What
you
are about to read may rock or even
dismantle the very foundation of your
beliefs about your body, health and
healing. The title, "Cancer Is Not a
Disease" may be unsettling for many,
provocative to some, but encouraging for
all. This book will serve as a revelation
for those who are sufficiently open-minded
to consider the possibility that cancer
and other debilitating illnesses are not
actual diseases, but desperate and final
attempts by the body to stay alive for as
long as circumstances permit.
It
will
perhaps
astound you to learn that a person who
is afflicted with the main causes of
cancer (which constitute the real
illness) would most likely die quickly
unless he actually grew cancer cells. In
this work, I provide evidence to this
effect.
I
further claim that cancer will only
occur after all other defense or healing
mechanisms in the body have failed. In
extreme circumstances, exposure to large
amounts of cancer-producing agents
(carcinogens) can bring about a collapse
of the body's defenses within several
weeks or months and allow for rapid and
aggressive growth of a cancerous tumor.
Usually, though, it takes many years, or
even decades, for these so-called
"malignant" tumors to form.
Unfortunately,
basic
misconceptions
or complete lack of knowledge about the
reasons behind tumor growth have turned
"malignant" tumors into vicious monsters
that have no other purpose but to kill
us in retaliation for our sins or
abusing the body. However, as you are
about to find out, cancer is on our
side, not against us. Unless we change
our perception of what cancer really is,
it will continue to resist treatment,
particularly the most "advanced"
methods. If you have cancer, and cancer
is indeed part of the body's complex
survival responses and not a disease, as
I suggest it is, you must find answers
to the following pressing questions:
What
reasons coerce your body into
developing cancer cells?
Once
you have identified these reasons,
will you be able to change them?
What
determines the type and severity of
cancer with which you are afflicted?
If
cancer is a survival mechanism, what
needs to be done to prevent the body
from taking recourse to such drastic
defense measures?
Since
the body's original genetic design
always favors the preservation of life
and protection against adversities of
any kind, why would the body permit
self-destruction?
Why
do almost all cancers disappear by
themselves, without medical
intervention?
Do
radiation, chemotherapy and surgery
actually cure cancer, or do cancer
survivors heal due to other reasons, despite
these radical, side-effect-loaded
treatments?
What
roles do fear, frustration, low
self-worth and repressed anger play in
the origination and outcome of cancer?
What
is the spiritual growth lesson behind
cancer?
To
deal with the root causes of cancer, you
must find satisfying and practical answers
to the above questions. If you feel the
inner urge to make sense of this
life-changing event, (cancer that is), you
most likely will recover from it. Cancer
can be your greatest opportunity to help
restore balance to all aspects of your
life, but it can also be the harbinger of
severe trauma and suffering. Either way
you are always in control of your body.
To live in a human body, you must have
access to a certain amount of
life-sustaining energy. You may either
use this inherent energy in a nourishing
and self-sustaining or in a destructive
and debilitating way. In case you
consciously or unconsciously choose
negligence or self-abuse over loving
attention and self-respect, your body
will likely end up having to fight for
its life.
Cancer
is
but
one of the many ways the body tries to
change the way you see and treat
yourself, including your body. This
inevitably brings up the subject of
spiritual health, which plays at least
as important a role in cancer as
physical and emotional reasons do.
Cancer appears to be a highly confusing
and unpredictable disorder. It seems to
strike the very happy and the very sad,
the rich and the poor, the smokers and
the non-smokers, the very healthy and
the not so healthy. People from all
backgrounds and occupations can have
cancer. However, if you dare look behind
the mask of its physical symptoms, such
as the type, appearance and behavior of
cancer cells, you will find that cancer
is not as coincidental or unpredictable
as it seems to be.
What makes 50% of the American
population so prone to developing
cancer, when the other half has no risk
at all? Blaming the genes for that is
but an excuse to cover up ignorance of
the real causes. Besides, any good
genetic researcher would tell you that
such a belief is void of any logic and
outright unscientific (as explained in
the book).
Cancer has always been an extremely rare
illness, except in industrialized
nations during the past 40-50 years.
Human genes have not significantly
changed for thousands of years. Why
would they change so drastically now,
and suddenly decide to kill scores of
people? The answer to this question,
which I will further elaborate on in
this book, is amazingly simple: Damaged
or faulty genes do not kill anyone.
Cancer does not kill a person afflicted
with it! What kills a cancer patient is
not the tumor, but the numerous reasons
behind cell mutation and tumor growth.
These root causes should be the focus of
every cancer treatment, yet most
oncologists typically ignore them.
Constant conflicts, guilt and shame, for
example, can easily paralyse the body's
most basic functions, and lead to the
growth of a cancerous tumor.
After having seen thousands of cancer
patients over a period of three decades,
I began to recognize a certain pattern
of thinking, believing and feeling that
was common to most of them. To be more
specific, I have yet to meet a cancer
patient who does not feel burdened by
some poor self-image, unresolved
conflict and worries, or past emotional
trauma that still lingers in his/her
subconscious. Cancer, the physical
disease, cannot occur unless there is a
strong undercurrent of emotional
uneasiness and deep-seated frustration.
Cancer patients typically suffer from
lack of self-respect or worthiness, and
often have what I call an "unfinished
business" in their life. Cancer can
actually be a way of revealing the
source of such inner conflict.
Furthermore, cancer can help them come
to terms with such a conflict, and even
heal it altogether. The way to take out
weeds is to pull them out along with
their roots. This is how we must treat
cancer; otherwise, it may recur
eventually.
The
following
statement, which runs like a red thread
through the entire book, is very
important in the consideration of
cancer: "Cancer does not cause a person
to be sick; it is the sickness of the
person that causes the cancer." To treat
cancer successfully requires the patient
to become whole again on all levels of
his body, mind and spirit. Once the
cancer causes have been properly
identified, it will become apparent what
needs to be done to achieve complete
recovery.
It
is
a medical fact that every person has
cancer cells in the body at all. These
cancer cells remain undetectable through
standard tests until they have
multiplied to several billion. When
doctors announce to their cancer
patients that the treatments they
prescribed had successfully eliminated
all cancer cells, they merely refer to
tests that are able to identify the
detectable humber of cancerous cells.
Standard cancer treatments may lower the
number of cancer cells to an
undetectable level, but this certainly
cannot eradicate all cancer cells. As
long as the causes of tumor growth
remain intact, cancer may redevelop at
any time and at any rate.
Curing cancer has little to do with
getting rid of a group of detectable
cancer cells. Treatments like
chemotherapy and radiation are certainly
capable of poisoning or burning many
cancer cells, but they also destroy
healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastro-intestinal tract, liver, kidneys,
heart, lungs, etc., which often leads to
permanent irreparable damage of entire
organs and systems in the body. A real
cure of cancer does not occur at the
expense of destroying other vital parts
of the body.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people
who were once "successfully" treated for
cancer die from infections, heart attacks,
liver failure, kidney failure and other
illnesses because the cancer treatments
generate a massive amount of inflammation
and destruction in the organs and systems
of the body. Of course, these causes of
death are not being attributed to cancer.
This statistical omission makes it appear
we are making progress in the war against
cancer. However, many more people are
dying from the treatment of cancer than
from cancer. A real cure or cancer is
achievable only when the causes of
excessive growth of cancer cells have been
removed or stopped.
Power in the Word
Cancer is the second
leading "cause" of death for Americans.
According to the American Cancer Society,
about 1.2 million cases will be diagnosed
with cancer in the U.S. in 2008. More than
552,000 Americans will die of it. Among
men, the top three cancer diagnoses are
expected to be prostate cancer (180,400
cases), lung cancer (89,500 cases), and
colorectal cancer (63,600). The leading
types of cancer among women are breast
cancer (182,800 cases), lung cancer
(74,600), and colorectal cancer (66,600
cases).
Cancer is not just a word,
but also a statement that refers to
abnormal or unusual behavior of cells in
the body. However, in quite a different
context, cancer is referred to as a star
sign. When someone tells you are a
"cancer" are you going to tremble with
fear of dying? It is unlikely, because
your interpretation of being of the cancer
sign does not imply that you have cancer,
the illness. But if your doctor called you
into his office and told you that you had
cancer, you would most likely feel
paralyzed, numb, terrified, hopeless, or
all of the above.
The word "cancer" has the
potential to play a very disturbing and
precarious role, one that is capable of
delivering a death sentence. Being a
cancer patient seems to start with the
diagnosis of cancer, although its causes
may have been there for many years prior
to feeling ill. Within a brief moment, the
word "cancer" can turn someone's entire
world upside down.
Who or what in this world
has bestowed this simple word or statement
with such great power that it can preside
over life and death? Or does it really?
Could it actually be that our collective,
social belief that cancer is a killer
disease, in addition to the aggressive
treatments that follow diagnosis, are
largely responsible for the current
dramatic escalation of cancer in the
Western hemisphere? Too far fetched, you
might say! In this book, however, I will
make the point that cancer can have no
power or control over us, unless we
unconsciously allow it to grow in response
to the beliefs, perceptions, attitudes,
thoughts, feelings we have, and the life
choices we make.
Would we be just as afraid
of cancer if we knew what caused it or at
least understood what its underlying
purpose is? Unlikely so! If truth were
told, we would most probably do everything
to remove the causes and, thereby, set the
preconditions for the body to heal itself.
A little knowledge - which
is what we call ignorance - is, in fact, a
dangerous thing. Almost everyone, at least
in the industrialized world, knows that
drinking water from a filthy pond or
polluted lake can cause life-threatening
diarrhea, but still only few realize that
holding on to resentment, anger and fear,
or eating fast foods, chemical additives,
and artificial sweeteners, is no less
dangerous than drinking polluted water; it
may just take a little longer to kill a
person than tiny amoeba can.
Mistaken Judgment
We all know that if the
foundation of a house is strong, the house
can easily withstand external challenges,
such as a violent storm. As we will see,
cancer is merely an indication that there
is something missing in our body and in
life as a whole. Cancer shows that life as
a whole (physical, mental and spiritual)
stands on shaky grounds and is quite
fragile, to say the least. It would be
foolish for a gardener to water the
withering leaves of a tree when he knows
so well that the real problem is not where
it appears to be, namely, on the
symptomatic level (of withered leaves). By
watering the roots of the plant, he
naturally attends to the causative level,
and consequently, the plant regenerates
itself swiftly and automatically.
To the trained eye of a
gardener, the symptom of withering leaves
is not a dreadful disease. He recognizes
that the dehydrated state of these leaves
is but a direct consequence of withdrawn
nourishment that they need in order to
sustain themselves and the rest of the
plant.
Although this example from
nature may appear to be a simplistic
analogy, it offers a profound
understanding of very complex disease
processes in the human body. It accurately
describes one of the most powerful and
fundamental principles controlling all
life forms on the planet. However skilled
we may have become in manipulating the
functions of our body through the tools of
allopathic medicine, this basic, highly
evolved principle of evolution cannot be
suppressed or violated without paying the
hefty price of side-effect-riddled
suffering and pain-physically, emotionally
and spiritually.
I fervently challenge the
statement that cancer is a killer disease.
Furthermore, I will demonstrate that
cancer is not a disease at all. Many
people who received a "terminal" cancer
sentence actually defied the prognosis and
experienced total remission.
Searching for Answers
There is no cancer that has
not been survived by someone, regardless
how far advanced it was. If even one
person has succeeded in healing his
cancer, there must be a mechanism for it,
just as there is a mechanism for creating
cancer. Every person on the planet has the
capacity for both. If you have been
diagnosed with cancer, you may not be able
to change the diagnosis, but it is
certainly in your power to alter the
destructive consequences that it (the
diagnosis) may have on you.. The way you
see the cancer and the steps you take
following the diagnosis are some of the
most powerful determinants of your future
wellness, or the lack of it (also see
Chapter Three, Demystifying Cancer).
The indiscriminate
reference to "cancer" as being a killer
disease by professionals and lay people
alike has turned cancer into a disorder
with tragic consequences for the majority
of today's cancer patients and their
families. Cancer has become synonymous to
extraordinary suffering, pain and death.
This is true despite the fact that 90-95
percent of all cancers appear and
disappear out of their own accord. There
is not a day that passes without the body
making millions of cancer cells. Some
people, under severe temporary stress make
more cancer cells than usual and form
clusters of cancerous cells that disappear
again once they feel better. Secretions of
the DNA's anticancer drug, Interleukin II,
drop under physical and mental duress and
increase again when relaxed and joyful.
Thus, most cancers vanish without any form
of medical intervention and without
causing any real harm. Right at this
moment, there are millions of people
walking around with cancers in their body
without having a clue that they have them.
Likewise, there are millions of people who
heal their cancers without even knowing
it. Overall, there are many more
spontaneous remissions of cancer than
there are diagnosed and treated cancers.
The truth is, relatively
few cancers actually become "terminal."
However, once diagnosed, the vast majority
of all cancers are never even given a
chance to disappear on their own. They are
promptly targeted with an arsenal of
deadly weapons such as chemotherapy drugs,
radiation and the surgical knife. The
problem with cancer patients is that,
terrified by the diagnosis, they submit
their bodies to all these cut/burn/poison
procedures that, more likely than not,
lead them to the day of final sentencing,
"We have to tell you with our deepest
regret there is nothing more that can be
done to help you."
The most pressing question
is not how advanced or dangerous a cancer
is, but what we need to do to not end up
dying from it. Why do some people go
through cancer as if it were the flu? Are
they just lucky or is there a mechanism at
work that triggers the healing? In other
words, what is that element that prevents
the body from healing cancer naturally, or
what is that hidden element that makes
cancer so dangerous, if it is dangerous at
all?
The answers to all these
queries lie with the response of the
person who has the cancer, and not with
the degree of "viciousness" or advanced
stage it appears to have progressed to. Do
you believe that cancer is a disease? You
will most likely answer with a "yes,"
given the 'informed' opinion that the
medical industry and mass media have fed
to the masses for many decades. Yet, the
most pressing yet rarely asked question
remains: "Why do you think cancer is a
disease?" You may say: "Because I know
cancer kills people every day." I would
question you further: "How do you know
that it is the cancer that kills people?"
You would probably argue that most people
who have cancer die, so obviously it must
be the cancer that kills them. Besides,
you may reason, all the expert doctors
tell us so.
Let me ask you another
question, a rather strange one: "How do
you know for sure that you are the
daughter/son of your father and not of
another man?" Is it because your mother
told you so? What makes you think that
your mother told you the truth? Probably
because you believe her; and you have no
reason not to. After all, she is your
mother, and mothers do not lie about these
things. Or do they? Although you will
never really know that the person you
believe to be your father is, in fact,
your father, you nevertheless have turned
what you subjectively believe into
something that you 'know,' into an
irrefutable truth.
Although there is no
scientific proof whatsoever that cancer is
a disease (versus a survival mechanism),
most people will insist that it is a
disease because this is what they were
told to believe. Yet their belief is only
hearsay information based on other
people's opinions. These other people
heard it from someone else. Eventually,
the "truth" of cancer being a disease can
be traced to some doctors who expressed
their subjective feelings or beliefs about
what they observed and wrote about in some
review articles or medical reports. Other
doctors agreed with their opinion, and
before long, it became a
"well-established" fact that cancer is a
vicious illness that somehow gets hold of
people in order to kill them. However, the
truth of the matter may be quite
different.
Wisdom of Cancer Cells
Cancer cells are not part
of a malicious disease process. When
cancer cells spread (metastasize)
throughout the body, it is not their
purpose or goal to disrupt the body's
vitals functions, infect healthy cells and
obliterate their host (the body).
Self-destruction is not the theme of any
cell unless, of course, it is old and
worn-out and ready to be turned-over and
replaced. Cancer cells, like all other
cells, know that if the body dies, they
will die as well. Just because some people
assume that cancer cells are there to
destroy the body does not mean cancer
cells have such a purpose or ability. A
cancerous tumor is neither the cause of
progressive destruction nor does it
actually lead to the death of the body.
There is nothing in a cancer cell that has
even remotely the ability to kill
anything.
What eventually leads to
the demise of an organ or the entire body
is the wasting away of cell tissue
resulting from continued deprivation of
nutrients and life force. The drastic
reduction or shutdown of vital nutrient
supplies to the cells of an organ is not
primarily a consequence of a
cancerous tumor, but actually its biggest
cause. By definition, a cancer cell
is a normal, healthy cell that has
undergone genetic mutation to the point
that it can live in an anaerobic
surrounding (an environment where oxygen
is not available). In other words, if you
deprive a group of cells of vital oxygen
(their primary source of energy), some of
them will die, but others will manage to
alter their genetic software program and
mutate in a most ingenious way: the cells
will be able to live without oxygen and
derive some of their energy needs from
such things as cellular metabolic waste
products.
It may be easier to
understand the cancer cells phenomenon
when comparing it with the behavior of
common microorganisms. Bacteria, for
example, are divided into two main groups,
aerobic and anaerobic, meaning, those that
need to use oxygen and those that can live
without it. This is important to
understand since we have more bacteria in
our body than we have cells. Aerobic
bacteria thrive in an oxygenated
environment. They are responsible for
helping us with the digestion of food and
manufacturing of important nutrients, such
as B-vitamins. Anaerobic bacteria, on the
other hand, can appear and thrive in an
environment where oxygen does not reach.
They break down waste materials, toxic
deposits and dead, worn-out cells.
The body sees the cancer
as being such an important defense
mechanism that it even causes the growth
of new blood vessels to guarantee the
much-needed supply of glucose and,
therefore, survival and spreading of the
cancer cells. It knows that cancer cells
do not cause but, prevent death; at least
for a while, until the wasting away of an
organ leads to the demise of the entire
organism. If the trigger mechanisms for
cancer (causal factors) are properly taken
care of, such an outcome can be avoided.
It is commonly believed
that our immune system protects us against
cancer. However, this is only partially
true. On the one hand, the immune system
readily destroys the millions of cancer
cells that a healthy human body produces
as part of the daily turnover of 30
billion cells. On the other hand, the
immune system takes no action to eradicate
cancer cells that develop in response to a
build up of toxins, congestion and
emotional stress.
Cancers and all other
tissues in the body are larded with
cancer-killing white cells, such as
T-cells. In the case of kidney cancer and
melanomas, for example, white cells make
up 50 per cent of the mass of the cancers.
Since these T-cells easily recognize
foreign or mutated cell tissue such as
cancer cells, you would expect these
immune cells to attack cancer cells right
away. However, the immune system allows
cancer cells to recruit it to actually
increase and spread the cancer to other
parts of the body. Cancer cells produce
specific proteins that tell the immune
cells to leave them alone and help them to
grow.
Why would the immune system
want to collaborate with cancer cells to
make more or larger tumors? Because
cancer is a survival mechanism, not a
disease. The body uses the cancer to
keep deadly carcinogenic substances and
caustic metabolic waste matter away from
the lymph and blood and, therefore, from
the heart, brain and other vital organs.
Killing off cancer cells would in fact
jeopardize its survival. Cleansing the
body of accumulated toxins and waste
products through the various cleansing
methods advocated in Timeless
Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation
removes the need for cancer.
Cancer is not a disease; it
is the final and most desperate survival
mechanism the body has at its disposal. It
only takes control of the body when all
other measures of self-preservation have
failed. To truly heal cancer and what it
represents in a person's life we must come
to the understanding that the reason the
body allows some of its cells to grow in
abnormal ways is in its best interest and
not an indication that it is about to
destroy itself. Cancer is a healing
attempt by the body for the body. Blocking
this healing attempt can destroy the body.
Supporting the body in its healing efforts
can save it.
Andreas Moritz's
book, Cancer Is Not A
Disease, explains the root
causes of cancer and how to eliminate
them for good. Copyright (C)
2007 by Andreas Moritz
