Sunday, February 14, 2010

Decisions about how to treat or manage your cancer are always yours to make

It seems that with each day, a new carcinogenic, or cancer causer, is brought to our collective attentions. If we are not told to stay away from microwaves, be aware of grilling temperatures or freezing that gym water bottle, we are consistently bombarded with new, albeit intriguing ways, to get cancer.


Our lifestyle has changed every year something new is incorporated into our daily life. Cancer is the same disease; our body cells have the genetic material that is ready to turn an otherwise normal cell into a malignant cell type. Why, well nobody knows exactly why. There are many theories.

The environment that we live and the food we eat are definitely the main contributors. The environment has changed in the last 50 years. Just to mention one of the simplest changes is how we drink water today and how we used to drink water, we simply opened the faucet or tap, fill the glass and that was all it took to drink clear crystal pure drinkable water. The younger generations drink water from plastic bottles now with different flavors.

Wonder also why there are many digestive and eating habits disorders. The generations born before the seventies used to toast only bread. There was no frozen ready to eat vegetables and we were used to eat fresh, yes they were time consuming to prepare but rarely the food we eat was preserved. Today you place into the toaster or microwave different types of foods, all packed and preserved. People born after the seventies begin to eat ready to eat just microwave or warm pre-packed and preserved foods. Definitely not a balanced diet. We eat to provide the needed nutrients to our cells and all these nutrients come from different sources. We all know that these nutrients have also been affected by the environment (plant pesticides and in the case of animals chemicals that are given to support their life).

This is in general the picture that we have in today's world.

No wonder why younger generations are falling ill at an early age.

Eating properly only helps to keep our body healthy. Treating serious diseases like cancer only with diet today is not enough to heal, our body needs more help with pharmaceutical drugs administered in low dose.

Our body is build with several minerals, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates and fat.

There is no simple substance to reverse or cure a disease like cancer.

The way we become ill has also changed as all generations have made changes in diet and the environment has drastically changed. Today we can not treat a patient the same way it was treated 50 years ago.

Today thinking that only one supplement or a specific diet will reverse the disease is not accurate.

And what I see for the future generations: the food they will eat will rarely be from fresh original foods. As the population grows, the environment is destroyed, water and food will be scarce, the need to feed millions of people will be done by supplements, pre packed snacks or whole meals packed in bars made with synthetic or similar nutrients in a laboratory. Water will be recycled and always bottled. Eating an orange or a fruit as well as drinking fresh orange or fruit juice will be extremely occasional.

When you have cancer you are likely to hear about ways to treat your cancer or relieve symptoms that are different from mainstream (standard) medical treatment. These treatments can include vitamins, herbs, and special diets, or acupuncture and massage--among many others.

Complementary refers to medicines or treatments that are used along with your regular medical care.

Complementary treatment methods, for the most part, are not presented as cures for cancer. Most often they are used to help you feel better. Some methods that can be used in a complementary way are meditation to reduce stress, acupuncture to relieve pain, or peppermint tea to relieve nausea. There are many others. Some of these methods are known to help and could add to your comfort and well being.

There are many complementary methods that you can safely use right along with your medical treatment to help relieve symptoms or side effects, to ease pain, and to help you enjoy life more. For example, some people find methods such as aromatherapy, massage therapy, meditation, or yoga to be useful.

Alternative treatments for Cancer are those that are used instead of high dose chemotherapy, surgery or radiation therapy commonly referred as standard medical care and they are not, in my opinion, always the solution for cancer.

Deciding What to Do.

It is easy to see why people with cancer may consider alternative treatments. You want to do all you can to fight the cancer. Sometimes mainstream treatments such as high dose chemotherapy can be hard to take, or they may no longer be working.

As of today only pharmaceutical chemotherapy drugs are powerful, effective, cell-killing agents. Insulin Potentiation Targeted low dose chemotherapy (IPT or IP/TLD) is the first treatment alternative (not an alternative treatment) that it's objective is to "target" the cancer cell and eliminate it. Since IP/TLD was discovered (1930) it was a targeted approach to treat cancer with excellent anecdotic results in thousends of cancer patients treated since the year of 1940. IP/TLD is an effective way of treating your cancer, just do it on time to achieve a remission.

Supplements are best suited for prevention than for treatment. In some cases, the products selected may interfere with medications or treatments, or they may not be good choices to take together. Sometimes there is duplication in the choices, or the patient may be taking three or more separate products that could easily be obtained in a combination product

Chelation therapy is effective against atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease. Chelation works by removing toxic metals from the blood. Chelation as the only form of treatment for cancer is not effective.

Ayurveda (meaning "life knowledge") is a traditional Indian approach that includes meditation, "purification" procedures, rejuvenation therapies, herbal and mineral preparations, exercises and dietary advice based on "body type.", also this approach is not the solution to a cancer problem

Macrobiotics is an approach centered around a semivegetarian diet to improve health and prolong life. Diet alone even following a protocol or a plan in today's world is not enough to heal your body from cancer.

Decisions about how to treat or manage your cancer are always yours to make. If you are thinking about using a complementary or alternative method, be sure to learn about it.

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