The best treatment for cancer
Dr. Dean Ornish, a popular physician known for his work in preventing and overcoming the disease through lifestyle choices. He led research that followed 30 men at low risk for prostate cancer who were decidedly against traditional medical treatments such as surgery and radiation. The men went through 3 months of comprehensive lifestyle changes to address the causes.
They altered their diets, established a steady exercise regimen and applied stress management techniques for one hour each day.
After 3 months, the men had changes in the activity of about 500 genes, including increased activity of 48 disease-preventing genes and inactivation of the activity of 453 disease-promoting genes implicated in prostate and breast cancer.¹
Dr. Ornish, founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Ornish received his medical training in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin, where he delivered the baccalaureate address.
The implications of this study are enormous.
Conventional wisdom told people that they were ultimately powerless to fight cancer: It's in your genes and there's nothing you can do to change your fate. This attitude turned the average person into a full-fledged victim and also made medical treatments the only viable option. Epigenetics puts the power to be well back in your hands and to have cancer treatment. As Dr. Ornish states in the June 17, 2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
“In just 3 months, I can change my hundreds of genes simply by changing the way I eat and how I live ... and it's not just men with prostate cancer.”.
A November 2006 article in Discover magazine called “DNA is not destiny” further emphasizes these points. “Epigenetics is showing that we have some responsibility for the integrity of our genome... It used to be that genes predetermined outcomes. Now everything we do - everything we eat or what we smoke - can affect our gene expression and that of future generations.” In 2006, researchers at Yale University demonstrated that genes play only a 25 % role in determining the length of your life span. These data, together with a 2006 British research revealed that overweight women are 60 % more likely to develop different types of cancer thus demonstrating that some of the lifestyle factors are much more important than genetics.
“The genes have been there for thousands of years, but if cancer rates are so life-changing, then that doesn't have much to do with genes,” Michelle Holmes, a cancer treatment expert at Harvard University, told “USA Today” in 2010.²
You can see how the genetic issue becomes almost irrelevant when exposure to the Western lifestyle causes an increase in the incidence of certain types of cancer among ethnic groups or regions that have not previously had to deal with the disease.
A clinic started in Zimbabwe saw the consequences of the introduction of “modern” commercial life.
While the biggest fear in the area used to be infectious diseases, we have witnessed firsthand how westernization has led to increased rates of heart disease and certain rare cancers, which rarely occurred in that part of the world.
This excerpt is taken from the book “The Cancer Killers” . Nothing in medicine can take the place of your body's natural disease-fighting defenses. The book “The Cancer Killers” was co-written by Dr. Charles Majors, who defeated a stage 4 cancer using all natural tools and techniques (cancer treatment).
The best cancer treatment is to optimize the body. Dr Marc Bony
References:
- ¹Ornish, Dean, and Mark Jesus M. Magbanua, Gerdi Weidner, Vivian Weinberg, Colleen Kemp, Christopher Green, Michael D. Mattie, Ruth Marlin, Jeff Simko, Katsuto Shinohara, Christopher M. Hagg, Peter R. Carroll, “Changes in Prostate Gene Expression in Men Undergoing an Intensive Nutrition and Lifestyle Invervention,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 17, 2008, Vol. 105, No. 24, 8369-8374, www.pnas.org_cgi_doi_10.1073_pnas.0803080105. - ²Associated Press, “Experts: One-third of Breast Cancer Cases Avoidable,” USA Today, March 25, 2010, http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-25-breast-cancer_N.htm.
