Toxins and cancer -- from sloth to slough

[Guest guest]

An eye-opener of a book is Cancer Causing

Chemicals by N. Irving Sax (Hardcover - Apr.

1981) available on Amazon.com for as little as

$1.13. It lists thousands of such chemicals

which weren't in the environment fewer than 100

years ago. You can imagine how many more were

synthesized in the last 30 years. Just as you

can have synergisms in medicines you can have

synergisms in toxins. Electromagnetic pollution

is a another confounding issue.

The chemical and pharmaceutical industry would

have you believe that cancer is caused by

oncogenes, but they ignore the fact that all of

our genes exist because nature saw an

evolutionary benefit for their retention. Our

primitive ancestors had these same genes but they

did not get cancer. Our ancestors also had

plenty of stress: they had neighboring tribes

stealing animals and wives, cruelly capricious

leaders, poor nutrition, rampant infectious

disease and parasites, and unappeasable

gods. Their stress did not lead to cancer. On

the other hand we vote into office those

corporate proxies and doxies who spend the most

on TV mudslinging. Emma Goldman stated that a

society gets all the criminals it

deserves. Criminals, politicians, sociopaths,

corporations, whatever, we probably deserve the

lot of them. So, we are stuck in living in a

chemical slough of our own making.

One point that I like to make in my seminars is

that some 75% of all adults have a diagnosable

chronic disease that could eventuate into their

demise. It could be cancer, heart disease,

diabetes, asthma, autoimmune, cirrhosis,

emphysema, Parkinsonism, Alzheimers, HIV, et

cetera. These people didn't just wake up one

morning with chronic disease, no, in every case

there was an existing preclinical disease. These

incipient pathologies account for an approximate

additional 20%, thus approximately 95% of all

adults are in a downward health spiral. The

remaining 5% are those who haven't lived long

enough to accrue their fair share of toxins.

During the past two or three decades I've noticed

that I've have to devote increasing amounts of

time to parsing toxification- detoxification,

autonomic dysfunction, and immune anergy before I

can even think about candidate treatments.

At 11:05 AM 5/30/2010, you wrote:

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>You hit it on the head when you discussed the

>chemical and radiation exposure of the modern

>world as responsible for rising cancer rates.

>The idea put forth from some of the New Agers

>that one causes one's own diseases--resurrected

>from ancient cultures that knew nothing of

>bacteria, viruses, and man-made carcinogens--is

>a travesty. Certainly stress can weaken the

>immune system; but it doesn't cause cancer. I

>remember when I was going through my

>fun-and-games in the early nineties, reading the

>Bernie Siegel books. One of his chapters was

>entitled " Why Do You Need This Disease? " A

>bullshit guilt trip. My personal doctor who

>works out of Yale New Haven hospital remarked:

> " I'll never forgive Siegel for that. "

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>Bob Ellal