Written by Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo
Every moment your body is undergoing an active process of regeneration,
based as it is on the ceaseless flux of cell life and death -- not unlike the
dissipative structure of a flame
Consider the fact that every three days the enterocytes lining the
villus of your intestines are completely replaced, and that within 7-10 years,
almost every atom and molecule within your body has been excreted, breathed
out, or sloughed off, only to be replaced by new ones from the food you ate,
the water you drank and the air you breathed in, in the interim.
Truth be told, beneath even the appearance of our solid physio-chemical
form, are waves of energy, patterns of vibration (not unlike sound), condensed
forms of light, vast voids of inter-atomic space, and subtending that reality
from 'below,' an infinite field of possibility, described with awe and elegance
by quantum physicists and mystics, alike, albeit with different languages.
Underscoring this amazing interplay of being and non-being, without
which life would not be possible, cancer cells are only deadly because they are
no longer capable of dying in a well-timed and orderly fashion -- a process of
programmed cell death (self-disassembly) known as apoptosis, and shared only by
cells healthy enough to die.
The intentional and relatively traceless self-disassembly of the cell,
which is associated with apoptosis, exemplifies how the individual cell makes
itself holy -- which is the etymology of the word sacrifice ('to make holy') --
by giving itself (one) up selflessly to the whole (many). The word holy, of
course, shares etymological kinship with the words 'health' and 'whole,'
forming a trinity of meanings which have long ago been forgotten or removed
from popular consciousness.
In other words, in order to be whole, healthy and holy, the body and
soul can not be treated as separate processes or substances. In cancer, the
individual cell breaks its sacred bond with the whole community of cells, i.e.
the rest of the body, and proliferates wildly, selfishly on its own; cloning
itself tirelessly, in a sort of narcissism which runs against the cellular
diversity and cooperative interdependence necessary for their to be ONE, whole
functioning healthy being on the macroscopic level.
This "selfish" behavior is to be expected of a cell that has
been starved of basic essential nutrients, exposed to a continuous onslaught of
synthetic chemicals and manmade electromagnetic fields, given semi-synthetic
'nutrients' and 'vitamins' which no longer share resemblance with anything
found in food, and enveloped in an electromagnetically-mediated cocoon of
negative emotions, throughout the duration of its life cycle. These cells, like
the example of children who suffer profound depravations and abuse earlier in
life, learn to grow up with 'body armor,' express 'acting out behavior,'
'selfishness,' and otherwise unhealthy and antisocial characteristics that
could be described in an oncologist's histopathological report as the cellular
phenotype of cancer.
The ability to survive the constant onslaught of life-denying chemicals
and energies has resulted in the down-regulation of genes associated with
apoptosis, and the up-regulation of those associated with the tireless metabolic
activity and proliferation of cancer. This has lead to the cellular equivalent
of the desire for immortality, which is highly unsustainable, and like a virus
too deadly to escape the fate of its host, eventually brings down itself in the
process, as well.
Even non-cancerous senescent cells, which accumulate with age and which
no longer undergo the cell divisions associated with both healthy and cancerous
tissue, may interfere with healthy life processes because they don't die as
rapidly, subsequently crowding out the living, continually regenerating cell
lines that are healthy enough to die and be reborn again. Cell death, therefore, and the healthy cell
turnover that dying makes possible, is a fundamental prerequisite for the
continuance of healthy cell life -- and the tissue, organ and bodily systems
made of these cells. by not dying.
And both cancer and senescent cells, which stand in the way of cellular
regeneration, can be induced to make way for new healthy cells through the
induction of programmed cell death (apoptosis). GreenMedInfo.com has over 345
natural substances with apoptotic properties. The body's ability to countermand
cancerous processes, and even to regress tumors and active cancers, is only now
beginning to come to mainstream light. For instance, a groundbreaking study
published this month in The Lancet Oncology shows for the first time that many
screen-detected "invasive" breast tumors spontaneously regress when
undiagnosed and untreated. What this means is that, given a chance, the body
will utilize internal immune resources to thwart cancer.
Regenerative processes, however, begin to decline with age, and are
further interfered with by chemical exposures, nutrient deficiencies and
incompatibilities, as well as acute and chronic stress. Ultimately, the degree
and pace to which this happens depends largely on the physical and energetic
properties of the food consumed, water ingested and air breathed in, and what
lifestyle and spiritual choices we make in our daily lives.
Certain foods, spices and nutrients, as well as therapeutic actions
(listening to music), have been studied to significantly enhance the
regenerative process in the body. Here are a few more cases...
There are neuritogenic substances which are capable of stimulating
neural growth factor, an important inducer of neurological repair. There are substances that stimulate the
regeneration of beta cells, the insulin-producing cells that are damaged in
type 1 diabetics. There are substances
that can regenerate serious spinal chord damage, such as resveratrol. And you
even have substances known as neocardiogenic that are capable of stimulating
regeneration of the cardiac muscle.
There is also the commonly over-looked dimension of how much sunlight
exposure is occurring on a daily basis, and whether or not it is occurring
closer to the UVB-saturated solar noon (12 pm). Research clearly indicates that
the skin has properties not unlike solar panels, capable of storing light
energy in molecular bonds, specifically within the cholesterol sulfate and
vitamin D sulfate molecules produced in the skin.
Melanin, also, is believed to convert sunlight into metabolic energy
within vertebrate animals -- a property that has been sacrificed in lighter
skin humans in order to accommodate the lower levels of sunlight availability
experienced by their ancestors living at higher latitudes. Sunlight may be a
key and irreplaceable ingredient in the regenerative processes our body depends
on, and may not be substitutable with supplemental vitamin D3.
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