Raw Food Expert And Cancer Survivor Shares Information On Why People Get Sick And How To Heal
by Kevin Gianni
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Food Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com. In this excerpt, Brenda Cobb shares on living foods, the reasons people get sick and how they can heal.
Raw Food Summit Excerpt with Brenda Cobb, the founder of The Living Foods Institute.
Kevin: Sure. When you talk about illness and you talk about people who have disease and who can heal themselves, it's more than just food...
Brenda:: It really is. I believe that it's much more than the food. I think that's one of the reasons that the program that I used now have developed over the nine years of have been doing this. It is become so effective to the healthy people because we look beyond the food. Now, we certainly do use a 100% organic, the raw food and the living food.
The way we describe raw food and living food is raw food we believe fruits, vegetables and not seeds that have not been cooked. We believe a living food is a sprouted food, something that's growing when you eat it. Among bean and lentil sprout and sun flower, and buckwheat sprout. And so, that certainly is a part of the program. But we believe there has really four main reasons that people get sick. The number one reason we believed is because of how people think and emotional stuff sometimes that has got been buried so deep. And then another part of that number reason is stress because the world we are living is stressful. So that's the first area we help people with.
The number two area, we help people with is toxicity because there's toxins that have build up over years of breathing the air, drinking water that is not pure, of eating processed foods with additive colors, chemicals, dyes, over the counter medications, drinking alcohols, smoking cigarettes whatever it might be. So, we believe you have to get all the toxins that are already in there out so the body can do what it was created to do in that field itself.
The third reason we think people are getting sick is because of their decisions and we are believing that deficiency is the vitamins, the minerals, and the enzymes. Now, we are doing our best to get these through the good nutrition, but also realize that the soil today is not what it was in great, great grand daddy's day. So, there are some super foods and allergies and some products that we used that helped to boost that along with the good nutrition. But we do believe that you cannot take a product in place of good nutrition. You got to have good nutrition as your foundation and then supplement only with food sources, you know a raw food powder or an allergy and we also use herb and essential oils to help the body to cleanse and detox and nourish. We found that to be very effective.
And then the fourth thing that we found make people sick is the dirty toxic impacted colon. So, our program also focuses on cleansing the colon, getting out the impacted waste, mucoid plaque, worm, parasites. You know from years of eating, maybe foods made was flower and water that makes a glue or a paste and people get that gunk [ph] in that sticky stuff inside of their colon and it sticks in there and sometimes it can become really hard and there's a barrier than between the good nutrition even if you're eating good food. You've changed your ways and now you're eating raw in living food. If you got a lot of plaque built up in the colon, you can't really assimilate the nutrients as well. So, we like to simultaneously be putting in the good food while we also getting out the bad stuff and then when we do all of it together, we really feel that, that supporting the body, the mind, the spirit, the mental, the emotional, the physical, the spiritual, and that the body can bounce back from most anything.
Kevin: Let's talk about number one. How are some of the ways that someone can deal with the way that they're thinking or not even deal but free themselves of some of the stress and some of the emotional issues that they have?
Brenda:: Well, first thing is a lot of times we are thinking thoughts that we don't really even realize are negative. Many people, if you talk to them about negative thinking or negative speaking and you ask them, "Do you speak or think in a negative way? Most people will say, "No, I don't." But then when you really kind of get down to how they are talking to themselves, you will see that the way that they're talking is not really positive, that they are meaning to say something positive but they're saying it in a negative way.
So that's the first thing, it's really just kind of teaching people to unprogram themselves. One way we do it is to teaching people some very simple affirmations and even though they may sound very simple, almost too simple and people will say, "Gosh, it seems so easy, how can it work if it's so simple?" Well, you know anytime you say the words, "I am" and then you feel that blanking with another word, you're saying the most possible...a positive or a powerful three words that you can say. So, if you say "I am healed" then you're going to create the energy of healing. But if you say "I am sick" you're going to continue to create the energy around sickness. So, that's one thing, really being careful when you say "I am", you know let's say you work really hard all day and you're tired so you're saying "I am so tired". Well, the more you say it, the tired that you get, you know instead if you go out and take a little walk around the block and say "I am energize, I am enthusiastic, I am excited to be alive." You begin talking to yourself in that way, breathing the fresh air, getting the body moving a little bit, you'll see that at the end of that 20 or 30 minute, well you are actually feeling better. So, that's one thing.
Now, as far as emotional stuff, really we like to help people to understand what are the emotional components that are related to the disease or symptom that they'd manifested. I used a couple of books that I really like for that. I used a book call Feeling Buried Alive Never Die by Karol Truman and I used a book that a lot of people have heard of call You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay and then I used a book call Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping and we really study those levels of, okay first let's get real about what is that emotional component and does it bring through with you and sometimes people will say, "Wow, I cannot believe how much that is like me, what you're telling me, this emotional thing."
All the times people will even be in denial more and they'll say, "Well no, I don't think that's it, I don't see how that could be causing my problem." So we just gently and lovingly work with people to get them more aware. We have specific exercises that we do in our emotional healing classes to help people to be able to see within themselves and, you know we get them to face some of the things, you know asking them questions like what is it about yourself that you would like to see change and, you know how do you think that the way you've thought in the past has impacted you and do you think that you are fulfilling your mission in life and just get people dialoguing and thinking, you know when you start talking among yourselves, you can even create a wonderful mastermind group and all of the sudden just from hearing what other people are saying, many times we get our own answers. We're not looking to somebody else to figure it out for us, you know we can figure it out our self but it helps to be able to discuss it with others.
And so that is also a part of the way that we help people through emotional healing. Now, with stress, we are doing breathing exercises, relaxation exercises, stretching, yoga, you know helping people to learn how to relieve stress that gets impacted in their self and in their organs, in their glands. Most people don't breathe to their full capacity, that shallow breathing and they find that when they really use more of their lungs and breathe in deeply, that itself can relax.
That really was my great transformation - was healing those emotional things as well as changing what I was eating. I think when I was eating meat, animals, and when I was eating sugar and dairy, I was getting antibiotics, and hormones, and toxins, and uric acid getting off in my body. Honestly, I think it was making me angry. I think that a lot of times the foods we eat can make us more loving and gentle, or can make us more stressed out, on edge, and angry.When I cleared those things out, the illnesses went away and I became a better person - a gentler, a kinder, a sweeter, a more loving and more forgiving, I live and let live rather than...
I stopped criticizing other people or judging them. I realized, "You know what, I got my hands full trying to make my own decisions and go through life." I need to focus on making me better and not trying to fix somebody else's problems.
Kevin: Yes. A lot of people who are listening may have family members who are sick. Not even necessarily a debilitating disease or but they are sick. They are tired, lazy, and achy. How do you bring this information to someone like that? How do you get them to start thinking differently about the way they feel? I mean, would you suggest talking about how you're feeling?
Brenda:: Well, you can tell people you feel great. But you know what, there's nothing like looking good.
Kevin: (LAUGH)
Brenda:: You know, people can just look at your skin and they go, "Your skin is looking great!" "Your eyes seem really sparkly and clear." You know your energy,look at how much energy. People say that all the time to me. "Where do you get all your energy?" And I'll laugh. I'll say, "Well, where do you think?" "I get it from eating raw and living food." And they seem surprised. "Oh, is that really true?" I said, "Yes, it really works." "It's really true." And then of course to share your testimony and tell people; you know how good you feel. A lot of times people, when I start talking about eating raw and living food, some people are so out of touch with what that means, that they say, "Is that ...you eat your meat raw?"
Kevin: Yes. (LAUGH)
Brenda:: Well no, I don't eat meat. And I don't eat that raw. I'm talking about fruits and vegetables. They're like, "Oh, oh yeah, fruits and vegetables. Yeah." Forgot you could eat those raw, you know? And is not a difficult lifestyle; it's very simple. It's so easy just to eat an apple, or a stalk of celery, or a cucumber. You know, you don't have to make it complicated at all.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access other raw food experts on healing and the raw food lifestyle just like Brenda Cobb, please visit http://rawsummitarchives.com.
วันพุธ, เมษายน 30, 2008
Founder Of Living Foods Institute Shares Her Healing From Cancer
Founder Of Living Foods Institute Shares Her Healing From Cancer
by Kevin Gianni
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Food Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com. In this excerpt, Brenda Cobb shares on her amazing healing from breast and cervical cancer.
Raw Food Summit Excerpt with Brenda Cobb, the founder of The Living Foods Institute.
Kevin: Today I have an incredible guest on the line. She is an author and founder of the Living Foods Institute. She also has had an incredible healing journey from breast and cervical cancer, which we're going to talk about today. So, Brenda Cobb, I want to welcome you to the Raw Summit.
Brenda:: Thank you so much, Kevin, I'm real excited to be here.
Kevin: Brenda, you have an incredible story, and I want to get into it, and I want to kind of give a landscape of where you were before you were diagnosed, and then move into what you did.
Brenda:: Well, where I was, was in a very high stress job, I owned my own business, I was in film in television, I had a recording studio, and a production company. And, I was very busy in helping people in promoting their careers, and in producing shows for big events, and that was very stressful.
During that time, yeah, I didn't really eat well, and I ate all kinds of various types of foods that weren't really great for me. And, if I had a headache, I took a Tylenol. And, if my stomach was upset, I took some kind of another type of a pill. And, then in 1999, I was diagnosed with both cervical and breast cancer. And so, that woke me up big time. The doctor told me that I needed to have surgery, chemo, and radiation.
I knew that I did not want to. I really felt that I needed to look for a natural way to heal myself. And so, I got on the Organic Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle, and it changed my life. I've started using wheat grass juice, and energy soup, and other really healing foods, and the cancer went away, but other problems I had had, arthritis, acid reflux, indigestion, heartburn.
I had taken Pepcid AC, Tums, Rolaids, all of those types of products to try to help myself, and that didn't really work, it just made me worse, not really better.
But, you know what? When I got on this program to heal cancer, all those other symptoms went away. So, I never had any more migraine headaches. Arthritis went away, I lost weight, my energy increased, my skin improved, I felt better, I wasn't as depressed, I felt happier, and everything really changed dramatically. That's when I realized that my mission in life was going to be to help other people, and teach it, and tell other people about it because I felt like if it helped me, it could help other people.
And, it's still thrilling. I mean today to just watch how much health can be improved on this program. And, I don't care how sick people are Kevin. I have gotten people in my center that everyone else has given up on completely, and they've told them that they have a terminal, hopeless situation, and yet when these people are willing to change what they're doing and their mental thinking, and some of their lifestyle habits, we see that the body is miraculous, and it can bounce back from most anything.
Kevin: How did you get turned on after you got out of the doctor's office, how did you get turned onto the natural way of helping yourself?
Brenda:: Well, I went to the health food store as soon as I left the doctor and I asked them if they knew of any books I could read, or anyone who had ever healed in a natural way. And, they pointed me to a little book that a woman had written that said How I Conquered Cancer Naturally, and her name was Eydie Mae. And I bought the only copy of that book that they had on the shelf. And, it was all about how she had used Dr. Ann Wigmore's method for raw and living foods with wheat grass, and energy soup, and Rejuvelac, and veggie crowding, and colon cleansing. And, how she had a very serious challenge with cancer and that, she didn't think that there was any other place for her to turn. It kept getting worse and worse, and coming back after treatment. And, when she heard about this program and got on it - it healed her.
When I read that book I had cold chills all over my body. I thought you know something, if it can work for her, it can work for me. Why not? What do I have to lose? At least I need to try this. So, I really had faith and belief in it. You know how it is sometimes that you read something or you hear something and immediately it resonates with you. It's like you already know this at some level. It's in there and it was just kind of waiting to be remembered and that's how I felt about it. I started reading enough, Wow,this just makes sense if I clean my body out, if I start giving it optimum nutrition, if I don't cook my food, because of course I never knew that when you cook you killed it. I learned that by cooking it I was killing the enzymes and compromising the vitamins and the minerals. And, that if I would start putting in really good organic nutrition that my body would do what it was created to do. It would heal itself.
So, I use Eydie Mae's example, and then I started reading other books that Ann Wigmore had written. And, I started reading testimonies from people who had done her program before and everybody seems so positive. And, there were so many stories that really seem miraculous. I mean of people recovering from all kinds of diseases that I became more and more encouraged. And then the more I did it, the more I was able to see for myself that it really did work.
Kevin: And so you believe after you read that book. You believed right away?
Brenda:: I did. I've really had total faith and belief. In fact, it was a good thing because well- meaning friends and family who loved me a lot really thought I was crazy, and they felt that I should what the doctor said. And that I should do the surgery and the chemo, and the radiation. Of course, I asked some of those well-meaning people, "Well, why would I?" Because, it didn't work for, one of my aunts or maybe one of your sisters. You know, because of my aunts would be talking to me about it or other loved ones. I say, "You know it didn't work for them. I don't see why it should work for me. I'm going to try something different." Now, those same people who then thought I was crazy, they think I'm a genius now. I did it, you know when they thought I'd lost my mind but now they have seen that it really does work.
And, I'm glad I had that total faith and belief because it's tough when a lot of people around you are thinking you're ought to do one thing and you're knowing that you should be doing something else. You have to a hell lot of courage, you know to do that. And, I just kept saying, "You know I know God is leading me in this way and I'm going to do what I know I need do and I'm not going to worry about what other people think because it's my life and I'm going to be responsible, and be self sufficient." And, you know what if it doesn't work I take full responsibility but what is it does? And, I believe it will, and I believed to this day that mental attitude and, faith and belief in a program - what ever that program maybe. I think that's 99% of it.
Kevin: Um hum.
Brenda:: If you do something and you don't believe it's going to work - if already you're sabotaging yourself I'm saying, "I don't why I'm doing this. I'm sure it's not going to help me." Then the truth is it's not going to help you. I believe that you do get what you expect, and what you really visualize, and feel and think it's going to happen for you. I think that you get more of those positive results and thinking that way.
Kevin: When did you know that this was working?
Brenda:: Immediately really although my first my first few days on it, I tell you I was really detoxing pretty strong.
Kevin: Sure.
Brenda:: And, because I have been a coffee drinker. So, I had a lot of caffeine and that started coming out and I had a headache that I thought every time my heart beat, I thought my head was going to burst wide open.
And, that lasted for about a 24 hours but it gradually begin to get better, and after a couple of days I would just have a little intermediate headache here and there. And, by about the third or fourth day I never had a headache again, and then I was nauseated because again toxins were coming out, and I thought that probably was the worst and maybe the first and the second day. And by the third day I began to feel like I was coming a little bit back to life. By about the fifth or the sixth day, I was really beginning to get encouraged because I was feeling better. Weight was beginning to melt tough because I weighed almost 200 pounds when I was diagnosed.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: And so the weight was melting away and then I began having more clarity. I was having a lot of heavy bleeding from the cervical tumors and that began to subside and actually in 30 days of being on the program that completely stopped.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: So that was an immediate, I'm like "Wow!" something is working.
Kevin: 30 Days?
Brenda:: Yes, in 30 days. Now in my... as far as my breast tumor I could feel it going down and decreasing. After my first 30 days it felt like to me just from touching that it was about half the size. And of course I continue to decrease until it got to the point within about the third or fourth month I was not able to detect it there at all. You know, it was in about seven or eight days I never had acid reflux or heart burn or indigestion again.
And now that actually was more empowering to me than in anything else because I had it so bad that I could not lie down flat to sleep. I had to prop up with pillows and that was miserable. I mean, I never slept well at night because I had that burning sensation.
When that went away I felt like, "Wow!" this health program was worth it If nothing else got better because that one thing gave me better quality of life. The more that I ate this good nutritious food and the less junk I ate, you know I stopped eating meat and dairy and sugar and all that stuff. That impacted my sleep and just my well being so I felt better and had more energy and when you have more energy everything is better.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more Raw Food Experts and information just like Brenda Cobb, please visit http://rawsummitarchives.com and http://liveawesome.com
by Kevin Gianni
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Food Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com. In this excerpt, Brenda Cobb shares on her amazing healing from breast and cervical cancer.
Raw Food Summit Excerpt with Brenda Cobb, the founder of The Living Foods Institute.
Kevin: Today I have an incredible guest on the line. She is an author and founder of the Living Foods Institute. She also has had an incredible healing journey from breast and cervical cancer, which we're going to talk about today. So, Brenda Cobb, I want to welcome you to the Raw Summit.
Brenda:: Thank you so much, Kevin, I'm real excited to be here.
Kevin: Brenda, you have an incredible story, and I want to get into it, and I want to kind of give a landscape of where you were before you were diagnosed, and then move into what you did.
Brenda:: Well, where I was, was in a very high stress job, I owned my own business, I was in film in television, I had a recording studio, and a production company. And, I was very busy in helping people in promoting their careers, and in producing shows for big events, and that was very stressful.
During that time, yeah, I didn't really eat well, and I ate all kinds of various types of foods that weren't really great for me. And, if I had a headache, I took a Tylenol. And, if my stomach was upset, I took some kind of another type of a pill. And, then in 1999, I was diagnosed with both cervical and breast cancer. And so, that woke me up big time. The doctor told me that I needed to have surgery, chemo, and radiation.
I knew that I did not want to. I really felt that I needed to look for a natural way to heal myself. And so, I got on the Organic Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle, and it changed my life. I've started using wheat grass juice, and energy soup, and other really healing foods, and the cancer went away, but other problems I had had, arthritis, acid reflux, indigestion, heartburn.
I had taken Pepcid AC, Tums, Rolaids, all of those types of products to try to help myself, and that didn't really work, it just made me worse, not really better.
But, you know what? When I got on this program to heal cancer, all those other symptoms went away. So, I never had any more migraine headaches. Arthritis went away, I lost weight, my energy increased, my skin improved, I felt better, I wasn't as depressed, I felt happier, and everything really changed dramatically. That's when I realized that my mission in life was going to be to help other people, and teach it, and tell other people about it because I felt like if it helped me, it could help other people.
And, it's still thrilling. I mean today to just watch how much health can be improved on this program. And, I don't care how sick people are Kevin. I have gotten people in my center that everyone else has given up on completely, and they've told them that they have a terminal, hopeless situation, and yet when these people are willing to change what they're doing and their mental thinking, and some of their lifestyle habits, we see that the body is miraculous, and it can bounce back from most anything.
Kevin: How did you get turned on after you got out of the doctor's office, how did you get turned onto the natural way of helping yourself?
Brenda:: Well, I went to the health food store as soon as I left the doctor and I asked them if they knew of any books I could read, or anyone who had ever healed in a natural way. And, they pointed me to a little book that a woman had written that said How I Conquered Cancer Naturally, and her name was Eydie Mae. And I bought the only copy of that book that they had on the shelf. And, it was all about how she had used Dr. Ann Wigmore's method for raw and living foods with wheat grass, and energy soup, and Rejuvelac, and veggie crowding, and colon cleansing. And, how she had a very serious challenge with cancer and that, she didn't think that there was any other place for her to turn. It kept getting worse and worse, and coming back after treatment. And, when she heard about this program and got on it - it healed her.
When I read that book I had cold chills all over my body. I thought you know something, if it can work for her, it can work for me. Why not? What do I have to lose? At least I need to try this. So, I really had faith and belief in it. You know how it is sometimes that you read something or you hear something and immediately it resonates with you. It's like you already know this at some level. It's in there and it was just kind of waiting to be remembered and that's how I felt about it. I started reading enough, Wow,this just makes sense if I clean my body out, if I start giving it optimum nutrition, if I don't cook my food, because of course I never knew that when you cook you killed it. I learned that by cooking it I was killing the enzymes and compromising the vitamins and the minerals. And, that if I would start putting in really good organic nutrition that my body would do what it was created to do. It would heal itself.
So, I use Eydie Mae's example, and then I started reading other books that Ann Wigmore had written. And, I started reading testimonies from people who had done her program before and everybody seems so positive. And, there were so many stories that really seem miraculous. I mean of people recovering from all kinds of diseases that I became more and more encouraged. And then the more I did it, the more I was able to see for myself that it really did work.
Kevin: And so you believe after you read that book. You believed right away?
Brenda:: I did. I've really had total faith and belief. In fact, it was a good thing because well- meaning friends and family who loved me a lot really thought I was crazy, and they felt that I should what the doctor said. And that I should do the surgery and the chemo, and the radiation. Of course, I asked some of those well-meaning people, "Well, why would I?" Because, it didn't work for, one of my aunts or maybe one of your sisters. You know, because of my aunts would be talking to me about it or other loved ones. I say, "You know it didn't work for them. I don't see why it should work for me. I'm going to try something different." Now, those same people who then thought I was crazy, they think I'm a genius now. I did it, you know when they thought I'd lost my mind but now they have seen that it really does work.
And, I'm glad I had that total faith and belief because it's tough when a lot of people around you are thinking you're ought to do one thing and you're knowing that you should be doing something else. You have to a hell lot of courage, you know to do that. And, I just kept saying, "You know I know God is leading me in this way and I'm going to do what I know I need do and I'm not going to worry about what other people think because it's my life and I'm going to be responsible, and be self sufficient." And, you know what if it doesn't work I take full responsibility but what is it does? And, I believe it will, and I believed to this day that mental attitude and, faith and belief in a program - what ever that program maybe. I think that's 99% of it.
Kevin: Um hum.
Brenda:: If you do something and you don't believe it's going to work - if already you're sabotaging yourself I'm saying, "I don't why I'm doing this. I'm sure it's not going to help me." Then the truth is it's not going to help you. I believe that you do get what you expect, and what you really visualize, and feel and think it's going to happen for you. I think that you get more of those positive results and thinking that way.
Kevin: When did you know that this was working?
Brenda:: Immediately really although my first my first few days on it, I tell you I was really detoxing pretty strong.
Kevin: Sure.
Brenda:: And, because I have been a coffee drinker. So, I had a lot of caffeine and that started coming out and I had a headache that I thought every time my heart beat, I thought my head was going to burst wide open.
And, that lasted for about a 24 hours but it gradually begin to get better, and after a couple of days I would just have a little intermediate headache here and there. And, by about the third or fourth day I never had a headache again, and then I was nauseated because again toxins were coming out, and I thought that probably was the worst and maybe the first and the second day. And by the third day I began to feel like I was coming a little bit back to life. By about the fifth or the sixth day, I was really beginning to get encouraged because I was feeling better. Weight was beginning to melt tough because I weighed almost 200 pounds when I was diagnosed.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: And so the weight was melting away and then I began having more clarity. I was having a lot of heavy bleeding from the cervical tumors and that began to subside and actually in 30 days of being on the program that completely stopped.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: So that was an immediate, I'm like "Wow!" something is working.
Kevin: 30 Days?
Brenda:: Yes, in 30 days. Now in my... as far as my breast tumor I could feel it going down and decreasing. After my first 30 days it felt like to me just from touching that it was about half the size. And of course I continue to decrease until it got to the point within about the third or fourth month I was not able to detect it there at all. You know, it was in about seven or eight days I never had acid reflux or heart burn or indigestion again.
And now that actually was more empowering to me than in anything else because I had it so bad that I could not lie down flat to sleep. I had to prop up with pillows and that was miserable. I mean, I never slept well at night because I had that burning sensation.
When that went away I felt like, "Wow!" this health program was worth it If nothing else got better because that one thing gave me better quality of life. The more that I ate this good nutritious food and the less junk I ate, you know I stopped eating meat and dairy and sugar and all that stuff. That impacted my sleep and just my well being so I felt better and had more energy and when you have more energy everything is better.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more Raw Food Experts and information just like Brenda Cobb, please visit http://rawsummitarchives.com and http://liveawesome.com
Curcumin inhibits cancer cells growth?
Curcumin inhibits cancer cells growth?
by Julia Clerk
Curcumin, the active ingredient found from the herb Turmeric, is actually a spice and food coloring compound has long been used in Asian countries as medicines to treat many difficulties from heartburn to arthritis. It was listed as an Assyrian herbal in 600 BC, used by ancient Greeks. But the most interesting and important news is that some recent studies recommending that Curcumin has adequate potential as an anti-cancer agent. Scientists showed that Curcumin re-establishes key immune cells that fight off Cancer.
Curcumin has antioxidant properties thus can decrease swelling and inflammation. It's being explored as a cancer treatment as inflammation appears to play a role in cancer. Curcumin has the property to slow down the progress of cancerous cells and also prevent the growth of new tumor blood vessels. Studies revealed that it has an effective impact in treating or preventing colon, skin and breast cancers. It also suppresses angiogenesis and metastasis in a variety animal tumor models. Scientists have shown that Curcumin increases the production of proteins that cause immune cells to propagate and reduces the production of proteins which can destroy immune cells.
The evidences which are coming from the laboratory research are overwhelming. As per the results Curcumin is quite effective in reducing inflammation and pain. It appears to be quite an incredible nutrient. How does Curcumin work to prevent inflammation? It blocks the formation of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a compound which promotes inflammation within the body. As per the research, Phenethyl Isothiocyanate (PEITC) and Curcumin could be effective in treating established prostate cancers.
by Julia Clerk
Curcumin, the active ingredient found from the herb Turmeric, is actually a spice and food coloring compound has long been used in Asian countries as medicines to treat many difficulties from heartburn to arthritis. It was listed as an Assyrian herbal in 600 BC, used by ancient Greeks. But the most interesting and important news is that some recent studies recommending that Curcumin has adequate potential as an anti-cancer agent. Scientists showed that Curcumin re-establishes key immune cells that fight off Cancer.
Curcumin has antioxidant properties thus can decrease swelling and inflammation. It's being explored as a cancer treatment as inflammation appears to play a role in cancer. Curcumin has the property to slow down the progress of cancerous cells and also prevent the growth of new tumor blood vessels. Studies revealed that it has an effective impact in treating or preventing colon, skin and breast cancers. It also suppresses angiogenesis and metastasis in a variety animal tumor models. Scientists have shown that Curcumin increases the production of proteins that cause immune cells to propagate and reduces the production of proteins which can destroy immune cells.
The evidences which are coming from the laboratory research are overwhelming. As per the results Curcumin is quite effective in reducing inflammation and pain. It appears to be quite an incredible nutrient. How does Curcumin work to prevent inflammation? It blocks the formation of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a compound which promotes inflammation within the body. As per the research, Phenethyl Isothiocyanate (PEITC) and Curcumin could be effective in treating established prostate cancers.
วันศุกร์, มีนาคม 28, 2008
Cancer Patients Battle with Hair Loss
Cancer Patients Battle with Hair Loss
by Andrew Stratton
Aside from undergoing extreme case of health concerns, losing great amount of hair really affects a cancer patient's confidence level. One contributing factor for the hair loss is the chemotherapy session, a valuable anti-cancer treatment. But why do cancer patients lose their hair anyway during chemotherapy?
Hair loss during chemotherapy would almost definitely happen to any cancer patient, regardless of what gender they belong to. Men and women will become partially or wholly bald during chemotherapy depending on what type and intensity of chemotherapy drugs the patient has to consume under guidance of the doctor. These chemotherapy drugs are very potent substances designed to target the rapidly growing cancer cells within the body of the cancer patient. Unfortunately, these same life-saving drugs also affect your hair roots, thus causing hair strands to fall out.
Technically speaking, this is an alopecia category. However, the hair loss results of undergoing chemotherapy sessions cannot be compared greatly from the alopecia caused by testosterone build-up in the hair roots. Since chemotherapy sessions for each patient differs from that of other patients, it's important to understand that there may have one cancer patient consuming mild anti-cancer drugs which only thin out his hair volume while another cancer patient who is consuming pretty strong anti-cancer drugs will be severely distressed by the clumps of hair that will be falling out on a daily basis.
The prospect of losing all the hair on one's head can be said to be more distressing for female patients to accept than for men. The reason is that the ingrained belief that it is okay for men to go bald, sometimes even desirable, while women without hair tend to look ugly. Some women are gifted with a great bone structure so that even when they go bald they still look pretty good anyway, but unfortunately for most women, hair seems to be a necessary part of their self image, a good symbol of beauty. If you have always been told all your life how nice your hair looks and you lose that hair, imagine what kind of a blow to your self image that would be.
The good news is that hair loss from chemotherapy need not be a permanent thing. Chemotherapy will last for a certain period. While under the battle of cancer, patient's hair loss would soon stop and a start of hair reborn would initiate when your body has recuperated from its healing tendencies. There may be some difference between the new hair that starts to grow and your previous type of hair, but at least it is still hair. You will then have to wait for the doctor to determine whether the chemotherapy was successful and if you need to undergo more chemotherapy afterwards.
Currently, there were yet proven ways to stop hair loss from occurring during chemotherapy. If losing your hair bothers you a lot, you can always get a really nice wig that goes well with your face and body type. Or you can simply wrap your head in a pretty bandana and top that off with a nice sunhat. These are simple ways to assure that other people will not snicker at you for being bald. If you feel shy about being with other people because of your bald head, you may want to go out in the company of people who can provide you moral support then. In fact, all cancer patients require the support of kind people to be able to get through their situation, even when they are not under chemotherapy.
by Andrew Stratton
Aside from undergoing extreme case of health concerns, losing great amount of hair really affects a cancer patient's confidence level. One contributing factor for the hair loss is the chemotherapy session, a valuable anti-cancer treatment. But why do cancer patients lose their hair anyway during chemotherapy?
Hair loss during chemotherapy would almost definitely happen to any cancer patient, regardless of what gender they belong to. Men and women will become partially or wholly bald during chemotherapy depending on what type and intensity of chemotherapy drugs the patient has to consume under guidance of the doctor. These chemotherapy drugs are very potent substances designed to target the rapidly growing cancer cells within the body of the cancer patient. Unfortunately, these same life-saving drugs also affect your hair roots, thus causing hair strands to fall out.
Technically speaking, this is an alopecia category. However, the hair loss results of undergoing chemotherapy sessions cannot be compared greatly from the alopecia caused by testosterone build-up in the hair roots. Since chemotherapy sessions for each patient differs from that of other patients, it's important to understand that there may have one cancer patient consuming mild anti-cancer drugs which only thin out his hair volume while another cancer patient who is consuming pretty strong anti-cancer drugs will be severely distressed by the clumps of hair that will be falling out on a daily basis.
The prospect of losing all the hair on one's head can be said to be more distressing for female patients to accept than for men. The reason is that the ingrained belief that it is okay for men to go bald, sometimes even desirable, while women without hair tend to look ugly. Some women are gifted with a great bone structure so that even when they go bald they still look pretty good anyway, but unfortunately for most women, hair seems to be a necessary part of their self image, a good symbol of beauty. If you have always been told all your life how nice your hair looks and you lose that hair, imagine what kind of a blow to your self image that would be.
The good news is that hair loss from chemotherapy need not be a permanent thing. Chemotherapy will last for a certain period. While under the battle of cancer, patient's hair loss would soon stop and a start of hair reborn would initiate when your body has recuperated from its healing tendencies. There may be some difference between the new hair that starts to grow and your previous type of hair, but at least it is still hair. You will then have to wait for the doctor to determine whether the chemotherapy was successful and if you need to undergo more chemotherapy afterwards.
Currently, there were yet proven ways to stop hair loss from occurring during chemotherapy. If losing your hair bothers you a lot, you can always get a really nice wig that goes well with your face and body type. Or you can simply wrap your head in a pretty bandana and top that off with a nice sunhat. These are simple ways to assure that other people will not snicker at you for being bald. If you feel shy about being with other people because of your bald head, you may want to go out in the company of people who can provide you moral support then. In fact, all cancer patients require the support of kind people to be able to get through their situation, even when they are not under chemotherapy.
วันพฤหัสบดี, กุมภาพันธ์ 28, 2008
Lung Cancer Alternative Treatment : cancer provent cancer review
Lung Cancer Alternative Treatment
by Bobbie McKee
Well, all I can say is I hope you're not a smoker. This is one seriously nasty habit. Oh, you don't think so? Hey, it's time to have a reality check. The truth is that no one likes your smoking habit unless they too are a smoker. That's the rule of thumb and it's very reliable. What I don't understand is why folks still smoke even though they must understand how deadly it is. This makes no sense. People all over the world die from lung cancer every day. There's no two ways about it. The only question is; are you going to quit or simply deal with a cancer treatment down the road. Hey, I hear there is an alternative lung cancer treatment available these days. If you keep puffing on that cigarette, you just may need it.
Have you ever heard of an alternative lung cancer treatment? These new-age alternatives are becoming quite popular these days. I think this is due to the fact that many individuals are losing their faith in the almighty doctor. You can't help but wonder sometimes if they're actually right or simply full of it. My teenage daughter, who has a heart murmur, has always seen a physician each year regarding this minor condition. About five years back, we saw one doctor who told my wife and me that the heart murmur would affect her future. He basically said that she would die in her 50s. We thought this was bizarre to say the least. Recently we saw a different physician, and he informed us that the heart murmur was practically gone and it should pose no problem to her whatsoever. Now that is a completely different opinion. So can you actually believe what many doctors tell you? I seriously doubt it. This is probably why some individuals who are afflicted with lung cancer, search for an alternative lung cancer treatment. Who knows what the hospitals are doing now days!
If you have a personal computer and access to the World-Wide-Web, you can easily research any alternative lung cancer treatment. This is a wise decision even if you're not afflicted with cancer. It's always beneficial to know and understand what is currently going on in the world. Get the scoop on alternative lung cancer treatment options today.
by Bobbie McKee
Well, all I can say is I hope you're not a smoker. This is one seriously nasty habit. Oh, you don't think so? Hey, it's time to have a reality check. The truth is that no one likes your smoking habit unless they too are a smoker. That's the rule of thumb and it's very reliable. What I don't understand is why folks still smoke even though they must understand how deadly it is. This makes no sense. People all over the world die from lung cancer every day. There's no two ways about it. The only question is; are you going to quit or simply deal with a cancer treatment down the road. Hey, I hear there is an alternative lung cancer treatment available these days. If you keep puffing on that cigarette, you just may need it.
Have you ever heard of an alternative lung cancer treatment? These new-age alternatives are becoming quite popular these days. I think this is due to the fact that many individuals are losing their faith in the almighty doctor. You can't help but wonder sometimes if they're actually right or simply full of it. My teenage daughter, who has a heart murmur, has always seen a physician each year regarding this minor condition. About five years back, we saw one doctor who told my wife and me that the heart murmur would affect her future. He basically said that she would die in her 50s. We thought this was bizarre to say the least. Recently we saw a different physician, and he informed us that the heart murmur was practically gone and it should pose no problem to her whatsoever. Now that is a completely different opinion. So can you actually believe what many doctors tell you? I seriously doubt it. This is probably why some individuals who are afflicted with lung cancer, search for an alternative lung cancer treatment. Who knows what the hospitals are doing now days!
If you have a personal computer and access to the World-Wide-Web, you can easily research any alternative lung cancer treatment. This is a wise decision even if you're not afflicted with cancer. It's always beneficial to know and understand what is currently going on in the world. Get the scoop on alternative lung cancer treatment options today.
Find Articles On Lung Cancer : cancer Treatment review 2008
Find Articles On Lung Cancer
by Bobbie McKee
Both my grandfather and my father-in-law are suffering from lung cancer. Since two valuable members of our family have the disease we decided to find articles on lung cancer to help us understand the condition better. One of the best resources for finding information about health issues is Web MD. This site offers tons of articles on lung cancer.
Three of these articles on lung cancer were extremely helpful to our family in dealing with the respiratory disease. These three pieces of journalism involve typical questions and concerns that many people face when discovering that they have this frightening disease. Web MD has many more articles about cancer as well but the five I discuss here were outstanding.
The first of the articles on lung cancer that we came across on Web MD was about dealing with the side effects of chemo therapy. One of our biggest concerns for our family members is their reaction to the powerful treatment for cancer that has such difficult effects on the body.
My grandfather complains that the treatment is worse than the disease. The information we discovered through the essay was extremely helpful in helping us understand and deal with the harsh side effects of chemo therapy. This was one of the most important articles on lung cancer we found.
Another great piece involved 10 questions that every patient who has the condition should ask his doctor. When you read articles on lung cancer you realize that you overlook so many questions when you visit your physician. This piece really helped us organize a list of concerns and inquiries for the doctors.
After reading the two articles on lung cancer we decided to do a little more research into the topic to see if there were cutting-edge treatments for the respiratory disease that afflicts so many individuals. We found an article about radiofrequency ablation or RFA. This treatment for cancer uses heat to treat early tumors.
The combined therapy essay provided us great information for this cutting edge treatment for cancer. The RFA approach uses heat to destroy tumors but they do have to be in the early stages of the condition for it to work effectively. Radiofrequency ablation is also used in combination with chemo therapy, not as an independent treatment.
The three articles on lung cancer that we found on Web MD were very useful in helping us gain an understanding of what to do for severe side effects of chemo therapy. We found a list of questions to ask the doctors and we discovered new combined therapy that is used to treat the disease.
There is so much more to learn. Fortunately, Web MD has many more articles on lung cancer for us to study.
by Bobbie McKee
Both my grandfather and my father-in-law are suffering from lung cancer. Since two valuable members of our family have the disease we decided to find articles on lung cancer to help us understand the condition better. One of the best resources for finding information about health issues is Web MD. This site offers tons of articles on lung cancer.
Three of these articles on lung cancer were extremely helpful to our family in dealing with the respiratory disease. These three pieces of journalism involve typical questions and concerns that many people face when discovering that they have this frightening disease. Web MD has many more articles about cancer as well but the five I discuss here were outstanding.
The first of the articles on lung cancer that we came across on Web MD was about dealing with the side effects of chemo therapy. One of our biggest concerns for our family members is their reaction to the powerful treatment for cancer that has such difficult effects on the body.
My grandfather complains that the treatment is worse than the disease. The information we discovered through the essay was extremely helpful in helping us understand and deal with the harsh side effects of chemo therapy. This was one of the most important articles on lung cancer we found.
Another great piece involved 10 questions that every patient who has the condition should ask his doctor. When you read articles on lung cancer you realize that you overlook so many questions when you visit your physician. This piece really helped us organize a list of concerns and inquiries for the doctors.
After reading the two articles on lung cancer we decided to do a little more research into the topic to see if there were cutting-edge treatments for the respiratory disease that afflicts so many individuals. We found an article about radiofrequency ablation or RFA. This treatment for cancer uses heat to treat early tumors.
The combined therapy essay provided us great information for this cutting edge treatment for cancer. The RFA approach uses heat to destroy tumors but they do have to be in the early stages of the condition for it to work effectively. Radiofrequency ablation is also used in combination with chemo therapy, not as an independent treatment.
The three articles on lung cancer that we found on Web MD were very useful in helping us gain an understanding of what to do for severe side effects of chemo therapy. We found a list of questions to ask the doctors and we discovered new combined therapy that is used to treat the disease.
There is so much more to learn. Fortunately, Web MD has many more articles on lung cancer for us to study.
Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Treatment : cancer provent cancer review
Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Treatment
by Bobbie McKee
During the old days, practice of Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is what scares many men. Losing a part of your genitalia, for a man to lose ones faculty for sex is too much for a cure that's percentage driven.
The former practice, this Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is Orchiectomy or the surgical castration -a term that hardly requires definition. The science for this is that testosterone stimulates prostate cancer growth. Testosterone is the male androgen hormone essential for a boy's development to manhood. It is responsible for many things characteristically man: baritone voice, deepening of chests, bulging of muscles, and growth of body hair among several things. And an enzyme that is secreted in the prostate gland converts this testosterone into a metabolite Dihydrotestosterone (abbreviated as DHT) which is a cancer stimulating cell.
And because the testicles produce the majority of the testosterone, the Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment includes Orchiectomy or this surgical castration where the prostate cancer cells are deprived of testosterone thus, starving it to death. Of course, as I've mentioned it is percentage driven. Testosterone in majority is produces in the testicles, but other gonads do build testosterone, and one of them is the prostate itself.
Another method in castration is the Chemical Castration. It is done by making the pituitary gland over-stimulate the Leydig Cells, thus making the requirement for stimulation too high that it will have a reduced stimulated ability and wearing the cells out. Leydig Cells is primarily responsible for testosterone secretion. The effects of chemical castration include sexual dysfunction, among other things.
Today's practice for Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is decidedly different, thank God. That means we men can keep what makes us men in the first place. The practice of today is blocking the switching of testosterone into DHT. By using enzymes like 5-AR inhibitor Finasteride or the more potent Dutasteride (Proscar and Avodart, respectively), the testosterone is prevented from turning into DHT. This is a more laudable solution to battling prostate cancer by Androgen Deprivation Therapy than chopping some part of your genitalia off.
Every physician differs in medical practice but that doesn't mean you'd have to be the next castrated prostate cancer survivor. Try asking your doctor on the benefits of using anti androgen drugs or androgen receptor blockers for your Androgen Deprivation Therapy for prostate treatment. Believe me; you'd not want to have hot flushes and enlarging breast as a side effect to prostate cancer treatment.
by Bobbie McKee
During the old days, practice of Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is what scares many men. Losing a part of your genitalia, for a man to lose ones faculty for sex is too much for a cure that's percentage driven.
The former practice, this Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is Orchiectomy or the surgical castration -a term that hardly requires definition. The science for this is that testosterone stimulates prostate cancer growth. Testosterone is the male androgen hormone essential for a boy's development to manhood. It is responsible for many things characteristically man: baritone voice, deepening of chests, bulging of muscles, and growth of body hair among several things. And an enzyme that is secreted in the prostate gland converts this testosterone into a metabolite Dihydrotestosterone (abbreviated as DHT) which is a cancer stimulating cell.
And because the testicles produce the majority of the testosterone, the Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment includes Orchiectomy or this surgical castration where the prostate cancer cells are deprived of testosterone thus, starving it to death. Of course, as I've mentioned it is percentage driven. Testosterone in majority is produces in the testicles, but other gonads do build testosterone, and one of them is the prostate itself.
Another method in castration is the Chemical Castration. It is done by making the pituitary gland over-stimulate the Leydig Cells, thus making the requirement for stimulation too high that it will have a reduced stimulated ability and wearing the cells out. Leydig Cells is primarily responsible for testosterone secretion. The effects of chemical castration include sexual dysfunction, among other things.
Today's practice for Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment is decidedly different, thank God. That means we men can keep what makes us men in the first place. The practice of today is blocking the switching of testosterone into DHT. By using enzymes like 5-AR inhibitor Finasteride or the more potent Dutasteride (Proscar and Avodart, respectively), the testosterone is prevented from turning into DHT. This is a more laudable solution to battling prostate cancer by Androgen Deprivation Therapy than chopping some part of your genitalia off.
Every physician differs in medical practice but that doesn't mean you'd have to be the next castrated prostate cancer survivor. Try asking your doctor on the benefits of using anti androgen drugs or androgen receptor blockers for your Androgen Deprivation Therapy for prostate treatment. Believe me; you'd not want to have hot flushes and enlarging breast as a side effect to prostate cancer treatment.
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