Anticancer. A New Way of Life Quotes

“This is what I learned: If we all have a potential cancer lying dormant in us, each of us also has a body designed to fight the process of tumor development. It is up to each of us to use our body’s natural defenses.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Taken as a whole, the mass of scientific data reveals an essential role for our natural defenses in the battle against cancer.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Cancer lies dormant in all of us. Like all living organisms, our bodies are making defective cells all the time. That’s how tumors are born. But our bodies are also equipped with a number of mechanisms that detect and keep such cells in check.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“A fifty-year-old salesman who does not have cancer told me how much his life has changed since he started drinking green tea, adding turmeric to his food every day (with black pepper!), and managing his stress with cardiac coherence.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“The importance of limiting consumption of refined sugar and white flour has been confirmed by new analysis of the massive American Women’s Health Initiative.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“I have integrated the information from these studies into the various chapters of this new edition. For example, one study published in the journal Nature in 2007 concluded that cancer can be understood as a breakdown in the balance between cancer cells that have always been “dormant” in the body and the natural defenses that normally keep them at bay (see chapter 4).”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“New research has confirmed the importance of vitamin D3 in preventing cancer, particularly in countries where the lack of sunshine means that the skin cannot synthesize enough of this vitamin during the winter.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Also, two new studies have shown exactly how many cups of green tea need to be drunk per day to reduce the risk of breast or prostate cancer relapse by more than 50 percent.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“When left unattended, these feelings—not the stresses of life themselves—contribute to the inflammatory processes that can help cancer grow.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“If there is one single, clear, and emphatic message I’d like to send with this revised edition, it is that we must pay close attention to the mind-body connection, especially the negative impact of prolonged feelings of helplessness and despair.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“and it has confirmed the importance of paying attention to how our emotions may affect the course of cancer.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Seventeen years ago, I discovered from my own brain-scanning experiment that I had brain cancer. From the waiting room on the tenth floor of the oncology building, I remember looking down at people in the street—distant and oblivious, going about their everyday life. I had been cast out of that life, separated from its goal-oriented busyness and from its promises of joy, by the prospect of a probable early death.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Recent studies show, in fact, that it’s not only the love of a husband, a wife, or children that can enable morale to remain strong and slow the progression of illness, but also the simple love and caring attention of friends old and new.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“made a similar discovery about prostate cancer.7 Certain genes trigger an extreme sensitivity to inflammation and stimulate the transformation of slow-growing microtumors of the prostate into aggressive and metastatic cancers.e However, when men who carried such genes consumed oily, omega-3-rich fish at least twice a week, their dangerous genes remained in check. Their cancers were five times less likely to become aggressive than those of men who ate no oily fish at all.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.125”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Real” foods are thus more effective than supplements, and they are more effective in combination than when eaten separately.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“But it’s obvious,” they invariably answered. “If it’s an acute illness, like pneumonia or an infarction or appendicitis, you have to see Western doctors. They have fast, effective treatments for crises and accidents. But if it’s a chronic disease, then you should see a Tibetan doctor. The treatments take longer to work, but they treat the terrain in depth. In the long term it’s the only thing that really works.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“In his documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore quotes a well-known twentieth-century American journalist, Upton Sinclair: “It’s difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“People who want to protect themselves from cancer should seriously reduce their consumption of processed sugar and bleached flour.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Schopenhauer’s saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“There is little likelihood that our physicians will suggest these approaches. Changes in lifestyle cannot, by definition, be patented. Thus, they do not become medications and they do not require prescriptions. This means thatmost physicians don’t consider them within their realm, so it is up to each of us to make them our own.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Immune cells are also sensitive to our emotions. They react positively to emotional states characterized by a sense of well-being and a feeling that we are connected to those around us. It’s as if our immune cells mobilize all the better when they are in the service of a life that is objectively worth living.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“These recent findings support the notion that “cancer genes” may not be so harmful if not triggered by our unhealthy lifestyle. They behave a little like the irascible ghosts of ancestors, who required regular offerings in order to stay calm. In fact, they may simply be genes who have responded poorly to the transition from our ancestral forms of nutrition, which were perfectly adapted to our organism, to our modern-day industrial, processed diet”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“have found harmony in this simple quartet: detoxification of carcinogenic substances, an anticancer diet, adequate physical activity, and a search for emotional peace.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“We don't need to have cancer to start to really take our life seriously and to perceive its beauty.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“Learning to fight cancer consists of learning to nourish the life in us. But it's not necessarily a fight against death. To carry through this apprenticeship is to touch the essence of life, to find a completeness and peace that make it more beautiful. Death may be part of that success. Some people live their life without appreciating its true value. Others live their death with such richness, such dignity, that it seems like an exceptional accomplishment and gives meaning to everything they have experienced.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“Cancer is a disease of the Western lifestyle”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“Thus the approach of death can sometimes lead to a kind of liberation. In its shadow, life suddenly takes on an intensity, resonance, and savor we may never have known before.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“There was nothing wrong with being simply, completely human.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life