Over the Counter Natural Cures (22 page)

No definitive drug interactions have been identified with turmeric. However, there are some plausible ones. Tumeric may potentiate conventional chemotherapy as well as certain blood thinners. If you are taking any of these, you'll want to monitor drug side effects and blood viscosity more closely than usual. To date, nobody has ever been poisoned by such interactions.

FOUR LIFESTYLE HABITS THAT WARD OFF CANCER

Don't fear cancer. Hopefully, at this point you have learned that you do have a chance of avoiding it as long as you cooperate with your body by giving it the nutrients it needs to help itself. And if you're a nonsmoker, cancer really doesn't stand a chance against you. Most of the massive rise in cancer rates is due to smoking, drug use (like women previously force-fed hormone replacement therapy drugs), and mass exposure to pesticides. Furthermore, while more people are dying from cancer, this reflects increased population more than increased cancer rates among healthy people.

Stick to these four lifestyle habits that are proven to ward off cancer. Combined, they help the body help itself by increasing circulation for better distribution of oxygen and nutrients; lowering inflammation to halt growth and spread of cancer; boosting immunity so that the immune system can attack cancer; and preventing cancer cells from becoming “invisible” to our immune system, thereby ensuring that they are systematically destroyed by our natural defense system.

FIRST, EAT FEWER INFLAMMATION-CAUSING FATS

You know by now that there are “good” fats and “bad” fats. And you've probably heard that small amounts of omega-6 fatty acids from seeds and plants are essential to your body. When combined with omega-3 fatty acids from fish, omega-6 fats appear to play an integral role in maintaining health. Combined, these two fats can help regulate proper brain development, energy production, and immune function, as well as putting out the fires of inflammation. However, large quantities of omega-6 fats can become poisonous (which is why you have to make sure your supplement soft gels aren't loaded with them from soy or vegetable oil!).

Omega-6 fatty acids promote oxygen shock by disabling one of the
body's other defenses against cancer—the cells' antioxidant. Adding insult to injury, omega-6 fats increase inflammation within skin cells. Inflammation can be the driving force for the growth of skin cancer and its ability to spread to nearby tissues and organs.

Like skin cancer (and many other forms of cancer), this omega-6 threat did not exist one hundred years ago. Our ancestors only consumed small quantities of omega-6 in the form of whole corn, seeds, or legumes. Their ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 was about 1:1. Today, a large segment of the population consumes a ratio of 20:1.

The omega-6 overdose exists thanks to the advent of technology—chemical extraction methods, to be exact. Instead of consuming omega-6 in its natural state from plants and seeds, our primary sources today are plant and seed oils such as corn, soy, safflower, and sunflower oil. A single tablespoon of omega-6–laden corn oil is derived from twelve to eighteen ears of corn. Make sure you get these cancer-fertilizing oils out of your house.

The ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids remains to be determined, although lots of speculation exists. One thing is certain: the overdose of omega-6 predisposes us to all types of cancer. The best thing you can do to protect against cancer is rid your diet of omega-6–laden plant and seed oils while consuming more protective omega-3 fatty acids and naturally occurring, healthy saturated fats from seeds, nuts, butter, fish, grass-fed beef, and coconut oil.

SECOND, LIMIT YOUR CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR AND ALCOHOL

When the immune system identifies a cancerous tumor, it attacks and eliminates it from the body. But every now and then, this system gets hoodwinked by rogue cancer cells. Rogue cancer cells have the ability to become invisible and therefore overcome our immune-system
defenses. This superpower helps cancer invade other regions of the body. Internally, we become a playground for cancerous infection and disease. Slow death ensues.

To beat rogue cancer cells, you need to eliminate their ability to become invisible. What keeps cancer cells out of sight from your immune system? Trophoblast cells. You can expose cancer for what it is—deadly—by ensuring that you have plenty of pancreatic enzymes. Pancreatic enzymes eliminate trophoblast cells and thus reveal any underlying cancer cells to your “immunity radar” for eventual eradication.

Excess sugar and alcohol, however, diminish pancreatic enzymes and increase your chances of suffering from cancer. Don't overindulge! Considering how pancreatic enzymes aggressively attack invisible cancer cells, ensuring that we have plenty of these enzymes should be a top priority for anyone who wants to ward off cancer.

THIRD, GET SOME SUNSHINE!

Stop fearing the sun. If you don't get enough sunshine, your body cannot produce vitamin D and many other compounds that help ward off cancer and premature aging. Sensible sun exposure helps cancerous cells eradicate themselves via cell suicide. Slapping conventional wisdom in the face, studies show that sensible sun exposure can reduce the risk of skin cancer by 30 to 40 percent!
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The message here is that most people have a sunshine deficiency, not a vitamin D one as hyped by supplement hucksters! And to avoid cancer, you need to fix it. Don't be scammed into buying fake sunshine in a bottle—the Franken-Chemical vitamin D. Get the real thing.

The American Cancer Society has called ultraviolet exposure “the best way to achieve proper vitamin D status.”
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Exposing 80 percent of your body to sunshine every other day for about twenty minutes has a proven beneficial effect on vitamin D production and lots more.

Don't blow the benefits of sunshine by slathering on the sunblock. This would prevent your body from responding positively to sunshine. The more sunblock you use, the greater your risk of cancer. Since its widespread use from 1950 to 1990, deaths from skin cancer have doubled in women and tripled among men!
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To protect from excess sun exposure, use a hat and light clothing.

AND FINALLY, EAT YOUR VEGETABLES

If you think they taste bad, compare that small inconvenience to being incapacitated by cancer at the age of sixty-five. That's right, no veggies equals lots of cancer. Your mamma innately knew this when she insisted that you eat your broccoli.

If you don't eat tons of colorful veggies, you'll be slurping applesauce and asking the nurse to bring you a new bedpan while your veggie-eating friends are sipping wine on their favorite cruise ship. What kind of veggies should you eat? All of them. They are loaded with anthocyanidins. Much like turmeric, these phytochemicals help your body help itself by inducing cell suicide when needed. By taking a shotgun approach with conventional chemotherapy and radiation, Big Pharma discounts this.

THE FINAL UNIVERSAL CANCER TRUTH

Any and all approaches to beating cancer should be performed under the care of a health-care practitioner who supports your decisions. Your doctor should also respect your decisions. People are more than their cancer symptoms. With a shortsighted measure of progress, they kill not only cancer cells, but also the healthy ones that make us who we are. They watch as the symptoms of cancer dissipate but look away as the patient does the same. Cancer patients' dignity is taken, and then their hope, and finally the last ounces of their life force are evicted from their body.

That introduces my final universal cancer truth:
cancer patients
deserve not only compassion but also the freedom to choose nutritional chemotherapy as the first line of defense against cancer, rather than being force-fed pricey and invasive conventional methods.
This
will help cancer patients make informed decisions rather than relying on blind faith that ultimately force them to roll the dice with their lives.

 

 

 CHAPTER 10 

I get a lot of questions in my email. Some of them are so ludicrous that they make Paris Hilton look like a Nobel laureate. “I just vaccinated my child; is green tea safe for boosting immunity, too?” asked a doctor's wife. “Will I have to stop drinking soda to lower my blood sugar?” asked a type 2 diabetic of ten years. And make sure you're sitting down for this one. “My cat is overweight. I think he has diabetes, too. Can I put him on your eating plan?” asked an elementary school teacher.

But every now and then, I get a legit question: “How can I defy obesity and high blood sugar without resorting to prescription drugs?” asked Jeff. This question got my attention. Millions of people are suffering from high blood sugar but rarely think twice about taking serious action. Instead, they are focused on symptoms like obesity, high blood pressure, and cancer. Jeff was the exception, and I liked his question. He knew he had “bad blood” and wanted to do something about it.

Jeff was about to turn forty-five years old. His oldest daughter was graduating college in a month. An engineer from a top firm, he was getting a promotion in a week. He and his wife were planning for a Bahamian
cruise for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Jeff had a lot to live for, but he was barely living.

A routine blood test revealed that Jeff's blood sugar was 300mg/dL. Normal is 85 to 95mg/dL. Anything over 125mg/dL, and you're labeled a type 2 diabetic or, more accurately, “insulin resistant.” The bad blood was putting Jeff into an early grave.

With his surging blood-sugar levels, Jeff's blood pressure had shot to 190/100. He was depressed, lacked energy, lost his libido, and suffered from daily bouts of heart pain known as angina. That was just the beginning. Over time, high blood sugar can eat you alive.

If blood sugar goes unchecked, it can devastate the entire body. Everything from hearing and vision to sexual function, mental health, and sleep are affected. It's the leading cause of blindness, amputations, and kidney failure. It can triple the risk for heart attack and stroke.
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This highly underrated, insidious, and deadly disorder affects an estimated 25 percent of the population and is growing in prevalence.

Jeff's doctors attempted to save him by prescribing a truckload of prescription drugs. His medicine cabinet was filled with orange prescription bottles that were opened several times per day for “proper dosing.” Yet, his health continued to decline. In the past two years, he looked as though he had aged ten. That's when he started taking matters into his own hands.

“I knew that drugs weren't helping. I just kept hoping that in time they would. They didn't, so I made a commitment to make changes, which meant looking for a way to get healthy outside of the drug model,” Jeff confessed.

“But, when I researched high blood sugar online, I only found an explosion of sales hype and conflicting health information. I was lost in a sea of confusion and frustration,” he explained, which is why he
contacted me. “I didn't know blood sugar from ice cream, and I had no idea what my drugs were attempting to do or how they might be hurting me. All I knew was that following doctor's orders wasn't working. I just wanted to know what was happening to my blood.”

“Yes, you can overcome blood sugar naturally and defy obesity and diabetes!” I responded enthusiastically. I was anxious to work with someone who knew he had to treat the cause of his illness rather than the many symptoms. “High blood sugar is a disorder of poor habits. Regardless of your family history, we can beat it and all of its complications!”

I emphasized that “if you treat a person's habits, you can successfully treat his or her bad blood. You don't need risky expensive drugs or fad diets and rigid exercise. You simply need to adhere to nutrient logic, as proven historically and with today's state-of-the-art drug discovery technologies!”

After one week of following my advice, Jeff's blood sugar dropped as fast as stock market indexes do when banks make predatory loans. His blood sugar was cut in half to 150mg/dL, far better than that achieved by any one of his drugs in two years. He still wasn't out of the danger zone, but seeing quick results assured him he was on the right path. Over ninety days, his blood sugar steadily dropped. He eradicated his bad blood in three months. He also had to buy smaller pants. More surprising, he only had to change a few lifestyle habits while using a nutritional supplement that cost him less than five bucks at Wal-Mart!