Diets and Cancer
When researchers study the diet/cancer connection, they will almost always find that diets low in vegetables and high in refined carbohydrates increase cancer risk.
A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who have a diet high in meat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates (white rice, pasta, bread) had a significant increase risk of colon cancer. "Doc we can understand the sugar/carb part but what about the meat issue?" Meat should decrease cancer risk. The reason that red meat in some studies increases cancer risk in my opinion is because of the nitrites used in the preservation of the meat. People who eat an excessive amount of red meat generally do not have a lot of fiber in their diet. Thus, they are constipated. This gives the nitrites time to sit in the person's colon and over many years cause cancerous changes in their colons. The action plan should not be to cut out red meat but to buy organic meats. People should be doing this anyway. Also since fish and vegetables are cancer preventing, make sure the meat eater takes a lot of these foods.
Nutrition as a preventive cancer measure
You have to watch your diet! You are what you eat. If a person eats sweets, chips, and fried foods, besides growing a bigger belly, a tumor will most likely grow. Once diagnosed with cancer, a person's diet and lifestyle should immediately be changed so that the physiology that allowed the cancer to grow in the first place, will not contribute to the likelihood of tumor recurrence.
JUICE AS NUTRITION?
Many cancer patients have excessively high blood insulin levels, which makes them more prone to getting cancers. Insulin has a stimulatory effect on cancer that can be used to make the cancer cells more receptive to the chemotherapy, thus, one of the bases for Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). To decrease cancer possibilities, Insulin levels need to be lowered. Juicing, because of the massive amounts of carbohydrates, will cause Insulin levels to rise. The juicing does contain a lot of nutrients, but if the juice involves a lot of sweet fruit juices
Vegetable juicing has its place and can often help a person detoxify. BUT, in all the medical conferences we have attended; in all the cancer patients treated, and other natural medicine colleagues we have discussed this with, not one single person has seen metastatic cancer go into remission with juicing and herbal medicine alone.
The vast majority of alternative health providers who treat cancer patients put them on a strict vegetarian diet. From a science point of view, as it relates to Insulin, this is not the correct approach. It doesn't mean the person should eat bacon at every meal, but a lower glycemic index diet is more beneficial. For the person who has low Insulin levels when diagnosed with cancer or who is wanting a program for cancer prevention, it may be appropriate to be a vegetarian and drink vegetable juices. The best way to find out what your specific dietary needs are is through diet typing. This approach will help determine the appropriate diet based on various tests and questionnaires. To say one diet fits all patients and all cancers is untrue. For the cancer patient with low insulin levels, high blood pH (alkaline), and low urine pH (acidic), a juicing type diet would be appropriate. If the person with cancer had the exact opposite physiology, then a high protein, low carbohydrate diet would be needed.
NUTRITION FOR CIRCULATION
Natural medicine doctors are continually faced with patients with poor circulation due to some factor causing an excessive amount of blood clotting. The most common reason for this is a diet high in saturated fat and sugar. Thus when a patient starts on a high-protein (low-fat), low-carbohydrate diet (rich in vegetables), this will have a positive effect on the blood clotting parameters.
Another common cause of excessive blood clotting is infection. It is common when the bowels are tested in patients to find intestinal dysbiosis or the growth of many potentially harmful organisms such as parasites, fungi, or abnormal bacteria.
This is treated by giving the person soil-based organisms such as acidophilus and bifidus, as well as medications directed toward the organism(s) in question. The most common medications we use are antifungals.
An often overlooked cause of procoagulant activity is heavy metals. In one study, it was found that mercury caused a 56-fold increase in the rate of thrombin formation when platelets were subjected to it.
Heavy metal toxicity causing a coagulopathy would be one indication for chelation therapy. Chelation therapy involves the intravenous injection of an amino acid derivative, such as DMPS or EDTA.
Supplement wise...there are many different methods to decrease blood coagulopathies, including nutriceutical products, for example, cod liver oil, garlic, curcumin, horse chestnut, bromelain, pycnogenol, vitamin E, and many others.
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