There is no treatment for cancer that is more powerful than our own immune system.
"Anticancer, A new way of life", Book by D.
Servan-Schreiber(40).
Our Western diet is so full of sugar, white flour, trans fats, and hormones that it feeds cancer cells.
"Anticancer, A new way of life", book by D.
Servan-Schreiber (40).
Can Cancer Be Cured?
... A draft ... Improvements on the way ... Medical references to be added.
The short answer is Yes! I firmly believe that Cancer can be cured provided that rescue for restoring the body to good health arrives before it deteriorates too far!
The current cancer research has the objective of developing a drug or drugs able to replace the function of the Immune System that recognize cancer cells and destroy them. This will never lead to cure. At best, it can make cancer a chronically manageable disease which will keep the patient alive longer as long as he keeps taking the drugs and bear the suffering of the side effects. This is good for Big Pharma but definitely not for the patients!
All that it needs to be done to find a cancer cure is to redirect all the ongoing cancer research to the objective of developing a nutritional regimen that heals our own Immune System because only a healthy Immune System can cure and prevent cancers. This will require a successful campaign to regulate or outlaw Big Tobacco, Big Cannabis, Big recreational drugs, Big Pharma, Big Sugar, Big junk Food, Big Junk Drinks, Big Cosmetic, and Big alcohol. All these industries conjure up to create a sick population prone to diseases including Cancer. This is good for patients because it will make them healthy and healthy patients make no money for Big Pharma. And they make no money for big food as to stay healthy people will have to stay way from toxic processed food and sugar related products. So, a cancer cure is definitely achievable, but Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Tobacco, and Big Drinks will do anything that they can get away withh to prevent a successful nutrition based cancer cure because it would reduce their profits substantially.
Why this effort in trying the very difficult, if not impossible task, to come up with such a drug? There is another alternative to prevent and cure cancer. This alternative is to point the research to heal the "mechanism" that mother nature has given our body for the purpose of recognizing and kill foreign invaders as well as cancer cells. We call this mechanism 'Immune System"! In a person that gets Cancer the Immune System is not functioning correctly. How do we heal the Immune System? By healing his body.
From time immerorial humans have understood that what keeps people healthy is good nutrition and physical activities. This knowledge was concisely stated in Hippocratis famous quote "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food!" and is attested to by the rigorous physical training received by soldiers, and by physical prowess games such the ancient Greek Olympics. I grew up very close to nature as all our food came from our own fields and, when we got sick we resort to different food items to help our bodies heal itself. There was no other way as the only doctor available in our area was too expensive to consult. And thanks to God that it he was too expensive! He was the doctor that prescribed blood letting, using leeches, to treat my pneumonia at age one! Did you know that because of this practice doctors were called "leeches"? My parents used all their savings to hire this doctor to heal my pneumonia and he almost bled me to death. And he would have succeeded if my grandmother had not stepped in with her age old knowledge of how to stop the blood flowing out of the holes left by the leeches: split beans wrapped in cowebs (collected from the corners of the stable where our animals were kept!) inserted into the holes!
When I was growing up we almost instinctively new what was good to eat. And we did not have to worry about exercise. These were the days long before tractors, and would take many hours of "back breaking" labor to tend our fields every day. And we were lucky that the only food available was only good food: from our own fields, from our own animals, and cooked in our own kitchen. There were no food processing industries then ... thank God! Later in life, when looking back, I could not help wonder how it was that our peasants rarely got sick enough not to be able to work in the fields, and that none of our peasants were afflicted by diseases such as, to name a few, heart disease, blood pressure, gout, diabetes, and allergies (we called them the Diseases of the Rich because only the rich in our area got them). I believe that I found the answer recently. I decided to analyze the typical diets of my growing up peasants for vitamin contents (Vitamins in Peasants Diet) were rich in vitamins. In particular, would you believe that these diets contained an average of 2.5 grams of vitamin C daily? My own experience with vitamin C, has convinced me that it was the daily consumption of food rich in vitamin C that kept our peasants healthy.
Today we have huge amount of scientific knowledge about nutrition. Unfortunately the profit motive is resulting in this knowledge to be used to develop processed foods and all other types of junk food and drinks. Also, this profit motive is fuelling propaganda to convice people that good nutrition is not significant to their health. The mantra is "take the doctor's prescribed pills and you will be healthy regardless of what you eat". When was the last time that the doctor asked you about your diet before prescribing a couple of pills? And have you notice the commercials about prescrition drugs? These potential killers are being marketed as if they were candies!
Today we have huge amount of scientific knowledge about nutrition. Unfortunately the profit motive is resulting in this knowledge to be used to develop processed foods and all other types of junk food and drinks. Also, this profit motive is fuelling propaganda to convice people that good nutrition is not significant to their health. The mantra is "take the doctor's prescribed pills and you will be healthy regardless of what you eat". When was the last time that the doctor asked you about your diet before prescribing a couple of pills? And have you notice the commercials about prescrition drugs? These potential killers are being marketed as if they were candies!
I am convinced that if all the money currently spent on Cancer research were to be diverted to nutrition research, a diet that prevents cancer and restores cancer patients to good health quickly would be developed in a matter of one year or two. This research must take into account that people cannot all be put in the same "treatment" box, as we are all biochemically different and we all have diferent nutritional needs (4,5,5a). We keep treating people based on what is good for an "average person". This average person does not exist! What is good for the average man can be deadly for individuals that depart significantly from the average. We must develop scientific knowledge on the basis of which people can be treated as individuals rather than as if they are average.
How can research be diverted to improve our understanding of nutrition? Nothing short of a revolution by us, the patients, or in the way that our governments regulates Big Pharma . Did you know that the budget of the government departments that are responsible for approving new drugs are funded significantly by Big Pharma? How can you have an objective review of new drugs with these funding arrangements? And did you know that some doctors get paid a kick back by pharmaceutical companies for prescribing their pills?
I believe so strongly in the power of nutrition that I have put my own life on the line. Consider this a one man clinical trial! How did I come up with a diet and supplementation which suits my own biochemical individuality? I wish that governments and Big Pharma had sponsored research in this hugely important area of nutrition for good health, but none has been sponsored. Nonetheless, even though there is little or no scientific guidance in this area, I think that I have been able to identify the diet that is suitable for me. How did I do it? By resorting to that wonderful feedback mechanism that mother nature has given our body to tells us whether it "likes" what we are ingesting. Over a period of time, I have been continuously eliminating from my diet items that I do not feel well with and adding item that I feel well with. And this includes prescription pills. For example, I found that any pills I tried did not make me feel well. And so for some time now (about 15 years) I have been taking no pills whatsoever! And I have finally regained my sense of well being and "can do" drive. These pills are essential to keep us alive in emergencies, but their very dangerous if taken daily past the emergency period.
Is my Regimen working for me so far? It is definitely working well! I feel well, full of energy, and rejuvenated as I have documented in the "Body Changes" page. Will my regimen keep working? Only time will tell. Unfortunately time is not in my favour as I am getting older and there several naturally occurring bodily functions that can only get worse with age. Nobody lives for ever ... this is a law of nature that we must learn to accept peacefully! We must not allow greedy pharmaceutical companies and doctors to exploit our fear of dying to make us ingest their toxic pills. Life is lived in the "now" and regardless of how long you live, you are able to enjoy "now" only if you feel well "now". In the mean time, with my regimen, I am fully enjoying my newly found sense of well-being, my energy level, and my growing desires to embark on new projects as I used to have in my much younger days!
I believe so strongly in the power of nutrition that I have put my own life on the line. Consider this a one man clinical trial! How did I come up with a diet and supplementation which suits my own biochemical individuality? I wish that governments and Big Pharma had sponsored research in this hugely important area of nutrition for good health, but none has been sponsored. Nonetheless, even though there is little or no scientific guidance in this area, I think that I have been able to identify the diet that is suitable for me. How did I do it? By resorting to that wonderful feedback mechanism that mother nature has given our body to tells us whether it "likes" what we are ingesting. Over a period of time, I have been continuously eliminating from my diet items that I do not feel well with and adding item that I feel well with. And this includes prescription pills. For example, I found that any pills I tried did not make me feel well. And so for some time now (about 15 years) I have been taking no pills whatsoever! And I have finally regained my sense of well being and "can do" drive. These pills are essential to keep us alive in emergencies, but their very dangerous if taken daily past the emergency period.
Is my Regimen working for me so far? It is definitely working well! I feel well, full of energy, and rejuvenated as I have documented in the "Body Changes" page. Will my regimen keep working? Only time will tell. Unfortunately time is not in my favour as I am getting older and there several naturally occurring bodily functions that can only get worse with age. Nobody lives for ever ... this is a law of nature that we must learn to accept peacefully! We must not allow greedy pharmaceutical companies and doctors to exploit our fear of dying to make us ingest their toxic pills. Life is lived in the "now" and regardless of how long you live, you are able to enjoy "now" only if you feel well "now". In the mean time, with my regimen, I am fully enjoying my newly found sense of well-being, my energy level, and my growing desires to embark on new projects as I used to have in my much younger days!
The page "What Is Cancer?" highlights that the root cause of cancer is a malfunctioning Immune System which, therefore, is no longer able to recognize cancerous cells, mark then for destruction, and destroy them.
It also points out that unless the body own Immune System is made fully healthy again, there is no hope for a Cancer cure. The reason is simple. Even if we kill several cancer cells, new cancer cells will keep proliferating because they are unchecked by our our deficient Immune System. Accordingly, any Cancer treatment that does not target the healing of our Immune System, at best, can only slow down the progression of the Cancer for a while. And with conventional treatments, such as Chemotherapy, this slowing down is done at the cost of considerable suffering and considerable damage to a lot of good cells including those of our Immune System. Ironically, by damaging our Immune System, these conventional treatments render the possibility of a cure much less probable if not impossible.
Each one of us has the unalienable right to decide which medication we allow our bodies to be subjected to. I have decided to stay away from any type of chemotherapeutic, Immunotherapeutic, and Targetedtherapeutic drugs. I have opted instead to put my faith in the power of my own body to heal itself if properly nourished. Within the context of healing Cancer, there has been no serious research to identify the best nutritional and lifestylle regimen to deal with Cancer. Today there is a huge amount of knowledge on nutrition and if our Cancer researchers were to turn their attention to nutrition, I am convinced that they would able to discover a "superman" diet capable to keep ourselves safe from all type of diseases incuding Cancer. As such reasearch has not been done and is not being done, I am on my own when deciding my nutrition and lifestyle regimen.
In the mean time we, the patients, must garner the strength to learn enough about our bodies and take charge of our own health. We must always remember the age-old peasant wisdom from my growing-up days: "L'occhio del padrone ingrassa il cavallo". This is Italian for " The eye of the owner makes the horse healthy". And we must also always remember the other age-old peasant wisdom from my growing-up days: "Non affidare le tue pecore al lupo". This is Italian for " Don't entrust you sheep to the wolf" because, as the wolf makes a living by eating sheep, he cannot be trusted with the sheep. I learned recently that this proverb has its roots in Aesop's fable "The Wolf and the Shepherd". And as the health industry makes money only if we are sick, we cannot trust the healthy industry blindly with our health. And we must elect politicians that understand this and cannot be corrupted with "under the table" money. We must remember that we are footing the bills for the politicians and health industries through our taxes which are increasing to a breaking point. We the patients are the customer and we must demand respect and results for our money. I never get paid for bad work!
Unfortunately, it is difficult to nourish our body correctly today with the foods made available to us by the food industries because it is highly processed and therefore very bad for our health (36). So, to nourish our body correctly, we must prepare our own food ourselves, in our own kitchens, and with fresh ingredients. This is the only way because there is no healthy food out there, and it is getting worse!
And it is not enough to eat good food. We must also stop poisoning our bodies! This requires absolute abstinence from: (1) The toxic processed foods and drinks that are flooding our grocery stores, our convenience stores, are fast food joints, our restaurants, our pubs, our hospitals, and our senior and long term care homes; (2) The toxic recreational and life style drugs (including alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, vaping products, opiods, etc.) that our misguided regulators are making increasingly easy to access for political and money gains; (3) Vanity fueled products and procedures such as cosmetics, tattoos, cosmetic surgeries, and cosmetic procedures; (4) Daily use of doctor-prescribed drugs and over-the-counter drugs such as aspirin (except for emergencies), because these drugs don't cure: they just treat symptoms and always come replete with several serious side effects.
Clearly, we cannot rely on the "system" for good nourishment of our bodies. If we care about our own health, we have to take matters into our hands as we are clearly "on our own".