Doctors

"Rx" means "prescription for medicine." The letters abbreviate the Latin word recipe, which is a form of the verb "to take."

Doctors write Rx in the heading of prescriptions as an instruction to "take" the medicine. The pharmacists filling the orders understand this shorthand (and hopefully they can read the doctors' handwriting) and print it on pill bottles with whatever else doctors order, such as "take twice daily with food." Somewhere along the line, pharmacists started using "Rx" on their storefront signs so patients knew where to get their doctors' instructions translated.

. The student should have a strong background in the following areas.

• Biology (cell biology, biology of the organism)
• Chemistry (inorganic, organic)
• Physics
• Communication (written and oral)
• Higher level math's (algebra, trigonometry, calculus)
• Computer literacy
• Development of good critical thinking skills.

They are not referred to as pediatrician schools but medical schools, if you are referring to becoming a pediatrician who is a physician with a specialty in pediatrics.

It would take four years for the bachelor's degree with completion of all prerequisite coursework required by medical schools and four years of medical school. While many individuals who pursue a career as a physician major in biology at the undergraduate level, many others come from a variety of other educational backgrounds. You should meet with a career counselor at the college or university you attend for what options exist for you. The important issue is acquiring the appropriate prerequisites required for medical school. The student should have a strong background in the following areas.

• Biology (cell biology, biology of the organism)
• Chemistry (inorganic, organic)
• Physics
• Communication (written and oral)
• Higher level math's
• Computer literacy
• Development of good critical thinking skills.

Following the bachelor's degree, would be four years of medical school to obtain the MD or DO degree. There will also be an additional three or more years to complete the internship and residency requirements depending on the specialty.

Glial cells are nerve helper cells.

Glial cells are readily capable of mitosis (replication) whereas neurons cells supposedly less so.

There is a pleomorphic theory about pathogenic causes of disease that says that each pathogen could mutate to a form of disease that is best suited to the medium of the disease site. If this is so, then a pathogen that attacks uniquely the glial cells may exist that triggers various diseases including cancer. However, further research for any proof or investigation of this may be reported elsewhere.

When cancer happens, normal cells are turned from a oxygen sugar oxidative (aerobic) metabolism controlled by the mitochondria to a sugar fermentation (anaerobic) metabolism that is not under mitochondrial control. The mitochondria control what is called programmed cell death of which wikipedia states there are two types:

• Apoptosis or Type I cell-death
• Autophagic or Type II cell-death (cytoplasmic: characterized by the formation of large vacuoles which eat away organelles in a specific sequence prior to the nucleus being destroyed.)

Professor John Beard surmised that cancer was partly caused by a deficiency of the pancreatic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin. People on diets rich in animal meat were losing the preventative effects of these enzymes because the latter were being constantly employed to break down these animal proteins. These pancreatic enzymes were shown by Beard to strip down and digest the protein coating of cancer cells. It was this life-saving action that was described by the Edinburgh embryologist in his Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer.

Even if the brain cancer is stopped, many say that the remaining dead tumor tissue that persists can still kill the patient by just statically obstructing normal biological functions, and that protein digestive enzymes are key to their elimination and subsequent patient recovery.

Jim Sheridan / cancell / cantron, Gerson Therapy, the Budwig diet, Royal Rife frequency machine treatments, the Beck Protocol, Laetrile / amygdalin treatments, cansema black salve capsules, herbal remedies recommended by H. R. Clark, and numerous other naturalistic, holistic dietary approaches can often be combined to help.

The underlying cause or trigger of cancer is likely one or more toxins, or exposure to certain fields of electromagnetic energy of frequencies known to cause damage, or microbial pathogenic causes of disease.

Heavy metals are known toxins. They can be chelated out of the blood and other tissues.

The pancreas could be overtaxed by eating meat so that no more digestive enzymes are available to eat the abnormal protein coating from cancerous cells, exposing them to the body's immune system.

Peroxisomes, and glutathione function may be poor.

Certain serum levels of vitamins could be very poor causing disease. Many doctors have noted recent research by UCSD into vitamin D that indicate that many diseases including cancer can be avoided if the serum levels of vitamin D are within a healthy range.

The theory goes that sometimes the body's own repair system can go out of control, where adult stem cells, fibroblasts, and similar undifferentiated cells meant to go to a damaged area and repair or replace damaged tissues, keep replicating out of control because they no longer respond to the body's natural chemical and electrical signals to stop the replication / repair process.

Other theories of the illness are that cancer can be caused by pathogenic infections of microbes or fungus. Both of these types of infections can feed off of injured tissues that are unable to defend themselves against these foreign infections. As these damaged tissues are being consumed by these infections, the body's other systems kick in to isolate the infection by the growth of tumors to stop their spread. As the bodies immune system weakens, the underlying cause of the disease may spread to other parts of the body.

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is an important mechanism in cancer treatment.
When cancer is malignant, the cells no longer follow their directed, programmed death, and continue to replicated out of control.

The following is an abstract from a medical study indexed by Medline / Pub Med: