The Truth About Cancer

If you have not heard of the following documentary, "The Truth About Cancer", I would highly recommend it.  The Lord has used a number of these individuals at different times in my life the past few years to help me address cancer.

Laying the Axe to the Root

"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." Matthew 3:10

When Jesus died on Calvary, He accomplished a wonderful, tremendous, and almost unbelievable thing.  He laid the axe to the root of the tree of sin.  No longer would man have to pluck at the branches of sin (outward acts of rebellion against God).  Instead, the very thing which gave life to sin - often called the "old man" in Scripture - was killed. 

Apart from Christ's sacrifice, man was a slave to sin; he was guaranteed to sin.  As a result, all he could so was offer continual sacrifices to God to cover his sin.  In Jesus, man can be born again and made a partaker of the divine nature.  God is not looking for man to struggle and pick away at the manifestations of sin in our lives.  He has paid the price for us to have victory over sin by addressing the root of the problem - an fallen, sinful nature brought about by the fall of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Some may read this and wonder what in the world it has to do with cancer.  Well, I share this analogy because it is what God used to show me about how to deal with cancer. 

The Beautiful Truth

The following is a documentary on the Gerson Therapy for cancer treatment.

"A troubled 15-year-old boy attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother sets out to research Dr. Max Gerson's claims of a diet that can cure cancer as his first assignment for home-schooling in this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel (Avalanche, Dying to Have Known).

Garrett is a boy who has always been close to nature. He lives on a wirldlife reserve in Alaska with a menagerie of orphaned animals, and over the years he's become especially sensitive to the nutritional needs of the diet-sensitive animals he's charged with caring for. When Garrett's mother suffers a tragic and untimely death, the boy falls into a dangerous downward spiral and nearly flunks out of school. Increasingly concerned for Garrett's well-being and determined to strengthen their bond despite the many challenges on the horizon, his father makes the decision to begin home-schooling the distressed teen.

Garrett's first assignment: study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson, a physician who claims to have discovered a diet that's capable of curing cancer. Is Dr. Gerson's therapy truly the legitimate, alternative cure it appears to be? Fascinated, Garrett embarks in this documentary on a cross-country road trip to investigate The Gerson Therapy.

Update: Cancer & Sugar

We had previously shared how sugar feeds cancer; a fact that most in the conventional medical community have disputed for years.  However, some scientists are finally starting to sound the alarm, and none too soon if you ask me:  Is Sugar Toxic?

Like my own, most medical doctors will tell you not to change how you eat, but simply try to eat a "good, balanced diet" when you are diagnosed with cancer.  However, I have found that beating cancer requires us to have wisdom about what we are eating and how such is affecting our health.  As long as there are lobbiests with deep pockets (pharma, agriculture, etc.) it will be essential that we take responsibility for maintaining our own health and not simply take answers that are given to us.

The ONLY Answer to Cancer

Watch the following video if you would like to know more of the following:

• What is the one answer to cancer for you?
• How effective are conventional monitoring devices?
• What are the causes of cancer?
• What are some natural cures for cancer?

The SWEET Side of Cancer

When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I asked my oncologist what I should do differently nutrition-wise to help manage this disease. He said, "Nothing."

You hear so much about carcinogens in food that I was shocked by his response.  There was nothing I needed to change?  "No," he replied, "You can eat just as you did before, simply remember try to eat healthy of course."

Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I later learned that sugar feeds cancer.

Although my doctors were telling me to eat just as I always had, the literature I was reading in my own research was telling me something very different. 

Natural Defenses in Preventing and Treating Cancer

We discussed in the last post about the affects of sugar on cancer cell growth.

In the video below, Dr. David Servan-Schreiber (a physician and neuroscientist) speaks of his own battle against cancer.  Dr. Servan-Screiber had chemotherapy and radiation to help treat his brain cancer, but the cancer returned. He soon realized that if he relied on "conventional" treatments alone, he would likely die.

In order to help overcome cancer, he conducted a lot of research into how foods either help or hinder cancer recovery and identifies the results of his research in using diet to help combat cancer.

Nutrition

I got a lot of advice when I was diagnosed with cancer; and I mean a LOT of advise.  The conversation of diet was also a hot topic.

From my doctors who just said, "Eat as you always did, trying to be healthy." to others who said I must cut out meat, cut out dairy, cut out carbs, only eat organic, or even become Vegan. 

"Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him...I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." Romans 14:1-3, 14

And I have to admit, initially I did get caught up in that.  I really started to stress about food and whether what I was eating was helping or killing me.  I became so paranoid that I would feel like there was nothing for me to eat, even though there was food in the kitchen.

What eventually gave me peace of course was the word of God.