Cancer Support

 1. TOXIC BODIES

80% of cancer sufferers are over 60 years of age. Conventional wisdom argues that even if you lived the perfect life and didn’t smoke, drank only water, ate organic and so on, over time you would still build up toxic waste in your cells.

It is of course true that some dietary and lifestyle misdemeanours build excessive toxins around your DNA.

Smoking, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, salt, junk food, fried foods, bad fats and excessive oestrogen produce excessive toxins inside the cellular environment and should be avoided where possible.

The worst of these toxins are termed “free radicals”. Free radicals are especially dangerous because they have an unpaired electron.

Basically, in plain English, this means they stick to other molecules, for example, your immune cells or your DNA and try to rip off an electron, so causing great damage.

The crucial issue facing each and every one of us, whether or not we have cancer, is to try and reduce the level of toxins

Why? Because more toxins cause more DNA damage and more impairment of your immune system.

The volume of toxins, including free radicals, can be lessened by:

Consuming less toxins in the first place
Avoiding being overweight, since this causes higher levels of toxins in the body. (Overweight people are estimated to be 40% more likely to get cancer – fat is a solvent for toxins)

Taking light exercise to move the lymph system in the body
Consuming adequate levels of water each day to ‘wash out’ and cleanse the blood, lymph and liver.
Taking anti-oxidants, which will neutralise the free radicals.
Trying to boost levels of hormones, which also neutralise free radicals, but which decline with age.
Avoiding every day toiletry, household and cosmetic products that contain carcinogens
Avoiding natural problems like electromagnetic fields around power lines, excessive x-rays and areas of radon gas.

Some Alkaline Producers
Fresh Ginger Fresh Nuts Turnips
Noni Juice Watercress Mangoes
Cooked Spinach Papaya Lychees
Kale Whole Brown Rice Peaches
Garlic Soya Grapes
Dates, Figs Soya Beans All Berries
Raisins Carrots Onions
Green Tea Potatoes Apples
Cassie Tea (Essiac) Parsnips Pears

Some Acid Producers
Negative Emotions Liver Pies, Pasties
Stress Shellfish Bread *
Lack of Sleep Fried Foods Spaghetti *
Smoking Bananas Noodles *
Alcohol Meat & Fish Rhubarb
Fizzy Drinks Dried & Salted Meats Citrus Fruits
Coffee/Tea Crisps/Salted Nuts Eggs
Vinegars Processed Foods Cranberries
Salt & Condiments Refined Rice Plums

* Refined flour

Hormones

Hormone supplements are only available on prescription in the U.K. This is because even small amounts are very, very powerful and can cause the whole body to go into imbalance.

One major cause of imbalance is the consumption of excess sugars and carbohydrate, which causes temporary and sometimes excessive levels of insulin to be produced and this has a ‘knock-on’ effect on all the hormones in the body.

Three hormones, Melatonin, Human Growth Hormone (HgH) and DHEA all have the ability to neutralise dangerous free radicals. The problem is that their production declines in our bodies from a peak at puberty, to almost zero at the age of 70.

Steps can be taken to improve levels. Sleep is crucial to the production of both Melatonin and HgH. The amino acid Tryptophan is the precursor of Melatonin. Argenine, orthine and choline help stimulate HgH production, as does resistance training.

Move your lymph

The volume of lymph in your body is twice that of your blood.

However, it has no ‘heart’ to pump it around.

Clean lymph is vital as it bathes all our cells and carries away toxins.

Drinking 2-3 litres of water per day will help the cancer patient.

Light exercise, especially that which moves the chest where the thoratic lymph duct is situated, helps the flow of lymph to take toxins from the cell, into the blood stream and then to be expelled from the body.

Swimming, press-ups, yoga, T’ai Chi, laughing and yawning all move the lymph.

2. ACID BODIES

Both the immune system and your normal cellular biochemistry need slightly alkaline conditions in which to function to their maximum effect. The diets and lifestyles, and stresses and strains of modern Western life produce acid bodies, and cancer sufferers seem to be worse than most.

Alcohol, smoking, red meat, fizzy soft drinks, processed food, lack of sleep and stress all increase the acidity of your body.

The best ‘alkaline ash’ providers in the body ( this means that the residual from these foods leaves an alkaline pH) are cooked spinach, fresh ginger, Noni juice, garlic, kale, raisins, dates and figs (especially dried), soya beans and soya, whole brown rice and watercress.

Unfortunately, the alkaline ash producers are weaker at their job than the acid builders, so to balance your pH you have to consume far more of the latter group.

You can buy pH-testing kits to measure your current acidity, and you can have your blood and cellular biochemistry analysed for deficiencies, stress and toxin levels.

For the time being, use the list below to redress your pH balance.

Some Alkaline Producers

Fresh Ginger – Fresh Nuts – Turnips – Noni Juice – Watercress Mangoes – Peaches – Lychees – Apples – Pears – Carrots- Papaya
Cooked Spinach – Kale – Whole Brown Rice – Potatoes
Parsnips – Soya Beans – All Berries – Garlic – Soya – Grapes
Dates – Figs – Raisins – Onions – Green Tea – Cassie Tea (Essiac)

Some Acid Producers

Negative Emotions – Stress – Lack of Sleep – Smoking – Alcohol
Liver Pies – Pasties – Shellfish – Meat & Fish – Fried Foods
Rhubarb – Bananas – Citrus Fruits – Plums – Cranberries
Bread * Spaghetti * Noodles *
Fizzy Drinks – Dried & Salted Meats – Processed Foods
Coffee – Tea – Crisps – Salted Nuts – Eggs
Vinegars – Salt & Condiments – Refined Rice

* REFINED FLOUR

Hormones

Hormone supplements are only available on prescription in the U.K. This is because even small amounts are very, very powerful and can cause the whole body to go into imbalance.

One major cause of imbalance is the consumption of excess sugars and carbohydrate, which causes temporary and sometimes excessive levels of insulin to be produced and this has a ‘knock-on’ effect on all the hormones in the body.

Three hormones, Melatonin, Human Growth Hormone (HgH) and DHEA all have the ability to neutralise dangerous free radicals. The problem is that their production declines in our bodies from a peak at puberty, to almost zero at the age of 70.

Steps can be taken to improve levels. Sleep is crucial to the production of both Melatonin and HgH. The amino acid Tryptophan is the precursor of Melatonin. Argenine, orthine and choline help stimulate HgH production, as does resistance training.

Move your lymph

The volume of lymph in your body is twice that of your blood.

However, it has no ‘heart’ to pump it around.

Clean lymph is vital as it bathes all our cells and carries away toxins.

Drinking 2-3 litres of water per day will help the cancer patient.

Light exercise, especially that which moves the chest where the thoracic lymph ducts situated, helps the flow of lymph to take toxins from the cell, into the blood stream and then to be expelled from the body.

Swimming, press-ups, yoga, T’ai Chi, laughing and yawning all move the lymph.

http://www.iconmag.co.uk/ on Friday March 14, 2003

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