Different Perspectives on Idiopathic Forms of Cancer
Bodily Wisdom, Wounds, Inflammation and Emotional Shocks
The other day, a colleague pointed out to me a very interesting science journal article called “Cancer is a Functional Repair Tissue”, which seems especially pertinent currently, with all the news about cancer diagnosis of high profile people, and also reports of explosions in "turbo cancers" in the general population.
This science article [summarized below] gives a different, and more hopeful point of view on what some idiopathic forms [so here we are not including genetic forms] of cancer may actually be, and their potential treatments.
If there is indeed some merit to this speculation that cancer begins as a non-pathological response to persistent physical wounds, or to physical damage caused by inflammation, and hence that part of the answer is in providing the opportunity for the underlying wound or inflammation to heal, in my view it points once again to the potential role of chronic stress.
This is because, when we are in survival mode or stress instincts, our body is not in healing mode, and indeed we are largely exiled from the body’s inherent repair processes. Instead, we need to be in the calm, relaxed state enough of the time [some claim at least 80% of the time] in order to heal and repair. Optimizing sleep and deep rest, in particular, are vital for healing physical damage.
I can appreciate that stress reduction is particularly difficult with a super strong nocebo effect cancer diagnosis hanging over ones head, like a sword of Damocles, but this does suggest doing everything one can in this regard [avoiding and reducing chronic stressors], may, at least, be helpful.
Here are my annotated notes on the science article, in case anyone else finds this a helpful and more hopeful perspective.
“When a wound occurs, growth and repair genes in surrounding cells are activated and secretion of growth and repair factors is induced to heal the wound. However, if the wound is persistent due to chronic physical (radiation, electromagnetic field, trauma, particles, etc.), chemical (carcinogens, toxic chemicals, heavy metals etc.) or biological (aging, free radicals, inflammation, nutrient deficiency, bacteria and virus infections, stress, etc.) damage, amplification of gene activation in surrounding cells may lead to a clinical cancer.”
So the same “usual suspects” as for other chronic conditions. For me this especially brings to mind damage to the fascia, which can result in clumps of scar tissue forming if not addressed, and also to sores and holes, caused by inflammation, of internal boundaries, such as the intestinal walls, the blood brain barrier, and other endothelial cell layers, as being key problem areas.
“Based on the commonalities between cancer and wound healing, a new hypothesis of cancer is presented: malignancies are not passive mutated useless masses; rather, they are functional tissues produced by gene activation to secrete factors in an effort to heal persistent wounds in the body. Based on the hypothesis, current cancer treatments aimed at killing cancer cells only may be misguided.”
“The logical extension of the hypothesis is that cancer treatment focused on wound healing by limiting causes of persistent wounds, providing repair cells, factors, and substrates required by repair cells may yield more fruitful results than treatments focused on killing cancer cells alone.”
Again, for me, it points to the need to be in the healing calm, relaxed, restful states for as much time as possible, and to avoid exacerbation from other internal/external stressors as much as possible. Again, not easy with a “nocebo” type diagnosis, one which only gives negative expectation effects, over your head.
“Spontaneous regressions of cancer, although rare, may be successful examples of serendipitous spontaneous wound healing. Standard therapies aimed at killing cancer cells, should be limited to adjuvant status for limiting symptoms or buying time for completion of the wound healing process. Attempts to destroy cancer cells without healing underlying persistent wounds will allow for eventual recurrence.”
So treat the root causes, rather than just the effects.
“According to the hypothesis presented, malignancies may develop via activation of genes as a repair mechanism to promote completion of healing of persistent wounds. The hypothesis suggests key elements for effective cancer treatment: (1) removal of known physical, chemical, or biological causes of persistent wounds; (2) delivery of a critical mass of reparative cells to the site of malignancy.”
For me, this brings to mind two healing modalities which have been proven to be extraordinary for wound repair in particular, and are indeed known to deliver reparative cells and processes to the site of application as part of their mechanisms of action: red light and near infrared therapies, and fascia decompression or release therapies:
When I shared this over on facebook, several readers pointed to me to the German New Medicine approach to health, and especially what it has to say about the nature of idiopathic tumours, as physical manifestations of emotional or “conflict” shocks to the brain. This reminds of Dr Farias’s “cortical shock” hypothesis of movement disorders. So some forms of tumour may be another example of where shocks to the brain and Nervous System result in chronic physical issues in the body.
Also, a reader in the comments below pointed out the work of “The Root Cause Institute”, according to whom:
“the root cause is a psycho-emotional stress complex, effecting the physical body, which needs to be identified and resolved to heal.”
The way we look at cancer's cause, and mode of operation are extremely outdated, and based in a misunderstanding of how our bodies operate. The whole medical community blames inflammation for things, which they then try to reduce at any cost via drugs.
However at the core, as shown by Harold Saxon Burr, inflammation is an energy (electrical) balance, which, once corrected, allows our system to heal. This is why I'm a proponent of measuring our body voltage, as we then understand how much of an electrical imbalance we have:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/bodyvoltage
Thank you Gary for bringing to light such a vital topic!
Outstanding Gary! Without first reading all the references, I can say that this correlates well with my sofa-based observations about metabolism: we only have 2 modes, GROWTH and REPAIR; and that the crucial positive effect of INTERMITTENT FASTING is that continual caloric intake throughout the day PREVENTS the body from entering REPAIR MODE. The most noticable result is obesity, where the body obviously is stuck in continuous GROWTH MODE. TYVM for the links.