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Mind & Body, Nurture & Nature Psycho-Genomics cancer research

Theo Richter | 07.13.08 | 01:06 AM |
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Psycho-Genomics Research Institute Inc, situated in Albury, NSW, Australia is launching a new front to fight cancers affecting men and women through a psycho-genomics focus. It is seeking views and inputs into its research direction.

We begin to join some research dots, we believe, for the first time anywhere with a psycho-genomics focus. We are looking for cancer diagnostic, treatment and prevention opportunities for men and women from across their psychological indicators to the DNA and the entire genes pool.

One of the Psycho-Genomivs Research Institute’s findings in its paper notes that the immune system could play a central role in cancer treatment and progression.

Four earlier research outcomes provide a clue that by undertaking a cross sectional psycho-genomics cancer examinations from psychological factors through our immune system to our DNA, we may impact on cancer treatment and progression strategies.

The four different and unrelated research findings dealing with the immune system and possible psycho-genomics cancer research opportunities, expanded on in its paper, note (1) that it may be possible to find ways to use the immune system to contain cancer noted in a 2007 research finding that involved a researcher from the MacCallum Cancer Immunology Program in Melbourne; (2) that psychological factors, such as stress, depression and social support are able to modulate many of the immunologic activities relevant to patients with malignant disease; (3) that emotional expression may improve immune function and perhaps promote longer survival, and (4) that psychosocial factors such as social support and distress are associated with changes in the cellular immune response.

By joining these research findings into a single psycho-genomics research window, could it be that psychological and/or psychosocial interventions can also control cancers through addressing the immune system?

The answer to this and other questions are at the forefront of the Psycho_genomics Research Institute’s clinically and scientifically based new and expanded research direction for cancers. The Institute’s full research paper can be found at www.psycho-genomics.org in its Stroy Board Talking Point article.

Psycho-genomics cancer research is a study of treatment, prevention and diagnostic strategies by looking at cancer, non-cancer and survival populations taking into account their psychological, psychosocial, emotional, physiological, DNA and genomics (the entire genes pool and genes functions) pathways.

For more information please contact Theo Richter at enquiries@psycho-genomics.org

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Submitted by Kali Madden on September 6, 2008 - 3:55am.

Dear Theo,

This is such a promising area, thank you for sharing your research aims here.

I wonder if you and/or others in your group are aware of work done by Dr Judy Ford who I believe is working in Adelaide Uni presently? It may be worth contacting her for a chat.

She has 30+ years genetics research experience with particular interest in fertility and cancer. I had the pleasure of spending a day with Judy recently and she was a wealth of information and passion for her subject and I imagine might be most helpful in formulating directions.

One of her current websites is here:

http://ez-fertility.com.au/

"In 2001, the SA Investigator Science Centre named Dr Judy Ford as one of 14 key science innovators of the 20th Century for her work on lifestyle and health. Her work has been reported extensively in the media and she is named in many key international biographical publications."

Best wishes,

Kali

Submitted by George Wade on August 24, 2008 - 12:09pm.

You are certainly on a profitable track: looking for synergy between a functional, or stimulated immune system and other therapies; if I'm expressing it well.

Sanoviv (www.sanoviv.com) have been working on that for several years now with useful success: integrating as many factors as possible, on an individual basis. Emotional Freedom Therapy; detoxification of heavy metals and POP's; general and targeted nutrition; moderate exercise; the amount of surgery or chemotherapy that may be required to get recovery started, so that natural immunity can take over. They must have made a lot more progress since I was there for heavy metal detoxification in 2002.

OrthoMolecular Medicine too: www.orthomed.org/NMT/nmt.html halfway down that page is an interesting mp3 of Jeannie Driscoll, U of Kansas, Riordan Chair in Orthomolecular Medicine; presenting her trials of antioxidants by IV at the same time as standard Chemo.

It may be much more difficult doing the politics of using half a dozen therapies in synergy, than designing them into an effective, personalised, cocktail for each patient? Sanoviv did it by owning the holistic clinic that became the Institute as it's reputation and certification grew. They are established in Baja California where medical law and practice are for the benefit of those patients who can afford it. Poor people get stuck with poor medicine.

Now I'll read your full research paper, though I should have done so first...

Submitted by Barbara S. on July 13, 2008 - 2:14am.

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Theo Richter,
Here's wishing you and your group an interesting and fruitful project.
Cancer, most likely, has affected all of our families. It will be wonderful when there is a clear understanding of what can be done as a whole.
Barbara

Submitted by Theo Richter on July 15, 2008 - 1:51am.

Hi Barbara, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. We do want everyone to talk about our program. We have come a long way in five years. I do believe we now have the right mix and framework supported and demonstrated by our research findings. We are now starting to build the required infrastructure for our research to enable us to attract required research investment and resources.
Theo

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