What kind of approach can make you INSANELY rich?
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I have no expertise in this area, but I have a daughter that has a fairly high position in the medical division of Johnson& Johnson worldwide. More specific in the Preclinical Research and Development. She works mainly in the US and in Europe. And when we occasionally speak about here job I am always surprised how carefull and prudent she is with statements like: this or that works.
As well she should be. Science not not prove but establishes correlation...there is always doubt, especially when it comes to something as complex human functioning.
Interesting reading, but I don't believe everything I read. PubMed also published "studies" on the magical efficacy of goji juice in the treatment of all manner of conditions. You will recall goji was a big multi-marketing ploy in its day spearheaded by a quack.Harvard University Medical School Researchers find that Energy Healing is Cytotoxic to Pancreatic Cancer Cells But Not to Normal Cells
The online medical dictionary defines the term 'cytotoxic' as follows:
"Cytotoxic: Toxic to cells, cell-toxic, cell-killing. Any agent or process that kills cells. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are forms of cytotoxic therapy. They kill cells."
In the June 2006 edition of the International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology in an article entitled "External Qi of Yan Xin Qigong differentially regulates the Akt and extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathways and is cytotoxic to cancer cells but not to normal cells" several Harvard University Medical School researchers found energy healing ('external qi' healing in qigong lexicon) to be cytotoxic to pancreatic cancer cells but not to normal cells.
The authors had the following to say about traditional approaches to pancreatic cancer care:
"Carcinoma of the pancreas is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Western countries, with an overall 1-year survival rate of ~12% and 5-year survival rate of 3-5%. Resistance to chemotherapy is a major cause of treatment failure and poor prognosis in pancreatic cancer."
The study states that "long-term clinical observations and ongoing studies have shown significant antitumor effect of external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong which originated from traditional Chinese medicine."
Furthermore "a single 5 min exposure of BxPC3 cells to external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong induced apoptosis, accompanied by a dramatic increase of the sub-G1 cell population, DNA fragmentation, and cleavage of caspases 3, 8 and 9, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. Prolonged treatment with external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong caused rapid lysis of BxPC3 cells. In contrast, treatment of fibroblasts with external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong induced transient activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases and Akt, and caused no cytotoxic effect. [LAYPERSON TRANSLATION:] These findings suggest that external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong may differentially regulate these survival pathways in cancer versus normal cells and exert cytotoxic effects preferentially on cancer cells, and that it could potentially be a valuable approach for therapy of pancreatic carcinomas."
The full text of the article is available here.
PubMed is not immune to publishing studies that combine a mix of fraud and poor science.
Let me ask you. If you were to find yourself diagnosed with cancer, which direction would you likely take?
Be aware of the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is geared up to make profits - NOT CURE YOU ! It matters to them that the huge market for pills and potions they supply as expensively as the market will bear is kept wanting more. They don't want everyone miraculously cured or they are out of business, That's Capitalism at it's ugliest.
Goji juice is healthy but hardly a panacea...fad de jour. If I developed cancer, I would explore all options but would have chemo down the list. Another question is what causes cancer and can lifestyle and healthy practices prevent it. The Chinese consider a physician who has to cure a disease mediocre, the excellent one has patients who don't get ill. Not necessarily a practical idea but philosophically interesting. Their medicine is four thousand years old, dating back to the Yellow Emperor who wrote a medical text...very interesting read if you can find a translation. As to the research, there is plenty out there to study.
Certainly in the boardrooms if not the research labs but yep, can make a lot more money synthesizing and patenting a drug than selling the natural substance on which it is based.
I agree that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so no argument there. But we'll have to agree to disagree on the rest of it.
Out of curiosity, what exactly is the treatment protocol for qigong? What does the Q-Doctor do, exactly?
Steve Jobs, multi billionnaire, got cancer.
Inspite of ALL his wealth, could not get anybody who could cure him to do so.
The concept is the organism is out of balance which causes disease, for example if one has a kidney infection, the first question asked is what caused the infection and secondarily to treat the infection, that is if the cause is not addressed, the infection may reoccur. The natural state of the body is to be healthy and normally functioning. I don't have time for a qi lecture here but if you have a genuine interest, I can refer you to some material.