Gut Health And Cancer Prevention Go Hand In Hand

The Role of Your Immune System Against Cancer

In order to boost the immune system, to prevent cancer (and so much more), you need to boost your colony of good gut flora. You let your bowels fight cancer. You let them be your “boots on the ground!”

Research from the University of Chicago found that boosting mice gut bacteria equaled the results of immunotherapy (using your body’s immune system to attack cancer) in slowing the growth of melanoma cancer cells!

They then combined the two (gut bacteria and immunotherapy) modalities and achieved success that was comparable to anti-cancer drugs.

This is about fighting cancer without destroying all the healthy cells in your body! Using your own body to fight for you − not creating a nuclear wasteland of your healthy cells (and absolutely leveling your immune system). Gut health and cancer prevention go hand in hand.

The Supremacy of Your Gut Flora in the Fight Against Cancer

The human microbiome is an incredible network of 100 trillion organisms that live in and on the body. They’re made up of beneficial bacteria as well as fungi, viruses, and bacteria that isn’t so beneficial. We need this microcosm to survive. The relationship between them and the humans who carry them is symbiotic in nature.

Antibiotics wipe out all bacteria (the bad kind as well as the good kind you can’t live without). Chemotherapy wipes out perfectly healthy, non-cancerous cells inside you along with the cancerous cells.

Destroying what keeps you healthy simply isn’t a good method of treatment.

How to Build Up Your Microbiome

Building up your gut microbiome is the way to prevent cancer, fight cancer, and live a longer, healthier life overall. There are three important “PILLARS” of fighting cancer…

PILLAR ONE – Emotional Cleansing: Stress is known as a major cause of inflammation. Inflammation is a building block of all known diseases. In other words, stress will kill you through cancer, heart attack, or autoimmune disease − if you allow it to control your life.

Stress Busters

PILLAR TWO – Detoxification: Personal pollution is as dire as environmental pollution. There is a host of contaminants in our soil, water, and air. That means these toxins are also in our food supply. The control lies with you. You can control what you put on your body, in your body, and how you maintain the environments you live in most (your home and work space). Then you need to work on removing the toxic soup inside you so you can start with a clean slate.

Here is a recipe for Detoxifying Ginger Avocado Green Smoothie

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PILLAR THREE – Diet: Diet is everything. What you choose to put in your mouth may mean the difference between life and death. So much of our poor gut health is linked to what we eat and drink.

The fastest way to build and strengthen your beneficial bacteria is following these three pillars and then applying them in every area of your life. Start with emotional cleansing and detoxification. Then use a 2-phase attack on diet.

Phase One: Incorporate the food source that healthy gut bacteria eat to survive, in the form of pre-biotics. Jerusalem artichokes, chicory, garlic, onions, leek, shallots, asparagus, beetroot, dandelion greens, fennel, peas, cabbage, nuts, and seeds.

Here's a Cabbage Recipe everybody loves
Cabbage with Turmeric

Phase Two: Incorporate a variety of probiotic foods to diversify the healthy bacteria in your gut. Active-culture yogurt, kefir, kombucha tea, tempeh, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickled veggies (in brine – not vinegar), fermented meat (eg. corned beef), and fish (sardines).

Here's a link to my favorite sauerkraut

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The gut health and cancer connection is real. There is no reason you can’t start eating today for cancer prevention or to fight this horrific disease. Once you start loving your gut, you’re going to feel incredible!

Here is a link to a past newsletter on a related topic if you missed it. “What is the mysterious condition called “leaky gut”?”

 
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Adapted from an article by Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MB ChB, PhD