Cancer and Hormonal Conditions - Diet may be important, but resolving Childhood conflict is key!
- Alahnnaa Campbell
- 1 day ago
- 7 min read
Updated: 6 hours ago
This is Part 2 of a series. If it is of interest to you, you can start with Part 1: From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 3 can be found here: Just Because Not Everyone Is Ready to Hear It Doesn't Mean It Isn't True — What I Couldn't Say to the Man with the Fan
What Master Yan's framework (Part 1) helps us understand about cancer and sugar
Master Yan's framework maps well onto what many people with systemic hormonal conditions are experiencing. It also helps explain one of the more persistent beliefs in cancer recovery circles: that avoiding sugar will protect you from recurrence.
The belief is that cancer cells consume more glucose than normal cells, but you cannot starve cancer by cutting sugar. As one oncology dietitian described it, cancer cells are very creative — if glucose runs low, they switch to burning amino acids or fatty acids instead. The concern about sugar is real but indirect: it works through weight gain, hormonal disruption, and chronic inflammation rather than through a direct pipeline from your food to a tumour. See: Is It True That Sugar Feeds Cancer? Facts vs Myths
And if we think from an Esogetic perspective "are you giving your energy to cancer? if you are, it doesn't matter if we call it sugar or amino acids or fatty acids, the fact that your mind is focused on the cancer now and not dying, means it is not focused on resolving the cause, which is that something happened to you in childhood that you don't want to face, because you forget that you are more capable now to understand and heal from what you couldn't understand then", and I am here to hold space for you.
Kevin (RestoreChi's lead local student) shared that the whole metabolic system is off when someone has cancer — similar to how fad diets or supplements cannot help you if your organs are not working well enough to absorb them (in fact, because they are mass produced, most supplements are very high in yin, which makes everything worse, unless you are clearing them with a RestoreChi bottle, if you're curious about this, ask me!). From a RestoreChi perspective: sugar is not the problem. the organs that can no longer process it correctly are the problem, this aligns with Master Yan's theory on diabetes:
→ What RestoreChi and Esogetic Medicine See in Diabetes, Gout, and Excess Weight (which has been renamed: How RestoreChi sees conditions like gout, diabetes, excess weight, and carpal tunnel — what to do when medication does more harm than good)
Below we see an example that ties the above together with Master Yan theory described in Part 1: kidney yin deficiency (kidney, and the belt meridian, is seen as the source for balancing hormones in TCM) and dan tian cold are upstream causes for not only PMOS but giving birth to children who are on the spectrum. Uterus chill contributes to kidney malfunction, preventing the flow of qi and the balance of heart fire and kidney water. Because of the nature of the work that I do (helping families understand their unique difference and addressing generational trauma), many of my clients present with a cluster of symptoms that include: hormonal issues or cancer and an autistic child.
PCOS is becoming PMOS — and why this matters
There is a significant shift currently underway in how mainstream medicine classifies polycystic ovarian syndrome (see: Endocrine Society — PCOS Name Change). The condition is being renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (making it about a lot of hormones and not about a lot of cysts, which is good because now many people can get help before the cysts even start to form). My client with PMOS feels this makes a lot more sense because PCOS causes weight gain, inability to lose weight, body hair, skin, mental health, many things that people are shamed for, when if we consider the Esogetic perspective (above and below) its just unresolved childhood conflict that is literally keeping the person stuck, and while it makes sense that the body would flag a need for help to others, even needing help can feel shameful to someone who's parents didn't have enough space inside of them to give them what they needed to resolve their conflict and get through childhood unscathed. It's no one's fault, but we can change our perception, in a delicate way. We don't need to move from fat shaming to childhood shaming, we can just see how life unfolds or fails to unfold as normal, natural, and that everyone has the choice to seek help, understanding that not everyone can afford it, knows about it, or can even allow this for themselves at this time.
As alluded to, reclassifying PCOS as PMOS moves this diagnosis closer to what TCM and Esogetic Medicine have been describing all along. Chill in the lower dan tian — the cold that prevents qi from flowing, that disrupts the hormonal cascade, that creates the metabolic dysregulation we now call PMOS — is not an ovarian problem. It is a systemic problem with an upstream cause, that Master Yan's framework names in Part 1.
The fear of sugar in people recovering from cancer or managing hormonal conditions may partly be explained by this same mechanism. When insulin is chronically dysregulated — because the metabolic system is off, because the organs cannot process correctly, because the cold has blocked the flow — sugar becomes a problem not because it feeds cancer directly but because the system that should handle it is compromised. Master Yan would say "sugar goes to the eyes and bones, which then starves out certain areas, leading to necrosis", but maybe it has a choice - go to the bones or go to the tumor, either way amputation, surgery, radiation, chemo, none of these are things anyone wants, nor do they want obesity, body hair, body odour, and issues with mental health. Fixing the system is the answer. Refined sugar on many level is bad, but on another level, avoiding anything that brings us joy is also about avoiding love.
What Esogetic Medicine adds — and why resolving childhood resolves diet
From an Esogetic perspective, if we do not resolve our childhood conflict — represented by the left hand in the Kirlian photo — We may begin to self-sabotage through diet. Our body structure might break down. We may develop systemic illness. We may fall into substance use. Or our personality may prevent anything good from coming in and anything difficult from going out. Each of these being thumb to little finger on the right hand, respectively. One version of the Kirlian map can be found here: https://www.yourlifeplan.ca/physical-health
Cancer is an issue of the left hand — specifically when the left middle finger gets so bad that it lands at the bottom of the left middle toe. The left middle finger represents our emotional system in connection with how we perceive that others perceive us, around age six.
The issues that show up in adult life depend on what was not resolved in childhood.
PMOS — as a systemic illness — now maps to the right middle finger: emotional processing in the present. Previously, as PCOS, a condition focused on the ovaries, it would have mapped to the bottom of the right ring finger. Mainstream medicine is right to pull the diagnosis back to an earlier, more systemic level. But the solution being offered (avoid sugar) is still a right hand issue (even if we are at the thumb, closer to the left hand, than the middle finger).
Does anyone else see how we create complexity to avoid facing that childhood had some aspects that were genuinely difficult, that we still have not resolved? I know, it gets boring to have to go back and look at it again, which is why they say "talk therapy doesn't work" and many people assume "Esogetics means I don't have to talk". It’s more that Esogetics brings up the right memories to talk about, so they can finally be resolved. Esogetics brings new perspectives that talk therapy never can, because I will never know everything about what someone else has experienced. What we need is stored in their body, and Esogetics brings it to the surface so we can see it again in the experiences we have in life.
Eating well is never a bad thing. But are people eating well out of love or out of self hatred or fear, that is what matters, and all of that resolves when we focus more on what the Kirlian photo says and what comes up when we treat it.
Why I learned Esogetic Medicine — and what between-session support looks like
One of the reasons I decided to learn Esogetic Medicine is that I understand people need to talk about what comes up. You can’t just bring something to the surface and be done with it. Not being there to hold space for someone to process what comes up is a repeat of what happened in childhood.
This is why I invite clients to make sessions with me affordable and then the cost of in-between-sessions is less. I don’t want money to be the reason someone stops this process when things get difficult. That just makes it harder for the person to start again, the symptoms don't go away just because we don't want to deal with them. Dealing with them is what life is about.
Whether you need someone to listen and help make sense of what you are experiencing, or whether a reaction has come up that needs treatment to settle, reach out so that I can help keep you going, rather than have you leave and decide that staying stuck is better than getting out of your negative cycle. You are not alone!
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