Saturday, June 29, 2019
Insights From An Oasis of Healing #13 | Fasting Directly Inhibits Enzymatic Function In Cancer Cells
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Friday, June 28, 2019
Stress And Cancer Connection
The stress and cancer connection is something the conventional model never talks about, but we will as there is strong evidence that links them together.
Last week we talked about the broad aspects of stress and the cancer connection. Today, we wanted to go more into detail as stress is physiologic. The evidence clearly shows on a consistent basis of how stress response impacts cancer.
Insights from An Oasis of Healing is where we hold weekly meetings and discuss relevant cancer-related topics. We explain how our alternative cancer care program helps our patients overall healing. You can learn directly from an experienced medical doctor who consistently informs us of pertinent insights, research, and results in healing from cancer.
Keynotes from our 9th Plan of Care Meeting – Stress And Cancer Connection
Let’s first start with our genetics. The evidence shows us from the studies conducted on cortisol which includes epinephrine and norepinephrine, is that it actually hypomethylates our DNA. What does that mean for us?
One carbon and three hydrogens make up a methyl group. When a methyl group binds to specific areas on our DNA or what’s called a histone tail, the result is our DNA will coil tight.
When the DNA coils tight, certain mechanisms can’t encode protein out of it as it is wound up so tight. The hypomethylation is what causes it to be wound tight. The two mechanisms it will affect are the histone tails and the CpG island.
This is important because everybody walks around talking about the MTHFR which stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. MTHFR is getting at methylation. It is easily overcome by just getting more methyl groups.
And, how is that done? This can be accomplished with eating green leafy vegetables. What we are discussing is how stress response or cortisol can close up the DNA.
Listen in as Dr. Nathan Goodyear discusses the Stress and Cancer Connection
This can be good news if an oncogene is being dealt with. If the DNA is closed up and can’t be encoded that is a good thing. In this particular case, we’re referencing tumor suppressor genes and the most popular one is the BRCA gene.
People are obsessed with the BRCA gene What is it? BRCA is a tumor suppressor gene. When stress is involved it’s going to coil up the promoter region on the DNA of BRCA1.
This makes it impossible to get the needed materials into that DNA to then encode that BRCA tumor suppression gene. Every woman that has ovarian cancer, breast cancer or pancreatic cancer that is being tested for BRCA should have their stress response tested.
Why should people have their stress response tested? Without this test, there is no way to change the expression when you don’t know what the stress response is doing.
The concept that our genetics is set and can’t be influenced is lacking evidence. DNA can be worked with and influenced. We have to have the full picture and what is going on to be able to make a positive impact.
Watch the video above for Dr. Nathan Goodyear’s full explanation on this important topic of the stress and cancer connection. Reach out to us today if you or a family member or loved one is dealing with cancer, we can help.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Protein Restriction Inhibits Tumor Growth
Protein restriction inhibits tumor growth which goes against the current protein mantra in today s society. Nutrition plays a huge role when it comes to cancer and protein is greatly misunderstood. We re going to bring some clarity to protein and its role with cancer. There s a lot of talk about fasting and caloric restriction as it relates to cancer. Did you know there's one thing that's actually been shown, in breast cancer and prostate cancer to be much more effective than calorie restriction and fasting? That would be protein restriction! When treating cancer, the environment in the body must be changed in order to heal from cancer. Changing the environment in the body starts with nutrition. It is impossible to do without nutrition. This is a key part of our comprehensive cancer care program. Call us today to learn more about how we can help you or a loved one. An Oasis of Healing 210 N Center St #102 Mesa, AZ 85201 480-834-5414 https://anoasisofhealing.blogspot.com/2019/06/insights-from-oasis-of-healing-12.html
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Monday, June 17, 2019
Stress And Cancer Research
Conventional medicine thinks stress and its effect on the body, especially cancer, is insignificant. When you review stress and cancer research you can quickly observe that stress has a tremendous impact on the body in many ways including cancer. The science behind the effects stress has on the body is quite interesting and clearly, it shows how stress can destroy how the body is able to keep cancer in check. Our cancer care program teaches people how to work on reducing stress levels helping bring the body back into homeostasis. An Oasis of Healing 210 N Center St #102 Mesa, AZ 85201 480-834-5414 https://anoasisofhealing.business.site
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Stress And Cancer Research
Today let’s take a look at stress and cancer research and what the evidence is telling us.
Conventional medicine thinks stress and its effect on the body, especially cancer, is insignificant. When you review stress and cancer research you can quickly observe that stress has a tremendous impact on the body in many ways including cancer.
Let’s start by defining what stress is. Stress can be external or internal. A response from stress is physiological or a measurable response. Stress can come in many forms. People could have a stressful day, a doctor could have a stressful patient, dealing with a stressful employee, or having a stressful interaction.
Stress isn’t something that just happens to us although that’s what people tend to think. It is something that is internal. The internal stressors are even more dangerous to our health as a result of not being able to recognize them.
Let’s say that a patient has narcolepsy. Do you believe that would cause stress to the body? You bet it does!
In our weekly Insights from An Oasis of Healing meetings, we discuss relevant cancer-related topics and explain how our alternative cancer care program helps our patients overall healing. You can learn directly from an experienced physician who consistently informs all on the most up to date insights, research, and results in healing from cancer.
These are our keynotes from our 8th Plan of Care Meeting – Stress and Cancer Research
We don’t look at internal stress as dangerous which is a mistake. When it comes to obesity, it is understood that it is an epidemic. Is the consensus that obesity is stressful to the body? Yes indeed.
What we know based on research is that obesity does feed stress, however, what we also know is that turns right around and feeds obesity. What ends up happening, in this case, is people’s metabolisms are destroyed. It’s the result of everything feeding on itself.
We have to learn to recognize the stressors that affect our metabolism. Do you think surgeries are stressful? Yes, of course, they are. Do you think that chemotherapy is stressful? Yes, it is, very much so.
How about radiation? Yes again. Do you think junk food is stressful to the body? Junk like Coke, chips and Ding Dongs are all stressful.
Any stress response will affect metabolism. It will also affect hormones as well as cancer initiation and the progression of cancer. Again, conventional medicine looks at stress response as something that effects nothing and their answer to it is, of course, synthetic drugs!
Here Dr. Nathan Goodyear Discusses Stress And Cancer Research In Detail From Another Insights From An Oasis of Healing
Conventional medicine looks at stress as a deficiency. But what is it a deficiency of? The drugs they invent and prescribe of course. The conventional model of which Dr. Nathan Goodyear is both trained and board certified in knows they will mock the things they don’t understand.
The good news is we have the ability to evaluate and actually measure this response! Stress and cancer research says we can bring the body back into balance and achieve homeostasis. We are able to find out the location of the body that is not working properly and it brings it back into balance.
When we do these evaluations, we look at things like cortisol and the metabolism of cortisol. We look at the enzymes that are involved in this process and how insulin from the food we eat including fructose and sucrose affects how cortisol moves. And then we observe how this affects the entire body and its relationship to cancer.
To recap; stress is cortisol, it is epinephrine and norepinephrine. Stress is a physiologic, biochemical response that does affect and impact everything in the body. It does play a major role in cancer.
The science behind this is quite interesting and clearly, it shows how stress can destroy how the body is able to keep cancer in check. Our cancer care program teaches people how to work on reducing stress levels helping bring the body back into homeostasis.
Monday, June 10, 2019
Hormones In Cancer Treatment
Dr. Nathan Goodyear addresses the topic of hormones in cancer treatment as part of a weekly in-house Insights from An Oasis of Healing.
In these sessions, Dr. Goodyear leads the discussion on pertinent cancer-related topics and how it relates to An Oasis of Healing’s comprehensive cancer care program and their patients’ healing journeys. Today we talk about hormones in cancer treatment and the complex communication process that is involved with it.
I have covered a lot of information on receptors as well as hormone metabolites. The wrong environment in the body does take years to develop. Hypoxia which represents an acid-base imbalance takes time to develop.
Currently, we have an epidemic in the US with kids between the ages of six to fourteen years old who are considered obese. The characteristics these children share are poor nutrition, high levels of stress and a lack of physical activity will facilitate creating the wrong environment in the body.
This will develop a pattern that can possibly activate the production of a lot of estrogen triggering the wrong receptor which promotes growth. This just doesn’t happen of all a sudden.
It is not like someone taking progesterone for 6 months and then boom. In reality, this environment has been evolving at a slow pace, growing and progressing to a point where the body takes good things and does the wrong things with them.
The focus of what we are talking about here is a hormone pathway. For example, testosterone to estrogen as well as two metabolites; 3α-androstanediol and 3β-androstanediol.
Hormones in Cancer Treatment is a Highly Complex Communication Process Where Clarity is Needed for a Cell’s Proper Functioning
When it comes to testosterone, people tend to focus on male hormones. It becomes all about testosterone, however, what is forgotten is testosterone can be converted to estradiol.
And beyond menopause, it is the same thing. The rest of the story tends to be overlooked when it comes to dihydrotestosterone, through the enzyme 5α-reductase and ultimately the conversion to 3α-androstanediol and 3β by way of the Aldo-Keto reductase enzyme.
This is important to note because in reviewing testosterone, no study has shown that testosterone causes prostate cancer. What it comes down to is what the metabolism in the body ends up doing with these hormones when in the wrong environment!
What really stands out when discussing this topic is the fact that for the most part, it can take decades for this to happen. The hormones and metabolites interact with each other as well as the various respective receptors.
The hormone testosterone is not the only hormone to talk about and review. It is also about estrogen, it’s about progesterone and it’s about testosterone.
This communication process is highly complex between what happens with hormones, hormone metabolites and everything else involved. This process is ongoing but when it becomes dysfunctional it is a bunch of noise and that noise is unfortunately what is called cancer.
It is our job to work our way through that noise and provide clarity with a cell’s functioning. This is how to use hormones in cancer treatment. We are attempting to take that noise and provide clear communication, so the cells know exactly what to do. You can view all of our weekly Insights videos here on this page.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Benefits Of Going To Bed Early And Waking Up Early
There are many benefits of going to bed early and waking up early and they all contribute to good health!
An important key to changing your health towards a more positive direction is, in fact, going to bed earlier each night. There is both restorative sleep and REM sleep. Restorative sleep happens between midnight and 2:00 am.
Restorative sleep will help replenish mitochondria. It will also help clean out your cells while you sleep. Think of trash day in your neighborhood, you put out the trash and the trucks come by and pick it up and take it away. Same principle here as long as you are going to bed early enough.
Healing is what is going on while you sleep. By going to sleep at eleven at night and waking up at seven in the morning, that does provide a person with eight hours of sleep. However, it is important to note that because you went to bed that late, you most likely had only one cycle of restorative sleep with the rest being REM sleep or rapid eye movement.
This is not optimal for the type of cleansing and healing that the body needs while sleeping. That’s why it is so important to go to bed earlier, preferably before 9:00 pm. REM sleep is necessary because that is where people dream.
Dreams are necessary as they help us let off psychic steam. We really need to let that steam off as a release and that is why REM sleep is also important to us.
Our dreams don’t really mean anything; they represent psychic steam and that steam needs to escape. As a visual comparison, think of a tea kettle that lets off steam. If that steam isn’t able to be released from the kettle, it would just explode.
REM Sleep Allow People to Release Psychic Steam
Researchers have done experiments where they wake people up and don’t allow them to dream, they still sleep, but they don’t let me dream. Within just two days, these people are angry. They are angry and they snap at people because they no longer have patience.
This illustrates the importance of dreaming and getting REM sleep as well as restorative sleep. At two in the morning and after represents the majority of where people get their REM sleep.
Prior to the REM sleep, that is restorative sleep. Going to bed later at night will prohibit you from getting optimal restorative sleep. This will affect our bodies hormonal balance as well.
Our hormones are produced and emitted between midnight and two to three in the morning. Going to bed at eleven at night or later will not have the same impact as it would have if you had gone to bed before 9:00 pm.
Going to bed at 11:00 pm or later will render you with less hormone production and less repair during the night. The ideal time to go to bed is between seven and eight at night and then wake up at three to four in the morning.
Proper sleep is another key piece of our comprehensive cancer care program here at An Oasis of Healing. Give is a call today and learn how we can help you or a loved one who is dealing with cancer.
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