When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible…To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.
Learn how a heavy toxic load from our food, plastics, and personal care products can overwhelm the body's natural systems.
Get the practical guide to supporting your body's key detox pathways using tools like rebounding, infrared saunas, and liver-boosting protocols.
Hey everybody!
There’s a foundational concept in holistic healing that the Gerson therapy is built on. It’s the idea that cancer is a symptom of disease of the whole body. It's a theory of autointoxication, which is just a long, fancy word that basically means our bodies are just full.
Our systems are overwhelmed by a cocktail of environmental toxins, and they just can't cope anymore.
And it’s not our fault. We are swimming in this stuff.
This one is so personal for me, because my cancer was estrogen-driven. I remember having irrational fears, just terrified of all the chemicals in my soaps, my bath, just everything.
Well, it turns out that "paranoia" was my body telling me the truth. We are surrounded by chemicals that mimic our body's natural estrogen.
They are in everything:
Pesticides
Plastics
Personal care products, especially with ingredients like fragrance, parabens, and phthalates which are known endocrine disruptors that can mimic hormones in our bodies.
And that's just the start. The overload is coming from:
Our Food: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are loaded with chemical additives and "micro- and nanoplastic... contamination" from the packaging.
Our Environment: We're exposed to "heavy metals" like arsenic, lead, and mercury, which are known to "stimulate the progression" of tumors.
So, when you’re in the middle of the fight, detoxification isn't some luxury cleanse. It's everything. It’s the first, most essential pillar. It's about clearing the battlefield so your body’s own immune system can finally do its job. It’s about taking the burden off our systems so they can heal.
This is heavy stuff, I know. When I first started learning all this, I felt so angry and, honestly, so lonely. It can feel like you're the only one who sees what's really going on.
Cancer Crew + is our safe space. This is the community where you can ask these questions and not be called crazy. It's where you can find guides, resources, and, most importantly, other people who get it. People who are on this path with you.
You are not hopeless, and you are not alone.
If you’re reading this and you're not a member yet, please join us. This is your invitation. Come be a part of a crew that will have your back, no matter what.
Okay, so we’ve lightened our toxic load by ditching the chemicals and cleaning up our food. But what about the gunk that's already in there? How do we get that out?
This is the how-to part of detoxification, and it's the key to staying healthy in remission and for long-term prevention. We have to manually support our body’s natural detox pathways.
First, I'm obsessed with the lymphatic system. Think of it as your body's sewage system. It’s what moves all the waste out of your tissues.
But here’s the gnarly part. Unlike your blood, which has the heart, the lymphatic system has no pump. If you don't move, it doesn't move.
Here are my favorite tools to get it moving:
Dry Brushing: Before your shower, take a dry brush and rub your skin in long strokes toward your heart.
Rebounding: My absolute favorite. It's what Ty Bollinger, the author of The Truth About Cancer, calls the best exercise for this. Just 10-15 minutes on a mini-trampoline creates a pump-like motion and gets that sewage flowing so it can be filtered.
Next, we have to support our liver. It's our body's main detoxification machine. Our goal is to boost glutathione, which is the body's master antioxidant.
Here’s how we support it:
Coffee Enemas: A key part of the Gerson Protocol. Why? Because it’s one of the most powerful ways to stimulate the liver to produce glutathione and promote bile flow to dump toxins out of the body.
Broccoli Sprouts: If you're not ready for that step, start with food. Broccoli sprouts are loaded with sulforaphane, which powers up the body's natural detoxification systems by boosting glutathione.
Finally, you have to sweat. But not just any sweat. I'm talking about an infrared sauna. It's different from a traditional sauna. It uses infrared light to directly heat the body, which promotes a deeper sweat.
And get this, studies show that this deep sweat is how we excrete the really nasty stuff. We're talking heavy metals, chemicals, and other impurities.
Those same phthalates are detoxified more readily via sweat compared to urine. We can literally sweat out the toxins that are making us sick.
See? These are the tools. These are the things that work. This is how we take our power back.
With heart,
Carli
Founder of The Cancer Crew
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