Natural Cancer Treatments [Cancer Fighting Foods, Supplements & Alternat...

In today’s video, I’m gonna talk about Natural Cancer Treatments, which include Cancer-fighting Foods and the overall best diet for cancer, Food Supplements for cancer and alternative Treatment options for cancer.  Natural cancer treatments are becoming more and more popular due to the rise in cancer cases and the failure of the medical system to find lasting and successful cancer therapies.  All that I will discuss here is science-based, it’s not one of those videos, where someone tells you – take this magical herb and it will cure your cancer.  No.  Not at all.  I will discuss Natural Cancer Treatments that actually work, and that have a lot of research to support them.  Cancer is a multifactorial disease, that requires a holistic approach, including changing your diet, to cut out the energy supply for cancer, and stop the blood supply for any tumours.  Also, it’s important to detoxify, as excessive toxicity is one of the most common triggers of cancer.  We get cancer, when our mitochondria, cell’s energy factories, get damaged due to excessive toxicity.  Another important area to discuss is taking various clean food supplements, that are known to stop cancerous cell growth, shrink tumours in size, stop the blood supply for tumours,  prevent cancer metastasis, increase detoxification, and support your immune system while fighting cancer.  Don’t underestimate the potential benefits of taking food supplements.  Medicinal plants have been used to treat various diseases for thousands of years.  Before any drugs were invented.  When used in combination with a healthy diet, and other cancer therapies that I’m about to discuss, they can be very helpful in treating cancer.  And you will be able to find the links to all the cancer supplements that I will discuss,  in the description section of this video.  When it comes to natural cancer treatments, the next area to focus on is trying to improve your immune system.  As poorly functioning immune system is what leads you to cancer.  We get cancerous cell formations every single day, but our immune system detects it and destroys it.  Of course, only If the immune system is functioning properly.  I can assure you, that most people don’t have a properly functioning immune system.  It can be fixed with a healthy diet, food supplements, and other alternative therapies.  And we should also look into some of the most effective alternative cancer treatment options.  For example, alternative therapies that help to increase oxygen supply to the cells.  As we know, cancer can occur because of the lack of oxygen in cells.  We have to look at all the possible causes of cancer and try to address as many as possible.  All natural and alternative cancer treatment options that I’m about to discuss are backed up by research studies, that you can find the links for, and see it yourself, in the description section of this video.  I will share exactly what I would do If I had cancer.  You won’t find a better video about cancer, loaded with so much practical information.  So, make sure you watch it until the end.  I will discuss the most important natural cancer treatments that actually work.  By the way, if you’re new to my YouTube channel, my name is Greta, and I’m an online nutritionist and a holistic health coach.  If you haven’t yet, consider subscribing to my YouTube channel for weekly videos about insulin resistance, detox, type 2 diabetes, all the other chronic health conditions, and improving your general health.  So, if you want to be healthy, you should definitely subscribe.  And by the way, this is not medical advice, my videos are for educational purposes only.  You can take what you learn here, and discuss it with your doctor.  And if you would like to learn more about what is cancer, and what causes it, you should watch my more in-depth video about it.  It will appear on the screen at the end of this video, and also, in the top right corner right now.  Why would we even be interested in natural or alternative cancer treatments?  Well, firstly, the problem with some of the most common conventional cancer treatments is that they fully destroy your immune system, making you very likely to get cancer again later on, and secondly, in some cases, the treatments are so harsh, that some patients don’t survive them.  Even if they do, they have terrible side effects and feel extremely unwell while undergoing these treatments.  So What are these conventional treatment options and what are their downsides?  The most common conventional treatments for cancer include chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.  The side effects of these treatments may be very serious, and for many people, these treatments are unsuccessful in the long term.  Both chemotherapy and radiation destroy your immune system.  As mentioned earlier, our immune system is here to protect us from cancer.  Radiation therapy or radiotherapy uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumours.  But radiation itself is known to cause cancer.  Radiation may disassemble atoms and cause DNA damage in cells, leading to potentially serious side effects, including cancer.  So, it can kill cancer cells but it can also cause cancer.  Interesting.  Then, let’s look at chemotherapy.  Chemotherapy is a common treatment for cancer.  It uses drugs to kill cancer cells.  Cancer cells grow and divide uncontrollably.  Chemotherapy is used to destroy these cancerous cells and prevent them from multiplying.  It all sounds wonderful.  But then your regular cells suffer too.  Chemotherapy is a highly toxic treatment.  It is not very targeted and it kills everything on its way.  It damages your normal cells.  And wipes out your immune system, leading to poor long-term health outcomes.  It was reported that in some cancer patients, especially those in later stages, chemotherapy made them feel worse without providing any significant benefit for their cancer.  It decreased their quality of life, and their ability to take care of themselves.  In addition, a high proportion of cancer patients who achieve cancer remission, have cancer recurrence later on.  A 2008 study found that around 13% of breast cancer patients developed recurrent cancer within 5 years after treatment.  Prostate cancer has been found to have a much higher rate of 25% recurrence.  Then, lung cancer recurrence is 30–75%.  Adenomas, 40–50% reoccurrence.  Colon cancer has been found to recur in approximately 33% of patients.  And these are all after conventional treatments.  Maybe these numbers would have been a lot lower if the patients had used some of the natural cancer treatments in combination with their regular treatments.  13 to 75% recurrence.  Is that a good long-term solution?  The least you can do is try to reduce the toxicity and support your immune system while undergoing these treatments.  Many natural cancer treatments that I will discuss can be used in combination with your regular conventional treatments, while some patients rely on only natural treatments and have great results.  So, feel free to discuss it with your doctor who is knowledgeable in these natural cancer treatments.  Now, what are the Natural Cancer Treatment options?  Let’s start with the best Cancer-fighting Foods.  The first category of foods is cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower,  white and red cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale, rocket, and radish.  Cruciferous vegetables are highly effective for killing cancer cells and stopping the blood supply to tumours, which stops their growth and helps to shrink them.  In addition, it protects the DNA, boosts your immune system, and increases detoxification.  These veggies are packed with cancer-fighting phytonutrients.  They’re rich in glutathione, and sulforaphane.  If I had cancer, I would be steaming these veggies, eating them raw, and juicing them.  I tried juicing red cabbage and I have to say, it’s delicious.  Having white or red cabbage juice a couple of times a day would surely be beneficial to anyone who has cancer.  Cruciferous veggies should be a big proportion of a cancer patient’s diet.  Other top high-antioxidant, immune system boosting, cancer-fighting foods, include broccoli sprouts, very high in sulforaphane; all the leafy green veggies, like chard, and spinach;  colourful veggies, like peppers; then onion, garlic, especially raw; berries, including strawberries, blueberries, cranberries, and raspberries, wild or organic are always better;  Then lemons, wild salmon, grass-fed organic meat, extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil, organic coffee, organic green tea; herbs including basil, parsley, rosemary,  and oregano; mushrooms such as shitake; fermented foods such as organic plain kefir, yoghurt,  tempeh, sauerkraut, and kimchi; Also nuts and seeds.  As you can hear, there is nothing heavily processed.  Only natural whole foods that are loaded with nutrients.  We looked at the food, but that’s not enough.  You might eat them in the wrong amounts, or together with something that will remove all the benefits.  I will discuss the overall best diet for cancer and the exact proportions of macronutrients.  To define the best diet for cancer, we have to look at what does cancer live on?  Or in other words: What feeds cancer?  Cancer lives on sugar, which includes all your sugary and starchy carbohydrates, like sugar,  potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, cookies, breakfast cereal, and so on.  And the most processed ones are the worst.  These are the foods that should be fully eliminated.  Everything that significantly increases your blood glucose and insulin.  Elevated insulin promotes growth.  This systematic review found, that elevated insulin is linked to certain types of cancer.  Frequent eating and a high carbohydrate diet elevate insulin the most.  Meaning, it is important to eat less frequently and eat less carbohydrates, especially the sugary and the starchy ones.  So, before any foods, the number one most powerful thing for cancer is Fasting.  Fasting stops the energy supply for cancer cells, shrinks tumours, makes your immune system stronger, it can fully resets your immune system, it helps you to detoxify, as it takes all the damaged cell organelles, and recycles them.  But of course, we can’t last forever.  We need to eat.  The best natural cancer treatment would have to involve intervals of not eating, doing some intermittent fasting for at least 16 hours each day, ideally, a bit longer.  And doing some prolonged fasting, 24 to 72 hours of fasting at least once a week.  Start slow and move your way up.  Fasting is extremely important.  Autophagy means self-eating.  It cleans out carcinogens.  Now, looking at the general macronutrient composition for cancer patients,  As mentioned earlier, you should aim for lower carbohydrate intake, as cancer relies on sugar fermentation.  Your carbohydrate intake should be 5 to 15% of your calories, not more.  Cancer uses glucose as fuel.  You need to cut it as much as possible.  Your body can run on ketones instead.  Cancer cells can’t.  Ketones are a much cleaner fuel, that creates more energy, and less free radicals, when compared to glucose.  Also, looking at other macronutrients, if you’re trying to prevent cancer, you should have moderate protein intake, around 20% of your total calories.  It’s 100g servings of high protein food like meat, fish, or eggs, twice a day.  But if you do have cancer, you would need to lower that even further.  As some cancers feed on amino acids from protein.  I would aim for around 10-15% of total calories from protein.  That’s only 1 serving of high-quality protein per day.  And what are we left with?  Fat, and high fibre, non-starchy veggies.  That should be the base of the diet, a small amount of organic/grass-fed, or wild protein source, non-starchy vegetables, and healthy fat.  That’s the low-carb keto diet.  Keto diet has been shown to be extremely beneficial for cancer patients.  It cuts the energy supply for tumours, supports the mitochondria, supports the immune system,  lowers inflammation, and provides you with plenty of nutrients needed for recovery.  If we check this study, it’s a randomised controlled trial, looking at the effectiveness of chemotherapy combined with the ketogenic diet, versus only chemotherapy, in breast cancer patients.  It shows that the overall survival was significantly higher in the ketogenic diet group compared to the control group.  These results suggested that chemotherapy combined with the Ketogenic diet can improve the biochemical parameters, body composition, and overall survival of breast cancer patients,  with no substantial side effects.  Other studies show the tumour-suppressing effect of the Ketogenic diet alone and/or in combination with classic therapy and/or caloric restriction.  Other studies show reduced tumour growth, reduced angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels for tumours, reduced inflammation, and so on.  So, there are clear benefits to following the low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet.  The effectiveness depends on the type of cancer.  Looking at the results of several different studies, we can see that the low-carb ketogenic diet had the best results, marked in green, in Glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer that occurs in the brain or spinal cord; Astrocytoma, another type of brain cancer; prostate cancer,  colon cancer, neuroblastoma, which is cancer in the nerve tissue; pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, stomach and liver cancer.  While it shouldn’t be used in kidney cancer or melanoma.  Let’s look into some of The best Food Supplements for cancer.  Some of them help you to detoxify, some cut the energy supply for tumours, some load you with beneficial compounds needed for fighting cancer, some boost your immune system, and others help to shrink tumours.  The first supplement for cancer is zeolite.  Zeolite is a natural mineral formed in really harsh conditions.  It has a unique cage-like structure where it can trap many different toxins, starting from heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, thallium, and aluminium, to radiation, viruses, and so on.  Intense detoxification, either with foods, supplements, or both, is a crucial part of cancer treatment, as excess toxicity is one of the major causes of cancer.  There is a clear link between heavy metals and cancer.  Heavy metals create reactive oxygen species and cause DNA damage, which impacts cell signalling and growth pathways, leading to cancerous cell formation.  Several studies have found that micronized zeolite clinoptilolite reduced the metabolic rate of cancer cells, made the cancer drugs more effective, and less toxic, reduced metastasis,  helped to prolong life span, and decreased tumour size.  It’s quite promising.  Then, the next important supplement for treating cancer is a medicinal mushroom called reishi.  Emerging data point to a potential role of G. lucidum in modulating the carcinogenic potential of GI microbiota, which suggests a new complementary and integrated approach to breast cancer treatment.  Reishi used in combination with standard therapy or as an adjuvant single agent, was shown to be beneficial at improving the immune function, tumour-related symptoms, and performance status of cancer patients.  Moreover, it prolonged the disease-free interval and overall survival.  A recent meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials including 4,246 cancer patients has found that reishi products were significantly associated with lower risks of mortality and quality of life in cancer patients.  Other medicinal mushrooms including turkey tail, lion’s mane, cordyceps, and shitake are also beneficial for treating cancer.  The benefits range from boosting the immune system and reducing tumour size to preventing cancer metastasis.  I regularly use medicinal mushrooms for cancer prevention.  There’s no better treatment than prevention.  The next food supplement for cancer is vitamin D3.  Vitamin D is known for its ability to regulate inflammatory pathways associated with cancer.  It is crucial for a properly functioning immune system.  Vitamin D affects the ability of cancer cells to proliferate.  It’s a crucial supplement for someone who has cancer.  You can either spend at least 20 minutes outside in the sun each day or take a vitamin  D3 supplement.  The next supplement is wheatgrass or barley grass juice powder.  They’re both loaded with chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients needed for strengthening the immune system, detoxifying your whole body, increasing antioxidant levels, and shrinking tumours.  I have 2 separate videos, one about wheatgrass juice powder benefits, and one about barley grass juice powder benefits, I also explain how to choose a high-quality product as most of them are scams.  Here's one of the studies, Barley grass extract causes apoptosis (which is cell death) of cancer cells by increasing intracellular reactive oxygen species production.  Barley grass kills cancer cells.  The next cancer supplement is curcumin.  A high-quality micronized turmeric supplement.  It’s highly effective for treating cancer.  Several studies have shown that curcumin, a compound extracted from turmeric, has strong anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties.  Curcumin is known to increase the concentration of our body’s master antioxidant glutathione and reduce the damage caused by oxidative stress.  It’s worth adding a high-quality curcumin supplement to your cancer supplement list.  And for boosting your immune system, you also need zinc, vitamin C, and quercetin.  Vitamin C and quercetin allow zinc to get to the cells.  Otherwise, it has a very difficult time trying to get into the cells.  If you don’t have enough zinc in the cells, your immune system can’t function properly.  Your fighter cells can’t attack whatever needs to be attacked, things like bacteria,  viruses, and cancerous cells.  We get cancerous cell formation daily.  We need to make sure our immune system has all it needs to do its job.  Which is to protect us.  Another important thing to mention, you have to keep your stress levels as low as possible.  Because excess stress can nullify all the good diet and supplements.  It switches your immune system and makes you susceptible to getting cancer.  For these treatments to work, sleep 8-9 hours each night, and don’t be too stressed.  And there are so many different food supplements for cancer, but I can’t cover all of them in this video.  Now, let’s look into Alternative Cancer Treatments.  The first one is hyperbaric oxygen therapy.  Hyperbaric oxygen treatment involves giving the body extra oxygen.  'Hyper' means increased and 'baric' relates to pressure.  During hyperbaric oxygen treatment, you breathe 100% pure oxygen under increased pressure.  Hyperbaric oxygen treatment reduces cellular hypoxia or lack of oxygen in the cells, that is involved in developing cancer.  It can be used synergistically with the ketogenic diet.  It was shown to be highly effective in treating cancer patients.  Studies demonstrate increased oxygenation, decreased rate of tumour growth, and lower blood glucose concentrations.  These are all beneficial for someone who has cancer.  The next alternative cancer treatment is ozone therapy.  Ozone therapy is a procedure where highly reactive ozone gas is administered to a person’s body.  This then causes a chain reaction of events starting from killing off bacteria, viruses, and parasites, detoxifying the whole body, modulating the immune system, to shrinking tumours.  There are cases of people with stage 4 cancer going on high-dose ozone therapy and fully recovering within a month or so.  It’s a powerful tool for cancer prevention and cancer treatment.  Additionally, it was shown to decrease the toxicity caused by chemotherapy.  Whatever treatment you choose to take, ozone can be used to enhance it, reduce toxicity,  and give additional benefits, such as improving oxygen supply to the cells and boosting your immune system.  It’s definitely worth considering.  If you would like to learn more about ozone therapy benefits, check out my video about ozone therapy benefits and uses.  The next alternative cancer treatment, that can easily be used in combination with any other treatment, and for cancer prevention, Is using Frankincense Essential Oil.  Frankincense essential oil is useful for many different types of cancer including breast cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, & brain cancer.  It is extremely useful for treating brain tumours.  Frankincense Boswellia serrata is the one to look for.  How does Frankincense essential oil work?  The anticancer effects of frankincense seem to occur because of its ability to affect our genes that promote healing and repair.  And it’s relatively easy to use it.  You simply have to rub frankincense essential oil on your neck and head three times a day.  And you can also make a drink with three drops of frankincense essential oil, pure, food grade, in a glass of water, and drink it three times a day.  You can discuss it with your doctor.  These were my tips and strategies, all the natural cancer treatments that I would use if I had cancer.