(Be strong and courageous in this fight, God will be with you and you will win.)
Neuroscientist David Servan-Schreieber on how he beat brain cancer.
His story was featured in the nation’s leading weekly French magazine,
Le Nouvel Observateur. Interview by Eve Roger –
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– I tell them that it is legitimate for them to ask the question.
Personally, I have no doubt that the methods of “Anticancer” have a major impact on strengthening the body’s natural defenses against the disease, and many others elsewhere. The science behind it is solid. But we must know two things. The first is to never promised miracle cure. There is no miracle cure against cancer, which is a very difficult disease.
The second is never believe that diet is enough, its not 100% effective, but they are critical because they reduce the spread of the disease, and even set back, sometimes dramatically. And it’s not because we have a friend in whom chemotherapy did not work we will begin to shout across the chemo does not work! Finally I tell them that we must cling to the end because there are treatments that slow the cancer process […].
Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, a cancer patient, challenges fact-based medicine on
nutrition and exercise for cancer prevention.
Dr. Servan-Schrieber was 31 and ambitious when his world imploded. With French blueblood coursing through his veins, he was a founding member of Doctors Without Borders and a rising star in neuropsychiatry. But when a volunteer for a brain scan experiment didn’t show up, he slid into the scanner himself—and discovered a malignant tumor nestled deep in his brain. After surgery & chemotherapy, he asked his oncologist what he should change. “Nothing,” replied the oncologist.
So Servan-Schrieber continued living his life as he had before, eating a diet high in sugar and red meat, exercising little, and abandoning an earlier interest in meditation. When the tumor returned a few years later, he used his medical training to investigate how best to prevent cancer. The result was remission—and a bestselling book called Anticancer:
A New Way of Life. ~Jay Dixit
The experience formed the background to his book “Anticancer: A New Way of Life”
“Anticancer: A New Way of Life” (2007) in which he examined the benefits of a healthy diet and a balanced lifestyle — nutrition, exercise, emotional well-being and environmental awareness — in preventing and combating cancer. Eating “anticancer products” like vegetables, olive oil, garlic and green tea was crucial, he maintained. “If we all have a potential cancer lying dormant in us,” he wrote in “Anticancer,” “each of us has a body designed to fight the process of tumor development.”
The Evolution of the Medical Narrative: an Interview with Dr. Abigail Zuger
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Some doctors and cancer experts said Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s methods were simplistic and not supported by scientific evidence. “Extracts of garlic, onions and leeks, for instance, will demolish all kinds of cancer cells in a culture,” the journalist and physician Dr. Abigail Zuger wrote in The New York Times in 2008 in a review of the book. “Whether these vegetables are still active in the busy metropolis of the body, with thousands of cellular processes going on at once, is another question: once the leek is chewed, swallowed, demolished by intestinal enzymes and absorbed into the blood, how likely are its molecules to brush up against a cancer cell, let alone engage it in armed combat? No one knows.
Speaking of armed combat it may not surprise you that a Chimpaneze’s lifespan is similar to that of humans. A chimpanzee can live for about 40-50 extremely healthy without disease years in the wild and 50 – 60 years in captivity. Where as in humans life expectancy can depend on a lot of different factors. Generally it is between 60 and 70 years old. Being advance age can be detrimental to getting cancer life expectancy can play a part?
More Clues About Why Chimps and Humans Are Genetically Different.
New insights into why humans are more susceptible to cancer and other diseases.
How did this happen? Chimps are known to be active while humans began to domesticate, became sedentary and then began to consume red meat, We then picked up pathogens found in these species. Each place we moved, we picked up more new pathogens from new species we interacted with. a.k.a Rabbits, Chicken, cows, and pigs have all donated to us what ailed them. Then, a whole new group of pathogens evolved, pathogens that depended on our living in enormous groups (cold viruses for instance). As a results, humans and chimpanzees are really no longer that similar. The differences in the species are associated with, our parasites and pathogens (and also our love an the agricultural species), which are the biggest differences between us and them ~ chimps and humans. Read More:
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall,
Born: Apr 03, 1934 (age 85) London, England. Is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960. “Dr. Jane Goodall is a true pioneer who exemplifies how one person can make a huge difference in the world.”
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Ever since 1971, when she published In the Shadow of Man, her groundbreaking field study of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, Jane Goodall has been the best known primatologist on the planet. In the decades since, she has remained an indomitable campaigner and conservationist, and now at the age of 83 she sits atop a naturalists’ Olympus that she shares perhaps only with David Attenborough.
“Our run away population: We Are A Plague on the Earth.
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so,” warns David Attenborough in an interview. “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde,” says the natural history broadcaster. Attenborough believes humans must find ways to curb their spread or face the consequences: “Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he says. “a.k.a. famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves – and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s only going to get worse and worse.”
In 1999, after almost 40 years visiting the Chimps of Gombe, Jane co-authored a letter to Nature, in which she sought to calibrate the use of the world “culture” in relation to wild chimpanzees. Multiple long-term studies, she and her colleagues wrote, showed “significant cultural variation” between colonies. “The combined repertoire of these behavior patterns in each chimpanzee community is itself highly distinctive,” the letter concluded, “a phenomenon characteristic of human cultures but previously unrecognized in non-human species.” Our understanding of what chimpanzee “culture” might mean took a further turn last year, thanks to another paper published in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017146
The study, led by Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (one of Goodall’s co-authors on the 1999 letter), reported that in several chimp colonies males had been observed banging rocks against particular trees and then piling them up in a fashion “reminiscent of human cairns”. This, the authors suggested, amounted to “ritualised behavioural display”. Ritual, it was noted, implied abstract and conceptual thoughts, necessary components of lore, of perhaps propitiating spirits. Could chimpanzees, mused some of the commentators, actually hold religious beliefs? “I’ve never really spent a lot of time thinking about that,” says Goodall. My favorite documentary of all time! I had read her first book, “In the Shadow of Man.” This documentary mesmerized me – as the fascinating book actually “came alive.” You are an amazing…. Thank you Jane Goodall!
The Magnificent lives of the Chimpanzees || Full Documentary with subtitles
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Does despair undermine the body’s ability to cope? They say, “Don’t cry, you’re making the cancer grow!” That’s not what happens. It’s the chronic sense of desperation—feeling stuck and powerless—that’s dangerous. In fact a good cry is a way to get beyond that chronic sense of despair, especially when it’s being heard by a mate or friend or intimate partner.
This kind of intimacy is a strong protective factor. How should we manage stress?
The first line of defense against stress is physical exercise. Jogging three times a week has the same effectiveness as an antidepressant, but much more lasting benefits. Plus yoga, qigong, and meditation—the so-called relaxation response. It’s so easy and so simple based purely on concentration of attention and breathing. But it is not taught in medical school and it’s not part of our health system in spite of the well-documented and powerful effects. Are you suggesting that our default state is to develop cancer? Yes. One hundred percent of people over 50 have cancer cells in their body. That the majority of people don’t develop cancer proves we have defenses in the cells of it ever becoming an illness.
Is American culture disproportionately exposing Americans to cancer? Every single place where American diet has spread has seen massive increases in obesity rates and cancer rates. Japan is increasing consumption of red meat and dairy products and seeing an enormous increase in obesity and great increases in prostate cancer and breast cancer, which were extremely rare before. Who would you be today if he hadn’t gotten cancer? I don’t want to misjudge the young man I was. Maybe he would have wised up anyway.
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When David Servan-Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, his life changed. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness and the little-known workings of his body’s natural cancer fighting capacities, and marshaling his own will to live. Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration and, finally, to health. Combining memoir, concise explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and drawing on both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer.
Its a moving story of a doctor’s inner and outer search for balance; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and compelling and cautionary in its proposal that cancer cells lie dormant in all of us and that we all must care for the “terrain” in which they exist. Advocating a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer, Anticancer is a radical synthesis of science and personal experience, an inspiring personal journey, and certainly a guide to “a new way of life.” Anticancer is revolutionary.
Anticancer tells us:
◊ Why the traditional Western diet creates the conditions for disease and how to develop a science-based anticancer diet
◊ How and why sugar and stress feed cancer and ways to achieve life balance and good nutrition to combat it
◊ Why the effects of helplessness and unhealed wounds affect our ability to restore health ◊ How to reap the benefits of exercise, yoga, and meditation
◊ How to minimize environmental toxins
◊ How to find the right blend of traditional and alternative health care
Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s remarkable story as a cancer survivor and a scientist:
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“In the end Dr Servan Schreiber believed Death is part of the life process; everyone goes through it,” he said in one of his last interviews. “It is very reassuring in itself.” Living with a Love One with end stage cancer is an experience. You just have to live through it and learn, and cope, the best you can.” Calls were put out to extended family members, his many uncles, aunts and cousins scattered throughout France, all of whom made prompt pilgrimages to David’s bedside. “The whole family came together and we lived through it all together, not as something horrible – although of course it was – but as something we could share,” says brother Emile. David spent his final months in a hospital room crowded with well-wishers.
There were many all-night vigils. David, the empathetic doctor, strove to keep the mood light, and encouraged those closest to him not only to come and say a final goodbye, but, should he still be alive the following week, to come and say goodbye again. He spent as much private time with his wife as he could, and with his two younger children, Charlie, then aged two, and Anna, who was six months, keenly aware that they would grow up with no physical memory of him. He had planned, says Emile, to leave a series of video messages for the children, but never quite had the energy:
“What he did have, he wanted to use writing his book.”
Emile wrote the moving epilogue about his brother’s courage.
That was his way.”
Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s memoir:
Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
“Those of us who had the privilege of taking care of him, of accompanying him in his ordeal, often had the feeling that it was he who was taking care of us. He would meet our clumsiness with limitless patience; he would dissipate with a grateful gaze any embarrassment caused by his extreme physical dependence on us. David was not afraid of death. He believed it would transport him to a kingdom of love, through the famous tunnel of light so often described by those who have had a near-death experience. “May it be so, my brother.”
David died as he hoped he would, with his family by his side.
The people who come into your life can be explained by these 6 Cosmic Reasons:
#1 – They are sent to remind us. Have you ever lost sight of a goal or dream only to have someone remind you of it later? These people are specifically sent to help us recall why we were travelling the path that we had chosen, and where we intend on going in this life.
#2 – They are sent to hold space for us. While some people in our lives are sent with big, life-changing roles before them, others are far more subtle. These people may only be in our lives for a short moment, providing companionship before moving on such as the person you sit next to on the bus, or the woman you have a conversation with while waiting in line at the grocery store. While their role in our life is short, they still hold meaning.
#3 – They are sent to awaken us. We all fall for this trip at one time or another in our lives – we become so comfortable with where our life is currently at that we fall into autopilot. Once actively engaged in where our life is heading, we now sit back and just ‘let it happen.’ At this time the Universe sends people into our lives to help encourage change, opening our eyes to new possibilities.
#4 – They are sent to encourage us. There are times in this journey that you may find yourself feeling discouraged, faced with challenges that may feel insurmountable or impossible. At these times, the Universe sends people to us to encourage us, motivate us and help us to find our footing. They may not be in our lives for long, but their encouragement is felt for years to come.
#5 – They are sent to help us grow. In order to reach our goals in life, we are going to have to experience times of growth and change, leaving old versions of ourselves behind and becoming the person we ultimately need to be. This growth can sometimes come from an internal trigger, but often it starts with the influence of a third-party sent into our lives to start the process.
#6 – They are sent to stay, holding a long-term role in our lives. Not everyone that is sent to us in this life is sent to stick with us for the long haul. Those that do, however, are a rare and precious gift that should never be taken for granted. This includes your life-long best friend, your immediate family members and even your soulmate. Their impact on your life will be significant and ongoing as they help to guide you and join
you on your universal path. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIXJPxD8_g