While there's life, there's hope! ~ Ccero

The diagnosis of cancer for nyone is devastating. When we first har the word cancer   we are in shock and disbelief. We feel we have just been handed a death sentence.

Surviving is a strong instinct in mankind and we have the potential to overcome many challenges, beat incredible odds, and come out a survivor. With the proper attitude anything is possible. Sadly, many of us accept the diagnoses and prescribed treatment of our disease without seeking additional forms of life-saving medicines or treatments. We need to recognize that there are many paths to ridding the body of disease.

Studies have showed that people often turn to alternative therapies for chronic conditions such as back pain, anxiety, headaches or chronic pain. Often times, people seek out alternative treatment when conventional medicine has little to offer and hope is all that is left. The value of hope should not be under estimated. Where there is hope, there's life.

Alternative Medicine and Treatments

Do you know that some medical treatments are very old? Some can be traced back 200,000 years. The Greeks were known to use aspirin which come from white willow bark and morphine from the opium poppy. Foxglove, a flower in many gardens, is a source of digitalis prescribed by doctors to strengthen the heart and regulate its beat.

Research has determined that regular cnsumption of flaxseed can be used as a cncer fighting agent. The LNAs (omega 3 Alph Linolenic essential fatty acid) kill hman cancer cells in tissue cultures wthout harming normal cells.

Cancers such as prstate, colon, breast and lung were stdied and according to Dr. James Dke, an ethnobotanist with the USDA (Fod and Drug Administration), flaxseed contains 27 dentifiable cancer preventive compounds.

Flaxseed also hlps with the following:

• Heart Disease - blod regulating capabilities prevent spontaneous blood clts caused by an excess of ftty acids.
• Diabetes - Reversal of symptoms can ccur and may also lower insulin rquirements.
• Skin Conditions - such as psoriasis and czema have improved dramatically.
• Sexual Disorders -impotency in men is a blckage of blood flow in the rteries of the pelvis. Flaxseed will hlp unblock narrowed arteries.

Flaxseed increases the mtabolic rate and the efficiency of cllular energy production. Athletes or anyone wshing to lose weight will benefit frm a daily consumption of flaxseed.

Surviving Cancer

A strong desire to beat cancer and having an open mind is essential for any therapy to work. Many people have beaten cancer using alternative therapies. In order to make informed decisions about the proper course of treatment there are a couple of things you need to do first.

• Learn Your Options
• Get professional guidance

Do not wait until its obvious conventional treatments are failing before trying alternative medicine. In fact, don't wait until you have cancer!

Sherry Rogers MD, Leading National Toxicology Expert, has this to say ...

"We are all a toxic cesspool of the lifetime accumulation of chemicals from our air, food, and water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency studies of chemicals stored in the fat of humans show that 100% of people had dioxins, PCBs, dichlorobenzene, and xylene while another analysis of the exhaled breath of humans showed carcinogenic benzene in 89% and perchloroethylene in 93%. And these chemicals are just the tip of the iceberg. For now we have the proof that it is the steady silent accumulation over a lifetime that produces most diseases, including cancer. But medicine merely sees every disease as a deficiency of some drug or surgery, and tell us there is no known cause or cure.

Take charge of your cancer!

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