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Tuesday May 27, 2008

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The answers to reader question come from Lena's 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity -when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

So understanding the differences I will attempt to answer your question?
 
We are told by the news media that antioxidants are bad for your unhealthy body. Of course those thoughts have been given them from the pharmaceutical industry that doesn't know how to heal and only sell chemicals.
 
The TRUTH IS; Antioxidants is the best and are absolute necessities for any body ravaged by cancer or other serious illness, as they are chief in building the immune system. So in conventional/traditional medicine's form of treatment antioxidants can sometimes interfere with chemotherapy. Why is that? Chemotherapy, as explained above, isn't really a treatment but a death sentence to the body's organs. But, for the person whose body is strong enough to survive (only 30% to 48% do, depending on the illness) that works but leaves their body with severe problems for the rest of their life.  So yes antioxidants during chemotherapy may slow down the progress of killing the immune system on one hand but benefit the body on another. Something I would definitely want to do since the chemotherapy survival rate is so small...
 
I would like you to understand that you cannot really effectively mix nature's medicine - herbs, vitamins and minerals - and chemical medicine and expect good outcomes in most health issues. The two do not mix well. Can it be done? Sure it can, but is a very slow path to take and in some health issues, such as cancers, too slow to save a life.
 
You didn't ask about radiation but since it is another cancer treatment used by convention/traditional medicine I will touch on it. Radiation treatments and antioxidants is a different story.  Radiation is aimed at a specific area of the body and kills everything within it's path and an area around where it is passes through. In 2005 we were given totally erroneous information but states as fact, which just this year has been found to be false reporting?
 
2005 released to the news media and medical personnel the story that taking antioxidants while doing radiation therapy had dangerous side effects and prevented radiation from working. The majority listened and believed. Of course, the major media outlets also completely ignored 2004 research conducted by Charles Simone, M.MS., M.D., who cited multiple studies that demonstrated how antioxidant supplement use extended cancer patients' expected life spans while improving their quality of life. Dr. Simone is a medical and radiation oncologist who helped establish the Office of Alternative Medicine for the National Institutes of Health.  Then later in 2005 another published report said; "Supplementation with high doses of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene during radiation therapy could reduce the severity of treatment adverse effects."
 
Which are we to believe? That is the confusion - first report - planted on purpose as people who are confused will not act on something that MIGHT NOT BE GOOD FOR THEM and the drug industry knows that!
 
Then April 1, 2008, issued by the International Journal of Cancer said that it was actually the COMBINED exposure to antioxidant supplements AND SMOKING that reduced the efficacy of radiation therapy. That is a whole different thing yet was not even referred to in their report in 2005.  

2008 Antioxidants and Cancer: Researcher admits she got it wrong
April 26,

It was news when it was first revealed three years ago - and it was news again last week: antioxidant vitamins can speed up the development of cancer. But the researcher who first published the study has now admitted that she got it wrong.

The original study - which made headlines around the world - found that cancer patients who took either vitamin A (beta-carotene) or E (alpha tocopherol) supplements were 40 per cent more likely to suffer a recurrence of their cancer than those who didn't take any supplements.

Ever since, nutritionists and alternative therapists have been on the back foot, and have tried to defend the antioxidants. But their task was made even tougher last week when the prestigious Cochrane Collaborative released a meta-analysis that suggested that antioxidants may even shorten our life.

But the researchers, led by Isabelle Bairati from the Quebec Research Centre, who published the 2005 study, have re-analyzed their original data, and have discovered they got it wrong. The only people in the study who were seeing their cancer return were smokers who refused to kick the habit while they were receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy.

Strangely, not a single newspaper has run with the story. (Source: International Journal of Cancer, 2008; 122: 1679-83)

Sadly we will continue hearing how bad vitamins and minerals supplements are for us. This is being done to make it so we cannot pick and choose our health supplements without the advice of our doctor, who knows nothing about real true healing.
 
Sorry to get off on a tangent there but I get so angry at what is being pushed on people trying to confuse and/or make it hard for them to make smart health choices. Confusion makes for inaction and death for many.
 
Hope this helped answer your question.
Lena

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MAKING CHOICES

Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He used to tell a rather strange story about his childhood. His grandmother, who raised him, once paid a cobbler to make him a pair of shoes.

The man measured his feet and told Joseph that he could choose between two styles: a rounded toe or a square toe. Little Joseph couldn't decide. It seemed to be such a huge decision; after all, they would become his only pair of shoes for a long time.

The cobbler allowed him to take a couple of days to make up his mind. Day after day, Joseph went into the shop, sometimes three or four times a day! Each time he looked over the cobbler's shoes and tried to decide. The round-toed shoes were more practical, but the square toes looked more fashionable. He continued to procrastinate. He wanted to make up his mind, but he just couldn't decide!

Finally, one day he went into the shop and the cobbler handed him a parcel wrapped in brown paper. His new shoes! He raced home. He tore off the wrapping and found a beautiful pair of leather shoes - one
with a rounded toe and the other with a square toe.

I can learn a lesson here...a lesson about decisions: if I don't make decisions myself, others will probably make them for me. Better that I make them myself.

And if I choose poorly from time to time, that's okay, too. At least I won't have to wear shoes that don't match. Besides, I'll probably do better the next time.

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