A Healing “Toolkit”

1. A Healing “Toolkit” For Your Cancer Recovery Thelma Jones, MC, FACP – Options For Wellness

2. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness “Health is a self-help process and not a do it yourself project” Thelma Jones, MD. FACP

3. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness DISCLAIMER “Nothing I am saying: 1) Is designed to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness, 2) Is meant to contradict your health care provider. People will hear different things about what works and doesn’t work. Feel free to come to your own conclusions. We share certain characteristics. Each person is unique, has their own story and requires individual guidance. These are general guidelines and not specific. Always follow the advice of you health care practitioner.

4. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness CANCER A disease of modern living Lifestyle factors Cancer can be viewed as a chronic disease like diabetes and heart disease

5. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Causes of Cancer • Are… • More attributable to environmental factors… • (what we eat and how we think) • …than attributable to genetics

6. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Causes • Inflammation • (Cause of most illness) • External and Internal toxins • Nutritional deficiencies and/or excesses • Stress

7. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Causes - External • Household cleaners • Air • Tap water • Chlorine • Inflammatory chemicals in fat • Pesticides • Mercury

8. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Causes - Internal • Our thoughts

9. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Obesity • Inflammatory chemicals in fat tissue

10. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Nutrition “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food” Hippocrates

11. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Diet + Supplements Nutrition

12. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Nutritional… …excesses and/or deficiencies contribute to 85% - 95% of all illnesses

13. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Foods to Avoid Sugar Feeds Cancer Increases Inflammation Increases insulin

14. Foods to Avoid • White foods • GMO’s • Trans-fats • Non-organic • High fructose corn syrup • Dirty dozen • Packaged foods • Dairy • Gluten • Acid Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

15. Foods to Eat • Decrease inflammation • Anti-oxidant • Help immunity Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

16. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness FOODS TO EAT Organic (Pesticides are carcinogenic) Gluten free Dairy free Alkaline Colored diet Cruciferous vegetables Certain fruit (berries) Mushrooms Raw foods

17. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness FOODS TO EAT Juicing Turmeric Eggs Grass-fed meat (hormone free) Fermented Soy (controversial)

18. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness NUTS Almonds Brazil nuts Cashews Hazelnuts Macadamias Pecans Pine nuts Walnuts

19. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness STRESS Anything under which we feel we have no control. It is a matter of perception in the eyes of the beholder Good and Bad

20. Stress • Major contributing factor to the onset and worsening of most illnesses. • Increases inflammation which causes most illnesses. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness

21. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Changes Neural Pathways Changes our perceptions Sense of appropriate control

22. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Helplessness Adversely affects cancer and the spread of cancer. Victim Cancer patient versus a patient with cancer Study – Rats shocked

23. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Trauma In the preceding two years. Trauma is not necessarily predictive of cancer

24. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Depression Is a state of inflammation

25. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Grief and Fear Grief hormones on the immune cells

26. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness EFT Relieving stress with EFT may reduce inflammation

27. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Nutrition and EFT Are epigenetic twins You are influencing genes from outside the cells.

28. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Nutrition and EFT Change genetic expression like turning off a switch

29. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness STUDY 500 Genes Prostrate cancer Lifestyle changes Stress and Nutrition

30. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Supplements • Replace what stress depletes • Decrease stress • Replace nutritional deficiencies • Handle toxins

31. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic It is a Hormone Made from the action of sunlight on the skin Deficiency plays a major role in the causation of cancer, heart disease dementia and asthma in children

32. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic All parts of the carcinogenic process Decreases inflammation Decreases insulin resistance Helps immunity D + K

33. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Supplements Vitamin D is a Big Topic Ideally over 50 50 to 70 Over 80 may kill cancer cells (controversial) Varies from summer to winter

34. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Iodine Deficiency plays a role in cancer causation Turns off cancer genes Turns on apoptosis (programmed cell death) Cancer cells are immortal

35. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Iodine Iodine receptors in Thyroid Breasts (Reversal of fibrocystic breasts) Ovaries

36. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Iodine Can be measured and appropriate replacement Controversial – My belief based on scientific evidence Selenium There are contraindications

37. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Supplements supplement the diet

38. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness RESVERATROL Brand Specific In red wine Potent anti-inflammatory Anti-oxidant Anti-Aging: Decreases the risk diseases of aging (chronic) Major Player in the Prevention of Cancer

39. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness GREEN TEA Possibly the #1 Cancer Fighting Beverage

40. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Green Tea Enables the immune system to search for and destroy cancer cells and helps repair DNA

41. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Green Tea • Increases cell death apoptosis • Anti-inflammatory • Anti-oxidant • Detoxifies poisons and carcinogens • Polyphenols • EGCG • May lower PSA levels • May decrease tumor growth • May inhibit the growth of breast cancer • May decrease spread to the lungs • May decrease risk of pancreatic cancer

42. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Green Tea • Japanese Research • May increase the concentration of certain chemotherapy agents • May show synergistic affects with chemotherapy • May reduce toxicity of chemotherapy

43. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness CURCUMIN Potent anti- inflammatory Anti-Oxidant A Major Player

44. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness DIM Helps the Formation of Healthy Estrogens

45. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness • Brand Specific Supplement • Increases interferon naturally which part of the immune that fights cancer • Important: Viruses may play a role in causing cancer • Cornell University Study • Increases natural killer cells

46. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Other Important Supplements Magnesium Zinc Fish oils Mushrooms CoQ10

47. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Supplements And Chemotherapy Controversial

48. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Brand Matters

49. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Empowered To Influence Health

50. Thelma Jones, MC, FACP - Options For Wellness Skype or phone conversations available with Dr. Thelma Jones Free supplement evaluations for this audience 15% an initial conversation for this audience