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"Because cancer is a survival mechanism, not a disease. The body uses the cancer to keep deadly carcinogenic substances and caustic metabolic waste matter away from the lymph and blood and, therefore, from the heart, brain, and other vital organs. 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." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Cancer is not a disease; it is the final and most desperate survival mechanism the body has at its disposal. It only takes control of the body when all other measures of self-preservation have failed. To truly heal cancer and what it represents in a person's life, we must come to the understanding that what the body does when allowing some of its cells to grow in abnormal ways is in its best interest. Cancer is not an indication that the body is about to destroy itself." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "It is important to recall at this point that cancer is not a disease but a survival mechanism that occurs only when all other protective measures have failed. There is profound purpose and intelligence at every level of physical creation, from the smallest of particles to the most complex star clusters in the large-scale universe. Just because many scientists and doctors prefer to see nature as behaving in a random, incoherent fashion does not mean it actually is chaotic and unpredictable. Cancer is not as chaotic as the "experts" would have us believe." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Are they just lucky, or is there a mechanism at work that triggers the healing? On the contrary, what is the hidden element that prevents the body from healing cancer naturally, that makes cancer so dangerous, if indeed it is dangerous at all? The answers to all these queries lie with the person who has the cancer, and does not depend on the degree of a particular cancer's "viciousness" or the advanced stage to which it appears to have progressed. Do you believe that cancer is a disease?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Nature is like a giant mechanism. This myth dates from the early modern age, a carryover from the Newtonian view of the world, according to which causes have direct and singular effects. The idea of the world as a giant mechanism was well adapted to creating and operating medieval technologies—water mills, windmills, pumps, mechanical clocks, and animal-drawn plows and carriages—but it fails when it comes to living organisms and the world that sustains living organisms. Yet the myth persists that we can engineer the environment as if it were a machine." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"You would think that there would be a mechanism in place to ensure that our medical care was based upon a solid foundation of medical research. The United States was actually the first country to implement just such a program, known as health technology assessment, in 1975. Since then, most of the other industrialized nations have established formal mechanisms to determine the optimal use of new medical technologies and to protect their citizens from unproven or wasteful innovations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In the control group, neither lycopene nor vitamin E alone significantly reduced cancer cells. What mechanism might enable lycopene and vitamin E to have synergy in reducing prostate cancer growth? Nobody knows the answer yet, but "most likely the mixture acts by optimizing the mechanisms of both compounds alone," explains Wytske van Weerden, PhD, the lead researcher of the study at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Vitamins C and E work with beta-carotene to lower LDL cholesterol." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"He added that the problem was "mechanism based as we worried it was." Scientists often refer to a drug's mechanism when they explain how it works. They now knew there was something about how Vioxx worked in the body that was harming some patients' hearts. Merck's message to doctors and the American public was a different one, however. In press releases the company explained away the heart attacks suffered by the patients taking Vioxx in the study. Executives said that Merck had done other studies that had not found an increased risk of heart problems in patients taking Vioxx." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In the first (allopathic) worldview, most disease originates through the breakdown of some one mechanism, or a few discrete mechanisms; disease then is to be treated by fixing (or bypassing) the defective mechanism(s). In the second (holistic) worldview, however, disease has to do not only with individual mechanisms but with weakenings of many kinds of couplings between mechanisms, and with overstressing of supporting systems through excessive demands for support." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.)

"It is extremely important to understand this concept so as to reduce refractive errors—since you must count on this mechanism to change your refractive state in a positive direction. Your refractive status is maintained if there is a balance between myopic and hyperopic stimuli (see Figure 2.12). For instance, if myopic stimuli (close work) overcome the hyperopic (distant viewing), this will eventually produce a refractive change toward myopia." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"In his laboratory, Popp developed a computerized mechanism attached to a box in which a living thing, such as a plant, could be placed. The machine could count the photons and chart the amount of light emitted on a graph. But those machines recorded photons only in utter pitch blackness. Up until then, it had been impossible for scientists to witness living things actually glowing in the dark. As Schwartz mulled over the kind of equipment that would allow him to see very faint light, he thought of state-of-the-art supercooled charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras on telescopes." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Having waves, rather than chemicals, as the communication mechanism of a living being also solved the central problem of genetics—how we grow and take final shape from a single cell. It also explains how our bodies manage to carry out tasks with different body parts simultaneously. Popp theorized that this light must be like a master tuning fork setting off certain frequencies that would be followed by other molecules of the body." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Schwartz began to consider the possibility that the mechanism creating intention originated with the tiny elements of light emitted from human beings. In the mid-1970s, a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp had stumbled upon the fact that all living things, from the most basic of single-celled plants to the most sophisticated of organisms like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons—tiny particles of light." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Gary's childhood experiments may have been rudimentary, but he had already stumbled across the central mechanism of intention: something in the quality of our thoughts was a constant transmission, not unlike a television station. As an adult, Schwartz, still a bustling dynamo of enthusiasms, found an outlet in psychophysiology, then a fledgling study of the effect of the mind on the body." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"No single mechanism adequately explains why some brains age differently than others. And even those that are "sharp as a tack" probably do not think as quickly, but they compensate by using experience and well-routinized cognitive strategies. As you know from "Alzheimer's 101," some scientists talk about the oxidative stress caused by free radicals and some propose inflammatory processes to explain neural senescence." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In the background, of course, is the question of whether amyloid is toxic to the brain or whether it represents a neural repair mechanism. presenilins that are related to the presence of gamma-secretase, which affects APP processing and seems to be associated with the formation of the toxic 42-amino acid form of the BAP. Some of these autosomal dominant forms can be diagnosed by finding specific mutations on the aforementioned chromosomes that run in families; and in fact, individuals in these rare families can undergo a blood test and be told whether they're carrying the gene." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "A more recent addition to the list of FDA-approved drugs, memantine (Na-menda), created some initial excitement and hope, in part because it acts through a different mechanism than cholinesterase inhibitors. Memantine's action involves the inhibition of glutamate, one of the most ubiquitous neurotransmitters in the cerebral cortex and in the nervous system in general. An excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter, glutamate's usual function is to stimulate neurons to fire more frequently." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Widely used in Asia for its stimulant properties, although, as with ginkgo, ginseng's mechanism of action and therapeutic effects are not clear, ginseng is obtained from various plants from the Panax genus (provocatively translated as "all healing" in Latin), including some used by indigenous peoples in North America. There was a small spike in the popularity of ginseng after it was reported that rats fed high doses of the herb learned the layout of a maze quicker than rats in a control group." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"However, you must be sure that the focusing muscles will start working—at least a little—and with time these little movements will be enhanced until the moment your eyes become accustomed to this mechanism. At that point, in order to make progress, it is necessary to increase focusing distance gradually. Technique The Power Vision System develops positive adaptation of the accommodative system with consequent better vision. Improvemerit continues until you reach emmetropia—and that depends on your personal effort in carrying out the following techniques." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"As we shall see, however, there is a scientific reason, and the same science that discounts these spontaneous healings as "miracles" actually gives us the mechanism that explains why they work. In the make-believe lunchroom of a make-believe hospital somewhere in a big city on the East Coast of the United States, two doctors are discussing a successful and mysterious healing that has occurred in one of their patients. It's successful because the patient's anomalous tissue growths on her legs have suddenly disappeared." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"We can use the working of a camera as an analogy for human focusing—it's as if we wanted to modify the shape and bending of the objective lens so as to repair a broken focusing mechanism on an automatic focusing camera instead of working with it. The problem is that we can take off and change the camera's objective lens easily, but at the moment we can't do it with the human eye and its cornea and crystalline lens." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Moreover, when considering the free-radical oxidation mechanism in arteriosclerosis, a decline in coenzyme Qio reserves may also adversely affect the course of the disease despite optimal reduction of LDL cholesterol. Certainly, the adverse metabolic effects of these drugs require further investigation. Acetyl CoA ! HMG-CoA | ? HMG-CoA reductase Mevalonic prophosphate S \ CoEnzymeQIO T Dolichols Squalene Cholesterol Figure 4.3. Statin drugs (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) can reduce natural coenzyme Q10 synthesis in the body." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Free-radical buildup can be caused by periods of cellular hypoxia, dysfunction of mitochondrial mechanism, or during reperfusion (the rapid restoration of blood) of ischemic tissue. Other causes of oxidative damage include external events such as radiation, air pollution, alcohol ingestion, heavy metal toxicity, use of certain drugs, infections, and even strenuous exercise. While we cannot see the effects of free-radical damage (oxidative stress) in our bodies, we are all familiar with common examples of oxidation in the world around us." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Although it is complicated, it shows how coenzyme Qio is central to the function of the oxidative phosphorylation mechanism. In the mitochondria, there is a large excess of coenzyme Qi0 by comparison with other compounds of the respiratory chain, pointing up its vital role as a "mobile" component of the chain. Coenzyme Qi0 is constantly in motion, picking up an electron and delivering it along the chain, then going back to continue the cycle. Without a constant supply of coenzyme Qio moving along this complex, the activity of the electron transport chain would slow or cease altogether." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "This evidence suggests that coenzyme Qiq can reduce oxidative stress within the arterial wall via its antioxidant mechanism. One damaging oxidant is peroxynitrite, which may be cytoxic to small endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells that line capillaries. Peroxynitrite can contribute to vascular dysfunction, and coenzyme Qiq can help to neutralize the damaging effects of peroxynitrites by reacting directly with other free radicals such as superoxide." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"This type of stress mechanism is activated by increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which normally acts on the basis of "fight or flight." Many scholars have supported the close relationship between stress (induced by sympathetic nervous system stimulation) and the effort that accompanies visual attention (see Kahnemann, 1973; Libby et al., 1973; Pribram & McGuinness, 1975). This type of stress occurs during high cognitive processes as described in Hess and Polt, 1964; and Beatty and Wagoner, 1978." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Through this mechanism, the coherence becomes contagious, moving from individual cells to cell assemblies ?and in the brain from certain neuron cell assemblies to others. This would provide an explanation for the instantaneous operation of our brains, which occurs at between one ten-thousandth and one-thousandth of a second, requiring that information be transmitted at 100-1000 metres per second - a speed that exceeds the capabilities of any known connections between axons or dendrites in neurons." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"It seems we have a built-in mechanism to help us reach spiritual realms and yet that very vehicle can plunge us over the brink if we are driving down the wrong road. A WORD ABOUT HEALING The thoughtful reasoning for the use of the word healing instead of medicine is the inherent implication of regeneration and repair leading to restoration. Medicine is the use of therapies and substances (usually chemical) to heal disease. It is concerned primarily with pathology instead of well-being. Paramahansa Yogananda says, "Medicine has its limitations, life force has none." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Chronic stress takes its toll on overall health, and these women have a culturally ingrained mechanism that sheds it every afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Books like Bowling Alone chronicle how people in the United States are increasingly alienated from their neighbors. On average, an American has only two close friends he or she can count on, recently down from three, which may contribute to an increasing sense of stress. GARDEN SECRETS From Motubu, Craig, Greg, Rico, and I ventured back inland and headed north along the coastal highway toward Oku." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "The specific mechanism by which persons living in this territory were more likely to reach extreme longevity remains unknown," the researchers concluded. As a demographer, Poulain's work was describing populations with data, not jumping to conclusions. Other than pointing out that other areas of extreme longevity existed in mountainous areas, his paper did not attempt to explain why the inhabitants of this Blue Zone were able to live so long. Unraveling this mystery would require a multidisci-plinary approach to the history, diet, and lifestyle of local populations, he believed." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

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