You are on the right track

Not being a fan of modern methods of treatment and seeking information on nutrition and other treatments is a very important step in the right direction.

Modern slash and burn treatments do more harm than good - something most members of this forum are aware of. They merely treat the symptom, leave the body and immune system weakened and more susceptible to the spread and return of cancer, and in many instances, actually hasten the spread of the cancer.

Part of the problem is that modern medicine, at least as it is practiced in the Western World, tends to look at the body like an automobile instead of as an organic whole organism where treating the whole body (sum of all of our parts, including our immune systems) is the ONLY effective way to provide overall wellness, prevention and treatment. That works good for broken parts, but fails miserably for illness and disease.

If something is broken, there is no place I had rather be but in the hands of a skilled Western surgeon. They can repair broken and physically damaged parts like no one else. However, when it comes to disease they take the same approach - treating the part where the disease manifests itself as a symptom. When it comes to disease or illness, Western medicine is normally the last place I would want to be.

Cancer is NOT a disease. It is a symptom of an immune disorder and a body that is out of balance due to toxins and lack of proper diet and nutrition. When cancer gains a foothold and manifests itself, it is a signal that something has caused our natural first line of defense to fail. It may be that toxins in our air, water and food supply have overwhelmed the immmune system. It may be that lack of nutrition due to our chemically fertilized and largely depleted soils provide in our fruits and vegetables. It may be the harmful pesticides used to treat them. It may be due to the nutrients that are processed out of the foods on our grocers shelves, or to the harmful additives processed into them to insure texture, color, taste and shelf life. It may be lack of proper exercise and healthy lifestyle choices. More than likely, it is a combination of more than one such reason, and you also cannot discount that you may be more genetically pre-disposed to be susceptible to cancer defeating your immune system.

Regardless of the cause, the first step is to make sure you do not worsen the problem with a conventional treatment that weakens the immune system, damages major organs and decreases overall health. The second step is to rid your body of toxins. The third step is to change diet and lifestyle to build a healthy immune system that can help you fight off your cancer and prevent it's return. Many on this forum will tell you that proper diet and a healthy lifestyle will beat cancer. Myself, I would go a step further and say that you should also include proven healthy anti-cancer and immune boosting supplements. For one thing, I do not trust our depleted soils to provide the nutrients needed in food alone. For another, I think that the pollutants and man-made chemical contaminants may be too potent and too recent for our immune systems to be able to handle with diet alone.

There are some excellent posts in this forum about ways to de-tox the body, and there are some good ones about alternative treatments and remedies. Myself, I prefer the Oleander extract that can be made at home for pennies as a natural remedy, or the product known as OPC, which contains 80% Oleander extract along with extracts of the Agaricus Blazei Murill (ABM) Mushroom, Cat's Claw and Pau D'Arco (and soon will substitute the South African "Cancer Bush", Southerlandia Frutescans for the ABM). I also like Graviola, Bitter Melon, Turmeric, Colloidal Silver and others, as outlined here in an earlier post "The Anti-Cancer Protcol", which is taken from a book I wrote and expands a bit on detoxing, proper nutrition and supplementation.

(Warning: Oleander is a highly toxic plant in raw form and no one should attempt to make any oleander remedy without following exact directions for making the remedy known as "oleander soup". You can find those directions posted freely here in this forum, on the International Wellness Directory website (http://mnwelldir.org) and in the Yahoo Groups forum I host "oleandersoup" (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oleandersoup/)

Other sites you may wish to visit to learn more about alternative treatments and remedies for cancer include Cancertutor and the Annie Appleseed Project (http://www.cancertutor.com and
http://www.annieappleseedproject.org)


To learn a bit more about oleander, either visit my group on Yahoo or take a look at the entry for oleander in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander)

I encourage you to browse this forum to find much, much more information. In the end, I think the best advice will come down to detoxing, changing to a healthy Diet and lifestyle, and carefully supplementing to boost your immune system and fight your cancer.

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

Tony Isaacs

"Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
- Elbert Hubbard

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison

"Nature is the physician of man.”
- Hippocrates, “the father of medicine” Tweet