Plants Cure Cancer, Not Chemicals
Sunday, December 21st 2014 Written
By: Sayer Ji, Founder
Unbeknownst to most, a
Copernican revolution has already taken place in cancer theory. Today, the
weight of evidence indicates that plants and not chemicals are the solution for
reversing the global cancer epidemic.
Our understanding of what causes cancer has undergone something
akin to a Copernican revolution in the past decade. Biological fatalism has
been the predominant force in medicine over the past half century, where most conditions including cancer were believed
predestined 'in the genes,' and therefore impossible to reverse. Instead of looking for
root cause resolution of disease (RCRD), we resigned
ourselves to 'finding it early' and in the case of cancer, when doing so (even when it was benign),
we waged war against it, quite literally using weapons grade materials (mustard
gas- and nuclear materials-derived agents). Now, however, in this post-Genomic era, factors above (epi-) the
control of the genes – epigenetic factors – are taking center stage; these include environmental exposures,
stress, nutritional factors, and various lifestyle-based variables that are
within the ambit of our control and volition, and which are often
reversible.
In other words, cancer is now being understood as epigenetic
dysfunction, a direct and even adaptive response to the post-industrial,
carcinogen-saturated environment, in addition to a diet of faux, mostly
chemically-produced 'food,' combining to produce an environment – 'inner
terrain-- within the body ideal for cancer promotion. Indeed, in a new study published in the
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology titled, "The use of
plant-derived bioactive compounds to target cancer stem cells and modulate
tumor microenvironment," the authors note the powerful implications of
this new epigenetic view of cancer:
"A fundamental
aspect to be taken into account is that epigenetic changes can possibly be
reversed by modifying epigenetic factors, such as diet and lifestyle.
Nowadays, identification of these factors is crucial to develop epigenetically-based
preventions and more effective anti-cancer intervention strategies."
Moreover, they note that natural interventions are once again
(after countless millennia of worldwide use), at the cutting edge of medical
intervention:
"Virtually,
all dietary compounds have the ability to act at the epigenetic level in cancer
cells thus influencing the epigenome in a positive or negative way.
Particularly, plant derived compounds, such as polyphenols, have the
capacity to reverse adverse epigenetic mutations in cancer cells, to inhibit
tumorigenesis progression, to prevent the metastatic process or to sensitize
cancer cells to chemo and radiotherapy (Vanden Berghe, 2012)."
The new study highlighted
the following points, the implications for the future of cancer treatment are
truly revolutionary:
·
Cancer stem cells (CSCs)
are chemo-radiotherapy resistant, causing tumor relapse.
·
CSCs are known to reside
within specific hypoxic and acidic tumor niches.
·
Phytocompounds affect CSC
self-renewal, metabolism and microenvironment.
·
Phytocompounds might be
exploited for cancer prevention and treatment.
As we have covered extensively in
previous posts, the discovery of a subpopulation within tumors of cells known as
cancer stem cells, reveals that our half-century old war on cancer, officially
inaugurated in 1971 with Nixon's signing of the National Cancer Act, was extremely
misguided. The notion that cancer is
simply a byproduct of cells within the body going rogue due to DNA damage and
replicating clonally through fundamentally chaotic – stochastic – processes,
has been called into question by the discovery that tumors are actually
sophisticated, hierarchically organized communities that express highly
intelligent, survival-based behaviors, albeit evolutionary ancient in origin. The establishment views cancer as something 'you have or don't
have,' and the equivalent of being infected by 'terrorist-like' cancer cells
that must be treated as an enemy and obliterated by any means necessary. This
treatment ensues regardless of the collateral damage to the patient. The
emerging and far more nuanced cancer stem-cell based perspective, precipitated
primarily by epigenetic factors – e.g. chemical exposure, dietary
incompatibilities, metabolic acidosis and low oxygen (hypoxia) – offers a far
more promising and empowering view of prevention and treatment.
If cancer is not
something that fatalistically 'happens to the body,' due to 'bad' inherited
genes passed down from distant ancestors, but is something the body
does adaptively to survive
anthropogenic exposures that diverge from millions, if not billions of years,
of bodily prehistory, suddenly the solution to overcoming the burgeoning,
global cancer epidemic is in regaining and/or reproducing the ideal bodily and
psychospiritual conditions within the body that is no longer conducive to
carcinogenesis. As proposed in the book I co-authored, Cancer Killers, we don't get sick because we have cancer; we
get cancer because we are already sick.
For additional research
on the true nature of, and solution for, cancer, focusing on the revolutionary
implications of the cancer stem cell theory, please review the following
articles and videos:
I
anticipate a time in the not too distant future when the conventional medical
establishment freely acknowledges that cancer is a natural response to decades
of culminative exposures to unnatural, evolutionarily unprecedented chemical,
electromagnetic, psychospiritual exposures and conditions. Instead of vilifying
and violently suppressing the symptom of this perfect storm of toxicity --
cancer --
enlightened practitioners will learn to address, remove and redress the root causes,
focusing on reproducing the conditions that support our genetic and epigenetic
blueprint of health and wellness. It is the goal of GreenMedInfo.com to
provide the public and professional populations a resource to leverage the
emerging evidence to do exactly that. The following database sections are
designed to make this task easier:
as far as understanding both how cancer is caused and
how it can be effectively treated.
thanks in large part to the discovery that it is an exemplar
of epigenetic dysfunction and not a predestined byproduct of dysfunctional
genetic information inherited from distant ancestors.
