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The cancer lifesaving natural interventions are the ones that you do to change your internal environment. Cancer is a multifaceted process that most people don’t realize that they have control of. The things that contribute to pathological conditions, including cancer are the food one eats, the air one breaths, the water one consumes, the amount of radiation one receives, the amount one exercises, and how one handles stress.  There are natural interventions that are capable of putting the odds in your favor. The control of the environment that the cancer cells thrive in can be changed. The only one who could do that is the person themselves.

The Missing Data

On many levels cancer is an environmental and deficiency state. By environment I mean the terrain that your cells live and take a bath in everyday. This is evident by the steady rise in cases. The rapid rise in cases is attributed to people living longer. In some of the long lived people of the world who reside in their traditional culture age doesn’t seem to be a factor. It is a fact that the numbers are going up for all age groups.

The missing data is what can help reverse the trend.  All anyone has to look at is what has changed in the culture to put the population at risk. It is obvious if you just look around at the lifestyle habits that have become the norm.

The Food Supply

The biggest change is in the American diet. This is a critical component of the rise in this condition. Simple carbohydrates may seem like a simplistic response when talking about the initiation and progression of cancer. Taking a careful look at the biological explanation makes this a very logical conclusion.

Low Carbohydrate Diet

According to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of The American Association for Cancer Research and reported on June 15, 2011 eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present.

This data makes previous generations had a diet that was lower in carbs, and the number of cases were smaller. The information that the public gets is confusing, less red meat, low fat, and breakfast cereals are a healthy diet. If this was true where are all the healthy people. Are they hiding under the layers of fat?

The meat blame game may come from the fact that we are consuming meat in a highly toxic form. From feeding cattle grains, and sometimes cement dust, moldy food sources, giving them hormones and antibiotics and then claiming meat causes all sorts of conditions is really dumb science.

Calorie Restriction

Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A study in the July 20,2011 issue of Carciongenesis points to this conclusion: A diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastases.

Insulin and Leptin

Calorie restriction lowers the levels of insulin, and leptin, while increasing adiponectin in tumors. If you know nothing else about what makes cancer cells survive, this is the information that is a must. Insulin and leptin are involved in the carcinogenesis of breast cancer. Many studies have demonstrated that obesity, frequent snacking increase colon cancer risks. Leptin concentrations are higher in people who are overweight. Insulin releases in response to food, leptin releases in response to insulin.

This process operates well in healthy individuals. The problem is our bodies were never meant to handle the American diet. We have and epidemic of insulin resistance which produces the chronically high levels of leptin.

Colon cancer cells love leptin and thrives on it. Leptin has the ability to encourage colon cancer cells to reproduce. Breast cancer cells express higher levels of leptin and it’ receptor than normal mammary cells. There is significant correlation between leptin levels and lower survival of breast cancer patients.

Adiponectin

Adiponectin is a protein hormone that modulates a number of metabolic processed, including glucose regulation. Adiponectin is exclusively secreted from adipose tissue (fat). The more fat the less adipnectin released. The hormone helps suppress the metabolic conditions that may result, in type 2 diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

After adjustment for body mass index (BMI) women with higher adiponectin levels had a reduced risk for breast cancer. This was true for post menopausal women, where most of the cases occur.

The next article will tell you how to take the first step in reversing cancer.

Plan to reverse cancer and enjoy a healthy lifespan. 

We are led to believe that there are fast fixes in a package that will correct all problems. It’s a packaged world that have brands competing to boast sales with prescription based appeal. Anything that incorporates droppers, syringes and glass or glass like bottles carry a secondary message which implies the disease you have is going to go away with the use of the contents.

The prescription drugs have a historically disappointing record. They have demonstrated time and time again they have risks that may out weight the benefits. When olive oil is linked with a lower risk of stroke in the journal Neurology, it seems to be a complete surprise to many people. 

Micronutrients

The mechanism for preventing and reversing any condition including cancer resides in our body and in our foods. Deficiencies of micronutrients increase the risk of all age-related diseases including cancer. Resvertatrol shows promise as an anti-aging compound and is the basis for many cancer diets. Now, what that says is programming and extending life comes from the vines, seeds, skin, and leaves of plants.

In the future the differences between pharmaceuticals and plant food will be the way one can naturally restore health while the other masks symptoms by creating new ones. To enable healing the body it has to have the right building blocks, chemo, and radiation aren’t builders, but insidious destroyers of health. Perhaps most disturbing is the failure of these treatments to cure  by restoring the health of the individual.

The new way of thinking is that all disease including cancer is a deficiency state. If that is true we can be sure it isn’t a pill, capsule, chemotherapy, or radiation, but one of micronutrients. Replacing the terminology from degenerative disease to a deficiency disease changes the solutions.

Environment

Cancer is an environmental disease. What that means is the internal terrain is the environment that our cells function in. Cancer cells are dependent on our hormones, nutritional status, and immunity.  Carcinogensis research is the basic laboratory studies aimed at understanding the molecular changes involved in cancer. This means looking at the chemical agents, physical agents, radiation, biological agents such as viruses, and hormones.

The real breakthroughs are already being put into practice. These are interventions that have biological explanations. The biological mechanism for cancer cell growth depends on our immune system, hormone balance, nutritional status, stress level, and other habits.

Anti-Cancer Diet

The main components of an anti-cancer diet are low refined carbohydrates. It is known that a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet has been shown to boost the ability of the immune system to kill cancer cells. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A new study in the July issue of Carcinogenesis  came to the conclusion that a diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastasis, compared with the western way of eating,

Food is a tool that carries with it the ability to help maintain healthy hormone levels, and have anti-inflammatory effects. This is something that isn’t used to any great extent, and yet there is proof that it is capable of restoring health and checking tumor growth. This is true if you use conventional treatment or alternative healing modalities. This is the one factor that puts you in control of your destiny. It’s ultimately lifestyles that set the course for healing and vibrant health. There are specific things that are known to reverse cancer. The next article will talk about them.

Calories count on the path to longevity. Most of us know the phase you are what you eat. This says you are also what you don’t eat.

Calorie Restriction

Calorie restriction is more than a way of cutting calories. People who practice this also eat a nutrient dense diet. It has been found that in less complex organisms restricting calories can double or even triple lifespan. With the human population there are indications that this has a profound effect. These are not formal studies, but from interviews of people who have remained healthy and reached 100 years plus.

In a review article in Science, Nutrition, and Longevity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, University College in London and the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, reports that calorie restriction influences the same handful of molecular pathways related to aging in all the animals studied.

The first author Luigi Fontana MD, PhD is interested in the ability of calorie restriction as a way to promote good health. “The focus of my research is not really to extend lifespan to 120 or 130 years,” said Fontana.

Calorie Counter

Instead of being up for the count, use a calorie counter. This isn’t about where is the beef; this is about where are the calories. The currency of health is in the amount and type of calories consumed.

Just putting the data out there such as in calorie counters isn’t going to save lives. People have been counting calories for a long time and look where they are. The strategic priority is to audit the type of foods that are consumed on a daily basis. Your body can’t run on 3 pieces of toast, only one candy bar, and a frozen low fat dinner.

A low calorie diet is not meant for those that keep eating the same poor diet. To see change the guiding principal should be the source of the calories. 

Calorie Poisoning

Calorie poisoning is a relatively new phase that is being used to describe the current health landscape. The growing rates of obesity, cancer, premature ageing, cardiovascular disease and cognitive problems are examples of this in action.

What happens is the desire becomes so strong for a fix that the option of both health and longevity are shoved to the sideline.

The first step in this new world of abundance is to be wary of processed foods.They are the ones that set up the cravings that lead to overeating.

Solution

The growing rates of obesity are a reason some scientist think calorie restriction is a mute cause. But, Fontana said if researches who study nutrition and aging can understand how calorie restriction lengthens life and makes people healthier, it may be possible to develop less drastic interventions of medicines that influence pathways affected by calorie restriction, and help keep people healthy

Real Solution      

The common sense solution is to eat more whole foods with lots of  fruits and vegetables. The idea is not to concentrate on calories, but nutrition. There are very few cultures that have a healthy population that counts calories. This is a phenomenon of Industrial nations. It isn’t about an abundant food supply; it is about a poor food supply.