Diseases/Conditions

Cancer Is Man-Made, Not Caused by Genes or Long Life: Study Documents

January 12, 2012 by admin in Featured with 4 Comments

This article has been selected to represent the non-mainstream view in the new book titled Cancer in the “At Issue” series published by Greenhaven Press. See below for information on purchasing it—and enjoy this chapter of the book!

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Forget all that nonsense about the search for the cure for cancer. It will never be found. The search for a cure is nothing but redirection from the reality that cancer is caused by modern life. It isn’t in your genes. It isn’t ever going to be cured. It’s an internal effect of the world we’ve created—and symbolic of our destruction of the natural world.

A study, entitled “Cancer: an old disease, a new disease or something in between?” was done by A. Rosalie David and Michael R. Zimmerman of the University of Manchester KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. Published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, it strongly suggests that cancer is a disease of the modern world. It is, of course, controversial.

The study investigated Egyptian mummies. The authors noted that the written records show little evidence for cancer. They also noted that tests demonstrate that tumors are preserved through the mummification process. Zimmerman stated:

In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases. The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization.

Of course, the deniers are out in force. The usual nonsensical claim—never proven—is that a lack of cancer in premodern times is the result of short lifespans. However, that simply isn’t true. As noted in Heart Attack Is a Disease of Agribusiness, Not Longevity, modern societies that are not exposed to modern chemicals and agribusiness food almost never suffer from either heart disease or cancer, no matter how long they live.

Another point that is generally missed by those who claim that people didn’t get cancer because they didn’t live long enough is the skewing of statistics. While it’s true that the average lifespan was shorter, those who survived childhood tended to live far longer than most of us today realize, often achieving the same lifespans we enjoy today. Yet, they rarely succumbed to cancer.

David and Zimmerman decided to look at mummified remains because of the claim that the only reason there is little evidence of cancer in ancient people is that tumors must not survive over time—though they have no explanation for why that would be, when nontumorous tissues do survive.

Professor David stated:

The ancient Egyptian data offers both physical and literary evidence, giving a unique opportunity to look at the diseases they had and the treatments they tried. They were the fathers of pharmacology so some treatments did work.

They were very inventive and some treatments thought of as magical were genuine therapeutic remedies. For example, celery was used to treat rheumatism back then and is being investigated today.

NOTE: We need to be very careful here. According to the FDA’s overreaching, celery can be defined as a drug because of this claim!

Their surgery and the binding of fractures were excellent because they knew their anatomy: there was no taboo on working with human bodies because of mummification. They were very hands-on and it gave them a different mindset to working with bodies than the Greeks, who had to come to Alexandria to study medicine.

Yet again extensive ancient Egyptian data, along with other data from across the millennia, has given modern society a clear message—cancer is man-made and something that we can and should address.

As previously discussed by Gaia Health, there is no evidence to suggest that cancer and most other chronic diseases are anything but a modern plague created by the modern world.

Isn’t it well past time that we focused attention on the genuine causes of cancer? The massive amount of money and effort that’s going into studying genetics, trying to place the blame for individual cases on so-called flawed genes, is a complete waste. It cannot provide serious benefit, because the evidence exists that cancer is not a genetic disease. It’s a disease of modern times.

It’s well past time that our health agencies insist on proof that products do not cause cancer—among other diseases. Instead, they’re allowed to proliferate while others attempt to prove what we already know: modern chemicals, plastics, pesticides, fertilizers, drugs, lack of sunlight (vitamin D) and stress are causing cancer and other life-destroying diseases.

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Note: This article originally appeared on Gaia Health 17 October 2010.

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Anonymous

I do appreciate the sentiment here but it is not really meaningful enough to state that ‘modern life’ is the cause of all ills. The term needs more defining, or it is meaningless, and clearly unavoidable.

However, I suggest that there is a great deal of evidence to support the theory that the eating of grains (which is a distinct, and possibly defining characteristic of ‘modern times’) is the cause of cancer and a great many other modern diseases.

Agriculture is only maximum 10,000 years old, and only really extensive and dominant for 5,000 years. Prior to that our evolution (say 1 – 5 million years worth of evolution) did not include bothering with eating grass seeds, and, although much can be said here, since before, during and the end of the glacial period, i.e. about 30,000 years ago, we had to rely on getting sufficient calories for survival from eating animal fats and meats, and therefore are very very well adapted to these foods. It is also very reasonable to think that these foods will support our bodies well, as they are very similar in composition, meaning that minimal processing is required to actually convert them to our own body structures.

Grains, on the other hand, supply an abundance of carbohydrate, as opposed to fat or protein, and carbohydrates are not essential for life, whereas fats and proteins are. These carbohydrates then put continuous strain on the pancreas, meaning that it constantly has to produce insulin in order to keep blood glucose/sugar levels from rising so much that nerve and blood vessel damage occurs. This produces two situations: either the pancreas can give up and stop producing enough insulin due to being knackered, or, the cells stop taking up insulin/glucose. Either way, diabetes is the result. Diabetes can be more or less severe, as well as type 1 or type 2 (or the newly labelled type 3, or 1.5). Generally raised insulin levels cause all sorts of effects, precisely those diseases considered due to modern industrialised societies. Cancer, cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, mental illness, learning and behavioural problems, thyroid disease (high and low).

So, what should we eat? Easy, we should get most of our calories from fat, animal fat, which is very stable and does not cause oxidative stress (unlike vegetable oils), and animal meat, from properly raised (grass fed, and free to roam) and poultry (preferably not simply fed grains, but allowed access to insects and worms), and fish (not farmed fish as their food is interfered with), and eggs (from free, happy hens), and dairy products (as we are milk feeders from the start!) but the milk should be unpasturised (we feed it raw to our infants, keeping the proteins in tact, as well as the fatty acids and helpful bacteria), and from grass reared stock. Some leafy vegetables are also suitable, in season, and even some fruit, in season, but not the fruit that have been highly cultivated, as they are always made to have more sugars in them, which are trouble. Fruit sugar (fructose) causes high blood pressure, liver damage (in the same way that alcohol damages the liver), and encourages internal yeast overgrowth. Nuts are also great, in season, as they are high in calories from complex oils, and in protein, yet low in sugars/carbs. The very best ‘nut’ is coconut, with its superb medium chain fatty acids, which our brains love (1 tablespoon of the oil daily is now the best treatment for dementia and Alzhiemer’s disease!)

So be happy, eat meat, butter, eggs and cream, and some leafy veg with butter on and coconut. Eat liver and kidney too, and sweetbread, brain and tripe. Cook with dripping, lard (great source of Vitamin D), butter, duck and goose fat, coconut oil and olive oil. Avoid vegetable oils (they increase inflammation), and all grains and everything made from them, such as bread and pasta, and anything with sugar in, or agave, or fructose, or honey. So out go the cakes, biscuits, bagels, burger buns, and out go the chips too as they are not only made of potato (high in starch, i.e. glucose) but also vegetable oil usually.

Bon appetite!
Anonymous

I do appreciate the sentiment here but it is not really meaningful enough to state that ‘modern life’ is the cause of all ills. The term needs more defining, or it is meaningless, and clearly unavoidable.

However, I suggest that there is a great deal of evidence to support the theory that the eating of grains (which is a distinct, and possibly defining characteristic of ‘modern times’) is the cause of cancer and a great many other modern diseases.

Agriculture is only maximum 10,000 years old, and only really extensive and dominant for 5,000 years. Prior to that our evolution (say 1 – 5 million years worth of evolution) did not include bothering with eating grass seeds, and, although much can be said here, since before, during and the end of the glacial period, i.e. about 30,000 years ago, we had to rely on getting sufficient calories for survival from eating animal fats and meats, and therefore are very very well adapted to these foods. It is also very reasonable to think that these foods will support our bodies well, as they are very similar in composition, meaning that minimal processing is required to actually convert them to our own body structures.

Grains, on the other hand, supply an abundance of carbohydrate, as opposed to fat or protein, and carbohydrates are not essential for life, whereas fats and proteins are. These carbohydrates then put continuous strain on the pancreas, meaning that it constantly has to produce insulin in order to keep blood glucose/sugar levels from rising so much that nerve and blood vessel damage occurs. This produces two situations: either the pancreas can give up and stop producing enough insulin due to being knackered, or, the cells stop taking up insulin/glucose. Either way, diabetes is the result. Diabetes can be more or less severe, as well as type 1 or type 2 (or the newly labelled type 3, or 1.5). Generally raised insulin levels cause all sorts of effects, precisely those diseases considered due to modern industrialised societies. Cancer, cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, mental illness, learning and behavioural problems, thyroid disease (high and low).

So, what should we eat? Easy, we should get most of our calories from fat, animal fat, which is very stable and does not cause oxidative stress (unlike vegetable oils), and animal meat, from properly raised (grass fed, and free to roam) and poultry (preferably not simply fed grains, but allowed access to insects and worms), and fish (not farmed fish as their food is interfered with), and eggs (from free, happy hens), and dairy products (as we are milk feeders from the start!) but the milk should be unpasturised (we feed it raw to our infants, keeping the proteins in tact, as well as the fatty acids and helpful bacteria), and from grass reared stock. Some leafy vegetables are also suitable, in season, and even some fruit, in season, but not the fruit that have been highly cultivated, as they are always made to have more sugars in them, which are trouble. Fruit sugar (fructose) causes high blood pressure, liver damage (in the same way that alcohol damages the liver), and encourages internal yeast overgrowth. Nuts are also great, in season, as they are high in calories from complex oils, and in protein, yet low in sugars/carbs. The very best ‘nut’ is coconut, with its superb medium chain fatty acids, which our brains love (1 tablespoon of the oil daily is now the best treatment for dementia and Alzhiemer’s disease!)

So be happy, eat meat, butter, eggs and cream, and some leafy veg with butter on and coconut. Eat liver and kidney too, and sweetbread, brain and tripe. Cook with dripping, lard (great source of Vitamin D), butter, duck and goose fat, coconut oil and olive oil. Avoid vegetable oils (they increase inflammation), and all grains and everything made from them, such as bread and pasta, and anything with sugar in, or agave, or fructose, or honey. So out go the cakes, biscuits, bagels, burger buns, and out go the chips too as they are not only made of potato (high in starch, i.e. glucose) but also vegetable oil usually.

Bon appetite!
DebbyBruck

Hello Heidi. What was the reason to reprint this article from two years ago? Always great reading.
- HeidiStevenson
  
  This article was picked as the representative of the non-mainstream medical approach to cancer for a new book called Cancer in the series at issue Health by Gale Cengage Learning, edited by Elizabeth Des Chenes. It’s available at Amazon, ISBN 9780737755589.
  
  Silly me – I forgot to add that! I shall do that shortly. Thank you for asking, Debby.