Small changes to inoculate yourself against the Big C
Reduce Your Risk
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onsider this number: 10 million. That's how many cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year. Now consider this number: 15 million. That's how many cases of cancer the World Health Organization estimates will be diagnosed in the year 2020 -- a 50 percent increase -- if we don't get our act together.
Most cancers don't develop overnight or out of nowhere. Cancer is largely predictable, the end result of a decades-long process, but just a few simple changes in your daily life can significantly reduce your risk. Here are 31 great tips.
1. Serve sauerkraut at your next picnic. A Finnish study found that the fermentation process involved in making sauerkraut produces several other cancer-fighting compounds, including ITCs, indoles, and sulforaphane. To reduce the sodium content, rinse canned or jarred sauerkraut before eating.
2. Eat your fill of broccoli, but steam it rather than microwaving it. Broccoli is a cancer-preventing superfood, one you should eat frequently. But take note: A Spanish study found that microwaving broccoli destroys 97 percent of the vegetable's cancer-protective flavonoids. So steam it, eat it raw as a snack, or add it to soups and salads.
3. Toast some Brazil nuts and sprinkle over your salad. They're a rich form of selenium, a trace mineral that convinces cancer cells to commit suicide and helps cells repair their DNA. A Harvard study of more than 1,000 men with prostate cancer found those with the highest blood levels of selenium were 48 percent less likely to develop advanced disease over 13 years than men with the lowest levels. And a dramatic five-year study conducted at Cornell University and the University of Arizona showed that 200 micrograms of selenium daily -- the amount in two unshelled Brazil nuts -- resulted in 63 percent fewer prostate tumors, 58 percent fewer colorectal cancers, 46 percent fewer lung malignancies, and a 39 percent overall decrease in cancer deaths.
4. Pop a calcium supplement with vitamin D. A study out of Dartmouth Medical School suggests that the supplements reduce colon polyps (a risk factor for colon cancer) in people susceptible to the growths.
5. Add garlic to everything you eat. Garlic contains sulfur compounds that may stimulate the immune system's natural defenses against cancer, and may have the potential to reduce tumor growth. Studies suggest that garlic can reduce the incidence of stomach cancer by as much as a factor of 12!
he "essiac formula" casts an enormous shadow among branded names in the North American herbal community. Behind the product is the true life legend of "Cancer nurse" Rene Caisse ("essiac" is Nurse Rene's last name spelled backwards). During the life of her clinic (1934 to 1942), Caisse is reported to have cured many hundreds of cancer -- of varying types and stages of development -- and for free. (In fact, 55,000 Canadians signed her petition to the Ontario Legislature in favor of her treatment, in addition to 387 patients and an uncounted number of medical doctors). She did it primarily on the strength of just one product, which became known as "essiac."
But Caisse did not invent the essiac formula (the lower case "e" is intentional: Essiac® is a registered trademark owned by Dr. Pierre Gaulin (U.S.) and Terry Maloney (Canada)). The basis for the formula is rooted in native Ojibway (a tribe native to Ontario) medicine.
In any event, what followed after her death in 1978 is all too characteristic of pettiness and greed we see in the orthodox community -- bickering and in-fighting over trademarks, connection to the legend, and who does and who does not have the "real" essiac formula.
With dozens of essiac 'me-too' products now on the market -- some of them true to the original formulation, most of them not, we chose to use the same Canadian source for the essiac formula that we chose for the Hoxsey formula (see below). After a careful review of the underlying documentation, we believe it to be formulated as close to the original as one will find on the market - anywhere.
Essex Botanical is only priced lower. Our Assessment: Among phytopharmacologists, the active components within the essiac formula are quite well known, collectively fitting a category that we call "mildly cancerolytic." To call it a "cancer cure" is a real stretch, though there can be no doubt that it is of real benefit as a 'nutraceutical cocktail' for most cancer patients. You should use this formula for the same reason that you should listen to nutritionists who advise you to take regular fresh helpings of chemopreventatives in your diet -- cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli; tomatoes, for their lycopenes; pau d' arco tea, for its hydroquinones, etc.
Fighting cancer should be viewed as waging war. And you rarely win a war with only one weapon.
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Rene Caisse's Essiac: Cancer Cure?
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