THE TROPHOBLAST AND ITS RELATION TO CANCER
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© June 2019, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All information in this article is for educational
purposes only. It is not for the
diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
An unusual
human and mammalian cell type is likely responsible for all cancer in the
body. This is called the trophoblastic theory of cancer.
In
1902, John Beard, MD, a prominent embryologist, published a paper in The Lancet entitled The Trophoblastic Theory Of Cancer (Beard, J.,
1902). The theory is quite simple
and has never been disproven. In
fact, it has received strong confirmation by scientists at the University of
Michigan (Townsend Letter, #240, 2003).
However, it is not taught to doctors, perhaps because if it were, cancer
would cease to be as much of a threat to human health and some do not want this
to occur.
Dr.
Beard showed that a normal tissue of the body, the trophoblast,
exhibits characteristics identical to cancer. It is invasive, metastatic, forms new blood vessels
(angiogenesis) and has the same specific markers and chemical composition as
cancer cells.
WHAT IS THE TROPHOBLAST?
The
trophoblast is a cell type that is the outer part of
a fertilized egg. It begins to
grow very soon after conception and is essential for life.
The
word tropho-blast means Ôto nourish the baby'. For example, trophology
is another word for nutrition. A blast
in medical jargon is an immature organism or baby. The trophoblast does the
following:
Roles of
the trophoblast.
- As the fertilized egg moves out of the fallopian
tube and into the motherÕs uterus, the trophoblast
reaches out tiny tentacles that grab on and hold on to the motherÕs uterine
lining. This prevents the egg from
just falling out of the motherÕs uterus and being lost. This phase of pregnancy is called implantation of the egg.
- The trophoblast then invades
the lining of the uterus. It
burrows deep into the motherÕs uterine lining.
- As it grows, it sends out tiny tubules that
become blood vessels. Through
these vessels, it is able to steal blood and nutrients from the mother and send
them to the developing baby.
Later, the placenta helps with this job, but for the first 8-12 weeks of
pregnancy, only the trophoblast nourishes the baby.
- It also steals souls from the mother and sends
them to the developing baby.
- The trophoblast also
weakens the lining of the uterus in the area where the fertilized egg has
implanted. This is necessary
because a baby is a foreign object
inside its mother. If the trophoblast did not weaken the tissue somewhat, the mother
would reject the foreign object.
(Those who advocate abortion are wrong
when they say that an unborn baby is part of its mother and therefore she
should decide its fate. This is
not true! The baby is always an
independent being and never part of its mother.)
Choriocarcinoma.
If the trophoblast overgrows, which is fortunately
rare, the result is a very virulent form of cancer, choriocarcinoma. It usually kills both mother and fetus
within a few weeks.
One
may ask, if the trophoblast only develops during
pregnancy, how can it explain all cancers, even those in men? Dr. Beard found that the stem cells,
also called totipotent cells, that
form the trophoblast are present all over the body in
small numbers. Given the right
stimulus, they develop into trophoblast. It appears that this is a mechanism to kill
off sick bodies. A key to understanding cancer is to
understand what makes these cells grow.
The
primary stimulus for the growth of the trophoblast is
high estrogen, as occurs during pregnancy. Estrogen is associated with cell proliferation. Modern medicine acknowledges that
estrogen is a potent carcinogen.
This is why estrogen inhibitors are among the drugs used for cancer.
One
may then ask, why does so much cancer occur in men, or
in post-menopausal women who do not produce as much estrogens? The answer is that everyone's adrenal
glands and perhaps other sites produce estrogens, in both sexes and at all
ages.
Normal
estrogen production by the adrenal glands or ovaries is not a problem. The liver converts potent estrogens
such as estradiol and estrone
into harmless chemicals and excretes them in the bile and urine. However,
when the liver is toxic or otherwise compromised, it cannot detoxify estrogens
properly. Estrone,
in particular, increases and the stage is set for cancer. Arthur GuytonÕs Textbook Of Physiology explains the fate of estrogens as follows:
ÒThe
liver conjugates the estrogens É and about one-fifth of these conjugated
products are excreted in the bile while most of the remainder are excreted in
the urine. Also, the liver converts the potent estrogens, estradiol and estrone, into an
almost impotent estrogen, estriol. Therefore, the liver plays an important
role in removing those estrogens from the blood. Indeed, diminished
liver function actually increases activity of estrogens in the body, sometimes
causing hyperestrinism." - Guyton, p.1010 (italics are mine).
Liver
toxicity today is the rule rather then
the exception. Causes for liver toxicity include various toxins and other
nutritional and biochemical imbalances.
Let us explore what these are in more detail.
TOXINS THAT POISON THE LIVER
Toxins in the food supply. These include toxic metals,
pesticide residues, preservatives and several
thousand other food additives that the government allows in many prepared and
processed foods. Eating only
fresh, minimally processed and ideally organically grown food definitely
reduces your intake of these poisons.
Some
pesticides and other chemicals mimic the effects of estrogen by occupying estrogen binding sites. This makes the situation even worse. An interesting fairly recent study
found that cadmium mimics the effects of estrogen (Nature, August 2003).
Thousands of organic chemicals and toxic metals in the environment. Besides food, sources of
toxins include contaminated air, dental materials, especially silver amalgam
fillings, and skin contact with toxins in solvents, detergents, skin care
products, chlorinated and fluoridated water and other household and industrial
chemicals. Building materials,
carpets, plastics and office machinery also often outgas toxic chemicals.
Radiation
exposure damages the liver. Everyone is exposed to some ionizing
radiation from atomic bomb fallout, nuclear plant accidents, medical scans and
other x-rays, dental x-rays, and other uses of radiation. All
nuclear power plants emit some low-level ionizing radiation that is poisoning
everyone on the planet.
Prescription
drugs. This is a major cause of
liver toxicity. Most all
pharmaceuticals are synthetic chemicals.
They all cause some liver toxicity.
Many
contain toxic metals. For example,
thiazide diuretics contain mercury. Prozac and some popular antibiotics
such as Cipro contain fluoride, a very powerful
poison.
Vaccines
are usually preserved with toxic metals such as mercury and aluminum, and often
contain toxic chemicals such as benzene.
One vaccine dose can give a young baby up to 20 times the permitted dose
of mercury and aluminum!
According
to medical studies, drug residues are present today in most, if not all
municipal drinking water supplies around the world. This is a major environmental problem that has received far
too little attention.
Herbs. Most herbs are somewhat toxic
for the liver, as well. Used occasionally
for only for a few days, they are not too harmful. However, more and more people take them them
regularly because their naturopaths suggest it. They build up in the liver and damage it. This is another source of liver
toxicity that few talk about.
Vitamin and mineral supplements. A few popular nutritional
supplements including iron supplements, high-dose niacin, fulvic
acid, humic acid, and some colloidal mineral
supplements contain toxic metals that poison the liver.
MOST TOXINS REMAIN IN THE LIVER FOR DECADES
Most
people and most doctors do not realize that a portion of most medical drugs and
many herbs remains in oneÕs body for decades. We know this occurs because drugs that a person took years
before will come out of the body during a development program.
OTHER CAUSES FOR LIVER TOXICITY
Adrenal
exhaustion. This is an indirect cause. Adrenal weakness contributes to a slow oxidation rate
and sluggish liver activity. Also,
the body compensates for adrenal depletion by accumulating toxic oxide forms of
copper, iron, chromium, selenium, manganese, aluminum, cadmium, iron, lead and
other metals that are toxic to the liver.
For details about this phenomenon, read The
Amigos – Iron, Manganese and Aluminum.
Nutrient
deficiencies. Most people are very deficient in many vital minerals and
often vitamins. This seriously impairs
the liver's normal detoxification pathways, resulting in liver toxicity.
Nutrient
deficiencies are the result of N-P-K fertilizers used in agriculture, eating
raw salads and overcooked food that does not supply enough nutrients, low
quality diets of refined flour, sugar and other deficient foods, poor eating
habits, stress and impaired digestion. Stress of any type increases the need for nutrients. Other articles on this website discuss
all these problems such as Everyrone
is Depleted And Toxic.
Autointoxication. In
most people, poor digestion causes
the production of toxic substances in the intestines due to fermentation and
putrefaction of food. A vicious
cycle occurs in which a toxic liver does not produce enough bile and digestive
enzymes. Food is then poorly digested,
which generates toxins that in turn worsen the condition of the liver. This further impairs enzyme production,
which results in more toxins in the intestines.
This
vicious cycle goes on quietly for years until one day the result is cancer or
other serious illness.
Improper bowel flora such as candida albicans and other pathogenic organisms. These can produce deadly toxins in the intestines. Candida albicans,
for example, produces alcohol and acetaldehyde.
Chronic infections anywhere in the body. Bacterial and other
infections generate endotoxins and exotoxins.
Chronic infections are much more common than imagined. We find that most people have at least
a dozen low-grade chronic infections.
Common sites are the teeth, eyes, ears, throat, bladder, bronchials, intestines and skin.
Stress
from any cause activates the sympathetic nervous system, which in turn reduces
liver activity. Stress also impairs digestion, which leads to more toxin
generation in the intestines.
Autonomic nervous system imbalances, in particular excessive
sympathetic nervous system activity. The sympathetic nervous system inhibits
the activity of the liver. This is
explained below in more detail.
Fatigue. Fatigue
due to lack of sleep or other causes is an important
factor in liver toxicity.
At
about 12 weeks of pregnancy, the trophoblast ÒinvasionÓ
of the mother slows somewhat and the placenta grows and assists the nourishing
the fetus. This is called the critical period of pregnancy.
Dr.
Beard found that enzymes produced by the fetal and maternal pancreas stop the
growth of the trophoblast. This is the basis for the use of pancreatic enzymes in the treatment
of cancer advocated by Dr. Beard, Dr. William Kelley, DDS and others (Kelley, W.D., 1997). Large quantities of pancreatic enzymes are given by mouth,
which inhibit the growth of malignant cells.
This
therapy works very well, is well-tolerated and would
be much less costly than current cancer treatment methods. However, it is not used in medical care
today. The reason is that one
cannot patent pancreatic enzymes, so there is no money to be made with this
therapy. We know this sounds very
cold-hearted and hopefully is shocking.
But it is the truth.
The
pancreas plays another role.
Pancreatic enzymes are needed for proper digestion. A weakened, toxic or depleted pancreas
contributes to a toxic liver by failing to provide adequate enzymes for
complete food digestion.
However,
most people do not produce nearly enough pancreatic enzymes or they overeat,
exceeding their digestive capacity.
This is why we supplement everyone with pancreatic enzymes.
These
pancreatic enzymes are not the same as "food enzymes" found in raw
food, which do very little.
Ideally, the body secretes excess pancreatic enzymes so that any cancer
that begins to develop in the body is destroyed. However, very few people are in good enough health for this
to occur.
Causes
for deficient pancreatic activity are similar to the
causes of liver toxicity. They
include stress, poor-quality diets, poor eating
habits, infections and toxic exposures.
A complete development program will restore healthy pancreatic activity.
An
important cause of impaired pancreas and liver activity is excessive activity
of the sympathetic nervous system.
This branch of the autonomic nervous system is sometimes referred to as
the fight-or-flight response system.
Its
role is to prepare the body for a stress response. However, it inhibits the activity of the liver, kidneys,
pancreas, intestines and stomach.
These are the organs of detoxification and the organs needed to produce
digestive enzymes and cancer-fighting proteolytic
enzymes (enzymes that digest foreign proteins).
Excessive
activity of the sympathetic nervous system is extremely common today. Causes include stress, hurried or busy
lifestyles, toxic metals, nutrient deficiencies, some toxic chemicals and
negative attitudes such as fear, worry, anger, resentment and guilt. These factors keep the body in a
fight-or-flight or sympathetic state most of the day.
Many
cancer patients have a sympathetic dominant personality. This means they have difficulty
relaxing and are often hard on themselves and others. They are often fearful, angry, guilty, perfectionistic,
resentful or use other mechanisms that cause the body
to remain in a sympathetic state much of the time. People who exercise too much, worry a lot, work too hard or
are obsessive often overwork the sympathetic nervous system.
Therapies
that inhibit the sympathetic nervous system are marvelous for cancer
patients. These include lots of Rest And Sleep, Red Heat Lamp Sauna
Therapy, Coffee Enemas, the Pulling Down Exercise, Deep Breathing
and the Development Diet. These are all part of a development
program.
For more on this and related topics, read Cancer And
Alternative Therapies, Black Salve, The Cancer Pioneers, Stem Cell Therapies, Cancer And The 7 System and Bone Marrow Transplants on this
website.
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