What is a
Fever?
A fever is the body's highly evolved attempt to destroy invading
organisms and to sweat impurities out through the skin. Fever
is an effective natural process of curing disease and restoring
health, heat therapy, or hyperthermia, represents a way to create
fever to call out his natural healing process.
Heat Therapy
The Secret of Hyperthermia, or heat therapy, is that cancer
cells are vulnerable to high temperatures. Heat the cancer cells
and they can be easily destroyed, especially if the tumor lies
close to the skin surface. In the process, patients can reduce
or even eliminate the need for radiation.
The Principle
The principle behind hyperthermia is simple: heat cancer cells
and they can be killed easily. Direct killing of cancer cells
begin to occur when the cancerous tissue reaches about 104 F
to 105.8F. Only a relatively small rise in body temperature can
make a huge difference says Dr. R Atkins who includes heat therapy
in his cancer protocols.
Unlike normal tissue, tumors have poor blood flow relative to
their metabolic needs and cannot dissipate the heat, so they
tend to get hotter than the surrounding area. Rapidly dividing
cells (i.e., cancer cells) are more vulnerable to the effects
of heat. Normally, part of the damage caused by radiation is
repaired by the cancer cels, enabling some to survive; however,
heat foils this self-repair ability. Taken together, these facts
tend to make tumors more vulnerable to heat treatment than normal
cells.
Hyperthermia is now approved in the U.S. for treatment of breast
cancer recurrence.
Detoxification
Practitioners of alternative medicine have long recognized hyperthermia
as a useful technique in detoxification therapy because it releases
toxins stored in fat cells. Hyperhtermia can be used to remove
fat-stored chemicals such as pesticides, PCBs, and drug residues
from the body. Only recently ha conventional medicine caught
up with this practice and begun to incorporate hypertheria in
the orthodox treatment protocols for cancer.
