How Does Fungus affect us?

Fungus is an opportunistic germ.  When not destroyed immediately by your immune system, the cancer-invaded cells deviate from the usual controls over cell growth.  Fungus thrives in dark, warm, damp places in the body and thrives on sugar.  The growth begins when the genes controlling cell growth and multiplication (oncogenes) are transformed by cancer-causing agents known as carcinogens.

After a cell has a malignant transformation, the small group of abnormal cells divide more rapidly than the normal surrounding cells. The abnormal cells usually show a lack of “differentiation,” meaning they no longer perform the specialized task of their host tissue.  Thus, the cancerous cells are in fact parasites avoiding control of hormones and nerves and consuming nutrients while contributing nothing.

This rapid multiplication results in invasion and destruction of other body cells. These cancerous cells can then spread (metastasize) via the bloodstream and lymphatic system to other parts of the body from their original site.  A cancer differs from a benign (non-dangerous) tumor in two ways: cancers grow, spread and infiltrate the tissues around them, in addition to spreading to form new tumors that grow independently.

Cancerous tumors develop and multiply when the immune system surveillance team fails to identify the cancerous cell invaders and then is overwhelmed when recognition does occur, due to the massive number of corrupted cancer cells that have multiplied rapidly when undetected and unchecked. 

We are our own worst enemies in that we first suppress our immune systems with excessive free radicals, or rogue molecules, that damage cells due to the impact of toxins on our systems.  Polluted air, water, fast food; in addition to pathogens such as parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses joined with heavy metals and toxic chemicals, assault us daily.  Genetic factors join immunological weakness in certain cancer cases.

The most common treatment in 50% of cases is chemotherapy, but success occurs in only a few cases (2 to 25%), such as ovarian cancer in women and testicular cancer in men, in addition to Duke’s C, a form of colon cancer. 

The logical question to ask would be, if chemotherapy has such a low rate of success, why is it used so often? Dr. Ralph Moss, author of Questioning Chemotherapy, explains that most people confuse decreased tumor size with disappearance of disease. The association appears logical, but no known proof exists to support the connection.

Fractionated chemotherapy is gaining acceptance, including at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and involves spacing smaller amounts of chemotherapy drugs over more treatments in an extended period of time.  The theory is to allow the body more time to recover from the poison effects in essential functions excepting the killing of the cancer cells.  Results appear to be positive.

It is troubling that alternative therapies such as Non-pharmaceutical, Non-invasive, Complementary, Acupuncture, Osteopathic, Herbalism, Homeopathy, Reiki and Natural Healing etc. are often criticized for not being tested according to scientific standards, but many “accepted” protocols, including chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatments, have only limited success and little correlation between healing the patient, tumor shrinkage and patient survival after these procedures.  The answer unfortunately often appears to be economics, with chemotherapy treatments frequently costing six figures.  We must understand the facts, which are often difficult to accept in the midst of such suffering and fear for life caused by these dreaded cancer diseases.