Cancer Simplified & Demystified

A talk by Morwenna GivenMedical Herbalist

www.medicusherbis.com

Who am I?

I am a Medical Herbalist trained in the UK in hospital/clinic settings

I focus on treating Cancer and pre Cancerous conditions

I believe the role of Plant Medicine in cancer can be enormously effective without being invasive or having latent side effects. It is validated by scientific evidence.

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What is Cancer?

Uncontrolled growth of cells. Hippocrates & Nobel prize winners 1931 and 2008

Cancer is a Preventable Disease that Requires Major Lifestyle Changes

B.B Aggwal et al. MD Anderson Cancer Research CentrePharm Res. 2008 September; 25(9): 2097–2116. Published online 2008 Jul 15. doi: 10.1007/s11095-008-9661-9.

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SOME STATISTICS

90-95% OF CANCERS due to ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES

Cancer in Ontario is increasing each year CANCER IN ONTARIO: OVERVIEW A Statistical Report

Types of cancer and mortality rates are changing

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Conventional Approaches:

CUT “ the primary tumour suppresses

angiogenesis …..removal causes a flare up in vessel neo formation and thus enhanced metabolic activity and metastasis”

Peeters et al Surgery 2005 Feb; 237(2): 246-9

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Conventional Approach (2)• Burn

Radiation is a known carcinogenic - Hiroshima

• Poison

Kills indiscriminately especially in an already diseased state

• Result:An @80bn $ industry which would not survive in a normal competitive

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Why does this approach not work?IS THERE A BETTER WAY?

Our bodies are a collection of atoms held together by electrical bonds ( positive negative and neutral electrical charges)

Anything that disrupts those bonds causes dysbiosis

Normally our bodies prevent this happening but in cancer the body can’t repair itself as these mechanisms have been subverted

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What is Missing?

No attention to the cause of the cancer

Remember 90% of cancers are

environmental in origin

No new drugs/biomarkers

in 25 years

despite all the funding and hype

No Integration of conventional and

Proven alternative treatments

Change Threatens financial

relationships Tx not patient driven

WHAT IS MISSING (2)

Conventional therapies are very destructive to an already weakened physical state

Synthetic drugs only have one molecular pathway

Plants have multi pathways eg Turmeric with 98 metabolic pathways

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Biomechanics of CancerInitiating factors -

hormones, genetics, lifestyle, toxins

incld.diet radiation, viruses bacteria

Promoting factors growth factors: VEGF EGF, P53

Oncongenes etc

Disruption of the extra cellular

matrix

Cell receptors and cell signalling

corrupted

Proliferation – hypoxia,

glycolytic shift, etc

GLYCOLYTIC SHIFT

“ CANCER HAS ONLY ONE PRIME CAUSE. IT IS THE REPLACEMENT OF NORMAL OXYGEN RESPIRATION OF THE BODY’S CELLS BY ANEROBIC OXYGEN DEFICIENT CELL RESPIRATION.”

Dr Otto Warburg 1931 Nobel Prize in Medicine

From normal to malignant

Induction of genetic instability Abnormal expression of genes Abnormal signal induction Abnormal cell to cell signalling Induction of angiogenesis Invasion and metastasis Immune ev/invasion ©2011

Plants to the Rescue

• Plants can inhibit every step of this process• Chemo and radiation only affect cell

replication – S phase • Conventional therapy is not cell selective good

and bad cells are killed further weakening the body

• Many plants target cells in the S phase when DNA is unravelling and where natural agents do their protective normalising work. ©2011

Some Herbs Some Actions• APOPTOSIS METHYL DONORS ANTI HYLURONIDASE HORMONAL MODULATORS• garlic / capsicum urtica gota kola Vitex

• Vit CDE vaccinium eccinachea urtica/ginsengP• Glycorrhiza• equisetium vaccinium• glycorriza /soy red clover/ humulus

• panax / scut quercitin flax/flaxseed• viscum/turmeric folate melatonin/prunella• Flavs/ selenium B12 Vit E medicago sativa• beta elemene ( ginger mint celery ) cimicifuga - serm

parthenolides • salix © 2011

Cancer has its weaknesses

Like the crab it is named after, cancer has key weaknesses

Hypoxia – feeding the cells

Cancer prefers an acid environment to an alkaline

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A medical herbalist approach (1)

• DIET• Let medicine be thy food and food thy

medicine – Hippocrates

• Addresses immediately two key weaknesses of cancer

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A medical herbalist approach(2)

• Address the causes:

LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT&

Uses proven plants & their biochemical pathways

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A Medical Herbalist approach(3)

Herbal Protocols include

Use of selected supplements

Use of compound teas

Use of tinctures ©2011

HERBAL RESOURCES

PERSONAL MEDICINE

Every supplement, tea and tincture is designed individually to treat the patient and their particular problems

Every compound is based on scientific evidence of plant properties and pathways

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Smoke and Mirrors

THERE IS NO MAGIC BULLET

there never will be as long as the prime causes are environmental & lifestyle

EVERY BODY IS DIFFERENT

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SAMPLE HERB

TURMERIC( Curcuma longa )

Evidence shows it has 98 metabolic pathways & effectively treats 14 different types of cancer

" Most efficacious cancer drug is a plant"

Dr B.B. Aggwal University of Texaswriting in a discussion on turmeric ( Curcuma longa )

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CAUTIONS

the compounds that I give do not come from OTC products.

Only registered herbalists may compound and use these products

It is best not to self treat as you may cause further problems

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The Happy Ending!

• Harry’s story:

• “ The doctors gave me 6 months – you gave me my life back “

Thank you for listening

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