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What are prostate cancer causes?

 

The cause of prostate cancer is unknown, but the cancer is not thought to be related to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The risk (predisposing) factors for prostate cancer include advancing age, genetics (heredity), hormonal influences, and such environmental factors as toxins, chemicals, and industrial products. The chances of developing prostate cancer increase with age. Thus, prostate cancer under age 40 is extremely rare, while it is common in men older than 80 years of age. As a matter of fact, some studies have suggested that among men over 80 years of age, 50%-80% of them may have prostate cancer! More than 80% of prostate cancers are diagnosed in men older than 65 years of age.

As mentioned previously, African-American men are 1.6 times more likely than white men to develop prostate cancer. They are also 2.4 times more likely to die from their disease as compared to white men of a similar age. These differences in diagnosis and death rates are, however, more likely to reflect a difference in factors such as environmental exposure, diet, lifestyle, and health-seeking behavior rather than any racial susceptibility to prostate cancer. Recent studies indicate that this disparity is progressively decreasing with chances of complete cure in men undergoing treatment for organ-confined prostate cancer (cancer that is limited to within the prostate without spread outside the confines of the prostate gland), irrespective of race.

Genetics (heredity), as just mentioned, plays a role in the risk of developing a prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is more common among family members of individuals with prostate cancer. This risk may be two to three times greater than the risk for men without a family history of the disease. Earlier age at diagnosis (<60 years) in a first-degree relative (father or brother) and disease affecting more than one relative also increases the risk for developing prostate cancer.

Testosterone, the male hormone produced by the testicles, directly stimulates the growth of both normal prostate tissue and prostate cancer cells. Not surprisingly, therefore, this hormone is thought to be involved in the development and growth of prostate cancer. The important implication of the role of this hormone is that decreasing the level of testosterone should be (and usually is) effective in inhibiting the growth of prostate cancer.

Recent evidence has suggested that sexually transmitted infections are risk factors for developing prostate cancer. Men with a history of sexually transmitted infections have a 1.4 times greater chance of developing prostate cancer as compared men without this history.

Although still unproven, environmental factors, such as cigarette smoking and diets that are high in saturated fat, seem to increase the risk of prostate cancer. There is also a suggestion that obesity leads to an increased risk of having more aggressive, larger prostate cancer, which results in a poorer outcome after treatment. Additional substances or toxins in the environment or from industrial sources might also promote the development of prostate cancer, but these have not yet been clearly identified. Geographical influences also seem to play a role in the development of prostate cancer with men living in the Scandinavian and North American countries being at a higher risk for the disease as compared to those residing in Asian countries.

Of note, there is no proven relationship between the frequency of sexual activity and the chances of developing prostate cancer.
http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/page3.htm

WHY IS PROSTATE CANCER IMPORTANT?

Why is prostate cancer important?

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in American men and the second leading cause of deaths from cancer, after lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society's most recent estimates, 192,280 new cases of prostate cancer would be diagnosed in 2009 and 27,360 would die from the disease.

The estimated lifetime risk of being diagnosed with the disease is 17.6% for Caucasians and 20.6% for African Americans. The lifetime risk of death from prostate cancer similarly is 2.8% and 4.7% respectively. As reflected in these numbers, prostate cancer is likely to impact the lives of a significant proportion of men that are alive today.

Over the years, however, the death rate from this disease has shown a steady decline, and currently, more than 2 million men in the U.S. are still alive after being diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives.

Although it is subject to some controversy, many experts in this field, therefore, recommend that beginning at age 40, all men should undergo screening for prostate cancer.
http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/page2.htm

What is prostate cancer?

 Prostate cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor (growth) that consists of cells from the prostate gland. Generally, the tumor usually grows slowly and remains confined to the gland for many years.

During this time, the tumor produces little or no symptoms or outward signs (abnormalities on physical examination). However, all prostate cancers do not behave similarly. Some aggressive types of prostate cancer grow and spread more rapidly than others and can cause a significant shortening of life expectancy in men affected by them. A measure of prostate cancer aggressiveness is the Gleason score (discussed in more detail later in this article), which is calculated by a trained pathologist observing prostate biopsy specimens under the microscope.

As the cancer advances, however, it can spread beyond the prostate into the surrounding tissues (local spread). Moreover, the cancer also can metastasize (spread even farther) throughout other areas of the body, such as the bones, lungs, and liver. Symptoms and signs, therefore, are more often associated with advanced prostate cancer.

http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/page2.htm

BROCCOLI AND TOMATOES PREVENT PROSTATE CANCER

Want to know how to beat prostate cancer? Your physician will probably tell you to take prescription drugs. That's the no-brainer answer from a professional who has been all but brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry.

 Broccoli and tomatoes prevent prostate cancer better than leading prescription drugs, research shows

But the real answer is far simpler and a lot less expensive: eat large quantities of broccoli and tomatoes in combination. Exciting new research proves that this simple food combination actually beats prostate cancer drugs -- but only when these foods are eaten in combination. Nutritional supplements aren't the same, either: you won't get the same effect from taking lycopene and broccoli extracts. You have to eat the fresh foods, and you'll get your best results by eating them raw. There's more good news: these powerful healing foods are effective against far more than just prostate cancer: they also prevent and even help reverse breast cancer, colon cancer, leukemia and other cancers of the body. In fact, they're two of the foods listed in the highly recommended book Eat To Beat Cancer by J. Robert Hatherill. If these simple food combinations are so powerful against cancer, then why don't doctors tell their patients about them? Sadly, few doctors have even a fundamental understanding of nutrition, and it's rare to find a practicing physician who keeps up with the latest news on nutrition research. In med school, doctors are primarily taught drugs, drugs and drugs, not nutrition. So they automatically think that drugs, not foods, are the answer to treating chronic diseases like cancer. But they're wrong. Prescription drugs are not needed at all: not for lowering cholesterol, not for fighting cancer, and not for lowering blood sugar in diabetics. All the healing you'll ever need is found in plants, foods, herbs and superfoods. You don't need to take a single prescription drug in your entire life if you stick to healthy nutritional habits in the first place. And it's the simple things that are so powerful: broccoli, tomatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, and so on. These are potent healing foods -- far more potent than any prescription drug -- and they're available at a fraction of the cost. So stay healthy: choose healing foods that prevent disease and support optimum human health. Avoid all processed foods and cancer-causing ingredients like sodium nitrite. Your body will thank you for it!


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/001391_prostate_cancer_healing_foods.html#ixzz27nOeBAJE

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Johns Hopkins Update

Johns Hopkins Update

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY ...

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body . These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies . These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors .

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply ..

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder.. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful . A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt .

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus . By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment . About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate , which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12.. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit . A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

 

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily , and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro .

2. No water bottles in freezer .

 

3. No plastic wrap in microwave .

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed ArmyMedical& nbsp;Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr.. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran , is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

40 Gardening Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

By Barbara Pleasant
April/May 2011

MOTHER EARTH NEWS

1. Grow High-Value Crops. “Value” is subjective, though growing things that would be costly to buy makes good sense, provided the crops are well-suited to your climate. But value can also be about flavor, which may mean earmarking space for your favorite tomato varieties and fresh herbs first, and then considering how much money you could save by growing other crops at home. 2. Start Early, End Late. Use cloches, cold frames, tunnels and other season-stretching devices to move your spring salad season up by a month or more. In fall, use row covers to protect fall crops from frost and deer while extending the harvest season for a wide assortment of cold-tolerant greens and root crops. 3. Grow the “Shoulder Season” Fruits. You can usually pick and stash June-bearing strawberries and early raspberries in the freezer before your garden’s vegetables take over your kitchen. Raspberries that bear in the fall and late-ripening apples are also less likely to compete with summer-ripening vegetables for your food preservation time. 4. Emphasize What Grows Well for You. Crops that are easy to grow in one climate or soil type may be huge challenges in others, so aim to repeat your successes. For example, my carrots are seldom spectacular but my beets are robust, so I keep carrot plantings small and grow as many beets as my family can eat. When you find vegetables that excel in your garden, growing as much of them as your family can eat will take you a huge step closer to food self-sufficiency. And don’t overlook the wisdom of your gardening neighbors. 5. Grow Good Things to Drink. In addition to growing what you eat, try growing tasty beverages. I allow rampant apple mint to cover a hillside because it’s such a great tea plant, and rhubarb stalk tea makes a tart substitute for lemonade. Freeze or can the juices of berries and tree fruits, or make them into soda, hard cider or wine. These days, well-made apple, blueberry or strawberry wines start at $12 a bottle, so learning how to make your own can yield huge dividends. 6. Plant Perennials. Edible plants that come back year after year save planting time, and maintenance is usually limited to annual weeding, fertilizing and mulching. Asparagus and rhubarb thrive where winters are cold, sorrel is a terrific perennial salad green, Jerusalem artichokes and horseradish grow almost anywhere, and gardeners in climates with mild winters can grow bunching onions or even bamboo shoots as perennial garden crops. 7. Choose High-Yielding Crops and Varieties. Few things are more disappointing than nurturing a tomato plant for three months only to harvest three fruits from it. Don’t let this happen to you! Network with local gardeners to find varieties known to grow well in your area, or see our list of thebest regional varieties, and give them a try. Keep your mind open to classic, traditionally bred hybrids as well as superior open-pollinated varieties. With sweet peppers, for example, many gardeners need the disease resistance and fast maturation of hybrid varieties to make a good crop. The opposite is true with beans, lettuce, peas, winter squash and many other vegetables that don’t require hybridization to make them more productive. 8. Include Essential Kitchen Herbs. When we conducted our online mega-survey of the best garden crops, many gardeners told us about the rewards of growing culinary herbs such as basil, dill, mint and parsley, which are easy to grow yet pricey to buy. 9. Don’t Grow Too Much of One Thing. Last year, some friends who hadn’t gardened in a while proudly told me they had spent the weekend planting 50 tomato and pepper plants. Wow! At my house, 14 tomato plants and 10 peppers give the two of us a year’s supply of canned, dried and frozen goodies — plus extra to give away. Growing more would be a waste of time, space and precious soil resources. Unless you sell at a farmers market stand, aim to grow only as much as you can use. 10. Try Something New Every Year. Part of the fun of gardening is discovering new things, and few of us have ever grown many edible crops worth trialing in our gardens. Keep in mind that you’ll need to try cool-season crops in both spring and fall before deciding whether they are garden-worthy. Some crops (or even varieties) that are duds if grown in spring may amaze you with their exuberance if grown in fall. Use Space Efficiently It’s a rare gardener who has as much fertile growing space as he or she would like, and most of us work limited-space gardens as intensively as we can. (Keep reading for tips on how to “Make the Most of Small or Shady Gardens.”) In gardens of any size, try the following tips to make prime use of every bed and row. 11. Plant in Blocks. According to Colorado State University Extension research, you can quadruple per-square-foot production of small kitchen vegetables such as lettuce, carrots and beets by planting them in blocks within wide beds rather than in rows. Block planting makes efficient use of space by keeping the spacing between plants tight and eliminating unnecessary pathways. 12. Try Vertical Gardening. When he moved from suburban Baltimore to a ground-floor condo in Albuquerque, N.M., lifelong organic gardener Ary Bruno went vertical to make the most of his limited space. By adding 3 to 4 inches of compost to his compact beds each spring, Bruno can grow trellised tomatoes, pole beans and cucumbers in his patio garden in summer, followed by greens in fall. Vertical growing can greatly increase your garden returns. 13. Interplant Compatible Crops. “When growing a summer crop such as tomatoes, I plant lettuce and spinach to grow in the shade of the taller plants,” says Bonnie White of Albany, Ore. “I also like growing a crop that takes a while, such as carrots, alongside a faster-growing crop such as radishes, which will be ready in only 30 days.” Find many more ideas for complementary crops in companion with vegetables and flowers. 14. Succession Sow for Steady Harvests. With lettuce, snap peas, sweet corn and other vegetables that mature like clockwork, make two sowings three weeks apart to lengthen your harvest season. Or, plant two varieties with different maturation times on the same day. 15. Use Seedlings to Run Tight Successions. Let’s say it’s June, and you want to replace bolting lettuce with summer squash. If you had thought ahead and started squash seeds in containers, you could pull out the lettuce, add some compost and plug in the squash, all in the same afternoon. Using seedlings tightens up the timing of succession planting (sometimes called “relay planting”), whether you’re replacing spring spinach with fall broccoli or following cucumbers with fall snow peas sprouted indoors. 16. Plant One New Edible Every Week. Eating squash every day can get old, but you won’t have that problem if your garden offers up small bites of unusual veggies, such as bok choy, bulb fennel, celeriac, escaroles, radicchio and white beets. I like to devote one wide row to “this-and-that” crops that I sow in small pinches. Organizing the garden this way keeps these crops from getting lost and gives me a place to try unfamiliar veggies. Smarter Garden Harvesting Growing a great crop is only half of the story. As each crop comes in, you’ll still need to pick, cook or store your fresh veggies with a constant eye toward preserving flavor, nutrition and other good eating qualities. 17. Pick Things at Their Peak. Aim to harvest in the morning, which is when plants are plumped up with nutrients and moisture. Preserve the flavor and nutrition of leafy greens, root crops and many other vegetables by refrigerating them, but don’t chill storage onions, sweet potatoes, shallots or tomatoes. 18. Replant Roots and Root Cuttings. “A friend told me how her mother-in-law used to plant the rooted bottoms of plants,” says Germaine Jenkins of North Charleston, S.C. “This works great with green onions and leeks, giving you brand new veggies in three weeks or less.” In climates with long, warm summers, many gardeners root cuttings taken from tomatoes in early summer and grow them as an early fall crop. 19. Grow Cut-and-Come-Again Crops. Chard is the best example of a vegetable that bounces back each time you harvest a handful of stalks and leaves, and many other vegetables will make a second or third comeback if given a chance. If cut high, broccoli, cabbage and even bulb fennel will grow small secondary heads, and bush beans that you keep picked (harvesting gently, using two hands) will often produce three flushes of blossoms and pods. Look for cut-and-come-again lettuce varieties, too. 20. Pick Early and Often. Many garden vegetables get harvested when they are technically quite immature — budding heads of broccoli flowers, barely plump snap peas or tender, little summer squash. Harvesting early and often helps keep vegetable plants in reproduction mode longer, which in turn increases yields. In a study from the University of Idaho Extension comparing summer squash harvested daily as baby squash with the same varieties picked every two to three days, researchers gathered more than twice as many baby squash from the more intensively harvested plants.   21. Use Free Fertilizers. Take advantage of free, nitrogen-rich fertilizers such as grass clippings and human urine. You can mulch crops with chemical-free grass clippings, or make a fertilizer tea by steeping clippings in water. Dilute 1 part urine with 20 parts water, and use the resulting tea in the garden and to feed seedlings. For more information and liquid fertilizer recipes, check out Free, Homemade Liquid Fertilizers. 22. Save Seeds. Saving at least some of your own seeds will definitely mean spending less money on your garden each year, plus you’ll enjoy the convenience of always having a ready supply of plantable seeds on hand. Start with superior open-pollinated varieties, and work with vegetables that are typically harvested when dead-ripe, such as dry beans, melons, tomatoes and winter squash. 23. Weed Early and Often. Most garden crops require weeding at least three times: Plan to weed five to seven days after sowing or transplanting, again seven to 10 days later, and a third time three to four weeks after the crop has been planted. By that time, the plants should be big enough to mulch and should have plenty of leaves to shade the soil’s surface. 24. Make and Use Your Own Compost. You may still need to buy high-quality organic compost, but make a habit of piling together pulled plants, leaves, tattered mulches and other organic materials to create rich compost for free. Additionally, use an enclosed composter or a worm compost bin to capture your kitchen garbage. 25. Grow Your Own Mulch. If you run out of leaves and grass clippings before your garden has been adequately mulched, consider adding sorghum, an annual summer grain, or a sorghum-sudan grass hybrid (also called “sudex”) to your midsummer planting plans. These crops can grow to 6 feet high or more in 65 days, and the huge plants make great mulch if pulled or cut down before they set seed. The State of Organic Seed When we surveyed more than 200 mail-order seed companies about their organic seed stock, and what  26. Naturalize With Useful Plants. Last year, after we ran a story on self-seeding crops, many readers wrote to tell us about their perpetual plantings of pumpkins and winter squash. If allowed to grow in compost piles located along a fence, butternuts and other Curbita moschata varieties make themselves so at home that they become a permanent garden feature without any work from the gardener. Of the 34 easy, self-seeding crops we named, calendula, cilantro, pumpkins and winter squash received the most fan mail. 27. Use the Right Tools. You can create a garden using only a shovel, but the work will be much more efficient and enjoyable if you use tools that fit you and your garden. Long-handled spades and hoes that you can use standing up are best if your garden is big, but consider short-handled tools if you work in small raised beds. Whichever style you use, keeping a sharp edge on all of your spades and hoes will always make them work better. If you’re a female gardener and find that the size, grip and design of garden tools you’ve tried in the past don’t fit you well, Green Heron Tools sells cool gardening tools designed specifically for women. 28. Water as Efficiently as You Can. Water is a precious resource everywhere, and no gardener can afford to waste it. For watering summer crops such as okra, peppers, sweet corn and tomatoes, mulches and soaker hoses are extremely helpful. You can also capture water in rain barrels and route to garden beds using perforated soaker hoses. Learn more about wise watering. Plan to Stock Up Part of maximizing garden returns is being diligent about using everything you grow, and because many crops ripen in large flushes, home food preservation is the best way to make sure nothing goes to waste. Like growing a garden, food preservation is a skill best learned over several seasons as you try different recipes and methods. Even if you buy seasonal produce from local organic farmers instead of growing it yourself, you can take control of more of your food supply by preserving.

The Right to choose Alternative Cancer Treatment

Hello,

I am very passionate of THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE for what type of treatment you wish to have.  I feel it is up to the individual person to educate themselves on what is out there.  I am going to spend a lot of time in fighting for this with insurance companies as well as expressing the other ways to give you the quialty of life you deserve.

My mission is to give life to a bad situation by having you gain knowledge.  There is no reason why in this day and age we not look at all the natural treatments that have been going on for many thousands of years.  Please if you ever are in a situation where a doctor told you IT IS WHAT IT IS and this is the only why we can treat your problem ~ don't just give in RESEARCH.  The internet is a great tool.  There are alot of books out there in the market place that also are very helpful.  I have started this blog to give some sense of direction in this scary world we are living in.  I am not asking you to life in a bubble, but to think outside the box and do something about where we are going.

I have been going through a healing process for the past 10 months and through this process I have realized that it is a REAL BIG problem and people need to know about the condition we are to believe is right.  Just look at the process foods we are eating.  Do you know what it is made of ~ is it real or fake???

With the help of amazing doctors, I had choose this program and my cancer is being managed and controlled with success FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE.

Functional Medicine is an integrative, science-based healthcare approach that treats illness and promotes wellness by focusing on the bio-chemically unique aspects of each patient, and then individually tailoring interventions to restore physiological, psychological, and structural balance.

Functional Medicine focuses on understanding the fundamental physiological processes, the environmental inputs, and the genetic predispositions that influence health and disease so that interventions are focused on treating the cause of the problem, not just masking the symptoms.
There are seven basic principles underlying functional medicine which include the following:

• Science-based medicine that connects the emerging research base to clinical practice.
• Biochemical individuality based on genetic and environmental uniqueness.
• Patient-centered care rather than disease-focused treatment.
• Dynamic balance of internal and external factors that affect total functioning.
• Web-like interconnections among the body's physiological processes also affect every aspect of functionality.
• Health as a positive vitality, not merely the absence of disease.
• Promotion of organ reserve

THROUGH A MOTHERS EYE

For some this will be the first time you have followed my journey and for others this will not be a surprise. There are so many people that cancer effects and through it all no one feels the most then a mother.

My mother has been part of my recovery process and learned through me, the knowledge that we now wonder if we had it then, would my father be here today. Here is an article she wrote in her words on how she feels about the topic cancer.

As a person who has experienced the suffering of my Sister-in-law of cancer and death at 35 years leaving two young sons. My own husband, Sam an agonizing lung and brain cancer; agonizing for him and unbelievable agonizing for me to watch - not able to keep him from suffering. Sam died one month from being forty-two. I was left with four daughters 8yrs to 17yrs and I was only thirty-nine years of age. My Brother-in-law then died of cancer at thirty-six years of age leaving two small children. There was surgery, chemotherapy and there was also

radiation. We did what the doctors told us to do for our loved ones. WE DID NOT WANT TO LOOSE THEM. How sad; all these races for money for cancer and research and still people are dying every moment; along with some blessed children. PLEASE someone needs to tell these cancer patients there is HOPE but first there must be knowledge. KNOWLEDGE isn't given by doctors in the United States but there is great knowledge found on the computer. We all have cancer cells in our body. Cancer is not curable, you keep Cancer under control. As a mother of four daughters I watched as they grew up and I prayed that they would never go through what their father endured. I THOUGHT WE HAD IT BEAT! When they told me my second daughter (52) Sherry had two cancerous tumors in her breast; they said I should take it like a "man". I was told that I was to go along with what Sherry wanted to do with her life -NOTHING. Her surgeon had warned her surgery next week, then chemotherapy with radiation following. Sherry said,” I would rather die than to go through that agony. Dan; Sherry's husband then started his investigation about cancer on the computer. Three places outside the U.S.A. had pretty good cases of dissolving active cancer tumors. They picked Mexico and the Functional Medicine. Sherry began by detoxing her body and building her immune system. Next there was heat treatments and the use of her own stem cells by multiplying them and placing them back into her body. These treatments were expensive but as Dan and Sherry said,” what truly is the cost of a life". The United States is so far behind or doing nothing at all. The Insurance Companies in the United States would rather pay out money for chemicals and the FDA would rather have us put chemicals in our body while raising money for research for a cure for cancer - WHAT A SHAME - when it is a natural way our bodies need. Sherry's cancerous tumors have dissolved and it now has been a year and half but she must eat the right foods, relax, exercise and keep her immune system healthy to keep her cancer cells in control. PLEASE DON'T WRITE ARTICLES ON RESEARCH - WRITE ONES ON THE KNOWLEDGE OUT THERE TO HELP THE CANCER PATIENT AND TO PREVENT CANCER IN OUR LIVES.

SHERRY MALIN HAS BEEN ON THE HEATHER VAN NEST SHOW ON CHANNEL 10, AND SHERRY MALIN ON UTUBE~ ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT MY JOURNEY OF COMPLETION -BODY - HEART AND SOUL.

Sincerely,

Norma "Debby" Surdi

What Your Eyes Say About Your Health

 By Jordan & Kyla Miller
Contributing Writers for Wake Up World

I’m sure most of you have heard the expression, ‘your eyes are the window to your soul’. Well, in fact, not only are they the window to our soul, but they are also important indicators of our overall health.

Eyes have many signs that tell us what is happening in our bodies. Unfortunately, given the ‘polluted’ world we live in today, many of our bodies are loaded with toxins. As a result of this toxic load, there are many physical characteristics that present themselves over time. Sickness presents itself in many interesting ways, and for the eyes, there are several indicators as to what is going wrong or right with the body. Everything is connected in the body.

I AM PURE ENERGY

ENERGY WITHIN ME

YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND!

MY FIRST ORGANIC HOLIDAY

MY FIRST ORGANIC ST. PATRICK'S DAY DINNER. LAST YEAR~~~~~

The Dendritic Cell

The Dendritic Cell is a newly emerging and potent form of immune therapy used to treat cancer conditions. In case of cancer, Dendritic Cell therapy is an immune therapy which harnesses the body's own immune system to fight cancer. The Dendritic Cell itself is an immune cell whose role is the recognition, processing and presentation of foreign antigens to the T-cells in the effecter arm of the immune system. Although Dendritic Cells are potent cells, they are not usually present in adequate quantity to allow for a potent immune response. Dendritic Cell Therapy thus involves the harvesting of blood cells (ie monocytes or macrophages) from a patient and processing them in the laboratory to produce Dendritic Cells which are then given back to a patient in order to allow massive Dendritic participation in optimally activating the immune system.

JOAN'S STORY

In 2001 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had been eating healthy (as much organic as I could afford}, taking supplements, and leading a healthy lifestyle. I didn't think, "Why me?" I thought, "Why not me", as my mother and her sister had previously had breast cancer. I had been into alternative medicine for years. It had worked miracles for one of my daughters more than once. I read in one of my alternative newsletters about Dr. Donato Perez Garcia in Tijuana, Mexico and his IPTLD treatment, which stands for Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose. I looked up his website, 　www.iptq.org, and read about the treatment which uses FDA approved chemo but only 10 to 20% of the conventional dose, and is administered in a more efficient way. Therefore there are virtually no side effects. After coming within nine hours of my previously scheduled conventional breast surgery, I canceled it and went to see "Dr. Donato" as he is affectionately called. Immediately following my first chemo treatment with him, my husband and I were sitting eating our lunch when I started to weep. My husband asked me what was wrong. I told him I was so touched that I'd just had a chemo treatment and here I was feeling fine, with no nausea, no side effects, and able to eat a meal. I tell anyone who will listen that it is a much kinder, gentler way to go, rather than the traditional cut, burn, poison route with conventional treatment. And it works, as my tumor gradually disappeared, without any surgery or radiation!


Dr. Donato practices at Hospital Angeles, an immaculately clean, certified, private hospital. I have met many of his patients from this country and other countries who were being treated successfully. All of us cannot find the words to describe how great a doctor and person he is; kind, thoughtful, intelligent, and very humble He never seems rushed and always takes time to answer any questions we may have. He also speaks perfect English and has trained numerous doctors in this country and others on how to do his treatment. He and the hospital staff are the greatest, so friendly and helpful. I never felt like just one of the herd.

I would not hesitate for a minute to recommend Dr. Donato and his treatment to either of my daughters should the need arise!
Joan Longoria
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Thank you Joan for sharing your story. I hope this will inspire others to realize that we have choices

COURAGE

COURAGE IS STANDING FACE TO FACE WITH FEAR ... AND SMILING AT IT!

EDUCATION IS A POWER TOOL

 Education is a powerful tool and the only thing that is preventing us from conquering this disease is ourselves.  The first thing we need to learn is that cancer is not a bad word and there are treatments out there that can control cancer without poisons.  After you learn how to control it then we need to know that cancer feeds off sugar and that we need to change our eating habits.  The last stage to understand cancer is that it hates heat and oxygen.  With these tools we can conquer this disease.

 Once we conquer this nasty disease, we then need to change our ways by avoiding chemicals that are in our foods, water,and products.  GO GREEN

 I am doing this blog to show you all that cancer is not scary and we can manage it with natural treatments.

I AM HEALED

 GOD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND STRENGTH WITHIN ME ~I AM HEALED.
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LIFE

 You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. ♥♥♥♥♥

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
WRITTEN FROM THE HEART

It’s impossible, said pride. It’s risky, said experience. It’s pointless, said reason. Give it a try, whispered the heart.  It’s early in the morning and this message came to me.  I fear no more for I have managed the cancer.  I trusted my heart to find another way to treat my cancer other than cut, poison, and burn.  I also realized without having cancer I would have not met these amazing people that have taught me so much about life and I would have never experienced Mexico and their culture.

Through taking a detour in the road, I have better knowledge and have tried to educate others on other ways to control cancer.  Through my journey I have been sharing my personal healing process in hopes that maybe your heart is whispering to you like it did me.

Through the knowledge that I have gained, I do not fear the unknown, I look past that and take each day with a grain of salt.  The future will be full of experiences that will not be impossible for I took something bad and made it good.  We all deserve to follow our hearts and choose our own journey, but first we have to research the unknown.

Research and you will find that life is not pointless.  Your mind will grow  full of hope and your journey will continue for many years.

To finish I must say that with our hearts we can change our fear of the unknown and give hope to our future.  Enjoy the now, for the future depends on it.
Thank  You,
Sheryl Malin

Health Begins at Home

Each year, hazards in the home cause millions of illnesses and injuries across the nation. Many can be prevented by keeping your home clean and well-maintained. Recognizing problems and correcting them can protect you and your family. In HEALTH BEGINS AT HOME, several common problems and simple solutions are discussed.

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GET MOTIVATED

Prostate cancer surgery

Prostate cancer surgery once again found to be useless at saving lives, but successful at destroying sexual health

Monday, July 30, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036622_prostate_cancer_surgery_mens_health.html#ixzz27IvektgC

NaturalNews) Most men who undergo surgery for prostate cancer derive absolutely no benefit from the treatment, and instead become twice as likely to develop incontinence or impotence compared to men who skip the surgery. These are the eye-opening findings of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), which reaffirms once again that prostate cancer surgery is basically just medical quackery.

For his study, Dr. Timothy Wilt of the University of Minnesota (UM) School of Medicine evaluated 731 men diagnosed with prostate cancer, some of whom were told to have their prostates removed, and some of whom were told to simply undergo routine observation by their doctors. All the men were tracked and monitored in the years following their initial diagnosis.

10 years after their tumors were first discovered, 5.8 percent of the men who underwent prostate surgery ended up dying, while 8.4 percent of the men who were monitored apart from surgery ended up dying. According to the data, 47 percent of the men who underwent surgery died during the actual study, while 50 percent of the men who were monitored apart from surgery died during the study.

After accounting for a margin of statistical error, the findings reveal that, regardless of whether or not a man diagnosed with prostate cancer undergoes surgery, his chances of dying are roughly the same as if he does nothing. But men who choose to forgo surgery are half as likely to suffer from urinary incontinence or erectile dysfunction.

"We think our results apply to the vast majority of men diagnosed with prostate cancer today," said Dr. Wilt to the Chicago Tribune. He and others in the field of oncology are realizing that most men who receive prostate cancer surgery do not need it, and that undergoing this treatment could lead to other, often permanent, side effects and complications.

Since the risk of dying from prostate cancer among those diagnosed with the condition is a mere three percent, opting for surgery, as many men do, is more often than not a mistake. Worse, many detected prostate tumors are not even malignant, a fact that, if more widely known, would probably deter many men from choosing invasive surgery.

Prevailing thoughts about cancer; however, seem to often override logical consideration and decision-making, as many men rush in to "do something" without fully evaluating the risks and benefits. This is also true in regards to the prostate cancer screenings, which have similarly been shown to be unreliable, and to often result in needless surgery and other treatments.

Sources for this article include:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/036040_PSA_prostate_cancer_warning.html

http://www.truthpublishing.com/prostatecancer_p/yprint-cat21245.htm

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036622_prostate_cancer_surgery_mens_health.html#ixzz27Iv9b26X

GOLDEN YEARS

I have to admit this is not something I thought I would ever be doing but here I am blogging like my wife Sherry has been for the past 2 years. I thought it would only make since considering she has reached out to the people of the world about breast cancer and what she went through, why not one for the guys out there since I now found out I have prostate cancer, In case you did not notice from a previous writing I am the husband of the world renown blogger and my name is Dan. I will start off in my writings with something my mother in law stated to me about a year ago when I turned 60 she said “ Dan it’s only now gonna get better for you., time will be your friend and you will start to enjoy what we call The Golden Years.. ahh yes I cant wait I even have a little poem about that now that I have lived them and have some experience what to expect I hope you enjoy my thoughts of the Golden Years until my next post !! Dan….

The Golden years are here at last.

I can not see

I can not Pee

I can not chew

My memory shrinks

My hearing Stinks

No sense of smell

I look like hell

YES, The Golden Years Have come at last.

The Golden Years can Kiss My Ass!

BENEFITS OF KIWI

A HAPPY HEART

A happy heart is a good medicine and a positive mind works healing in your busy day. Don’t forget to smile and have a good laugh because it adds color to your life.

VITAMIN D

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