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Race for the Cure–Recent Headlines

Hello readers! I am a bit late with this post because we were traveling for our 50th anniversary. It was a wonderful milestone we planned nearly a decade ago when doctors pretty much patted me on the head and said, “Sorry about your luck” as they diagnosed a large cancer in my pancreas and surrounding areas. They were wrong about “luck”. God was right about our “wonderfully created bodies”.

What is the “race” really for?

When we returned home, I was wading through the accumulated mail and saw the front page of the August 24 issue of Barron’s Magazine/Newspaper with colorful depiction of “cancer cells” and the headline “CANCER: THE NEW CURE”. Barron’s is a financial investment publication , of course, so it covers all the stocks of the pharmaceutical industry within its broader scope.

I knew what perspective to expect in this article, but I continued and read the sub-headline, “By tapping the body’s immune system, drugmakers are making big gains in the war on cancer. Winners in this potential $30 Billion market could be . (several large pharmaceutical companies were named). . .”. The mention of the body’s immune system tweaked my “irony antennae” compelling me to check out the claims and focus in the article. The article said, “While creating a huge market for drug makers, immune-oncology’s success (the ‘new drugs that tapped the immune system’) could also add $30 billion to our nation’s medical bills . . .” Higher health care premiums anyone? Higher taxes anyone?

Why would I think it ironic for an article about oncological pharmaceuticals to mention “tapping the body’s immune

Good intentions . . . . . but what is the real “Finish Line”?

system”? First, this concept is a 180 degree turn from all the oncological drug development that blatantly destroyed “the body’s immune system” which, of course, is the innate cancer fighting system in our “wonderfully created bodies”.

In researching to overcome cancer’s attack on my own body and, later, in preparing to write my book, Slam the Door on Cancer and Lock it out of Your Life, I literally consulted hundreds of resources–books, studies, articles, etc. I was searching for a consensus in ways I could activate the built in anti-cancer (indeed anti-disease) mechanisms in my body. Allopathic medicine, I knew, had nothing to offer me other than an excruciating end of life experience. Pancreatic tumors have well known negative prognoses.

I also knew that my physician husband, because of his orthodox medical training, would have difficulty supporting any “alternative treatment” choice. Even after my scans reported “no evidence of recurrent or residual disease” he struggled with my nutritional and spiritual pursuits–but not for long because it’s a lot more pleasant living with someone who becomes healthier (and more joyful) daily. My healing became contagious and my husband soon participated fully in my anti-cancer lifestyle. How did it happen? Are you ready? I tapped my body’s immune system. Fortunately, however, I did not need pharmaceuticals like the “immune-oncology contrivances” described in the Barron’s article I mentioned above.

By the way, the article works through “drug trial” and “clinical studies” lingo and most readers would probably think, “Wow, finally some progress in the (tired and well hyped) “war on cancer” ignoring the truth that very little life changing progress has been made in this “war” over the many decades it’s been “waged” although “statistics” have become evermore craftily maneuvered. Most people are not aware that the term, “cure”, is hardly the goal, but “5 years of survival” is the standard for success–regardless of quality of life in that interim. I’ve never understood “remission” as a health goal nor have I found others who can explain it plausibly–including doctors. I was careful to avoid the word as I pursued restoration of health.

Nevertheless, this article flows along on a plane of standard drug development jargon from a profit making perspective. Profit, in itself, is not a dirty word; however, greed is just that even if it can be draped in pretty words like “exciting times in the history of oncology”. Who could argue against such a statement published in an investment publication with projected costs per patient of $100,00 to $150,000 per year. With these “trials” and “studies” designed and paid for by the pharmaceutical companies who are producing the drugs and with the competition between behemoth drug companies generally hyped as participating in an exciting “Race for a Cure”, folks diagnosed with all “types of cancer” can find their way into the profit ballooning giddiness at least for a while.

As I read the article, I gasped at the statement, “Doctors have long suspected that our immune system had a role in controlling cancer.” The article implies this has been known 100 years het my research gives it much longer recognition than that. This statement led me to the truths and facts I’d learned that took me from the low point of doctors scurrying to get me discharged from the hospital to be home for what the seemed to fear was “my last Christmas” to the high point of spending my 50th anniversary wading pristine creeks high in the Great Smokey Mountains. I had “immuno-oncological” help but it wasn’t of the $100,000/year variety. It was of the God-made variety which, of course, perfectly matches the needs of our God-made bodies and souls. Why do I mention souls? Because, even though standard western medicine largely ignores it, we have absolute biochemical and Biblical proof that the body and soul cannot be separated, period. I discuss this point further in “Obtain Your Healing and Keep It” offered as a free download on this blog.

What did I do? I changed my life–eating, drinking, sleeping, working, praying, meditating on God’s Word, FORGIVING, etc. I got rid of the “make you sick stuff” like bitterness, anger, etc. which stopped the chronic and continual churning of “emergency response chemicals” through my body. I quit taking in toxins like sugar, MSG and other excitotoxins, fluoride, etc. I made darn sure I only put clean pure God made food and water in my body. All this is discussed in my book and other blog posts. Basically, I freed my immune mechanisms to do what they were designed to do and keeping cancer at bay is an important part of that.

In the Barron’s article, there is an interesting graphic of the “Multiple targets in immune-oncology”. It has 7 “segments” in a sequential cycle with drug company names listed under each one I suppose indicating their “I-O territory”. There are 3 segments mentioning the T-cells of the immune system which quickly got my attention. Yes, T-cells are great wonderfully created anti-cancer immune system “workers”. Interestingly, I found Beta 1c3 Glucan years ago which has a plethora of research on its function (Dr. Vaclav Vetvicka, Ph.D (U of Louisville) has a book, Beta Glucan: Nature’s Secret, quite informative on this fungal derivative). Transfer Point Beta Glucan has been boosting my T-cell function quite satisfactorily all this time. I have no business link with this manufacturer and I’ve learned recently that NSC BetaGlucan is also good.

In Slam the Door on Cancer, I share other specific foods (including spices like curcumin from turmeric), green tea, fresh, frozen or extracted organic berries, organic vegetable juicing, essential fatty acids (in a balance of omega 6 and omega 3), certain herbs and food based minerals) all of which have specific immune system boosting mechanisms including stimulation of apoptosis (suicide of rogue cells) and preventing angiogenesis (blood vessel growth to tumors). Hippocrates did say, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” The body is complex and so is good clean food–they harmonize perfectly.

I am not of the cure for cancer mentality whether allopathic or alternative–there are no “silver bullets” and certainly our bodies have absolutely efficient innate means for humming along at the peak of health IF AND ONLY IF we avoid poisoning them (including toxic words and thoughts) and IF AND ONLY IF we provide them the essential materials to constantly build brand new healthy cells as we constantly replace “spent” ones. Because I didn’t jump into a “cure strategy”, I found that moving into good nutrition and an “anti-cancer lifestyle” physically, mentally, and spiritually caused my body to detox naturally. It WILL heal if we don’t bully it with drugs and “cure strategies”. Supplements can be drugs too if they are man-made.

Cancer is not a pandemic because we are all “sitting ducks” and a growing percentage of us are gunned down as the “cancer nazis” fly over. It’s not even really a disease. It is the body screaming, “stop killing me by undermining your own immune system”. Why does it occur in a particular place? Well, what’s your poison of choice? Where will your toxin-loaded wheelbarrow tip over on its way to an over worked excretory mechanism in your body? Cancer is a symptom of extreme ill health of the body/soul. It is not a shortage of a man-made chemical in our bodies.

Do you have to wait for Big Pharma to ride in on a white horse? It’s not been my personal experience. You can go to the God Made source while the drug developers try to make man-made versions they can patent. For example, curcumin in the ancient spice turmeric was shown to have a “staggering effect on killing cancer cells” in several well known medical institution laboratories. How did the “cancer industry” react? Apparently there has been a scurrying around to develop a synthetic version of turmeric because ancient spices can’t be patented. Check it out in the former pharmaceutical chemist Shane Ellison’s book, Over the Counter Natural Cures.

Check out the new post at www.slamthedooroncancer.com.

Pain–“The Warning Light on the Dashboard of our Health”

By Jacquie Woodward

Photo from recent interview regarding Slam the Door on Cancer . . . and lock it out of your life.
You may see an excerpt of this interview in an August 7, 2014 post on my other blog, www.slamthedooroncancer.com or by searching Slam the Door on Cancer on Youtube Videos. There are two video excerpts on Youtube as well as an exercise video.

Many articles on this blog (and on www.slamthedooroncancer.com) refer to the miraculous self-healing mechanisms built into our wonderfully made bodies. This post is also shared on my other blog, but I thought it worthy of a “double post”. I’ve been intimately involved in the medical culture for 50+ years. I don’t often mention it, but I am also a certified health/physical education teacher and have training in kineseology (science of movement). My insights are not only rooted in my own story of being healed of cancer manifesting in my pancreas, but from considerable study. King David was absolutely correct: Psalm 139:14 (ASV)

¹⁴ I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

Our souls are fully connected and aware of the awesomely complex make-up and function of our bodies. We are created to heal and, if we stop and consider it honestly, we all know this truth. Today, I focus on the usefulness of pain — it is a warning that there is a location within our bodies that needs our respect and attention. There is a place within our body/mind that is demanding we change something.

When we are driving along in our car and a ”warning light” on the dashboard comes on, we know better than to stop and remove the bulb so that we are no annoyed by that light and can get on with our business. We know that the car absolutely will not let us get away with ignoring the CAUSE of that warning.

We know better than to “treat” the result of whatever that cause is–to jerk out the bulb that something caused to come on.

Pain is a built in “warning mechanism” in our bodies—our fearfully and wonderfully made bodies. We see graphic demonstrations of reaction to pain every day. We may watch a sports event and see an athlete running the bases and suddenly pull up grabbing a knee or thigh reacting to pain. Managers and trainers hurry to the athlete with great concern showing on their faces. Closer to home, perhaps one of our children comes running to us crying from the pain of a badly skinned knee or cut finger. We see these manifestations of pain and we know, of course, that there is a cause that will need to be recognized and respected so that the body’s built in healing mechanisms can take over.

: Pain is the “Warning Light” on the “Dash Board of our Health”

Healing is, without exception, the goal. What does healing require? Pain killers? Do pain killers heal? THEY DO NOT! They may make the pain tolerable while the body’s innate healing mechanisms can work, but they do not heal. What will the athletic trainers do to help the injured athlete? They may administer pain relievers, but NEVER without also doing whatever they can to help the athlete’s built in healing mechanisms–the wonderfully created healing mechanisms. They may apply cold to limit swelling or heat to increase circulation or both in intervals. They may wrap an area to limit flexion or movement so that the injured tissue is forced to REST. Generally, they remove the athlete from action for a while. Why? To let the body’s innate healing system to work. Has a trainer or, for that matter, a doctor ever healed anyone of anything? NO! They can only facilitate the body’s built in healing processes. Doctors are trained to re-position broken bones, but the bones heal because they are created to regenerate tissue. Doctors can remove a badly inflamed appendix, but they cannot make the wound heal after the surgery. They can control the pain and keep the wound clean, but they cannot make tissue heal itself.

There is ALWAYS a cause for pain. A good example is stomach pain often attributed to “acid reflux”. We see clever TV commercials and magazine ads telling us to just take some attractively marketed pill to make the pain go away and then eat anything and everything we want without the bother. They might as well be telling us to take the “warning” light bulb out of the dashboard of our cars and forget changing the oil or respecting the complex machinery within the automobile’s make-up. Pain is a warning that something within our body needs attention and, probably, adjustment. Adjustment? How can we adjust what is inside our body? We control what we put in—the food and drink AND THOUGHTS. We control the rest of body and soul. We control our thoughts and words and keep short accounts on our inner peace–realizing when and where we lose it and returning to that incident and setting it right. In short, we put good stuff in and get the toxins out. We rest and respect our “wonderfully created” body/minds so we can live pain free.

: Taking pain masking medicine while ignoring the cause of the pain iis treating result rather than cause and asking for trouble.

I’m 71 and I am sick and tired of hearing my “age peers” accept pain as just being something to tolerate in “old age”. They have taken the “dummy light” out of the dashboard of their lives if they buy this lie of the enemy. Sure our bodies change with aging but the change is highly manageable through our lifestyle–physical, mental, emotional and SPIRITUAL. Jesus did not say, “My peace I give you……..until you get older than a certain age.” God shows us example after example in the Bible of folks who lived to be quite old and who remained active, pain free, and productive.

I hope you will go back and read my previous post about interviews with a number of extra-ordinarily informed medical doctors who recognize that our bodies are designed to heal. I believe it will change your life.

Your Living Body Needs Living Food

By Jacquie Woodward

The following is a re-post from www.hacres.com/diet. I share the post but urge you to also visit the Hallelujah Acres website and especially hope you will read Rev. George Malkmus’s most recent post regarding the life force in our body cells and those of every living/created thing–animal or plant. This site has great recipes and gardening tips as well. I use their Barleymax and just put a small scoop in my fresh vegetable juice each day.

Your living body needs living food.

By replacing dead, processed food with fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables, you’re giving your body the fuel it needs to renew its living cells. And that means your body will be healthier, stronger, and more powerful – no matter what your age!

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for [food].”
Genesis 1:29

Genesis 1:29 is God’s original diet for mankind. In it, He gives man a plant-based diet of foods packed with living enzyme – the life force that enables the body to regenerate its living cells at a stable or improved state.

By contrast, today’s “standard American diet” consists mainly of nutritionally empty, processed foods that are often laden with sugar and artery-clogging fat. This kind of diet is void of living enzymes, which causes degenerated cells and ultimately, disease.

Is it any wonder that the serious diseases that plague the world today can be prevented and reversed by simply changing what we eat?

Better food makes better cells and enables the immune system to function properly—to fight off and defeat virtually any disease, including heart disease and cancer. Given the right fuel, the body is literally self-healing.

We have received thousands of testimonies over the years that proclaim this powerful truth. Plus, Hallelujah Acres has completed several research projects that provide solid, documented evidence regarding the benefits of eating a plant-based diet.

Whether you begin The Hallelujah Diet immediately or begin gradually replacing salty chips, sugary desserts and processed meats with fresh vegetables, juicy fruit and hearty beans and nuts, you’ll soon feel a huge difference.

If a slow change is easier for you, that’s OK; but it will take longer for you to feel more vibrant and energized. However, small, steady steps are better than no steps at all. And the more changes you make, the faster you’ll be on your way to empowering your self-healing body!

Cancer Treatment Decision Making That Empowers Prayer

By Jacquie Woodward

In the “Orchid Garden” at Selby Gardens, Sarasota, FL. USA

I often have requests to pray for friends of friends who have received very recent cancer diagnoses and who are already into the first treatment option suggested to them. I continue to be astounded by how many people make quick decisions while overcome with fear and without even stepping back to consider a second opinion or other options. It is particularly difficult to pray effectively for someone who has made decisions based in fear rather than faith (which can NOT coexist). On the other hand, it is powerful to pray for someone who is following their faith rather than fear in their “battle plan”.

So often wonderful people hear the “C Word”, dive into the first treatment idea presented to them, then ask all their friends and family members to pray for them. I see it repeatedly and believe the process needs to be reversed. Praying for guidance BEFORE making treatment decisions empowers those we ask to pray for us.

No prayer can “muscle” God into making our decisions work when we don’t let Him guide those decisions. The rest of this post is an excerpt from my book: Slamming the Door on Cancer…and locking it out of your life. I am planning the book launch for March 2014 and will keep you posted.

In the “Succulent Section” at Selby Gardens

The Priority of Authority:

“I am strongly compelled to share a practical excerpt from Dr. David Younggi Cho’s, book, The Fourth Dimension VOL I. The authority we must give priority to in making our decisions is God, and we do that by learning to pray for His guidance BEFORE making health decisions. I preface the following prayer directive saying that, if you feel you are weak in personal faith, ask God for your full measure of faith because it is the “currency of heaven”. You will benefit, also, from the “prayer agreement” of a mature believing Christian as Scripture says in Matthew 18:19 (YLT):

Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask–it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

Dr. Cho’s prayer directive:

“God will never bring about any of His great works without coming through your own personal faith. It is taken for granted that you have faith, for the Bible says that God has dealt to each and every one of us a measure of faith. You have faith whether you feel it or not….There are, however, certain ways your faith works and links you to the Heavenly Father who dwells within you.” (The 4th Dimension, VOL 1, p1)

The Bible teaches:

Hebrews 11:1: “faith is the substance of things hoped for”

Romans 10:17: “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.”

The Greek for “word” in Romans 10 is not “logos” (written word) but “rhema” (spoken word). Faith specifically comes by hearing the spoken or saying word of God” (rhema). That is a specific word to a specific person in a specific situation. You are expecting God to put His spoken word into your own spirit to direct your choices. Dr. Cho teaches us how to get our Rhema.

First, Cho counsels you to put yourself in neutral gear–not “drive” or “reverse” and pray, “Lord I am here and I will listen to your voice. I will go if you say go and I am not going if you say no.” (Cho, p 86) Ask God your specific question that you have in your heart such as: “Should I get a second medical opinion?” “Should I choose the treatment path Dr. _________ has suggested?” “If I choose to not have have surgery or ___________, what should I do? “Is there something blocking manifestation of my healing? If so, what do I need to do to remove it?”

Second, ask God to reveal HIS will through your own desire. In other words, ask God to compel you to want what he wants for you or to intend to do what He intends for you to do. (ibid p 87) It is Scriptural to do so:

Psalms 37:4 (AMP) “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.”

Mark 11:24 (NIV) Jesus speaking: “…Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it , and it will be yours.” My added note: The next verse reminds us “and when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” (emphasis added)

Philippians 2:13 (NIV) “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to act according to His good purpose.”

Third, pray through as described above and wait upon the Lord until God gives you divine desire. Do not be in a hurry to jump up and say, “I’ve got it.” Satan and your own spirit (soul or will) can also give desires. Time is always a test. Wait patiently and your own desire and satan’s will become increasingly weaker but the desire from Holy Spirit becomes stronger and stronger. Wait and receive the divine desire. God knows the ideal schedule. (Cho, p87)

Fourth, screen that desire through Holy Scripture. If you pray against the written word of God, satan will speak a counterfeit message. Holy Spirit will never contradict God’s Word (logos). If you don’t have the confidence to do this, go to your minister, pastor, or a mature spiritual mentor for confirmation. Ask them for Scriptures to guide you. (I would add, be absolutely certain your “mentor” has full faith in God’s will for your healing to manifest. Avoid anyone who says anything doubting God’s will to have you fully restored to health because that is man’s doctrine and not God’s. Keep the energy positive. (Cho p90)

Fifth, ask God for a beckoning signal from your circumstances. If God truly has spoken to your heart, then He is bound to give you a signal from the outside external world. Ask for such a sign like Elijah and Gideon did in the Bible. ( 1 Kings 17 and Judges 6:17) (Cho, p90)

Finally, pray to know God’s timing. Pray until you have real peace without any restlessness of spirit. You will have the God kind of faith that is the original Greek language in Mark 11:22-23 and you will be within God’s timing. Spend time meditating in God’s written word so He will have material to work with in you. Ask Him for Scriptures to help you understand the decisions you are praying for guidance in. Ask, then get quiet in your entire being and listen. He will speak to your soul. (Cho, p87 )”

This is not a “formula prayer”; it is a Biblical approach to prayer asking for a Rhema Word from God.

Again, I strongly encourage you to take time and earnestly seek divine guidance BEFORE making treatment decisions rather than hurrying to make a decision rooted in fear and then asking people to pray that your decisions work out. The latter is futile much like sitting down to a meal you know is terribly unhealthy and asking God to “bless it to your nourishment” regardless. God will not go against His own Word or His laws of Creation even though, being sovereign, He could. Doing so would begat chaos.

Your Thoughts Create Disease or Health…… Whether You Want Them To or Not

By Jacquie Woodward

“Cosmic Confetti” acrylic on canvas by Jacquie Woodward

TO REAL HEALTH HOPE READERS: I am re-posting the article below because it does a good job explaining a mind/body phenomenon that is both Scientific and Biblical—the power of words and thoughts. Scripture tells us to “take every thought captive” (2 Cor 10:5) and we have discussed the importance of doing so as we’ve discussed the revelation that sin and trauma in our “history” has wounded our souls (mind, will, emotions) giving the “enemy of our souls” a legal right to attach to our souls and, ultimately, to cause dis-ease/disease. This discussion is far deeper than “mind over matter” and “positive thinking”. It is bio-chemical because we know (from the work of Dr. Candace Pert, PhD, et al) that our emotional reactions emit chemicals that every cell membrane in our body has specific receptors for. So we know that emotional responses are directly connected to our physical responses and hormones are released that absolutely impact our health. This re-post also references the book, Biology of Belief, by Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD which we refer to often in our posts.

The source for this nice article is given at the end and I urge you to check it out as you research. I’m NOT saying we agree with everything posted on that site–but I am saying that this one article is a well researched and deserving of credit and attention to the source.

Your Power to Create A Placebo or Nocebo Effect
Posted By Lu Martinez On October 24, 2009 (10:43 am) In Own Your Grandeur, Own Your Happiness, Own Your Health

The subject of mind having an effect on the body is not new. For decades, if not centuries, people with an elevated awareness have observed it and have harnessed its power. However, in recent years some “progressive” scientists and researchers have begun to ponder on the placebo (Latin for “I will please“) effect when it comes to documented results on new drug studies. Statistically about 33% of study participants who take a sugar pill but believe they are on the “miracle” pill have dramatic improvements in their symptoms.

Previously, scientists would dismiss the placebo effect and not think about its implications; being that the mind and perception are very powerful. In fact when someone has a positive thought about a health related outcome in many cases there is a “healing” response. On the contrary, research has also come to acknowledge what is termed as the nocebo (Latin for “I will harm“) effect which occurs when someone is given a sugar pill and they report having a number of side effects of the drug that they did not take! In some circumstances not only can negative thoughts/perceptions or “nocebo” make you sick but they can kill you.

Research is beginning to bridge science with spirit and mind. It is becoming more apparent to the scientific world that “thoughts” are very powerful whether they are positive or negative and consequently they affect the body likewise. Not surprisingly, it is believed that close to 3/4 of our thoughts are negative in nature and repetitive. Whether it is directed towards ourselves or others. While we do this we literally rob ourselves of good health; we do harm (nocebo).

An internationally recognized authority on the subject of placebo and nocebo effects is Bruce Lipton, PhD, author of The Biology of Belief. Dr. Lipton acknowledges that medicine is controlled by money and influenced greatly by the pharmaceutical industry. He states that this “keeps us from looking at healing that does not involve chemicals and drugs only for the simple reason that a pharmaceutical company makes money by selling chemicals. If we talk about healing yourself with your mind than that product doesn’t sell very well. It is not in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry to support “free energy” healing and therefore, it is a subject that gets no coverage except for that 15 minutes on the “placebo” and then dropped out of the system; and yet it is the most important new understanding (though it is not new).”

Within the scientific world, Dr. Lipton is committed to bring awareness to this powerful truth of mind and beliefs. By the way these thoughts and perceptions need to have a strong emotion behind it to have an effect; they often lead to our actions and type of lifestyle we choose to live. A great example of this is given by Tor Wager, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University. “Say it’s late at night and everything is quiet and then suddenly you see someone outside, near a window,” he explains. “Your body starts to respond. Your pupils dilate. Your heart rate goes up. You start to sweat.” The belief that something threatening is out there produces a host of physical responses that you have little control over. If you were told to calm down and turn off these sensations, you couldn’t, Wager says. “But if the belief changes — say, it turns out that it’s just your husband coming home — the physical response changes.” The question, now, is how to tap into these powerful, unconscious responses, Wager says.

The Placebo Effect

A placebo makes a person feel better for reasons unrelated to the specific healing properties of the treatment. For years, scientists have looked at the placebo effect as just a figment of people’s imaginations. Sure, sugar pills seemed to lessen epileptic seizures, depression and smooth out jerky movements in Parkinson’s — but these people weren’t really better. Or so scientists thought. Recently researchers began using PET scanners and MRIs to Examine the heads of patients who responded to sugar pills, they discovered that the placebo effect is not “all in patients’ heads” but rather, in their brains. New research shows that belief in a dummy treatment leads to changes in brain chemistry!

For example, a gentleman name Chuck Park participated in a study and he was told that he might be getting a sugar pill, the 30-year-old software producer was pretty sure he was getting the real thing. Just a few weeks into the clinical trial, Park’s depression started to lift. He began to feel less anxious and sad. Park later learned he’d been taking a placebo all along, it was a surprise. “I was fully expecting to receive the real drug even though I knew that the placebo was a possibility,” remembers Park of Culver City, Calif. “I guess I wanted it to work — and in a way, it did.”

A woman, in her 30s, was “very significantly impaired,” says Straus, chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “She had no energy, couldn’t work, and spent most of her time at home.” But her strength was restored during a study to test the effectiveness of an experimental chronic fatigue drug. She and her parents were so thrilled with her recovery that they were blessing me and my colleagues,” recalls Straus, the principal investigator on that study.

It turns out, the woman’s quick turnaround from chronic fatigue occurred after taking placebo pills, not the experimental drug. “She was amazed by the revelation that she’d gotten better on placebo, says Straus”

“There have always been people who have said that we could make ourselves better by positive thinking,” says Dr. Michael Selzer, professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After pooh-poohing this for years, here are studies that show that our thoughts may actually interact with the brain in a physical way.”

The following video documents a groundbreaking 2 year study on patients who had severe knee pain. Both the groups that received the actual surgery and the “make-believe” surgery had healing!

Placebo Surgery

The Nocebo Effect

In the 1970′s a man was diagnosed with end-stage liver cancer and given just months to live. Though the patient died in the predicted time, an autopsy showed the doctors had been mistaken. There was a tiny tumor, but it had not spread. Therefore, this man did not die of cancer but from the “belief” that he was going to die of cancer. It was surmised that if everyone treats you as if you are dying, you buy into that perception and it becomes you reality.

In a Canadian study, more than half of the men who got the placebo pills reported significant relief from their symptoms, including faster urine flow. Researcher J. Curtis Nickel theorized that the patients’ positive expectations of the experimental drug’s benefits may have caused therapeutic smooth muscle relaxation by decreasing nerve activity affecting the bladder, prostate and urethra. However, there was a percentage of participants on the sugar pill which complained of side effects too, ranging from impotence and reduced sex drive to nausea, diarrhea and constipation. This is the nocebo effect. You expect to feel worse and suffer from side effects.

Anticipating bad effects can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It may help to emphasize the limits of medicine and explain the close relationship between emotions and physical sensations, especially as it involves stress hormones.

The following video demonstrates the nocebo effect on unsuspecting participants who believe they have been given caffeine.

Coffee Placebo

Conclusion

The question, now, is how to tap into these powerful, unconscious responses. Being aware that we can tap into these powerful unconscious responses is what I call owning your Grandeur and using your grandeur to take charge of your health, if not your life! Literally, you can tell your body ” enough is enough”. You can talk to it as you speak to a child in loving yet authoritative terms. I recently, did this. I had been struggling with both of the rotator cuff areas of my arms, especially the right arm. I sought out some acupuncture and it helped with the right arm, but then the left arm became increasingly painful.

As I was doing research and reading as well as watching videos on the placebo and nocebo effect, it dawned on me to try this. I spoke to my body as I would to a child that is doing something very annoying. I said, “I am tired of this arm pain, I want you to stop the inflammation. I have important things I need to do with my life and you need to stop and leave. My natural state is to be pain free and healthy.” I had this type of conversation with my body for about 5 minutes. I did this one more time later that same day. I also asked to receive clarity of possibly why my arms sometimes felt this pain (occurs about every 2-3 months). I am happy to report that within hours the pain shifted and a day later I was about 90% pain free on my left arm and 100% pain free on my right arm.

I later had a knowing that I needed to stop pushing myself so hard and being so serious about the goals I set for myself. It almost seemed that the pain was forcing me to STOP and give myself a break.

I have full confidence now that you and I have been given great ability to create and re-create our life experience. We can create for the positive or for the negative results. I choose the positive and to have a forward momentum. I don’t have time nor the inclination to lead a life of stagnation or pain, do you? Get angry about it and say no more! Learn what you must, gain clarity, and move on…

Own your GRANDEUR, HEALTH and HAPPINESS!

Article taken from Body and Soul Reconnection – http://www.bodyandsoulreconnection.com

URL to article: http://www.bodyandsoulreconnection.com/your-power-to-create-a-placebo-or-nocebo-effect/

Something else you might find interesting:

An Article entitled “Nocebo Effect: Think Sick and You’ll Be Sick” published by American Council on Science and Health.

A book by Dr. Lissa Rankin, MD entitled Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself

An interesting article by Johathan Chamberlain entitled “Iain Banks and the Nocebo” You can Google this title and the article will come up. Chamberlain’s writing is also on www.fightingcancer.com I have not read Chamberlain’s book.

Note: At Real Health Hope, we believe we are created to heal when we work with rather than against our Creator. Hosea 4:6 teaches, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge..” which undergirds our efforts to bring helpful and healing knowledge.

Cancer-Why does it happen and What Can We DO about it. Part Two “Wet State or Disease State Formula”

By Jacquie Woodward

I’ve referred to “The Gerson Tapes” obtained through www.renegadehealth.com. These tapes and transcripts were a “find” the Renegade Health folks came across and made available. They are presentations from the 100th birthday celebration of Dr. Max Gerson who pioneered in alternative cancer treatment. Charlotte Gerson, Dr. Max’s daughter, has kept the work going and many live today because of it. There are a number of “presenters” on these tapes and I enjoyed listening to them all, but one of them absolutely stopped me in my tracks. Dr. C Samuel West, ND and chemist, presented a formula he had spent years putting together and it puts into clear concise form the cellular environment of the “healthy state” and, in contrast, the “disease state”.

Since learning of Dr. West’s information, I have found many other resources concurring with the information but none in quite the way West does. Here’s the formula for the “wet state” which is the “disease state” at the cellular level in which malignancy develops.

1. Trapped Plasma Proteins–that is globulin, fibrinogen, albumin which are carried in bloodstream for various functions and were once thought to never leave the bloodstream. We now know that half of them leave blood and are taken up and back to blood by lymph system every 24 hours normally. “Trapped” means these proteins are in the space between cells (interstitial fluid) and not being adequately evacuated by lymph and they hold extra fluid in that space as well. Causes for these trapped plasma proteins can be trauma or toxins including toxic words and thoughts that release “molecules of emotion” or stress chemicals making the blood vessels more porous and beginning an “inflammatory response”.

2. Extra Fluid and Sodium in the interstitial fluid (between cells) causing a “wet state” leading to lack of oxygen in cells resulting in fermentation of glucose rather than normal cellular respiration. Acid is given off. Pain results from lack of oxygen. This is an unhealthy cellular terrain.

3. The “sodium-potassium” pumps in the cell membrane shut down which stops the production of electrical energy, cell respiration, and use of glucose to energize the cell for its “life work”.

4. The delicate mineral balance is changed so that the potassium, calcium, iron, glucose, and other minerals and nutrients cannot get in and excess sodium out of the cells. This imbalance perpetuates the unhealthy “wet state”.

5. Life Processes of the cells including cellular respiration, digestion/metabolism, excretion of wastes, reproduction, electrical field generation, reaction to stimuli are interfered with.

6. Electrical Energy is changed so that both the cell and the body lack the energy to function.

This “wet state” is a “diseased state” at the cellular level and loss of energy, pain, and all disease symptoms manifest….including malignancy in cells where DNA has been damaged.

CAUSES of Trapped Plasma Proteins and Excess Fluid Buildup are usually:

Heavy Physical Exertion

====>Stress (emotional, mental, traumatic)

====>Shock (Stress is not exactly the same as “shock” but the excess fluid state happens in both.)

====>Poison (Toxins) including toxic thoughts, words (offense, unforgiveness, etc)

====>Injury such as a hard blow, wound, bruising, etc.

CAUSES of Lymphatic failure to evacuate Excess Fluid Buildup:

=====>Trapped Plasma Proteins or “Interstitial Lymphatic Occlusion”

=====>Lymphatic System not working efficiently due to poor breathing habits and/or sedentary lifestyle

=====>Infection

SUMMARY: In the “dry state” cells are “packed closely together” with only enough interstitial fluid to fill the small gaps between cells. That fluid constantly baths the cells and moves on to the lymphatic vessels that parallel the blood vessels. In this state the blood capillaries deliver nutrients and oxygen to every cell so that life processes carry on normally.

In the “wet state” the blood vessel walls are chemically stimulated to release extra fluid and the plasma proteins in a way similar to the normal healing or immune response (which is temporary). However these proteins which function to hold plasma in the blood vessels will also hold them in the interstitial fluid and the above “sequential formula” ensues. It is a state of inflammation and a perfect environment for cancerous growth to happen at the cellular level. Expecting body cells to live in a “wet state” could be compared to expecting fish to live in a dirty aquarium.

Our next post will discuss further how cells in this state become malignant …….sometimes described as “cells acting like a wound that won’t heal.” The inflammatory state is widely cited as contributing to tumor formation.

To see a nice animation of the sodium-potassium pump I suggest you check out: http://youtu.be/GTHWig1vOnY. These pumps are “portals” in the cell wall that constantly keep the sodium-potassium positive ions moving and, thereby, generating electrical energy for cells and body. Oxygen is important in this generation as well.
Another article on this topic by Keith MacFarlane at
http://www.healsa.co.za/greatesthealth.htm might also be of interest to you.

Professor Karl West, son of Dr. C Samuel West, continues to teach about the we are covering in this post. You can find an interesting article at http://www.quantumsecret.com/lymphology.php

Our next post will discuss why cancer cells aren’t killed off by the “wet state” or “disease state” which generally brings “cell death”.

Cancer-Why does it happen and What Can We DO about it. Part One What Cancer is NOT.

By Jacquie Woodward

“No Tuplicates” 16″ x 20″ Acrylic on Canvas by Jacquie Woodward.

This post is the introduction to a multi-part series based upon a seminar I am doing locally. I will be posting three times a week for about 4 weeks….or throughout April.

Cancer (disease) occurs first at the cellular level. We will see the sequence of “events” that occur to enable a cell to begin the malignancy process. We will see why this process results in cancer and how you can interrupt and reverse the process. YOU are in control!

Cancer is the ultimate deviation from a state of “being in health”: cells=>tissue=>organs=>body/mind.

Normally, body cells regenerate to replace themselves as they die (DNA directs but genes can be changed by our lifestyle and environment.) Some cells regenerate very often. All 50 to 75 trillion cells are regenerated about every 7 years. We have a choice about the “state” of the new cells. Those choices have very specific physical and emotional/mental aspects we cannot ignore and “be in health”.

If cells ain’t happy—we ain’t happy! Cells have “LIFE PROCESSES” just like the body. They eat and drink, “breathe”, respond to stimuli that includes chemical, electrical, external (emotional). Cells generate and use energy. They are absolutely dependent on what we send them–food, oxygen and nitrogen, water, sunshine (photons and electrons), stimuli (emotional) including words, thoughts, visual stimuli.

Our bodies are about 80% water. Body cells are a bit like “fish in an aquarium” because the aquarium is a fishes’ terrain and the body is a cell’s terrain. Toxins lead to a dirty “terrain” of varying degrees, and, like fish, cells get sick, suffer and die. They will often struggle to survive even it means “going rogue” and corrupt mechanisms meant to help heal (like immune system).

We will look at WHY our cells “get unhappy” first and then HOW to “keep cells happy”. We also need to know what cancer is NOT before we realize what it IS.

First, change your mindset. Cancer is NOT a surprise to our bodies any more than a skinned knee from a fall surprises our “defense and repair systems”. We all have “cancer cells” happen in our bodies fairly often. We have built in defenses that clean them up if the terrain is healthy (cells aren’t living in a dirty “aquarium”). Cells are smarter than fish! Fish can’t “figure out” how to try to “beat the system” their terrain imposes. Cells that become malignant resist the immune system or corrupt it. They develop a “black knight” to protect them from apoptosis or committing suicide. They mess with our DNA (genes meant to prevent malignancy).

Cancer is NOT an imposed condition or a random occurrence of “cell growth gone rogue” so that just eradicating the “bad cells” will stop it.

You CAN overcome it, prevent it, and no longer live in dread of it. But you cannot “cure” it except by restoring the “terrain of your cells which includes restoring DNA. It IS a symptom/consequence of a specific situation at the cellular level. It IS very similar to a wound that won’t heal because the site is contaminated. This “pre-existing condition” is well documented but largely overlooked in dealing with cancer on a day to day basis.

The Price we pay for being in the “anti-cancer zone” of life is to ” Live a more Beautiful Life”–spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally.

We can run and not be weary; walk and not faint when the “nasty terrain” cycle is broken.

Health is THE cure for cancer…….for any dis-ease.

Stay with us for the next 10 or 12 posts (3 per week) and fill in the details. I PROMISE NEW INFORMATION NOT YET POSTED ON THIS BLOG.

Test for pancreatic, liver and lung cancer…..developed by a 15 year old boy?

By Jacquie Woodward

Twilight on Herrington Lake, KY, USA

Here is one of the most encouraging anti-cancer “science moves” in 60 years….and a 15 year old high school student accomplished it….well, watch and learn:

http://youtu.be/n9yuAhusVtsG

Pancreatic cancer has a statistical high rate of death, medical folks say, because it is so insidious and symptoms don’t appear until it is well advanced. I know this to be true from my own personal cancer experience.

I wonder why 6+ decades have gone by and “medical science” hasn’t found a way to detect this and a few other particularly “deadly cancers” more expeditiously……..this video might make you wonder too.

I think you will be encouraged by this video.

Another Great Testimony of Healing from Pancreatic Cancer

By Jacquie Woodward

This is Karen and her story is shared below. I found her when she posted on the Bill Henderson eNewsletter last October (2012). I hope you are encouraged. What a wonderful smile!

Just a little history on this writer. I want to be able to share a little of what I do to help my body with this destructive thing we call cancer.

I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer on October 23, 2008 after a long battle with my primary doctor and also my gastroenterologist. Lots of blood tests, ultrasounds, MRI’s to no avail then finally 10 months later a CtScan which revealed a tumor the size of a tennis ball. Needless to say I was pretty sick and in a lot of pain. The tumor was removed three weeks later which they took 3/4 of my pancreas, all of my spleen and 22 lymph nodes. The cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, the tissue around the stomach area, a tumor in the liver and 5 small tumors in my left lung. Needless to say, I was not given a very good prognoses.

The one thing my doctor said that would help keep me alive a little longer would be to do the chemo which at that time I just wanted to feel better than what I had felt the past 10 months so I started chemo. I continued on the chemo for 1 1/2 years. During this period of time I started researching alternative treatments because I knew that I could not continue with the chemo regimen. I knew that it was destroying a whole lot more that just my cancer cells. My body was taking a beating. After lots of consideration with family I decided to quit the chemo. It was a scary decision for me because all I wanted to do was LIVE!

I did lots of research and the one thing that kept popping up was how Oxygen destroys cancer cells. They cannot survive in an oxygenated environment. So I started focusing on everything that was oxygen and this is how I found this book, The One-Minute Cure. It is based on Oxygen! I purchased the book and started following the protocol along with diet change and oxygenated water and the Budwig Diet.

Please understand that I would never tell someone else what to do, or what to take. I can only tell you of my own personal experience. After the diagnosis, I began researching anything that I could do to help my body fight and heal. I changed my diet radically. I only bought organic! I stopped eating anything ‘white’ – sugar, rice, baked goods, potatoes, pastas etc. I switched to sprouted grain bread and rice, but cut way back on even those. I stopped eating all meats and ate fish and some chicken only after I was told I was cancer free. Vegetables became my main diet. I began cooking with a lot more healthy spices like turmeric, curry, ginger, garlic. I chose to stay away from all dairy, too. I drink a green tea for breakfast with half a lemon. I have always taken my daily supplements including a 13 Strain Probiotic.

I believe that your mental status is so important to your healing process also. You have to be upbeat and optimistic. Keep telling yourself that you are not going to let this cancer define you. Love yourself and put yourself first in this healing process. God has played a very important role in my journey with cancer. Prayers were answered and he lead me down several paths. He has allowed me to live to share my story with many other cancer patients and survivors.

I had my CtScan , tumor markers and blood work done on March 2012 and I am still clear of everything. No tumors in liver or lung and my CA19-9 tumor markers are normal. I will be doing a petscan and all blood work in March and will keep you updated.

I want to share this book only to help more cancer patients as I have been helped. http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=1436569

The Troubling History of Cancer Treatment

By Jacquie Woodward

Echinecea or “cone flowers”….butterflies, birds, bees and people all benefit…..God is Good ALL the time!

I absolutely MUST share this “find” of information. I beg you to watch the complete video documentary as well as reading the written information. It lines up with the enormous amount of research I have been compelled to do since my own cancer diagnosis….and subsequent healing.

You can draw your own conclusions but I highly recommend you have a note pad handy and jot down some of the names of the persons (mostly doctors) interviewed and the books they have written etc.

I HIGHLY recommend you get a copy of “The Gerson Tapes” both audio and pdf transcript available from www.renegadehealth.com. It is the 100th birthday celebration conference of Dr. Max Gerson who made incredible progress in actual treatment of cancer and whose protocol “lives today” although squelched by USA “medical powers that be” or the “standard cancer industry”. One of the presenters late in that conference was Petter Barry Chowka. I “googled” that name because I was so impressed with his presentation (this conference was held in 1981 but is still pertinent today). When I “googled” Chowka’s name I found a couple of attacks on him from sources I knew to be very much a part of the “money centered cancer political/industrial fraternity” and that made me look further. Sure enough this writer is fearless and very thorough in his research–unusual for a journalist still dedicated to writing the truth. He has a number of spots in the documentary video at the end of the article.

http://menawa.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/cancer-somethoughts-about-this-personaljourney/

The Budwig Protocol is not mentioned in this documentary or article; nevertheless, you might recall that, in her book, Dr. Johanna Budwig discusses being sued 7 or 8 times by the German medical establishment but having the judges discourage the suit bringers because her science was so “air tight” and their charges so weak. She was very brave as have been those featured in this video.

It is quite well researched and documented.

All this is said to further point out that what Louis Pasteur said on his deathbed about his lifelong rival Claude Bernard was true. Pasteur said, “Bernard was right. It is the terrain.” Pasteur had been lauded because he touted that Bernard was wrong and healthcare was all about the germs and man’s intervention. Bernard had researched and contended for the “internal environment” being the place for health and healing. Pasteur made fortunes and Bernard was laughed at……would the same thing be happening today…..IT IS. But both knew that the body held/holds supernatural healing powers built in by the Creator and it is absolutely essential to work WITH that terrain rather than against it. Poisons, toxins, cutting……..work against that internal terrain. Health is the cure…healthy cell environment. That means sending good cell building materials and making sure the tissue environment has what nature meant/means for it to have to get those materials used and the wastes/toxins removed. The mechanisms are ALL there. Hippocrates was right….”first do no harm.” He was also right: “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” Food is not inert as “western medicine” teaches.