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The desire to defy age is as ancient as human history, but in the past 10 years a multibillion-dollar industry has sprung up in America promising decades of extra life and good health beyond your 100th birthday.  However, a new book has revealed a disturbing lack of safety regulation,  outrageous unproved medical claims,  risky products that could cause serious health problems, and a celebrity – dominated marketing machine promising an extended youth – much of it with little science to back it up. To defy disease all one has to do is Youtube Query two words Cancer Cures.

Not only the chemotherapy but ALL the three known methods of the Predominant medicine, which N. Shevchenko justly calls “inquisitorial”, cannot cure the person –  simply because cancer is not a reductionistic phenomenon, it is a holistic phenomenon!
This is why It is impossible — even theoretically!
None of them can remove
– the genetic predisposition of the organism to generate cancer cells!
Download here:
www.cancercureclinic.info/0002_Wellness-Strategy/i-120314-003_Veneta-Koicheva_PubADD-0007-02_EN.pdf
clarification in detail – why this is impossible even theoretically!

Furthermore: Chemotherapy (and moreover all of the inquisitorial methods) DO NOT work selectively! – chemotherapy kills not only the sick but also the healthy cells. Often  the patient dies not from cancer but from … chemotherapy.

Surgery and radiotherapy also cannot act selectively! It is impossible even in theory – because: In both methods are hurt micro formations (in other words – selectivity is impossible!) and cancer cells die through necrosis (rather than apoptosis) — the result: Active malignancy and metastases!

The therapeutic methodology of Shevchenko works
a) at the cellular level and
b) strictly selectively and with a markedly opposite effect:
– it kills the diseased cells and
– renews and heals the healthy ones – increasing their resistance and the resilience             of the whole organism.

Even in 1997 this therapeutic Methodology is presented in Russia
before the State Commission, which
recognizes it an invention and issues patent, registered under No 2075213.

A real-life proof of how this therapy cures cancer FINALLY – you can see from the fact:
– How I cured from cancer, even my dog Dolly!
The one who wants to not hopefully or wishfully, but truly be alive — can easily do the same:
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Moreover:
Not only the methods of the dominant medicine can not cure cancer even theoretically!

If you type only two (2) “magic” words in YouTube “cancer cure”

Why? – Because they all focus on killing cancer cells by necrosis! (this is a cell death by external intervention)

1) Any method that kills cancer cells by necrosis, can not cure cancer, even theoretically, but only accelerates the death of the organism – because it activates its defense system = causes the organism to begin to restore those killed cells and to multiply them – and so    the organism kills itself by cancer.

2) Only the method of Shevchenko does not kill cells by necrosis but activates the signal apoptosis. Thus it removes cancer cells by a way that is genetically programmed in the very organism – that is internal and natural for it and does not activate the defense system to restore the destroyed cancer cells — so the organism gets cured.
You can also email me for details – here is the contact form: http://www.cancercureclinic.info/Wellness-Strategy_ContactUS_EN.htm

Arlene Weintraub, who spent four years researching  Selling the Fountain     of Youth, says the anti-ageing industry has grown from virtually nothing to a staggering $88bn in 10 years, with few products and procedures regulated in the same way as normal pharmaceuticals and medical cures. Much of it is based on replacing the body’s hormones as people grow older.

But it also includes extensive use of products such as Botox, vitamin supplements and dietary fads. All have become hugely popular, but there is little proof that they work – or are 100% safe. Some female users of a popular hormone therapy called the Wiley Protocol have complained about their menstrual cycles starting again, with excessive bleeding and hair loss. The creator of the Wiley Protocol, a Californian called Susie Wiley, was found to have virtually no scientific or medical qualifications.

Such alarming reports have not slowed the huge expansion of the industry. The American Academy of Anti-Ageing Medicine (known by the acronym A4M) holds annual conferences that attract thousands of businessmen,  chemists and physicians, all hawking their wares. Some critics of the organization have dubbed it “all for the money” and also say it has spearheaded the idea that getting old is basically a treatable condition. Across America chains of “rejuvenation centers” have sprung up touting the latest “cures” for getting old.

Weintraub argues that the current demographics of America have made the country especially susceptible to an anti-ageing message. The “baby boomer” generation – some  77 million strong – is just hitting the retirement age and millions are looking for ways to prolong their health and lifespan. “This generation, probably more than any before, wants to grow old in a different sort of way,” Weintraub said. “Boomers have seen how their parents’ generation aged and are trying to avoid that scenario.”

She traces the birth of the anti-ageing industry to the discovery that human growth hormones used to treat stunted growth problems in children could also be used in      adults, and in many cases appeared to have a rejuvenating impact.   http://abcnews.go.com/WN/selling-fountain-youth-author-arlene-weintraub-anti-aging/story?id=11533763  

The industry spread to include the use of Botox, derived from the deadly botulinum toxin and originally intended to treat muscle disorders. But anti-ageing doctors also frequently prescribe hormones such as testosterone and oestrogen, that are derived from plants such as yams and soy beans. Weintraub has documented cases where people are using such large amounts of these hormones, sometimes as skin creams, that their partners are absorbing them when they lie next to them in bed at night.

She says the main problem is that government regulation is too light and safety rules not as tight as for normal drugs, which require extensive medical trials before they get federal approval. She also points out that as ageing is not classified as a medical problem – and thus is not covered by insurance companies – the anti-ageing industry is largely founded on patients buying treatments from their doctors, which can easily lead to abuse and lax safety standards.

We turn our attention to man’s best friend for the answers…

Dog Diversity

This genetic diversity and sharing of similar DNA, physiology, microscopic structure and molecular features between dogs and humans has presented cancer researchers with a key opportunity. Dogs not only develop similar types of cancers as humans, but their cancer responds to treatments in similar ways.

This means that new cancer treatments first shown to be effective in canine cancers         can frequently be predicted to have a similar benefit in human cancer patients. As a    result, researchers now recognize that new drug trials in dogs with cancer will result          in therapeutic discoveries that are highly “translatable”; that is, more likely to predict “real-life” medical responses in human cancer patients.

By studying how cancer responds in dogs, scientists are gaining a better understanding     of how new cancer drugs not only treat the cancer but also influence the patient’s overall quality of life during treatment.

This benefits dog owners, by providing access to promising new cancer treatments for their pets with cancer, and benefits human cancer patients by providing a rapid way to collect crucial data needed for FDA approval. https://source.colostate.edu/mans-best-friend-helping-cancer-treatment/

https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/january-2018/dogs-cure-cancer-penn-vet-symposium

Arlene Weintraub’s book explores a topic in cancer not often discussed: the drug development process and its effects on both people and dogs.

PUBLISHED March 31, 2016

What do dogs have to do with cancer research? “Heal,” which chronicles one woman’s research journey across the United States, explains  dogs get some of the same cancers as people, and, in veterinary clinical trials, have been among the first to try new types of medications that were eventually approved for both dogs and humans.

Author Arlene Weintraub — a frequent contributor to CURE magazine and a      lifelong dog owner – does more than share facts. She tells the stories of special dogs, their owners, the researchers who entered their lives — and her own loss of a loved

What do dogs have to do with cancer research? “Heal,” which chronicles one woman’s research journey across the United States, explains that dogs get some of the same cancers as people, and, in veterinary clinical trials, have been among the first to try new types of medications that were eventually approved for both dogs and humans. Author Arlene Weintraub — a frequent contributor to CURE magazine and a lifelong dog owner — does more than share facts. She tells the stories of special dogs, their owners, the researchers who entered their lives — and her own loss of a loved one to cancer.

With the FDA now willing to consider data from clinical trials in pet dogs as it reviews cancer drugs for human use, these pets and the owners who speak for them provide vital information about efficacy, side effects and dosing.

In fact, some of today’s most promising cancer treatment techniques are being developed with help from man’s best friend, including T cell immunotherapies and engineered viruses, Weintraub explains.  Dogs are also contributing to cancer research through their uncanny ability to sniff out human cancers, and also scientists are working on diagnostic devices that can mimic this ability.

Writing the book brought Weintraub hope as she grieved the loss of her sister to gastric cancer. “I had been writing about science for a long time, however when my sister got sick   and died, I lost all hope that anything that did well in trials was going to make much of a difference,” she says. “But as I started

Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures (ECW 2015).

Drawn from extensive research, on-the-ground reporting, and personal experience, this book explores the fascinating role dogs are playing in the search for a cure for cancer. Learn how veterinarians and oncologists are working together to discover new treatments — cutting-edge therapies designed to help both dogs and people suffering from cancer.

Heal introduces readers to the field of comparative oncology by describing several research projects aimed at finding new therapies for cancers that are similar in dogs and people, including lymphoma, osteosarcoma, breast cancer, melanoma, and gastric cancer.

Weintraub, who lost her sister to gastric cancer, also writes about the emerging science behind the remarkable ability of dogs to sniff out early-stage cancer, and the efforts underway to translate that talent into diagnostic devices for early detection of the disease. In the course of bringing these dogs and their human companions to life, Weintraub takes her own personal journey from grief to healing, as she shows her readers how man’s best friend might be the key to unlocking the mysteries of cancer.

Praise for Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures

“A new book stems from a truth many a dog owner knows: Man’s best friend is deeply susceptible to cancer.” —Newsweek “Best Books About Cancer.” Read more here.

“Science writer Weintraub (Selling the Fountain of Youth) introduces readers to the field of comparative oncology in this analysis of research into treatments for cancers that are similar in dogs and people.  These ailments include lymphoma,  osteosarcoma,  breast cancer,  melanoma,  and gastric cancer.  Driven by her professional curiosity,  lifelong love of dogs, and grief after losing her sister to gastric cancer in 2010, Weintraub visits eight universities over two years.

The book chronicles her interviews with researchers, whose fields include the quest for cancer-killing viruses  (virotherapy), and also testing potential treatments on pet dogs   with cancer; trials with metformin, a glucose-lowering pill that’s used to treat diabetes; and the use of sniffing dogs for early detection of some kinds of cancer.

Anyone interested in translational science, innovative developments in cancer research,    or treating pets with cancer will find this book a valuable resource. It includes lists of institutions doing comparative oncology research, related books, clinical trials, and funding sources. Readers will share Weintraub’s growing appreciation for the canine      and feline subjects (and their owners) who are helping to advance cancer research.” —Publishers Weekly (Copyright © 2015 PWxyz, LLC)

“…chock-full of thought-provoking data-backed stories, in which experts in canine and human cancer weigh in….Ms. Weintraub has produced a fine book about the hope and possibilities that abound in today’s era of cancer research and treatment. This book is highly recommended….” American Society of Clinical Oncology’s ASCO Post.                 Read more here.

“[A]n incredibly important report….This book is science, emotion and love of dogs             all mixed together.” —Steve Dale, “My Pet World,” Tribune Media Services.                         Read more here.

“Author Arlene Weintraub— is a frequent contributor to CURE magazine and a lifelong      dog owner—does more than share facts. She tells the stories of special dogs, their owners, the researchers who entered their lives—and her own loss of a loved one to cancer.” —CURE. Read more here.

“The author did a wonderful job researching the topics and presenting them in such a    way that even the most difficult medical terminology could be understood by the common lay person. If you love dogs and want to learn how our faithful companions are helping us extend our lives, this is definitely a book to look into. I highly recommend it!”—Night Owl Reviews “Top Pick.” Read more here.

“In a new book, Heal, dog lover and science journalist Arlene Weintraub conducts a brisk and often-moving tour of the frontier of comparative oncology. She describes cutting-edge research aimed at treatments for such ailments as lymphoma,  breast cancer,  and gastric cancer, the last of which took the life of Weintraub’s older sister, Beth, at the age of 47—a loss that animates the author’s account.” —BloombergBusiness.com. Read more here.

“Beautifully written and superbly researched, Heal makes a compelling case for increased collaboration between the human and veterinary medical fields. Engaging and emotional, Heal is an important book for scientists, animal lovers and anyone interested in the vulnerabilities  we humans share with animals.” —Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, co-authors of Zoobiquity

Heal is a fantastic read for anyone that loves dogs (and cats) and has wondered what    role animals should play in cancer research. Heal chronicles translational research in a way that is informative, understandable and heartwarming, making us cheer for cancer patients and the veterinarians that care for them.  An Emperor of All Maladies  for  dog lovers, this book distills the science of cancer research down to the compassion and love for animals that drive us to find better cancer treatments for animals and their humans. Heal explores our symbiotic relationship with the pets that we share our homes, our beds, our cancers and, hopefully, our cures with.” —Dr. Sarah Boston, author of Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved my Life

Heal is a very easy read of a complex problem: cancer, and how pet animal cancer can help solve cancer in all species. It contains an interwoven mix of stories from pet owners, veterinary scientists and the author’s own personal reflections of her sister’s gastric malignancy. The recurring theme is under recognition of the value of spontaneous cancer in pets as models for human disease. In a time when cancer research dollars are in decline and with historic dependency of cell culture and rodent modeling, it seems timely to consider a real life cancer model in pet animals to test new agents, devices and techniques. Pet owners and the veterinary community stand ready to engage in thoughtful, creative and humanely performed research to benefit all species.” —Stephen Withrow, Founder and Associate Director of the Colorado State University Flint Animal Cancer Center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVLH8YNkQ7E

Dr. Nicole Ehrhart is a professor of surgical oncology at CSU’s Flint Animal Cancer Center.

Her research in canine bone cancer has revolutionized therapies for child patients, doubling survival rates for childhood osteosarcoma.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBUY6z3thtU

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The Rough Edges of Life

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“Music smoothes the rough edges of life,” says Robin Spielberg in a recent interview.  “It speaks to us when words fail, and expresses our deepest emotions”.   Ms. Spielberg discovered her passion for music as a young girl and began formal piano lessons at the age of seven. By the time she turned ten, Robin had composed more than fifty songs. Growing up within miles of New York City, Spielberg often frequented the Broadway theater district with her family.
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   Her love for the American Musical flourished and she began arranging popular  American songs from theater and film alongside her classical training.  With interests        in both  theater and music,  Spielberg earned a BFA in drama from New York University.   A founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, she acted in over 60 off – broadway plays and radio dramas, and composed the scores to several others while building a career as one of the premiere piano room performers in New York City.    Robin’s Artist Page  🙂

It was in these piano rooms in the late 80’s and early 90’s that Spielberg first introduced her original piano solos. Audiences returned time and time again to hear Robin’s unique arrangements and original music. In 1993, at the urging of her listeners, Robin recorded her debut, Heal of the Hand.   This album earned rave reviews and was picked up by the North Star music label the following year,   becoming their best selling album for both 1994 and 1995.

 Ms. Spielberg began her concert career in 1996. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in        a sold – out performance at the Weill Recital Hall in 1997 and has performed there twice since.  Other memorable performances include a guest spot on the PBS television special, The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with Thomas Moore; live performances on CBS Saturday Morning,  Good Morning Arizona, Life Time Live,  CBS New Orleans,  a private concert  for the factory workers  at  the  Steinway & Sons historic piano factory in New York,  and a month-long concert tour through rural Montana with Steinway in tow.

Her music has been heard by over 53 million listeners on Pandora Radio (the world’s largest internet radio station) and has been featured in live performances on “CBS Saturday Morning”, “ABC News” and “Lifetime Live” and “The Great American Ballroom Challenge” on PBS.  A prolific composer,  Spielberg has 17 recordings  to  her credit  and appears on over 40 compilations around the world. Her discography includes albums of original piano solos, her arrangements of American standards,  original pieces for piano/ ensemble, recordings for the holidays, a CD of Americana melodies, and a CD of lullabies.

Robin’s newest recording is “Another Time, Another Place” which was named by MainlyPiano.com as one of the best piano releases of 2015. It was nominated for a        ZMR Award (given by radio), and the Whisperings Solo Piano music award.  Her          sheet music is popular throughout the world. Robin has released two CDs in Korea          and is on several compilations on Asian labels. She has toured South Korea making concert appearances at the renowned Seoul Arts Center , LG Arts Center and KBS         Hall. She recorded a special concert for Airiang TV, which aired throughout Asia.

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Robin’s memoir, “Naked on the Bench: My Adventures in Pianoland,” won a Gold Medal in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Award contest.  In it,  the artist demystifies the life of a touring artist with humor, poignancy and a dose of harsh reality. Praised as a  “must read”  for anyone going into the arts by the Kirkus Review, Robin narrates the audiobook version with finesse and with  (iTunes/audible.com).  Robin’s music has been heard on the History Channel and in several documentaries. Her music has served as the soundtrack for both the 2013 and 2014 Lantos Human Rights Prize videos (awarded to Hilary Clinton and Shimon Peres).
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 In the field of dance, ballroom waltzes were choreographed to her pieces, Walk with Me and A Song for Jennie on PBS’ Great American Ballroom Challenge. University ballroom teams, including The BYU Dance Team, have toured with her work, and international ballroom  competitions have utilized her music for the compulsory waltz portion of competitions.
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 Robin Spielberg is a Celebrity Spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association.  Robin Spielberg’s interest in music and healing grew when she witnessed first-hand,   the positive effect music had on her own baby daughter (born prematurely) during her four-month stay in the neo-natal intensive care unit. A CD entitled Beautiful Dreamer was the musical result of this experience, a recording of lullabies and songs for the parent & child on solo piano. Ms. Spielberg’s work with music and wellness has been documented in The New York Times and in segments on LifeTime Live and ABC News.
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 For my daughter, Valerie, She is going to kindergarten against all odds –  She was born four months premature, and is a surviving twin. They were born too early and were too little – I was only 23 weeks pregnant. I had a great pregnancy except it was too short, and no one knows exactly what went wrong. Valerie had to stay in intensive care for four months, which was very hard on her, and hard on us. It was a very emotional, crazy kind of time. No one could visit her, no one could touch her – her eyes weren’t even open yet; they were fused shut. She was on a respirator for six weeks and had heart surgery. It was a roller coaster ride.
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One day we’d hear that the baby did well, and the next day it was, “Say your final words    to her – she’s dying.” That happened many times. Life is so incredibly fragile at that stage. I could hold her in the palm of my hand – she only weighed a pound at birth. We visited with her and kind of held a vigil there at the hospital. There wasn’t much we could do except pray and hope. She had to go into an incubator because she was so small.
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She was wrapped in Saran Wrap because her skin was so delicate it would fall apart. She was the size of a Beanie Baby. At the hospital, they encouraged us to communicate with her – to sing, to talk with her, to try to bond. At that early age, babies can handle very little stimulation, and there are a lot of stimuli in a hospital. They can’t help it! The lights have to be on, and machines are beeping and making noises, and this is distressing to babies.

Very early on, I brought in my music, and the nurses noticed that when the music was playing near Valerie at a very soft volume, her vital signs improved. It helped the babies around her, too. It wasn’t a fluke, because it went on for four months, and it was very consistent and very clear. As a musician and as a mommy, I knew that music makes you feel better. Over the years, I have received hundreds of beautiful letters from people saying my music has helped them get through difficult times.

This was different, though, and the reason it was different is that this was a baby who wasn’t even quite a baby yet – she was more of a fetus. Her heart and lungs were still developing and her eyes were shut – how could there be this response? What is going on physically in the human body when it listens to music that is pleasing or not pleasing? I became very fascinated with that because it wasn’t subjective anymore. It wasn’t like someone saying “I like jazz. It makes me feel groovy.” It’s as clean as it gets as far as case study goes.
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I started poking around on the Internet, finding articles on music and healing, and doctors and other people who knew what was going on would point out articles on music therapy for me to read. I started going to the Journal of American Medicine website and reading all these different studies on music and its effects on the physical body. This is about heart rates slowing, oxygen saturation levels in the blood, measurement of endorphin levels – things like that.
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In my searches, I stumbled across the American Music Therapy Association website (www.musictherapy.org), which is full of information. I wrote to them, and we started a conversation about what was going on with Valerie. That was about five years ago. Two years ago, we had a meeting in Washington. They were looking for a spokesperson who would advocate on their behalf without any promise of personal gain in their career – someone who has lived through this. I really wanted to bring attention to what the organization does, and to enlighten people.

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My job as their spokesperson is to let young people know that there are careers in music therapy – I speak to a lot of college and high school students. It’s a rapidly growing field, and it’s where a love for healing and medicine and a love for music meet. If I had known about it when I was in college, I probably would have majored in it. Most people don’t even know music therapy exists, so I’m trying to change that. I also go to hospitals, community centers, and schools, and do workshops.

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I talk about my experiences with Valerie and do a mini-performance, and then a Certified Music Therapist talks about the training, what the day-to-day work is like, and the different applications for music therapy – working with the elderly, Alzheimer’s patients, young babies, children with autism, people having chemo, working in hospitals. Eventually, the music therapist will be accepted as part of the healing team. I think where it is now is where acupuncture was a decade ago. People thought it was too new and weird, and now insurance is covering it. Same thing with chiropractic medicine.
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That’s what’s happening in music therapy. Some of the insurance companies are starting to cover it, and the reason they are doing so is that they cannot ignore the evidence. If you have a music therapist in the hospital, the patient needs less pain medication and gets discharged earlier – this translates into dollars saved. Hospitals cannot ignore the facts, even if they do still think it’s voodoo! Music therapists are working alongside physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, oncologists, and whatever is needed – they are part of the team.
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It’s a very powerful thing. I’m really enjoying my relationship with AMTA, and look forward to their national conference in Minneapolis in November, where I’ll be their headliner/entertainer. More importantly, Larry, Valerie, and I will be sitting on a panel and speaking as a group for pediatrics and young babies.

I’ll get to meet my idol, Dr. Jane Stanley, who has devoted her 30+ year medical career      to studying the effects of music in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Her popular 2013 TEDx TALK on music & wellness (now on youtube on the TEDx channel) has led to lectures and workshops throughout the U.S. in hospitals, schools, community centers,  nursing care facilities and performing arts centers.  Visits have included The Mayo Clinic, Eastern Tennessee State University Dept of Public Health, Fergus Fall Arts Center,  satin Joseph College School of Nursing in CT, Castleton State College in VT, The Kerr Cultural Center in AZ  and  The PA Psychological Association. Robin donates $1 from the sale of each Beautiful Dreamer CD to music therapy research.

Spielberg graduated with high honors and a BFA from New York University and is an Adjunct Professor at Millersville University in the music department. She is a founding   member of the Tony-award winning Atlantic Theater Company.  She currently resides       in rural Pennsylvania with her husband/business partner, and their teenaged daughter. Photos, interviews, reviews, a listening room. Video clips of performances and current touring itinerary can be found on the artist’s web site at    www.robinspielberg.com.       Robin Spielberg is represented on tour by Kosson Talent. (www.kossontalent.com).

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Live in the Flow of Life!!!

Stage IV Cancer – 1 Year Later 17 min read

 Jan 21, 2018 by Jenine Kinsella

HELLO BEAUTIFUL! It feels so good to write again. My latest setback with cancer  these past couple of months have made my intentions to post on this blog weekly difficult. When the cancer was on a better course, meaning it was almost impossible to see on a CT scan for almost 6 months, I was able to go for my treatments every three-weeks.

In-between treatments I felt completely normal, and actually felt more like myself than      I had in a long time.  I had more time .… more time for my family and friends, more time    to write, more time to read, meditate and do Bible Study. I even time to pursue my holistic skincare, and Young Living Essential Oil business…..in my early days of diagnosis, I never thought this would be possible.

But my scan results this past November showed the tumors had reared its ugly head     back into my lungs, and the tumor in my liver grew in size as well.  So the course of my treatment changed to a more aggressive chemotherapy.  Plus,  my  treatments  are  back every two-weeks instead of every three-weeks. The accumulation of the chemo drugs over the past year make my recovery time much longer. Most times I do not feel well for entire week.

Losing two weeks each month to side effects from chemotherapy…..SUCKS.

For those who have been following my journey, you know in addition to modern medicine, I believe in a holistic based approach to healing.

Getting chemotherapy, and living holistically are on the opposite sides of the spectrum.

It may seem counterproductive, but I truly believe supporting my body with nutrition, emotional support, supplements, and a healthy lifestyle is just what I need for my immune system while going through the trauma of chemotherapy.

Balancing Western Medicine With a Holistic Lifestyle

Chemotherapy will only kill the symptoms of cancer, ie, tumors, but diet and lifestyle changes may give me the opportunity to overcome and possibly “cure” cancer. While I am grateful for chemotherapy and believe it will help rid the tumors in my body, it’s also important to support the body mentally, spiritually and physically as well. Despite what the conventional western medical professionals believe, cancer doesn’t just come out of nowhere. It’s not just a case of bad luck.

Instead, it is my conviction that cancer, or disease of ANY kind is an total imbalance          in your body, and your immune system.  Whether genetic,  emotional,  environmental, or diet, something in the body is off. Finding the root cause of this cancer while balancing the body with the right diet  and supplements,  staying away from alcohol,  eliminating stress, creating positivity, and staying active is vital when you are fighting a disease. Overcoming and healing cancer is my number one priority.

My Holistic Approach

About every 60 days I meet with my Integrative Doctor who talks with me about my side effects. She examines me and takes a full blood workup, and tests for bacterial overgrowth and inflammation. We meet shortly after with my bloodwork results which is treated with targeted supplementation and diet.

The biomarkers taken is much more examined compared to conventional testing. I           am evaluated as an individual and how MY body responds to the recommended diet,     and lifestyle recommendations. Of course my chemotherapy drugs are taken under consideration.

My Doctor will then determine what my body is lacking and prescribes and/or suggests supplements to balance my body while making my compromised immune system strong. Currently, I am on supplements and natural compounds which support immune system, colon, liver, kidneys, as well as high doses of essential vitamins and nutrients my body is lacking. Regular coffee enemas to clean the liver, as well as sauna therapy is also strongly recommended. I can talk more about coffee enemas and saunas for healing in another blog post.

While I am grateful for chemotherapy and believe it will help rid the tumors in my body, it’s important that I also support my body mentally, spiritually and physically as well.

Healing Foods & Drinking Butter In My Coffee

One of the biggest revelations I made after I made the plunge into a whole food diet was how food obsessed our culture is. Before I was diagnosed with cancer, eating out was quite a hobby of mine. But the truth is, restaurant and man-made food is full of preservatives, sugar, and heavy oils. Not to mention they are nutritionally deficient.

If you want to heal cancer or any other disease, your diet has to either promote health or promote disease.

I made a choice very early on to make HUGE changes to what I put into my body. And I never felt better! I follow an organic plant based diet. I am NOT 100% vegan because I indulge in fish and eggs a few times a month. Also, Butter Coffee, aka, Keto Coffee, or a Bulletproof Coffee has been my morning cup of Joe. A Butter Coffee is made with unsalted, grass fed butter, and MCT oil added to a brewed cup of organic coffee. I could write an entire post about Butter Coffee so I will just quickly summarize.

Butter Coffee

The idea of a Butter Coffee is to give the body fat to fuel us for the entire day. Technically Butter Coffee was introduced to those who follow a Keto diet. A Keto diet is a low carb diet designed to produce ketones in the liver to be used as energy instead of using glucose as energy.  The result and goal is for the body to be a metabolic state of ketosis.  Being in a ketosis state is a healthy way to lose weight, produce more brain power and have more physical endurance.

Butter coffee must be made with organic coffee free of synthetic pesticides. When soil is natural, coffee is more nutritious,  resulting in healthier plants and beans.  Butter coffee      is made with a french pressed cup of coffee, blended with unsalted grass-fed butter, and MCT oil.  MCT Oil is a concentrated form of coconut oil.

It’s easy to digest and metabolize. The combination of organic coffee, the fat in the     grass fed butter, and the MCT oil make an amazing, healthy, and energizing cup of coffee. Actually, it makes me feel like superwoman each morning.  And the best part, you are not filling up your cup with sugar or other artificial ingredients to make the coffee taste better.  It is decadent, and DELICIOUS I promise.

Read more about the health benefits and how to make it here.

Making a Decision to Promote Health in Every Bite I Take.

Very early in my diagnosis I cut out beef and chicken from my diet. Later I ditched dairy, processed sugar, junk food, and gluten. Juicing and smoothies have become part of my daily diet as well. The results of eating this way have given me a ton of energy, improved my mood, and make me rebound from chemotherapy nicely. My hair thinned incredibly from treatment. I had to shave my head back in April, but I did not lose my hair entirely. It’s actually growing in a ton lately! Not losing my hair is a true testament to how strong my body still is.

While I have learned a lot about the body during my healing journey. I do not believe in      a one size fits all approach to disease, especially cancer. A lot of people ask me for advice on what diet to follow, but what works for me many not work for others. Some people will thrive including meat in their diet, while others really should stay away. It’s the same with fermented foods like homemade Sauerkraut.

Eating fermented foods do wonders on my gastrointestinal system, but some people      have told me they suffer gastrointestinal pain  from ingesting fermented foods.  One     strong belief I will share with you is this…..filling your plate 80% organic vegetables at every single meal, eliminating processed sugar, gluten, ALL dairy milk and cheese, and taking the time to feel what your body needs/wants after every single meal will change your life. This means also ditching junk food and take-out food. #sorry

The Mind Body Connection To Cancer

Research shows that cancer formation thrives on negative emotions.  Negativity includes  constant stress, resentment, anger, bitterness, etc.   Research also shows that there is a “cancer personality”, and that 90% of disease stems from negativity, and stress.

Whatever your belief system is, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that  suggests the mind-body connection and disease is very strong.  Look,  everyone has      stress, and negative emotions, but it’s how we react to our emotions that could make        all the difference.  When you are depressed, or stressed, and in a fight or flight mode,    your body is pumped and full of adrenaline ready to fight a tiger.

But instead of fighting a tiger, we are similarly stressed over seemingly everyday annoyances like work, traffic, etc..  The amount of adrenaline in modern society is unnatural and causes imbalance in our bodies.  Daily meditation,  yoga,  exercise,           and good night’s rest, are just some easy steps you can take to control innevatable        stress we all face in this day and age.

Doing Yoga vs. Learning Yoga

I have been practicing Yoga for 15 years. From Hatha to Hot Yoga, Vinyasa to Qigong,          I have tried them all. There have been years I’ve consistently done yoga daily and years where I didn’t practice yoga at all.

But my interest in practicing yoga every single day even my chemo days has never         been more important than it is now. A few months ago I read a book by Brad Willis    called “Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life”.

Brad Willis, a News Foreign Correspondent healed and cured his broken vertebrae, addiction to alcohol and painkillers, and ready for this…….Stage IV throat cancer with yoga, diet, and ayurveda medicine.

Now, don’t get me wrong the author didn’t just roll out his yoga mat one day and presto   he was healed.  Instead, after hitting rock bottom  and  on the brink of death,  NEVER practicing yoga, he became open-minded. And not only did he practice yoga poses, but    the yoga philosophy, and language as well. Yoga became his way of life….his breath, his religion. Whether you are a Yogi or not, this book was an INCREDIBLE read. It gives us   all encouragement and inspiration on how magnificent our bodies truly are. It also shows us how it is never too late to change our ways and heal. Our bodies are just incredible.          I encourage you all to read it!

My Best Intentions

There is so much I learned over this past year, and intend to use this website as my platform as much as I can. It’s makes me feel good to possibly inspire someone who           is going through cancer. I also want to encourage cancer survivors to take control of       their health.

When you are first diagnosed with a cancer, you are like a deer in headlights….this is natural.

But once you get your bearings, there are some really positive steps you can take to        heal your body.  Take control of your body and do whatever it takes to fight.  Stay open     and take a close look at your life…..diet, lifestyle, your environment, toxic chemicals, etc. Our bodies CAN heal. Nothing is impossible! God Bless you all.

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Can You Imagine Cancer Away!!

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I remember chatting with John Hughes on Facebook who is from Ireland, his father was a Faith Healer telling me the Basic for Faith Healing is the difference for Love for Life versus Fearing for your Life. One makes for a strong immune system and also fear releases cortisol that suppresses the immune system preventing one to fully heal themselves. I also absolutely believe in positive thinking. . . . Our thoughts can drain us or shape us!!!
 
This Journey started mid day for me on October 4, 2014  when Rosa “GracieSpoon”  Parkin introduced herself  to me inbox with a question about my belief in my favorite herb Aloe Vera. 
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As we began chatting it nearly felt I knew Rosa my whole life immediately with her effervescence.  Which She probably obtain. within her Studies of New Magic at CNAC Magie Nouvelle, Centre National Arts du Cirque and working all over Europe as a Magicienne.
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For seven months, Rosa and I chatted daily on Facebook sharing information back and forth. But I really didn’t realize Rosa’s true nature until we met in Portland, Oregon on Memorial Day Weekend 2015 when she decided to fly over from Brighton UK.
 
I remember the tight embrace, our walk and our talk in downtown Portland. She told      me when she first arrived into the Solitarius Facebook group. That she was bedridden with a 8cm tumor in her uterus unable to walk. However practical over night with the new found excitement and HOPE that tumour shrank down to nothing. Rosa was also crushed that she can get spoons to disappear but not her cancer completely  🙁
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She told me where the tumour was located she could feel its various with the different moods she experience  of  having cancer.  Bitterness, Anger and the fear of losing her       12 year old son Manu. What Rosa taught me on our walk was the emotional aspect of cancer ..a walk every wannabe doctor should take with a cancer patient!!
 
Cancer is an emotional roller coaster ride: while having a mind of its own. You can feel the ups &  downs throughout the experience. What drove Rosa to Portland, Oregon was the fear she was having when doctors told her she was about to give up a kidney.  Also with the frustration she was having in the UK of burning her money away. While trying to find a standardized batch of cannabis that would work for her….Rosa knew Lemon Haze Strain was her answer when she found quality oil. With the fears surmounting having been told when she was first dx’ed almost two years that she had 2 years …end    of life stress was starting to hit hard.  Doctors shouldn’t put an expiration date on a cancer patients LIfe.  Rosa Lived Just 5 days pass that date!  :'(
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My friend Rosa Parkin, It was with great sadness, when I learnt of Rosa’s passing on Sept 6th 2015, at aged 43, was a true friend and a magician, performer and traveler whose creative talents were matched by an incredible drive. Rosa had many chapters in her life, but found her ultimate metier in magic.
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She studied at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne, and as a female magician, she was a rarity. Rosa’s curiosity and wonder at the world drove her to explore,  but much of what she accomplished in her life had no road map:  she created artworks,  shows,  businesses,  and new starts in different countries from nothing,  over and over again, each time succeeding with aplomb. Her enthusiasm was infectious.
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The Day Rosa Died this rainbow came out over the coastline of Brighton UK                     where she lived. Some told me she worked her magic one last time to ease her                  family and friends mind.
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What Rosa feared the most was the swelling she experienced when she was doing any new type of  cancer treatment including chemotherapy. With best explanation being:  With any treatment initially the tumor swells do to inflammation  and then starts     to breakdown.  Also when it starts to breakdown it can release toxins in your body which     can cause fever and pain as the tumor decreased in size. Many doctors  should prescribed allopurinol to alleviate lactic acid when it dies. . . . to eliminate the pain you feel.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

How important is shrinking tumors?

Inflammation is closely linked to cancer, and many anti-cancer agents are used                   to treat inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Moreover, chronic inflammation increases the risk for various cancers, indicating that eliminating inflammation may represent a valid strategy for cancer prevention and therapy.

This article explores the relationship between inflammation and cancer with an emphasis on epidemiological evidence, summarizes the current use of anti-inflammatory agents for cancer prevention and therapy, and describes the mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer effects of anti-inflammatory agents.

Since monotherapy is generally insufficient for treating cancer, the combined use of anti-inflammatory agents and conventional cancer therapy  is also a focal point in discussion. In addition, we also briefly describe future directions that should be explored for anti-cancer anti-inflammatory agents.

Keywords: Inflammation, Cancer, Carcinogenesis, Anti-Inflammatory agents, NSAID, COX-2 inhibitor, Corticosteroids, Chemoprotection, Pharmacokinetics, Chemosensitization 

In many cases, it is critical to the survival of a cancer patient to shrink their tumors. However in many other cases, it is not life-threatening to leave a tumor alone and concentrate on stopping the spread of cancer.

Modern medicine, with its firm grasp of the art of making huge amounts of profits, has totally brainwashed the public into thinking that the size of every tumor is important in      a cancer treatment.   In many cases shrinking the tumor is critical.

However, orthodox medicine frequently shrinks tumors which are irrelevant to the survival of the patient. Here is a quote by Dr. Philip Binzel, M.D.:

  • “When a patient is found to have a tumor, the only thing the doctor discusses with that patient is what he intends to do about the tumor. If a patient with a tumor is receiving radiation or chemotherapy, the only question that is asked is, “How is the tumor doing?” No one ever asks how the patient is doing.
  • In my medical training, I remember well seeing patients who were getting radiation and/or chemotherapy. The tumor would get smaller and smaller, however, patients would be getting sicker and sicker. At autopsy we would hear, “Isn’t that marvelous! The tumor is gone!” Yes, it was, but so was the patient.  How many millions of times are we going to have to repeat these scenarios  before we realize  we are treating the wrong thing?

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 In most primary cancer, with only a few exceptions, the tumor is neither health-endangering nor life-threatening. I am going to repeat that statement. In primary cancer, with few exceptions, the tumor is neither health-endangering nor life-threatening. What is health-endangering and life-threatening is the spread of that disease through the rest of the body.

There is nothing in surgery that will prevent the spread of cancer.

There is nothing in radiation that will prevent the spread of the disease.

There is nothing in chemotherapy that will prevent the spread of the disease.

How do we know? Just look at the statistics. There is a statistic known as survival time. Survival time is defined as that interval of time between when the diagnosis of cancer is first made in a given patient and when that patient dies from his disease.

In the past 50 years,  tremendous progress has been made in the early diagnosis of     cancer.  In that period of time,  tremendous progress  had been made  in the surgical     ability to remove tumors. Tremendous progress has been made in the use of radiation    and chemotherapy in their ability to shrink or destroy tumors.  But,  the survival time         of the cancer patient today is no greater than it was 50 years ago. What does this mean?     It obviously means that we are treating the wrong thing.

Philip Binzel, M.D., Alive and Well, Chapter 14

While there are some alternative cancer treatments that do shrink tumors, and this    article is about those products, the focus on alternative cancer treatments is generally      on targeting and killing cancer cells,  or reverting cancer cells into becoming normal     cells. Shrinking tumors is generally secondary to alternative cancer treatments.

But again, in some cases the tumor is life-threatening.

For example, in some cases the tumor is pressing on a vital organ, causing pain, obstructing the flow of fluids, or for some other reason needs to be eliminated from the body. If the problem is life-threatening the solution is frequently solved with surgery because of the urgency of the situation.

It is important to understand that there is no alternative cancer treatment that is guaranteed to shrink tumors significantly in a short amount of time. Tumors are very complex and there is nothing that will work every time.

Not all alternative cancer treatments that shrink tumors are listed here, but the major treatments that have a history of shrinking tumors are listed here.

When the size of a tumor is critical, it can be assumed you do not want to swell the      tumor any more than it has already swollen. Most alternative cancer treatments will   cause a tumor to swell temporarily, then it may start to shrink.

Conventional Cures vs. Natural Cancer Cures

Conventional treatment for cancer is expensive. Expensive, because those that provide   the resources for this sort of care know that it is human nature to spend anything just to make sure that our loved ones don’t die, even if it means mortgaging the house, spending the children’s college funds, spending all your savings etc.

And then along come alternative, natural cancer cures that cost virtually nothing,               by comparison. The cancer industry goes into a spin. I also want to say, that if I were diagnosed with cancer,  I would not opt for surgery, radiation or chemotherapy as a       first resort.     Unless it is an aggressive cancer proven after testing?

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The problem with radiation is the more you are exposed to radiation the more chance you have of getting cancer. It is a fact that radiologists, years ago, had to wear lead jackets to protect themselves from the harmful rays.

Nowadays, they are given a small booth to screen themselves from the radiation taking place. The walls of the room used for this treatment are        lined with lead to prevent the radiation from leaking.

With chemotherapy the side-effects can be horrendous from losing one’s hair, to feeling weak and nauseous, among other things.

In both cases, neither chemotherapy, nor radiation can differentiate between healthy or cancerous cells, which means that they end up destroying a lot of good cells too! ALSO
Elyn Jacobs and Dr. Michael Schachter discuss cancer stems cells—cancer cells that are resistant to conventional treatment and which are the only cells that can metastasize and are responsible for recurrent and progressive disease.Chemotherapy and radiation do not kill CSCs- they make cancers grow faster and more virulently. Find out what you need to know from cancer coach/ radio personality Elyn Jacobs and guest Dr Michael Schachter MD on Survive and Live Well via www.elynjacobs.com.
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What do we know about Cancer Today?

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We know that cancer can be caused by our environment, genetics and our diet.
Again, I repeat, we are what we eat.
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Family History and Cancer

There are certain cancers that seem to “run in the family”. Some types of breast cancer and colon cancers seem to by typical of this. No one seems to know why, but perhaps it could be again diet related, as we often eat the same foods that we were given as a child. Just a thought.

Casein and Cancer

It is the casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein promotes all stages of the cancer process. Therefore, one should avoid all dairy products such as milk, cream, ice cream, butter, cheese.

Foci, are precursor clusters of cells that have the ability to become tumors. And although most foci do not become full-blown tumors, their presence is indicative of potential tumor development. It was found that there is a direct correlation between how much protein was eaten and foci cell development.

The more protein eaten, the more presence of foci cells. It has been found that prostrate cancer has been linked to a diet high in dairy. Those who have this sort of diet are twice to four times likely to get prostrate cancer than those who don’t.

Sugar and Cancer…. Sugar feeds cancer, it’s like throwing wood on a fire

Sugar when it enters the bloodstream upsets the balance of the pH level of the blood. For us to be free of disease,  we need to have a pH in our blood of 7.35 to 7.45  which is a fairly narrow range. When we eat certain foods, it can either make our blood more acidic or more alkaline. It is the foods that will make our blood more acidic that we have to watch, because it is in this environment that causes cancers to form. Sugar is one of cancer’s best feeders.  https://www.oncologynutrition.org/erfc/healthy-nutrition-now/sugar-and-cancer/

In our bodies we often have the fungus candida albicans. It is this fungus that feeds on sugary foods. It is also this fungus, that an Italian oncologist, Dr. Tullio Simoncini has earmarked as the cause of cancer, and he says that cancer is nothing more than a fungus.

Cancer is a Fungus

A mouth affected by candida albicans
Through careful observation and extrapolation of ideas, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, an oncologist, made the statement back in 1983 to his colleagues and peers of his discovery. His story and his methods of injecting sodium bicarbonate into the tumor is heavily criticized by those with the most to lose.
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It has become my belief that maybe Dr. Simoncini statement was half true and that maybe cancer isn’t fungus. But fungus that provides the perfect breeding ground for cancer to take hold inside the human body.
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The science on fasting is pretty exciting. DrNasha Winters discusses how simply fasting   for 12 or more hours at night can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence.

Here’s more details: http://highintensityhealth.com/197
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Also Dr. David Brownstein states, I am frequently asked by my patients if I had only one natural item to treat my patients with, which would it be? Though there are many natural items that provide such wonderful effects for the body, one nutrient stands head and shoulders above the rest — iodine.
In all my years of practicing medicine, I have yet to see one item provide such miraculous effects on the body as iodine does. In this article, I will show you the wonders of iodine and why you need to take a close look at your supplement regimen to ensure you are getting enough iodine daily.      https://hypothyroidmom.com/busting-the-iodine-myths/
So it’s equally important to know your nutritional profile at all times during your treatment!!!

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The importance of liver flushes

Another key issue with regards to shrinking tumors is that microbes and parasites       inside the organs must be killed in order to strengthen the immune system to ensure   the tumor will not return after it has been shrunk.  The root cause of a weak immune system is microbes and parasites in the organs.

Killing these microbes and parasites is what a liver flush is designed to do.

Liver flushes should always be used with any natural cancer treatment.

See the Reference Manual and look for the heading: “#3) Kill microbes and/or parasites in the organs (e.g. liver, pancreas)”:
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For your Liver Milk Thistle and Glutathione!!!

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Cleanse The System ~~~Nancy

 
Many people are trying to recover from cancer with non-toxic therapies.  This is an attainable goal and it is often achieved.  Patients often spend a lot more money than necessary and take huge numbers of pills, many of which do not have a direct bearing      on their problem and may even block progress.  More may not be better!

People sometimes tell me that they were perfectly healthy until the cancer suddenly appeared. I point out that they were not really healthy. They had viral infections, toxic metals, parasites, infections in tooth sockets, radiation stress, bowel toxicity, chemical toxicity and possibly mold toxicity. There may have been a metabolic imbalance.

In other words, things that cause cancer. The things that have to go away so they can       get well.  http://www.royalrife.com/cancer.html

What Is IGF-1?

IGF-1 stands for “insulin-like growth factor 1”, and as the name implies, it performs    a similar sort of job as insulin.  Most people know that insulin is related to blood glucose, and maybe that insulin helps the body move that glucose into different organs (such as the muscles or the fat).

We usually think of insulin being released in relation to a high-carbohydrate meal,           but in reality both carbohydrates and protein are well-capable of raising insulin. IGF-1 release is more complicated,  with multiple interactions with other hormones such as growth hormone, but ultimately it appears to be correlated with animal protein intake (particularly dairy) and also fat intake.

Since carbohydrates can increase insulin, and insulin can affect IGF-1, there is some correlation with carbohydrates, but overall it doesn’t appear to be as strong as the correlation between animal protein and fats.  http://www.saragottfriedmd.com/does-meat-cause-cancer-revisiting-the-meat-igf-1-and-cancer-connection/

What most people don’t realize is that insulin is actually our body’s #1 most important anabolic hormone! Briefly, we can divide our body’s metabolism into two camps: anabolic reactions, or reactions that build something, and catabolic reactions, or reactions that break something down. We need both of them, and depending on the context, both can be highly positive or incredibly damaging.

We can’t say that insulin or IGF-1 are completely good or completely bad–depending on the context, they can be extremely helpful or potentially harmful hormones.

The growth factor, known as insulin-like growth factor-1, or IGF-1, is necessary for proper growth in children, but studies of men and women more than 40 years old raise the possibility that it contributes to the growth of tumors. These studies were conducted at Channing Laboratory in Boston, a joint facility of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Also what has been learned is Methionine plays a role in many steps within the carcinogenic processes. Methionine is necessary for protein and RNA synthesis in all cells. Another role is as the substrate for S-adenosyl methionine (SAMe), which acts as an essential methyl donor for numerous molecules within cells, including methylation of DNA in the nucleus.
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Global hypomethylation (ie, reduced methylation that is genome-wide) is implicated in various cancers and results in chromosomal instability.
Hypermethylation of promotor regions of tumor suppressor genes can effectively turn off the expression of those genes. These epigenetic changes of carcinogenesis are influenced by  the microenvironment of the tumor, including the availability     of methyl groups from the methionine/folate cycle.
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(This review will not include methionine’s role in carcinogenesis per se. Rather the effects of methionine, and its deprivation, on existing cancer are the scope of this review.)
Methionine is needed for the production of polyamines (putrescine, spermidine, spermine), which are involved in cellular division and are found in higher concentration in tumors. Polyamines decrease apoptosis, increase proliferation, and are involved in tumorigenesis. Their inhibition has been proposed as a means of reducing cancer risk.
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Preliminary trials limiting polyamines (through diet and gut ecology manipulation) in men with metastatic prostate cancer suggest such deprivation may significantly delay cancer-related mortality. While hypothetical, methionine restriction is expected to result in less polyamine production intracellularly.
A recent study of breast cancer cells found that methionine deprivation reduced growth of tumor-initiating cells (TICs)      (ie, the stem cell niche). The authors propose  since methionine  is required for protein synthesis, its deprivation serves as a block to necessary anabolic processes. The authors conclude, “Our results may also explain the anti-cancer health benefits of caloric restriction, intermittent fasting and the vegetarian diet, by systemically reducing protein synthesis in TICs.”

 

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GO Live Your Life

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I knew I was getting the best medical care, and I was going to be defiant and survive.

-Heather Knies, Glioblastoma Survivor

Knies was originally treated for a lower grade brain tumor in 2005 at age 24. Even though   with treatment,  her brain tumor was one that usually returns and transforms into a more aggressive type of tumor. One year later, her brain cancer returned,  and this time,  it was the deadliest of brain tumors – a grade 4 glioblastoma. Knies was facing a death sentence.

She underwent a very aggressive surgery by Dr. Spetzler at Barrow to remove as much      of the tumor as possible. She then underwent radiation followed by three years of chemo therapy to treat the remainder of the tumor. Barrow is one of the world’s top brain tumor treatment centers.

More than 10 years later, Knies’ cancer has miraculously not returned. She believes       that the advanced medical treatment she received along with her unbelievable positivity    is what made her overcome her brain tumor. Her young daughter is also a miracle since chemotherapy can lead to infertility.

“I knew all along I would beat this cancer,” says Knies. “When a doctor tells you that you only have a few months to live, most people believe it. I never did, and I think that’s partly why I’m alive today. I knew I was getting the best medical care, and I was going to be defiant and survive.”

Hear Heather talk about the amazing care she received at Barrow Neurological Institute after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. You can support programs like these by donating at www.SupportBarrow.org

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Knies’s doctors say that in rare instances, a patient can break the “biological rules.” But most often in those cases, the initial pathology of the tumor was suspect.

In her case, the pathology was “not controversial,” according to her surgeon, Dr. Robert Spetzler, director of the Barrow Neurological Institute at Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.

In his 35 years as a neurosurgeon in the United States, Spetzler said he has never seen such a triumph against a stage 4 glioblastoma.

“It’s one of the most malignant tumors there is,” he said. “Invariably it will come back   and pop up somewhere else in the brain and it’s uniformly fatal.”

“It’s not unheard of that that a few survive — it’s a bell curve and there are outliers,”          he said. “But in her case, not only has she survived, but she is perfectly normal and      there is absolutely no evidence of a tumor on her MRI scan.”

Knies has a few of her own theories for why she is still alive today.

“One, being God had a plan for me,” said Knies. “I also had a great team of doctors         and wonderful family and friends with a positive attitude.”

“The mind is so much more powerful than anyone can imagine,” she said. “People     believe that when they get cancer, it will kill them. But I never once thought that.”

Spetzler said Knies was “on the young side” for a glioblastoma, but it can occur at             any age, “even in infants.”

It all began in 2005, when Knies had the first symptom that something was wrong.         She had just started a new job as a receptionist at a doctor’s office and was driving       home from work.

“Suddenly, I didn’t understand what the dashed white line meant in the road,” said Knies. “I had been driving since I was 15, so I started panicking and called my Mom. She asked, ‘Did you take something?'”

Knies could see, but couldn’t understand what she was seeing.

“I was only 24 and I was having visual problems,” she said. “I can’t even describe them.”

Her boss, a dermatologist, insisted she see a specialist, and an MRI showed a low-grade tumor that was pressing on the visual reception cord in her brain.

“I had just moved to Phoenix from Missouri. I was just out of college and felt like I had    the whole world waiting there for me,” said Knies, ever the optimist. “Looking back, it probably grounded me a bit.”

She underwent surgery at another institution, and she enrolled in a drug trial for an       oral chemotherapy at Duke University, repeating MRIs every three months.

She says doctors told her to, “Go live your life.”

But in less than a year one of the scans showed the white flairs of tumor growth.

It turned out the new tumor was aggressive — a stage 4 glioblastoma and it was sitting on the right side, touching three parts of her brain: the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes.

The lower-grade tumor had turned into a more aggressive one, which is not unusual           in a glioblastoma, according to Spetzler, who took over her treatment in 2007.

“I opted not to have the entire tumor removed or my left side would have been paralyzed — so I asked Dr. Spetzler to debulk it. I didn’t want quantity, I wanted quality,” she said.

When her mother was brave enough to ask how long she would have to live, one of the doctors said about six months.

“For whatever reason, because of being an athlete or just being mad, I wanted to defy him and the medical world and show that no one is a statistic,” Knies said. “I was immediately defiant. I never once thought it would be the death of me.”

The tumor caused massive headaches and vomiting from the pain, and on Friday, April 13, 2007, she went into surgery. “Friday the 13th will never scare me again,” she said.

Surgery was followed by heavy doses of chemotherapy and radiation. Knies will be monitored with MRIs for the rest of her life, but for now, her brain shows no sign of residual cancer.

“I would not feel comfortable calling it a cure,” said Spetzler. “But there is no evidence       of a tumor as you would expect with someone who has lived much longer than expected. There is a hole where the tumor was. Her survival is remarkable.”

At her cancer diagnosis, her boyfriend at the time had “freaked out,” according to Knies. “It makes you very insecure when someone tells you up front they can’t handle it — bye-bye.”

But in 2010, she met Joe Knies, now 54, an engineer who was 22 years her senior.

“It didn’t even faze him, and it blew me away,” she said. “He made a good point —              we can all die in a car crash tomorrow.”

They married in October while Knies was still undergoing chemotherapy one week         each month. She always wanted children and was warned the aggressive treatments     could have damaged her eggs.

“It was almost as scary for me as hearing about the cancer,” she said.

On her oncologist’s advice, Knies decided to undergo in vitro fertilization with a     surrogate because of the unknowns associated with cancer and pregnancy.

“I prayed hard,” she said. “After egg retrieval there were only two follicles and                   the rest were empty.”

In the three days they took to mature, only one was viable. “We had that one,                    and she is my daughter,” said Knies.

“My husband had never been married before or had kids and his parents thought            they would never see the day, so it was a miracle to his mother that he now has a child,” she said.

“Every morning I wake up and thank God that I can feel my 10 fingers and toes and       have a loving daughter and husband,” said Knies. “There have been so many miracles.   One after another, as my dad said, so many angels must be sitting on my shoulders.”

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Dr. Robert Spetzler’s Retirement Gala on May 19, 2017 at the Camelback Inn                       in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

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Also,  Four months after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor, Maria Menounos      is opening up about why it has been one of the best things for her.

The main reason: It forced her to take more time for herself and make more memories with her family and friends.

“This whole thing has been such a gift,”  Menounos told Women’s Health. “This     happened for a reason. I’m a communicator.” The former E! News host intends to spread the message that she learned from it — that everyone should give themselves “as much TLC as you give other people in your life.”

Prior to her diagnosis, the TV personality was always on the go — and always working. “Before the brain tumor, I was super type A,” she continued. “I was on top of everything…   I was everything to everyone, but nothing to myself. I didn’t know it at the time, but there was no self-compassion, no self-love. I didn’t think I deserved it. I was too busy being, like, ‘Sh*t!  I’ve got to get to my five o’clock appointment,  then my seven o’clock,  then feed the dogs, and, oh my god, I’ve got to wake up and do this and this… ‘ I had become a machine.”

RELATED: Maria Menounos Says Workplace Toxicity Affected Her Health

After her mom was diagnosed with brain cancer just a few months before she received   her own brain tumor diagnosis, Menounos said she started setting boundaries. “One day    I found myself telling her, ‘Hold on, I can’t talk right now. I’ve got to… ‘ Then I realized: I’m telling my mom, who has stage IV brain cancer, to hold on?! That’s not okay. That’s when I said, ‘Things have to change. I’m going to spend time with her.’ And I did.’”

“I no longer scheduled anything after 4 p.m.,”  she continued.  “I would say,  ‘Mom, I’m going home,  and we’ll watch Dancing with the Stars, eat dinner, and have fun.’  I felt so happy,  like,  ‘I’m not a machine—I’m a human!’  But I’m also not perfect, so things would creep up and people would creep in. They want things and you feel guilty, so you do them. The universe took notice:   ‘I’m going to throw a bigger rock at your head now and really   put a stop to this.'”

RELATED: Maria Menounos Posts Emotional Video from Day After Brain Surgery

Menounos said getting diagnosed with her brain tumor taught her just how much            she needs her friends. “Last month, my best friend and I were sitting on my living room floor playing gin rummy,” she said. “I was about to have my first beer since the surgery, and I started to weep. It hit me: I’d lived in the house for 15 years, and I’d never spent  time there with a girlfriend and just had a beer—not once. But that’s changing.

For instance, when friends call and ask, ‘You want to have lunch?’ I say, ‘I’d love to!’ They’re like, ‘Wait, who are you?”’

She continued on, calling her tumor “the best thing that ever happened to me.” She added, “It’s freed me from all of that anxiety of having to be perfect. You can’t control everything; leave it to God and just say, ‘Okay, this is my journey.'”

Preview Maria Menounos  Why Her Brain Tumor Was a Gift

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Start Your Impossible Journey

‘Wild,’ a Hiking Memoir by Cheryl Strayed

People with any hiking experience (I am not one) will know that this is the backpack of      a rank amateur,  setting out on a 1,100-mile trek from the Mojave Desert to the Cascades outfitted in brand-new hiking boots — a size too small, it turned out — and with only 24.5 pounds of water in a dromedary bag is a recipe for disaster. Fortunately for the reader, it’s also a recipe for a spectacular book. “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” is at once a breathtaking adventure tale and a profound meditation on the nature of grief and survival.

To begin to understand something about Cheryl Strayed, know that Strayed is not           her given name. We never find out the name she was born with, but we are made to understand with absolute clarity why she chose to change it,  and just how well her        new name suits her.

Contemplating divorce, she realized that she couldn’t continue to use the hyphenated married name she’d shared with her husband, “nor could I go back to having the name       I had had in high school and be the girl I used to be. . . . I pondered the question of my      last name, mentally scanning words that sounded good with Cheryl. . .Nothing fit until     ne day when the word strayed came into my mind. Immediately I looked it up in the dictionary and knew it was mine.

Its layered definitions spoke directly to my life and also struck a poetic chord: to wander from the proper path, to deviate from the direct course, to be lost, to become wild, to be without a mother or father,  to be without a home,  to move about aimlessly in search of something, to diverge or digress.  I had diverged, digressed, wandered and become wild,     I saw the power of the darkness.  Saw that,  in fact,  I had strayed and that I was a stray  and that from the wild ­places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn’t have known before.”

Preview CHERYL STRAYED ON WILD | TIFF 2016

 

 Cheryl Strayed’s load is both literal and metaphorical — so heavy that she staggers beneath its weight. Her mother has died (lung cancer, age 45); her father is long gone (“a liar and a charmer, a heartbreak and a brute”). In what is for her a stunning act of filial betrayal. . . her brother and sister find it too painful. . . . to come to the hospital as Strayed’s mother is fading,  leaving her,  then 22,  to prop up the pillows so that her mother could die, as had been her wish, sitting up.

Strayed’s stepfather, whom she had loved, disengaged himself from the family and quickly found new love, unwilling even to take care of his late wife’s beloved mare, who became so enfeebled that — in one of the book’s most harrowing scenes. Strayed and her brother are forced to put her down. They do this the old-fashioned way, by shooting her between the eyes.

Beside herself with grief, Strayed abandons her kind and loving husband, gets involved with a heroin addict and becomes an addict herself. Just before leaving for the Pacific trail,  even after six months off drugs,  she shoots up once more, “the little bruise on my ankle. . . .that I’d gotten from shooting heroin in Portland”  now  “faded to a faint morose yellow.”  Beneath her wool socks and too-small hiking boots, that bruise was a continuing reminder of her “own ludicrousness.”

But in “Wild,” the two tales Strayed tells, of her difficult past and challenging present, are delivered in perfect balance.  Yet I was riveted step by precarious step. . .  . through Strayed’s encounter with bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lion scat,  ice,  record snow and predatory men. She also lost six toenails, suffered countless bruises and scabs, improvised bootees made of socks wrapped in duct tape, woke up one time covered in frogs and met strangers who were extraordinarily kind to her.

What allows us to survive? To lose and then find ourselves? How do we learn to accept grief instead of permitting it to obliterate us?  How can a young woman who describes herself as having a “hole in her heart”  (a mother-shaped hole,  I thought to myself) transform herself through solitude and high-octane risk and the comforts of literature, (along the way she picked up books like “The Complete Stories” of Flannery O’Connor   and J. M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians”)  into a clearheaded, scarred, human, powerful and enormously talented writer who is secure enough to confess she does not have all the answers?

“It was enough,” she tells us as she reaches the poetically named Bridge of the Gods, which connects Oregon to Washington, “to trust what I’d done was true.”

Perhaps a clue can be found in the words of Strayed’s mother, and the legacy she left       her daughter. “‘The first thing I did when each of you was born was kiss every part of you,’ my mother used to say to my siblings and me. ‘I’d count every finger and toe and eyelash,’ she’d say. ‘I’d trace the lines in your hands.’” Strayed writes that “I didn’t remember it, and yet I’d never forgotten it. It was as much a part of me as my father saying he’d throw me out the window. More.”

As Strayed’s mother grew sicker, she would repeat the sentence “I’m with you always” again and again. And, in a way, she was her daughter’s constant companion through it all. In the end, it was this: not the loss, not the abandonment, not the rebellion, but the love itself. The love won out.

Facing Fear in the WILD!!!!

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/7-things-that-didnt-make-it-into-wild-by-cheryl-strayed/all

Preview  Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern,

& Cheryl Strayed: Wild Interview

 

Academy Award Winner ReeseWitherspoon stars in this inspirational true story about a fierce path taken.  After years being haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern), as Cheryl Strayed (Witherspoon) makes a rash decision to embark on a challenging trek across the Pacific Crest Trail.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.

In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all    odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

“Arresting . . .  Wild [is] Strayed’s account of her 1,100-mile solo hike along the    Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert to Washington State. Shattered at 26 by her mother’s death,  her family’s fragmenting,  and the end of her marriage, Strayed upped and decided to do something way out of the realm of her experience; here she confronts snowstorms and rattlesnakes even as she confronts her personal pain.
Wish I had her guts!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X50NxSCPNw

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May the Force Be With You

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The BodyMind Concept: Two Surprising      Tips to Heal Your Body with Your Mind

 

I remember once feeling like I was offering my patients a warm, nurturing hug when I would give them a diagnosis, or confirm it, after a consultation. “It’s the nature of Bipolar Disorder,” I would say “…it’s just part of your lineage, a brain chemistry condition, that thankfully, we can manage if you stick with your medication.”

I never suspected that this diagnosis would ultimately be cold comfort,        and perhaps even something like a number on a prisoner’s jumpsuit.

A diagnosis is just that. It is a label that reduces a human experience to an impersonal pattern. A pattern that your doctor is trained to match up with a prescription or medical intervention. This pattern recognition makes no room for you – your story, your experience, the meaning of your symptoms.

Unfortunately, medical training has neglected to heed the advice of our forefathers like William Osler who said: “It is more important to find out what patient has the disease  than what disease the patient has.”

Hospital-based doctors are notorious for referencing their patients by their diagnosis –  the COPD exacerbation in room 401c – as if they are stick figures with signs hanging around their necks.

If you are simply a broken down machine that needs a tune up, then obviously, what      you eat, think, and feel, let alone the very personal significance of the symptoms, are totally irrelevant to the point of distraction from the matter at hand.

The “you” in your illness

It is clear to me now that there is deep meaning in illness, and a corresponding invitation designed especially for you.  In fact,  the medical literature is beginning to catch up with   the concept, publishing articles entitled Symbolic Diseases and Mindbody Co-Emergence.

In this way, how you interpret your symptoms is everything.

Mindset has become the bedrock of my transformational medicine practice. My patients are invited to explore, examine, and become deeply aware of their beliefs. These beliefs determine how they experience suffering and the potential for self-healing activation. These beliefs give them the ability to trust that everything is going to be exactly as it needs to be.

These beliefs even override elements and aspects of our biology that we think of as cause and effect. I’m talking about everything from less blood loss in surgery to also faster bone healing, to lessened use of pain meds if a soldier knew his injury would lead to a dismissal home.

What about infection? It’s about germ exposure, right? Perhaps it’s not so simple as    germ exposure equals illness…

Do negative beliefs lead to illness?

Cohen et al report that the response to this simple question was the most meaningful determinant of clinical experience of the common cold: “In general, how would you     rate your health?” After being inoculated with cold viruses, participants in Cohen’s      study demonstrated that negative health perception led to the experience of common    cold symptoms regardless of whether the immune system was reacting**.

In other words, if someone had a positive health perception, got exposed, and had antibody confirmation of immune response,  they did not manifest clinical symptoms of the cold (aka get sick). Now, it’s possible that positive and negative perceptions result from a sensed experience of an inflammatory state would lead to more frequent infections, but this relationship between thoughts, emotions, the immune system is tri-directional, each arm as significant as the other.

Mind as body, body as mind

When symptoms of overwhelm, sadness, and hopelessness do emerge, however, more  than a positive attitude may be required to suffer better, and to access the gift that the illness brings.

The resolution of these symptoms may not call for fighting, either. It may, in fact,              be the opposite of fighting: an attitude of acceptance and non-resistance.

When we accept and allow, we unite with our body and our illness. Your experience           is no longer one of a divided front with warring factions set out to kill at all costs.

In fact, I dug deep into the annals of medicine to find data from decades ago that was telling us that healing comes when we accept our health challenges.

In other words, allowing struggle, pain, and suffering to just be, led to immune system improvement in these patients. Based on the work of renegade scientist Dr. Candace Pert, we have known for quite some time that the mind/body division is a false one. Illness manifests out of both spaces and resides in both spaces.

2 Tips to Try Today:

When my patients are in the darkness of their transformational birth canal, and when    the struggle is crushing, and fear and hopelessness taunt them like some horrific circus clown, I talk to them as my midwife spoke to me when I was in the transition phase of active labor.

  https://scdlifestyle.com/2017/07/improve-your-mindset-to-heal-faster/

I tell them to watch for opportunities to unite with their experience rather than fight it:

1. Say yes when you want to say no

When your entire being is rejecting your experience, saying “I don’t want this. I can’t handle this. I could never bear a life of this.” Play with it and start a sentence with “Yes”. Try saying “Yes, I needed it to be this way to get where I am going next” or “Yes, this is hard. Really hard.” Or, simply, the word “Yes” over and over.

2. Do nothing when you want to do something

When your mind is saying “No”, you will almost immediately seek to fix the situation. Reach for a cookie or a beer, stay later at work, call that ex-boyfriend, give in to the medical intervention you know you don’t need.

You will reach for a way to take the edge off the discomfort. But if you just sit with it,           it changes. Just be with it. Watch it. And wait for the intensity of pain and sadness to transform. Float in the deep, scary water because if you flail around, you might drown     the you that needs to be saved.

Watch your mind when you are in crisis. Play with it so that you can look with curiosity instead of fear on your experience. Understand that illness, pain, and suffering may be   the portal to your more authentic self. All you have to do is allow it to unfold.

Commit to yourself… surrender to what is… and you will heal, transform,  and experience a joy that is far beyond the simple relief you thought you   were seeking.

Learn about my passion for root cause resolution medicine.

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How Can I Help Your Body Heal Itself?

The human body knows how to heal itself. And it is always working toward a state of homeostasis, which is balanced and well. Conflict between the conscious and subconscious mind creates blocks in the information pathways of the body which block natural healing. The techniques that I use identify the conflicts sponsoring your complaints.

Once identified, the negative belief which is creating the conflict can be reset to the positive so that your conscious and subconscious are in harmony with each other.            The body then starts its own, natural healing process. http://www.healingthroughyourmindset.com/

Preview  Sally Tennant: Healing Through Your Mindset

 

 Can Positive Thinking Help You Heal?

Lissa Rankin, MD discusses a CNN article on positive thinking.

A big part of the book I’m writing Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013) is about how positive belief, hope, and expectation can trigger self-healing superpowers that manifest physiologically in the body, so I was delighted to read this article on CNN (link is external) by one of my heroes, Dr. Deepak Chopra.

In this article, Dr. Chopra (can I call him Deepak?) calls attention to the warring schools of thought between the power of positive thinking camp and the conventional medical community regarding whether positive thoughts can affect the health of the body.

Some studies performed on very sick cancer patients have shown that it can’t. In fact, one of those studies was performed on the patients under the care of my friend and fellow Owning Pink blogger, Dr. Bernie Siegel (link is external), author of Love, Medicine & Miracles (link is external). When patients in his positive-thinking ECaP program for cancer patients (link is external)were studied, they were found to have no higher rates of cancer cure than those who didn’t complete the program.

So does this mean positive thinking doesn’t work? It’s enough to confuse anyone.

What does Deepak Chopra think?

Dr. Deepak writes:

Doctors are confused, too. It has always been part of a doctor’s kit bag to tell patients to keep their spirits up. Until a few decades ago, it was standard not to acquaint a dying patient with the gravity of his condition, which implies an unspoken agreement that hearing bad news isn’t good for patients.

At the same time, doctors want to protect their profession, so few want to cross the line and support the notion that how you think can work as powerfully as “real” medicine.

Let’s see if some of this confusion can be cleared up. 

First of all, thinking is “real” medicine, as proven by the placebo effect. When given a sugar pill in place of a prescription drug, an average of 30% of subjects will show a positive response. What causes this response isn’t a physical substance but the activity of the mind-body connection. Expectations are powerful. If you think you’ve been given a drug that will make you better, often that is enough to make you better.

But if studies showed that positive thinking didn’t effect cure rates, what do we make of this? Dr. Deepak says:

On the plus side, the studies that debunk positive thinking deal with very sick patients struggling to recover from major diseases. They do not comment on how positive thinking might prevent disease or how it might affect someone in the very early stages of illness.  The real point isn’t to rescue a dying patient but to maintain wellness… The upshot is that medicine cannot be definitive on how mood affects wellness. But if I wanted to enhance a state of wellness before symptoms of illness appeared, there is much to be gained and no risks involved in trying to reach the best state of mind possible.

Healing Vs. Curing

After reading about the study on his patients, I emailed Bernie Siegel and wrote, “It seems to me that the equivocation over whether support groups help cancer patients in randomized controlled trials is a bit silly, because while you can study cure rates, you can’t really study rates of healing, and as you and I both know, healing and curing are different.

I would argue that your patients – even if they died – probably died healed because of the love and support. But that’s just my two cents.”

Beyond Healing

But I still believe that love, support, and positive belief go far beyond healing and can actually manifest cure – and there’s loads of science to prove it (link is external), as I’m finding with my research. It’s tough to study support groups and outcomes related to them. How do you know if the people are really believing they can get well? How can you measure these things?

I’m trying to get to the bottom of these very issues in my own mind, so I can help translate them for you. But I love that this conversation is even happening on websites like CNN (link is external) and from the mouths of doctors like Deepak. Things are shifting. There is resistance from the medical community, of course, but there is also a softening that I’m already starting to feel and witness, even from the private emails doctors are sending me.

We are ready for this shift. It is time.

What Do You Believe?

Do we have the power to heal ourselves? Does the mind affect the body? Can positive thinking alter physiology? Share your thoughts.

What if I told you caring for your body was the LEAST important part of your health? Watch my TEDx talk here (link is external) to learn the MOST important part.

Thinking positively,

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Lissa Rankin, MD: Founder of OwningPink.com (link is external)Pink Medicine Revolutionary (link is external)motivational speaker, (link is external) and author of What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend (link is external) and Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide To Creating Fine Art With Wax. (link is external)

Learn more about Lissa Rankin here. 

Published on Jun 16, 2017

Dr. Eddy Ramirez talks about how “the mindset is essential for your healing”
Not only in the physical part, but also in the emotional part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4pNk4Is8kk

 Published on Jun 15, 2017

By Hilde Larsen

Knowing your why, having the right mindset for healing, will keep you on any diet. Hilde speaks about your power and your ability to take action.
Learn how to elevate and take charge.
There is no glory in giving up, and there is no glory in staying sick. Life is about living the very best way that we know how, and to realize that suffering does not have to be a part of it. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice. In my first book, From HELL to inspired, I take you with me on my own journey from feeling completely lost and sick, to living the life that I love. I have shared my experience on living with a so-called chronic illness, and my encounters with our so-called health care system. I am happy and honored to be able to share my path and my knowledge, and I am confident that if you are in the need of healing, on any level, you will find truth between those covers.

There is a misconception that our feelings create our thoughts however it is our thoughts that create our feelings.
Most of our thoughts are not real and most of our thoughts are the cause of our daily pain and struggles.
Our mindset is operating from a specific paradigm and this is creating our current results in all areas of our life.

Preview  Reprogram your toxic mindset so you can heal your life!” |

Nadia Leona Yunis, LLM

 
Dr. Alia Crum’s research focuses on how changes in subjective mindsets—the lenses through which information is perceived, organized, and interpreted—can alter objective reality through behavioral, psychological, and physiological mechanisms.
Her work is, in part, inspired by research on the placebo effect, a notable and consistent demonstration of the ability of the mindset to elicit healing properties in the body.
She is interested in understanding how mindsets affect important outcomes outside the realm of medicine, in the domains of behavioral health and organizational behavior.

Preview YouTube video Change your mindset, change the game | Dr. Alia Crum | TEDxTraverseCity

 

Published on Jun 16, 2017

Dr. Eddy Ramirez talks about how “the mindset is essential for your healing”
Not only in the physical part, but also in the emotional part.

Preview “The Essential mindset to Heal”

Dr Eddy Ramirez – Chipsa Hospital

 
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Live Your Other Half Life

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This blog post was inspired from a Facebook friend from Montreal Canada      when she told me that she rides her bicycle all winter regardless of weather.  Ginette  told  me  that cold is a state of mind  you have to overcome when its cold for six months of a year.    If you are afraid its cold outside you won’t do nothing for half your life. With one of Ginette’s favorite pictures (above).

I began to understand her outlook on the obstacles of living life.

“Ma plus grande découverte a été de prendre conscience que, dans ma vie, la plupart des barrières, c’est moi qui les avais érigées.”  English Translation: ” My greatest discovery was to realize that, in my life, most of the barriers, I had erected them.”    ~ Cheryl Jarvis!!!

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 In Ginette’s Own Words:
 I have a black belt in karate but the lessons I learned from martial Arts can be applied        it to our daily living. In our daily living  ” don’t worry about the results of your actions,    just give your attention to the action itself. The result will come from itself. ”
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(Extract from the book the Power of the Present Moment
by Spiritual Master Eckhart Tolle.)
My reflection this morning about the desire to be more authentic and how it is connected to my practice of martial arts. I still hear my sensei (Professor) who told me constantly: ‘ ‘ presence of the spirit Ginette ‘ ‘. and it was only years later that I understood him.
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In Martial Arts we do not fight the other but our own fears. This is our greatest fight. It is our fears that lie in our actions, especially when we dare to leave our comfort zone. We cannot live in the illusion of who we are and at the same time go to our authentic self. This desire to go to a greater authenticity requires a serious look in the mirror and face to face.
 
To accept and welcome who we are, and not just our qualities, is a gesture of courage.
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The first step towards greater authenticity is to accept our ‘ ‘ and our ‘ ‘ ‘. If we want             to change  the first step is to accept and welcome them in with Compassion and non-judgment.
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This is the first step towards our authentic self. The presence of the spirit allows us to         be simpler and more spontaneous in the movements of our body which is guided by the intuition of our heart. Come on, don’t believe me. Face your fears and tell me how it changes your behavior and ultimately your life.
 
No matter what path you follow in 2018 I wish you to do it consciously and get out of your comfort zone to become your authentic self. Let’s drop our masks and dare to be. Learn to penetrate life consciously in martial art the secret is to learn to lead the spirit. It forms the basis of all our bodily movements. Action Just..
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I’d like to talk to you about letting go and how it’s connected to martial arts.
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There are a lot of schools in the martial arts but they all share the ‘ ‘ ‘. Mi: body.
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In the teaching of du “Taekwon-do,”  which I have practiced for over        15 years, it is important to practice the release. The law of every effort. Give up the ego and become a pond between heaven and earth. Abandon attachments, personal desires, ego. You learn to direct the ego objectively and not to act in fear. Even if you fall, you don’t have to be afraid or be anxious. We have to focus here and now.

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Everything has to come from here and now. While we use our thoughts, actions become slow and hesitant. You see how martial arts will be practique in everyday life and not only in a dojo (Studio). It may help you understand why I seem to be acting fast sometimes. Years of practice lol..
 
In Martial Arts to harmonise heaven and earth it is essential to focus on the expiration. This causes energy to flow to the bottom of the body and spine, and this restores strength, anchoring and relaxation. You also realize that criminals are free and many innocent people are in a prison of their own barriers. But do you see now more than ever what you  prison really is? In todays world we see young people who are hypnotized in front of their video games, their screens, their films and their texts or their emails. Technology is a means of enslavement.
 

Living half.. (Khalil Gibran)

Do not frequent those who are half in love,
Don’t be a friend of those who are half friends..
Don’t read those half-inspired.
Don’t live half-life
Don’t die half again
Do not choose half a solution
Don’t stop in the middle of the truth
Don’t dream half
Don’t tie up half a hope
If you shut up, keep quiet until the end, and if you express yourself, you can express yourself to the end too.
Do not choose silence to speak, nor speak to be silent…
If you are satisfied, express your satisfaction and do not pretend to be half satisfied…
And if you refuse, fully express your refusal, because to refuse half is to accept..
Living half is living a life you haven’t lived…
Speaking half is not to say anything you want to express
Smile half, it’s ajourner your smile,
Loving half is not reaching your love
Being friends half is not knowing friendship
Living half is what makes you stranger to those closest to you, and makes them strangers to you….
Half the things are successful and not successful, working and not working, it’s being present and… absent
When you do things halfway, it’s you, when you’re not yourself, because you didn’t know who you were.
It’s not knowing who you are…
The one you love is not your other half… it’s yourself, at another place, at the same time.
Drinking half won’t soothe your thirst, eat half your hunger…
A halfway path won’t get you anywhere.
And an idea expressed half won’t give any results…
Living half is being incapacitated and you’re not capable…
‘ cause you’re not half a human being.
You’re a human being…
You were created to live full life, not to live half.

This planet is doing everything it can to make sure we become the best version of ourselves. The Universe really works in our favor, regardless          of the situation.

The universe aligns you to be in the right place right time to fulfill your mission in Life. My thought of the day:  in these moments of great change and transition it is increasingly important to remain well rooted  to earth    it is one of  the best ways to escape fear and doubt.

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 Even if we live in cold climates .it has never been as important as we get closer to nature and engage in very concrete activities that can allow us to remain in the present moment.

 

We are also being more enslaved to a health system that doesn’t work.        The Health insurance card… ensures the disease. Why not have health insurance that ensures our health.  I invest time and money in my health.

A healthy mind in a healthy body. The Disease System we have is really far from that. Don’t wait until your sick to treat your health because you will be paying to treat illness. Is it too complicated to understand?

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Living In The Now/Present Moment

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Nothing Positive Comes From Being Negative

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The Mind-Body Connection

The mind-body connection is real. Researchers believe that patients with high expectations for getting better, release biological chemicals to simulate the effect,           while altering specific regions of the brain to achieve the believed results.
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Your body has the ability to mimic the effects of antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, and asthma medication. The science behind this phenomenon may be largely unknown but that doesn’t  invalidate it.

The truth is, scientists are beginning to understand how the brain communicates with the body on the cellular level. An understanding of the cellular steps has blossomed since Sir John Vane won his Nobel Prize in 1982. In fact, four additional Nobel Prizes have been given in the last decade for discoveries about cell communication within the body.

The good news is that deep breathing exercises and oxygenating aerobic exercises have proven to be an effective method for reducing stress and building the immune system. Bristol University reviewed 52 worldwide studies and concluded that people who incorporated daily exercise routines developed fewer cancers and those with cancer survived longer. Exercise also produces “happy hormones” called endorphins, which neutralize the stressful ones.

Naturally, diet and lifestyle choices play a major role in one’s overall health, but never discount the power of  thought and the effect it has on one’s ability to prevent,  fight and keep cancer from coming back.

The mind-body connection is real.

Researchers believe that patients with high expectations for getting better, release biological chemicals to simulate the effect, while altering specific regions of the brain to achieve the believed results. Your body has the ability to mimic the effects of antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, and asthma medication. The science behind this phenomenon may be largely unknown but that doesn’t  invalidate it.

The truth is, scientists are beginning to understand how the brain communicates with the body on the cellular level. An understanding of the cellular steps has blossomed since Sir John Vane won his Nobel Prize in 1982. In fact, four additional Nobel Prizes have been given in the last decade for discoveries about cell communication within the body.

The good news is that deep breathing exercises and oxygenating aerobic exercises have proven to be an effective method for reducing stress and building the immune system. Bristol University reviewed 52 worldwide studies and concluded that people who incorporated daily exercise routines developed fewer cancers and those with cancer survived longer. Exercise also produces “happy hormones” called endorphins, which neutralize the stressful ones.

Naturally, diet and lifestyle choices play a major role in one’s overall health, but never discount the power of  thought and the effect it has on one’s ability to prevent,  fight and keep cancer from coming back.

Can your mind heal you of cancer? Carl Stonier is an expert counsellor and he is adamant your mental state can be ´lifted´ to help you beat cancer.

The power of the mind to heal cancer

Carl Stonier, 55, recently completed his doctorate degree exploring the relationship between physical and psychological health. The results of his study on patients with heart disease resoundingly reinforce the value of stress reduction and mind power in the healing journey. Carl is a counsellor and psychosexual therapist in private practice as well as a supervisor and trainer for Relate and a trustee of the National Conference of Cancer Self Help Groups. In the l980s he worked on the ground-breaking heart transplant unit led by Sir Terence English at Papworth Hospital.  Through many years with the NHS, as a nurse, Nurse Manager and specialist consultant in counselling, Carl pursued a special interest in the wellbeing of cancer patients. He lives in Yorkshire but runs nationwide workshops on shamanic journey, healing, tai chi and meditation. Here icon learns how Carl came to recognise that there is more to healing than general medicine addresses. We report how he developed his unique treatment modality ´an active process combining counselling and guided imagery´ and how those with cancer could benefit.

The might of metaphor and well being Carl Stonier´s guide to a good place.

The first question, which was to lead Carl on a path beyond white-coated authority, came to him during his nurse training in mental handicap. ´I´ve always been a bit of an anarchist. I like to challenge´ he says. ´So what I observed in this work was that an awful lot of people who had spent a lifetime in mental hospitals and I mean the bad, old-style Victorian bins retained really robust physical health.

is there a connection between a lifestyle where everything is found for an individual and where that person is very protected

Despite being totally shut off from the world and despite profound learning problems, many people in their seventies and eighties were still as slim as a lath, walking everywhere, even gardening. I asked myself why this should be is there a connection between a lifestyle where everything is found for an individual and where that person is very protected. These people don´t have the intellectual ability to recognise that the outside world has something they lack, so there is no stress, no pressure there.´

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Once qualified, Carl moved into general nursing “where the questioning continued. I still remember a chap in his thirties who had never smoked in his life a very talented artist, who was dying of lung cancer.

´It always seems to happen to the nice guys´

A fellow patient wondered aloud how such a thing could happen to this person ´It always seems to happen to the nice guys´ he said. So I began to think about what is it about being a nice guy that might cause illness. That question just hung around.

Medicine and the mental paradigm!!!

By l984 Carl was a nursing officer in Castleford, Yorks where he set up a working party to explore the provision for cancer care across the district. Out of this came a Macmillan-funded nursing post for someone to support newly-diagnosed patients in the oncology clinic and also the Castleford and District Cancer Self-Help Group one of the first of its kind in the country.  In his quest for whole patient support outside the general medicine box, Carl read wide and travelled far. He visited the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. He talked to Jean Sayre-Adams and Professor Steve Wright who went on to found The Sacred Space Foundation (in the Lake District) for people many from health care backgrounds) who are suffering stress and joylessness and, therefore, seek the right environment for renewal and healing.

emotional and mental states play a significant role, both in susceptibility to, and recovery from, cancer

Then he had ´a light bulb moment´ turning the pages of Getting Well Again by Carl and Stephanie Simonton. This US couple were committed to the concept of mental processes bringing about a physical effect. The Simontons believed that emotional and mental states play a significant role, both in susceptibility to, and recovery from, cancer. Their book made meaning of the links that Carl himself had observed over the past decade, between reaction to stress, suppression of the immune system and subsequent tendency to illness. It suggested, (not instead of, but as well as orthodox treatment) a programme of mental imagery, focusing on the desired outcome the restoration of health, physical, emotional and intellectual. Says Carl ´The questioner in me saw that this approach doesn´t fit into orthodox medicine but many things don´t and they too seem to work.´

He successfully applied for a travel fellowship to study with Stephanie Simonton at Little Rock, Arkansas, where she had set up a health, training and research centre. ´It was really strange that during my own meditation I was by now using the concept of an imaginary safe place.  I would always go, in my mind, to a little log cabin, all on its own, surrounded by a lake, up in the mountains. Apart from the fact that it was brick, not wood, the centre in Little Rock was exactly the place of my imagination.´

An ideal place

The guided imagery that Carl now uses grew from his intensive week in Little Rock. ´When someone comes to me, I begin with the journey to a special place for them. I get them to imagine a place where they have been, or could be safe and happy, at peace. We usually work on this for a couple of sessions, then move on to an imaginary Control Room where you take charge of everything that happens within your body. You can, for instance, find a control marked ´cancer´ and turn it off.´

The guided imagery finds a place where they can be safe, happy and at peace with an imaginary Control Room where you take charge of everything that happens within your body

You can find a switch marked ´pain´ and turn that off.´  The next stage is to imagine           a monitor or TV screen on the control room wall,  where you can track the effect of the changes you have made to the controls. You then move on to deal directly with the cancer, as seems most effective for you as an imaginative individual. ´The Simontons´ says Carl ´concluded that the more aggressive you are in ´zapping´ the cancer, the more effective you will be. They suggest that cancer sufferers deploy a shark and prey imagery to gobble up all the affected cells.

But I don´t find this useful for all those nice guys who get cancer: they are not naturally aggressive, so if you ask them to be so, you are setting up an internal conflict that does them no good. I suggest a gentler way of delivering healing rays, or perhaps seeing the cancer cells as sick members of society and white cells as the healers, doctors, or stretcher bearers carrying off the sick cells so that they can healed and made whole again.´

Who Benefits?

Surely only those with visual minds can deploy this technique? Carl concedes that guided imagery is not for everyone, but says that if you can work not just with the inner eye, but with all the senses – hearing, smelling, almost believing you can touch the cancer-busting scenario you create, and then the technique becomes so much more powerful.  The Simontons found that a very significant few some six per cent managed to make themselves cancer-free using visualisation. At the other extreme, six per cent reported no difference. ´The 88 per cent in between felt some degree of benefit´ says Carl ´in terms of pain relief or regaining control of their lives.´

Among his own clients, a certain bus driver with stomach cancer stands out.  ´He had a horrendous lifestyle: he smoked horrible little roll-ups all the time, ate convenience foods and took no exercise because of his job. I told him straight, that these were the choices of a complete prat. But it turned out that this chap in his thirties – was absolutely awesome at guided imagery his saving grace.´ This particular man also convinced Carl of one reason why it is so important it is to use visualisation in tandem with counselling: ´sometimes people will produce unhelpful images, so you need the counselling to help them reframe. This man, for instance, initially saw the cancer as red ants and the defender cells as a kind of ant powder. But you know what it´s like if there are ants in the house. no matter how much powder you use, they keep on coming. Basically he was telling himself that the ants were going to take over… he might be able to slow their advance down for a bit, but not eradicate them. after working with visualisation for three weeks before surgery,        the stomach tumour had shrunk to half its size

After counselling, this guy went off and changed the imagery so the cancer became a lame animal and the white cells became hungry lions. He was quite an aggressive character and he managed a total shift  in the balance of power  that was critical.´  Barium studies also had measured this man´s stomach tumour, and after working with visualisation for three weeks before surgery, it had shrunk to half the size. He was out of hospital following much reduced surgery within a week.

He managed to clean up his act for a bit, but soon reverted to the roll-up lifestyle and then contracted bowel cancer. Again he used visualisation and again he recovered. His next brush was with pancreatic cancer from which few recover but he did.´ Carl has no idea what made this particular man operate his anti-cancer imagination so powerfully: ´I wish we did know how wonderful if we could bottle his particular talent! But why this works and for whom is part of ongoing research.´

Another of Carl´s clients met a fellow patient at Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, where she was having radiotherapy for breast cancer. He told her that he too was working with Carl but remotely, using Carl´s tapes, which he´d acquired through his self-help group. This man had actually declined orthodox treatment for his facial skin cancer, but was coming into Cookridge to have his progress monitored. Week by week, the woman reported, you could see the lesion getting smaller until eventually it disappeared.

A third patient, with liver secondaries from breast cancer was less fortunate though guided imagery seemed set to save her. ´She was wonderfully elegant, but you could see from her shape how swollen her abdomen was. When she came to me she had been on chemo for a couple of months, with no response at all. She´d then had to give it up because her blood count was so low, but within a month of us working together, it was normal again. She was recovering well, but sadly, her oncologist decided that the chemo was finally working so it had better be stepped up. The woman died of chemo-induced liver failure. I thought it really tragic.´

Proving the Case for Guided Imagery

If the NHS was a tad broader-minded, then Carl Stonier might never have embarked on his remarkable visualisation Ph.D study. The visualisation clinic he set up was censured and closed down after being reported in the local paper ´with journalistic excess and zeal´.   So Carl cast around for a less emotive field of medicine than cancer in which to carry out a proper controlled study for his Masters in counselling. Turned down flat by    the closed-minded dermatology department of his hospital, he found a new consultant cardiologist much more ready to embrace the complementary.

The study evaluated well, and on the basis of his MA Carl was asked to set up a pioneering counselling department at Pontefract General Infirmary. It was accessible to anyone in the hospital; area GPs could refer directly to it; hospital staff could self refer.

By 1999, Carl (who was also teaching four basic counselling skills and a  certificate              in counselling course within the hospital as well as assuming responsibility for health     and safety) had a personal caseload of 108 clients for the service deemed by a national government audit to be a fantastic model the only one of its kind in the country.

´At which point´ sighs Carl ´the NHS pulled the plug on the service and I parted from        it quite acrimoniously.´

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In my prime of life I heard the dreaded words – “It’s Cancer.”

I researched everything I could and eventually found a combination of methods that treated the root causes of my disease, not just symptoms.

Body-soul-spirit

Many have called me a cancer survivor. I reject that label. I didn’t simply survive cancer –    I am cured of cancer.

When I was diagnosed, my husband Dale became my cheerleader and my counselor. His experience as the only survivor of an airplane crash gave him an astounding ability to see life through a spiritual lens, along with a history of overcoming life-threatening injuries.

Dale became my full-time researcher and he put those skills to valuable use, digging tirelessly for the information I would need to reverse my disease.

We learned that the most effective way to fight disease is to treat the whole person – body, soul and spirit. God created us in His image: we are a spirit, we have a soul (our mind, will and emotions) and we live in a body.

Each of these parts plays a different role, yet they interconnect. Each part has a great effect on health or sickness, on life or death. And each part affects the other parts for good or bad. This means that even when sickness or disease is apparent in your body, the illness may be rooted in your spirit or your soul. Thus, for permanent vibrant health, you must address all three parts—your spirit, your soul, and your body.

The spirit refers to your spiritual heart, not your physical heart. You are a spirit being, created in God’s image. God is a spirit. The real you is your spirit, not your body or mind. You also have a soul, consisting of your mind, your will, and your emotions.  Though it’s probably the least understood of the three parts,  the soul has a profound effect on your    life in a myriad of ways.  People commonly believe the soul  and spirit refer to the same thing—but they do not.  According to Scripture,  they are clearly different,  yet both are eternal parts of your being.

You live in a body that exists to house your spirit and soul. Your body also allows             you to interact with the physical world in which you live. The body is the easiest part to understand because you can see it and touch it. You can literally feel your body, inside   and out.

For example, if your toe hurts or your head aches, you know your body is afflicted. Your body is also the part of you that others acknowledge and with whom they interact. If you don’t consciously adjust your way of thinking, you can mistakenly believing that your body is who you are. But your body is where you live—not who you are. You—the real you—is your spirit.

Think of your body like you do your car. It’s the vehicle you use to get around in.          When people who know you see your car coming, they say, “Here comes so-and-so.” They recognize you by the car you drive, but you are not your car. Similarly, you need a physical vehicle—your body—to carry your spirit and soul through this natural world. In summary, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body.

Because each of these three parts interconnect and interrelate, one part cannot be affected without the other parts responding either positively or negatively.

When most people think of sickness or disease, they think only about the body. But unforgiveness, continual stress, or feelings of fear and anxiety—which are spirit and soul issues—can have a very detrimental effect on our physical bodies.

If you are sick and want to get well… or if you are well and want to prevent disease…        you need to understand and address your whole person—body, soul and spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYfTjuuwah0           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGUhDAyaqU

Cancer and the Soul

By Jeannine Walston

“Whenever or however that line from health to illness is crossed, we enter this realm of soul. Illness is both soul shaking and soul evoking for the patient and for all others to whom the patient matters. We lose an innocence, we know vulnerability, we are no longer who we were before this event, and we will never be the same. We are in uncharted terrain, and there is no turning back. Illness is a profound soul event, and yet this is virtually ignored and unaddressed. Instead, everything seems to be focused on the part of the body that is sick, damaged, failing, or out of control.”
-Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, Close to the Bone

“Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.”

-Socrates, approximately 500 BC

What is soul?

Soul is each person’s unique essence and being.
Soul is our true self.
Soul is individual.
Soul is the cohesive force embodied through the unity of each person’s total self with full integration of an interconnected body, heart, and mind.
Expressions of the soul include purpose and meaning in each individual’s life.
People connect with and integrate their soul to varying degrees.

What is spirit? What is the relationship between spirit and soul?

Spirit is an essence that comes from and is the divine.
Spirit is our true nature.
Spirit is universal.
The ways in which people experience, embody, and express spirit are individual.
Spirit and the body must be one for soul to be present.
Universal spirit moves soul through spiritual guidance.

What is soul pain?

Soul pain is the experience within an individual of disconnect and alienation from the deepest and most fundamental aspects of self.

What is the relationship between cancer and the soul?

Illnesses such as cancer can open a soulful conversation about life, death, purpose, meaning, and other core components of the human experience. Some people view illness, including challenges such as cancer, as opportunities for soul growth.

Dealing with cancer is a vehicle for the soul’s evolution. The disease experience opens gateways into the soul. Illness is an invitation to look deeply into self, cultivate new levels of knowledge, and understanding about who you are.

“We go to doctors and to hospitals with the expectation that they will take care of our bodies. That the soul might also be engaged is not our expectation. Yet, a life-threatening illness calls to the soul, taps into spiritual resources, and can be an initiation into the soul realm for the patient and for anyone else who is touched by the mystery that accompanies the possibility of death. When life is lived at the edge—in the border realm between life and death—it is a liminal time and place.

Liminal comes from the Latin word for ‘threshold.’…  SO Whenever we participate in something that will change us, and change how others relate to us… that experience is a liminal one. Whenever we are initiated into knowing something we did not know before  on a body level… we cross a threshold. Here the mystical, spiritual, or psychic awareness  of what is happening, however, determines its significance as a soul experience.  So it is with a life-threatening illness, which similarly happens in and to the body and yet can profoundly affect the soul.”
-Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, Close to the Bone

Through the cancer journey, you can learn further connection and embodiment of soul and spirit guiding you through life. Soul and spirit provide guidance through your intuition. You have answers within.

 What are some soul questions?

Soul questions help people journey into their deeper self for reflections and information. In Close to the Bone, Dr. Bolen proposes the following questions. Some of them apply to all individual lives and others are specific to people dealing with illness.

  • What did you come to do?
  • What did you come to learn?
  • What did you come to heal?
  • What and who did you come to love?
  • What are you here for?
  • When you die, how will your life have been worthwhile?
  • What do you regret doing or not having done?
  • What do you still want time for?
  • In what ways do you matter?
  • What people in your life deeply matter to you?
  • What do you perceive about God?
  • What do you perceive about an afterlife?
  • What is your unfinished business?
  • What long-buried thoughts and memories are coming back to you now?
  • What are your dreams saying?

How do people evoke a deeper communion with their soul?

Many avenues help people connect with and integrate their soul. The journey includes hearing the soul’s expression and learning how to embody it through attunement with the total self. Some paths toward deeper soul expression include the following.

  • Awareness of synchronicity
  • Awareness of imagery, signs, and symbols
  • Awareness of dreams
  • Exploring myths and archetypes
  • Listening in the midst of a quiet mind
  • Immersion in silence and stillness
  • Deep relaxation
  • Deep breathing
  • Deep listening
  • Open, relaxed heart
  • Full integration of an interconnected body, heart, and mind
  • Movement
  • Meditation
  • Prayer
  • Listening to lyrical and other soulful types of music
  • Expression through art
  • Time in nature
  • Exploring non-linear expressions
  • Reading and writing poetry

More information about ways to evoke a deeper relationship with soul are available in our Mind section, Intuition and Instinct, and throughout the Spirit section.

“Jeannine Walston…      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2zv8xG4Kw

https://anticancerclub.com/news-and-info/jeannine-walston-17-year-cancer-tumor-thriver/ http://jeanninewalston.com/about/my-cancer-story/

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Healing Power of Connection

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Lynne McTaggart  is an American lecturer, journalist, author, and publisher. She has authored 6 books, including The Intention Experiment and The Field. According to her author profile, she is a spokesperson “on consciousness, the new physics, and the practices of conventional and alternative medicine.” McTaggart is also an anti-vaccinationist.

She promotes this belief in her book What Doctors Don’t Tell You and in other publications.  This has drawn significant criticism of her work and          has created controversy.

Living With Intention – Lynne McTaggart

In her autobiography McTaggart reports that after recovering from an        illness using alternative medical approaches her husband suggested she   start a newsletter on the risks of some medical practices and devised the    title: “What Doctors Don’t Tell You”.  In 1996,  McTaggart published the      book with the same name.

She and her husband set up a public company in 2001, What Doctors Don’t Tell You plc, later Conatus plc,  which published newsletters,   magazines  and  audio-tapes based on conferences and seminars including, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, PROOF!, and Living the Field.  This company was wound up in 2009.

A new company, Wddty Publishing Ltd, run by McTaggart and her husband, took over    the What Doctors Don’t Tell You website, and New Age Publishing Ltd for McTaggart’s other publishing and public-speaking activities. Publication of their monthly magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You restarted in August 2012, in a glossy format aimed at newsagent and high-street distribution, instead of using the previous subscription model, and carrying paid advertising, something McTaggart had originally said WDDTY would not do.           https://www.biontologyarizona.com/healing-power-of-connection/

In her book The Field, McTaggart asserts that the universe is unified by an interactive field. The book has been translated into fourteen languages. In a later book, The Intention Experiment,  she discusses research in the field of human consciousness which she says supports the theory that “the universe is connected by a vast quantum energy field” and can be influenced by thought. Michael Shermer states that this belief is contradicted by conflicting evidence (e.g. studies on intercessory prayer).

McTaggart has a personal-development program called “Living The Field” which is based on an idiosyncratic interpretation of the zero point field as applied to quantum mechanics. She appears in the extended version of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, (2004).

Click here for Mitchell’s interview with Lynne on A Better World Radio: http://abetterworld.tv/lynne-mctaggart-author-internationally-acclaimed-journalist-science-writer.

Also An in-depth interview with Dr Dacher Keltner about the vagus nerve and its connection with the rebound effect of sending out healing intention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-1HhWRcIyQ

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Cancer  largely characterized it as a deficiency disease— a slow-motion starving of vital nutrients resulting from the wholesale industrialization of food —or disease of toxicity — a poisoning from our chronic exposure to some 20,000 chemicals present in  our air, food, water and homes.

Clearly, these elements play an important supporting role. But perhaps not the leading one.

Spontaneous disappearance
They do not, for instance, explain spontaneous remission — how a giant mass can be    there one day and virtually melt away the next.  A small body of research concerns terminal cancer patients who, with little or no medical intervention, end up beating          the odds.

Although medicine likes to pretend that these cases are rare, one in eight skin cancers spontaneously heals, as does nearly one in five genitourinary cancers.

Virtually all types of illnesses, from those where organs have supposedly packed up, as      in diabetes or Addison’s disease, to those where a body part is supposedly irretrievably damaged, as in atherosclerosis, have healed on their own.

Rather than calling these cases what they are — the body’s ability to self-correct — medicine refers to them as ‘spontaneous remission’, as though the illness has simply decided to go into hiding, but might still suddenly spring out at you again at any moment.

We all marvel at cases of spontaneous remission because even the most enlightened among us subscribe to the body-as-machine paradigm. Under this model, what is broken stays broken, until a seasoned mechanic comes along with the right monkey wrench or spare part.

Clearly, what’s going on there is something more complex than eating your greens and throwing away your toxic cleaning products.  The sheer volume of cases of spontaneous remission shows that self-repair and renewal is natural to the human body.

Losing the plot
Lately, I’ve been sifting through these studies, looking for the common thread. What these cases collectively say about cancer is highly instructive. In case after case, they describe people up against a major roadblock in their lives: an unremitting stress; an unresolved trauma; a prolonged hostility; a marked isolation; a profound dissatisfaction; a quiet despair.

They describe people who are boxed in a corner with no apparent way out, people who have lost not only the plot but also their role as the central protagonist of their own life drama. They are people who, in short, hurt deeply in their very souls.

Those people who beat their cancer, whose survival remains unexplained, are those same individuals who find a way out of the corner. They get rid of the source of the psychological heartache: they divorce the abusive husband; they resolve the problem with their mother or daughter; they take full responsibility for their illness.

But, most important of all, they find the lost meaning in their lives.

Most cases of spontaneous remission seem to take place after the patient has made              a major psychological shift to recreate a life that is engaging and purposeful. They          play the piano or go trekking in Tibet, if that’s what they always meant to do before       they got derailed in their lives. They find a path back to their joie de vivre.

The power of thoughts
Most people, this would suggest, get ill because they’ve lost all hope of life ever being good.  And this suggests that they have cancer because of their thoughts — the thoughts they think about themselves and their lives.

For many years, I’ve studied evidence of how profoundly and quickly the brain alters         its function and even its physical structure from mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation is more than just relaxation. It creates a profound change in your worldview: an acceptance of ‘what is’ in the current moment without a judgemental overlay.

The research on mindfulness suggests that our physicality is like Play-Doh, to be molded from our conscious thoughts. Form follows function. If the brain can be physically revised throughout life just by thinking better thoughts, so too can the rest of the body.

Indeed, the dynamic plasticity of the body — its ability to go from ill to well overnight — demonstrates how deeply it is a maidservant of consciousness.

Much has been written about the so-called ‘cancer personality’. For me, the real question is getting to the heart of the cancer in your soul. 👌💯

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