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Cancer Root Causes: toxins in foods & products (esp. glyphosate, fake sweeteners, seed oils, EDCs & heavy metals), sunlight deficiency, covid vax, EMFs, meds & scans, sleep issues, sleeping pills

Quick access to a summary list and research on more than 80 verifiable root causes of cancer. Knowing root causes makes true healing possible.

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Hundreds of Studies Demonstrate that Processed Foods Cause Cancer

“Ultra-processed food” [UPF] describes food products that have been created or altered from their natural state with added sugars or artificial sweeteners, salt, additives, preservatives, or other chemicals… Hundreds of scientific studies provide strong evidence that ultra-processed foods are linked to health problems. The science is particularly strong linking ultra-processed foods to cancer, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and depression. Food companies heavily market (and profit from) ultra-processed foods, and they also formulate these foods to be addictive – with added sugars, fat, chemical additives, and other attributes that make the foods highly palatable and easy to overeat.

U.S. Right to Know

Sugar, Glucose, Glutamine

Our research, and that of many others, has shown that these tumor cells cannot live very long without the sugar, glucose, or the amino acid, glutamine. For cancer it becomes very, very clear the tumor cell can’t live without the glucose, but they can use ketone bodies or fatty acids as an alternative to glucose… It’s not a genetic disease, it’s a mitochondrial metabolic disease. Once you realize that, the treatments and the lives and success will be greatly improved. Very few physicians even understand this, they’ve never been trained to look at cancer as something other than what the system tells them what it is… We have the whole system set up for revenue generation to treat cancer as a genetic disease. – Prof. Thomas N. Seyfried link

Avoidance of the Sun Decreases Life Expectancy to that of Smokers

We assessed the differences in sun exposure as a risk factor for all-cause mortality in a competing risk scenario for 29, 518 Swedish women in a prospective 20-year follow-up of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden (MISS) cohort… Nonsmokers who avoided sun exposure had a life expectancy similar to smokers in the highest sun exposure group, indicating that avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking.

Journal of Internal Medicine

Air Pollution & Artificial Nighttime Lighting that are Prevalent in Cities Increase Cancer by as much as 25%

Air pollution and artificial nighttime lighting could be contributing to a rise in thyroid cancer rates among children, according to a recent study from Yale. The research suggests that exposure to these prevalent urban conditions may elevate cancer risk by as much as 25 percent.

The Epoch Times

Medical Scans Damage DNA, Contributing to Cancer

The radiation you get from x-ray, CT, and nuclear imaging is ionizing radiation — high-energy wavelengths or particles that penetrate tissue to reveal the body's internal organs and structures. Ionizing radiation can damage DNA, and although your cells repair most of the damage, they sometimes do the job imperfectly, leaving small areas of "misrepair." The result is DNA mutations that may contribute to cancer years down the road.

Harvard Medical School

mRNA Injections Induce Cancer

This study suggests that mRNA injections induce distinct cancer-associated metabolic changes in the bone marrow. These findings help to explain the carcinogenic effects of mRNA technology.

Nicolas Hulscher MPH

Stress, Adverse Coping Styles Associated with More Cancer and Higher Mortality

Cancer is a multifaceted disease with various contributing factors, and psychological and emotional states are increasingly recognized as significant influences. Examining the link between these factors and cancer development reveals how negative emotions and stress can affect the body’s natural defenses, while positive emotions and energy regulation may offer potential benefits... Research shows that a stress-prone personality, negative emotional reactions, adverse coping styles, and poor quality of life are associated with higher cancer incidence, lower cancer survival rates, and higher cancer mortality. Furthermore, work-related stress has been linked to a higher risk of colorectal, lung, and esophageal cancers.

The Epoch Times

Contents

  1. Genes Aren’t the Problem (So, What Is?)

  2. Implications

  3. Root Causes of Cancer, Plasma Cell Neoplasm (Tumor)

  4. Toxic Drugs as First-Line Treatment? Used for a Prolonged Period?

  5. Cancer Reversal and Recovery Successes

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Genes Aren’t the Problem (So, What Is?)

Disease isn’t Caused by Bad Genes

Defective genes are spoken about as if they are “disease time bombs,” fatalistically programmed to go off inside of us… And yet, despite common misconceptions… diseases that result from errors in the nucleotide sequence of a single gene… [account for] less than 1% of all diseases… Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, it is no longer accurate to say that our genes “cause” disease.

Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo

It’s Caused by Things We Can Identify and Change

Genomic researcher Craig Venter remarked… “Genes have very little impact on life outcomes. Our biology is way too complicated for that and deals with hundreds of thousands of independent factors. Genes are absolutely not our fate. They can give us useful information about the increased risk of a disease, but in most cases they will not determine the actual cause of the disease, or the actual incidence of somebody getting it.” … As we migrate from one country to another, our chances of being diagnosed with most chronic illnesses are determined not by the country we come from but by the country we migrate to… [and] the concordance between identical twins for breast cancer was found to be only 20%. Instead of our genes, our lifestyle and environment account for 90–95% of our most chronic illnesses.

Pharmaceutical Research

With knowledge of causal factors, true healing is possible.

Establishment medicine has long promoted the belief that genes are a “blueprint” for a person’s biology and health. This was proven incorrect by the Human Genome Project completed in 2003.

Genes are better understood as potentialities.

  • Genes express differently based on the cells’ environment — which means our exposure to toxins, nutrients, stress, exercise, and so on.

  • Those environmental factors determine whether genes are “signaled” or not.

Implications

The presumption that conditions that seemed to “run in the family” were due to genetic inheritance overlooked all the other things (the “environment”) that family members may share: the food they eat, the toxins in their water, the electro-magnetics in their area, the chemicals in their cleaning products, the way they deal with emotions, their stress levels and so on.

The implications of the genetic “blueprint” model were profound and long-lasting. Western medicine promoted the false belief that disease is due to genetic inheritance, propagating a medical system built on the false belief of fated outcomes and “no cures”, resulting in:

  • Helplessness, disempowerment

  • A focus on symptom management

  • Excessive use of pharmaceutical drugs

  • Distraction from identifying and addressing root causes

Dr. Bruce Lipton: “We are not victims of our genome”

My research on how environment [toxins, nutrition, exercise, stress relief, etc] shapes genetic activity was published in 1977… Twenty years after I started my stem cell research, the same conclusions were officially recognized by science in advancing the revolutionary field of Epigenetics … the science of how environment controls genetic activity. The most exciting consequence of these studies is the revelation that we are truly masters of our genome… We are empowered creators, not victims of our genome.

Dr. Bruce Lipton

While genes play a role in life and disease, there are innumerable epigenetic triggers that differentiate us from mice and each other [and express as health or illness].

Dr. Nisha J. Manek MD

Root Causes of Cancer, Plasma Cell Neoplasm (Tumor)

Key factors underlying cancer are chronic inflammation and immune system dysfunction. [source] The most well-documented and prevalent root causes of cancer include:

  1. Toxins in foods (especially ultra-processed foods and others containing glyphosate, microplastics, artificial sweeteners, and seed oils)

  2. Toxins in personal care and household products (particularly EDCs and heavy metals)

  3. Sunlight / vitamin D-deficiency (which includes using sunscreens and wearing sunglasses and clothing that blocks sunlight)

  4. Covid-19 vaccine

  5. EMFs

  6. Heartburn drugs and other pharmaceuticals

  7. Medical scans

  8. Sleep issues and sleeping pills

Verifiable references for those plus more root causes are listed below:

  1. Acetaminophen (Tylenol), chronic use [source and source]

  2. Acne products containing benzene [source and source and source and source and source and source]

  3. Air pollution [source and source and source]

  4. Alcohol [source and source and source]

  5. Aluminum See heavy metals

  6. Anti-anxiety drugs [source]

  7. Antibacterial, triclosan [source and source and source]

  8. Antidepressants [source]

  9. Antimony [source]

  10. Arsenic [source]

  11. Artificial light [source and source]

  12. Artificial sweeteners, aspartame, sucralose, sacchari, high fructose corn syrup [source and source and source and source and source and source and 1978 source]

  13. Baby formula prepared in polypropylene (PP) bottles [source] See also: microplastics and EDCs

  14. Benzene [source and source and source and source and source and source and source]

  15. Benzodiazepines [source]

  16. Birth control (contraceptives) [source and source and source and source and source] continue getting quick links to research on 85 verifiable root causes for as little as $7

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