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Cancer and its secrets

Prof. B. M. Hegde,

hegdebm@gmail.com

“Cancer research is all fraud and so are cancer charities.” 

Linus Pauling. Two Nobel Prizes.

Cancer is not a disease. It is the body’s adaptation response to a hostile environment. When the environment becomes hostile the cells cannot survive. To avoid death those cells mutate. Those mutated cells become cancer in our definition which is more for monetary benefits to the industry than for the benefit of the poor patient. “I do not know what cancer is. Cancer cells work exactly like normal cells although they might look different under the microscope. No one can kill cancer cells without killing normal cells,” wrote Albert Szent Gyorgi, a Nobel Laureate biologist, in his landmark book Introduction to Sub-molecular Biology.

Western medicine is only interested in labelling diseases. They need a diagnosis for their statistical analysis. Many so called cancers which are diagnosed using biopsy and labelled thus are not cancers at all! Ductal carcinoma in situ in the breast is not a cancer at all and should not have that label of carcinoma attached to it. Left alone the lady will live a normal life. Treated with our three pronged strategy they will perish, at best, within the next five years, which is called cancer cure!Asymptomatic prostate cancers, many thyroid cancers in young girls, and many others do not qualify to be labelled as cancers in the true sense of the word. Diagnosis itself has become a disease now.

Professor Mary Tinnetti of Yale University has written in her thought provoking article, End of the Disease Era, thus: “The time has come to abandon disease as the focus of medical care. The changed spectrum of health, the complex interplay of biological and non-biological factors, the aging population, and the inter-individual variability in health priorities render medical care that is centered on the diagnosis and treatment of individual diseases at best out of date and at worst harmful. A primary focus on disease may inadvertently lead to under-treatment, overtreatment, or mistreatment.”(Tinneti ME, Fried T. Am J Med 2004; 116:179) This is very glaring in the cancer treatment where overtreatment rules the roost. My personal observational research over the last five decades has convinced me that the treatment of cancer in western medicine has not saved any lives! Of course, I have not kept any records to show to others but that is what I have learnt for my own wisdom. Neither am I a cancerologist. The latter might label me a quack!

In view of what I wrote above that cancer cells are mutated body cells which did mutate to survive in the hostile atmosphere in the first place, it is logical that we better change the environment for the cancer cells to survive. Extended to healthy human beings it means that one could avoid hostile atmosphere inside the body for cells to feel suffocated.

Oxygen:

Cells feel better in oxygen rich environment. Praanaayaama of the right variety which makes the body get better oxygenation is the ideal thing to follow on a daily basis for healthy people and on extended time periods once or twice daily for patients with cancer. There are charlatans teaching yoga for money, most of whom do not know what real praanaayaama is. It is better to learn from genuine people if you are ignorant. After practice for a long time, normal breathing also takes on the abdominal character and becomes your second nature (Belly-button breathing).

Food:

If the body is slightly alkaline as it usually is with a pH of 7.4 or so it is good for cell survival. Acid environment is fatal for the cells. Naturally vegetarian diet is the ideal to keep it that way. Less cooking adds to the advantage. Juicing has become fashionable in the west. Vegetable juices are very good food at all times. Fruits also are good. Millets seem to help a lot instead of the usual cereal diet. Sugar is poison; avoid it like a poisonous snake. Meat, especially cooked meat, produces an acid environment inside for the cells to get suffocated tolive forcing them to mutate for survival. Dairy is also not a good thing. Fresh salads of mixed vegetables could replace much of our usual cooked meal. Overeating and obesity feed the cancer cells well. Many cancer patients on conventional treatment die because of cancer cachexia as they develop anorexia. Good food is vital to avoid cachexia.

Mind:

Human body is just the human mind itself. In fact, human body is an illusion of the human mind. So it is not what you eat that kills you but, it is what eats you (your negative thoughts) that kill you. Please avoid hatred, anger, jealousy, greed and frustration like poison. Universal compassion, an inbuilt safety valve for man, is good food for cancer. Here we come closer to our ancient wisdom of “paropakaaraartham idam shareeram.” You are born here for the benefit of society. That gives meaning to life. Finding a meaning to life is said to be the best insurance against many ills according to Dr. Victor Frenkle in his book: In search of meaning.

Work and Sleep:

Work, they say, is worship. Work rejuvenates the body cells and also makes one forget the fear of disease which it the killer many a time. As long as one can, one has to work to keep oneself busy even with cancer. Never get to bed as it is very difficult to get out of it.

Sufficient sleep, for patients up to seven-eight hours, will be good for cells to recover. Natural sleep is better than drug induced one.

Spirituality:

In my concept spirituality is simply sharing and caring. However, it has been shown in cancer and many other disease managements that to have faith in something superhuman that runs the destiny of this world would be better for recovery and to avoid precocious death. Materialism has an end when the going gets tough. Frustration sets in followed by depression. The latter is a good tonic for cancer. To believe in something that runs this world would make one humble. Humility gives a boost to our immune system. Prayers, even intercessory prayer, have been shown to be good for quick recovery. Of course, there are the sceptics who pooh-pooh these ideas. Scepticology is a very good tool in the hands of the drug dealers who want to sell drugs for every disease although very sophisticated studies have shown that all reductionist drugs are being destroyed in the human body as they are not recognised as self. The good effects are due ONLY to the placebo effect. (Bingel et. al. The Placebo Effect Sc. Translational Med. 2011; 3: 70)

In conclusion, cancer is not a disease and does not deserve the fearful status that it has been given by the lay public. When fear goes cancer also tries to go away! Common sense measures listed above would go a long way to mitigate suffering. No one deserves to suffer from cancer. Make friends with cancer and life becomes better. Do not hate cancer; love it instead.