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The Truth About Cancer<br />
surveying <strong>the</strong> area and <strong>the</strong>n if something goes array <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>y let loose<br />
and <strong>the</strong>y have all <strong>the</strong>se weapons of mass destruction to make things<br />
happen. So when your temperature goes up, when you get red, when<br />
you have diarrhea, when you have <strong>the</strong> sniffles, and <strong>the</strong> watery eyes,<br />
and all that, so all of that is not because of <strong>the</strong> critter. That’s because of<br />
<strong>the</strong>se chemicals that your immune system is able to release.<br />
And <strong>the</strong>se—you know, I was an emergency room doctor before and I<br />
can tell you that <strong>the</strong>se chemicals are so powerful that <strong>the</strong>y can kill you<br />
very quickly in a process that we call anaphylactic shock. So if you go<br />
into anaphylactic shock and, again, that’s a consequence of <strong>the</strong><br />
production of <strong>the</strong>se weapons of mass destruction of <strong>the</strong> immune system<br />
you die very quickly if you’re not in my emergency room. So we have to<br />
respect that <strong>the</strong> immune system has some really powerful weapons. and<br />
so in a condition less benign than anaphylactic shock where you’ve<br />
gotten fever and red and that type of thing <strong>the</strong>n it’s just spitting out some<br />
chemicals that make <strong>the</strong> environment not so hospitable, not so<br />
hospitable for <strong>the</strong> bacteria, but also not so hospitable for human cells<br />
ei<strong>the</strong>r, right. And so this is what creates that toxic situation that over a<br />
long period of time <strong>the</strong> human cell will try to protect itself from. One of<br />
<strong>the</strong> things that—<strong>the</strong> chemicals that is produced during this inflammatory<br />
process are called growth factors. So growth factors have an estrogenic<br />
effect and estrogens in general make cells go into hyperplasia that we<br />
talked <strong>about</strong> before so making one cell faster than normal changed to<br />
two, changed to four, changed to eight, again, exponential growth, right<br />
So those fat cells that are born of an inflammatory situation, right, those<br />
<strong>the</strong>n are linked <strong>the</strong> formation of <strong>cancer</strong>.<br />
Ty: Now you mentioned estrogens, is estrogen <strong>the</strong> hormone that<br />
females have and males have testosterone or do we both have<br />
both What is <strong>the</strong> difference between <strong>the</strong> hormones in females and<br />
males And <strong>the</strong>n I want to get to a question concerning <strong>the</strong> effect<br />
of estrogens on <strong>cancer</strong>s.<br />
Dr. Roby Mitchell: There’s no difference in <strong>the</strong> molecular aspects of<br />
<strong>the</strong> hormones that are in men and women. Women have testosterone,<br />
men have estrogen, both have progesterone and corticosteroids and all<br />
<strong>the</strong>se. What’s different is <strong>the</strong> amount, right. So women have a higher<br />
amount of estrogen, men have a higher amount of testosterone. Women<br />
have a higher amount of estrogen receptors. And men have a higher<br />
amount of testosterone receptors, right. And so that’s key, that marriage<br />
between <strong>the</strong> receptor <strong>the</strong> hormone such that a woman—I can give a<br />
woman testosterone injections. She will never get as big as a man<br />
because she doesn’t have <strong>the</strong> receptors that a man has. We can put<br />
estrogen into a man and you’re not going to turn him into a woman,<br />
right, because he doesn’t have <strong>the</strong> receptors for those estrogens, right,<br />
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