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The Mind and CancerThe Mind and CancerThe Mind and CancerThe Mind and Cancer
Dr. Rudy Dr. Rudy Dr. Rudy Dr. Rudy KachmannKachmannKachmannKachmann
Mind/Body-Body/Mind
• How does the brain effect the body?
• How does the body effect the brain?
• Every thought, conscious or unconscious affects the physiology of the body.
• Every physiological reaction of the body affects the brain-subconsciously or unconsciously.
• Every thought affects the 60 trillion cells of your body.
• Every one of your 60 trillion cells eavesdrops on your every thought.
What is Holistic Medicine?
• Physiological
• Physical
• Spiritual
• Each person is unique
• Each person should be part of decision making team
• The person has self-healing abilities
Mind/Body-Body/Mind
• How does the brain
speak to the body?
• How does the body speak
to the brain?
• Neuropeptides-CRH,
TSH, FSH, ACTH
• Hormones-Estrogen,
Testosterone
• Neurotransmitters-
acetycholine,
epinepherine
Molecules of Emotion
• Doctor Candice Pert
• The emotional body
• Opiate receptor site
• Monocytes make every neuropeptide in
the body.
• Mind/body-Body/mind
Psycho-Neuro-Immunology (PNI)
• White cells,
monocytes, T-cells,
bone marrow, spleen,
thymus
• Your Army, Navy and
Air Force can be
influenced by your
thoughts, positively or
negatively.
• “The will to live”
History of the Mind and Cancer
• In the literature for 2000 years
• 1846 Dr. Walter Hyle
– Nature and treatment of cancer was very clear to him,
questioning its reality would have seemed a struggle
against reason.
• 1865 Dr. Claude Bernard-A human being must
be considered a harmonious whole.
• 1870 Paget
– Depression plays a vital role in cancer as well as
anxiety and hopelessness increase cancer growth
History of the Mind and Cancer ctd.
• 1893 Snow – First statistical proof of increased rate of cancer in a group of 250 patients - in 156 there was recent severe stress – loss of relative, divorce, or death.
• Patients with severe mental disease like schizophrenic, idiots, or lunatics have low rate of cancer
• Paranoids – who think too much have higher rates of cancer than normal people.
Carl & Stephanie Simonton
“Getting Well Again” 78’ 80’ 92’
• The first patient
• The Simonton study of 159 patients
• “It’s more important to know what kind of
person has a disease – than what disease
the patient has – very true, “My forty years
of medical practice”
• Cancer patients live twice as long if they
are taught mind/body medicine.
Cancer
• 30%-45% are cured by
modern medicine
• But one dies and the other
doesn’t although they have
the same disease.
• Patients taught mind/body
medicine live twice as long
• They have a higher rate of
spontaneous cures
Spontaneous Remissions
• The placebo effect
• Placebo – Nocibo
• Immunology
• Will to live
• Love
• I believe
• Positive and Negative expectations
Cancer
• A weak and confused cell – a
reject
• Cancer begins with a cell with
incorrect genetic information.
• We have a few cancer cells
everyday. (white cells kills them)
• We make billions of cells daily – so
a mistake wouldn’t be a surprise!
• Malignant cells are weak and
disorganized
Causes of Cancer
• Carcinogenic substances – Nicotine, Tar,
Chemicals, Drugs.
• Loss of immunity
• Drugs, Stress, Depression, Genetic
Predisposition, Diet, and Obesity
• 20% of cancer caused by the diet – Breast,
Prostate, and colon.
• Japan – Little cancer, but when in the U.S. rate
same as Americans, due to diet and stress.
Cancer Causes
• Put cancer cells in humans and they are
immediately destroyed.
• Transplant Story
• Surveillance Theory
• Stress and illness – strong link
Mind Body Index
• Stress reduces immunity
• Dr. Hans Seley
• Christopher Reeve – Bereavement
• Dr. Holmes – Rahe – Stress test
• When life is too hectic and coping fails, illness is
the unhappy result, including cancer
• All animal research stopped – linking cancer and
stress – the proof is 100% certain.
Hans Selye
• General adaptation syndrome – chronic stress
• Stress suppresses immune system – your army
goes away
• Definition of stress – “Inability to cope with
perceived – real or imaginary, threats to our
physical, emotional, and psychological well
being”
• Selye – “Nonspecific response of the body to
stress”
The Individual
• Increased level of stress, increase
susceptibility to illness.
• Chronic, not acute, stress causes
suppression of the immune system.
• Acute stress is over too quickly
• Chronic stress – loss of white cells
enlarged adrenal glands, enlarged hearts,
weight loss, and death.
Psychological Evidence
• Dr. Lawrence LeShan – experimental
psychologists – foremost theorist of the
psychological life history of a cancer
patient.
• Emotional factors in the causation of
cancer
Emotional Factors and Cancer
Dr. LeShan
• Patients youth was marked by feelings of
isolation, despair and intense
interpersonal relationships
• Previous strong personal relationships
removed (death, move, divorce, and
retirement)
• Despair was bottled up – the zest left their
lives simply wanting to die, ready for death
Dr. LeShan
• 76% of 500 patients with cancer had a history of emotional problems or severe stress
• Only 10% of the control group without cancer had this pattern
• Other studies by Dr. Schmale – patients with cancer frequently had a history of hopelessness and frustration
• Dr. Green – Many patients with leukemia and lymphoma had history of dispair, hopelessness and discontinuity
• Dr. Kissen – Heavy smokers, the ones that have cancer were found to have high rates of chronic stress.
Carl Simonton
• The ranch hand
• Six kids and off to college, now what? Breast
cancer with metastasis
• Retirement, now what? Higher rates of cancer
immediately after retirement
• Identity problem
• Loss of coping, no purpose
• Hopelessness, and helplessness – no control
• Death is the solution
Recovery
• The purposeful life – Rick Warren, Dr.
LeShan, Dr. Kachmann
• Power of positive thinking – Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale
• “You can if you think you can”
Upward Spiral of Recovery
• With cancer – the individual gains a new perspective on his/her problem – (Wake-up call)
• The new permission slip to act differently –suspend the rules
• New rules increase psychological energy
• Hope and renewed desire to live
• Change in psychological state as well as change in physiological state.
“The will to live”
Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker’s
• Positive or negative expectations very
important
• You have only six months to live
• My son’s patient
• Voodoo affect
• Positive attitude was more important that
the disease according to studies by Dr.
Simonton
Our Society
• Lot of negative thinking by medical providers and patients – “You have only six months to live”
• Cancer is synonymous with death – not true
• Drastic effects of surgery and chemo –That’s all wrong
• 30%-45% are cured by modern medicine
• Another 25% live many years
• At least 50% are helped by mind/body medicine – Many live twice as long and a higher
spontaneous remission rate.
Positive Expectancy
• Cancer may not be fatal
• Your body defenses are mortal enemies of cancer
• Modern medicine cures many patients
• Medical and psychological treatments are great help - This is not false hope
• Marriage has only 50% success rate –cancer is no different
• Hope very important in cancer survival
Mind Body Index
• Depression, despair, hopelessness, helplessness – causes of mind/body diseases including cancer
• Limbic system – records depression and despair
• Hypothalamus – Metabolic center
• Neuropeptides control immune system through CRH – Pituitary gland – ACTH
adrenal glands
Recovery
• First step strengthening their belief in
effectiveness of the treatment and potency
of defenses and change in perception
• Teaching the will to live
• Pursue medical and emotional intervention
• Stress reduction and possibly psychiatric
treatment
Participating in Your Health
• Identify the major stresses six to eight months prior to their diagnosis
• Identify hopelessness and helplessness
• Identify benefits of illness
• Learning to relax and visualize recovery
• Value of positive mental images
• Overcoming resentment and releasing the past
• Creating the future and setting goals
• Increasing the will to live and creating a purpose in life
• Mental imagery – inner guide
Participating in Your Health
• Pain management with biofeedback
• Teach yoga – mind control and exercises
• Meditation – “The Breath”
• Loving support system –
My friend Andre Rieu says,
“There is no greater force in the world than
love.” “The heart beats in a rhythm of
three, just like the waltz”
First Week
• Read “The Will to Live” by Dr. Arnold
Hutchneckers
• “Mind as Healer” by Dr. Kenneth Pellitier
• “Seeing the Minds Eye” by Mike and
Nancy Samuels
• Practice relaxation/mental imagery x’s
three daily for ten minutes – have an
instructor teach you and have a CD
Second Week
• Relaxation mental/imagery
• Fill out stress questionnaire –
Holmes/Rehe and mine in “Welcome To
Your Mind Body”
• Start yoga, meditation
• Art – Draw your perception of the illness
• 30 minute walk daily if possible and
communicate with nature
Learning to RELAX
• Meditation
• Visualization
• Massage
• Ti-Chi
• Chi-Gong
• Shiatsu
• Biofeedback
• Acupuncture
Progressive Relaxation
with Mental Imagery
• Imagery – The language of the sub and unconscious
• Relaxation/Mental imagery x’s three daily – ten minutes
• CD with above
• Many meditative techniques all based on the breath – bring yourself to the center – the “Now”– Not before or after
• Mantra – Mind energy – “Ong Guru Deve Namo”“Sat Namo”.
Language of Motivational
Psychology
• Imaging – Picture desired events, movies, odors, sensations dress it up with ALL the senses
• Positive expectations
• Purposeful life
• Will to live
• Shower of positive neuropeptides, hormones and neurotransmitters
• Biofeedback
The Mental Imagery Process
• Meditation – Breaths centering – Quiet mind –Relax body – Mantra (Many methods)
• Think and visualize weak and confused cancer cells (Previously draw picture – art)
• Visualize your treatment entering your body
• Radiation – beams of millions of bullets of energy hitting your tumor cells
• Picture the chemo drug entering your blood –acting like a poison killing the weak tumor cells
• Watch yourself urinating out the dead cells
The Mental Imagery Process
• Picture your white cells destroying your
cancer – overwhelming them all over your
body
• Picture the cancer shrinking
• Visualize yourself as well with no pain – a
normal person
• Draw a real picture demonstrating what
you did
Value of Relaxation
of Mental Imagery
• Remove hopelessness and helplessness
• Decrease fear – regain sense of control
• Increase the will to live – Create a purpose
• Effect physical changes
• Evaluating and altering beliefs
• Tool to communicate with the unconscious
• Decrease tension and stress
Criteria for Effective Imagery
• Cancer cells are weak and confused
• The treatment is strong and powerful
• The healthy cells have no difficulty repairing any slight damage the treatment might do
• The army of white cells is vast and overwhelms the cancer cells
• The white cells are aggressive, eager for battle, quick to seek out cancer cells and destroy them
• The dead cancer cells are flushed from the body normally and naturally
• By the end of the imagery, your healthy and free of cancer
• See yourself reaching your goals in life, fulfilling your life’s purpose
“The Secret of the Non-Diet”
• Complex carbs
• Whole Grain
• Vegetables
• Legumes
• Fruit
• Fish twice a week
• Omega 3
• Multi-vitamin
• All you can eat
My Goal
• Have Mind/Body medicine available to all
cancer patients
• Almost all patients become more hopeful
with this approach
• It increases the will to live
• Patients are happier
• It may double their life span and increase
the chances of a spontaneous cure