Cancer : Part 5

I did mentioned in my earlier cancer post about Gershon's therapy, for many years, Dr. Max Gershon's brilliance, helped and cured many patients, most of them were cancer patients. This therapy is mainly vegetarian, and it does not involve meat, fishes or dairy products. I would have to say  for the purpose of treatment and curing of certain diseases, this therapy has proven for so many years, to have been highly successful and effective. But, I personally do not agree on the idea of against meat eating concept. And I'm talking about organically fed animals and culture and tribes such as the Eskimos and native American Indians have been eating for generations, and they have extremely high level of health and there have been NO cancer cases back at that time.

Nutrition is a low-cost, non-toxic and scientifically  proven helpful component in the comprehensive treatment of cancer and other diseases. The advantages of using an aggressive nutrition program, in comprehensive cancer treatment, are as below. 

• avoiding malnutrition
• reducing the toxicity of medical therapy while making chemotherapy and radiation more selectively toxic to tumor cells
• stimulating immune system
• selectively starving the tumor

The dietary requirement of a nutrient may well depend on the health state of the individual and what you are trying to achieve. Cancer is not an 'ON' or 'OFF' switch. No one goes to bed on Sunday night perfectly healthy, and then wakes up Monday morning with stage 4 colon or whatever different type of cancer. Cancer takes months and probably years to develop. 

Our 60 trillion cells in the body, are constantly dividing. The DNA, which contains the body's blueprints to make a completely new you, must 'unzip' the spiral staircase of chromosomes, then duplicate itself exactly, then 'rezip' the spiral staircase of DNA. This process occurs billions of time daily, The chance for a mistake is quite high, which is why our bodies have many mechanisms in place to correct mistakes in the beginning.

Nutrients have been shown to not only arrest the slippery slope of cancer, but also to reverse the damage and help the body to generate healthy cells. In high doses, selenium can reverse pre-cancerous mouth lesions, vitamin E can reverse benign breast cancer, etc. 

Why do we use nutrition in cancer treatment? Almost half of cancer patients, died because of malnutrition, and not from the disease itself. Nutrition therapy is essential to arrest malnutrition. Properly nourished patients experience less nausea, hair loss, immune suppression, organ toxicity than patients on routine oncology programs. If a cancer patient really have to go on chemo or radiation treatment, it would be highly recommended to ensure sufficient antioxidants. Imagine taking cover using a bomb shelter. 

When a doctor says "We think we got it all". What he or she is really saying, is "We have destroyed all detectable cancer cells", and now it is up to your immune system to find and destroy the cancer cells that inevitably remain in your body. Be truly aware of what doctor is really trying to say to you. Don't be fooled and we deserve to know the truth. Remember what I mentioned about the 'invisible' cancer cells in earlier post? 

Tumors are primarily 'obligate glucose metabolizer', meaning sugar feeders. Most of us, who have been practicing poor high carbs diet, often manifest poor glucose tolerance, while stress and obesity also play major role as well.  Certain nutrients such as selenium, vitamin K, E and fatty acids EPA, appear to have the ability to slow down the growth of cancer. Various nutrition factors, including vitamin A, D and bioflavonoids, have been shown to alter the genetic expression of tumors. 

When we tackle cancer with nutrition, it must be organic food, mainly vegetables and fruits. Preferably lower glycemic index, and mixture of different colors. Supplements such as Omega 3 fatty acids, minerals, amino acids are essential to this nutritional program. High quality krill oil and flax seed oil, are some of the good sources of Omega 3 fatty acids. We need the good guys to win the battle against this life threatening disease. We need them desperately and adequately.