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Is Common Sense or Research Needed to Cure Cancer?" |
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by:Dr. Randy Wysong |
It is an incredible feat that organisms can
begin from one cell and then differentiate and compartmentalize into
the millions of diverse tissue and organ niches that represent a mature
body. Why brain, fingernail, liver, intestine and bone cells ever
become what they are is mystery enough. Why they stay what they have
become while still retaining the full genetic information to produce an
entire new body, compounds the miracle even more.
Cancer is a condition in which cells lose their orientation and
proliferate uncontrollably. Any cell can become cancerous. A lot of
them do, but are squelched by cell death (apoptosis), the immune system
or nipped in the bud by DNA repair mechanisms. Successful cancer cells
escape these impediments, disregard normal cellular checks and balances
and become an island unto themselves with only their own survival and
self-interests at heart.
The cause of cancer is no mystery. It is our aberrant modern living
context that has put us at cancer risk. When cells are forced to bathe
in a milieu (the tissue soup we create with modern foods, drugs and
lifestyle) entirely unlike what they are genetically programmed to
expect, they revert to their most primitive directive – multiply,
multiply, multiply – without regard for neighbors. It’s a sort of
payback for our disregard for “neighbors” when we pollute and repudiate
nature. Why should our cells be polite to their neighbors if we don’t
have regard for ours? Since the immune system is compromised from the
chronic stresses created by modern living, defenses are down. Couple
this with the nutritionally depleted and perverted modern processed
diet and you have the incubator for cancer.
Today, about one in three humans will get cancer. In pets it is worse
and perhaps the leading cause of death. No evidence exists that the
disease was of similar incidence before our modern era. President
Nixon's "War on Cancer" (beginning in the early 1970s) is the most
failed and embarrassing "military" campaign ever undertaken by any
nation at any time in history. One person in 30 got cancer at the
beginning of the 20th century, now almost one in two do.
Some will say that the only reason the incidence has increased is
because humans and animals live longer due to modern medical measures.
So when science fails in their mission to defeat cancer, they cleverly
spin the failure as their success. As I have shown previously (Why
Modern Medicine is the Greatest Threat to Health
http://www.wysong.net/health/post_77_061902.shtml), this is nonsense
since modern medical measures are themselves probably the number one
threat to life.
The reason for cancer and most chronic degenerative diseases is modern
living, pure and simple. We have subjected ourselves to an artificial
environment to which we are not adapted. Nature – not exhaust, sugar,
pop and plastic – is what we are designed for. Screw with Mother Nature
and a price will be paid.
Whatever the inciting cause, it is known that inducement and
propogation needs to be relentless and of long-standing duration.
Cancer can have a latency period of decades, requiring continuous
exposure to the inciting stress. Our departure from our genetic roots
certainly qualifies.
If disease does not strike immediately after a bad life choice, then
the conclusion is that the choice is just fine. We refuse to take the
long view and make intelligent decisions now for consequences that may
not emerge until years later. It's a common human failing we see
replayed in every aspect of human endeavor. It's the modus operandi in
government, economics, agriculture, social issues and health care.
Living in the moment is what children and animals do. We should do
better with the pounds of gyri and sulci resting on our shoulders.
Nevertheless, this common sense approach (returning to our genetic
roots) to preventing cancer and other diseases will be ignored. Instead
we will pour billions of dollars into research to discover the cure for
cancer. But there will never be a cure other than respecting our
genetic heritage and living, eating, breathing and drinking as we were
designed to do. A pill or vaccine to save us just isn't going to
happen.
Let me give some examples of recent research findings that reveal the
obvious. First there is the "discovery" that fresh fruits and
vegetables contain anti-cancer nutrients such as antioxidants, vitamins
and flavanoids. Why would they not be anti-cancer, they are the natural
food of humans? No research is necessary to discover that!
Then there is the "discovery" that cancer preferentially feeds on
glucose, diverting it from body use and inefficiently metabolizing it
by glycolysis into lactate and a couple ATP energy molecules. (Glucose
normally yields 38 ATP.) The body then has to reconvert the lactate
back, via the Cori cycle, into glucose (at an energy cost). The net
result is that the cancer acts like an energy sink resulting in
cachexia, a pathetic condition of severe muscle wasting and
debilitation. Modern diets are laden with sugar and starches that not
only provide the perfect food for cancer but the perfect acidic medium
in tissues. Processed sugar and starch is not a natural human food. No
research is needed to discover that!
Research has also shown that a low carbohydrate, high protein, high
arginine (meat amino acid), low omega-6 fatty acid and high omega-3
fatty acid diet is useful for both preventing and treating cancer.
Tumor cells do not do well on fats or protein. But they love that
sugar. The natural, raw diet for humans and their pets is high in fat
(the preferred energy source) and protein, high in omega-3 fatty acids
(fish, wild meat, some seeds and vegetables) and low in omega-6 fatty
acids (grains, grain-fed meats and most oils), and is alkalinizing.
This is no scientific discovery. It's common sense.
But companies are clamoring to patent versions of natural diets and
crediting their science for discovering the obvious. Examples are new
patented, "cancer-fighting" foods featuring high fat, high omega-3
fatty acids, low carbohydrates, and high protein and arginine. Finally,
feeding people and pets what they should have been getting all along
(as, I hate to say, I have been arguing for decades) is so novel that
it is patentable!
It is the edge-of-the-map science that is responsible for this sorry
state of affairs. Like the ancient mariners who believed the world
ended where their maps left off, science has assumed that calories,
regardless of their source, were the edge of their map. Their
nutritional world ends with calories and percentages of known
nutrients. Science has insisted that if a human or animal requires X
calories per pound each day, it matters not whether those calories come
from fresh, real foods or Twinkies. That's why hospital patients paying
a thousand dollars a night dine on Registered Dietician Jell-O, diet
pop and instant potatoes.
What has been ignored is that calories are not the edge of the map;
ships do not drop off the Earth when they disappear over the horizon.
Now the world beyond the edge of conventional medicine and nutrition is
slowly being rediscovered. The world is round... and people and animals
require their natural, genetically programmed diet that lies beyond the
edge of science’s calories. Quality of calories do matter and is a
whole new world promising health.
So, to increase the chance of having cancer, or to speed its
progression, eating the standard modern fare is the way to go. Get lots
of sugar and lots of grain-based foods such as pasta, bread, cereal,
bagels, donuts (which convert to sugar after consumed) and lots of
vegetable oils. Increase carbohydrates, eat oleo and look for low-fat
foods. Drink very little water and instead enjoy acidified pop and
municipal acidic water. Tumors thrive on this banquet.
You can wait for “research” to prove that natural foods and natural
living (fresh air, exercise, sunlight, loving relationships) prevent
and reverse cancer, or you can be a thinking person and apply this
obvious wisdom beginning today.
Further Reading:
The Wysong Optimal Health Program™
http://www.wysong.net/optimal_health_page1.shtml
Lipid Nutrition – Understanding Fats and Oils in Health and Disease
http://wysong.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WOTTPWS&Product_Code=ED050-S&Category_Code=EDUAIDS&Product_Count=4
Is the U.S. Healthier than Ever?
http://www.wysong.net/health/post_77_061902.shtml
What to Do to Reverse and Prevent Acidemia
http://www.wysong.net/health/post_101_011403.shtml
Shorts – Acidosis...I Told You So
http://www.wysong.net/health/post_99_123002.shtml
Cancer and Diet http://www.wysong.net/PDFs/mar_apr2000.pdf
Cancer and Sulforaphane from Veggies
http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_aug99.shtml
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fish Oil for Cancer
http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_apr99.shtml
Sugar and Cancer http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_sep98.shtml
Flax Seeds and Cancers
http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/chl_dec96.shtml
About the author:
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college
instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life,
inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and
fitness products and devices, research director for the present company
by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is
author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh
printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books
on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15
years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at
Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is
available at http://www.wysong.net.
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