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I'm the least stressed person that I apcan think of. I don't dwell on what ifs. It's totally pointless. In fact, I even look at the positives as I battle this disease. My hair may thin (think it is doing it now) hopefully these bushy curls won't be so bushy!!
My cancer is not genetic. I'm otherwise healthy at 56. I don't have any condition that requires regular meds, other than my chemo now. My BMI is absolutely spot on. I exercise regularly and eat healthy.
My oncologist said I'm just unlucky.
I call BS on the premise of this thread.
Of course it's bad luck--I don't know anyone who gets it and thinks hallelujah. LOL. Try this one on for possible connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QWXvNFWrc Then try blaming the victims.
Of course it's bad luck--I don't know anyone who gets it and thinks hallelujah.
Yet as evidenced by this thread, many people believe that what brings cancer on is negative emotions, lack of exercise, eating the wrong foods, etc.......all of which is not true.
When I had cancer I joined a breast cancer support group and many of the women there, myself included, had experienced a major trauma in their life shortly before being diagnosed. In my case my husband died and I was diagnosed with BC 8 months later. Maybe it's possible the trauma reduced our immune system to the point where it couldn't fight the cancer? That makes sense to me especially since I was the only person in my immediate family to get any kind of cancer.
Yet as evidenced by this thread, many people believe that what brings cancer on is negative emotions, lack of exercise, eating the wrong foods, etc.......all of which is not true.
That's not, not true either. Of course all of those things count as well because it's never just one thing. It's possible that a cancer patient has a high amount of radon gas coming up from their basement and that's something the doc and the patient won't know but it's definitely bad luck so that's what the doc will tell you. I was driving home one night and they were flying around in planes spraying the cotton in the fields--the stuff is similar to agent orange. Definitely bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. We'll never know what caused mine but I'm quite sure it's a combination of factors, some of which I was responsible for and most of which I wasn't. We live in a toxic world,
If the immune system is weak enough, internalized stress will contribute to the development of cancer.
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The persistent activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in the chronic stress response and in depression probably impairs the immune response and contributes to the development and progression of some types of cancer.
The man who discovered cancer said its cause is a lack of oxygen to the cells. That would explain why exercise prevents it. Notice how much heavier you breathe when exercising.
The existence of cancer dates back to 3,000 BC. Who is this man you are speaking of?
Warburg hypothesized that cancer growth is caused by tumor cells generating energy (as, e.g., adenosine triphosphate / ATP) mainly by anaerobic breakdown of glucose (known as fermentation, or anaerobic respiration). This is in contrast to healthy cells, which mainly generate energy from oxidative breakdown of pyruvate. Pyruvate is an end product of glycolysis, and is oxidized within the mitochondria. Hence, and according to Warburg, cancer should be interpreted as a mitochondrial dysfunction.
Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.— Otto H. Warburg, [14]
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