Chris Lewis should know something about the emotional impact of cancer. In addition to his own cancer journey, which included seven years of constant treatment, he’s the founder of Chris’s Cancer Community, a well-known online support forum for cancer survivors. His raw and honest posts, primarily about the emotional impact of cancer, have earned… Read More »
Your Body is Talking. Are You Listening?
“18 and out!” That was my Dad’s mantra. He’d lost his mother at age 5, and learned the hard way to fend for himself in the hardscrabble world of the Depression. He became handy, resourceful and a good provider. By the time I turned 18 he wanted me to be capable of standing on my… Read More »
Do you trust your body?
Do you trust your body to keep you healthy? An ovarian cancer survivor recently told me “I love and trust my body. That doesn’t change when I need to give it extra love.” Her willingness to trust is particularly remarkable since she has a BRCA-1 mutation, which creates extra vulnerability to various cancers. But… Read More »
It’s Easy, It’s Free…and It Prevents Cancer – Part 2
In part 1, we discovered an emerging trend of evidence linking the Relaxation Response to the healthy function of Nuclear Factor kappa-beta, or NFkB. This is very important to cancer survivors: dysfunction of NFkB promotes cancer initiation and development, by means of increased inflammation, increased damage to DNA, increased cell proliferation and suppression of cell… Read More »
It’s Easy, It’s Free…and It Prevents Cancer
An April 2015 pilot study published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) is the latest in a line of research studies with profound implications for cancer prevention. A team of researchers examined what changes in gene expression occurred when a group of 48 people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)… Read More »
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