Will there ever be a cure for cancer?

Curing cancer is tremendously hard. Preventing cancer you can do yourself To ensure future delivery, please add the domain @news.newportnaturalhealth.com to your address book or safe sender's list. [Newport Natural Health News Alert]( [ABOUT US]( | [HEALTH SOLUTIONS]( | [HEALTH NEWS]( 10/06/2017 | by Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. [Improve your digestion with this simple trick]( Are slow digestion and constipation cramping your style? Are you tired of embarrassing gas and belly gurgles? Then I have just the solution to promote healthy, comfortable digestion AND boost your energy, super-charge your immune system, and ensure you have easy bowel movements each and every morning. End tummy troubles and discomfort, and enjoy all of your favorite foods. [Learn more now.]( ADVERTISEMENT Will there ever be a cure for cancer? Cancer is the horror movie monster. You think it’s dead—but it keeps popping back up, alive, evil, and hungry. You can keep it down, but never out. There may be a better way to beat this monster. For decades, conventional medicine has attacked disease only after it’s been diagnosed, and from the outside in. Infectious disease? Shoot in the antibiotics. Cancer? Fire up the surgery /chemo/radiation. And from the moment we knew what it was, just about everyone has been searching for—the cure. No cancer cure? Thousands of cases studied. Millions of pages of research findings. Countless stories of cancers put into remission by conventional therapies. But it’s devilishly difficult to find many that would satisfy the definition of “cured,” as in “gone forever.” Just look at the numbers. Among colorectal cancer patients, for example, 80 percent experience cancer recurrence within two years after treatment and remission. Recurrence rates differ widely from one type of cancer to another—that’s some 1,000 different types. The only safe thing to say is that remission is nowhere near a cure. It just shows the rate of success in treating cancer symptoms, not their cause. But the search to find The Cure races on. Again, look at the numbers. What are the odds we’ll find a cure for 1,000 different diseases? Cancer overdiagnosis Making the search for The Cure even more difficult are our awesome diagnostic tools, which let us watch “live,” as it were, as cells interact, and to see their components at the submicroscopic, molecular level. What do we see? Billions of interactions, unique to different cancer types. Can we ever really pin down the role of every molecule—let alone identify the one or several that are The Cure? [Crush your cholesterol, balance your blood sugar and feel amazing]( Hindu legend says these berries came from the gods. And modern research proves they weren’t too far off the mark. [Learn how this potent natural extract can help protect your heart and fuel your body with lasting, natural energy!]( ADVERTISEMENT Alternative to curing cancer Let the research roll on. I’m confident that good will come of it. But there’s something glaringly lacking in the approach, thus far. It’s got a bad case of silver-bullet syndrome. It’s hunting for the one shot that will blow this monster out of the movie—from the outside in. What’s glaringly not there is a desperately needed focus on prevention—beating the monster from the inside out. It’s not The Cure—it’s better. Because eventually, there will be no need for The Cure. Why preventing cancer is better than curing cancer There are warehouses full of evidence that our diet and our lifestyle are the key determinants of cancer. Fixing those can be more effective than some miracle drug. Indeed, some estimates project that healthy diet and lifestyle could prevent almost half of all cancers—far more than any drug currently in our arsenal. And much cheaper, too! 3 Steps to Prevent Cancer If you’re a regular reader, thank you. And if you’ve heard all this before, it doesn’t mean you can skip to the next section. This is all one section—that can keep you from getting cancer. So please do read and heed… 1. Avoid sugar Cancer cells have a wicked sweet tooth—they devour more glucose, and faster, than any other cells in the body. The German physician who figured that out, Otto Warburg, noticed in his studies in the 1920s that tumors thrive on it. A well-deserved Nobel Prize thanked him for his efforts and coined “The Warburg Effect” in recognition of his contribution. That’s how important sugar is. When you feed yourself sugar, you’re setting up a nice meal for cancer cells. Fast-forward to today. The Warburg Effect is at the heart of the single most effective test we have for the presence of a tumor, the Sugar Uptake Value (SUV). Long story made short and simple—the more sugar we find in a patient’s system, the more likely there’s a tumor. When the SUV detects an abnormal amount of sugar, a PET scan will find and measure the tumor. We then have a baseline on which to build treatment. Researchers are even now chasing down whether cancer’s sweet tooth might be the target for a future silver bullet. All by itself, getting sugar out of your diet will immediately improve your health. But the best way to help prevent or beat cancer is to starve it. Getting sugar off your menu is an essential first step. Yes, you’ll need to make some changes. I can’t tell you how many patients I’ve seen who let disease make those changes. Isn’t it much better to change your life so you never get the disease in the first place? 2. Eat healthy foods So keeping sugar and carbs, which turn to sugar in your body, out of your life is a great start. But what you do eat is just as important as what you don’t eat. That goes for what you drink. You’ll have banished high-sugar juices and sugary soft drinks already. Their healthy replacement? Water. Lots of water. An 8-ounce glass per 10 pounds of your body weight, spaced throughout the day. Most people have no idea just how critical a role water plays—even though it’s 75 percent of our bodies. Drinking water isn’t just to quench our thirst. No. Our blood, like the rest of us, is mostly water, and it can’t do its many vital jobs at peak performance levels, if the tank’s not topped up. Just like you can be under-nourished, but still function, you can be under-hydrated without realizing it. And it can really give your health a beating. In fact, when you’re under-hydrated, you’re asking to be under-nourished. How do you think all the nutrients get delivered and the waste discarded, with every bite and breath you take? Everything’s better when you stay wetter. Drink up! 3. Exercise I don’t know who first said “Use it or lose it,” but he or she really nailed it when the subject is exercise. Most of our bodies go about their business on autopilot. Our hearts beat. Our blood circulates. Our lungs breathe. Our muscles? No. If you just sit there, they do, too. And as we age, we use ‘em or lose ‘em—literally. There’s even a name for it: sarcopenia. You lose muscle mass at 3 percent to 5 percent per decade after age 30. Who wants that? So OK—doctor’s orders. You want to prevent or fight cancer? Then exercise three to five times a week. You’ll love how little it takes—“exercise” doesn't mean running a marathon or bench-pressing a refrigerator. How about just walking? Yes, that’s exercise. Begin by walking 5-15 minutes a day. Build to 20-30 minutes a day. Or get out and garden, dance, ride your bike. Take up tai chi. Take stairs instead of the elevator. Just get moving. I urge you to create a routine, rather than just putting off exercising because you “don’t feel like it.” But I challenge you to prove me wrong—the best day to get out and move is on the day that you don’t really feel like it. If you can force even a 10 minute stroll into your day, you’ll be happy that you did. I guarantee you’ll feel great when you’re done. That’s your muscles thanking you for doing the right—no—the necessary thing. I recommend doing what I do—make a five-a-week plan. It’s a great way to make exercise a habit—five exercise sessions of 30 minutes or more per week. No putting it off. A friend wants to drop by? “No, sorry, that’s my exercise time.” Need to do some shopping? Same. If you’re just beginning to exercise for the first time in a while, please start with low-impact exercises such as walking, swimming or biking. And start slow. Something is better than nothing. If you feel dizzy, faint, or in pain, of course, stop immediately and talk with your doctor. When you reach a point where your five-a-week plan is easy and barely challenging, add greater challenge—walking or swimming farther and faster, for example. What you must religiously avoid is sitting for more than an hour without any activity. That’s called being sedentary, and a hundred research papers with that word in the title tell us in no uncertain terms—that’s dangerous. Don’t call it relaxing, don’t call it being lazy. Call it what it is—a health threat. If you’re watching TV, walk around during commercials. If you sit at a desk for long periods, get up and walk around the office every hour. Even better, walk outside and get some natural vitamin D from the sun! There’s no end to the preventive measures you can take to keep cancer out of your life—from the inside out. And as an extra bonus, you’ll also be keeping every other disease out of your life. That’s taking really good care. REFERENCES “Cancer survival rate: What it means for your prognosis.”Mayo Clinic. Published April 15, 2014. Last accessed September4, 2017. Pesman, Curtis. “What Five years Really Means” Cure.Published March 16, 2007. Last accessed September 4, 2017. Parikh, Ravi. “Why we need to redefine the ‘cure’ for cancer” Vox. Published February 4, 2017. Last accessed September 4, 2017. Kehr, Webster. “Chapter 4: Remission, cure rates and other deceptions.” Cancer Tutor. Published June 14, 2017. Last accessed September 4, 2017. Did a friend forward this to you? Get your own copy of Dr. Connealy's Health News [here](. Or [forward this email to a friend]( so they can sign up to receive their own copy of the NNH Letter. 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