A Healing “Toolkit” For Your Cancer Recovery Thelma Jones, MC, FACP – Options For Wellness

“Health is a self-help process and not a do it yourself project” Thelma Jones, MD. FACP Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

DISCLAIMER “Nothing I am saying: 1) Is designed to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness, 2) Is meant to contradict your health care provider. People will hear different things about what works and doesn’t work. Feel free to come to your own conclusions. We share certain characteristics. Each person is unique, has their own story and requires individual guidance. These are general guidelines and not specific. Always follow the advice of you health care practitioner. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

CANCER A disease of modern living Lifestyle factors Cancer can be viewed as a chronic disease like diabetes and heart disease Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Causes of Cancer Are… More attributable to environmental factors… (what we eat and how we think) …than attributable to genetics Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Causes Inflammation (Cause of most illness) External and Internal toxins Nutritional deficiencies and/or excesses Stress Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Causes - External Household cleaners Air Tap water Chlorine Inflammatory chemicals in fat Pesticides Mercury Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Causes - Internal Our thoughts Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Obesity Inflammatory chemicals in fat tissue Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Nutrition “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food” Hippocrates Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Diet + Supplements Nutrition Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Nutritional… …excesses and/or deficiencies contribute to 85% - 95% of all illnesses Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Foods to Avoid Sugar Feeds Cancer Increases Inflammation Increases insulin Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Foods to Avoid White foods GMO’s Trans-fats Non-organic High fructose corn syrup Dirty dozen Packaged foods Dairy Gluten Acid Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Foods to Eat Decrease inflammation Anti-oxidant Help immunity Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

FOODS TO EAT Organic (Pesticides are carcinogenic) Gluten free Dairy free Alkaline Colored diet Cruciferous vegetables Certain fruit (berries) Mushrooms Raw foods Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

FOODS TO EAT Juicing Turmeric Eggs Grass-fed meat (hormone free) Fermented Soy (controversial) Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

NUTS Almonds Brazil nuts Cashews Hazelnuts Macadamias Pecans Pine nuts Walnuts Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

STRESS Anything under which we feel we have no control. It is a matter of perception in the eyes of the beholder Good and Bad Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Stress Major contributing factor to the onset and worsening of most illnesses. Increases inflammation which causes most illnesses. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Changes Neural Pathways Changes our perceptions Sense of appropriate control Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Helplessness Adversely affects cancer and the spread of cancer. Victim Cancer patient versus a patient with cancer Study – Rats shocked Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Trauma In the preceding two years. Trauma is not necessarily predictive of cancer Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Depression Is a state of inflammation Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Grief and Fear Grief hormones on the immune cells Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

EFT Relieving stress with EFT may reduce inflammation Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Nutrition and EFT Are epigenetic twins You are influencing genes from outside the cells. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Nutrition and EFT Change genetic expression like turning off a switch Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

STUDY 500 Genes Prostrate cancer Lifestyle changes Stress and Nutrition Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements Replace what stress depletes Decrease stress Replace nutritional deficiencies Handle toxins Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic It is a Hormone Made from the action of sunlight on the skin Deficiency plays a major role in the causation of cancer, heart disease dementia and asthma in children Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic All parts of the carcinogenic process Decreases inflammation Decreases insulin resistance Helps immunity D + K Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic Ideally over to 70 Over 80 may kill cancer cells (controversial) Varies from summer to winter Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Iodine Deficiency plays a role in cancer causation Turns off cancer genes Turns on apoptosis (programmed cell death) Cancer cells are immortal Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Iodine Iodine receptors in Thyroid Breasts (Reversal of fibrocystic breasts) Ovaries Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Iodine Can be measured and appropriate replacement Controversial – My belief based on scientific evidence Selenium There are contraindications Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements supplement the diet Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

RESVERATROL Brand Specific In red wine Potent anti- inflammatory Anti-oxidant Anti-Aging: Decreases the risk diseases of aging (chronic) Major Player in the Prevention of Cancer Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

GREEN TEA Possibly the #1 Cancer Fighting Beverag e Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Green Tea Enables the immune system to search for and destroy cancer cells and helps repair DNA Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Green Tea Increases cell death apoptosis Anti-inflammatory Anti-oxidant Detoxifies poisons and carcinogens Polyphenols EGCG May lower PSA levels May decrease tumor growth May inhibit the growth of breast cancer May decrease spread to the lungs May decrease risk of pancreatic cancer Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Green Tea Japanese Research May increase the concentration of certain chemotherapy agents May show synergistic affects with chemotherapy May reduce toxicity of chemotherapy Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

CURCUMIN Potent anti- inflammatory Anti-Oxidant A Major Player Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Brand Specific Supplement Increases interferon naturally which part of the immune that fights cancer Important: Viruses may play a role in causing cancer Cornell University Study Increases natural killer cells Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Other Important Supplements Magnesium Zinc Fish oils Mushrooms CoQ10 Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

Supplements And Chemotherapy Controversial Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

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