caffeine-truth!

"Caffeine (p.45)

Caffeine, the active ingredient in coffee, tea, soft drinks, cocoa, chocolate, and 2000 nonprescription drugs, is the world's most consumed drug. 80% of adults in the U.S. consume it daily in one form or another. Flobally, tea is the worlds most popular beverage, followed by coffee and soft drinks. One cup of tea contains about half as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. A 12- oz. can of coke or pepsi contains about as much caffeine as a cup of tea or half a cup of coffee.

Multiple Effects of Caffeine:
...Metabolically, it takes the liver about 5 hours to break down half a given amount of caffeine. Absorbed quickly in the intestine, caffeine crosses all CELL MEMBRANES and is rapidly diffused into the saliva, semen breast milk and amniotic fluid. Caffeine revs up the brain, stimulating mental focus, productivity, and physical performance.
HOWEVER, in large amounts, caffeine produces the opposite effect, inhibiting neuron firing and acting as a depressant. Caffeine causes the heart to beat more rapidly, constricts some blood vessels and dilates others, and stimulates some muscles to contract and others to expand. Caffeine can curb the appetite, cause weight loss and serve as a laxative. It increases urine production and can stress the kidneys.
While caffeine RELEASES fat stored in cells, "caffeine may actually make it harder to eat a balanced, healthy diet." In medical studies, it is associated with increased binge eating, PMS, and possible birth defects and impaired development of children.
Decaf, meanwhile, is weakly linked with raising cholesterol, and he solvent processing method, using strong chemicals like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate, may pose risks though it has been approved by the FDA.
Habitual coffee drinkers commonly suffer from withdrawal symptoms, including tiredness, irritability, and grogginess in the morning before they have their first cup of coffee. Caffeine dependence, withdrawal, and addiction were not recognized until recently.
In writing his book, Braun concludes that he has become more conscious of caffeine's strong, potentially harmful effects. While he still drinks coffee, he is more mindful and takes periodic "caffeine holidays" of one or two weeks at a time."

about brain tumors

"Brain Tumors (p.38)

Brain tumors are the leading cause of death from childhood cancer.

Childhood Tumors Linked to Cured Meat

In a study of maternal diet during pregnancy involving 1300 children, researchers at the University of South California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center reported that consumption of meats cured with sodium nitrite increased the risk of brain tumors."

Pretty much anything cured or processed is a no-no if you want to keep your bod/immune system happy and healthy.

take care of you!

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

Cancer-Fungus

Article found here:

Cancer Fungus – The Link Between the Microbe and Cancer

The cancer fungus link is well-documented. Fungus is a microbe, and many scientists believe viruses, fungus and bacteria are all different stages of the microbe life cycle. The microbe has long been associated with and identified as a possible cause for cancer. A large and significant number of independent cancer researchers, scientists, microbiologists and prominent medical practitioners over the past 100 years [as shown below] have found overwhelming evidence supporting this cancer fungus link or link between cancer and the microbe. They have also discovered and observed that this microbe is pleomorphic, meaning it changes back and forth from harmless spore form to harmful viral, bacterial and yeast-like fungus form. This microbe, they found, is always present in cancer / tumor cells.

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1890
On December 3, 1890 William Russell, a pathologist in the School of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, gave an address to the Pathological Society of London in which he outlined his histopathologic findings of a characteristic organism of cancer that he observed microscopically in fuchsine-stained tissue sections from all forms of cancer that he examined, as well as in certain cases of tuberculosis, syphilis and skin infection. The parasite was seen within the tissue cells (intracellular) and outside the cells (extracellular). The size of Russell's parasite ranged from barely visible, up to "half again as large as a red blood corpuscle."  The largest round forms were easily seen microscopically. The large size of some of these bodies suggested a fungal or yeast-like parasite. Russell provisionally classified the parasite as a possible "blastomycete" (a type of fungus); and called the forms "fuchsine bodies" because of their bluish-red staining qualities.

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1901
After three years work at the New York State Pathological Laboratory of the University of Buffalo, Harvey Gaylord confirmed Russell's research in a 36-page report titled "The protozoon of cancer", published in May, 1901, in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Gaylord found the small forms and the large sacs characteristic of Russell bodies in every cancer he examined. Some large spherical bodies were four times the diameter of a leukocyte (white blood cell). Red blood cells measure about 7 micron in diameter and leukocytes are 2 to 3 times larger than red blood cells. Thus, some of the bodies that Gaylord observed attained the amazing size of around 50 micron in diameter. In addition, he found evidence of internal segmentation within the larger bodies "after the manner recognized in malarial parasites." The tiniest forms appeared the size of ordinary staphylococci.

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1920
In the 1920s James Young, an obstetrician from Scotland, repeatedly grew pleomorphic bacteria from various cancers. The microbes had a "specific life cycle" and "spore stages" comprised of exceedingly tiny and barely visible spores. In the laboratory these tiny spores transformed into larger coccoid (round) forms, rod-forms and yeast-like forms (similar in size to Russell bodies). Young found his microbe in 16 cases of breast cancer, and in two mice with breast cancer. He identified "spore forms" and clumped "spore balls" in microscopic sections prepared from the mouse tumours.

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1925
In 1925 Northwest Medicine published two papers by Michael Scott, a Montana surgeon who learned about the cancer microbe in TJ Glover's lab in 1921. Scott's microbe was similar to Young's. The parasite had a life cycle composed of three stages: a coccus, a rod, and a "spore sac" stage. Scott believed cancer was an infection like tuberculosis and attempted a vaccine treatment, but his treatment methods were quickly suppressed by the medical establishment.

In 1925, John Nuzum, a pathologist and physician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, reported a pleomorphic coccus he repeatedly isolated from breast cancer. The tiniest forms were virus-like and passed through a filter designed to hold back bacteria. Nuzum grew his "micrococcus" from 38 of 41 early breast cancers, and from the cancerous lymph nodes and metastatic tumours resulting from spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. During his 6 years of intensive bacteriological study, he learned the microbe could pass through a filter designed to hold back bacteria, indicating that some forms of the microbe were as small as the size of some viruses. With special stains he detected these small round coccoid forms within the breast cancer tumour cells. Although Nuzum couldn't produce cancer tumours in mice, he was able to induce breast cancer tumours in 2 of 5 dogs injected with the microbe.

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1932
Royal Raymond Rife studied medicine at the prestigious John Hopkins University, and began his career as a research pathologist and medical researcher. Over his lifetime, Rife was to receive fourteen major scientific awards and honours and an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg for his scientific discoveries. Royal R. Rife cultured tissue from a breast cancer sample, in Kendall medium, and isolated a micro-organism. He followed this experiment with a series of other studies in which he cultured an organism in Kendall media, from tissue taken from a human breast cancer. He then injected this microorganism into 412 healthy rats, and found that without fail they all developed breast cancer. Finally, he was then able to isolate the original microorganism from the tumours which grew in the rats. In the process Rife became probably the first person ever to fulfil Koch's postulants, for cancer causing microbes. Koch's Postulants are a set of rules to prove the causation of disease by microorganisms. They state that to prove such causality the microorganism must first be isolated and cultured. It must then be shown to have infected a health animal, and finally the same organism must be recoverable from the now infected animal.

The cancer virus which Rife named Cryptocides Primordiales or the BX virus, was a minute 1/5 micron in length and 1/20 micron in width. It was highly motile, aerobic (requiring free oxygen for its survival) and highly pathogenic. Rife discovered that while exposing the virus to a temperature of 42C for 24 hours would kill the virus, it remained unaffected by exposure to either X-ray, UV or Infra-red waves. While the discovery of a cancer virus was in itself an incredible feat of scientific endeavour, Rife was to make yet more discoveries destined to rock the scientific status quo. The BX virus was shown to be a polymorphic virus, able to change its states according to the culture in which it was grown. When a BX virus was cultivated in a different media, it was seen to change into a BY virus. When the media was changed yet again it developed into a monococcoid in the monocytes of the blood, and with a further change of media it morphed once again, this time into crytomyces pleomorphia fungi. At any stage along this journey of polymorphism, the original BX virus could be grown again by adding any one of these forms to the original media.

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1935
Another pleomorphist, Canadian researcher of Dr Gruner was watching Rife's work with interest. Gruner was using asparagus agar to grow fungus from cancer blood. Rife was growing a virus from cancer tissue using Kendall media. In the 1930's both Gruner and Rife collaborated and went on to discover that when a sample of Gruner's fungus was cultured on K media the BX virus emerged. By changing the media they could turn a fungus originally grown out of cancer blood into the BX organism, itself grown out of cancer tissue. They repeated this experiment hundreds of times with exactly replicable results each time.

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1940
Virginia Livingston, independently discovered the cancer microbe in the late 1940s. Aided by micro-biologist Eleanor Alexander-Jackson, who supplied the bacteriologic expertise, the two women found a special stain (the acid-fast stain) that allowed the microbe to be recognised in culture and within the cancer tumour. Like the researchers back in the 1920s, they confirmed the microbe was filterable; and electron microscopic photos provided further proof that the filterable forms were indeed viral-size. Livingston has written three books on the cancer microbe: Cancer: A New Breakthrough (1972), The Microbiology of Cancer (1977), and The Conquest of Cancer (1984).

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1950In the 1950s Irene Diller of the Institute for Cancer Research at Fox Chase, Philadelphia, discovered fungus-like microbes in cancer cells. Joining forces with the Livingston team, Diller worked with specially bred mice with a proven cancer incidence. By injecting them with microbes cultured from breast cancer and other tumours, she was able to more than double the cancer incidence of the mice. She injected healthy animals with cancer bacteria. When cancer tumours developed she successfully cultured the microbe from the tumours - thus proving that these bacteria were implicated in the production of cancer. Utilising Livingston's methods, Diller also grew the microbe from the blood of cancer patients.

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1950 – Present

In the 1950, Professor Gaston Naessens invented a high-powered light microscope, capable of viewing the tiniest forms of life within blood. With this microscope, Naessens discovered in the blood of animals and humans – as well as in the saps of plants – a subcellular microscopic life form that reproduces, which he christened a somatid (tiny body). The somatid, he found, could be cultured (grown) outside the bodies of its hosts (in vitro, "under glass,"). Naessens also observed that this somatid life form was pleomorphic (form-changing). He observed this somatid life form was limited to 3 stages in a healthy organism – somatid, spore, and double spore – and that these 3 stages where crucial to the organisms survival. What was more amazing, was that Professor Naessens observed that this somatid life form became pathogenic (harmful) when the immune system of the organism was compromised or weakened. He observed these somatid life forms then entered a further 13 stages of development, changing from bacterial into yeast-like fungus forms. (A total of 16 stages). Naessens studied the blood of various degenerative diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, AIDS, and cancer, and consistently found the 16 stages of the somatid life cycle (shown below) present in all of these diseases.

1960 – 1990
In the early 1960s Florence Seibert became so impressed with Irene Diller's research that she quit retirement to help prove that bacteria cause cancer. Back in the 1920s Seibert devised a method to make intravenous transfusions safe by eliminating contaminating ubiquitous bacteria. Later, as one of the foremost authorities investigating the chemistry and immunology of the acid-fast bacteria that cause tuberculosis, she perfected the skin test for tuberculosis that has been used worldwide ever since. In 1938, she was awarded the famed Trudeau Medal, the highest prize given to tuberculosis research. Experiments conducted by Seibert and her research team showed these acid-fast and TB-like cancer microbes were not laboratory contaminants because they were able to isolate bacteria from every piece of tumour (and every acute leukemic blood) they studied.

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1983
Cosmic Awareness – the force that expressed itself through Jesus of Nazareth, the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Edgar Cayce, and others who served as spiritual messengers for God reveals that cancer is indeed a fungus. In this revelation, it is revealed that there are seven different types of fungus which are diagnosed as cancer. In this revelation, it is also revealed that Apple Cider Vinegar together with High Dose Vitamin C or equivalent amounts of lemon juice can effectively rid this cancer fungus from the body. To read this full article, click on Lemon Vinegar Cancer Treatment.

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1983 – Present
Dr Tullio Simoncini is an Italian doctor specialising in oncology, diabetology and in metabolic disorders. He has treated and cured many cancer patients with sodium bicarbonate (the strongest anti-fungal chemical known to man), commonly via catheter, and has observed tumours consistently disappear within weeks. His book, “Cancer is a Fungus – The Revolution in the Therapy of Tumours” is widely available. It is Dr Simoncini’s unequivocal belief that cancer and tumours are the result of fungal growth in the body, supporting the cancer fungus link. [Note: Injecting baking soda into the body is a method used by Dr Simoncini and may cause side effects]. See: Sodium Bicarbonate Cancer Treatment

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World Health Authorities Link the Microbe to Cancer
1.  "The over representation of cancer in a region where there is a high incidence of parasitic disease, and the unique characteristics of bilharzial bladder cancer, indicate the possibility that this parasite plays a role in the etiology of cancer. The presence of chronic bacterial cystitis, complicated by urethral strictures, calculi, diverticulae and paralytic stasis, has been known to induce epithelial changes in the bladder mucosa, which may progress to invasive cancer." [CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, the American Cancer Society - Parasites in the Etiology of Cancer: Bilharziasis [parasite] and Bladder Cancer, 1977, Dr. Elsebai, Professor of Surgery, Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt.

2.  "Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharziasis), an infection with a parasitic worm called Schistosoma hematobium that can get into the bladder, is also a risk factor for bladder cancer. Although this parasite is found mostly in Northern Africa, it does cause rare cases of bladder cancer in the United States among people who had been infected by the worm before moving to this country."  [American Cancer Society]

3.  According to the US National Cancer Institute, "Being infected with parasites increases the risk of bladder cancer." It is possible that the immune system in a highly parasitized human being is compromised. In attempting to fight off the large amounts of [foreign] parasites, cancer cells that exist in every human being are left alone to multiply - the immune system simply not having enough resources to go around.

4.  The World Health Organization estimates over 1.5 million of the total of 10 million new cancer cases a year could be avoided by preventing the infection associated with them. WHO states that "Viruses, bacteria and parasites emerge as the "secret agents" causing millions of cases of cancer" each year.

5.  Many cancers are associated with infections (for example, cervical cancer is linked to the human papilloma virus), but there is no stronger link between a human malignancy and a parasitic infection than that between cancer of the bile ducts and a liver fluke called Opisthorchis viverrini. Scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) in Brisbane are part of an international study into the link between cancer and a parasite found in South-East Asia. The institute’s Dr Alex Loukas says bile duct cancer is prevalent in Thailand and Laos, where people eat raw fish. He says the results could be applied to other cancers caused by parasites. "We know from collaborations with our colleagues in Thailand that the cancer is highly likely to be caused by proteins that this worm secretes into the bile ducts as part of its feeding process".

6.  [American Cancer Society] "Cervix cancer is caused by a virus called HPV. HPV is short for human papilloma (pap-ah-LO-mah) virus. This virus can cause changes in the cervix. HPV is NOT the same as HIV. HPV is not a new virus, but we are learning more about this virus. Almost everyone who has ever had sex has had HPV at some time in his or her life. HPV is spread through sex and it can cause an infection in the cervix. The infection usually doesn't last very long because your body is able to fight the infection. If the HPV doesn’t go away, the virus may cause cervix cells to change and become pre-cancer cells."

7.  The Institute for Genomic Research and the International Livestock Research Institute have joined forces to decode the DNA of one of Africa’s most destructive cattle parasites. East Coast Fever is caused by a protozoan parasite carried by ticks. The parasite is known to scientists as Theileria parva. Once injected into the cow’s bloodstream it invades the animal’s white blood cells, causing them to divide uncontrollably, like cancer cells. The multiplying cells clog the cow’s organs, killing the animal within 2 to 4 weeks. Knowledge of the genes that the parasite uses to start this lethal cell division may shed light on the mechanisms that cause human tumours to grow. Research on the East Coast Fever parasite has already led to the identification of a previously unknown mechanism that causes leukemia in mice.

8.  A new study links parasites with immunosuppression. Stool specimens taken from 38 children with malignancy and from 92 healthy children were investigated for intestinal parasites. The 38 children with malignancy had lymphoma or leukemia and were considered immunosuppressed. Several different parasites were found in 16 of the 38 patients with immune deficiency (47.3%), compared to only 16 of the 92 healthy children (17.3%). The incidence of parasites in patients with malignancy who were immunosuppressed was significantly higher than in the healthy control group. [Study performed by Department of Parasitology, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Ýzmir, Turkey and Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Ýzmir, Turkey, March 2004].

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Ridding the Body of Fungus to Overcome Cancer
Whatever alternative cancer treatment plan you eventually decide on, it is important to have a protocol in this treatment plan that kills the cancer fungus inside of you. Did you know that most alternative cancer treatments either directly or indirectly kill the yeast-like fungus that causes cancer?  Some of these include the Gerson Therapy Diet, the Bob Peck protocol, the Overnight Cure for Cancer, 714X, Garlic, Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda), MMS(Miracle Mineral Supplement), Apple Cider Vinegar and Lemon Juice, the Hulda Clark protocol, and herbal remedies that purify the blood such as Essiactea to name just a few. Some of these treatment options are more difficult than others, so it is important to find one or more that suits you - because they all effectively do the same thing: kill the cancer fungus.

Love your Lymph

(yep, me in the pink, moving my lymph during our last cruise!)

The below article is from here

Want vibrant health? Many practitioners recommend cleansing, an age-old practice used in holistic medicine. When you mention cleansing to most people, they typically think of eliminating toxins from the liver and intestines, which is indeed a valuable health practice. But there is an equally important, and much-overlooked, system in the body that keeps us feeling great — the lymphatic system. Whether you’re suffering from aches and pains, swelling, inflammation, fatty deposits or bloating, cleansing the lymphatic system once or twice a year often can be the difference between great health and poor health.

The lymphatic system (or lymph system, as it is commonly called) is a complex network of fluid-filled nodes, vessels, ducts and glands — including the spleen, thymus and tonsils — that bathe our cells and carry our body’s “sewage” away from the tissues and neutralize it. These elements of the lymph system work together to carry cellular waste to the bloodstream. The lymph system handles toxins that enter the body through external sources, such as foods or air pollution, but also handles internally produced toxins (endotoxins) that are the result of normal metabolic processes in the body.

Learn About Lymph

A study by Elisabeth Dancey, M.D., author of The Cellulite Solution (St. Martin’s Press, 1997), found that women with cellulite showed lymphatic system deficiencies. Another study found that 80 percent of overweight women have sluggish lymphatic systems and that getting this system flowing smoothly is the key to easy weight loss and improved feelings of well-being.

If the lymph system is inefficient, you may see fatty deposits or cellulite or experience aches and pains. Conversely, if you improve the cleansing ability of the lymph system, it will be able to “sweep” away the toxins that are linked to pain, cellulite, fatty deposits and some autoimmune disorders.

A healthy lymphatic system also helps purify the blood through the largest mass of lymph tissue in the body, the spleen. The spleen fights infection and destroys worn-out red blood cells in the body. By cleansing your lymphatic system, your spleen will be better able to handle the retired red blood cells.

Eat Well for a Clean Lymph System

Foods can either help or hinder the flow of lymph in the body. To cleanse the lymphatic system, avoid “chemical foods” that contain artificial preservatives, flavors, colors and stabilizers — most prepared, packaged and fast foods. The further away from the natural, whole fruit, vegetable, grain or bean that a food has moved, the more likely it is to clog your lymphatic system.

Avoid foods that are difficult to digest, including fatty foods, excessive animal protein, simple sugars and simple carbohydrates. Sweet foods and the “whites,” which include white rice, white bread, white pasta and any white-flour products, require enormous amounts of energy to handle the resulting rapid blood-sugar fluctuations. This energy is better served to cleanse your lymph system.

Drink plenty of water. Without adequate water, lymph fluid cannot flow properly. If you drink inadequate amounts of water daily, your lymphatic system will slow down.

The enzymes and acids in raw fruit are powerful lymph cleansers, particularly when eaten on an empty stomach. Add more raw fruits, vegetables, salads and fresh juices to your diet and your lymph will have the tools it needs to do some serious deep cleansing.

Flavonoids, malic acid, citric acid, quinic acid and enzymes in cranberries and cranberry juice help emulsify stubborn fat in the lymphatic system. Be sure to drink only pure, unsweetened cranberry juice free of sweeteners — pasteurized bottled cranberry juice doesn’t have the same benefits. Dilute the juice at a ratio of about 4:1, water to cranberry juice. If you prefer a less tart juice, dilute 1 part unsweetened cranberry juice with 2 parts pure apple juice and 2 parts water. Make sure you use only pure apple juice devoid of sweeteners or preservatives.

Eat plenty of green vegetables to provide chlorophyll (the green color in plants) and loads of vitamins and minerals to assist in lymph cleansing.

Foods high in essential fatty acids are critical to ensure a properly functioning lymph system. Some of these foods include flaxseeds and cold-pressed flax oil; fresh, raw nuts and seeds like walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds; avocados; and cold-pressed oils, such as walnut and pumpkin seed. Be sure to purchase fresh, raw nuts and seeds from the refrigerated section of your local health-food or grocery store. The essential fatty acids found in nuts and seeds go rancid easily.

The Lymph Stress Quiz
Take the following quiz to learn whether your lymphatic system could use cleansing.
1. Are you overweight?
2. Do you have cellulite or fatty deposits?
3. Do you suffer from aches and pains?
4. Have you been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, lupus or another chronic immune system disorder?
5. Have you ever yo-yo dieted?
6. Do you feel bloated or have areas on your body that seem a little pudgy?
7. Are you prone to lumps and growths in your body?
8. Do you experience abdominal bloating?
9. Do you experience eye puffiness?
If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, your lymph system could use further tuning up. For generally healthy people, cleansing once or twice yearly (for about three weeks at a time) usually is adequate. If you’re overweight or have an immune disorder, you may wish to cleanse more frequently or for longer periods, under the supervision of your health-care provider.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding shouldn’t undertake a lymph cleanse, nor should people with diabetes or other chronic health problems, except under the guidance of a qualified health practitioner.

Try These Herbs for Deep Cleansing

The following six herbs are my top picks for cleansing the lymphatic system. They can be taken alone or in a combination of two or more herbs in a tea or tincture, for about three weeks at a time.

Echinacea (Echinacea spp.). Not only a powerful immune-boosting herb, echinacea combines well with astragalus to lessen congestion and swelling in the lymphatic system. Make a decoction using 2 teaspoons of dried echinacea per cup of water. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 15 minutes. Drink 1 cup, three times a day. Or take 1 teaspoon of tincture three times daily.

Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceus). The Chinese have been using astragalus, which they refer to as huang qi, for more than 2,000 years. “Huang qi” means “life-force strengthener.” In addition to strengthening the life force, astragalus is an excellent lymphatic system cleanser. Alongside echinacea, it alleviates congestion and swelling in the body. Astragalus is primarily available as a tincture, or in capsule or tablet form. Because potency can vary greatly with this herb, it is best to follow the package directions for the optimum dose.

Cleavers (Galium aparine). Known primarily as a blood and urinary tract cleanser, cleavers also enhances the function of the lymphatic system and decreases congestion and inflammation in the tissues. This herb improves the capacity of the lymphatic system to deal with toxins and combines well with pokeroot (see below). For cleavers tea, use 2 to 3 teaspoons of the dried herb (stems and small leaves) per cup of water. Drink 1 cup three times daily. Alternatively, use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of tincture three times daily. Avoid using cleavers if you suffer from diabetes or have diabetic tendencies.

Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis). In addition to having anti-inflammatory properties, goldenseal encourages lymphatic cleansing. Use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of dried herb per cup for an infusion. Drink 3 cups daily or take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of tincture three times a day.

Pokeroot (Phytolacca americana). Pokeroot is a useful herb for improving the flow of lymph. It works well with immune- and lymph-related conditions, such as adenitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, swollen glands, mumps, mastitis and fibrocystic breast disease. Take 1/3 teaspoon of the dried root per cup of water and simmer on the stove for 15 minutes to make a decoction. Alternatively, take 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of the tincture, three times a day. Do not increase the dose — the herb has powerful laxative effects that can be harmful in larger doses.

Caution: Pokeroot can be toxic. The herb should be used only under the supervision of an expert qualified in the appropriate use of this herb. Pokeroot should not be used by pregnant and breastfeeding women or in people who have lymphocytic leukemia or gastrointestinal irritation.

Wild indigo root (Baptisia tinctoria). Wild indigo helps destroy damaging microbes in the body and cleans up the lymphatic system, improves lymph flow and reduces swelling in lymph glands. For a powerful herbal cleanser, combine wild indigo root with cleavers and pokeroot. You can take it as a decoction using 1/3 teaspoon of the dried root per cup of water. Simmer 15 minutes and drink 1 cup three times a day. Or take 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of tincture three times daily. Do not use wild indigo if you’re pregnant or nursing.

MOVE YOUR BODY: EXERCISE IS VITAL

There is three times more lymph fluid in the body than blood, yet the body has no organ like the heart to pump lymph. That means lymph relies on deep breathing and exercise to move. While cleansing the lymphatic system, be sure to increase aerobic exercise — try brisk walking, rebounding on a mini trampoline or jogging. Also, it’s important to take time to practice deep-breathing exer- cises to help pump the lymph with fresh oxygen.

Thoroughly cleansing the lymphatic system is the key to long- term and efficient weight loss and great health. It is also the key to experiencing great health and living without pain.

Read more: http://www.motherearthliving.com/health-and-wellness/love-your-lymph.aspx#ixzz2yFErcdba

Royal Raymond Rife

I just wanted to educate you all on the success (and non-quackery) of Rife. 

Trust no one. Try everything.



"Disease organisms such as those of tuberculosis, cancer, sarcoma, typhoid and others may be observed to succumb when exposed to certain lethal frequencies peculiar to each individual organism, and directed upon them by rays conveying a wide ranges of waves." ~The Smithsonian Institution 1944

Royal Rife and Antoine Bechamp discovered cancer is in fact a pleomorphic fungi that cannot transform into some 16 advanced forms when the body's pH is slightly alkaline.

https://www.facebook.com/RoyalRife?ref=br_tf



http://educate-yourself.org/cn/cancercurethatworked1997.shtml


and here is the bullshit wikipedia and the government tells us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ineffective_cancer_treatments#Ineffective_treatments

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

helpful websites for cancer related issues

(this was me during my 11th chemo..that led into "relapse" which led me to "have to" go through ICE chemo and BEAM chemo and an autologous stem cell transplant. i was too drugged up all the time (obv.!) to use my full mental capabilities to use this research. when i questioned doctors, they asked me if i was one in a snarky attitude. chemo made me stupid and i couldn't do much except be sick to my stomach and i don't wish it on anyone, ever. of course, they're going to tell you you've relapsed-- CHEMO IS NOT THE CURE, it adds more ACID to your already ACIDIC pH balance!)

a little note:

i wish i had known all of this stuff when i got diagnosed. my life would have been changed dramatically as i wouldn't have gone through 9 months of chemo and chosen to boost my immune system and detox my body instead.

http://www.cancertutor.com/


http://naturalnews.com/


http://cancerdecisions.com/



this may help you along your path, whichever one you choose.

while i was forced, scared out of my pants, and pretty much thrown into chemotherapy, i wish i would have used the time to research everything.

what i found out later:

• there are so many other therapies, natural ones, that could be used. of course, the government would deem those therapies as fraudulent, quackery...and say that there is no proof. there was and there is proof-- but the government has been going into true healers practices since before 1950 and getting rid of all the paperwork and case studies. do they want you to get well, or to be a lifetime consumer of the medical b.s. of brand new medicine until you drop dead? 
• the world is overpopulated and you are just a statistic.
• doctors make bonuses when they refer you to chemo!!
• instead of boosting your immune system to fight off cancer, or any other sickness, they purposely add chemo, which is acid, so it could kill off ALL cells (good and bad.) more chemo = more relapses.
• The American Medical Association is a labor union.
• GE is a member of the cancer industry and own NBC.
• why would they tell you chemo is good? because if they don't, all the Cancer Societies that take good people's money for research would go under, and billions a year would be left to the people. 
• the AMA/FDA cannot patent and sell something that is natural!!

please research, 

you have time

and

you matter.

love me,

the globetrotting gamine

health mondays: what they don't tell us

• all cancers are a form of lymphoma
• cancer cells cannot form tissue
• the tumor is not the cancer
• cancer cells don't threatens patients lives unless it spreads
• cancer cells reside in tumor tissue
• tumor size has "nothing to do with curing cancer- it's like a check engine light is on after the problem develops"

• "when our digestive system doesn't function correctly we're not able to reap the full benefits of the food we eat. Aside from digestion, our system must be able to eliminate toxins efficiently." if not, it could be problematic because exposed to toxic environment which produces inflammation and then creates toxic overload.

• cleansing the colon helps bring the acid/alkaline ratio back into balance allowing friendly bacteria to thrive while inhibiting disease-causing organisms. almost 80% of our immune system resides in our gut, colon and intestines !

(if you haven't yet, start cleansing now! a cleanse, healthy eating, exercise and perhaps colonics is a surefire way to get your immune system back on track <3 )

be well,

the globetrotting gamine

your immune system, detoxing and cancer

What Foods Help Your Immune System:

• sesame tahini
• dark chocolate
• pumpkin seeds
• turmeric
• melatonin
• broccoli (has indol-3 carbind)
• aloe vera
• astragalus
• essiac tea
• (any organic fruit and vegetable, especially if they are juiced)
• garlic (stronger and faster acting than any antibiotic on the market)

What Activities Help your Immune System?:
exercising, playing in the sun without chemical-laden sunscreen, swimming in the ocean or sea, sweating, doing things that make you happy, dancing, rebounding.

Where is your Immune System Located?: 
about 80% of your immune system is located in your GUT!! That's right-- stomach, liver and intestines, and colon. Be kind to them!

How to Feel Better When You're Sick: 
starve the parasites in your system that are making you sick!
 Here's how!:

• no alcohol, bread, dairy, vinegars, mushrooms, sugar, refined or processed anything! (that's what feeds the parasites)
• kill the parasites by using pau d'arco, cloves, cinnamon sticks, fennel, bee propolis as herbs in tea or in food. they don't like these things.
• oxygenate blood-- organic olive oil, flax seed oil, seasweeds, and spirulina in organic juices and smoothies
• alkalise your system: water with lemon, or distilled water with lots of lemon!
• boost your immune system: cats claw, echinacea, essiac tea, astragalus, chlorella, (all purify blood, antibacterial properties) maybe you can throw in a cleanse (I have used Life Renewal's My First Cleanse and then Paragone. You just take them as directed and wait to poop. It's not crazy at all. If you want crazy, I can show you pictures, lol)
• build up the good guys-- use a quality probiotic, which allows good bacteria into your gut so it fights off the bad bacteria you may have lost from a less than stellar diet
• detox- cleanses at health food stores, hydrotherapy sessions, sauna sessions (SWEATING!), rebounding (jumping on the trampoline!) 
• always drink a LOT of water to get your bowels moving so everything goes back into sync. you should be able to poop easily 1-2 times PER DAY! if you're not doing this at all, I would recommend a series of hydrotherapy sessions- they're super safe, and they get rid of everything stuck in your intestines/gut.

At this time, I've researched that it's best to up your immune system by fresh, organic produce, juicing, and all natural veggie broths that you make yourself. Nothing from a can.

So, You've Heard of Superfoods, Right?

They raise your immune system AND seratonin production, and LOWER inflammation. (that last part is key!) They also enhance sexuality, cleanse and alkalize the body.

Not too shabby, right?

What products count as superfoods?

• cacao
• goji berries
• maca powder
• hemp
• spirulina
• bee products
• camu berry
• sea vegetables
• medicinal mushrooms

Did you go through hell with chemo the way I did? With all Cancer Patients, or even HEALTHY patients-- detox is key. Aside from pooping, hydrotherapy, colonics and sweating there are so many things you can do! Don't count out intestinal cleanses, as well as cleanses for the liver, gallbladder, parasites and DEFINITELY chemical and heavy metal cleanses!! 

• Change your teeth fillings if their amalgam...mercury!!
• notice the chem trails in our skies? those aren't supposed to be there, they're spraying chemicals on us and nature.
• mercury in fish
• fluoride
• pollution in a heavily populated area-- those are all things cleanses are NECESSARY for.

I want to ask you one question: How many products do you put on you daily? Ready?

• you brush your teeth and gargle with mouthwash-- how many ingredients are in those?
• how many ingredients are in your deodorant?
• how many ingredients in your makeup, each product you use on your face?
• how many ingredients in your perfume/cologne/hairspray/hair products?
• what about hand and body lotions? how many ingredients do you recognize in those?
• did you wash your clothes with DETERGENT and FABRIC SOFTENER and DRYER sheets? What's in those?
• You didn't even drink anything yet- what are you drinking?
• Did you eat yet? What are you eating?
• Do you smoke?
• Do you drink alcohol?
• Did you walk around outside today?
• Ever take medicine? Antibiotics? Over the counter meds?
• What about vaccinations?

Then answer me why "cancer" is now 1 out of every 3 people instead of 1 out of 1000s?? Isn't it weird that right after the development of the "American Medical Association" was born the Pharmaceutical corporations? Isn't it weird that in the early 1900s during this, HYDROTHERAPY MACHINES were pulled OUT OF DOCTORS OFFICES??

How come very few people know what enemas and colonics/hydrotherapy really do?

They don't want you to know.

Isn't it weird that very few people died from c. back then? Do you think it's ok for someone to squish your boobs or lymphnodes until you're in screaming pain, or vaccum your nipples to see if you discharge? How about you stick an arm or a penis in one of those machines and tell me what it does to that body part? Last I heard, no one should be hurting their bodies in barbaric ways, because THAT causes problems!

Answer me, why all the testing to see if you have cancer, and what does it really do to you?

Answer me, do you know all the side effects from each and every medicine you take?

Do you know that cancer is over-diagnosed for statistical improvement so that people like us can feel safe with what the doctors are telling us?

Did you ever hear a doctor say that the chemo being done to your body is curing your cancer? Why do they only use the word RESPONDING? WTF? Because they don't know if you will be cured-- but if you build up your immune system instead of killing it with chemo, and then detox religiously, your body may have a shot.

I know not a lot of people will care to read this, or respond. Those of you who have, thank you. Those of you who think all that stuff up there is just fine, I'm sorry. If you come out of your bubble and research just a little bit you will see that it isn't. 

what causes cancer?

Linda Clark's Get Well Naturally: p.219

What causes cancer?

1. J.R. Davidson, M.D.: "I decided to make the assumption that cancer was a deficiency disease and to follow this line of research wherever it might lead me.... In 10 years of experiments with white mice it was possible to observe cancer in rapid development during several generations, a thing which could not be done in the case of human patients....One strain I fed on a diet of high vitamin content and the fourth generation was a fine, healthy animal with no trace of cancer whatever....[Another strain] I fed on a very poor diet, and at the end of the fourth generation...I succeeded in developing a strain of mice with 100 per cent cancer. Then taking the offspring of this strain, I fed them a high vitamin diet and eventually developed a strain which would resist cancer....This established to my satisfaction...that cancer is directly dependent on diet..." (Cancer, A Nutritional Deficiency, Reprint No.18, Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin.)
2. Two teenagers, in joint research at Yeshiva University, also uncovered information that cancer is linked with nutritional deficiency. The research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Robert D. Barnard, a consultant to the Cancer research division of the Department of Health, New York City, and was read to the Fifth International Congress on Nutrition. The conclusion of their investigations was summed up: "...that cancer is merely a local manifestation of a bodywide-deficiency and can sometimes be treated by feeding patients substances that accelerate cell growth." (New York Times, September 3, 1960.)
3. Other factors found by investigation to contribute to cancer are:

1. viral infections
2. trauma (accidental or surgical injury)
3. hormone imbalance
4. radiation
5. malnutrition
6. constant irritation of latent bacterial (and spirochetal) infections and chemical irritations.

"Alexander Berglas, member of the Cancer Research Foundation of the Pasteur Institute, indicates that anything which serves as constant irritation is capable of causing cancer. He states as examples, 'Irritation and deficiency factors ill cause the regulatory mechanisms to fail'...factors such as 'industrial noxae' (poisons), denatured nutrition, artificial fertilizers, production of adulterated foods, accumulation of insecticides in foodstuffs." (Report: The Public Wants to Know Independent Citizens Research Foundations, 71 West 23rd street, New York City.)

4. Smoking, air pollution, and stress have also been found to be contributing factors.

5. D.T. Quigley, M.D., late of Omaha, Nebraska, and a cancer specialist says, "One of the few things we do know at the present time about cancer is that it is a disease which follows another disease. It is never primary, but always secondary. It never grows on healthy tissues, but always on previously diseased tissues. The part of a body on which a cancer grows has a special soil on which the invader finds a favorable environment. If the soil is not prepared in advance, the cancer simply cannot and will not take root and grow....Whether the immediate cause of cancer may be ultimately found to be a virus, a fungus, a bacillus, or a chemical compound makes little difference in the question of prevention. The important fact is that the diseased area on which the cancer finds its suitable soil must not be allowed to exist. By the prevention of locally diseased areas in the body, we may prevent cancer." (The National Malnutrition, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1943.)

In 1943, Dr. Quigley showed many slides at a meeting of the American Academy of Applied Nutrition, of patients before and after surgical removal of cancer. He said that in over 30 years of experience, not one of his patients who had followed his dietary recommendations had had recurrences of cancer!

6. Irritation. There is no such thing as a common 'carcinogenic' factor- the mechanism of action of 'carcinogenic substances; being always and solely a matter of constant irritation....Irritation and deficiency factors will cause the refulatory mechanisms to fail...." (alexander Berglas, Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure, Paris :Pasteur Institute 1957.)

Some Specific Irritants (Carcinogens)

SUGAR

Albert Brandt, reporter: "There is a great deal of evidence connecting the excessive consumption of sugar, regined or not, with cancer. Novel prize-winner Dr. Otto Meyerhoff of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School called attention to 'the appetite of tumors for sugar' and suggested that the growth of cancerous tissue might possibly be stopped if biochemists could find a way of curing this appetite." (Refined Sugar Can Wreck Your Health, Reprint, Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin.)

X RAYS

"Some states have outlawed the use of fluoroscopy in the fitting of shoes. The United States Public Healh Service has recommended that the widespread use of the photo-chest X Ray survey be discontinued. The hazards of x-ray exposure were emphasized by measurements reported from the Department of Radiobiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital." (The New England Journal of Medicine, January 29, 1959, p.197.)

The American Public Health Association recommends that before submitting to any examination you should ask the doctor these questions:

• Is the examination necessary?
• Who is to make the examination?
• Has he received formal training in radiology?
• Is the assisting technician certified or qualified by formal training?

(Changing Times, February 1959.)

"Xrays should definitely be avoided during the early months of pregnancy, four experts warned. This means that they should be avoided whenever possible in at least the first three months, and there should be no such thing as "routine" x-rays....It has recently been discovered that one of the largest doses to the reproductive organs is received in the dental chair where 15 to 20 exposures are shot in a sitting position and the rays are directed downward toward the pelvis." (Science News Letters, August 22, 1959. p. 118.)

"Dr. Milton T. Edgerton of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, presented data at the National Cancer Conference in Minneapolis showing that in more than eight of every ten cases of thyroid cancer n children under 17 years of age, the patient had received substantial x-ray exposure of the head, neck or chest region years earlier for some non-cancerous condition such as acne, sinusitis or enlarged thymus gland.  These exposures Dr. Edgerton said, are very many times more severe than those received in chest x-ray and in dental diagnosis. The interval between the x-ray and in dental diagnosis. The interval between the x-ray treatment and the development of thyroid cancer, he said, ranged from about three to twelve years, with the average around eight. The data suggest, he added, that the thyroid gland of infants and children is markedly more susceptible to cancer producing effects of radiation than is the thyroid gland of adults." (Science section, New York Times, September 18, 1960.)

EXCESSIVE SUNLIGHT
"Excessive exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet rays can change certain CHEMICALS on the skin to cancer-producing substances, warns Dr. T.R. Allen. More than 90 percent of all skin cancers occur on exposed areas. Most susceptible are the fair skinned who should be particularly careful to avoid overexposure.