Distress – The First Mental and Emotional Cause of Cancer

Sunday, January 29, 2012 by: Dr. Keith Nemec
(NaturalNews) How can you live a stress-free life and prevent cancer and other health problems? By learning to manage your cortisol stress hormone levels and by putting the mental/emotional stress in your life in the proper perspective. Once you know how to balance the physical factors of sleep, diet and exercise along with the mental and emotional stresses in your life then you will restore health in your body and mind. This is critical in any alternative cancer treatment.
It is a fact that high stress is a major contributing factor to cancer and many other diseases. The question is how does stress cause cancer? To answer this, one must look at what the stress response does physiologically in the body. Hans Selye, the father of stress research, said there are two types of stress, distress and eustress. Distress is a longer, more damaging response which negatively affects the organs, glands and systems including the immune system. Eustress is a short term beneficial stimulus to the system. If you run up and down the stairs ten times you feel invigorated. Now if you run up and down the stairs one thousand times you are exhausted and totally drained, so eustress is health boosting whereas distress is health depleting.
The stress response is controlled by the brain via the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis or HPA axis. The hypothalamus, which has been called the brain of the brain, is the part of your brain that senses biochemical changes similar to the thermostat in your house. If certain bio-chemicals go high or low, it triggers the brain to respond. The hypothalamus does so by telling the master hormone gland, the pituitary, to send messages to the adrenal glands to secrete a hormone called cortisol. When cortisol is at the proper level it is anti-inflammatory and promotes health. When cortisol goes too high with acute stress or too low with chronic stress, it causes your immune and digestive systems to shut down, inflammation to increase, blood sugar to rise, hormones to go out of balance and bones to become osteoporotic. When cortisol stays high or low it predisposes you to cancer and many other diseases.
What causes cortisol to go out of balance?
1. Mental/emotional stress (distress)
2. Lack of total sleep and pre-midnight sleep (four hours is ideal)
3. Diet high in sugar, starch or acid forming foods
4. Too little or too much exercise
Cancer can form when cortisol becomes chronically high or low because adrenal exhaustion causes immune system suppression and your immune system is what keeps the individual cancer cells (which everyone has), from growing into colonies called tumors.
The most important stress management plan starts with proper sleep, diet, and exercise along with learning how to change your perception of the situation. When you change your perception you can change your reality and your health. To reduce the mental/emotional distress one must live fully in the moment without spending time thinking about the “if only I would have” past or the “if only I could” future. If you had excruciating pain in your body, what does your mind say? “I am going to die if I do not get out of this pain”. But is this really true? Can you endure the pain for one second? The answer is yes and this is how you will endure any storm in your life, by living one moment at a time instead of living in the past or the future. This type of living keeps your cortisol and immune system in balance and keeps you healthy in mind and body.
About the author:
Dr. Keith Nemec is a holistic chiropractic physician who has been treating patients for the last 27 years. Dr. Nemec is the co-director with his wife Laurie of the Total Health Institute, an alternative and integrative medical facility which offers both inpatient and outpatient services. Total Health Institute is a treatment and teaching facility that has both natural physicians and alternative minded medical doctors working together as a team in Wheaton, Illinois.
Thousands of people have restored their health at the Institute over the last 27 years. Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec have published two books: “Total Health = Wholeness” and “Seven Basic Steps to Total Health”. They also host their own radio show “Your Total Health” five days a week in Chicago. For more information about Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec and the Total Health Institute visit www.totalhealthinstitute.com
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Source: Dr. Keith Nemec / Natural News.com
An Outlook Towards the Natural Erectile Dysfunction Remedies
Submitted By: Blain Joseph
Erectile dysfunction is a devastating condition that affects the sex life of a male rendering him impotent. Even the thought of erectile dysfunction in males is horrible and no male can afford to face it. It fills the life of a male with incompetence. This is a situation where his manhood is challenged. It is more common in the elderly age group, above 50 years, but there is no guarantee that it would not affect males of younger age group. The sedentary lifestyle of the individuals makes them susceptible to several diseases, including erectile dysfunction compromising the circulatory system.
In order to fight against the strongest erectile dysfunction, the impotent male has to be aware of all the available erectile dysfunction remedies. A man’s cleverness lies in fighting with the erectile dysfunction wisely. He should try the conservative treatment options initially rather than jumping directly into surgical interventions.
There are enormous natural erectile dysfunction remedies available for the impotent males. This gains popularity with regards to the fact that they are free from the potential side effects of drugs, which are common in allopathic oral drugs. Many a times, these drugs may be contraindicated for a particular group of patients imposing danger to their lives. Furthermore, to cooperate with this limitation criterion, natural erectile dysfunction remedies come forward to spread awareness on their numerous benefits.
Coming to the list of natural remedies, the one that is most popular among impotent males is L- Arginine, an amino acid utilized by the body for making nitric oxide. The main action of this substance is to relax the smooth muscles around the penile region thereby allowing increased blood flow to get a powerful erection. The most curious question that may arise in the mind of an impotent male will be on how to obtain the merits of this substance.
It is not that tough for non-veggies. L-arginine is naturally available in poultry, fish, meat and dairy products. For those, who do not find consuming non vegetarian foods, there is a better option available in the form of oral supplements. It is sometimes addressed as natural Viagra by certain pharmaceutical manufacturers. However, men on L-arginine may sometimes complain of indigestion and is contraindicated in impotent males with stomach ulcers.
People taking antidepressants may sometimes experience erectile dysfunction as a possible side effect. For such individuals, “Gingko “can prove to be of great help. Their mechanism of action is similar to that of L-arginine allowing the smooth muscles around the penis to relax thereby increasing blood flow to the penis for maintaining a sustained erection.
The significant zinc depletion from the body as a result of diabetes, liver diseases, kidney disorders, long term use of diuretics etc. may progress rapidly to erectile dysfunction. Hence, zinc supplement intake still remains as one of the natural erectile dysfunction remedies available until today.
The Winthania somnifera avails the impotent male stamina, energy and better sexual functions. Moreover, the person may experience drowsiness as a common aftereffect of the drug. Furthermore, it may interact very badly with sedatives and hence caution should be taken not to use them together.
Another natural remedy not recommended is the “Yohimbe” derived from the yohimbe tree bark of western Africa. Just like the others, this also increases the libido, enhances blood supply to the penile region and also decreases the time between successive ejaculations. This possesses serious harmful effects, including anxiety, dizziness, a sudden drastic drop in blood pressure, fatigue, abdominal pain etc. This can even make a person paralyzed and enable the person to experience hallucinations. Thus, an impotent male should be careful while choosing any of the erectile dysfunction remedies as some may impose a serious threat to life.
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Excercise: A Guide from NASA and the National Institute on Aging (book)

Foreword • Introduction • Table of Contents
designed by Jennifer Larson and Dustin Masterson
Introduction:
You asked for this exercise book for a reason. Your doctor may have encouraged you to start exercising. Or maybe you made the decision on your own – you are already in good shape, and you hope exercise will prevent some of the health problems that seem to come with age. Maybe you have already noticed changes in what you can do, and you want to become strong enough to perform certain everyday tasks again.
Whatever the reason you decided to start exercising, you have made a good decision. Exercise can help you do all of the above, and it can improve mood, too. Welcome to one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself.
The National Institute on Aging is part of the National Institutes of Health. Our research is aimed at improving the health of older people. We have found that regular exercise and physical activity are very important to the health and abilities of older people. In fact, studies suggest that not exercising is risky behavior. That is why we have written this book.
For the most part, when older people lose their ability to do things on their own, it doesn’t happen just because they have aged. One major reason it happens is that they have become inactive. Older adults who become inactive lose ground in four areas that are important for staying healthy and independent: endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility.
Fortunately, research suggests that you can maintain or at least partly restore these four areas through exercise – or through everyday physical activities (walking briskly to the bus stop, for example) that accomplish some of the same goals as exercise. What may seem like very small changes resulting from exercise and physical activity can have a big impact.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Acidosis (See Renal Tubular Acidosis)
- Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease
- African Americans and Kidney Disease
- Albuminuria (See Proteinuria)
- Alport Syndrome
- Amyloidosis and Kidney Disease
- Analgesic Nephropathy: Painkillers and the Kidneys
- Anatomy of the Kidneys
- Anatomy of the Urinary System
- Anemia in Kidney Disease and Dialysis
- Anemia of Inflammation and Chronic Disease
- Angiotensin-converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors (See High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease)
- Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) (See High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease)
- Arteriovenous (AV) Fistula (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
- Arteriovenous (AV) Graft (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
- Artificial Kidney (See Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Hemodialysis)
- Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: NIH Research Timelines) (from the National Institutes of Health)
B
- Basics, Kidney Diseases
- Basics, Urologic Diseases
- Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
- Biopsy of the Kidneys
- Biopsy of the Prostate
- Bladder and the Urinary Tract
- Bladder Control for Women
- Blood in the Urine
- Blood Pressure
- Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) (from MedlinePlus)
- Bone Disease of Kidney Failure
- BPH (See Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia)
- BUN (See Blood Urea Nitrogen)
C
- Calcitriol (See Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder)
- Childhood Kidney Stones
- Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome
- Children and Kidney Disease
- Child’s Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Diet: Assessment, Management, and Treatment (PDF, 4.89 MB) * (for health care professionals)
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Drug Dosing: Information for Providers (for health care professionals)
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: NIH Research Timelines) (from the National Institutes of Health)
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Medicines: What You Need to Know (PDF, 287 KB) *
- Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder
- Chronic Kidney Disease: What Does it Mean for Me? (PDF, 564.01 KB) *
- CKD Quick Reference Card (for health care professionals)
- Complications in Kidney Disease
- Creatinine (See Quick Reference on UACR and GFR) (for health care professionals)
- Cystinuria (See Kidney Stones in Adults)
- Cystitis (Easy-to-Read)
- Cystocele: Fallen Bladder
- Cystoscopy and Ureteroscopy
- Cysts
D
- Daily Bladder Diary
- DI (See Diabetes Insipidus)
- Diabetes and Kidney Disease
- Diabetes Insipidus (DI)
- Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases
- Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases
- Dialysis
- Dialyzer (See Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Hemodialysis)
- Dictionary, Kidney Diseases
- Dictionary, Urologic Diseases
- Diet for Hemodialysis
- Diet for Kidney Stone Prevention
- Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases Organizations
- Diurnal Enuresis (See Urinary Tract Infections in Children)
- Drug Information (from MedlinePlus)
E
- Easy-to-Read Publications
- Eating and Kidney and Urologic Diseases
- Eating Right for Kidney Health: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 292 KB) *
- Eat Right to Feel Right on Hemodialysis
- Ectopic Kidney
- ED (See Erectile Dysfunction)
- eGFR (PDF, 242 KB) * (for health care professionals)
- End-stage Renal Disease
- Enuresis in Children (See Urinary Incontinence in Children)
- Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
- Erection Problems
- Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) (PDF, 242 KB) * (for health care professionals)
- Explaining GFR: A Tear-off Pad for Clinical Use (for health care professionals)
- Explaining Your Kidney Test Results: A Tear-off Pad for Clinical Use (for health care professionals)
F
- Fallen Bladder
- The Family Reunion Health Guide
- The Family Reunion Health Guide (Promotional Card) (PDF, 245 KB) *
- Fecal Incontinence
- Financial Help for Treatment of Kidney Failure
- Fistula (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
- Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (See Glomerular Diseases)
- For People with Diabetes or High Blood Pressure: Get Checked for Kidney Disease (PDF, 283 KB) *
G
- Getting a New Kidney: Facts about Kidney Transplants (PDF, 440 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
- Getting an Expanded-Donor Kidney (PDF, 187 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
- GFR
- Glomerular Diseases
- Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
- Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Calculators for Adults and Children (Online Tool) (for health care professionals)
- Glomerulonephritis (See Glomerular Diseases)
- Glomerulosclerosis (See Glomerular Diseases)
- Glossary, Kidney Failure
- Goodpasture’s Syndrome
- Growth Failure in Children with Kidney Disease
H
- HD (See Home Hemodialysis)
- Hematuria: Blood in the Urine
- Hemodialysis
- Hemodialysis Dose and Adequacy
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Children (HUS)
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP)
- High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease
- Home Hemodialysis (HD)
- How to Read a Food Label: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 179 KB) *
- HSP (See Henoch-Schönlein Purpura)
- HUS (See Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Children)
- Hyperoxaluria (See Kidney Stones in Adults)
- Hypertension
I
- IC/PBS (See Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome)
- IgA Nephropathy
- Imaging of the Urinary Tract
- Imaging Studies, Kidney Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
- Imaging Studies, Urologic Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)
- Impotence
- Incontinence
- Incontinence in Children
- Incontinence in Men
- Incontinence in Women
- Infection, Bladder
- Infection, Kidney
- Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS)
- Is My Child at Risk for Kidney Disease? (PDF, 1.93 MB) *
- Is Your Child at Risk for Kidney Disease? (Poster) (PDF, 95 KB) *
K
- Kegel Exercise Tips
- Kidney and Urologic Statistics for the United States
- Kidney Biopsy
- Kidney Cysts
- Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure
- Kidney Disease in Children
- Kidney Disease of Diabetes
- Kidney Disease Research Updates (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
- Kidney Diseases Diagnostic Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
- The Kidney Diseases Dictionary
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- Kidney Disease: What African Americans Need to Know
- Kidney Dysplasia
- Kidney Failure
- Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That’s Right for You
- The Kidney Failure Glossary
- Kidney Failure Series
- Kidney Failure: What to Expect
- Kidney Function
- Kidney Infection (See Pyelonephritis [Kidney Infection] in Adults)
- The Kidneys and How They Work
- Kidney Stone Prevention Diet
- Kidney Stones
- Kidney Stones (Easy-to-Read)
- Kidney Stones in Adults
- Kidney Stones in Children
- Kidney Sundays: A Toolkit-A Guide for Faith-Based Communities on Making the Kidney Connection (PDF, 4.58 MB) *
- Kidney Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
- Kidney Transplantation
L
- Laboratory Tests, Kidney Diseases
- Laboratory Tests, Urologic Diseases
- Loss of Bladder Control
- Low-literacy Kidney Publications
- Lupus Nephritis
M
- Make the Kidney Connection
- Make the Kidney Connection (Fan) (PDF, 2.90 KB) *
- Make the Kidney Connection (Outreach Promotion Card) (PDF, 244.60 KB) *
- MCDK (See Kidney Dysplasia)
- Medical Tests for Kidney Function
- Medical Tests for Prostate Problems
- Medicines for Keeping Your New Kidney Healthy (PDF, 255 KB) * (from the American Society of Transplantation)
- Medullary Sponge Kidney (MSK)
- Membranous Nephropathy (See Glomerular Diseases)
- Mineral and Bone Disorder of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Minimal Change Disease (See Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome)
- MSK (See Medullary Sponge Kidney)
- Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney (MCDK) (See Kidney Dysplasia)
N
- National Kidney Disease Education Program: Reducing Disparities. Improving Care. A Summary Report (PDF, 3.05 MB) *
- Nephrology Referral Form (Online Tool) (PDF, 118 KB) * (for health care professionals)
- Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults
- Nephrotic Syndrome in Children
- Nerve Disease and Bladder Control
- Neurogenic Bladder (See Sexual and Urologic Problems of Diabetes)
- Newsletters, Kidney and Urologic (periodic e-newsletters for health care professionals)
- NIDDK Prostate Research Strategic Plan (CD)
- NIDDK Prostate Research Strategic Plan (PDF, 18 MB) *
- NIDDK Research Progress Report and Strategic Plan for Pediatric Urology
- Nocturnal Enuresis (See Urinary Incontinence in Children)
- Nutrition and Kidney Diseases
- Nutrition for Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults
- Nutrition for Chronic Kidney Disease in Children
- Nutrition for Early Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults
O
- Organizations, Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases
- Overactive Bladder (See Urinary Incontinence in Women)
- Overcoming Bladder Disease: A Strategic Plan for Research (PDF, 1.05 MB) *
- Overview of Kidney Diseases in Children
- Oxalate (See Kidney Stones in Adults)
P
- Painful Bladder Syndrome
- Painkillers and the Kidneys
- Pelvic Floor Exercises
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Peritoneal Dialysis Dose and Adequacy
- Pessary
- Peyronie’s Disease
- Phosphorus: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 530 KB) *
- PKD (See Polycystic Kidney Disease)
- Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
- Potassium: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 140 KB) *
- Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your kidneys healthy
- Progress and Priorities: Renal Disease Research Plan (PDF, 278 KB) *
- Prostate
- Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
- Prostatitis: Disorders of the Prostate
- Protein: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 112 KB) *
- Proteinuria
- Pyelonephritis (Kidney Infection) in Adults
R
- RAS (See Renal Artery Stenosis)
- Renal Artery Stenosis (RAS)
- Renal Cysts
- Renal Dialysis (See Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That’s Right for You)
- Renal Disease Research Plan (PDF, 278 KB) *
- Renal Dysplasia
- Renal Osteodystrophy (See Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder)
- Renal Transplantation
- Renal Tubular Acidosis (RTA)
- Research Materials, Kidney Diseases (for health care professionals)
- Research Materials, Urologic Diseases (for health care professionals)
- Research Needs in Pediatric Kidney Disease: 2000 and Beyond (PDF, 282 KB) *
- Research Updates in Kidney Diseases (See Kidney Disease Research Updates) (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
- Research Updates in Urologic Diseases (See Urologic Diseases Research Updates) (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
- RTA (See Renal Tubular Acidosis)
S
- School & Family Problems of Children With Kidney Failure
- Sexual and Urologic Problems of Diabetes
- Simple Kidney Cysts
- Sodium: Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (PDF, 1.72 MB) *
- Solitary Kidney
- Spanish, Kidney and Urologic Diseases Publications
- Sponge Kidney (See Medullary Sponge Kidney)
- Statistics, Kidney and Urologic Diseases
- Stoma (See Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion)
- Strategic Plan for Pediatric Urology: NIDDK Research Progress Report (PDF, 9.7 MB) *
- Stress Incontinence (See Urinary Incontinence in Women)
- Suggestions for Laboratory Professionals (for health care professionals)
T
- Tests for Kidney Function
- Tests for Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
- Tests for Urinary Problems
- Transplantation, Kidney
- Treatment, Kidney Failure
- Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure in Children
U
- UACR (See Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio) (PDF, 242 KB) * (for health care professionals)
- Ureteroscopy
- Ureterostomy (See Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion)
- Urethral Stricture (See Urinary Retention)
- Urinary Incontinence in Children
- Urinary Incontinence in Men
- Urinary Incontinence in Women
- Urinary Retention
- Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
- Urinary Tract Infections (Easy-to-Read)
- Urinary Tract Infections in Adults
- Urinary Tract Infections in Children
- Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio (UACR) (PDF, 242 KB) * (for health care professionals)
- Urine Blockage in Newborns
- Urodynamic Testing
- Urologic Diseases Diagnostic Tests (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)
- The Urologic Diseases Dictionary
- Urologic Diseases in America: Interim Compendium
- Urologic Diseases Research Materials (for health care professionals)
- Urologic Diseases Research Updates (periodic e-newsletter for health care professionals)
- Urostomy and Continent Urinary Diversion
- UTIs (See Urinary Tract Infections)
V
- Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
- Venous Catheter (See Vascular Access for Hemodialysis)
- Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR)
- VUR (See Vesicoureteral Reflux)
W
- What African Americans with Diabetes or High Blood Pressure Need to Know: Get Checked for Kidney Disease (PDF, 2.07 MB) *
- What I need to know about Bladder Control for Women (Easy-to-Read)
- What I need to know about Erection Problems (Easy-to-Read)
- What I need to know about Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (Easy-to-Read)
- What I need to know about Kidney Stones (Easy-to-Read)
- What I need to know about My Child’s Bedwetting (Easy-to-Read)
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- What I need to know about Prostate Problems (Easy-to-Read)
- What I need to know about Urinary Tract Infections (Easy-to-Read)
X
- X ray, Kidney Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Kidney Diseases)
- X ray, Urologic Diseases (See Diagnostic Tests for Urologic Diseases)
Y
- Your Kidney Test Results (PDF, 109 KB) *
- Your Urinary System and How It Works
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