Step 3 – Reducing Stress Hormone Cortisol Levels

Finding additional ways to remove / reduce stress inside your PHYSICAL body will help to calm the autonomic nervous system and lower stress cortisol Levels that have been proven to suppress immune system function.  Those with cancer have abnormally high levels of the stress hormone cortisol.  Regular aromatherapy massage, yoga, tai chi, meditation, relaxation techniques, and regular laughter, will all help to lower stress cortisol levels.  Lowering stress cortisol levels is an important part of your 11 Step Cancer Survivor Program.  A DAILY regime of one-two or more of these techniques should be a minimum requirement for those recovering from cancer. 

The use of laughter should be strongly considered.  There are many instances of cancer patients who have used laughter therapy (i.e. Watched VERY funny movies/comedies everyday during their recovery) without using mainstream medicine and have fully recovered.  One example of a young woman curing herself of cancer using prayer and laughter therapy (without using mainstream medicine) is mentioned on the video The Secret.  Laughter is found to lower bloodpressure, reduce stress hormones, and boost immune function by raising levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being.

Step 4 – Increasing Melatonin Levels

Those with cancer have abnormally low levels of melatonin, a hormone produced by the pituitary gland of the brain during deep uninterrupted sleep.  This is important because 1) Melatonin is responsible for inhibiting cancer cell growth and 2) because melatonin is the  hormone responsible for regulating the immune system.  Those with cancer have low melatonin levels because the internal stress they feel means they have difficulty sleeping well.  Daily meditation has been shown in studies to significantly increase melatonin levels and should be strongly considered as a key element of your 11 Step Cancer Survivor Program.  It has also been shown that those who meditate regularly, have very low incidence of cancer.  See Increasing Melatonin for detailed research in this area.

Step 5 – Boosting / Supporting The Immune System

Step 5 of your 11 Step Cancer Survivor Program is to boost / support your immune system.  High stress cortisol levels, parasites, pathogenic microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungus), chemotherapy and radiation will all significantly weaken the immune system, whose job it is to keep the body healthy and to destroy cancer cells and other harmful pathogens in the body.  Therefore it is vitally important to support the immune system during recovery from cancer and during remission.  Intravenous Vitamin C Therapy can also be used for this purpose and should whenever possible, be used PRIOR to chemotherapy and radiation.  Consider the following: Fever Therapy (highly recommended), DMG and Avemar.

Step 6 – Cleansing the Body of Microbes and Parasites

Prolonged stress suppresses the immune system.  When the immune system is suppressed, somatids (tiny healthy organisms necessary for life that live in our body and our blood) - pleomorphise (change) from harmless (spore like forms) to harmful viral, bacterial, and fungus like forms.

These viral-bacterial-yeast-like fungus 1) ferment the glucose in normal cells, breaking the (oxygen) krebs cycle of the cell, causing cell mutation and the birth of new rogue cancer cells and 2) ferment the glucose in cancer cells, providing a natural growth factor for cancer cells and tumors to grow within the body.  See the Cancer-Stress Link. 

It is important to include one protocol in your 11 Step Cancer Survivor Program to eradicate these microbes that have pleomorphised within you.  See the Cancer-Fungus Link for available options.

It is also important to de-worm larger parasites within the body.  These parasites weaken the immune system and secrete toxins in the body.  A herbal formula such as Clarkia or another parasite cleanse should be undertaken every 6 months.  See Parasites and Cancer.

Step 7 - Detoxifying the Body

Step 7 of your 11 Step Cancer Survivor Program is to detoxify the body of toxins.  What are toxins?  Toxins include “mycotoxins” or acidic waste products caused by 1) microbe and parasite secretions, 2) a poor diet, 3) chemicals, alcohol, tobacco, 4) anti-biotics, 5) chemotherapy agents, 6) fermentation of stress hormones, 7) poor exercise regime causing build up of lactic acid, 8) dead microbes and parasites, and 9) dead cancer cells.

These toxins build up primarily in the liver – the master immune system organ.  When the liver is overloaded with these toxins, your immune system is weakened, you feel sicker, and cancer and virus-bacteria-fungus thrives.  It is very important to have an on-going detoxification plan to detoxify the liver (the master immune system organ), the colon (intestinal immune system), the gall bladder and the kidneys, to prevent toxins building up within your body.