Breast Cancer - Natural Prevention and Cure

It’s breast cancer month once again. The world celebrates this day in honor of the lives lost by this deadly cancer and organizations worldwide run awareness programs. People wear pink ribbons and thousands of campaigns run across social media networks, yet, the number of deaths increase month on month.

Are we losing the war against cancer?

Over the last 7 months, I have seen and worked with over 64 cancer cases. Here are some facts in general that I have experienced.

• Smoking and alcohol abuse continues to be the leading cause
• Rare cases due to over exposure to chemicals and pollutants
• Obesity and hormonal imbalance
• Sedentary lifestyle
• Emotional stress, internalization, holding on to grudges, unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness – seemed to be the most common of all, especially amongst Indian women.
• Some cancer cases were falsely diagnosed. Chemo and radiation were administered as a ‘ precautionary measure ‘

One of the biggest problems is, people don’t change their lifestyles when suffering from cancer. They believe that the chemo and radiation and crazy amount of medications will work the magic. Sadly, it will only kill them more, slowly and surely, if they do not simultaneously change their lifestyles.

The reason a cancer started was due to a change in the environment of the body and cells, which could have been brought on by so many different reasons, and one has to understand that just medication will not help at all. You have to make changes, important changes that re-create a healthy environment in the body, one that promotes healthy cells to re-generate and boost immunity.

Lets Focus on Breast Cancer :

When it comes to breast cancer, it’s important to understand that getting regular mammogram screenings is NOT going to prevent anything. In fact, mammography, which employs radiation, can increase your risk since ionizing radiation itself causes cancer.

Furthermore, mammograms:
•Are incorrect 80 percent of the time (providing a false negative or false positive)
•Use compression, which can damage breast tissue or potentially spread cancer
•Are not effective for up to 50 percent of women (women with dense breasts or implants)
•Can lead to over-diagnosis and over-treatment of non-invasive cancers
Can lead to the disturbing practice

Natural ways to prevent Breast cancer –

• Regular self examination

• Believe that cancer is preventable and that cure is possible. Believe in the miracle of the human body

• Maintain great Vitamin D levels. This is extremely important

• Do not take iron supplements unless really advised by your doctor. Excess iron in the body has direct links to breast cancer

• Turmeric / curcumin can slash your risk by almost 50%

• Add flax seeds to your daily diet. These wonder seeds slash your risk and aid in the cure of breast cancer

• Do not wear under wire bra’s. This blocks circulation and prevents your lymph nodes from proper drainage, leading to toxin build up

• Massage your breasts regularly, especially end of day to stimulate circulation

• Be mindful of constipation. Almost all cases of breast cancer were linked to issues with constipation and toxin build up.

• Wear natural fabrics. The skin is your largest organ of elimination and detoxification. Natural fabrics allow the skin to breathe. Avoid dry-cleaning whenever possible. Carcinogenic chemicals from dry cleaning can enter your system through your skin. If you must dry clean, air out garments before wearing.



• Do not use any harsh anti-perspirants, deodorants, soaps, detergents, lotion, make-up, hair dye, etc.  Every chemical you put on your skin enters your body, thus increasing detoxification requirements on your liver.

• Aromatic amines in hair dyes and straightening procedures are extremely toxic and get absorbed into the body.

• Acrylamide in tobacco smoke causes breast cancer

• Anti-depressants come with severe side effects and every pill you take could be increasing your risk of breast cancer

Begin to believe that the human body, your body is capable of repair and rejuvenation when we create the right environment for that change to happen. Can plants grown in darkness? No. We let in the sun,change the environment and they begin to grow. Nature.

Your health is your responsibility. Don't put that responsibility in the hands of a doctor, nutritionist, trainer, healer, etc. They are guides and coaches, but you are still responsible for your own health and what you do.

Reaching Puberty Too Early?

Many worried parents approach me with a common issue of their daughter’s reaching or showing signs of reaching puberty earlier and earlier these days.

Most parents believe that it’s the way things are these days, and some believe that the hormones in several foods, especially milk causes this to happen.

The scary part is, people are beginning to accept it as a normal phenomenon.

Well, here’s the truth. Accepting it is the easy way out and blinds us from really understanding why this is happening and what we can do to arrest this now.

This can be controlled to a large extent by parents.

Yes, added hormones in foods are a large reason why this happens in girls and boys. Testosterone levels in boys get accelerated and can be linked with violence, irritability, anger, depression and a feeling of lack of self worth.

Studies have found that girls who mature early are more likely to be influenced by older friends, start having sex sooner and have more problems with low self-esteem and depression.

Just because you're developing more quickly physically doesn't mean you're maturing emotionally or socially.
Plus, early puberty has been tied to long-term health risks. For women, an earlier start to menstruation has been linked to a heightened risk of breast cancer. It's not clear why, but some researchers suspect that greater lifetime exposure to estrogen might be one reason.

Earlier puberty also has been tied to increased risks of high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes in adulthood.

I encourage all parents to be mindful of their children’s weight, especially girls. Im talking ages 4, 5, 6, and above. This may sound extreme, but it’s important you monitor your child’s weight.

One of the main reasons of this early puberty is this. Kids today have so much access to junk food; they spend more time being inactive in front of the TV, video games etc, and their weight creeps up.

Now here is what you need to understand.

As their weight increases at this young age, the body produces a hormone called leptin.

When leptin increases due to increased weight, it signals the hypoyhalmus ( in the brain ) a simple message. The childs body weight is now where it needs to be to kick start puberty, and that’s how it hits the child, irrespective of age. So if your child s gaining weight faster than usual, it's going to kick in naturally.It's the way the body works.

Increased weight triggers of leptin, which signals the brain that the childs body is ready for puberty.

This is why I strongly encourage parents, go easy on the junk and sugar, you must build more physical activity in your kids lives. There has to be a certain amount of discipline, no matter what.

Packaged foods with long ingredient labels, should not be purchased. They contain hormone altering ingredients.

Foods like soy that may be genetically modified should be avoided completely.

I strongly suggest a shift from milk to yogurt, which anyway has more calcium and protein and probiotics than milk.

Add in more fruits and veggies. This is so important. If you do allow your kids junk, insist that they have something healthy with or after it.

Early puberty, especially in girls brings about a lot of hormonal imbalance that can affect body function, development, emotions, thinking and behavior.

The Real Truth About Coconut Oil

Mother Nature is incredibly generous in the way she provides - offering a bounty of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients to nourish your body so you can enjoy a long healthy life.

One fruit in particular - the coconut - is so abundant in its healing properties it's referred to as "the tree of life." And before World War II, people living in island countries, like the Philippines, consumed a diet that consisted mainly of rice, root crops, vegetables and an abundance of the ultra-healing superfood, the coconut.

The coconut is a "functional food" rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber - the essential nutritional building blocks for perfect health.

For generations, island people considered it "The Cure for All Illness" and consumed the meat, milk and coconut oil daily. Although this diet was high in saturated fat, Western conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease were virtually unheard of.

Filipinos and islanders were instead rewarded with a lovely youthful complexion, soft wrinkle-free skin, almost no skin cancer - even with excessive exposure to year round sun - and abundant good health.

Coconut oil in particular has been shown to protect you from viruses, bacteria, infection, cancer, thyroid, brain and heart problems... plus beautifies your skin - and even burns fat!

Coconut oil - a saturated fat - is chock-full of health-promoting properties - and is in no way responsible for high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and the bad effects you've been led to believe.

Finally, modern medicine and science are starting to realize this fundamental truth... and it's been a long time coming. But sadly not before heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and a whole host of other catastrophic diseases have reached epidemic proportions!

Before World War II, the miracle-healing coconut had been used to help alleviate:

• Coughs
• Constipation
• Malnutrition
• Skin infections
• Toothaches
• Earaches
• Flus
• And more!


But that all changed when the war ended and the United States proclaimed hydrogenated oils to be the "healthier oils." By the 1960s, a weak scientific theory claimed that saturated fats-like those found in butter, eggs, milk, red meat and coconuts - increased "bad" LDL cholesterol and were dangerous to consume.

Nothing was further from the truth! But this “health scare” was enough to push the public away from saturated fats and instead to refined vegetable oils. This was perfect for food manufacturers because they were far cheaper to produce.
It wasn’t long before Western-style diets made their way to the islands and the old ways were forgotten.

Cheaper, mass-produced hydrogenated foods replaced traditional foods, like the versatile and all-healing coconut oil that had kept the islanders healthy for generations.

And for the first time ever, diseases that had become prevalent among Americans… heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity started to plague the island nations.
 
The 4 worst oils –

Cannola
Cottonseed
Safflower
Soybean
 
It's no secret breast feeding is about the best thing a mother can do to boost her child's immune system. What makes mother's milk so healthy is that it contains high amounts of lauric acid.

Outside of mother's milk there are only three dietary sources of lauric acid - and coconut oil is the most concentrated of the three!
 
Top Benefits of Coconut Oil
 

• Boosting metabolism and fat loss
• Improving Thyroid Function
• Best natural healer for skin and hair
• Brain health and memory
• Improve heart health and cholesterol levels
• Cancer fighter
• Super food and super detox

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My 24 hour Water Fast experience

A few months ago, I would do this one day fast every Monday. Somewhere down the line, I got out of that habit, and my body gave me indicators about a week ago that it was time for a body over haul. I love how the body gives you indicators of what can be going wrong or right for you, I guess we just have to be aware of how we feel, and that by itself can be quite a challenge.

Over the last week I was waking up tired despite 7-8 hours of deep sleep. I was sluggish thru the day. The things that motivated me and that I loved doing seemed to suddenly transform into something boring and monotonous. I was getting angry quicker, more irritable and in general just feeling low for no reason I could actually pin point. I even missed a couple or work outs and I kept battling with sugar and outside food cravings. So I loaded up on my favorite foods, right from fully loaded caramel frappes to chocolate pastries, burgers and yeah, even a samosa..the last option kinda shocked me too……..and then there was Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies,,,and my body started slowing down.

I decided to get back on the water fast at exactly 8pm on Sunday. I broke the fast this morning at 7:30am.

I slept by midnight on Sunday, woke up to a liter of warm water. My activity on Monday morning included a bit of training and then a drive to office. Hunger pangs hit me by noon, I sipped on water and kept my mind engaged in my work.

By 2pm I should admit I felt a little cold ( natural on a water fast), but my hunger pangs had disappeared. I drove home around 5pm, I was feeling light headed, but I was focused. Keeping your mind engaged in some work really helps. What I noticed was my clarity of thought.

On reaching home, I had some warm water and sat down to mediate for a bit. I think that was the best part of my day.

By 7pm I definitely felt a little weak and decided to retire to sleep by 9pm and break the fast in the morning. Over the day I noticed a change in the color of my tongue, from a light white to a pink, which is an indicator of how clean your stomach may be.

Slept fitfully, no disturbance, no hunger pangs. Woke up by 6:30, absolutely fine, not hungry, high on energy levels. Consumed a liter of water , practiced some light yoga and meditation and broke my fast with 3 bananas and an apple.

That kinda stuffed me and 2 hours later I consumed a handful of almonds.

I'm not hungry right now. I'm super high on energy levels. I have not craved my morning coffee which I feel I have gotten addicted to over the last few months, the thought of chocolate or anything unhealthy is actually not appealing in any little way right now. I want fruits, nuts, vegetables, lentils

It’s true that a clean body craves clean food and an unhealthy body craves junk. I’m feeling that now…the overhaul was definitely necessary, and I plan to do this once a week.

What could go better the next time is selecting a day when I’m more free and relaxed with little or no driving involved, especially in Mumbai traffic.

I recommend this to everyone. If you can’t do 24 hours start of with 16 and then build it up as you get better.

The more difficult you find it to do, it means your body has a lot of toxins to clean out and you may even get a headache.

Good luck !!!!  Use nature and natural ways as your best medicine.

Luke Coutinho talks about GOQii life and Healthy Lifestyle

The Magical Caraluma Fat Loss Plant

I continuously get asked questions on different weight loss or fat loss products, pills, treatments etc. The answer is, they don’t work. 100% plant based supplements can work in conjunction with a balanced lifestyle, but there is no ‘ ONE” pill that can fix it all, or else we wouldn’t have millions of people struggling with their weight.

Caraluma particularly interests me.

Wouldn’t really say this is new, it’s been doing amazing and successful rounds in the U.S and Europe. As usual, the very foods that grow in India , that are beneficial and super healthy somehow find a larger market in western countries,  and in India, we resort to the junk that the west is trying to move out and away from.

What is Caraluma ?

Caralluma fimbriata is a succulent plant in the family Apocynaceae. It has been eaten in rural India for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles, and is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker.

It has been used as a portable food and thirst quencher for hunting. It is also used for its purported ability to suppress hunger and appetite and enhance stamina. It is believed to have an effect on the appetite control centre of the brain. Tribesmen on a day's hunt will often only pack some Caralluma fimbriata to sustain themselves and hence it is commonly known as "famine food" in India.

This natural plant has been ingeniously mixed with green tea and orange pekoe to produce a blend that can -

Work directly on the appetite control center of your brain, specifically the hypothalamus, to suppress your appetite. In short, it reduces sugar and junk food cravings, allowing you to burn fat more effectively and lose inches.

It also seems that Caralluma fimbriata's ability to promote lean muscle mass is actually connected to its fat-burning benefits. Caralluma fimbriata not only blocks fat production, it also helps to burn fat, thanks to pregnane glycosides

Caralluma Fimbriata burns unwanted fat and prevents more from being stored. It also suppresses the appetite and stops cravings in their tracks.

IS CARATRIM A WEIGHT LOSS PILL OR PRODUCT?

Far from it. Weight loss products and pills DON”T WORK. What works is a lifestyle change and a balanced approach to food, sleep, exercise and mental health.

Caratrim can help you lose fat if you use it mindfully and continue to make an attempt to eat right, exercise and sleep well. You cannot just take this and expect it to work. It won’t !!!

It will surely help you with your cravings though and fat metabolism and inch loss. That’s what gets you and your health on track.

Best source to order:  www.purenutrition.co.in

More About My Experience With Cancer

So it's been around 17 days into the year already, and I've been swamped with calls as usual. January is always the busiest time for me. People are keen to start off the new year with their resolutions to be fit and healthy. Most of the calls i get revolve around weight loss and many around those striving to make a lifestyle change. This year has been different. over the last 17 days, I've got over 19 people with cancer reach out for support.What i see out there is confusion, a lot of confusion, a lot of fear, of course, a lot of families destroyed emotionally, financial distress that this deadly disease brings along with it.

A large number of people are waking up to the reality of this disease now, some making massive changes in their lifestyles and many simply consoling themselves with the fact that they have massive insurance and contacts with top oncologists around the world.

We need to realize that we are bringing on disease and suffering on ourselves and really, the only solution is prevention through a lifestyle change.

I met a 77 year old woman last evening, healthy, great medical reports, but with this looming fear in her mind that she has cancer, because a few years ago she visited a dentist for a routine check up and was told that she could have gum cancer due to some white mucous he saw between her gums.Since then she has lived with the fear of having the cancer ,and any cough or cold she gets pushes her deeper into misery.

The question i get asked almost everyday is can cancer be prevented? What is the right cure? Do you have to die if you have cancer?

It just reminds me of one phrase that we grew up with, ' Prevention is BETTER, than cure' . Cancer can be the product of over 200 things going wrong in your body at the same time, does this mean 200 different treatments? That's what makes it complicated, so yes, prevention is better than cure, but how to prevent ?

There is so much information out there, and sometime too much of information causes more confusion.

Many people believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes, fate or bad luck. But through scientific research, we know that our risk actually depends on a combination of our genes, our environment and aspects of our lives, many of which we can control.

I don't want to talk about telomers, twisted DNA's etc,,,,in my experience, keeping it simple has always provided the best and most inexpensive results.

I have put together some lifestyle changes that i rate as the most important to make, when it comes to a prevention.

Experts estimate that more than four in 10 cancer cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes, such as:

Not smoking

keeping a healthy body weight

cutting back on alcohol

eating a healthy, balanced diet

keeping active

avoiding certain infections (like HPV)

staying safe in the sun

occupation 

Some people are more at risk of cancer as a result of chemicals or practices used in their occupation. Improved safety in the workplace means fewer people will be at risk now than in the past.

Making lifestyle changes can be difficult, but there are so many benefits. Try to find tricks that make it easier to get into healthy habits, like being active with a friend, keeping track of what you eat or drink, or letting your friends and family know about what you're doing.

Preventing cancer doesn't work in the same way as preventing infectious diseases by injecting vaccines.

‘Healthy living’ is not a cast-iron guarantee against cancer. Instead, it "reduces the risk" of the disease - it heavily stacks the odds of avoiding it in our favour.

For example, we know that it’s possible for a heavy smoker to live a cancer-free life, while someone who never touches cigarettes could develop lung cancer. But if we look at this as a whole, we can clearly see that non-smokers are far less likely to develop cancer than smokers.

In the same way, careful drivers cannot guarantee that they will never get into an accident due to events beyond their control, but they are much less likely to do so than reckless ones.

Can lifestyle changes really make a difference?

Yes, and not just for cancer. In 2008, a large study worked out how a combination of four healthy behaviors would affect your health

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These were: not smoking; keeping active; moderating how much alcohol you drink; and eating five daily portions of fruit and vegetables.

People who ticked all four healthy boxes gained an average of 14 years of life compared to people who did not do any of them. By the end of the study, they were less likely to have died from cancer or heart disease.

In short, a lifestyle change is one of the best ways to prevent cancer and other diseases and more I see people making these changes, the more I observe their improvement in their recovery or ability to handle their cancers.