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New study confirms: CHEMOTHERAPY causes permanent HEART DAMAGE

By ljdevon // 2025-10-29

What if the very treatment that is supposed to save your life from cancer is systematically destroying your heart, ensuring a shorter, lower-quality lifespan even if the cancer retreats? Millions of cancer patients place their trust in the standard of care, unaware that the chemotherapy they endure is capable of causing irreversible damage to one of the body's most vital, non-regenerating organs. A groundbreaking study from the University of Alberta, published in Nature Communications, has now identified the precise biological mechanism through which chemotherapy causes permanent heart damage, a devastating side effect that the cancer industry often dismisses as acceptable collateral damage. This research pulls back the curtain on a terrifying reality: surviving cancer may only mean you are set up to die from the treatment that was meant to be your salvation. Key points:

• A new study identifies specific tumor-secreting factors that predict which patients will suffer permanent heart damage from chemotherapy.
• The damage occurs because chemotherapy agents cause irreversible harm to terminally differentiated heart cells, which cannot regenerate.
• Death from cardiovascular disease is twice as likely for cancer patients compared to the general population.
• Cardiotoxicity is a leading cause of death among cancer survivors, revealing a fatal flaw in the chemotherapy model.
• This permanent damage is just one of many devastating and often undisclosed long-term effects of conventional cancer treatment.

The precise mechanism of chemo induced heart damage

The University of Alberta research team meticulously examined breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with anthracyclines and taxanes, two classes of chemotherapy drugs infamous for their cardiotoxic effects. They discovered that higher baseline levels of two specific compounds in the blood—inosine and hypoxanthine—acted as a crystal ball, predicting a dramatically higher risk of the heart being devastated by the chemo. These tumor-secreted factors travel through the bloodstream and bind to receptors on heart muscle cells. This binding initiates a sinister chain reaction inside the cardiomyocytes, the very cells responsible for the heart's powerful contractions. The process culminates in the degradation of a key protein called RBFOX1. Its loss is catastrophic, effectively reverting the mature, sturdy heart cells to a vulnerable, immature state. In this juvenile condition, the DNA within the heart cells, which is normally tightly wound and protected, unwinds and becomes exposed. This open chromatin is like an unarmored target for the DNA-damaging assault of chemotherapy drugs. The poison designed to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells now finds a way to mortally wound the slow-and-steady heart cells. The most tragic part of this discovery is the permanence of the injury. Unlike the cells lining your gut or the hair follicles on your head, which can regenerate after chemotherapy ends, heart cells are "terminally differentiated." Once they are damaged or killed, they are gone for good, replaced only by scar tissue that weakens the heart's pumping power forever.

A catalog of collateral damage

While the new study shines a necessary light on cardiotoxicity, it is merely one entry in a long and grim catalog of documented chemotherapy side effects that patients are often not fully prepared to face. The concept of "chemo brain" is not just a feeling of fatigue; it is a real, measurable cognitive impairment involving memory loss and mental fog that can persist for years, a testament to the drugs' neurotoxic effects. The treatment also deliberately induces severe immunosuppression, destroying the bone marrow's ability to produce the white blood cells that are the body's primary defense against infection. How can a therapy be considered curative when it dismantles the very immune system that is now understood to be critical for identifying and eliminating cancer cells? Peripheral neuropathy often leaves patients with permanent pain, numbness, and a loss of function in their hands and feet. The drugs are so genotoxic that they can trigger entirely new, secondary cancers years after the original diagnosis has passed. The destruction continues through the gut, causing damage to the intestinal lining that can impair nutrient absorption for life, and places a heavy toxic burden on the kidneys and liver. Many patients suffer the destruction of their fertility or are thrust into premature menopause. When confronted with this horrifying list, the conventional oncology response is often that these are "acceptable risks." The critical question that every patient must ask is: Acceptable to whom?

A paradigm built on poison versus a path of support

The entire chemotherapy model is founded on a brutal premise: you must poison the body to save it. This approach stands in stark contrast to emerging metabolic and natural strategies that seek to support the body’s innate healing intelligence. Why use a therapy that permanently damages the heart when studies show that a ketogenic diet, which lowers blood glucose, can starve cancer cells while strengthening healthy ones? Why destroy the immune system when medicinal mushrooms like turkey tail and reishi can enhance its cancer-fighting abilities? High-dose intravenous vitamin C has demonstrated the remarkable ability to selectively kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells, the exact opposite of chemotherapy’s indiscriminate carnage. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy saturates tumors with oxygen, reversing the hypoxic conditions that cancer thrives on, and has been shown in animal models to inhibit tumor growth and promote anti-cancer gene expression. The objective should be to address the root causes of cancer—chronic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and toxic accumulation—rather than just attacking the symptom with drugs that create more disease. Doctors in America and other nations risk losing their medical licenses if they recommend anything other than chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This forced adherence to a substandard and destructive standard of care reveals a system that is deeply entangled with pharmaceutical profit, not patient well-being. The decision to undergo treatment is deeply personal, but it must be an informed one. Knowing that chemotherapy can leave you with a permanently damaged heart, a crippled immune system, and a damaged brain forces the question: is there a better way? Sources include: NaturalHealth365.com Nature.com Enoch, Brighteon.ai

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