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Colon Cleansing &
Cancer Information
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My Cancer Perigrination
Back in January of 1993 I found a lump on the side of my
neck. After visiting the doctor and having some scans
done, we determined that we needed to remove the lump which
was in my thyroid. The common procedure is to remove the
entire thyroid if cancer is found. The surgeon only
removed the half that contained the tumor, looked at the tumor
and determined that it wasn't cancer, then sewed me back
up. Upon further investigation, the doctors noticed some
abnormalities so they sent the tumor to a specialist in
Pennsylvania. The specialist came back with a
diagnosis--Follicular Carcinoma, a type of cancer. Since
standard procedure is to remove ALL the thyroid, my surgeon
and doctor both agreed that I should have the other half
removed.
Before letting them cut me open again I started doing some
research. I learned many things about fighting disease
the natural way without surgery or chemotherapy. I
decided to take this route and informed my doctor and
surgeon. Wow, was I surprised to hear the words back
from the surgeon who basically called my a moron for not going
through with the surgery. I agreed to get a second
opinion and after not hearing what I wanted I ignored that one
too. I was basically on my own at this point. No
help from doctors, no help from insurance, etc. Many of
my friends treated me as if it was good knowing me but I'm now
going to die. One of my fellow teachers (I was teaching
at the time) asked me what color of flowers I wanted at my
funeral. I did have a good support team at home and with
family who agreed with my decision.
One of my doctors told me that he thought the cancer was
spreading to my brain, bones, and lungs. Now time was
critical so I crammed a ton of learning into a short amount of
time.
From all the information I learned about fighting
disease I noticed there were common themes.
- GET THE BAD STUFF OUT: In a
nutshell, colon cleanse. It is VERY important that
you rid your body of toxins that are currently in
it. To fight cancer you need healthy immune cells
that will fight disease. If your immune cells are
already fighting toxicity then they have to work extra
hard to fight any disease and that's when cancer takes
over. So to fight cancer it is obvious that you need
a healthy immune system that is dedicated to
fighting disease and not toxins. See the section on colon cleansing for more
information.
- PUT GOOD STUFF IN: This is where a
healthy diet can really build your immune system.
There are lots of books and information about healthy
eating so I won't go in depth on it. However, I will
mention that to build the strongest immune system possible
you need to eat foods that are organic and don't have
herbicides, pesticides, or other harmful chemicals that
make your immune system divert to destroying it. I
will add extra emphasis in saying that the foods you eat
should be organic so that you're not eating small amounts
of leftover pesticides and herbicides, thereby adding more
toxicity to your system. Juicing is a must.
Buy a good juicer and juicing book and have fun with
it. I don't recommend buying one of the twenty-five
dollar juicers at Kmart. These work but don't work
well. It takes roughly twice as many vegetables to
make a glass of juice as a good juicer. I recommend
one of two: The Champion juicer or the Juiceman.
The Juiceman juicer was invented by a guy who was dying
and the only thing he changed was that he started
juicing. Now, many years later, he is a poster child
of health. I personally own a Juiceman Jr. which is
a little smaller and less expensive but it works great.
My nutritionist gave me a list of recommendations to
follow which didn't seem out of reach at all. It is
important to get a good nutritionist on your team for
health issues. This particular nutritionist, Diane
Petosky, had done 10 years of research on cancer and had
tried many things with great success in treating cancer
patients. I listed her recommendations so you can
see what information was given me. Keep in mind that
it was tailored to my situation and is not a "one
size fits all" list of recommendations.
Click here to see my
nutritionist's recommendations.
- MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT: Diane
Petosky said that in her 10 years of research on cancer
she had seen people who had just a touch of cancer and who
were completely freaked out about it die in a short amount
of time. On the other hand, she saw people with
incredible odds stacked against them who made up their
mind that they would overcome their disease and beat
cancer, living many years after their diagnosed
deaths. A person must make up their mind to beat
cancer or it's almost a lost cause. This goes for
those who choose to do chemotherapy too. They must
believe the chemotherapy will work or it will have little
effect on them.
One of the things I found to be very effective was to
write down my short term and long term goals each and
every day. This gave me something to look forward to
and to reach for. On the same page I would write
affirmations. Affirmations are short phrases that
program your subconscious mind. Some examples of
phrases I used were:
"I am healthy and cancer-free"
"I weigh 240 pounds" (this was a loss of about
50 pounds for me at the time. I actually lost 55!)
"I spend time with my family every day"
"I desire healthy foods"
Affirmations should be in a positive text. For
example, don't say "I want to lose weight" but
rather "I weigh XXX pounds" (insert your desired
weight to convince your subconscious that IS your weight
and it will happen).
Also, buy some relaxation tapes. There are many
out there. Some just have ocean sounds or sounds of
the forest. Others teach you deep relaxation
techniques. Stay away from ones that instruct you in
new age thinking about using crystals to heal. These
will only have you putting your faith in things.
Read, read, read. There are lots of good books on
beating cancer with nutrition. Some of them opened
my eyes to all sorts of wrong thinking as I was growing
up. For example, we were all taught that cow's milk
is good for us; that it will give you calcium. I
dare you to read further and find out who brainwashed us
into that one and the problems surrounding that
thinking. For now let me warn you that cancer
patients should stay away from ALL dairy products,
including cheese. They create mucus which cancer
thrives on.
- PHYSICAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT: It is
very important to keep exercising even when you feel
absolutely horrible. We have been told this for
years but it is critical to your health during times of
disease. I could go on about how exercise helps but
there is tons of information out there about physical
exercise so I won't go in depth here. Suffice it to
say, this needs to be a part of your healing plan if it
isn't already.
- SPIRITUAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT: I
read books written by Christian authors as well as
others. All of them agreed that you must believe in
a higher power to heal you. I personally believe
that power to be Christ, the master of healers.
There is nothing like a tough disease to bring your faith
to the forefront. Praying, praising, worshipping,
and communication with your maker will bring you the
greatest peace you will ever find. Prayer is
essential. Period. No debate.
Dairy Products
Here is a subject that always produces rolled eyes in the
listener and yet there is tons of research to back it
up. I'm going to make a general statement and see if you
feel like rolling your eyes or saying "oh brother"
as you read it:
DAIRY PRODUCTS ARE BAD FOR YOU
Yes, this includes our beloved milk. There. Did
you roll your eyes? That's the response I have come to
expect because we have been taught for so many years that milk
is so good for us. Why, it gives you calcium and Vitamin
D doesn't it?
After reading much and consulting about this subject I have
come to realize that money and politics play an important part
in convincing people what is best for them. I want to
quote an excellent book on battling cancer called "A
Cancer Battle Plan" by Anne E. Frähm.1
Milk is the most political food in the United States. You
and I, whether we like it or not, are in the milk production
business. Our taxes go to underwrite the dairy
industry "to the tune of almost three billion dollars a
year...342,000 dollars every hour to buy hundreds of
millions of dairy products that will in all likelihood never
be eaten."2
The government buys dairy surplus to keep production going,
letting it rot in storage at a cost of $47 million
annually. Millions more are spent by the National
Dairy Council every year to get us to drink their product
and help reduce their huge surplus. We've all grown up
assuming that their commercials were giving us solid facts,
that cow's milk makes our bones strong by providing the
calcium that our bodies need.
But, in the excellent book entitled Fit for Life,
Harvey and Marilyn Diamond point out facts that the National
Dairy Council would just as soon you not know about their
products. "It is important to understand
calcium's role in the human body," they write.
"One of its main functions is to neutralize acid in the
system....All dairy products except butter are extremely
acid-forming....The irony is that people are consuming dairy
products for calcium, and the existing calcium in their
systems is being used to neutralize the effects of the dairy
products they are eating."3
In other words, consuming dairy products for calcium's sake
is a "two steps forward, three steps back"
proposition. It makes better nutritional sense to get
your calcium from raw nuts, seeds, fruits, and
vegetables. The very fact that you may find this
thought a bit hard to swallow is a tribute to the awesome
power of advertising.
I remember a scene in "The Santa Clause" starring
Tim Allen where his son asks if he can have cake for
breakfast. As he ponders the answer he thinks, "hmmmm,
it has milk, milk is good. It has bread, one of the four
basic food groups," and eventually he concludes that it
must be healthy. I believe the National
Dairy Council has done this to us as consumers. We
see the commercials on TV, the ads in the newspaper, and the
slogan "Got Milk" everywhere. How could we
conclude anything other than how healthy it is?
Actually, it's the pasteurization and homogenization
processes that destroy the goodness of milk. If you can
get whole milk directly from a dairy that comes straight from
the cow then it is much less harmful. It will still create
mucus and is still hard to digest but at least the enzymes are
not destroyed through processing.
Goat's milk, on the other hand is pretty good for you but
I'll save that for another day...
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