Schreiber, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 31.
At that time, doctors told him that he only had about a year to live.
Faced with this terrible news, Schreiber panicked and despaired. But when he thought about it, he was a doctor and always had to remind his patients to face it positively, so why couldn’t he do it himself?
Later, he took advantage of his profession and did his best to learn all the cutting-edge and scientific information about the fight against cancer, extending the 1-year period given to him by his doctor to 18 years.
He took the cutting-edge scientific research results and fused them with his more than 10 years of experience in fighting diseases, and wrote a guide to prevent and fight diseases, “Everyone’s War”, which is supported by sufficient scientific research.
He says, “Not everyone gets cancer, but cancer cells exist in everyone. Preventing and fighting off cancer and other diseases is everyone’s war.”
Throughout our lives, our bodies are a tiny universe that can achieve self-balance.
During this time, what we eat, what we do, what we watch, what we think …… are all affecting the balance of this body, and it is each person’s own homework on how to maintain balance in this long life.
When people live in the world, it seems that they always have to go through an illness before they can read the meaning of living.
Professor Schreiber recalls the moment he was diagnosed.
All of a sudden, issues of prestige, political achievement, and economic status became unimportant.
After the diagnosis, my wife and I never fought again. I used to blame her for not always squeezing the toothpaste from the end, for not being able to satisfy my fussy appetite, for spending too much time dressing up.
Now, either I don’t care about these things anymore, or they just don’t seem to matter at all.
In their place, he has begun to be grateful for the things he once took for granted.
Things like eating with friends, reading a newspaper in silence, fumbling around in the fridge for a bottle of juice or a piece of coffee cake, all add up to happiness.
At that point, he truly believed that he would not live forever.
He then began to summarize the factors that cause disease, starting with a weakened human immune system.
The immune system is the moat of health, and when the ubiquitous bacteria and stubborn viruses attack you, the function of your body’s immune system directly determines whether you will be harmed by the virus.
The second reason, is that the inflammatory response goes haywire.
Inflammation is a mechanism to repair trauma, for example, if an area is injured, it draws in immune cells, which kill bacteria, and at the same time, inflammation occurs when the injured area needs to grow new tissue and more blood and nutrients.
Under normal circumstances, the inflammatory mechanism protects the body’s health, for example, our wounds will heal after inflammation.
But some inflammatory conditions can deteriorate into cancer because the inflammatory response goes haywire and the body’s behavior to repair the wound goes awry.
Harold Harold, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, found that more than one in six cancers is directly related to a state of chronic inflammation.
For example, lung cancer is associated with bronchitis, ovarian cancer is associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, and it is the underlying inflammatory condition in the body that seems to be the major determinant of health.
In one of the academician lectures, Nanshan Zhong said that the human body generates about 3000 cancer cells a day, but most of the cancer cells in people do not generate real cancer because the cancer cells are found and killed by a kind of NK cells just after they appear.
There are about 5 billion NK cells in your body to protect your health, but poor lifestyle habits and negative emotions can reduce NK cells and vitality.
A healthy body requires three aspects: diet, exercise and emotions to prevent and fight off diseases.
According to Prof. Schreiber, diet is where people are most likely to make mistakes and where adjustments are most important, but in addition to some foods that clearly contain cancer-causing ingredients, there are three other types of foods that we need to stay away from.
The first is foods that can cause a rapid rise in blood sugar, such as processed sugars.
When the glucose level in our blood rises rapidly, the body immediately releases insulin to lower blood sugar, as well as releasing an insulin-like growth factor that stimulates cell growth.
Cancer cells are very good at taking advantage of this and will use the insulin growth factor as their sustenance.
The second category is foods that contain trans fats.
Foods such as cookies, potato chips, and milk tea contain high levels of trans fats, and trans fats can easily promote inflammation.
The third category is pork and other red meat processed foods.
The World Cancer Research Fund recommends that each person should not consume more than one pound of red meat per week, with the ideal serving size being 300 grams a week, or six taels.
As far as exercise is concerned, after 30 minutes of sustained jogging, the body enters a state of positive, even creative thinking, which has a positive effect on the immune system.
The feeling of helplessness, on the other hand, is food for viruses that can make the damaging elements in the body stronger.
The war between man and disease is essentially a war between man and himself.
It is won or lost depending on how much control you have over yourself, whether you can eat healthy food, get regular rest, exercise regularly, stay happy, and destroy the environment in which viruses grow.
Taking care of your body is not that complicated, as stated in “Everyone’s War”.
It does not require you to soak in the gym for hours a day, but just to stand more and walk more.
You don’t need to eat only boiled vegetables a day, but just don’t overdo the oil, salt and sugar; you don’t need to go to bed at ten o’clock, but just don’t stay up until the wee hours of the morning.
When we can pay attention to, love, respect their own bodies, care for their own hearts, we can improve their immunity and “combat power”.