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Reinventing cancer treatment will bring about enhanced health. Identifying what really works for this condition, you have to look no further than your lifestyle. Cancer may be a wake up call that something in your life isn’t working.

Study

A study in which mice were given larger living quarters, more playmates, lots of toys, and an interactive environment shrunk their tumors.

This was reported in an issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. The evidence showed that cancer in treatable by providing an enriched environment, and a strong social network.

Emotional Health

If social connections and emotional state play a role in the formation and remission of cancer, the allopathic treatments are way out of line.

Geneticist Professor Matthew During from The Ohio State University offers powerful new evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state may play a role in cancer.

This makes sense, since our thoughts produce chemicals that have a profound influence on our health.

Observations

These are some observations that were made in the Lab:

What was found is that if you take mice from a nice environment and put them into an even better one their cancers regressed.

Laboratory animals are usually housed in groups of five or so, and are given all the food they want and get to play the whole day.

In this case they were placed in an enriched environment with 15-20 playmates. Then they are provided with more space, toys, and things to do. Their tumors shrunk when they were placed in these new living conditions.

The researches found the animals’ interaction with the environment had a profound influence on the growth of the cancer. The effect was more profound than they thought possible.

We may not be mice, but we all know mind over matter, and the placebo effect. All our body chemistry is influenced by what we eat, think, feel, and our environment.

When During and his colleague Lei Cao placed mice with cancer in that enriched environment, the animals tumor mass shrunk by 77 percent and the volume by 44 percent. On top of that five percent of mice that were given cancer showed no sign of the disease after only three weeks in their new home.

Outside the lab alternative practitioners have seen the exact same things in patients. They have seen cancers disappear when people got rid of what they didn’t want and started doing what made them feel good.

Cancer is Tied to General Well-Being

Cancer is tied to general well-being. It shows that you can’t look at a disease without looking at the whole person. The surgery, chemo, and radiotherapy hasn’t worked well for all the above reasons. You have given people what they don’t want. Making someone feel sick to get better makes no sense.

There has to be a new perception of disease, one where environment counts. Mice may not be humans, but somehow this make sense. If medicine was logical we would be doing everything differently.

Humans are social Animals

Mice are social, and so are humans. This could be another important piece to the puzzle. If fact for humans it is so important that it influences lifespan.

People who have good social ties are shown t o survive longer. This is important in the age of computers, television, and stressed filled work days.

It can be it takes a village to raise a child, and it also takes a village to help you attain a long healthy life. Perhaps, isolation with a combination of toxic treatment isn’t the answer to cancer.

The facts are that low social interaction harms you as much as some nasty habits such as alcoholism, smoking, and not exercising. It is more dangerous than obesity according to some studies.

One of the features of a cancer diagnosis is people may avoid you.. Friends fall away, when they are needed the most. Now, it seems that it helps the patient and the people that keep the friendship strong. Social ties and optimism turn on the longevity genes.

What This Means

What this means is we have been looking in the wrong places for a magic bullet. A comprehensive look at people’s lifestyle is unprecedented. Looking for dysfunction in a cancer’s patient’s life may provide a clue to this condition. Neutralizing the effects of some harmful thoughts is important. You are what you eat, think, believe, and do.

The environment that you are surrounded by has a huge impact on your life. Cancer may just be a sign that things in your life are not working well for you. The best defense is all around you. Your thoughts monopolize and influenced your life.

Thoughts release hormones that impact our health; this means we have to rethink how we approach cancer. What if it isn’t a sentence, but a wake up call?  We need to view this as an opportunity to change our life.