I’m writing this article for two reasons. The first being to try to firmly establish in the minds of the general public that cancer thinks. The second is that it is the job of the healer to figure just what it is thinking and how it is going about implementation of its strategy. As complex as the second is, the first may be even more difficult.
Cancer is in a state of evolution, evolving from a less to a more aggressive ability to spread and take over. From somewhat intelligent to an incredibly effective killer. Cancer is completely opportunistic and predatory. The more options it is given the more intelligent and lethal it becomes. This also implies that the opposite is true. That’s where we need to go, but how? How do you make a cancer cell less in all the areas it is trying to become more in?
As chaotic as cancer appears to be, the reality is that it is lawful. We just need to figure out what those laws are. Cancer’s behavior is based on the laws of physiology and the laws of cancer patho-physiology. These two areas have and continue to be well researched. The information is not reaching the front lines. The information used to set protocol is way short and because of that failure is common. Often patients are going through their 6th or 7th round of chemo, because the first 5 or 6 failed.
At this point in the development of our medical diagnostic technology we have the ability to determine what drug fits which person. This can be done through testing: whether it is fresh tumor sample, in which chemo drugs are tested on the tumor sample to see if they will be effective (Weisenthal), or blood testing to see if the cancer has developed the capacity to be chemo- or radio-resistant through a variety of strategies that cancer can apply, or through genomic testing looking for genetic mutations Right now about 400,000 people are undergoing chemo in the US. The basis for determining protocol is part science and part voodoo. It is lacking logic and common sense because each person and each cancer in that person are different. A factory approach is failing.
Let’s watch a short introductory video:
Let’s watch a short introductory video:
At my lectures I try to create a metaphor to get a clearer vision of cancer in the listener’s mind. It goes like this: Try to think of cancer’s mind as that of a really good criminal detective gone bad. What this means is that this criminal knows in advance what all the good guys are going to do and simply beats them at there own game. It knows how things will be done, when and where and it is calculating for its future. Try to remember that DNA mutations and cancer are mutations of the cell’s brain. All the information is in there and now that mind has gone to the dark side, so it is going to use all that knowledge for the wrong purposes. This is a very difficult thing to communicate.
At a typical post-treatment conversation with a client, the word cure often comes up. They were told that the treatment has gotten rid of the cancer. Everything a patient wants to hear. The 2 things I reply with are: first, how would you know? We just do not have instruments fine enough to be able to say that. And the second thing is that statistics on recurrence is very telling and the overall stats on cancer are pretty depressing.
My advice is to always play good defense, no matter what. Cancer does not just go away. The only thing that can cure it is if our immune system re-recognizes the cancer and destroys it. This is what a therapist hopes for. Unfortunately it is rare in both standard practice oncology and alternative medicine. The long term game plan is management. How to keep or make the cancer remain at a low level of its evolution. In many cases this can be done. It’s just not that easy, because of the amount of testing necessary, the amount of homework it takes to put the information together properly and that the patient can take on the responsibility of lifestyle change.
Western science understands very well that cancer is opportunistic. Understanding how that fact translates into diagnostic and treatment protocol is not so clear.
How does the idea that cancer is opportunistic play out in real time?
A number of the attack mechanisms that the immune system uses to destroy invading organisms or cancer are with the use of the amino acid arginine. The cancer DNA brain knows this and will force and manipulate the body to produce high amounts of arginase (the enzyme that breaks down arginine) in order to drain the arginine that the immune system needs. This is just one scenario: there are dozens and dozens more. This is the kind of deadly game it plays. Selective in its choice: with intent and planning. It knows where it wants to go and will figure out how to get there along the way. The more doors that are opened for it, the faster it will get there.
Many of the avenues that the cancer is using are normally-occurring processes that have been hijacked by the cancer. Natural Medicine monitors those avenues and allows the natural process to occur while normalizing the hyper or hypo production of those processes. This is in contrast to what pharmaceuticals do, which is to completely remove or wipe out a process. This form of frontal attack definitely has its place and would be used much less if more prescreening was done before establishing protocol.
By spending extra time, energy and money up front we can determine what is driving this particular cancer, has this particular cancer become chemo and/or radio resistant, can this person handle this particular drug even though that drug may be right for their cancer.
Many deaths attributed to chemo are from thrombosis: blood clots formed during treatment. If we looked at blood quality first and could determine that if this person’s blood was already too thick (Diabetes, Insulin Resistance or the Cancer itself), giving them a drug that enhances or accelerates that process could very possibly kill them. This simple and logical process is exactly what we are not doing. The amount of information used in contemporary oncology to determine protocol is at best marginal and we already have the diagnostic technology to ascertain this critical information.
Cancer’s aim is to become a completely autonomous. In order to do this it will methodologically mutate out a variety of control mechanisms built into the cell and/or immume system. We have 70 trillion cells in our body. Within its lifetime a cell will produce 40 daughters. All have to be exact replicas of the parent cell. Forty times 70 trillion is a very large number, which has a percentage of error built into it. Those errors could be deadly and whatever designed us, knew that.
We are designed not to get cancer and many of those mechanisms put in place to prevent problems have multiple redundant systems as back-ups. To get cancer and in order for cancer to continue to grow and spread many thing have to be out of balance and cancer is working all those possibilities
P 53 and P ten both function as tumor suppressor genes (they stop the formation of mutations and cancer cells and if the cell has already turned bad it will induce cell suicide).
Cancer will induce oxidative damage on these gene sites and turn them into oncogenes (genes that actually promote cancer). This process can be stopped, slowed down and possibly reversed with the use of herbs, supplements and diet.
Gap junction is a process whereby adjacent cells communicate to one another and is another method that cell division is very tightly controlled via the cell colony. This is another area cancer focuses on and mutates. If a normal cell seperates from its colony it will immediately go into cell suicide. If a cancer cell seperates from the colony nothing happens. Cancer depends upon being able to move in order to invade and or metastisice. Removing gap junction brings cancer closer to its desired end which is to own the playing field. Once again there are a number of botanicals that strengthen gap junction and normalize the processes that are trying to undermine it.
I could continue sighting examples, but I think I have made my point.
A new and inclusive paradigm needs to evolve in relationship to cancer therapy. Many of the pieces are there and waiting to be put in place, but the will to do so is still lacking.
Harry Chrissakis Herbalist, M.H. Natural Healing
www.Herbalist-Herbs.com
contact@herbalist-herbs.com
530-933-8244