The “War Metaphor” for Cancer Treatment
During World War II, the allies bombed Germany mercilessly, hoping to destroy as many of the essential targets as possible: factories, munitions depots, train stations, airfields, docks, and the like. True, at times, the goal was merely to break the will of the population, and thus hasten surrender, but in general, they did not try to kill a maximum number of people, for they knew that there were also good people in Germany: those who themselves hated Hitler, and who would be able to contribute to the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and to the installation of a peaceful, democratic system. Nonetheless, we killed about 600,000 German civilians during those bombings. “Peripheral damage” that, though lamentable, was inevitable in order to achieve our strategic goals – such was our reasoning.
The methods of “standard medicine” when dealing with cancer is highly reminiscent of just this sort of strategy:
The patient is the “victim” of “evil cancer cells”, which must be “eliminated” at all cost. Therefore, we will bombard his body with extremely powerful, poisonous drugs (chemotherapy) or radiation. Unfortunately, these techniques will also kill off a great number of good, healthy cells. But hopefully, we will manage to kill all the “bad cells” before killing too many good cells, which would lead to the death of the patient.
Is it a coincidence that chemotherapy began to be used in the 1940s, the decade that brought us World War II? I think not. The reigning paradigm at that time was one of “us against them” – enemies exist, and we must try to eradicate them. In our bodies, the “enemies” were the cancer cells, which we then began to bombard with drugs.
With many illnesses, just such an approach can and does work. Using penicillin in the treatment of many sicknesses works by killing off the invading bacteria or parasites that have entered our bodies from without. However, cancer is different: it is not a contagious disease, but one that comes about possibly due to gene mutations, and almost certainly a greatly weakened immune system. Therefore, our approach towards healing it should be quite different.
If your immune system is already weak – most likely due to your previous diet, lifestyle, or yes, certain genetic mutations (that could well have been brought about by psychological factors: see the ground-breaking work of Dr. Bruce Lipton) – then the very last thing you need is a “treatment” that will further weaken your immune system immeasurably, thus causing a whole array of negative side effects, and even secondary forms of cancer. Instead, you need to do anything and everything that will strengthen your immune system, and avoid/give up anything and everything that could further weaken your immune system.
Note: I am not saying you should not use chemotherapy under any circumstances: that is for you to decide. But before you make that decision, do not be foolish and simply follow the recommendations of doctors (doctors who stand to make a lot of money should you decide to go the chemo route).
Instead, before you choose chemo, wait a couple of months, and during that time, dedicate yourself totally to ridding yourself of cancer by adopting the healthiest diet possible (high-alkaline, sugar- and meat-free); by exercising; by raising your pH level through drinking several glasses of baking soda water daily; by doing a selfevaluation of your mental/emotional state, and incorporating self-suggestion exercises into your daily routine, in order to lift your spirits, and fortify your resolve to live. After these two months, get another medical checkup, to see whether the cancer has worsened, or… whether it has regressed, and perhaps even largely disappeared.
In other words, instead of blindly accepting the paradigm of “we’ve got to kill those cancer cells by bombarding them with poisons”, you should concentrate on eliminating them by focusing on optimal health, and should do anything and everything you can to promote excellent health.
It is my opinion that the day will come when people, reading about the history of medicine, shall ponder with horror the use of chemotherapy. Just as we are disgusted today when we read about doctors doing lobotomies (cutting out part of the patient’s brain to “correct” mental disorders − a technique employed wantonly during the 1950s), fifty years from now, we will be equally horrified when we read of doctors poisoning patients’ bodies by injecting them with powerful drugs that almost no doubt hasten the deaths of many patients instead of curing them. As we all know, even in cases where chemo treatment does seem to rid the body of the cancer cells, it is quite common for cancer to return later. And this should not surprise us at all, for if the patient, thinking he is “cured”, then returns to his previous, unhealthy diet/lifestyle, it is only natural that cancer once again develops.
Remember: First and foremost, it is about strengthening your immune system, and improving your thought/ emotion/ belief patterns (i.e., your mind). Do this, and you will be greatly increasing the odds that you, like a growing number of others, will be able to restore your health, and will never have to worry about cancer again.