Help heal yourself from cancer Partner smarter with your doctor, personalize your treatment plan, and take charge of your recovery
Book - 2022
"In Help Heal Yourself from Cancer, cancer survivors and medical-profession veterans Bill and Martha Sears help you go from patient to partner in your cancer-healing journey. They outline the steps you can take, both in working with your cancer-care providers and on your own, to maximize your chances of not just beating cancer, but thriving in its wake"--
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Dallas, TX :
BenBella Books, Inc
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781637741443
- Foreword
- Healing Words from Dr. Bill and Nurse Martha
- How to Get the Most Healing from This Book
- Part I. How to Have a Conquer-Cancer Mindset
- Chapter 1. Believe You Will Heal
- Fear-Less
- Will TMs Thought, Food, or Action Feed or Fight My Cancer?
- Enjoy More Self-Help Skills to Partner with Your Pills
- Journal Your Personal Healing Path
- Listen to the Wisdom of Your Body
- Testimonial: Lessons from a Doctor/Cancer Thriver
- Chapter 2. Meet Your Natural Conquer-Cancer Army Inside
- Why You Get Cancer: An Overview
- A Second Helping of Why You Get Cancer: A Tale of Two Cells
- Cancer Is a Body Out of Balance
- NK Cells: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Make Them Fight Better for You
- Five Ways to Help Your NK Cells Fight Smarter for You
- Keep in Touch!
- Name Your Conquer-Cancer Plan
- View It and Do It!
- Make Your Own Immunotherapy
- Part II. How to Wisely Partner with Your Cancer-Care Providers
- Chapter 3. What to Expect from Your Cancer-Treatment Team: An Overview
- Become a Certified Health Coach
- Cancer Speak: Terms You Must Know
- How to Talk to Your Child About Their Cancer
- Get Your Cancer "Vaccine"
- Chapter 4. Partnering with Your Cancer-Care Providers
- Prepare Yourself for Your First Consultation
- Be Wise and Open-Minded
- Ask for a Personalized Plan
- You Are a Person, Not a Percentage
- The Oncologist's Dilemma
- How Insisting on a Personalized Treatment Plan Spared Martha Chemotherapy
- Discuss Adverse Effects and the Concept of the Risk/Benefit Ratio
- Research Your "Tipping Point"
- Tame Your Treatment Anxiety
- Dr. Bill's Treatment Anxiety Advice to a Patient
- Seek Second Opinions and Sometimes Third and Fourth Ones
- Should You Add an Integrative Oncologist to Your Team?
- Prepare Your Hospital Nest for Healing
- A Room with a View
- Thank-Yous Are Therapeutic
- Helpful Healing Advice from Martha's Breast Cancer Surgeon, Dr. Anderson
- Build Your Support Team
- The Benefits of Having a Cancer-Healing Mindset and Wisely Partnering with Your Oncologist
- Our Cancer-Healing Wish
- Part III. How to L.E.A.N. into Cancer Healing
- Chapter 5. Eat Our Eight-Part Conquer-Cancer Diet
- Chemo Prevention
- 1. Think Before You Eat
- 2. Eat More Conquer-Cancer Foods
- Science-Supported Conquer-Cancer Foods
- A Second Helping of Conquer-Cancer Foods
- Conquer-Cancer Effects of Seafood-Based Omega-3s
- Measure Your Omegas
- 3. Eat Fewer Dumb Carbs
- Sugar Shows Where Your Cancer Is
- Your Conquer-Cancer Symphony Inside
- Your New Conquer-Cancer Food Math
- A Tale of Two Carbies
- Transform Your Tastes
- Less Alcohol, Less Cancer
- 4. Grazing Is Great for Cancer Prevention and Healing
- Are You a Sugar Spiker? How to Tell
- Cooking Cancer Away
- 5. Burn More Than You Eat
- Intermittent Fasting and Ketogenic Diets
- 6. Enjoy the Sipping Solution
- Savor Synergy
- Make a Smart Choice!
- 7. Use Healing Conquer-Cancer Spices
- "Curry Up" Your Cancer Healing
- 8. Savor Science-Based Supplements (SBS)
- Senior Alert!
- Women, Read This!
- Dr. Bill's Daily Conquer-Cancer Diet
- The Leaner You Are, the Less Cancer You Are Likely to Get
- Fat Loss Over Weight Loss
- Why Cancer Increases with Age-If You Let It!
- Chapter 6. Move More, Sit Less, Heal Better
- Why Movers Heal Better Than Sitters
- Movement Mobilizes Your Conquer-Cancer Army
- Movement Blunts Sugar Spikes
- Exercise Improves Every Organ
- Exercise Goes to Your Head
- Movement Balances Your Hormones
- Beat Breast Cancer Alert!
- How to Open Your Own Personal Conquer-Cancer Pharmacy: A Doctor-Patient Conversation
- View It and Do It
- Guy Alert: Movement Modulates Male Menopause
- How to Make Your Movements Match Your Healing
- Go Outside and Play-Chase Cancer Away!
- Healing Effects of Movement Outdoors
- Designing Your Own Home Greenspace
- Vitamin G and Vitamin D: Partners in Cancer Healing
- Chapter 7. Peace Be with You
- Science Says: Manage Your Mind, Manage Your Cancer
- How Mind Management Helps Cancer Healing
- The Top Conquer-Cancer Stress-Management Tools
- Read More About How to Have a Happy Brain
- Pick Your Music Before Surgery
- Grow Your God Center-Help Heal Your Cancer
- Chapter 8. Sleep Cancer Away
- Why Sleep Is So Healing
- Try These Tips to Sleep Better and Heal Better
- More Sleep-Well Tips
- Get Less Cancer or More Cancer-It's Your Choice!
- Chapter 9. Live Cleaner, Get Less Cancer
- Sprayed in America
- A Four-Part Plan for Cleaner Living
- Cancer: Made in America
- Go Meat-Less!
- Grow Your Own Garden
- Driving Cleaner
- Learn More About Environmental Toxins
- Consult a Toxicologist
- Testimony from a Dietician Specializing in Toxin Testing and Detox
- Steam Your NK Team
- A World Without Cancer
- Your Daily Conquer-Cancer Guide
- Part IV. Top Tips to Conquer Colon, Breast, Brain, and Lung Cancers
- Chapter 10. Help Heat Yourself from Colon Cancer
- Dr. Bill's Good-Gut Health Program: Eat Cleaner, More Gut-Friendly Foods
- The Better You Poo, the Less Colon Cancer for You
- Improving Your Waste Affects Your Waist
- Don't Hold on to Stools!
- Read-and Do-Dr. Poo
- Get Screened Earlier, Get Cancer Treatment Earlier
- Chapter 11. Help Heal Yourself from Breast Cancer
- Advice for Breast Cells: Avoid Blood-Sugar Spikes!
- How to Wisely Partner with Your Cancer-Care Providers for a Personalized Breast Cancer Treatment Plan
- Top Conquer-Breast Cancer Tips from a Top Cancer Specialist
- Keep Your Own Mammogram File
- Testimonial: How a Husband and Wife Healed Together from Colon and Breast Cancers
- Chapter 12. Help Heal Yourself from Brain Cancer
- 1. Learn About Your Brain
- 2. Tend to Your Brain-the Greatest Garden Ever Grown
- 3. Feed Your "Fathead"
- 4. Protect Your Blood-Brain Barrier
- 5. Value Your Vitamin D
- Chapter 13. Help Heal Yourself from Lung Cancer
- Help Your Aging Lung Tissue Stay Younger and Healthier
- Dr. Bill's Belly-Breathing Tip
- Breathe Cleaner Air to Heal Better and Lessen Cancer Recurrence
- Can Cancer Begin in Your Mouth?
- Cancer-Healing Recipes
- Gratitudes
- Recommended Reading and References
- Index