The brain is the most important organ in the body. This spongy tissue controls all complex actions including the ability to learn, speak, move, think, and control our emotions. Due to its soft characteristic, when malignant cell growth occurs, it often invades surrounding healthy brain tissue quickly (brain tumors).
Even with advances in technology and medicine, conventional therapeutic strategies generally remain unsuccessful and offer brain cancer patients a dismal outlook. Patients who undergo surgery and radiation treatment have an expected survival rate of only nine months. Only 10% of individuals who undergo chemotherapy for a brain tumor have an extended life expectancy.
The month of May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month and there will be a lot of attention focused on the primary symptoms and medical testing for brain cancer. While some of this advice may be useful, there is very little discussion of nutrition, toxic exposures, and lifestyle factors and their contribution to the development of brain cancer.
Fortunately, the primary tool to preventing brain tumors is within your control… in the lifestyle that you live. Making healthy choices when it comes to diet, exercise, avoiding carcinogens in your environment, and reducing stress can effectively reduce your risk of developing brain tumors.
7 Strategies to Prevent & Heal From Brain Tumors Naturally
Strategy #1 – Sleep
Receiving adequate amounts of shut eye daily is critical to the survival and the health of your brain. A detoxification pathway known as the glymphatic system removes toxic waste that naturally accumulates during the day. This system is particularly active at night and provides the mitochondria in the brain the chance to flush toxins using cerebrospinal fluid.
Sleep deprivation hinders the natural processes of the glymphatic system affecting cognitive function. Especially critical to patients who have undergone chemotherapy, sleep allows cells to repair damage and restore tissue. Sleep deprivation can further increase symptoms associated with a phenomenon known as chemo brain.
Drugs from radiation and chemotherapy have been shown to alter the cognitive function of patients presenting generalized symptoms characterized as brain fog. The effects of chemo brain differ in each patient and vary in duration and severity. This occurrence is likely a consequence of the toxic compounds destroying neural pathways and healthy brain cells.
Strategy #2 – Breathe in Frankincense Essential Oil
Practicing stress reduction techniques such as yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises can reduce stress. While practicing these techniques, inhaling frankincense oil can help alleviate inflammation in the brain.
One of the major causes of death related to brain tumors is inflammation from swelling in the brain. When frankincense extract was administered to patients before surgery they experienced reduced swelling and fluid accumulation during and after treatment. Patients also exhibited fewer symptoms of brain damage.
Boswellic acid is the main active component found in frankincense traditionally used to treat arthritis, asthma, and other inflammatory problems. Frankincense relieves pain and inflammation by improving blood circulation and inhibiting damage to the hippocampus associated with learning and memory.
Strategy #3 – Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment beginning at a young age can reduce your risk for brain cancer. HBOT can also improve cognitive function in survivors of brain tumors. Studies examining the effects of HBOT find that improved oxygen circulation stimulates the ability for healing neural tissue.
Success with HBOT is directly related to the age of the brain. HBOT can cause progenitor cells to differentiate into new cells. Progenitor cells are similar to stem cells and can result in improving a patient’s cognitive and motor skills. Hyperbaric oxygen chambers may help reverse the damage done by the treatment of cancer drugs by forming new blood vessels, reconstructing nerve damage, and stabilizing blood glucose.
Strategy #4 – Consume Cancer Fighting Phytonutrients
Consuming a diet rich in cancer fighting nutrients is essential to preventing and treating brain tumors. As approved cancer treatments remain controversial due to their devastating and toxic effects on the healthy cells in the body, seeking natural remedies to combat cancer is becoming increasingly popular.
Herbs and vegetables equip the brain with antioxidants to limit cellular damage by scavenging free radicals, reducing brain inflammation, and shutting down brain tumor communication signals. In particular, dark green leafy veggies, turmeric, ginger, oregano, basil, thyme, and green tea all have powerful cancer fighting properties.
Strategy #5 – Ketogenic Diet
Dr. Otto Warburg first theorized in the early 20th century that cancer cells thrive off the energy from altered states of respiration. Glucose is a source of energy for healthy brain cells but cancer cells rely solely on glucose metabolism to survive (glycolysis). Brain tumors, however, cannot metabolize ketones produced by the body during the metabolic state of ketosis like healthy cells can.
Ketones are therefore an excellent energy source for neurons and are produced in the body during conditions of low glucose. Consuming a diet containing an adequate amount of proteins, healthy fats, and low carbohydrates triggers ketone production and can starve off malignant cell growth. A ketogenic diet reduces oxidative stress and inflammation in the brain and shuts down the nutrient supply to tumors.
Strategy #6 – Calorie Restriction
Dietary restriction, including fasting, is a therapeutic approach with similar anti-carcinogenic properties as the ketogenic diet. Calorie restriction reduces inflammation, prevents cancer metastasis, inhibits cancer cells from proliferating, and also produces ketones to fuel neurons.
Strategy #7 – Be Wary of Mobile Devices
The electromagnetic field emitted by cell phones is categorized as a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Radiofrequency originates from both the device and battery which has been found in one study to impact the survival rate of brain tumor patients.
The “Interphone Study” collaborated amongst researchers internationally found that cell phone use elevates one’s risk of brain tumors and is directly correlated with age and duration of use. Adolescents are most at risk of hazardous exposure because the brain is developing causing a greater likelihood for abnormal cell growth. Use of a cell phone before the age of 20 and continued use for a duration longer than 10 years is directly associated with severe brain cancer diagnosis.
Avoiding the cell phone all together in today’s modern age is nearly impossible, but there are a few strategies which can help reduce your exposure to its radiation:
- Text instead of talk
- Use the speakerphone
- Use a landline phone
- Delay giving your child a cell phone
- Talk only when the reception signal is strong
- Shut off wireless devices when possible and never sleep with a device in the bedroom, and especially near your head
Please share this information with friends and family. It could save someone’s life!
Article Summary
Your brain is the most important organ in your body and controls all complex actions including the ability to learn, speak, move, think, and control your emotions. When malignant cell growth occurs, it often invades surrounding healthy brain tissue quickly.
Brain cancer patients who undergo surgery and radiation treatment have an expected survival rate of only nine months. Only 10% of patients who choose chemotherapy for a brain tumor have an extended life expectancy.
The primary tool to preventing brain tumors is within your control − your lifestyle. Making healthy choices when it comes to diet, exercise, avoiding carcinogens in your environment, and reducing stress can effectively reduce your risk of developing brain tumors.
Here are 7 Strategies for preventing (and healing from) brain tumors naturally:
- Sleep – Receiving adequate amounts of shut eye daily is critical to the survival and the health of your brain.
- Frankincense Oil – Practicing stress reduction techniques such as yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises can reduce stress. While practicing these techniques, inhaling frankincense oil can help alleviate inflammation in the brain.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – Receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment beginning at a young age can reduce your risk for brain cancer. HBOT can also improve cognitive function in survivors of brain tumors.
- Consuming a diet rich in cancer fighting nutrients is essential to preventing and treating brain tumors.
- Ketogenic Diet – A ketogenic diet reduces oxidative stress and inflammation in the brain and shuts down the nutrient supply to tumors.
- Calorie Restriction – Dietary restriction, including fasting, is a therapeutic approach with similar anti-carcinogenic properties as the ketogenic diet.
- Limit Exposure to Mobile Devices – Cell phone use elevates your risk of brain tumors and is directly correlated with age (young people absorb more radiation) and duration of use.
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Thank You so much. I will use this advice in combination with other treatments. Thank you again. If you have any more advice please let me know I have two brain tumors. Facebook Stephanie Mandina
can anyone tell me how often and for how long you should fast as part of a healthy lifestyle?
You always can listen to (true) yourself…
Here is some helpful info for you Heather: http://drjockers.com/intermittent-fasting-improves-your-brain/
If a person with terminal brain cancer and T-cell lymphoma avoids meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, and desserts and just eats a raw vegan diet, fruit, and does juicing and avoids radiation and chemotherapy, will their brain cancer go away completely and never come back?
Only God knows that Silvia, but it would definitely be a good move in the right directions of helping your body heal itself. There are SO many factors that play into your body developing cancer and some many others that have to come into “play” to rid your body of it. Besides the things you mentioned, prayer, mediation, essential oils, restful sleep and other things found on this wonderful website will help you!
Great article. Prevention is a good way to stay healthy. Avoid Stress
Can you recommend a trustworthy source of frankincense? Thank you so much
Elaine in PA
Elaine, when looking for essential oils, you want to to find companies who do GC/MS testing for purity of oils sold. Anyone can claim therapeutic grade oils with nothing to back it up. The testing is the only way to know that the oil is not adulterated in any manner.
Also look for production date of the batch of oil you are buying. Most oils(by general belief) have shelf life of about 2 years. Keep the oils cool and in dark place and make sure the cap goes back on immediately after use to avoid oxidation of the oils which will render them much less effective.
Rocky Mountain Oils have GC/MS testing claimed on their site.
You can find high quality organic Frankincense powder from the website, curanderahealing dot com, on the Market page.
What is the episode that talks about an electric device that fits on your head to eleminite brain tumors?
Optune?
Does anyone know know of any braincancer patients, who have done the ketogenic diet, and healed brain tumor?I´m trying to help my father, who suffers from glioblastoma. I´ts very confusing wich diet can help, ketogenic is so contradictory to known therapies with lots of vegetable juices, like Gerson etc. According to dr. Gonzalez, (in interwie on this link chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-gonzalez-dismantles-ketogenic-diet-for-cancer/), he didn´t believ in ketogenic diet. It had also alredy been tested , by Atkins, whith no success on cancer.
There seem to be only tests on mice, have seen no human testimonials.
We are trying to do the ketogenic diet, very difficult since my husband is on 12 mg of dexamethasone and so hungry.
google tom seyfried. he has cases of reduced brain tumor growth in people. he suggests combining the keto diet with hyperbaric 02 thereapy
no because your body (including brain) needs good fats and protein. Free range Eggs, wild fish, and organic Paultry goes a long way in providing them essential nutrients your brain needs.
It did not work for my wife…
What strategy did your wife emphasize the most?
It’s scary to think of how easy it is to damage critical areas of the brain when it comes to surgery. It’s obviously a very complicated decision whether or not surgery is the best option for tumors. Thank you for this list of things that will naturally help prevent tumors!
Absolutely right
I have a brain tumor that is 6.6 cm. I am very scared of surgery, been using a holistic type diet for a month now. Which has eliminated carbs, processed sugars & processed foods. I can have organic fruits & vegtables, small potions of organic meats & organic dairy products. Some nuts. I have begun to feel healthier from this diet, unfortunately my tumor is still growing. I am going to add the oils and some exercise like yoga to my daily life style, with hopes the combinations will work together. I do wish that there was a support group for people like me. This is a very difficult time in my life, I am sure as it is for any one.
Wishing you all the best on your healing path Darlene!
I wish you a speedy recovery. It must be very scary
My daughter was diagnosed with DIPG less than 2 weeks ago. We are looking into CPD oil. I have heard success stories in it shrinking the tumor. Trying to find the right dosage and strand is key. I would love to brainstorm with you. If you feel comfortable email me.
My cousin was just diagnosed with a tumor that has tentacles in the pons region. She will meet with a neurosurgeon at Sloane Kettering Hospital on Friday… Have you had any successes? Sure hope so…
My bro recently diagnosed with brain tumor (2.5cm length,3cm breadth) and operated.we are extremely sad as he always got first on everything it’s hell waiting for biopsy hope he gets better and I pray for God to for your health along with him.
I also have a brain tumor witch was 4.7 cm and I stared taking pau d”arco for two months and my tumor has dicrease to 4.2 I lost my sight in the left sight because the tumor was pressing my optical nerve and now I gain my sight back. I bought the sun shine brand and I will keep taking it to reduce it.
Good Luck to You.
Blessings
where did you buy the pau d”arco
My daughter has been diagnosed with stage 3. Brain cancer. It has also spread down her neck and spine. Drs want to rush her to do 6weeks of radiation 5x a day. I took her to a holistic dr and was advised on drops to take. She is on a very strict diet only raw veggies and only grapefruit And Meyer lemons everything is organic. She can have organic nuts according to her blood type. Reverse otmosis water only …. 39 days later went back for another MRI no cancer showing up on her neck and spine!! Now he are just focus on the brain
Hi,
Good to know that your health improved.Were you taking any cooked stuff? OR only raw vegetables?What kind of Brain tumor was it ?
Do you mind sharing the holistic dr and the drops that he gave her?
Hi darlene. Are you always juicing carrot. I have a brain tumor like you . I want to know if is effective beacause they say juicing carrot is effective fighting cancer do you believe that . Thanks..
Juicing carrots and beets
Hi, surgeon popped a 5.5 cm tumor out of my brain last January. I hhad 6 wks chemo(TMZ) and radiation after that. Since then, 1 week TMZ each month. I’ve been doing Keto diet -lost 50 pds., and added herbal supplements (ayevedic) plus driving ph to alkaline. So far, ALL MRI’s are clean. Ain’t stopping there- (GBM is too crafty). ALL of these are only containment actions y’know.
My mom got a glioblastoma grade4 who was surgically removed then later got some chemo and radio. She cleaned her diet of sugar processed foods, toxins etc. Sadly this april they found what the doctors say is another tumor but some also believe to be radionecrosis. She decided no more chemo so we are doing the bowellia capsules 6gr daily, inhaling frankinsense, natural inmune boosters, juicing and more. We are also praying a lot:
This is a prayer said by christian healer Becky Dvorak who helped a woman with a brain tumor to get healed: it is to be said out loud to yourself as many times as you can.
“In Jesus name I renounce the spirit of death! In Jesus name I renounce this tumor, and curse it at its very roots and its very seed! In Jesus name I command it to shrivel up and be eliminated from my body, in Jesus name. Amen ”
If anyone would like to contact me for more info feel free to do do .May the Lord’s blessing be with you all.
Your Contacts please
did the changes you did help in reducing the tumor?
HI CAROLINE! Prayers are important to healing. So is reading God’s word daily. It is difficult for an aged person alone with a victim background of non-support and isolationism to learn to let go of all the false perspectives of his/her past. But, it can be done. They need lots of encouragement and
must believe the promises of God. The prayer that you shared on this site was just what I needed to read today. I have copied it onto my desktop and plan to read it more than once daily. How can one deny that Jesus’ spirit lives on? and that he loves us and yes, adores us and as we become more in his likeness as in “the fruits of the spirit” (Galatians 5:22) if we allow him to work in us. That’s really why we are still here. Many Blessings be with you and your mother for sharing.
Hi Caroline,
I am reading your posting on the truth about cancer from 2018. I too have someone that just went through surgery with the same tumor. I was wondering how your mom is doing, and if you could offer any advice for treatment . What a lovely prayer I will pass on.
Thank you so much , chris
Doc , in my family many members are different from cancer like brain timir, brain cancer, etc. What percent of chances are there that its going to be heredited to other members also
Hi Ritik –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global series.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
Here’s the link to the actual webpage:
http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
We do have one more resource you may be interested in. During our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
Blessings and love!
My Daughter has diagnosed Brain stem glioma tumor. she is age 10 year. Radiations is done. But no effects. please let me know any treatment. I am from India.
Hi Rahul –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
I’ll be sure to pray for your daughter.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global Quest series so they can give you the most appropriate advice based on your daughter’s exact condition.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
Here’s the link to the actual webpage:
http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
We do have one more resource you may be interested in. During our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
I’m also attaching the info about the Hope4Cancer clinic in Tijuana, MX if you’d like to reach out to them.
http://www.hope4cancer.com/
https://hope4cancer.com/schedule-a-call/
Along with this, we also have comprised a list of health experts and doctors we’ve interviewed in our Eastern Medicine: Journey to Asia documentary. You can also find some doctors on this page from India.
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/eastern-medicine-experts-info-sheet/
Ty and the team are still working on collecting the contact information for the rest of these doctors and experts. Please note that this link will be updated with more doctor’s contact info as they share it with us.
Please also see the resources below in case they will be helpful to you.
From our beginning, we have supported charities that really help these cancer patients.
HealingStrong:
http://healingstrong.com/
https://www.facebook.com/healingstrong
HealingStrong supports MANY cancer patients and are amazing. HealingStrong, a nonprofit organization, is supported 100% by volunteers, who are experienced in using natural strategies. The organization’s mission is to educate, encourage, equip, and empower those seeking comprehensive natural strategies to heal strong and stay strong.
HealingStrong Connect Groups meet monthly in various areas of the U.S. and South Australia to link others interested in natural strategies, holistic protocols, and local resources. Their groups focus on mind, body and emotional healing based on Biblical promises, as they believe the God of the Bible is our healer. For more information on how to start a group, or become involved in one, please go to http://www.healingstrong.org/groups, and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/healingstrong.
Cancer Crackdown is so awesome and helps patients without a lot of money get supplements and treatments and even helps them raise money:
http://cancercrackdown.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CancerCrackdown
Also, the Independent Cancer Research Foundation is another charity that we support, also known as Cancer Tutor. They have been a TREMENDOUS help for cancer patients and have a TON of life-saving information they give out freely and they do real research into treatments for cancer that are outside of the toxic Big Pharma Big 3:
http://www.theicrf.com/
The best that we can suggest is to contact Healing Strong and Cancer Crackdown for any need in financial resources.
We also support Mary Beth’s “Nick Gonzalez Foundation” which is bringing Nick’s protocol to the people…which is one of the most powerful cancer-killing protocols out there.
I hope this is helpful! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us again if there’s anything else we can help with.
Wishing you endless blessings and love!