Receiving a cancer diagnosis comes with fear and uncertainty. It is the moment when the person diagnosed with this complex disease feels like their entire world has turned upside down. Depending on how advanced the cancer is, patients face treatments and often extended hospital stays.
Dr Leigh Erin Connealy, MD, the founder of the Center For New Medicine in Irvine, California, shared some insights from the lives of patients diagnosed with cancer.
Dr Connealy, who is also the author of the book The Cancer Revolution, which focuses on a “ground-breaking program to reverse and prevent cancer,” shared on TikTok the one thing she noticed in more cancer patients.
“A common theme I find in cancer patients regularly is that they have usually suffered some very stressful event,” she explained. “It could be extreme work conditions, it may be a child, might be a parent, might be a divorce.
“But they usually have gone under some extreme stress, which we know affects the whole hypothalamic pituitary axis (HPA) and the cortisol production.”
HPA is a communication system between three organs and crucial for your body’s stress management, My Cleveland Clinic explains. “It consists of cells that release hormones into your blood (via your endocrine system) in response to nervous system stimulation.”
Cortisol is the body’s main stress hormone that works with certain parts of your brain to control your mood, motivation, and fear.
“Extreme cortisol production contributes to the rate cancer grows and proliferates,” Dr Connealy said in her video seen by over 2 million people.
In the caption, she wrote, “New research suggests that high cortisol and stress hormones play a key role in the development of cancer, metastasis, and increase the risk of recurrence.
“An excess of these hormones may be directly carcinogenic by suppressing immune function, promoting inflammation, and inhibiting normal cell function. Treating and mitigating stress should be a top priority when treating cancer.
“Stress hormones are absolutely necessary. They enable the body to respond effectively to stressful situations and ensure our survival.”
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