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Further training
Lecture in
Katwoude well-attended
Dutch training team
On Saturday 16 August there was
a lecture in Katwoude on the
subject of cancer and how it can
be treated with the help of cellular
medicine formulas. The lecture
was attended by about 40
people including customers, consultants
and other interested parties
from the North of Holland.
The program began with a general
introduction about cellular
medicine. Cellular medicine
traces many diseases back to the
level of the cell. Essential nutrients
such as vitamins, minerals,
amino acids and trace elements
support many important biochemical
reactions in every body
cell. Body cells may not function
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properly if their supply of vitamins
and other bio-energy substances
is inadequate. This can
lower the body’s defences and
increase its susceptibility to disease.
The exact location of the problem
in the cell is fundamental to
cellular medicine. Diseases can
be divided into two categories:
1. Diseases caused by a shortage
of fuel in the cell’s ‘power
plant’,
2. Diseases due to a defect in the
control of cell metabolism in
the cell’s core.
It is this latter problem which is
relevant to cancer. A faulty cell
can cause cancer if the cell’s ‘soft-
ware’ issues an order for cellular
proliferation and the mass production
of collagen-digesting enzymes.
The greatest danger of
cancer growth arises when cells
occur in the lymphatic or blood
vessel systems. A tumour in one
particular place is rarely lifethreatening.
However around 90
% of all deaths from cancer are
caused by metastasis, when cancer
cells invade other organs and
tissue.
The treatments offered by conventional
medicine were also discussed
during the lecture. For a
long time the only way of treating
cancer was to surgically remove
the tumour and the surrounding
tissue, and this is still the main
method of treatment. Malignant
cells can be completely or partially
destroyed by radiation (radiotherapy).
Radiotherapy is normally
used in conjunction with other
treatments, for example to destroy
any cancer cells remaining
after surgery. Since the Sixties,
cancer has also been treated with
cytostatics, drugs which counteract
cell division. There are many
kinds of cytostatics, and susceptibility
to any particular kind varies
from one type of cancer to another.
Often a combination of
these treatments is used. Different
types of treatment are used for
some types of cancer, such as
hormone therapy for breast cancer
or prostate cancer. All of these
treatments have serious side effects.