I call my three pillars to beat cancer the “survival triangle.” If you’re serious about keeping (or getting) cancer out of your life, follow these steps to better health. They are simple, proven fighters that will make you a winner against this devastating disease. Taking a single one and making it part of your life will make a huge difference in your overall health…
If you utilize all three, it will change your life.
Now, before anything, let me say that traditional cancer treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) does its part to help patients survive cancer. Unfortunately, they don’t address the root cause of cancer. They treat the tumors that result. They kill the cancer cells and a lot of healthy cells along the way. Conventional cancer modalities treat the disease… not the patient.
Even oncologists who understand that toxins and inflammation are the underlying cause of millions of deaths globally from cancer every year aren’t addressing prevention techniques that will keep these patients from coming back with another cancer in a year or five years.
Addressing the “Alternative Medicine” Skeptics
If you don’t address the cause – the problems that start the cancer ball rolling – then you haven’t really beaten it… you’ve only managed to knock it unconscious for a while.
You have to take control of your health. That requires you to understand how your body works and what it needs to do the best job for you that it can.
If you don’t “believe” in alternative therapies, then you’re doing yourself a great disservice. Even if you fully expect traditional treatment to “cure you,” alternative methods can help you with the side effects you’re going to experience, keep your body stronger, and guard you against another episode of cancer in your future.
Alternative choices can improve your quality of life and help you endure cancer treatments such as radiation that leave the body (and immune system) ravaged and weak. The “war” against cancer leaves as much destruction as a real war. Much like the natural landscape and infrastructure is left annihilated in battle… so is your body after traditional treatment.
The 3 Pillars to Eliminating Cancer
Pillar #1 – Diet
Cancer represents the biggest fight of your entire life. You need to be as fit and healthy as you can be to meet the challenge. In order to handle the demands of exercise, to terminate infection and bacteria, to fight the effects of age, your body is going to need the right fuel.
That is why diet is the first pillar of beating the root causes of cancer.
Anyone (medical professional or otherwise) who tells you that diet does not affect your health or ability to fight disease is a liar. Period.
Diet is everything. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 40% of cancers are caused by diet (I think the numbers are actually much higher). What you choose to put in your mouth may mean the difference between life and death.
That isn’t dramatic, that is fact.
Eating a diet filled with junk food, food dyes, preservatives, excess sugar, caffeine, or other “empty” calories cannot and will not feed your body. If your body doesn’t get the right vitamins and minerals – it stops running. Just like a car without gas.
There are many anti-cancer meal plans that I discuss in my books and website, but there is no universal diet plan that will suit every person equally. Instead, dietary requirements must be assessed based on each individual’s specific needs. Remove any foods (no matter how much you love them) that cause stress to your immune system.
My personal suggestion is to fill your diet with fresh, organic foods (where possible), salads, smoothies, and brightly colored produce. Remember that dairy, soy, grains, and even certain produce can be unknown stressors. Avoid white sugar, white flour, white rice, processed foods, dairy, and soy.
Pillar #2 – Emotional Cleansing
Negative emotion as a root cause of cancer is reality. There is far too much science to back this stance up, so keep an open mind.
Stanford psychiatrist, Dr. David Spiegel, was a skeptic when he began his study on the influence of negativity on breast cancer patients. He was shocked to discover that at the ten-year survival checkup, those women who included therapy in their lives survived twice as long as those who did not.
You read that right… there was a 50% better survival rate by purging negative emotion.
Another Yale research study found that cancer spread faster in women who had “repressed personalities.” They defined the word “repressed” as having intense feelings of hopelessness and not having the ability to express anger, fear, or other negative emotions.
In other words, they bottled it all up inside and it made them sicker, faster.
Stress is known in the traditional and alternative communities as a major cause of inflammation. It is one thing everyone agrees on (though traditional medicine’s answer is another prescription). Inflammation has been discovered at the base of all known diseases.
In other words, stress will kill you through cancer or heart attack or autoimmune disease… if you allow it to control your life. Balanced emotions equal a balanced physiological system.
Pillar #3 – Detoxification
There are countless stressors in our modern world and many of them are foods, people, or situations, and products we allow into our lives. We’ve talked about the first two. Let’s discuss the contamination most people never consider.
Personal pollution is as dire as environmental pollution and we are surrounded by both at every turn. Pollutants are in our soil, water, and air, and that means they are in our food supply. Those are harder to control (even organic foods are grown on the same planet we’ve corrupted with countless toxins).
You can control what you put on your body, what you put in your body, and how you maintain the environments you live in most (your home and work space).
If you haven’t heard about the chemical soup found in cosmetics, household goods, and everyday cleansers, I urge you to do some research on it right now. From heavy metals and arsenic to formaldehyde and parabens… products you buy every day at your local market are filled with endocrine disruptors, estrogen mimics, and outright poison to the cells in your body.
One person I urge you to read is Dr. Sam Epstein, a professor of Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health.
In his book, The Politics of Cancer, he states, “The NCI (National Cancer Institute) promised annual cancer mortality rates would be halved by the year 2000. The establishment now belatedly admits that cancer rates are increasing sharply. It discounts substantial evidence…the wide range of chemical and radioactive carcinogens permeating the environment, air, water, food, and the workplace. The establishment ignores, let alone investigates, carcinogenic contaminants in dietary fat, particularly pesticides, PCBs, and estrogen (with extensive and unregulated use as growth promoting animals food additives).”
Big Business (food manufacturers, chemical producers, and even personal care manufacturers), and Big Pharma (drugs, drugs, drugs) don’t care about your health. They don’t care about “curing” anything at all because then… how would they make money?
Every time you use cosmetics, shampoos, conditioners, antiperspirants, paints, household cleaning agents, laundry detergent, or any host of other products… you are playing Russian Roulette with your health.
These deadly toxins don’t just pass through your system. No, that would be bad but your (healthy) immune system would be able to control most of the fallout. What makes many of these chemicals so dangerous is that they accumulate in your body, gradually building up (bit by bit) to levels that are toxic according to any agency.
The True Causes of Cancer
There are many things stressing your body each and every day. Junk nutrition, high levels of stress, and chemical contamination push these stressors past the brink of what your body can handle. It’s up to you to use the three pillars to remove as much of these burdens as possible, so your body can do what it knows how to do… which is to keep you healthy and cancer-free.
Thanks for your Cancer video series that allows me to be proactive and use
diet and holistic methods to not have a recurrence since surgery in 2012
Just love your articles! They have helped me learn a lot & to make myself & my family make the right decisions in life!!
wanderful!!
great information makes sense.
Thanks for your most informative articles. I am on the path to recovery through alternative medicines and your video series helped me find the right alternative therapy. Follow your articles regularly & benefit from it.
Are there any male pancreatic cancer survivors out there? My husband desperately needs help! The Drs say he need 90 grams of protein a day and we were doing Gerson
I was told I had a lot of mercury in my system from eating a lot of tuna and from mercury/silver fillings. The chiro/nutritional doctor I had, recommended two products from Standard Process vitamins to detox the mercury out of my system. They were Cholocal and Parotid. They are natural products and available on Amazon. He said I was at major risk for Ovarian cancer as, through non-invasive nutritional testing, he found that that was where the body was storing the excess mercury. Apparently those two items pull heavy metals out of your body and detox it. I have never heard of these products referenced on your site but it might be worth checking into for an article.
I have no sign of cancer and likely would have died from mercury poisoning which would have caused ovarian cancer according to what my nutritional doctor said. That was in 2009 and I am still alive and very healthy.
Detoxification methods? Which ones work? I know some conventional health practitioners say this cannot be done.
I’ve been following these guidelines for years now and simply never get sick. One thing that I think is missing is exercise. Exercise greatly improves my own personal physical and emotional health
Does anyone have a recommendation for good, healthy cosmetics for women, without all of the toxins?
Suzanne Somers. Use them, love them. USDA organic and certified toxic free.
Yes, go to vitacost.com and look for organic cosmetics of all kinds. Skin care, body care, hair care, etc.
Anne Marie Gianni! Pure and wonderful!
Check out Miessence.com, completely chemical free, organic plant oils and aloe vera, cosmetics, hair care, skin care, home care and superfoods. From Australia, ships worldwide.
Dr Belter skin care and mineral make up. 95%-100% organic. Excellent product.
Try Neals Yard Remedies (UK company) organic natural ingredients. I love their range and been using them for years.
Ann Marie Gianni … organic, chemical free. It’s like you smell nature every time you use one of the products. I absolutely love her products. My 24 yr old said my skin has never looked better. It looks soft and less red than she’s ever seen it.
Arbonne. Also vegan. Cruelty free and safe to use. A win/win, in my book.
Great article. Since surviving breast cancer 10 years ago, I have implemented most all of the named restrictions even replacing dryer sheets with wool dryer balls, and using only chemical free detergents, etc. it does help.
I use Naturtint Hair colour ( Semi-permanent) £10.99 VEGAN friendly from Holland & Barratt ( amazing colour & Shine)
I use METHOD washing up liquid/ Kirchen spray/Handwash/Laundry wash
Also ECOVER
I eat Organic Porridge daily?
But the Naturtint still has peroxide in it. Best to not colour the hair at all. I stopped using it after my cancer diagnosis
“traditional cancer treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) does its part to help patients survive cancer.”
I got from watching the documentaries that chemo was crap and only had about a 5% survival rate, it destroyed the immune system and left the patient weaker.
Was that all untrue ?? I’m confused now as you are now they do there part ?
My thoughts exactly! Which is true?
I beleive that in case of aggressive cancers there is no time for experimenting with naturals, naturals take time for the healing. See Scott Davies, who in stage 4 got some palliative chemo, and stent to survive some time, so he won some time for the chemo-free solutions.
What hair dye is safe to use?
since i went organic i feel healthier have more energy and sleep better! Its definitely better for your health although more expensive!
Ty, No one can thank you enough for all the awareness you’ve helped bring to many of us afflicted with one-sided and partial info on health and cancer. I’m a little concerned about this article because I believe that no one should be focussing their lives toward avoiding a negative outcome. By solely focussing on the problem and its issues we leave half (the most powerful half) out of the equation. What I’m saying is that by focussing on eliminating cancer you leave out focussing on eliminating heart disease or dementia or any other possible disease or illness. By focussing on the best health you can effectively leave all other diseases on the floor collecting dust. The most vibrant and happiest people in this world (and most of them are the longest living) never lived to avoid something bad but lived to amass as much goodness as possible. Please don’t keep following down the negative road for it is folly to look at it only from the level of the problem(s). Good/strong health (health in the most broadest sense) is a road we can all enjoy and blossom from everyday.
Cheers.
its not NEGATIVE to focus on a problem,,, it is POSITIVE….. because you are looking toward a disease free, healthy life, with the answer to all this mess…. How can we have gone from what we had in the 40′ and 50’s to what we have now…. it is just pathetic….. They had cures that we hid under the rug….. Now they fill us up with chemicals and preservatives we don’t even know about….. we never knew about…. now we are getting smarter…. ive been focusing on natural and healthy living since the 70’s, and I want to get all the information I can, and help to get that info out to everyone that wants it…..
Extremely useful and informative advice to be followed prior to severe episode of cancer. But the basic issue in developing country is to finally confirm the sypoms of cancer in a person.
You are right!!! I wish I had this info when my wife was suffering from brain cancer. Each year for 3 years it returned, till finally she could have no more treatment .All the chemo & radiation did was to mask the issue for a year, just treating the tumours, not the cause.
Excellent! Simple, practical, manageable! Thanks for sending, Ty!
Being a vegan, an eternal optimist, and using cleaning products that are organic might be best for a person’s health. Laughing and doing physical exercises are the best medicine for people Eliminating meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, and desserts and eating just vegetables, fruits, nuts, spices, and doing juicing might make you feel healthier.
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These 3 Pillows are wonderful clear. I think, exercise is also important.
I also struggled with breast cancer for three years with successs.
My first and main pillow was and is diet.
My believe in Christ as my saviour and the word of God are the second one.
I must go on and learn more about detoxification.
I am thankful for all you teach us, Ty!
I wrote both names, because I get all articles twice and don’t know, how to stop it!
My brother James has srunk his cancer the first few months by 20% is what the Doctors scan showed…by him first trusting in God and Gods clean heathy foods to boost his immune sytem up to fight cancer, by eatting plant based organic ,vegan, cleansing, oils, turmeric,ginger,greens, flax, garlic, lemons, hot peppers, essiac tea, b17…. So many many natural healthy clean foods…doesn’t have to be expensive and the same thing each day just what can get or better yet grow…Lettus, kale, asparagus, broccoli, tomatoes, berries, on and on it goes…God has made a rainbo of wonderful cancer fighters…eat the rainbo…eat your fats…seeds ,nuts, olives, avocados(I’m not a fan of oils in a bottle) be good to yourself and be Happy…
Ty perhaps look into a fourth pillar, your immediate environment. I’m a Feng Shui & Geomancy Practitioner & the evidence from as far back as 1920’s is rock solid about Cancer from Geopathic sources natural & man made.
I love the job you do getting the truth out there.
Thank you Ty and TTAC team- your tireless efforts are helping so many have a better quality of life through the knowledge
About Health and diet that you provide. However, these things are a temporary solution until our world is freed of power and greed through
the intervention of Jehovah and His dear Son, Jesus. The Lord’s Prayer tells us “Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”. (Mt. 5:9,10). When this happens our world will be a better place, with no more greedy monopolies, no more sickness and death (Rev. 21:3,4). Meanwhile we soldier on and pray for that day to come…Kind regards, Helga
we need to get this information out in the mainstream…. we need to make it the protocol to follow, for every dr. and person on this planet … what we are doing is not working….. what dr’s are doing is not working…. People are poisoning themselves without knowing… Dr’s are making things worse….. we need to put an end to this…
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What if some people can’t afford Organic Produce,Products????:(
Hi Monica … yes, eating organic can be expensive. You might consider “the dirty dozen.” These are the things you should eat only organic if eating all things organically is too taxing on the grocery budget. Here is the list I found about two years ago. I added two more items so it’s more like “the dirty dozen+2.” Hope this helps out 😉
Apples
Celery
Cherries
Kale
Cucumbers
Grapes
Bell peppers
Nectarines
Peaches
Potatoes
Strawberries
Spinach
Blueberries
Lettuce
Thanks for providing such fantastic information! Absolutely life changing, and wish everyone can know this!
Great article. I have been a health food freak for almost 50 years, eating and gardening organic foods. The emotional factor has been my downfall including abusive relationship issues. I had kidney cancer this summer and one kidney was removed. All scans are clear and toxic relationships gone for 15 years now. Headed for a cancer free future.