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Tumors and the Paleo Diet
A friend contacted me about a member of his extended family who was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and gall bladder. The patient was in his eighties and was otherwise pretty healthy. I can hear what you’re thinking, ‘The man has cancer, how can he be considered healthy?’ Well, tumors and cancers are just things the body deals with, and they take their cues from the body’s overall level of vitality.
If the body is experiencing a high growth rate, as in a young child, that rate translates rapid growth. If the person is elderly the cancer will grow very slowly, because the person is growing slowly. Often times during autopsies tumors and cancers are discovered that the body has walled off, the way that an oyster encapsulates a grain of sand into a pearl. As far as that oyster is concerned there is no reason to get rid of that grain of sand, because it has been handily taken of care of. The problem for the oyster comes from being pulled from the sea and the pearl being dug out.
In the same way, the problems escalate when squeezing the breast for a radioactive mammogram burst the protective capsule, spreading the toxin pathogen throughout the system. Invasive surgeries to biopsy can let the nasty genie out of its bottle. Sometimes the best thing to do is keep that cork in place and encourage the body to dissolve the tumor’s hold in the body.
As part of the process of addressing that, let’s look at why breast, reproductive and children’s cancer are so dangerous. Because they are about growth and renewal and when the conditions in the body let a tumor get a foothold it taps into that and thrives. The key is to create conditions that don’t let them get a foothold, and when a tumor is entrenched, create the conditions that help the body dissolve and dislodge it.
The first thing to do is drive out the yeast and then eat a diet that doesn’t promote it. The Paleo diet is one of the best that I’ve seen for that. Without the sticky, sweet grains, sugar, beans and dairy the yeast loses its main foods. Adding in herbs like Pau D Arco, Olive Leaf, Juniper and Uva Ursi help reduce the yeast load while strengthening the glands and organs which are most impacted by the nutritional aberration called the Modern American Diet.
If high sugar levels persist a small amount of Golden Seal daily brings that down. It has the additional advantage of cleaning out infections and healing old scar tissue. But we mean small amounts, low blood sugar, with its weakness, fogginess and anxiety attacks is something to be avoided. Too much Golden Seal, just like too much GTF Chromium, can reduce the blood sugar levels quite quickly.
A sweet, sticky environment is perfect for a tumor to nest in. In the same way an inflamed body, with its rough surfaces gives the tumor something to hook onto. If you look at an athletes muscles under a microscope after a marathon the surface looks like a minefield with frayed and broken strands. A continuing state of inflammation does this as well, abrading the tissue. The Paleo Diet is powerfully anti-inflammatory.
When you add Omega 3 oil from cold water fish, and for women, natural progesterone sources like wild yam you add the necessary lubricants so the surfaces slide against each other smoothly, reducing damaging friction and heat. Progesterone is one of nature’s most powerful anti-inflammatory materials, manufactured in the ovaries and placenta to prevent rejection of the fetus. Mexican wild yam contains very similar materials that the body can use to feed the hormonal system. But the key is to not cause the inflammation in the first place by consuming the irritating foods that have no place in the Paleo Diet.
Once you provide this kind of low inflammation, yeast free environment it is much easier for the body to work at dissolving and dislodging tumors, because the pearl is no longer needed.
Ralph & Lahni de Amicis
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