What Causes Cancer? 

Theory 1:  The Somatic Mutation of Theory (SMT)  (Random/Choices don't matter) 

1. The predominant theory of cancer on which conventional treatment is based. 

2. Based on the assumption that  cell mutation and uncontrolled replication is completely random /not within anyone's control, it's just happens and it is just bad luck. 

3. This theory focuses on the TUMOR (weed) not the PROCESS (soil/terrain) that allowed the tumor to grow out of control.  

4. Conventional treatment (cut, poison and burn) success is based solely on "shrinking the tumor" (cutting out the weed).  It does not address the dysfunctional process (the toxic soil/terrain). 

   • "Succesful outcome" has replaced "cure"  and is measured as surviving beyond 5 years after diagnosis.  Death 1 day after the 5 year mark is recorded as a "succesful outcome".  

   • Conventional therapies- Chemotherapies and radiation hopes to kill the tumor cells before killing the host. 

   • Sometimes this approach is necessary but should be absolutely last resort, not the FIRST and ONLY line of defense.  

Theory 2:  The Metabolic Theory of Cancer   (not random/choices and environment absolutely matter) 

1. Based on the idea that cancer mutations occur due to mitochondria\cytoplasm (The swimming pool) becoming dysfunctional/toxic resulting in cells (the swimmer) adapting its respiration process by turning to fermentation in which glucose is burned in the absence of oxygen.  

   • Simply:  Cancer is caused by damaged cellular respiration, caused by damage to the mitochondria. Cancer occurs when a cell is denied 60% of it s oxygen requirements.  (Otto Warburg, 1966 Nobel Laureate)

   • Link: Dr. Seyfried Explains the Root Cause of Cancer - It's NOT random gene mutations!! 

2. Mitochondria becomes dysfunctional based on lifestyle choices and environmental factors, mostly due to our choices and environment. 

   • • Toxicity- environmental and emotional. 

     • Chronic infections

     • Nutritional deficiencies

     • Lack of microbiome (gut) integrity

     • Food and other sensitivities

     • Organ weaknesses

Theory 3:  The Survival Theory   (not random/choices and environment absolutely matter) 

1. A mechanism that the body triggers as a last resort attempt to cope with ongoing onslaught of toxins, nutritional deficiencies, stress and various other factors common to our modern world. 

2. Cancer is natures encrypted code embedded in every cell as a life-boat, ensuring the survival of the cell when challenged with hostile conditions. 

3. Current conventional therapeutic treatments attack the strengths of cancer: they target what cancer cells and all cells, have deeply embedded in their genomes - strategies for proliferation.  

4. The environment of the cell has become inhospitable to normal cell function, and in order to survive, the cell undergoes profound genetic changes associated with the cancerous personality.  

THEORIES DETERMINE TREATMENTS!

1    SMT,  Random = Behaviors don't really matter

1. • Treats cancer like an infectious disease/germ theory

     1. Hits cells with poison, radiation and surgery. 

     2. Reducing treatment to a narrow focus on the tumor/weed and ignoring the greater terrain and garden "host". 

     3. The standard of care "diet" provides fuel for cancer.  Glucose and Glutamine (video link)

2 & 3  Metabolic/Survival, Not Random = Behaviors really matter 

1. • Change your Diet, Environment through informed and disciplined execution on nature based principles and therapies. 

How to eat? (link)   Dr. Seyfried introduces Ketosis principle.....One does NOT have to "starve" to starve cancer, just eat different types of great food!

1. • Disrupt and reverse the cancer process through behaviors (diet, lifestyle, natural therapies) 

   • Get the body's immune system and back in control of the cancer process. 

     1. Everyone over 50 has cancer;  a healthy immune system manages it and keeps it under control. 

     2. Metabolic Damage allows cancer cells to "pop through the soil" and endanger the terrain and "garden". 

Sources: 

• A Better Way to Treat Cancer -  Dr. Michael Karlfeldt

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