Natural Health and Medical
approaches to Treatment
I worked in the National Health Service for 16 years, seven of those in nursing, so I know how dedicated the NHS staff can be. So I am not criticising their care in any way.
They really tried their best to help me when I was diagnosed, and my daughter when she was in hospital. I cannot speak highly enough of their commitment and professionalism. The point I am making is that they did not know how to help regain health in any other way - only by the methods that have been used for decades which are clearly failing.
If you break a bone, have a car accident or any other trauma, then a hospital is the best place to be. They will help to mend you and you are likely to recover well. If you are suffering from any kind of disease and you want an alternative kind of treatment, then in my experience it is beyond their capabilities. Most only know how to use drugs in the treatment of disease
More doctors are now incorporating natural treatments into their practice of medicine and that can only be a good thing. I only hope that this trend continues for all our sakes. After all, if doctors will not become nutritionists as well then nutritionists will become the doctors.
One thing you must understand, on going down the natural route to cure yourself of any illness, is that you will be giving your body the right conditions to allow it to heal itself. Once the symptoms have improved you should not go back to your old dietary and lifestyle ways or the illness will be likely to return!
The main problem is: Most doctors do not acknowledge that nutrition plays such a huge part in overall health. This is because a Doctors' main approach is to treat the symptoms of the disease and not the causes – and this applies to most illnesses, not just cancer.
What causes Cancer?
Cancer, as many leading nutritionists acknowledge, is a chronic disease of the immune system. This means that your immune system can become so overloaded with toxins that it can no longer recognize rogue cells that are normally dealt with by a healthy immune system before they become a problem - and they then start growing out of control.
Toxins can build up from a number of sources and affects the immune system by suppressing it. The main sources are: a bad diet, smoking, too much alcohol, pollution, exposure to chemicals, and chronic stress.
Other low psychological states can also suppress the health of the immune system – like depression, and grief. Someone who eats a bad diet, drinks too much alcohol, smokes, suffers from long term stress, and then has to cope with grief fits my profile of someone with a very depressed immune system.
The treatment that makes the most sense is strengthening the immune system, to detoxify the body, and to give the body exactly what it needs to fight back against the illness to regain health. This means improving your diet, giving up smoking and cutting back drastically on all the things that are causing the immune system to malfunction. Given the right conditions, your body WILL heal itself.
At the medical side of treatment, Doctors and oncologists (specialists in cancer treatment) recommend powerful drugs, surgery or radiotherapy – sometimes all three - to a body already under attack by cancer cells, all of which has the effect of weakening the immune system further.
These medical treatments have not changed much in decades – and quite frankly, if they really worked, why are so many people still dying from the disease? Over 90 percent of people have conventional treatments for cancer, but less than 10 percent recover using conventional treatments alone.
Many times, people turn to natural alternative treatments only after conventional treatments have failed - and the body is in a seriously weakened state, so it makes sense that in order to give your body the best chance of recovery, alternative treatments should begin as soon as possible after diagnosis to build up the strength of your immune system, and not tear it down.
After a dose of these powerful chemotherapy drugs, your body and immune system has a hard time of it as it now has to deal with a virtual poison entering the system. To regain health from this position and to recover, is very difficult with the immune system being so suppressed, and are also prone to contact any infection that's around, like a virus
Once the patient is discharged after chemotherapy treatment, no dietary advice tends to be given and unsuitable foods are even positively encouraged - this is a catastrophe - for your body depends on good wholesome food to nurture it.
The only dietary advice that seems to be given is to try to eat as much food as possible – any food - but this is when the appetite is usually at an all time low as a result of the drugs when even the thought of eating food usually makes a person undergoing chemotherapy feel nauseous.
If the appetite is recovered enough the patient usually goes back to their old dietary habits that may have caused their health to break down in the first place! And the cancer usually returns stronger than before.
I must say that all the doctors and staff did their very best for my daughter – but unfortunately I now see too late that the treatment she was receiving and the medical advice was so wrong.
The natural health approach is to eat food high in nutrition, with targeted food supplements and to detoxify the body as much as possible by giving up smoking, cutting back drastically on alcohol, and cutting out certain foods.
What certain foods? well, sugar for one thing feeds cancer, and sugary foods are the fuel cancer cells need to grow. However, doctors are still not advising their cancer patients to stay away from sweet sugary foods.
There are other foods to avoid at all costs in the treatment of cancer which you can learn about in my healthy anti cancer diet
I have also compiled a free Cancer guidelines report that gives further details about cancer and how it is treated using the nutritional approach. Just fill in the form below for instant download:
IMPORTANT !! The advice on this site is for guidance and educational purposes only. Therefore, if you are suffering from ANY illness, including cancer, you should ALWAYS be under the care of a qualified medical practitioner as well as consulting a qualified nutritional therapist for any diet plans rather than trying to treat yourself.
Further Reading
How health is threatened by too much sugar in the diet
How drug companies are trying to limit alternative choices Its happening in the US already - we should be aware of this threat and preserve our rights to take vitamins and minerals for our health.
The dangers of too many prescription drugs
How taking food supplements can improve wellbeing
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