New Cancer Treatments and the Role of Detoxification

Orthomolecular, naturopathic and other alternative modalities continue to emerge as new cancer treatments. Some are designed to prevent the emergence of cancer, while others aid or optimize the body's ability to manage the pain caused by cancer or conventional cancer treatments. And many of the most interesting new cancer treatments come from the unexpected direction of detoxifying the body, such the complications leading to or worsening a cancer never happen. A thorough cleaning up the teeth, for example, especially those subjected to root canals, is reported by numerous doctors to clear up a lot of problems that are precursors to carcinogenic events.

Cleansing the body to remove the maximum number of heavy metals, pesticides, non-digested food, and other materials is extremely important to both strengthen the body's natural immune system, and prevent the spread of toxins to organs and systems that can trigger cancer. Optimizing liver function is a key focus of new cancer treatments, because the impairing of that organ is known to be a main contributor to diseases in general. The use of milk thistle and other supplements are known to improve liver metabolism, thereby preventing toxins from escaping to the rest of the body where they may generate a cancer-causing outcome.

Other alternative health advocates emphasize detoxifying the lower intestine, including performance of enemas and other procedures to flush the body of toxins not removed during normal elimination. It is believed this will in turn eliminate or reduce the risk of colon cancers, by putting less stress on the intestinal tract system. It is also felt that new cancer treatments will work more effectively when such detoxification considerations are addressed first, as it removes suboptimal initial situation that may prohibit the body's metabolism from utilizing natural nutrients fully to prevent or mitigate cancers.