“They resurrected me and gave me a second chance. It was a great moment in my life to be able to get back in the ring.” “They say ‘you play basketball, you play football, you play tennis.’ But you can’t play boxing. You-have-to-fight.” Daniel Jacobs was a rising star in boxing when he began to feel numbness in his legs. Numbness became weakness and the weakness grew progressively worse.
An MRI revealed a large tumor wrapped around Daniel’s spine. The doctors also knew immediately where he had to go: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Within hours, spine surgeon Dr. Roger Hartl and his team….were using precise three-dimensional imaging to navigate the path to Daniel’s spine. They removed the tumor & rebuilt the damaged area of the spinal column. How well did the surgery work? On August 9, 2014, Daniel Jacobs defeated Jarrod Fletcher….to become the WBA Middleweight Champion of the world.
LAS VEGAS — Tiger Woods completed what is considered one of the greatest comeback stories in all of sports last month when he won the Masters at Augusta National. It was his first major championship in 11 and 15th overall — an improbable accomplishment after his career seemed ruined by – a – series – crippling – back surgeries and a subsequent back fusion.
The drama that unfolded as Woods stormed to his fifth green jacket was epic. It was a celebration of adulation shared by millions throughout the world who reveled in Woods’ triumph. But with all due respect, Tiger Woods has nothing on Daniel Jacobs.
“I can’t rate where my story or comeback would be,” Jacobs said this week, “but I know it would be among the best. I didn’t just have cancer. I was paralyzed. That’s a whole different story in itself.”
No matter how many times you hear his story, it is no less amazing, no less a medical miracle — especially when you fast-forward to Saturday night, when Jacobs steps into the boxing ring at T-Mobile Arena and faces Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for the unified middleweight championship.
Just after turning 24 with his career on the rise, Jacobs was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of cancer that grows around the bones. A tumor had attached itself to Jacobs’ spinal column, causing such intense pain he eventually became immobile. He faced death, cancer and paralysis. Jacobs was the only one who thought he would box again.
“They always talk about the cancer,” said Jacobs’ longtime manager, Keith Connolly. “But I think the more impressive thing is that he overcame paralysis. He was literally paralyzed from the waist down for a couple of weeks before they removed the tumor. I don’t know of any athlete that has had paralysis and been able to compete in [professional] sports. He has, not only, competed, but also, competed at a high level.”
There is plenty at stake the 32-year-old Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) faces Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) for the Mexican’s WBC, WBA and Ring Magazine titles. Not only would Jacobs win the belts and the leverage for future mega-bouts, he would climb the pound-for-pound list and enhance his credentials for consideration as a future Hall of Famer. Still, it’s hard not to believe he’s already a winner considering how dire his circumstances were eight years ago.
“He told me when he was in the hospital before he was operated on that he was going to fight again,” said Connolly, who has known Jacobs since he was a 15-year-old growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. “I just remember saying, ‘Let’s just get you better. Let’s not worry about that right now. That’s a conversation for in the future.’ But I would never bet against Danny Jacobs.”
The surgery was also conducted in summer 2011 at NYU Winthrop Hospital, and after more than two dozen radiation treatments, Jacobs was back in the ring by October 2012. His triumphant return was a first-round knockout over Josh Luteran at Barclays Center.
“Whenever Danny’s back is against the wall, he comes out fighting,” Connolly said.
“It was the same thing with cancer and the paralysis. That’s why I think he’s going to do well on Saturday against Canelo. His back is against the wall, and I’m convinced we’ll see the best Danny Jacobs. We’ll just have to see if that’s good enough.”
There have been plenty of crossroad moments getting to this point. There was a pair of wins over Sergio Mora sandwiched around a first-round knockout of previously unbeaten Peter Quillin. He met Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for his middleweight championships in March 2017.
Though Jacobs would lose a 12-round decision at Madison Square Garden, he fought well enough in the second half of the fight to know he belonged among the elite.
“I just knew this opportunity would present itself because I gave my very best that night,” Jacobs said, “and I just knew. . . it wasn’t the end of me. Most times, guys, they reach that level, and sometimes it may – take – a couple of years for you to see them reach that level again. I owed it to my team to make sure I stayed on the straight and narrow so that I can be at my best each and every time I go out to display my skills.”
Jacobs rebounded by claiming the IBF middleweight title in October with a split decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko at Madison Square Garden. He became the first American boxer to sign with UK-based Matchroom Boxing, headed by Eddie Hearn. An exclusive deal with HBO followed, and after the network left boxing Jacobs signed with DAZN, the live streaming service that will present Saturday’s bout.
“It never ceases to amaze me the opportunities that have arisen for me after my cancer scare,” Jacobs said. “I’ve been able to, not only, fulfill my dreams and become a world champion, but also, there’s been so many different opportunities…. that just blow my mind and opportunities that I never thought I’d have.
I’ve always just wanted to get back into the ring. That was my main goal. But there has been so much presenting themselves that I’m really blown away.”Perhaps it’s fitting he’s returning to Las Vegas for the biggest fight of his career. It was also 9 years ago when he faced Dmitry Pirog at Mandalay Bay for the WBO middleweight belt and suffered his first professional loss in 17 fights. Jacobs shouldn’t have fought that night.
His grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, the woman who had raised him, had died a few days earlier, and Jacobs was in no shape mentally to enter the ring. He was stopped in the fifth round.“I’m a completely different fighter now,” Jacobs said. “I’m a completely different person with a mature mind and a lot more skills and a lot more mental strength.”
A constant in Jacobs’ journey has been trainer Andre Rozier, who refers to Jacobs as his son and is confident this is Jacobs’ moment to shine. “When you fight – the hardest fight that you ever can fight in your life, I’m sorry to say, however, these events don’t add up,” Rozier said, referring to Jacobs’ bout with cancer. “Danny has been through the worst -anybody could be through, and this is just common fodder, and Danny is going to once again rise to the occasion.
This is actually a stage in Danny’s career that he has earned and prepared himself for since he was an amateur, to become the No. 1 middleweight in the world [and] destined to be a Hall of Famer. He is destined to show that greatness comes from hard work and dedication.”
Jacobs doesn’t shy away from being a cancer survivor. He adapted the moniker “Miracle Man” and does commercials for the hospital that aided in his recovery. He has become a motivational speaker, a symbol for overcoming life’s adversities.
“With Daniel Jacobs, you have a message of complete hope to anybody who is suffering,” Hearn said. “Daniel Jacobs was paralyzed. He couldn’t walk. He was told he may never walk again and told he certainly wouldn’t ever fight again. I want people to look at this fine young man and realize there is hope. He’s inspirational.”
Jacobs, a former Golden Gloves champion, has benefited from an era when the middleweight division has interest — with Alvarez, Jacobs, Golovkin and Jermall Charlo gaining appeal. Beating Alvarez would put Jacobs on the top of the list.
“Canelo is not only the face of boxing, but he is probably pound-for-pound one of the best in the sport,” Jacobs said. “He’s one of the most recognized fighters in all our sport. I think a victory over him, a convincing victory, would definitely solidify my spot and it would be inevitable for people to know who Daniel Jacobs is.”
He has a comeback story even better than a man named Tiger Woods.
Cheryl Boyles tells us her story below. In June 2000 I was 33 years old, working as a wildlife biologist in Oregon, married to a wonderful husband for 10 years, and also the mother of 2 amazing sons that were 1 and 3 years old. I was loving life; then overnight my life changed. I began having headaches that felt like my skull was going to explode. An MRI showed my brain was hemorrhaging.
I went into surgery and an acorn sized grade four Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) brain tumor was removed. I was told I had less than a year to live. I quit my job, and focused on being a mother and fighting brain cancer. I went through radiation, but chose not to take chemotherapy. The chemo would only add 3 months to my life, but quality of life would be miserable.
I decided to take more of a natural “alternative” approach, by also trying to boost my own immune system. My good cells outnumbered my bad cancer cells! I started eating organic, following a low carbohydrate diet, exercising, also simplifying life and nursing a positive attitude, taking acupuncture, many supplements, cannabis, some “off label” prescriptions (like Metformin), and most of all leaning on God for strength which feeds me with hope.
Over the 16 years fighting the terminal brain cancer, I’ve unfortunately was hit with six recurrences. The fact that I have survived is unbelievable. My doctors even say’s so. Most people with the GBM die with their first recurrence, which usually happens within the first few years. To fight my recurrences, I mostly focused on my alternative actions, but also, continued with some of the standard treatments. I’ve been through six brain craniotomies, 6 week of conformation radiation, over 3 ½ years on the milder chemo. . .called Temodar, and what is called Gamma Knife radiation.
Taking this approach of combining many alternative and standard treatments, trying to hit the cancer from many angles, has become known at a “cocktail” approach. It seems to be working for me, not that I’m cured, but I’m still alive & loving life. Over the sixteen years I’ve had over 100 MRIs, and it’s great to say that my last MRI was clear, no seen GBM. I have become known in the “brain tumor world” as a long term survivor.
Patients and caregivers from around the USA and around the world contact me wanting to know “How do you do it?” So I’ve put together a web page, wrote a book called Life’s Mountains, and made some videos hoping to reach out and encourage others.
Now my husband and I have been married 26 years, growing stronger together. My two boys are now 17 and 20 years old, both wanting to become wildlife biologists like mom & dad. And over the years I’ve been blessed with many things. Seeing life anew, learning to be content regardless of circumstances, enduring through the challenges, and living life in the moment.
Cheryl Broyles travels from Oregon. . . .to San Francisco for treatment of glioblastoma, the most common primary brain tumor. When Cheryl Broyles goes to UCSF every three months to get scanned for brain cancer and meet with her doctors, she seeks out a patient in the neurology waiting room who recently underwent surgery or seems anxious. In June will mark her 19th Anniversary since her first dx. Enjoy the Interview HERE:
**This study examined the effect of ketogenic metabolic therapy (KMT) on a patient with glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. A Ketogenic Diet reduces the sugar fuel needed by the cancer tumor to grow and the diet also elevates ketone bodies as fuel for normal cells, and a fuel that cancer cells cannot easily use for survival.
“Tough Love”
When I was battling stage 4 breast cancer I learned so much about a new kind of love. Tough love, it is people parting with their money, their time and service when they have a loved one fighting for their life with stage 4 cancer.
When you get diagnosed with stage 4 cancer as I did back in 2010, it can seem to be the end of the road. Especially if you have been through it once before. It’s not uncommon for oncologists to say, “There is nothing left we can do for you.” You are in shock; you go home feeling scared and tell those you love the sad news. It’s normal to break down and go through a period of momentary defeat.
Sometimes, that’s all it is, ”a moment,” perhaps a long moment, until suddenly you feel a surge of will to keep fighting. You don’t want to give up! You’ve heard of miracle stories, where success had happened even when all seemed lost! What if I can be that miracle too! It’s a long shot, but, “What if…”
As a survivor of stage 4 cancer who healed without chemotherapy and went to Mexico I also understand how loved ones could think you are on a fool’s mission to keep fighting against all odds. This usually means a financial hardship and possibly having to reach out to family and friends to help you with funds for that final fight to save your life in a very unconventional way.
It means going the alternative route for many when conventional failed or you just can’t see yourself choosing a toxic approach. Like all cancer treatment, it still offers no guarantees to survive and insurance will not cover what your intuition is telling you what you must do.
Our support system is our loved ones and oftentimes rather than being hopeful, and to protect their own hearts from disappointment, it’s easier for friends or family to say a thing like: “It’s time for you to understand you are in denial.” “Is it worth it to invest money in false hope?”
“You’re so desperate you can’t even see or recognize a scam and how alternative doctors are just out for any money you have left! Is it worth all the effort of fundraising?”
I had a second battle with cancer, and I heard things like: “What about our friends and family? Do we burden them again this second time around?” (My criticizing voice in my own head was my nemesis and my greatest downfall). She always said things to me like that never helped and only hurt; “Don’t bug people!
They will think you’re crazy! They’ll just turn you down if you beg for help! It’s not worth it (which meant My life was not worth it” Once I got rid of her, the disapproval stopped in my own head and I started learning self-compassion. I was not afraid to reach out for help and I knew I would have been hurt if a loved one did not reach out to me.
People unknowingly said things that were discouraging. I am glad I dared to keep trying and never give up. My friends granted me the freedom to be that burden, and it was so humbling. I was self-conscious and learned more of my value to them in their lives because of their compassion and generosity the entire time!
They gave their hearts and souls through it all. I felt so scared of wasting their time and money but also made a “pay it forward” kind of promise to help others should I live through this! I am proof, and so are many others, that miracles are possible!
Thank you for all who believed in me and my will to keep up the fight when my UCLA doctor ran out of options. The breast cancer spread to my lungs and bones, and he did all he was allowed to do. He did his best! However, it did not prove to be the best in the world for me! I never gave up.
When you walk out of that office, you are changed. After the shock wore off and with some deep personal introspection, I realized I didn’t want to give up! S0 I looked for another way; a healthier way.
I wasn’t angry my health insurance didn’t cover alternative treatment in a Mexican hospital; after all, it was not my country. So, I guess getting my affairs in order as the doctor suggested meant for something completely different than what he had in mind.
For me, it meant fundraising and getting ready for plan B: “Mexico or Bust!”
Those who are still hopeful and don’t feel like giving up know what I mean. It doesn’t matter what they tell us. There are no guarantees in this life. So, how can anyone give up when someone has a fight left to try and live?
Tough love to me is also where your loved ones roll up their sleeves and say, “Really… the doctor says there is nothing else to be done?!” Then they ask, “Do you want to keep trying? If you do, then I will fight with you. Even if it’s a trip to Rome for Holy water let’s get some.
Faith is the most significant part of the cancer patient’s battle; they need it now more than ever to keep on this journey whether or not it means complete healing!
If you know someone who is sick, do all you can to share some of your own faith and encouragement with them. The closer you are to them, the more it will hurt later on if you don’t.
I’m an independent trucker and have been doing the therapy on the road in my semi- truck for over five years. I’m in my truck five days a week running from my home in Northern Idaho to Southern California and back through Spokane, Washington.
Like you, when I first learned of the Gerson Therapy. I KNEW this was God’s way to heal the body that He created and that I’m only a steward of.
Due to my tight schedule: hauling perishable salad dressings and fresh produce. I knew I had to do a modified version of the therapy. I do about 1 coffee enema per day and drink about seven or eight juices total. With most of them taken within three hours of my coffee break (knowing the coffee-induced liver enhancement lasts about that long.)
I bring the produce home most weeks and my wife makes the juices for each 5 day period and the meal prep except for the oatmeal that I cook in a five quart covered glass dish that fits in my 12-volt travel stove. I also use this to heat up the food my wife makes. I have two ice coolers that I keep the food in. One cooler is just for the juice which we pour into half gallon jars and then place in the cooler with the ice.
Oh, the coffee breaks? Let me just say like you probably said, “where there’s a will there’s a way.” Suffice to say that the task is accomplished in the proper Gerson manner whether there’s a bathroom nearby to walk to after the 15 minutes or not. No mishaps so far!
I’m 60 years old now and in 2013. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer through needle biopsy. The result was 6 of 12 cores positive, and Gleason 6 (not as fast-spreading as some). After doing my modified protocol. . . I got a second biopsy 21 months later that showed an almost 90% reduction in the cancer detected with only 1 core positive out of twelve (I’ll post these biopsies at the end.)
That’s an introduction – What follows is a longer Facebook comment I made a few months ago which may be redundant for some in this group but I’ll include here for the benefit of so many new members: Thanks to all!
In Today’s World with cancer rampant compared to 120 years ago it’s obvious we’ve been doing something wrong. Our bodies and immune systems are compromised from dealing with impure food, water, and often air (especially indoor air) not to mention alcohol/drug abuse, etc. Another major problem is the sodium/potassium ratio. Virtually everyone has too much sodium and not enough potassium which results in cellular edema.
Sodium (or table salt) is added to almost every processed food there is. This cellular edema severely inhibits energy production and metabolism by restricting entry of sugar and oxygen to the cells. In this state of cellular disruption it’s only natural to see so many debilitating conditions or “diseases,” especially diabetes and cancer plus about 50 other common things we’ve all heard of or experienced.
The Gerson Therapy slowly reverses this by taking away the cause of most of the problems in the first place. The therapy consists of a radical change in diet. Plus also other non-drug protocols (yes, coffee enemas for enhanced detoxification through the liver) and natural nutritional supplements including a special 3 part type of potassium compound.
The diet is vegetarian (easily digestible & high in potassium) but not entirely vegan and takes at least 18 months to 2 years to restore proper cellular function and most importantly to rebuild the liver. The full therapy may include as much as 20-23 lbs. of organic produce (!) mostly in the form of freshly-pressed juices and about 2-3 lbs. cooked plus raw salads, etc.
My protocol is modified. Instead of thirteen 8 ounce juices per day I have 7 or 8.
My Urologist is no longer recommending I have my prostate removed but “keep an eye on things” through ongoing tests, etc. But he’s still not quite sure what to make of it all. I’ve always emphasized hard work but in my case I tend to overwork and always have. The trouble is this activity (yes often prideful) is bad for the immune system.
So if you’re like me you think you can get away with not following all the rules.
For me the main one is not getting enough sleep. On top of that, after the first year or so you feel so good you start to think you’re invincible… again. So for people like me the risk is to not get enough rest and sleep. Had I done so I don’t think I would have still had some cancer present 21 months into the therapy. So now I’m slowing things down to allow my immune system to catch up.
Nonetheless, I’ve experienced huge progress not just in the cancer department –
1) My right arm strength had deteriorated down to less than half that of my left arm. Dystrophy? After about 8 months on the therapy it was back to normal.
2) Chronic underlying cough was gone in first 5 or 6 months.
3) Hemorrhoids gone in first 5 or 6 weeks
4) Then I noticed last spring when tilling the garden all day I didn’t get the usual sunburn as in every year before! (I found out later that all the beta carotene in the juices is a natural sunscreen).
5) Energy! I wanted to see if what I was feeling was real or not. When fully rested I felt like I could run 5 miles! So recently I did just that, I had my son take me out 5 miles from home and drop me off. I also ran home nonstop in just under 50 min, not the greatest but pretty good for not having run except for a mile or two a couple of times. . . in the 16 years since I retired from the Army. My upper legs were sore, however, my breathing and heart rate were fine.
6) Now notice- Five years later (2018) still on the same protocol, my right knee re-healed stronger than ever from ACL/MCL surgery ten years earlier. My left (stiff) shoulder also healed soon after this. To be fully successful this therapy must necessarily change your lifestyle for the rest of your life. I still eat 90-95% Gerson (but all organic) and continue with 1 CE and 5-6 juices per day. Had I not continued after the first 2 years I don’t think I would have experienced the healing in my knee and shoulder.
Ken, Here’s the most important part to add to my story. You have the “Before” biopsy which shows 6 out of 12 needle cores positive for prostate cancer. This is the “After” biopsy that shows 1 of 12 positive. Thanks 🙂
I’m now looking at a comprehensive cancer blood test called CA Profile (look up Dr. Schandl in Florida) as maintenance. Yes, the therapy works in most cases if you actually follow it and even in about 50% of terminal cases as documented in Dr. Gerson’s book, “A Cancer Therapy: results of 50 cases.”
When I foolishly tore up my knee (ACL, MCL, meniscus) in a dumb logging accident in 2008 I didn’t hesitate to have it surgically repaired. But in the case of debilitating conditions and cancer let’s not rush fearfully into destructive “treatments” but treat our bodies as our Creator would have us do and help it to heal itself as He intended.
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but “nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.” Ephesians 5:29 ~ Alan Galloway.
In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as ‘a state of physical,mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.
Detractors claim that this definition of health is utopian and unrealistic.
However, accumulating evidence from experimental studies suggests that aging is not inevitably linked with the development of chronic diseases, and the age-associated accumulation of molecular damage can be prevented or greatly delayed by dietary and genetic manipulations that downregulate key cellular nutrient-sensing pathways.
Nonetheless, to obtain a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, we as human beings need to go beyond nutrition or pharmacological treatments and implement a combination of interventions that enhance not only our metabolic health, but also, our psychological, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development, our social relationships and cultural well-being.
This perspective highlights a range of scientific research-based interventions that can potentially be used to promote human health and longevity. We will also briefly address the importance of environmental health in achieving this goal.
The ketogenic diet is a very low-carb, moderate-protein, and high-fat diet which puts the body into a state known as ketosis: a metabolic shift in which the body is burning fats rather than carbohydrates as its primary source of fuel. This is a pretty simple definition, but in order to fully understand how the ketogenic diet works and its benefits, it is also important to have a grasp on exactly how the body uses energy in the first place:
Normally, when carbohydrates are consumed in the diet, they are converted to glucose and insulin. Glucose is the simplest form of sugar, meaning that it is easy for your body to convert & use as energy. This is why glucose is the body’s preferred source of energy.
Insulin is a hormone that is produced by the pancreas to process the glucose in your blood steam by transporting it around the body to where it is needed. When energy levels are sufficient, insulin will convert glucose to adipose tissue (fat) for later use.
With the average high-carbohydrate diet, glucose is the main energy source because there is an abundance of it. However, the body can only store a limited amount of glucose—only enough to last for a couple of days.
Therefore, if we forgo eating carbohydrates for a few days, our body relies on other means for energy through a biochemical process known as ketogenesis.
In ketogenesis, the liver begins to break down fat as a usable energy source instead of carbohydrates. Ketones or ketone bodies are produced as an alternative energy source to glucose.
Once ketogenesis kicks in and ketone levels are elevated, the body is in ketosis.
How to Enter Ketosis
There are a few ways to body can enter ketosis. One is by fasting: when you stop eating altogether for an extended period of time, the body will ramp up fat burning for fuel and decrease its use of glucose. Another way to get into ketosis is by eating less than 20-50 grams of carbohydrates per day (it will vary per individual). Therefore, people on a ketogenic diet get only about 5% of their calories from carbohydrates.
Steps to enter ketosis:
Cut down on carbs (less than 5% of calorie intake).
Increase your consumption of (up to 80% of calorie intake).
Without glucose being used for energy, your body is now forces to burn fat and produce ketones instead.
Once the blood levels of Ketones rise to a certain point, you officially enter into ketosis.
This state results in consistent, fairly quick weight loss until your body reaches a health and stable weight.
Benefits of a Ketogenic Diet:
Unlike many fad-diets that come and go, the ketogenic diet has been practiced for more than nine decades (since the 1920s) and is based upon a solid understanding of physiology and nutrition science. This diet works well for so many people because it targets several key, underlying causes of weight gain—including hormonal imbalances, elevated insulin and high blood sugar levels. A ketogenic diet has even shown to offer therapeutic benefits for several brain disorders.
1. Weight loss
A diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates, such as the ketogenic diet, helps to diminish hunger and boost weight loss through hormonal effects. When we eat foods that supply us with carbohydrates, we release insulin. But with lower levels of insulin, the body is less likely to store extra energy in the form of fat and instead able to use existing fat stores for energy. A diet high in healthy fats and protein is also much more filling, which can help curb appetite and reduce the overconsumption of empty calories, such as sweets and junk food.
2. Cholesterol and Blood Pressure
A ketogenic diet has shown to improve triglyceride and cholesterol levels most associated with arterial buildup. More specifically low-carb, high-fat diets show a dramatic increase in high density lipoprotein (HDL) and will decrease low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle counts as compared to traditional low-fat diets. Many studies show better improvement in blood pressure. High blood pressure issues are often associated with excess weight, which is a bonus because the ketogenic diet tends to lead to weight loss as well.
3. Controls Blood Sugar
A ketogenic diet also helps with lowering blood sugar levels by controlling the release of insulin. This can help reverse problems such as insulin resistance or pre-diabetes. Studies have shown ketogenic diet to reduce HbA1c levels—a long term measure of blood glucose control. And This diet works so well at reducing blood sugar levels, it has the additional benefit of helping people with type 2 diabetes — to reduce their dependence on diabetes medication, however, it’s important to speak with your doctor prior to starting a ketogenic diet or adjusting any medications.
4. Fights Neurological Disorders
Over the past century, ketogenic diets have been used to treat and even help reverse neurological disorders and cognitive impairments, including epilepsy. Research shows that cutting off glucose levels with a very low-carb diet makes your body produce ketones for fuel. This change can help to reverse neurological disorders and cognitive impairment. The brain is able to use this alternative source of energy instead of the cellular energy pathways that aren’t functioning normally in patients with brain disorders.
In a study of children who suffer from epilepsy, over half had a greater than 50% reduction in seizures when eating a ketogenic diet, while 16% even became seizure free. The benefits of a ketogenic diet are now even being studied for other brain disorders, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
So, what can I eat on a ketogenic diet?
A keto meal should contain high amounts of healthy fats, such as olive oil, coconut oil, grass-fed butter or ghee, palm oil, avocado, tree nuts, seeds & fatty cuts of wild-caught fish, grass-fed beef or bison, and free range poultry.
Fats are a critical part of every ketogenic diet because fat is what is providing energy for your body and preventing hunger, weakness, and fatigue. Keto meals also need a good amount of non-starchy vegetables, such as broccoli, leafy greens, asparagus, cucumber, zucchini, and other cruciferous vegetables.
The types of food you will want to avoid when eating a ketogenic diet include items like fruit, processed foods or drinks high in sugar, those made with any grains of white/wheat flour, conventional dairy products.
For a more detailed list of foods: Click here to download my KETO FOOD LIST.
A Whole-Food Vegan Ketogenic Diet for Treatment of Cancer
Plant protein diets inhibit tumor growth independently of protein content.
To investigate whether modifications in protein quality (i.e. aminoacid composition) are beneficial in delaying PCa growth, mice were placed on either regular (20%) or a reduced (10%) protein diet from animal or vegetable sources for four-weeks prior to surgically castration and subcutaneous implantation of LuCaP23.1-CR xenografts.
At the end of the experiment (6 weeks), mice were sacrificed and tumor weights were collected. As shown in figure 5, a diet containing 20% plant protein decreased tumor weight by 37% as compared to a 20% animal dairy protein diet (p<0.045, 95% CI= -1.484 to -0.01818). The inhibitory effect on tumor growth exerted by the 20% and 10% plant protein diets was similar. Interestingly, there was no additive effect of switching from animal to plant proteins when dietary protein content was 10%, suggesting that a threshold exists below which the amino acid composition is less important than the protein content of the diet.
Nearly a century of research has shown that nutritional interventions can delay aging and age- related diseases in many animal models and possibly humans. The most robust and widely studied intervention is caloric restriction, while protein restriction and also restriction of various amino acids (methionine, tryptophan) have been shown to delay aging. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27346343
However, there is still debate over whether the major impact on aging is secondary to caloric intake, protein intake or specific amino acids. Nutritional geometry provides new perspectives on the relationship between nutrition and also aging by focusing on calories, macronutrients and their interactions across a landscape of diets, and taking into account compensatory feeding in ad libitum-fed experiments. Nutritional geometry is a state-space modelling approach that explores how animals respond to and balance changes in nutrient availability.
Such studies in insects and mice have shown low protein, high carbohydrate diets are associated with longest lifespan in ad libitum fed animals suggesting that the interaction between macronutrients may be as important as their total intake. Mice & humans with growth hormone receptor/IGF-1 deficiencies display major reductions in also age-related diseases.
Because protein restriction reduces GHR-IGF-1 activity, we examined links between protein intake and mortality. Respondents aged 50-65 reporting high protein intake had a 75% increase in overall mortality and also a 4-fold increase in cancer death risk during the following 18 years. These associations were either abolished or attenuated if the proteins were plant derived.
Conversely, high protein intake was associated with reduced cancer and overall mortality in respondents over 65, not only, a 5-fold increase in diabetes mortality across all ages. Mouse studies confirmed that the effect of high protein intake and GHR-IGF-1 signaling on the incidence and progression of breast and melanoma tumors, but also, detrimental effects of a low protein diet in the very old. These results suggest that low protein intake during middle age followed by moderate to high protein consumption in old adults may optimize health span and longevity.
Epidemiological and experimental data indicate that diet plays a central role in the pathogenesis of many age-associated chronic diseases, and in the biology of aging itself. Data from several animal studies suggest the degree and time of calorie restriction (CR) onset, the timing of food intake as – well – as diet composition, play major roles in also promoting health and longevity, breaking the old dogma that only calorie intake is important in extending healthy lifespan.
Data from human studies indicate that long-term CR with adequate intake of nutrients results in several metabolic adaptations that reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Moreover, CR opposes the expected age-associated alterations in myocardial stiffness, autonomic function, and gene expression in the human skeletal muscle.
However, it is possible some of the beneficial effects on metabolic health are not entirely due to CR, but to the high quality diets consumed by the CR practitioners, as suggested by data collected in individuals consuming strict vegan diets.
More studies are needed to understand the interactions among single nutrient modifications (e.g. protein/ amino acid, fatty acids, vitamins, phytochemicals, and minerals), the degree of CR and the frequency of food consumption in modulating anti-aging metabolic & molecular pathways, and in the prevention of age-associated diseases. http://catalyticlongevity.org/prepub_archive/veganketogenic.pdf
Calorie restriction (CR), a nutritional intervention of reduced energy intake but with adequate nutrition, has been shown to extend healthspan and lifespan in rodent and primate models.
Accumulating data from observational and randomized clinical trials indicate that CR in humans results in some of the same metabolic and molecular adaptations that have been shown to improve health and retard the accumulation of molecular damage in animal models of longevity.
In particular, moderate CR in humans ameliorates multiple metabolic and hormonal factors that are implicated in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, the leading causes of morbidity, disability and mortality. In this paper, we will discuss the effects of CR in non-obese humans on these physiological parameters.
Special emphasis is committed to recent clinical intervention trials that have investigated the feasibility and effects of CR in young and middle-aged men and women on parameters of energy metabolism and metabolic risk factors of age-associated disease in great detail. Additionally, data from individuals who are either naturally exposed to CR or those who are self-practicing this dietary intervention allows us to speculate on longer-term effects of more severe CR in humans.
It is recently shown that beneficial environmental microbes stimulate integrated immune and neuroendocrine factors throughout the body, consequently modulating regulatory T-lymphocyte phenotypes, maintaining systemic immune balance, and determining the fate of preneoplastic lesions toward regression while sustaining whole body good health. Stimulated by a gut microbiota-centric systemic homeostasis hypothesis, we set out to explore the influence of the gut microbiome to explain the paradoxical roles of regulatory T-lymphocytes in cancer development and growth.
This paradigm shift places cancer prevention and treatment into a new broader context of holobiont engineering to cultivate a tumor-suppressive macroenvironment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778636
Do your immune system a favor and pack more fruit and vegetables on your plate.
They’re loaded with nutrients, called antioxidants, that are good for you.
Add more fruit and vegetables of any kind to your diet. It’ll help your health. Some foods are higher in antioxidants than others, though.
The three major antioxidant vitamins are beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E. You’ll find them in colorful fruit and vegetables, especially those with purple, blue, red, orange, and yellow hues.
Beta-carotene and other carotenoids: apricots, asparagus, beets, broccoli, cantaloupe, carrots, corn, green peppers, kale, mangoes, turnip and collard greens, nectarines, peaches, pink grapefruit, pumpkin, squash, spinach, sweet potato, tangerines, tomatoes, and watermelon Vitamin C: berries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cantaloupe, cauliflower, grapefruit, honeydew, kale, kiwi, mango, nectarine, orange, papaya, snow peas, sweet potato, strawberries, tomatoes, and red, green, or yellow peppers Vitamin E: broccoli (boiled), avocado, chard, mustard and turnip greens, mangoes, nuts, papaya, pumpkin, red peppers, spinach (boiled), and sunflower seeds
These foods are also rich in antioxidants:
USDA chemist Ronald L. Prior says the total antioxidant capacity of the foods does not necessarily reflect their health benefit. Benefits depend on how the food’s antioxidants are absorbed and utilized in the body. Still, this chart should help consumers trying to add more antioxidants to their daily diet.
Rank
Food item
Serving size
Total antioxidant capacity
per serving size
1. Small Red Bean (dried) Half cup 13,727
2. Wild blueberry 1 cup 13,427
3. Red kidney bean (dried) Half cup 13,259
4. Pinto bean Half cup 11,864
5. Blueberry (cultivated) 1 cup 9,019
6. Cranberry 1 cup (whole) 8,983
7. Artichoke (cooked) 1 cup (hearts) 7,904
8. Blackberry 1 cup 7,701
9. Prune Half cup 7,291
10. Raspberry 1 cup 6,058
11. Strawberry 1 cup 5,938
12. Red Delicious apple 1 whole 5,900
13. Granny Smith apple 1 whole 5,381
14. Pecan 1 ounce 5,095
15. Sweet cherry 1 cup 4,873
16. Black plum 1 whole 4,844
17. Russet potato (cooked) 1 whole 4,649
18. Black bean (dried) Half cup 4,181
19. Plum 1 whole 4,118
20. Gala apple 1 whole 3,903
Your body is equipped with a thermostat that can help you burn off extra fat. The adipostat located in the hypothalamus, or control center of your brain — that also receives metabolic messages from the body — that dial down hunger when fat stores are sufficient and turn up hunger when fat stores are deficient.
Although obesity and its associated metabolic dysregulation are established risk factors for many cancers, the biologic mechanisms underlying this relationship are also not well understood. Furthermore, the results from a systematic literature review by Himbert et al of human clinical studies exploring the crosstalk between adipose tissue and cancer-prone cells may help researchers gain a better understanding of the biologic mechanisms linking obesity to cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3742583/
Overweight and obesity are health problems of epidemic proportions, increasing the risk not only of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus but also of various types of cancer. Obesity is strongly associated with changes in the physiological function of adipose tissue, leading to insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and also altered the secretion of adipokines.
Several of the factors, such as insulin resistance, increased levels of leptin, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, and endogenous sex steroids, decreased levels of adiponectin, and chronic inflammation, are involved in carcinogenesis and cancer progression.
This article reviews these mechanisms, focusing also on adipose tissue dysfunction as a unifying causal factor. Although understanding the link between obesity and cancer might provide therapeutic targets, preventing overweight and obesity still remains number one priority.
Findings from the clinical studies reviewed have found that adipose stromal cells can infiltrate cancer lesions and promote tumor growth. In addition, visceral white adipose tissue is more bioenergetically active and is associated with a more procancer secretome than subcutaneous adipose tissue. Efforts to “eavesdrop” and ultimately interfere with cancer-enhancing crosstalk between adipose tissue and carcinomas may lead to new targets and strategies for decreasing the burden of obesity-related cancers, according to the study. The study was published in Cancer Prevention Research.
Study Methodology
The researchers conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed/Medline covering publications from January 1946 to March 2017 to identify study literature characterizing crosstalk between adipose tissue and carcinomas. They ultimately found twenty primary research publications of human clinical studies directly relevant. . .in describing adipose tissue/tumor interactions. The different cancer types studied included breast, colorectal, esophageal, endometrial, prostate, and ear/nose/throat.
Study Findings
The researchers found that their analysis of the clinical studies reinforce the preclinical data and suggest organ – dependent crosstalk between adipose tissue and carcinomas via vascular endothelial growth factor, interleukein-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and other mechanisms. Moreover, they found that visceral white adipose tissue plays a more central role, as it is more bioenergetically active and is associated with a more procancer secretome than subcutaneous adipose tissue.
The problem is: inflammation can damage the adipostat, making it unable to receive signals from our metabolic messengers.Inflammation in the brain can be triggered by stress, toxins and sugary carbs that abound in the Standard American Diet. . Making the adipostat unable to hear the metabolic messages unable hear.
When this communication breaks down, the brain defaults into crisis mode. And because the brain’s job is to protect you by stocking up om fuel reserves in case of emergency, crisis mode means fat-storage mode. So basically, your brain is telling your hungry all the time even though you’re not. What’s more, we are also told to slash excess pounds by slashing carbs, but by doing so weight loss becomes almost impossible. Dr. Gottfried points out, a multi enter study published in JAMA found that extreme card restriction. Lowered these participants thyroid hormone levels 22% within 4 weeks while upping the levels of the fat storing stress hormone cortisol by 21%.
By restricting the beneficial “complex carbohydrates” to much it deprives the brain and body of the essential vitamins, minerals and compounds needed to operate at their peak. Fortunately, Dr. Gottfried has discovered the carbohydrate combination that stems brain inflammation and reboots your metabolic thermostat. Plant based carbs are also rich in nutrients that defend the hypothalamus against inflammatory damage: plus supply ample prebiotic fiber, which feeds friendly flora in the gut.
This is crucial since good gut bacteria helps restore the adipostat’s sensitivity to insulin, so the body can produce less of the fat-storage hormone. Also, the healthy protein and friendly good “omega” fat that round out her formula rebalance hunger hormones and dial down appetite while boosting levels of fat burning hormones by 32%.
Chronic inflammation, not only, causes brain fog, depression and anxiety, but also, diseases like Alzheimer’s, Cancer and heart disease. What’s also exciting is people that follow this plan report improvements in energy levels, mental clarity and mood swings.
When you have chronic inflammation, the inflammatory process may begin even if there is no injury, and it does not end when it should. Why inflammation continues is not always known. Chronic inflammation may be caused by infections. . .that don’t go away, abnormal immune reactions to normal tissues, or conditions such as obesity.
Over time, chronic inflammation can cause DNA damage and lead to cancer.
For example, people with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease, have an increased risk of colon cancer. Also the functional relationship between inflammation and cancer is not new. In 1863, Rudolf Virchow hypothesized the origin of cancer was at sites of chronic inflammation, in part based on his hypothesis: that some classes of irritants, together with the tissue injury and ensuing inflammation they cause, enhance cell proliferation. Although it is now clear that proliferation of cells alone does not cause cancer, sustained cell proliferation in an environment rich in inflammatory growth factor cells, activated stroma & DNA-damage-promoting agents, certainly potentiates and/or promotes neoplastic risk.
During tissue injury associated with wounding, cell proliferation is enhanced while the tissue regenerates; proliferation and inflammation subside after the assaulting agent is removed or the repair is completed. In contrast, proliferating cells sustain DNA damage and/or mutagenic assault (for example, initiated cells) also continue to proliferate micro-environments rich in inflammatory cells and growth/survival factors that support their growth.
How Is balance Working Out For You!!!
In a sense, tumors act as wounds that fails to heal.
Today, the causal relationship between inflammation, innate immunity and cancer is more widely accepted; however, many of the molecular and cellular mechanisms mediating this relationship remain unresolved — these are the focus of this review. Furthermore, tumor cells also may usurp key mechanisms by which inflammation interfaces with cancers, to further their colonization of the host.
Although the acquired immune response to cancer is intimately related to the inflammatory response, this topic is beyond the scope of this article, but readers are referred to several excellent reviews. Wound healing versus invasive tumor growth. a, Normal tissues have a highly organized and segregated architecture.
Epithelial cells sit atop a basement membrane separated from the vascularized stromal (dermis) compartment. Upon wounding or tissue assault, platelets are activated and form a haemostatic plug where they release vasoactive mediators that regulate vascular permeability, influx of serum fibrinogen, and formation of the fibrin clot. Chemotactic factors such as transforming growth factor-β and platelet-derived growth factor, derived from activated platelets & also initiated granulation tissue formation, activation of fibroblasts, induction and activation of proteolytic enzymes necessary for remodeling of the extracellular matrix (for example, matrix metalloproteinases and urokinase-type plasminogen activator).
In combination, granulocytes, monocytes and fibroblasts are recruited, the venous network restored, and re-epithelialization across the wound occurs. Epithelial and stromal cell types engage in a reciprocal signaling dialogue to also facilitate healing. Once the wound is healed, the reciprocal signaling subsides. Invasive carcinomas are less organized.
Neoplasia-associated angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis produces a chaotic vascular organization of blood vessels and lymphatics where neoplastic cells interact with other cell types (mesenchymal, haematopoietic and lymphoid) and a remodelled extracellular matrix. Although the vascular network isn’t disrupted in the same way during neoplastic progression as it is during wounding, many reciprocal interactions occur in parallel.
Peyton Rous was first to recognize that cancers develop from “subthreshold neoplastic states” caused by viral or chemical carcinogens induce somatic changes. These states, now known as ‘initiation’, involve DNA alterations, are irreversible and can persist in otherwise normal tissue indefinitely until occurrence of a second type of stimulation (now referred to as ‘promotion’). Promotion can result from exposure of initiated cells to chemical irritants, such as phorbol esters, factors released at the site of wounding, partial organ resection, hormones or chronic irritation and inflammation (Fig.1)
Functionally, many promoters, whether directly or indirectly, induce cell proliferation, recruit inflammatory cells, increase production of reactive oxygen species that lead to oxidative DNA damage, and reduce DNA repair. Subversion of cell death and/or repair programmes occurs in chronically inflamed tissues, thus resulting in DNA replication and proliferation of cells – that have lost normal growth control. Normal inflammation is self-limiting, because the production of anti-inflammatory cytokines follows the pro-inflammatory cytokines closely (Fig. 2).
However, chronic inflammation seems to be due to persistence of the initiating factors or a failure of mechanisms required for resolving the inflammatory response. Why does the inflammatory response to tumors persist?
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However, until recently, endangered foxes on California’s Catalina Island were suffering from one of the highest prevalence of tumors ever documented in a wildlife population, UC Davis scientists have found. But treatment of ear mites appears to be helping the wild animals recover.
Roughly half of adult foxes examined between 2001 and 2008 had tumors in their ears, with about two-thirds of those malignant, according to a UC Davis study published in the Journal PLOS ONE.
More than 98 percent of the foxes were also infected with ear mites. These mites appear to be a predisposing factor for ear tumors in the Santa Catalina Island fox.
Luckily for the foxes, the story doesn’t stop there.
“It established a high prevalence of both tumors and ear mites, and hypothesized that there was something we could potentially do about it, which appears to be significantly helping this population,” said Winston Vickers, lead author of the prevalence study and associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Working closely with researchers from the Institute for Wildlife Studies and Catalina Island Conservancy, the scientists conducted one of the few studies to estimate disease prevalence in an entire free-living wildlife population.
Rare success story:
A complementary study, also led by UC Davis and published in PLOS ONE, found that treatments with acaracide, a chemical agent used to kill ear mites in dogs and cats, reduced the prevalence of ear mite infection dramatically, from 98 percent to 10 percent among treated foxes at the end of the six-month trial. Ear canal inflammation and other signs of developing ear tumors also dropped.
“It’s rare to have a success story,” said the ear mite study’s lead author, Megan Moriarty, a student with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. . .when the study began and currently a staff research associate at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. “It was interesting to see such striking results over a relatively short time period.”
Santa Catalina Island foxes are intensively managed by the Catalina Island Conservancy. In 2009, when the mite treatment study began, the Conservancy added acaracide to the variety of preventative treatments they administer to the foxes each year.
The Conservancy confirms that, in the years since, the overall prevalence of ear mites has dramatically declined in the areas they normally catch and treat foxes, as have the rates of tissue masses in the ear canals, suggesting reduced tumor presence.
“The annual prophylactic acaracide treatment has greatly improved the overall condition of the foxes’ ear canals,” said Julie King, the Conservancy’s director of Conservation and Wildlife Management and co-author of both studies. “Within just a few months post treatment, the presence of wax, infection, inflammation, and pigmentation virtually disappear. We have also noted an apparent reduction in the number of tumors observed, despite the fact the absence of wax and other obstructions has made them easier to detect.”
Conservancy biologists have also documented a cascade effect on the foxes’ offspring, since most young foxes get the ear mites from their parents.
“Prior to treatment in 2009, approximately 90 percent of all pups handled had ear mites, whereas by 2015, mites were detected in only 15 percent of new pups.”
King said, Genetics!!!
The studies pose new questions. For instance, the mite treatment certainly reduces the prevalence and severity of mite infection, as well as risk factors for tumor development, but what effect will it have on overall tumor and cancer rates for these foxes in the long term?
Also, ear mites infect other Channel Island foxes, but those foxes don’t develop ear canal tumors. So why are Santa Catalina Island foxes predisposed to these tumors and not other Channel Island foxes? Vickers and colleagues are preparing to research possible genetic reasons for this.
“Catalina foxes have an over-exuberant tissue reaction to the same stimuli–the mites–and that appears to lead to the tumors,” Vickers said. “That’s why we gravitate toward genetics in addition to other factors.”
The Santa Catalina Island fox is one of six subspecies native to the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. Its population declined dramatically in 1999 when a distemper epidemic decimated up to 90 percent of the population, prompting the federal endangered species listing for the roughly 150 foxes remaining. The population has since rebounded to an estimated 1,717 foxes.
Ear mites dwell in the ears of animals, and some mite species are specific to certain animals. If you have pets in your house and notice that they are scratching their ears often, they may have an infestation. Ear mites can infect one or both ears of your pet. This video will teach you how to remedy this situation and will discuss. . .whether or not ear mites are transmissible to humans.
Are You Dealing With a Mite Infestation?
Learn what species exist and how to identify them.
Understand how they spread.
Learn the symptoms of having ear mites.
Learn how ear mites are treated medically.
Discover potential home remedies for the problem.
Mites are characterized by their small size and their eight legs. The scientific name, Otodectes cynotis (the most common species of mite), describes the mite genus and species. Oto means “ear,” dectes means “biter,” and cynotis means “of the dog.” Otodectes cynotis translates to “ear biter of the dog,” which is also how these mites behave—they live under the surface of the skin.
Another mite species that can cause skin infections is called demodex. They infect areas of the head and the ears, however, they do not infect areas inside the ear canal like the Otodectes or Notoedres species.
From 2010 until 2013 those where transformational times for Jen Elyse Feldy. Its was about being honest about yourself toward yourself and how you see yourself. Jen’s inner – self caused her back pain 50% of my time and it drove Jen’s life into the ground. If you have a lifestyle that promotes shitty food & alcohol (aka cancer, diabetes, brain fog, neuropathy, depression…), then you gotta fire your manager & fire up your Priorities. This is what I also learned from listening to Jen Elyse Feldy’s Podcast (end of this blog.)
Building a Healthy and Safe Support Network.
First Key is recognizing the 18 signs that you need to get rid of toxic relationship people in your life: YOU GIVE, THEY TAKE. Adam Grant, who is a Wharton professor and a highly regarded relationship author, says that the best way to achieve a successful relationship is to establish an equal match of give and take. S0 When dealing with people who only Look Out for themselves, make sure you Look Out For Yourself!!
Remember that you were born with Purpose. Share that!!!
Do you feel you could use a healthier attitude toward life? Would you like to approach things in a different way? Is a healthier lifestyle attainable?
The stress of modern life can sometimes make it difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle. However, you can start living healthy, today, by achieving a healthy mindset.
Even if you find yourself leaning toward a pessimistic attitude, you can still achieve a healthy mindset. You just need to go about it in the right way.
I believe that you’re only as healthy as the least-healthy part of your being.
How You Can Have a Healthier Mindset
Many people sit back, look at their lives, and wish they could view things in a more positive manner. Then they beat themselves up for being negative or not having the attitude they wish they had. This typical response doesn’t do anybody any good. If you dwell on your past faults it is very difficult to achieve anything.
Instead of feeling angry with yourself for responding to life the way you normally do, think positively about your desire to have a healthier mindset. Many of us seem to be at our worst when we are stressed or tired, the smallest problem could seem impossible to handle. It is best to never be in this state of mind, but the scary thing is, everyone is like this. One way to avoid this problem is energy supplements. They provide much needed relief from your daily stresses.
One of the most effective paths to a healthier mindset is to find ways to deal with the stress in your life. I have found that talking with friends can be extremely helpful.
It’s important to vocalize your thought and emotions. How you do this is up to you.
Eating Healthy = Feeling Healthy
Another way to achieve a healthier mindset is to eat the right foods and get enough rest. When you feed your body healthy, nutritious foods and get the rest you need, you’ll feel better all over. Your attitude, as well as your body, feels refreshed. The Medifast program is great way to get healthy foods with no hassle. You won’t have to put in the extra effort of finding nutritious foods because everything is provided for you.
Food and rest will not change the way you respond to things if you tend to respond negatively, but it will be a great start. You don’t have to give up all junk food and your late night activities, but try to make a conches effort to eat healthier foods.
You’ll find that you’ll be able to obtain a healthier mindset when you take active steps to deal with your stress. Suddenly the world becomes a much more positive place when you pair these things with positive thinking. When you create a healthy mindset by making good choices about food, rest, and positive thinking, you’ll enjoy the new ways you think, feel, and live. You’ll discover that your happier, healthier lifestyle has arrived!
You’ll find that you’ll be able to acquire a healthier mindset when you take active steps to deal with your stress and treat your body with the tender loving care it deserves. Suddenly the world becomes a much more positive place when you pair these things with positive thinking.
Positive thinking begins when you affirm the positives in your life. You can use the power of positive affirmations to reprogram your mind so you can think in a healthier and more positive way.
For example, each morning you could say, “I make positive choices for the best of my body, mind, and soul.” You can use positive affirmations in moments of weakness when you are tempted to fill up on junk food, respond negatively to something, or trade sleep for something less important.
Bottomline:
A HEALTHY BODY DOESN’T EQUAL A HEALTHY MIND!!!
I’ll never forget this quote I heard while attending the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. It was something along the lines of, you can eat all the broccoli in the world, but if you hate your spouse, you’ll never be healthy. Having a toned body or a six-pack doesn’t guarantee that you’re healthy. Sure, physically, you might look like you’re in tip-top shape, but what’s going on in your mind?
If you’re constantly consumed with chronically overwhelming negative thoughts, riddled with stress and anxiety – it’s time to adjust your mindset.
SEVEN TIPS FOR A HEALTHY, POSITIVE MINDSET
Ready to shift your view? Here are seven tips to help you get started.
1. PRACTICE GRATITUDE
The simple act of creating a daily act of gratitude can help you get back in touch with what really matters. When a mindset is unhealthy, it’s constantly looking for the next best thing. It’s always comparing to others and deciding that what’s in front of us isn’t enough.
2. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE PEOPLE
Believe it or not, you begin to pick up traits of those you spend the most time with. By surrounding yourself with positive people, you naturally will begin to see things in a different light. Let their positive vibes rub off on you!
3. CREATE HEALTHY BOUNDARIES
In my book Boundaries with Soul, I talk about the importance of creating boundaries. Healthy, soulful boundaries help to protect your time and energy. They also allow you to create space for yourself and what’s important to you. Without boundaries, it’s easy to get wrapped up in doing too much. It’s safe to say that living in a state of overwhelm is not conducive to creating a healthy mindset.
4. MOVE YOUR BODY …but listen to it, first.
Most people force themselves into rigorous workouts that burned themselves out. Other people resent other people that spend to much time at the gym. Its only when you start to slowed down and actually listened to your body is when you start to feel good. You have to realize that slow and steady wins the race. Doing workouts that you truly enjoy – pilates or golf or riding a bicycle – brings you so much more joy!
Find a workout or two that feels really good to commit to. Do it! On days you’re not super active, at least try to get a short walk in. Every step counts.
5. START A MEDITATION PRACTICE
Meditation is an incredibly powerful practice that has the potential to completely shift your mindset. A consistent meditation practice has been proven to reduce stress, increase emotional awareness, and improve self-awareness. The Headspace app! It’s a great tool to help you get started on your meditation journey.
6. REMAIN CURIOUS
Creating a healthy mindset has a lot to do with what you’re willing to learn. Remaining curious and open to also learning more about personal development can pretty much guarantee a healthier mindset.
7. NOURISH YOUR BODY
It might come as a surprise, but the health of your gut is as important as the health of your mind. Eating enough fruits and vegetables, drinking plenty of water, and staying away from inflammatory foods has a huge impact on your mental state. For me, when I changed my diet, everything else in my life shifted for the better.
Find your voice – Episode 16- “The Keys to Live The Life” — Jen Elyse #16
Tagline: “If you’re not laughing, you’re not living.”
It has become my passion to help others in the healing process after losing a loved one. I feel that through these stories others might find some kind of peace and comfort knowing that death isn’t the end. It is only the end of our physical bodies. Our spiritual bodies live on forever. After all, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This especially resonates with me since I have lost many relatives to cancer and other diseases.
When someone that is close to us dies we can’t help but wonder what became of them. Are they alright? What really happens after death and where, if anywhere, do they go? I have no doubt our loved ones can communicate with us after death. Oftentimes it may be overlooked for the simple fact that the average person doesn’t know how to recognize it, or they may not even be open to the idea.
In fact, I myself experienced a communication with my father many times in a dream which brought about a sincere peace that had eluded me. Since he departed April 3rd, 2006 through dreams and signs that he has delivered.
Based on the research of Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim in their book,
1.Sensing a presence, 2.hearing a voice, 3,feeling a touch, 4.smelling a fragrance, 5.visual experiences, 6.visions, 7.twilight experiences, 8.ADC experiences while asleep, 9.out-of- body ADC’s, 10.telephone calls, 11.physical phenomena, and 12.symbolic ADC’s.
According to their research, the purpose of these visits and signs by those who have passed away is to offer comfort, reassurance, and hope to their loved ones. They want us to know they are still alive and that we’ll be reunited with them when it’s our time to leave our physical bodies – and that they will be there to greet us on the other side.
I believe from my own reading and research that our loved ones are always with us, keeping a watchful eye. They’re very much alive, just on a different spiritual level, and they don’t want us to worry over their well-being. They attempt to communicate to show us their unwavering love, and the fact that it can and does transcend the only realm we are aware of; the very one we live in from day to day.
I have had numerous people tell me they were afraid to share their experience before, because they didn’t want to be labeled as crazy. When they found out about my website, and that many others had similar stories, they were extremely excited and much more willing to now share their story. Communication with a departed loved one is merely an extension of a shared love. All of us have many questions and concerns. If we just open our hearts and minds, our loved ones are longing to reassure us that all is well.
Tomato Plant Growing Through a Crack in the Cement The Summer After My Father Passed Away (April 03, 2006.)
This has been an incredible journey for me that also 13 year ago, I did not see coming. I believe everyone has been brought here for a purpose and I have finally found mine. Likewise, I believe that our heart can be the bridge to a whole new spiritual dimension. When we suffer the loss of a loved one our heart feels broken and that “damaged” heart can sometimes leave us feeling spiritually void. Although I have thoroughly enjoyed my career, its my intention through this website helps others heal their heart on a spiritual level as well.
I feel my life being pulled down a completely different path and words cannot express the excitement and gratitude for this journey. The support and love has been amazing and I have already experienced healing firsthand from people. For that, I’m very grateful. It is my intention to share this website with as many people as possible and I hope it will inspire those who have a story, to share it. Your story may be the one — someone needed to read in order to begin healing and move forward in life.
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Sensing Spirits is something all of us can do as long as we are open. Often their presence is felt on more of an instinctual or intuitive level than a rational one, and even though we may not be able to explain what we feel in words, on a deeper level. . .we understand that something else may be at play.
Spirit Energy can linger in houses, in workspaces, in malls, in clothes and in furniture. Basically, if a spirit feels attached to a place, object or person, that is where they will dwell.
Encountering a Spirit may feel like – an orb inside the electric universe!!!
– A sudden rush of wind or cool air that cannot be explained
– A heavy or strong pressure around your head, neck, chest or upper back
– An unexplained feeling of anxiety, nervousness or a rush of emotion
– A heaviness in the air which makes the space feel small or stuffy
– Hearing voices, whispers or distant chatter
– Someone is watching you
Learning how to detect the presence of Spirits can be helpful especially if you are buying or renting a new property, purchasing items for your house (especially second hand objects) or if you are struggling to hang around a certain space or even a certain person.
– A space with Darker Spirits will feel cold, empty, lonely, sad, oppressive, heavy, stagnant, stuffy, smelly, thick or foggy and may make you feel angry.
– A space with Light Spirits will feel airy, breezy, warm, peaceful, light, open and calming.
If you feel the presence of light spirits, they are most likely your loved ones who have crossed over or maybe even your angels or spirit guides.
If you feel the presence of darker spirits however, your space may be “haunted” and in need of a cleansing. To determine if this is the case you may also experience:
– Electrical disturbances that cannot be explained
– Seeing shadows out of the corner of your eye
– Strange dreams or nightmares
– Psychokinetic Activity (opening of doors or things moving around the room)
– Unexplained fear when in certain areas of your space
– Abnormal animal behavior or reactions
– Feeling drained, mentally foggy or tired when in the space
– You can read more signs of Spirit energy here.
Even though we are physical beings, we all have an energetic body which is connected to the Spirit world and sometimes we have to work on an energetic level in order to understand why we are feeling a certain way.
If you suspect your house or space has darker spirits, here are some tips to clear the energy:
– Clean the clutter and mess from every room in the house
– Smudge your space regularly
– Place crystals, charms or deities around the room
– Burn incense or diffuse essential oils
– Imagine your space filled and wrapped with white light
– Ask your angelic Spirit Team to help
– Practice positive thinking and keep your emotions positive
– Consult with a shaman, paranormal expert or energy healer
It is important to remember that darker Spirits are often just lost souls that still feel attached to something on the earthly plane. Often they like to create emotions of fear and anger as it gives them something to feed off.
For this reason, it is recommended to not engage with them, communicate with them or react to them. Instead, focus your attention on filling yourself and your home with positive vibrations of light and love energy.
You can read more about how to fill your home with positive energy here.
Ghostly presences – the feeling of someone near you when there’s no one there – could be down to your brain trying to make sense of conflicting information. For the first time, the brain regions involved in such hallucinations have been identified – and a ghost presence induced in healthy people.
The work sheds light on why some people with conditions such as schizophrenia and epilepsy feel an alien presence nearby, and may also explain why mountain climbers often report being accompanied by the presence of what’s called “the third man.”
In 1933, when British explorer Frank Smythe came close to conquering Mount Everest all by himself, he couldn’t shake off the feeling that someone else was climbing with him. But he was alone, having left his team far behind. Smythe was hallucinating. He even broke off a piece of cake and offered it to his invisible climbing partner.
This condition, called feeling of presence (FoP), is different from other bodily hallucinations, such as out-of-body experiences, in which you feel you are outside your body looking at it, or the doppelgänger effect, in which you see and interact with your double. Such hallucinations have a visual component.
That’s not the case with FoP. “[It’s] more mystical,” says neurologist Olaf Blanke of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. “You are convinced that there is something, but you don’t see anything, you don’t hear anything.”
To identify the potential neural mechanisms behind FoP, Blanke’s team first studied 12 people with epilepsy and other sensory-motor problems, all of whom had reported feeling a presence nearby. Their analysis pointed to damage in three regions: the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), the insula and the frontal-parietal cortex of the brain.
In previous studies, Blanke’s team had linked the TPJ with out-of-body experiences and the insula with the doppelgänger hallucination. Normally, these brain regions integrate sensory signals from outside and inside the body, to create the sense of an embodied self. In out-of-body experiences and other such conditions, the integration of these multisensory signals is compromised, leading to hallucinations.
The new study shows that FoP involves disruptions not just in the integration of external and internal sensations in the TPJ and insula, but also signals related to movement (which are processed in the frontal-parietal cortex).
Armed with this knowledge, Blanke’s team turned to a robot to see if they could use it to disrupt the normal brain processes and induce a feeling of presence.
In the 150 years since Darwin’s evolutionary biology. . . has proven as – essential – as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the genetic code and the structure of cells to the reproduction, development, and migration of animal and plant life. However, today David P. Mindell makes undeniably clear in The Evolving World, evolutionary biology is much more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to the world we live in. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize.
When we domesticate wild species for agriculture or companionship; when we manage our exposure to pathogens and prevent or control epidemics; when we foster the diversity of species and safeguard the functioning of our ecosystem: in each of these cases, Mindell shows us, evolutionary biology applies.
It is at work when we recognize that humans represent a single evolutionary family with variant cultures but shared biological capabilities and motivations. And last but not least, we see here how evolutionary biology comes into play when we use knowledge of evolution to pursue justice within the legal system and to promote further scientific discovery through education and academic research.
More than revealing evolution’s everyday uses and value, The Evolving World demonstrates the excitement inherent in its applications–and convinces us as never before that evolutionary biology has become absolutely necessary for human existence.
The Evolving World: This Evolution in Everyday Life does more than show that science is important. It shows that it can be tremendous fun. (Michael Ruse, author of The Evolution – Creation Struggle) Mindell has written a welcome…account of ways in which concepts of evolutionary biology are used in ways that influence our daily lives. The world is evolving. As with evolution that makes people faster with time. . . You should create your awareness to cancer and other aspects of Living Life too.
Over seven-years ago. I completely healed from advanced metastatic stage 4 breast cancer without ever using chemotherapy. My story is here www.shannonknight.com
If you are reluctant about doing chemotherapy or other toxic treatments, that is a good enough reason to research other options because your intuition is continually trying to guide you! PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR INNER GUIDANCE. Trust it!
Even though UCLA gave me a death sentence of 3-12 months — back in September 2010, something inside me said don’t give up. I had hope, I did not feel like it was my time to go and most importantly. . . I was not afraid to fight for my life somewhere other than UCLA, even if it meant leaving the United States. I was not afraid of the opinions of others who did not agree with my choice to leave my country to try a healthier way than chemo.
It was my life, I had to choose what I wanted and felt was healthiest for me.
Hold on and know there is always hope.
If your afraid of crossing the border. . . you can park your car Long term parking at the airport and stay at the Holiday Inn in Zuma Arizona. And do like I did have the hospital transfer you. I went to San Luis Rio Colorado Mexico to CMN HOSPITAL for advanced alternative cancer therapies in February 2011, eight years ago. Dr. Payan was/is the most compassionate doctor I have ever been in the care of. When UCLA said, I could not beat stage 4 they were wrong about me.
I AM NOT THE ONLY SURVIVOR…
We are many. Many of us are healthy and free of disease when it said it could not be done. Yes, it can, and we have to try! Don’t give up and don’t let naysayers deter you from what your intuition is telling you. They are not the ones fighting for their lives, and whether or not you have full support, you are going to have to have thicker skin.
Like it or not, family and friends need to know that you are trying to figure out how to survive and you need to at least let them know you need their support and love! If they can’t because they are afraid of your choice, then you have to move forward and do what your gut says to do. It’s your life you are trying to save.
There is indeed no guarantee of healing with any choice of treatment we make, but I’ll tell you this; It is common sense to try “healing” your immune system simultaneously while destroying cancer cells FIRST.
It is not a waste, taking a few weeks to try a healthier approach to treatments than what our conventional doctors recommend which compromises your immune system with harsh side effects.
My twin sister healed stage 2 breast cancer 3 years ago at CMN hospital as well without chemo. We are ordinary women who chose a place that felt right for “us.” The results were extraordinary and successful! There are many other alternatives to chemo, many clinics or hospitals in Mexico and other countries. We chose CMN, and it worked for us.
Granted that It May NOT work for everyone, but not a single clinic or hospital has 100% success. You need to accept that truth now. It is a healthy attitude! Don’t get trapped into the blame game. If you went where I went or where some other survivor went, own your decisions! *I say this with love and I say it powerfully. You are your own person and these are hard choices “you” have to make. Own it! This is your journey.
You will need to have self-compassion too! If you make a choice and it did not prove effective do not beat yourself up for that decision, don’t call clinics and hospitals scams or anything negative. You are unique and will need something different. Keep moving forward! There are so many other treatment options! We have to be tough for this.
Get information from other places and do what feels right “for you.” You are the decision maker. No one is twisting your arm and forcing treatment on you. You can walk away if you start treatment and i9t does not feel right for you. WALK AWAY!
You have choices, and the death sentence should NEVER be given to a single patient. Your regular oncologist will offer chemo, radiation or surgery as long as you go to ask for their conventional treatment. They are not bad doctors, they are merely doing their job and in the US that is the standard protocol for cancer treatment. So, do not act surprised when they do not agree with your idea to leave for Mexico or Germany to do something different than what they have to offer you.
Don’t get mad at doctors if your body does not respond to treatment regardless of your choice. Cancer is different for each person and so are YOU. Keep trying different options and don’t get into the blame game when something is not working.
Everyday people respond or do not respond to treatments. Understand that cancer is the problem that needs to be solved and you will need to be strategic, you will make every choice on your path to healing. That’s right…YOU WILL.
You will also need to have a fighting spirit and the right attitude to get through this. If a positive reaction from others annoys you, you need to make some changes to get well. People will inspire you, and people will get under your skin, and you have to be tougher than that.
I know it’s not easy. I battled cancer twice so obviously I know what I am writing here. I have annoyed people, and I have been annoyed by people when I was at my sickest. Bottom line I need to get a grip and change my perspective. No one can win this for me. I am a decision maker.
There is the issue of cost, and the financial disadvantage is real for many. I had no money for treatment at CMN Hospital, but I wanted to live so badly that I organized fundraising with my friends. We raised it!
I had made a decision to be humble and ask family and friends to support me in my decision. Some did, and some did not. We raised the money in a few months.
I cannot do fundraising for you, but you can learn on my website and share the link with friends and family if you wish. Angels for Shannon has some resources. Go through the site. No one can do this for you except people who know and love you. S0 Let them help. We each have our own personal community. Reach out for them to help you.
All three websites here
Angels for Shannon Fundraising resources. www.angelsforshannon.com
CMN Hospital www.cmnact.com
Shannon Knight Page www.shannonknight.com
“They resurrected me and gave me a second chance. It was a great moment in my life to be able to get back in the ring.” “They say ‘you play basketball, you play football, you play tennis.’ But you can’t play boxing. You-have-to-fight.” Daniel Jacobs was a rising star in boxing when he began to feel numbness in his legs. Numbness became weakness and the weakness grew progressively worse.
“Dr David Jockers Ketogenic Diet and Cancer” 
