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Cancer can strike anyone – the young or the old, the celebrity or the common man, the rich or the poor. Most people need to share their experiences to be able to cope as a patient, family or friend.
I saw a movie that does just that on DVD. The title of the movie is 50/50. The title was based on the doctor’s verdict of survival of the characters. This means the 50 percent chance of survival and the 50 percent of death. more…
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It’s never fun to be diagnosed with cancer. It’s like being hit by a ton of bricks. We’ll see our doctor’s lips moving but everything seems to be in slow motion. And then we’re paralyzed with unbelief. Slowly, we muster our strength and realize we have to do something about it.
Our best chance is standard cancer care. To even the odds and have a better chance to beat it, let’s add functional foods to our daily diet. Soy, a potent functional food, had shown to help against prostate cancer. It is processed in different forms such as tofu, soy milk, soy sauce, fermented bean paste, natto, tempeh or miso. We can substitute it for meat or mix it with other ingredients in our cooking. more…
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Fall is here! This the season for hunting big games – deer, moose, elf, bear or croc! We prepare the territory to lure the big one and practice our art of shooting so we get our marks.
What about hunting cancer? The big difference is – we’ve to hunt for that beast the whole year long. Like hunting for a huge moose, we need to prepare the terrain. The terrain is no other than our bodies where cancer develops and grows. When we groom our bodies, we clean the surroundings much like we do when we hunt that elusive elk. This preparation is a 30 minute exercise every single day. Exercise burns the extra energy that cancer utilizes to nourish itself and survive. Sweating it out at less 30 minutes daily decreases the general inflammation. And when our bodies are rid from that inflammation, it concentrates the immune system’s action only at a very specific sites – wounds and the cancer
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