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The stress factor in illness isn’t a new concept. The only difference is the extended understanding of the consequence of this additional burden on the body. The human body is “pressure sensitive” and is challenged by the modern day requirements. We’ve seen that while humans have an enhanced existence through technology they also have a problem adhering to the demands.

It seems that Americans specialize in and deliver stress as a function of everyday life.  Stress trends evolved to include most activities. Not only is stress a component and foundation of the market place, but it is protected by our institutions. Where feelings of joy, enthusiasm, happiness, creativity, and empathy should have the highest value it seems that success is most associated with our attainment of a goal.

From mass market to high-end prestige products and services there is an underlying belief that to be functional you must compete in a scenario that makes attainment of goals an achievement that is above relationships, spiritual, physical, and emotional rewards.

Stress Activates Tumor Growth

Stress activates the “fight or flight” response, prolonged stress in turn releases hormones such as catecholarmines and neuropeptides. These influence cancer cell growth and tumor angiogenesis. Both these hormones release angiogenic factors that grow blood vessels to feed tumors.

Evidence supports the longstanding belief that chronic stress can influence tumor growth and progression. Since stress is an intricate element of our lives, we must work on turning down the volume. Stressful events activate both the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which lead to elevated catecholamines, and neuropeptides.

This leads to increased blood pressure, heart rate, and better immune response. However, that is for short bouts of stress known as acute stress. This is different from chronic prolonged exposure to stresses. The chronic stress triggers pathological responses that lead to the development and exacerbation of certain disease states including cancer.

A short rise in blood pressure and heart rate makes you ready to take quick action. However, sustained stress changes the blood pressure and heart rate so that it becomes secondary in nature. With growing evidence that stress mediators such as glucocorticoids and sympathetic neurotransmitters effect tumor cell proliferation and survival besides tumor angiogenesis.

Multi-Tasking makes Stress

Multi-Tasking in of itself is challenging. The fact is that it is not a sustainable lifestyle. It isn’t a full time solution to getting a job done. Multi-tasking doesn’t extend or enhance our capabilities. What it introduces is a faster pace with increased stress. Whenever demands exceed ability then stress will be an addition to the mix.

The brain responds to the overload by releasing adrenaline and other stress hormones. This gives the quick burst of energy, but over time a constant flow of stress hormones puts an enormous strain on the body’s systems.

Solutions

The active ingredients for a long healthy life are whole food, minimum stress, sunshine, a positive outlook, and a good night’s sleep. The solutions sound simple, but they go beyond our established way of life. In an industrial society. It may be a challenging job to slow down, but it is certainly worth it.

The raw on cancer offers a distinct way of handling this condition. Where the war on cancer is designed to make the body the dumping ground for toxic substances, maximized nutrition can reduce the size and scope of tumors. The benefit of this approach is obvious; it is a less toxic approach that improves general health

Valid Treatment

What is not as obvious to both the medical community and public is that this is a valid approach. The cost of the standard treatment is in patient well being and economical devastation.  What the war on cancer has succeeded in doing is subsidizing the pharmaceutical industry. For the most part the war on cancer has been a failure, with small milestones that have not dampened the extent of this scourge. 

Cost of Standard Treatment

It is time to consider the cost of the treatment and take ownership of the fact that cancer treatment has not been good for the patient. When you gauge the substantial suffering and traumas that are part of the treatment every step of the way, you realize that we must demand more than the current therapies.

Other Methods

This is why patients should be automatically directed to other methods. Most of the alternative approaches are incorporating non-toxic approaches. Why the raw on cancer is a good handle for these approaches, most depend on raw fruits and vegetables. There are some plant foods, whole foods, and herbs that can out perform chemotherapy drugs.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise since drugs are developed from the plants that display some remarkable anti-tumor action. The pharmaceutical drugs fight a perceived enemy. By viewing the tumor as an enemy that has to be taken down no matter what the cost the battle will be fought inside your body with every system and organ sustaining collateral damage. It is akin to bombing the enemy’s hideout in the middle of a community full of women and children.

You can’t afford to crush the enemy while it resides inside your body. Controlling the collateral damage at this point in time isn’t possible. Sometimes, but not often enough the chemo accomplishes the demise of the tumor. However, when the treatment seems effective it does nothing to ensure or create improvements in general wellbeing. Cancer cells have a way of hiding and calibrating a way of surviving.

Real Health is in the Body’s Terrain

If the conditions in the body are the same or worst due to the chemo as before it will take no time for them to flourish again. That is the reason we have to control the terrain it had thrived in, by doing that we control the process of cell division. What we consume helps create the environment that forms cancer cells. This makes sense we build our body by what we put in for it to use.

The factors included in the development of a tumor are many. These range from nutrition, stress, and activity level plus our belief system. To think that a pill can change the influence of all these factors is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

Health care in America doesn’t support health. Health care has adopted a very clear way of delivering wellness. It bypasses Mother Nature and goes to work interfering with natural healing.

Scary Health Care

There is an updated joint guideline by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) about the appropriate use of erythropiesis- stimulating agents (ESAs), a class of drugs that stimulate the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, to treat cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia. While the guideline cautions that ESAs are associated with shorter survival and increased risk of thromboembolism-blood clots-and tumor progression, it also recognizes their major benefit of reducing the need for red blood cell transfusions, which can potentially cause serious infections and adverse reactions in the immune system.

Enough said lets try something different, which will make a substantial impact on the condition. It is becoming increasingly clear that the battle is being fought on the wrong front, with the wrong weapons, and the wrong idea of what the enemy looks like.

What medicine does is try to reinvent the wheel. They are engaging a battle with a condition they don’t even understand. Without the answers to a few basic questions you can’t actually expect to come up with productive solutions. Healing is not a matter of going to war, but identifying and rectifying a condition. You have to support the immune system not destroy it.

It seems like the health care industry is on autopilot, they aren’t transformers of health, but Kamikazes. They are bent on destruction of a tumor at any costs, to the point of putting the patient in great jeopardy.

Healing is an Amazing Journey

What you do right now makes tomorrow. Most health problems are what you did before. Understanding this simple concept eludes the medical community.

To feel better now you have to be and act better now. Instead of trying to kill the messenger, you balance your body back to health.

What the medical profession doesn’t strive for is giving you the best quality and quantity of life. They don’t know how to. What you inhale, ingest, and absorb are every bit a part of the picture.

The common co-defendants are what is on your dinner plate, prescriptions, air pollution, stress level, and chemical exposure. So chemo isn’t detoxification it is a powerful response to a weaken condition. Now it will add discomfort, constipation, depression, memory loss, nausea, hair loss, and a host of other problems. Long lasting health, vitality and stamina are not a chemo formula away.