by Tony Isaacs
(Health Secrets) In recent years, statistical cancer death rates have been showing decreases for some cancers in some parts of the world, which has led some people to optimistically report that cancer is getting easier to beat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It’s getting harder to beat cancer because of three primary culprits:
1) Our world is becoming increasingly toxic
2) We are beset by existing and increasing radiation,
3) Our food is becoming increasingly less nutritious.
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As noted in Hiding the Truth about Losing the War on Cancer, statistics can be manipulated and often have been by those with vested interests in maintaining the illusion that we are turning the corner on the war on cancer.
Statistics telling the real story are those which clearly show we are getting less able to beat cancer, and that the incidence of cancer continues to grow alarmingly, as does expected worldwide cancer deaths. Almost one in every three people are now expected to encounter cancer in their lifetimes.
According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Cancer Report, considered to be the most comprehensive global examination of the disease to date, cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020.
Many people, including this author, believe that a great deal of the credit for being able to beat cancer is a result of more people looking outside the failed mainstream therapies box and relying on natural and alternative means to address their cancers. As the aforementioned WHO report also noted, there was “clear evidence that healthy lifestyles and public health action by governments and health practitioners could stem this trend, and prevent as many as one third of cancers worldwide.”
The good news is that, thanks to websites like this one, and the writers and natural health advocates who are spreading the good word, an increasing number of people are learning about and turning to, natural and alternative therapies to beat cancer. The bad news is that alternative, non-mainstream, non-toxic and non-invasive therapies continue to be repressed and misrepresented in mainstream studies. The further bad news is that even those who do learn the truth about alternatives are often finding it is still difficult to beat cancer.
Though this article is primarily about cancer, the same is true for heart disease and other major chronic illness, and for pretty much the same reasons: we continue to become exposed to more and more toxins and pollution, live unhealthy lifestyles, and eat diets that are less nutritionally sound. As a result, our immune systems and our vitality continue to decline. Regardless of any treatment, herb or therapy, mainstream or otherwise, it is our immune system, nature’s first line of defense against illness, that hold the key to our ability to avoid and beat cancer.
People do not beat and avoid cancer nor get other illnesses due to a deficiency in chemotherapy, radiation and mainstream medicine. They get cancer and become ill because toxins and diseases beat their immune systems.
As data from the CDC and others have shown, our immune systems are becoming progressively weaker, while at the same time male sperm count is progressively declining. In 1981, Dr. H. F. Pross did a study of the average Natural Killer (NK) cell count of average Americans. NK count is measured in lytic units (LU), and Dr. Pross found that the average LU count in 1981 was 152. In 1991, Dr. R. B. Herberman did a similar study and found that the LU count had dropped to 135. In 1997, Dr. Gerald See did another study and found the count had dropped to 108. In other words, we are dropping at about the rate of 1 LU per year. Which means that the average LU count in 2009 is likely to be somewhere around 96 – which would be an alarming drop of 37% in less than three decades!
Other than earlier detection and including some easily remedied forms of cancer that were once considered simply pre-cancerous conditions, little real progress has been made by the use of mainstream invasive and toxic therapies of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation – all which have been shown to increase the spread of cancer and weaken the body to pave the way for further cancer, particularly the latter two (chemo and radiation).
Most people are likely unaware that virtually all chemotherapy drugs are themselves classified as Class 1 carcinogens! And radiation destroys bone marrow that is the heart of our immune system.
A strong immune system from proper diet and nutrition, a healthy lifestyle, elimination of stress, and proper supplementation and nutrition, is still the best way to avoid and beat cancer, especially when buttressed by herbal immune boosters and cancer fighters. But it takes diligence and effort – more so now than ever before.
Cancer and the world we live in have changed a lot during the past 50 years and for that reason we do not seem to see the same successes with some of the famed treatments of prior decades, like the outstanding Budwig Diet protocol, Essiac tea, Hoxsey, Gerson, Laetrile, etc. Cancer appears to be getting harder to avoid and harder to beat once acquired. That is likely due to a number of factors.
As the late great French scientist Antoine Bechamp told us, most disease is a result of poor cellular terrain (cells which have not been properly nourished, cleansed, hydrated and oxygenated) in combination with exposure to toxins. Yet as time goes by, our world is becoming increasingly toxic and our foods less and less nourishing. Since the beginning of the industrial age, man has added around 100,000 unnatural chemical compounds to our environment, less than 1,000 of which have been tested individually in any way for safety and almost none of which have been tested in combination with one another.
Another toxic problem, and one we will likely have to live with for centuries is the amount of radiation now found in virtually every square inch of the earth’s surface as a result of the atmospheric atomic bomb blasts that spewed millions of tons of radioactive material into our environment. Two time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling warned of millions of deaths and injuries that could be expected as a result of atmospheric bomb tests. He was rewarded by having the State Department pull his passports.
A pre-eminent Russian scientist and later Nobel Laureate, Andrei Sakharov, predicted between half a million and one million deaths for every 50 megatons of atmospheric bomb tests (ultimately the tests of the United States and Russia combined to produce fallout equivalent to 40,000 Hiroshimas). Instead of having his passports pulled, Sakharov received a free trip and vacation from the state – an exile to a Siberian Gulag for the next 20 plus years!. In addition to the radiation from nuclear bomb tests that will stay with us for ages, we are increasingly being bombarded with microwaves and high power transmission lines. However their decades long cover up of the dangers they have known such technology presented is weakening.