SUMMARY: During tonight’s Empower Hour! webinar, integrative vet and cancer specialist Dr. Kendra Pope shared lots of great tips and tools that you can use for all pets with a diagnosis of cancer.
- 00:00 Introductions
- 02:30 Dr. Kendra – how she switch to integrative practice
- 05:00 Cancer statistics and causes
- 10:30 Toxins/glyphosate
- 12:40 Supplements to prevent cancer
- 16:40 Spaying/neutering and cancer
- 19:30 Vitamin C
- 20:20 Emotional impact on cancer
- 25:35 Carbon 60
- 27:30 Energetic balancing
- 30:20 More on Carbon 60
- 33:50 Diagnostics
- 40:00 Tumors
- 43:30 Prognosis accuracy
- 45:45 When going conventional is a good idea
- 49:25 Targeted viral treatment
- 53:00 3 things to do when diagnosed with cancer
- 57:25 Who supervises drug interactions
Take Aways
About cancer
The cancer statistics in pets are mostly a guess game since there has been no updated epidiomiological studies in 40 years. However the significant increase in cancer cases is witnessed accross the board and it’s estimated that in about 15 years the incidents of cancer will increase by 30%
Historically, cancer was considered a genetic disease — however with every new study and update it’s leaning more and more towards it being an environment and systems based disease. Lately it’s considered that only 5-10% of cancers are genetic, the rest of them have to do mostly with inflammation, microbiome, environment, etc.
According to the metabolic theory – cancer is deranged mitochondria and metabolism.
Which makes it more “approachable” – meaning if the genes don’t determine most cancers, maybe we have more influence on pet’s health than we think we do.
Toxins
Toxins is one of the causes and things we can avoid. Unfortunately we are bombarded with toxins all the time. 1300 chemicals that are banned by EU, are still being used in the United states, including glyphosate/round up and herbicide 24d which is linked to cancers. There are tests for your pets to test glyphosate levels. The way to avoid those toxins: make sure to buy organic food (or know where it comes from), avoid sprayed lawns and support the body with detox (glutothiaon, algies).
Supplements
Because of depletion of soils and poor farming practices, many of the foods we use are depleted in vitamins and minerals (for example, 95% of Americans are deficient in magnesium).
Many commercial pet foods are already fortified with vitamins, however their quality is not certain. The importan vitamin levels that important to check on your pets are vitamin D and vitamin C (vitamin C is only viable in raw foods and is destroyed when heated, so if you don’t feed raw organ meats, you may need to supplement vit C).
Great supplements to add to cancer prevention diet:
- turmeric
- green tea (non caffeinated)
- mushrooms
- Carbon60 – discovered in mid ’80s, able to neutralize free radicals better than vit C or E. Most efficient known free radical scanavnger. (do your research)
Once diagnosed with cancer, many of us start looking for that “magic” supplement that will fix things. However that is not adviced, instead – test, assess, don’t guess. Often times you may guess what is needed, but it’s important to track and assess to make sure that what is needed is covered.
We assume that pets with cancer are inflammatory, defficient in argenine, vit D, omega 3 and 6 ratio is off, extra free radicals – but we don’t know if that’s trues. It’s reasonable to support these assumptions and try the supplements to support that. However, if you can do tests, that would be great.
Let your practitioner interpret the tests and use it as information to support your pet.
Neutering
When deciding whether to neuter your pet and the relationship between neutering and cancer, it’s important to look at cons and pros:
- Cons of NOT neutering
- females will have a cycle, males may want to escape seeking for female
- if female has more than one cycle she is at increased risk of breast cancer, however you can usually feel it and can catch it early by doing regular breast exams. Males could get testicular cancer – also, east to detect early and remove.
- Cons of neutering
- so many other diseases are now being linked to spaying and neutering, especially too early – including rapid numbers of cushing disease.
Emotions
Emotional factor is finally being recognized and even considered foundational in human cancer approach. The tools for dealing with trauma are breathing exercises, emotional release through craniosacral, psychodelic therapy, etc. It’s determined that emotional trauma goes 6 generations before you (stored in the genes).
Because pets are really intune with us – there is a possibility they are connected to our emotional body and their bodies respond not only to their trauma, but ours as well. There are many techniques that can be used to release emotional trauman for dogs, including emotion code, craniosacral, energy medicine, they now even do family constellations for pets.
Tumors
Every patient and approach will be different. Tumors outside of the body are less risk that inside (and easier to monitor). When being afraid of cancer cells being spread from the tumor biopsy, it’s important to know that there are usually millions of ciculating cancer cells throughout the body that don’t necessarily metastasyse.
If the mass is not changing rapidly, if we are not gonna do chemo, or surgery, if the pet is older – it may not be important to do a biopsy.
However some non invasive diagnostics, like xray or ultrasound, could be helpful in determining the location and size of the tumor.
Remember, that removing the tumor is not equivalent to healing cancer – tumor might be gone, but the reason why it formed is not, so it’s very important to focus on changing the terrain as well so that cancer does not come back.
Same with targeted virus – immune therapy or chemotherapy.
Important tips
Things to do after diagnosed with cancer:
have your medical healing and support team for first and second opinion so you don’t need to panic (gather a team before someone gets cancer)
Diet – feed least processed diet you can provide, focus on low carb
- Have an honest conversation about the resources with your family – time, money you can dedicate to the healing
- Set time periods for expectations to see if your chosen treatment plan works/needs changes