February is National Cancer Prevention Month. In the U.S. our cancer death rate peaked in 1991. It has a declined by nearly one third since then until 2018, the latest year for which there are numbers. Nobody knows if it has risen again as a result of Covid-19, which has disrupted screenings and cancer care. Read more…
National Cancer Prevention Month
Infrared Sauna for Cancer
The National Cancer Institute sponsors a fact sheet on “Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment.” This sheet explains that hyperthermia is a treatment in which the body is exposed to high temperatures. Because cancer cells are typically weaker than normal cells, they may succumb to the high temperature without any injury to the other cells. If this Read more…
CBD for Cancer
A Google search on the phrase “CBD for Cancer” resulted in 44.8 million hits, a number I find somewhat staggering. But I couldn’t find any reports of clinical research. Nevertheless, the hope signified in the 44.8 million-hit search results seems justified. The first page of the search results, for example, contains many links from establishment Read more…
Cryotherapy for Cancer
There are three ways — all preventive — in which whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) may help to reduce the risk of cancer. 1. Weight Management According to the National Cancer Institute, higher body fat is associated with at least 13 kinds of cancer, several of which (breast, liver, ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal) are among the best known Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Cancer
There is a lot of flaky stuff on the web about infrared sauna, like the often-quoted study that found infrared saunas make you sweat five times as much toxins as regular saunas. Although I have found at least a dozen references to this study (mostly on websites promoting infrared saunas), I have been unable to Read more…
Five Ways Infrared Sauna Fights Cancer
Colin Cook On the subject of infrared sauna for cancer, in August I posted a piece about an Ohio fire department that is using an infrared sauna and an exercise bike. They believe that getting fire fighters to sweat profusely after a fire engagement will help them rid their bodies of the toxins they encounter Read more…
Infrared Sauna and Cancer Prevention
There is a theory of cancer that says we all have mutated cells — cancer cells — somewhere in our body, but most of the time, our immune system keeps them in check. According to this theory, it is when your immune system is compromised that you develop cancer. Most often, your immune system is Read more…