Welcome to "Wonderfully Made"
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I'm Amy Wellard with the
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Wildwood Lifestyle
Center and Hospital,
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and today our topic in our
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Vibrant Health for Women's
series is cervical cancer...
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And with me today in the studio
is Dr. Cherie Lou Fernandez
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Welcome! Thank
you, glad to be here
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Our subject - cervical
cancer, is actually affecting
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16,000- the statistics say
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of women in America every
year with about 5,000 deaths.
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It's actually quite a very
large problem for many women,
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and it's actually the third
most commonly diagnosed cancer
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after lung and breast... Yes
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So tell us, is it on the
rise, along with all the other
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lifestyle conditions
or is it being controlled?
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Good news... because of
the use of the Pap smear,
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...Papanicolaou
smear, you would call that,
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and making it readily
available for everybody,
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and educating people on
the use of Papanicolaou smear,
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the cervical
cancer is caught early,
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and problems associated with
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EARLY cervical
cancer is caught earlier.
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So then, you don't necessarily
go into cervical cancer
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because you stop
it at its beginning...
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So because of the
Papanicolaou smear,
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cervical cancer
seems to be coming down.
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So, can you tell us -
what is the Pap smear exactly?
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Well the Pap smear can be done
in any other part of the body
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like the buccal
mucosa and other mucosa.
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It's not right,
but it is usually
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used down there for the cervix.
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They take a scraping of the
cervix and/or inside the cervix
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and the vaginal pool
and smear it on the slide
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and they stain it with a stain
invented by Mr. Papanicolaou...
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That's why it's the
Papanicolaou smear...
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And when you look into it,
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you see abnormal cells if
there were abnormal cells.
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And so it's like a
screening test to see whether
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you have abnormal
cells... precancerous cells,
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but it's not really
mainly, although it's used as a
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cancer screening test... it
does not only check for cancer,
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it checks for infections
and hormonal imbalances as well.
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So how effective is
it in actually preventing
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death from cervical cancer?
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It is really very effective
because even if there are
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false-negatives, you
can catch cervical cancer
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because cervical cancer
is a slow-growing cancer...
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actually 15 years
before you have it.
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So if you have your cervical
smear, even if you missed a year
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...if you do it
every year thereafter,
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because of the slow
growth of cervical cancer,
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you will catch it.
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The thing is, you HAVE to
have Pap smears every year.
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Okay now, I
wanted to ask you that...
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You have to have
Pap smears every year
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if you are sexually
active, or even if you're not?
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As soon as you start
being sexually active,
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or if you're
not sexually active,
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but you come into
the reproductive years,
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maybe 18-19, then you
start having the Pap smear.
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So what is actually
causing the cancer in itself?
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It's a virus... that causes it?
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Well, cervical cancer
the majority of the time,
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it's 90+% a
very, very small amount
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for cancer that's
not caused by HPV.
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The majority of cancers are
caused by human papillomavirus.
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That's the HPV...
That's the HPV virus.
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That is what
causes cervical cancer.
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Okay, and most
viruses manifest themselves
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in manifestations on the skin...
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Is that right, when it
comes to this virus? Yes
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HPV actually is a type of
virus that has several strains.
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You have even a little
wart on your hand is HPV.
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But there are
different HPV strains that
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go to different
parts of the body,
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and even in the cervix,
you have different kinds of
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HPV strains...
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You have the low
risk for cancer strains,
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and you have the high
risk for cancer strains.
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So, you have different
kinds of strains that -
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you might have a wart
even in the vaginal area
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but you may not have cancer
depending on what strain you got
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So just because you have
a wart, doesn't mean that
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you're necessarily
going to get cancer.
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There is a probability
- you might have both...
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but that means you are
not really sure what you have.
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Okay, and you may
have no warts at all,
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and yet still developing cancer-
And still have the cancer
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Now in 2006, there was a
vaccine that was approved
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to prevent cervical cancer...
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Can you comment on that?
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Okay yes, that is
the vaccine "Gardasil"
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It's
recommended for young girls,
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as soon as they
enter into their menarche.
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They do the Gardasil because
maybe it's because of the
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permissive society, they
think the little girl at 13
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would be sexually active.
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So maybe they are thinking
to PREVENT this young girl
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from having
cervical cancer later.
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However, because
of the large amount...
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I mean so many strains of
the high risk cervical HPV
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causing cancer...
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Gardasil has only the
2 most virulent strains,
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but there are over 12 of
the most virulent strains...
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So Gardasil really is
not covering everything.
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The real thing really is
that everybody is supposed to
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practice abstinence.
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Okay so you basically summed
up the complete prevention there
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Yeah... I'm sorry but yes.
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But for married couples
it's purity in marriage,
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and outside of marriage.
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Faithfulness to one
partner can really minimize
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and that begins
WAY before marriage...
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preparing yourself to
marry involves faithfulness
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and complete
abstinence prior to marriage.
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So is this cancer specifically
linked to sexual behavior?
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Yes - because of the
HPV, it is specifically linked
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to sexual behavior,
but if you were somebody
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who was really pure, you
were a lady who was pure,
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and you married a pure guy,
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somebody who has NEVER had
any sexual intercourse with
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ANYBODY - pure person, pure you,
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you will NEVER get...
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I mean, the risk of
developing cancer is very small,
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hardly no more, but
even if you were a pure lady,
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but you married a guy who
ran around early in his life,
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and even if he marries
you, but he wasn't pure one time
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and he had it... he took
it, he'll bring it to you
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and there is a
chance for you to have it.
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However, if you
take care of yourself,
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you probably won't get it.
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And I suppose you could apply
that to another stage in life...
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For example, if a wife
dies of cervical cancer,
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the husband himself
would be a carrier of the HPV,
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and could pass that to a
future wife. Yes, he could
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So then if that would be,
it would be just fair for him
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to tell his wife that we should
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be both healthy in
order for you not to get it.
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Okay, so he could
have passed it on to her,
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but she doesn't need to actually
GET the developed cancer.
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If she takes care
because if you catch it early
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you won't have it because
you can easily take care of it.
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That's great...
So what are the other
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risk factors that make
some women or some socioeconomic
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groups of women
more at risk than others?
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First is poor
socioeconomic status.
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Well, I don't want to
talk so much on that...
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it speaks for itself.
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But you could say - women who
are from 45 to 50-60 years old
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...because the before the
early 60s, they had a drug
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which is "DES" or
diethylstilbestrol
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...that they gave to women
who had signs and symptoms of
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miscarriage.
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So they would give
this to a pregnant woman
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who was having
threatened abortion... DES
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It would apparently hold
the pregnancy from aborting,
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but the little baby that
was inside would be affected
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by the DES, and
it would make her
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in the future, prone to
develop cervical cancer. Really?
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Was there anything that she
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do about that later in life?
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Oh yes, take care of
herself by having a Pap smear.
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Okay, wonderful.
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So how is cervical
cancer manifest once it has
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got into the more advanced
stages - what are the symptoms?
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Oh, many times cervical
cancer does not manifest itself,
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and it will only
manifest too late.
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That's why I cannot
overemphasize the importance
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of really having
your Pap smear regularly.
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It's
asymptomatic for a long time.
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But if there were signs
and symptoms that occur late,
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they would include
abnormal vaginal bleeding.
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So the vagina
bleeds between menses,
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or maybe you're
already menopaused,
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and you start
bleeding or maybe after
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a sexual intercourse
you would have bleeding.
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This bleeding where you
are not supposed to be bleeding
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is a very, very strong
sign of cervical cancer.
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And, you could have
continuous vaginal discharge...
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A discharge ALL
the time, you know...
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You would have to
always wear panty liners.
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The discharge could
be clear or copious.
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It could be pink,
brown, bloody, frank bloody,
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but they are
definitely foul-smelling.
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I could remember when I was
in internship back years ago
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when I was in my
internship for early medicine,
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when I would go
into the cancer pavilion,
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I would know that even
if I would blindfold myself,
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I would know that I was close
to the cervical cancer ward.
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It's a specific smell that
is just so cervical cancer.
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When I have a patient
that comes into my office
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I just know the whiff,
the breeze that she brings.
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Oh... this smells like cervical
cancer and that's the discharge.
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So has the cancer
already spread to other areas?
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Sort of yes,
because it is already...
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depends on how it spreads...
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It can spread down
or it can spread up;
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it can spread sideways,
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but it is one of
the manifestations,
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and menses also become
heavier and longer than usual.
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So how could you tell
how advanced a woman is?
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What testing is there?
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First and foremost,
you do the Pap smear.
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And the Pap smear can
catch whether you have the
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precancerous stage.
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The Pap smear catches
the precancerous stage.
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You call that "dysplasia"...
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"dys" meaning abnormal
and "plasia" meaning growth.
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So abnormal growth - dysplasia.
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So you have mild dysplasia
- meaning one-third of the
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cervical lining is abnormal.
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You have moderate dysplasia
- meaning around two-thirds
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of the lining of your
cervix is affected or abnormal.
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And you have SEVERE dysplasia
- meaning the WHOLE layer
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of the lining of your cervix
is affected... it's SEVERE
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So you have ALL abnormal cells.
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It's just dysplasia but you
get 1 cell off this dysplasia
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...a patient with dysplasia and
you get a cell off one from a
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frank cervical cancer...
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You look at it under the
microscope... they are the same.
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So cervical cancer and dysplasia
have the same kinds of cells,
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BUT the amount of
cells - you would say...
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Mild is one-third,
moderate is two-thirds,
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and severe.
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It's like saying that you have
your entire lining cancerous.
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They call that
"carcinoma in situ"
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just localized or maybe
you could say "stage 0 cancer"
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if you could say...
it's just localized.
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So when you talk about stage 0
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that sounds really hopeful to
me because we often hear about
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stage IV and V
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So a stage 0, this
precancerous almost condition,
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is that curable?
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VERY curable...
it is very curable.
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So what are your chances
of still being alive after
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5 years of having cancer...
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Let's say you
had severe dysplasia,
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you can have further tests.
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You have the colposcopy...
it's like a microscope that they
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examine your vagina
and they have a microscope
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that focuses on your cervix
and they can per se... SEE
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how your cervix is affected.
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And then they know
whether you can take out locally
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the area that is affected.
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You call that the "cone biopsy"
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So they make a cone - inside
is the apex, here is the base...
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They make a cone and
take out the cervix like this
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because there are some
women - they're scared...
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Yes - they have
cervical SEVERE dysplasia,
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and you can say "cancer"
already, but it's just contained
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But they still
want to have kids;
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they don't want
their cervix taken out.
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So you have your cone biopsy
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so that you
still have your uterus,
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or you can have
your MRI or your PET scan
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or your CAT scan if you
would want to see whether
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you have had
spread around the...
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Okay, so let's talk about the
different types of cancer cells
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or rather the
growth of the cancer cell,
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and the different
facets to this disease process,
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and how we can conquer
each facet with lifestyle.
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Yes, it is important that
we, again, know our enemy...
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When we know our
enemy it's much, much easier
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for us to conquer the enemy.
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So in the management of cancer,
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we have 5 things to
take into consideration.
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Cancer actually is a multiple
myriad of problems in your body
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manifesting as cancer
and mainly it's the gene
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that's affected
by free radicals...
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A free radical damage to
your cell and/or your DNA
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causing abnormal cells.
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If it is a free radical,
you fight it with antioxidants.
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So antioxidants...
vitamin A, C and E,
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and ashwagandha herb and
schisandra - another herb,
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and GARLIC - a very, very
STRONG and POTENT antioxidant
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which I really have
an experience with...
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A friend of mine had a
sister with stage IV cancer,
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and she was given a
short time to live...
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that's SEVERAL years ago
and she's still alive now!
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What she does - is
she reeks with garlic.
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She finishes one
pound of garlic a WEEK!
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A WEEK - she... one
pound of garlic a WEEK!
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But she is alive!
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Better to smell of
garlic than be dead.
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She still has the cancer there
but it has not cost her her life
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That's for free radical damage.
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But then you have inflammation.
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Inflammation is like the gas
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that makes the
cancer GO and GROW...
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So turmeric is one of
the STRONG anti-inflammatory,
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and it's food
besides - it's a spice.
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You don't have to go somewhere
looking for it, it's in
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Wal-Mart; there's
turmeric in the spice section.
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And you can use a lot
of turmeric in your food.
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Then work on your immunity
because it will be the one
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to FIGHT your cancer...
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And we have this, what
you say, "angiogenesis"
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It's a big term...
"angio" meaning - blood vessels,
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and "genesis" meaning growth.
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A cancer will not grow
bigger and will not spread
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if there are no blood
vessels that are feeding it.
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So if you have antiangiogenesis,
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meaning you get food
or substances that keep
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blood vessels
from growing into it,
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the cells, of course, will die;
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no nourishment and so they die.
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Well, you see the cells, per
cell will call for angiogenesis.
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A cancer cell is a rogue cell.
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It has a government of its own.
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It will do what it
wants to do because it's
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not the same as
the other normal cells.
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So this rogue cell calls for
new blood vessels towards it.
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Praise the Lord... because
turmeric is a very strong
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antiangiogenesis agent.
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It's been a lot of experience
- experiments are coming up,
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and studies are coming up
that turmeric is very good,
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for antiangiogenesis...
How would you actually
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take that turmeric?
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You would just buy the culinary
turmeric from the super store
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and just add it to your food
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or mix it in some
milk and drink it or...
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One to 2
teaspoons, 2-3 times a day.
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Okay... Yes, you could mix it...
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I found out that it tastes bad.
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It tastes bad - you know,
the pungent smell and everything
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and it makes your teeth yellow.
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But you can do things to keep
your teeth from turning yellow,
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but anyway, if you
put it in pineapple juice,
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it tastes good!
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But then you have to put
it in a straw, a big straw,
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and straight down
the back of your mouth
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so that it doesn't go to
your teeth and stain it yellow.
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And all the good colors,
the different rainbow colors
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of food - the
berries with dark colors,
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and vegetables with dark colors,
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they're anthocyanin-rich.
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They are antiangiogenesis.
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Garlic is again,
fruits and vegetables -
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most of them
have antiangiogenesis,
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and the last one is telomere.
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Telomere is something to do
with the end of the chromosome
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that tells the cell when to die.
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Cancer cells NEVER DIE...
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they just grow and
grow and grow and grow.
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Telomere really tells
the cell when it should die.
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Then when you do exercise,
you do all the natural remedies
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from nutrition, exercise,
water, sunshine, vitamin D,
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sleep well, trust in God
and you would help the telomere
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work properly and tell
the cell... "Okay, let's die"
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And when the cell
dies, it doesn't replicate.
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So you're hitting
different ways to control
00:20:20.48\00:20:23.37
your cancer that would be
really giving you a chance to
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not move from
precancerous to cancer.
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And when you talk about
exercise - what kind of level?
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Are you talking high
impact aerobic-type exercise?
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...Or just consistent -
maybe 5 miles walking a day
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at a gentle pace or...
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Yes, it's important that
you do not stress yourself
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when you exercise.
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So if you have never
been exercising before,
00:20:47.79\00:20:50.38
you don't climb Mt. Everest!
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In other words, you go slowly...
00:20:52.10\00:20:55.83
First, you start with
a mile and then 2 miles.
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Your body will tell you because
you won't be huffing and puffing
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...initially, you
would be, but then you walk
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Let's say I'm walking a mile,
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and I'm going to
walk it in 30 minutes,
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but next time, I'm going to
walk the mile in 15 minutes,
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so I'm going to
walk 2 miles this time...
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And as soon as you
have adapted to it,
00:21:18.29\00:21:22.77
you're not huffing and puffing,
00:21:22.80\00:21:24.20
you push to 3
miles in 30 minutes.
00:21:24.23\00:21:26.73
You push to 4
miles in 30 minutes.
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Moderate increased but
not pushing it too hard,
00:21:29.27\00:21:33.35
because when you...
especially heavy, strenuous
00:21:33.38\00:21:37.82
weightlifting,
climbing Mt. Everest
00:21:37.85\00:21:40.63
increases your cortisol and
cortisol is FRIENDLY to cancer.
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Ah, so if the exercise
is making you STRESSED,
00:21:45.02\00:21:48.47
better not do it... It's
not going to do good for you.
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Oh that's great,
so just the moderate,
00:21:51.44\00:21:53.22
but the balance between
the ease and the effort. YES!
00:21:53.25\00:21:55.68
So it is pushing you a little
bit but not OVER-STRENUOUS.
00:21:55.71\00:21:59.13
Now, what about
the immune enhancers?
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Could you tell us a
little bit more about the
00:22:01.37\00:22:03.34
herbs that can really
BOOST the immune system.
00:22:03.37\00:22:06.10
Oh, the one I know
fairly well is "pau d'arco
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Now the pau
d'arco comes from South,
00:22:10.81\00:22:13.17
and aside from garlic, the ones
that you have in your kitchen,
00:22:13.20\00:22:18.63
your onions, your garlic,
your ginger, your turmeric...
00:22:18.66\00:22:22.38
they are readily
available for you.
00:22:22.41\00:22:23.84
You can get pau
d'arco, we were talking about
00:22:23.87\00:22:30.58
astragalus... astragalus - yes,
00:22:30.61\00:22:32.76
goldenseal, Echinacea.
00:22:32.79\00:22:35.15
You can do burdock root.
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Those are the
ones... Blood purifiers.
00:22:39.04\00:22:41.26
Yes, blood purifiers
and immune enhancers.
00:22:41.29\00:22:44.01
And okay, to be sure,
always support your liver.
00:22:44.04\00:22:47.81
When you're trying to
keep your body at par,
00:22:47.84\00:22:50.80
always support your
liver because your liver
00:22:50.83\00:22:53.77
is trying to get rid of all the
waste that your body is getting;
00:22:53.80\00:22:58.24
you know, the end products
that your body is working
00:22:58.27\00:23:01.41
and having its waste products.
00:23:01.44\00:23:03.42
The liver will catch all that...
00:23:03.45\00:23:05.34
And so help your liver
detoxify. With for example...
00:23:05.37\00:23:09.82
With for example - you could say
00:23:09.85\00:23:12.38
milk thistle or dandelion.
00:23:12.41\00:23:15.53
Those are the most
common ones that you would use.
00:23:15.56\00:23:19.02
Could I take
dandelions out of my garden...
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I have plenty of
weeds! I'm sure you could,
00:23:20.81\00:23:22.31
but it's the root!
00:23:22.34\00:23:23.71
It's the ROOT - that's
the hard thing to dig up
00:23:23.74\00:23:25.42
so maybe you are better to just
buy the root from a herb shop.
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You could! It's FRESH,
you're sure that it's organic!
00:23:29.02\00:23:34.14
And you've got the
whole phytopharmacy
00:23:34.17\00:23:36.52
in one complete polypharmacy.
00:23:36.55\00:23:39.30
Okay, now you
mentioned earlier about sleep.
00:23:39.33\00:23:42.11
Now could you give
us the physiology behind
00:23:42.14\00:23:45.07
why it's important, if you have
cancer, to get to bed early,
00:23:45.10\00:23:49.38
and when we say
"early," what time do we mean?
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Okay, we are counseled
that 2 hours before midnight
00:23:51.16\00:23:57.96
is equal to 4
hours AFTER midnight.
00:23:57.99\00:24:01.67
I know everybody has experience
that if they went to bed EARLY,
00:24:01.70\00:24:06.32
let's say - 8
o'clock or 9 o'clock, okay?
00:24:06.35\00:24:11.21
When you go to
bed at 8 or 9 o'clock,
00:24:11.24\00:24:13.90
then you have a deep sleep,
00:24:13.93\00:24:17.11
you wake up somewhere like 3
or 4 o'clock and it feels like
00:24:17.14\00:24:20.01
you're done!
00:24:20.04\00:24:22.57
You have to wake
up! Why is it so?
00:24:22.60\00:24:26.99
And you look at the
clock and you say...
00:24:27.02\00:24:28.63
"It's still 3 o'clock, I thought
I had slept enough already"
00:24:28.66\00:24:33.09
That means your
body has recovered!
00:24:33.12\00:24:35.72
Your body has been
able to clean itself.
00:24:35.75\00:24:39.48
Your body has been able
to get rid of the toxins.
00:24:39.51\00:24:43.14
Your body is ready
to face another day!
00:24:43.17\00:24:45.78
It's because around 9 o'clock,
or when the sun comes down...
00:24:45.81\00:24:51.05
At 6 o'clock, let's just
say... when the sun comes down,
00:24:51.08\00:24:55.09
your growth hormone and your
melatonin starts to increase.
00:24:55.12\00:25:01.60
Now melatonin is VERY important
because it is the REPAIR hormone
00:25:01.63\00:25:06.31
So this will help you to repair
some cells that are damaged
00:25:06.34\00:25:09.19
by cancer invasion? YES,
and the growth hormone ALSO
00:25:09.22\00:25:12.84
It's balanced, you
know, you have to get this one
00:25:12.87\00:25:17.57
so that whatever trauma there is
in your body, can be repaired.
00:25:17.60\00:25:22.76
So when you get
enough of your melatonin,
00:25:22.79\00:25:25.92
and your growth hormone which is
00:25:25.95\00:25:27.84
only there prior to
12 o'clock - before...
00:25:27.87\00:25:31.74
And no more late
night internet surfing!
00:25:31.77\00:25:33.73
NO - because if you
went to bed past 12 o'clock,
00:25:33.76\00:25:37.97
you slept until 12 o'clock noon,
00:25:38.00\00:25:39.78
and it seems like you've
NEVER been able to sleep...
00:25:39.81\00:25:42.66
It's like you want
to sleep some more;
00:25:42.69\00:25:45.03
you're not satisfied!
00:25:45.06\00:25:46.52
It's because you
didn't get your melatonin.
00:25:46.55\00:25:48.88
You didn't get
your growth hormone.
00:25:48.91\00:25:50.72
There's no repair in your body!
00:25:50.75\00:25:52.40
Your body is still...
"I'm still... still worse"
00:25:52.43\00:25:55.24
...The dirt is still there,
it has not been cleaned up.
00:25:55.27\00:25:58.16
I have not been
able to repair myself.
00:25:58.19\00:26:00.09
So you're tired; so
you must go to bed early!
00:26:00.12\00:26:03.31
So there's truth
to the old saying -
00:26:03.34\00:26:05.57
"Early to bed, early to
rise, makes a man HEALTHY,
00:26:05.60\00:26:09.69
...wealthy and wise!"
00:26:09.72\00:26:11.52
Maybe not always wealthy,
but certainly healthier!
00:26:11.55\00:26:16.06
So, we've mentioned on some of
the other shows, Dr. Cherie Lou,
00:26:16.09\00:26:19.52
about vitamin D,
and now this has been
00:26:19.55\00:26:22.86
or the lack of it has
been implicated in many, many
00:26:22.89\00:26:25.63
different health issues.
00:26:25.66\00:26:27.96
Is it an issue
with cervical cancer?
00:26:27.99\00:26:29.88
Oh... for ALL cancers besides.
00:26:29.91\00:26:34.07
Vitamin D
ENHANCES the immune system.
00:26:34.10\00:26:37.50
Vitamin D helps all
your organs recover faster.
00:26:37.53\00:26:44.35
It's an ESSENTIAL
vitamin in EVERY CELL,
00:26:44.38\00:26:50.66
the same way as all cells.
00:26:50.69\00:26:54.42
We thought initially that
vitamin D was only for bones,
00:26:54.45\00:27:01.35
but it is MORE,
MUCH MORE for cancer.
00:27:01.38\00:27:05.23
You have to have your
vitamin D NOT LOWER than 50.
00:27:05.26\00:27:09.89
Somebody said 60... so
that would be really helping
00:27:09.92\00:27:14.65
in making your
immune system work to par.
00:27:14.68\00:27:16.86
So supplementation
would be needed in many cases.
00:27:16.89\00:27:18.47
Sunshine is better,
although if you need it
00:27:20.87\00:27:23.56
start now, then you can do
the vitamin D supplementation.
00:27:23.59\00:27:27.18
Okay, wonderful... Now
is there any other aspect to
00:27:27.21\00:27:29.93
having cervical cancer that
you can advise the ladies on
00:27:29.96\00:27:33.09
that may be out there
that got a diagnosis...
00:27:33.12\00:27:35.50
Maybe you can give them
an encouraging testimony
00:27:35.53\00:27:37.80
...somebody who has just got a
Pap smear back and it's abnormal
00:27:37.83\00:27:42.15
They're at a certain stage where
00:27:42.18\00:27:43.97
they're not sure
what's going to happen.
00:27:44.00\00:27:45.37
Oh, trust in God first and
foremost and follow His laws.
00:27:45.40\00:27:49.81
And I do believe you had
a lady with a stage 0 cancer
00:27:49.84\00:27:52.85
that she followed the lifestyle
program you've been describing
00:27:52.88\00:27:55.80
and she got results.
00:27:55.83\00:27:57.20
Yes, she got well.
00:27:57.23\00:27:58.60
Well, thank you so
much Dr. Cherie Lou
00:27:58.63\00:28:00.83
We hope you've been
blessed by the information.
00:28:00.86\00:28:02.92
Please remember that God is in
control of your healing program.
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