We have just posted another video presentation from our Cancer as a Turning Point™ conference in September, 2018. Eric Remensperger was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer while he was already living what he thought was a healthy lifestyle. He was on a ketogenic diet and exercising regularly. Because of who Eric is, his diagnosis caused him to take a deep dive into learning everything he could about cancer, what causes it, and what he could do to change the terrain of his body to make it not conducive to the growth of cancer.
In this video, Eric is being interviewed by Maxine Barish-Wreden, MD, the director of the Institute for Health and Healing at Sutter Health in Sacramento. As a lawyer and an intellectual, Eric sometimes gets carried away with scientific terms that some of us aren’t familiar with. Dr. Max helps us understand what he is saying, and confirms that what he is saying is backed by current research.
They do a great job of giving us a template of what might be important to add to our toolbox in dealing with cancer, whether we are also doing conventional treatments or not. They talk about the two different theories of what causes cancer — is it genetic or metabolic? Which one of those camps we land in helps determine how we treat it.
Eric explains why he landed in the metabolic camp, and some of what he has done to get his “healing state” back. He talks about the importance of giving our bodies the opportunity to clean out the damaged cells (called autophagy) and how fasting became part of his “treatment.” He says that having a “clean” diet may be more important than whether our diet is ketogenic, paleo, vegan, etc. Since glyphosate (Roundup) kills mitochondria, and cancer is a disease of mitochondrial dysfunction, if we aren’t eating organic food it is likely we are eating glyphosate, causing our bodies to cancer. (He uses cancer as a verb.)
He ends by talking about wellness as relating to how we feel about ourselves and our lives. Are we aligned with authenticity and purpose? It seems like that message is consistent from so many sources. It reminds me of Larry LeShan’s book that I read 25 years ago, Cancer as a Turning Point. Dr. LeShan found in his research with cancer patients in New York that when they lived their dreams, discovered their bliss, and found what made them excited to get up in the morning, 50% of his “terminal” cancer patients went into remission.
In Kelly Turner’s book, Radical Remission, some of the nine factors consistent with all of the people she interviewed who had spontaneous remissions from cancer were: 1) identify your strong reasons for living; 2) increase the amount of positive emotions you feel daily. In fact, only two of the nine factors were physical. The other seven were all psycho-spiritual in nature.
So even though what we eat is of vital importance, it’s not the whole picture. It’s a necessary, but not sufficient, part of getting into our healing state. I encourage you to watch Eric’s presentation, here, and if it peaks your interest, check out his website at www.questtocurecancer.com. He shares theories on the causes of cancer, the protocols he’s used, and the five pillars of healing. He has done the research for us that many of us don’t have the resources or personality to do.
On his website, Eric says “My goal here is to share with you the information I have gathered in my own healing journey so that you can reap some of the benefits of what I learned. . . . As challenging as this healing journey has been, it has turned out to be the perfect marriage of my passion having found a purpose.”
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In the Spirit of Healing,
Jan Adrian, MSW
Founder and Executive Director
