“The impairments were often subtle, but across a number of aspects of cognition. This is a step towards us being able to screen people who are at greatest risk – for example, people over 50 or those who have high blood pressure or do not do enough exercise – and intervene at an earlier stage to help them reduce their risk.”
For the study, researchers analysed data from the UK Biobank database pinpointed problem solving and number recall as two of the early signs patients could develop dementia. Senior author Dr Tim Rittman, also from the University of Cambridge, said: “People should not be unduly worried if, for example, they are not good at recalling numbers. “Even some healthy individuals will naturally score better or worse than their peers.
But we would encourage anyone who has any concerns or notices that their memory or recall is getting worse to speak to their GP.” People from the UK Biobank data who went on to develop Alzheimer’s scored more poorly compared with healthy individuals when it came to problem solving tasks, reaction times, remembering lists of numbers, prospective memory (our ability to remember to do something later on) and pair matching.
Not remembering numbers could be an early sign of dementia, This was also the case for people who developed a rarer form of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia, the researchers found. According to the study, people who went on to develop Alzheimer’s were more likely than healthy adults to have had a fall in the previous 12 months.
David Thomas, head of policy at Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “It is increasingly clear that the best chance to affect the course of the diseases which cause dementia lies in intervening at their earliest stages. “Health services don’t routinely offer the tests needed to detect changes in brain function that happen before symptoms are noticeable, like those alluded to in this study.
“In fact, the NHS is currently unable to guarantee early and accurate diagnosis for people living with dementia – more than a third of people over 65 living with dementia go undiagnosed. He added: “It’s now more important than ever that NHS services reflect our growing understanding of the importance of detection and early diagnosis.
“We must ensure that people with dementia don’t fall through the cracks at a time when treatment or risk-reduction interventions are most likely to be effective.” How to spot the first early signs of dementia and what you can do about the symptoms. It’s well known that memory loss and confusion are a sign of dementia. But scientists are discovering that other subtle – and perhaps surprising – signs can herald the onset of the disease.
These smaller and quieter signs occur in our daily lives, making them fairly easy to identify – if you know what to look out for. With our senses being linked to the brain, it’s not surprising that occurrences, such as those relating to our eyesight or hearing, could be signs of early dementia. However, it is also key to understand that some of these changes, such as mood or occasional moments of forgetfulness, can simply be signs of old age – which are not as concerning. Read below for the quiet, early signs of dementia – and some advice on how to prevent their progression.
What signs and symptoms of dementia should you look out for?
Eye conditions and hearing loss People who develop certain eye conditions are at increased risk of dementia, according to research from 2021. A UK Biobank study of 12,000 midlifers found those with age-related macular degeneration were 25 per cent more likely to develop dementia. Those with cataracts had an 11 per cent increased risk of dementia, and those with diabetes-related eye disease had a 61 per cent per cent heightened risk of dementia. The study follows research from 2021 by the University of Oxford that suggested people who go out for a meal at a noisy restaurant but are unable to hear what their friends are saying may be at an increased risk of developing dementia. The data from the study suggests that age-related hearing loss might be related to the onset of Alzheimer’s and other conditions.
“While preliminary, these results suggest speech-in-noise hearing impairment could represent a promising target for dementia prevention,” says Thomas Littlejohn’s of the Nuffield Department of Population Health at Oxford and a lead author of the study. Katie Puckering is information services manager for Alzheimer’s Research UK. “There are two reasons for this potential link,” she says. “The first is that hearing loss might be linked with cellular changes in the brain. But the second is that social isolation has long been known as a risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.” Something as simple as having your hearing checked out – and having a hearing aid fitted, if needed, so you can hear the conversations around you – could lower your risk of dementia. This is known as a modifiable risk – that is, one that you can change or control.
In 2017, the Lancet Commission on Dementia found that 12 modifiable risks – one being hearing loss – could lower the number of dementia cases by 40 per cent. Others included lack of physical activity, obesity and low educational attainment. “Mild cognitive symptoms can begin 15 to 20 years before the onset of dementia,” says Puckering. “If it’s picked up early enough, a doctor can refer you to a memory clinic for further tests or point you in the direction of research trials.” Breakthrough medical treatments are starting to appear, such as medications aducanumab and Lecenamab, which has been licensed in the US and is pending approval in the UK. “Early intervention gives you the best chance,” says Puckering. “At the very least, this will allow you to plan ahead.”
U.C. BERKELEY —We spend one-third of our lives sleeping, and yet it is only in the last decade or so that scientists have begun to really understand why. Among other things, UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker has linked sleep deprivation to psychiatric disorders, obesity, risky behavior, post-traumatic stress disorder, learning and memory loss in old age.
It’s common in midlife to have periods of low motivation, or feeling less sociable than usual,” says Puckering. “But if you find yourself consistently becoming more confrontational than usual, or regularly snapping at your family, you may want to see a doctor to rule out other conditions including menopause, a mood disorder such as depression, a thyroid condition or even a vitamin deficiency.” Others in the family may notice these changes before the person themselves.
Not understanding sarcasm or sense of humor “Early signs of dementia include changes to language, behaviors and responses to social cues,” says Hannah Churchill, research communications manager at Alzheimer’s Society. According to a 2017 report in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, individuals with early dementia laughed less both at their own jokes and other people’s funny comments than those who did not. This followed a 2009 report that, following MRI scans, those with neurodegenerative disease images were less able to recognize sarcasm. “If you find your sense of humor has changed significantly, it might be worth getting some medical advice,” says Puckering.
Forgetting what things are called or what they are for Regularly not being able to remember your own phone number, and finding it hard to organise your own thoughts: both of these may be warning signs. “Much is made of keeping your brain active, doing puzzles and so on,” says Puckering. “But in fact, physical fitness is more important. What’s good for the heart is also good for the brain: 80 percent of our brain is oxygen, and if you starve the brain of oxygen, it won’t do well.” Experts suggest 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a week, a healthy diet, and keeping conditions such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure under control.
Others; Gum disease “The evidence linking oral health or gum disease and an increased risk of cognitive decline or dementia is mixed,” says Churchill. It could simply be that people who have received better dental care during their lifetime may have enjoyed a healthier lifestyle, which tends to be associated with reduced dementia risk. But a growing body of research, including a 2019 study in the Journal of Periodontology, has shown that periodontal (gum) disease and poorly fitting dentures can be a risk factor for dementia. Ensure you stick to basic oral hygiene, brushing your teeth twice a day, with a fluoride-containing toothpaste, see your dentist every six months, and don’t be put off dental procedures.
Change in mood Research from 2011 in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed that symptoms of clinical depression doubled the risk of cognitive impairment in older women and quadrupled it in men – and could even be a precursor to Alzheimer’s. “Scientists have long known that depression and dementia go hand in hand,” says Dr. Cornelia Cremens, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “If somebody appears to have the beginnings of dementia and they are depressed, it’s very important to treat their depression, and to treat it as aggressively as possible.” Ask your GP about a referral for talking therapy such as CBT, or, if appropriate, antidepressant medication. Puckering says: “Your GP may tell you you ‘only’ have depression, but it’s important to find a treatment for your distress, whether it’s a mood disorder, or an early sign of dementia.”
When not to worry: age-related changes that can happen to us all Sometimes forgetting names or appointments, but remembering them later Occasionally needing help with oven settings or the TV remote control Misplacing things from time to time, and retracing your steps to find them Making the occasional bad decision, like running out of petrol Becoming irritable if your routine is disrupted.
A new study published in BMC Medicine analyzed data from 60,298 individuals. They found older adults who consumed a Mediterranean-style diet had a 23% lower risk of developing dementia than those who consumed a typical diet.
Youth Switch (longevityactivation.com) God has been strongly speaking to me ALL WEEK to share with you how important it is to LOVE YOURSELF! He has consistently urged me to share the importance of healing ourselves at our CORE and that CORE is LOVE for oneself!
WHY? Our emotional, psychological and spiritual well being DEPENDS ON IT! When these elements are negative, they manifest themselves physically into disease and illness throughout the body. Negative emotions on ANY LEVEL create deadened or weak cells in our body. These weakened or deadened cells attract PARASITES!
IT’S WHAT THEY FEED ON! Parasites have a POSITIVE VIBRATION which can ‘jump’ like a magnet to the nearest NEGATIVE VIBRATION…….US! THIS is what then manifests further into ALL disease and Illness!
Parasites cause Cancer, liver disease, kidney failure, diabetes, fibromyalgia, arthritis… (the list goes on). Can I help heal you of all disease and illness? 100%! But, by the time you need me….you have already done much self-neglect in not healing the areas of your emotional life to get to this point.
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The Illusion of Democracy: A More Accurate History of the Modern United States. Second Edition – Kindle edition by Mennitti, Phil. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Referred to as the history of the Deep State. The Illusion of Democracy is a more accurate historical accounting of the United States since the coup of 1963, when President Kennedy was executed in Dealey Plaza by the Operation 40 assassination squad. This sequel focuses on the big picture. It explains Hegelian Dialectic Principles of how our puppet masters create conflict to increase their wealth and power. The book connects the dots of all major false flag events to prove this massive deception was intentionally engineered, and that we the people have been subjugated through indentured servitude into a feudal system controlled by wealthy oligarchs. This book was written at a high school level with those students in mind. It is perfect for high school classes, college courses, or the average reader at home who is curious about what went wrong over the past generation killing not only the American Dream but also the Republic.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Joe Biden has announced his plan to be sworn in on his favorite text: a copy of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
It’s not just the man you get (Biden), but the entire democratic platform. 110 pages of the scariest **** you’d ever want to read. Even if you don’t like Trump, you should hate this platform even more. If you by chance like and agree with this platform, you’re just a whacko snowflake communist.
Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life.
Cesar Chavez bust placed in Biden’s oval office – Search (bing.com) “I will do my duty to this country and swear on this book that represents the guiding principles of my party,” Biden said in a speech, every word coming out with the utmost effort and with the help of a powerful concoction of drugs. “For as long as I am your president, whether that is 8 years, 4 years, or less than 24 hours, I will uphold my oath made on this sacred text.”
Someone should tell him a Free Market can’t be government owned nor be a part of Socialism.
It’s literally the exact opposite. Even a ‘dumb red head’ knows that!! That would be a very interesting evolution. Fascism is a leftist ideology (it’s another form of socialism, in case you were confused). No, neither Desantis nor Trump has changed. Both just made it clear they’re not for the Marxist left agenda being installed. Since they declared that, they are both Public Enemy number one (to the communists).
Trump was never a Republican; he took over the party and transformed it. He was however a Democrat at one time who rightly became disgusted with both parties and therein lies his voter appeal: he’s an outsider. Trump was never a conservator. He’s a populist and he is very smart. Yeah, massive net gains in people moving to FL for …according to you… DeSantis fascism. Funny when you stop communist leftists from targeting little kids, grooming them, forcing them to wear masks, take jabs, etc.
You get called “fascist”. Honestly go away! We just had a Bank fail because holding US Treasury Bonds the first time in history anything has failed for holding what is supposed to be the safest investment in the world! The time for being polite is over F off… Do you have the IQ to understand how serious that is? The goal of the elites governing us is to cause division for a globalist agenda.
The Democrats are not defending any minorities, they are promoting divisive narratives. People of the world, unite. You don’t know what socialism is. Watch one of the pointless press briefings, passing for sharing of information, with Karine.
That’s socialist propaganda and control of the media. You know it. We don’t need any more traitors. One thing that’s clear is that Biden, like most Democrats, wholeheartedly endorses the heavy state controls of regular, old, non-strange socialism. Like all socialists, he also has to rely on propaganda & censorship. This is indisputable.
IMHO the only disputable quality is the stability of a fearful mind. (Yours!) Exactly what I was going to reply. “And you know a thing or two about selling out conservatism”. “Selling out conservatism” – telling the truth. The Republican rubes don’t like truth. Heck even Fox is afraid of telling the rubes the truth while the anchors tell the truth to each other off camera and you suckers lap it up. Wimps.
Republicans have redefined Conservatism as being willing to bow down to Trump. It has nothing to do with issues anymore. If Trump would have been in office, there would not have been a Ukraine War. However, even if all your policy positions remain the same, if you aren’t willing to kiss Donald Trump’s ass you won’t be considered a Conservative. It’s pathetic. I truly hope a decent candidate in any party will surface.
Absolutely not abandoning Ukraine.
It’s really sad that with a country with our population
this is the best we have to offer!!!
Hey when is that “Ghost of Kiev” written book coming out soon? The world and the people of Ukraine deserve peace. The US instead of promoting war should use its considerable clout to broker peace. Neocons love far away forever wars that their kids will never fight in. Good for business. Cowards.
Does our $31 trillion national debt have any bearing on your decision to fund the war in Ukraine? Would any level of national debt give you pause, or do you support funding Ukraine right up to the point of defaulting on our national debt? “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~John Kenneth Galbraith – Bing video
Not “so called socialism”.
It’s called fascism: characteristics include extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites..“strange form of socialism and government control of free markets” – I think that’s called fascism. It’s simple and somewhat unbelievable it hasn’t yet been done: it’s time Republicans reclaimed their party and boot out those candidates who routinely parrot Putin’s talking points and undermine democracy.
Cutting taxes, smaller government, and less regulation is what Adam Kinzinger calls socialism. Bet he thinks this $7 trillion budget will spell freedom for working families. Crippling taxes and inflation ahead.
Men with no principles have a hard time identifying them in others.
CNN has made this clown dumber. Also, lol to the guy who sold out conservatism to participate in far left’s fascist J-6 circus where they send peaceful cosplayers to solitary confinement while Floyd rioters who assaulted police officers’ w/ construction hammers are walking the street. How could they have tried and convicted anyone for J6 while withholding evidence from the accused’s lawyers?
Q: “Isn’t THAT unconstitutional? Aren’t Democrats destroying “our democracy?”” A: They did that long ago, with the Rs help People’s Pottage | Mises Institute Read Garett Garetts “THE PEOPLE’S POTTAGE” from the 1940s.
When they say, “our Democracy”, they are talking about their version of society where everyone is under their rule. They scream “democracy” but we really have a worldwide oligarchy masquerading as an anarcho-tyranny pretending to be subservient to the will of the people all the while gaslighting and manufacturing false consensus to fool Democrats into believing they outnumber conservatives.
Life is Messy by Matthew Kelly – Search (bing.com) Different laws when considered an act of terrorism, that’s why the left had to spin it that way to fit their agenda. Every day the democrats chip away at our rights.
They only exploit the democratic process like the fascists & communists do. Once they attain power, they destroy the freedoms of others because they despise freedoms protected by constitutional republics. They are totalitarians at heart: It’s probably unconstitutional and yes, that’s exactly what democrats want to do…destroy our republic and democracy and at the same time. We’ve long ago lost the party of HST & FDR. Ppl must realize that we’ve few parties left, one is the mish-mash of REGRESSIVES <-not moving the country forward, full of invective, vitriol, and dangerous intolerance of diversity.
Deaths from all rifles, including so-called “assault weapons” make up less than 3% of homicides by firearms. Less than 500 people died in 2021 from rifles of any kind, yet nearly 106k died from drugs you let in over the border. So shut the fuck up with your ramped up rhetoric; this clearly isn’t an attempt to save lives.
President Trump and the J6 Prison Choir’s new song, “Justice for All,” is #1 everywhere.
Justice for All – Donald J. Trump · J6 Prison Choir (Lyrics), This song touches me differently than most as I actually sang the National Anthem with pretrial J6 detainees from inside the jail. The human rights abuse these men are suffering are unparalleled, worse than 9/11 terrorists are treated in Guantanamo Bay.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and I will be leading a delegation back to the DC jail, open to ALL Members of Congress, to witness firsthand the suffering of these patriotic Americans.
Yes, it is. #Jan6th defendants deserve to have a fair trial and have the rights of all Americans. @HouseGOP@SenateGOP@SpeakerMcCarthy. @RobertKennedyJr tells @jimmy_dore anthrax was mailed to the two senators trying to block the Patriot Act in 2001, and the FBI discovered that the anthrax came from the CIA lab in Fort Detrick: “By the time they figured it out, they had already passed the Patriot Act, and we were in a trillion-dollar war in Iraq.
What did the FBI say? The FBI said it was Ames’s anthrax, and the only place that it could have come from was the CIA lab in Fort Detrick. It’s clear that somebody associated with the Pentagon, or the CIA had something to do with that anthrax because nobody had access except those groups.”
If you don’t think the current government wants to control you with the mRNA gene editing technology they have created then you are living proof that their experiments on humanity are working as planned. BREAKING NEWS: Pfizer Covid Vaccine vial contents exposed by WHO whistleblower. It contains graphene oxide, parasites, RFID, metals and nano circuitry. DARPA and Bill Gates developed these non biological synthetic injections to control the minds and bodies of the population.
Dr. Charles Morgan on Psycho-Neurobiology and War – YouTube Professor states in front of lawyers anyone who administers these Pfizer mRNA Covid Vaccines is committing crimes against humanity and is a criminal. Dr. Charles Morgan formerly with the CIA in a 2018 DARPA meeting talking to the U.S. Military about mRNA CRISPR gene editing technology says they can engineer a “unique thing” to kill only one person in the world. In this case they used this mRNA technology to kill millions of innocent people in the world.
This is why through the PCR test they took everyone’s DNA and put it in a database in order to target specific people and races in the future, not only to kill them, but to control their thoughts and actions. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) refers to a wireless system comprising two components: tags and readers.
This RFID is in the Pfizer mRNA injections which are found in dead bodies and in the cemeteries. Scientists through autopsies show there is a parasite in the vaccine that lays an egg that bursts out and something comes out with tentacles.
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognized as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law by the United Nations. Many countries have constitutional law that protects free speech. Terms like free speech, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression are used interchangeably in political discourse. However, in a legal sense, the freedom of expression includes any activity of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.
Article 19 of the UDHR states that “everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference” and “everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice”. The version of Article 19 in the ICCPR later amends this by stating that the exercise of these rights carries “special duties and responsibilities” and may “therefore be subject to certain restrictions” when necessary “[f]or respect of the rights or reputation of others” or “[f]or the protection of national security or of public order (order public), or of public health or morals“.[2]<F.J.B.>
It’s Always a War of Natural Resources and Minerals. Reagan Was Right: Big Government Corrupts the Military Too. It is true that President Ronald Reagan was a proponent of strong defense, what he termed “peace through strength.” At the same time, he was a skeptic of big government and an opponent of top-down government planning. U.S. military sector—the same defense industrial complex the NDIA represents—is the poster child of both. It is a massive government enterprise grounded in top-down state planning by a small group of political elites. The Pentagon is the world’s largest employer. The military-industrial sector is characterized by entanglements between government and private firms, with the latter earning large profits from war preparation and war-making.
With funding Ukraine and the wokification of the military, America can’t afford to wage war with North Korea!
A Permanent Wartime Economy? This, from the Armed Forces Press. Of course, it’s a Permanent Wartime Economy. That was sealed, as forever on, with the War Crime of invading Iraq. From that point on, the Permanent War was unleashed and will not cease. Feels like an all-out war on people’s freedom and civil liberties. War Pigs and Russia[gates] | Awakenings (seaclearly.com)
Trump Pledges to Solve Ukraine-Russia War In ’24 Hours’ If Elected – YouTube During the Trump Administration there were no wars. No invasions. No bank failures. No baby formula shortages. No food shortages. Workers were being hired, not fired. Wages were increasing. Cost of living was significantly lower.
President Trump is probably the only 2024 Presidential candidate who has the desire, not just the ability to end a war that never should’ve happened in the first place. The Biden Administration’s fingerprints are on death & destruction around the world.
1 : a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering calamities of nature an economic calamity 2 : a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss Synonyms apocalypse cataclysm catastrophe débâcle …
And they’re just getting started.
Is that singing I hear … “We’re in the money, we’re in the money …” “We’re in the money! We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along! We’re in the money! The skies are sunny! Ol’ Man … it’s also … Depressing, you people are through, you keep our pockets FULL! We have the printer; we print the money!”
The nuclear clock is ticking. It’s only a matter of time before some trigger-happy psycho pulls a trigger or drops a bomb somewhere, then the physical war will start. Right now, it’s just threats and bullies yelling at each other. “Practice makes perfect.” Right, the weaselly little porker can’t wait to nuke somebody… And the only reason the Biden White House is pissed off at North Korea.
North Korea wouldn’t offer a payoff to Joe Biden.
Or give Hunter employment in the North Korea banking system? Let’s keep provoking a guy who fed his uncle to his dogs, diplomacy this feckless show of strength is embarrassing. Top Gun Joe you got the glasses, but war isn’t a video game. No more Wars! We will rue our failure to decimate North Korea and the inbred morons running the country. “Rocket Man” just needs some love and attention. Is that so wrong?
Shooting a missile is the ultimate selfie. “Hey, look at me!”
Sooner or later the insane slave masters in North Korea will have to be delt with. The Kim dynasty deserves a first attack scenario… they cannot be allowed to use their nukes on they already have… I remember when the politicians said that the North Koreans would NEVER be allowed to have nukes… they have them now… same as Iran… how many times have politicians said no nukes Iran and in spite of all the bribes they got them now… Idiots & Morons getting their rockets off.
We Are Here Alicia Keys We are here. We are here for all of us. We are here for all of us. That’s why we are here, why we are here. We are here. Bombs over Baghdad, tryna get somethin’ we ain’t never had. Let’s start with a good Dad, so real but it’s so sad. And while we burnin’ this incense, we gon’ pray for the innocent. ‘Cause right now it doesn’t make sense, right now it doesn’t make sense.
All this climate change (“ball game” Rhetoric) is bullshit.
These crazy people all over the world keep putting toxic shit into the air.
The Science Is A Cow. You’ve probably heard the famous line from Samuel Johnson: “Truth is a cow which will yield such people no more milk and so they are gone to milk the bull.” It’s rightly been employed recently by some to describe the Left.
You hadn’t read it in context. The context doesn’t change the meaning, but the longer passage is interesting and the line that precedes it, which is in the meme, is more direct. It comes from Boswell’s famous Life of Samuel Johnson. I read and forgot most of it loooong ago. The line was used in the context of Johnson’s irritation with David Hume and other enlightenment religious skeptics. Boswell writes: “Next morning I found him alone, and have preserved the following fragments of his conversation. Of a gentleman who was mentioned, he said, ‘I have not met with any man for a long time who has given me such general displeasure. He is totally unfixed in his principles, and wants to puzzle other people.’ I said his principles had been poisoned by a noted infidel writer [David Hume], but that he was nevertheless a benevolent good man.”
He then quotes Johnson. I’ll skip the beginning. “Hume, and other skeptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so, they have betaketh themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
But the rest is worth reading too: “‘If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth, what fame might I have acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity had passed through my mind long before he wrote. Always remember this, that after a system is well settled upon positive evidence, a few partial objections ought not to shake it.
The human mind is so limited, that it cannot take in all the parts of a subject, so that there may be objections raised against anything. There are objections against a plenum, and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true.’”
“The term ‘plenum’ was coined in the 1670s, derived from Latin adjective plenus (‘filled, full’). The usage originates from classical theories of physics and the notion that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. These gave rise to the notion of 17th century ‘plenum’ as the opposite of vacuum, and all things ‘being either Plenum or Vacuum’.” To be clear, Hume and every other enlightenment philosopher would have advised that Bhavik Kumar, MD, be stripped of his credentials and maybe even placed in an insane asylum. I rather think Johnson’s line is the best characterization of the Left today. Of course, it applied to earlier Marxists too. Indeed, it was the Marxists who turned the enlightenment inside out. And it’s not just Marxists now. I struggle with simple arithmetic, but I feel like so many physicists have also gone to milk the bull, especially in their pursuit of string theory. It’s like they expected to disprove God and, having failed, have, again, gone to milk the bull. Real scientists stay with the cow. They know the difference between a cow and a bull and that you can’t get any milk from the bull. Only piss.
Today we look at the heartbreaking topic of Apostasy. Our guiding scripture today is… “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Falling Away/Apostasy STRONGS NT 646: ἀποστασία ἀποστασία, -ας, ἡ, (ἀφίσταμαι), a falling away, defection, apostasy; in the Bible namely, from the true religion: Acts 21:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; ([Joshua 22:22; 2 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 33:19]; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 36:32 (Jeremiah 29:32)
While many movements and brothers and sisters in Christ share a different eschatology, many Christian Cults like the NAR, Dominionism, Social Justice, Liberalism, Emergent, Mysticism, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventists and more share varied views that lay the groundwork for the coming of Antichrist.
The issue is complex, yet the key indicator of our Lord Jesus promise of His return for His Bride the Church.
When asked just before the crucifixion and rejection by the religious leadership, Jesus gave two, not one discussion on signs of His return. Deception and false prophets and teachers Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13 (Compared Here pg. 185 on Olivet Discourse), The Book of 2 Thessalonians the Apostle Paul helps to clarify some confusion as to how a letter was saying that The Great Tribulation had begun.
This caused confusion for those whom the Apostle Paul taught their would be Raptured before The Great Tribulation. We recommend just below: Dr. J Vernon McGee verse by verse study of 2 Thessalonians to gain a grasp on these scriptures. Then below some of the text modules of various Christian Cults and aberrant teachings is a 4-hour video in-depth study of the Olivet Discourse that covers The Second Coming, The Rapture, Daniel’s 70th Week and timing issues with The Church and God’s Plan for Israel. -Josh Joshua Toupos.
The KJV calls it the “falling away,” while the NIV and ESV call it “the rebellion.”
A Look at Apostasy, Amos 37 Ministries
What is The Apostasy of the Church? The Bible indicates that there will be a great apostasy during the end times. The “great apostasy” is mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. The KJV calls it the “falling away,” while the NIV and ESV call it “the rebellion.”
And that’s what an apostasy is: a rebellion, an abandonment of the truth. The end times will include a wholesale rejection of God’s revelation, also a further “falling away” of an already fallen world.
The occasion of Paul’s writing to the Thessalonians was to correct some of the errors concerning the end times that the believers had heard from false teachers. Among the falsehoods was that “the day of the Lord has already come” (2 Thessalonians 2:2). The Christians in Thessalonica were afraid that Jesus had already come, they had missed the rapture, and they were now in the tribulation. Paul had already explained the rapture to them in his first letter (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).
Paul writes his second letter to assure them that, contrary to what they had heard, and despite the persecution they were enduring, the “day of Christ” had not yet come. 1 & 2 Thessalonians Verse by Verse StudyThis page and all its content are designed to help the serious student to understand the relation of the Bible text here in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 the Apostle Paul is bringing into there remembrance in vs. 5.
It is the relation of a proper Hermeneutic here to go back and do both Thessalonian epistles together. Then do the Olivet Discourse outlined in Luke 21 which happens later in the day from the discourse at the Temple in Matthew 24. There is an order of events that only a Pre-Tribulation Rapture makes sense. I know it’s a lot but worth your time and study.
Understanding a Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
How it rightly relates to a proper view of the days we live in. If we are expecting and preparing for the soon coming of Jesus Christ for His Bride (the Church). Many Christians don’t believe this. Some are Christian and we can agree to disagree and then there are some like in The NAR, Dominionism, and a host of others that are setting the stage for the Coming Antichrist. Serious charge. Let’s take a look at the Olivet Discourse in Luke 21. Notes: linked above. 4 Hours Study Outwitting the Devil: The Secrets to Freedom and Success: Hill, Napoleon, Lechter CPA, Sharon L.: Amazon.com: Books
5 Bible Verses about Apostasy In The Last Days ‹› Most Relevant Verses Matthew 24:12 Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, The Bible indicates that there will be a great apostasy during the end times. The “great apostasy” is mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
1 Timothy 4:1-3 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Revelation 3:14-22 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Federal Reserve Board announces it will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions to help assure banks have the ability to meet the needs of all their depositors.
SEE this is what is happening behind the scenes. Trump and his team are switching to the new quantum financial system. Russia, China, India, Brazil n a few other countries r on it n have been for a while. Their economies are doing well. Now they’re switching North America and Europe.
If the elite don’t cooperate the bank falls.
The fed reserve then steps in to help the people who are losing $.
The federal reserve is run by Trump and his team.
One of the first things Trump and his team did a while ago is take over the fed reserve from the elite and make it gold back. I’ve been telling people to follow Charlie Ward and his team to know what’s really happening behind the scenes from the beginning of this. Charlie Ward met with Trump about 2 months ago. He’s been working for Trump and his team from the beginning.
Valerie No, you’re being stubborn and not listening to what I told u a long time ago.
Valerie Charlie works along with General Flynn.
You sent. I just hope this reset doesn’t backfire.
Valerie The white hats are in control. Most of this is pantomime n it’s the last take down.
You sent. Just who are the white hats?
Valerie Please follow Charlie and his team on telegram. Yes, there will be instability cause last take down is like Moses and Ramsees …but God always wins.
You sent.
Valerie Watch the 10 commandments again if you can. Watch the final showdown. That’s what we’re going thru now.
Valerie Also, on his Telegram page because he posts good stuff there such as that fed reserve article, I just sent you
You sent. okay
Valerie Make sure u get the right one as there are fake accounts.
You sent. okay I will start following C W closer.
Valerie He works along with Mel K, Ann Vanderstel, Sacha Stone, R.F.K Jr etc.
You sent. Those are the WhiteHat’s.
Valerie Yes. And the White hats are the good guys. N so much happening behind the scenes.
You sent https://twitter.com/VictoryDay_Hope/status/1634901916215017476 Charlie Ward on the bank collapse. “Bank collapse has begun! Are you guys starting to get the picture yet? This is why I tell everybody to bring everybody into the room so we can educate the masses” Twitter.
Valerie Also follow Ismael Perez on Ig. He will help you understand the ET’s who are helping us. It’s like Star Wars. So much has been hidden from us. YOU will get to see where we’re heading and it’s so good. Ismael works along with the white hats. He comes from a more evolved perspective.
You sent. I will check that out as well …we are living scary times.
Valerie Again, watch out for fake accts. Elite get people to do that to hopefully make them lose credibility.
Valerie What they’re doing is taking down the elite’s evil system which needs to be taken down. It’s evil and so corrupt. Also, funds child trafficking and child sacrificing. But then you see from CW’s post the fed reserve will step in and help the people, so they are not left high and dry
Valerie Biden isn’t a good guy. Biden is either a robot or actor or clone. He was taken down a while ago.
You sent Now Trump is in charge?
Valerie Trump and his team have been in charge the whole time behind the scenes. Doesn’t mean some elites are not there causing problems. If you follow CW you will see that the white hats are in control and much of what’s happening is pantomime to wake people up!!!
You sent. True who to trust. Trump thought he trusted Pence and Bill Barr
Valerie See, that’s another thing they have been doing. They have been “playing chess” to weed out who’s good and bad. You will enjoy CW. Mel K is great too. Michael Jaco. No Michael Jaco is an ex-navy seal. All working with Trump. He did remote viewing in the military Ann Vandersteel posted a video in Feb that white hat groups have been put on alert to start making arrests.
Valerie Going to rest now. Healing has been a lot, so I need to rest n not over push myself. Please send prayers for me getting the right lower dosage n recharging fast
You sent. Good night. Enjoy all that info. Will help u to watch from behind the scenes. Much more positive plus u will get heads up on stuff. If you watch Ismael Perez, you will see my main role behind this. A light worker using energy to help all of this happen n move in a good way. Like energy they use in Thai chi or Qi Qong or martial arts
Scientists identify pattern of brain activation that differentiates drug users from non-users Story by PsyPost
A series of three neuroimaging studies identified a pattern of neural activation involving specific brain regions that differentiates drug users from non-users with 82% accuracy. Researchers named the pattern the Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS).
Craving is a strong desire to use drugs or eat. It has long been considered a key factor driving substance abuse and overeating. It is one of the criteria used for diagnosing substance use disorders. Craving is often induced by exposure to certain stimuli. In the case of overeating, this also include the smell or sight of food. In the case of drugs, craving can be induced by one being in places or situations he/she associates with taking drugs or being offered drugs.
This is called cue-induced craving.
Earlier studies of craving have successfully relied on self-reported craving, but recent research has focused on discovering its biological basis. Human neuroimaging studies have identified neural circuits related to the risk of substance abuse. Some brain circuits have been found to be involved in different substance use disorders and risky behaviors. These include specific parts of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), ventral striatal/nucleus accumbens (VS/NAc) and insula regions of the brain.
These regions also appear to play a role in weight gain and obesity.
However, just identifying areas of the brain that show distinct activity in certain situations is not enough to infer subjective feelings (such as craving) from brain activity. Studies have shown that neural activity related to specific mental states are distributed across different regions of the brain. That is why attempts are made to create mathematical models that integrate activities of diverse brain regions to allow inferences about mental states and health outcomes with larger degrees of accuracy. Such models are called neuromeres.
Study author Leonie Koban and her colleagues wanted to develop a neuromarker that could predict the intensity of drug and food craving. They integrated data from five different groups into three studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging on users of cigarettes, alcohol and cocaine. They compared this with images of brains of persons who did not use any of these substances nor any other drug.
A total of 99 participants were involved in the studies. “Across studies, participants were presented with visual cues of drugs and highly palatable food items. We then used machine learning to identify a distributed functional brain activity pattern that predicted the intensity of craving. We term the resulting pattern the Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS), and we hope that this name reduces ambiguity and provides a reference point for the pattern’s future reuse and testing in new samples,” the study authors explained.
In the first study, researchers showed pictures of cigarettes and food to cigarette smokers (21 persons) and non-smokers (22). In the second study, they showed pictures of alcoholic drinks and food to alcohol users (17 persons). In study three, they showed pictures of cocaine and food to cocaine users (21 person) and non-users (18 participants).
Results showed that the Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS) model predicted craving with success in all groups, but that it was the most effective in predicting craving in non-smokers (study 1) and non-users of cocaine (study 3). Although still quite effective, the model was the least effective in predicting craving in cigarette smokers. When researchers explored the ability of their model to differentiate between high and low levels of craving, it was found to be accurate in between 72% and 81% of cases.
The Neurobiological Craving Signature mode was only 60% accurate in differentiating cocaine users from non-users when they were being shown pictures of food. However, this rose to 75% when they were being shown pictures of cocaine. When the differences in neural activity when shown pictures of food and of cocaine was considered, the accuracy of differentiation between cocaine users and non-users rose to 82%. Results also showed that brain activity patterns in drug and food craving are similar.
The Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS) model was based on neural activity in ventromedial prefrontal and cingulate cortices, ventral striatum, temporal/parietal association areas, mediodorsal thalamus and cerebellum regions of the brain.
“In both Western and Eastern philosophy, craving has been considered a source of suffering and unhappiness. Although craving is an important feature of substance use disorders, eating disorders and other psychiatric conditions, it is also a general aspect of human experience,” the study authors concluded.
“In this study, we used machine learning to identify a distributed brain pattern—that we term the NCS as a reference for future use—that tracks the degree of craving when applied to new individuals, across different diagnostic groups, scanners and scanning parameters. Notably, this pattern separated drug users from non-users based on brain responses to drug cues but not food cues. Thus, it is an important step toward a diagnostic neuromarker of substance use.”
The study makes an important contribution to scientific knowledge of the neural basis of craving. However, it also has limitations that need to be taken into account. Notably, the study used “a limited set of highly appetitive cues” [pictures]. The study also did not use non-craving control conditions in the same groups of participants.
Hi there, diagnosed stage 4 bowel cancer 2020 with multiple surgeries and chemo am not almost a year in remission. I have RSO oil as I started taking this but was too strong and I was unable to care for my children whilst using this. However, I’d like to try again. Can this be used as a Maintenance thing to kill any remaining cancer cells etc?
Bonnie Young Is there any benefit to taking it if you can’t ramp up due to strength and cost?
Lots of resources out there with tons of valuable information
Good luck on your journey
You need both. THC kills cancer. CBD Stops the spread. Coconut oil is better for bioavailability and is a great carrier oil, Apparently, it will only extract 10% of the cannabinoids from flowers. This is due to the fact it is low in fat, and cannabinoids are lipophilic- dissolve in fats, and hydrophobic, clump up in water, so get your glycerin-soaked bud and chuck it in some coconut oil, warm, mix and strain to attempt to extract the remaining 80-90% still left in them.
Kathy Jensen You guys are awesome! I appreciate every single one of you!! Mine came out very dark and very thick, I processed it 3 times at 180 F. For 45 minutes each time. I only take a little cuz I’m new lol. But I noticed less inflammation this morning and all day. Thank you all for the speedy replies and just what i needed
Cheryl Keller If you still have the material just keep running it with fresh glycerin until you feel confident you’ve gotten everything out of it. I said I would keep you updated on the dosage. I figure it is loosely a bit less than half of what it would be if infused with coconut oil. I worked up to a spoon handle dipped to about 1 inch under the tongue for 45 seconds. Joint pain is less. I take it at night in case I need to drive during the day. Big drop in blood sugar. Good to watch.
I’m overall pretty happy. Going to make gummies with it this week thanks!! Grape seed oil is the best. A crock pot, I go 3 days low and slow. med on the crock pot. Everclear or moonshine another way. Depends on what you are planning to do with it.
Crystal Humby Cannabis oil. Starting small it is potent. Work your way up as you can tolerate. Change your diet and stop using sugar. Type your DX in the search bar and see what others have done. CBD between doses of cannabis oil helps it stop the spread. Good luck
Claudia Jones Stafford Lisa Jones the cancer experts agree that you may eliminate all sugar but cancer will find a source for fuel. That is not great advice, but patients feel it gives them an enemy to fight…okay. But it won’t slow cancer progression.
Jennifer Cofer All of these suggestions are worth trying. I would also try a good quality Boswellia supplement. And detox. Doctor’s Best Proteolytic enzymes may help if the gut isn’t working. I’m not a doctor, not giving medical advice.
Rebecca Ann Cannabis Health Radio podcast http://cannabishealthradio.com/ has hundreds of testimonials of cures from late-stage cancer. Many had pancreatic cancer. My husband’s FB page is: (1) Chemo Is Overrated | Facebook He had stage IV lymphocytic lymphoma, given a year to live by the oncologist if he didn’t take doc’s chemo concoction. He didn’t take it, used organic plant-based nutrition. That was 2018. Today he is healthy.
My opinion is to take as much cannabis oil as you can stand. If anything will cure your situation it’s high THC oil if it doesn’t cure it at least it’s a better option than hospice. I would take Blood Root capsules. Turkey tail mushroom as well Essiac tea. I found this as well ….An herb used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern countries may help in the fight against pancreatic cancer, one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that thymoquinone, an extract of nigella sativa seed oil, blocked pancreatic cancer cell growth and killed the cells by enhancing the process of programmed cell death. I found nigella seed oil on amazon. Also look into adding sea moss….Adding ground up frankincense and myrrh to the mix is super helpful .. u can buy the resin on Amazon and grind it yourself!!!
Does THC work better at killing bowel cancer or CBD???
Roberto Maldonado Nieves Actually, while THC can kill cancer cells, CBD stops the cells from spreading. That’s why I said that it works better when combined.
Dougal Fudgemonkey You’re all forgetting the other parts of the plant….. a part that people compost yet it has the highest concentrations of a couple of chemicals known to slow the big c and stop it metastasizing and causes apoptosis… all that without the THC high and legal where THC is not….
Any input for leukopenia. Alkaline, folate, B12, and protein levels are normal. All levels are normal except that my white blood cell count is critically low. I have schizophrenia and RA. For years I have taken Plaquenil and paliperidone which may affect the white blood cell count. I have eliminated Plaquenil, and the numbers are still decreasing. I plan to harvest and make cannabis oil discreetly.
Coach-Chela Fiorini Have you tried high dose CBD oil? I would start there. With a high quality, full spectrum CBD oil. Also, check out what Dr. Mindy Pelz and Dr. Eric Berg have to say about gut microbiome and health. It’s revolutionary. Take good care.
Kelly Duncan FECO: Full Extract Cannabis Oil. The whole plant is what you use. High THC. Start low with oil, and make sure you/your oil-maker uses Everclear or another “clean” solvent. Suppositories are very easy to make with a mold, using a carrier like coconut. I would suggest suppositories and oral ingestion. The FB group “green oil machine” is full of very helpful people and information/videos, etc. They will answer specific questions and provide step-by-step prep. Best of luck.
Bill Monroe Smith THC kills cancer, and so does B3 Niacinamide you can get it from amazon 3 cents per capsule 250mg. Nicotinamide and Niacinamide are the same thing. Nicotinamide prohibits proliferation and enhances chemosensitivity of pancreatic cancer cells through deregulating SIRT1 and Ras/Akt pathways. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23561972/
Jon Marsh THC, as opposed to CBD, has been the primary weapon when using Cannabis compounds to treat cancer. In fact if you find Rick Simpson’s story (in)credible you’d know he used high-THC with very little CBD and his extracts allegedly treated everyone around him who used it. There are also many who believe CBD can hinder the full potential of THC, so by suggesting people seek out Cannabis Oil with a 1:1 ratio of CBD-to-THC it’s not necessarily what is needed, but is often recommended in comments. Does THC actually exacerbate certain cancers as some have suggested? It’s been suggested that THC causes estrogen-driven cancers to worsen and that a 3:1 ratio of CBD-toTHC is recommended for those specific cancers, to include certain breast and prostate cancers. I don’t claim to know half of everything about how Cannabis compounds benefit humans and other animals but I have been in this Group longer than anyone else and I have read 99% of the posts that have been posted since May of 2012. I wake up and read through the recent posts and give succinct responses when I read something I feel isn’t helpful or actually simply poor advice. Nothing personal, on most occasions.
May 26th will mark 9 years that people have sought out this Group for last-minute hope and many have found it. I see to it that poor advice is highlighted and not shared repeatedly, although I’m not the most knowledgeable person in any room I’m in unless I’m alone and I’m aware of the fact. If I “correct” something and it’s a short response, it’s not to seem snarky, it’s simply my response usually from a phone to get the point across. Three more weeks and it’ll be 9 years as a Group. Nearly one-sixth of my life. Thank you Pamela Javid Haymes for your several years of continued Admin support, hopefully we make it a decade of making a huge difference. THC is the
Chrissy Wright Tammy Cook Hi Tammy- My husband followed the Rick Simpson oil also known as phoenix tears. He has a website with how to make the oil. Once you make the oil you start with small amounts (grain of rice) as you build tolerance. Hope this helps! You can also message me separately, I’m happy to help!
Dave Karroll Thanks for your help. I just got my Source Turbo, and will be using it soon. Been using meds for over a year now for Prostate cancer issues. Working with a cannabis clinic in Canada. I don’t like the high from THC so save the heavier THC for night time. For day they recommend a 2:1 ratio CBD to THC. Also full spectrum and they recommend multiple strains to maximize the terpenoids. Using suppositories 3 times a day, oils 3-5 times and body salve loaded with both CBD and THC
Cate Wood Hunter Thanks for the post. My frustration is when people (pharmacists and health stores) keep pushing hemp oil as CBD oil and insisting it is the same thing with the same healing properties. Or CBD oil with THC removed. I do not know enough about the ratios of THC but I do know that it is a vital part of the whole lock and key of why cannabis oil switches on our cells’ abilities to heal.
Hi Di von Rippoldsau Why hate on one cannabinoid? They’re all from the same cannabis plant and intended for healing. They work together synergistically. 1 strain gives you 5 darts to throw…10 strains give you 75 darts to throw.
Some people say the indica works like sativa… and the other way around!!! I always put 4 plants outside…. they get the right water when I change the water from my grow table…I grow Califire.. I got 5 lbs per plant…. Cali fire strain of marijuana – Search (bing.com) Kush is indica… sedative.
Natural Healing is a style of healing in which you assist your body to increase its powerful self-healing ability. This is done by creating a lifestyle where you: Eliminate those things that create disease and increase those things that create powerful health. When your body is healthy and strong, it can and will heal any disease, and repair and rebuild itself.
Your body is a self-healing machine.
This is easily seen with a cut. You cut your skin and you bleed. Your blood eventually clots and you form a scab. Your tissue and skin then starts re-growing. Eventually, the scab falls off and you are miraculously healed! Even though we take this basic healing function for granted, no medical doctor and no hospital can ever do this for you.
On a microscopic level, your body may be invaded and infected by foreign pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Your body has numerous organs, systems, and blood cells to take care of any unwanted visitors. You have white blood cells like macrophages and certain T cells that work to kill the invader immediately, and immune chemicals like interleukin and interferon that help speed up these cells. Other cells create chemical poisons to kill off the invaders in the same way your B cells use immunoglobulin to create specific antibodies that attack foreign pathogens.
Without a doubt, our bodies are amazing repair machines ready to take on any illness or disease. But eventually, because of genetics, lifestyle and just plain aging, your body may not be up to the task of healing or repairing you. This is usually when a person seeks out outside help, usually from a medical doctor.
A medical doctor’s approach is to take on the healing themselves, fighting and killing the disease with a barrage of chemical drugs and often getting the body functioning again by performing surgical procedures. This form of healing can work but can be very dangerous. Medical intervention is so harsh and extreme it often hurts other organs and causes other diseases. It can also leave you with irreversible surgical impairment when it involves your organs being altered or removed. It is the best form of healing for those people who absolutely will not take any responsibility for their health and refuse to make any healthy lifestyle modifications.
On the other hand, Natural Healing is for people who are willing to make healthy and positive lifestyle changes. As a Natural Healing doctor, I help my patients to dramatically raise their overall level of health, which in turn, dramatically increases their body’s ability to heal and repair itself. Doing this is simple! As the sign in my office says, “You can heal yourself of anything, just STOP doing what is making you sick and START doing what will Create Powerful Health.”
Natural Healing is simply helping your body to become stronger and healthier, so it becomes a more powerful and effective healing and repairing machine.
In my clinic, I discovered that with most people, it doesn’t take much to get their body to heal illness or disease. I usually just had to get them to STOP killing themselves. Most of my patients’ diseases were caused by what they were doing to themselves.
In other words, their body was trying to heal itself, but it was too weak, or running too much resistance, or both. This could be simply a lack of nutrition caused by a bad food program, all the way to a buildup of sludge in the body, causing everything from constipation and coronary-artery blockage to dementia. Most of my patients just needed a good cleanup and a new, healthy lifestyle, and they were on their way to health. However, my patients who had spent years damaging their bodies, ignoring their ill health and disregarding their many disease warning signs, were now in a serious disease crisis and they needed more aggressive health programs.
Regardless of the level of my patients’ illnesses or diseases, even in the worst stages of degenerative diseases, I always saw Natural Healing work as a powerful medical intervention. My patients were always able to regain their health and, in fact, create powerful health by simply leading a very healthy lifestyle.
Often, the healing results are in balance with how many positive, healthy changes a person is willing to make. Sure, for some, it took a lot of work, but when you compare it to the drama, trauma, pain, torture, and expense of medical intervention, for most people with good common sense, it’s a no-brainer. In fact, when you look at it this way, it is obviously the only real healing.
To sum all this up, Natural Healing is a style of healing where you assist your body in charging up its powerful self-healing ability by creating a lifestyle in which you eliminate things that create disease and do those things that create powerful health.
When your body is healthy and strong, it can heal, repair, and rebuild anything. An old Chinese proverb says: “Focus on the good to eliminate the bad.” In the same way, Natural Healing is about focusing on Creating Powerful Health and letting your body do what it knows how to do better than any doctor, and what it does best, which is repair and heal you of anything.
Herbal medicine has been THE medicine of every single group of people, of every single culture, and in every single country on this entire planet, since the beginning of time. But still, I am asked all the time, “How do herbs work?” Click if you dare and prepare to be enlightened…
A number of years ago while I was out shopping, I ran into a woman who was a wonderful customer. She told me that she used and loved my herbal medicines. She then told me how much success she had, healing herself over the years from a few quite serious illnesses. She also was pleased to tell me that she had also helped some family members, too. Mainly, she wanted to hug me and express to me that she felt so empowered, to be able to heal herself, and to help others, especially loved ones, to heal themselves. But most of all, she loved NOT having to run to the medical doctor or hospital emergency room anymore, every time someone had some illness.
But then she told me that she gets a lot of ridicule from her husband, who is a pharmacist at a major drug store chain. He told her that herbs don’t work at all, they are just hocus-pocus and a load of bull, and that any benefit that she thought she had, was all in her head, and at best, just a placebo effect. She was very upset and with tears in her eyes, she asked me for my response.
How Herbal Medicine Works
First, herbal medicine has been THE medicine of every single group of people, of every single culture, and in every single country on this entire planet, since the beginning of time. Herbs grow wild on this planet, and have been THE medicines of the people on this planet, forever. Chemical medicines are the new kid on the block, the new fad, and have only been around for a few hundred years. And, most drugs were originally made from plants anyway.
Herbal Medicine has recorded roots dating back over 6,000 years in China, India and the Middle East, just to mention a few places. Even today, the vast majority of the people on this planet still use herbal medicine as their first-choice medicine, and do not trust pharmaceutical drugs, at all. In fact, 50% of all drugs are either made from botanicals or synthesized to duplicate a chemical that was originally found in a plant.
Digitalis, the most famous of all heart drugs, gets its name from the herb Digitalis lanata, the Foxglove plant that it is made from. This plant, like many plants, contains some very powerful chemicals, often referred to as phytochemicals meaning “plant-chemicals”. The most powerful chemicals in this particular plant are called glycosides, specifically cardiac glycosides that affect the heart muscle in many ways. This is just one small example of one herb that has now become one of the most famous drugs used today. I could list over 1,000 additional drugs here that are plant-derived, but I just wanted to make a point.
How Do Herbs Actually Work? Well, it is actually very simple. All foods and plants (basically anything that grows) contain chemicals. And when you ingest plants, your body breaks the plant material down, using everything from saliva to digestive juices, and then your body assimilates these various chemicals.
One of the reasons that we eat food is so that our body can assimilate the Phyto-chemical nutrients from the plant. Nutrients that sustain life, like vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, protein, fat, carbohydrates, etc. Without plant nutritional chemicals, we couldn’t survive.
Herbs are also foods, but usually people don’t consume them for food, as they taste stronger. Sometimes we do, like raspberries, artichokes, dandelion, burdock, etc. But, when it comes to the stronger tasting ones (like coffee) most cultures have discovered that these plants have more medicinal uses, instead of nutritional uses. These stronger tasting plants taste stronger because they have stronger chemicals in them. This is one way that nature protects us and tells us the difference between food and medicine–raspberries taste great, digitalis does not.
Anyway, when we ingest these medicinal herbs, the same way as food, we breakdown the plant and assimilate the chemistry in the plant. But, with many herbs it is these stronger medicinal chemicals that we assimilate, instead of nutrients.
So when we consume medicinal herbs by just chewing them or using herbal teas, tablets, capsules or liquid extracts (like tinctures and tonics), instead of nutrition, we assimilate the medicinal plant chemicals or phytochemical medicines. The way in which herbs work is not rocket science and is actually very basic chemistry.
Then Why Do Medical Doctors Often Ridicule or Condemn Herbal Medicine?
Well first, you must understand that they have no training in Herbal Medicine, nor even in Nutrition. So asking the average medical doctor about using herbs, or about your food program is like asking your plumber about the condition of your home’s electrical system. They may have an opinion, but it is probably not a valid one.
The second reason is insecurity. Many people, including medical doctors, are very insecure about anything they don’t know or understand. They either fear it and condemn it, or will tell you to stay away from it. A better, more enlightened answer would simply be, “I have no training in herbal medicine, so I suggest that you seek the advice of a qualified herbal doctor.” But, you will NEVER hear that answer from someone whose ego is not in check.
Another reason why medical doctors generally condemn herbal medicine is that modern medicine is a TWO TRILLION DOLLAR a year business in the US. Additionally, Medical Groups spend more money influencing the government with lobbyists in Washington than any other private business organization. Considering that doctors and hospitals don’t want to lose your business and since pharmaceutical companies are making more money than any drug cartel ever thought of, well, you can expect that you are going to see and hear some occasional negative publicity warning you about any competition, and consequently not to use herbs. Either you will be warned that herbs are dangerous and unsafe, or that they are totally ineffective. (You’ll notice these two answers completely contradict each other.)
Usually, most of these warnings come from medical doctors who work for a system that makes a living off of helping people managing their diseases, but never quite actually healing them. (An example is that no diabetic ever heals his or her pancreas using insulin. In fact, when the pancreas detects artificially induced insulin, it gets weaker.) The medical cure of most diseases in America is not actually a cure at all, but more accurately, management. In fact, the use of the term “Health Care” would be more accurate—and more appropriate—if it were changed to “Disease Care”.
First Choice Medicine So back to the beginning. Look, I am not saying that we don’t need medical doctors, drugs and hospitals—we all need them in emergencies, like serious trauma.
What I am saying is that herbal medicine should be the FIRST CHOICE medicine for everyone. This simply just makes good com- mon sense. Why?
#1: IT IS SAFE Herbal Medicine is milder than harsh pharmaceutical drugs, so it has fewer side effects, usually none.
#2: USE IT WHOLE Herbs used in their whole and natural state are generally naturally buffered and more effective. In other words, isolating chemicals from herbs, and then concentrating them (like when making drugs) is not a safe thing to do. Herbs have many additional chemicals in them, beside the medicinal chemicals that act as buffering agents, making their actions smoother and safer.
An example is that many herbs in their natural whole state will make you vomit before you can overdose on them–a natural protective response that is lost when you turn them into drugs. It has also been proven that the most effective way to use plant medicines is using the whole herb. (Numerous studies, even published by the AMA, have now proven that whole herbs are much more medicinally effective than their individual isolated chemicals.)
#3: IT IS INEXPENSIVE Herbs are much less expensive than drugs, not to mention a lot less expensive than medical treatment and hospitals. Their low cost makes them the perfect financially sustainable health care choice, instead of creating a health care system that we cannot afford.
#4: IT IS EFFECTIVE Herbal medicine has proven to be a powerfully effective treatment for illness and disease, especially when used in conjunction with living a healthy lifestyle. ALL of these reasons underscore why it just makes good common sense that herbal medicine, not chemical and invasive medicine, should be the FIRST CHOICE MEDICINE.
Finally… In my life, I have healed my own life-threatening illnesses and injuries and helped tens of thousands of patients heal themselves, too. I have seen these herbal gifts–these blessings from God–heal every disease known to man.
Maybe I could have saved my breath for this woman, since she told me that she and her husband were Christians, and simply sent her husband a bible… “…And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.” — Ezekiel 47:12
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If an area of your body is sick or diseased, you have to get that area back alive. Excess waste and constipation can clog and smother every cell and organ in the body.
The immune system has one main objective: To protect you from harmful microbes and invaders or self-mutating cells. Any substance that is not you, or worn-out parts of you, must be dealt with by your immune system.
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My first cousin told me about his 22-year-old granddaughter McKenna having Relapsing Poly chondritis. When I see any disease that ends in itis that tells me the root cause is inflammation/ In almost all diseases inflammation plays a big part in it. And this holds true in any and all autoimmune diseases.
Q: How many words ending in itis in the dictionary?
A: There are 163words that end with ITIS.See also.
What does itis in medical terminology? Medical Definition of itis: a disease characterized by inflammation arthritis, tendinitis and those other itis’s
What is itis in English? -itis in American English suffix. a suffix used in pathological terms denote inflammation of an organ (bronchitis; gastritis; neuritis) and hence, in extended senses, nouns denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. (telephonitis; baseballitis)
Is itis a root or suffix? Example: pericarditis (prefix) (root) (suffix) around heart inflammation What words end in itis?bronchitis.cellulitis.cervicitis.dermatitis.fibrositis.gingivitis.laryngitis.meningitis. What is suffix in medical terminology? The suffix usually indicates a specialty, test, procedure, function, condition/disorder, or status. For example, itis means inflammation and ectopy means removal. … Occasionally, a medical term may consist of a prefix and suffix. For example, apnea includes the prefix a- (without) and suffix -pnea (breathing).
“itis” indicates infection or inflammation. “Osis” means lots of. The prime example is diverticulosis, which is the generally non-dangerous condition of having little out-pockets pooching out of the intestinal tract, especially the colon. In the US, a third or a half of all people over 55 or so, have them. Diverticulitis means one of those pockets has gotten infected.
It causes pain, fever, abdominal tenderness, and can even lead to perforation. There are, big surprise, some exceptions; or, at least, terms that only use one or the other. Tuberculosis, for example. There’s no companion term Tuberculitis. OTOH, there are very few “osis” variants of most “itis” infections. Prostatitis, parotitis, etc.
What is inflammation? What are the symptoms and signs of inflammation? Symptoms of inflammation include: Redness. A swollen joint that may be warm to the touch. Joint pain.
What does the prefix itis mean? itis: Suffix meaning inflammation. For example, colitis is literally colon inflammation or figuratively inflammation of the colon.
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What does inflammation mean? Inflammation refers to your body’s process of fighting against things that harm it, like infections, injuries, and toxins, in an attempt to heal itself. When something damages your cells, your body releases chemicals that trigger a response from your immune system.
What does the word itis come from? More commonly known now as a food coma, this phrase directly alludes to the stereotype of laziness associated with African Americans. According to Mic, it stems from a longer (and incredibly offensive) version n—-ritis.
Design of an anti-inflammatory diet (ITIS diet) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis – ScienceDirect. Diets fall in and out of favor, but the Mediterranean diet has stood the test of time. Decades of research have shown that a plant-based mix, including vegetables, fruit, legumes, olive oil, fish and whole grains, can improve or prevent many chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and arthritis.
Scientists trace the diet’s benefits in part to its positive effect on the microbiome — the rich ecosystem of microbes, or microorganisms, that inhabit our bodies, especially the gut. What you eat can encourage or inhibit the growth of certain types of gut bacteria, increase or decrease overall diversity and influence metabolites the microbes produce, which are key players in activating inflammation. An unhealthy microbiome — one that’s less diverse and unbalanced — is associated with autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in susceptible people.
Mediterranean Diet 2.0 “We know the Mediterranean diet is good for patients with rheumatoid arthritis,” says Monica Guma, MD, a rheumatologist and researcher at the University of California, San Diego. “But there also might be something better.” That something is what she calls the ITIS diet. It’s the Mediterranean diet supercharged with anti-inflammatory foods and herbs that may improve gut health and arthritis symptoms.
She and her colleagues spent a year designing the diet. At four different stages, they consulted patients to make sure the diet was affordable and was one they could stick with for the two-week study period. They made a few changes as needed. The diet includes a lot of things the standard Mediterranean doesn’t, including: A home-made green drink (green vegetables and fruit) every morning.
Oily fish such as sardines, salmon or tuna at least twice a week. A high daily intake of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) from avocado, nuts, sesame seeds or sesame butter (tahini) Daily chia seeds and flaxseed oil. Unsweetened yogurt and miso, a fermented soybean paste Fruits high in enzymes, such as pineapple and papaya. Daily green tea Turmeric (used with black pepper for better absorption) and ginger. It also excludes some things the Mediterranean diet allows: Wheat flour and gluten Tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant, which may worsen arthritis symptoms in some people.
Combining protein with grains (spaghetti and meatballs, for example) Red meat, sugar, soda and processed or fast foods are out of bounds in both the Mediterranean and ITIS diets. ITIS Diet Study ResultsTwenty-two highly motivated patients with doctor-diagnosed RA followed the ITIS diet for two weeks. They continued taking prescribed medications during the study. Half experienced a 50% improvement in pain and swelling as well as in subjective measures such as fatigue, often in three or four days. A few patients went into complete remission.“They got better really quickly,” Dr. Guma says.
What about the 50% of patients who didn’t respond? Dr. Guma says everyone felt better, had more energy and less fatigue. But it’s not clear why some didn’t have less pain and swelling, too. Dr. Guma says the patients who saw the most improvement had better diets and microbial diversity to begin with. It’s possible the others may have needed more time. It’s also possible a subset of people may never respond due to certain conditions that inhibit the microbiome from changing as quickly or as much. This is especially true if the microbiome gets off track early in life.
Caesarean birth, for example, prevents infants from picking up healthy microorganisms in the birth canal. Antibiotics in infants and kids can wipe out most gut bacteria, which may never completely repopulate in a healthy way. Many other factors influence gut health, too, including childhood stress, trauma or poor diet.Despite the remarkable success of the diet for some people, Dr. Guma emphasizes she’s not suggesting it can replace arthritis drugs.“Many patients need meds to slow out-of-control disease.
But diet can complement regular medical care; it can decrease the need for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories and other drugs and may make it possible to taper off them at some point.”The study has several important limitations: There was no control group for comparison. It’s also impossible to know if ITIS has long-term benefits. In studies of the Mediterranean diet, the benefits disappeared when people stopped following it.
Dr. Guma plans to conduct longer trials with more participants who will work closely with dietitians. “People often want to change their habits, but it’s difficult to change them all at the same time,” she says. “This was a short trial just to see if people could follow the diet. About 80% of the participants said it was easy to make these dietary changes. Some are continuing to follow the diet on their own, but there will be times when they don’t. We just tell them to do the best they can.” Relapsing Polychondritis is an autoimmune disease in which your immune system is attacking cartilage tissue (ears, joints, etc) in your body.
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I am 71 years old, have been vegetarian for 41 years and a vegan for 12 months. I am a lifelong nonsmoker and have always been teetotal! I have led a healthy active lifestyle and weigh 160 pounds. The only thing that I may have done wrong health wise is that in my job as a painter and decorator and house renovator was that I never wore a mask to protect myself from dust and paint fumes. I was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal pancreatic cancer 23 months ago. My father died of pancreatic cancer at the age of nearly 87 so it could well be that there is a genetic consideration involved.
Thank you very much indeed for allowing me to join your Pancreatic Awareness Group. 15 months ago on 18th August 2020 my life changed forever. I received the devastating diagnosis of terminal, inoperable pancreatic cancer and was given a 50% chance of living for three months. Fortunately I was one of the people who survived this first time scale and was lucky enough to have time to research possible alternative medicine to hopefully address my disastrous condition. After 8 months I had repeatedly read about the beneficial effects of fenbendazole with regards to treating cancer. Fenbendazole is a repurposed drug which is becoming more and more in favour in treating not only cancer in animals but also cancer in human beings. I was told by my oncologist before my last three month scan that I could not expect to have any further reduction in the size of my tumour from chemo treatment as by now the cancer cells would have built up resistance and mutated to prevent further destruction of cancer cells. During this three month period between scans I took an advised dose of fenbendazole and was thrilled to find that I had achieved a 90 % reduction by volume in my latest scan.
My oncologist, who I hadn’t told about fenben, was very surprised and also pleased that there had been such a massive reduction of 90 % in the size of my tumour. She even asked me if I would like to have a chemo holiday for a couple of months at Christmas which I gratefully declined. Only 15 months ago I honestly believed that I would be dead by now and never in a million years would I have ever believed that I would ever have achieved such a strong partial remission. I have been vocal on a number of Facebook cancer sites as have hundreds of other cancer sufferers who have their own first hand personal stories regarding the efficacy of fenbendazole. However there are still millions of other cancer sufferers throughout the world who could possibly benefit from its anti cancer properties. I would be absolutely delighted if, by the power of your wonderful Facebook group, you could include my post in your group. I come to you all as a 71 year old guy who just wants the very best for everyone in this world and who wishes to spread the good news regarding fenbendazole. More information can be found by Googling Fenbendazole for cancer and on the Facebook Fenbendazole Cancer Support Group. Thank you so very much for taking the time to read this post and for potentially giving cancer sufferers throughout the world a powerful ray of hope into alleviating their life or death condition. Please tell me if my post contravenes any of your group rules so that I can modify it accordingly. Many thanks, Noel.
People who know me will be aware of my passion for property and bitcoin.
However, I have now changed my new, major and more vitally important passion to spreading the word of fenbendazole to as many cancer sufferers as possible and to the general public who, themselves, now have a 50% chance of contracting cancer at some time in their lives. Please tell all your friends, relatives and people you meet in the street about the anecdotally proven beneficial and even curative effects of fenbendazole in relation to cancer. Lets all get together and start saving lives today! https://www.faim.org/a-cure-for-cancer-hidden-in-plain-sight https://www.facebook.com/groups/476254899648556
A few months after my diagnosis I honestly thought that this was the end and I was definitely going to die. I thought that there was no hope whatsoever and I was just going to become yet another pancan statistic. I always believed in what the doctors and oncologists told me, and it was only by my good fortune that I managed to survive for 8 months without realizing the importance of alternative medicines. Doctors and oncologists tell us nothing about alternative medicines which to my mind is massive neglect and abuse! I don’t blame them as they are only doing what they are told by the FDA and big pharma. However our main agenda right now is to try to keep ourselves alive in the most productive ways that we possibly can. I now believe that stage 4 pancreatic cancer is not an automatic death sentence for many of us!
Pancreatic cancer. Please give me some advice.
My mom has the same cancer and I give her one 222mg a day.
Start fenbendazole today. Capsule is 222 mg. How many pills to take daily?
Emma Butler I am always researching and learning more about alternative medicines, but this is my protocol so far: I take 2,000 mg of fenbendazole per day (4 X 500 mg tablets), 45 mls. of chlorine dioxide solution (5 X 9 mls.) per day, 5 mls of DMSO diluted with 50% water applied topologically to my feet and legs every day and about 16 grams of taurine per day (2 X 8 grams). I do take a few more supplements which I often rotate or change from time to time. These are vitamin E, curcumin, melatonin, turkey tail mushroom and alpha lipoic acid to name but a few. I do struggle sometimes regarding the best time to take these supplements so that they do not argue with each other and would never claim to have the perfect protocol. For example CDS is a wonderful oxidant but other supplements may be antioxidants so have to be taken at different times. We just all need to try to make sense of the sometimes confusing messages we get in an attempt to not have some supplement cancel out the effects of others. So much of this is trial and error and doing the best we can for ourselves. Sadly though time is at such a premium when considering the speed of pancreatic cancer.
Noel Watson Author Milka Maslovaric I take 2,000 mg of fenbendazole per day (4 X 500 mg tablets), 45 mls of chlorine dioxide solution (5 X 9 mls) per day diluted in half a cup of water each dose, 5 mls of DMSO diluted with fruit juice every day and about 16 grams of taurine also diluted with fruit juice per day (2 X 8 grams). I do take a few more supplements which I often rotate or change from time to time. These are vitamin A, B12, D, E, turmeric, high strength melatonin 180 mg every night, turkey tail mushroom, berberine and alpha lipoic acid. I am always on the lookout for any other highly effective alternative medicines that I see recommended or have researched online.
The Universal Antidote – The Science and Story of Chlorine Dioxide‘church of bleach’. Briefly the alternative medicines that have been instrumental in keeping me alive, positive and reasonably healthy are fenbendazole (the repurposed dog wormer), chlorine dioxide solution (CDS), the water purifier, DMSO the natural organic solvent, and more recently taurine. If you take a look at my Facebook page there are masses of links regarding these wonderful and possibly life changing alternative medicines. I still have my chemo infusion of gemcitabine three weeks out of every four but I have no doubt whatsoever that it will be the use of these and other alternative medicines that will be responsible for any medium or long term benefit to my terminal diagnosis. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you think that I may be able to add a ray of light to your condition. My number one passion in life now is to help alleviate the suffering of others.
My medical notes on my diagnosis 23 months ago refer to me as having stage 4, inoperable, terminal pancreatic cancer. The stage 4 diagnosis was due to me having artery and vein involvement making it impossible for me to have surgery. I was given the opportunity to go into hospice care but my wife wanted me to stay at home so that she could look after me until my inevitable demise. She was provided with all the necessary equipment such as a syringe driver which a nurse would have come to fit at a moment’s notice. I was unable to eat or drink more than a tiny amount and my weight went down to less than 9 stone, I may be surviving and thriving now after 23 months but things were a whole lot different after my original diagnosis when I was very ill indeed and certainly not expected to live for more than a few weeks. After 8 months of chemotherapy my tumour increased in size from 6 cm to 10.4 cm. I was in agony because the tumour was pressing against the nerves in my stomach.
I had to be escorted in my sister in law’s car to hospital and put into a wheelchair to have a CT scan as I was totally unable to walk even a few yards. The reason that I am so vociferously proclaiming the merits of alternative medicines is that not one of the doctors, oncologists or MacMillan nurses ever mentioned that I could improve my chances of longevity or survival by taking control of my illness and complementing the chemotherapy with my own choice of alternative medicine. Indeed after questioning and seeking advice from literally dozens of oncology nurses and healthcare staff during my chemo treatment over the last 23 months not even one of them has mentioned the possible curative effects of alternative medicine. It took me a full 8 months before I realised the dangerous inadequacy and negligence of the whole medical industry in failing to mention to me that I had any further options in my treatment. In my mission to spread the word regarding the possible lifesaving importance of alternative medicines I hope to reduce the unnecessary misery, carnage and death suffered by fellow cancer patients.
August 26, 2022 · Pancreatic cancer, as some of you already know, is the worst of the 15 common cancers and just does not hold hostages. I truly believe that one must be extremely proactive regarding one’s prognosis right from the start. I was one of the lucky ones who wasted at least 8 months’ time before realizing that alternative medicine would dramatically increase my chances of survival but was still alive to tell the tale. During these 8 months when I hadn’t even heard or considered alternative medicine statistically speaking, I should not have survived. So many people claim that they are fighting for their lives but in fact are just passively allowing cancer to take its inevitable course.
Relying on traditional medicine of chemo, radiation and surgery is not being proactive and is vastly reducing one’s chances of longevity. I understand that a lot of people do not need convincing regarding the essential benefits of alternative cancer but how to convince the doubters of this is quite another matter. I think that it is all about knowledge and having an open mind and above all having a strong will to live. I am always asking myself ‘Am I doing the best I can to keep myself alive?’ and even in my case the answer is that I can never do enough. There is always more knowledge to be learned, more papers to read, more videos to watch and more or better alternative medicines to trial. None of us can ever do enough to maximise our time on this earth but at least we can do something to increase our chances of greater longevity.
I believe in an integrative approach to cancer, that is to take advantage of both traditional and alternative medicine. In trying to convince doubters of the merits of alternative medicine we must use solid, logical and irrefutable facts regarding both approaches to treatment. If you Google the damaging effects of chemotherapy, you will find masses of negative facts which show that chemo is incredibly harsh on the body and can have permanent damaging effects on the body. If you Google any of the alternative medicines, you will find very few such damaging facts. Alternative medicines in comparison to chemo are very safe and gentle on the body but at the same time can have remarkable beneficial effects. For example, if one considers the reasons for taking fenbendazole that it kills cancer cells in five different ways and even kills cancer stem cells why would one not take it? Any slight potential damage to the liver can be overcome by taking milk thistle, serrapeptase or tudca so the problem is solved. If fenbendazole is attacking cancer cells in five different pathways, then the cancer cells become confused as to which way to mutate. Without these extra lines of attack the cancer cells can mutate producing a stronger more virulent cancer cell. In other words, the use of prolonged chemo can actually make the cancer cells stronger and even more lethal.
Regarding chlorine dioxide solution (CDS) , why would one not want to use a harmless, well tolerated simple oxidiser to remove all the viruses, bacteria, fungal infections and heavy metals from the body thus leaving the immune system strengthened and more able to fight the cancer cells? This same reasoning can be used regarding all the alternative medicines that we have researched ourselves and wish to trial. What are the dangers in relation to what are the benefits? Pancreatic cancer is real and raw and not a walk in the park. We do not have the luxury of regaining time if we have not used it effectively and to maximum benefit. As pancreatic cancer sufferers we need to remind ourselves constantly that we are fighting for our lives and that every single day can make a difference as to our eventual outcome. We need to be proactive, take control of our illness, empower ourselves and fight our cancer diagnosis with every weapon at our disposal.
Sheridan Stull Vecchio If you go to the success stories on the Facebook Fenbendazole Cancer Support Group you will find many such stories. There is a Telegram chat group regarding chlorine dioxide solution (CDS) and The Universal Antidote where there are a multitude of good reports of the healing powers of CDS/MMS. There are 111 anecdotal stories here on how CDS/MMS has been beneficial to cancer sufferers. https://mmstestimonials.co/cancer There are many alternative medicine cancer groups giving details of how alternative medicine or integrative medicine has had successful outcomes. There are thousands of papers written about how each individual supplement alleviates the symptoms of cancer and improves cancer prognosis. There is a great wealth of information online where one can learn about the benefits of both traditional and supplementary medicines. Sadly, one often has to look into the information in more depth as it is a known fact that pharmaceutical companies try to mislead the general public away from the healing attributes of supplementary medicines. They actually pay people to write articles and news broadcasts in order to mislead the public into believing that these supplements are dangerous and toxic. The confusion and disheartening of people comes from the claims from the proponents of allopathic medicine that cancer can only be treated by chemo, radiation or surgery. It has been shown time and time again that an integrative approach presents the best possible outcome for cancer treatment.
Jeanette Lotter Crazy, I joined this group Aug. 2019 when my dad was diagnosed. He decided to do chemo. Someone else had mentioned this protocol. So I told my mom and she spoke to him, and he would not try it. He said the doctor knew best. Instead, he let them fill him with chemicals so toxic that he had to close the toilet lid before flushing and had to use gloves to even hold a pill. Needless to say, a year later, last August my dad went home. A couple weeks ago I saw something online about Ivermectin as a possible cure for cancer…. I looked up Ivermectin and cancer and I cried and cried. I will always wonder if he took it, would he have been here right now. My life will never be the same. What’s also crazy, a friend of mine told me her friend was just diagnosed with a diff type of Cancer. I told her to please research Joe Tippins…. As soon as I sent it to her, she told me that is what she decided to do and it has already helped. Another crazy thing. I have not been back to this group since my dad passed, the pain is just too fresh. I just came on to mention the studies in the medical journals… so people could research. The first post I saw was yours. There has been a huge increase in cancer rates in the last year. Even on here, it seemed like every single post was someone else just being diagnosed. I don’t remember it being like that last time I was here. Thank you so much for posting this. God bless you… I pray people listen and lives are saved.
In simplistic terms what is disease of the body. Miscommunication of cells into a rapid division. I only thought I would research disease for one year. However, for the last 16 years my research always leads me back to emotions going array somewhere in the human brainstem, the solitary nucleus, also called nucleus of the solitary tract, nucleus solitarius, and nucleus tractus solitaire stem and resetting the vagus nerve – Bing video
He created a special healing approach, the Body Mirror System, after he cured himself of a terminal illness in 1975. Supporting many people in his dedicated practice of more than 30 years, his healing system is now taught worldwide.
Since 2014, his wife Annick Brofman and other Body Mirror System instructors continue the legacy of his work within the Brofman Foundation and around the world. Martin Brofman was a former Wall Street computer expert and a student of psychology and comparative religion, developed the Body Mirror System and the Vision Workshop through his experiences of releasing himself of a terminal illness which traditional medicine had considered hopeless – untreatable – and returning to perfect health.
During his own healing process. He learned much about the Body Mind Interface, the relationship between the body and consciousness, and how it works. He then developed a model in order to clarify these ideas for himself, as well as to provide a vehicle for teaching them easily and quickly to others.Martin Brofman has been teaching these ideas around the world for more than 35 years and has trained other people who continue to teach his techniques.
His books have been published until now in 16 languages, and are widely acclaimed for the clarity with which his ideas are expressed. Tens of thousands of students world-wide have learned to use his techniques. This is his story as he tells, excerpt from his books “Anything can be healed” and “Improve your Vision”: The shift that saved my life — Martin Brofman – Complete Wellbeing
I had terminal cancer in 1975 and was told that I had just one or two months to live. The tumor was in my spinal cord – in the neck – and as it grew it was pressing the spinal cord against the inside of the spinal canal. My right arm had become paralyzed, and my legs were spastic. An operation to remove the tumor had been unsuccessful, and I was told that for various reasons chemotherapy and radiation therapy would not work.
Doctors warned me the end might come very suddenly, any moment, if I coughed or sneezed. I was faced with a reality in which each day was possibly my last day, each hour my last hour. One thing I knew for sure – for whatever time I had remaining, I wanted to be happy, just being myself.
For that reason, unappealing special diets made no sense to me, despite the claims they may help. Each meal was possibly my last meal and I wanted to eat what I really enjoyed. I had to be true to myself, to be real in all that I did. My values shifted. I lived in the present moment and everything I did was for its own sake, because I really wanted to do it.
Some things that had seemed important before suddenly weren’t any more. The only important thing was being happy and to me that meant doing whatever I felt happy doing, and not doing anything that made me unhappy. Two months later, I was still alive; I had run out of time, but I was still alive!
One month later I was on overtime, and still alive. I wondered how long it could go on. New Year was five months away and I decided that if by some miracle I was still here, I would celebrate with a vacation in a tropical paradise. What I didn’t know then was how that vacation would save my life. Five months later, I was celebrating the New Year in Martinique, having a mind-expanding talk with a man who was there to teach Zen meditation.
He said to me: “Cancer begins in your mind, and that’s where you can go to get rid of it”. It was like someone had switched a light bulb on – it was so clear. I knew what he meant and could see how cancer was a metaphor for things held in and not expressed. I saw how my former lifestyle and way of being had led to me killing myself in many ways.
I realized there and then that if I changed my way of being, I could somehow release the symptoms. I could use my mind as a tool to accomplish the changes in my way of being, and in my body. For the first time since I had been given the diagnosis, I was able to consider the possibility of turning around my condition and getting rid of the cancer.
I could save my life!
Several weeks later, I listened to a talk about Silva Mind Control, which teaches people how to use their mind as a tool. The idea presented was that our perceptions create our reality, and since we choose our perceptions, we can choose to change any aspect of our reality. My consciousness has been the effect of programming; in the same way that a computer produces results based on how it has been programmed.
I could reprogram my consciousness.
My perception had been that I was terminally ill, so I had to reprogram my consciousness to create the perception that I was well. I was not prepared for such an abrupt shift. For some considerable time, I had perceived myself as being in a state of deterioration, getting closer and closer to dying. I realized that I could much more easily create the perception that I was getting better and better, until I was eventually well. I knew the turnaround could happen at any moment. It was a matter of turning a switch in my mind, and insisting on knowing it had been turned.
I decided that if the moment of change could be any moment, then let it be now. The shift in my consciousness was immediate, I felt it, and I knew then that I was in a state of improvement. I also knew the importance of maintaining the integrity of my decision. From that moment on I knew that my perceptions had to reinforce the idea that I was now getting better and better, so I would eventually be well. As I ate whatever food I wanted, I told myself it was exactly what my body needed and was asking for in order to accelerate the healing process.
Physical sensations similar to electric shocks in my body had previously reinforced the idea that the tumor was growing. They still came, but now I chose to perceive them as evidence that the tumor was shrinking. My mind looked for more and more ways of knowing the improvement was happening. I knew I had to stay away from people who insisted on seeing me as still terminally ill, not from any lack of love, but rather to maintain my own positive attitude toward the healing process.
I had to be with people who were willing to encourage me on this seemingly impossible task I had set for myself. Whenever someone asked how I was doing, I insisted on answering, “Better and Better, thank you.” I researched mental programming techniques and learnt that if I put myself into a relaxed state and talked positively to myself for 15 minutes, three times a day, then within 66 days I could get myself to believe anything. And whatever I believed to be true would be true.
Martin Brofman – September 1, 2019 I knew that it was vital to maintain positive programming. That putting myself in a relaxed state of mind and talking positively to myself for 15 minutes, three times each day, was a part of the programming process I should in no way interfere with. There were temptations to not do the relaxations, and then I would remind myself that my life was at stake. Any such temptation, then, was something that stood between me and my life, and had to be removed, so that I could live.
This may all sound very simple, but it was not always easy. At times – especially early on – it was very difficult. Sometimes my thoughts or words acknowledged something other than the idea that I was improving. On such occasions I had to be honest with myself and see that I had ‘blown it’. I would start again, telling myself I had been on a practice run, and the real moment of change was now.
It did get easier. I was able to maintain positivity for just hours at first, then a day, then two days, and then I was solid. The program was working. My doubting voice would occasionally make itself known, but I knew it did not represent the truth. The encouraging voice within became my guide, leading me back to stable health, enabling me to maintain the single-mindedness of knowing positive changes were happening.
When I was not feeling a symptom, I told myself that perhaps I would never feel that symptom again. If I did then experience the symptom again, I would tell myself the process was not quite complete, but to acknowledge I was feeling the symptom less often and less severely than before.
All was going well.
I had to know positive changes were happening now even if they were not always evident. I would tell myself they were possibly just at the threshold of my perception, so I could eagerly anticipate evidence to justify this. I was always able to find something positive, and assure myself it wasn’t all imagination. There was much encouragement from my daughters, Jacki and Heather.
Heather was only four years old at the time and she knew that love heals, so she frequently gave me magic healing kisses – every morning and every night. I could also sense six-year-old Jacki’s belief in me, and in my ability to somehow come through this crisis. No other possibility was acceptable to her. In her eyes, I could always see her connection with me.
During my relaxation periods, I would visualize the tumor and imagine a layer of cancer cells dying and being released by my body’s natural elimination system. I knew the change was happening, even if it was not obvious and noticeable. Each time I released waste products from my body. I knew dead cancer cells were being eliminated. I insisted on knowing this was true.
I knew the cancer represented something held in and not expressed. With the tumor located right by my throat chakra (energy center) I also knew this meant I had been holding back the expression of my Being. Since I wasn’t exactly certain what this meant I decided it was imperative to express everything: every thought and every feeling.
Whatever was in my consciousness and wanting to come out, I expressed it, knowing it was vital for my health. Before then I had held the perception that expressing led to discord, but now I saw how what I was expressing and communicating what I was expressing was appreciated by those around me and resulted in harmony.
Another change in perception!
Before, I had had the belief that if I expressed what I really wanted to, something bad would happen. I had to reprogram that to the belief that if I expressed what I really wanted to, something wonderful would happen. I made that decision, and it was so. I found myself having less and less in common with my old friends.
It was as though we had shared a common vibrational frequency before, say 547 cycles (whatever that means), and suddenly I found myself at 872 cycles, with few things to communicate to the 547-cycle people. I had to find new friends who were also at 872 so I could have someone to talk with. I found myself attracted to the 872 crowd, and them to me, as though I had become selectively magnetic.
Certain elements of my reality were being released which were no longer in accord with the new Being I was becoming. Deep within I knew the process was inevitable and should not be interfered with. I developed a sense of compassion and understanding and knew my life depended on releasing all elements not in accord with my new vibration. The process was simple, though not always easy.
I began each day as a process of self-discovery, with no preconceived notion of who I was, but with a willingness to discover the emerging me. There was a sense of delight with each new discovery. Often I would imagine the scene in the doctor’s office after my work on myself was done. I would see him examining me and looking puzzled because he could find no tumor.
I imagined him looking baffled and saying, “Perhaps we made a mistake.”
I played this scene in my mind each day, during my relaxation periods.
About two months later I went to be examined by the very same doctor who had pronounced me terminally ill. He examined me and he found nothing. And guess what he said? “Perhaps we made a mistake.” I laughed all the way home. An unexpected but wonderful side benefit of my healing process was that I no longer needed the eyeglasses I had worn for twenty years. I used to be nearsighted and also astigmatic, but my vision changed, and my eyesight was tested as ‘normal’.
I have transformed my way of being.
My lifestyle has changed dramatically. The work I do now as a healer and teacher is meaningful to me, important to others, and of service to humanity. I feel a ‘high’ when I heal and teach and I know that I am doing my life’s work. The process of transformation is an integral part of the healing process, whether you’re healing your vision, releasing some serious illness, or if the imbalance exists on the mental or emotional level and has not yet reached the physical level.
After my healing I was seeing the world quite differently, in a figurative and a literal sense. My outer vision had been transformed along with my inner vision. Curious about this ‘side benefit’ of my healing process I also decided to research into what others were doing in the field of vision improvement. I read all the books I could find on the subject, not because I needed to find out ‘how to do it’, but rather to discover ‘how I had done it’.
I found eight books, and seven of them referred back to the eighth, which was Better Eyesight Without Glasses, by Dr. William Bates. He was a pioneer in the field, and his ideas had startled the conventional medical community back in the 1920’s. Dr. Bates presented many remarkable ideas, but the style of his book was way too technical for many people, so others like – Margaret Darst Corbett and Aldous Huxley by simplifying his ideas for the general public.
Dr. Charles Kelley of the Radix Institute in California was the first one who seemed to add new ideas, regarding the correlation of particular personality types to particular types of impaired vision. More recently, Dr. Richard Kavner, a behavioral optometrist, added some new information regarding brain/mind correlations and he achieved remarkable success through his work with children.
The constant factor in all these areas of vision improvement was the process of personal transformation – just as in my own personal experience. With the insight I gained by reading the works of those mentioned, I was able to build on their ideas, using my personal experience for additional insights.
I began talking to people about these ideas and helping them to explore the links between their own vision issues and their way of being. After a while, those I spoke to were giving me their eyeglasses, saying they no longer needed them.….I began teaching others the self-healing tools I had used sharing the insights I had gained during my own process. Some of those who came to me asked me to heal them. I was reluctant at first, feeling that each of us has the power and the ability to heal ourselves.
Some people, however, had a difficult time accepting that, or didn’t know how to generate for themselves the degree of clarity and objectivity necessary for the process. They believe more in my ability to heal them than in their ability to heal themselves. No matter how much I insisted that they could do it themselves, they held the perception that I should be the one to do it for them. If I refused, they left without being healed, and I didn’t feel good about that.
I thought if I were writing the script of this scenario. I could have done a better job, seeing an ending in which they were healed when they left, so I agreed to participate in the role of the healer in their process. As I worked with more and more people, I could see more and more the relationship between what was happening in their bodies and what was happening in their consciousness.
Gradually, a model developed which seemed to contain all the ideas I had explored, and which also reflected my experience, as well what I had seen in the healings in which I had participated. The model developed in a system of healing that I decided to call the Body Mirror System, to represent the idea that one’s body is a mirror of one’s life.
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” Emory Austin Good Day!!! Oh the truth in Emory’s statement…. how I wish it wasn’t so! But it is true – we have natural “highs” and “lows” and some days there isn’t a song in our heart. So what do we do on those days? How do we embrace life and be positive on the days when the “spark” just isn’t there? We do just as Emory suggests – we “sing anyway.” And we sing loud enough to wake up that spark. One of the things cognitive therapy reveals is that when we consistently “act as if” we “become.” Sometimes we have to force a behavior in order to do it consistently enough to internalize it. On our “down days” it is more important than ever to en-gage in behaviors that fight the negativity in our minds and the sadness in our souls. You don’t have to accept a mediocre day. You don’t have to accept a mediocre life. In fact, I en-courage you to accept nothing but the best. Sure, you will have days that start out “low.” Fight back. Sing. In any given moment you have the power to change your day. You have undoubtedly heard the quote “Fake it until you make it.” On those “low” days, shout out your affirmations. Write them over and over. Even if they don’t feel sincere, keep say-ing them. Our words have power, and they have the power to transform the mediocre into the mag-nificent.
Your Turn: Draw the rooms of your life like an architect would draw a floor plan. In each “room” write down what potential you have and how you might grow. Your Affirmation: I have the power to transform the mediocre into the magnificent. I learn their names right off the bat. Valerie and Ben are parents to twins Garrett and Alissa, both 31, as well as a younger daughter Jenna, who is 28.
We sit around the dining table together, sun streaming in from the deck, laughter ringing gaily throughout the room. You’d never know what they’ve grappled with, struggled through as a family – unless you asked.
It seems like everyone you meet today either knows someone battling cancer, is a survivor themselves, or has lost a loved one from what the American Cancer Society estimated (back in 2015) would claim the lives of about 1,600 people daily.
If you’re wondering about the numbers, it equates to approximately 590,000 deaths due to cancer. In one year. Garrett was 16 when he was diagnosed with ALL – Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. The doctors at Albany Med offered him two options. He chose the second one – which would be harder and take longer – but would also allow the medical community to study the disease, its treatment, and his recovery.
“I knew it would be better if we could bring more education and awareness to this type of cancer,” Garrett tells me. “I felt it was the least I could do – help the next person suffering from it.” Alissa, his twin sister, says she felt phantom pains all the time. “Whenever mom and dad brought Garrett to the hospital for a procedure, the wait was unbearable.
I panicked. It felt as if I was going through it with him. I’d call dad to ask if my brother had this or that done to him that day. It was like I always knew.” There was guilt, too. “I couldn’t understand why Garrett was enduring this hell while I was healthy.
It was horrible. I cried a lot, felt defenseless and alone.
What if the other half – the better half of me died? I couldn’t imagine life without him.” Garrett knew his sister felt helpless. “I needed Alissa to understand this wasn’t her fault. We sat down one day, talking for a long time. I hugged her and said she was going to have to be strong and healthy for both of us.”
Chemo, shots, IV drips, 25 different pills every Friday – it sure seemed like it would never end. It was tough for the family to carry on with normal activities, but they coped, doing the best they could under the circumstances. Thankfully, Garrett saw another birthday, then another, and yet another – growing stronger with each one. Doctors still keep a close eye on him, but cancer moves further away from his life every day.
Jenna talks softly, remembering a momentous day during December 2016. It was time to come off of her parent’s health insurance. “I was crying like a baby, complaining about how much it was going to cost. Man, I was young – I didn’t want to think about spending my hard-earned money on things like that.”
She had a long conversation with her dad, deciding it was the smart, grown-up thing to do. Securing medical coverage would help her worry less over the ‘what ifs’ in life.
Thank goodness she made that decision.
In January 2017 she was attending a press conference for her job as a sports anchor for ABC/Fox. By then, she was living and working in the Rochester area. She wasn’t feeling well and recalls being drenched in sweat. Coworkers asked if she was okay and Jenna wasn’t able to shrug it off. Her temperature was 104.
At the hospital, she was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Her team of doctors would be from The Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center. My 26th birthday didn’t start the way I expected. Instead of celebrations and cake I was met with my next challenge.
On January 25th 2017, I was diagnosed with Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma- Stage III B. I know there will be a long road ahead, with chemo treatments and intense side effects and even the possibility that I lose my hair. But I want you to know that I will not lose hope.
I have an incredible team of doctors and even more than that, I have you all, an amazing support system of friends and family. So yes, 26 didn’t start out the way I thought, but I want everyone to know I plan on making this my best year yet. I am confident but more importantly, I feel loved…truly the best blessing of all.
Thank you for all the kindness and positivity. I know in my heart we’ll get through this together. The family was in disbelief. How could this have happened again? How would they ever get through the journey of another child suffering from this terrible disease?
“Friends and family rallied around us both times,” Jenna tells me. “They brought food, lent an ear, and offered a helping hand. We were never alone.” At first, Jenna says she was angry with the news, grappling with the questions of “Why me? Why our family? Why a second time? Why Anyone?”
She’d shared a bedroom with Alissa over the years, the sisters were very close, even after she’d moved away. “It was so hard for me to watch,” Alissa says, tears brimming from her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. “Once again – I was healthy and a sibling wasn’t. Why?”
It was terrifying for Garrett as well. “I felt terrible, all-consuming guilt. Memories of my own personal journey with cancer came flooding back – I didn’t want my younger sister to suffer any of what I’d gone through. I was her big brother, yet there was nothing I could do to spare her from what I knew was ahead.”
Jenna’s journey was a tough one as well. Some days were good, others were bad. 12 rounds of treatment came wrapped up in a lot of different emotions, sickness, depression, hope. It’s an experience she wouldn’t wish on anyone. “I learned how tough I am though,” she tells me, “how strong my family is, how supportive my friends are. Cancer taught me more about the human spirit than any other experience could have.”
Over the last two hours, I feel as if I’ve opened a wound that’s only just scabbed over. I search five sets of eyes and see raw emotion. When they speak their mouths quiver. The love they have for one another is evident and very powerful.
“It’s important to talk about cancer,” one of them tells me. In the beginning, during and in the aftermath. “Cancer changes your perspective on life,” another one says, wiping tears from her face with the back of her hand. “Look,” Garrett pipes in. “You can have a bad day – you just can’t live there.”
Valerie and Ben hold hands and look at each other. “It’s been an emotional roller coaster. We’re just so grateful the kids are okay. They’re all doing well, have great jobs, keep up with doctor appointments, and are closer than ever. Most importantly, they’re living the best lives they can. We’re extremely proud of all three.”
Each one hugs me tightly as I prepare to leave – with bear hugs that don’t need a single word. Jenna points to her parents. Garrett and Alissa follow suit. “These two,” she tells me. “They’re why we’re still here. They wouldn’t let us give up or wallow in pity. Rock-solid people, our parents. We’re so lucky to have them in our corner. After lymphoma diagnosis, survivor says: ‘I learned up-close and personal how precious life is’
Since childhood, Jenna Cottrell has been a sports fan. In her early teens, she played soccer and started watching sports, activities that provided an escape for her. Back then, she had no idea this passion would turn into a career and an escape after a cancer diagnosis in her 20s.
In fall 2016, at age 25, Jenna started having headaches, fevers and fatigue, but they didn’t slow her down much. She continued life as normal — working as a sports reporter and anchor for WHAM-TV in Rochester and even meeting her boyfriend at a Halloween party.
By January, the symptoms had worsened. She had a lack of appetite, terrible night sweating and extremely uncomfortable fevers. She lost almost 15 pounds and often felt an intense fatigue she described as “tired in my bones.”
She also had some back pain, but she attributed that to carrying around a heavy camera for her job. On Jan. 13, while covering a Buffalo Bills press conference, she was sweating so profusely and looking so ill that another reporter felt the need to ask if she was OK.
She wasn’t.
She had been to the doctor already about the problem, but after that experience, she returned. A few weeks later, she learned she had stage 4 nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma.
“You know from that moment on, your life will never be the same,” she says. “It seemed almost insurmountable. I think a huge part of being diagnosed with cancer is just the mental portion of it. Physically, it’s like all right we’ve got to get through this, but mentally, sometimes it’s even more challenging.”
The week before she started treatment at Wilmot Cancer Institute, her fevers soared, reaching 105 degrees at one point. Luckily, chemotherapy brought the fever down quickly. She received chemotherapy every other week from mid-February to July.
During this time, she lost her hair, which was devastating, but her boyfriend and family were there to comfort her. Her mom even moved in with her for a little while to help. “The role of a caregiver really can’t be understated, how important they are, in every sense.”
She says.
She took about a month off from work and then started up slowly when she went back. Just the routine of waking up every morning, getting dressed, and driving in helped her feel better. She took it a little easy at work, staying near her desk instead of covering stories all around the region.
She’s grateful to her team at WHAM-TV for their support throughout her treatment, from verbal encouragement to bringing her food to helping her purchase a wig. In addition to her co-workers’ generosity, she believes the nature of her work really helped her through treatment.
“I really think sports being a part of my job is what got me through this and being able to focus on something else other than myself and what I was going through,” she says. “I love sports because it’s usually someone’s best day.”
She added the people she gets to meet really inspire her.
“Seeing somebody who has struggled or has gone through loss and then goes and plays a game and excels because they’re channeling their feelings, little things like that just make it really cool to cover,” she says. Jenna also credits her team, including Paul Barr, M.D., and Maureen Tremaine, R.N., M.S.N., who were compassionate and eased her fears with a treatment plan from the beginning, making a difficult situation a little bit better.
“You don’t want to be here, but the fact that the people here are so kind makes it that much easier,” she says. It’s been more than a year since her diagnosis, and she continues to be in remission. Having cancer has shifted her outlook. She practices yoga now and tries to live a healthier lifestyle. She also is more conscious of taking time for what matters most in life to her.
331 views Nov 24, 2021 Jenna Cottrell of 13WHAM in Rochester joins Goz to share her career journey. Topics include: Growing up in Saratoga and how a basketball game decided her college choice The importance of internships Landing a job at ESPN out of college Leaving ESPN for Elmira, NY Joining the 13WHAM team Covering the Buffalo Bills including the viral Mike Evans moment Her battle with cancer and how you can help support this holiday season Jenna Cottrell Gets To 13WHAM – YouTube
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