Nutrition Support
New Ideas on Cancer
Nutrition Support
For a lot of people the immune system’s purpose is seen as an aggressive role to attack infections such as bacteria, viruses, yeasts and parasites. It also known for its ability to destroy worn out cells or rogue cells in the case of cancer. What is less known is the immune system’s role in cell survival and growth. The immune system produces proteins called growth factors, of which certain types can cause a cell to proliferate excessively, and if cell growth exceeds cell death, there is potential for a tumour or a disease of proliferation to occur. Excess proliferation is thought to be behind a lot of chronic diseases - endometriosis, type II diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis for example.
Over the last few years, the biochemical understanding of the processes involved in a cell’s life has gained greater and greater depth. The polarized view we used to have of an illness happening to us by bad luck, triggered by an outside cause, is slowly being replaced. Now there's an .understanding that it’s more imbalances in the terrain that lead to the health conditions. Pasteur’s alleged deathbed confession that ‘the terrain is everything, the germ is nothing’ is starting to gain wider acceptance.
The balance between growth and survival, and death is an important balance in the body. When we’re young, growth has to exceed cell death for us to grow, but when we’re older, the balance should ideally be fairly even. Anything that sets up excessive growth in later life, can set the conditions for a tumour to grow. In a healthy body, cancer cells are destroyed before they can replicate and form a tumour. If the immune system is switched to cell survival, as it is in wound healing, chronic inflammation, viral infection, hormonal imbalances and obesity, then the immune system may encourage its survival, rather than its death.
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