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“Beside treatment of your immune system, try to avoid sugar and you have higher chances of cure your cancer.”

My husband was telling me this after his meeting with Dr Sani. Dr Sani is his father’s cousin who provides home visit services for cancer’s patients and had helps hundreds of people with cancer. Now, my husband was helping him and has gained lots of valuable information and medical knowledge. Dr Sani will be the doctor who will provides treatment to my sister when she staying with us next month.

Lets get back to sugar. I tried to find the relation between eating sugar and found a great articles on this issue. When we eat sugar, its will rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. The blood sugar levels rise suddenly by increasing its insulin production. The function of insulin is to regulates the amount of sugar in the blood by metabolizing it for use as energy or by storing it as fat.

When too much sugar was consumed, the body will be overrun with sugar. It has trouble getting the glucose or blood sugar into the cells where it can be transformed into energy. This situation will cause the body is constantly dumping insulin into the bloodstream. The sugar is not being removed from the blood stream, this process is called insulin resistance.

However, insulin also promotes the storage of fat and obesity itself can also induce insulin resistance. That is why, the researches have been trying for decades to determine if eating sugar causes cancer or feeds a cancer that is already there.

But its already proven that when insulin levels are harmfully high at the time of a cancer diagnosis, the cancer is associated with a worse prognosis. To summed this, let me refer to a researcher named Dr. Michael Pollak from McGill University in Montreal. He said:-

“Sugar does not directly cause cancer, but people should be careful about the amount of sugar they consume, because each person’s individual body reacts differently to sugar.”

Take the safe side by avoiding eating processed sugar especially if you have been diagnosed with cancer. You might want to replaced it with sweet fruits to satisfy a craving for sweets.

My sister was already completed her second chemotherapy session after her breast cancer reoccurred. I meet her at our parent’s house and I almost cried when looking at her condition. Her hair gone already (for second time), she look more skinny then the last time I meet her. Her swollen arms looks heavier and she has to hold her arms all the time. Her skin even darker and her eyes look black like she was being punched by someone. But when she look strong and smiling when looking at me, I hold back my tears. She ask me to take her photo and post it in this blog. Unfortunately, my mobile phone got problem and I did not have a camera with me.

During our stay at our parents house, she looks very happy meeting and talking to us. She has been telling stories about the treatments that she takes, both conventional and alternative. She also told us how the alternative practitioners informed her about the bad sides effect of conventional treatment. On the other hand, her doctors keep telling her about the scary cases of patients who believe in alternative treatment and did not takes chemo. That’s makes her confused and do not know which one to decide. As a results, she takes whatever medicines, treatments, herbs and supplements offered to her.

My other sister give her suggestion to choose only one types of treatment. But in her situation now, I pity her and try to understand who she felt. She is like drowning in the middle of the sea and will grasp anything that comes within her reach.

Anyway, as she already completed her treatment with the hospital, now I am offering her to stay at my house starting this December. I hope to support her by providing different surrounding and treatment option. Right now I am planning and preparing myself, my family and my house for her. I am doing the checklist and among the things in my list are:-

1) Menu for her meal to provide her with good nutrition
2) Register yoga class for her state of mind
3) MP3 Hypnosis for her unconscious mind treatment
4) Transfer Factor for her immune system
5) Funny Stories DVD Collection to make her happy and smiling (I get this idea from The Secret)
6) Books about Cancer - its quite difficult to find books on this subject in Malay

I am still adding the list. She will be staying with us for 3 months. If you think there are more that I can add in this list, just write your suggestion in comments.

Few days ago, I found a good and inspiring blog written by MobileMom. She is a designer who was diagnosed with “Pleural Effusion of Mesothelioma Malignant”. This Cancer is very rare in Malaysia and the cancer cells are located at the lining of the lungs.

I love the blog. How she share her feelings and experience in her battle for cancer. Her positive mindset to survive and continue her normal life really amaze me. Blogging is a good therapy especially to women who likes to share her stories with the world. Comments from readers very helpful in providing support that they need most. Positive words and encouragements help the cancer blogger’s to enjoy life.

MobileMom is one of the inspiring blog and I give her 5 stars for what she did in her blog. Unfortunately, she already stop blogging but reason that she the only one who know why. Wherever she is right now, I wished her life wonderful as it should be with her family.

If you wished to read her blog, Click here…http://mobilemom.blogs.com

I have took months of rest from this blog for my delivery. My second baby was delivered on 19 September 2008 and named Nur Abdul Aziz. Nothing else matter as long as he is healthy and strong. That’s all I wished for him.

That is one good news happen in September. But another important good things happen also happen in October. Yes, October is Cancer Awareness Month. This month, every one support cancer patients to continue their life. Every cancer association more active provides helps and campaign to people about the important of knowing what is the best life they should adopt to prevent cancer. Every company selling products introducing pink items to show their support. I hope this will increase their donation to cancer patients for their treatments. Even every related website change the look too look more pink. (After this I should change mine too…) I also support all these campaigns as long as they are sincere. The profit should really go to the ones who really deserved…cancer’s patients!

Do I forget the say about pink ribbon? Its everywhere now and wear yours today. Its okay if you want to overdo like this beautiful penguin pass created by Emila. She is a great artist who loves painting, photography and all the artistic stuff. Thank you Emila for creating this pass and added some awareness in her blog.

Today I want to share the story of cancer warrior called Glenn. He was diagnosed with an oesophageal carcinoma on 15th August,2003. He did not believe in any barbaric way of removing cancer. What he did was to change his diet instead of surgery. Doctors did not agreed with him, but he only heard his own guts.

Only eleven months, he was tested free from cancer. He did nothing with the right nutritional guides and diets. Three years later, when he went for endoscopy again, there are no trace of any cancer in her bloods. He really confident that the right nutrition help him to heal. He wants to share the information with all cancer survivors. He believe that anyone can beaten cancer using a nutritional approach.

He want to help other people by sharing how he did it in his book. I suggest anyone with Esophagus Cancer read this book because what you eat is closely related with your disease. Read more about him from his website. Cancer : From Diagnosis To All Clear In 11 Months

The treatment option for Prostate Cancer depends on the spreading of the tumor. However the most common treatment is radiation therapy by using x-ray to kill the cancer cells and avoid it from spreading.

It is important that before you are looking or choosing for the treatment, ask your doctor and make them explain to you the detail of the side effect. Its important that your body is prepare for the side effect to help your body realized about it to expedite the healing process from cancer. My sister was not being told by the doctor about the side effect from the surgery of her breast cancer. She was not prepared for it and she really suffered from the side effect especially when doctor admit that they can do nothing about it.

Read about it from this post : Breast Cancer Surgery

Please be aware that radiation therapy can caused several side effects that you need to be aware of. The possible side effects include fatigue and the most common effect is the increased frequency of urination. Some people even complaint about the discomfort of urination and also loose bowel movements. These side effect usually go away only after few weeks after completing treatments, but its depends on your body. Some even report that impotence is also a possible side effect of any treatment for prostate cancer. Discuss with your doctor and let them explain to you clearly about what are the possible side effects and how long the period.

Personally I am not really favor the surgery as one of the treatment for cancer. But somehow, when people went to meet doctor and some doctors not even suggest, but force cancer patients to go for surgery. Some patients, choose surgery because they trust it can help them. Whatever your choice, you need helps to prepare your mind and body to facing the surgery and also to face the challenges of the healing afterward.

The published research in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows the amazing results of hypnosis on pain release and healing effect after surgery. The clinical test done to two hundred women undergoing surgery for breast cancer to compare the results of hypnosis to medications and sedatives. One hour before surgery, each woman was randomly assigned to either 15 minutes of hypnosis by a psychologist or to a control session in which she spoke to a psychologist. The aim for each session are to increase relaxation, reduce painand decrease nausea and fatigue.

Surprising, the women who had hypnosis required less anesthesia and they spent an average of almost 11 minutes less in surgery. After surgery, they reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, discomfort, and emotional distress. These finding leads to the successful of hypnosis as surgical preparation to reduce the side effect from surgery and amazing results for healing.

So if you want to go for surgery or having set the date for surgery appointment with your doctor, consider to download this MP3 and listen to the audio one hour before your surgery. The MP3 download is the hypnosis program by one of the nation’s leading pain specialists Dr. Carol Ginandes. Dr Carol is a health psychologist on staff at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital and also certified by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. This certification is a must to whoever wish to uses hypnotherapy with patients preparing or recovering from accidents or surgery or who suffer chronic pain.

When you listen to this MP3, its like having Dr. Ginandes at your bedside just before surgery. Its like meeting her in person, listen to her words as you feel more relax and ready for the surgery. Download her program Smooth Surgery, Rapid Recovery: A Systematic Hypnotic Approach now!

Soya (soy) contains healthy amino acids and is a high quality source of protein. Tofu is one of the example of product of soya. It is belief that one of the reason why certain cancers are less in Asian countries specifically Japan compare to western countries.. Soya is an important ingredient in Asian cuisine.

Soya contains many beneficial health compounds especially isoflavones known as genistein. Genistein help to protect your body against certain type of cancer and able to slow down or stop the growth of cancer cells.High consumption of soya products within your diets protect you from breast cancer.

Since people know about its benefit, lots of products offer supplements contain anti-cancer properties such as genistein. However, it is recommended that consuming soya products directly is better to give your more protection against cancer. The right diet to prevent cancer is regards as natural healing factors which important for your body. This natural foods provides your body with the right nutritions that required and lack in your body system.

Although research and scientific studies have shown that the effect of smoking leads to cancer, some addicted still want to prove the opposite. Not only one, but I have met several smokers who proudly claimed that they have been smoking for more than twenty or more, but never having any illness related with their smoking habit. It’s actually wasting time to argue with this kind of people because the symptoms of illness maybe there, but they failed to notice because they proud to say that they are healthy smokers.

The facts that the active ingredients of tobacco especially nicotine has numbers of effects on the human body over a period of time. It’s not only cause of lung cancer, bronchitis, chest infection, but also heart attack and high blood pressure. The list of possible range of disorder not stop, there are other illness that closely related to smoking habit.

The long lists of illness related with smoking addiction give encouragement to some smokers to give up smoking. Every years, more than hundreds smokers all over the world find solutions to quick smoking for the health. Many give up smoking for certain period, but then continue with smoke again.

The failure of certain numbers of smokers due to the either lack of self confident or they do not have strong reason why they stop smoking. If you want to achieve anything in life, you need to know the strong reasons to support what you are doing. The same concept applied for smoking habit. Without knowing when, how and why you smoke, they its quite difficult to stop smoking permanently. Maybe you also might want to know how hypnosis can help you to stop smoking in 7 days. Click on the banner to find out…

If you notice in these days, instead of talking about the alternative medication on cancer, I always write about the relationship between the mind and body for healing. As I said yesterday,if you want to cure cancer, then you body must get medication to reduce the pain and support your immune system for your healing. But the understand the relationship of mind and body connection also vital for your healing purposes. Having right mind set is essential and an important contributing factor during your healing proses. Without right mind set, then your body either reject the medication or its just being absorbed into your body without any benefit that you might get.

Today, I want to write about anger and how to control the negative force of anger from killing you. I get this useful information from one book Vernon Coleman’s book on ‘Mindpower- how to use your mind to heal your body’.

1) Accept the fact that you, like everyone else will get angry from time to time

2) Learn to recognize when you are heading towards a confrontation and if possible, avoid stressful situation.

3) If you feel angry and you believe that your anger is justified, don’t suppress it all - let it out.

4) If you feel anger building inside you and you feel tempted to get rid of it in some physical way, follow your natural instincts as far as possible.

These are what was being advice by him. But in my personal knowledges on NLP, I suggest you for no (4) you do the opposite because sometimes anger will cause you to do beyond your normal self. If you really feel the anger that is beyond your control, notice the tones of your voice and your physical expression. If its think your voice too high and its does not sound good, then lower your voice. Notice also your energy level inside your chest, if its too hot there, try to lower it down. If your hand and legs shaking to take strong action like you are going to punch something, try to get comfortable chair and sit. If you totally change your physical state, then your emotional state will follow. You will become calmer and maybe you might even hard to justify why you did angry before this.

But as in no 3), if in certain situation like when your doctor saying something that you dont like, then its fine to express your anger but in proper way. If he tells you that you’ve got three months to live, make it damned clear that you object to his arrogance. If its ruined your relationship with the doctor, its also fine. You also got to find the doctors who can really help you, not making you more miserable.

Laughter is still the best medicine ever. Have you read the famous book ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne? Everywhere on the planet earth talking about this great book. In this blog, I just want to share one part of the book - The Secret To Health.

Not only in The Secret, even before this book comes, lots of books talking about the relationship and connection between the mind and body. How human mind is the biggest factor in the healing effect, even more powerful than any medication. That’s explain the phenomena of miracle healing and the placebo effect.

But, we have to remember that the best solution is by harmonizing the works of wonders of human mind with medication. If the pain is involved, then medication with the help of self hypnosis can help to eliminate and ease the pain. Its a great combination of healing therapy for any disease includes cancer.

The great story that might interest you in The Secret is a personal experience of Cathy Goodman, who was diagnosed with breast cancer. The inspiring story about how she practiced the self healing in 3 months after diagnosed with breast cancer by combining three (3) magnificent powers.

1) The power of gratitude to heal - Everyday she will say to herself, ‘Thank you for my healing’ on and on.

2) The power of faith to receive - She has strong faith that she was already healed and she saw herself as if cancer was never in her body.

3) The power of laughter and joy to dissolve disease in her body - She watch very funny movies to get rid of stress from her life.

That is the great story that you might want to try doing it yourself. Do it now because the wont afford to pay the high price of procrastination.

Today I would like to share an article from Dr. Martin Rossman. Who is him? Let me introduce him to the readers. Dr Martin Rossman has over 35 years of experience in guided imagery for health and he is a nationally-recognized leader and innovator in the field of imagery for self-healing.

He is also the author of two classic books on guided imagery and he founded The Healing Mind in order to make high level instruction in guided imagery for self-healing affordable and accessible. If you want to know about The Healing Mind’s unique self-guided program Fighting Cancer From Within Book and CD Set, and 30 other guided imagery programs, along with research, commentary, and links can be found at this link.

Ok, enough about him - lets read what is the story that he might want to share with us.

The Story

Patricia is a 65 year old wise woman who was diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer 15 years ago. She was already familiar with guided imagery as a vehicle for insight. She used it to ask her unconscious mind for an image that could help her through what she imagined would be a terrible ordeal. She saw herself on skis at the top of a very steep mountain. A lifelong skier, she immediately understood that she was about to push off on a run that would demand all her skill and determination. She also saw that while the effort would challenge her to the extreme, it was clearly possible for her to make it all the way through if she gave it her full attention and focus. She got the sense that when she did make it all the way down, she would be living life on a much deeper and more effective level than she ever had before.

This image was useful to her throughout many twists and turns of her journey with cancer, reminding her to stay focused on where she wanted to go and not let herself get lost in her fears. Patricia did “make it”, and she counts guided imagery as one of the tools that enabled her to do so.

When, like Patricia, you are diagnosed with cancer, you can find yourself over-whelmed with emotions at a time when you most need to keep your wits about you. While you are alive, you have hope, and you have options. You have will, imagination, and powerful natural healing abilities within you that you can stimulate by the way you use your mind.

What Is Guided Imagery?

Guided Imagery like the kind Patricia used trains your mind to listen to your body’s wisdom. “Imagery” is simply a flow of thoughts you can see, hear, feel, smell or taste. It is the expression of dreams and daydreams; memories and reminiscence; plans, projections and possibilities. It is the language of the arts, the emotions, and most important, of the deeper self. “Guided imagery” is a process of being lead or “guided” to tune in to your own natural imagery, and to “listen” to the messages and meanings that imagery may reveal about what you need to heal. Guided imagery techniques range from simple visualization and direct imagery-based suggestion, to metaphor, dialogue and story-telling.

Why Use Guided Imagery to Fight Cancer?

The shock, disorientation and anxiety that often come with a serious cancer diagnosis can overwhelm one’s sense of confidence and make it hard for you to feel effective or powerful in a time when you may most need inner strength. Imagery can help you reconnect with your own resources and begin to use them effectively on your own behalf. Guided imagery CDs are easy to use, inexpensive, and have rapid psychological benefits.
Research at the Carnegie-Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh has shown this method to be extremely effective in helping people shift from one mood state to another. Learning to shift from helplessness to hopefulness at will is an empowering experience for anyone, especially for anyone feeling overwhelmed with the fear of cancer. The benefits of imagery are tangible and physical - studies prove that patients who use guided imagery can experience an increase the numbers and aggressiveness of natural killer cells when practiced over time, a reduction in complications from surgery, relief from pain, and can experience a lessening of the adverse effects of chemotherapy.

How Guided Imagery Helps

When diagnosed with cancer, you may not only face an on-going threat to life and well-being, you often also face conflicting recommendations on the part of the best experts in the field and the resulting uncertainty as to the best course of treatment. One use of guided imagery CDs is to help you make good decisions about your treatment. For instance, by using guided imagery to help you imagine a wise and caring figure, called an “inner advisor” or “inner wisdom” that has your best interests at heart, you can make the best possible decisions in a time of stress.

Helene spoke with her inner advisor through imagery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the type of cancer she had, she had received a number of different treatment recommendations from top level oncologists and surgeons. These ranged from two different types of surgery, choices of approaches to breast reconstruction, radiation and the possibility of adjunctive chemotherapy. She used guided imagery to decide from a “deep level” what treatment course would be best for her.

Using the Fighting Cancer From Within CD and Book Set, Helene was directed to fully relax and imagine herself in a beautiful safe place and to have a conversation with an image of a wise and loving “Inner Advisor.” An angel-like figure came to her mind, large, ethereal yet substantial, and winged. Helene felt a sense of love and wisdom from the advisor and invited it to be comfortable with her. She discussed all the information she had gathered with the advisor and asked it to help guide her to choose the best treatment for her. The advisor seemed to respond in a way that made Helene feel that surgery followed by radiation was the best treatment for her – that it had the best evidence behind it and her own intuition confirmed that it was the course she wanted to choose.

The advisor affirmed that choice and Helene felt surer than she had to that point about her treatment plan. At the end of their dialogue, she thanked the advisor for coming. In response, it enfolded her in its large golden wings and surrounding her with a profound sense of warmth and love. She was very moved.

Helene was clearly relieved to have reached what felt like a good decision for her. But more important to Helene, she found out she was not alone. Even though she was a woman deeply connected to family and friends, she discovered another kind of connection – a profound sense of being part of something that ultimately went beyond life as she knew it.

Guided Imagery can access a kind of wisdom and compassion that can not only help you make good treatment decisions but may also link you to a sense of being feel loved and connected to life, the mystery, and to your spirituality in a very personal and tangible way. This sense of support can help you through adversity and fear.

Guided imagery evokes personally meaningful and relevant imagery that are necessary in holistic cancer care. They range from relaxation and anxiety reduction images to those that stimulate healing responses in the body, to those that mobilize personal strengths and resources in the service of healing. Since imagery is a natural way that the human nervous system codes, stores, processes and accesses information, its uses for someone with cancer are not limited to simple relaxation or immune system stimulation, but also include methods for decision-making, accessing and building emotional strength and experiencing events in ways that are most functional for supporting the healing resources of the individual.

So visit this website to get more information in guided imaginery created by Dr Martin Rossman.

Lack of oxygen in our body is the prime cause of cancer. That statement is made by Dr Otto Warburg in 1966 during the conference of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany.

I have read the report on how cancer forming in normal cells due to inadequate supply of oxygen to the membrane cells.Although exercise is one of the way to supply oxygen into our blood vessel, but its not getting inside the membrane cells. This is explained why athlete still get cancer.

So the question is now, how to supply enough oxygen into our cells?

The most effective approach is by consuming oxygen-absorbing entities such as Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs). This special fats must be consumed daily because the body can’t manufacture them on its own. Consumption of two primary or “parent” forms of EFAs allow the body to make whatever EFA “derivatives” it needs from them. These two primary forms are parent omega-6, and parent omega-3.

What are the sources of omega-6 and Omega-3?

Since our body cannot make them on our own, so we have to obtain them from our diet.There are few sources of omega-3 fatty acids, mainly the fat of cold water fish such as salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel, black cod, and bluefish.

There are two critical omega-3 fatty acids, that the body needs. Vegetarian sources, such as walnuts and flaxseeds contain a precursor omega-3 that the body must convert to EPA and DHA. EPA and DHA are the building blocks for hormones that control immune function, blood clotting, and cell growth as well as components of cell membranes.

Hi warriors,

Before I started research on cancer and alternative natural treatments, besides looking for an answer for the cure of cancer for my sister and father, its also as preventive measures for me. During that time, I thought cancer is running in our blood and genetic. After only after I seek for more knowledges and information that cancer is not genetic factor. In 1998, Dr Robert A. Weinberg of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s leading cancer researchers has announced that the prime cause of cancer is therefore not genetic.

The finding has been supported with another research by in 2006. The heads of the world’s largest cancer research centre in Houston, Texas, William Brinkley, a senior vice-president at Baylor announced that cancer’s prime cause isn’t genetic.

So, to anyone who has family with cancer, just do not worry you will be the next statistics. Just lead a balance life and keep away from stress to make your immune system stronger and able to kill the cancer cells formed in your body everyday.

Warriors,

I still remember when the hospital asked us to took our father home because of his conditions, we are quite messy at first. The preparation of the room is done last minutes with everything seem scattered. Luckily one of my sister is working as a nurse and she has experience in dealing with patients. But we managed to arrange everything up to his convenient after all. So, today I would like to share with you how to prepare the room for the sick loved one.

1. Make sure to allocate one room at the ground floor of your house for easy accessibility for everyone especially during the emergency.

2. The room should has a good ventilation and if possible ensure the windows always open during the day. This will provides patients with fresher air and better view if he/she want to look outside the house.Its also help him/her to feel more relax.

3. The room must have/easy access to bathroom and toilet. If the patient could not walk, ensure the there are bedpan or diapers available. But make sure the patient choose which way is convenient for him/her.

4. If you have kids - make sure their play area is far from the room. The disturbance from the kids also might increase the stress level of sick person.

5. Remove any unnecessary furnitures or accessories from the room. Give more spaces for the medical equipment if required.

6. If you have pets, do not let them enter the room. Any dusts or furs from pet might cause unexpected side effects to patients.

7. Get a bell or you can also buy a baby monitors. So you do not have to sit by their side all the times or walking back or forth to know what they need.

8. Stick all the emergency phone no on the wall because when you are panic, you might get confused with stored numbers. Or when someone ask you, just pointing at the wall.

There are lots of stuff that you need to learn before deciding to take your loved ones home from the hospital. The preparation not only involved home but also your emotion. The sick person emotions is sometimes unpredictable and might cause stress to you. If you think you need day off, just get an assistant for you. Keep yourself free of stress too…

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