10 Warning Signs of Cancer You Should Not Ignore

Hello Health Champions. Cancer can be a really  scary thing because it seems so totally out of  

control. But what if you have more control  over cancer than you've been led to believe?  

Today I want to go over 10 signs  of cancer, but more importantly,  

I want to help you understand what cancer  is, how it develops, and the mechanisms, so  

that you can reduce the risk of ever getting it.  Symptom number one could be fatigue. Now fatigue,  

we shouldn't jump to conclusion, because there's  a million different things that can cause fatigue,  

but cancer is one of them. Especially if it's not  helped by sleep or rest if it's not going away and  

if you still have it like over a period of six  months then that could definitely be a problem.  

And a couple of reasons would be that  the cancer growing the cancer is using  

up some resources in your body and on the other  hand your body's immune system is busy fighting  

this cancer and defeating it so it's like there's  this war going on that's using up resources.  

But remember don't jump to conclusions because  most commonly fatigue is caused by things like  

stress and poor nutrition. Another thing that  could be a sign is pain. Things like headaches  

and back pain and especially if it's chronic  if it goes on for a long long time and if it's  

not changing with body positions. If you have  a back pain for example very often you can find  

at least some position where you sit or lay down  or you lean or you do something, where you reduce  

or relieve the pain. But if it's what's called a  space occupying lesion where it's a growth that's  

putting pressure on something you may not be able  to find any position that gives relief and that  

would be a bad thing. Now let's try to understand  a little bit about what cancer is and how these  

cells are different from normal cells. A normal  cell can turn on and it can turn off a cancer  

cell is a cell that used to be a normal cell.  It's still your cell but something changed so it  

lost the ability to turn off. So this difference a  normal cell is called a regulated cell the growth  

is regulated. It can grow and develop to a  point and then stop but a cancer cell has lost  

that ability. It's called unregulated growth and  this difference is one of the main things that is  

characteristic of a cancer cell. An example would  be if you cut your finger for example. These are  

different layers of skin cells so if you cut it  your body is going to start going to work making  

new cells and it's going to create these precise  layers with different functions. And all of these  

different layers have different types of cells.  The cells are called differentiated because they  

have different purposes they all start with the  same type of cell called a stem cell but then as  

they develop as they mature they differentiate and  they serve their specific purpose. But a cancer  

cell doesn't do that it is undifferentiated. So  if we have a bunch of different cancer cells next  

to each other they don't really look any different  they're just making more copies of the same thing.  

Another way of saying that is that normal cells  will obey the intelligence and the order in the  

body whereas cancer cells disobey. They have  stopped listening and the way a cancer cell  

gets that way is because there are some mutations  a cancer cell is a mutated cell and something has  

altered that cell and we're going to come back  and talk about what those different factors are.  

Symptom number three would be lumps and this is  one many people are aware of. Women are encouraged  

to self-examine their breasts on a regular basis  and if you find a breast lump it could indicate  

a growth that could be cancer but most of the  time it is a benign growth. It's a fibrous growth  

often called a fibroadenoma or a cyst . And it's  not just women who can get breast cancer it is  

increasing in men as well. It's not as common as  in women but it's quite common in men as well.  

And men can also get lumps and growths on their  testicles so that's another sign of testicular  

cancer is if you find a little irregular growth  on your testicle. Number four blood in the urine  

is never a good thing it could indicate bladder  cancer kidney cancer or prostate cancer for men.  

But more often it's not that serious it could  be a kidney stone it could be a urinary tract  

infection that's probably the most common one  but it could also be from trauma or infection  

or toxicity that inflames the tissue so any kind  of inflammation is called an itis so if you have  

bladder inflammation it's called cystitis, kidney  inflammation it's called glomerulonephritis,  

or prostate is called prostatitis. Next question  is how does cancer develop well it all starts  

with a mutation and mutation is a change in DNA  change in DNA sequence and your body makes about  

1 million DNA changes per cell per day that's just  part of daily operations when we start counting  

cell replication making new cells that number  becomes astronomical. You're making 400 billion  

new cells per day because old ones wear outs  you have to make new ones and every time you  

make a new cell you have to copy six billion  base pairs. Six billion pieces of information  

and you have to do that correctly so obviously  with that number of copies it's not going to be  

perfect. You're making about 120 000 mistakes  per cell or per day on whole you're making 48  

000 trillion mistakes or copy errors. But  the body has some ways to deal with that  

and if you make a mistake the body can repair  the DNA so that's the first course of action  

and it's a good thing if that's not totally  perfect because if it was absolutely perfect  

there would be no genetic variation. We couldn't  change our DNA and adapt to things as well  

but there shouldn't be too many mistakes  either but a few of them will slip through  

and if that DNA repair fails the next course of  action is called apoptosis which is programmed  

cell death. Most of these mistakes are not going  to be working solutions they're not going to  

function well enough to live so they just die.  But if that apoptosis fails and they survive  

now we have a mutation. But the body has even  more resources because we have an immune system.  

We have t cells we have macrophages we have  phagocytes that can go and find and destroy  

abnormal cells. Things that don't look like  they're supposed to, we have a way of finding and  

eliminating them. And then if that also fails now  we could end up with something called pre-cancer  

because just because it's a mutation doesn't  automatically mean that we have cancer there's  

still many steps left. So in order to develop  cancer we need two things we need an initiator  

and that is something that it's a stressor that  increases the rate of mutation and the severity  

of the mutation. And those can be things like  smoke in cigarette smoke there are chemicals  

there. There could be chemicals in the environment  it could be ionizing radiation from excessive  

x-rays or working around radioactive materials. Or  it can even be hormone imbalances that can promote  

more mutations and more severe mutations. But not  even that is enough to develop cancer because we  

also need a promoter That's number two. We need  one is initiator two as a promoter something to  

drive the process forward and if we have all of  those present so promoter would be something that  

feeds the cancer because the cancer needs a  lot of food but it could also be something that  

interferes with the body's immune system and the  body's defenses. And if all of this is in place  

for quite some time now we can develop cancer. But  even then it's not a done deal because it usually  

takes a long time even after that to where we  actually have cancer or where it's dangerous. And  

how long that takes we're going to come  back and talk about a little bit later.  

Sign and symptom number five is weight loss  as many as 40 percent of people who are first  

diagnosed with cancer have experienced some  recent weight loss and it's not that it's  

dangerous to lose weight. This weight loss is  due to a disease process this weight loss is  

usually rapid and unexplained. It's not  that someone is trying to lose weight  

and it's often but not always associated with a  loss of healthy appetite. The body just doesn't  

have the balance and the resources to process  food it is too far gone and then you don't have  

much of an appetite anymore. In later stages of  cancer there's also something called cachexia  

which is wasting and this goes far beyond just  weight loss this is where your body is completely  

wasting away basically and this happens in as many  as 80 percent of late stage cancers. Remember when  

I said that there are some cancer promoters  there are some things that have to be present  

to drive that process forward so  what are those well we can get a clue  

by the way that they find these cancers or some  cancers. It's called pet imaging positron emission  

tomography. So the way that they can visualize  these cancers and right there is one is with  

radioactive sugar. They inject radioactive sugar  into a person the sugar gets into circulation  

and it's mostly absorbed by tumors and cancer  because these are like sponges for for sugar.  

They live off sugar and they can absorb as much  as 20 times more sugar than your average cell.  

That's two thousand percent and then when all  that radioactive sugar is in the tumor now we get  

a focal spot on that imaging. And why do tumors  use so much sugar because they depend much more  

heavily than your average cell on glycolysis  on sugar metabolism. They don't burn fat  

very well. They don't use oxygen very well they  depend much more heavily on the anaerobic process  

of glycolysis of splitting sugar. And I don't  know about you but I think this gives us a clue  

on what we should and shouldn't eat and maybe  they shouldn't give these people toast and orange  

juice right after their imaging session. Maybe  sugar isn't such a good thing. Other promoters  

are things like chemicals because they interfere  with the body's defenses and cleanup process. We  

have pathogens like virus, bacteria, fungus, etc.  Now these can complicate things and they usually  

don't necessarily cause the problem, but they can  aggravate the problem and they take advantage of a  

weakened immune system . So if your immune system  is already weakened by sugar and chemicals and  

toxins then the pathogens are just going to make  it worse. And of course stress is a huge factor  

in promoting cancer because when you're stressed,  your body is putting its attention on putting out  

fires outside of you. instead of trying to heal  the inside of you. Number six is a fever that  

would usually be a low-grade fever in the absence  of you having a cold or a flu and it's something  

that won't go away. It persists for for weeks it  may not be there all the time it could come and go  

during different times of the day, but it's very  persistent. And usually if you get fever in the  

early stages of the disease process it means it's  a blood-borne cancer like lymphoma or leukemia,  

but if it comes in the later stages, more advanced  stages of cancer, then it would be something other  

than a bloodborne. And very often we get the  impression that cancers just sort of attack people  

and then it's over in a very short time but the  question is that's very poorly understood is when  

did this start? And we don't have exact answers  but we have a pretty good idea today that it takes  

a long time. So let's take pancreatic cancer it  is one of the most ferocious types of cancer.  

Once you get it diagnosed in the late stage  it's over pretty quick but when did it start?  

If you had your first mutation like one cell  mutating getting not a cancer necessarily but just  

a mutation and then we're unfortunate that this  mutation continues to progress. Then it would  

take about 12 years before we had a cancer and  there would be multiple progressive mutations  

and it would take another seven years or so  before it was an advanced stage cancer ready for  

metastasis. And then is when we get the diagnosis  and we hear that we only have a short time left.  

But even though it is one of the most deadly  forms, there is a lot of time in between where the  

body could do something about it. So while there  is a huge variability between types of cancer  

and individuals on average we're probably  talking 10 to 40 years for a cancer to become  

a real problem. Number seven is skin changes  and here's another one that a lot of people  

are aware of that if you have moles that  start changing, you've got to watch out.  

So there's an abc for this. A means asymmetry side  to side, so if you look at it and one side is kind  

of round and regular and the other starts  looking different then that's a bad sign. B  

is border irregular so anywhere around it  where it's not smooth it starts changing  

and becoming irregular that's not a good thing.  C means uneven color so if you look throughout  

the mole and it's uniform that's a good thing  but if it's kind of spotty and different colors  

not so good. D is diameter that's the size of  it so if you look at it and it's larger than  

the diameter of a pencil or a pencil eraser  then that's something to watch out for.  

And E would be evolving it means it's changing you  kind of had it for 20 years but in the last year  

it looks different that's something that you want  to get checked out. Number eight is changes in  

bowel habits so if you have diarrhea constipation  if there's blood in the stool if your stool  

is black and or tarry if you get abdominal  pains or bloating these could indicate a cancer  

or colon cancer. Now if you have if you see the  blood in the toilet that means that the lesion the  

the problem is very close to the exit close to the  rectum whereas if you get a black and tarry that  

means that the problem is further up the digestive  tract so that the blood had time to coagulate  

before it came out. But as you probably know you  shouldn't jump to conclusions because these are  

extremely common so don't just look in this and  say oh my god I have this most of the time it's  

going to be due to things like food intolerances,  small intestine bacterial overgrowth or other  

imbalances in your biome in your bacterial  flora. Could be a leaky gut with gut inflammation  

or ulcers can also cause blood in the stool or  black and tarry stool. Number nine is dysphagia  

and that simply means trouble swallowing so if you  have trouble with that it could indicate that you  

have an esophageal cancer thyroid vocal cord or  a throat cancer because any of those could grow  

a lump of some sort that makes it more difficult  to swallow. However, it's much more common  

that it is something not so serious like  gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD,  

which is irritation of the esophagus by acid  and it can also be something called a goiter  

which is an enlargement of the thyroid gland  it's a benign enlargement. It's in people who are  

severely deficient in iodine and the body just  compensates by growing the thyroid into a lump  

that could interfere with swallowing. If you're  with me so far you probably agree that cancer can  

be a terrible thing and it can move really fast in  the advanced stages but hopefully you also agree  

that we have a lot of time to prevent things  and we have many many many years to prevent  

the early cancers from becoming full-fledged  serious cancers because the body has defenses  

and there are lots of different factors that  affect your immune system and your overall health.  

The body has a structural and emotional and a  chemical aspect to it and all of these affect  

the homeostasis and your immune status. So the  first thing you want to do is to stop feeding the  

cancer don't give it sugar. Reduce carbs reduce  sugar because that is going to reduce the amount  

of fuel for the cancer to grow. Also you want to  reduce the amount of chemicals because chemicals  

interfere with the body's cleansing process with  the immunity with the liver function and so forth.  

You want to do your best to improve  immunity and of course all of these  

build on each other so sugar will destroy immunity  so by cutting out the sugar you've already  

improved your immunity but you want to understand  that immunity is part of all of these three sides.  

The structural emotional and chemical. You want  to try to reduce stress because stress is a state  

where your body is focused on the outside  and immunity is where the body is focused  

inside. And when you have a lot of stress that  will reduce your DNA repair so by reducing stress  

you will improve your DNA repair. Also if you  do a breathing exercise and or meditation then  

you will improve your parasympathetic function  you reduce the stress but you also increase your  

peripheral vasodilation. So you improve the  oxygenation of your tissues and cancer hates  

oxygen it loves sugar and hates oxygen. So  anything you can do to improve oxygenation is also  

going to be a good thing fasting is another good  thing to do. You could do intermittent fasting  

and then occasionally add in some some longer  fasts because when you fast of course you reduce  

your blood sugar, you improve your immunity,  you increase your autophagy, which is part of  

your immune system, of your recycling. And  then to complete the picture of course you  

also want to do some exercise because exercise  drives all physiological processes in the body,  

but also exercise has been shown to improve DNA  repair and it has of course the ability to improve  

oxygenation because you increase circulation and  you distribute more oxygen to the tissues. And if  

you watch some of my videos before you're going to  notice that a lot of my recommendations seem to be  

pretty much the same. And that's exactly right  because the solutions are so basic and so simple.  

What we have to do is we have to grow and enhance  our understanding of why those things matter  

because it all boils down to one simple thing  that we all know we're supposed to do these  

but if you don't do them or if you don't do them  to the extent that you feel would be good for you  

it's because you don't understand them yet.  Number 10 is a chronic cough and mostly caused by  

smoking could lead to lung cancer but just like  other cancers it doesn't happen overnight. Smokers  

will have years and years of chronic cough called  chronic bronchitis, as the inside membranes and  

the cilia of their windpipes start degenerating  from that irritation from the smoke and go  

through these stages of progressive mutations. So  we do have a lot of warning signals in some cases  

and the smart thing would be to start listening  to those warning signals. Most coughing though  

especially if it doesn't last for for months and  years would be a respiratory tract infection like  

a cold or a flu. Now hopefully with a colder flu  the cough should be over in a couple of weeks but  

you could have some persistent infections  where your body can't clear it all the way  

and even though you're relatively healthy that you  still have that irritating cough for for months.  

I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't take  any of this very seriously, but I do want to get  

away from the idea of being powerless so often  we're told that hear the stories that someone  

got a diagnosis they found them in stage four of  pancreatic cancer and they had three to six months  

to live. Those stories make us feel very powerless  but look at the bigger picture and the things we  

talked about that most cancers you have 15, 20  years to do something, to live a healthy life  

and balance out your structural, emotional,  chemical aspects and get your body into balance.  

And then it's very unlikely that you would ever  get that diagnosis. It's not guaranteed but  

you're reducing the chances dramatically. Not only  does it take a long time but it requires multiple  

mutations, a series of mutations to develop into  something serious, and your body has multiple  

defenses. It has a lot of time to work on these  foreign cells on these abnormal cells if you give  

your body a chance. And the other thing to keep  in mind is that there is no form of cancer that is  

100% lethal. There are some that have really  really bad numbers but there is nothing that's  

a hundred percent. There is always someone  who has had what's called a spontaneous  

remission. The science doesn't really study these  people because they're treated as the exception,  

as a fluke, as some unexplainable miracle. These  are people who had the stage four they were given  

three to six months and then they go back a  couple of months later and the cancer is gone.  

So what we want to do is we want to study these  people with the spontaneous remissions we don't  

want to write them off we want to see what is  it that they did what combination of structural,  

emotional, and chemical lifestyle factors  did they incorporate. What did they do  

how did they think what were the factors that was  possible to create this spontaneous remission and  

defeat that cancer. If you enjoyed this video  you're going to love that one and if you truly  

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