“Chemotherapy is so hard on a person.”
-Melissa Etheridge, Singer/Songwriter

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Late in 2004, then 43 year old singer/songwriter and Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge discovered a lump in her breast she swore wasn’t there the day before.

Immediately, she underwent surgery to remove the lump and it was determined she had stage 2 cancer and would need to undergo chemotherapy.

In an interview on Dateline NBC, Melissa shared:

“It’s the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you’ve ever, ever been.”

I know firsthand how devastating it is to hear the word cancer. Hearing it out loud is like getting punched in the stomach.

A diagnosis of a close friend or loved one will cause the same horrific reaction as a personal diagnosis.

The standard treatment for cancer is a toxic cocktail of chemicals (that’s why they call it “chemotherapy”) intravenously administered into the body like agent orange, quickly destroying every rapidly-growing cell, cancerous or not. This is why patients have such horrible side-effects, the least of which is all their hair falls out.

I think it is horrific that modern medical science continues to ignore natural breakthroughs in treating cancer. Did you know that your amazing body can cure cancer by itself? It is true.

I am living proof that no one needs to put their body through the chemical warfare of chemotherapy to beat cancer once and for all. No one. Including you.

Chris Beat Cancer – Without Chemotherapy

In 2003, Christopher Wark, 26 years young from Memphis, TN was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. After having a third of his colon removed, his doctor told him he would need to endure 6-9 months of intensive chemotherapy in order to stop the cancer from spreading to his lymphatic system – or die.

While Chris was home recovering from surgery, he began researching other options and realized he didn’t have to go the chemotherapy route. Instead, he rebuked his doctors and began to change his life and his body from the inside out.

“The whole idea of poisoning your way back to health just didn’t sit right with me, it didn’t make sense,” said Chris in a recent Fox News interview.

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Did You Know Your Brain Shrinks With Age?

Scary, isn’t it? Comprehension, memory and reasoning actually begin to decline at the age of 45 – considerably earlier than previous studies where declining brain capacity began at 60.

Brain shrinkage increases even more when associated with smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and obesity, according to a recent study at the University of California-Davis.

I discovered a virtual Fountain of Youth recently in my research – a key to reversing the effects of aging on our brains and slowing brain shrinkage. In fact, this secret “Miracle-Gro®” ingredient is already produced inside your body!

It’s called BDNF, Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor. BDNF is a versatile protein linked to brain cell survival and rejuvenation.

Ground-breaking research from UC San Diego has shown the protein BDNF impacting memory circuits in the brain and preventing disease at the cellular level. It appeared to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s Disease in mice and monkeys!

BDNF enhancement also was shown to have beneficial effects on Parkinson’s Disease, high-blood pressure and disorders of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

How Can I Increase My BDNF Levels?

One simple and inexpensive way to increase BDNF in your brain is to start each day with 20 minutes of aerobics or brisk walking. Just 20 minutes increases your alertness, lowers your stress and wakes up your brain! If you want to increase your BDNF levels even more, sprint for 1 minute, then walk for 2. Keep doing this for 30-45 minutes. In studies, this has shown to increase BDNF levels by 20% or more compared to non-sprinters.

Watch this CBS News report highlighting new research in neuroscience demonstrating how exercise makes kids smarter. The real-world study showed that kids who exercised before class had double the improvement compared to kids who exercised afterwards. Exercise enhances brain plasticity and promotes the growth of new brain cells.

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Even though we think we can eat whatever we want, our body has to deal with every choice we make. Choosing what foods we put into our body can upset a delicate balance between war and peace – between health and disease.

Without sufficient probiotics, the body is vulnerable to obesity, suppressed immune response and even cancer. Intestinal bacterial composition is a huge component when fighting these health problems – even more important than dieting, exercising and genetic makeup.

In her book, The Alchemy of Nourishment, Esther Cohen states that our digestive tract, specifically the intestines, provide home for 70% of our immune system. These bacteria provide immunity we don’t have to work for – they work for us.

Probiotics are the soldiers on the front line of the battle for our health, protecting us and constantly guarding against unhealthy bacteria and pathogens invading our body. We just need to provide them with the right environment to keep them nourished.

When we go out of our way to take extra probiotics, we actively become resilient and improve our ability to adapt to any disease invasion.

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Transform your life with ENZYMES!

Researchers estimate that up to 30% of Americans suffer from an affliction known as Leaky Gut Syndrome (just the phrase causes my stomach to turn a little), and as much as 90% of all chronic symptoms and chronic conditions are linked to it.

Leaky Gut almost always goes undiagnosed. Ailments like arthritis, diabetes, asthma, chronic fatigue, inability to lose weight are all related in part with poor or declining gut health.

Could this be happening inside of you without you even knowing about it?

There is simple remedy for Leaky Gut and the myriad of ailments it causes. Read on for the closest thing we’ve found to the discovery of the Fountain of Youth, that could just possibly heal your entire digestive tract!

Enzymes are the Building Blocks of Life

Enzymes are the building blocks of life itself. They help us to see, hear, feel, move, digest, think and heal. Enzymes assist the body in breaking down food, providing the body with life-giving fuel.

Secreted by the pancreas, production of these vital enzymes decline as we age, diminishing the ability of our digestive tract to break down and extract nutrients from the food we eat.

Traditional Chinese Medicine teaches that lack of stomach chi (energy), leads to increased disease, fatigue and aging. Without enzymes, a person’s stomach chi becomes dangerously low.

As you might suspect, processed foods are devoid of life-giving enzymes. This is one of the reasons why I rail against the Standard American Diet of fast-food and sugary sodas! Adding enzymes to your diet every day allows you to nourish your digestive system and avoid chronic conditions associated with leaky gut.

Dr. Edward Howell pioneered the use of plant-based enzymes to prevent disease, teaching science that all disease (including the dreaded Leaky Gut Syndrome) is nothing more than the lack or imbalance of enzymes.

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Old adage from the world of Natural Healing:

“Disease loves obesity; it gives it a place to breed.”

Did you watch 60 Minutes this past Sunday night with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reporting on “Is Sugar Toxic“? In a classic piece of damning investigation, Dr. Gupta slammed “Big Sugar” for most of the ills that plague modern mankind.

Just what does sugar do?

• It fuels obesity, the biggest epidemic worldwide and particularly here in America right now.
• It fuels cardiovascular disease, perhaps more so than fatty foods
• But worst of all, IT FUELS CANCER!

Several cancers are linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle of little or no exercise. Cancer reports rose every year from 1999 through 2008, even with improved screening and a sharp decline in cigarette smokers.

Rates of cancers of the kidney, pancreas, lower esophagus and uterus have increased annually through 2008 (the latest data available) according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.

Breast cancer in women at least 50 years old declined marginally by 1.3% annually from 1999 to 2005, but suddenly jumped between 2006 and 2008. (I think this can be attributed to an overload of consuming cancer-causing melted cheese pizzas and Starbucks Frappucinos loaded with sugar, milk and whipped cream.)

These grim statistics add to a fast-growing body of evidence that obesity raises the risk of cancer. As many as one-third of common cancers in the industrialized world are linked directly to excess weight and a chronic lack of physical activity, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Obesity rates have skyrocketed in the U.S. According to Center for Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 68.8% of the entire US population overweight or worse, obese. This is where the cancers associated with eating and weight gain are breeding like wild-fire, such as Breast and Colorectal cancer, as well as less common ones, such as Pancreatic cancer, which is what killed Steve Jobs of Apple.

Excess weight can also decrease the chance of survival once a patient is diagnosed with cancer. The burden is “pretty substantial”, says Dr Marcus Plescia, Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the CDC.
The evidence of a casual link with cancer is far clearer with excess weight and lack of physical activity, than with diet says Dr Plescia.

“People might think they can do themselves the most good by taking a vitamin pill, when actually what they need to do, to do the most good, is to be far more physically active and control their weight,” said June Steens, head of the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The rising rates contrast with the progress made in recent years against major killers such as Lung cancer, scientists say. While tobacco use has plummeted since the 1960’s, Obesity has soared, with no tailing off in sight, or projected.

What does this hold for the future? It’s grim, to say the least.

Thirty years ago, Dr Sook Kim, the wonderful old Korean doctor who mentored me during my own personal fight with cancer, was saying the same thing as June Steens:

“Exercise is the best vitamin pill you can take. And God gives it to you for free!”

When I was at her cancer-clinic in South Korea, I never saw a single fat person in all my time there. Even the workers and caregivers were all as skinny as a garden rake.
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