But now I have confidence, hope, and a clear idea of what cancer is, how NOT to get it, and how to deal with it if you do get it.  I found my own instinctive dread of the hospital-radiation-chemo scene validated by scientific research.  More importantly, the story of Phronda, a spiritual counselor who found herself diagnosed with the worst form of breast cancer, validated my belief that spiritual and emotional growth, supported by a healthy lifestyle, is the key to physical health.  Phronda tells how her deep inner work revealed, and CHANGED, a deeply hidden belief that her body was a has-been, something no longer useful. She then gives simple how-tos that can benefit anyone the healthy as well as the ill.

Her husband, a medical researcher, shares his discovery of a radically different medical model. He explains how the AMA-dominated medical establishment asks the wrong questions about cancer.

A more helpful view sees cancer not as the disease but as the symptom. The disease itself is an immune system breakdown. So the question of a cure becomes not getting rid of the cancer but building up and re-activating the immune system. Can you feel the shift from attack mode to support mode?

For those familiar with mind-body work, it will not be a surprise that rebuilding the immune system involves a healthy diet, minimizing environmental toxins, appropriate exercise, and spiritual and emotional work. But the Smiths also found a therapeutic  system which gave an emergency boost to the immune system.  This therapy is a carefully calibrated set of homeopathic injections known either as the Enderlein therapies or, in Europe, the SANUM therapies.

The authors explain an alternative techniques for detecting immune system breakdown BEFORE (even years before) it manifests as cancer, and for re-building the immune system, long before cancer would develop.  The three-pronged approach consists of lifestyle change, spiritual/emotional work, and therapeutic support for the immune system (such as homeopathy, herbal therapy, etc.).

I now can picture a completely different approach to health, which would involve routine screenings followed, if desired, by referrals to appropriate nutritional experts, spiritual counselors, and, depending on the person, a range of immune supporting therapists such as homeopaths, herbalists, massage therapists, polarity therapists, etc. (Right now, people who develop high blood sugar are counseled on lifestyle changes that can prevent diabetes, and people with high cholesterol and hypertension have preventive options to reduce their risk of heart attack..) 

I look for the day when degenerative diseases such as cancer are routinely avoided. Even HMOs should realize such an approach would be vastly cheaper in dollars than the currently exorbitant costs of traditional high-tech cancer treatments. In the system I envision, very few people would actually get cancer, and a more aware populace would insist on a world freer of pesticides, pollutants, and stress. People would also be more fulfilled, self-directed, happy, and healthy. 

The book isn’t in most bookstores, but is easy to order from the publisher at 800-231-1776.  Read it now, and you may never get any closer to needing it.