There are many things your doctor should check. And if he does not,  he obviously is not concerned to find the cause. Cancer has many causes and only by systematicially working through all the different conditions and areas of life, one can find them.

In this series of videos Dr. Connealy shares here approach and takes you through all the different options of research to peel the onion.

In this series of videos Dr. Connealy shares here approach and takes you through all the different options of research to peel the onion.

Did Your Doctor Check Your VITAMIN D levels?

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Now, another very important blood test, that most doctors aren’t doing and they should be doing and the studies and the scientific facts are out there, is Vitamin D levels.   Vitamin D is a vitamin and it’s a hormone.  It affects your immune system tremendously; it basically will determine that if you have low Vitamin D levels, you really increase your risk of cancer.  It also affects your blood sugar.  It also affects your mental state.  It also affects your bones.  It regulates many, many metabolic processes in the body.  There is the simple CBC; it’s very, very simple.  It will determine if you’re anemic.  It will determine if you have infections in your body.  It will also determine the fact of your white blood cells.  Remember your white blood cells.  The white blood cells are the first line of defense in the army of the immune system.  So, if you don’t have good white cells, then you need to take certain things to elevate those white cells. 

There are other things in the body.  We want to make sure if your liver function test is elevated or is it’s normal?  If the liver function tests are elevated, which frequently they are elevated in many people, especially if you’re ill.  What does the liver do?   The liver sits up in your right upper quadrant, right below your rib cage on your right side.  It detoxifies everything that you eat, everything that you breathe and everything that you drink.  We know that the world is full of toxins and so, unfortunately, the body gets overloaded a lot of times.  Not because you’re so bad, it’s that the environment around us is unfavorable for the survivability of human beings.  That’s why we have to take responsibility for our health because we’re living in an environment that is not conducive for the survivability. 

I mean, let’s look at the statistics.  Let’s just take a look.  Let’s do an inventory of health.   Where are we right now?  Just, where are we right now?  Cancer is the number one cause of death in every individual, one to eighty-five.  A hundred and fifty-six people an hour will be diagnosed with cancer.  We have, probably fifty percent of the population, pre-diabetic or diabetic.  We have heart disease, about 600,000 people a year.  Now, are we getting better at the delivery of medical care and curing illnesses?  Look at it.  Are disease rates decreasing or increasing?  Unfortunately, they are all increasing.  All we have to do is . . . we have to look at our children.  Are children are the barometer of what is going on in our world today.  Fifty years ago, probably less than that but let’s say fifty years ago, autism was one in twenty-five thousand.  Now it’s one in a hundred and fifty; and probably less than that.  But look at other diseases that kids are being born with.  They are being born with a lot of congenital problems.  They are born with lots of ADD/ADHD, learning disorders, processing disorders, focusing disorders, concentrating disorders, hearing disorders, orthopedic problems; I mean we can go on and on.  The bottom line is: we have more disabled people than able people.  So, we really have to take a look at what’s going on; we can’t dig our head in the sand and not confront this health disaster.

What Your Doctor Should Know About Your Alkalinity!

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So, what other things do we look at when we have a patient that’s been diagnosed with cancer?  We have the blood tests, as I discussed, the C Reactive Protein, the liver function, the blood sugar, the Vitamin D levels, the hormone levels; now, that’s blood.  Now we need to look at our urine.  Our urine is a good indicator of many things.  It indicates if you have blood, it indicates if you have an infection, it indicates if you have protein.  But one very important thing, that’s often overlooked in medicine, is the acid alkaline balance of the body.  We call that the PH, the power of hydrogen.  What is that? Well, we know the PH ranges from 1 to 14 and we know the body functions optimally at a PH level of 7.43.  Many times, when I look at the patient’s urine, most people have a PH of 5, so they’re very, severely acidic.  The lower the number, the more acidic you are.  The higher the number or closer to optimal range, which is 7.43; you will be functioning, your immune system, your entire hormonal system, every system that is biochemically taking place in the body will be functioning at optimal levels. 

When your body’s acidic, let’s look at the swimming pool.  If you have a swimming pool at home, what does the guy go and check?  The first thing he checks is the PH.  Why?  Because you want beautiful, clean, pure water, right?  So, if you don’t, bugs, micro-organisms grow; bacteria and viruses destroy the cleanliness of the water and we want that optimal PH.  Well, our bodies are no different; we function better.  Now, if you have a low PH, what happens to your oxygenation?  You can’t get oxygen to your tissues.  Oxygen is, as all of us know, the most important nutrient you need to live.  If you don’t have oxygen after several minutes, you will die.  Plants need oxygen.  Our bodies need oxygen and cancer thrives in an anaerobic, without oxygen, environment. 

So what makes us acidic?  If we are dehydrated, we don’t drink enough water, water is the solution to pollution.  If we eat foods that are acidic, and what foods are acidic? Well, coffee and tea and chocolate and meat and crackers and rice and pasta and all those basically processed foods are acidic.  What makes you alkaline?  Greens, greens and greens.  So you can do green powders, you can do wheat grass, you can do vegetables galore.  Every green vegetable galore.  Lemons and limes and grapefruits are also very alkaline.  So your plate, when you’re eating, should be half greens and half your meat or chicken or fish or what other things that you might need; you might want some brown rice.  But it needs, at least, fifty percent green to keep your acid-alkaline perfect.  Another way you can check your PH is checking your saliva and I tell people to spit first and then do their second saliva and you will know what your PH is. So, your urine, you can do and you can buy PH test strips to check your urine or you can check your saliva. 

What other the things we need to look at when we have a patient come in diagnosed with cancer?  Well, I think, besides their blood work, then their PH and then I really examine how much water do you drink?  Do you drink half your body weight in ounces?  Water, as I said, is a solution to pollution.  You need proper hydration for your cells to biochemically do what they need to do.  Most people are not good water drinkers, let’s face it.  I myself, I’m not a good water drinker but I schedule my water; I know that I need so many ounces per day and so I have it programmed, kind of like I brush my teeth. If you’re like that, you need to do the same thing.  I tell patients, the first good rule of thumb is, you can get, at least, 30 ounces very easily.  You drink 20 ounces in the morning.  Why do you drink 20 ounces first thing in the morning? The average glass is about 10 ounces.  But why do you do that?  You do that because you were just asleep for 7-8 hours.  Your body went through all night detoxifying, so the first thing you need to do is flush and activate and motivate the system.  You do that with pure, clean water.  Do not use your tap water, use pure, clean water.  Always invest in a great water purifier.  You must drink the water because water helps detoxify, it helps cells stay nice and happy, it makes the internal milieu in your body, which is the water that your cells bathe in; it makes it nice and wonderful so that the cells can function optimally.        

What Your Doctor Should Know About Your Sleeping Patterns

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Now, how are you sleeping?  Are you sleeping well?  There’s probably 50 percent of the population not sleeping well.  What happens when you sleep?  Your sleeping is the time that your body will repair and take care of yourself; it detoxifies.  Hormones are made at night.  Melatonin, which is our master anti-oxidant, is made at night.  That’s why we give patients, a lot of times, melatonin.  One, we have decreased melatonin as we age, we should have adequate levels until about forty, sometimes it’s younger; but we need melatonin.  Melatonin is the most powerful anti-oxidant and as we age, we don’t make the melatonin levels; so we need great melatonin.  The other hormone that’s made at night is Prolactin.  Prolactin is the hormone that repairs the brain and activates the immune system, so that we sleep.  We need about 7 to 8 hours sleep, some people need a little bit more and some people need a little bit less.  But you have to sleep and you have to sleep all the way through.  You can’t wake up 3 hours later and then go back to sleep.  It is 7 to 8 hours of continuous sleep. 

What Your Doctor Should Know About Your Dietary Habits

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Now, the next thing I do an inventory on with my patients is how do they eat?  What are they eating?  What is your typical breakfast?  What’s your typical lunch?  What’s your typical dinner?  What do you like to snack on?  Do you have cravings?  What kind of food issues or maybe you doesn’t have food issues, but food is medicine.  Food is where the drugs for healing are.  I don’t want you to misunderstand this concept because food has the most unbelievable, valuable nutrition that you can get to nourish and strengthen your body.  But what kind of food?  You need to eat food that has high nutritional value.  So, if you go and buy a box of macaroni and cheese, it’s dead food.  There’s nothing there.   If you go and buy a box of crackers, there’s nothing there!  Now, if you go and buy raw crackers, there are lots of nutrients there.  You have to eat food that’s alive!  And so people go, “Well, what do you mean by alive food?”  Well, a tomato’s alive, zucchini’s alive, lettuce’s are alive, spinach is alive, fruit‘s alive.  All those things are alive, meaning, they’re alive and then they die.  Whereas, a box of crackers in your pantry, stays there forever.    Lots of dead food stays forever and ever and ever.  You have to think, and I use this analogy with my young patients, my teenagers because sometimes, you know, they are misguided and unfortunately, love fast food and dead food.  And I tell them, imagine every single little morsel and bite that they are going to eat is going to become an alive healthy cell or a dead unhealthy cell.  Just imagine that.  You are not going to be perfect 100 percent of the time but 70/80 percent of the time, you need to be good and you know, the rest of the time you can just fudge around and eat things that you absolutely enjoy.  And if you’re really sick, you’ve got to do everything a 110 percent.  It’s just the way it is.  I’m not saying it’s going to be like that forever, but to create a healing environment, you really have to embrace all the principles of health by doing it 100 percent.

What Your Doctor Should Know About Your Emotional Conditions

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Now, probably one of the most important aspects that I bring up with my patients who have cancer, or let’s say they don’t even have cancer but they have some other very serious illness; is I tell them, what’s going on in your life?  Do you like your job? Do you love the person you’re married to or your significant other?  Do you love your children? Do you have any issues with your children?  Do you have a life that’s just full of wonderful things and the stress in your life is controllable?  And I always say, “Okay, you have breast cancer today; what happened about ten or twelve years ago?” because remember, I said that cancer is about a twelve year disease; from one cancer cell to tumor formation’s about ten or twelve years.  And do you know that, most patients know why they have the cancer.  They will usually tell you, “Oh, I took care of my mother, who had Alzheimer’s” or “I had a child who gave me lots of grief” or  “I had a mother that I didn’t get along with”, many things.  So a lot of people believe that illness is unresolved emotional conflict.  Everyone has emotional conflict. But you want to resolve it.  Illness is kind of an answer to your life.  You kind of have to look at it like that.  Because an illness awakens you to solve the riddle of your life, really.  I know that sounds kind of interesting but it can be the most important blessing that you can ever have, if you embrace it.  You want to understand; why am here?  I’m here for a reason. I’ve got to sort out all the reasons and you have to work with a practitioner who’s willing to do that.  But we have emotions of resentment and hatred and anger and rage and unforgiveness.  And we have to learn, how we replace all of those negative emotions with positive emotions of happiness and peacefulness and joyfulness and love.  We can do it!  I know it’s difficult.  Sometimes you have to work with someone to resolve those unresolved emotional conflicts, but it will be the best thing you ever did in your life!

To be continued.