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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.

Type 2 diabetes has natural interventions, which work remarkably well and are easy to implement.  With an estimated 366 million of people worldwide who have this condition you would think there would be a better understanding of this approach. The biggest challenge is for the public to understand that pharmaceutical companies have tried different medications to halt the disease and haven’t succeeded. They are dealing with a condition that they have not had much success with. 

Diabetes Epidemic

The International Diabetes Federation described the number of cases as “staggering,” every seven seconds one person succumbs to this condition. The federation is asking for concrete measures to stop the epidemic, urging officials focusing on chronic disease at the United Nations to target ways to prevent cases and to invest in more research. Yes, what we need is more research, we don’t have enough already. We can spend the next decade looking for the magic bullet.

It is estimated that health systems spend $465 billion annually fighting the disease. That includes both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. If that isn’t enough money to find the cause, which is right in front of their faces then lets go for broke.

Real Problem

The abnormalities that they are looking for is in our food supply, the diagnosis and current treatment are not the answer. Our flagging health is due to the deterioration of our food supply. Food orchestrates a complex balance of hormonal, neurochemical, and electrical signals. What makes us think we can face our deteriorating health with pharmaceuticals? As long as we ignore the warning signs that all point to lifestyle, it will be increasingly difficult to stem the tide.

Type 2 Diabetes Causes

The rise in diabetes is not due to an aging population as the medical experts claim. Diabetes is thought to be a disease of middle age, with obesity playing a part in the development of this condition. Yet, younger people are now in this group. Medical strategies haven’t consistently offered substantial improvement for diabetics.

The global number of diabetics more than doubled in the last three decades according to a study published in the medical journal Lancer. We try to manage the disease with diet, exercise and medication. With all that diabetes still results in kidney disease, blindness, heart disease, more cases of cancer, and amputations.

In the last three decades our lifestyle has been altered. This trend started earlier with the advent of pre-packaged foods, larger portions, lack of sunshine, technology advances that translate to less activity. There are multiple causes and none of them are a drug shortage. Insulin resistance is part of the culture. There are very few people who aren’t affected by this way of life. This is becoming a world wide occurrence because we export our way of eating and farming methods.

To say it is because people are living longer is an insult to our intelligence. Healthy adults who are concerned about what they put into their bodies are much less likely to develop diabetes. We are putting the cheapest “foods” on everyone’s table. Virtually everything in most people’s diet was never eaten 40 to 50 years ago. We can document that insulin resistance is a product of our diet, no amount of research will change that fact.

The Challenge

The challenge that we have is we got to deal with this crisis now. Health care will bankrupt America. Curing today’s health care cost crisis means we need natural solutions. What is essential to realize is for survival purposes we have to prevent and reverse these conditions on our own.

How to Reverse Diabetes

The Journal PLoS ONE reported the discovery by Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers that fisetin a flavone found in abundance in strawberries, and in other fruit and vegetables, helped type 1 diabetes in mice. They found Kidney enlargement and urinary protein decreased along with anxiety-related symptoms which are a central nervous system complication that occurs in human diabetics. Type 1 diabetes is harder to reverse, this shows that diet is key.

Diabetics are advised to cut fat, reduce saturated fat and include plenty of carbohydrates in the diet. It is essentially a carbohydrate-centered diet. They may say whole grains, however this is how to feed diabetics a diet that will increase fat. When visceral fat accumulates, the inflammatory signals causes the muscle and liver to stop responding to insulin. Now we are developing insulin resistance. Nice going, since the reduction of carbohydrates improves all the diabetic markers and symptoms. Isn’t it time to look to natural intervention to reverse this condition

There is a cancer study, which may radically transform how you look at this condition. Most research has to do with altering the process through physical means. There are scientist studying cancer cells response to emotional signals. We may be able to emulate and extrapolate these findings to slow or stop cancer from spreading.

A cancer  diagnosis

Many people weren’t feeling that terrible before they heard the news. You are the same person you were before you heard this. The real question is what do you do.

Current Thinking is Changing

When you do the standard treatment it is to survive. However, when you do some alternative methods it takes the apathetic approach and turns it into passionate commitment to living to the fullest. The history of standard treatments shows a system on a collision course with your physical health. There is a quiet revolution, which is making people take notice of a different way to ride the storm. The catastrophic proportions of the condition and the treatment options need to be revisited.

Make a Plan

Its okay to look at other solutions, and then try to tailor your own program. Yes, that can incorporate standard western modalities. The idea is to apply it smart. Most people don’t have an idea of what they are being offered and what the statistical outcome is.  It takes time to research the oncologist recommendation. The one thing to remember is there is no magical fix.

To create a plan you need facts. The best approaches are meant to rebuild and restore your health. This is priceless, there is a relationship between your physical emotional and environmental conditions and cancer. The mission is to put together a program that works for you. The first step is to know what a healthy body needs to function. 

What has been misleading is the fact that once the C word bomb is dropped there is nothing that you can do. This is so far from the truth. You feel like you are in a different world with new rules. The rules are the same follow a healthy lifestyle.

Emotions and Environment

A healthy lifestyle includes and is not exclusive of of one’s emotional makeup. Geneticist Professor Matthew During’s findings published in the Journal Cell offered some powerful evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state plays a role in cancer development and progression. Matthew has show that animals interaction with the environment has a profound influence on the growth of cancer.

Mice are natural sociable creatures like humans. When in laboratory settings are usually housed in groups of five or so for laboratory experiments. They are provided with all the food they want and allowed to play all day.

Sounds good so far, however, when the mice with tumors, were placed in an enriched environment with between 15-20 mice, and more space and things to do, which included toys, hiding places and running wheels, their disease often went into spontaneous remission. Tumor mas shrunk by an average of 77 percent and the volume by 43 percent. The best part 1 in 20 of the of the Cancer ridden mice showed no evidence of disease.

The animals did show lower levels of a hormone produced by a fat called leptin, indicative of a significant shift in metabolism, Reducing leptin leaves slow down the development and spread of cancer. Cancer cells thrive on leptin.

What this shows: you can’t look at any disease without looking at your life. Those that argue that standard western care is the only course of action aren’t looking at the big picture.