What is the Main Cause of Cancer

Main Cause of Cancer

This January 16, 2017 article has a chart with numbers about the causes of cancer. Now if you look at this chart you will see that most of the causes is under your control and many do not like that. They will say things like where is the fun in life if I can't eat horrible things that taste good and give me cancer.

Now the chart says that family history is 5% of the cause. Well that is so small that it does not make much of a difference. But smoking is 33% of the cause! Also it can cause death in other ways. Now I knew a cabdriver who did not have a leg and I asked him about it. He said that he lost it since smoking is bad for circulation, but he still smoked.

The chart says that 20% of the cause is being overweight. We have covered some of this above. Being overweight or obese can increase your causes of dying of many causes. The chart says that 5% of the cause of cancer is diet. Now I think this is much too low and will explain why. They can take some out of the 11% due to unknown causes and add it to diet. Unknown can be bad luck or a superstition. Five percent cab be lack of exercise. Add these up and that equals 66% of what is in your control according to the chart. Plus I feel that diet should be a lot higher. Note that you can chew tobacco and that is diet, not smoking!

Of the different types of cancer, lung cancer kills the most people and 90% of the lung cancer is due to smoking. Now 5% of the cancer is due to occupation and they know that being a chemist, like I was, can contribute to that. My uncle that was a chemist died of cancer at age 70, but that occupation made him wealthy well before he died. Smoking can be an expensive habit. So you can see how big difference you can make in your odds of getting cancer.

Reducing Odds of Cancer or Curing It

Now we will get into diet more. First I was telling a doctor that works in a hospital that I was very surprised at how big a difference enough vitamin D makes in getting cancer. She said that it should not since it is a disease of toxins. She is right-- it is disease of toxins. That is the main cause of cancer. There is a cancer that you from asbestos called mesothelioma. Asbestos is the cause of mesothelioma.

Smoking introduces a whole set of toxins. In fact over 100 additives are added to the tobacco to make it nearly impossible to quit. Of course the easiest way to quit is to never start. Eating or diet introduces a great deal of toxins that should not be in one's diet. Note that webmd has an article that is easy to find with a search that says that eating salt (that is not a food) is worse than smoking. So they are saying that if you give up salt and start smoking then you will be healthier. They have many MDs read over an article before it is published.

Also very recent research shows that eating meat, dairy or eggs is as bad as smoking. Getting back to what I said to the doctor, they now know that vitamin D is not a vitamin, but a hormone. One of the functions of this hormone, is to help your body get rid of toxins.

Doctor of Public Health (their job is to find the cause and then cure the disease), Cedric Garland says that ENOUGH (lifeguard levels) vitamin D will virtually eradicate breast cancer. Moore Cancer Center proposes that cancer may be a vitamin D deficiency.

JAMA says that 77% of Americans have a vitamin D deficiency. A pandemic is a widespread epidemic. It also has the exact quote that PubMed Central has about this. If you have not realizes this by now, I also give you the websites that you can find this at.

I wrote this article because so many are afraid of cancer and that it strikes people at random. So this article is to show that you make your body a good vessel for cancer to grow or make it a terrible place for cancer to live and survive. It just wants a place to survive and eat lots of toxins. Tea is the most studied anti-cancer plant, with over 5,000 medical studies published on its health benefits over the past 10 years.

I hear many health enthusiasts brag about how they drink only water. Let me tell you how stupid this is. As a chemist I can tell you by definition, water is a tasteless liquid. Now if humans wanted something tasteless, then they would eat cardboard. You can sweeten green tea with the herb stevia that is very sweet but has no calories. Plus this herb is good for your health.

Now some know some things that make them not so smart. They know that caffeine helps you to stay awake like if you are trying to meditate or drive. What they do not know is that green tea also contains theanine that also makes you very relaxed. That way you can be awake, alert and relaxed which is ideal for meditation. So it is much better to drink green tea than water. Water does not prevent cancer. Also green tea is 95% water. Also green tea has EGCG in it that helps you to lose weight that is 20% of your risk for getting cancer.

Now as mentioned there are many more foods that prevent cancer like mushrooms and vegetables that have substance in them that fight cancer. For example Mayo Clinic found that broccoli sprouts are very high in a cancer phytochemicals (plant medicines) and bred these sprouts to be higher in them and they sell them in supermarkets.

Before you get chronic health problems that are permanent, you get acute problems that last a short time like the flu and colds. I have not had a cold, flu or headache in over 15 years and I do not take any drugs that include the drugs for well people like vaccines and sunblock. I will warn you now that this also involves getting enough vitamin D that you can get free from the sun of God or God's sun. A pope used the sun, like Sunday to make the Christian religion more accepted in the beginning.

When you eat too much carbohydrates or fat, it can be stored. When you eat too much protein, it cannot be stored and it must be broken down. This creates a lot of toxins. Animal foods are acid and plant foods have a tendency to be alkaline. Green tea is listed as the most alkaline food. PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says:

The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that dietary factors account for at least 30 percent of all cancers in Western countries and up to 20 percent in developing countries. When cancer researchers started to search for links between diet and cancer, one of the most noticeable findings was that people who avoided meat were much less likely to develop the disease.This fact allowed scientists to separate the effects of eating meat from other factors. Overall, these studies showed significant reductions in cancer risk among those who avoided meat. In contrast, Harvard studies showed that daily meat eaters have approximately three times the colon cancer risk, compared to those who rarely eat meat.

Their Six Guidelines for Cancer Prevention are:

1. Avoid dairy products to reduce risk of prostate cancer.
2. Limit or avoid alcohol to reduce the risk of cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colon, rectum, and breast.
3. Avoid red and processed meat to reduce the risk of cancers of the colon and rectum.
4. Avoid grilled, fried, and broiled meats to reduce the risk of cancers of the colon, rectum, breast, prostate, kidney, and pancreas.
5. Women should consume soy products in adolescence to reduce risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer survivors should consume soy products to reduce risk of cancer recurrence and overall mortality.
6. Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables to reduce risk of several forms of cancer.

University of Southern California News says:

Meat and cheese may be as bad for you as smoking

Eating animal proteins during middle age makes you a candidate for cancer

That chicken wing you’re eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet — a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking.

The difference between protein from plants and protein from animals is the protein from animals has a lot more sulfur in it which causes hydrogen sulfide. Animal protein contributes significantly to the colonic sulfur pool, resulting in the generation of hydrogen sulfide. This has a bad effect on people with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease).

Dr Oz : Fighting Cancer with Foods (cure cancer naturally) 2017

Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Common Diseases with Diet. Includes latest scientific information on many things including cancer.

How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers

 

Method of MDs Reduces Breast Cancer by 90%

October is breast cancer awareness month. Medical doctors have a method or procedure to prevent breast cancer. In a study, it showed that it reduced the number of women getting breast cancer by 90%. This means that out of 10 women that would have gotten breast cancer, only 1 woman will get it if they use this preventative method.

So that is very significant. But I feel that if it were 2% or 3% (2 or 3 out of 100) that would get it, then that would be pretty good but 10% is too high. But that is what it showed it to be-- reducing breast cancer by 90% instead of reducing cancer by 97% or 98%.

So what is this method that reduces breast cancer by 90% and why haven't you heard of it? Maybe you have heard of it. Women who are at a high risk of getting breast cancer are getting this procedure done.

It is called prophylactic bilateral mastectomy or bilateral prophylactic mastectomy. Prophylactic means preventative. Bilateral means both sides. Mastectomy is when you cut off the breast. So it means cutting off both of them before the woman gets breast cancer. Susan G Koman for the Cure says:

Studies suggest that prophylactic bilateral mastectomy can lower the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk by 90 percent or more [203-208].

But if you see a previous post Vitamin D and Breast Cancer, you will see that a Doctor of Pubic Health, I mean a Doctor of Public Health, Cedric Garland, says that enough vitamin D (lifeguard levels) will "virtually eradicate breast cancer." Virtually would mean more than 90%.

Also that webpage has a link to this page, Cancer Treatment and Cancer Prevention, that is a lot more reading. But it goes into much more detail about vitamin D and breast cancer including quotes from Johns Hopkins, Harvard and others. I just found another medical doctor online, that has a website on this blog website, a subdomain of this domain. It is Robert Baker MD Health Newsletter (update on vitamin D).

Robert Baker says:

Hyper-proliferation of cells is what occurs with cancer. Vitamin D has repeatedly been shown to prevent this. Many large studies have now shown that various types of cancers are associated with very low vitamin D levels. In a well publicized cancer study that spanned 8 years, the lowest levels of vitamin D were associated with the worst outcome and highest mortality in breast cancer.

Vitamin D could have a profound effect on health care expenditures; it has been called a national health care plan in itself. It makes sense that Vitamin D is so basic to life and health. Scientists agree that life began near the equator. Early humans had unlimited access to sunlight, and didn’t have sunscreen or a wardrobe, so at one time humans’ vitamin D levels were very high.

The understanding of the importance of Vitamin D remains the most important preventive medicine development in over a century.

Also the above mentioned website, Cancer Treatment and Cancer Prevention, besides going into greater detail about vitamin D, also tells about many other things that can reduce your chances of getting breast cancer like weight reduction or weight loss (losing weight), getting exercise and details on what to eat and not to eat.

Like you can be drinking green tea all day and that will reduce your risk of getting cancer, especially breast cancer. Research shows that this will have side effects like helping you to lose excess weight and reducing your chances of getting Alzheimer's disease. Also you can be consuming the spice tumeric to reduce your chances of getting cancer.

Tumeric has the phytochemical curcumin in it that is also sold as a supplement. Curcumin is a phytochemical just like lycopene in tomatoes, resveratrol in grapes and wine, hesperidin in citrus fruits, quercetin in tea and apples, ellagic acid in walnuts, strawberries and grapes and catechins in tea, grapes and cocoa (chocolate) .

Note that webmd.com has an article saying that orange juice lowers high blood pressure due to the hesperidin in it. After the the radiation accident in Japan articles listed what was good to protect you from radiation and hesperidin was one of them. Phytochemicals are chemicals in plant foods that can improve the health of people in many different ways. There are thousands of them and 900 have been identified already.

Note that a new study, Clear Brain Plaques with This Nutrient, says that both vitamin D and tumeric reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. But first read the blog post on vitamin D and breast cancer to just get an idea of this. Green tea and tumeric are the most powerful anti-inflammatory foods. This type of food prevents lifestyle diseases that get worse with aging like cardiovascular problems, heart disease, arthritis and cancer.

Then when you have more time, you can go to the website with much more information on vitamin D and also goes into a lot of detail about cancer and diet with different sources of where this information came from. So Dr Cedric Garland is saying that the vitamin D can virtually eradicate breast cancer but I give more information to increase your odds even more of avoiding breast cancer.

Some of that information comes from the book Anticancer (2008). It is about a doctor that got cancer and then the doctors cured it. But then it came back again just like with Steve Jobs who had his pancreatic cancer cured in 2004 and then recently died from it and also John Edwards wife.

So this doctor researched it on his own and made lifestyle changes. Then his cancer was cured and after he was free of cancer for 15 years wrote this book. His book also covered the cancer mind and that people with a type C personality are more likely to get cancer.

Vitamin D Prevents Breast Cancer

Christina Applegate getting exercise and free vitamin D. She is a breast cancer survivor. Picture from this webpage.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news you already know about. That is that cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. For women their biggest cancer challenge is breast cancer. Many women that live end up losing their breasts.

Here is the good news. In the last 3 years, 6 MDs have writiten 6 books on vitamin D (now a 7th one-- see below)! (see their qualifications in the books below). In 2007 Time Magazine chose vitamin D as one of the top 10 medical breakthroughs of the year. In 2010 the RDA of vitamin D was tripled! For decades vitamin D has been the undisputed cure for rickets.

Moores Cancer Center is proposing that cancer is a vitamin D deficiency. The doctor of public health there and professor of University of California, San Diego, Cedric Garland, states that enough vitamin D (lifeguard levels) will virtually eradicate breast cancer! As far as "enough", that is why the RDA was tripled. Many experts think it is still too low but they can always raise it again later.

Webmd.com has an article: Low Vitamin D Levels Common in Breast Cancer

"Women with breast cancer should be tested for vitamin D levels and offered supplements, if necessary," says researcher Sonia Li, MD, of the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Middlesex, England. The findings were presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

They also had an article the month before saying that vitamin D did not help with breast cancer. But they questioned if it was the amount that they were using. They were not using enough vitamin D (only 400 IU daily). That amount is too little to affect all these other things other than bone density. What other things?

Andrew Weil M.D. says in the forward of the book, The Vitamin D Solution:

Increasing the amount of vitamin D in the body can prevent or help treat a remarkable number of ailments, from obesity to arthritis, from high blood pressure to back pain, from diabetes to muscle cramps, from upper respiratory tract infections to infectious disease, and from fibromyalgia to cancers of the breast, colon, pancreas, prostate and ovaries.

Christiane Northrup M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn, is a visionary pioneer, beloved authority in women's health and wellness and the author of the great New York Times best-sellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause. She has an article on the Oprah website called Prevent Breast Cancer with Vitamin D:

There's a paradigm shift going on in medicine as new research reveals a far greater role for vitamin D.

In addition to protecting the bones and boosting the immune system, studies show that Vitamin D helps prevent certain cancers, including breast, ovarian, prostate and colorectal. [footnote 2, 3, 4, 5] Exciting new research shows that, in the United States alone, thousands of new cases of breast cancer could be prevented every year if more women had optimal levels of vitamin D. [footnote 6]

Would you like to watch a 6 minute video by the great and powerful Dr. Oz (he has his own TV show)? It is called The Power of Vitamin D. It is about using vitamin D to prevent breast, colon and uterine cancer and how this works. The same things that prevent cancer can cure cancer.

Harvard Medical School article Time for More Vitamin D (health.harvard.edu) (This article was first printed in the September 2008 issue of the Harvard Women Health Watch) says:

Hardly a month goes by without news about the risks of vitamin D deficiency or about a potential role for the vitamin in warding off diseases, including breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and even schizophrenia.

However, in one of the few randomized trials testing the effect of vitamin D supplements on cancer outcomes, postmenopausal women who took 1,100 international units (IU) of vitamin D plus 1,400 to 1,500 milligrams of calcium per day reduced their risk of developing non-skin cancers by 77% after four years, compared with a placebo and the same dose of calcium.

That is enough information to create a serious interest in the possibility of vitamin D helping with breast cancers and other cancers. You can find a lot more of this and other things that you can do to reduce your chances of getting breast cancer, like drinking green tea and eating more fruits and vegetables at Fighting Cancer with Vitamin D and More.

The quote from Harvard tells about a study that showed that vitamin D can reduce all non-skin cancers by 77%! Johns Hopkins Medicine has an article called Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer. It says:

In addition, vitamin D is believed to help maintain a strong immune system and to regulate cell growth, differentiation (the process whereby new cells develop into distinct types of cells), and apoptosis (the programmed cell death that keeps cell proliferation in check). Out-of-control cell proliferation is the hallmark of cancer.

Studies over the years have pointed to an association between geographic location and the risk of dying of certain diseases. For example, people who live in more southerly latitudes (and who receive year-round sunshine) appear to have a lower risk of dying of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some cancers, such as colon and breast, than do those who live in northern latitudes. Researchers suspect that the higher sun exposure, which creates more vitamin D in the skin, may be responsible.

More women die of lung cancer than breast cancer but many lose their breasts from the breast cancer. Also they say that 90% of lung cancer is caused by smoking cigarettes. Also see 8 Foods That Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk.

Here is something interesting about cancer and sunlight. Dermatologists say that sunlight causes melanoma (skin cancer). The chance of an American getting melanoma in any year is about one out of 5,000. Sunscreen and sunblock causes skin cancer. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) lists the number of people getting melanoma in each of these states in 4 different levels from highest to lowest.

Texas, Arizona and New Mexico are right above (north of) Mexico and get very bright sunlight especially with the high elevations in Arizona and New Mexico. These 3 states are in the lowest category of melanoma.

Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are at the top of the country with a latitude that is higher (further from the equator) than parts of Canada. These 3 states are in the category with the highest amount of melanoma cases anywhere. Is it possible that dermatologists invested money in companies selling skin products and billions of this come from people buying sunblock and sunscreen that causes skin cancer?

At the latitude of Boston, MA there are 3 months of the year (around first day of winter-- shortest daylight) where you cannot get any vitamin D from sunlight. At the latitude of Montreal, Canada, there are 5 months of the year where you cannot any vitamin D from sunlight.

There is now another book on vitamin D by an M.D. in a popular book series called Vitamin D for Dummies. The author also wrote Diabetes for Dummies that sold over 1 million copies. It is the only book in this series about a nutrient.

Joseph Mercola D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) says:

Despite all the bad press linking sun exposure to skin cancer, there's almost no evidence at all to support it. There is, however, plenty of evidence to the contrary. Over the years, several studies have confirmed that appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. In fact, melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens.

One of the most important facts you should know is that an epidemic of the disease has in fact broken out among indoor workers. These workers get three to nine times LESS solar UV exposure than outdoor workers get, yet only indoor workers have increasing rates of melanoma -- and the rates have been increasing since before 1940.

The Lancet is the world's leading general medical journal and specialty journals in Oncology, Neurology and Infectious Diseases.
The Lancet says:

Sunlight is the main environmental cause of most cutaneous melanomas. Exposure to intense bursts of ultraviolet radiation, especially in childhood, starts the transformation of benign melanocytes into a malignant phenotype. Paradoxically, outdoor workers have a decreased risk of melanoma compared with indoor workers, suggesting that chronic sunlight exposure can have a protective effect. Further, some melanomas form on sun-exposed regions; others do not.