On first account, a pharmaceutical "cure" is as
unlikely as it is oxymoronic. Drugs do not cure disease anymore than
bullets cure war.
Breast Cancer Ribbon Template Beneath modern medicine's showy
display of diagnostic contraptions, heroic "life-saving" procedures,
and an armory of exotic drugs of strange origin and power, it is always
the body's ability to heal itself - beneath the pomp and circumstance -
that is truly responsible for medicine's apparent successes. Too often,
in spite of what medicine does to "treat" or "save" the body, it is the
body which against invasive chemical and surgical medical
interventions, silently treats and saves itself.
If it were not for the body's truly miraculous
self-healing abilities, and the ceaseless self-correction process that
occurs each and every moment within each and every cell in our bodies,
it would die within a matter of hours. The mystery is not in how our
body succumbs to cancer; rather the mystery is in how, after years and
even decades of chemical exposure and nutrient deprivation our bodies
prevail against cancer for so long.
The primary causes of breast cancer: nutritional
deficiencies, exposure to environmental toxicity, inflammation,
estrogen dominance and the resultant breakdown in genetic integrity and
immune surveillance, are entirely overlooked by this fixation on drug
therapy and its would-be "magic bullets."
Billions of dollars are raised and funneled
towards drug research, when the lowly turmeric plant, the humble
cabbage and the unassuming bowl of miso soup may offer far more promise
at preventing and treating breast cancer than all the toximolecular
drugs on the market put together.
When it comes to the breast cancer industry's
emphasis on equating "prevention" with "early detection" through x-ray
mammography, nowhere is the inherently pathological ideology of
allopathic medicine more clearly evident. Not only is the very ionizing
radiation used to discern pathological lesions in breast tissue one of
the very risk factors for the development of breast cancer, but the
identification of the word "prevention" with "early detection," is a
disingenuous way of saying that all we can do to prevent breast cancer
is to detect its inevitable presence sooner than would be possible
without this technology.
If women succumb to the idea of prevention as
doing nothing but waiting for the detection of the disease, many will
find a similarly deranged logic reemerge later when the self-fulfilling
prophecy of prevention-through-doing-nothing is fulfilled and
"treatment" is now required. "Treatment," when not strictly surgical,
involves the use of very powerful chemicals and high doses of ionizing
radiation which "poison" the cancer cells. The obvious problem with
these approaches is that the application of either form of death energy
is not suitably selective, and in the long run, many women die sooner
from the side effects of toximolecular "therapy" than from the cancer
itself.
Why is the obvious question never asked: if
exposure to the genotoxic and immune system disabling effects of
chemicals and radiation is causative in breast cancer, then why is
blasting the body with more poisonous chemicals and radiation
considered sound treatment? The answer to this question has much more
to do with ignorance than it does an intentional desire to do harm. But
the results are the same: unnecessary pain, suffering and death.
Faced with a situation where medieval notions of
prevention and treatment of breast cancer are the norm, it is no wonder
that when polled over 40% of women believe they will contract breast
cancer sometime in their life - well over three times their actual
risk. After all, have any of them been given a sense that there is
something they can do to actually prevent their disease other than
"watchful waiting"?
Obfuscating the real preventative measures
available to women to combat breast cancer, and all cancers for that
matter, trusted "authoritative" sources like the Susan G. Komen
Foundation publish irresponsible statements like this:
"It is unclear what the exact relationship is
between eating fruits and vegetables and breast cancer risk...little,
if any link was found between the two in a pooled analysis that
combined data from eight large studies."
Have we really come to the point where the
commonsense consumption of fruits and vegetables in the prevention of
disease can so matter-of-factly be called into question? Do we really
need placebo controlled, clinical trials to prove beyond a shadow of a
doubt that our bodies can benefit from the phytonutrients and
antioxidants in fruits and vegetables in the prevention of cancer?
Examples like these make it increasingly apparent
that orthodox medicine, and the world view it represents, are
approaching a theoretical end-time perhaps most accurately described as
Pharmageddon. Within the horizon of this perspective vitamins are
considered toxic, fruits and vegetables simply a source of caloric
content (a poor one, at that), and drugs are understood as the only
legitimate and for that matter, legal, way to combat disease. Are we
really at the tipping point, or is there still hope?
Thanks to thousands of scientific studies extant
today on the therapeutic effects of foods, herbs and spices on breast
health, we still have a fighting chance to let sanity and good sense
inform our decisions about what we use as our medicine. Modern science
has increasingly confirmed the veracity of the Hippocratean phrase:
"let food be thy medicine," and until a prescription is required to
obtain and consume organic food, we have quite an amazing arsenal at
our disposal.
1) Cruciferous Vegetables, such as broccoli, kale,
collards, cabbage and cauliflower contain a variety of powerful
anti-cancer phytochemicals. The isothiocynanate sulfurane and the
glucosinolate indole-3 carbinol, in particular, have demonstrated
significant in vitro and in vivo activity against breast cancer. Large
population studies have demonstrated that those who are in the top
quarter percentile of cruciferous vegetable consumption have 50% less
chance of developing breast cancer than those in the lowest quarter
percentile. This sort of risk reduction is impossible for a drug, and
so, it is often played down, lest the oxymoronic farce of
pharmaceutical prevention be revealed for what it is.
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2) The Estrogen Connection. Most breast cancer is
estrogen receptor positive. For this reason reducing the effects of
endogenously created estrogen, and reducing exposure to exogenously
created estrogen (e.g. dairy consumption, hormone replace therapy) and
estrogen-mimicking molecules (e.g. the leaching of bisphenol-A from
plastics, and paraben preservatives in body care products) is crucial
in reducing breast cancer risk. Supporting estrogen metabolism with the
indole-3 carbinol in cruciferous vegetables, blocking the conversion of
androgens into estrogen with aromatase inhibiting foods like white
button mushrooms and pomegranate, or aromatase inhibiting herbs like
hops, red clover, and grapeseed, and reducing estradiol binding to
breast cell receptors with flaxseed lignan and the soy isoflavone
genistein, are all ways in which natural substances have been
demonstrated to prevent and inhibit breast cancer.
3) Inflammation: the Cox-2 enzyme is
over-expressed in most breast cancers, and plays a key role in
metastasis. This enzyme's job is to literally burn (oxidize)
arachadonic acid, which is its main source of fuel. This process of
combustion results in the production of the pro-inflammatory eicosanoid
known as prostaglandin E2, which is found in high levels in malignant
breast tumors. This entire inflammatory cascade depends on the
production of arachadonic acid from the consumption of high levels of
polyunsaturated omega 6 fatty acids found in all of those "healthy"
grains, seeds and beans (e.g. soy, peanut) we've been told to consume
by public and private health organizations. It is excess omega 6 fatty
acid consumption, unopposed by sufficient levels of the omega 3 fatty
acids, that literally provides the fuel that cancer ultimately feeds
off of.
4) The Problem with Calcium: Women are told to
consume massive amounts of fossilized calcium/chalk in order to prevent
osteoporosis, despite the fact that there is absolutely no evidence
demonstrating that thinning and porous bones are caused by a limestone
deficiency. Where does all this calcium go? The body in the attempt to
protect itself from biologically inappropriate forms of calcium shunts
excess into the bone, where through stimulating the bone-building cells
(osteoblasts) to replicate prematurely, the replicative potential (i.e.
the fixed number of replication cycles available to the osteoblasts
throughout one's lifetime) is prematurely exhausted. Although this may
contribute to the production of denser bone earlier in life, the bone
may not be stronger (glass is dense, but structurally weak), and the
pace of bone formation later in life will be outstripped by bone
resorption, resulting in higher facture rates, which is exactly the
case in high calcium consuming cultures.
Shunting calcium into the bone as a protective
mechanism is inefficient and results in the elimination of calcium via
other channels, e.g. excreting it through the kidneys, perhaps
contributing to the narrowing and calcification of the artery leading
to the kidney (nephropathy), and calcification within the kidney itself
(kidney stones). The inability to fully rid the body of excess calcium
via the bones or excretion via the kidneys and bowel may lead to the
deposition of calcium crystals in the joints (osteoarthritis) and the
arteries (calcification of the fibrous cap on the atheroma), and
arguably into the soft tissue of breasts.
The most common type of breast cancer in American
women - mammary ductal carcinoma - is usually discovered in x-ray
mammograms by the presence of very small specks of calcium known as
microcalcifications. It is likely that in susceptible individuals
limestone (calcium carbonate, and the various chelate forms: citrate,
gluconate, etc) and bonemeal supplements (also known as calcium
phosphorous or calcium hydroxapatite) will not only lead to the
calcification of breast tissue, but may exert proliferative effects on
that tissue. This theory has gained support by a Queensland researcher,
Won Jae Lee, who has identified a mechanism by which excess calcium
acts as a mitogen (i.e. stimulating cell division) capable of signaling
breast cells to proliferate uncontrollably. By inhibiting the calcium
signaling Lee was able to dramatically block the growth of these
cancers. Although these findings do not prove calcium supplements cause
breast cancer, it raises the possibility that changing the amount and
type of calcium in the diet may have profound effects on reducing
breast cancer risk.
Numerous other natural substances have
demonstrated profound activity against breast cancer, including but not
limited to: vitamin D, melatonin, DHEA, black cohosh, red clover,
skullcap, cranberry, cats claw, grapeseed, inositol hexaphosphate,
walnuts and many more.
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