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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.

Type 2 Diabetes facts are quite different from the hype. The new term is “diabesity” and it is reaching epidemic proportions. It is seen in the aging population, young adults, and youngsters. It is a combination of obesity and diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes        

“Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease that develops when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin or when the body’s tissues become resistant to insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body’s cells use sugar (glucose) for energy. It also helps the body store extra sugar in muscle, fat, and liver cells.”  This is from MSM healthline.

Type 2 diabetes isn’t a disease; it’s the cumulative effect of lifestyle. This is how the body behaves under certain circumstances. If we call diabetes a disease, which it is not, we do untold damage by trying to put a bandage on it. Medication isn’t going to reverse the condition, it covers up the symptoms.

Lifestyle Factors

Type 2 diabetes isn’t a choice. The lifestyle that leads up to the condition is a choice. This is not something that people think about in that way. However, if obesity rates keep rising there will be more cases than ever before.

Drugs have not been successful in preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes. The clinical cause of diabetes isn’t going to be anything other than lifestyle. Type 2 diabetes is not an illness. The condition starts long before the actual diagnosis.

Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be prevented. The fact is by preventing and reversing diabetes you will stave off heart disease and cancer while protecting your brain.

Halting Diabetes

Halting diabetes isn’t as difficult as one would assume. Alternative methods work very well. Most people aren’t well informed and continue to have numerous health problems that follow this condition.

Mainstream medicine doesn’t have a clue to what this condition is, and what it takes to turn it around. All the prescriptions in the world haven’t conquered diabetes. Yet, people who changed their diet were able to not only control the condition, but reverse it.

People assume that there body is a workhorse, which goes on under any conditions. Ultimately it boils down to be the lethal effects of sucrose, and excess calories. Diabetes has become an epidemic as our diets have incorporated more fast food, processed foods, and enormous amounts of food.

The higher the glycemic the diet, the more insulin is released, this leads to inflammation. When you elevate your blood sugar, high glycemic foods promote oxygen free radical processes, Free radicals are highly reactive molecules which damage DNA, and cause inflammation.

The standard American diet is a high glycemic one, with pro-inflammatory sugars and refined carbohydrates. High glycemic diets are directly linked to most chronic conditions. The way to halt diabetes is to watch the glycemic load values of your foods. By remembering that refined foods have high values and minimally processed foods such as vegetables have low values. A whole food diet is a way to halt all chronic conditions.

Glucose

Scientists have known that diabetics have a greater incident of heart attacks, strokes, and some types of cancers. In a study released by John Hopkins University scientist, even healthy people with higher normal blood glucose levels were shown to have more cardiac events.

Excess glucose contributes to arthrosclerosis and heart disease. The point here is the people with higher normal blood glucose levels aren’t completely healthy. Our medical experts wouldn’t know healthy if they fell over it. The medical establishment uses poor guidelines to judge health.

They are disease oriented, not health generating. Studies have documented the fact that higher glucose readings put you at risk for vascular disease. Conventional medicines flawed understanding that glucose metabolism affects the whole body.

Inflammation the Real Problem

Diabetes isn’t just a disease with one dimension it is an inflammation marker. There is research that points to inflammation as a cause of diabetes. It is now thought in some scientific circles that low-grade tissue inflammation related to obesity contributes to insulin resistance, the major cause to type 2 diabetes.

Increased body fat that is associated with obesity is not the direct cause. Obesity can cause inflammation and inflammation can cause obesity. Now if we view diabetes this way we realize we need a holistic healing model to follow.

People who are obese, many times suffer from chronic inflammation and are resistant to insulin, the hormone that removes sugar from the blood and stores it as energy. An interesting point is that rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory disease, heightens the risk of developing insulin resistance.

So if inflammation is the cause of diabetes, this disease has to be looked at as a whole body disease. Now that changes the dynamics and the treatment plan.

Taking care of glucose levels with medication is a bandage at most, and at worst it can lead to a further decline in health. That is why people on a whole host of medications wind up with the lethal effects of diabetes anyway.

Inflammation is a major reason why people with diabetes get heart, kidney, eye disease, and cancer. Treat the inflammation with low inflammatory foods and watch the improvement.

According to one drug giant normal cholesterol can be treated. For this we can all be thankful.

Cholesterol Myth

Since we are not sure of the dangers of higher than normal cholesterol, then why not treat normal cholesterol. This makes perfect sense in a way. We have a science based on the fact than cholesterol is bad.

Dr. R. Trattler and Dr. A. Jones, in their book “Better Health trough Natural Healing,” have 4 pages on the topic of bad cholesterol, that support the notion that the idea of high cholesterol being bad cholesterol, is an unfounded dogma (unsupported by scientific proof), a myth that makes doctors, laboratories and drug companies rich.

These two doctors point to a few facts that support their view. Using the most expensive effective lowering cholesterol drugs, the incidence of heart attack is reduced by at the very most a tiny 2%.

Cholesterol-Another Point Of View

There are about 9 scientific studies on cholesterol that backup another point of view.. Italian Americans with high bad cholesterol actually had 50% less deaths from heart attack that the rest of the USA. Either this makes a good case for being Italian or it is a flaw in the medical thinking.

Another point well taken is that diet particularly the use of margarine was likely more important in the production of coronary vascular disease.

These authors mention that there exists a strong association between sugar consumption and coronary heart disease, when comparing different societies. In these doctors opinion the cholesterol myth has kept doctors from seeing the real culprit.

According to Dr. Ron Rosedale, a nutrition and metabolic medicine expert, there are excellent scientific articles that have linked insulin resistance and leptin resistance to cardiovascular disease.  The association of insulin and leptin resistance to heart disease is stronger than the association of cholesterol to cardiovascular disease. Insulin and leptin resistance causes your body to produce many smaller dense LDL particles that are easily transported to your arteries where they cause inflammation and plaque buildup.  

Statins-New Guidelines

The new statin guidelines continued a steady expansion of the number of people considered candidates for statins over the last decade. The recommendations and guidelines by the FDA advisory committee have voted in favor of expanding the usage of statins. Many of whose members have been paid consultants for the drug industry.

The clinical trial on which the FDA approved the new Crestor use was a global study of nearly 18,000 people. It took the patients who had low cholesterol and an elevated level of inflammation in the body as measured by a test called high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, or CRP.

CRP Test

The CRP test is not disease specific. It is a general marker for infection and inflammation. Low levels of B-6 have been linked to elevated CRP levels. Nutritional treatments include Vitamin D and fish oil. A diet high in fruits and vegetables lower the levels of inflammation.

Now statins can be taken as a preventative for those with higher CPR test result.

Statin Risks 

There is no consensus in the medical community that cholesterol is a direct cause of cardiovascular problems.

There are risks, recently published evidence indicates that statins could raise the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 9 percent. “It’s a good thing to be skeptical about whether there may be long-term harm from healthy people taking a drug like this,” said Dr. Mark A. Hlatky, a professor of health research and cardiovascular medicine at the Stanford University medical school.

Statin-New Label

With the new guidelines an estimated 6.5 million plus people who have no cholesterol problems and no sign of heart problems will be candidates for statins. This will be in addition to the 80 million who meet the current cholesterol-based guidelines. Half that number are now on statins.

The new and improved label says it may be prescribed for apparently healthy people if they are older-men over 50, and women over 60-and have one risk factor like smoking or high blood pressure, in addition to elevated inflammation in the body.

Statin Claims

The study claimed that it cut heart disease cases, however the patients were so healthy that they had little risk to begin with.

The statin drug Crestor helps the bottom line of the parent company. Crestor, which had sales of 4.5 billion, last year, will not have generic competition until 2016, and each pill sells for at least $3.50 a day, compared with only pennies a day for the generic version.

Conclusion You can turn healthy people into patients, while turning them into lifetime customers.