Telos Journal Edition Four November 2013 | Page 14

Surviving Cancer Compos Mentis
A Lethally Simple Look at the Epidemic
Doctors and researchers are ever more admitting that the environment of your cells is
more important than your genes in regards to developing malignancies. “The influence
of the cell environment is so strong that it controls which genes get activated and
which get silenced, and this ultimately determines if you will get sick or not,” says
Katharina Johnson, MD.
She
trained

was
in

traditionally
Austria

and

ventured into alternative
practices once she began
to see the uber-obvious
yet terminally rare benefits
of combining the best of
both worlds. It is a synthesis
which is perhaps more of a
reduction of irrelevancies
and irrationality than the addition of combining methodology: the reduction of the
pharma-led corporate defilement of medicine, for one, and the fluffy new age
therapists that float around Earth and planets elsewhere. When we reduce these two
morons of medicine, our fears of addictive medication through over-diagnoses, and
our temptations of entrancing mystifications, strip us down to a reality so self-possessed
it’s damn sexy. Who doesn’t want to see their mate in control of their own health?
More of an embarrassing than ‘inconvenient’ truth is the fact that gaining authoritative
power over our health requires clear views of our internal and external environments,
then the applications of nourishing procedures. But strapped watching thirty or so
advertising minutes to the TV hour—filled with an acrobatic barrage of desperately