Cancer & Its Causes

Some of my first posts on this blog were talking about breast cancer. Now I’ll return to the subject but talk in a more general sense about cancer. Cancer is a huge subject.  There is a lot of material to cover so I’ll probably post for the next few weeks on cancer. It’s certainly of interest to all of us, and we all know someone that has had it. It’s not a pretty thing. There’s a real struggle to find a cure for cancer in the medical establishment but for most cancer there’s no good treatment.

Let me get right into the scope of the problem. Economically, billions are spend in research every decade and multi-billions of dollars are spent treating the disease every year. It’s a major industry. It's not fun to think of it in this way, but the financial outlay and costs to the U.S., and to the world is almost beyond comprehension. 

Since 1955 the incidence of cancer world wide has increased world-wide by over 40%.  That’s a big number. In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer. At that time it was the 8^th leading cause of death in the nation. Today it is number two. There was a period in 2005-2006 where it was actually reported in the news media that it was the leading cause of death. So you’ve got to ask yourself, “Are we winning this war?”  Needless to say the answer to that is a really big, “NO”.  

There’s also a paradox here because the only treatments that a person can receive legally are those which are approved by the government. These are: surgery, radiation, and chemo-therapy. If a physician administers anything that is not approved by the government, they can end up loosing his license or even going to jail. It kind of puts a damper on anybody that might want to receive treatments other than what the government has approved.

So the question is, what is cancer? What on earth is this? Why is it what it is?  Cancer is your very own cells that are trying to escape their toxic environment. That toxic environment happens to be your body. I know that’s kind of a different way of looking at cancer cells, but it’s true. Cancer is normal cells trying to escape a toxic environment.  

Let’s get a little more specific. Cancer is when a cell loses the knowledge of when to stop growing. You know that if you cut yourself the skin starts growing together from each side. When those cells meet in the middle they stop growing. They “know” when they’ve met each other and they “know” that they’re supposed to stop and how the normal healing process is supposed to be. There is an innate “knowledge” there and they “know” to stop growing. Well, cancer cells has lost that knowledge of when to stop growing.  

There’s also another characteristic of cancer cells: they’ve lost the knowledge of what they are supposed to be. A liver cell forgets that it is a liver cell and starts growing out of control. The less knowledge they have of what they’re supposed to be the worse the cancer is. In medical terms that’s called “undifferentiated”, or less specific cells. The less specific they are the worse that tends to be.  

Another thing we know about cancer cells is they’re extremely inefficient users of energy.   Whereas a normal cell gets 38 units of energy out of a certain type sugar, cancer cells only get 2. And as I’ve mentioned in a previous post about sugar, cancer can only burn sugar for their nutrient supply. These are a few things that distinguish what makes a cancer cell different.

What causes it?  Later I’ll talk more about different causes of cancer. But for now, recall what I said about cancer as cells trying to escape a toxic environment. What causes that toxic environment? Well, I’d say the first issue that we have to look at is (as people close to me will know that I’ve said it for years) emotional and physiological stress. If you’re familiar with my work on the Healing Codes with Alex Loyd, you’ll know that stress equates to unhealthy cellular memory down deep inside, or wrong beliefs. That’s what ultimately causes physiological stress in the body. Emotional issues and wrong beliefs can be the primary causes of cancer from my perspective.  

You absolutely have to deal with those issues if you want to get well and stay well. I frequently use the analogy, “Where do cactuses grow?” Well, we don’t see them here in East Tennessee. We see oak trees and grass and briars and bushes. We don’t see cactuses because they grow out in the desert. That’s the environment that they grow in. On the other hand, in Arizona they don’t have many live oak trees because the soil, the sunshine, and the water isn’t environmentally friendly to them. So the inside environment is what you want to change if you want to get well. In other words, where we really want to be is working on prevention. Physiological stress is what we want to stay out of. You can go to The Healing Codes site and hear Dr. Loyd and I talk about physiological stress, cellular memory and what causes that, along with the emotional issues that lead to physiological stress that, to me, are the primary cause of cancer.

Next time I’ll talk more about causes of cancer that relate to our physical environment as opposed to our emotional environment. Stay tuned.