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Originally Posted by graciegirl
All of you have given excellent advice. ChaCha hit the nail on the head. I am not a health professional but I think I remember reading lately that PSA levels were not as helpful as once thought in diagnosing prostrate cancer. I think Dr. Hoffers information on a support group is excellent, a way to gain support and information.
I am sad to hear of your friends diagnosis. One of the few down sides of an otherwise perfect time of life is the onslaught of illness that appears just because we have lived a long time.
New research is happening all of the time. I hope I live long enough to see Cancer beat!!
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Illness does not come just as an inevitability because of our having lived a long time. Our bodies were designed to be able to live long, and in good health, with a sudden, quick decline at the natural end of life's span. Illness (with our symptoms being only the eventual outward manifestations of a once-silent, chronically progressing process of tissue damage, just as an iceberg, once unseen, eventually appears above sea level) comes because of lack of adequate nutrient intakes to keep tissues healthy, or to allow them to heal themselves if they have become unhealthy. The more damaging influences we expose our bodies to, the higher level of nutrients necessary to neutralize the damage, and to allow tissue healing to occur; thus, it is important to not only nourish the body, but to avoid toxins and other damaging exposures, which is more and more a challenge in our modernized world; hence, the large number of oncologists, cardiologists, allergists, etc, in our area. The body has an inherent ability to heal itself, given sufficient wherewithal with which to do it.