemo treatments that damages the immune system and leaves it incapable of fighting for your life. So you tell me, does cancer really love an acidic environment?

Or is acid just a by-product of it’s survival, burdening our liver in it’s clean-up duties?

Myths are facts, but they don’t help solve the problem.

Or:
“When it doesn’t sound like it makes sense, it’s a good indication
that it doesn’t make sense.”

That’s my two centavos worth.

Stay healthy!!

To stay healthy Vitamin D is real important, and from all I’ve ever read, the best way to get it, is to sit in the sun for 15 minutes and let your body uses sunlight to make it’s own Vitamin D. The process the body uses to manufacturer Vitamin D when the skin is exposed to sunlight, is unique and complex. Just taking vitamin supplements doesn’t do what happens when the body is making it, and isn’t as beneficial.

We can’t fool Momma Nature, well… not for long, anyway.
Most all vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc., are best received from their natural sources. This bologna about taking supplements, and having it added to everything we eat, is pure BS. It’s no wonder our systems malfunction. How can we have an immune system, a perfectly natural defense system, working the way it should if we only provide it phony manufactured substances to survive on.

I’ll leave you with this thought?
( I have to, my cheeseburgers are getting cold – haha.)

You best be Thinking Healthier than that~!
I would like to add this. I totally do believe that a compromised immune system is definitely a major and maybe the only risk factor for disease, whether it be cancer or another serious disease. I do believe it is a disease of the immune system so therefore disease is where
I would categorize cancer. I believe there are many many different things that will compromise our immune systems. Not only, negative emotions, personal problems, stress that causes, but also, chemicals, compounds, many environmental factors.
 There is no known alternative remedy for this malady. only the knowledge and validation why you are always the first to catch a cold, or why you feel like crap so often.  
There are many things that can cause a weakened immune system and stress is only one, so therefore my belief is that high stress individuals or those that don’t understand the importance of what stress does to the body.
Will end up taxing and already weakened immune system and run for the chemo drugs is indeed very frightening. Not to mention these same drugs are carcinoginic (sp) as well.
As the medical profession always made a big deal that my father was selenium deficient
but didn’t treat it or tell him lets get that treated.
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The Game Changer

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Ken
The Game Changers – Documentary
Mens sana in corpore sano is a Latin phrase, usually translated as “a healthy mind in
a healthy body”. The phrase is widely used in sporting and educational contexts to express
the theory that physical exercise is an important or essential part of mental and psychological well-being.

While in the hospital doctors told me I was an 87 year old man in a 57 year old body – because of the way – I had cared for my physical-mental-spiritual body and labs et cetera were all close to normal. This they say helps my recovery. Do you think this is available for all of us and what we need to do to accomplish this. I am interested in your ideas. Of course! The mind controls all. And yes, you absolutely have to fuel that body a certain way. Put good in, get good out! Healthy mind, healthy body (and vice versa).  Avoid unhealthy toxic foods & unhealthy toxic people… and be happy and  positive and the healthier you will be.
I think mindset is huge. If you believe you can take care of yourself and heal yourself you
will be well on your way. Eating healthy organic foods, making time for self-care, movement, enjoyable relationships, helping others, and not holding grudges all go a long way to keeping one healthy.  I’m making serious changes as I head into this new chapter of my life.  
Did you ever read “Younger next Year”?  
You are what you eat, Eat organic, vegan with lots of raw fruit and vegetables, meditate daily, help others when I can, stay positive as much as possible, being grateful, use affirmations when needed, avoid negative people as much as possible, stay in touch with family, use FLFE energy continuous in my house, be dependable. exercise and socialization also helps!!  Thoughts are thing, so have Faith, love Family, enjoy friends and have lots of Fun, the 4 powerful F’s. Even when you think the cards are stacked against you remember those 4 powerful F’s. We do the best we can even when you think it doesn’t meet your standards for ourselves. Never berate ourselves-just keep loving ourselves for who we are. Pat stated: My Mother lived to be 97,
an Aunt 104, others in late 90’s. My Dad 89, he would have lived much longer
if he hadn’t used tobacco and sipped on 100 proof Ole’ Smokie White lightin’.
It was his sister that lived to be 104.  I grew up on a tobacco farm in the Smoky Mountains of NC. and my Daddy always thought he should smoke his own product. I don’t know what his excuse was for the white lighting. It has to be fun to make, fun to drink & fun to hide from the Revenuers! Just kidding you have to have a little levity in your life as well
(so laugh often and even at yourself ! )

Food and mental care is important. It also is important to have a healthy environment. It helps to live in a pristine area and grow your own food. Growing your own food is key I believe. We also grew our own fruit and vegetables when I was growing up and killed a pig and cow. . . before each winter. Because there was no refrigeration my mother canned the meat and vegetables and the potatoes and root vegetables were in the root cellar for the winter. I believe mindset is a lot of it. Sure taking care of your body certainly helps. I’m proof vitamins work. The way you think is part of recovery also.  Good health has something to do with telomeres being lengthening due to good nutrition, healthy lifestyle, good thoughts! 
Actually… I was just reflecting on this, I need to make a point of mentioning that the reason I’m not on pharmaceuticals is because of my self care practices. Yoga, massages, hot tub, meditation. Eating well with only fish for meat. Juicing and teas during flu season. I want it noted in my chart  I KNOW it makes a difference. Let me embrace it… Sending you LOVE!!!

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Ask for a stout heart that has no fear of death,
and deems length of days the least of Nature’s gifts
that can endure any kind of toil,
that knows neither wrath nor desire and thinks
the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than
the loves and banquets and downy cushions of Sardanapalus.
What I commend to you, you can give to yourself;
For assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1u8H0xq6l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCqw7V_33Ss

Sometimes the best medicine is a huge dose of amazement !!!
Progress is an endless challenge and for those hit their stride and for those up for the challenge you can change the game?

As researchers learn how to naturally slow aging to keep us looking and feeling young, they’re looking at telomeres, the parts of chromosomes that control aging, for the answers. And with possible links to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some types of cancer, the stakes are high.

What Are Telomeres?
Telomeres are segments of DNA at the end of our chromosomes. Scientists frequently compare them to the plastic tips of shoelaces that keep the laces together. (1) Telomeres function similarly, preventing chromosomes from fraying or tangling with one another. When that happens, it can cause genetic information to get mixed up or destroyed, leading to cell malfunction, increasing the risk of disease or even shortening lifespans.
Each time a cell divides, its telomeres become shorter. After years of splicing and dicing, telomeres become too short for more divisions. At this point, cells are unable to divide further and become inactive, die or continue dividing anyway — an abnormal process that’s potentially dangerous.
Essentially, this is how our bodies age. As more of our cells lose their telomeres and go out of commission, without others to take their place, the body follows and begins breaking down. And telomeres don’t leave (or shorten) quietly. Their shortening process has been linked with aging, cancer and a higher risk of death. (2)
Each telomere’s ticking biological clock (unfortunately, ladies, there is another one) has the potential to alter our lives in drastic ways but, interestingly, it’s not our age that determines when the clock will stop — it’s the length of our telomeres.

What Do Telomeres Have to Do with Health and Aging? 
One of the largest studies to date on telomeres shed some light on telomeres’ effect on a person’s health. Researchers collected saliva samples and medical records of more than 100,000 participants. Their findings showed that shorter-than-average telomere length was associated with a boost in mortality risk — even after adjusting for lifestyle factors like smoking, alcohol consumption and education that are linked to telomere length. (3)
The study found that individuals with the shortest telomeres, or about 10 percent of the study’s participants, were 23 percent more likely to die within three years than those with longer telomeres. The findings are trickier than expected, however. Researchers are still unsure whether telomere length is just a marker of aging, like gray hair or wrinkles, or if it’s an active factor in whether a person is more likely to have a disease like Alzheimer’s or die.
There’s also another key player in the game: telomerase.
Telomerase is an enzyme that lengthens telomeres and keeps them from wearing out too fast or too early. But with constant cell division, telomerase levels are depleted, enabling telomeres to shorten. It stands to reason that if science found a way to increase telomerase production, telomeres would remain long, lengthening life spans and possibly reducing the risk of some diseases.
In fact, one 2010 study on aging published in Nature performed on rodents seems to confirm that theory. Mice engineered to lack telomerase aged prematurely and became decrepit. But when the enzyme was replaced, they bounced back to health. By reawakening telomerase in human cells where it’s stopped working, normal human aging could be slowed. “This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-aging intervention,” said Ronald DePinho, a cancer geneticist who led the study.
However, there are still serious doubts about whether reversing or slowing down aging via telomerase activity is the answer. Because while telomerase does lengthen telomeres, in humans with cancer, the enzyme helps existing tumors grow faster. At this stage, it doesn’t seem we know enough about safely harnessing telomerase to ensure that it works only to lengthen telomeres and doesn’t actually stimulate cancer.

How Can I Lengthen My Telomeres and Slow Aging?
While science still isn’t 100 percent sure how telomere length affects how we age, it’s clear that the longer our telomeres are, the better. The good news is that there are a variety of lifestyle changes you can make today to lengthen your telomeres. (4)

1. Control and Reduce Stress
Several studies have linked chronic stress to shorter telomeres. (5) A 2004 study compared healthy women who were mothers of healthy children (the control moms) and those who cared for chronically ill children (caregiving mothers). On average, the caregiving mothers had telomeres that were 10 years shorter than the control moms. (6) That is, their cells behaved as if one decade older.
Another study that examined African-American boys found that those who came from stressful environments had telomeres that were about 40 percent shorter than peers from stable homes. (7)
The takeaway? Chronic stress doesn’t just put you in a bad mood; it contributes to aging in a very real way. Exercising regularly, getting enough sleep and carving out time for yourself daily are all easy ways to help bust stress.

2. Exercise Regularly 
From boosting happiness to providing an energy boost, the benefits of exercise are well documented. Now there’s another reason to hit the gym.
A recent study found that a person who did some type of exercise was about 3 percent less likely to have super short telomeres than a person who didn’t exercise at all. (8) Not only that, but the more a person exercised, the longer their telomeres. The correlation between telomere length and exercise activity seemed to be strongest among those in middle age, suggesting that it’s never too late to start a fitness program and keep those telomeres from shortening.
Another study about how exercise keeps your cells young found that middle-aged adults who were intense runners (we’re talking 45–50 miles a week) had telomere lengths that were, on average, 75 percent longer than their sedentary counterparts. Now, this doesn’t mean you need to become an ultramarathon runner. It does, however, suggest that regularly engaging in intense exercise, like
HIIT workouts, can keep telomeres long and happy.

3. Eat a Range of Foods for Antioxidant and Vitamin Benefits 
Foods high in vitamins are believed to protect cells and their telomeres from oxidative damage. A diet high in antioxidant foods, like berries and artichokes, can slow down aging and help prevent or reduce cell damage.
Additionally, taking a multivitamin supplement to bridge the gap between the foods you’re eating and what your body needs might lengthen telomeres as well. One study found that women who took a daily supplement had telomeres that were about 5 percent longer than nonusers. (9)
But supplements still can’t mimic all the health benefits of eating real, wholesome foods. The same study found that, even after adjusting for supplement use, participants who ate foods high in vitamins C and E also had longer telomeres. Oranges, peppers and kale are among the top vitamin C foods. For vitamin E, turn to almonds, spinach and sweet potatoes.
As always, you should avoid sugary and highly-processed foods. One study found an association between sugar-sweetened soda consumption and shorter telomeres. (10)

4. Practice Meditation and Yoga 
It’s time to unroll your mat and unwind. In a 2014 study among breast cancer survivors, those who participated in mindful meditation and practiced yoga kept their telomeres at the same length; the telomeres of the control group, who did neither activity, shortened during the study time. (11)
A 2008 study among men found that, after three months of a vegan diet, aerobic exercise and stress management, including yoga, there was increased telomerase activity. A 2013 follow-up study found that those lifestyle changes are associated with longer telomeres. (12)
Meditation comes in different forms for different people. For me, it’s healing prayer and setting aside time to reflect. For others, it might be setting an intention for their day, attending a regular yoga class or spending time with loved ones without the distraction of technology or work. Whatever your meditation looks like, it’s clear it’s good for our minds and bodies.
While we wait for science to unravel all the mysteries of telomeres and how they work for ­— and against — us, we can make changes to lengthen them and positively affect the rest of our lives.
Read Next: Blue Zones Secrets: How to Live 100+ Years
A Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier.
By Liz Mineo

When scientists began tracking the health of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938 during the
Great Depression, they hoped the longitudinal study would reveal clues to leading healthy and happy lives.
They got more than they wanted.
After following the surviving Crimson men for nearly 80 years as part of the Harvard Study
of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest studies of adult life, researchers have collected a cornucopia of data on their physical and mental health.
Of the original Harvard cohort recruited as part of the Grant Study, only 19 are still alive,
all in their mid-90s. Among the original recruits were eventual President John F. Kennedy and longtime Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee.
(Women weren’t in the original study because the College was still all male.)
In addition, scientists eventually expanded their research to include the men’s offspring, who now number 1,300 and are in their 50s and 60s, to find out how early-life experiences affect health and aging over time. Some participants went on to become successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and others ended up as schizophrenics or alcoholics, but not on inevitable tracks.
During the intervening decades, the control groups have expanded. In the 1970s, 456 Boston inner-city residents were enlisted as part of the Glueck Study, and 40 of them are still alive. More than a decade ago, researchers began including wives in the Grant and Glueck studies.
Over the years, researchers have studied the participants’ health trajectories and their broader lives, including their triumphs and failures in careers and marriage, and the finding have produced startling lessons, and not only for the researchers.
“The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health,” said Robert Waldinger, director of the study, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships
is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation.”

“The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest
at age 80,” said Robert Waldinger with his wife Jennifer Stone.

Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives, the study revealed. Those ties protect people from life’s discontents, help to delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes. That finding proved true across the board among both the Harvard men and the inner-city participants.
The long-term research has received funding from private foundations, but has been financed largely by grants from the National Institutes of Health, first through the National Institute of Mental Health, and more recently through the National Institute on Aging.
 
Researchers who have pored through data, including vast medical records and hundreds of
in-person interviews and questionnaires, found a strong correlation between men’s flourishing lives and their relationships with family, friends, and community. Several studies found that people’s level of satisfaction with their relationships at age 50 was a better predictor of physical health than their cholesterol levels were.
“When we gathered together everything we knew about them about at age 50, it wasn’t their middle-age cholesterol levels that predicted how they were going to grow old,” said Waldinger in a popular TED Talk. “It was how satisfied they were in their relationships. The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80.”

He recorded his TED talk, titled “What Makes a Good Life?
Lessons from the Longest Study
on Happiness,” in 2015, and it has been viewed 13,000,000 times.
The researchers also found that marital satisfaction has a protective effect on people’s mental health. Part of a study found that people who had happy marriages in their 80s reported that their moods didn’t suffer even on the days when they had more physical pain. Those who had unhappy marriages felt both more emotional and physical pain.
Those who kept warm relationships got to live longer and happier, said Waldinger, and the loners often died earlier. “Loneliness kills,” he said. “It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism.”

According to the study, those who lived longer and enjoyed sound health avoided smoking
and alcohol in excess. Researchers also found that those with strong social support experienced less mental deterioration as they aged.
In part of a recent study, researchers found that women who felt securely attached to their partners were less depressed and more happy in their relationships two-and-a-half years later, and also had better memory functions than those with frequent marital conflicts.
“Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism.”
— Robert Waldinger.

“Good relationships don’t just protect our bodies; they protect our brains,” said Waldinger
in his TED talk. “And those good relationships, they don’t have to be smooth all the time.
Some of our octogenarian couples could bicker with each other day in and day out, but as long as they felt that they could really count on the other when the going got tough, those arguments didn’t take a toll on their memories.”
Since aging starts at birth, people should start taking care of themselves at every stage of life, the researchers say.
“Aging is a continuous process,” Waldinger said. “You can see how people can start to differ
in their health trajectory in their 30s, so that by taking good care of yourself early in life you can set yourself on a better course for aging. The best advice I can give is ‘Take care of your body as though you were going to need it for 100 years,’ because you might.”
The study, like its remaining original subjects, has had a long life, spanning four directors, whose tenures reflected their medical interests and views of the time.

Under the first director, Clark Heath, who stayed from 1938 until 1954,
the study mirrored the era’s dominant view of genetics and biological determinism.
Early researchers believed that physical constitution, intellectual ability, and personality traits determined adult development. They made detailed anthropometric measurements of skulls, brow bridges, and moles, wrote in-depth notes on the functioning of major organs, examined brain activity through electroencephalograms, and even analyzed the men’s handwriting.
Now, researchers draw men’s blood for DNA testing and put them into MRI scanners to examine organs and tissues in their bodies, procedures that would have sounded like science fiction back in 1938. In that sense, the study itself represents a history of the changes that life brings.

Psychiatrist George Vaillant, who joined the team as a researcher in 1966, led the study from 1972 until 2004. Trained as a psychoanalyst, Vaillant emphasized the role of relationships,
and came to recognize the crucial role they played in people living long and pleasant lives.
“When the study began, nobody cared about empathy or attachment. But the key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships.” — George Vaillant
In a book called “Aging Well,” Vaillant wrote that six factors predicted healthy aging for the Harvard men: physical activity, absence of alcohol abuse and smoking, having mature mechanisms to cope with life’s ups and downs, and enjoying both a healthy weight and a stable marriage. For the inner-city men, education was an additional factor. “The more education the inner city men obtained,” wrote Vaillant, “the more likely they were to stop smoking,
eat sensibly, and use alcohol in moderation.”
Vaillant’s research highlighted the role of these protective factors in healthy aging. The more factors the subjects had in place, the better the odds they had for longer, happier lives.
“When the study began, nobody cared about empathy or attachment,” said Vaillant.
“But the key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships.”
The study showed that the role of genetics and long-lived ancestors proved less important to longevity than the level of satisfaction with relationships in midlife, now recognized as a good predictor of healthy aging. The research also debunked the idea that people’s personalities
“set like plaster” by age 30 and cannot be changed.
“Those who were clearly train wrecks when they were in their 20s or 25s turned out to be wonderful octogenarians,” he said. “On the other hand, alcoholism and major depression could take people who started life as stars and leave them at the end of their lives as train wrecks.”

Professor Robert Waldinger is director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development,
one of the world’s longest studies of adult life.
The study’s fourth director, Waldinger has expanded research to the wives and children of the original men. That is the second-generation study, and Waldinger hopes to expand it into the third and fourth generations. “It will probably never be replicated,” he said of the lengthy research, adding that there is yet more to learn.
“We’re trying to see how people manage stress, whether their bodies are in a sort of chronic ‘fight or flight’ mode,” Waldinger said. “We want to find out how it is that a difficult childhood reaches across decades to break down the body in middle age and later.”
Lara Tang ’18, a human and evolutionary biology concentrator who recently joined the team
as a research assistant, relishes the opportunity to help find some of those answers. She joined the effort after coming across Waldinger’s TED talk in one of her classes.
“That motivated me to do more research on adult development,” said Tang. “I want to see how childhood experiences affect developments of physical health, mental health, and happiness later in life.”
Asked what lessons he has learned from the study, Waldinger, who is a Zen priest, said he practices meditation daily and invests time and energy in his relationships, more than before.
“It’s easy to get isolated, to get caught up in work and not remembering, ‘Oh, I haven’t seen these friends in a long time,’ ” Waldinger said. “So I try to pay more attention to my relationships than I used to.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI
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Secret is Out About Buddhism

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Ken
Hearing words tied to Buddhism can increase our pro-sociality and reduce our prejudice.
Being Rich is over rated:  True wealth is not of the pocket. But of the Heart, Mind  and of the Soul. In Buddhism Belief they express the desire is to desire nothing and at the end of desire — is the end of all suffering!! In Buddhism, the way to end suffering and desire is to follow the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Royal Road, or the Vedas?
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-desire-cause-suffering

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https://www.reddit.com/r/
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The Four Noble Truths state that life is filled with suffering, that suffering is caused by a craving for worldly things, that suffering will stop when one learns to suppress desire, and finally that the way to suppress desire is by following the Eightfold Path. The eight steps on the Eightfold Path are Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Vocation, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. The Right View would involve understanding the Four Noble Truths, especially the truth that suffering is caused by desire.
The Eightfold path set out by the Buddha provides the path towards the cessation of suffering. Thus, the Eightfold Path addresses the questions raised by the fourth truth. It is important to understand the Four Noble Truths because they explain the origin of suffering and how to overcome its triggers. The Four Noble Truths can be viewed as the journey, while the Eightfold path is the destination. The Four Noble Truths do not innately provide a way to end suffering.
The Eightfold Path provides an eight-step system towards the realization of spiritual enlightenment and the cessation of suffering. Therefore, by following the eight-step system, one is able to overcome desire and transcend suffering. https://www.learnreligions.com/greed-and-desire-449725

https://www.zenlightenment.
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In Buddhism, you have to create a difference between craving/desire (attachment) and aspiration. Attachment means you over-exaggerate the attractiveness of your desired object, which always leads to suffering. Like when you fall blindly in love and only see the positive qualities in your partner, unrealistically exaggerated, while you often don’t see the negative qualities at all, or pretend they are just “cute”. If you contemplate this, you will probably find you virtually always exaggerate the qualities of worldly things you desire, which is also why the contentment with them seldom last forever. After some time, you want another thing. Then another. Then another. And so on.

Attachment (craving/desire) is always rooted in egoism, since you always want, want, want for yourself – even when you think it is love. “Possessive love” is a Western expression for the same thing. In Buddhist terminology, love is something quite different, namely the wish for others to be happy.

Aspiration, on the other hand, is not always negative. Aspiration just means you take a strong interest in something, and is what you use as a basis for enthusiasm, another important factor in Buddhism. Whether aspiration is positive or negative depends on the object or goal. Aspiration for enlightenment, others happiness, peace in the Middle East or freedom for the Burmese people is positive, whereas aspiration for superficial entertainment, worldly fame, the latest car model or drugs is normally negative.

Common Misconceptions of Buddhism!

The highest aspiration in Buddhism (as formulated in the Mahayana traditions) is to attain buddhahood for the sake of being able to help all sentient beings to be free from suffering and reach buddhahood themselves. This is called “bodhicitta” (the mind of enlightenment), and is not only a positive aspiration, but actually a prerequisite for attaining buddhahood. In English you might translate both terms “desire” or “craving”, but in Buddhism they are definitely different things.

If you want a clear explanation with definitions of the different minds and mental factors according to traditional Buddhism, Do you feel that you did something wrong?
That you could’ve changed fate? That your chances would’ve been better if you behaved, looked, or felt differently? Do you feel sad? Like you’ve lost something? Like you missed out?
Or do you feel that you desired something that did not come about. And that’s it. Imagine this news delivered from your thinking brain to your holy self in terms as factual as the morning news. “It is Wednesday in Texas.” “You were not selected for this position.” It’s just a fact like any other news that passes in and out of your brain throughout the day.      https://www.learning-mind.com/key-beliefs-of-buddhism/

A layman’s interpretation of Buddhism may be, “You should not have desired the job, for that creates suffering” where the realistic advice would be “You should not have attached your self-worth/identity to the job, for that creates suffering.” The part where you desired the job and took actions to get closer to that goal are not the problem. That motivation is a beautiful part of life. It only becomes a problem towards the end. If you get what you want, of course there is no problem. But if you do not get what you want, it can create tremendous suffering or tremendous nothing.

 If you desired it, but remained un-attached and had no expectations, then you are no worse off than before you applied for the job. If you hinged your self-worth upon the attachment to getting this job, then you feel like a failure, a loser, you feel not good enough. That is where the suffering lies.
Desire and commitment to goals is an admirable thing and can be done in a way where you remain unattached.
Isn’t the desire for giving up the desire, a desire?
You are right, its a dirty & Nasty trick. 
A trick played by your own mind. 
So, what are you trying to accomplish?

The word desire is often a translation of the word tanha. 
Many Buddhologist say that—like dukkha (translated above as suffering)—tanha is not really translatable. Perhaps closer to the root of meaning is craving or thirst. Obviously, in english we can have positive desires: I desire to live today to its fullest; I desire to do be a decent human; I desire to respond to this question clearly. As such, we can’t say that every nuance of the word desire is inherently bad. If you could create a word that has desire for its base, the implications of thirst and craving, yet with the immediacy of addiction, then you would start to get closer to the meaning of tanha and the reason your craving it.

The implication with equating tanha to suffering (dukkha) is the wrong-minded notion that if we fulfill the thirst/desire/craving/addiction we too will be fully sated and satisfied. Truth is, that which we focus on clinging to or pushing away will never fully satisfy our deepest needs or longings. And so we crave, we long, we desire, we become addicted… all the while feeling that satisfaction and completion is just one more thing away.
In the second noble truth (dukkha samudaya) that implicates desire, it notes that our dukkha originates from three sources: raga (greed/passions), moha (delusion/ignorance), and dosa (hatred/aversion). A very wise man with whom I studied, once said something that I thought was deeply profound. He said,

“In reality, the mind does not want a desire to be fulfilled for the happiness it brings, but for the moment of being free of desire when it is fulfilled.

So you see, you don’t work to be free of the desire because something is wrong with the world, but free of the burden of desire itself because nothing we think we attain is attainable from anything in the world. We want freedom from the burden of the world.

Freedom from desire is for the purpose of understanding the truth, not denying, but having greater access to joy and inner equilibrium. The world cannot always give us fulfillment to our desires. So, if we believe that our happiness comes from the world, we are deceived and our own belief denies us what is rightfully ours. In that respect, mind is a brutal but effective teacher.

Also one becomes disillusioned when desires, fame and fortune do not truly offer the expected lasting happiness. That is one reason why so many famous people overdose.
The weight of fulfilling the immensity of their desires becomes too heavy. They want more happiness then more then more and still, find themselves wanting more. That is because their soul yearns for constant experiencing of its truth. The mind, with its illusions that keeps joy at arms length, deprives one of that joy by sending one forever looking to fulfill yet another desire. But its never enough…..ever….And when you are famous and wealthy and still ‘unhappy’, where do you turn for escape? Many turn to drugs.
That is why when a person becomes more aware, they see the folly of the world, realize the absolute power of SELF and allow the mind to rest within the peace and joy that is its natural state free of desire. It is an incremental process. Think of all of the desires you have had in your life. Okay, now, how much lasting happiness did they give you? How are you feeling as you sit here? What do you want? Plenty.

I think it is at least important to understand the mechanic really going on.
That is how desires cause suffering on a very deep level. The mind untrained, drags us endlessly around by our HERE. Desire causes suffering because its a state of desperation of getting something you don’t have. When you know that you don’t have something then you feel poor and not abundant. After our current desire is fulfilled we find that that thing cannot satisfy us, and we desire more things! We are just not satiable. Its a state of mind. According to Buddhist theory there are three forms of suffering: the suffering of suffering, the suffering of happiness, and the suffering of embodiment.
They are on a spectrum from gross to very subtle.
Everyone knows about the suffering of suffering—stubbing your toe, having your house eaten by a lava flow, pretending all is well when your insides ache—but the second one requires some wisdom to see and the third, a lot of it.
Desire, unless it’s quite gross (like dying of thirst), registers for many people as a kind of happiness. It’s a sort of “pre-joy” or anticipation of the consummation of the joy, the eating of the actual ice cream, fools the brain into putting out hormones like it’s actually happening. The dog salivates when it hears the bell.
But the feeling, even at that stage, is a bit uncomfortable, isn’t it? It’s a sort of excitation that you want to get rid of by getting the thing that will get rid of it. Ahhh…. Finally, ice cream. And then, if you eat too much ice cream, you feel sick. Too much sex, or the wrong sex without Love, or the whatever, and you feel bored, or unsatisfied. It’s like licking honey on a razor’s edge. That is a traditional analogy. Worldly happiness always melts away, leaving its opposite, as well as the craving for more. This is why it’s also called the suffering of change. So on a gross level, desire causes suffering; on a more subtle level, it is suffering.
Finally, while desire (better words might be greed, craving, want, envy, need) is considered a mind poison (because it hurts and makes you do things that don’t benefit you), some wishes are quite different. My desire does not cause my suffering. I cause my suffering. As several others have pointed out, that at  times I can have a desire without causing myself to suffer. I can’t even cause myself to feel joy or happiness with a desire. So it is I who cause my suffering, not my desire.

The way I cause my own suffering is to _allow_ a desire to give rise to feelings of anger, resentment, jealously, injustice, loss, etc., instead of giving rise to feelings of joy, connectedness, happiness, love, etc. But in all cases, it is my perception of my desire (including my emotional reaction to my desire) that causes me pleasure or pain, happiness or suffering–not the desire itself, nor the object of my desire. No one is responsible for my suffering but me because no one is responsible for what I feel and how I feel but me.
‘Desire’, when balanced with contentment for that which occurs in the present, without anxiety (expectation) for what is to occur with it tomorrow does not lead to suffering. Desire for a goal one is working towards to the best of one’s ability, for the good of both oneself and others. Certainly, when seeking to accomplish that desire by one’s own ability, the thought of not accomplishing should not be there. But if one falls short, not being attached to the outcome but being hopeful for more venues to pursue TOWARDS THAT SAME single-pointed outcome will not lead to suffering. NOTHING can be an end-all, be-all, except that you must work towards it as if it is so.

However, those who are consumed by their desire will often miss the entire journey taken towards their ultimate destination. They will forget the gardens, the malls, banks, and car shops they need to stop by before reaching there. Oft impatient they are! They will forget about other people that they ought to treasure in pursuit of one. They forget their very selves and their duties for themselves and for the greater good. Desire necessarily draws on imagination and imagination possesses little competence yet to distinguish with clear vision which paths are only illusions and which cannot even be entered upon. To believe that what is seen is “real” and then to pursue it, believing that it “exists” can only lead to suffering.
It hurts when you don’t have it. If you don’t have what you want it always hurts a bit. And because of the fact that there is only so much stuff, we can expect that most of the time somebody loses something every time we get something. It isn’t always like that but it is sometimes. Every thing we get comes out of the earth in some way and when we take it out of the earth we change it in a way that it can never be the same again. The suffering of change is a great suffering and things change because we desire them to stay the same. 

In Buddhism there are 3 types of suffering
1. the suffering of suffering
2. the suffering of change
3. the suffering of things composite

The suffering of suffering is sickness, old age, and death.
The suffering of change the suffering we get from changes in life
and the suffering of things composite is the suffering we give to others from our joy.
When we enjoy milk we take advantage of the cow. When we walk on the grass we hurt the grass. When we make money off of people they lose money and so on. Everything is suffering according to Buddhism, the point is to overcome suffering. We cant avoid suffering but we don’t have to let it ruin a beautiful life. From my perspective, desire causes suffering by forcing you to live in the future. You don’t get to enjoy what you have. You’re always looking for the next best thing and everything else you’ve acquired through that same desire is placed in the “old” pile. The thrill of ‘having’ dies quickly.
 
If you have no way of acquiring what you desire, your mind convinces you that there will always be a hole somewhere in your consciousness because of it, and that you will fall into that hole time and again. The desire to ‘have’ is not the same as the desire to get ahead in life, or to change things for yourself. These are positive desires that generally involve engaging the co-operation of others.

Acquiring ‘things’ is purely selfish.
https://carm.org/is-buddhism-compatible-with-christianity

My desire to live without chronic pain causes the suffering I experience. If the desire is gone, even with the pain still present, no more suffering. I suffer only because I want the pain to go away. This is a mental/emotional/spiritual trick I have not mastered, nor even come close. But, I am told, there are those who have mastered this and live at peace with pain. Other, so-called positive desires — love, sex, food — can cause suffering, as well. When I let go the desire, no more suffering. Pretty esoteric,

Namaste 
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Ann Beat Cancer With No Chemo or Radiation!

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Ken
Ann E. Fonfa was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993.

because of extreme chemical sensitivities, she couldn’t do any conventional treatment. What she could do, however, was establish life style changes. Almost immediately she switched to an all organic, plant based diet. Additionally she incorporated up to 60 minutes of daily exercise and nutritional supplementation. She didn’t wait for things to get worse. 
Since her initial diagnosis, Ann has had 25 tumors and every single one of them has grown slower than normal tumor cells. She attributes this to the changes she was able to make right away.
⚡ What alternative therapies did you do and which ones helped you the most? ⚡
Started with metabolic enzyme therapy, changed eating to all organic, no meat, chicken or turkey. Occasional fish, no dairy but yogurt rarely.
Tried 714X (Nessons), had applied kinesiology, acupuncture, many supplements. Went to Gerson Therapy clinic in Mexico.
Never developed metastatic disease even after 5 years of tumors on the left side.
Used Maitake Mushroom D-Fraction Extract, high-dose vitamin A which both reduced tumors and also Eventually began taking (April 1999 – August 2001) Chinese herbs from Dr. George Wong. Never got another tumor, chemical sensitivity symptom changed immediately, and intensity reduced by (my estimate) 60%.

“It’s important to know that it really makes a difference,” Ann says. “Studies show that when children eat organic food for a week, the chemicals that we don’t want in their bodies come out. There are up to 200 chemicals in the umbilical chord that brand new babies get. So even in the womb, they get chemicals, because that’s the world we live in. That’s why we need to take precautions. Even if you don’t have cancer, it’s a good idea to make moves. But if you think that something is wrong and you’re about to get a scan or you’re scheduled for surgery, make your changes now.”
Ann believes that many cancer patients can feel “stuck” after their diagnosis and can sometimes do nothing, out of here. This lack of action she warns, can be deadly. Instead Ann preaches that patients take control of what they direct influence over….namely diet, mind set and attitude.
Below she has outlined 9 tips that she feels will help:
Ann’s 9 Tips To Your Success
1) Food Matters! This is the #1 thing Ann pointed out in the interview.

2) Eat organic whenever possible, no preservatives, artificial colors, and bring your own food when going to restaurants with loved ones.

3) Enjoy life! Don’t let the fear of cancer overwhelm you and focus on simple things, birds at the park or the
breeze by a lake to unwind. 

4) Be Physically active! Walk around when you can. The body was designed to MOVE around.

5) Stay positive and share that positivity in group settings. Smiling is contagious


6) If you’re going to CHIPSA, go to the classes! The lectures and educational pieces are crucial. 

7) Go with your gut feeling! Believe you can and will heal. The Power of the Mind cannot be overstated.
  8) Detox! Ann still does coffee enemas 25 years later!

9) Stay committed, strong, and make it possible. Many have done it before you and it’s now your turn.
Ann E. Fonfa and Her Annie Appleseed Project
Ann E. Fonfa, is the creator and founder of the  Annie Appleseed Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation which provides information, education, advocacy, and awareness for people with cancer and their families and friends who are interested in complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and natural therapies from a patient’s perspective. has been free of breast cancer for 25 years. 
What books, products, and supplements do you recommend?
I founded the Annie Appleseed Project, online since 1999. We’ve linked to thousands of useful pages, posted information for everyone regardless of what they are doing – complementary and alternative therapies.
www.annieappleseedproject.org
You can view her Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/AnnieAppleseedProject/
Ann is a beacon of hope and light for those currently fighting cancer, whether naturally, conventionally, or both. There is a lot of other good information in her interview so please take a few minutes and watch the videos.
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Our Feelings are 0f High Importance.

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Ken
✦꧁❦- ღ Everything Around Us Is Energy ღ -❦꧂✦

When we are living in a peaceful and loving state of mind, we will influence the world around us, for sure. The universe is absorbing every vibration we are creating, no matter bad or good, and it will echo.
Furthermore, if we collect all the vibration around the world, we will have obtained the whole human consciousness. In the internal state of human origins, we can see war, aggravation, famine, scarcity, violence, hatred, frustration, etc., so we can find them in the world too.
On the other hand, every day, we might be witnesses of the vibration of growth, love, kindness, expansion, forgiveness, having fun with others and change. These vibrations are made from the bottom of our souls and will return to the natural state, so we can continue living our lives in a brighter future and prosperity. This process is called energetic awakening, and it is happening on the planet now.

Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics

Only by understanding the universe, we can change our world. Seeing and understanding nature will change your way of thinking. The real change will start with comprehension of the principles of the universe and the ones to our life. The function of this information is to awake us all and tell us that we are all some sort of energy, spreading uniquely.
Each thing in the universe is a vibration of energy. Each atom, each molecule, and all of the objects that we think they are in solid form are literary made of 99.9% space. The physical and material world that we are dealing with is neither physical nor material. Basically, it is something far more complicated than that. This theory has been proved by many physicists, winners of the Nobel Prize, including Niels Bohr who was a Danish physicist to whom we are grateful for the understanding of atomic structure and development of the quantum theory. “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. “–Niels Bohr.
All around us is energy, and we ourselves are energy. When you start believing this and perceive yourself as a spiritual being that hasn’t been touched by the space and the time, the barricades around you will begin to fade. The best ways to understand the information above are through meditation and self-contemplation.  After each noticed frequency,  our body produces vibrations.  In case your frequency in on a high level, it means that you are in a positive state of mind, and the negativity won’t influence you. But, in case you are stressed, depressed, you will have low and slow vibration, which will allow the negative energy to influence you even more.

The human body is part of the soul of planet earth.

We each individualize ourselves that the soul which consists of four lower bodies representing the elements of the planet which are, fire, air, water, and earth. Every one of our interpretations is based exclusively on our “inner map” of reality, but not the real truth. Our “inner maps” are a result of the collective experience of our personal lives. Our thoughts are also associated with this invisible energy and they also determine what form it is going to take. They can change the universe “particle after particle,” creating our 3D life. They have proved that our thoughts are responsible for holding this ever-changing energy field together in the form, as well as the shape of the objects that we know.

You should look around you.

Everything that you can see in our physical world starts as an idea that kept growing until it materialized into a physical object through a series of steps.
So, why do we see a person, as a human life form instead of flashing clusters of energy?

You should think of a film roll. A fill is a collection of about 24 frames per second. Each of the frames is separated from the other by a small space. In comparison to the speed these frames change with, our eyes are tricked and see them as a continuous film. Also, you should think about television. The cathode tube is just a simple tube that has a bunch of electrons hitting the screen in some way, making an illusion of shape and movement. Anyway, this is how all the objects are actually made. Every person has five physical senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 
Each of them has a specific range, for instance, a dog hears a different range of sound that people do; snakes see a different spectrum of light than us and so on. In other words, our senses actually perceive the energy from a certain fixed point of view, and that is how they create images and form our perception.
Everything that you can see in our physical world starts as an idea that kept growing until it materialized into a physical object through a series of steps.

You literally turn into your most frequent thoughts.
Your life has become what you imagined, as well as believed in.

Our world is literally our mirror which permits us to experience everything that we believe to be true in this 3D plane…until we change it.
Quantum physics actually tells us that the world is not a constant as it may appear to be. 
Instead of that, it is a place of a constant motion that our individual and collective thoughts keep building, as well as tearing down and rebuilding. 
It is a Perpetuum mobile.  What we actually believe to be true is an illusion which is almost tragic.
Luckily, we begin exposing the illusion and, what is most important we are learning how to change it.

Everything is Electricity

 Here, we will give you a simple explanation. What are the components of our body?
The human body is comprised of nine systems, which include the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal and urinary system. And, what actually makes these systems? Tissues and organs. So what are tissues and organs made of? Cells. So what actually makes the cells? Molecules. What makes a molecule? Atoms.  What makes an atom? Sub-atomic particles. What makes a subatomic particle?  Energy!

So, we are an energy light in its most beautiful and intelligent configuration.
The energy which constantly changes under the surface and all of this… is controlled by our powerful minds.

If you have the capability to see it under a strong electronic microscope, as well as do some other experiments on it, you would see that you are made of clusters of forever changing energy in the form of electrons, neutrons, protons and other sub-atomic particles too. So is everything else that surrounds you. Quantum physics also tells us —  that the act of observing the object –  is actually the one which causes the object to be there.  The object does not exist individually of its observer.  So, as you can notice,  during observation, your attention is focused only on something and your intention literally creates that certain thing.

That has been scientifically proven. Your world consists of soul, mind, and body. Each of them has a unique function. What we can actually see with our eyes and experience with our body is the physical world, which is called the BODY. It is an effect which is created by a cause. And that cause is called THOUGHT. The body cannot produce, but it can only experience and be experienced. It is a unique capability.  On the other hand, the thoughts cannot experience, but it can only make, as well as create and interpret. It needs a world of relativity in order to be experienced.

Our soul is everything, and it gives life thought and human embodiment. The body has no power to create, even though it gives the illusion that it does. 
So, this illusion is actually the reason behind so many frustrations. The body is a pure effect, and it has no power to cause, as well as to create.

What is the soul?

Everything that exists is a vibration of energy which includes the soul. Many speak of the soul without really knowing what the soul is. The human body is part of the soul of planet earth and we each individualize that soul consists of four lower bodies representing the elements of the planet which are, fire, air, water, and earth. The soul consists of unique vibrations of energy, respectively, of the identity body (fire), the mental body (air), the emotion body (water), and the physical body (earth). The four lower bodies interact with each other and the energies of each can become unbalanced in the material realm resulting in karma.

All souls (persons) are subject to the law of cause and effect based on thoughts and actions which becomes karma. Karma is neither good nor bad but provides the opportunity to learn the truth about oneself. The identity body represents the super-conscious mind. It is how we identify ourselves in the material realm regardless of the name given at birth. It is the higher mind that links to higher realizations and provides guidance for the conscious mind.
The mental body represents the conscious mind; it is how we think in order to conduct ourselves in the material realm of form, time and space, and linear thinking.
The emotion body represents the sub-conscious mind; it is the seat of memory, desire, and feeling, and causes action.
The physical body represents the unconscious mind which operates the body functions such as the heartbeat, breathing, digestion, and the healing of cuts and wounds, etc.

When life leaves the body upon so-called death, the mental, emotion, and the physical bodies decompose.
The patterns of the mental, emotion, and physical body of the lifetime is stored in the identity body to be used for reincarnation of the soul. In most cases, 
the soul is allowed to reincarnate until the life stream makes the ascension to a higher realm with no need for a material body that needs a soul. The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.
Composition of Soul:-
Soul is anti-matter which is required for any energy transaction, transfer, creation, sustenance and destruction. Its effect is consciousness which flows through matters and causes everything. It is covered by subtle senses by choice which makes it isolated and limited from other soul and Super soul but it is by choice. Soul reaches, perceives, communicates and acts by the network of its consciousness. It’s made of emotion. The “soul” is the “feeler”, it is the source of all human emotions.
 It is the source of all love and beauty, but also all hatred and ugliness. It is also sometimes called Atman, “consciousness” or “God”. It is ephemeral, non-physical. In self-realization one often takes the identity of the soul and literally “becomes” consciousness. One could then say “I am not my body, I am consciousness” or “I am a soul in a body”. The soul is the source of the feeling of “I am”.
It is usually discovered when the egoic identity falls away. Once discovered, the soul begins to suffer, which is why after self-realization people can become very sensitive, naked, emotional. Everything hurts. Tears out of the blue. All of that comes out. It is the soul’s ultimate destiny to completely surrender to The Absolute and become non-existent along with the ego. But you could also say that both constitute ego and in self-realization only the core of it is gone, and throughout the successive journey to enlightenment the rest of it goes away. 

Then you don’t need a special term for “soul”.
Both interpretations would be correct, it doesn’t matter.

SO WHAT IS THE SOUL MADE OF?
Asking what a thing is “made up of” refers to the material dimension of a being, whereas what a thing is “made into” is more properly the formal dimension.

WE ALL KNOW that atoms and cells may be said to be what a human being is “made of”, i.e. the material dimension, but the soul refers to the kind of life-form that it is, i.e. the formal dimension. The soul is the formal principle behind living things (not just human beings), which gives a particular life-form its continual identity, since matter does not provide differentiating identities. 
For example, cats and dogs are “made up of” same kind of matter, but are very distinct species. Also, the cells in one’s body are completely replaced in certain cycles, yet one remains the same person. The soul is not as ridiculous a notion as some would believe; it’s a philosophically necessary factor in accounting for distinct living beings (if such distinctions are real), and the qualitative difference between a living thing and a dead one (if such a difference is recognized at all). 
The alternatives usually end up with a form of Monism (“there’s only ever one kind of thing, in the end”), which contradicts both common sense (which upholds the two distinctions mentioned above) and common conduct (which acts based on those two distinctions). Everything Around Us is Energy, and We Have the Ability to Control it With the Power of Our Thoughts Without any doubt. The Nobel Prize awardees in physics proved that the physical world is one big ocean of energy which materializes and dematerializes in a split second, over and over again. 
Everything is energy that the 5 human senses cannot fully perceive. Both the nonphysical and physical aspects of our universe are made up of energy and intelligence that vibrates. Nothing rest still…. The difference between physical matter that we can perceive with our senses and the unseen … Some call this The Unified Field or The Matrix. Others talk about pure potentiality – all being energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy!!

Nothing Is Solid & Everything Is Energy – Scientists Explain The World of Quantum Physics. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” Each and every one of us brings energy to our co-workers, loved ones, and even the stranger in line behind us at the grocery store. 
It would serve us all well to realize that the energy we radiate affects others’ lives, and we need to be responsible for it.

— Everything around us is made up of Energy.. Be the Energy you want to attract..

You Attract the Energy that you give off. Spread good Vibes.

They’re all around us: People who suck all the positive energy out of us to fuel their relentless hunger for negativity, leaving us drained, exhausted, and unhappy. Whatever you call them—energy vampires – whatever. “Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.” Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy

What Is Human Aura – By Nishant Sharma Since ancient times we have seen pictures and paintings of different spiritual leaders across various traditions but one thing that is common among all of them is the aura that surrounds their head which is known as the energy field. https://www.bing.com/videos/
search?q=Everything+Around+Us+Is+Energy&FORM=HDRSC3

Here’s a simplified explanation of quantum physics and how much of what goes on around us in the world is beyond what our limited senses can perceive, but yet still exists.

https://www.practical-
personal-development-advice.com/everything-is-energy.html

Energy Around Us uses the concept of energy to help us describe how and why things behave the way they do. We talk about solar energy, nuclear energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, et cetera. If you apply a force to an object, you may change its energy. This means that everything and everyone around us, even us – everything is energetically entangled. Moreover, this energy that all existence is made up of, possesses all the information of all there was, is and will be.

E = mc 2 E = mc 2, equation in German-born physicist Albert Einstein ’s theory of special relativity. That expresses the fact that mass and energy are the same physical entity and can be changed into each other. Energy comes to us in different forms. The chair you’re sitting on, the music you’re listening to, or the book you just finished reading, all provoke some sort of reaction within you.

MC is us and everything around us and E is Energy and we are all energy made up of the same thing = square 2.

https://www.elephantjournal.
com/2016/03/a-mind-blowing-
explanation-of-universal-
energy-signs-you-are-highly-sensitive-to-it/

Energy is a bit of a mystery. Most of the time we can’t see it, yet it is everywhere around us. Revving car engines burn energy, hot cups of coffee hold energy, street lights that shine at night are using energy, sleeping dogs are using energy too—absolutely everything you can think of is using energy in one way or another. Trauma, emotional and mental stress, false belief systems, physical distress, environment stress, and other blocks to our personal growth can be stored in the energy fields of our bodies, impacting our ability to function at our full potential.

Energetic healing facilitates the healing process by clearing blocks in the energy fields, repairing and rebalancing the energy so that the body can move to its optimal level of balance from where it is able to access its inherent ability to heal itself. Energetic healing can also help identify “issues” before they manifest as pain or similar distortions in the physical body. It opens our consciousness to the areas we need to work through and heal in order to bring our lives into balance and maintain health, harmony and vitality. 

Energetic healing takes a holistic approach that looks beyond the physical to manipulating the subtle energy systems (meridians, auric bodies, chakras, nadis) where the cause of the dis-ease can be located. https://blog.mindvalley.com/negative-energy/  Through the 1990’s, Dr. Masaru Emoto performed a series of experiments observing the physical effect of words,  prayers,  music and environment on the crystalline structure of water.  Dr. Emoto also hired photographers to take pictures of water after being exposed to the different variables and subsequently frozen so that they would form crystalline structures.
The results were nothing short of remarkable..

ALL YOU HAVE TO Remember —
Everything Is Energy and…
Energy is Everything!!!!
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My Children Are My Rock

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Ken
I was born and raised from a wealthy happy respectful family back in the Philippines and the youngest of 5 siblings. Growing up my siblings weren’t always spoiled by material things. But by the love and attention from our parents, family and friends. My parents always talk to us about life challenges, the good and the bad. Dealing with the trials and tribulations and truth or the consequences and makes us stronger as a person and that, is all that matters in life.
As an adult I was a happy go lucky kind a person, always very energetic and full of life, I don’t get upset that easy and when I do.  I just think about my wonderful parents. Specially my dad who was the most patience, loving, considerate person I’ve ever known in my life. When I graduated after college I decided to explore outside the Philippines and my first destination was Singapore.
Where I backpack all around Asia until I decided to go farther and
landed in Canada many moons ago.
While on working Visa, I met my ex-husband at the party Long story short, I get pregnant got married and decided to become a stay at home mom as we were blessed with 2 beautiful children (and one still born.) I took care of our kids while my husband were working until my daughter Shannon was nine and my son Granger seven.
My two children are the best thing to ever happen in my life. Although with so many obstacles and challenges and pain on the married side.
I decided to stay in the relationship because of the love I have to my children. It was always what upbringing by my parents taught me, ” once you bring children into this world, is not about you anymore — but your children ” that made me decide to raise and nourish them even though I was suffering from emotional problems. My kids always seen me as a happy mom whom always play with them and taught them how to handle life so does their dad. Our priority is our children and still.
Then the unthinkable occurred: My husband got laid off from his job in 2008. Then he became the stay at home dad and I went back to work.
That’s when the relationship started to turn sour and shit starts happened. We became like two roommates raising 2 beautiful kids. In 2014 , we decided to move to  Vancouver island BC, Canada and that’s when shit starts getting worse and worse. Our children we had together are 13 and 11.
Then we bought a freight business which he manages.
My name wasn’t attached the business, but he bought a brand new truck and my name wasn’t attached to the truck and ( i thought that was a red flag ) yet all these bills was on my name. As he makes very little to almost no Contributions to paying the Bills. I had 3-4 jobs to juggle on my schedule and very little sleep and started eating unhealthy foods.
Before this I was big on eating healthy and organic whole foods. But I became engross with loads of bills to pay budgeting was my top priority. As  I’m to tired to shop or cook, thereby In October 2017, my family doc asked me to get a mammogram and it was my first time ever. When I went to get the mammogram, then the ultrasound; they find a lump on my breast.
Then my doc sent me to biopsy and the results was I have breast cancer. IDC . On November 2nd 2017 I went through surgery (a mastectomy on my right breast.) Most of my family and friends didn’t know about this episodes of my life. Because i am very private person and I thought to myself they don’t need to know. Besides I don’t need to ask for help or talk to them about anything. Because it is me: I am the one dealing with the battle and wilI  know exactly what I want and need to do. If I stay focus. on a positive side and I do not let other people to distract m from doing what I know will be right for me.
My dad used to say,  no matter what happens in your life, only you can make it better, only you can make your own destiny
( before the breast cancer diagnosis I was always a bit confused about this fact of life.)
When diagnosed with breast cancer after a mammogram, Maria Fassbender from Campbell River British Columbia was given the usual options: chemo, radiation and surgery. She did have surgery but chose a natural route with cannabis after discovering cannabis health radio podcast and hearing about other breast cancer success stories. She decided she wanted to have a survivor story and not become just another casualty of cancer.

Most times cancer is imbalance That probably caused the conflict in your body?

Within this time in my life I lost my ex-husband, even though to this day is a good father to my kids. But I gained millions peace of mind, happiness and very healthy lifestyle. When I was in a very depressed emotion of my life, I went to a bridge and thought of suicide but then I heard Gods voice behind me say you aren’t alone. Then I ask GOD, do you think my life is worth living ” what did I do wrong? I sort of questioning God, then he gave me a sign. He told me shortly there will be someone who will show up in your life that will care and respect who you are. Then after few months I met a man of my dream  who accepted me for the person that I am — without questions – who my children truly love and respect because they see how much he cares for us.
Within my illness: I’m so proud I did cannabis oil and I’m so proud of my research that brought me to cannabis health radio. Because if I didn’t do my research. I wouldn’t know those in my life who I met doing the research and would not have known about C.H.R.  The universe loves me, I’m not a religious person and not a church going kind a person but I believe in God and knows the universe guides me. The universe also helps you find the people you need when you need them. You have to believe in the power of the universe and that it will find you…

The Universe “GOD” is great!!

Some people I found give sort of funny advice. But what I have learned is that I have become my best adviser. Because I’m the one feeling the battle and I’m the negotiator not a fighter kinda person.  I don’t know which strain of cannabis they used. I received my cannabis package from Tilrey which is my prescription from my doctor in http://mcrci.com/. They make sure I do the right dosing. At first I got a little paranoid and called my doctor in tears saying it’s not working and he would always tell me be patient give it more time.

Also juicing is the rainbow of my life: Beets, water melon rind , carrots, kale, parsley, celery and lemon. I prefer more vegetables in my juice (80% vegetables juice to 20 % fruit juice.)  I try to include Roy-G-Biv, all the colors of the spectrum into my juicing. It depends on my moods sometimes I mix them and experiment. Which one is the best mixed. It all depends what my taste buds want that day.
Happy taste buds, will create a happy body.

Most of my family and friends didn’t know about this episodes in my life.  Because I am very private person and I thought to myself they don’t need to know this and besides I don’t need to ask for help or talk to them about it.  I am the one dealing with the battle and I will know exactly what I want and need to do. So I focus on a positive side because I do not like distractions from anyone else.

Also I don’t like anybody feeling sorry or crying over me Because I had the disease. My dad used to say,  no matter what happens in life, only you can make it better, you can make your own destiny ( I was a bit confused of that till this breast cancer came ) that means,  I know I was so stressed and yet I don’t want to get out of the marriage so I made my own destiny?
( more of my story on the cannabis health radio on podcast)
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