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Cancer proof yourself is way of saying you have a choice. There is great promise in a healthy lifestyle. If you take a step back in time you will be able to view a much healthier lifestyle.

We have conquered many acute illnesses, which people in the past had to deal with. The modern twist to that is we have produced many chronic illnesses from our analytical, clinical, microbiology, and pharmaceutical interventions.

The first thing that will come to mind for most people: there isn’t a guarantee you will not get a cancer diagnoses. If you are a betting person I would say the deck is stacked to your advantage if you increment a healthy lifestyle. In today’s world the challenges are great, but this is a way to throw yourself a lifeline. The seemingly formidable obstacles will crumble once you add healthy choices in an incremental way.

The focus of a healthy lifestyle isn’t to look at the perceivable problem, but keep your eye on the ball. That means moving out of a disease mentality to one of health and wellbeing. The modern pharmaceutical world has produced food, personal care items, fragrance, and drugs with long and ugly names, with ingredients that don’t seem to trip off the tongue. The food industry thought a cruel irony makes things that are considered edible, and imply safety. However, the truth is radically different.

There is false and misleading information on the ingredients is food, personal care items, and drugs. The world of personal care items sport ingredient labels with words like pharabens, phthalates, methyl, trimethylcyclododeca, ketone, undecylamidopropyltrimonium methodulfate, and of course plenty of other multitasking ingredients. We have endocrine disruptors, solvents, and other chemicals that are used in air fresheners, pesticides, cosmetics and fragrance.

The international fragrance association (IFRA) has made public a list of 3,163 fragrance ingredients for global use. They have provided the EPA with a list of over 600 materials used in air fresheners and more than 1,500 materials used in EPA- registered pesticide products.

Lets be perfectly clear they can proclaim how safety if the first issue of the day, but what you put on the skin is absorbed. What the nose smells may be enticing, but biologically speaking it permeates the body. It enters through the nose and makes it way to the lungs and the liver which now has to get rid of another toxic element.

The toxic opportunity is right in front of your nose, fragrance is everywhere from personal care items to scent masking products, which can  be found everywhere from restrooms, restaurants, to casinos.  you are in a fragrances environment. While improving your sensual experience, you are inhaling and being immersed in unimaginable toxins.

Toxic torts are lawsuits filed by people claiming chemical exposure in occupation or household environments claiming some type of illness from being exposed to these products. The only ones we know about are ones involving asbestos, silica  or benzene. That is because there hasn’t been enough information for the public to realize that the cancer, which the doctor’s say has no particular cause comes most times from diet and environmental exposure.

The newest development is that formaldehyde used in hair products, cosmetics , compressed board and cleaning agents has the potential to cause a rare nasal cancer to a more common form of leukemia. (acute myelogenous leukemia or AML). This as of now is one of the most difficult type of leukemia to treat.  The EPA determined formaldehyde is to be considered a cause of AML. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancers also recognize the connection between formaldehyde and AMIL.

Formaldehyde is in preservatives found in shampoos, liquid body soaps, nail polishes, hair gels and other personal care products. The America Chemistry Council (ACC) considers formaldehyde to be essential to an estimated $145 billion of the U.S. gross national product, and dozens of industries besides the beauty industry.

To cancer proof yourself means to take prudent steps to protect yourself from all controversial ingredients. That may mean looking at all labels from edibles, personal care, pesticides, and cleaning products. The official line from the manufactures to the medical establishment is it is the amount and duration of exposure, and the individual’s susceptibility. The truth is it is the individuals resolve to stay on the path of a natural way of life.

The third largest category of illness in the industrialized world behind heart disease and cancer is autoimmune disorders. The tremendous rise in autoimmune diseases of all types has been alarming.

RESEARCH

The focus of increased research funding, will bring more pharmaceuticals to market.  As of now there are no therapies that are anything more than band-aids. Yet, there are studies that have shown the connection of these conditions to diet, and environmental factors. Studies have shown that Greenland Eskimos were free of autoimmune disorders. When they changed their diet to the standard American way of eating they have the same high incidence of these disorders.

ENVIORNMENT

The connection to environmental factors, seem to be of little interest to the pharmaceutical mentality of modern medicine. The truth, there is a connection between all chronic conditions and diet. Autoimmune disorders are no exception. However, some of the autoimmune disorders have a correlation to the environmental toxins that’s not so straightforward.

DIET

The connection between Omega-3 fatty acid consumption is known. When there is diet modifications there are improvements, and a regression of both symptoms, and disease markers. When people switch to a diet low in omega-6 fats and more omega-3 oils, and add powerful antioxidants from the cruciferous vegetable family, there are improvements in the condition. The American diet is high in Omega-6 fatty acids.

It is known that cruciferous vegetables help with estrogen levels. The vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, and cabbage are part of the supper food group. Our diet of processed food does not meet our nutritional needs. This is one of the reasons you can look to nutrition when trying to heal. Help for autoimmune disorders are not going to be found at the pharmacy.

CAUSES

The secret causes of autoimmune disorder development is known, it is not the mystery that western medicine claims. These are environmental triggers, which will bring about the symptoms in some people exposed to them. The culprits are viruses, pesticides, mercury, and chemicals. There are at least 24 million people affected. It is about 3 times more prevalent in women. That is the precise reason that cruciferous vegetables help. The role of estrogen can’t be emphasized enough.

ESTROGEN CONNECTION

Women of childbearing age and those that take estrogen replacement therapy are where you see the development of some of the conditions that are called autoimmune disease. Estrogen plays a role in the development of lupus. Estrogen is known to activate the immune system, and this system plays the main role in autoimmune disorders. There may be a genetic predisposition; however diet changes such as cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, and cauliflower affect estrogen metabolism. It is possible for women with rheumatoid autoimmune disorders such as arthritis, hashimoto’s thyroiditis, lupus, and rosacea to find relief by balancing their hormones with progesterone.

It seems that excessive estrogen is a precursor to autoimmune disorders in those prone to the condition. Progesterone functions as a precursor of corticosteroids. Doctors prescribe cortisone type drugs to alleviate symptoms. Prednisone is known for some horrendous side effects.  Women with lupus have shown reduced levels of progesterone. Women who use hormone replacement therapy containing estrogen may have a higher risk of developing lupus.

INFLAMMATION

Estrogen increases the inflammation response. It does not take rocket science to see if 75 percent of women develop autoimmune conditions, there is a hormone connection. Taking prednisone, which is an immune suppressor, is not the answer in the long run. Infections are implicated as an autoimmune trigger. Autoimmune diseases are the fourth largest cause of disability for American women.

MEDICAL COSTS

It is estimated that autoimmune diseases cost close to $90 billion per year. One of the reasons is autoimmune conditions are handled by different medical specialties. A patient may see a rheumatologist, endocrinologist, hematologist, neurologist, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, and dermatologist. They can cross refer till the cows come home, and not have an answer to the underlining causes, and most effective non toxic treatment. 

INCIDENCE

The incidence of autoimmune disease has tripled in the last few decades. Hint some thing is causing it, there are not triple the number of people with a genetic predisposition. The list of autoimmune disorders keeps growing. There are ones that are common like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, type-1 diabetes, and psoriasis.  The autoimmune diseases can affect the nervous system, joint and muscles, skin, endocrine, and heart. Not much is left out. It appears that the exposure to environmental toxins contribute to ill health. It is not an enormous stretch to see that these conditions will have the same connection.

The amounts of chemicals that are circulating, both in our environment and our bodies, are astronomical. From flame-retardants, dioxins, toxic metals, and yes even Teflon. We are exposed to estrogen and estrogen-like substances from many sources. Our foods contain pesticides; some have an estrogen like structure. Estrogen impostors also come from the petrochemical end, in the form of plastics.

CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

Conventional medicine does not take into account environmental activators; instead they look to pharmaceutical solutions. What they do is try to block the inflammatory response, by deregulating the immune response. Now they increased the risk of cancer and infections. The medications not only have severe side effects, but do not address the cause.

CONCLUSSION

Mercury overload, environment toxins, allergens, poor diet, stress, and a leaky gut can all contribute to autoimmune conditions. Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to wheat and gluten containing grains. The shortage of essential fats in our diet contributes to a host of conditions. Detoxification through natural means is known to help many of the conditions listed under the umbrella heading of autoimmune disease. In the past decade some of the top medical journals have reported rising rates of lupus, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma, inflammatory conditions of the intestines, and type 1 diabetes. “Exposures from our environment are a significant contributor to today’s rising rates” says Douglas Kerr, director of the John Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center and a top clinician at the John Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis center.  The researches at the University Of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, have reported that celiac disease is four times as common as it was 50 years ago.

It is time to start looking in the right directions for answers, the storm is brewing and our standard medical system is giving it wind power. When the nation turns its attention to natural solutions, we will find real world solutions for our personal health and our planet.