Fight Cancer. Чарльз Спендер

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СКАЧАТЬ (or crude extracts) instead of purified ingredients. For example, eat turmeric powder added to soup instead of popping curcumin pills. Foods are safer than pure chemicals and should be as effective or even more effective. A pure chemical may fix one problem in your body but will create 10 other problems, this is also true of artificial vitamins. You need vitamins in their natural packaging: as regular foods. If your goal is to become healthy, then you need to use food as medicine, not drugs as medicine. You cannot identify a single "active ingredient" that will replace a healthy diet. You need to consume real diverse foods and do many other things as part of your lifestyle to maintain and achieve good health.

      In addition, there is a large amount of scientific data on the anticancer properties of pomegranate, soy, broccoli, and green tea. You can see these products and their active ingredients near the top of the list of scientifically proven anticancer products on the Greenmedinfo website [link]. For this reason, it will make sense for you to include 50–100 grams (2 to 3 oz.) of raw broccoli into your daily nutrition, preferably passed through a blender. For example, you can make puree from tomatoes and broccoli. I recommend soy milk instead of soy because the latter causes gas. You can make soy milk yourself by pulverizing tofu with a triple or quadruple amount of water in a blender. Let the solids settle for 10–20 minutes. Given that green tea contains caffeine (actually more than coffee does), drink a cup of green tea at breakfast, not in the evening. I recommend raw (freshly pressed) pomegranate juice for several reasons. The juice will be less taxing on your teeth. There are substantial scientific data showing that pomegranate [link] and its ingredients [vitamin C, vitamin E, and polyphenols, link] are effective against cancer. When I am sick and have no appetite, the only thing I can consume is pomegranate juice or orange juice. If they are freshly pressed, then they make me feel better immediately and improve appetite too. Which leads me to believe that these two raw juices are the healthiest food one can imagine. If you are so sick that you can't eat, then you can consume up to 1.0–1.5 liters (quarts) of pomegranate juice per day. Otherwise, drink one glass a day for prophylaxis. If you don't have access to raw pomegranate juice, then drink freshly pressed orange juice instead. In the worst-case scenario, drink pasteurized pomegranate or orange juice. In the town where I live, I can buy freshly pressed pomegranate juice at a local farmer's market year round.

      Keep in mind that if you have cancer, only turmeric, natural sources of vitamin D, soy, and broccoli are mandatory among the products described in this chapter because scientific evidence is strong-to-overwhelming. All other products are optional because the amount of evidence is lower.

      At this time, I do not recommend CBD hemp oil as a remedy for cancer, even though there is some good supporting evidence. First, this product is not legal in all geographic areas; second, you cannot be sure that you will be buying CBD hemp oil. This is an unregulated market currently at the stage of anarchy (or Wild West).

      Regarding apricot seed kernels, unfortunately, there is not enough evidence at present. Nevertheless, you can include moderate amounts of apricot kernels into your diet, whether you have cancer or not. I do not recommend the pure chemical from apricot kernels that is believed to have anticancer effects: amygdalin. Even if this chemical really has anticancer properties, consuming it in the form of apricot kernels will be safer and better for your health. Besides, you should not focus on any one food product or method to fight cancer. Your goal should be to comprehensively overhaul your lifestyle, i.e., to make many changes in your way of life. The central hypothesis of this ebook is that cancer is caused by a suboptimal lifestyle combined with some genetic predisposition. Accordingly, switching to a better lifestyle will normalize your metabolism, improve your immune system, and should cure cancer.

      Moderately cold showers are safe and cannot cause an illness

      Many people believe that a cold shower will make them ill; in particular, it “can cause” a cold or the flu. Numerous studies of moderate cooling show that it does not cause respiratory illnesses, yet the notion about the dangers of cooling persists among the populace. This belief is in part correct in that severe cooling, which lowers core body temperature below 35°C (95°F), the state known as hypothermia, can indeed have adverse health effects. Hypothermia can develop as a result of immersion in ice-cold water or administration of certain drugs. In the vast majority of people, cold showers at 20°C (68°F) cannot lower core body temperature below 37°C (98.6°F) and therefore will not have adverse effects on health.

      Statisticians know that respiratory infections occur predominantly, though not exclusively, during the cold time of the year. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is unknown, although two recent studies provide a possible explanation. The first showed that inhalation of cold air by horses during exercise suppresses immunity in the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. This immunosuppressive effect of cold air can predispose a person to the flu or a cold. The other study showed that cold dry air improves transmission and survival of the influenza virus. Cold air contains much less moisture than warm air does. Transmission and survival of the influenza virus in moist, warm air are much lower. The folk wisdom of keeping a boiling kettle in the house to prevent the spread of influenza among family members should be effective. Therefore, it is possible that the predominant occurrence of flu epidemics during the colder seasons is a result of the above effects.

      Cold showers in the atmosphere of room-temperature air will not predispose a person to influenza. My experience and the experience of many other fans of cold water show that cold showers cannot cause respiratory infections. Rare side effects exist, as you will see in a later chapter.

      Although moderate cooling is safe, winter swimming is not. Winter swimming is sudden immersion in ice-cold water, and it is a highly stressful and unsafe procedure that you will do well to avoid.

      The adapted cold shower: an unstressful and easy procedure

      I developed a convenient procedure called “adapted cold shower.” This procedure is safe and easy to do, unlike the regular “sudden” cold shower. You can use the method as follows: start with a tepid shower, 34 to 36°C (93 to 97°F), for one to three minutes. Get out of the shower and set the water temperature to about 20°C (68°F). Then get back in the shower and start gradually and slowly expanding the area of contact with the cold water from the feet up. This gradual adaptation phase should take another 3 to 5 minutes. After that, take the whole-body cold shower for 2 to 5 minutes or longer if you feel like it. You can take adapted cold showers two or three times a day when you feel sick. Be sure to place a rubber mat inside your bathtub and another mat beside your bathtub so that you don't slip and fall.

      Optionally, you can include a heating procedure before the cold shower once a week or once every two weeks: a hot bath or sauna. I would recommend hot baths instead of a sauna because hot baths will achieve the same heating effect (will raise your core body temperature) without the extreme temperatures of a sauna. If you choose a sauna, then it is best to lie down because heating your legs while you are standing up may lead to varicose veins. Almost a century ago, American physician William Coley successfully treated cancer by inducing a fever (core body temperature of 40°C [104°F] and higher). Hyperthermia is gradually being incorporated into clinical practice as a treatment of cancer and is thought to stimulate innate immunity against cancer cells. My advice is to use brief moderate hyperthermia (40°C core body temperature achieved in a hot bath) as hormesis and an immunostimulant, not extreme hyperthermia as an attempt to kill cancer cells (you risk killing the patient too).

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