Eva Vertes - a video presentation at TED re cancer

[Guest guest]

Dear all,

I'll be pasting a link to one of the www.ted.com talks. The speaker

is Eva Vertes. She's an amazing young person who thinks outside the

box. I'd saved the following video to " My Videos " some time ago, as

I thought it such a remarkable presentation by quite an impassioned

young person. I thought some of you might enjoy hearing her, as well.

" When thinking about cancer, Eva Vertes dares to be different. The

Princeton undergrad -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- is asking

new, important questions about cancer (could it be caused by the

body's own repair system going awry?), using cutting-edge techniques

and classic critical thinking to pursue a cure. In her inspiring

talk, she shares her own story of the people in her life who inspired

her to devote her life to medicine. "

Have your sound turned up and enjoy. If you find that the following

link does not work for you, just let me know, and I'll try to find

another route for you.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/12

Warm wishes,

Jan

[Guest guest]

Hi, Jan.

Thank you for the link. I listened to all of what Eva had to say---

about cancer perhaps being a repair process, and about how skeletal

muscle does not appear to be affected by cancer, and about how

perhaps in the future it might be possible to replace damaged brain

cells by somehow using cancer growth.

I think it is VERY important to do and to allow thinking outside the

box in ANY field. Thinking outside the box, after all, is what genius

is about, and it is how fantastic advances in various fields of human

endeavor take place.

If Eva can help science to come up with ways to heal from cancer by

working WITH instead of AGAINST the body, that will be a fine thing

indeed. And I appreciate that Eva says she believes the body is

intelligent. Of course it is. We are indeed " fearfully and

wonderfully made. " It is nothing short of amazing that an organism as

fantastically complex as the human body wakes itself up day after

day, year after year, decade after decade, in generally healthy

condition.

However, I still feel, when all is said and done, that the MOST

IMPORTANT THING each of us can do to eliminate cancer or to keep from

being diagnosed with it, is to learn to live a Cancer-Preventative

lifestyle. Even though she is vivacious, impassioned and clever,

Eva's approach, if she does come up with a viable and better approach

to healing from cancer, MUST be coupled with appropriate prophylactic

lifestyle changes.

Also, I am convinced that degenerative dis-eases all come from

similar causes, so that it is rather counter-productive to

concentrate one's efforts on curing cancer, while not thinking, at

the same time, about curing heart and artery dis-ease, diabetes, MS,

arthritis, Alzheimer's, macular degeneration, etc, etc.

The herbalist I heard speak two Saturdays ago said that if human

beings would simply do the following things daily they would

significantly cut down their chances of developing degenerative dis-

eases of all kinds:

Learn to breathe deeply and properly, from the diaphragm, not the

chest

Drink 1/2 ounce of pure water per pound of body weight daily

Get at least 1/2 hour of sunshine daily

Get at least 1/2 hour of moderate exercise daily. (Rebounding for 1/2

hour each day is EXCELLENT)

Eat LOTS of vegetables and fruits, chew well and slowly, make sure to

get PLENTY OF FIBER, and ELIMINATE processed foods from your diet

Have one bowel movement daily for each meal one eats

Get good sleep---8 hours for most people---in as dark a room as

possible

Avoid unnecessary, prolonged stress, if at all possible

Those are extraordinarily simple things, BUT THEY ACCOMPLISH SO VERY

MUCH WHEN DONE REGULARLY, and VERY FEW PEOPLE DO THEM REGULARLY.

It's tempting and exciting to think and to imagine about cancer---its

whys, hows and wherefores---oncology can look like a vast and very

complicated field---but to involve oneself in trying to " cure " cancer

without grounding oneself in the basics I have just listed is, in my

opinion, to go chasing after a school of red herrings.

Hippocrates stated it properly and simply thousands of years

ago: " Let your food be your medicine. " There is no getting away from

that without reaping the very grave consequences of degenerative dis-

ease.

Elliot

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[Guest guest]

Hi, Jan.

I listened to the whole talk. But to me, as " outside of the box as it

may be, " it looks too much like more " cure " talk, and without the

basics of proper diet, proper exercise, proper breathing, elimination,

sunlight, pure water, good sleep and destressing, no " cure " will be

sufficient, and people will just keep on getting cancer and other

degenerative dis-ease.

Thinking " cure " without also thinking " prevention, " with the emphasis

on " prevention, " will always be one-sided and even counter-productive,

in my opinion.

Best wishes,

Elliot

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[Guest guest]

" Even though she is vivacious, impassioned and clever,

Eva's approach, if she does come up with a viable and better approach

to healing from cancer, MUST be coupled with appropriate prophylactic

lifestyle changes. "

Dear Elliot,

I agree wholly with the above. And while I do not have hope that the

usual researcher will couple the two directions that you've mentioned

above, I am enthrawled to know that Eva (at a very young age) does view

the body with awe and potential of its own. That we work with and

support our bodies' potentials should be first and foremost.

Warm wishes,

Jan

[Guest guest]

EXCELLENT speech! thanks for it.

" jinglejan2001 " wrote:

>I'll be pasting a link to one of the www.ted.com talks. The

speaker is Eva Vertes. She's an amazing young person who thinks outside the box.

> Have your sound turned up and enjoy. If you find that the

following link does not work for you, just let me know, and I'll try to find

another route for you.

> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/12

>

[Guest guest]

Elliot,

You are correct in thinking that it is more of a " quick cure " rather than the

commitment it takes to truly control Cancer and other afflictions. Sadly

however, it is much easier to sell something that is not too much work. It's too

bad really, people are rediscovering what a lot of old cultures knew ages ago.

That's how pervasive the " Drug " quick cure, magic bullet culture is. Keep on

plugging Elliot.

Dennis H.

From: breathedeepnow

Hi, Jan.

I listened to the whole talk. But to me, as " outside of the box as it

may be, " it looks too much like more " cure " talk, and without the

basics of proper diet, proper exercise, proper breathing, elimination,

sunlight, pure water, good sleep and destressing, no " cure " will be sufficient,

and people will just keep on getting cancer and other degenerative dis-ease.

Thinking " cure " without also thinking " prevention, " with the emphasis

on " prevention, " will always be one-sided and even counter-productive, in my

opinion.

Best wishes, Elliot

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