Can Selenium Protect You from Cancer?

Can Selenium Protect You from Cancer?

Dr. Donald W. Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, shares impressive research findings on the cancer-fighting properties of selenium.



As scientists have now determined, cells of all organisms, whether bacterial, animal, or non-animal, need selenium for proper functioninghttp://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=34587.

Selenium deficiency http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=33532 has been linked to a wide variety of disorders and diseases, including:

•Hypothyroidism
•Cognitive decline
•Cancer (including lung, prostate, colorectal, skin)
•Heart failure
•Coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis) 
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), as set by the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board, is 55 mcg of selenium per day, based on two studies that show this amount of selenium supports the optimal generation of glutathione peroxidase. This is believed to be adequate for 98 percent of the population. 

However, this government recommendation did not take into account a previous finding that shows a dose four times higher (200 mcg) to have an anti-cancer effect, without being toxic. 

Some of the scientific explanations for selenium’s anti-cancer effect include: 

•Increased antioxidant protection and immune system
•Regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis (programmed cell death)
•Suppression of growth of blood vessels supplying nutrients to the cancer
•Inhibition of tumor cell invasion 
The first indications of selenium toxicity are "garlic breath" and dry skin. As the toxicity increases, your fingernails develop white patches, become brittle, and fall off. Hair and nail loss occurs once selenium intake reaches 4,990 mcg per day, according to one study.

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Millions of Americans are misdiagnosed with cancer when they

Millions of Americans are misdiagnosed with cancer when they

A bombshell report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute claims that the country's four-decade "War on Cancer" has largely been waged against "a vastly misunderstood 'enemy,' that in many cases represented no threat to human health whatsoever."

As reported by the Sleuth Journal, which has been covering the cancer issue, particularly "the dark side of breast cancer awareness month," what is needed to correct this injustice is a "complete reclassification of some types of 'breast cancer' http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/cc/breastcancer.php as benign lesions," such as "ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)." In addition, the Journal says it has repeatedly pointed out that breast screenings are not only themselves highly carcinogenic, but have also led to an "epidemic of 'overdiagnosis' and 'overtreatment' in U.S. women," amounting to about 1.3 million cases over the past three decades.

[Reporter's note: Natural News editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, really brought that latter point home when he took Angelina Jolie to task in 2013 over her allegedly preventive double mastectomy. http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=30971

In recent days, a panel commissioned by the National Cancer Institute published its report http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1722196 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) confirming that everyone should stop calling low-risk lesions like DCIS and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) "cancer."

Reclassifying low-risk lesions has

wide-reaching implications

The following are the far and wide-reaching implications to this recommendation, as reported by the Sleuth Journal:

- As noted, millions of women in the U.S. alone have been diagnosed with DCIS, while millions of men have been diagnosed with HGPIN. Subsequently, these people have been mistreated. "Are they now to be retroactively reclassified as 'victims' of iatrogenesis, with legal recourse to seek compensation?"
- All who decide to engage in a cancer screening henceforth should now reconsider, and then weigh, risks and benefits of so-called "preventive" treatment strategies, given that the likelihood of being diagnosed with a false positive over the course of 10 years is already more than 50 percent http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/cumulative-probability-false-positive-recall-or-biopsy-recommendation-after--0 for those undergoing annual breast cancer screenings.
- This will mean that the "breast cancer awareness" industry will have to change its message, "as it is theoretically culpable for the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of millions of U.S. women by propagating an entirely false concept of cancer."
Further, Medscape notes, as quoted by Sleuth Journal:

"The practice of oncology in the United States is in need of a host of reforms and initiatives to mitigate the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working group sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute.

"Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no longer be called 'cancer.'"

New documentary seeks to reveal truth

On the heels of this groundbreaking report comes additional research in the form of an exclusive online documentary called "The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest"https://go.thetruthaboutcancer.com/?a_aid=1587332 set to begin on October 13. According to its promotional video, the documentary consists of a nine-part series featuring a number of alternative and holistic medical experts who all have proven track records of treating cancer successfully, without poisonous chemotherapyhttp://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=91, medicines or harmful surgery.

"What if there is a better way? What if we do not have to suffer?" says the video's narrator as the documentary's agenda and objectives are introduced. "What if people are tragically dying without having access to what truly works? What if there are more effective treatments and prevention that will make cancer a disease of the past?"

The conference promises to be "an epic journey of a lifetime" in which information that is sure to "shock you" will be presented, the narrator says.

Lastly, the conference website adds that "When over 100 doctors, researchers, scientists and survivors from across the globe come together in unity and reveal for the first time their amazing new findings and the truth about cancer, it's not just news — it's a movement."

Sign up for free here https://go.thetruthaboutcancer.com/?a_aid=1587332.

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Healing Illness - A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol

Healing Illness - A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol

Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves, modern medicine fails miserably. In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins and a weakened immune system which result in a loss of proper cellular communication and oxidation and the cells mutating to cells that form a protective coating and replicate without dying - we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with. As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition. Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom. Read more...

Time to take on time

Time to take on time

To significantly reduce disease, we must slow the aging process, according to a team of experts who published their conclusion online in the British Medical Journal on July 8. In an article entitled, “New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century,” Professor S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his associates suggest that the current focus on preventing and curing individual diseases will become outmoded as people in developed countries live longer and develop the multiple chronic illnesses that come with aging.
“The change in strategy we are calling for requires a systematic attack on aging itself,” they write. “Evidence in models ranging from invertebrates to mammals suggests that all living things, including humans, possess biochemical mechanisms that influence how quickly we age and that they are adjustable.” Due to a greater life expectancy in developed countries, the increased incidence of diseases related to aging has resulted in a dramatic rise in health care costs. Dr Olshansky and colleagues note that if an extended life span is combined with health, it could result in a number of economic, social, and other benefits, which they call “the longevity dividend.” They propose increased funding for studies that will increase our knowledge concerning the relationship of aging to such diseases as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and most cancers, in addition to research into the processes that control aging itself. Continue Reading

VITAMIN C KILLS CANCER CELLS

VITAMIN C KILLS CANCER CELLS

Intravenous Vitamin C is Selectively Toxic to Cancer Cells

(OMNS) National Institutes of Health scientists have confirmed the concepts that vitamin C is selectively toxic to cancer cells and that tumor-toxic levels of vitamin C can be attained using intravenous administration. The article, published in the September 12, 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1) concluded, “These findings give plausibility to intravenous ascorbic acid in cancer treatment.”

Orthomolecular medical researchers, including Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, have long recognized the great importance of vitamin C in fighting cancer. (2) Scientists associated with the Bio-Communications Research Institute (BRCI) in Wichita, Kansas have published 20 scientific articles on the subject. (3) BCRI researchers first reported in 1995 that vitamin C in sufficient amounts is selectively toxic to tumor cells. The authors concluded that tumor-toxic levels of vitamin C could be achieved only by giving the vitamin intravenously. Subsequent research from BCRI, published in the British Journal of Cancer in 2001 (4), was the first to describe in detail the pharmacokinetics of high doses of intravenous vitamin C.

"It is gratifying to have our research on vitamin C and cancer confirmed by scientists at the prestigious National Institutes of Health," said Neil Riordan, Ph.D., BCRI’s Research Director. “The findings reinforce our goal and commitment to pursue cutting edge cancer research,” added Michael Gonzalez, Ph.D., D.Sc. of the University of Puerto Rico.

BCRI’s vitamin C research was headed by its founder Hugh D. Riordan, M.D. The research team includes Dr. Xiaolong Meng, Dr. Joseph Casciari, Dr. Nina Mikirova, Dr. Jie Zhong, Dr. James A. Jackson, Dr. Don Davis, Dr. Jorge Miranda, Dr. Michael Gonzalez, Dr. Neil Riordan, and Mr. Paul Taylor.

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information:http://www.orthomolecular.org/
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Top 10 most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods - never eat these again

Top 10 most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods - never eat these again

The statement "everything causes cancer" has become a popular hyperbole, and one that some people use as rhetorical fodder to excuse their own dietary and lifestyle failures, particularly as they pertain to cancer risk. But the truth of the matter is that many common food items have, indeed, been scientifically shown to increase cancer risk, and some of them substantially. Here are 10 of the most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods that you should never eat again:

1) Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). It goes without saying that GMOs have no legitimate place in any cancer-free diet, especially now that both GMOs and the chemicals used to grow them have been shown to cause rapid tumor growth. But GMOs are everywhere, including in most food derivatives made from conventional corn, soybeans, and canola. However, you can avoid them by sticking with certified organic, certified non-GMO verified, and locally-grown foods that are produced naturally without biotechnology ().

2) Processed meats. Most processed meat products, including lunch meats, bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, contain chemical preservatives that make them appear fresh and appealing, but that can also cause cancer. Both sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate have been linked to significantly increasing the risk of colon and other forms of cancer, so be sure to choose only uncured meat products made without nitrates, and preferably from grass-fed sources.

3) Microwave popcorn. They might be convenient, but those bags of microwave popcorn are lined with chemicals that are linked to causing not only infertility but also liver, testicular, and pancreatic cancers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in microwave popcorn bag linings as "likely" carcinogenic, and several independent studies have linked the chemical to causing tumors. Similarly, the diacetyl chemical used in the popcorn itself is linked to causing both lung damage and cancer.

4) Soda pop. Like processed meats, soda pop has been shown to cause cancer as well. Loaded with sugar, food chemicals, and colorings, soda pop acidifies the body and literally feeds cancer cells. Common soda pop chemicals like caramel color and its derivative 4-methylimidazole (4-MI) have also specifically been linked to causing cancer.

5) 'Diet' foods, beverages. Even worse than conventional sugar-sweetened soda pop, though, is "diet" soda pop and various other diet beverages and foods. A recent scientific review issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of more than 20 separate research studies found that aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners, causes a range of illnesses including birth defects and cancer. Sucralose (Splenda), saccharin and various other artificial sweeteners have also been linked to causing cancer. Read more

Avocado: A superfood with cancer-fighting potential

Avocado: A superfood with cancer-fighting potential

Avocados have gotten massive amounts of attention in the press in recent years. In the news, on social media sites and health food blogs, people all over the country have been talking about how good avocados are for the body. For one thing, they are loaded with monounsaturated fats (also known as MUFAs) which improve heart health by lowering the blood pressure and by improving cholesterol levels, two major risk factors for cardiac disease. They are a great source of fiber, which can improve the function and overall health of the digestive system. But what many people don't know about avocados is that one of their biggest health benefits is their ability to ward off cancer or to help treat it once it has developed. Read on to find out more about the many ways in which avocados help to reduce cancer risk.

Kills off cancer stem cells

The fats in avocado contain a compound known as avocatin B. This compound has been studied for its anti-cancer benefits and researchers later published a paper in the journal Cancer Research which reported that, during their study, it was found that avocatin B was able to kill off leukemia stem cells that are the main cause of AML, a form of leukemia  which traditionally has a very poor prognosis. It was also found that this compound did not harm the healthy tissues around the cancer cells themselves. Read more

IV vitamin C therapy: A cancer perspective

IV vitamin C therapy: A cancer perspective

Cancer patients need to understand the danger of vitamin C deficiencies - especially when looking to overcome a cancer diagnosis. In truth, most people suffering with any chronic degenerative disease are vitamin C deficient. Sadly, it's a fact that Western medicine refuses to recognize due to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.

Cancer patients find relief with IV vitamin C therapy. Over 40 years ago, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron, MD, a Scottish cancer surgeon, demonstrated the effectiveness of 10,000 mg of vitamin C, per day, to reverse cancer in thirteen patients - that were left to die by conventional medicine. On the next NaturalNews Talk Hour, Jonathan Landsman and Ronald Hunninghake, M.D. talk about the healing power of vitamin C. Do not miss this extraordinary program.

Truth exposed: Western medicine continues to ignore the truth about vitamin C and natural cancer therapies

Excited about the healing power of vitamin C, Linus Pauling went to the National Cancer Institute, where he was systematically ignored and ridiculed. To this day, if you visit any conventional cancer website (controlled by the pharmaceutical industry) - especially the American Cancer Society - you'll discover a complete lack of honesty about the effectiveness of vitamin C for cancer patients. This deliberate attempt to brainwash society - including unsuspecting medical professionals - creates the false paradigm that surgery, chemotherapy and radiation is the only 'reasonable' approach to treating cancer. (Nothing could be further from the truth!)

But, thanks to the growing popularity of functional medicine, integrative therapies and orthomolecular oncology - the word is getting out: vitamin C CAN help cancer patients in significant ways. If you're an open-minded healthcare professional, I suggest you investigate the magnificent work of biochemist Irwin Stone, The Healing Factor; Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron, M.D., Cancer and Vitamin C; plus many other great vitamin C experts like, Drs. William McCormick, Fredrick Klenner, Thomas E. Levy and Ronald Hunninghake. (And, yes, there are many more medical professionals)

Discover the truth about vitamin C. On the next NaturalNews Talk Hour - Jonathan Landsman and Ronald Hunninghake, M.D. talk about how cancer patients will benefit from high-dose, IV vitamin C therapy plus much more! Read more