Read carefully. The obvious take home is that anyone diagnosed with cancer needs to switch to a vegetarian diet in order to restore the whole body. It may well still demand surgical intervention but it should also be shrinking before that on a vegetarian regime.
An optimum mix of vegetables is not well understood yet. Thus variety is attested and known anti cancer foods enlisted. What is important is that this provides us with our direction.
It is actually good news and shapes our direction.
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Research: Plants Cure Cancer, Not Chemicals
By Sayer Ji
http://www.riseearth.com/2014/12/research-plants-cure-cancer-not.html
Unbeknownst to most, a Copernican revolution has already taken
place in cancer theory. Today, the weight of evidence indicates that
plants and not chemicals are the solution for reversing the global
cancer epidemic.
Our understanding of what causes cancer has undergone something akin to a
Copernican revolution in the past decade. Biological fatalism has been
the predominant force in medicine over the past half century, where most
conditions including cancer were believed predestined 'in the genes,'
and therefore impossible to reverse. Instead of looking for root cause
resolution of disease (RCRD), we resigned ourselves to 'finding it early' and in the case of cancer, when doing so (even when it was benign),
we waged war against it, quite literally using weapons grade materials
(mustard gas- and nuclear materials-derived agents). Now, however, in
this post-Genomic era,
factors above (epi-) the control of the genes – epigenetic factors –
are taking center stage; these include environmental exposures, stress,
nutritional factors, and various lifestyle-based variables that are
within the ambit of our control and volition, and which are often
reversible.
In other words, cancer is now being understood as epigenetic
dysfunction, a direct and even adaptive response to the post-industrial,
carcinogen-saturated environment, in addition to a diet of faux, mostly
chemically-produced 'food,' combining to produce an environment –
'inner terrain-- within the body ideal for cancer promotion.
Indeed, in a new study published in the journal Food and Chemical
Toxicology titled, "The use of plant-derived bioactive compounds to
target cancer stem cells and modulate tumor microenvironment," the
authors note the powerful implications of this new epigenetic view of
cancer:
"A fundamental aspect to be taken into account is that epigenetic changes can possibly be reversed by modifying epigenetic factors, such as diet and lifestyle. Nowadays, identification of these factors is crucial to develop epigenetically-based preventions and more effective anti-cancer intervention strategies."
Moreover, they note that natural interventions are once again (after
countless millennia of worldwide use), at the cutting edge of medical
intervention:
"Virtually, all dietary compounds have the ability to act at the epigenetic level in cancer cells thus influencing the epigenome in a positive or negative way. Particularly, plant derived compounds, such as polyphenols, have the capacity to reverse adverse epigenetic mutations in cancer cells, to inhibit tumorigenesis progression, to prevent the metastatic process or to sensitize cancer cells to chemo and radiotherapy (Vanden Berghe, 2012)."
The new study highlighted the following points, the implications for the future of cancer treatment are truly revolutionary:
- Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are chemo-radiotherapy resistant, causing tumor relapse.
- CSCs are known to reside within specific hypoxic and acidic tumor niches.
- Phytocompounds affect CSC self-renewal, metabolism and microenvironment.
- Phytocompounds might be exploited for cancer prevention and treatment.
As we have covered extensively in previous posts,
the discovery of a subpopulation within tumors of cells known as cancer
stem cells, reveals that our half-century old war on cancer, officially
inaugurated in 1971 with Nixon's signing of the National Cancer Act,
was extremely misguided. The notion that cancer is simply a byproduct of
cells within the body going rogue due to DNA damage and replicating
clonally through fundamentally chaotic – stochastic – processes, has
been called into question by the discovery that tumors are actually
sophisticated, hierarchically organized communities that express highly
intelligent, survival-based behaviors, albeit evolutionary ancient in origin.
The establishment views cancer as something 'you have or don't have,'
and the equivalent of being infected by 'terrorist-like' cancer cells
that must be treated as an enemy and obliterated by any means necessary.
This treatment ensues regardless of the collateral damage to the
patient. The emerging and far more nuanced cancer stem-cell based
perspective, precipitated primarily by epigenetic factors – e.g.
chemical exposure, dietary incompatibilities, metabolic acidosis and low
oxygen (hypoxia) – offers a far more promising and empowering view of
prevention and treatment.
If cancer is not something that fatalistically 'happens to the body,'
due to 'bad' inherited genes passed down from distant ancestors, but is
something the body does adaptively to survive anthropogenic exposures
that diverge from millions, if not billions of years, of bodily
prehistory, suddenly the solution to overcoming the burgeoning, global
cancer epidemic is in regaining and/or reproducing the ideal bodily and
psychospiritual conditions within the body that is no longer conducive
to carcinogenesis. As proposed in the book I co-authored, Cancer Killers, we don't get sick because we have cancer; we get cancer because we are already sick.
For additional research on the true nature of, and solution for, cancer,
focusing on the revolutionary implications of the cancer stem cell
theory, please review the following articles and videos:
I anticipate a time in the not too distant future when the conventional
medical establishment freely acknowledges that cancer is a natural
response to decades of culminative exposures to unnatural,
evolutionarily unprecedented chemical, electromagnetic, psychospiritual
exposures and conditions. Instead of vilifying and violently suppressing
the symptom of this perfect storm of toxicity -- cancer -- enlightened
practitioners will learn to address, remove and redress the root causes,
focusing on reproducing the conditions that support our genetic and
epigenetic blueprint of health and wellness. It is the goal of GreenMedInfo.com
to provide the public and professional populations a resource to
leverage the emerging evidence to do exactly that. The following
database sections are designed to make this task easier:
as far as understanding both how cancer is caused and how it can be effectively treated.
thanks in large part to the discovery that it is an exemplar of
epigenetic dysfunction and not a predestined byproduct of dysfunctional
genetic information inherited from distant ancestors.
1 comment:
I'm sure you know this is old news. Read Max Gerson. Also Sherry Rogers says that many have cured themselves with a macrobiotic diet. It is good the news is getting out now, no doubt due to the internet. ;-)
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