Surviving Cancer on Rachel Ray: Suzanne Somers Speaks Out On Alternative Approaches to Cancer
Suzanne Somers recently appeared on The Rachel Ray Show to discuss her new book, “Knockout,” which examines alternative approaches to the treatment of cancer. Somers’ book was inspired by her personal experiences as she had what many think was a close-call with cancer but was actually a close-call with the medical establishment. Consider Suzanne Somers experience and compare it with that of millions of others in the United States. Then, look into some of the alternative perspectives provided at the end of this article.
Somers was diagnosed with cancer and told she would have to immediately start full-body chemotherapy. After her decision that she’d rather die than undergo the horrors of chemo, she discovered that she didn’t have cancer after all, but rather a fungus. Somers’ detractors – including Rachel Ray to a small degree – warn that celebrities speaking out on medical issues could be dangerous and lead people away from the “medical help they need.” But Somers’ personal story is actually evidence that she could indeed be saving people from a far greater risk in modern, commercialized health care.
Cancer is indeed a frightening word and a scary subject. It is understandable that a culture of people trained to fear a word and seek “expert” assistance would blindly follow any advice given to them by a qualified physician. After all, they’re the experts, aren’t they? Or are they? In my opinion, an expert is someone who is very good at something – not someone holding a piece of paper stating they are legally qualified to do a certain kind of business in a particular country. I’m not bashing doctors; but humans were doing just fine before corporate medicine came along to save them from themselves.
And medicine doesn’t exactly have a stellar record for knowing what they’re talking about – as in Suzanne Somers case, where they almost rushed her into chemotherapy when she didn’t even have cancer. What’s the big deal about chemotherapy? Have you ever seen someone who’s gone through chemotherapy? Of course, the medical establishment has led us to believe that cancer is a death sentence – unless they can save us with drugs, radiation or surgery – and they’ll say that the patient who undergoes chemotherapy and dies would have died anyway. But there is no way to determine that the patient didn’t die, or die quicker, because of the devastating effects of the toxins used in chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy for cancer treatment was stumbled upon after people exposed to Mustard Gas (a chemical warfare agent) during a military operation in World War II were found to have decreased numbers of white blood cells. Medical science reasoned that, if toxins like mustard gas could decrease the number of white blood cells, it might also decrease the number of other rapidly dividing cells. Since then, despite mixed results, medical science has experimented on humans with several other toxic chemicals; completely ignoring the one constant throughout all of medical history – a certain percentage of people are going to respond positively no matter what you do to them as long as they believe it will help. In other words, though a cancer survivor may be convinced that chemotherapy saved their life, there is no way to definitively determine that the survivor did not save their own life despite the chemical assault on their body.
Most doctors are good people who truly want to help. But most doctors – the classic “4-out-of-5 doctors” who recommend or agree on this drug or that toothpaste or mouthwash – simply believe what they paid someone to tell them in medical school. Like most people, they know what they know and believe that their thoughts and beliefs are somehow more “right” than someone else’s. With Western allopathic medicine being one of the leading killers of Americans, it is never safe to assume – under any circumstances – that someone knows more about your body than your body does. No matter how frightened you are, how much you’re paying someone or what route to healing you choose, your body is the only thing that can save you. As ancient wisdom tells us, “The physician treats the wound; but the body heals.” No one outside of you can heal what’s inside of you – no matter how “qualified” they are. As for the “4-out-of-5,” do you really think 80% of any group is right? Do you really think enlightenment is that common? Do you really think that medicine would be in such a terrible state if it were?
Your choice of approaches is completely up to you; and I’m not suggesting that any of them is any better or worse – for you – than any other approach. What is dangerous is the idea that 8-years of school can give a person magical powers or insight. It is this Belief that has led people to blindly hand over their fate to the highest bidder – even though the establishment they trust fails more often than it succeeds. Suzanne Somers is just as qualified to speak out about this as anyone. She witnessed firsthand how medical opinions almost caused her great suffering and could have even killed her had she not trusted her body and taken the initiative to discover that those “qualified” opinions were wrong.
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer’s opinion of chemotherapy is that there should be “a special monument in hell erected to the inventors of chemotherapy.” This is, perhaps, a bit harsh but this doctor’s qualified opinion is clearly not with the “4-out-of-5.” Emotions aside, I believe that we should all seek out the “5th doctor” and listen to what he has to say. If you have cancer, you may be interested in what Dr. Hamer has to say in this free pdf on the German New Medicine: http://www.pilhar.com/News/Presentation_E.pdf . To hear Dr. David Holt speak about Dr. Hamer’s New Medicine as it applies not only to cancer, but to ALL disease processes, check out these two videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPb-rGRBjJs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_DwhHrKoQ .
Dr. Hamer’s views make a lot of sense; and I have personal experience successfully helping clients treat disease with this approach. But Dr. Hamer’s views are not popular with a medical community that believes they will lose a great deal of money if people learn to heal disease from the inside out. Hopefully the medical community will remember that the word, “doctor,” comes from the Latin, “docteo,” which means, “I teach.” There will always be a place for teachers of health; but, if we’re lucky, the days of these teachers pushing dangerous chemicals as cures are coming to an end. Let’s hope today’s doctors learn to put aside their financial fears and step back into their roles as teachers rather than pill dispensers.
Dr. Joseph Mercola is yet another qualified physician skeptical of pharmaceutical-based approaches to health care and even critical of the machine that is modern medicine. His support of a variety of alternatives to conventional medicine hasn’t won him a lot of friends in the Western medical community, but his site: www.DrMercola.com is a valuable resource for anyone seeking alternative approaches to health care. One of the techniques Dr. Mercola promotes and supports is the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) which is a safe, non-invasive technique that has been used successfully with an incredibly wide range of emotional, psychological and even medical conditions. Check out the official EFT website at: www.EmoFree.com and download your Free guide to using EFT at: www.ExploreExpandEvolve.com/free_download.
Dr. William Kelley is another one of the “1-out-of-5 Doctors” who didn’t simply keep preaching and selling what he was told to be the truth. Dr. Kelley’s Counter Perspective on cancer and chemotherapy can be found here: http://www.drkelley.info/index.php?section=Dangers+of+Chemotherapy along with his personal story of how he cured himself from “incurable” pancreatic cancer. There are many such individuals in the world – most cultures have never used chemotherapy or viewed the body and its disease processes as “enemies.” Give yourself a broad perspective and consider the economic machine being used to give Westerners their current set of beliefs and fears of cancer and other disease processes. Then, make a conscious decision about your health. No matter which direction you choose, you should be able to find caring, “qualified” people to help you with your process.
Visit Suzanne Somers’ site at: http://www.suzannesomers.com/Knockout to learn more about her new book.
The Cookie Diet: Why Not; And What’s Next?
Surprise, surprise – a new diet! Cookies and weight loss? I’m certainly not knocking it; after all, I did write an article called, “The Dunkin’ Donuts Diet.” Can you lose weight eating cookies? Of course you can. Do diet plans really work? Of course they do. Every diet plan works for some people; but no diet plan works for everyone. And that should tell you something about the true nature of weight loss. Not surprisingly, experts have said that the cookie diet is another bad idea. But, honestly, what do experts really know about anything? Just like the rest of us, they know what they’ve been told – and a very small percentage of that is even remotely close to the truth. If experts knew so much, they would have already solved all of our problems, now wouldn’t they?
Experts shun the cookie diet because it is lacking in fresh produce, etc. Pay attention, experts: There are many places in the world that lack fresh produce and always have. Humans are famous for adapting; we can eat anything and thrive. As long as the Earth has been populated by humans, we’ve been putting things in our mouths to determine if we like the experience or not – not to determine if it is a part of a well-balanced diet. Humans are survivors. Humans are vehicles for experience. “Experts,” on the other hand, are people who paid good money for answers and cling tightly to the information they were given – if they didn’t, it wouldn’t be valuable. Every diet plan is created by some kind of expert; and every diet plan is opposed by some other kind of expert. Experts are a dime-a-dozen. Don’t you wish cookies were as affordable?
There is a simple truth about life and all diets seem to ignore it. Life is for living – not for worrying about what you’re eating. Imagine ancient humans who were happy to find anything to eat – not neurotic about eating enough servings of this or that. Think about animals, for example. Cows are made of meat, bone, muscle, fat, etc – just like humans. Yet cows make those delicious steaks out of grass and water, air and sunshine. Elephants and Gorillas are very similar; they are very large and are vegetarians. And look at dogs; they’ll eat whatever you give them. It’s pretty easy to find those elements in practically anything we eat. How our bodies shape those elements, however, is a matter of psychology. Interestingly, dogs typically won’t be overweight unless their owner is. Hmmm… Humans are made primarily of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon; and we’re formed around some energetic or informational design. We’re made of the same basic elements of most every living thing; but we take on a different shape. I submit to you that our shape is not so much determined by what we take in as what we take in is determined by our shape – psychologically, that is. In other words, it’s not what we’re eating, it’s what’s eating us that makes us fat.
Stressful thoughts and beliefs cause the release of stress hormones that slow our digestion and convert undigested food into fat for storage. Coincidentally, stressful thoughts create uncomfortable feelings most of us soothe by eating food for distraction. Medicine is famous for interchangeably using the concepts of “causation” and “correlation.” Food isn’t causing us to be fat; stress causes us to eat AND it also causes our bodies to produce fat. Stress is the enemy – not food. This is the reason diets are famous for not working. All diets will cause the body to burn off some excess fat; but, if there is no change in our thoughts and beliefs, our body will take the first opportunity to restore the status quo – with a little extra protection this time. Ancient scholars, philosophers and holy men alike, told us that we are the products of our thoughts and that the health of our bodies is determined by the health of our mind and thoughts. Learning to be happy is essential to good health.
So eat those cookies. Eat donuts. Eat whatever you want. But first, get a life and get a grip on your thoughts and emotions. If you do, you’ll find you don’t have as much time or desire to eat. But, if you don’t get a grip on your mental life, you’ll probably find that you have a knack for turning even diet food into fat. A cookie diet? Why not? It certainly isn’t any more or less ridiculous than any other diet plan. But, whether you believe it or not, what you do with your mind, thoughts and life will determine if and how long you maintain any success or results you may experience. The cookie diet will work if you believe it will and allow it to. But no diet will work if you don’t change your mind and thoughts — the mind and thoughts that created the stress that created the fat in the first place. And that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
Splenda Makes You Fat? Don’t Be Surprised…
According to a study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, consuming Splenda decreases intestinal flora and causes weight gain. Don’t be surprised; most diet substitutes, supplements, remedies, plans, programs and other “miracle” solutions that sound too good to be true simply aren’t true. Users of these products typically react to these kinds of revelations with shock and anger — defending their new favorite products by parroting the same marketing material that convinced them to buy it in the first place. But it shouldn’t be too difficult to believe that corporate America will never out-smart or out-perform Mother Nature.
Your body is a miracle; making chemicals that taste enough like “real” food to trick the average person is a cheap magic trick. Your body knows what to do with naturally occurring foods — even cane sugar. Your body does not, however, treat artificial products like the real, or natural, product just because your taste buds are tricked. Weight loss and healthy weigh maintenance are not a matter of tricking your tongue; and it really isn’t about limiting yourself, either. True, healthy living starts in your mind and is expressed through your body. A person who is not stressed out all the time will simply not spend their time “self-medicating” with junk food. And a body that isn’t stressed will process food more effectively, as well — assimilating what it needs and eliminating the rest. Though this may not be the most popular line of reasoning among corporate America — the people who feed you taste-bud-tricking-toxins to make a buck — but it is nonetheless true. Your body knows what to do if you let it. That’s always been the case; and no chemist will ever outsmart the Maker of YOU.
So do yourself a favor: Eat real food; eat what you want; eat when you want; and work on eliminating the stress in your life and thoughts. We all know people who eat like birds and exercise like fanatics but can’t seem to lose weight or create a “healthy” appearance. Likewise, we all know people who eat whatever they want, whenever they want, but never gain an ounce. Have you ever considered that the person who eats like a bird is constantly worried and stressed about things — including their body, appearance, weight, and what the food they eat will do to their body? Don’t worry, if you get a handle on the stress in your life, you won’t naturally default to eating as a distraction or a form of self-soothing. Stress management — not sugar substitutes — is the key to a healthy life and to making any weight-loss program produce lasting results.
HCG Diet Dangers: Is Using HCG Worth The Risks?
Many people, when hearing of a “new magic-bullet,” don’t want to hear anything other than how it can help them and where they can obtain their new-found cure or miracle. The emotional turmoil of struggling with weight-issues blinds many people to the obvious fallacies propagated by those selling the new cure, as well as the many risks associated with invasive attempts to alter their appearance. If you want to take a risk with a new diet remedy, that’s your decision; but there are at least two-things you should know about hCG first: For starters, it’s not new; and, it’s never been conclusively shown or proven to cause or increase weight-loss – not even by the guy who suggested this “new” method of dieting over 50-years ago.
Mind-Body Health: “Terrain Is Everything”
I do a lot of speaking and writing on the subject of natural health and medicine. Why? Because I care about humanity; and I’m appalled at the way my fellow-humans are treated like herd-animals by the medical establishment. Yet, my message often seems to fall on deaf ears. I believe there are two-reasons for this. First, when anyone starts speaking about medicine, or health care, most people think they aren’t smart enough to listen and benefit; and, second, those who do think they’re smart enough to listen to such information already think they know what is and what isn’t true, correct, real, possible, or accurate. In other words, the people I most want to help don’t think they’re smart enough to take responsibility for their own health; and the doctors who could easily grasp what I’m saying have no reason to try – because their businesses would in no way benefit from a comprehensive, public understanding of how the body actually works. There is a big difference in being in the public health care business and caring about public health. But what if someone told you that modern medicine has inherent, fatal flaws – and most of what your doctor “knows” about how the human body operates is simply wrong?
Cancer Alternatives: 5-Things You Should Consider Before Undergoing Chemotherapy
Since the 1960’s, chemotherapy has been the primary treatment for cancer in the United States – despite questionable benefits and the terrible suffering it causes patients who are already experiencing a major health challenge. But would you believe that the only real reason chemotherapy is still around is because consumers are simply conditioned to blindly follow authority without asking their own questions. Furthermore, the undue fear that has been associated with cancer immediately puts most people into a state of shock – in which they will acquiesce to anyone who offers to help them. Well, here are 5-things you should consider before simply going along with convention and subjecting yourself to a treatment most doctors wouldn’t even use:
All Medicine Is Alternative Medicine; Some Approaches Are Just More Dangerous Than Others
If you have been living in America over the past 40-years, you have seen an interesting thing happen with medicine – it’s not about healing patients anymore. Medicine in the U.S. is completely a profit-driven affair with Insurance Companies, Pharmaceutical Companies, and Medical Establishments cutting the pie up in three-big slices – and you and I don’t get any! Unless you grew up in a rather enlightened environment, you –like me – have probably always thought that there is only one kind of “Real” medicine and everything else is simply some sort of sham that couldn’t really work because it’s just not scientific enough. Well, “modern” medicine is not all it’s cracked up to be – with high prices, dangerous and unpleasant side-effects, and marginal success. You have always had a number of alternatives for healing; and Western, corporate, pharmaceutical, allopathic, conventional medicine is only one of those alternatives – perhaps the least effective and most dangerous alternative of all.
Cancer Treatments: Is Chemotherapy Safe, Necessary, or Worthwhile?
Have you ever seen someone undergo chemotherapy? It is horrific. But the worst thing about it is that there is really no point in enduring all that suffering. Though chemotherapy has been the main treatment for cancer in the U.S. since the 1960’s, recent studies have shown that there may be no benefit at all to justify the misery caused by the chemotherapy. Studies show that about half of all cancer patients receive chemotherapy; and it helps only about 5% of those patients. In other words, all the facts on chemotherapy are in; and they suggest that you should seriously consider your alternatives.
What You Don’t Know About Alternative Medicine Could Kill You
Believe it or not, what you don’t know about alternative medicine could cost you your life. Conventional Western allopathic medicine has been revealed to be one of the leading killers of Americans – when everything goes as it should – and alternative approaches to medical problems and complaints are becoming more and more common. But some people still don’t know about some of the safe, easy, effective, and even free alternatives that could quickly eliminate many common medical problems for which the “traditional,” pharmaceutical or surgical treatment could prove fatal. Don’t you want to know your alternatives before you make a choice that could cost you your life?
EFT Is Good For What Ails You: Try It On Everything!
The Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT, is a form of “psychological acupressure” being used all over the world by physicians and laymen alike to help them – and their clients – overcome issues, fears, phobias, grief, and other emotional problems, as well a growing number of physical or medical problems. EFT is quick, safe, simple, easy-to-learn, easier-to-use, highly effective, and essentially free to the world; and best of all it can be used on anything! Though EFT may not always work on everything, it works often enough to make a smart person ask, “Why not try it on everything first?”
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The Belief Formula
