A Revolution in Cancer Treatment Based on Using
Immunotherapy
Published on April 15, 2016 / Dr. Mark Sircus
http://drsircus.com/light-heat/a-revolution-in-cancer-treatment-based-on-using-immunotherapy/
Iodine
Iodine is a case in point.
The body’s ability to resist infection and disease is hindered by long-term
deficiency in essential vitamins and minerals. Importantly poor immune
response is correlated with impaired thyroid function; a deficiency in iodine
can greatly affect the immune system primarily because low levels of iodine
lead to problems with the thyroid gland.
In sufficient amounts iodine
can not only adjust a dysfunctional thyroid, it can assist with a host of
glandular imbalances as well as kill a wide assortment of internal as well as
external bacteria, fungi, and virus’s. Iodine has many non-endocrine biologic
effects, including the role it plays in the physiology of the inflammatory
response. Iodides increase the movement of granulocytes into areas of
inflammation and improve the phagocytosis of bacteria by granulocytes and the
ability of granulocytes to kill bacteria.[1]
“At 6 grams daily (which is 6
million micrograms/day or 6,000 milligrams/day!), a much higher dose, iodine
has been used to cure syphilis, skin lesions, and chronic lung disease,” says Dr. Gabriel Cousens.
“From a larger physiological perspective, it is important to realize that the
thyroid is only one gland of many glands and tissues that needs iodine. Other
glands/organs/systems with high iodine uptake are the breasts, ovaries, cervix,
blood, lymph, bones, gastric mucosal, salivary, adrenal, prostate, colon,
thymus, lungs, bladder, kidney, and skin. Iodine is found and used in every
hormonal receptor in the body,” he states.
Raising
Core Body Temperature
The easiest, safest and most
effective way of increasing immune system response is to increase body
temperature with infrared therapy. 98.6°
F is the natural operating temperature for most people. Immune system function, vitality and metabolism
decrease with temperature loss about 50-70%. The lack of warmth often
appears with cold hands and feet, but also with the chronic cold illnesses:
Depressions, Burnout, tiredness, arthrosis, impotence, Parkinson’s, MS and
dementia as well as many other diseases. Cancer tumors grow faster when the
body temperature is low. Low body temperature
invites cancer because of the lowered ability of the immune system to clear the
body of cancer cells.
The National Cancer
Institute says, “Hyperthermia (also called thermal therapy
or thermotherapy) is a type of cancer treatment in which body tissue is exposed
to high temperatures. Research has shown that high
temperatures can damage and kill cancer cells, usually with minimal injury to normal
tissues. Many studies have shown a significant reduction in tumor size when
hyperthermia is combined with other treatments.”
The American Cancer
Society says, “Hyperthermia refers to heat
treatment—the carefully controlled use of heat for medical purposes. When cells
in the body are exposed to higher-than-normal temperatures, changes take place
inside the cells. These changes can make the cells more likely to be affected
by radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Very high temperatures can kill
cancer cells outright.”
Selenium
Selenium is a potent immune stimulator. An
18-month study of 262 patients with AIDS that found those who took a daily
capsule containing 200 micrograms of selenium ended up with lower levels of the
AIDS virus and more health-giving CD4 immune system cells in their bloodstreams
than those taking a dummy pill. These AIDS patients who took selenium were able
to suppress the deadly virus in their bodies and boost their fragile immune
systems.
Selenium-deficient
lymphocytes are less able to proliferate in response to mitogen, and in
macrophages, leukotriene B4 synthesis, which is essential for neutrophil
chemotaxis, is impaired by this deficiency. These processes can be improved by
selenium supplementation, especially when using Dr. Emanuel Revici’s type
of selenium.
Dr. Revici’s greatest
discovery was that if we want to deliver a nutrient to a sick cell – attach it
to a fat. Unsaturated fats are the ultimate and perfect vehicle to
deliver nutrients to stressed cells. This discovery enabled Dr. Revici to
package therapeutic minerals, at will, to delivery only to sick cells. This
gave him a huge advantage as a therapy developer – especially with selenium.
Revici used a special molecular form of
selenium (bivalent-negative selenium) incorporated
in a molecule of fatty acid. In this form, he can administer up to 1 gram of
selenium per day, which corresponds to 1 million micrograms per day, reportedly
with no toxic side effects. In contrast, too much selenite (hexavalent-positive
selenium) has toxic effects on animals, so human intake of commercial selenite
is limited to a dosage of only 100 to 150 micrograms by mouth. Dr. Revici often
administered his nontoxic form of selenium by injection, usually considered to
be four times more powerful than the form given orally.
Fasting Will Switch on the Immune System
A person’s entire immune
system can be rejuvenated by fasting for as little as three days as it triggers
the body to start producing new white blood cells, a study suggests. Fasting
for as little as three days can regenerate the entire immune system, even in
the elderly, scientists have found in a breakthrough described as
"remarkable." Although fasting diets have been criticized by
nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body
kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off
infection.
Dr. Valter Longo, a professor
of biological sciences at the University of Southern California. One of Longo’s
recent experiments
involved a small group of people who fasted for five consecutive days once a
month, three months in a row. Among the study participants, markers of cell
regeneration increased, while risk factors for diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular
disease, and aging all dropped, he says.
Dr. Luigi Fontana, a
professor of nutritional science at Washington University in St. Louis and
Italy’s University of Brescia says when you go long periods without food, the
resulting metabolic changes appear to stimulate “autophagy,” or a natural
cleaning out of your body’s damaged cells. “Cells start to eat dysfunctional
proteins, organelles, and mitochondria, and this kind of cleaning of garbage
and regeneration may be very beneficial,” he explains.
Juice fasting has been a favorite of many
to pack in super nutrition while in fasting mode. A new way of doing this is
with liquefied seeds. Obviously, the immune
system will respond to heightening the intake of nutrition especially when done
with foods that are easy to digest, which they are when administered in liquid
form.
Conclusion
The
immune system is extremely vulnerable to stress, emotional and mental upset, as it is to
changes in the environment, to radiation, chemical and heavy metal exposure, as
well as to cold and damp. However, it is our inner levels of emotional and
mental conflicts that inflicts constant damage and challenges to our immune
system. Thus changes in breathing, for
instance, can have interesting positive consequences on immune function because
such changes help us calm and center ourselves bringing harmony and balance
back to our inner worlds. Meditation, prayer and the use of affirmations is
also helpful as well as getting in touch with the vulnerable feelings hidden in the heart.