Cancer and Healthy

It was the summer of 2005, when my diagnostic mammography showed a growth on the back of my chest. The biopsy confirmed it was cancer. My best option was a mastectomy. The day before the operation, my surgeon called to tell me my pre-opt tests came back.

"Your liver enzymes are serious," he said.
"What are the liver enzymes to be?" I asked.
"Liver Enzymes let us know how healthy the liver," he explained. "Your enzymes are 3 times higher than normal. Surgery" on hold "until we have a number of tests."

If the cancer spread to my liver?

After a round of tests, called the surgeon again.

"The cancer does not appear to have spread to the liver, but we can not pin point the cause of the elevated enzymes." He continued: "We can no longer wait for an operation."

Three days later I had chest. The doctors decided I was not a good candidate for the traditional follow-up treatment of cancer by radiation, chemotherapy or hormonal (anti-estrogen) therapy. There is no cure for breast cancer, yet, traditional therapies were not for me. My liver enzymes are still serious. I knew I had to find an alternative treatment. I went into research mode. I cast by hundreds of studies, medical journals, and dozens of books. I switched on my piles of notes. I thought that my Six-Step Plan. I have my own guinea pig.

My Six-Step Plan:

I stopped several 1st and mineral supplements.
Recent studies, for example, in The Journal of American Medical Association and reports of Internal Medicine concluded daily intake of beta-carotene, vitamin A and vitamin E in the form of vitamin Piller increased risk of death by 16 percent Vitamin A, vitamin E by 4 percent and beta-carotene by 7 percent. Researchers also suggested these and other artificial vitamins overwhelm the liver.

2nd I switched to organic food and began using olive oil for all my cooking and baking.
Organic food is removed from my diet the toxic pesticides, toxic fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics added that in conventional foods. Olive oil is healthy for the liver.

3rd I increased my food intake of vitamin C.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects the inside of a cell from free radicals that can cause diseases such as cancer. Vitamin C is the main antioxidant of them all. According to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of every six adults get less than half the daily recommended amount. Since our body can not produce or store Vitamin C, I'm sure I drink orange juice, eating tomatoes, sweet peppers, broccoli and parsley every day. But I can not vitamin C supplements. According to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, large doses of vitamin C in food-like also protects cancer cells in our cells. Vitamin C in food sources are not.

4th I suppose that in the sun for 15 minutes each day for vitamin D.
Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin. Science Daily reports, studies show a clear correlation between a lack of vitamin D and breast cancer. I have a daily ritual of fifteen minutes of Sunday a day without sunscreen.

5th I go every day for exercise.
Since I live in Florida, where the heat can be a problem, I usually go to Wal-Mart and Target. (I assume only a few dollars to me, so I'm not inclined to buy something!)

6th I meditate twenty minutes per day to reduce stress.
A little stress makes us more productive. A lot of stress makes us sick. I want my body to concentrate on a good, not for combat stress. Meditation is a healer in mind, while organic food is a healer of the body.

After six months of this regime, I returned to the doctor for a series of tests. My liver enzymes returned to normal and my total cholesterol dropped forty points, while my good cholesterol increased by forty points. My cancer was in remission.

I'm still on my six-step plan to combat cancer again. There is no cure for breast cancer. For me, the best thing I can do is to cancer in remission and the struggle to be brief there. This year in the U.S., there will be approximately 243,000 new cases of breast cancer. More than 41,000 breast cancer patients will die. I have no plans to join them.