Alternative Cancer Treatments
Alternative cancer treatments are many, but which alternative treatment is best for certain types of cancer? Since the cause of many cancers are mostly unknown, how do you decide what to do? How do you separate the hype from the effective?
If cancer or a tumor is an abnormal overgrowth of cells that continue to divide and grow without restraint and we know that our immune system is in charge of preventing that from happening, perhaps we should start with the immune system.
First, if you do have cancer, what do you need to do to give your immune system every advantage to become more effective at killing the tumor? Second, if you don't have cancer, what would be helpful to assure yourself of a strong immune system as a preventative measure? Cancer patients may need to be a bit more aggressive than those who are taking the preventative approach.
Proper diet, good dietary supplements and avoidance of any toxic exposures are key to building the strongest immune system. Dietarily, we need a wide variety of nutrients to provide our immune system the building blocks to function most effectively. Fresh whole foods is the place to start…everybody kinda knows that, but doing it all the time requires some discipline.
Stay away from fast foods and processed food. Eat good oils and fats, no hydrogenation. Sugar, though tasty, needs to be restricted. Eat organic if possible and stay away from chemicals, preservatives, additives and colorings in your food. And no artificial sweeteners. There's quite a bit to eating healthfully, but that's a start.
Toxic exposures are a bit harder to understand, find and avoid. Think chemicals…in your food, personal products, household chemicals, garden pesticides and chemicals and toxins in the workplace. Do you smoke, are you on a number of medications that can have a toxic effect on you?
Eat organic if possible, avoid the previously mentioned additives in your food, use deodorants, toothpastes, creams, moisturizers that are free from chemicals. Do you spray your house for bugs, garden for pests and lawn for weeds and come into contact with them or breath them in, does your workplace manufacture something that you can smell and you breath that in everyday? That's just a small sample of the type of toxic exposure you may come into contact with.
The bottom line is to eat a clean diet, take a regimen of dietary supplements and avoid these chemical contacts and more so you do nothing to reduce the effectiveness of your immune system.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer, have a natural thinking doctor design a supplement plan aggressive enough to help you overcome your condition. If you are interested in prevention, please see my Wellness Program recommendations by clicking on
"Vitamins" on the left side of
www.DrDahlman.com and then reading the article called
"Vitamins for You". And feel free to call me with any questions about a supplement protocol for prevention or to help you with your fight against cancer. Make sure you use alternative medicine as a complement to your traditional treatment plan.
