Cancer is caracterized by the presence of different type of cells inside the human body.
Those cells, having differenciated DNA will have a differentiated form of expression in comparison to other normal cells inside the body. Their expression can be harmful because they can grow faster than normal cells, they can migrate to different body tissues and cause several health problems.
While those cells are rapidly growing in number they start spreading through blood circulation to specific organs.
Our immune system is normally able to recognise those strange cells and eliminate them before it is too late, however in some particular cases the immune system is not able to recognise those strange cells which can lead to an uncontrolled increased in number of those cells inside the body.
Most types of cancer can have a positive prognosis, however conventional treatments seem not being able, alone, to erradicate or decrease the increase of number of cancers, and they seem not being able to prevent their recurrence.
In UK, for example, the number of new cases of cancer continues to rise and, in 2016, there were 303,135 cancers registered (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers); this is equivalent to 828 new cases being diagnosed each day during 2016.
Breast (15.2%), prostate (13.4%), lung (12.7%) and colorectal (11.5%) cancers continue to account for more than half of the cancer registrations in the UK.
Naturopathy is a holistic therapy based on the use of natural medicine therapies and it includes the use of herbs, vitamins and minerals. Naturopathy uses traditional medicine methods (for example, it uses herbal treatments) but it doesn't exclude the advances of scientific research, as the use herbal treatments are gaining acceptance by the scientific community.
The use of Naturopathy and naturopathic treatments is growing around the world and one of the reasons for it is that it can be a safe option for cancer patients specially when it is monitorized by qualified practitioners, as scientific research has been proven. In those cases, naturopathic treatments can be used even together with conventional treatments increasing the health prognosis of those patients.
As showed in several studies, natural treatments can be used even in parallel with chemotherapy treatments increasing the survival of cancer patients. The importance of the presence of a naturopathic care provider is that each person and each cancer is different which may require different natural medicine approaches.
It is well known that Chemotherapy has several negative impacts on cancer patient's health and it can even increase the recurrence of other types of cancer over the years. Natural medicine can also have a positive impact on that, helping the patient to have a better quality of life after a Chemotherapy treatment or even preventing the recurrence of other types of cancer.
For example, in 2014, an study presented by the Institute of Biometrics, Medical University Hannover, Germany, was performed to evaluate the benefits of complementary medicine in prostate cancer patients undergoing hormonal therapy.
Those 93 cancer patients were being treated under international guidelines and they were suffering from side-effects caused by the treatments, to reduce the side effects they were given natural treatments. Their symptoms were self-assessed and it was concluded that the complementary treatment helped the prostate cancer patients, reducing the severity of side-effects caused by hormonal therapy.
Another way that Naturopathy can help is providing important tips and advices in terms of Nutrition and lifestyle to the patient. Diet plays a very big role in cancer treatment and small changes can make a big difference. The information available can be very confusing and misleading, the Naturopath can help you to balance your diet and can give you important tips that will guide you and help you to achieve the best health and well-being.
Links:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics-for-the-uk
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25189917
Monday, April 29, 2019
Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Culture gap - jupiter Chiron
Jupiter and Chiron have met on a giant cloud over Mount Olympus, home of the gods. They are watching events on Earth.
Chiron: (pointing) Hey, Jupiter, you see that little human over there?
Jupiter: You mean the one with all the intolerance?
Chiron: Yeah, that one over there, surrounded by people different from himself.
Jupiter: Not too happy, is he?
Chiron: No. Shall we?
Jupiter: Of course!
They link arms, then disappear in a puff of smoke, reappearing near the human in question.
Everyman: Wha–? Who the hell are you?
Jupiter: Different from you, apparently.
Chiron: Yep, it seems that everyone is different from you. Don’t you ever get lonely?
Everyman: I don’t know what you mean, but I do know you aren’t from around here. So here’s the point-end of my gun. Go back where you came from, before I shoot!
Jupiter sticks out one finger, plugs up the end of the gun. Everyman shoots and the bullet is stopped by Jupiter’s finger. Everyman looks at his gun, dumbfounded.
Jupiter: You see, there’s really no need for this.
Everyman: Now you’re making me mad!
He gets out a bigger gun, but before he can use it, Chiron suddenly grows very large and picks him up by the collar, shaking him until he drops all weapons. Several fall from his clothing and clatter to the ground.
Chiron: Silly human! When will you learn?
Jupiter: Intolerance will get you nowhere.
Everyman: (choking a little) You don’t understand! They are going to kill us! They won’t let us just be—so we have to get them first. It’s the way of the world. If we don’t protect our way of life we’ll lose it.
Jupiter: But if you keep fighting, you’ll lose your life anyway. And who will be left around to continue the culture you’ve built? Why are you fighting anyway? Who is the real enemy here?
Everyman is still dangling from Chiron’s grip. Chiron drops him suddenly.
Chiron: (shaking his head) I can’t make you tolerant. But I can show you what’s possible.
He picks up a rock and breathes on it. The rocks clarifies, becomes like a pool. In the rock, pictures begin to appear. Everyman becomes fascinated and steps closer.
Jupiter: What do you see?
Everyman: I see my people, fighting our neighbors, as we’ve always done. So many dead, so much territory changing hands over so many years.
Chiron: Do you want your children to die for this?
Everyman: I, um, I don’t know. I want our way of life to continue. I’m not giving up our ways!
Jupiter: What if you didn’t have to?
Everyman: I don’t want my daughter to marry one of them!
Chiron: I understand, but what if your battle is over? What if no one is right and no one is wrong?
Jupiter: What if you could spend your days in building up your culture instead of tearing down theirs?
Chiron: And what if their culture contains some hidden key, some mystery that can unlock something in yours—wouldn’t you want access to that?
Everyman: (grudgingly) Maybe.
Jupiter: You’re a hard case.
Everyman: Yeah. I’m not budging.
Jupiter: (to Chiron) He doesn’t seem to have any clue that he’s not unique in his intolerance. It’s as if he really believes his culture is superior. This is useless.
Chiron: (to Jupiter) I think it’s time to visit the one we really came here to see.
They turn their back on Everyman and walk into a nearby house. There, seated on the floor, is an 8-year-old of indeterminate race, who looks up in surprise.
Jupiter: Hi there!
Child: Whoa! You have got to be deities!
Chiron: You guessed it. Can’t fool you for a minute, can we?
Child: Nope.
Jupiter: Bit of a mess out there, isn’t it? He points outside with his thumb.
Child: No kidding! Everybody’s killing each other all the time. They killed my dad because he’s not like them. They shun my mom too. Did you come to fix it?
Chiron: No, we came to do something better. We came to help you fix it.
Child: No way! That’s not better—that’s worse.
Jupiter: Yeah, it wasn’t my idea, it was Chiron’s. Blame him.
Chiron: You were born to be a bridge between the two cultures you came from.
Child: Don’t be an idiot. How am I supposed to do that?
Jupiter: Because you want to be whole. Because you have two sides and yet you are one person. Until you completely own and accept both sides of you, this war will continue. Make friends with both sides and you make yourself whole.
Child: That sounds hard. I don’t know where to start.
Chiron: Start wherever you are. Find the places that are broken in you and make them whole. Gather people who are different together and get them talking about what makes them the same. Help them learn from each other. This will make you whole and it will save the world you live in.
Jupiter and Chiron begin to go up in a puff of swirling smoke.
Child: Don’t go! I can’t do this alone.
Chiron: You won’t really be alone. We’ll be behind you the whole way.
Jupiter: You can do it. It is your gift to the world. And you have your whole life to do it in.
Chiron: (pointing) Hey, Jupiter, you see that little human over there?
Jupiter: You mean the one with all the intolerance?
Chiron: Yeah, that one over there, surrounded by people different from himself.
Jupiter: Not too happy, is he?
Chiron: No. Shall we?
Jupiter: Of course!
They link arms, then disappear in a puff of smoke, reappearing near the human in question.
Everyman: Wha–? Who the hell are you?
Jupiter: Different from you, apparently.
Chiron: Yep, it seems that everyone is different from you. Don’t you ever get lonely?
Everyman: I don’t know what you mean, but I do know you aren’t from around here. So here’s the point-end of my gun. Go back where you came from, before I shoot!
Jupiter sticks out one finger, plugs up the end of the gun. Everyman shoots and the bullet is stopped by Jupiter’s finger. Everyman looks at his gun, dumbfounded.
Jupiter: You see, there’s really no need for this.
Everyman: Now you’re making me mad!
He gets out a bigger gun, but before he can use it, Chiron suddenly grows very large and picks him up by the collar, shaking him until he drops all weapons. Several fall from his clothing and clatter to the ground.
Chiron: Silly human! When will you learn?
Jupiter: Intolerance will get you nowhere.
Everyman: (choking a little) You don’t understand! They are going to kill us! They won’t let us just be—so we have to get them first. It’s the way of the world. If we don’t protect our way of life we’ll lose it.
Jupiter: But if you keep fighting, you’ll lose your life anyway. And who will be left around to continue the culture you’ve built? Why are you fighting anyway? Who is the real enemy here?
Everyman is still dangling from Chiron’s grip. Chiron drops him suddenly.
Chiron: (shaking his head) I can’t make you tolerant. But I can show you what’s possible.
He picks up a rock and breathes on it. The rocks clarifies, becomes like a pool. In the rock, pictures begin to appear. Everyman becomes fascinated and steps closer.
Jupiter: What do you see?
Everyman: I see my people, fighting our neighbors, as we’ve always done. So many dead, so much territory changing hands over so many years.
Chiron: Do you want your children to die for this?
Everyman: I, um, I don’t know. I want our way of life to continue. I’m not giving up our ways!
Jupiter: What if you didn’t have to?
Everyman: I don’t want my daughter to marry one of them!
Chiron: I understand, but what if your battle is over? What if no one is right and no one is wrong?
Jupiter: What if you could spend your days in building up your culture instead of tearing down theirs?
Chiron: And what if their culture contains some hidden key, some mystery that can unlock something in yours—wouldn’t you want access to that?
Everyman: (grudgingly) Maybe.
Jupiter: You’re a hard case.
Everyman: Yeah. I’m not budging.
Jupiter: (to Chiron) He doesn’t seem to have any clue that he’s not unique in his intolerance. It’s as if he really believes his culture is superior. This is useless.
Chiron: (to Jupiter) I think it’s time to visit the one we really came here to see.
They turn their back on Everyman and walk into a nearby house. There, seated on the floor, is an 8-year-old of indeterminate race, who looks up in surprise.
Jupiter: Hi there!
Child: Whoa! You have got to be deities!
Chiron: You guessed it. Can’t fool you for a minute, can we?
Child: Nope.
Jupiter: Bit of a mess out there, isn’t it? He points outside with his thumb.
Child: No kidding! Everybody’s killing each other all the time. They killed my dad because he’s not like them. They shun my mom too. Did you come to fix it?
Chiron: No, we came to do something better. We came to help you fix it.
Child: No way! That’s not better—that’s worse.
Jupiter: Yeah, it wasn’t my idea, it was Chiron’s. Blame him.
Chiron: You were born to be a bridge between the two cultures you came from.
Child: Don’t be an idiot. How am I supposed to do that?
Jupiter: Because you want to be whole. Because you have two sides and yet you are one person. Until you completely own and accept both sides of you, this war will continue. Make friends with both sides and you make yourself whole.
Child: That sounds hard. I don’t know where to start.
Chiron: Start wherever you are. Find the places that are broken in you and make them whole. Gather people who are different together and get them talking about what makes them the same. Help them learn from each other. This will make you whole and it will save the world you live in.
Jupiter and Chiron begin to go up in a puff of swirling smoke.
Child: Don’t go! I can’t do this alone.
Chiron: You won’t really be alone. We’ll be behind you the whole way.
Jupiter: You can do it. It is your gift to the world. And you have your whole life to do it in.
Monday, April 08, 2019
Fear
How many lives are you going to live?
And how many movies are you going to play?
Which actress are you going to be next?
Because I am you inside your dreams, I am your answers I am also you
So tell me now, from who are you running from?
Let me face your fears,
Let me see you, let me take your breath away, dont be scared
Because I am inside you waiting for a chance,
I am the will that you hide, I am your lost imagination,
I am your childhood memories, so look at me and dont run away from me,
Face me, undress me, come to me and tell me what you see.
How many times are you going to try to make me run away,
How many times you will make me say, that you can stand by yourself and
that I am inside you already?
Are you grasping the paradise without smelling its flowers?
Are you holding to tight without looking at the sky?
Why? what are you afraid of?
Why are you so afraid of yourself?
Because I see you in the streets, I know where you are,
I see you losing the way and I see when you sometimes find your way again
I see you hiding close to all the lost souls that you find,
I see you hiding yourself in the dark,
But i am from your kind, I am your inspiration, I am your soul,
And I will marry your fears, I will take out your heart away if you dont
see yourself in me.
It is not a choice.
So when there is not choice, when everything is lost,
where are you going to hide? When the light is too high.
When there is no souls to be saved, when there is no food to eat,
who is going to save you? when are you going to save yourself,
when are you going to face it and look at me?
Dear, everything is lost, there are no souls to save,
all of them where you, and only you looking for a place to hide,
So from now on, look at me, dont force a smile and dont force your tears,
Look at those lost souls smiling at you, trying to steal from you
and just face the truth, it is just stealing.
And how many movies are you going to play?
Which actress are you going to be next?
Because I am you inside your dreams, I am your answers I am also you
So tell me now, from who are you running from?
Let me face your fears,
Let me see you, let me take your breath away, dont be scared
Because I am inside you waiting for a chance,
I am the will that you hide, I am your lost imagination,
I am your childhood memories, so look at me and dont run away from me,
Face me, undress me, come to me and tell me what you see.
How many times are you going to try to make me run away,
How many times you will make me say, that you can stand by yourself and
that I am inside you already?
Are you grasping the paradise without smelling its flowers?
Are you holding to tight without looking at the sky?
Why? what are you afraid of?
Why are you so afraid of yourself?
Because I see you in the streets, I know where you are,
I see you losing the way and I see when you sometimes find your way again
I see you hiding close to all the lost souls that you find,
I see you hiding yourself in the dark,
But i am from your kind, I am your inspiration, I am your soul,
And I will marry your fears, I will take out your heart away if you dont
see yourself in me.
It is not a choice.
So when there is not choice, when everything is lost,
where are you going to hide? When the light is too high.
When there is no souls to be saved, when there is no food to eat,
who is going to save you? when are you going to save yourself,
when are you going to face it and look at me?
Dear, everything is lost, there are no souls to save,
all of them where you, and only you looking for a place to hide,
So from now on, look at me, dont force a smile and dont force your tears,
Look at those lost souls smiling at you, trying to steal from you
and just face the truth, it is just stealing.
menino
Meu anjo, nao digas mais do que o que sabes, nao partas o meu coracao
Es tao lindo, e doce, e sabes o que queres, por isso nao desafies o meu coracao
Vi-te a brilhar, vi a tua luz tao bela e sonhei que estarias ao meu lado,
por isso agora que me deixaste, os dias sao apenas dias, restos de pedacos do meu coracao
E as pessoas passam por mim enquanto nada existe em mim,
Porque eu dei-te tudo cedo demais porque tu es um anjo e tinhas os bracos abertos para mim
Guardaste me do frio por um dia, no meu dia mais feliz, fizeste me esquecer o passado
mas ficaste pouco e deste me um timido e curto adeus
E eu ainda sonho ,em segredo, com os teus bracos grandes, ainda sonho com o calor do teu corpo e com as vezes que me querias agarradinha a ti, enquanto me protegias
E quando lembro, desfaco-me em chuva de dor, desfaco me em noites mal dormidas quando lembro do teu sorriso de crianca traquina, quando lembro que foste iluminar outras moradas,
Queria aconchegar te como mae, queria amar-te como amiga, saber os teus segredos e os teus planos de menino, queria agarrar as tuas maos frias nos dias escuros enquando me dizias que eu nao podia voltar solta-las nem mais uma vez.
Via em ti o Sol mesmo nos dias em que havia apenas Lua, ouvia as tuas palavras lindas de anjo e esquecia que ainda nao conhecias o sabor do que dizias,
ignorava que a intemperanca era a tua forma de ser, eu nao queria ver que nao ias ficar, porque eras tao lindo, e tao brilhante e tinhas ainda o gosto a doces infantis e desenhos inacabados
Porque tu ja homem feito eras mas nao querias parecer crescido.
Um homem que ainda nao se queria adulto,
eu amava-te porque, tu, como menino traquina olhavas para mim sem saberes de onde vinhas.
Es tao lindo, e doce, e sabes o que queres, por isso nao desafies o meu coracao
Vi-te a brilhar, vi a tua luz tao bela e sonhei que estarias ao meu lado,
por isso agora que me deixaste, os dias sao apenas dias, restos de pedacos do meu coracao
E as pessoas passam por mim enquanto nada existe em mim,
Porque eu dei-te tudo cedo demais porque tu es um anjo e tinhas os bracos abertos para mim
Guardaste me do frio por um dia, no meu dia mais feliz, fizeste me esquecer o passado
mas ficaste pouco e deste me um timido e curto adeus
E eu ainda sonho ,em segredo, com os teus bracos grandes, ainda sonho com o calor do teu corpo e com as vezes que me querias agarradinha a ti, enquanto me protegias
E quando lembro, desfaco-me em chuva de dor, desfaco me em noites mal dormidas quando lembro do teu sorriso de crianca traquina, quando lembro que foste iluminar outras moradas,
Queria aconchegar te como mae, queria amar-te como amiga, saber os teus segredos e os teus planos de menino, queria agarrar as tuas maos frias nos dias escuros enquando me dizias que eu nao podia voltar solta-las nem mais uma vez.
Via em ti o Sol mesmo nos dias em que havia apenas Lua, ouvia as tuas palavras lindas de anjo e esquecia que ainda nao conhecias o sabor do que dizias,
ignorava que a intemperanca era a tua forma de ser, eu nao queria ver que nao ias ficar, porque eras tao lindo, e tao brilhante e tinhas ainda o gosto a doces infantis e desenhos inacabados
Porque tu ja homem feito eras mas nao querias parecer crescido.
Um homem que ainda nao se queria adulto,
eu amava-te porque, tu, como menino traquina olhavas para mim sem saberes de onde vinhas.
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