Teen Depression

Depression affects one in eight people in their teen years, crossing color, race, economic, and age barriers. More women than men are affected, both during adolescence and adulthood. Depression is a multi-faceted condition that can be caused by a variety of factors including genetics, environment, medical conditions and life events. Depression results from an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Called neurotransmitters, these chemicals transmit messages between nerve cells in the brain and help regulate mood. When not available in sufficient quantities, depression can result.

Typical systems of depression include:

• depressed mood or sadness most of the time (for what may seem like no reason)
• lack of energy and feeling tired all the time
• inability to enjoy things that used to bring pleasure
• withdrawal from friends and family
• irritability, anger, or anxiety
• inability to concentrate
• significant weight loss or gain
• significant change in sleep patterns (inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get up in the morning)
• feelings of guilt or worthlessness
• aches and pains (even though nothing is physically wrong)
• pessimism and indifference (not caring about anything in the present or future)
• thoughts of death or suicide

Anyone exhibiting five or more of these symptoms for a period of two weeks or more is probably depressed. Teens may also have trouble at school. The self-critical feelings and low self-esteem prevalent among teens exacerbate the problem. (To read the entire article which provides a comprehensive look at teen depression, click our blog post title.)

Standard drugs used to combat depression in adults have recently been found to be inappropriate and even dangerous to teens, actually increasing incidents of suicide. The more natural approach I espouse, which focuses on good nutrition and dietary supplements, is gaining increasing recognition for its success. These methods, as outlined in my DVD Curing Depression, will be the subject of my next blog. Visit my website at http://www.burtongoldberg.com/.

Dr. Simone's Ten-Point Plan To Prevent Cancer and Recurrence

Dr. Charles Simone has created for me in my book, The Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer a ten-point plan to prevent cancer and to prevent cancer recurrence. I wanted to share it with you today.

1. Adopt a healthy nutritional strategy
2. Avoid tobacco products and tobacco smoke
3. Avoid alcohol and caffeine
4. Minimize radiation exposure
5. Keep your environment clean
6. Modify hormone-related and sexual-social factors
7. Learn the 7 cancer warning signs
8. Exercise to support our anticancer defenses
9. Modify your stress level
10. Get a physical exam and assess your risk profile

Some of the key tips are:

• Limit your fat intake to 20%
• Get 5 to 30 grams of fiber daily
• Drink no more than 2 cups of decaffeinated coffee a day
• Choose organically grown products when possible
• Minimize exposure to electromagnetic fields -- powerlines, waterbed heaters, computer monitors etc.
• Avoid all unnecessary medications
• Learn to lower your stress through relaxation techniques

If you have found this information helpful, I know that you will enjoy watching and learning about more in-depth information about cancer and cancer prevention in my DVD, Cancer Conquest, the best of alternative and conventional. I invite you to visit my website and preview the movie online. Just click this blog posts title to go there directly.

Dental Problems May Contribute to Cancer

Excerpt from Burton Goldberg presents... an Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer:

"The jaws and teeth can be thought of as the "fuse box" of the body because all of the major acupuncture meridians pass throughout this area. Any disturbance of the teeth and jaws will cause a short circuit of the energy moving through these channels and create electrical disturbances in the organ associated with that tooth.

"Many causes of cancer seem related to poorly performed root canals as well as circulatory lesions in the jawbone. Most of the information supporting this connection is anecdotal, yet is highly compelling.

"Root canal filled teeth, infected teeth, and dry sockets are a potentially large source of toxicity and electrical irritation and may contribute to a host of degenerative conditions. [Dr. W. John Diamond has had a number of patients with breast cancer all of whom have a root canal on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated meridian.]

"Additionally mixed metals in the mouth -- nickel and mercury -- produce electrical microcurrents that cause the associated meridians to short-circuit, thereby blocking the flow of QI, or life force energy, through these pathways.

"The presence of mercury dental amalgam and nickel may, in some patients, be the irritating focus that depresses the immune system just enough to give cancer the edge. It is now conclusively proven that the mercury that leaches from dental amalgams can have an adverse impact on the immune system, including for example, a reduced functioning of lymphocytes and monocytes, cells that play a role in protecting us against cancer."

The above excerpt was taken from the section of the book based on the information and research accumulated by Dr. W. John Diamond. I invite you to visit my website for more information, videos on cancer and depression, and my unique alternative medicine consulting services.

Two Keys to Cancer Reversal

Cancer can be reversed and you can discover healing from this disease. Here are just two key items of importance that have been found to help cancer patients seeking a cure for their disease.

One, Dr. Steven Greer, M.D., found that women who show a "fighting spirit" or a spirited, combative attitude may have a significant survival advantage compared to those who succumb to emotional passivity and helplessness. Attitude is important. You can fight cancer and win.

Two, cancer patients treated in Japan, where low-fat diets are the norm, survived twice as long as a comparable group of cancer patients in the U.S. Swedish researcher have found that raising the fat-calorie content of the diet by just 10%, the rate of breast cancer recurrence increases four to eight times. A low-fat diet is important and can keep your cancer in reversal and help you to experience a cure.

Visit the link in our blog post title to listen to more on curing cancer in our free video preview of our full length two hour documentary DVD.

Geopathic Stress and Cancer

Energies from the earth itself can have a carcinogenic effect on humans. Magnetic radiations from the Earth presumably connected with geological fractures and subterranean water veins, can, when situated underneath homes have remarkably deleterious effects on the occupants.

The concept of geopathic, or pathogenic, influences from the earth, took root in Germany in 1929 when Baron Gustav Freiherr von Pohl made a systematic tour of the community of Vilsbiburg. It had 565 houses, 3,300 residents and an unusually high rate of cancer. Von Pohl was acting on a hunch inspired from a survey of Stuttgart in the 1920s that showed a clear correlation between between major geological faults in the city and those districts that had the highest cancer mortality rates. His tentative conclusion was that an unknown but noxious radiation emanating from the Earth faults might be an important and overlooked contributory cause of the cancers.

According to Dr. Nieper, director of the Paraclesus Silbersee Hospital in Hannover, Germany, 93% of all patients with a malignancy have been exposed to geopathogenic influences. As a standard aspect of cancer treatment, he advises "removal of the patient from the sites of geopathogenic exposure," noting that such sites may be identified by way of dowsing or a magnetometer (capable of registering abnormal magnetic fields)."

Some well-known types of geopathic carcinogens are: radon, indoor air pollution from "sick building syndrome," ionizing radiation, and nuclear radiation.

We encourage you to understand how environmental factors can be active carcinogens by listening to the experts, on our DVD Cancer Conquest, explain these important occurrences and what you can do to protect yourself from them.

Attack on Multivitamins

The above referenced article (from Knowlege of Health Inc) discusses the ridiculous claims of some against multivitamins. These reports discuss the potential need for more research involving multivitamins and admonishes health authorities for not sponsoring more studies involving the most often consumed vitamin pill in the world.

The following excerpt is from the above referenced article:

"The report warned against over dosage. Up to 12% of Americans may get nutrients in vitamin pills that exceed the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). But the RDA is antiquated, in need of major updating, and many experts have called for higher RDA levels for vitamin C, folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin D.

The idea that essential vitamins interfere with drugs is also absurd. Vitamins and minerals are essential for life while drugs often deplete the body of essential nutrients.

The news reports and the government report claim that some supplements can lead to liver damage and birth defects. They are talking about vitamin A in regards to birth defects. This mischaracterizes multivitamins which have been preventing birth defects by provision of folic acid. Furthermore, studies show that Vitamin A does not cause birth defects when provided with vitamin E and folic acid, such as found in a multivitamin...

'In regards to the claim that there is “no firm evidence multivitamin and mineral supplements help fight heart disease, cancer or other ailments,” the following abridged abstracts from the National Library of Medicine are provided for your review. Multivitamins are intended to promote health and prevent disease, not necessarily overcome established disease."

More news on Cancer

Three studies recently done in the US and in England show evidence supporting the idea that the drug Herceptin boosts the chances of disease-free survival by 52% of women who are diagnosed certain types of breast cancer.

Breast cancer currently kills about 20% of women who are diagnosed each year. About 25% of those diagnosed with breast cancer have HER2-positive cancer, the type that appears to be successfully treatable with Herceptin.

This is especially encouraging because HER2-positive breast cancer is very aggressive, with an average survival time less than half that of women with other types of breast cancer.

This is not a new drug (it was approved for treatment of advanced breast cancer in 1998). It is however only now being used on women with early stages of cancer (with remarkable results)

The challenge is that this procedure still has to undergo additional testing and approval processes. Part of the issue here is that cancer survival rates are normally measured after 5 years - meaning that large-scale tests have to be conducted for at least 5 years to truly determine effectiveness.

Tough decision for the FDA - do they approve it early, taking the risk that other problems will arise later in the drug's life (currently 4% of women taking this drug develop symptoms of congestive heart failure and there could be more risks with long-term use), or do they wait?
Not enough testing has been done so far to judge the long-term effects of Herceptin, but studies appear to be encouraging.

Novel Enzyme Offers New Look At Male Hormone Regulation

For the second time in less than a year, UNC Chapel Hill scientists have used a purified enzyme to repair genetic damage that was previously thought to be irreparable. The findings, published May 5, show the role that this new protein can play in gene activation. The biggest concept to come out of this: the newly repairable gene may stave off prostate cancer.

"Theoretically, this protein is a very important tool for gene expression studies. Practically, it provides a potential target for prostate cancer because of its enzymatic activity. And it is enzymatic activity that's the favorite target of drug development."

To learn more, please read the above article.

Mineral Content as Cancer Predictor?

The article above discusses the ties between certain minerals, their presence in the body and possible links to the occurrence of cancer in men.

According to French researchers, the amount of copper, magnesium and zinc in the blood determines the risk of cancer in men.

Details on the study stated that “Zinc, copper and magnesium play a number of key roles in the body, for example in the immune response, inflammation and oxidative stress, Leone and her colleagues write in the research journal Epidemiology. To investigate the relationship between body levels of these elements and mortality, the researchers followed 4,035 men aged 30 to 60 for 18 years. During follow-up, 339 men died, including 176 from cancer and 56 from heart disease."

For more information on how to balance these levels or to have your levels checked, contact a health care provider. For more information on cancer and other alternative research regarding the disease visit www.burtongoldberg.com.

Battling Cancer the Integrative Way

This article discusses alternative and integrative therapies for cancer that move away from traditional treatments that target just the tumor's location. The studies in this article have "shown that drug effect is independent of where the tumor [comes] from in the body"

In my video, Cancer Conquest, we discuss pharmogenomics which is new cutting edge chemotherapy research. In my video, Cancer Conquest, we show how a blood test can be done to identify which chemotherapy medications will affect an individual's specific tumor cells. Sometimes a prostate cancer secondary tumor is best treated by an ovarian cancer chemo. Each situation is individual and determined by personal genetics. In my video, we take you through the thought process behind pharmogenomics and this exciting new treatment. Cancers that have metatasized are treated quite differently than the primary tumor.

Pharmogenomics is exciting new cutting edge cancer treatment that is making in roads into conventional cancer treatment protocols.

Visit http://www.burtongoldberg.com/promo.html for more information on my video and about new alternative and integrative cancer therapies.

Mice Blood Cells Raise Hope for Cancer Cure

The above referenced article discusses the fact that white blood cells found in cancer-immune mice were recently injected into mice with cancer causing the tumors to shrink and disappear. The injected mice have also been found to have a lifelong immunity to cancer.

The article states that:

"Preliminary studies hint at the existence of a similar resistance in humans and researchers hope that harnessing the biological process could lead to a new approach to treating cancer. The idea of cells being able to kill tumor cells ... is very exciting... but this is a mouse, and there is no guarantee that the same gene will exist in people."

The white blood cells in the mice were observed to surround any presence of cancer and attack it until it had disappeared. These findings are the newest breakthrough in ongoing cancer research.

Plump Children Become Plump Adults

There is no truth to the saying that when a plump child enter adolescence, they will loose their childhood fat and not have obesity be a factor as an adult. In fact this article debunks this saying clearly with scientific evidence.

Plump children will in most cases become plump adults. Obesity is a major health factor in overall health and fitness for our population. Low carbohydrate diets are a good start to drop weight and curb potential diabetic problems that come with obesity. Vegetarian diets that are high in fiber are other healthful choices. In fact, all you have to do is walk the aisles at your nearby book store or library and you will see many other healthful diet programs, South Beach, Mediterranean, and Atkins.

The bottomline to have a long life is to increase your health with good nutrition, use of quality supplements, and to increase your level of exercise.

Aspartame Does Not Cause Cancer?

This article from Great Britain states that new findings have shown that Aspartame does not pose a cancer risk. This is in conflict with other studies which have shown that there is a greater incidence of cancer in rats that were feed Aspartame. Both studies do confirm that Aspartame may cause kidney problems.

So who do you believe in this world of conflicting studies? The best course of action in conflicts like this is to simply go with products that are natural in substance and have the minimum of added chemicals. The body has a natural and effective balance all of its own. Introducing additional chemicals that are not naturally occurring may create imbalance and unknown side effects, and in this case may even cause cancer.

Vitamin A and Breast Cancer

This article linked into our title is about a new drug containing Vitamin A that works to cut the risk of breast cancer. However this new medication is best used by pre-menopausal women.

Excerpt:
"They found that the drug Fenretinide reduced second cancers in pre-menopausal women by 38 per cent and halved the risk in those under 40. However, the cancer rate actually increased among post-menopausal women taking the drug, it said. Fenretinide is a synthetic version of Retinol or active vitamin A, which can combat certain types of tumor. "

We have long encouraged the use of supplements and good nutrition for the best overall health benefits and prevention of cancer and many other diseases. Now it appears that main stream medicine is finally catching up with the wave of therapeutic treatment from supplements of Vitamins and minerals. You can find out more great health tips by checking out our website at www.BurtonGoldberg.com and browsing our blog.