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dan
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 Posted - 03/27/2007 : 21:49:58
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There are many practical ways to fight skin cancer. Dozens of strategies are detailed on the http://www.topicalinfo.org/treatment.htm and http://www.topicalinfo.org/prevention.htm pages.
If you have active skin cancer, I think it is very difficult to battle it without topical treatments or surgery. I view the other types of strategies (diet, supplements, etc) as prevention measures. The http://www.topicalinfo.org/skincancer.htm page discusses several potential causes beyond excessive sun exposure. Important skin cancer prevention measures include dramatically reducing polyunsaturated omega 6 oils and trans fats in the diet, getting lots of folate (reduces sun sensitivity) with a diet rich in greens, and supplementing vitamin D (~2000 IU/day). Also avoid too much sun.
Much cancer maintenance in the body occurs at night while sleeping. Pancreatin enzymes provide a primary immune system response to any type of cancer. Practice a daily protein fast of 12 hours or more so that the enzymes produced by the pancreas can be used for cancer control instead of being diverted for digestion. Try to never eat high protein snacks or meals immediately prior to retiring for the night so as to not interfere with the fast. Maintain a healthy pancreas by reducing iron and sugar consumption. Eat defined meals a each day and avoid grazing. The hormone melatonin produced at night is vital to cancer control.
Systemic candida yeast infection can be a precursor to skin cancer. Candida overgrowth is often the result of too much sugar in the diet. To eliminate candida, avoid added sugars, foods with white flour, and starchy foods. Increase saturated fats and essential oils, especially omega-3 oils. Essential bacteria in the body are in balance with candida and keep it in check. Killing those bacteria allows candida to thrive. Avoid antibiotics. Add a probiotic or have a plain yogurt a day. Use a water and shower filter to remove candida's friend chlorine.
Many foods protect against cancer such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, strawberries, red raspberries, and brussel sprouts. Good spices include garlic, oregano, curry (contains turmeric or its extract curcumin), and black pepper. Green tea is helpful. Supplements that I think are especially helpful for skin health include Vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, iodine (Iodoral), astaxanthin, Vitamin K2, pancreatin enzymes, lycopene, melatonin (at night), and omega 3 from fish oil.
Although sunscreens can prevent sunburn, do not count on sunscreens to prevent skin cancer. The evidence says they do not have much of an effect.
Stress seems to trigger outbreaks. Get enough sleep and practice relaxation techniques. Probably better first than finally, ask God for healing. The skin cancer prevention strategies will eventually pay off, just not immediately. Be persistent, you can get ahead of skin cancer.
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grabec
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Posted - 06/02/2007 : 18:28:40
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from the lady with the husband with the bcc that has gone deep and soon will have surgery to remove his ear and go down into his bone as the cancer has spread.............
Dan, thanks so much for your insights. I have been studying the incredible information on these forums and taking notes until my eyes are blurry. I have purchased several things mentioned and will be trying them soon. Your synopsis on this post I certainly agree with and am doing all of that. I have my husband on juices made up of: broccoli, broccoli sprouts, tumeric, black and red raspberries, carrots, almonds, green tea, tomato paste, and cauliflower. After studying this site I will be adding other things to the jucie too. There is so much to ingest that the only way I can get it all in is with my juicer. Also been applying raspberry cream topically and at first didn't think it was working but this is about 7 days and today I can definitely see improvement but he has also been taking all this juice so anything could be helping or by tomorrow his ear could look bad and be breaking out in sores again. I am pesamistically optomistic. |
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dan
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Posted - 06/07/2007 : 00:42:57
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| Thanks, we are hopeful for your husband too. He's lucky to have you. |
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grabec
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Posted - 06/12/2007 : 00:38:28
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Thanks Dan |
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thanks01
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dan
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 13:33:56
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I find the Mercola newsletter sometimes to be very useful as well. The article above talks about a study result of the chemical Wogonin found in the root of the Chinese medicine herb huang qin, AKA scutellaria baicalensis and baikal skullcap. Wogonin was found to cause apoptosis in cultured leukemia cells without affecting healthy blood cells.
A picture of the beautiful flowering herb baikal skullcap can be seen at http://www.one-garden.org/Chinese/baikalsk.htm The plant root extract is said to have anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-pyretic, diuretic hypotensive, anti-allergic, cholagogue, hemostatic, lowers blood lipids, calming, bronchodilator, anti-abortive, immune stimulant, and interferon inducent properties, according to http://www.herbalists.on.ca/resources/freeman/SCUTELLA.html . Wow, it looks like it could solve all my problems!
Dr. Min Li-Weber of the Division of Immunogenetics at the German Cancer Research Centre has found that wogonin works by radically increasing the formation of hydrogen peroxide in tumor cells compared to healthy cells. The peroxide, in turn, produces a calcium response, which triggers the apoptosis reaction.
Here are Mercola's twelve cancer risk reduction strategies excerpted from the mercola.com link above:
"1. Reduce or eliminate your processed food, sugar and grain carbohydrate intake. Yes, this is even true for whole unprocessed organic grains as they tend to rapidly break down and drive your insulin and leptin levels up, which is the last thing you need to have happening if you are seeking to resolve a cancer.
2. Control your fasting insulin and leptin levels. This is the end result, and can be easily monitored with the use of simple and relatively inexpensive blood tests.
3. Normalize your ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats by taking a high-quality krill oil or fish oil and reducing your intake of most processed vegetable oils.
4. Get regular exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
5. Normalize your vitamin D levels and vitamin A levels by getting plenty of sunlight exposure and consider careful supplementation when this is not possible. If you take oral vitamin D and have a cancer, it would be very prudent to monitor your vitamin D blood levels regularly.
6. Get regular, good sleep.
7. Eat according to your nutritional type. The potent anti-cancer effects of this principle are very much underappreciated. When we treat cancer patients in our clinic this is one of the most powerful anti-cancer strategies we have.
8. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.
9. Limit your exposure and provide protection for yourself from information carrying radio waves produced by cell phone towers, base stations, phones and WiFi stations.
10. Avoid frying or charbroiling your food. Boil, poach or steam your foods instead.
11. Have a tool to permanently reprogram the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. Energy psychology seems to be one of the best approaches and my particular favorite tool, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique. German New Medicine is another powerful tool.
12. Eat at least one-third of your food raw." |
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thanks01
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 18:49:48
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Without meaning to quibble, I followed the links in the post above on the Chinese herb wogonin and also went back to the Mercola article. Following the link he indicates as his source (Chinese Medicine News December 28, 2007 - sorry the link is masked on his web page) the herb mentioned in the SOURCE article is identified as Scutellaria radix, not its cousin scutellaria baicalensis.
Scurrying around the Internet, one difference seems to be, unfortunately, that I can't find the "S. radix" plant available in a nursery to purchase for the garden if someone is interested, whereas the "baicalensis" is available at the link given above http://www.one-garden.org/Chinese/baikalsk.htm ).
As in the current very interesting thread on SPURGE (Euphorbia) titled - "Petty Spurge Herb sap for skin cancers" in the Topical Treatments forum, Scutellaria is a large plant family, with many species, each with its specific properties. See link http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-580.html -- where "S. radix" is mentioned, but does not show up in the chart given for the Scutellaria family.
The reason that I am bothering to reply to the above post is not to be fussy, but because in a case like the Euphorbia family, the plant properties to either heal or damage may be different enough that we have to be very careful to distinguish the species as we discuss them.
Apparently "S. radix" -- wogonin is too unknown in the West and also, hardly available. Interesting subject here, but don't have any more time. If someone else can dig deeper, it's always interesting, especially if we learn more about this plant and people could order it and grow it in their gardens, etc. Thank you.
(P.S. I'm starting to think that going any deeper into this particular plant's healing properties may belong in one of the other discussion threads and I am copying this wogonin discussion over to the Topical Treatments forum as a new thread.) |
Edited by - thanks01 on 01/19/2008 19:27:01 |
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thanks01
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 19:00:44
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Another part of the Mercoloa "12 Strategies to Prevent Cancer" article was his introduction to that section, after discussing the Chinese herb. I liked Dan's idea to copy down the valuable parts of the web page for easy reference in this forum, so here goes, from Dr. Mercola:
For those of you who are new to the newsletter, I’d like to reiterate that while I view herbs as frequently helpful and virtually non-toxic when compared to patent drugs, they rarely treat the cause of your disease. I view most of them as frequently effective symptomatic band-aids. Therefore, if you depend solely on herbs without addressing the underlying cause of your disease, you’re still likely avoiding the real cure.
So what are the underlying causes of most, if not all disease? I strongly believe it boils down to three basics of equal importance:
1. Your emotional and mental state
2. Your nutrition
3. Your physical activity
All advice essentially falls under one of these three basic necessities for optimal health, which create a circle of either positive or negative ramifications, depending on whether you address them appropriately or not. |
Edited by - thanks01 on 01/19/2008 19:18:40 |
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dan
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Posted - 01/20/2008 : 01:00:48
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| Well, the confusion over the plant name may be solved. I'm pretty sure that Scutellaria baicalensis is the name of the plant, and radix simply means root. http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/60/3/507 has the sentence "Wogonin (Wog) is an active component isolated from Scutellaria baicalensis radix, a Chinese herbal remedy widely used in clinical treatment of inflammatory diseases, including atopic dermatitis, hyperlipemia, and atherosclerosis." So scutellaria radix is short for the root of the scutellaria baicalensis plant, which you can find in nurseries. |
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grammie
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Posted - 09/27/2009 : 19:55:49
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| I got my first skin cancer when I was under tremendous pressure. Subsequent skin cancers seem to have come when I was again under pressure. I think for me there is a direct correlation between stress and the occurance of these skin cancers, Have you seen the following web site that discusses causes and treatment of cancer? http://germannewmedicine.ca/ |
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dan
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Posted - 09/28/2009 : 21:27:44
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Hi grammie, that is an interesting web site (actually redirects to http://learninggnm.com/ ) that says disease is caused by a necessary combination of both physical and psychological stresses. At least that is what I quickly took away. For instance, they say smoking by itself will not lead to lung cancer if you don't know it can harm you. Or for skin cancer, excessive sun exposure will not lead to skin cancer it you are not aware that it is supposed to cause it. It is an interesting theory that goes against western medicine. I believe the skin cancer scenario more than the smoking case.
I agree the impact of psychological stresses on disease are underestimated. Maybe the stress just cuts into the body's ability to balance itself with the right chemicals at the right time. |
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proximityinfotech3
India
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Posted - 07/07/2010 : 09:12:16
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Dr. Min Li-Weber of the Division of Immunogenetics at the German Cancer Research Centre has found that wogonin works by radically increasing the formation of hydrogen peroxide in tumor cells compared to healthy cells. The peroxide, in turn, produces a calcium response, which triggers the apoptosis reaction.
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trudie
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Posted - 07/08/2010 : 09:37:47
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hi proximity,
Could you please give us more info. Is this a new cure or a prevention and where can we find the research? Thanks. |
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