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 "Cancer is not a disease; it is a very unusual, but apparently highly efficient, mechanism of survival and self-protection.
We ought to give the most developed and complex system in the universe—the human body—a little more credit than it has so far received, and trust that it knows perfectly well how to conduct its own affairs, even under the grimmest of circumstances.
The Body's Desperate Attempt to Live
Nobody wants to be attacked by anyone; this also applies to the cells of the body."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Killing off cancer cells would in fact jeopardize its survival. It is important to know that the body attacks a cancerous tumor only after the congestion that has led to the tumor's growth in the first place has been broken up. As mentioned in chapter one, this would be the case, for example, following a major infection, such as the chickenpox or the flu. I will discuss other reasons for the occurrence of spontaneous remissions at a later This is called metastasis. However, there is no evidence to show that metastasis really occurs." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Otherwise, cancer would just be a survival mechanism or a signal for you to take care of those aspects of your life that you have neglected thus far. If you believe that cancer is a disease, you are more likely to be inclined to fight against it, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you are strong-willed and the weapons you are using are powerful, you may be able to subdue this "enemy" of yours, at least for a while. In such a case, you will be proud of having "beaten" the cancer and, perhaps, you will praise the doctors or the medical treatment you endured for having saved your life." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "When it hurts an organism's chance of survival or reproduction, it dies out. (Of course, good is a matter of perspective—a mutation that helps bacteria develop antibiotic resistance isn't good for us, but it is good from the bacteria's point of view.)
Finally, DNA isn't destiny—it's history. Your genetic code doesn't determine your life. Sure, it shapes it—but exactly how it shapes it will be dramatically different depending on your parents, your environment, and your choices."- Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
| "With a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whooping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. Medical doctors get $375,000 per patient for chemotherapy, radiation, x-ray, surgery, hospital stays, doctors and anesthesiologists, according statistics from the U.S. Department of Commerce." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Survival curves, 1840-1980, reveal that our life expectancy has greatly increased but our life span has remain unchanged. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.)
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Figure 21. If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
| "That preference for genes that give us a survival or reproductive advantage is called natural selection. Here are the basics: If a gene produces a trait that makes an organism less likely to survive and reproduce, that gene (and thus, that trait) won't get passed on, at least not for very long, because the individuals who carry it are less likely to survive. On the other hand, when a gene produces a trait that makes an organism better suited for the environment and more likely to reproduce, that gene (and again, that trait) is more likely to get passed on to its offspring." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) "And because, sometimes, one organism's survival is another organism's death sentence, evolution in any one species can create pressure for evolution in hundreds or thousands of other species. And that, when it happens, will create evolutionary pressure in hundreds or thousands of other species. That's not even the whole story. Organisms' interaction with one another isn't the only influence on their evolution; their interaction with the planet is just as important. A plant that thrives in a tropical swamp has got to change or die when the glaciers slide into town." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Consider, for example, how survival statistics are analyzed. A 1926 British study of 651 women with untreated breast cancer revealed an average survival time of 3.2 years following diagnosis, and a median (the point at which half the patients had died) of 2.3 years. A year later a Boston study found an almost identical average survival of 3.3 years and a median survival of 2.5 years. Five years later, another study revealed a median survival of 3.3 years. But this figure, the latter study mentions in passing, was obtained by "omitting two cases of alleged duration of 40-41 years."- Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing (Get the book.) |
 "Some believe it is responsible for an increase in survival rates of prostate cancer, while others conclude that it simply skewing statistical survival rates because of the earlier detection of the cancer. In other words, is it improving the survival rate, or does the statistical improvement simply mean that men are living with knowledge of their cancer longer?
Typically, an elevated (abnormal) PSA leads to a prostate biopsy—a process where hollow needles are inserted into the gland and tissue is removed for analysis."- James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.) |
| "If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease. Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that profound lifestyle change with plant-based nutrition offers the optimal opportunity to avoid heart disease—and to restore erectile capacity." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
| "T. gondii reproduces by copying itself during the life of its host, but it's only in cats that it undergoes sexual reproduction, producing new oocysts, or spore cells, that can go on to find new hosts. Infected cats distribute oocysts in their droppings. The oocysts are hardy little organisms that can survive for as long as a year in tough conditions. When rodents, birds, or other animals ingest the oocysts, they become infected; animals can also become infected by eating the flesh of an infected animal." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Many people have already enjoyed prolonged survival rates and sometimes seemingly miraculous recovery from metastatic cancer using IPg, and health professionals are viewing IP^ with inositol as a powerful tool of prevention for reducing cancer risk.
As high-fiber diets and regular consumption of green tea have been shown to markedly reduce people's risks for many types of diseases, including cancer, and the fact that it is the IPg in grains and green tea that is largely responsible for these foods' anticancer effects, taking IP^ in supplement form can produce similar results."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "This breakthrough high-tech drug had been shown to improve the survival rate of people who were critically ill with septic shock—an extremely serious condition caused by bacterial infection in the bloodstream, which is responsible for 225,000 deaths in the United States each year. The New England Journal of Medicine published a report in 2001 showing that Xigris decreased the mortality rate from this dreaded condition by 6.1 percent, saving the life of 1 out of every 16 patients treated."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "The very fact that you are alive is proof that your genes are well suited for survival. (Only a backward-thinking scientist would suggest that somehow human beings have evolved a gene pool that causes fatal diseases. That goes against everything we know about evolution and survival of the fittest.)
Blaming genes for chronic disease is junk science
In fact, the idea that is often propagated by conventional medicine — that people are somehow genetically programmed to have heart disease or other disorders — is so absurd that it borders on scientific insanity." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) |
| "Research has shown that this type of therapy is useful in prolonging survival and preventing growth of cancer tumors rather than in shrinking the tumor. Generally safe, anti-angiogenic agents show effectiveness against non-solid tumors like lymphoma and leukemia, as well as for less-advanced cancers.
Comitris's safety and lack of toxic side effects have been proven by numerous clinical trials and has been shown to inhibit angiogensis in cancer patients, thus prolonging their lives and improving their quality of life." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Four decades ago, writer Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, demonstrated how our chemical age has altered our environment to the degree that the fertility and survival of many of the species with which we coexist are threatened. Then, as now, there is great resistance to the idea that environmental contamination can alter the health of both animals and people. Indeed, it has taken several decades for many researchers in the autoimmune-disease field to come to the conclusion that our contaminated environment is causing the human immune system to run amok."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "The researchers concluded that "Overall survival over the 30 years of follow-up was positively associated with intake of beta-carotene and vitamin C."
Most recently, research done at the Division of Urologic and Transplantation Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, concluded that vitamin C inhibits cancer of the prostate through production of hydrogen peroxide, which damages the cells probably through an as yet unidentified free radical generation mechanism. "Our results also suggest that ascorbic acid is a potent anticancet agent for prostate cancer cells." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "This phenomenon would have threatened the survival of all animal species on Earth. The fact that we have not seen this happening during the time humans have walked on earth strongly suggests that ALA, in its natural state, is not a cause of cancer. Moreover, it seems unfathomable that the Divine plan of Nature would be so distorted and self-destructive as to allow such a phyto compound, so essential for the sustenance of all life, to be a major contributor to its termination. Flax oil is not known to increase the incidence of prostate cancer, nor does ALA increase prostate cancer incidence." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Not instincts: those are oriented toward individual and collective survival. Homo sapiens, like other species, most notably the higher apes, possess "hard-wired" instincts that make them into adapted social beings. Chimpanzees who cannot swim have sometimes drowned in the moats of zoos trying to save other chimpanzees who have fallen into the water. Rhesus monkeys have been known to starve themselves for days when they could get food only by giving an electric shock to a companion."- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) |
 "As a matter of fact, maybe dandelion's strong survival tendencies, as evidenced by its growth through the cracks in city sidewalks, are a response to our desperate need of its healing qualities.
Dandelion's name derives from the French dent de lion, meaning tooth of the lion. It is said that this may be because the toothed leaves resemble that of a lion's teeth. I wonder if this name was given more because of Dandelion's ferocious nature in dealing with indigestion, elimination of waste through the liver and urinary tract, and its tremendous preventive abilities due to high nutritive value."- Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Here in the survival center we may come up against issues of scarcity, harboring the fear that there is not enough to maintain life. This poverty consciousness may stem from different places, but it is a healthy first chakra that lets one know that the universe will provide and that there is enough for everyone. This fear of scarcity can also manifest as an excessive accumulation of material goods as a way to compensate for a first chakra that isn't deeply rooted and that operates from a surface level." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) |
 "They were "gentleman farmers," men of independent means who farmed for pleasure, as opposed to the vast majority of farmers who produced food as a means of survival.
Until the industrial revolution, the North American population was predominantly rural. People grew their own food. There was little fresh fruit in the summer, and none in the winter. City dwellers had even fewer fruits. Those that were sold took so long to get to the city that they were often decomposing by the time they arrived."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "And what fruits want from us is the same thing we want from them: survival. With an apple, I will astonish Paris. —Paul Cezanne Kicking the February slush from their boots, friends are pouring into my apartment for a cocktail party. Montreal's minus forty-degree winters may inspire indie-pop odes, but they aren't exactly conducive to a thriving fruit culture. Still, wondering what might turn up, I asked each guest to bring a fruit they've never tasted before. But no one seems to have brought any fruits at all. Then, shortly after midnight, the doorbell rings." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Turner, an ethnobiologist specialized in aboriginal ecosystems and plant resources, "foraging for wild crops satisfies some instinctive yearning left over from man's evolutionary past when this occupation was essential for survival." When I first saw that Brazilian paradise nut tree, covered in muffins, it jolted me with a hardwired sense of excitement. The same neural circuits flash to life when I taste these jungle fruits: it's not only a sense of hope, it's an intimation of self-preservation, the knowledge that we'll remain alive for another day." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Papayas' survival has proven to be a mixed blessing for Hawaiian farmers: their fruits are sold in North America, but are banned in many other countries. In 2004, Thai Greenpeace activists dressed in full-body hazmat outfits placed GM papayas into hazardous-waste disposal bins in a widely broadcast action that led to arrests and imprisonment. It's hard to determine which foods have been altered because they aren't labeled as such. Most consumers reject GM foods when alerted to their presence, but modified crops have creeped into many of the processed foods we eat." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
| "As the study published in the NEJM concluded, the lower mortality rate among nurses taking hormones could have been due to the "survival benefit" of the hormones. In other words, women had a lower mortality rate because they took hormones. The reverse could also have been true: the women who were already going to have a lower mortality rate might have been more likely to take hormones. In other words, perhaps it was their greater propensity toward health or the absence of disease that led them to take the hormones, and not the reverse." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "There is no question that lowering cholesterol in patients who have already suffered a myocardial infarction will result in a very small though measurable decrease in the likelihood that they will suffer another myocardial infarction and a smaller, barely measurable increase in their survival. This is termed "secondary prevention," or preventing recurrent disease. However, there is a serious question as to whether statin treatment affords any meaningful advantage to all the rest of us who have not suffered a myocardial infarction."- Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
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