the-truth-about-cancer

The Truth About Cancer
I’m not smart enough to tell you that there is. I don’t make no claim that I
have one. But I do know this. To overcome cancer, to stop it before it
begins or to reverse it once you’ve contracted it I’m pretty much
convinced the immune system’s going to have to be a major player.
Ty: [Dr. Keith], talk about white blood cells, the immune system,
and inflammation as it all relates to cancer.
Dr. Keith Scott Mumby: Okay. Well, one of the—a part of the question
Ty is what is the basic model for cancer You know, there’s the stem
cell model and the metabolic model and so on. But certainly at the core,
if not the cause, many people, and I’m one of them, see cancer as
basically a disease of the immune system. Especially in our modern
world I don’t think there’s any way you’re going to stop cells firing off
and going wrong and turning into rogue cells. There’s just too many
toxins. But a good immune system will pick them up very quickly and
eliminate them.
So in a very strong sense cancer is a disease of the immune system. So
you want to do everything in your power to help the immune system.
That means the right kind of nutrients that will help it. It also means
removing the stresses that would perhaps stop it working. And they’re
all inflammatory in nature. I mentioned food and inflammatory foods. But
there’s chemicals, you know, pesticides, pollutants, basically in all of
these things, loads of those too, and then don’t forget heavy metal
toxicity, you know, mercury and lead and these things not only have
their poisonous parts but they’re highly inflammatory too. So it’s very
important to unburden the immune system.
And I’ve got to say that, you know, emotions can be pretty inflammatory
too. The immune system gets burdened even if a person is upset, sad,
depressed, or whatever. And I would like a minute to talk about that with
cancer. I think it’s a very crucial element in cancer. But really anything—
that’s what I’m saying is anything that’s inflammatory is bad for cancer
and yet we can get a good handle on it. There are ways like you can
take your antioxidants, your phyto nutrients, your omega-3’s, brilliant
anti-inflammatory, but removing the triggers like the inflammatory foods
and heavy metals is a better strategy anyway. So that’s something we
should all do and it’s back to my saying, any good health measure is an
anti-cancer measure.
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