Discovering
the cause of cancer is the first and most important step
in its prevention. However, there appears to be more than
one cause. Cancer may be seen as multi-dimensional with
interconnecting causes on different levels. Most of the
scientific attention is centred on the biochemistry of cells.
The effects of nutrition, toxic substances and radiation
are all directly felt at this level.
On
other levels, but generally not accepted by the orthodoxy,
are suppressed and negative emotions and emotional traumas,
negative beliefs, and blocked or distorted bio-energy flows
as found in the acupuncture meridians. Cancer is generally
defined as an uncontrolled proliferation of cells, commonly
resulting in the growth of a malignant tumour. The basic
question is what makes cells divide uncontrollably?
Tumour
growth
Orthodox
research focuses on the nucleus of the cell, which regulates
cell divisions. From animal experiments it is known that
toxic chemicals and radiation can damage the genetic material,
which may then lead to cancerous growth. This orthodox model
sees the development of a tumour as a purely local event
in an otherwise healthy body.
The
solution, accordingly, must be to completely destroy the
tumour and every cancer cell, and all should be well. But
unfortunately, this does not work, or only with tumours
that are not malignant or of low malignancy. Usually malignant
tumours just regrow in other places, and sometimes victims
even die despite a destroyed tumour. Recognising that the
common cancers cannot be medically cured, statistics are
commonly expressed as five-year survival rates. All this
shows that the medical model of cancer is either incomplete
or wrong.
Not
a localised event
Natural
medicine does not dispute that toxic chemicals and radiation
can cause cancer, but goes on to state that they are only
part of the story. Importantly, cancer is seen as a disease
of the total organism, not just a localised event. If we
have good liver and kidney functions, then harmful chemicals
will be effectively detoxified and expelled, and if we have
a high intake of protective antioxidant nutrients, such
as vitamins A, C, E, beta-carotene and selenium, then so-called
free radicals formed through radiation exposure, will be
made harmless.
However,
if harmful chemicals should break the biochemical defences,
resulting in weak or abnormal cells, then these will immediately
be destroyed by an efficient immune system. With this, we
know already several preconditions for the development of
cancer: weak liver and kidney functions, a low intake of
protective antioxidant nutrients, a weak immune system,
and exposure to toxic chemicals or radiation.
There
is a basic difference between conventional and natural medicine
as to which chemicals are regarded as contributing to cancer.
The orthodoxy is only concerned about chemicals that have
mutagenic properties, affecting the genetic material. Natural
medicine, on the other hand, regards all toxic chemicals
as contributing to cancer. For one thing, such chemicals
tend to poison or weaken enzyme systems, liver and immune
functions. Not only agricultural chemicals and food additives
contribute to this toxic assault, but also most medical
drugs and chlorinated water. Chlorine reacts with organic
impurities in water or with food or body tissue to form
organo-chlorines, similar to DDT and other banned substances.
Blocked
energy production
Natural
medicine also has a completely different understanding of
the process by which chemicals cause cancer in real life.
Most of this pioneering alternative research was done by
P.G. Seeger in Germany. He published 290 scientific works
and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize (in 1979 and
1980). As early as1938 he was able to show that, on the
cellular level cancer starts in the cytoplasm, not in the
nucleus. The cytoplasm is the jelly-like outer part of the
cell, which contains a series of ‘power stations', the mitochondria,
in which most of the energy is produced. This is done in
a series of enzymatic steps called the 'respiratory chain'.
Seeger showed that in cancer cells this respiratory chain
was blocked by the destruction of important enzymes, especially
one called cytochrome oxidase.
The
respiratory chain produces energy by combining carbon and
hydrogen from short nutrient fragments with oxygen transported
by haemoglobin from the lungs. Without this cellular oxidation,
the cell can produce energy only without air that is anaerobically,
by converting glucose into lactic acid. This is how the
cancer cell produces most of its energy, and that makes
it very acid. By taking exact measurements inside cells,
Seeger and others found that cancer cells utilise only between
5 and 50% of the oxygen of normal cells.
Furthermore,
the virulence of cancer cells is directly proportional to
their loss of oxygen utilisation, and with this to the degree
of blockage of the respiratory chain. In 1957 Seeger successfully
transformed normal cells into cancer cells within a few
days by introducing chemicals that blocked the respiratory
chain. Further experiments showed that cancer cells of low
virulence could easily be overcome by the immune system
but those with high virulence prevailed and continued to
spread.
Following
this, Seeger made his most important discovery: thousands
of experiments revealed that certain nutrients, mainly from
the vegetable kingdom, could restore cellular respiration
in cancer cells and, with this, transform them back into
normal cells. While these results were published in prestigious
scientific journals, they were completely ignored by the
Cancer Establishment. It is not difficult to imagine why.
Findings
confirmed
Seeger's
finding that cancer originates in the cytoplasm and not
in the nucleus was confirmed by other researchers. Between
1975 and 1977 they repeated an experiment 93 times in which
they replaced the nucleus of a fertilised mouse egg with
the nucleus of a cancer cell. In each case the egg developed
into a healthy, cancer-free mouse and even the offspring
remained cancer-free. Similar results were achieved with
frog eggs.
Johanna
Budwig, a German fat researcher, confirmed the work of Seeger
on a practical level. She developed a simple paper chromatography
test that shows the blocked respiratory chain of cancer
patients as a slow yellow-green spot. By using liberal amounts
of high-quality linseed oil and the sulphur-amino acids
cysteine and methionine, the yellow-green spot disappeared,
the respiratory chain was reactivated and cancer patients
recovered. All this scientific research and its practical
results continue to be ignored by the Cancer Establishment
despite the evidence to the contrary, they still maintain
that cancer originates in the nucleus, that it cannot be
reversed but only treated by killing all cancer cells, that
curing cancer with nutrition is impossible, and those who
do it anyway are frauds and quacks, and must be prevented
from practising.
The
cancer microbe
While
a causal correlation between cancer and viruses has been
shown only in a few rare or animal tumours, several independent
researchers have reported the proliferation of certain microbes
in all cancer patients. The first was the German professor
of microbiology G. Enderlein who described in 1925 the different
stages of a microbe that is normally present as tiny colloidal
protein units. In various degenerative diseases, especially
cancer, these protein units grow into coccus and higher
bacterial forms and finally into fungi.
Independently,
mostly without knowing of each other's work, several other
researchers - Roy Ray Rife, Wilhelm Reich, Virginia Livingston-Wheeler,
A. Cantwell and Gaston Naessens - have described the same
phenomenon. Orthodoxy, however, has a dogma that says microbes
always have the same form and cannot change from viruses
into bacteria and fungi. This is because orthodox microbiologists
commonly observe dead stained microbes in dead tissue, or
live ones for short periods, instead of live microbes in
live tissue at very high magnification over long periods.
Anyway,
this microbe, generally called the cancer microbe, appears
to do much of the damage attributed to malignant tumours.
The cancer microbe badly damages the immune system, and
makes it incapable of fighting the cancer cells. Toxins
released by this microbe cause the characteristic sickening
odour as in terminal cancer, and they cause wasting in experimental
animals, just like in advanced cancer. If injected into
animals, the cancer microbe and its toxins cause cancer.
Several
of these researchers found ways to destroy or control the
cancer microbe, which often led to a cure or remission of
the disease. The cancer microbe generally begins to proliferate
with a decline in health and vitality. By weakening the
immune system and the metabolism it prepares the way for
the development of cancer. Toxins released by the cancer
microbe may also interfere directly with the respiratory
chain. With this, cancer may arise from external influences,
such as toxic chemicals or radiation, or it may result from
internal poisoning of the cellular energy production due
to the cancer microbe proliferating in an unhealthy organism.
Two
factors that greatly contribute to the rise of the cancer
microbe are dead teeth and overgrowth of the intestines
with harmful microbes. Dead teeth and the surrounding jawbone
can become concentrated breeding grounds of harmful microbes,
releasing a steady stream of toxins into the circulation.
Overgrowth of the gastro-intestinal tract with harmful microbes
has the same effect on an even larger scale, and is a main
cause of autoimmune diseases and Candida-related problems.
OTHER
FACTORS
Many
other factors contribute to the development of cancer by
weakening the liver, the immune system or individual cells
and their enzyme systems. Without going into details I just
want to mention some of these.
- Chronic
inflammations prepare the local conditions for the growth
of a tumour by destroying or weakening tissue structures.
Tumours themselves are inflammatory processes. Hidden
food allergies are a common cause of localised chronic
inflammations. The most common food allergies are to wheat
and cows milk protein.
- Overeating,
cooked meat and heated fats diminish our supply of digestive
enzymes, especially with advancing age. In addition, highly
heated meat and fats produce carcinogenic chemicals. In
animal studies resistance to spontaneous and transplanted
tumours increased tenfold on low-protein diets.
- A
high intake of salt combined with a low intake of potassium
weakens the electric membrane potential of cells, and
can make cell walls permeable to harmful chemicals and
toxins.
- Not
only chlorine is dangerous in our drinking water, but
also fluoride. It is a strong enzyme poison, and damages
energy-producing enzymes as well as those involved in
immune activity and cancer protection.
- Mercury
is a strong nerve poison and also inhibits the immune
system. Most of our mercury exposure comes from dental
amalgam. Roy Kupsinel demonstrated greatly improved immune
functions after removal of all amalgam fillings. A child
with leukaemia recovered when her amalgam was removed
but the leukaemia returned when the amalgam fillings were
restored some months later, and again it disappeared when
all amalgam was removed for good. Also a case of Hodgkins
disease went into remission when amalgam was removed.
- Nickel
in dental material, such as braces, has been shown to
suppress immune functions. In one reported case lymphocyte
viability dropped to 50% after placement of braces. Two
different metals in the mouth are even much worse than
just amalgam or just stainless steel.
- Increasingly
we read reports about the potential dangers of electromagnetic
pollution, not only from transformer stations and high-voltage
power lines, but also from household electric appliances,
hand-held power tools and electric blankets and waterbeds.
We seem to be most susceptible to these influences when
we are asleep. Electromagnetic fields act just like light
to stimulate the pineal gland, which requires a regular
light-dark cycle to regulate our body rhythm. Only during
the dark phase does it release growth hormone and melatonin,
which, among other functions, is needed for a strong immune
system. Vitamin B 12, which is helpful with advanced cancer,
helps to resynchronise body rhythms, and so improves the
rhythmic release of melatonin and growth hormone.
- Many
therapists also believe that earth radiations from underground
streams significantly contribute to cancer development.
While this possibility is discounted by conventional science,
without investigation, many dowsers point to numerous
houses in which the bed of a cancer victim was supposedly
exposed to such radiations. To avoid harmful consequences
it may be sufficient to move the bed just a few metres.
- Sun
exposure has been blamed for a large increase in the rate
of skin cancers but UV radiation is presently so harmful
only because of a high intake of polyunsaturated oils
combined with a low intake of protective antioxidants.
Fluorescent light may be an even greater danger. A scientific
study showed a doubling of the melanoma risk in office
work under fluorescent lighting. We are also now being
told that the risk of developing cancer from X-rays is
about four times higher than previously estimated.
- A
high intake of commercial polyunsaturated oils is linked
to an increase in the rate and spread of cancer. Omega-6
fatty acids in seed oils are pro-inflammatory, while the
omega-3 fatty acids in fish oils and linseed oil are anti-inflammatory
and therefore cancer-protective.
- Not
only smokers face a greatly increased risk of cancer,
but also passive smokers. In one large study non-smokers
in a household with smokers had a 6.8 fold risk of leukaemia,
and 3.3 times the risk of breast cancer as compared to
controls from smoke-free houses.
- High
body stores of iron increase the cancer incidence. At
risk are men and post-menopausal women who ingest much
iron from cast-iron or stainless steel cooking pots or
from iron added to breakfast cereals, bread or food supplements.
Also, drinking water can be too high in iron.
- In
the US Dr Hans Kugler did some interesting experiments
with mice. One group received a good diet and the other
a junk food diet as commonly used in our society. The
life span of the junk food mice was 50% shorter, mainly
due to increased cancer rates. In another experiment he
added "safe" quantities of nitrates, nitrites,
saccharin and a commercial growth promoter to tap water
for one group while the other group received spring water
instead. The lifespan of the group with the "safe"
chemicals in tap water was 20% shorter mainly due to an
increased cancer rate.
EMOTIONS
AND ENERGIES
Grief
and mental depression also depress the immune systems. Dormant
tumours often start growing again after the loss of a close
relative or other traumatic events. In a study on the influence
of attitude on cancer survival a group of women were followed
up for ten years after their diagnosis of breast cancer.
Those who had reacted to the diagnosis with a fighting spirit
had a 70% survival rate, denial gave 50%, stoic acceptance
25% and helplessness and hopelessness 20% survival. It has
been noted that cancer patients often harbour resentments
and repress their true feelings; they try to please others
and seek praise and recognition. They also tend to be dominated
by their spouses.
In
the 1950's Wilhelm Reich published results of successful
cancer treatment with his bio-energy accumulator. The psychiatric
assessment of his patients led him to conclude that cancer
is usually associated with repressed sexual feelings and
energies, which caused strong muscle tension or 'armouring'
in the pelvis and other areas. This widespread armouring
restricts the free flow of feeling and acupuncture energies,
and favours the development of cancer.
In
a similar way, I assume that tumours are associated with
energy fields formed from unreleased negative emotions.
As an example, a woman with fear of developing breast cancer
or with guilt for not breastfeeding projects this fear or
guilt onto her breasts. This causes muscle tension with
reduced blood supply, oxygen and nutrient deficiency and
accumulation of waste matter.
Resentment,
suppressed sexual energy and unreleased or excessive grief
may bring a similar result in an appropriate target area.
The late Geoffrey Hodson, well-known theosophist and clairvoyant,
described cancer as a dark, dense, astral entity surrounding
the tumour and often of karmic origin or caused by fear.
The
New Medicine of Dr Hamer
With
a cure rate over 90% Dr Hamer had an exceptionally high
success rate with his cancer therapy.
Dr
Hamer started his cancer research when he developed testicular
cancer after his son was shot dead. He wondered if his son’s
death was the cause of his cancer. Subsequently he investigated
and documented over 15,000 cases of cancer and always found
the following characteristics to be present, which he termed
the Iron Rules of Cancer:
1.
Every cancer starts with a serious, acute-dramatic and isolating
conflict-shock-experience.
2.
The theme of the psychic conflict determines the location
of the impact in the brain and body.
3.
The course of the psychic conflict correlates with the course
of the cancer.
At
the start of a conflict-shock we experience continuous stress
resulting in a tendency to develop cold hands and feet,
lack of appetite, weight loss, sleeplessness, and dwelling
all the time on the conflict content. If the conflict does
not become resolved soon, the long-lasting stress will lead
to specific symptoms and the development of cancer or another
disease.
When
we are able to resolve the emotional conflict, we are no
longer occupied with the conflict content, the appetite
returns, hands are warm again, and also normal sleep returns,
but there may also be weakness, fatigue and a need to rest.
This is the beginning of the healing phase, which can be
long and difficult.
PREVENTING
CANCER
This
insight into the various causes and contributing factors
in the development of cancer provides us with reliable guidelines
to avoid becoming cancer victims ourselves. I see the relationship
between these diverse factors and the actual development
of cancer as follows.
The
main factor is the depletion of life-force in a specific
part of the body. In experimental animals this may be due
to massive radiation, chemical assault or the transplantation
of tumour tissue. The same may happen in humans but usually
it is due to a combination of biochemical factors and emotional
trauma. The healthier we are emotionally and on the biochemical
level, the less we will be affected by any emotional trauma
that might trigger cancer in someone less well prepared.
To
cancer-proof ourselves we need to start with a basic health
improvement program:
- Intestinal
Sanitation: Remove old accumulated wastes, establish proper
bowel movements, eliminate harmful microbes, and re-establish
a healthy intestinal flora.
- Cleansing:
Remove metabolic wastes and accumulated toxins through
repeated cleansing periods.
- Allergy
Testing: After a cleanse re-introduce foods gradually
to discover any food allergies and chemical sensitivities.
- Acid-Alkaline
Balance: Check the acidity of your urine and saliva, and
correct any abnormal condition.
- Microbes
and Parasites: Remove harmful invaders with the help of
simple remedies and devices.
- Pollution
Control: Minimize exposure to electromagnetic and chemical
pollution, and sanitise your teeth
- Healthy
Living: Improve your health with exercise, sunshine and
‘living’ water.
- Good
Diet: Adopt a high-quality diet suited for the specific
requirements of your body.
- Mind
and Emotions: Use mind tools to eliminate negative beliefs
and emotions and acquire positive ones instead.
We
have seen that the biochemical key to cancer prevention
is a healthy respiratory chain in our cells. We must be
vigilant to avoid non-biological chemicals as much as possible.
Therefore, we try to obtain and use mainly organically grown
food, we minimise processed food with non-biological additives,
we prefer natural medicine to pharmaceutical drugs, and
use either bore water, rain water or filtered water free
of chlorine, fluoride and pesticides.
In
addition to daily yoga-type stretching and breathing exercises,
more vigorous exercises, such as jogging, walking, lively
dancing or rebounding will be beneficial. Always breathe
more strongly then the activity requires. Conventional ‘aerobic'
exercises aimed at achieving artificial goals, often become
anaerobic or oxygen-deficient at the cellular level and
might be cancer-promoting. Therefore, for best results,
do not become breathless during exercises. Cancer is also
inhibited by moderate sun bathing, and minimising the use
of glasses or sunglasses when outdoors. It has been estimated
that regular moderate sunbathing (without getting sunburned)
would prevent about 30,000 cancer death each year in the
US alone.
In
regard to diet we maximise the intake of raw and organic
proteins, fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, especially
purple food (beetroot, purple berries), and minimise highly
heated food, grain products and sweet food. If not in good
health, then use digestive enzymes with cooked meals, high
quality food concentrates, such as spirulina or chlorella,
wheat grass or barley grass powder, bee pollen, fish oils,
ground linseed, lecithin with meals, apricot kernels; mineral
supplements, especially selenium, zinc and magnesium, possibly
vitamins, especially A and D (best as cod liver oil); antioxidants
such as vitamins C, E, bioflavonoids, carotenes, alpha lipoic
acid, grape seed extract, green tea, turmeric. Protein-digesting
enzymes have a tumour inhibiting effect and in high concentrations
are even tumour-destroying.
Improve
your emotional life by releasing negative and suppressed
emotions, do mental re-programming with positive attitudes,
regular relaxation and meditation exercises, work at improving
your social relationships, and adopting a spiritual outlook
in life. If you do suffer an unexpected emotional shock,
such as losing a loved one, a job, a big investment, self-esteem,
relationship break-up, then quickly take steps to rectify
the situation, eg grieve as deeply as you can but then get
on with life.
We
do not need to become perfect in any of these measures but
just make an effort in the right direction. The more we
learn to enjoy what we need to do, and the more we act from
a position of love rather than fear, the more we will be
protected from cancer.
