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. Will the ketogenic diet help?

August 27, 2017by Ketooncologist

Jocelyn Tan M.D.
Keto Oncologist
I am a practicing US medical oncologist based in Pennsylvania. My work is at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. I am also a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. I see adult patients with cancer and help them decide on the best option for their treatment.  My time is spent on researching the ketogenic diets and cancer, while blogging and doing some academic writing.

I do believe in the power of chemotherapy but also feel that nutrition can play a big role in helping your cancer treatment. I encourage people to access the latest medical information and to help them recognize the credible ones.

Dear Dr. Tan,
Help! My dad was recently diagnosed with brain cancer . It is called a glioblastoma. I was told he has some options but the prognosis isn’t good regardless of what he does. I was researching on ketogenic diets and found your trial on clinical trials.gov. 
I am sorry to hear about your dad’s glioblastoma diagnosis. Brain cancer comes in different forms, and grades. The glioblastoma type (also known as grade 4 astrocytoma) is unfortunately the most aggressive type of brain tumor. It is difficult to remove completely by surgery, and relapses early even with aggressive treatment (chemotherapy and radiation).
Compared to tumors from other organs, the brain appears to be highly dependent              on carbohydrates as a source of energy.  The ketogenic diet limits carbohydrates is     already being used as a treatment for seizures.  It also happens to be very effective.    Studies however are only beginning to emerge in human brain cancer.

We still don’t have any substantial evidence of effectiveness in humans. However,        there is emerging evidence based on scientific work on animal experiments and in           the laboratory.  Read More: 

Health Impact News:

Some of the most exciting research regarding the ketogenic diet has been in its use against cancer. This research is showing that a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet can starve cancer cells. We published several stories on the ketogenic diet and cancer in 2013.

In this study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the ketogenic diet was used successfully to treat brain tumors.

The Restricted Ketogenic Diet: An Alternative Treatment Strategy for Glioblastoma Multiforme a report by Thomas N. Seyfried, Purna Mukherjee, Miriam Kalamian and Giulio Zuccoli

Biology Department, Boston College; Dietary Therapies, LLC, Hamilton; Radiology Department University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is considered the most malignant of primary brain cancers with only about 12% of patients living beyond 36 months (long-term survivors).
Ketogenic Diet and Calorie Restriction  (omega 3 and cancer metastatic.)
The high fat, low carbohydrate ketogenic diet (KD) has long been recognized as an effective non-toxic therapy for reducing epileptic seizures in children. The mechanisms by which the KD manages seizures are linked to shifts in brain energy metabolism. Glucose is the sole metabolic fuel used for nearly all brain functions under normal physiological conditions, but the brain will metabolize ketone bodies for energy when access to glucose is limited, as would occur during water-only therapeutic fasting in humans or during calorie restriction in mice. It has long been known that water-only fasting or calorie restriction is effective in managing epilepsy in humans and mice.
The KD was introduced as an alternative to fasting for the long-term management of seizures in humans. The efficacy of the classic KD is optimal when the ratio of dietary fats to combined carbohydrate/protein is 4:1. This requires careful attention to diet calculations. Importantly, the KD is also gaining recognition as a potential therapy for a host of other neurological and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. When administered in restricted amounts, which do not exceed the individual’s total energy needs, the KD can also be therapeutic against malignant brain tumors in mice and humans.

Evidence from Case Reports
In 1995, Nebeling and coworkers attempted the first nutritional metabolic therapy for human malignant brain cancer using the ketogenic diet. The objective of the study was to shift the prime substrate for energy metabolism from glucose to ketone bodies in order to disrupt tumor metabolism while maintaining the nutritional status of patients. The patients in this landmark clinical study included two female children with nonresectable advanced stage brain tumors (anaplastic astrocytoma stage IV, and cerebellar astrocytoma stage III). Measurable tumor remained in both subjects following extensive radiation and chemotherapy. Although severe life threatening adverse effects occurred from the radiation and chemotherapy, both children responded remarkably well to the KD and experienced long-term tumor management without further chemo or radiation therapy. Indeed, one of the patients remains alive at the time of this writing (Nebeling, personal communication). Positron Emission Tomography with fluro-deoxy-glucose (FDG-PET) also showed a 21.8% reduction in glucose uptake at the tumor site in both subjects on the KD. These findings indicate that a ketogenic diet, which lowers glucose and elevates ketone bodies, could reduce glycolytic energy metabolism in these brain tumors.

Despite the documented efficacy of the RKD as a non-toxic metabolic therapy for brain cancer in case reports, no major clinical trials of this therapy have been initiated in the   US to date. A clinical trial using the unrestricted KD for recurrent glioblastoma has been initiated in Germany (ERGO Trial) under the direction of J. Rieger at the University of Tübingen. Modest improvement was reported without adverse effects, but no published information is yet available on blood glucose or blood ketone levels in the treated patients. This information will be needed to gauge the degree of energy stress on surviving tumor cells, as blood glucose levels are predictive of therapeutic efficacy. Careful documentation of blood glucose and ketone levels will be essential for predicting therapeutic efficacy.

The reason for not initiating clinical trials on the RKD for brain cancer management in the US remains unclear. Some have suggested that the North America Brain Tumor Collaborative (NABTC) prefers “hand-medown” drug therapies from other cancer studies rather than exploring potentially more effective alternative approaches. It is unknown if the reluctance to consider alternative approaches to GBM management rests with the NABTC or with those who advise the Collaborative. Based on pre-clinical studies in mice and case studies in patients, it is obvious that the RKD should be investigated for its therapeutic potential for managing GBM and other malignant brain cancers. The failure to initiate clinical trials is unfortunate especially for those GBM patients who might benefit from using the RKD for managing their disease.

Can a ketogenic diet help brain cancer patients like Senator John McCain? Emerging research — and some dramatic patient stories — suggest it might.

When news broke in mid July that US Senator John McCain had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, neuro-oncology researcher Dr. Adrienne C. Scheck, PhD, tried to get a message to the McCain family in Arizona. She posted on his daughter’s group Facebook page and linked to research she has conducted through her role as an associate professor of neurobiology  at  Barrow Neurological Institute,  in Phoenix,  Arizona, where McCain lives.

Scheck’s message to McCain: Try the ketogenic diet along with the standard therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Over the last decade, Scheck has been studying the effect of altering cancer cell metabolism, specifically with the ketogenic diet, to improve survival and minimize side effects for patients with malignant brain tumours. On July 14, 2017, McCain received the diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a notoriously deadly cancer that arises in the glia, the connective tissue of the brain. GBM has a grave prognosis, with an average survival time of 18 months from diagnosis. For McCain, a nine-hour surgery removed a large tumor above his left eye on the day his cancer was diagnosed. Then, in the first week of August, he started radiation and chemotherapy, according to media reports.

The connection between keto and cancer

Says Scheck,  (pictured above) “Based on our research, I definitely think someone with a GBM should go on a therapeutic ketogenic diet as soon as possible, in addition to standard therapy. Our pre-clinical research suggests it potentiates radiation and chemotherapy, and can enhance the anti-tumour immune response. Even ketones alone can have this effect in cell culture.    Fighting Brain Cancer with Fats !

There is nothing to lose by trying it.”

So far, Scheck has not heard from the McCain family, likely, she feels, because they are being inundated with all forms
of advice and because many people, including physicians, wrongly lump the ketogenic diet in with “fad” diets that have no scientific basis. But Scheck stresses the ketogenic diet for cancer is no fad. “This is not a ‘diet’ in the typical sense of the word. It is a regimented metabolic therapy with quite a bit of peer-reviewed science behind,” she says.

In fact, Scheck not only has conducted a number of promising studies in mouse models of the disease, she is the principal investigator of a current clinical trial with GBM patients, using the ketogenic diet plus radiation and chemotherapy. The clinical trial has two goals: to show that patients can tolerate the diet and maintain low blood glucose and high blood ketone levels; and to see if patient survival is prolonged.

Scheck’s study is one of 10 clinical trials registered at clinicaltrials.gov, now studying the role of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of glioblastoma, eight of which are still actively recruiting. The studies are being led by teams in three other US locations as well as China, Germany, and the UK.

Taking into account other types of cancer — including lung, breast, pancreatic, prostate and melanoma — a total of 23 clinical trials are currently registered at clinicaltrials.gov that are investigating the ketogenic diet as an adjunct to standard cancer therapy. Over  the last decade, research investigating the ketogenic’s diet role in basic cancer research and in emerging therapies has burgeoned,  with more than 170 studies or theoretical papers currently in the research literature. The number is increasing each month.
How carbs can fuel cancer

At the heart of argument for using the ketogenic diet to help combat cancer is the fact    that cancers need glucose — a great deal of it — to fuel their rapid growth. In fact, that is precisely how a PET scan  is  used to diagnose cancer:  an injection  of  radioactive sugar lights up the malignant cancer cells because they use glucose at a much higher rate than normal cells. Glutamine, which is an amino acid created from the breakdown of proteins, can also fuel cancer growth.

Starving cancer cells of the glucose and glutamine they need to grow, and using ketones instead as fuel for our cells is the conceptual theory behind the ketogenic diet as an adjunct to cancer treatment. “Normal cells have the flexibility to switch to ketones for energy, cancer cells do not,” explains Dr. Thomas Seyfried, PhD, who is a professor of biology at Boston College (pictured below).

 Seyfried is the author of the influential 2012 book Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. In that book, as well as in recent research papers, Seyfried sets out evidence that cancer is a disturbance of cellular energy metabolism, particularly linked to abnormalities in the structure and function of the mitochondria.

In a 2015 paper, Seyfried and his colleagues specifically promote using metabolic cancer therapy —i.e the ketogenic diet — as a treatment for glioblastoma. “The goal is to restrict GBM cells of glucose, their main energy substrate,” says Seyfried.

This chronic starvation of the fuel they need to grow, stresses and weakens the cancer cells, and if not killing them outright, makes them much more vulnerable to treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy drugs or hyperbaric oxygen. “It is like a one-two punch, stressing them with starvation by ketones, then hitting them while they are down,” said Seyfried.

This one-two punch concept —which Seyfried and his colleagues call “Press-Pulse”    theory, was recently detailed in their February 2017 paper. The conceptual framework is  to stress the cancer by starving it of glucose and suppressing insulin signaling (the press), then making a sudden strike with hyperbaric oxygen and metabolic-based drugs or milder doses of chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation (the pulse.)

 Professor D’Agostino’s Lab

Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, top keto researcher, teaches you how to get into ketosis…         and why you may want it. “Denying cancer cells glucose is like taking the foot off the gas pedal,” explains co-author Dominic D’Agostino, an associate professor of molecular pharmacology and physiology at the University of South Florida and a research scientist  at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.  D’Agostino’s extensive research  on   the ketogenic diet has been featured in several Diet Doctor videos (see right and below).

D’Agostino decade-long research has been focused on nutritional neuroscience —           how the brain changes in response to dietary influences.  He started by studying the    ability of the ketogenic diet and ketone supplementation. . . . to help prevent seizures associated with central nervous system oxygen toxicity, a limitation of US Navy SEAL divers who use recircuit breathers.

D’Agostino says their hypothesis is that glucose, insulin, and inflammation are all            closely linked to cancer growth and to cancer treatment and prevention; they are tightly associated with the metabolic health of cells “While the current dominant theory of cancer’s origins are that it arises through mutations in cellular DNA, the stability of DNA is also strongly correlated to the functioning of the mitochondria and oxidative stress,” D’ Agostino says.
“Nutritional ketosis with periodic fasting supports healthy mitochondrial functioning, autophagy (cellular recycling), suppression of oxidative stress, suppression of insulin signaling and reduction in specific pro-inflammatory pathways.” D’Agostino stresses that research on the ketogenic diet and cancer is still in its infancy. “We need more clinical data about how best to apply these concepts to the patient with GBM,” he cautions. “However, it is very reasonable for someone with a diagnosis of GBM —with an average 12-18 months to live — to implement a ketogenic diet (with a qualified nutritionist) to their standard therapy.”

 Now his lab, specifically with research  associate Dr. Angela Poff, is investigating the role of nutritional ketosis as an adjuvant      in cancer therapy. Dr. Poff’s video about exploiting cancer metabolism using ketosis is        a popular video on the Diet Doctor site.

Dr. Dominic D´Agostino has done a considerable amount of work on Calorie Restriction, fasting and the Ketogenic Diet. He confirmed that fasting or carbohydrate restriction per se will reduce levels of blood glucose, insulin and IGF-1, all implicated in the cancer development process. Indeed, the body goes into a state of ketosis when you fast for three days – that is, healthy cells cannot burn glucose so they turn to stored fat. Cancer cells cannot use fat as a fuel.
However, there´s a ´but´ with really short-term fasting such as Intermittent fasting or  one day fasts. When you have your next meal containing carbohydrates, the glucose and hormone levels will spike. This causes mood swings and the spikes can still aid cellular inflammation and cancer development.
And while we talk about the Ketogenic diet below, there is really little hard evidence to suggest it is better for you with chemo- and radiotherapy than calorie restriction, or fasting, and for most people with cancer, a straight forward, no-empty-glucose/fructose, good fat biased Rainbow Diet.    https://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=3408

Dr. Nasha Winters wrote a book called: The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies. It’s a decently long, but easy read.

Keto Diet & Brain Tumors  videos

For those who say they haven’t ‘felt’ good while on the regular keto diet, I also have a            few questions for you. Are you: tracking your macros, hitting your goals, keeping your electrolytes (salt, magnesium, potassium) in check, exercising, still having cheat meals, testing BLOOD ketones (NOT URINE), eating too much protein, eating enough fat?   There is quite a bit more, but this is a bit off topic already.

Stories of controlling brain cancer with keto!!!  https://www.facebook.com/TheKetoKatie/

Pablo Kelly, 28, from Devon, U.K., couldn’t agree more.

He was diagnosed with GBM in 2014 and credits the ketogenic diet with saving his life. “My GBM was declared inoperable because of its location in my brain, in the parietal lobe, with a tendril going into my motor cortex,” said Kelly, who soon after the diagnosis began a restricted calorie ketogenic diet.

He credits his three years of strict keto eating, as well as supplementing with exogenous ketones, MCT oil and anti-inflammatory supplements, with shrinking his tumour enough so that 90 % could be removed by an awake craniotomy earlier this year. A MRI scan in May shows the cancer has not grown, says Kelly, who connects with people through his open Facebook page, Pablos Journey Through a Brain Tumour, and through media stories, which have been shared by thousands.

“Three years ago I had to search really hard to find people who were doing ketogenic for GBM,” says Kelly who these days is regularly contacted by people around the world hoping for more information and help to try keto for their brain tumor. “I want to inspire as many people as possible.”

If you are given the cancer diagnosis. It shuts you down and makes you feel completely alone. They give you the cold hard facts and they are cold and hard!
Yet you are just sat there thinking to yourself, “am I going to die?”, “what can I do?”,      “will this change me forever?” and “how does this make my loved ones feel?”…
That or you are just completely empty of thought and you feel cold and lifeless. Nothing matters anymore. This is your life and its being taken away from you. Everything’s going  to change and there seems to be nothing you can do to stop it from happening.
The truth is, that is wrong. There is always a solution to a problem. You just have to look for it. Don’t give in to your fear of death. Don’t let the fight go out of you. Believe in your ability to heal. Cancer is like a wound. It will heal. Given the right environment and attention.
I chose to research and research well into the night, into the wee hours of the morning.        I researched ways of combating a terminal  and inoperable high grade brain tumour and ways of dealing with it in a nutritional manner.  I stumbled upon a diet aimed at children with epilepsy and it showed that it was also an anti-inflammatory diet.  A brain tumour is   a form of edema (swelling). I thought to myself this could help, this could be an answer to my problem!   http://yestolifecharity.blogspot.com/2015/11/pablos-journey-through-brain-tumour.html
As advised by my oncologist, I was going to do chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Which  are the two most prolific methods of dealing with cancer of any form. I had radiotherapy mask molded to the shape of my face.  I went into the room to have my practice run, but something deep in my gut told me to ask a question.  I asked the nurse to let me call the oncologist to ask some questions.
So I asked her, “is this going to cure me?”, the answer was probably not. It would only   give me 12-15 months at best,  but would then most likely be ineffective.  This was all I needed to make my penultimate decision. I was not going to go through with orthodox treatment.  I was going to put every fibre of my being  into  also the ketogenic diet and supplementation. 

It was very effective and within months my MRI scan showed no progression in the  growth of the tumour.  I kept having stable scans for over 2 years when it started to     show signs of growing, but may I add, quite slowly. Glioblastoma multiforme brain tumours are very fast growing tumours. Mine was not growing fast.

Then in the winter of 2016 they told me my tumour had changed shape and that                  a surgeon believed they could perform an awake craniotomy to debulk the tumour.

By March 2017 I had my operation and they removed 90% of the deadly tumour from      my brain and by May there was no new growth. I kept having 3 monthly scans to check    on my progress post op and my scans kept coming back stable until, in September, I had an appointment to see the oncologist. I will cut to the chase. To put it simply, my tumour was no longer visible. Clear!

Finally after 3 years of hard work and struggling with epilepsy and fatigue and emotions.   I had successfully prolonged my life through diet and nutrition.  I believe in my ability to heal and I just wanted to share my story to inspire you to look beyond your fear and live honestly and with love.   Pablo Isaiah Kelly.

Canadian teenager Adam Sorenson’s (pictured to the right together with his father Brad.)
9 journey with GBM and the ketogenic diet is another inspiring anecdotal story. He was diagnosed with Stage IV GBM in September 2013, the day after his 13th birthday. The tumor was the size of a baseball and uniformly fatal.

Doctors performed surgery to remove as much as possible, but his father, Brad, did extensive research to try to improve his son’s odds for survival.  “The overriding rules          I set was that it had to be safe, it had to have at least some clinical trial data published,  and it had to be accessible.”

His parents consulted with Dr. Jong Rho, an expert in the ketogenic diet for epilepsy,    and a former mentor of Dr. Scheck at the Barrow Neurological Institute who had been  also recruited to the Alberta Children’s Hospital to the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

 The Sorensons also consulted with Drs. Seyfried, D’Agostino and Scheck.

The low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet can be an effective tool to manage malignant brain cancer, said scientist Dr. Adrienne C. Scheck. 

They came up with a protocol that included a ketogenic diet consisting of 80% fat, 15%   protein and 5% carbohydrates combined with radiation treatment, hyperbaric oxygen,  and the drug metformin. Four months after starting the treatment, Adam had an MRI  scan in February of 2014 that showed no visible tumor.  Thirteen subsequent MRIs to     this day have remained clear of cancer.  Adam has remained on the ketogenic diet and metformin ever since. “It is basically really low carbs with lots of whipping cream, eggs, pork, nuts and seeds,” says his dad.

 In a compelling video, Adam says the diet is not always easy as a teenager, especially when out with friends. “When I realized I was not going to be able to eat some of my favorite foods like pizza and candy,  I was a little sad.  But I thought, it’s going to help me live.”

Adam was a keynote speaker last November at the Global Symposium on Ketogenic Therapies, held in Banff Alberta and sponsored by the Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies. The foundation began as an organization focused on ketogenic diet for epilepsy control, but has now branched into its use in brain cancer, autism and other cognitive disorders.
When asked what he would say to families dealing with GBM, Brad Sorenson said, “I am really hesitant to act as the role of a doctor. I am concerned that I could add to a stressful situation. I don’t want to give them false hope.”
Sorenson, who is the CEO and founder of two biotechnology companies notes however, that the keto diet seems to be most effective when started before radiation and that steroids, which are almost uniformly given to brain cancer patients, can interfere with effective ketosis. “Adam’s protocol invites a lot of pushback from doctors.” So Sorenson simply tells people what they did for Adam, shares a slide deck with their protocol and its rationale with references, and encourages them to find a qualified dietitian.
“I do not believe the diet alone is a game changer but I do believe it helps improve the potency and efficacy of other cancer treatments,” says Brad. “I am very aware that Adam’s story is anecdotal. But I am totally confident that if we had gone with the standard of care, Adam would not be alive today.” — Anne Mullens

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, dietitian, or physician.

I’d like to reiterate a comment earlier in this thread: there is a difference between, low carb high fat, lazy keto, keto and therapeutic keto.  The type of ketogenic diet recommended to cancer patients is therapeutic keto.

This involves a little more than your usual 75% fat, 20% protein and 5 % carbs. You are tracking your blood glucose and your blood ketones while trying to bring the blood ketone levels into a therapeutic state.  This ratio is called the:  GKI, or Glucose and Ketone Index. I have attached a link  better explaining it and the calculation. Getting your blood glucose levels down is a significant part of this process.

Woman battles deadly brain cancer using low carb ketogenic diet without chemo                by Samantha Chang

 Alix Hayden has brain cancer, but instead        of undergoing surgery and grueling chemotherapy, she’s fighting it with the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet  and has been doing great so far.  In an exclusive interview 0n   March 14, Hayden discussed her metabolic diet therapy and navigating cancer with a positive attitude.  Alix, is also   director of operations  at  a biochemistry research firm Phenomenome Discoveries in Saskatoon, Canada, was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2012.

She has been following the ketogenic diet (which is a very low-carb, high-fat, moderate-protein diet) since February 2013, which also cancer researcher Dr. Dominic D’Agostino confirmed starves cancer cells. This is because all the cells in our body. . .can use both fat  and glucose (a carb), however, cancer cells thrive on glucose and can’t survive on ketones.

So by limiting carbohydrates — which turns into glucose inside the body — we can       starve cancer cells.Hayden’s diet is roughly 65% fats, 30% protein, and 5% carbs. Her brain tumor hasn’t gotten smaller since she began the ketogenic diet, but it also hasn’t gotten any bigger — which is a great sign.

Alix, who’s in her thirties, gets an MRI every    six months and is holding off on chemotherapy and radiation, as her brain tumor was categorized as slow-growing.   Hayden started a blog called Greymadder to chronicle her cancer recovery, which            has made her something of an Internet celebrity.

How the Ketogenic Diet Weakens Cancer Cells
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(This source of fuel is capable of crossing the blood brain barrier.)

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I have many blogs in this website about cannabis!!!

Hemp vs. Cannabis: What’s the difference?

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The Ultimate Guide to Making Cannabis Oil                                                                                                                    Hosted by Jeff Ditchfield, author of The Medical Cannabis Guidebook.                                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z58FiH87-6w

In today’s world, there is little that causes more dissent among the ranks of populations everywhere than religion, politics and the legalization of marijuana. But, in a world where everything that falls under the label of “cannabis” is seemingly mistakenly deemed a psychotropic drug, wherein lies hemp? The three terms – cannabis, hemp and marijuana – are often used interchangeably to significant error.
To understand the differences between these terms, first let’s go through a brief biology lesson. Everything known living thing is categorized in the primary biological taxonomy   of the same name. “Life” refers to anything that possesses some sort of biological process. From there, things get more complicated and even more precise, going down in the order of domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The official taxonomy of the cannabis plant is as follows:
– Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
– Subkingdom Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
– Superdivision Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
– Division Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
– Class Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
– Subclass Hamamelididae
– Order Urticales
– Family Cannabaceae (Hemp family)
– Genus Cannabis L. (Hemp)
– Species Cannabis sativa L. (Marijuana)
For the purpose of this article,  we will focus  on  the latter two  on that list (hemp and marijuana). The genus taxonomy is of particular import for botanical nomenclature, as      it is the generic name or epithet and is the first part of the name of the species and lower taxa.  It is always capitalized  and  followed by the specific name, i.e.  “Cannabis sativa.” Other strains are Cannabis indica and Cannabis ruderalis.  Most medical marijuana is a hybrid of sativa and indica, thus why the species of Cannabis sativa X indica is often seen.

The Underlying Difference Between Hemp Oil and CBD Oil
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Cannabis vs. Marijuana

The difference between these two words is just that, a difference between words.

There is no real evidence that there are any physical or biological differences between cannabis and marijuana. Cannabis is the real name of the plant, the scientific name.

Cannabis comes in many different forms and genus. The main strains of the plant are Cannabis Indica,  Cannabis Sativa,  and Cannabis Ruderalis.  The plant can be used for many different things, as a recreational or medical drug, as hemp, as oil, the list goes on. This is Cannabis the plant, cannabis the little slice of nature just like a fern or a foxglove.

Marijuana however is a nickname of Mexican origin, coming from the word marihuana. Now this, since it is simply a widely spread colloquialism, means what it is associated with. So by this reasoning marijuana is the medical or recreational drug. This is what the name has been used for and so that is what it is. There is no physical difference between the two plants; there is simply the difference that the titles give them.

Usually cannabis is thought of as a slightly more official term, probably because it is.         So when people think of it they think of medicine or hemp rather than just smoking it.       It is the term that botanists or doctors would use rather than drug dealer.

The word cannabis originated from the Greek κάνναβις (kannabis), the Latin name is the same. It is really a flowering herb that happens to have a cerebral effect when smoked; it was not originally used as a drug. It was used for many different things such as materials, papers, medicines, etc. Then people realized the effect it had on the human body when inhaled and thus the drug was born.

What we would term as marijuana is made from the dried flowers on the cannabis plant, hemp is rubbed and woven from the strong fibers of the stem, and oils are made from the seeds. In this way I suppose there is a slight difference, cannabis is the entire plant which means that the drug, still often called cannabis, is a bi product of the plant and is what we would call marijuana. It is not the technical name however, as an accepted common parlance, one can be said to beget the other.

The definitions of what is classified as marijuana, cannabis or hemp are quite clear –        at least according to the codes of the United States.  Under U.S. law,  cannabis is the plant itself, and hemp and marijuana are specific parts of the plant. Hemp refers to the sterilized seeds, stems, stalks and roots. Marijuana is in reference to the viable seeds, leaves and flowers.
While this is the easiest way to explain it, research has shown that the differentiation between hemp and marijuana goes much deeper, and their traditional names are not necessarily indicative of the true genetic makeup of these plants. Through trait-mapping and genotyping, researchers have found the differences extend far beyond the genes involved in the production of THC.

Unfortunately, marijuana has come to be the all-in-one term for the cannabis plant and   all of its useful parts. When one refers to marijuana or any of its other common names or derivatives (Mary Jane, pot, hash, hashish, whacky-tobacky, etc.) they are referring to the leaves  and  flowering portions of the plant that contain many cannabinoids,  which have both mental and physical effects on the human body when ingested. Marijuana with these effects is produced on cannabis plants with greater than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the principal psychoactive portion of the plant. Some strains can go up to as much as 20 percent. Concentrations of THC are largely dependent on how it is ingested as well. The average for marijuana is 1-5 percent, 5-10 percent for hashish and 20 percent for hashish oil.

THC & CBD are just 2 of over 180+, Cannabinoids which all work synergistically with    each other, and potentiate the effects of one another. Along with the Terpenes, saponins   & carotenoids  that all work symbiotically together  in a holistic dynamic,  the way God Designed. God Creates; Man Dissects. God created a perfect plant, man is trying to pick and choose what extractions have value & why, which is completely Flawed. God created Cannabis, not “CBD Oil” I Love & Respect you Vaughn, please steer clear of the Reefer madness Propaganda though. In this video, we share the differences between marijuana and hemp plants. Plus the uses of CBD oil and how it can help heal some of the biggest complaints including chronic pain, anxiety, sleep, depression, digestive disorders, tumors, cancer, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=L-oGEn_a5E0

Typically, marijuana refers to the buds and leaves of the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plants. The cannabis plant contains more than 500 chemicals, including delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive chemical [source: Mehmedic et al.]. Cannabis impairs memory during and between uses, although the restorative effects of long-term abstinence remain unclear. In addition, during use, it adversely affects motor coordination, attention and judgment, increases heart rate and raises levels of anxiety. Studies also show that marijuana smoke contains irritants and cancer-causing chemicals typically associated with cigarettes [sources: Hall and Solowij; NIDA]. In this article, you will learn about marijuana, why this drug is so popular and what effects it has on your mind and body. https://science.howstuffworks.com/marijuana.htm

Hemp

The recreational use of the cannabis plant to produce a “high” has overshadowed the myriad of industries that hemp is viable for, and this is precisely how and why the plant has and continues to receive such bad press. Hemp comes from cannabis plants with less than 0.3 percent THC. The petrochemical and textile industries realized they had a lot to lose monetarily if hemp came into widespread production, and thus the corporate elite set into motion a literal smokescreen of lies to bulldoze the public opinion into outlawing this productive plant in its entirety by including it in the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act in 1932.

Hemp is indigenous to Central Asia, and the cultivation of the crop for fiber can be traced back as far as 2800 BCE in Ancient China. Modern researchers have determined what ancient civilizations already knew – that hemp fiber is durable and extremely strong. Under heavy scrutiny, they found that although a myriad of factors affects the tensile strength of hemp, single fibers obey Hooke’s law – which refers to the elastic behavior of solids in direct proportion to an applied force.

It is for this reason that industrial hemp fiber is viable for many uses, including artificial sponges, burlap, cable, canvas, linens and clothing, paper, rope, twine, string and yarn. Moreover, its roots and seeds produce oil that can be used for medicinal purposes, hold nutritional value for human consumption, and can be used in the production of paints, varnishes and soaps.

The cannabis plant can offer so much to the world in its varying forms. If the laws and industry allow, soon we may find it in some form or another in our everyday life, from    the paper we write on and the clothes we wear to how we heal ourselves from illness &  disease. https://www.cbdweb.org/medical-cannabis-guide/hemp-vs-marijuana-vs-cannabis

DISCOVERY OF ENDOCANNABINOIDS
https://www.cannabis.info/en/blog/dr-raphael-mechoulam-worlds-foremost-cannabis-researcher

DR. MECHOULAM: A BRIEF HISTORY

Dr Raefael Mechoulam was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on 05th November, 1930. Raised into an affluent Jewish family, the Mechoulam’s were eventually pushed out of their hometown due to rampant anti-semitism. In 1944, Mechoulam’s father survived his time in a nazi concentration camp, before the entire family relocated to Israel in 1949.

After switching his studies from chemical engineering to chemistry, Mechoulam’s foray into cannabis science was a natural extension of his innate curiosities and obsession with research.

Then one day in 1963 a young organic chemist in Israel named Raphael Mechoulam, working at the Weizmann Institute of Science outside Tel Aviv, decided to peer into the plant’s chemical composition. It struck him as odd that even though morphine had been teased from opium in 1805 and cocaine from coca leaves in 1855, scientists had no idea what the principal psychoactive ingredient was in marijuana. “It was just a plant,” says Mechoulam, now 84. “It was a mess, a mélange of unidentified compounds.”

Read More http://ocgreenrelief.org/medical-marijuana/science-seeks-to-unlock-marijuanas-secrets

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-pot-marijuana-60-minutes/

I found the independence of research to be an addiction from which I do not want to be cured

FIRST MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: ISOLATION OF THC

When asked about his decision to study cannabis, Mechoulam explains his surprise on   the lack of cannabinoid research that occurred before him. In fact, while morphine and cocaine isolation have been around for 150 years.

Mechoulam was the first to isolate Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, known by the acronym THC. THC is the most abundant cannabinoid secreted in the trichomes of cannabis plants and is responsible for emitting psychoactive effects.

Mechoulam’s original experiments were conducted in the early 1960s on hash acquired from a local police station. His results indicated the incredible psychoactive and medicinal potential of this unique plant compound. Mechoulam also successfully elucidated and isolated the second most abundant cannabinoid: cannabidiol (CBD). CBD surprised Mechoulam with its apparent medical efficacy as an anti-psychotic and possible ingredient in the treatment of chronic pain and seizures.

The discovery THC effectively kills tumors

Dr. Christina Sanchez is a molecular biologist working on cannabis and cancer research. She is a part of a larger team which has discovered that THC effectively kills tumors in both cultured cells and animal models. Thus far, their work has focused primarily on brain and breast cancers.

Here’s how she explains their work:
We started working on this project 12 or 15 years ago, and it was basically by chance.      We were working with astrocytes [a cell of the central nervous system] at the time and    we decided to change the model and work with astrocytoma cells, the tumoral cells.

We observed that when we treated these cells with cannabinoids, THC, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, was killing the cells in our Petri dishes. We were killing the cells. https://herb.co/marijuana/news/dr-christina-sanchez-cannabis-cancer/

CBD and THC kills cancer cells

In each cell, there are some factors of so-called ‘fatty acids interconvertible-sphingo’, which controls the cell’s life and death. These factors are called ‘sphingo-fatty acid Rheostat’ (SR). If the internal ceramide (a chemical of this) is high, so is cell death (apoptosis) safe while cell activity is high at low levels of ceramide.

When THC connects to the CB1 or CB2 receptors in the cancer cell, it causes an increase  in ceramide synthesis that controls against cell death. A normal, healthy cell does not produce ceramide, if the THC is present, and is therefore not affected by the cannabinoid.
The cancer cells die – not because of cell poison – but because a small shift in the cells mitochondria. Mitochondrias are cell’s ‘power center’. In most cells, there is a cell nucleus and mitochondria, as well as several other organelles in the cell. Mitochondria are to produce energy (ATP) to the cell. As ceramide is increased, thereby increasing SR, at the same time increases the mitochondrial permeability of cytochrome, which is an important protein in energy syntheses. Cytochrome C is pushed out of the mitochondria and thereby killing the energy supply to the cell.
Ceramide also causes a re-toxic stress of the cancer cell nucleus; thereby producing a protein called p53, whose job it is to disturb the calcium metabolism in the mitochondria. As if that was not enough, so disturbs ceramide the cell’s digestive system, which produces nutrients to all cell functions. Ceramide and other sphingo fatty acids, inhibits actively possible pathways for cell survival and causes cancer cell death.

The key to this process is the accumulation of ceramide in the system, which means that when one takes a period of therapeutic amounts of CBD and THC, one maintains a metabolic pressure to cancer cell death. How can it be that the body can take a simple plant enzyme and use it for true healing in many different physiological systems?

This inner cannabinoid system exists in all ‘animal’ living where just waiting to                  be activated via its external cannabinoid match. Interestingly covers our own inner cannabinoid system, all cells and nerves. It is a ‘messenger’ of information that flows between our immune system and the central nervous system (CNS).

It is responsible for the protection of the nervous system and ‘fixes’ the immune system at the micro level. This is the primary control system that maintains equilibrium – our well-being.

How it gets the job done at the cellular level, and how the body produces cannabinoids?

What we see here is that the inner cannabinoids derived from nerve cells right at the synapse – the nerve end or staging. When the body is affected by example, illness or injury, it calls immediately the internal cannabinoid system and directs the immune system to heal. If these equilibrium sustaining systems weakens, is it logic that external cannabinoids can heal and soothe. They help the body in the most natural way.

To see how it works, we imagine cannabinoids as a three-dimensional molecule; one part fits the nerve and immune cell receptors like a key in a lock.  There are at least two kinds    of receptors CB1 (CNS) and CB2 (immune system).  Generally activates CB1 the central nervous system (CNS) and CB2 activates the immune system – but it’s more complex than that. Both THC and anandamide activates both receptors. Other cannabinoids activates a second receptor. Among the strings of Cannabis, pulling Cannabis Sativa against the CB1 receptor, while Cannabis indica draw against CB2. Therefore, Sativa more nerve active while Indica are more immune active. Sativa dominated addition of THC cannabinoids while Indica primarily dominated by CBD.
It is well known that THC and CBD can be replaced / mimes of anandamide in the body. Therefore activate the mimic outer cannabinoid by stress, injuries or disease in which the body requires more internal anandamide. If the stress is of short duration, the treatment can be short-lived. If the need are persistent like cancer disease there is need for treatment to exert unrelenting pressure on the sustaining part of equilibrium systems.

THC and CBD ‘steals’ shortcut to directly inhibit tumour growth. As an aside, it has been discovered that CBD inhibits the reuptake of anandamide in the cells. Here we see that cannabidiol (CBD) helps the body to maintain its natural inner cannabinoids by inhibiting the enzyme that breaks down anandamide.

THC & CBD are just 2 of over 180+, Cannabinoids which all work synergistically with    each other, and potentiate the effects of one another. Along with the Terpenes, saponins       & carotenoids that all work symbiotically together in a holistic dynamic,  the way God Designed. God Creates; Man Dissects. God created a perfect plant, man is trying to pick and choose what extractions have value & why, which is completely Flawed. God created Cannabis, not “CBD Oil” I Love & Respect you Vaughn, please steer clear of the Reefer madness Propaganda though. In this video, we share the differences between marijuana and hemp plants. Plus the uses of CBD oil and how it can help heal some of the biggest complaints including chronic pain, anxiety, sleep, depression, digestive disorders, tumors, cancer, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=L-oGEn_a5E0

In this video, we share the differences between marijuana and hemp plants. Plus the uses of CBD oil and how it can help heal some of the biggest complaints including chronic pain, anxiety, sleep, depression, digestive disorders, tumors, cancer, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=L-oGEn_a5E0

The Science of the Weed Cannabis

Jeremy Plumb has been called the “Wizard of Weed” and was voted best “budtender”        in Portland, Oregon, last year. It’s no wonder: Plumb is also a virtual encyclopedia of information about marijuana’s therapeutic effects, history and chemical complexity.

http://green215.com/sites/all/files/education_articles/Science%20Cannabis.pdf

The deadliest drug in America (alcohol) is legal in all 50 states, and it’s significantly more dangerous than a range of illegal substances (marijuana) much more heavily regulated and policed. ►►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PARBOHe5I

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2015/06/marijuana-science-drug-research-legality/
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/08/05/better-marijuana-stock-aurora-cannabis-vs-tilray.aspx
https://hightimes.com/health/science/cbd-vs-thc-difference-between-two-cannabinoids/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/opinion/what-science-says-about-marijuana.html
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cannabis+vs+marijuana&FORM=HDRSC3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTkeWfrHUAc
Mowgli Holmes — co-founder and CEO of Phylos Bioscience — argues against relying on these definitions. His Feb. 8 lecture on the genetics of cannabis breeds at the UC Botanical Garden touched upon the difficulties that arise when trying to analyze the genealogy of cannabis.

“Plant breeding is evolution on turbo” — Mowgli Holmes

“There’s a problem in the cannabis world where no one has any idea what they’re smoking,” said Holmes during his lecture. “All the names are wrong, there’s no parliaments — it’s just very confusing.”

The reason for this confusion arises from the way cannabis has been grown over the       last several decades.  Remembering DR. Tamara June 1st 2016 – Colon Cancer  RiP

Cannabis agricultural practices stand out compared to more traditional commercial products such as corn.  Typical priorities  for  more mainstream crops include yield,    harvest optimization, chemical traits and pest resistance. Cannabis growers, on the     other hand, have 2 things in mind: diversity and THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) levels.

“Plant breeding is evolution on turbo,” said Holmes, “but it’s also sort of like arranged marriages. People see things they like, put them together and see what they get.”

Since the 1960s, cannabis growers have been mixing different bud strains for reasons ranging from increasing THC levels to producing a specific, desired effect such as heightened creativity or a remedy for restlessness. This has resulted in what Holmes  called “the poly-hybrid soup.” http://www.dailycal.org/2018/02/25/cannabis-101-science-behind-your-high/

Dr. Allan I. Frankel With over 35 years experience in Internal Medicine, and one                of the world’s leading authorities on dosed cannabis medicine.  Dr. Frankel applies his knowledge of all aspects of the cannabis plant and its therapeutic value to the treatment   of multiple serious medical conditions.
Having participated in round table discussions on the topic of future therapies and research for medical cannabis sponsored by the California Medical Association and          the  Los Angeles County Medical Association.  Dr. Frankel  has  presented  multiple           CME accredited Grand Rounds lectures on internal medicine & therapies in medical cannabis. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dr+frankel+los+angeles+cannabis&FORM=HDRSC3

From Seed to Sale: Mindful Marijuana
Mike Yost November 4, 2014

Gaia’s master grower Phillip Hague, with some of his Afghan-derived plants.  https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/too-high-to-fail-inside-denvers-weed-boom-97964/

Product specialist Ry Prichard buttons up a white lab coat, motioning for me to do           the same before taking me on a tour of Mindful’s 40,000 sq.ft. warehouse dedicated           to growing the most unparalleled pot in Colorado.

Every week, the facility churns out about 100 lbs. of product, housing more than 5,000 plants with 250 different strains. As I’m lead into the vegetation room where the entire process begins, Ry tells me about Mindful’s not-so-secret weapon — lead grower Phillip Hague.

“He’s known worldwide for what he does,” says Ry. “He’s created close to 100 strains of his own, and he’s been breeding for the better part of 20 years. We’re really proud to have him as part of the operation.”
Ry explains how the vegetation room serves as a sort of genetic library where different strains are tested and cultivated, grown either from a seed or as a clone clipped from one of the mother plants.
“Phillip is able to create varieties that are more dialed in toward specific ailments, toward specific smells and flavors, and that can only happen from seed,” Ry explains. “Once you find what you want, then you want the clone.”
After 7 to 10 days — once the plants are well rooted — they are moved into the propagation room where they’re blasted with light 24 hours a day (to bolster growth) and are fed a tightly-regimented diet to perfect the product. “The cool part about our facility is that we use a fertigation system,” says Ry. “Basically it’s a big, computerized feeding system that we can dial in for specific nutrient programs for specific times for specific rooms.”
After two to three weeks, the plants are moved to one of the 11 flowering rooms, some of which can hold as many as 800 plants at a time.
I follow Ry into one of the flowing rooms surrounded by marijuana plants as tall as I am, large clusters of sticky, frosty buds populating each plant. He eagerly shows me a couple of different strains, including Mob Boss, Lavender Appalachia, Head Trip, and Triangle Kush — his favorite. “When it’s full grown and you smoke it in a joint, you taste it the entire way down, and there are very few strains that do that.”
For six to eight weeks, the plants are fed with the fertigation system as the light in          each room is cycled on and off every 12 hours. The plants are then harvested and prepped for trimming. Ry walks me through a room where about 20 people wearing blue scrubs    (to prevent contaminates) are quietly trimming away on the latest harvest.

“Hand trimming is a lot more delicate,” says Ry, emphasizing how Mindful’s higher-end products are trimmed by hand rather than by a machine. “You’re retaining the original structure of the bud, and you really taste and feel the difference. If you go into a dispensary and everything sort of smells the same, they probably machine-
trimmed them.”
The product is then dried, inspected, tested for THC content, vacuum-sealed, and   shipped to one of their stores. The entire process takes 12 to 18 weeks depending on
the strain.
And Mindful also works to grow community ties. There’s a vegetable garden out back,     the produce of which is given away at the Hiawatha Davis Recreation Center. “We go       out there with a big tent and give away all the produce to people,” says Ry. “We like to    give back however we can.”
Learn more online at BeMindful.today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=N7E6gIM-ls4

Use due Diligence to make sure no solvent is left.

Also with a new face in my crowd Aamann Degarth’s book that just came out.                     He makes holy grail oil practicing his method with a better option for solvent. http://www.growyourownmedicineindoors.net/

https://www.youtube.com/user/aamann

Testimony about my work for the past 4 months with hexane as a solvent. I share about the physics of working with it as a solvent in comparison to naphtha and a little about     the chemistry. Also I talk a little about the difference between light and heavy naphtha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fsF4Q6G_g
What is the Difference Between Sativa and Indica Strains? https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/science-of-sativa-cannabis-strains

Cannabis Gave These Cancer Patients Their Lives Back
Health / News

Cancer patients are sharing their stories to push back on the stigma surrounding the use   of cannabis as an adjunct treatment. Many patients and experts believe that clinical trials on the efficacy of medical marijuana as an adjunct cancer treatment need to move faster. Patients are suffering in the interim. https://herb.co/marijuana/news/cannabis-cancer-treatment-research/
Google dennis hill   stan rutner   ed moore   sharon kelly   michelle aldrich   charlotte fiji myKayla comtock    landon riddle

Former Cancer Researcher Cures His Cancer With Cannabis
BY PAUL FASSA
Dennis Hill is a biochemist who worked in the research division of one of the nation’s   most prestigious cancer institutes,  MD Anderson Cancer Institute for 10 years a few decades ago. You could say MD Anderson is the Houston, TX counterpart to New York City’s Sloane Kettering Cancer Institute.
Dennis speaks of his MD Anderson days when he would occasionally visit the patient    wing and talk with some of the cancer patients. He was saddened by their conditions, which was more from the treatments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy than the disease itself. He also noticed the visitor entourages that it took to apparently boost      their morale while being treated.
He privately hoped this would never happen to him, and if it did, he would seek other treatment options if available to avoid suffering from the toxic conventional treatments   he was witnessing. All this time and during his high school and college days in Houston,   he was an occasional recreational pot smoker on weekends. https://realfarmacy.com/cancer-researcher-cures-cannabis/

Perhaps most exciting is the potential of five females in the cannabis extract movement – Mara Gordon, Constance Finley, Valerie Corral, Jenifer Valley, and Erin Wallace (part of the team who treated Brave Mykayla.)   All are responsible for saving lives and raising awareness of this movement in unparalleled ways.

Michelle Aldrich, 66, has been working for marijuana legalization —which she defines as “the right to grow it for free in your backyard”— for most of her life. She and her husband Michael live  in  a comfortable old apartment  near  the San Francisco Marina which they moved into 40 years ago. The following is adapted from a talk Michelle gave in July 2012 to the Women’s Visionary Congress.

I had smoked cannabis since 1967 but early in 2011     I kept saying I could not get high.      I was smoking a lot. I now believe that THC was going  to the tumor and lymph nodes, which is why the cancer did not spread more than it had. On November 15, 2011, I was supposed to have lunch with Diane Fornbacher from the NORML Women’s Alliance.

I was too sick to go. I felt like I had the flu. http://ricksimpsonhempoil.blogspot.com/2013/03/ but the chest x-rays revealed much more – pneumonia, and a tumor. On January 12th, 2012, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Michelle has been a cannabis activist for over 40 years, so her course of action    was certain, cannabis oil. Michelle is a member of the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Task Force.

She is on the Advisory Board for Patients Out of Time and, along with her husband Michael, are recipients of the High Times Lifetime Achievement Award. Interview conducted at the Seventh National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics,         April 27, 2012 – Tucson, AZ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZU-brG7i4&feature=youtu.be

This is the story of 54 year old Sharon Kelly, a wife and mother who was diagnosed        with terminal lung cancer in December 2013. She was given no chance of survival and   told she would only have months to live. Luckily the decisions she would make would prove her “doctors” wrong.

On Monday, December 16th, 2013 Sharon started complaining of a small pain on her       left side around her ribs. She had gotten a massage on the previous Friday so she thought that must be a side effect of the massage. As the days went on the pain increased and when Sharon took a deep breath she started to have terrible pain in that same spot.

So she decided to get checked out and on December 19th, 2013 Sharon Kelly was diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer.

By the middle of January 2014 the diagnosis had gotten worse. The Doctors told       Sharon the cancer had spread to the lining of her lung & lymph nodes and they classified   it as stage IV Terminal Lung Cancer. She was given only 6-9 months to live. She asked if anything could be done like an operation or radiation but she was coldly told “the horse had bolted and was way too late to do anything”.

They told Sharon they do not offer radiation treatment for stage 4 lung cancer. Sharon  was even told that chemo was “not really worth doing” as it would only make her more sick. The doctors were more concerned with her enjoying the “short time” she had left  than actually trying to help her live. They had given up on her upon their diagnosis and     it was obvious to Sharon they didn’t seem to want to treat her. https://oyiabrown.com/2017/10/20/the-sharon-kelly-story-how-she-beat-her-lung-cancer-with-cannabis-oil/
https://www.cureyourowncancer.org/the-sharon-kelly-story-how-she-beat-her-lung-cancer-with-cannabis-oil.html

GODOFREDO VASQUEZ – Constance Finley was mistaken for a narc by classmates at Oaksterdam University. Now, she says, a San Francisco oncologist refers to her Stage 4 cancer patients, many of whom are given weeks to live, and all of whom she says receive healing from an oil she makes from the cannabis plant.

During Carl O Helvie’s interview  with  Dr. Eidelman  who writes the letters of recommendation in California. DR Eidelman mentioned several case studies of success with medical marijuana and also some failures. https://bbsradio.com/pod…/holistic-health-show-june-2-2018 

Also Carl with Mara Gordon Interview 🙂

Dispensary owners Frank and Erin Wallace also operate Sirius Flower Farms, a cultivator that is famous for their popular “Sirius Black” strain. The flower has been featured in High Times Magazine, as well as Northwest Leaf and Dope Magazine. The couple also owns Sirius Extracts, one of the state’s most recognized and award-winning producers of fine extracts. Sirius Extracts is one of the first extraction facilities in Oregon to utilize solar power for daily operations.

“We are about sustainability and protecting the environment. We want to do this as green as we can and we want to inspire others to do the same,” beamed Frank Wallace, co-owner of Sirius Extracts. Erin Wallace, also co-owner, adds “We care about our impact on the environment. The panels, manufactured by Mr. Solar, save the company an estimated $800 a month. “The savings will allow us to be very competitive and pass the savings   onto our people,” says Frank.

Whereas, Mackenzie emerged from the concourse weary but relieved. He had traveled nearly 2,000 miles since dawn, a morphine pump keeping his pain in check.

At 48, Mackenzie’s time is running out. The Iowa man, a husband and father who likes to play the bagpipe,  has a rare and aggressive cancer that has spread to his liver and lungs. One of his last wishes: travel once more to Oregon, where his use of medical marijuana is legally protected. Although he credits cannabis with keeping his cancer from spreading in its initial stages, he has come to terms with the drug’s limits. He hopes to ease his symptoms and squeeze a bit more time out of a life that is slipping away.

https://www.marijuanaventure.com/tag/erin-wallace/

https://qctimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_e4cc514f-96df-5bb3-9444-d475f7027ff7.html

https://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2017/04/10/LA58345

https://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2014/07/medical_marijuana_in_oregon_be_1.html

https://www.marijuanaventure.com/erin-wallace/

Nine months ago, Mowgli Holmes, 42, started Phylos Bioscience in Southwest Portland with entrepreneur Nishan Karassik, 44, with the aim of using cannabis DNA to untangle the genetic makeup of as many marijuana strains as they can find. Their ultimate goals: to certify marijuana strains so consumers know what they’re getting and to provide pot growers with a kind of “stud book” of strain genetics to help guide their breeding.

“There is no reassurance that if you’re a Sour Diesel fan, that you could go into a dispensary and get Sour Diesel,” said Holmes, a microbiologist. “It’ll say Sour Diesel,       but it will be something totally random.” https://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2014/09/marijuana_in_oregon_portland_s.html
Mara Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=sBWfFm5ebpE

Jenifer Valley and Mike Mullins, owners of approximately 24 plants rotated for continuous harvest, have won first place awards at the Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards, Higher Educational outreach through the Stoney Girl Gardens Foundation and were on the cover of the  “Big Book of Buds.”  Portlandsterdam University, actually in Clackamas, gives the couple even more pride. . . . than the national recognition they’ve received for their legal pot. Classes are scheduled every other weekend at the Monarch Hotel and teach about everything cannabis related, from how to distill oils to awareness of medical marijuana laws.

Their studies have developed a periodic table of intended effects and also a 1 to 9 scale indicating active to sedative qualities. “We’re the No. 1 breeder in the world,”  Valley said. “It’s creating a lot of medical tourism actually,   because lots of people come from all over the world to get our genetic material. They get a state Medical Marijuana card with a $200 registration fee that gives the money to fund Oregon’s emergency services.” – Clackamas
Presented by Mike Mullins and Jenifer Valley Excerpts By Deborah Malka MD, PhD

Dispensary Presented by Mike Mullins and Jenifer Valley Excerpts By …
files.meetup.com/20861937/Delivery and Dosage of Cannabis Medicine.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEOMJwKd-Q

Valerie Corral https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=valerie+corral&FORM=HDRSC3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-XWFbypnwA

https://www.wamm.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Milagro-Treatment.pdf

https://cheaphomegrow.com/dr-sunil-aggarwal-cannabis-palliative-care/

https://www.endoca.com/blog/medical-cannabis-can-it-play-a-role-in-palliative-care/

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=valerie+corral&FORM=HDRSC3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEOMJwKd-

Cielo Superticioso
August 4, 2016 · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ·

TO My Dear Friend:

It was two years ago that I slayed the Purple Dragon (Leiomyosarcoma)                       through radiation 1st week June then surgery in February!!!

Having a rare kind of cancer Leiomyosarcoma just two years ago and rose up after                 I was completely drowning in the abyss of a traumatic experience;  as a woman, an advocate and a friend, there is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful than a woman     being UNAPOLOGETICALLY HERSELF.
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For I am comfortable in my PERFECT IMPERFECTION – the real essence of beauty.

No more C — that burden was dropped, I could see clearly past the determined blinders      I had placed on myself to beat the disease.  I paused  and finally looked around myself, examining the rubble. Nothing in my life would ever return to “normal.” I was a stranger to my pre-cancerous self.

I am still here, but who I am has changed.
I used to be so anxious, so filled with vehemence at the unfairness of my diagnosis.        Now I recognize that there is no such thing as fair—humankind has created this idea.
Things simply are. Life simply is.
We can be the kindest, most loving individuals on the planet but the universe has no agency to reward us.

I have come to accept this, and in many ways, it has freed me. If I have become my only judge, that is, if I remove performing good tasks in my life out of some imagined obligation to the universe, then I am actually free to pursue my own happiness. I can simply be me, free from any overarching feelings that I must be doing something to please the elusive other, whether that be a parent, partner, teacher, friend, deity or concept of karma.
I have to dive deep into myself to find peace. I have to do the work.

My connection to the divine is now personal, ferociously loving, and reciprocal.

I will get out of it what I put in.
And over the past five months I found such beauty and peace from the divine                   that I cannot imagine returning to the woman I was before.
Because yes, I am still here, but I did not just survive: I was reborn.

Living through cancer at 30.
An experience with cancer is a forever reminder that it’s okay to break apart.
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They said, “It’s okay not to be okay.” But it’s never okay to be okay if you are          diagnosed with cancer!
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There are many emotions experienced by cancer patients and they vary every single minute, every day. But — rising up after defeating cancer is one great momentum that          I learned a lot beyond compare.

Losing the custody of my kids had also broken me apart, to add another life’s demise, cancer is a one big driving lesson that changed me significantly.
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But, hey, I am still alive and well! You may never saw me 2 years ago, how dreadful              I was, sappy and pathetic, yet, here I am, passionate about giving hope that there’s           life after cancer!  https://thecancervoice.net/1184-were-feeling-feelings-every-day/

WHAT CANCER HAS TAUGHT ME?
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Driven as fuck grown-ass human being does these:
– They stop dreaming of possibilities.
– They start making the chances come true.
– They take risks.
– They enjoy new adventures.
– They set vital goals that are unbelievable.
– They inspire others.
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Do you have what it take to be a driven as fuck grown-ass human being?

  Cielo Superticioso,  is the author of The Cancer Voice Asia created last August 2017.  She is committed and determined  to start a campaign to strengthen the cancer awareness.  This campaign aims to make The Cancer Voice heard in Asia, especially in Vietnam. And so it continues, The Cancer Voice officially launched in 2018, reaching out Vietnamese to strengthen the education of cancer.

OTHER KEYNOTE LMS SURVIVORS:

“I got a call from the doctor. They told me I had leiomyosarcoma. Leiomyosarcoma is a bone, muscle, and soft tissue cancer, and mine was stage 3 high grade leiomyosarcoma. That’s a very deadly cancer. If somebody has a tumor like that in an arm or leg today, they’d amputate,” Jeanie told The 700 Club. www1.cbn.com

Jeanie Traub: A Recipe to be Cancer-Free
Jeanie was devastated when she was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. She searched             for a second opinion and also discovered a healing recipe straight from the Bible.

Heal with Jeannie Ross
7 months ago
Yes, I have a list of books that were helpful to me on my blog. (http://uterine-leiomyosarcoma.blogspot.com/) I stopped posting on the blog, but perhaps                           I will post an update in 2018. Take care!

Here are some of my favorites books: Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Bernie Siegel, MD;   The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle; A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle; Knockout by Suzanne Somers; You Can Conquer Cancer by Ian Gawler; and The Hallelujah Diet by Rev. George Malkmus; Hope, Medicine and Healing by Francisco Contreras, MD; Chicken Soup for the Cancer Survivor’s Soul; A Book of Miracles by Bernie Siegel, MD; and The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell.

Some of the first books that helped me were The Hallelujah Diet and The Power of Now. The mind and the body are absolutely connected when it comes to healing. Read books that give you HOPE – stories of other survivors, books that describe how the body has the ability to heal itself, etc. I love to get these books in audio format (from audible.com) and listen to them while I take a walk in nature.

For other Cancer Survivor Stories!!!

this video is from Aug 4, 2017 By Jeannie Ross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1GUqo52XEls

Suzanne George, MD – Medical Oncology. Dr. George’s areas of expertise include             soft tissue sarcoma, bone sarcomas, and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System    is also Miami’s best bone and soft tissue sarcoma treatment center with the highest rated survival outcomes in South Florida.

The Sarcoma Program at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore provides comprehensive care for pediatric and adult patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Also Our multidisciplinary program include radiation, medical and surgical oncologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists and other musculoskeletal clinicians meet weekly to review cases, study patients’ images and come up with a detailed, coordinated treatment plan tailored for each person.

 Carl O. Helvie a registered nurse with a doctorate in public health and wellness from Johns Hopkins U.  and 60 years experience  as a nurse practitioner, educator, author, and researcher. During his career Carl obtained a grant    for close to 1 million dollars  and established a nursing center  to provide health care to homeless and low income individuals & families. Carl also developed the Helvie Energy Theory of Nursing and Health and refined it over 40 years. It is used in nursing service, education and research in 12 countries.   Health Chat  with Kat & Special Guest Carl O. Helvie which was Broadcast in 2012!!!

I always like to update a blog post about Carl O. Helvie and this one is the most comprehensive to date. I always tell people over n’ over if you want a straight forward protocol to follow… Carl’s is the one. During my research if you want to learn quickly  about all aspects of healing cancer Google Carl O. Helvie or Shannon Knight!!!

Given 6 Months To Live on July 21st 1974 And Still Alive Today, This Man       Is Living Proof There Are Other Ways To Beat Cancer!!!  Born: 1932-08-13.

Carl states, “I refused both and used all holistic natural non-invasive interventions.            It took two years to overcome the disease but I never had a recurrence. In addition to Laetrile, zinc, pancreatic enzymes and other supplements I used a vegan diet, a variety     of mental/spiritual interventions such as faith, being positive, being optimistic, helping others, meditation, visualization and more. This plus current research reaffirms that the mental/spiritual interventions are as important an any physical interventions I used. So remember to include these in your protocol if you have cancer. Thanks everyone for your support and also your help in getting the word out that there is another way to overcome cancer than the harsh chemo, surgery, and radiation.  God Bless You All.”

Imagine your doctor telling you that you have lung cancer and you have six months to   live, even with conventional medical intervention.  That’s what happened to Carl Helvie,     a long-time RN and Dr.P.H., more than four decades ago. His doctor also recommended chemotherapy and surgery, but Helvie needed time to think and pray. And ultimately, he eschewed the traditional and took a holistic pathway that he now credits with his survival.
Helvie shares advice on how we can reduce our risk through lifestyle changes in his book, Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A Holistic Approach, published by Booklocker Inc.

His journey began with persistent dreams that urged him to get a chest x-ray despite a  lack of symptoms, which also then led to his decision to reject conventional treatment   and follow a holistic approach.  In recounting his own journey, the author has a lot to      say about alternative treatment,  he especially emphasizes the importance of pausing before leaping into any particular approach.

“People shouldn’t jump into chemotherapy or surgery if they don’t have all of the information and have a chance to think about it,” Helvie said in a 2015 interview.
Helvie’s book explores cancer,  the human body  and the environment that brings           them together. The author believes it is possible to intervene in the process before         these 3 elements interact to cause disease.  His approach: eliminating or reducing              the risk of cancer from environmental factors, and employing physical and mental/ spiritual activities to fend off the carcinogens.

For each area of content in Reducing Your Cancer Risk: A Holistic Approach, there is a review of contemporary research studies, as well as a list of steps people can take to avoid carcinogens or strengthen the body. Content areas also include interviews with more than 40 national leaders in areas as diverse as GMOs and EMTs,  to gratitude and forgiveness.

The book’s how-to section describes such practices as meditation, developing gratitude and faith, making minor changes in diet, drinking water to eliminate risks, and reducing stress.

A prolific author, Helvie has written 10 books, more than 55 articles and has presented     57 research papers throughout the United States and Europe.  In retirement,  Helvie has focused his research on natural interventions for health issues,  which led him to develop   a nursing theory that has helped him establish a nursing center and improve primary care for homeless and low-income families. Since retiring, he has written two more books and served as the host of a holistic health radio show.

In 1999, he was presented the Distinguished Career Award in Public Health from the American Public Health Association. He has been interviewed on more than 150 radio   and television shows about his two most recent books. He recently founded the Carl O. Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation, where he serves as CEO.

Source https://oneradionetwork.com/all-shows/carl-helvie-author-of-reducing-your-cancer-risk-a-holistic-approach-april-17-2018/
For more information, please visit www.holisticcancerfoundation.com. Or visit https://www.holisticcancerfoundation.com/interviews-cancer-survivors/ to listen               to Helvie’s interviews with cancer survivors.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carl+o+helvie+&FORM=HDRSC3

See Carl O Helvie’s Protocol Outline in this Link

What’s The Difference Laetrile / Vitamin B17 and is Laetrile poison!!! 

One of my major highlights I have gain over the last four years moderating the Solitarius Facebook group page. When Carl O. Helvie commented in his interview with Dr. Francisco Contreras, MD serves as director, President and chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Mexico via Carl’s podcast on the Holistic Health Show Radio Program on the BBC.  About laetrile still to this day having impressive results!!! 

Dr. Contreras of the OASIS Hospital, Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. He recommends        taking pancreatic enzymes, vitamin C, pangamic acid (B15), shark cartilage, vitamin A (emulsified),  Barley Grass,  antioxidants and other nutrients.  The idea is to attack the cancer very aggressively,  without doing any harm to the patient,  while strengthening    the immune system.

Also when Carl O. Helvie interviewed Klaus Pertl about important information on the
•The Budwig Protocol: Dr. Johanna food plan for cancer allows you to enjoy many of     your favorite recipes while at the same time maintaining a balanced and healthy diet.

The principle factor to keep in mind is what you choose and the quality food products           and natural ingredients when you do Budwig. There are many websites that – talk – about Dr. Budwig food recommendations, however not all of them are accurate. In this interview with Carl O. Helvie Klaus Pertl tells that The 3E-Centre is the only centre world wide that offers the  “original and strict”  Budwig Diet for people with cancer.

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Dr. Carl O. Helvie, R.N., Dr.P.H. is an American registered nurse and Professor     Emeritus of Nursing at Old Dominion University. Helvie is known for his development  and implementation of the Helvie Energy Theory of Nursing and Health.

As a lung cancer survivor he has focused on holistic alternative integrative health and wellness interventions. A major part of his career also focused on education, practice and research with homeless and low-income individuals and families. He has published books, articles, and research findings in these three areas.

Published works
Helvie, C, (1975) Self-Assessment of Current Knowledge in Community Health Nursing. New York: Medical Examiners Publishing Co.
Helvie, C. (1981) Community Health Nursing: Theory and Process New York: Harper & Row Co.
Helvie, C. (1991) Community Health Nursing: Theory and Practice, New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Helvie, C. (1998) Advanced Practice Nursing in the Community, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing Co
Helvie, C and Kunstmann, W. (1999) Homelessness in the United States, Europe, and Russia, Connecticut: Greenwood. June
Clark, C (editor in chief), Gordon, R. (contributing editor), Harris, B. and Helvie, C. (advisory contributing editors) (1999) Encyclopedia of Alternative Health Practices.      New York, Springer Publishing Co
Helvie, C. (2000) “The homeless, health promotion and nursing centers.” Community Health Promotion (C.C.Clarke, editor) New York:Springer
Helvie, C. (2002) “Home care for the seriously ill in the United States.” In Ambuant vor stationär. Perspektiven für eine integrierte ambulante Pflege Schwerstkranker (Schaeffer, D. and Ewers, M., Editors). Bern: Huber Verlag. Germany
Helvie, C. (2002) “Community Mobilization and Participation.” In Health Promotion        in Communities (C.C. Clark, Editor). New York, Springer. Pg 69-82.
Helvie, C. (2002) “Health Promotion in a Homeless Center.” In Health Promotion in Communities. (C.C. Clark, Editor). New York: Springer. Pg 461-464.
Helvie, C. (2007) Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success, Minnesota: Syren Publications.
Helvie, C (2012) You Can Beat Lung Cancer: Using Alternative/Integrative Interventions. with chapters by Dr Bernie Siegel, Dr Francisco Contreras, Dr James Forsythe, Dr Kim Datzell, and Tanya Harter Pierce, London: Ayni Books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPvEeiqqhg

Mary Ruth Velicki, a physical therapist and university instructor,                                         also endured intense, debilitating pelvic pain for years.

My Healing Journey
Mary Ruth Velicki MS, DPT

Determined to get better, she set aside her initial skepticism and tried a plethora of treatments from the Western, Eastern, and alternative sides of medicine.

To her surprise, she underwent incredible healing that extended beyond her physical   body to her full person and experienced many direct connections between her body, mind, and spirit. In Healing Through Chronic Pain, Mary Ruth recounts her five-year journey of “healing through the layers” and personal transformation.  Along the way,  she shares the treatment strategies she used and the support she received from a team of professionals to move past the pain and to heal her whole being.    https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Through-Chronic-Pain-transformation/dp/1490966617

To Heal: To make sound or whole; To restore to health; To cause an undesirable condition to be overcome; To patch up a breach or division; To restore to original purity or integrity.

As evidenced by this definition of the verb heal, from Merriam Webster dictionary,  healing is a multifaceted concept. Before debilitating pelvic pain pulled me out of my regular life and sent me on a healing journey, I was aware of only one part of healing:        to restore to health. As a physical therapist, I thought that helping my patients to heal meant helping them to recover their functional mobility.

For over twenty years, I have focused on the rehabilitation of adults who had suffered neurological damage caused by a stroke, a brain or spinal injury, or having a neurological disorder such as multiple sclerosis  or  Parkinson’s disease.  During that period of my life, healing & curing were synonymous, and both entailed decreasing the effects of a physical or mental disease or condition.
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Then, I was suddenly inflicted with chronic pelvic pain and experienced another definition of healing: to cause an undesirable condition to be overcome. I worked  years to heal from pelvic pain,  which felt like my bladder was extremely full  and someone was sitting on my stomach, like my pelvic-floor muscles were in knots, and like my nervous system was also in overdrive.

My ailments eventually were given the diagnoses of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction,  and irritable bowel syndrome.  The worst symptom was the bladder pain — a deep internal nerve pain that seemed to spark a primal kind of panic. In a survey reported on Prevention magazine’s online site in 2014, physicians listed the top ten most painful conditions, and interstitial cystitis was third on the list.

In the beginning the pain was extremely debilitating, so I quit working and focused        full-time on healing for over five years. I tried almost everything Western medicine had    to offer,  including multiple medications,  instillations  (medication put into the bladder with a catheter), shots into the pelvic-floor muscles, and physical therapy. I also checked my skepticism and tried complementary treatments, such as yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, Reiki, and two types of holistic bodywork, CranioSacral Therapy (CST) and Myofascial Release (MFR).
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I was in pain for about a year when I noticed that whenever I was stressed, the pain   would increase,  and that when I had more loving or open thoughts, my body relaxed      and the pain levels would drop.  Once I made that connection  between my mind  and    body, the pain became more than simply a physical disease; it evolved into an internal alert mechanism. The discomfort signaled me that when areas of my life or my person needed attention, and it also motivated me to change so I could feel better. It was like      an obnoxious GPS (global positioning system)  kept telling me when I was off course.

When the pain reared up, I took care of my body and I also looked within to see what      was happening in my life and what thoughts,  emotions,  or beliefs had been triggered.         I wrote in a journal, spent time in introspection, and worked with therapists. Over the years, I unearthed buried emotions, subconscious beliefs, and behavioral patterns.

I realized that I had shut down much of the emotional, intuitive, and sexual sides of me, and I worked to gradually open back up. About four and a half years into healing repressed memories surfaced, and I remembered being raped by a priest as a young girl. It was really hard to believe those blocked memories,  but they completely aligned with the memories I had not repressed,  and my siblings told me  they were sure the molestation had occurred.

The resurrection of that horrific truth enabled me to make sense of much of my life, and      I came to appreciate that the pelvic pain was not only a sign that my body was breaking down but also a signal that it was finally time to acknowledge, process, and heal what was hurting within me.

Over the healing years, a spiritual side of me that had been buried came alive again, and      I gradually began to appreciate how my experience was reflected in all parts of me—body, mind, and spirit. As my connection to the love that flowed within me grew stronger, I also felt more connected to the people in my life  and the world around me,  my relationships and life experiences became easier, richer and more enjoyable.  Both my inner and outer life began to reflect two other definitions of healing: to make sound or whole and to patch up a breach or division.

It is such a challenge to feel pain and fear and not to become pain and fear. But the more    I loved myself, even when I was hurting, and the more I encouraged myself, even when I was in despair, the more I connected with my essential self.  That was how my  suffering became a catalyst for transformation. It wasn’t that I began to change into someone else; rather, I started uncover and express my authentic self.

At that point, I began to experience a beautiful part of the healing definition:                       to restore to original integrity.
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One definition of healing—to restore to original purity—wasn’t fully true of my experience. For me, healing was definitely not about becoming pure or perfect.  In fact, it was about feeling safe enough with myself to acknowledge my imperfections and weaknesses, and it was the struggle to accept or address those flaws that led to greater self-knowledge.

I learned that healing is about allowing your true self to be seen by yourself and by others, experiencing your humanness with eyes wide open, and learning and growing from the experience.

Healing can help us move out of physical or emotional suffering or simply live with more peace and connection. As we heal, we release resistance so that more love can flow to us and through us. If you are on a healing journey – I have information and inspiration for you.

Letting Emotions Live

I was sitting at my mother’s bedside during one of our last visits. At that point, she had suffered with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for years and was almost completely paralyzed. We both knew the end was near, and I was reading her a letter that described all the ways she had influenced my life. Afterward, I buried my face in my hands and sobbed.
My mother looked over at me, and with obvious discomfort, she said, “You will be fine.”
“I know I will be fine. But I will miss you so much.”
“I would like you to read that letter at my funeral.”
“I don’t think I can do it. I might break down.”
“No, you won’t. You know what to do,” she assured me. “You’ll get up there and handle it.”

And I did. A few weeks later, I read that whole letter at her funeral without a tear or a tremble in my voice. But the intense emotion I was feeling had to go somewhere. When chronic pelvic pain descended five years after my mother died, I would come to appreciate how holding a lifetime of unexpressed emotion had affected my bodyIt’s probably not a coincidence that I eventually developed a condition that no longer allowed me to deny my emotions. Whenever I held onto grief, anger, resentment, or fear, my body would tighten up or cry out in pain. In order to get better, I had to acknowledge those feelings and find ways to let them flow through me.

One simple example of my newfound ability to let my emotions flow happened in the fifth year of healing, when I dropped off my daughter at the airport for her flight back to college after a holiday visit at home. At the curb in front of the terminal, I leaned over and gave her a hug and said cheerfully, “Have a great flight! I love you!” She hopped out of the car, and smiling, we both waved goodbye. But as I was driving away, I thought, Wait a minute! How do I really feel Immediately, and to my surprise, I started to sob. I pulled over and cried for a half hour. Then, like a summer storm, the dark cloud passed and I felt peaceful again.
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That’s when I realized I was experiencing my life in a whole new way. This may not sound good, but it really is. Because my body became (and remains) more fluid, healthy, and free. Before, I was numb to the emotional pain in my life, but I also didn’t feel intense joy, wonder, and connection. Now, I feel all of it—the exuberant and the excruciating!

Not everyone shoves down negative emotions. Some people explode with anger or frustration; others continually seep out negativity like a toxic stream of consciousness. For those who are consumed by constricting emotions, the key may be to feel them without becoming them. For those with only one emotional response, like anger, perhaps the way forward is to recognize and appreciate the range of emotions underneath this habitual response. For example, if you dig a little deeper to understand why you are angry, you may find other emotions lurking under there, like fear or anxiety, which may actually have preceded and triggered the anger.

In all cases, healing is acknowledging and owning our constricting emotions, and learning to release them in ways that don’t create more problems for us and the people around us.

Listening to a New Voice

The first step in chipping away at my emotional issues was to admit that they even existed. I’d been in the same body-mind state for as long as I could remember. I thought that was just me, my natural self. But in the depths of pain two months into my illness, I listened to my mind’s chatter and realized that another part of me was listening, too. From deep down within me, a knowing rose to my consciousness—that my thought patterns were not the whole of me. I realized that if those habitual ways of thinking were changed, I would still exist. I would still be me. This awareness that I was more than my spinning mind was the first chink in my armor, and it launched my journey to discover who I was beyond those habitual mindsets that had dominated my being for so long.
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The voices of others that resound in our ears as children often become our inner voice and limit us throughout our lives. These internal messages are individual and varied, but often they are controlling and judging. Common phrases for me were: “Don’t be a bother.” “Who do you think you are?” “You’re too ______.” This last one was filled in with many different adjectives, all of which had negative connotations.

Recognizing that this inner voice is separate from your authentic self is the first step in breaking its hold over your heart and mind. The more you hear that inner voice for what it is and challenge the messages it has imprinted on your mind, the quieter it gets.

Without all that negative chatter, you will start to hear another voice from your very essence begin to whisper. This voice is compassionate, accepting, and loving, and it says things like: “You are unique.” “You are valuable.” “You belong.” “You are enough.” If you allow it, this little voice will build to a roar and resound throughout your entire being.
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Healing with Awareness has activities for each chapter that help readers use the presented concepts. Here is an example that matches the reading above:
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Spend at least five minutes alone in a quiet, safe place where you will not be disturbed. Tune in to the internal soundtrack that narrates your life. What is on your mind?
Consider writing down your thoughts as soon as they come into your mind.
Try the following activities to consciously move your focus away from this mental chatter:
Pull your thoughts into the present by observing the sights and sounds in your environment. When your thoughts wander, gently refocus on the stimulation coming in from your five senses.
Notice the areas where your body is holding tension and consciously try to relax them.
Move the body in a repetitive way, such as walking, running, biking, or swimming, and focus on the sensations of the body.
Perform an activity (like gardening or washing the dishes) and focus on the sights, sounds, and feel of the action.

From Fear to Love

I’ve experienced and witnessed how the internal focus can switch from a fear-based mindset to a love-based mindset.

For example, about six years into healing, I was visiting with Alex Sr. (my father-in-law). He held my first book, which had been recently published, in his hand and pointed to the multi-colored swirl on the cover that moved from red at the base, through all the colors of the rainbow, to purple at the top. For many, this is just a cool-looking graphic, but others can appreciate the colors of the body’s energy centers, or chakras, and how the colors flow from the red of the root chakra, where the pain originated for me, and rise to the indigo of the sixth chakra, or third eye, which represents spiritual insight.

Alex Sr. had no knowledge of any of this when he said, “This shows your pain,” as he pointed to the red area, “and this is your healing,” as he traced the colors upward. “Your story lets people know that healing is possible,” he continued. “And when you know it is possible, it can happen.”
His insight was surprising to me because I had never told him what I had gone through and he hadn’t read the book. It was difficult to communicate because he had lost much of his hearing and English was not his first language, and I wasn’t sure he would be interested in the details, anyway.

He then told me about the new data from the Hubble Space Telescope, which led scientists to estimate the number of stars in the observable universe to be 1029, one hundred octillion (the number one followed by thirty zeroes). He shared how this number boggled his mind and how he often looked up at the stars, marveling at the vastness of the universe.

Then, almost as if a switch had flipped, Alex Sr. started to talk about losing his driver’s license and independence, and he became anxious and fearful. He had children who would have loved to help him, but he refused to accept the support. His fierce independence and hyper-vigilance had helped him survive as a fatherless child in Yugoslavia in the middle of World War II, but now this pattern was causing him to suffer.

I recognized these two contrasting states because I had experienced them myself. As I healed and my body-mind relaxed, I could feel more love within me and I sensed more of  a connection with everything around me. It was only then that I understood how ramped up my system had been before and how the post-traumatic stress of my childhood had often solidified my mind and body into the reactive survival mode.

When we appreciate fear-based beliefs and behaviors and decide to update them with more loving ones, we move from being internally quiet to becoming progressively more still. When you are still, different perceptions can float into your awareness, and you may experience your life (even the same settings and situations) in a whole new way.

For example, about nine years into healing, I was walking in my neighborhood when           I heard my inner voice saying, I’m spinning and depleted. Just then, another voice came through: Are you sure about that? In that moment I realized I was also grounded and full, and my perception shifted. I could see to the edges of the horizon, and the sky arched over me like a big turquoise marble dotted with wispy white clouds. Along with this expanded view came the knowledge that when we switch our focus, we can change our experience.

From: Healing with Awareness. Activating the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection to Restore Health and Well-Being!     https://www.healing-body-mind-spirit.com/

Quantum Physics proves that we are all instantaneously connected by principles                of Quantum Entanglement. Using principles of interconnectedness, we can all be energetically understood and energetically healed, immediately.

E = mc2 All is energy. By changing energy, changes occur.

Nice True Story…Heaven sounds Very Peaceful and Beautiful …                                       Everyone is Treated the same…Amen to that

Wow, once again, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. OMG …. this is a brilliant video and so beautiful . My heart and soul really needed this , all of us need       this (O: <3 I keep watching it over and over again.

To what extent our core beliefs and our intention create the reality we experience?        How can we learn to deal with fear and to reconnect with our true self?
“The more deeply we experience our true nature, the more present, light, and vibrantly alive we become. Our passion for touching the mystery of existence continually opens doors to the miraculous and magical, and creates anew.” Anamika’s website: http://www.anamika.com

Our lives are magnificent puzzles, each connected to the other within the unimaginable energy filed. When we die, these pieces come together and life is complete. Within this construct we can’t look at illness and disease as isolated events, unconnected to body, mind and spirit’s purpose. To live profoundly, it is essential to see that everything is connected–creativity as well as challenges 🙂