Biofield Therapy Shown to Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth and Metastasis with Dr. Lorenzo Cohen UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He's also co-lead author of a study on whether biofield therapy can impact pancreatic cancer. The study demonstrated that biofield therapy could decrease cancer cell proliferation, disrupt mitochondrial function, and reduce metastasis in both cell cultures and animal models, with results comparable to chemotherapy without the side effects. He highlights the challenges to the wider acceptance of this therapy, given the lack of understanding of its mechanism of action and awareness about this growing area of integrative medicine. Lorenzo explains, "So biofield therapies fall into this category of, let's call them treatment modalities in the field of integrative medicine. So integrative medicine can be things like acupuncture, massage, yoga, meditation, nutrition counseling, exercise, things that you could say fall outside of the conventional traditional medical treatments that are within hospital systems. Now, integrative medicine as a whole and integrative oncology in particular have had a huge uptake in hospital systems because of the evidence base in those areas that I just described. The one area that probably remains the most controversial is this area of biofield therapies or often known as energy medicine. I don't actually really like using the term energy medicine because that implies that we know it has something to do with energy, and we're actually not sure exactly what the mechanism is of these therapies. And so what are these? So many of the listeners will have heard of things like Reiki, healing touch, or therapeutic touch."   "External Qigong falls into this category. These are modalities where a practitioner has been trained to be able to work with their own consciousness or their own intention, potentially the biofield of their body. And it is not controversial to know that we as human beings are energetic beings, and we actually do emit biophotons by the nature of being human. But the controversial part is that they are doing that towards a target, whether that be a human being, or, in our case, cells or animals in a laboratory.  And we, in particular, worked with a biofield therapy called the Bengston Cycling Method." #MDAnderson #IntegrativeOncology #BiofieldTherapy #PancreaticCancer #Metastasis #FOXM1 #Mitochondria #PreclinicalResearch #EnergyMedicine #OncologyResearch.  Biofield Therapy Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six Download the transcript here