What is Causing Cancer and What is the Cure?
by Wes Penre, July 30, 2006
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lright, alright, I know! I am not a medical
doctor and have no medical training, so who am I to speak? Well,
if only doctors have the right to speak on medical matters, it
is going to be pretty one-sided, wouldn't it? Especially as most
doctors go with what they learn in medical school. This is not
an article where I want to talk doctors down; most of them do a
great job and without them many people would be very sick and/or
die.
What I want to discuss is the cause of
cancer! Wow, a complicated subject that science claims it
doesn't know too much about. What we read in the papers and hear
on the news is that there are a lot of different kinds of
cancer, which most certainly have different causes. Lung cancer
comes from smoking; liver cancer from alcoholism and drug
addiction; skin cancer from too much tanning etc. That's what
they say, but they are not sure WHY cancer develops.
First of all, let us use some logic here. By
categorizing cancer into different kinds, such as lung cancer in
one category, skin cancer in another and so on, we are
immediately complicating the matter. My point is that the only
thing that makes sense is that all kinds of cancer (or at least
most of them) have the same source!
How do I know that?
Kidney cancer |
Well, I don't, but it is the only thing that
adds up. Think about it. What DO we know so far about cancer? We
know that cancer is developing when cells mass produce
abnormally, and if they are allowed to reproduce unhindered over
time, we have cancer. Many doctors also tell us that we all have
cancer cells in our body, and it is just a question if they
will develop into cancer or not. In some people they do, and in
some people they don't.
Now, why is that? And why is cancer normally
a problem for middle age and older people more than for younger?
Here is the key: the immune system! The reason you don't
get cancer already as a child (normally), is because when you
are young you have an excellent immune system, and the immune
system kills the cancer cells as they develop. It is well known
that as you get older, your immune system is getting weaker, and
therefore cancer is more likely to happen later in life. When
the immune system is no longer strong enough to fight the
abnormal cancer cells as they develop in your body, you may
eventually get cancer. This does not happen over night of
course; it takes some time for cancer to develop, even if the
immune system is weakened.
So why does not everybody develop cancer when
they grow older? As I see it, there are a couple of different
reasons for this:
1. Some people are fortunate enough being born with a
greater immune system than the average person. You have probably heard of
people who have smoked their whole life and drunk tons of alcohol and still
live until they're 90. This, of course, is quite unusual, but it happens. We
shake our heads and wonder how some people, who are eating junk food and
candy every day and misbehave in general, rarely get sick. Having an immune
system better than the average is most probably inherited.
2. For people with an average immune system or a lesser
than average, I would figure it is pretty important to eat things that boost
the immune system and exercise adequately. This will help fighting the
development of cancer and illnesses in general, having to do with a
weakened immune system. If this is correct, it is important to continue
eating well and exercise even when you get older.
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So, what could then be the triggers that make
cancer develop, not particularly related to aging? As I see it,
these are a few reasons for this, as well:
1. Bad eating habits and no, or little, exercise. Use
of substances like narcotics, nicotine and alcohol in excessive doses during
a long period of time.2. Grief, stress and anxiety. Loss
of a dear one, for example, causes a lot of grief and agony, often during a
long time period. This is known to decrease the immune system and may
therefore help cancer develop. I have seen it happen on two occasions, with
two people close to me. Also, stress and anxiety over a long period of time
also decrease the immune system and may in the long run create cancer. In
the society of today, cancer is becoming a more and more common reason for
death, and I believe job stress, financial stress, anxiety about the future,
the hardship with keeping a family together when you have to work all the
time and come home totally exhausted are major causes for cancer and other
serious deceases.
3. A lesser than average immune system. I don't think
that necessarily being prone to cancer is something we inherit (I could be
wrong), but we may inherit a weak immune system.
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