Cancer: All you need to know

Useful Information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: CANCER

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up
in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors
tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because
they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

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

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional
deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle
factors.

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

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also
destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal
tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

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

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor
size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more
tumor destruction.

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

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become
resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to
spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not
feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food
supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful,
etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would
be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a
chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos
or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and
substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and
it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beefor pork. Meat also
contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,
seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.
About 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 to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live
enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including bean sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a
day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.
Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best
to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in
tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes.
Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more
toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or
eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer
cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac,
anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer
cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to
cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive
spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,unforgiveness and
bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a
loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen
down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy cancer cells.

Yoga-Breathing is easily managed programme where one concentrates in providing
the body with enough oxygen to enable every cell in the body to function at its
optimum. The breathing exercises are easy and can be done where ever and when
ever. Just try breathing exercises for two weeks...say allocating just 15 min a
day to breathing deeply see and feel the difference it makes to you.

Kapalbhati (Cleansing Breath):
Sit comfortably in any meditative posture. Sit erect. Exhale through both
nostrils, contracting the middle and lower abdomen portions. Release the
contractions quickly and immediately follow with another forceful exhalation .
Inhale passively and effortlessly. Gradually increase the frequency to about 100
strokes/minute. After the round take a deep breath and gradually exhale.

What good can this do?


Cleans capillaries of the remotest part of the body.

Purifies the frontal portion of the brain.

Aid in combating asthma, diabetes, and chronic bronchitis besides other nervous
disorders.

Cleans the nasal passages.


Anuloma Viloma is also called the Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique. In this
Breathing Technique, you inhale through one nostril, retain the breath, and
exhale through the other nostril in a ratio of 2:8:4. The left nostril is the
path of the Nadi called Ida and the right nostril is the path of the Nadi called
Pingala. If you are really healthy, you will breathe predominantly through the
Ida nostril about one hour and fifty minutes, then through the Pingala nostril.
But in many people, this natural rhythm is disturbed. Anuloma Viloma restores,
equalizes and balances the flow of Prana in the body.

One round of Anuloma Viloma is made up of six steps, as shown below.. Start by
practicing three rounds and build up slowly to twenty rounds, extending the
count within the given ratio.


The Vishnu Mudra

In Anuloma Viloma, you adopt the Vishnu Mudra with your right hand to close your
nostrils. Tuck your index and middle finger into your nose. Place the thumb by
your right nostril and your ring and little fingers by your left.

One Round of Anuloma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing)

Inhale through the left nostril, closing the right with the thumb, to the count
of four.

Hold the breath, closing both nostrils, to the count of sixteen.

Exhale through the right nostril, closing the left with the ring and little
fingers, to the count of eight.

Inhale through the right nostril, keeping the left nostril closed with the ring
and little fingers, to the count of four.

Hold the breath, closing both nostrils, to the count of sixteen.

Exhale through the left nostril, keeping the right closed with the thumb, to the
count of eight.


Benefits of Anuloma Viloma

The exercise of the Anuloma Viloma produces optimum function to both sides of
the brain: that is optimum creativity and optimum logical verbal activity. This
will make both sides of the brain, the left side which is responsible for
logical thinking and the right side which is responsible for creative thinking
to function properly. This will lead to a balance between a person's creative
and logical thinking. The Yogis consider this to be the best technique to calm
the mind and the Nervous System.
Anuloma Viloma: The Scientific Confirmation

Medical science has recently discovered the nasal cycle, something that was
already discovered by the Yogis thousands of years ago. Modern scientists found
out that we do not breathe equally on both nostrils, that is one nostril is much
easier to breathe through than the other at any particular time. Each nostril
alternates about every three hours. The Yogis claim that the natural period is
every two hours, but we must remember these studies were done on people who do
not have an optimum Health level.

Scientists also discovered that the nasal cycle corresponds with brain function.
The electrical activity of the brain was found to be greater on the side
opposite the less congested nostril. The right side of the brain controls
creative activity, while the left side controls logical verbal activity. The
research showed that when the left nostril was less obstructed, the right side
of the brain was predominant. Test subjects were indeed found to do better on
creative tests. Similarly when the right nostril was less obstructed the left
side of the brain was predominant. Test subjects did better on verbal skills.

Medical science has not quite caught up with the ancient Yogis yet. The Ancient
Yogis even went one step further. They observed that a lot of diseases were due
to disturbances of the nasal cycle or if a person breathe for too long through
one nostril. To prevent and correct this condition, they developed the Alternate
Nostril Breathing Technique. This clears any blockage the airflow in the
nostrils and reestablishes the natural nasal cycle. For example, the Yogis have
known for a long time that prolonged breathing through the left nostril only
(over a period of years) will cause Asthma. They also know that this so-called
incurable disease can be easily treated by teaching the patient to breathe
through the right nostril until the Asthma is cured and prevent it from
recurring by doing the Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique. The Yogis also
believe that Diabetes is caused, to a large extent, by breathing mainly through
the right nostril


Rowell G. Agustin

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