The John Hopkins Hospital changed his view on cancer

After many years of telling people chemotherapy is the only way to treat and remove the cancer, the hospital is finally starting to tell people that there are many alternatives folr healing.

Every person has cancer cells in the body.

These cells are not in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.

When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect because they have not reached the detectable size.

Cancer cells occur 6 to 10 times in the lives of people

When a person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors tion.

When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies.

This can occur for different reasons such as genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle.

To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

Chemotherapy involves poisoning the cancer cells but also destroys healthy cells of the spinal cord as well as bowel and that causes organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart and lungs.

Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells and organs as well as tissues.

Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.

But prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate, that resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to other organs.

An effective way to fight 'cancer' is not to feed the cancer cells foods that need to multiply.

Cancer cells feed on ....

Sugar is a cancer-feeder.

Sugar it cuts one of the most important elements of cancer cells.

Sugar substitutes like saccharin, but are made with Aspartame and it is harmful.

A better substitute for sugar is Manuka honey or molasses but only in small quantities.

The salt has a chemical added to make it white in color.

Better alternative is Bragg's sea salt or vegetable salt.

Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the intestinal tract.

Cancer cells feed on mucus.

By cutting off milk and substituting soy milk, cancer cells have nothing to eat, so they die

Cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment.

A meat-based diet is acidic, it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork.

Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially for people with cancer capita.

The protein of the meat is very difficult to digest and requires many enzymes. The meat is not digested in the intestines and putrifica and leads to the creation of more toxins.

Contributing to the solution of the problem

A diet of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts, almonds and just a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.

Only 20% can be from cooked food including beans. 

Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes of being consumed for nutr go and help build healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes that help build healthy cells try and drink vegetable juice (most including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.

Avoid coffee, tea or chocolate, which have high caffeine.

Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties.

The best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals from water pipe.

Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

The walls of the cancer cells are covered by a protein very hard.

Avoiding eating less meat it frees more enzymes walls that attack proteins in cancer cells and allows the body to destroy cancer cells.

Some supplements build up the immune system (Florescence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs (fish oil) to help cells to fight and destroy cancer cells.

Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, the body's normal method of removing unneeded cells or defectuosas.e)

Cancer is a disease of the mind, body and spirit.

A more active and positive attitude will help fight the cancer patient, to become a survivor.

The anger and incomprehension, unforgiveness, put the body into a stressful and acidic environment.

Learn to have a kind and loving spirit with a positive attitude is very beneficial to health.

Learn to relax and enjoy life ..

  

Cancer cells can not thrive in an oxygenated environment.

Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen to the cellular level.

Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

No plastic containers in the microwave

No water bottles in the freezer

No plastic wrap in microwave

Chemicals such as dioxins cause cancer, especially breast.

Dioxins are very destructive, especially to the body's cells.

Do not put in the freezer its plastic water bottles because the plastic releases dioxin and poisons the water.

Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV show and explained the danger of dioxin.

He said he did not have to put plastic containers in the microwave, especially for foods that contain fat.

He said the combination of fat and high heat, remove the plastic dioxin into the food and ultimately into our body.

Instead you can use glass as Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.

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A drug for melanoma doubles the survival time

A new drug for advanced skin cancer, or metastatic melanoma has shown almost double the median survival time, according to a study of more than 130 patients, researchers said Wednesday.

Manufactured by Genentech, a U.S. subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, the drug was approved by Zelboraf Control Agency U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2011, making it the first new treatment for melanoma in 13 years.

The most recent study, an intermediate stage of tests whose results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, followed 132 patients at 13 medical centers in the U.S. and Australia. Subjects in the study survived an average of 15.9 months, when the typical survival among people with melanoma that has spread to other organs is about nine months, according to researchers.

"We knew that this drug would reduce melanoma in a large proportion of patients and that was better than chemotherapy," said lead author, Antoni Ribas, professor of hematology and oncology and a researcher at the Jonsson Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

"Until now we did not know that patients who take Zelboraf lived longer."

The drug can be used to treat half of patients with metastatic melanoma, or about 4,000 patients a year in the U.S., researchers said.

Zelboraf, a pill taken twice a day, works by blocking a protein involved in cell growth in patients with advanced melanoma whose tumors show BRAF V600E gene mutation called.

About 53% of patients with this mutation see their tumors reduced by over 30%, while an additional 30% of patients see their tumors decrease but not both. The drug did not cause a response in 14% of patients.

Another drawback is that patients seem to develop resistance to treatment over time, but scientists are trying to find ways to prevent that from happening, said Ribas.

Patients with advanced melanoma have few options for effective treatment with less than 10% showing a response to other treatments available, the study authors said.

According to the National Cancer Institute, 68,130 new cases of melanoma were diagnosed in the U.S. in 2.010 and about 8,700 people died from the disease.

According to the World Health Organization, causes skin cancer each year 66,000 deaths worldwide, 80% of which involve melanomas.

One patient had a wound following a biopsy which was submitted to determine if you have skin cancer on 15 June 2.011 in Miami.

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Carbon nanotube capsule to cure diseases

Nasa has patented a carbon nanotube capsule that is implanted under the skin of the astronaut in a simple (requiring only local anesthesia) and the constant monitoring can be bearer general demand and releasing the active ingredients required to treat you.

All this without the astronaut even realize what goes on inside this "biocápsule".

Applications of this great invention are huge, even down here on Earth.

Some cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, for example, are treated with a hormone called G-CSF.

The acronym of this hormone (which come from the Colony Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte) are synonymous with powerful remedy against infection.

The biocápsulas could well deal with G-CSF release that patients need without having to go to clinics to receive him "uncomfortable" shot.

One of the interesting features of carbon nanotubes are capsules that are made in addition to its strength and durability (not expired), is that they are inert, that is tolerated by the body naturally without the immune system the attack.

Moreover, its porosity, allows the active ingredients penetrate locked inside the walls to be smoothly distributed throughout the body via the bloodstream.

Here on Earth, one of the most promising fields of action for biocápsulas is the dosage of insulin to diabetes patients.

Could be implanted capsules are filled with animal pancreatic cells (10 million for a patient with a severity of medium), and supplement them with some kind of sensor blood sugar levels.

Given that diabetes patients spend at least one third of the day sleeping (when they can not monitor their blood glucose levels and insulin supplied) to the risk that this entails, the biocápsulas could be the perfect solution for diabetics could "forget" to check its status.

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Fish oils, flaxseed oils and other omega-3s

Just how good are fish oils, flaxseed oils and other omega-3s at preventing prostate cancer? 

According to the experts, they may represent some of the most powerful anti-cancer nutrients available today!

Read this large collection of quotes on omega-3 oils and prostate cancer, and you'll learn how boosting omega-3 intake while reducing omega-6 intake can help halt prostate cancer tumor growth and end the chronic tissue inflammation that ultimately contributes to prostate cancer.

What are good sources of fish oils?

I personally like both marine omega-3 oils (from green-lipped mussels) and high-quality fish oils like those from Nordic Naturals. 

Krill oil harvesting, in particular, negatively impacts the fragile Antarctic marine ecosystem , unlike aquaculture farming of green-lipped mussels, which is clean and sustainable.

Do your homework on fish oils and marine omega-3s. 

Since entering this realm, I've discovered this segment of the nutritional products industry is rife with dishonest people who are intentionally putting out all kinds of misinformation (even from people I once trusted). 

Ask for certification of eco-sustainability (virtually nobody has any). 

A good eco-certification group is the MSC (Marine Stewardship Counsel). 

Ask for test results showing the products are free from mercury, PCBs, pesticides and other man-made chemicals. 

And most importantly, find out how the oils are processed!. 

I've come to learn that some omega-3 oils sold by apparently reputable people are, in reality, heat processed, which destroys much of the nutritional potency of the oils. 

So all their great marketing copy is worthless when you consider how the product itself has been largely destroyed by heat.

If you're not getting cold-processed oils, you're not getting what you're paying for. 

And if you don't check out the eco-sustainability and purity of the oils, you might end up inadvertently supporting a company whose harvesting methods negative impact the environment (or whose oils are contaminated). 

So do your homework and ask tough questions of any supplier of fish oils, krill oil or other omega-3 oil sources.

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Astragalus "super herb" protects, supports immune system function

Astragalus has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for literally thousands of years. 

Today, in the western world, it's being rediscovered as a powerful adaptogenic herb with a remarkable ability to balance and boost immune function. 

With more and more people concerned about immune function today especially with the swine flu pandemic on peoples' minds ancient herbs like astragalus are experiencing a resurgence in interest.

Here, we present a unique collection of supporting research quotes about astragalus and how it protects and enhances the immune system. 

Feel free to forward this information to friends, family members or coworkers who may benefit from it.

Astragalus and the immune system

One of the best known herbs used in Chinese medicine, astragalus strengthens the digestion and stimulates the immune system. 

It also aids adrenal gland function, acts as a diuretic and dilates blood vessels. 

Astragalus can be used to boost the immune system in people who frequently suffer from infections such as colds. 

It can also be used in convalescence and to aid in cancer treatment and recovery from chemotherapy. 

Astragalus should not be used in cases of acute infections or fevers.

Astragalus is one of the best-researched immune system stimulants now available. 

It works like echinacea, in that both herbs increase the number and activity of immune cells.

However, astragalus concentrates on building the immune system, and unlike echinacea, it can be taken on a daily basis. 

Echinacea boosts immune system activity and promotes fast recovery, especially when taken at the onset of symptoms. 

The most potent formulas have a peculiar tingling and numbing effect on the tongue.

Astragalus is another ancient Chinese herb that is frequently combined with ginseng to strengthen the body's natural defenses, namely, the immune system. 

Astragalus has also shown some vasodilatory as well as anti-inflammatory action. 

Its anti-inflammatory effects occur, it seems, because it inhibits the release of histamines from mast cells. 

Quercetin, a polyphenol, works the same way. Consequently, astragalus could help relieve hay fever and other allergic conditions. I have personally used astragalus as a remedy for my seasonal hay fever.

Examples of popular adaptogenic herbs include astragalus, panax ginseng, Siberian ginseng, lonicera, and glycyrrhiza, also known as licorice root. 

The herb astragalus has been researched thoroughly and is available from an abundance of sources. 

Studies have revealed that astragalus is quite effective in enhancing immune function and can be used to treat a wide variety of illnesses, ranging from the common cold to cancer. 

Instead of directly attacking infectious organisms, astragalus aids the body by fortifying the existing immune system.

The immune building and adaptogenic effects of astragalus have been studied extensively. 

Modern research has isolated the constituents in astragalus that are believed to be responsible for its effectiveness. 

Two types of chemical compounds found in astragalus, polysaccharides and saponins, are credited with many of the herb's benefits. 

But traditional herbalists believe there may be dozens of other active, synergistic, or supportive components. 

Astragalus heightens the efficiency of virtually every component of the immune system.

Another traditional energy tonic, astragalus strengthens the immune system and is good for both digestion and lung function. 

Sometimes this root is available in bulk in health food stores - long and flat, it looks like a tongue depressor. 

These sticks can be added to soups, stews, rice, or any food that simmers for at least 30 minutes. 

When cooking is complete, remove the wilted stick and discard. 

The medicine has gone into your food! Astragalus has a neutral, somewhat pleasant taste.

Astragalus was originally used in China for a variety of reasons including immune system support, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. 

Dr. Mauligit of Texas University found it helped to restore immune function in cancer patients. 

Astragalus helps to invigorate vital energy, drain pus, reduce swelling and strengthen the spleen. 

It is helpful for lingering diarrhea. It has been shown to augment interferon response to viruses.

Astragalus is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb used for viral infections. 

Research in animals has shown that it apparently works by stimulating several factors of the immune system, particularly in those whose immune system has been damaged by chemicals or radiation. 

In immunodepressed mice, Astragalus has been found to reverse the T cell abnormalities caused by cyclophosphamide (a cancer drug), radiation, and aging. It also increases T cell activity in normal mice.

Astragalus (Huang chi root) in Chinese medicine, is known to strengthen the body's natural defenses that involve the immune system. It is one of the main herbs used in fu-zheng therapy to enhance the immune system during chemo and radiation therapy. 

It seems to increase not only interferon levels but also natural killer-cell and T-cell activity. It also makes the T-cells more aggressive. 

Astragalus has been shown to have liver-protective activity against a number of toxic substances, including carbon tetrachloride.

Research in animals has shown that Astragalus apparently works by stimulating several factors of the immune system, including enhancing phagocytic activity of monocytes and macrophages, increasing interferon production and natural killer cell activity, enhancing T-cell activity, and potentiating other antiviral mechanisms. 

Astragalus appears particularly useful in cases where the immune system has been damaged by chemicals or radiation. 

In immunodepressed mice, astragalus has been found to reverse the T-cell abnormalities caused by cyclophosphamide, radiation, and aging.

In the exotic language of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), astragalus boosts the immune system by "stabilizing the exterior" and strengthening the "chi." The Chinese knew thousands of years ago that astragalus could strengthen our shield ("exterior") against disease and increase overall vitality (chi), long before anyone knew about bacteria, white blood cells, or the immune system. 

You may already be accustomed to taking echinacea at the first sign of a cold or flu, or when people around you are getting sick. 

How is astragalus different?

The effectiveness of astragalus and the fu-zheng treatment was put to the test in a study of cancer patients undertaken at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in the early 1.980s. 

After giving a specially prepared astragalus extract to 19 cancer patients and 15 healthy people, doctors found that the treatment restored immune system functioning in the majority of the patients. In some cases, it made the cancer patients' immune systems resemble those of the healthy subjects. 

The researchers concluded that astragalus contains a potent immune stimulant.

They use astragalus to boost immune function during and after radiation or chemotherapy treatments. 

When cancer invades your body, your immune system naturally weakens. In the advanced stages of the disease or after rounds of chemotherapy or radiation which are lifesaving but very toxic treatments your immune system can be devastated.

Also known as huang qi, astragalus has been used for centuries by the Chinese to boost energy and vitality. 

Several studies of the herb have convinced me that it's an immune system stimulant as well. In fact, it appears to be almost as effective as echinacea. 

Astragalus helps counteract TRF. And because the herb enhances immunity, it helps treat all manner of infections, which can deplete your energy. 

But the herb's effects are subtle, very subtle, so don't expect a coffee buzz.

To fight infections without stimulating the components of the immune system that aggravate lupus, use astragalus or Scutellaria. 

Astragalus increases activity of natural killer (NK) cells, which fight infection. 

For people who are responding well to steroid drugs, taking astragalus reduces the risk of infection, especially when infections are "going around.

" Take 500 to 1,000 milligrams of the freeze-dried herb in capsules three times daily. 

However, be sure to let the doctor know if you are taking astragalus, since it increases the body's response to steroids.

Astragalus also is useful in the treatment of viral myocarditis, a flulike infection that affects the heart. 

Astragalus treats infections caused by Proteus, which can cause kidney stones. 

Astragalus increases the body's production of the immune-system chemical interleukin-2 (IL-2). 

It also releases polysaccharides that act in the same way as important antibodies, complementing their production by the immune system. 

Chinese studies have found that astragalus increases the activity of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells, an immune-system component.

Astragalus is known as an immune stimulant. 

It works by stimulating the body's production of interferon (antiviral compounds) and by restoring red blood cell formation in bone marrow. 

Because it stimulates the immune system, astragalus is being used to treat HIV viral infections, pneumonia, and cardiac arrhythmia.

As with most Chinese herbs, astragalus is generally used in a formula that's made up of a blend of herbs, and it's a perfectly good addition to soup or rice. In fact, in China, it's not uncommon to use astragalus root as a standard ingredient in cooking. 

There is not a whole lot known about the exact constituents of astragalus that boost the immune system. Large, sugarlike molecules known as polysaccharides probably help to stimulate the "good" immune cells. 

Astragalus also contains substances called saponins, which have a similar immunity-enhancing effect.

Preliminary research suggests that astragalus may also have powerful anticancer properties. 

In a study conducted at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston, researchers found that a water extraction of astragalus restored or enhanced the function of T-cells (white blood cells that play specific roles in the immune system) taken from people with cancer. In some cases, astragalus stimulated the damaged cells to greater activity than found in normal cells taken from healthy individuals.

Anderson Hospital in Houston found that astragalus was able to enhance the immune capacity using the cultured blood of cancer patients as well as augment the anti-tumor ability of Interferon-2. 

In a study of 176 patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancers of the gastro-intestinal tract, astragalus and ginseng were able to prevent the normal immune depression and weight loss that occurs. 

In a variety of human studies, astragalus has been shown to stimulate various parameters of the immune system, has anti-tumor activity, and inhibits the spreading (metastasis) of cancer.

In addition to general immune strengthening, astragalus offers powerful help when immunity is severely challenged. 

Clinical studies show astragalus infusion highly effective at improving and restoring T-cell functioning, improving bone marrow activity, and augmenting interferon response. 

Chinese hospitals give astragalus to strengthen the immune systems of those with cancer, and to protect them from the detrimental effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

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Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure

If you ever worry about the future of America, there is no need: it is in good hands.

A high school student named Angela is proof of that. 

We think you'll agree she is nothing short of amazing. 

CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman met her on the road.

Born to Chinese immigrants, 17-year-old Angela Zhang of Cupertino, California is a typical American teenager. 

She's really into shoes and is just learning how to drive.

But there is one thing that separates her from every other student at Monta Vista High School, something she first shared with her chemistry teacher, Kavita Gupta.

It's a research paper Angela wrote in her spare time and it is advanced, to say the least. Gupta says all she knows is its recipe for curing cancer.

"Cure for cancer a high school student," said Gupta. "

It's just so mind-boggling. I just cannot even begin to comprehend how she even thought about it or did this."

"I just thought, 'Why not?' 'What is there to lose?'" said Angela.

When she was a freshman, she started reading doctorate level papers on bio-engineering.

"At first it was a little bit overwhelming," said Angela, "but I found that it almost became like a puzzle, being able to decode something."

By sophomore year she'd talked her way into the lab at Stanford, and by junior year was doing her own research.

In a lab area, Hartman asked Angela: "Try and make it for a feeble mind, such as this one, to understand."

Angela: "So I made something that's an iron-oxide, gold dangle...

Hartman: "You lost me." (laughter)

Eventually, here's what he did get.

Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. 

Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

"I think it was more of a  'This is really cool, I want to see if it works'  type thing," she said.

"And when you found out it did.." asked Hartman.

"That was pretty amazing."

It'll take years to know if it works in humans  but in mice  the tumors almost completely disappeared.

Angela recently entered her project in the national Siemens science contest. It was no contest. She got a check for $100,000 and promptly bought about a dozen more pairs of shoes.

"I got these shoes because they're purple and I didn't have purple yet," she explained.

Easy to forget, she is still high school. It's just her dreams that keep graduating.

"I'm excited to learn just everything possible," she said. "Everything in the sciences biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, even computer science to make new innovations possible."

Pretty big flats to fill. How will she top her cancer discovery? We can't wait.

Video here

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