Cancer

[Dylan Page]

Disclaimer: I do not have cancer

I've been afraid of cancer for about 6 years now. I'm 24 and my awareness of how horrible cancer is started to develop around 18, right out of highschool. Something about the randomness and indiscriminate nature of cancer, combined with my passion and curiosity for and about life makes cancer an unbelievably anxiety provoking reality. Additionally, preventative testing is largely gatekept and reserved for the rich. Modern doctors are not trained to prevent you from getting sick, they are trained to heal you if you are already sick. The problem is, cancer is one of those diseases that often can't be cured once symptoms show. Particularly with cancers regarding internal organs, where tumors are often asymptomatic and are not visible. This is one of the driving factors in my desire to become rich. It's one of the only defense mechanisms I have against cancer. Preventative, full body cancer screenings cost around 3000 dollars per scan through companies like Ezra or LifeGuard imaging, and often people will have to fly to a different state just to get these scans. Our infrastructure and education on the subject is absolutely abysmal. I would like to gather some thoughts from other people on the subject. I get this overwhelming feeling of helplessness, much different from the feeling of helplessness one might feel when he/she ideates about getting randomly hit by a bus, or struck by lightning. This disease, for some reason, feels far more likely than these random catastrophic events, and certainly much more out of my control. Diet, exercise, environmental factors, etc. are all things we have control over, but largely, your ability to maximize these things is 1. Extremely difficult and taxing from multiple perspective, is often hyper-expensive to maintain sustainably (try eating like a monk for a month and tell me how long you last. If the convenience or quality is not there, you will give up unless there is literally a gun to your head for 99.9% of people.)  This puts money as the number 1 deterrent of being healthy. Now, to solve these problems, I am working really hard to make money, start my own business, etc. So that I can afford these treatments and lifestyles, but I also, as a result of that, am against the clock to make that happen. Each additional day I go by without a scan or a suboptimal lifestyle (from a health perspective) is an additional percentage of risk that is unnecessarily* forced upon me. If there is anything I can do to expedite this process, quell my fear of cancer, or acquire some kind of additional insight on the problem that might change my perspective on the issue, I would highly appreciate some feedback. Thanks!

[Applegarden8]

1) You have control over it. But you have to have a very strict lifestyle. 

Things like vegetarianism, intermittent and prolonged fasing, yoga, bhutta shudhi, practicing releasing psychosomatic disorders with shadow work or poornattva shtithi or nirbhaya dhyaana.

2) work on your Fear of death and fear of suffering by the same technique of nirbaya dhyaana. You can PM, I will send reference to it.

[mmKay]

3 day water fasting once per month is in my opinion as good of a preventative measure as you can take, to trigger autophagy. And it's literally free.

You know what else is free and gives you the most results? Working out, not drinking , not smoking and learning how to manage stress.

The rest is up to genetics and you don't have much to say , so you better work on releasing that fear because the stress and anxiety will actually subtract more years from your life.

Work on accepting the human condition. Our bodies are limited, like it or not.

It's a truth we all will come face to face with one day, so resisting it is ridiculous if you think about it.

It's not something to be depressed about. Initially you may be, but It's supposed to make you grateful for what you have.

And then avoid obviously toxic stuff.

But yeah , regular check ups won't hurt unless they're in invasive In some way or cause you an unhealthy obsession 

Edited May 13 by mmKay