Monthly Boost November 2007

Having spent some intense time completing a PhD into pancreatic cancer some years ago, I would like to share another side to cancer. For a brief introduction on cancer you can go to my February Monthly Boost in 2003

There are many therapies around for ‘treating’ cancer, be they therapies that solely focus on the cancer itself and treated like an enemy that must be defeated or strengthening the individual to ‘fight’ the cancer. I feel that it is important for us to know more about the holistic approach to this disease, or rather a more ‘rounded’ view, as some of us tend to switch off when we hear the word ‘holistic’ as if it belongs to some ‘new age cult’. ..but getting back to the subject…

Most of us are familiar with the various foods that are now being hailed as either ‘bad’ or 'good' for cancer, but to be honest, in these studies the ‘whole’ person is not being addressed. These studies do not take into consideration the individual’s, home life, their job environment, their intake of synthetic drugs, (be they recreational or pharmaceutical), let alone whether the red meat they are eating has been fried in vegetable oil! ..so how can we come to conclusions such as avoid red meat if you want to avoid cancer and lose weight to reduce the risk of cancer.

In my own practice, I have seen more individuals with cancer who are NOT over weight and have not eaten much red meat, let alone ‘junk foods’ in general. Something is ‘a miss’, …let me introduce you to something known as the ‘cancer personality’…it may sound rather ‘prescriptional’ AND it is NOT meant to be, if anything its part of the missing piece that traditional medicine finds very difficult to address, the individual and not just the dis-ease….

Passionate: these individuals burn the candle at both ends, whatever they do they do with great passion and intensity. They have a fascination for the new and different. They can give quite a list of foods that they 'ABSOLUTELY LOVE' and this can include spicy food and chocolate. They are ‘doing' and tend to forget about ‘being.’

Physical complaints: there can be a family history of cancer, moles, diabetes, or tuberculosis. They tend to get child hood illnesses in adult hood, such as adults with mumps, chicken pox, ear infections. They may themselves have had glandular fever or chronic fatigue in their time. They tend to be responsible and pay attention to detail: these individuals have to have ‘control’, they need order, structure, they won’t do anything unless it is done 101%, even if it means that they suffer for it physically. This is the person you can rely on to run your business better than you, even whilst you go away on a holiday.

They take on a lot of responsibility from early childhood, this can be the older child who had to be a better example to his/her younger siblings. Most of these children tend to be well behaved and in clinic when asked a question they look at their peers for approval as they answer the question. They are always looking out for others and do not know how to say ‘NO’ to the detriment of their own health.

Perfectionists: These adults are grateful for word processors, otherwise nothing would ever be perfect enough and many a sheets of paper would be ‘binned’ again and again until the work was absolutely perfect. These individuals tend to be obsessive, fastidious, constantly trying to stay on top of chaos. Picture the ‘mum’ with the perfect home, although she has 4 children all under the age of 6yr, her white couch is white with no stain to be seen.

Emotional: can be highly emotional and care for others deeply. They strive to do everything just right that they are sensitive to being ‘criticised’. These individuals tend to get involved with charity work.

Advising a person with the above traits to eat wholesome organic foods with some daily coffee enemas with vegetable juicing once a day can tip them over again by more 'doing' than 'being.' SO again working with the individual as a ‘whole’ is important rather than just ‘bombarding’ them with all sorts of drugs, be they chemotherapy drugs or nutritional/herbal supplements.

Remember the personality is part of the ‘whole’ person not the whole in itself. We all know that our environment is very important too. We may have all the traits above and not get cancer because we eat well and live in a happy home. But if we have some of the above traits and eat ‘junk’, don’t sleep well (the one time the body has a chance to heal and repair), take various drugs, from the plethora of acid reflux convenience pills or liquids through to the odd ‘happy street drug’ then of course we increase our chances of getting cancer.

I had a patient who came to see me 7 months ago after having had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had very much the above ‘personality traits’ and saw a practitioner that recommended liver flushes every two weeks, coffee enemas daily with over 70 supplements to take a day. This patient was too ‘weak’ to do all these in one go, which was indicated by her body breaking out in fevers and pains in the liver area BUT she was ‘encouraged’ to ‘push through’ this ‘healing crisis’. ..Anyone with the above personality traits tend to do what they are ‘told’ so she was 'pushing through' until her husband contacted me. Healing crisis issues (i.e. getting worse before getting well) are NOT healthy for the body, it is actually the body saying ‘this is too much right now, I need to take it slow’. This patient had just had another scan two weeks ago and had been given the ‘all clear’, most of her ‘healing’ was through psychotherapy and supplements (only 12 a day) and an infra red sauna!

Dr. Dirk Hammer, a German doctor says:

"Through the millennia, humanity has more or less consciously known that all diseases ultimately have a psychic origin and it became a "scientific" asset firmly anchored in the inheritance of universal knowledge; it is only modern medicine that has turned our animated beings into a bag full of chemical formulas."

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To great health!

Khush