TIPS ON STAYING ALIVE: Build Powerful Hope from a 10 year cancer survivor

By L. Neal Pearcy

The best way to fight most illnesses is early detection. That gives your healthcare providers more options for treatment, and gives you a better chance for full recovery.

This book is designed to encourage you to focus on wellness. Things that you can learn about and use to your advantage.

By reading about a "win" against cancer, you to can learn to build powerful, positive habits for yourself. Remember, knowledge is power. The more you understand about your health, the better you can manage it.

Tips on Staying Alive will reveal new treatments, technologies, and diagnostic tools being developed. Stay abreast of these advancements by reseaching dozens of links included in this text.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798369409633

L. Neal Pearcy

Avid reader of non-fiction books and self directed investor, the author was inspired to write about the tremendous advances in biotechnology being developed to extend human life. Using a successful experience with cancer, He wanted to provide research information for the reader to focus them on getting and staying well. The author is retired from AT&T (when it was a phone company) 30 years in computer marketing and has two children, son Gus and daughter Nicki Pearcy Keller, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He has also played customer golf for 30 years also.

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TIPS ON

STAYING ALIVE

Build Powerful Hope from a

10 year cancer survivor

L. Neal Pearcy

Copyright © 2023 by L. Neal Pearcy.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1     My Story

Chapter 2     Restructuring My Life and Fighting Cancer

Chapter 3     Learning the Medical Language

Chapter 4     Finding My Next Doctor

Chapter 5     The Future of Technology Is Extending Human Life

Chapter 6     Alzheimer’s and Other Diseases

Chapter 7     Fighting Fatigue

Chapter 8     Educational Videos / The Cancer Story

Chapter 9     Caution: Beware of Processed Foods

Chapter 10   The Sunday Drive

Appendix

PREFACE

The average life expectancy in the United States is 76.1 years, according to 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Many of us strive daily to stay healthy so we too can reach or, even better, surpass the national average. As the author of Tips on Staying Alive, I have used my own life experience as the framework to tell the story of the amazing technological advances that are in development or have already been released that are helping to extend human life.

During my time writing this book, I was asked several times, What is your target audience for this book? My answer was, This book is for anyone who wants to continue living. And since nearly everyone has a strong desire to stay alive for as long as possible, this guide should be of interest to a large audience. While I will share my health journey, this book is not about me, but it is about you.

The best way to fight most illnesses is early detection. That gives your healthcare providers more options for treatment, and gives you a better chance for full recovery. Unfortunately, many serious illnesses are discovered in their latter stages. But it is exciting to know the groundbreaking research in preventative health that is coming about.

Of all the different illnesses and sicknesses that we know about, cancer is the word that everyone seems to fear the most. In Tips on Staying Alive, I’ll share with you the good fortune of my kidney cancer, of which I have survived now for 10 years. In the Appendix, I have included websites that will help you do your own research on any of the various optional tests available to you for consideration.

Remember, knowledge is power. The more