Stop Making Cancer -
All of us today are an experiment in toxicology.
In the world of chronic illness, it is not uncommon for one to fall into the dangerous
trap of becoming overly focused on a single cause for a presenting condition.
Unfortunately, a chronic illness almost never has one cause, and thus it rarely has one solution. As an example, most people understand that diabetes is a condition resulting from high levels of glucose in the blood, and those people would be correct. However, this is a very simplistic view of a much more complex condition.
Could it be that diabetes has toxicity at its core?
Could it be that an underlying fungal overgrowth plays a role?
Could it be that inflammation is a key factor?
In approaching a condition such as diabetes, one could
focus solely on the management of blood sugar levels
or one could step back and take a broader perspective; a perspective
which understands the underlying factors and attempts to address the actual cause of
the problem rather than simply masking the symptoms.
The food that we consume plays a significant role in moving us toward a
place of health or a place of illness. Dietary selections are entirely our choice.
The following should be considered in using Food to improve one's health:
• Avoid foods that you know to be or suspect to be sensitive to
• Eat organic foods to avoid exposure to pesticides and other toxins.
• Incorporate foods that are health-promoting by reducing processed and "dead" foods and eating foods that have superior nutritional value.
• Avoid Genetically-Modified (GM) foods.
• Avoid cookware that may leach toxins into your food and
ultimately into your body.
• Support gastrointestinal health with probiotics and supportive nutrients.
Other factors which lead to dysbiosis include stress, an imbalanced diet, antibiotic or
drug therapy, suppressed immunity, and inflammation.
Food allergies can be both a contributor to dysbiosis as well as the result of it.
When dysbiosis is present, Leaky Gut Syndrome often develops where larger than expected food particles enter the bloodstream, promoting an undesired immune response. Numerous symptoms can occur throughout the body when dysbiosis or Leaky Gut Syndrome are present.
Non-organic foods often contain high levels of pesticides which add to the already high
body burden of toxicity in most people with chronic ill-health.
For this reason, organic fruits and vegetables should be consumed
whenever possible; the more colorful the better.
An elimination of all potentially allergenic foods followed by sequential
reintroduction and logging of any returned symptoms is another approach
one may use to determine which foods may be negatively impacting health.
Heating in cookware that leaches toxins into the food adds to our total body burden of
toxicity. Flame-retarding polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PDBEs), phthalates, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and perfluorinated acid (PFAs) are
found in cookware and in plastics used to store food items.
Perfluoroctanoic acid (PFOA) is found in Teflon and has been
associated with thyroid disease, immune system damage, and
liver abnormalities. Drinking from plastic water bottles may
result in exposure to Bisphenol A which has been linked to cancer,
diabetes, and obesity.