383: Can Stress Lead To Cancer?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Stress causes inflammation, dysregulation of the immune system, raises blood sugar, suppresses healing T cells and natural killer cells. But can it lead to cancer? Brandon LaGreca, author of "Cancer, Stress & Mindset," tackles that question today. Brandon is a licensed acupuncturist who, in 2015, was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He achieved full remission eight months later without the use of chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery.
Today he discusses how stress is often overlooked as a contributing factor, if not a driving force, that can indeed lead to cancer.
He covers what stress does to us biologically and psychologically, and he offers techniques for mitigating its effect, like vagus nerve activation, journaling, prioritizing sleep, and more. His very practical tips can help us all improve our mindset and build greater resilience, whatever the state of our general health.
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| 0:00.0 | Whenever you're stressed chronically, and the hormone that our bodies release to help deal with that is cortisol, |
| 0:05.5 | and prolonged exposure to cortisol in our body tends to be catabolic to our guts and flammatory, |
| 0:10.7 | it starts causing inflammation along our digestive tract. |
| 0:13.5 | As you know, from talking with many people on this subject, |
| 0:16.5 | as soon as you start getting disruption to the gut, |
| 0:18.5 | that pretty much everything else can follow. |
| 0:20.5 | That's the gateway to a lot of disease. |
| 0:22.5 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions, |
| 0:33.5 | in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:35.5 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:41.5 | Hey, Pilda here. |
| 0:49.5 | Stress causes inflammation. |
| 0:51.5 | Disregulation of the immune system raises blood sugar, |
| 0:55.5 | suppresses healing, T cells, and natural killer cells. |
| 0:59.5 | But can it lead to cancer? |
| 1:01.5 | This is episode 383, and our guest today is Brandon LaGrecca. |
| 1:05.5 | Brandon is a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Wisconsin |
| 1:09.5 | who in 2015 was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| 1:14.5 | He achieved full remission within eight months |
| 1:17.5 | by following an integrative medicine protocol that included immunotherapy |
| 1:22.5 | without the use of chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. |
| 1:25.5 | Today, Brandon discusses how stresses often overlooked as a contributing factor |
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