By Elliot Yudenfriend and Pamela Yudenfriend
If you are ill, does it necessarily matter what your exact diagnosis is?
I will answer that question from a HOLISTIC point of view, one that favors treating disease effectively, yet as gently as possible, but one that does not rule out or reject mainstream treatment if it is deemed necessary. That holistic viewpoint has allowed me to live in very good health, with excellent quality of life, for 21 years since I was diagnosed with cancer.
The holistic treatment for most any disease, including cancer, is the same: Immune system-supportive diet, proper sleep, exercise and supplements, and an examination of one's life to see what may out of balance, where the stress may be, and generally, why one is "cancering." The idea of "cancering" is that a person with a healthy spirit, mind and body generally will not develop cancer, so that when one finds one is "cancering," he/she takes time out from all else, examines all aspects of his/her life and self, and sets about making whatever changes appear to be necessary so as to stop the cancering process.
That may seem outlandish, but in fact I have found that it makes good sense, and that it has worked for great numbers of people. There is a book one can purchase called "The Cancer Conqueror," by MD Anderson, which is the true story of a man diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in the 1970′s, who was given less than a month to live by his doctors. The man did very much what I have described, and will describe further below, and is, to the best of my knowledge, alive and well and still telling others how he recovered from what was considered to be a death sentence. This particular man did mainstream treatment as well as holistic treatment.
When cancer is far advanced, in addition to a comprehensive holistic healing program, treating the cancer aggressively with chemo or radiation to take the wind out of its sails may become necessary, even though it may cause some very undesirable side-effects. But in such a case, I view doing the holistic treatment concurrently with and subsequently to the harsh mainstream treatment to be every bit as necessary as the mainstream treatment.
In the beginning, the cancer is often not "out of control." It is new and unaltered and is as vulnerable as it will ever be to treatment of any kind, mainstream or alternative. However it is likely that among the abnormal cells that compose the tumor, are also cells that may well be resistant to whatever treatments the doctors use. Those resistant cells will generally grow and multiply subsequent to the first round of treatment, and will very likely cause, sooner or later, what doctors call a "relapse." I should say, rather, that those cells, along with not paying attention to following a holistic plan to eliminate the cause or causes of the cancer, will result in a relapse.
From that point, what may well occur, is what one woman who pursued mainstream medicine only said, not long before she died, "Each time they hit the cancer, it hit back 10 times as hard." That phenomenon is due to several things, including the fact that cancer naturally develops resistance to chemo and radiation, and to the fact that with each successive treatment, the immune system is further weakened. Cancer is not an intelligent thing that knows how to "hit back." That is a statement I believe comes from not understanding the natural consequence of using only mainstream treatment and continuing to live one's life in the same way after the diagnosis of cancer as one did before, rather than make healthful changes.
Cancer is the result of a failure of the immune system to kill early stage cancer cells, and the immune system does not, simply for no reason, become weak enough to allow cancer to grow. There are reasons behind the development of cancer, and there are effective steps one can take to support and to rebuild the immune system so as to aid it in destroying the cancer and then keeping it in remission.
I will answer that question from a HOLISTIC point of view, one that favors treating disease effectively, yet as gently as possible, but one that does not rule out or reject mainstream treatment if it is deemed necessary. That holistic viewpoint has allowed me to live in very good health, with excellent quality of life, for 21 years since I was diagnosed with cancer.
The holistic treatment for most any disease, including cancer, is the same: Immune system-supportive diet, proper sleep, exercise and supplements, and an examination of one's life to see what may out of balance, where the stress may be, and generally, why one is "cancering." The idea of "cancering" is that a person with a healthy spirit, mind and body generally will not develop cancer, so that when one finds one is "cancering," he/she takes time out from all else, examines all aspects of his/her life and self, and sets about making whatever changes appear to be necessary so as to stop the cancering process.
That may seem outlandish, but in fact I have found that it makes good sense, and that it has worked for great numbers of people. There is a book one can purchase called "The Cancer Conqueror," by MD Anderson, which is the true story of a man diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in the 1970′s, who was given less than a month to live by his doctors. The man did very much what I have described, and will describe further below, and is, to the best of my knowledge, alive and well and still telling others how he recovered from what was considered to be a death sentence. This particular man did mainstream treatment as well as holistic treatment.
When cancer is far advanced, in addition to a comprehensive holistic healing program, treating the cancer aggressively with chemo or radiation to take the wind out of its sails may become necessary, even though it may cause some very undesirable side-effects. But in such a case, I view doing the holistic treatment concurrently with and subsequently to the harsh mainstream treatment to be every bit as necessary as the mainstream treatment.
In the beginning, the cancer is often not "out of control." It is new and unaltered and is as vulnerable as it will ever be to treatment of any kind, mainstream or alternative. However it is likely that among the abnormal cells that compose the tumor, are also cells that may well be resistant to whatever treatments the doctors use. Those resistant cells will generally grow and multiply subsequent to the first round of treatment, and will very likely cause, sooner or later, what doctors call a "relapse." I should say, rather, that those cells, along with not paying attention to following a holistic plan to eliminate the cause or causes of the cancer, will result in a relapse.
From that point, what may well occur, is what one woman who pursued mainstream medicine only said, not long before she died, "Each time they hit the cancer, it hit back 10 times as hard." That phenomenon is due to several things, including the fact that cancer naturally develops resistance to chemo and radiation, and to the fact that with each successive treatment, the immune system is further weakened. Cancer is not an intelligent thing that knows how to "hit back." That is a statement I believe comes from not understanding the natural consequence of using only mainstream treatment and continuing to live one's life in the same way after the diagnosis of cancer as one did before, rather than make healthful changes.
Cancer is the result of a failure of the immune system to kill early stage cancer cells, and the immune system does not, simply for no reason, become weak enough to allow cancer to grow. There are reasons behind the development of cancer, and there are effective steps one can take to support and to rebuild the immune system so as to aid it in destroying the cancer and then keeping it in remission.
Elliot and Pam Yudenfriend have a passion to teach people how to live a lifestyle that helps to prevent degenerative disease, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and others. Elliot was diagnosed with cancer over 20 years ago, and has lived well and much longer than any of the doctors' predictions because he took responsibility for his health and learned how to live a lifestyle that promotes health and disease prevention. Get much more valuable information: http://www.healthandhealingwithnutrition.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elliot_Yudenfriend |  |
No comments:
Post a Comment