At the Marc Bony Chiropractic Center in Mataró, we understand the importance of a strong immune system. Chiropractic care can be key to improving your natural health and preventing illness.
How You Can Stop Cancer
New studies have shown for the first time that the human immune system can stop the growth of cancer without having to remove it. These findings may help explain why some tumors suddenly stop growing or remain inactive for a long period of time.
The authors of these studies refer to this suppression of cancer as a “state of equilibrium.” During this state of equilibrium, the immune system limits the cancer’s ability to grow and kills some cancer cells, though not enough to eliminate or shrink the cancer.
Researchers injected mice with small doses of a chemical carcinogen and observed that these doses remained small, forming masses at the injection sites. When certain components of the animals’ immune systems were disabled, the cancer began to develop on a large scale. This suggests that the immune system was able to monitor and keep the tumor under control.
“One day, we should be able to use artificial immunotherapy to restore balance and turn cancer into a chronic but manageable disease.”
suggests co-author Mark J. Smyth, Ph.D., a professor in the Cancer Immunology Program at the Peter McCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne, Australia.
“Proper immune function is now recognized as an important factor in the prevention of certain cancers. Moreover, if these studies and clinical data on this process can also establish that cancers can become chronic, similar to other serious diseases that medicine treats over the long term,” he adds.
According to the scientific theory of cancer known as “immune surveillance,” your immune system can eliminate malignant cells from your body and attack tumors using the same weapons it uses to fend off invading microorganisms.
Immunotherapy uses pharmaceutical agents to increase the likelihood that your immune system will recognize and attack tumor cells. However, the immune surveillance theory lost acceptance when, in 2001, a new model known as immune editing was established.
The theory of immune editing suggests that this conflict between cancer and the immune system runs its course naturally, but with three distinct outcomes:
1-Your immune system can eliminate cancer by destroying it completely.
2-Your immune system can strike a balance with the cancer, monitoring its growth without destroying it.
3-Your cancer can evade your immune system and become more malignant.
In 1975, Ronald Pero, Ph.D., head of cancer prevention research at the Institute of Preventive Medicine in New York and professor of environmental health at New York University, and his team studied 107 individuals who had received long-term chiropractic care.
Chiropractic patients were found to have a 200%: Exceeds Capacity compared to people who had not received chiropractic care, and a 400% increase in immune function in people with cancer or serious illnesses.
Interestingly, Pero found no decline across the different age groups in the study, indicating that DNA repair enzymes were present in these groups just as they were in the younger groups.Pero concluded, «Chiropractic care can optimize whatever genetic capacity you have so that you can fully resist serious illness…» «I have never seen any other group show a 200% increase compared to normal patients.”.
«Learn more:@Sources: • DailyIndia.com, November 19, 2007• Nature, November 18, 2007 [Epub ahead of print]
