Nutritional Therapy and Cancer

Is nutritional therapy same as naturotherapy?

Do you know diseases begin at your mouth?

Let food be your medicine and
medicine be your food.

About Nutritional-Therapy

Another name for nutritional-therapy (or nutrition therapy) is metabolic therapy.

The foundation of this type of therapy is all about nutrition and nothing else.

There are no drugs or medicine involved.

Nutrition practitioners are saying "Give the body what it needs, and the body will heal itself."

Is nutritional therapy same as naturotherapy?

There are some similarities but it is a different type of therapy.

Naturotherapy uses the benefits of diet and nutrition in its treatment, but it also includes traditional natural therapeutics such as botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, traditional oriental medicine, hydrotherapy and naturopathic manipulative treatments.

Nutritional therapy uses only special diets, natural enzymes, and nutritional supplements in its treatment of cancer i.e. to remove the toxins from the body and to strengthen the body's defenses against cancer cells.

There are many other alternative cancer treatments that have included most of the nutritional therapy methods. Some of the famous ones include Kelley Gonzalez Therapy, Gerson's Therapy, Josef Issels Therapy, Douglas Brodie Therapy, etc.

At the A.P. John Cancer Institute for Cancer Research, their Controlled Amino Acid Therapy (CAAT) is almost 95% nutritional approach to cancer treatment, and the results that they have achieved are note-worthy.

Conventional oncologists are finding the wisdom of nutritional therapy and have recommended it to their patients, normally as an after-effect of the conventional cancer treatments, hoping to boost the health and strength of the patients.

They know that many of the cancer patients who have undergone conventional treatment of radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery do not die because of cancer.

They die because of their body's intolerance to the treatment. Their bodies were damaged by the conventional treatments.

These doctors have included nutritional therapy programs for their patients hoping to reduce such deaths.

Importance of nutritional therapy

A survey was done in the US general public about cancer treatment, and it was found that more and more people are supporting complementary and alternative therapies of cancer as compared to the conventional treatments.

Since improper diet had been found to be a major cause of cancer, you will find that in future, the nutritional approach to treating cancer will be given greater emphasis even by mainstream medical industry.

In nutritional therapy, the primary aim is to kill the cancer cells by starving them of their food and energy supply.

Cancer cells require different nutrients as compared to normal healthy cells.

In this therapy, patients with individual needs, will have their personal nutritional program drafted using fruits, vegetables, anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals, and other natural supplements, in order to feed the healthy body cells only.

When the normal body systems are fed well and the cancer cells "starved", the cellular environment will become less favorable for the cancer to metastasize.

Eventually, they will be removed by the body's own defense system and eliminated from the body.

Nutritional therapy is important to the cancer patient but not necessary to the medical industry.

Multi-national pharmaceutical companies are not interested in nutritional products because they cannot be patented for more profits.

It's the dollars and cents that rule the decision, not the well-being of the cancer patients.

For example, one of the products used in nutritional therapy is wheatgrass. The therapy consists of consuming wheatgrass drinks several times a day as a means of detoxifying the body. Fresh wheatgrass contains many vitamins, minerals and plant enzymes including amygdalin or laetrile which have anti-cancer effects. Wheatgrass is so cheap and available in abundance. They cannot patent wheatgrass and hope to make any money!

Another product is Haelan, which is a liquid soy bean extract. It is a nutritional based anti-cancer product. Thebenefits of Haelan include inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, boosting the immune system and their anti-oxidant properties reduces free radical damage to cells that can lead to cancer growth. Haelan was developed and tested in China. The soy beans are cheap and abundantly grown in nutrient rich soils in Mongolia. Powerful US companies cannot exploit them as medicine or anti-cancer drugs.

But for the cancer patient, the cheaper the better and the more abundantly found in nature, the happier.

In that sense, natural healing using nutritional therapy is very fair and has no distinction between the haves and the have-nots.

Furthermore, orthodox (conventional) cancer treatments treat only the symptoms (symptom suppressant drugs) and the manifestations of the disease.

Nutritional therapy treats the cause of the disease. When the cause is dealt with, the symptoms of the sickness will disappear.

Nutritional therapy builds a stronger body so that cancer cells cannot grow. The strongest defense system of the body is its own natural anti-oxidants and immune system, and this is where nutritional therapy is working to build.

Actually nutritional therapy does not only heal cancer, but it is capable of overcoming many other chronic health problems as well such as high blood pressure, hypertension, allergies, glucose intolerance, heavy metal poisoning, Candida albicans, obesity, poor blood circulation, acne, sore throat, hemorrhoids, gum diseases, pre-menstrual syndrome, back aches, fatigue, insomnia, and other sicknesses caused by the combine results of improper diet and unhealthy lifestyle.

For those who do not have any specific sickness but wants to maintain a state of optimum health, nutritional therapy is beneficial.

It is also safe for children as well as adults.

Nutritional therapy and diseases

This therapy has been inscribed in ancient Chinese and Indian cultures for thousands of years.

They say that every disease has a nutritional cause.

When the body is particularly low in one or more nutrients, it shows up as symptoms of a disease like cancer.

When these deficiencies are taken care of by a nutritional approach using the proper diet and supplements, the symptoms will disappear and diseases like cancer will be eradicated.

Why are there deficiencies? Most people have deficiencies because of the "modern" fast food culture today. The quality of food becomes secondary.

Eating on the run, takeaways, fast food corners have placed lower importance on the purpose of food for healthy living. You cannot eat junk food and expect to be healthy.

Go to the supermarkets and you will find that the food sections are mainly stocked with instant meals which have much lower nutritional value than fresh organically grown food prepared at home.

Since food products are now marketed over long distances for bigger market opportunities, the agriculture business do not hesitate to utilize all kinds of artificial flavorings, preservatives and colorings to give the final food products the outward appearance of the "fresh and tasty" look. But the actual fact is they aren't.

These are all dead food. The human body as a living organism needs living food, living enzymes, living phyto-nutrients, which are necessary to build living cells.

With such a lifestyle, the human body has been under-nourished, malnourished and subjected to an unhealthy downfall. Diseases become rampant. New mutations of cancers are constantly discovered. Children's cancer such as Hodgkin's disease was unheard of 20 years ago, but has now become extensive.

There are now more than 200 different types of cancers and yet more new mutated types are emerging.

Nutritional therapy deals with going back to the basics of eating well every day, together with exercising, breathing clean air, drinking clean water etc.

It teaches awareness of knowing where your food comes from, how you prepare your food and how you eat your food.

Nutritional therapy and Cancer treatment

For those who have embarked on nutritional therapy as a stand-alone cancer treatment, there are some pointers that should be known.

• The therapy is not a difficult therapy to follow and because of that cancer patients may have the tendency to think that not enough is being done in their body to eradicate cancer.

• The therapy is a long term therapy. To see any immediate results is very rare. No doubt, there will be improvements in the general well-being of the patient. Just like it took years for the cancer cells to grow into a small size tumor, it will take many months to see any major changes in your cancer condition. In some cases, the special diet therapy may take up to 18 months to see a total rejuvenation. Because of the longer period of time, as compared to conventional methods like radiation therapy, patients may get impatient, give up hope halfway or distrust such an approach to cancer treatment.

• The success rate of the nutritional therapy depends on the discipline of the cancer patient. But judging from the many testimonies from other nutritional therapy websites, and personal experience with survivors, the success is definitely more encouraging than the conventional treatment rates.

• The cost of the treatment is not much greater than your monthly food bill. You may spend a little more extra on natural supplements, but in general, the cost is just a fraction of the conventional treatment cost that can break your bank account. Even though, the cost is much lesser, do not think that the therapy is inferior to others. The long term benefits for your health are remarkable.

Following a nutritional therapy for cancer treatment will have several benefits.

Some of them include:

• Supporting and rebuilding the functions of your immune system

• Rebuilding back body tissues and those taken over by cancer tumors

• Decreasing the risk of bacteria or virus infection

• Rebuilding the body cell mass (BCM) that have been wasted by cancer. The BCM includes muscle tissues, organ tissues intracellular and extracellular water and bone tissues.

• Increasing strength and increase in energy for daily activities

• Improve your body resistance and decrease the side effects of conventional cancer treatment, if you are undergoing them.

• Boost your recovery faster by giving you back mental alertness and total bodily healing

• a total improvement in the quality of life

Weigh the pros and cons

Cancer is a degenerative disease that breaks the body systems down bit by bit but surely.

Depending on the Stage of cancer (Stage 1 being not serious, and Stage 4 being very serious), nutritional therapy may not be sufficiently fast enough to tackle a Stage 4 condition.

Most other alternative cancer treatments do not rely on nutritional therapy alone but modify it to include liver detox, kidney detox, colon detox, ozone therapy etc., especially for serious malignant cancer tumors.

This is a wiser decision. Since complementary and alternative treatments do not damage the body, and have minimum side effects, many patients have combined them together to achieve a better recovery rate.

Further Reading:

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