Cancer, 2nd Leading Cause of Death

This is the 2nd one in this series and though cancer comes in 2nd behind heart disease, it is probably the most dreaded diagnosis between the two. There are many categories of cancer but quite simply they are named after the part of the body where the cancer started even if it spreads to other parts of our body.

Please keep this in mind: our body fights cancer EVERY single day! It can simply be through a series of battles over a period of many years that our body fails to keep it cleaned out or suppressed and a doctor is able to diagnose what has accumulated “as cancer.” That is why it is so important that we keep a healthy immune system and to stay physically strong enough for long enough to let our body get back on top, whether through medical treatment or natural methods. Our immune system works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year as a shield to fight back cancer and other degenerative diseases.

All cancers start in our cells. Our body produces trillions of cells each year to replace the prior generation, this is how we can start looking healthier and younger when we replace bad habits with healthy habits. These cells are supposed to grow in a very controlled manner and when we have abnormal cells that start growing in an out-of-control fashion, it becomes what we call cancer. It works a little like rust does on metal if it’s not stopped.

Lifestyle factors and genetics can be an issue when we look at whether we have an increased risk. Lifestyle factors can range from not only things we do to ourselves, but also the environmental exposures that we may know or not know about. When we inherit a gene that is linked to a certain cancer, it can increase our chances for that cancer. All of us fight cancer every day, what is important is finding out what we can do or discontinue doing to eliminate the aggravation that is causing chronic inflammation, that in turn is forming the cancer. And then do what we can to heal this area back into sync with the rest of our body. Cancer has 3 primary steps in its formation, (1. continued aggravation, 2. smoldering chronic inflammation that messes up proper cell growth, 3. diagnosable cancer. Too often we try to get rid of the inflammation without getting rid of the root cause, which is the aggravation to this body part or system.

What we can do: adapt lifestyle offsets for what is causing the cancer. Cancer is caused from a continued source of aggravation (which causes inflammation). If we can find and eliminate what is causing the aggravation, our body can begin shrinking and healing the cancer.

1. Do inventory and make sure there is nothing we are putting in our body that is undermining its capability to fight off cancer such as smoking, and a diet filled with sugars and processed foods. Sugars are fuel to cancer, decreasing sugar and starch intake starves and shrinks cancer.

2. Look for things you can do that can build your immune system. Most times the things that build a healthy immune system are the healthy basic habits such as, staying hydrated, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, stay active, work up a sweat regularly and get deep quality rest.

3. Lower meat intake and load up with enzymes, (especially the ones that help with digesting protein). Cancer shields itself from the immune system’s capability to recognize it with a tough protein fibrin shield. When we have more free circulating enzymes in our blood, it helps eat away the protein shield, which in turn exposes the underlying cancer to our immune system, which then can kill the cancer.

4. If you have the potential of inheriting cancer through your genes, research, research, research, this is the way you will find the things in your life that you need to strengthen to help offset your genetical weakness.

If we can keep our immune system built up with the healthy basics- it will do its best to fight the silent battles going on within us and will form a protective shield around us, within us and even keep some current cancers suppressed enough that it doesn’t become a matter of significance.