Dr. H… is a chiropractor that my friend, Maureen, and I have seen many times in the past. I’d gone to him back in 1990, etc. when I’d had continual neck and shoulder pain. He’s a chiropractor and would relieve it. Tonight, my appointment was for 5 PM or after normal hours. (Rex was not with me for this one.) The good doctor and I began about 5:20 and finished at 8 PM.
Dr. H… began by giving me quite an education on the make-up of a cell, both normal and what happens when they turn cancerous. This took about an hour and it was fascinating stuff. This all came about because Rex and I had asked the question at the surgeon’s about what happens to cells when they are killed (shrunk) during chemotherapy for example. Dr. L… said that those cells form scar tissue or in other words, there’s still a mass. (That’s when chemo is warranted. It is done first and then radiation is given.) But now, Dr. H… was saying that cells could shrink leaving no residue behind. This seemed to be in contrast with what the surgeon told us. “Ah,” Dr. H said, “You were asking a different question. Dr. L… told you correctly. She was describing necrosis or when you kill cells by external means. What I’m talking about is apoptosis or the natural processes of cell death.”
Through his penciled illustrations and some websites on his computer, I learned about cell apoptosis. Each normal cell has two identical strands of DNA. When it goes to divide, one strand goes one way and the other strand the opposite way, making two new cells. That one strand then duplicates itself identically. A component part of the new cell is called p53. Its job is to police the cell, looking for anything out of the ordinary. When it finds something, it fixes it. If it cannot fix it, it sets the cell to self-destruct. The trouble comes in when p53 doesn’t do its job. It’s like a light switch that even when it’s turned to the ‘on’ position, doesn’t make the connection (it’s got a short in the wire somewhere.) What chemo and radiation does is go in and actually make the affected cell even more ‘un-normal’ in the hopes that this will finally shock the p53 component to wake up and do its work.
Dr. H… bills himself as a bridge between conventional medicine and alternative. He believes that the reality is that both are really talking about the same thing – they just don’t have the language skills to be able to communicate with one another. He has done an amazing amount of research into both fields and spent a lot of time explaining that chemo and/or radiation’s bad side effects can be neutralized while allowing those treatments to carry out their good intentions effectively. His preferred website is PubMed.com which publishes medical studies done by ‘reputable’ researchers whose language conventional medical doctors can understand. He briefly took me to 9 articles that talks about grape seed extract: that this remarkable product can both cause cancerous cells to go into apoptosis and, during radiation/chemo, cause that those treatments don’t harm the body in other ways. Grape seed extract is sold through health food stores. He figured I’d need quite a bit right now for it to do what he says it will & it’s expensive…
After asking in prayer for direction on this possible solution, I felt that whatever is in Reliv will do the same thing for me and decided to continue using it rather than go to some new product.
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