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ne of the themes for this month’s issue is Rethinking Cancer. I would imagine that everyone reading this has had someone in their lives affected by cancer. How can you not? It seems to be everywhere. By now most of us are aware that we all have cancer cells in us; it’s just a matter of if and when they manifest themselves. One of our local experts, Dr. Kevin Conners of the Up-
per Room Wellness Center, in Vadnais Heights, offers this expert opinion: “Sickness, including cancer, is just a symp- tom, an expression of a deeper cause.” Everyone has trace cancer cells present in their bodies, he explains, but what
keeps cells from spreading is a healthy and effective immune system, that has somehow become damaged or ineffective in a cancer patient. (Dr. Conners is featured in this month’s Community Spotlight article on page 14). Naturally, there are additional factors that can help us live cancer-free lives: regularly detoxing the body, maintaining a healing alkaline internal environment, eat- ing a plant-based diet and staying away from sugar are some of the more well-known avenues being discussed. Other ways include getting a massage, partaking in hobbies that bring you joy, meditation, belly breathing, a walk in nature—anything that reduces stress and increases joy. Author Linda Sechrist writes in “Rethinking Cancer: A Brave New World of Effec-
tive Natural Therapies”: “Up till now, they attest that the war on cancer has been almost exclusively an assault on the disease, rather than an enlightened preventive campaign that clearly identifies and counters how cancer develops.” I have a cancer-survivor friend who said to me years ago, while she was undergo-
ing chemotherapy, “They will never find a cure for cancer because there are too many companies making a ton of money on it.” At the time I thought she was being cynical because of her recent experience. I was wrong. It was because of her up-close and personal experience that she was able to see, years ahead of me, what I now believe is true: there are too many companies and industries that will cease to exist if a cure for cancer is discovered.
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