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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Birth of an Idea

Hi All!  I have decided to blog about living an anti-cancer lifestyle.  The purpose o this blog is to bring an awareness to the public that we have quite a bit of control over cancer through our immune system.  Keep the immune system healthy, keep cancer at bay.  I am not certain that this is a universal truth, but I do believe that if your immune system is healthy to begin with, that cancer will have MUCH LESS of an opportunity to take hold. 

My blogs will be based on my interpretations of David Servan Schreiber's book Anti-Cancer.  My goal is to take the essence of the book and to distill it into its essential points (as I see it).  However, I do not believe my blog should be read instead of the book, but rather be an introduction to it. 

So, who am I?  I am a highly intelligent, middle aged (oh! how strange that is~) woman.  I have a Ph.D. in Marine Science and understand statistics as well as most of the science in Dr. Servan-Schreiber's book.  Having been a high school math and science teacher, I know how to take complex ideas and break them down in to easy to digest morsels.  I am a cancer survivor and know the fear one faces in that situation.  I am a licensed massage therapist and have an intense interest in the human body (have had this interest all of my life stemming from complication of surgeries I had as an infant).