Causes of Cancer
What Exactly Is Cancer And Why Does It Develop In Your Body?
Cancer cells are always developing in the body. ItÕs an ongoing process. The immune system has components whose job it is to seek out and destroy cancer cells.
Cancer has been around as long as man kind.Ê In the second half of the 20th century the number of cancer cases exploded. Due in part because of the overload of toxins, pollutants, stress, poor quality and wrong types of food, pathogens, electromagnetic stress, lights and just about anything that wasnÕt around 200 years ago. All these things combined weaken the immune system and alter internal body conditions clearing the way for cancer to develop.
Cancer tumors begin when more cancerous cells are being created than an overworked, depleted immune system can destroy.
Constant exposure to tens of thousands of manmade chemicals from birth onward, electromagnetic radiation, pollution and other toxins, leads to the creation of too many free radicals and excessive numbers of cancerous cells.
Alone this would be enough to raise cancer levels, but combined with an immune system weakened by a diet of refined and over processed food, mineral depleted soils, and too much light, the immune system becomes overwhelmed.
DID YOU KNOW: Research shows that the immune system needs 9 1/2 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely -- the authors of the book Lights Out explain. When was the last time you had enough sleep?
As a result of all this stress on our bodies and the overload of toxins, what you get is a malfunctioning immune system and a body that is not capable of destroying the excessive numbers of cancerous cells that develop. Some, sooner or later, survive and multiply. And then you have a cancer battle on your hands.
Overcoming cancer is a process of reversing the conditions that allowed the cancer to develop, and going after and killing cancerous cells.
The exact causes donÕt have to be known though certainly the more varied the approaches taken to correct those conditions, the more likely you are going to hit on what works best in a particular case. What needs to be done is to strongly and dramatically interrupt and reverse these cancer-causing conditions so that the body becomes healthier, and no longer capable of breeding cancer.
The more cancer there is, the more serious the condition -- meaning much has to be done fast. In your personal situation it may be too late, or it may not. No one knows where that cutoff point is as even advanced cases have been known to turn around.
Now what you will be reading in this report isnÕt about a cure for cancer. It isnÕt medical advice. It is sort of like information from the National Cancer Society that one of the most important things you can do for your health is to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. But much, much more potent. YouÕll clearly understand what I mean as you read on.
One of the basics of fighting cancer is going on a fairly low carbohydrate diet, especially sugars and refined carbohydrates, because they digest extremely fast and flood the body. Your body must then produce a lot of insulin to get the sugar into cells fast, and this feeds the cancer cells just what they like to eat.
I wonder what would happen if you drank a high quality fruit juice full for nutrients that have been proven to fight cancer, like Goji Juice, on an empty stomach so the sugar rush from the juice increased insulin levels and targeted the cancer cells. And you take with it herbs or nutrients good at killing cancer cells like the ellagic acid with graviola or some of these other supplements. They might get pulled into the cancer cells too, improving their effectiveness. Hmmm. Anyway, let's get on to learning more about fighting cancer.
7 Weak Spots Of Cancer And How To Take Advantage of Them
Cancer Weakness #1: High Oxygen Levels Kill Cancer While Low Oxygen Levels In The Body Breed Cancer
Did you realize that the underlying cause of cancer may be low cellular oxygenation levels, which in newly formed cells, damages their cellular respiration enzymes, which can cause them to become cancerous?
In 1931 Dr. Warburg won his first Nobel Prize for proving cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen respiration in cells. He stated in an article titled The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer that Òthe cause of cancer is no longer a mystery, we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.Ó
ÒCancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar. All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes.Ó
Some causes of poor oxygenation include a buildup of carcinogens and other toxins within and around cells, which blocks and then damages the cellular oxygen respiration mechanism. Clumping up of red blood cells slows down the bloodstream and restricts flow into capillaries. Which also causes poor oxygenation. Even lack of the proper building blocks for cell walls, essential fatty acids, restricts oxygen exchange.Ó
What Warburg and other scientists found in their research was that the respiratory enzymes in cells, which make energy aerobically, die when cellular oxygen levels drop.
When this happens, the cell can no longer produce energy aerobically. So, if the cell is to live, it must, at least partially, ferment sugars, producing energy anaerobically.
According to Warburg, cells that produce energy by fermenting sugars may turn cancerous. WarburgÕs contention is this...
Cells must switch to producing energy anaerobically because low oxygen levels have lead to the death of the respiratory enzymes needed to produce energy aerobically. When this happens, the cells cannot produce enough energy to maintain their ability to function properly. So they lose their ability to do whatever they need to do in the body.
Fermentation allows these cells to survive, but they can no longer perform any functions in the body or communicate effectively with the body. Consequently, these cells can only multiply and grow. And may become cancerous. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are cancer cells.
Decades ago, two researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Dean Burn and Mark Woods, (Dean translated some of WarburgÕs speeches.) conducted a series of experiments where they measured the fermentation rate of cancers that grew at different speeds. What they found supported Dr. WarburgÕs theory. The cancers with the highest growth rates had the highest fermentation rates. The slower a cancer grew, the less it used fermentation to produce energy.
Naturally WarburgÕs contention was challenged and tested by other scientists.
Some researchers claimed this theory was not valid after they had measured a particularly slow growing cancer, and found no fermentation at all. And if cancer could grow with no fermentation, then fermentation, or lack of oxygen respiration, was not the cause of cancer. Dean Burn and Mark Woods checked those results.
Using more sophisticated equipment, they determined that the equipment these researchers used to measure fermentation levels was not accurate enough to detect fermentation at low levels. Their testing, using newer and more accurate equipment, showed that even in those very slow growing cancer cells, fermentation was still taking place, at very low levels.
This was also confirmed by Pietro Gullino, also at the National Cancer Institute, who devised a test, which showed that this slow growing cancer always produced fermentation lactic acid. Silvio Fiala, a biochemist from the University of Southern California, also confirmed that this slow growing cancer produced lactic acid, and that itÕs oxygen respiration was reduced.
This theory makes sense. It also explains why there is never cancer of the heart. There are brain cancers, bladder cancers, cancers of every organ in the body. But have you ever heard of heart cancer? There wouldnÕt be, not it this theory is correct. (There can be a cancerous growth on the heart.)
The body does not allow heart cells to produce energy anaerobically. HereÕs why.
When you are working, or working out, and your muscles start to ache with pain, they have switched to temporarily producing energy anaerobically as they canÕt produce enough energy aerobically using oxygen. This anaerobic energy production causes lactic acid buildup, which eventually shuts down the muscle as it causes pain.
If the heart was able to product energy anaerobically, then lactic acid would build up and shut down the heart. And you would die.
To prevent this, the body doesnÕt allow heart muscles to produce energy through anaerobic fermentation. Heart cells just stop working when they canÕt produce energy using oxygen. Consequently, they donÕt get cancer because their cells cannot product energy through fermentation. Which means that they canÕt lose their functionality and grow in an uncontrolled manner, turning into cancer.
Further research into WarburgÕs theory showed that when oxygen levels were turned down, cells began to produce energy anaerobically, and ultimately became cancerous when levels went low enough. It took a reduction of 35% in oxygen levels for this to happen.
J. B. Kizer, a biochemist and physicist at Gungnir Research in Portsmith, Ohio explains, ÒSince Warburg's discovery, this difference in respiration has remained the most fundamental (and some say, only) physiological difference consistently found between normal and cancer cells. Using cell culture studies, I decided to examine the differential responses of normal and cancer cells to changes in the oxygen environment.
"The results that I found were rather remarkable. I found that... "High 02 tensions were lethal to cancer tissue, 95 percent being very toxic, whereas in general, normal tissues were not harmed by high oxygen tensions. Indeed, some normal tissues were found to require high 02 tensions. It does seem to demonstrate the possibility that if the 02 tensions in cancer tissues can be elevated, then the cancer tissue may be able to be killed selectively, as it seems that the cancer cells are incapable of handling the 02 in a high 02 environment."
Low oxygen levels in cells may be a fundamental cause of cancer. There are several reasons some cells become poorly oxygenated. An overload of toxins clogging up the cells, poor quality cell walls that don't allow nutrients into the cells, poor circulation and perhaps even lower levels of oxygen in the air we breathe.
When newly formed cells suffer a 35% or more decrease in oxygen, their respiratory enzymes become permanently damaged.
In order to survive, those cells must switch to using fermentation to produce energy. If this low oxygen state continues through several cellular life cycles, this de-evolves them to a more plant like cell, which is cancerous.
Cancer cells produce excess lactic acid as they ferment energy. This is toxic and helps to prevent the transport of oxygen into neighboring normal cells. And over time as these cells replicate, the cancer may spread if not destroyed by the immune system. When the immune system cannot kill cancerous cells faster then they develop, you get cancer.
Chemotherapy and radiation are used because cancer cells are weaker than normal cells and therefore may die first.
However, chemo and radiation damages respiratory enzymes in healthy cells and overloads them with toxins, so they become more likely to develop into cancer. The underlying cancer causing conditions are worsened, not improved. And the cancer usually returns quickly a second time unless you make changes to support the health of your body.
Probably the main implication of this research is that an effective way to support the bodyÕs fight against cancer would be to get as much oxygen as you can into the cells. Raising the oxygen levels of the still normal cells would help prevent them from becoming cancerous. And increasing oxygen levels in cancer cells to high levels could help kill those cancer cells.
A nurse who works in medical research said, ÒItÕs so simple. I donÕt know why I never thought of it before. When weÕre working with cell cultures in the lab, if we want the cells to mutate, we turn down the oxygen. To stop them, we turn the oxygen back up.Ó
Ma Lan, MD and Joel Wallach DVD, point out that one type of white blood cells kills cancer cells by injecting oxygen creating hydrogen peroxide into the cells.
There is a bit more to this oxygenation story.
If you remember, according to Warburg, it is increased amounts of carcinogens, toxicity and pollution that cause cells to be unable to uptake oxygen efficiently. This is connected with over-acidity.
Cancer Weakness #2: High Acidity In The Body Fosters Development Of Cancer While A More Alkaline Body Keeps The Body Cancer Free
There is plenty of research showing that cancer thrives in an acidic environment, and doesnÕt survive in an alkaline environment. Cancer cells produce lactic acid as a byproduct of fermentation, which makes them highly acidic. Making the body more alkaline is important in fighting cancer.
Unfortunately...
The majority of the foods and drinks we consume are acidic, with colas and other soft drinks being highly acidic. So unless you have been eating a very healthy diet, full of fresh fruit and vegetables, your body is way too acidic. And is a very good environment for cancer to grow in.
According to Keiichi Morishita in his book, Hidden Truth of Cancer, if blood starts to become acidic, then the body deposits the excess acidic substances in cells so that the blood will be able to maintain a slightly alkaline condition. This causes those cells to become acidic and toxic, which may result in a decrease in their oxygen levels.
Over time, he theorizes, these cells increase in acidity and some die. These dead cells themselves turn into acids. However, some of these acidified cells may adapt in that environment. In other words, instead of dying - as normal cells do in an acid environment - some cells survive by becoming abnormal cells.
These abnormal cells are called malignant cells. Malignant cells do not correspond with brain function nor with our own DNA memory code. Therefore, malignant cells grow indefinitely and without order. This is cancer.
As you can see, what he seems to be describing, though from a different point of view, is the process by which low oxygen levels turns some cells cancerous.
It is interesting to note the connections here. Alkaline water (including the water in cells) can hold a lot of oxygen. Acidic water (or cells) can hold very little oxygen. So the more acidic your cells are, the less oxygenated they will be. And the process cancer cells use to produce energy, fermentation, produces lactic acid, further increasing acidity.
Sang Whang, in his book Reverse Aging, points out that toxins are acidic. If the blood is already overly acidic, the body must take the toxins out of the blood and deposit them in cells, to keep the blood in the proper pH range. Toxins will not be released into the blood, which must happen in order to detoxify your cells when the blood is too acidic. This buildup of toxins causes acidic, poorly oxygenated cells, which may, at some point, turn cancerous. He explains,
"In general, degenerative diseases are the result of acid waste buildups within us. When we are born, we have the highest alkaline mineral concentration and also the highest body pH. From that point on, the normal process of life is to gradually acidify. That is why these degenerative diseases do not occur when you are young. Reverse aging requires two separate steps: chemical and physical. The first step is to lower the acidity of the body so that it can dispose of acidic wastes in the blood and cellular fluids safely and easily. The second step is to physically pull out old stored wastes into the blood stream so that they can be discharged from the body."
"The best kind of water for this function is acid-free alkaline water, the water that neutralizes harmful acids and disposes of them safely while it does not leach out valuable alkaline minerals such as potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium."
"The device necessary to make the acid-free alkaline water is called a water ionizer." Sang Whang - Reverse Aging
By the way, it is not easy to get additional oxygen into cells. Most approaches donÕt work well. Breathing oxygen is still limited by the amount of hemoglobin available and acidity levels. And Dr. Whittaker points out, quite rightly, that liquid oxygen supplements that only release oxygen into the blood, which most of them only do, canÕt get oxygen into the cells.
He explains that a delivery mechanism is needed to transport oxygen into cells. And though the typical oxygen supplement gets oxygen into the stomach or the blood, that doesnÕt mean it, gets into the cells.
Cancer Weakness #3: Control Candida Fungus To Hinder Cancer Development
Some doctors theorize that candida or other systemic fungal infections may cause or at least contribute to the development of cancer. It makes sense. A widespread candida infection plays havoc on the immune system. Not only does the immune system become overwhelmed and worn out from fighting it, but the candida (or other pathogens) excrete toxins that further weaken and harm the body.
The major waste product of candida is acetaldehyde, which produces ethanol. Ethanol can cause excessive fatigue, and reduces strength and stamina. ÊIn addition, it destroys enzymes needed for cell energy, and causes the release of free radicals that encourages the aging process.
Ethanol makes it difficult to absorb iron. This reduces one of the most important oxygen supports in the blood (iron), and makes it difficult for your body to oxygenate fully. And you know what may happen when your body canÕt oxygenate well. So it may be important to deal with candida if one wants to successfully recover from cancer.
There is a simple test to help you determine if you have candida overgrowth.
First thing in the morning, before you put ANYTHING in your mouth, get a clear glass of water. Better still; leave it by your bed the night before. Work up a bit of saliva, and then spit it into the glass of water.
Check the water every 15 minutes or so for up to one hour. If you have a candida yeast infection, you will see strings (like legs) traveling down into the water from the saliva floating on the top, or ÒcloudyÓ saliva will sink to the bottom of the glass, or cloudy specks will seem to be suspended in the water. If nothing develops in 30 minutes, you are probably candida yeast free.
A few reports implicate the role of fungi in causing leukemia. In 1999 Meinolf Karthaus, MD, watched three different children with leukemia suddenly go into remission upon receiving a triple antifungal drug cocktail for their "secondary" fungal infections.
In 1997 Mark Bielski stated that leukemia, whether acute or chronic, is intimately associated with the yeast, Candida albicans, which mutates into a fungal form when it overgrows.
Milton White, MD. believed that cancer to be a chronic, infectious, fungus disease. He was able to find fungal spores in every sample of cancer tissue he studied.
Author Doug Kaufmann asserts that fungi in foods may play a role in cancer. He has seen children become free of their documented leukemia once the child's parents simply changed the child's diet. Kaufmann's diet is base on the widely published problem of mycotoxin contamination of our grain foods.
Grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, and other foods such as peanuts, are commonly contaminated with cancer-causing fungal poisons called mycotoxins. One of them, called aflatoxin, just happens to be the most carcinogenic substance on earth.
He says we consume, on average, from 0.15mg to 0.5mg of aflatoxin per day. So it is not sugar alone that is the problem in our western diet, but fungal toxins that are found in the sugary grains. More than once has Kaufmann interviewed a caller (on his health talk show) who absolutely craved peanut butter and popcorn just prior to their diagnosis of cancer.
Kaufmann feels that antibiotics may play a role in this. Antibiotics destroy the normal, protective gut bacteria, allowing intestinal yeast and fungi to grow unchecked. Resulting in Candida overgrowth. This can lead to immune suppression, symptoms of any autoimmune disease, or even cancer.
"If the onset of any symptom or disease, cancer included, was preceded by a course of antibiotics," he says, "then look for a fungus to be at the root of your problem."
Cancer Weakness #4: A Strong Immune System Spells Trouble For Cancer
An important aspect of dealing with cancer is supporting the immune system. After all, for most of your life the immune system has successfully dealt with cancer cells. It must become worn out, ineffective and unable to deal with the cancer cells before cancer takes hold and thrives.
So it may be quite important to strengthen the immune system so that it can better fight cancer. Especially if you are getting medical treatments that wipe out the immune system, and make the body more acidic to boot.
Your thymus gland is the key gland for the immune system. The stronger you can make it, the stronger your immune response to cancer will be.
Some natural supplements are better than others at supporting the immune system and creating health in the body. The trick is the use the ones that help the most as it is easy to squander resources on products that wont make a significant difference. And the other concern, if you have cancer, is to make sure you take enough of them.
Generally 5 to 10 times the normal supplemental amounts seem to work best.
Cancer Weakness #5: Detoxify, Reduce Chlorine Exposure & Take In More Antioxidants To Subdue Cancer
One of the causes of cancer is excessive free radical damage in your cells that harms your DNA and results in some cells mutating into cancerous cells. Every chemical and toxin in you body causes free radical damage. The carcinogenic ones cause even more. Combined with high acidity and low oxygenation, you've got a prescription for cancer. While there is no doubt that the ordinary free radical scavengers play a key role in fighting cancer, like the OPCs that took care of lung cancer, there are even more potent scavengers that work in an entirely different way. SSR Super Quinone. Even though it has been used for over 60 years, it is virtually unknown.
And did you know that what's put in your water to purify it may be causing your cancer (and heart disease)?
The French, with their lower cancer rates from consuming OPCs and resveratrol in red wine, have made red wine famous for its health benefits. There is another side to their low cancer rates though that most people don't know...
The French do not drink chlorinated water. They ozonate their water to purify it.
Does this make a difference? Absolutely.
"We are quite convinced... that there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water."
Medical College Of Wisconsin research team
We donÕt use chlorine because itÕs safe, we use it because it is cheap. We essentially still pour bleach in our water before we drink it. The long-term effects of chlorinated drinking water have recently been recognized. According to the U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality, "Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine."
It may cause much heart disease too. Dr. Joseph Price wrote a highly controversial book in the late sixties titled Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine, and concluded that nothing can negate the incontrovertible fact, the basic cause of arteriosclerosis, heart attacks and stroke, is chlorine.
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