{"id":927,"date":"2015-08-08T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2015-09-05T06:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T10:43:32","slug":"olivia-quigley-with-stage-4-breast-cancer-wins-at-world-games-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/olivia-quigley-with-stage-4-breast-cancer-wins-at-world-games-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Quigley with Stage 4 Breast Cancer wins at World Games Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIDEO: Check Out This Amazing Story About a Strong Olympian Who Put off Chemo To Win At The Olympics<\/strong>!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Out of breath and proudly gripping\u00a0a gold medal around her neck, Olivia Quigley has a message for someone she\u2019s been\u00a0determined to confront.Imagine a commercial plane crashed and there were some fatalities involved. You can be sure that would make the headline of every major newspaper. Well, we have the equivalent of 8-10 planes crashing EVERY DAY with everyone on board dying from cancer.<\/p>\n

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The first sign of breast cancer often is a breast lump or an abnormal mammogram. Breast cancer stages range from early, curable breast cancer<\/a> to metastatic breast cancer, with a variety of breast cancer treatments. Male breast cancer is not uncommon and must be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

Nearly two million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year\u2014one person out of three will be hit with a cancer diagnosis at some time in their lives, in spite of the massive technological advances over the past half-century.<\/p>\n

Western medicine is no closer to finding a “cancer cure,”<\/a> while cancer has grown into a worldwide epidemic of staggering proportions.<\/p>\n

Quigley, 24, was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in February. Around the same time,\u00a0the sprinter found out she\u00a0was invited to compete in the Special Olympics World Games <\/strong>in Los Angeles. She\u2019s been receiving rigorous chemotherapy treatments that have often left her exhausted and gasping for air after runs. When she arrives home on Aug. 6, she will have an MRI to determine if the tumors have shrunk enough to have surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctors wanted to do my chemotherapy and surgery in July,\u201d<\/em> Quigley said. \u201cI said, no I\u2019m not doing it. Because I\u2019m gonna go to the World Games with cancer or not. Nothing\u00a0is\u00a0stopping me from going.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Olivia Quigley wins the 100 meters at the World Games. (Aaron Mills\/Special Olympics USA)<\/p>\n

Olivia is a fighter, in the very sense of the word. If there\u2019s a wall, expect her to knock it over.<\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with\u00a0autism, shortly after being adopted from China by Dan and Judy Quigley (of Wisconsin) at 3 years old. Yet she\u2019s a social butterfly, exudes confidence and is an elegant public speaker for Special Olympics.<\/p>\n

She was told by doctors she wouldn\u2019t be able to be an independent adult without the help of her parents. Yet she\u2019s living on her own, has a springer spaniel\u00a0named Oliver and has a full-time job at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Wisconsin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness<\/strong>. Yet she ordered her doctors to schedule her treatments around the chance-of-a-lifetime World Games, which she prepped\u00a0for with a personal trainer\u00a0in addition to\u00a0regularly practicing\u00a0taekwondo and training several times a week.<\/p>\n

Olivia strikes the signature Special Olympics pose. (Aaron Mills\/Special Olympics USA)<\/p>\n

Please understand that cancer is big business. The cancer industry is spending virtually nothing of its multi-billion dollar resources on effective prevention strategies, such as dietary guidelines, exercise and obesity education. Instead, it pours its money into treating cancer, not preventing or curing it.<\/p>\n

‘Don’t You DARE Cure Anyone!’<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In spite of the enormous amounts of money funneled into cancer research today, two out of three cancer patients will be dead within five years after receiving all or part of the standard cancer treatment trinity\u2014surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This is not too surprising when you consider that two of the three are carcinogenic themselves! One study estimated that chemotherapy benefits about one of every 20 people receiving it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the last hundred years, a number of natural cancer treatments<\/a> have been developed and used successfully to treat patients in the US and other countries. All have been vehemently discounted, silenced, and pushed under the rug by the medical monopoly, with physicians and researchers attacked, smeared, sent to prison, and professionally ruined for daring to defy the medical establishment.<\/p>\n

To this day, with respect to credibility in medicine, “quack” is synonymous with “competition.”<\/p>\n

In order to protect the medical monopoly, any viable natural treatment is met with massive opposition by the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Drug companies have no interest in natural agents that they cannot patent, because they interfere with their revenue stream. They will go\u2014and have gone\u2014to extreme measures to prevent the truth<\/strong> about effective natural treatments<\/a> (competitive threats) from reaching the public.<\/p>\n

Why would they shoot their cash cow? If they can keep the well-oiled Cancer Machine running, they will continue to make massive profits on chemotherapy drugs, radiotherapy, diagnostic procedures and surgeries.<\/p>\n

The typical cancer patient spends $50,000 fighting the disease. Chemotherapy drugs are among the most expensive of all treatments, many ranging from $3,000 to $7,000 for a one-month supply.<\/em><\/p>\n

If the cancer industry allows a cure, then their patient base goes away. It makes more sense to keep a steady stream of cancer patients alive, but sick and coming back for more. How did this societal monster come about?<\/p>\n

The featured documentary is enormously informative. It details how the pharmaceutical industry partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA)<\/strong> in an ingenious plan to overtake the medical system in four swift, easy steps, back in the early 1900s. In a nutshell, it went something like this:<\/p>\n

International bankers that own the drug and chemical companies gained control over the medical education system over 100 years ago.
\nThey gave grants to the AMA and leading medical schools in exchange for seats on their board and the ability to control policy.
\nFinally, they cleverly engineered their control of virtually every federal regulatory agency relating to the practice of medicine.<\/p>\n

The FDA is now, thanks to PDUFA, primarily funded by the drug companies and is complicit in this process. They restrict competition in the guise of protecting the public, when the reality is they are protecting the profits of the drug companies.<\/p>\n

My Top 12 Cancer Prevention Strategies<\/p>\n

There is so much you can do to lower your risk for cancer. But please don’t wait until you get the diagnosis\u2014you have to take preventative steps NOW. It’s much easier to prevent cancer than to treat it, once it takes hold. I believe you can virtually eliminate your risk of cancer and chronic disease, and radically improve your chances of recovering from cancer if you currently have it, by following these relatively simple strategies.<\/p>\n

Food Preparation:<\/strong> Eat at least one-third of your food raw. Avoid frying or charbroiling; boil, poach or steam your foods instead. Consider adding cancer-fighting whole foods, herbs, spices and supplements to your diet, such as broccoli, curcumin and resveratrol. To learn more about how these anti-angiogenetic foods fight cancer, please see our previous article: “Dramatically Effective New Natural Way to Starve Cancer and Obesity.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Carbohydrates and Sugar<\/strong>: Reduce or eliminate processed foods, sugar\/fructose and grain-based foods from your diet. This applies to whole unprocessed organic grains as well, as they tend to rapidly break down and drive up your insulin level. The evidence is quite clear that if you want to avoid cancer, or you currently have cancer, you absolutely MUST avoid all forms of sugar, especially fructose, which feeds cancer cells and promotes their growth. Make sure your total fructose intake is around 25 grams daily, including fruit.
\nProtein and Fat: Consider reducing your protein levels to one gram per kilogram of lean body weight. It would be unusual for most adults to need more than 100 grams of protein and most likely close to half of that amount. Replace excess protein with high-quality fats, such as organic eggs from pastured hens, high-quality meats, avocados, and coconut oil.<\/p>\n

GMOs<\/strong>: Avoid genetically engineered foods<\/strong> as they are typically treated with herbicides such as Roundup (glyphosate), and likely to be carcinogenic. A French research team that has extensively studied Roundup concluded it’s toxic to human cells, and likely carcinogenic to humans. Choose fresh, organic, preferably locally grown foods.
\nAnimal-Based Omega-3 fats: Normalize your ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats by taking a high-quality krill oil and reducing your intake of processed vegetable oils.<\/p>\n

Natural Probiotics<\/strong>: Optimizing your gut flora will reduce inflammation and strengthen your immune response<\/a>. Researchers have found a microbe-dependent mechanism through which some cancers mount an inflammatory response that fuels their development and growth. They suggest that inhibiting inflammatory cytokines might slow cancer progression and improve the response to chemotherapy.
\nAdding naturally fermented food to your daily diet is an easy way to prevent cancer or speed recovery. You can always add a high-quality probiotic supplement as well, but naturally fermented foods are the best.<\/p>\n

Exercise<\/strong>: Exercise lowers insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells. In a three-month study, exercise was found to alter immune cells into a more potent disease-fighting form in cancer survivors who had just completed chemotherapy.
\nResearchers and cancer organizations increasingly recommend making regular exercise a priority in order to reduce your risk of cancer, and help improve cancer outcomes. Research has also found evidence suggesting exercise can help trigger apoptosis (programmed cell death) in cancer cells. Ideally, your exercise program should include balance, strength, flexibility, high intensity interval training (HIIT). For help getting started, refer to my Peak Fitness Program.<\/p>\n

Vitamin D:<\/strong> There is scientific evidence you can decrease your risk of cancer by more than half simply by optimizing your vitamin D levels with appropriate sun exposure. Your serum level should hold steady at 50-70 ng\/ml, but if you are being treated for cancer, it should be closer to 80-90 ng\/ml for optimal benefit.
\nIf you take oral vitamin D and have cancer, it would be very prudent to monitor your vitamin D blood levels regularly, as well as supplementing your vitamin K2, as K2 deficiency is actually what produces the symptoms of vitamin D toxicity. To learn more, please see my previous article: “What You Need to Know About Vitamin K2, D and Calcium”.<\/p>\n

Sleep<\/strong>: Make sure you are getting enough restorative sleep. Poor sleep can interfere with your melatonin production, which is associated with an increased risk of insulin resistance and weight gain, both of which contribute to cancer’s virility.<\/p>\n

Exposure to Toxins<\/strong>: Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, herbicides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and toxic cosmetics.
\nExposure to Radiation: Limit your exposure and protect yourself from radiation produced by cell phones, towers, base stations, and Wi-Fi stations, as well as minimizing your exposure from radiation-based medical scans, including dental x-rays, CT scans, and mammograms.<\/p>\n

Stress Management<\/strong>: Stress from all causes is a major contributor to disease. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is driven by emotional factors. It is likely that stress and unresolved emotional issues may be more important than the physical ones, so make sure this is addressed. My favorite tool for resolving emotional challenges is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).<\/p>\n