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It gives hope and a way toward it. She was grateful that I bought it for her. I bought this for my sister who was recently diagnosed with cancer. She reported this to be an excellent book.
The book is more of a spiritual approach to cancer and I was looking for more of a medical approach, nonetheless it did have some good information about vitamins and minerals and offered another perspective if you have an open mind.
Something went wrong years or decades before the tumor became detectable. As many others who help cancer patients he shows the importance of spirituality in our daily living, of generosity, humbleness, gratitude, confidence, but also of taking charge, being serious about what all this is about, and about the privilege to be alive this one wonderful time.Lung cancer stage IV is probably the worst condition you can be in. Oncology wants you to believe cancer is a lump that must be eliminated by whathever means at the disposal of the oncologist.
By reading this book you will get a detailed, practical, comprehensive list of actions, attitudes, recommendations you can follow to heal yourself from the factors that led to cancer in the first place. Greg shows he is not only a cancer survivor but, as he likes to point out, more then 20 years after his oncologist gave up and sentenced "you have some 30 days still to go, put your things in order", he is thriving. You will know about the need to do more excercise, to eat healthy food, to relax, to meditate, to express your feelings, to be autonomous, to take responsibility of your health, and many other things.
Cancer is much more than a tumor. Conventional medicine states cancer is a multicausal disease, but when it comes to treatment all of a sudden the only way to go seems to be the erradication of the tumor (the elimination of the effect of the cancerigenous process, but not the process) - and no word is said about the need to correct the process that led to the destabilization of our genetic functions nor to the need to strengthen our immune system.(There are some remarkable exceptions to the foregoing, see the work / the studies by Lawrence LeShan, David Servan-Schreiber, Paul Rosch, Devra Davis, Dean Ornish).Greg has shown ways to go in this latter direction. I wonder if we are allowed to strive for anything less than this.
But certainly that is neither the only nor the whole story. Epigenetic pressure destabilized our inborn capacity to replicate our cells in an orderly manner (probably due to a cell SOS reaction), and the loss of vitality led to a weakening of our immune system to the point it was no longer capable of getting rid of cancerous cells.
It talks about how important positive thinking is and to rid your mind of negativity and others who cause negativity in your life. Great book for those with cancer or if you know someone with cancer. This book stresses the mind/body connection and the importance of good nutrition along with exercise to help your body help itself.
Other than one idea the rest is devoid of new thought Not worth the cheap price I paid.
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