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Minimize exposure to risk factors including smoking, drugs (including illegal and prescription) and excessive alcohol intake.
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Maintain body weight in within a healthy range. The obese and even overweight are more likely to get cancer.
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Practice regular, daily deep breathing.
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Stay physically active. A sedentary lifestyle is linked cancer.
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Eat (and drink) more veggies. Reduce intake of processed dairy and meat.
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Avoid fried and otherwise processed and refined fats.
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Reduce caloric intake (especially refined flour and sugar) and use intermittent fasting (1-3 days a month).
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Use relaxation techniques including massage, quality sleep (and naps), as well as emotional and mental strategies.
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Leverage spirituality by developing a personal relationship and regularly communing with Divine Force through prayer and meditation.
Did you know…
…that the name cancer refers to the crab like way tumors tenaciously grip and spread into adjacent tissues
…the earliest description of cancer was of a breast tumor found in an ancient Egyptian medical treatise dating back to 1600 B.C.
…lung, prostate, and stomach cancers are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men. Breast, cervix, and colorectal cancers are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women.
Cancer, Oxygen and Sugar
In the world of health and wellness, there’s nothing quite as terrifying as a diagnosis of cancer. As of 2014, nearly 15 million people living in the United States had a history of the dreaded disease. That’s about 5 percent or so of the population. While that’s certainly significant, it also means that 95 percent of Americans are cancer-free. In other words, despite the fear and angst it engenders, full-blown cancer is a relatively rare occurrence. While cancer has become a prosperous and profit intensive industry generating 125 billion dollars a year in revenue, the infrequency of its occurrence implies a certain resistance to the disease that is built into our biology.
In fact, scientists recognize that the body comes equipped with anti-cancer genetics. Over the past few years, several "tumor-suppressor" genes that control carcinogenesis, abnormal growth and proliferation of cancer cells, have been discovered. What’s more, mutations in these genes have been linked to specific types of cancer. Not surprisingly, the genes have caught the attention of the drug industry and chemotherapy researchers are exploring the potential for treating cancer patients by inhibiting tumor growth and spread with pharmaceutical versions of these tumor-suppressor genes. Nonetheless, despite the potential for exploitation for profit, by understanding what goes awry with the body’s cancer protecting mechanisms when malignancies occur, we may reveal clues we can use to assure prevention or even remission once the disease shows up.
When we hear the word cancer, most of us think of various parts of the body that the disease appears in. That’s understandable; traditionally, all cancers have been associated with the various structures they affect. But this misguided focus on cancerous bodily structures, keeps us from making a common sense assessment about what’s really occurring. The disturbances in the structure and function of tissues and organs are the result of cellular pathology. Despite all the attention that’s drawn to prostates, lungs, bones, breasts and other cancerous bodily systems, the real key to comprehending and addressing the cause of cancer is the cell; from a healing perspective the particular organ of the body that is affected is far less important. We don’t have bone cancer; we have bone cancer cells. Likewise, we don’t have lung, prostate, breast cancer, rather cancers of the lung, prostate and breast cells. When we say we have cancer what we mean is we have cancer cells. Or more accurately we have cells that are dividing in a chaotic, cancer-like fashion.
While medical professionals will say that there are many things that initiate cancer, from cigarettes to air pollution to food additives and nuclear radiation, as it turns out these factors all function as secondary triggers. In this way all the various cancers, and there are over a hundred of them, have a generic quality. No matter where the cancer is occurring, at the cellular level, the same metabolic dysfunction is present: namely the substitution of oxygen-burning as a source of energy with the fermentation of sugar. In fact, according to the pioneering biochemist Otto Warburg, the replacement of oxygen with sugar as a prime fuel source is the cancer cell’s distinguishing feature. In an article titled “The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer” he wrote: “…the cause of cancer is no longer a mystery, we know it occurs whenever a cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements…”. And, according to J.B. Kizer, a cancer researcher at the Gungnir Research Center (GRC) in Portsmouth, Ohio: “this difference in respiration has remained the most fundamental (and some say, only) physiological difference consistently found between normal and cancer
