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Cancer is a systemic, not a localized, disease; it is a warning from your body that your diet and lifestyle need to be changed. 80% of your genetic predisposition towards disease can either be activated or held in check by proper diet and lifestyle. Every one of us has some cancer cells in our body every day (due to errors in cell division, DNA damage caused by radiation, chemicals, viruses, genetic tendencies activated by bad diet or lifestyle, etc.), and our immune system is usually successful in destroying it, so a strong immune system, along with a very healthy (specific organic foods in certain balance for your MT) diet, specific supplements (at reduced dosages, unless there are symptoms that cancer is overwhelming your body, e.g., tumors, abnormal bleeding, or other standard cancer symptoms listed in Merck Manual or on ACS site), lifestyle, spirituality/attitude and environment, are keys to fighting cancer. We only notice cancer if it overwhelms our immune system and grows into a noticeable tumor. Even when you've beaten cancer, it is important to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle so that you won't get it back, especially since already know that you have a tendency to get cancer. In one study, they found live breast cancer cells still circulating in people who were pronounced "cured" 7-22 years later! This emphasizes the importance of taking care of ourselves even after we're "cured". (See the article "Too Few Cancer Survivors Pursue Healthy Lifestyles" elsewhere on this page) Also, see the part in Kelley's article below about there being no need for biopsies and other tests if there is a lump or tumor with any other standard signs of cancer (on the American Cancer Society's website, or get yourself a Merck Manual Professional Edition on www.amazon.com), especially if there are tumors that show up in x-rays, signs of skin cancer, abnormal bleeding, etc. then I would increase the cancer preventative supplements that you should already be on (in addition to ginger, hot pepper and garlic, very good organic diet, lifestyle, etc.) I had double pneumonia that they couldn't clear up with combinations of the strongest antibiotics, which made the pulmonologist suspect cancer and do a couple of chest xrays. Then he wanted me to have CAT scans (600 chest xrays of radiation each -- he wouldn't agree to MRI's) along with biopsies, and said that he would treat it with chemotherapy and radiation. That's when I walked out the door. He told me that "my life was in my own hands". I replied that it always was. (Do not delegate responsibility for your health to others; they only provide advice, some good and some bad; it's your job to research and sort it out, then decide what to do with your life). Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins When you are sick of sickness, you are no longer sick. -- Old Chinese Proverb My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet. ~Samuel Hoffenstein When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. ~Ayurvedic Proverb The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. ~Ecclesiasticus 38:4 He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~Chinese Proverb Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. ~Hippocrates Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. ~Maimonides Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~Hippocrates
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for Our diseases. -- Plato It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within. -- Albert Schweitzer, M.D. It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within. -- Albert Schweitzer, M.D. "My Clearest Explanation Ever On Cancer" "I wrote this about one o'clock last night and posted it on Facebook. The feedback has been tremendous. Please share it far and wide. Here is what I wrote that everyone is so thrilled about... When we want to cure a cancer we should look at the lynch pins of what cancer needs to function. First, is an unbalanced pH, either too acidic or too alkaline. In either of those cases cancer is always a possibility along with other illnesses as well. (Yes, being too alkaline also promotes cancer and other diseases.) The second lynch pin is fibrin. Cancer cells are covered with fibrin. There is about 15 times as much fibrin around then as compared to other cells. So why is fibrin so important? Let me count the ways.
Fibrin protects the feeding tubes with its stickiness. So what happens if the fibrin is washed away?
As is taught in anatomy and physiology classes from day one: Structure determines function. The feeding tubes need the fibrin support to function properly, i.e., to feed the cancer cell. Since the cancer cell isn't being fed properly the cancer cells withers and dies. So how do you get rid of fibrin? There are many things that will do that. Hot peppers, ginger and garlic are three of them. The hotter the pepper, the better. Modified citrus pectin, and proteolytic (systemic) enzymes are two more. Probably any volatile oil from spices will have a positive effect. Because volatile oils are...well...volatile the most potent herbs and spices would be those that are freshly grated or 'bruised. So fir instance a fresh mint leaf that is freshly rubbed will release the oils. Within several minutes most of the active oil from any spice will dissipate. Do those two things: balance the pH and melt away the fibrin, and the cancer has no leg to stand on. (Note that some of us get sick because we're too acidic, and others because we're alkaline). It's not hard and cancer need not be scary. As you can see cancer is weak and vulnerable once you know the keys to success. You don't have to run here and there wondering will this work, will that work? All you need to know is whether the agent has the properties to melt fibrin. To make it real simple, remember when you ate a hot spicy food like a pepper or horseradish or wasabi and it made your nose run. The runny nose is partly fibrin. From your own experience of that runny nose you can see how overpowering the volatile oils are and how utterly defeated the fibrin is compared to it. The fibrin in cancer is no different. It's a weakling. You simply melt away the 'snot' and the cancer cell shrinks up and dies. So now you can see why cancer can be wiped out rather quickly if you use the right tools. There is no need for stupid things like surgery, chemo or radiation. There is no need for a biopsy either. Who cares about satisfying the doctor's curiousity? If cancer is suspected, do the things that wipe it out, and then go on your merry way. You don't have to miss a school play, or any other activity you would have otherwise engaged in. Remember, when people are first diagnosed with cancer, the usually just have some troublesome pain or a bump of some kind. It's seldom killer pain that brings them to the doctor. It's only after treatment starts that things go so badly and people are too sick to participate in their normal life. Well you can skip all that bad stuff. Wipe out the 'snot" and you're 90% there. The best to you. Kelley, author of The Doctor Who Cures Cancer Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., wrote in his medical newsletter: “In 1971 President Richard Nixon made a bold avowal to conquer cancer. Unfortunately, the same percentage of Americans are dying today from this diseases as they were over 30 years ago. In fact cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the number one cause of death for people under 85.” It's important to attack cancer on many sides at the same time: don't put all your eggs in one (or just a few) baskets. Notice how many immune boosters, direct cancer killers (that cause apoptosis of cancer cells, or programmed cell death) that Jerry and I used, and that Webster advises on www.cancertutor.com Dr. Josef Issels (who incidentally had his clinic shut down, and was persecuted and put in prison for treating terminally-ill cancer patients with a combination of natural and conventional medicine instead of letting them die after the conventional medical establishment washed their hands of them) was able to cure approximately 17% of his cancer patients -- even after they had their immune systems all but destroyed by radiation and chemotherapy. If a person with cancer uses natural methods instead of chemotherapy and radiation, the cure rates are significantly higher, since the body's immune system hasn't been compromised and can help fight the cancer, wherever it might be throughout the body. Not all cancers can be cured, but studies have shown that most cancer patients live longer and have a better quality of life -- even if they do nothing -- than if they subject themselves to conventional medicine's overly-aggressive and mostly ineffective cancer treatments. Better than doing nothing, though, I would do everything I could to modify my diet and lifestyle, and take supplements, herbs, enzymes and immune boosters. According to Dr. Rowen, killing malignant tumors is usually not difficult: the biggest challenge comes about afterward, to keep tumors from coming back once the patients leave the clinic and resume their normal lifestyles and diets. To prevent cancer's reoccurrence, one must keep the immune system strong with diet, lifestyle, some (not excessive) exercise, nutritional supplementation, and especially, a positive mental attitude. See: Hoxsey Cancer Cure How healing becomes a crime (movie) Apricot Seeds Kill Cancer Cells without Side Effects The Gerson Therapy Big Pharma and the AMA Suppress Another Holistic Cancer Cure Essiac Tea is a Cancer Cure Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About Researchers find cancer cure - but drug companies won't develop it What if Big Pharma came across a synthetic compound that stopped cancer in its tracks? And what if it was nontoxic as well? You'd hear about it before you could blink. Now suppose that researchers actually found a compound that did exactly that, but it was a natural compound that's likely in your refrigerator right now. You wouldn't hear even a whisper about it from the media. Well, it's happened. University of Missouri researchers found that a bioflavonoid, apigenin, inhibited the growth of highly malignant breast tumors. What's more, it also reduced expression of a key cancer gene. Apigenin is in your refrigerator right now if you have celery, parsley, or a wide variety of other veggies, fruits, and spices. Here's how effective apigenin is. In this recent study, researchers implanted rodents with a particularly deadly breast tumor cell line. The animals taking apigenin had slower tumor growth. And some even saw their tumors shrink. New cancer-feeding blood vessels shriveled, starving the malignant cells. And they found that apigenin acted against progestin-related/dependent breast cancers. Progestins are petrochemical synthetic versions, a "gift" of Pharma. Research has shown that they cause breast cancer. This study mirrored another one last year which showed that rats fed the compound developed fewer tumors and a delay in tumor establishment. The study's co-author, Salman Hyder gave a sad commentary on today's horrible Pharma paradigm. He pointed out that since this is a compound that you can extract from plants (not patentable) we won't see industry putting a dime into research. And since its effects are not specific on any one cancer process, it's not likely that government funding agencies will help either. I've written extensively about the wonders of bioflavonoids. The late Tom Lahey, who told me about luteolin (in Advanced Memory Formula), also provided me with a wealth of information on bioflavonoid actions against cancer. This included apigenin. Curcumin belongs to this family as does green tea, Seanol and resveratrol. I am observing innovative combinations of bioflavonoids having remarkable effects in a combined approach to cancer. In addition to the foods I've already mentioned, you'll find apigenin in apples, leeks, onions, broccoli, cherries, grapes, tomatoes, and tea. Note that these plant foods reduce your risk of getting cancer in the first place. Other foods include basil, oregano, cilantro, tarragon, beans, and barley. You'll do very well to include such produce in your daily diet! Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Horm Cancer. 2012 Aug;3(4):160-71. Epub 2012 May 9. If you'd like to receive your own Second Opinion Health Alert, please sign up on our website: www.SecondOpinionNewsletter.com
How I Got Rid Of My Stage 4 Cancer In Two Weeks For Less Than The Cost Of A Night At The Movies Fortunately, my Stage 4 cancer was none of the above for me. My advanced cancer treatment cost less than two tickets and popcorn at the movies. My treatment wasn't painful. And I wasn't scared...I didn't lose a minute's sleep...because I knew what to do. If we've learned anything about treating cancer in the last 50 to 60 years it has to be this: half killing the patient isn't half way successful. As I emphatically told a woman in my store recently, "You gotta be healthy to get well!" In my own case, I knew by the many lesions I had that I was already sick. I didn't need someone to help make me sicker. I needed to get healthy, so I could get well. Note: I would use the Ginger that he mentions WITH the other ingredients (not instead). Also, I recommend taking a full spectrum (all 8 tocopherols & tocotrienols) vitamin E oil-based (not dry powder) capsule each day so that the oil doesn't go rancid in your body, along with Activite Sport multivitamins, pomegranate/ellagic extract, enzymes, EGCG, MCP, Arabinogalactan, Concentrated Flaxseed Hulls, and specific, raw blenderized vegetables (see my raw food and cancer page about the vegetables, and elsewhere on this page for sources and amounts of the supplements I mentioned) to increase your chances of success. Also see section on how to do imagery/visualization on elsewhere on this page. (I am not affiliated with the author, nor do I receive finanacial compensation for referring folks; however, I did use a lot of hot peppers, ginger and garlic, (along with Metabolic Typing, specific supplements, avoiding toxins, healthy lifestyle and imagery) to beat the same genetically-caused (I didn't smoke) lung cancer that killed 3 other family members (they unfortunately, used chemo and radiation for it), and think that his method has merit, so I am including it here for you: Phone Toll Free: 1-877-359-6950 I don't know if going to St. Kitts to see Dr. Rick Santee at his Wellness Center in the Caribbean is an option (it costs $18,000), but he administers and monitors ozone and cesium therapy, as well as raw foods, etc.If you want to do the cesium treatment yourself (although it's much more effective if combined with ozone therapy), the links on this page tell you how describe yourself and watching that potassium levels don't go dangerously low.
Some people would rather have a supervised program, rather than trying to follow a protocol on their own. Dr. Rick Santee has opened a new Wellness Center in the Caribbean. Cancer and other conditions are addressed using IV Ozone, Direct Injection Ozone, Cesium/High PH, Enzymes, Detox, Raw Diet, Immune boosters and other non-toxic compounds. NO chemotherapy or radiation is used. He's not doing phone consults at this time. The program is inpatient, full supervision. The biggest problem in treatment is people not complying. This factor will be mitigated under the fully supervised program. [As a side note, this is the same problem I've experienced countless times with people being unable to fully commit to a protocol and do all the aspects of it (dietary, lifestyle and spiritual changes) faithfully using the information from this website -- the protocol is a very good one, but too many people want an easy way out and are unwilling to consistently follow it, along with minor adjustments to their protocol as the need becomes apparent]. Rick was in practice for ten years in Los Angeles and his success rate for prostate, uterine and pancreas cancers was excellent. Other people did well if they complied. For people in reasonable shape upon intake, he is expecting 85% recovery from prostate cancer, pancreas cancer 75% with continued home program, other cancers above 70% with continued program. Mention that you were referred by the "Distance Healer" website for a $1,000 USD discount for any person that pays in FULL 18K up front, two weeks before intake. If it were I and chemotherapy looked like it would CURE me, not just cause some temporary tumor shrinkage along with destroying my immune system in the process so that the cancer would come back with a vengeance, I'd take IPT (insulin potentiation therapy -- explained elsewhere on this page). Be sure to see my Cancer Radiation and Chemo herbs/supplements that are extremely necessary to reduce collateral damage if you do take chemo or radiation! The main problem with people trying natural protocols and failing, as many people who have "tried" one or two supplements for a serious disease like cancer is that these people have, in my experience, all died because they would not follow a comprehensive protocol, take the proper supplements and amounts, change to a very good diet and lifestyle, address the spiritual aspects of good health, and totally commit to doing whatever it takes to defeat their illness. Note: everyone has a different opinion as to what "good" means; it's necessary to make time to READ, study and learn what it means, especially since your life depends upon it. It’s very important to take the time to read and become educated as to how to help your body heal itself, and to maximize your health. Not everyone can be healed, but even those who eventually die have a better quality of life and live longer than they would have with aggressive chemo and radiation. What is really frustrating to me is that even when I spend years researching things and put it all up on my website for free, no one takes the time to really study (or even read it thoroughly), and they then ask questions that are already on the website (i.e., they’re too busy to learn how to not die and won't do the work necessary to maximize their health, including reading free information that took thousands of hours to compile and then is given to them for free. Most complain that blended vegetables don't taste good, or they don't like to take a lot of supplements (but they have no problem spending lots of money taking all kinds of trips to remote islands, drinking booze and eating bad food with the money that they claim would be "wasted" on supplements to fight their cancer with). Some actually ask if they were to take just one supplement (and not change their diet or lifestyle), if they can beat terminal, stage 4 cancer! When I tell them that they have to do some work to get better, they go back to the chemo and radiation doctors, and I hear soon afterwards that they're dead. Some people are determined to die in order to somehow “get even” with someone else – these people cannot be helped, no matter how good a protocol or doctor is; they give up the “will to live” and hasten their own death. Furthermore, no doctor wants to get into the middle of it and be blamed for it. Also, if you believe someone or something has the power to kill you (as in voodoo), then you’ve empowered it to kill you and it may, unless you take the power to kill you away from it. The converse is also true. There is a book about 50 cancer survivors that illustrates this: each beat cancer in a different way; the only thing they had in common was the fierce belief that life was worth living and that they were going to beat cancer. Make sure that you WANT to live: there’s a huge difference between merely being afraid of dying and embracing life, loving life and wanting to live. Also, don’t give someone else the power to take away your will to live; if you’re not happy with your life, CHANGE IT! You don’t have to die to escape from it. Bad habits, diet and lifestyle (and often a bad attitude/mindset and neglect of your spiritual self) lead to cancer by activating certain inherited genes that pre-dispose you to getting cancer. The good news is that 80% of these genes can be either activated or de-activated. What is necessary is to fully commit to doing what is necessary to get better and stay better. Once you beat cancer (for the rest of your life), in order to keep cancer from coming back, you’re going to have to keep from falling back into your old habits, because that is how you ended up getting cancer in the first place. Your belief system can severely limit your available options, many of which are viable ones. Sure, there are quacks out there, but not every non-chemo and non-radiation treatment is quackery; follow the money, and try to step back and see outside of the box. I definitely recommend reading “Questioning Chemotherapy” by Ralph Moss: cancer is actually a cry from your body for help because it cannot tolerate your toxic diet and/or lifestyle – it is not a cry for you to flood it further with more toxins from chemo and radiation. The odds of beating it are MUCH greater when a person starts the protocol before they're dying. Chemo works in less than 2% of cancers -- and of those 2%, more than half of them get secondary cancers caused by the chemo. According to Dr. Blaylock, "It's important to remember that secondary cancers are not recurrences of a previous cancer but entirely new cancers caused by the treatment. Most often, the secondary cancer is much more resistant to treatment than was the original cancer. Biopsies (including needle biopsies) also spread cancer in more than half of the cases." What makes it so difficult (and frustrating) to help anyone with natural medicine, although it works, is that most people will not totally adhere to a protocol (this is called “treatment failure due to lack of patient compliance with it”), and the situation is made even worse because virtually everyone wants an easy way out, so they go to conventional doctors, take drugs and chemo (which “is covered by insurance. Insurance won’t pay for supplements…”). Then they wait until they are dying before they are willing to eat some blended vegetables, change their diet and lifestyle, and take ALL of the supplements in a protocol without missing them, and IN THE PROPER DOSAGES. Many people don't seem to understand that the dosages of therapeutic supplements are critical, and that you can't just take a few of the supplements along with chemo or radiation and increase your chances of success -- the supplements try to build your body and immune system up and the chemo and radiation try to tear it down. I still take 175 pills/capsules each day, drink/chew two 10 ounce glasses of raw, organic vegetable juice along with a perfect diet, avoid toxic brands of cosmetics, cleaners, air fresheners, deodorants, soaps, etc., and make time to study what I need to know in order to survive (i.e., take charge of my health), not just blindly follow what some doctor tells me to do (i.e., delegate responsibility to someone else) -- it all boils down to whether a person REALLY wants to live and is willing do what it takes, or not. I just wish that people would take the time somehow to read the entire protocol and raw food pages thoroughly, along with Dr. Blaylock's book and newsletters, and Jerry Brunetti's protocol; I did, because my life was at stake. Very few people are motivated enough to live that they will take the time to study the information they need to get better and beat this thing! Last week a lady died of colon cancer who was brainwashed by the media and medical establishment into thinking that chemo and radiation could help her form of cancer and that anything other than that was quackery. She came to me at the end (just like too many others have), finally able to see "outside the box (the television)" and asked what she could do, and I sent her a protocol that I would follow. Unfortunately, it was too late and she died a few days later. Why is it that virtually everyone waits until they are at death's doorstep before they are finally willing to do some real work on getting themselves better? Some colleagues have told me that it's human nature to value something relative to its cost, and that people would value this information more and do more to help themselves if I were to charge them for it, but I want to help people who are hurting financially and not add to their burden of cancer. One thing that might be confusing you is that therapeutic dosages of supplements (including vitamins) are a lot different from preventative dosages (RDA minimums -- the amounts below which certain deficiency diseases appear) and have different effects; that's why dosage is very important. By the way, after trying chemotherapy unsuccessfully, most doctors then turn to radiation (which even they admit doesn’t have a chance of healing you): unless it's just pinpoint to shrink a tumor which is pressing on a nerve and causing paralysis (or shutting off a blood vessel), would only further weaken your body, cause more DNA damage to normal cells, further compromise your immune system and waste more precious time. Several patients have told me that they'd rather die than eat healthy -- so, they did. Also, once a patient recovers, eating and living healthy is a lifelong thing or the cancer almost always comes back, so it's necessary to make a commitment to do whatever is necessary to go on living, and not worry about the taste of blended vegetables, too many supplements, etc., or the person cannot be helped; that's why Nick Gonzalez, Rick and every other naturopathic doctor I know screen people and make sure they only select the ones who are fully committed to getting better. As a friend, Webster at www.cancertutor.com says, you need to use several garden hoses and a fire hose to put out the fire of cancer. The fire hoses are cesium and ozone. Besides alkalinizing the inside of cells and killing the cancer cells without harming normal cells, Cesium also gets rid of pain. Normal cells are supposed to be more alkaline -- cancer cells are too acidic and ferment sugar to make energy, as opposed to normal cells getting energy from their mitochondria. By the way, that's why white starch and sugar (and sweet fruit) feed cancer. Ozone therapy is another fire hose, but you need to see a practitioner who has the equipment to do ozone insufflation, such as the clinic in St. Kitt's, if you can build yourself up enough to make the trip. It's a lot easier if you go there, as they will help make sure that you don’t eat anything harmful, take all of your supplements on time without missing any, and give you the ozone and cesium therapy, along with immune boosters, enzymes, raw food diet, etc. [Note: It is not a good strategy to attempt to battle cancer by simply popping pills; a comprehensive approach is much better, including learning what to eat (see my Metabolic Typing pages for quick self-tests to find out your Metabolic Type, what ratio of foods you need), how much (e.g., at least 35-40% of calories from healthy fats, most carbs from certain vegetables, etc.), lifestyle changes, supplements, etc. Please refer to the other cancer and health pages on this site for more detail on these other essential aspects of battling cancer. Keep in mind that whole wheat bread raises serum glucose (and therefore feeds cancer) just as much as white bread, since the wheat is ground and exposes the starch to be rapidly absorbed by the body, as opposed to whole grains in the form that nature provides them, such as brown rice, whole/steel-cut oats (and even these need to be very limited) or vegetables. The fish or Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil (CPEVO) mixture (with curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin) not only quells inflammation but fights cancer and helps you gain weight without feeding cancer. You would have to stop drinking sugar and starch-containing energy drinks that feed the cancer and make you waste away further, though; see the articles below for an explanation about cachexia and how patients lose more weight the more calories you give them if they're carbs and sugars. EIF and melatonin are also important.] Hydrazine sulfate helps with cachexia of late stage cancer (losing weight and wasting away), along with the cachexia supplements if you are not on the drugs that are mentioned in HS articles as being dangerous if combined. (See below for other supplemetns that help with cachexia). http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/cancerpain.htm#hydrazinesulphate http://www.accessmednet.com/prescription-drug-information/buy_oxycontin_prescription.html http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Hydrazine.html http://www.hydrazinesulfate.org/ Also helpful for gaining weight during cachexia is a raw food diet consisting of 60% protein, 30% healthy fat and 10% (1-2 cups/day) raw, organic green drinks (barley grass and Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus) or raw, organic vegetables (lightly blended at low speed in a variable speed Vitamix so as not to destroy the enzymes from the heat of the blades). I would eat lots of raw or soft- or hard-boiled (frying oxidizes the cholesterol in the egg) Christopher's brand organic free-range high omega-3 eggs, 660mg omega-3/egg (wash them before opening them), raw cream/butter, saturated fat, extra virgin coconut oil, Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamari (take with full spectrum vitamin E), organic free-range chicken/turkey and line-caught/wild-caught fish (Alaskan canned salmon is high in omega-3 and inexpensive) and take pancreatic enzymes (pancreatin, bromelain, papain) to replace the enzymes that are destroyed by cooking. The meat should be lightly-cooked at low heat in EV olive oil with some turmeric added to reduce oxidation (not browned). This diet should help you gain enough weight and strength to have the reserve to go through your treatment. It takes 3500 calories (above and beyond what you need to maintain your present weight) to gain a pound, if your metabolism is normal -- and cancer patients have a quicker metabolism than normal. Fat has 15 calories/gram, so it is the most calorie-dense food that you can eat -- more than protein or carbs -- and cancer cannot use it (or protein) for energy to grow and spread with. ANY carbs/sugars/artificial sweeteners feed the cancers, which have 3-4 times the number of insulin receptors as normal cells, so they steal the carbs away from normal cells and you lose more weight the more you eat (and the cancer spreads from the carbs). In stage 4 cancer, there is a lot of energy spent on chewing that wastes even more calories -- in addition, stage 4 patients cannot absorb nutrients from chewed vegetables. Even a healthy person can only get at most 8 to 12% of the nutrients from vegetables if they chew them very well -- and most don't, but when you blend the vegetables, 90% is absorbed. What is necessary is to lightly blend the vegetables in a VitaMix variable speed blender (on low speed) with EV olive oil (1/2c) and pure water (1c) added. If you won't eat that, then make green drinks (organic barley grass and Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus mixed in pure water, along with Arabinogalactan, PectaSol-C, and any other powders). You could blend virtually all of your food to make it easier for you to eat and to increase absorption; if you do, you need to blend it at low speed and for not too long (just until the pieces are about 1/16” and require only light chewing), as the heat from the blades will destroy the enzymes in the food. Ginger (fresh peeled ginger or powdered/capsules) is good for sensitive stomachs, and is an anti-inflammatory. Calcification spots in soft tissue are sometimes caused by inadequate vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 (sauerkraut or capsules). Tumors also calcify when cancer dies. Biopsies spread cancer in over half of the cases; if you have had a biopsy or surgery on a tumor, I would take the anti-metastasis supplements on my main cancer page to minimize spread: concentrated flax hull lignans and/or lactoferrin, modified citrus pectin, along with other supplements including Activite Sport multivitamin, green tea extract, SeMSC (a specific form of selenium -- other forms are toxic in these dosages) 400-800mcg/d, Lugol's potassium iodide solution 9 drops/d in a little pure water, pomegranate extract (www.iherb.com [SNS-02086, Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract, 500 mg, start with 2 three times a day and increase until you get to 6 three times a day until cancer is gone -- then drop back down to 2 three times a day maintenance dose)], and other important supplements, along with specific blenderized raw vegetables. Fungus is not the only cause of cancer; certain bacteria, as well as DNA damage from chemicals, bad lifestyle (e.g., alcohol, smoking, excessive exercise, insufficient sleep, stress), radiation, errors in cell division that happen from time to time, etc. can also cause cancer. Many people are born with genetic predisposition to get certain diseases such as cancer: about 80% of these bad genes can be turned off by good diet/ lifestyle/ attitude/ spirituality (mental and spiritual health) are as important as physical health). Sugar and starches do feed cancer, though (and fungus). Dr. William Coley noticed that if cancer patients got an erysipelas bacterial infection, the bacteria somehow activated the immune system not only to attack the bacteria, but also, in many cases, the cancer. I recently tried to help a 17 year old boy with brain cancer whose father insisted on only using Coley's Toxins (killed bacteria) and wouldn't give him other necessary supplements and blenderized vegetables, as well as avoiding sugar/starches, etc. and he died. All vaccinations today contain "adjuvants" such as aluminum or certain bad industrial oils that stimulate the immune system to attack anything and everything in the body for years afterwards, usually causing more disease (autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, arthritis, etc.) than it helps. Coley's Toxins don't contain these harmful adjuvants, but I don't think that they are powerful enough to beat cancer by themselves unless they are part of a comprehensive protocol. Doing a little of a natural protocol while taking chemo and radiation (and especially, not taking any of the supplements that specifically reduce damage to the brain and body and increase the effectiveness of chemo/rad) is not much better than doing nothing at all. If you want to do the cesium treatment yourself (although it’s much more effective if combined with ozone therapy), the links below tell you how describe yourself and watching that potassium levels don't go too low. Note that some of the treatments buy time while you work to refine your protocol and kill the cancer (http://www.cancertutor.com/Other02/CheckFast.html); also, they recommend cycling through stage four treatments, for example, ozone first, then cesium, followed by others, and maybe repeating. Besides killing cancer, cesium gets rid of the pain by neutralizing the lactic acid that cancer makes from fermenting sugar for energy. Pain killer prescriptions further damage your liver, so if it were I, I’d stop taking them as soon as I started cesium treatment, since that will get rid of the pain. For the cachexia (weight loss and wasting away), see: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Hydrazine.html and http://www.cancertutor.com/Other02/AdvSpecial.html Also, Dr. Blaylock's book (pp 149-150, 207, 227-230, 262) lists some things that should be used for cachexia in addition to the hydrazine sulfate: vitamin E (800iu/d Swanson Full Spectrum E, SWU209 and vitamin E succinate, best from Jarrow Multi Easy vitamin powder); plant flavonoids (Swanson Ultra Apigenin, SWU375 and Swanson Bioflavonoids, SW128, 2/d); curcumin (3/d in oil -- see Blaylock's email below); quercetin (3/d in oil -- see Blaylock's email below); hesperidin (1/4 tsp 2-3 times a day, mix them in Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil with curcumin & quercetin); grape seed extract (3/d); lactoferrin; MCT oil (1TBS 3xday = 3TBS/d); NAC (600mg/d); sublingual glutathione (2/d under tongue until absorbed). See the following links regarding cesium for late stage cancers: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Alkaline.html http://www.essense-of-life.com/moreinfo/minerals/cesium.htm http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james14.htm http://www.cancertutor.com/Other02/CheckFast.html (I would read through all 8 chapters). For the Cesium and Hydrazine Sulfate, call Larry at Essense of Life (800-760-4947 -- Leave your name and number. Please say them twice. He will return your call. Email: larry@essense-of-life.com, Web contact page: http://www.essense-of-life.com/moreinfo/questionforeol.htm). http://www.essense-of-life.com/moreinfo/minerals/cesium.htm Phone numbers for the glyconutrients and EIF (ellagic insurance formula from J D Dennison) are given below. An explanation of some of the supplements: EIF (Ellagic Insurance Formula contains some enzymes, ellagic acid/pomegranate extract, and selenium and are convenient to take); Anti-inflammatories to help slow the cancer [molecularly-distilled DHA oil from Calamari (taken with full spectrum vitamin E to keep it from oxidizing in your stomach), Zyflamend, Boswellia (aka “Frankincense”), alpha lipoic acid], NAC, sublingual glutathione, melatonin is a powerful antioxidant that fights cancer; Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). The blended vegetables, perfect diet, organic barley grass, Miracle Reds, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus powder, chlorella, cilantro/coriander, parsley, along with the liver supplements, will help get rid of toxins in your body from the chemo and prescriptions. Regarding the effectiveness of natural medicine, barley grass, etc., you might see: http://www.drday.com/tumor.htm about a woman doctor who cured herself of terminal cancer. Also see Dr. Blaylock's book and newsletters, and Jerry’s Brunetti’s protocol and interviews in order to round out your knowledge. The liver supplements are to help the liver, which is important, but not enough alone to beat cancer. Liver problems are caused by alcohol, prescriptions (especially pain relievers, tranquilizers and anti-depressants), chemo and NSAIDS (Tylenol/acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc.) -- not from herbs and vitamins. The liver herbs listed on my site actually heal and re-grow the liver: dandelion; milk thistle extract; NAC; TMG; non-GMO Lecithin; artichoke extract; Luteolin; Livotrit -- those are the ones I take (all of them). Sources are on my main cancer protocol page and are better quality and much cheaper than buying them in stores. The enzymes (including 36/d Pancreatin -- described elsewhere on this webpage, lots of papaya (see webpage for amounts and sources), serrapeptase, nattozyme, and Bromelain), when taken in the proper dosages -- the amount is critical with many of these things – will help the body to kill the cancer, along with the Ellagic Insurance Formula, and glyconutrients (aloe, etc.) The things in Dr. Blaylock's email below (in the amounts he said) are also important and they’re intended to be used with the other information he wrote in his book and newsletters (i.e., there are other things to do and take, in addition to what he mentioned in the email). Ordering the supplements online costs half of what they do in stores, shipping is a fixed rate ($3-4, no matter what size the order is), and most online vendors don't charge tax. I suggest asking them to ship the items as quickly as possible (priority mail or express), and picking up enough generic equivalents at a nearby store to last you until they arrive -- it's well worth the few minutes it takes (with the links and phone numbers that I've given you to speed things up) for the money it saves and the convenience of having many things all in one. Remember to get the dosages correct -- it's very important. Imagery/Visualization is easy to do and would also help (search for "imagery and visualization" without the quotes on www.distance-healer.com/24.html Push the good fats and proteins (and try to eat and gain some weight and strength if you’re losing weight). See below re CoQ10 for energy, as well as the other things mentioned. The coconut oil (as well as Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamari) are good sources of calories and taste good, too. Good things to eat are coconut oil, green drinks, canned salmon (with extra enzymes to reduce the enzyme load on your pancreas), and no carbs/starches/sugars/ice cream, etc. in order to gain weight and not feed the cancer. Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). EIF is extremely important in order to attack the cancer. It's more convenient than taking loads of ellagic acid, enzymes, white/green tea extract, Graviola and the right amount of selenium (although I give the amounts below, in case you choose to take them separately). EIF contains lots of ellagic acid/ellagitannins, along with some (you need additional) EGCG, graviola, enzymes, and selenium. EIF also causes cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death (read the details about how to use it below -- you need to increase the dosage with time) is only available from JD Dennison. Arabinogalactan, Pectasol-C, Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans and Lactoferrin STRONGLY reduce metastasis. ProBoost and Thymulus/Wellness Booster help the Thymus gland cells identify cancer cells for NK cells to attack. Grapeseed extract (3/d) strengthens intracellular "glue" so that cancer has a tough time dissolving it to spread. My Shorter Cancer Protocol for all Cancers You can customize this protocol by seeing the my full Cancer Protocol further down on this page, and also Dr. Blaylock's book and adding any of the supplements that you feel are important to this list. My website (www.distance-healer.com) tells what I did for cancer (see the main Cancer Protocol, Cancer and Raw Foods, and Chemo & Radiation Herbs pages). I have put together this starter protocol of supplements to go along with the diet that you need to determine using the Metabolic Typing test, imagery, prayer, pure water and air (lifestyle changes). You will save a lot of money by ordering them online. These are ones I use myself, and for my family, that I think are good quality standardized extracts, are in the proper forms, and don't have many harmful excipients and binders in them, as well as dissolve quickly or are in capsule form. (See pp11-16 of Dr. Blaylock's book re most vitamins are of harmful quality). You'll need to look through Dr. Blaylock's book (and PDF newsletters, if you subscribe to them through Newsmax) for cancer and breast cancer supplements, as well as some that prevent angiogenesis and metastasis, and boost the immune system and add them to this basic protocol. (See http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/ and www.NewsMax.com/BlaylockReports and his books http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/iWeb/Russell%20Blaylock%20M.D./Books.html) Dr. Blaylock's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210/) From blaylock_foods0912_99.pdf (Adapted from Kelley Eidem, and improved: I took these ingredients, along with all of the other ingredients on this page when I had lung cancer (long before I knew of Kelley Eidem). The Koreans eat Kimchi (very spicy Korean Cabbage, containing these same 4 ingredients, and it protects them against flu, colds, respiratory illnesses and sinus infections). I make my own by adding a little olive oil to sauerkraut (the kind made from only cabbage, water and salt) and mixing in the 4 ingredients -- you can mix the 4 ingredients to any oil or fat and eat them that way.] Here's a real brief recipe list here. Organic ingredients are best. [Note: I had the equivalent amount of this 3 times a day when I had active cancer]: (1) Grate one habanero pepper each day, putting it on sprouted grain (Ezekiel) bread. Yes, you use the seeds from the peppers. The potent active ingredients from the peppers, horseradish, ginger and the garlic disperse quickly. So they must be grated each day, and eaten immediately. You're probably thinking, whoa that's gotta be hot! Yes, it is. And it will make you breathe deeply! That's a good thing, because heavy breathing pumps the lymph system. As you know, cancer cells often gather there. What I did was put the habaneros and the garlic on one side of the bread and folded it over. Plus, it's handy to have another half slice at the ready to cut the burning sensation in my mouth. So let yourself breathe deeply for a minute or two and then eat the extra half slice of bread. Let me say a word or two about the bread. I used Ezekiel organic spouted bread. You can get it in the freezer section of health food stores, Whole Foods, and at Publix. Yes, it costs about $5.00. But keep in mind that all the ingredients together won't cost you more than $20, and Ezekiel is organic sprouted grain bread, so it is not GMO (which is carcinogenic) and the sprouts use up much of the white starch in the grain and make healthy nutrients from it. See EWG Pesticide and GMO charts; avoid eating conventional fruits, vegetables, grains, oils, etc. that highest in pesticides, and the ones that are GMO; at a minimum, since organic is expensive, at least get organic for the ones that are most harmful. * GMO: www.nongmoshoppingguide.com; http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/download.html; http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/GMObrochure.pdf * Pesticides: Also see: SkinDeep: Cosmetic Safety Database Sunscreen Safety Guide Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce Microwave Ovens: The Curse of Convenience Tips on Cell Phone Radiation What exactly are acrylamides? What exactly are heterocyclic amines (HCAs)? * Specific organic vegetables Blenderized with a Vitamix at low speed (add 1/2c EV olive oil and 1c distilled water to each blender-full to make the mixture liquid enough to blenderize). 3-4 servings a day or 10-12 servings of vegetables a day if not blenderized. See the list of best raw organic vegetables to blenderize and eat on my Cancer & Raw Foods page: http://www.distance-healer.com/19.html 2-3 TBS/d Freshly-ground organic flaxseed (grind in a small handheld coffee grinder, such as Proctor Silex). Liver support and detox: * Milk thistle full-spectrum extract, 3/d (I use a whole herb extract, not just Silymarin), www.swansonvitamins.com, SWH051, 250mg 80% + 250mg Milk Thistle Powder, supports liver, aids in detoxification, helps fight cancer. Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil. * Boswellia, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Boswellia-Extract (anti-inflammatory that works with above. Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil); Swanson Superior Herbs Boswellia Serrata, SWH010, 200mg, 120caps, $7.99. Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil. * Myrrh, 2/d; Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil); Swanson [SW1155, Full-Spectrum Myrrh Gum Powder, $4.99, 600mg, 120Caps]. Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil. * Enzymes (NOW brand 500mg 4X Pancreatin, NOW Papaya/Bromelain, Swanson Nattozyme, Doctor's Best Serrapeptase) in between meals and at bedtime. Note: Papaya bothers my stomach if I take it just before bed, so I take it at other times before and in between meals during the day. * SeMSC (a special form of selenium) 400-1000mcg/d total from all sources (including Multi) with sufficient iodide (Lugol's), [Swanson Ultra SeMSC Selenium, SWU171, qty120Caps, 200mcg L-Se-methylselenocysteine, the same form of selenium found in garlic, broccoli and Brussels sprouts] Note: other forms are toxic in these dosages. SeMSC works synergistically with Lugol's Iodine. * Lugol's Iodine / Iodide solution; mix into some distilled water and drink each day. I take 20 drops/d because I eat a lot of raw, organic cruciferous vegetables (blenderized) that block the absorption of iodine. * iFlora Probiotics, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=13122 (Take 2 capsules daily on an empty stomach with water -- to get it out of stomach acid quickly; this kind has specific strains of bacteria that help your immune system fight cancer and other illnesses) * GLA (Gamma Linolenic Acid) - Borage Oil 3/d [Dr. Blaylock advises 1000mg GLA/d; taking too much is harmful -- see his Natural Strategies book] http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-BioAsteri-Borage-Oil-1-300-mg-240-softgels (NI 006915, qty240, 1300mg: 300mg GLA) This is some advice from Dr. Blaylock (to be used along with the essential info in his cancer newsletters and book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients"), a world-renown neurosurgeon who gave up his conventional medical practice when he found that people were much healthier if they lived a natural lifestyle along with eating the right foods and taking specific supplements than they were with prescriptions, chemotherapy, radiation, mammograms, fluoride, and other aspects of the conventional medical establishment. There's more to it than just popping a couple of pills, including modifying your diet and lifestyle, but he and I think the rewards (and being able to live instead of die) are worth it. I've also attached a couple of pertinent newsletters by him. * All excitotoxin food additives (MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, vegetable protein extract or isolate, soy protein or soy protein extract, sodium or calcium caseinate, broth, stock, carrageenan, enzymes, etc) They are proven to increase the growth, invasion and spread of lung cancers. Check all labels -- the best way is to avoid all processed foods. Avoid all MSG; most hospital foods contain MSG in some form. * drink only organic white tea (three cups of highly concentrated (2 tea bags)-and distilled water and plenty of it _10- 12 oz glasses a day. [I take Green Tea extract(EGCG) from www.vrp.com 2/d (1 AM, 1 PM), but white tea would be better if available as it's lower in fluoride] * Avoid all sugar (especially high fructose corn syrup) and refined carbohydrates --they suppress immunity and promote cancer cell growth. Sugar is the main fuel for cancer cells. * Avoid all omega-6 oils (corn, canola, safflower, sunflower, peanut, vegetable, soybean oils). They suppress immunity and have been proven to promote tumor growth and spread. * use either organic cold pressed extra virgin olive oil and/or extra virgin coconut oil. (Check all processed foods --most use the bad oils, or contain genetically modified [GE / GMO] ingredients). All oils should be kept in the refrigerator to prevent oxidation. * Curcumin 500 mg, quercetin 500 mg, and Hesperidin (www.swansonvitamins.com); open capsules and mix well into 1TBS of Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil (if that is not enough oil to dissolve the curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin, add some more EV Olive Oil) using small bowl and spoon. Repeat for a total of three times a day. Together they powerfully inhibit cancer cell growth and prevent many of the complications of chemotherapy. In addition, studies have shown that they enhance the effectiveness of the chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Curcumin 95% (3x500mg/d mixed well in oil -- see Dr. Blaylock's email below) http://www.luckyvitamin.com/790011140764.html , 888-635-0474 Hesperidin (2x500mg/day mixed into Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil with curcumin & quercetin), Swanson [SW1097, Swanson Premium Hesperidin, 500mg 60Caps] Quercetin/Bromelain, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Quercetin-Bromelain (6/d in oil) * Ginger (or fresh organic grated Ginger), www.swansonvitamins.com NW486 (3/d) anti-inflammatory and also good for nausea/upset stomach [this is oil-soluble, so I open and mix the powder from these capsules in my Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil, although they can be taken with food or even water for nausea] * Pomegranate Extract Ellagitannins; www.iherb.com [SNS-02086, Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract, 500 mg standardized for ellagitannin content (not ellagic acid, which is very poorly absorbed) --500 mg three times a day. Also a very powerful cancer inhibitor. Examples of this are Red Raspberry or Pomegranate extract; Source Naturals is a reputable brand. (Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract: 4 tablets morning, 4 tablets lunch, 5 tablets supper or before bed (or same total number in divided dosages throughout day until cancer is gone -- then drop back down to 2 three times a day maintenance dose). Use either Organic Cold Pressed Extra Virgin olive oil and Organic Extra Virgin coconut oil. (Check all processed foods -- most use the bad oils). Avoid all omega-6 oils (corn, canola, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean oils). They suppress immunity and have been proven to promote tumor growth and spread. * Natural Full Spectrum Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) with high gamma-E. 1000 IU a day (Full Spectrum vitamin E from www.swansonvitamins.com is a good one). Protects oils, keeps DHA from Calamarine from oxidizing as soon as it hits the stomach, and fights cancer; Swanson SWU209, 400iu (1-2/d) * Alpha Lipoic Acid 100mg -- 2/d; www.swansonvitamins.com, SW1080 * Vitamin C 1000 mg of buffered C twice a day. (Now brand Magnesium Ascorbate, Swanson NOW-00756 -- not Ascorbic Acid, which acidifies your body). Mix into distilled water with organic Barley Grass (http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-4560-now-foods-barley-grass-powder-organic-non-ge-2-lbs [from Kansas: 53381, NOW Foods - Barley Grass Powder) for a green drink. * Bioflavonoids, Swanson SW128 (2/d), need to take along with vitamin C (take 70% as much as vitamin C); * Trans-Resveratrol, 1/d (the only brand to get is Longevinex brand) shown to inhibit cancer cell growth and to protect normal tissues from chemotherapy. Note: I use www.iherb.com [REA-97861, ReserveAge Organics Resveratrol Cellular Age-Defying Formula, qty60 Veggie Caps, 100 mg Trans-Resveratrol (different from plain "Resveratrol"] * A Good quality Multivitamin/mineral --I like Extend Core from Vitamin Research Inc, (www.vrp.com) [Note: I use Activite Sport, which is better because it has active forms of vitamins, including P5P, R5P, MTHF Folate, etc. that your body can use immediately, without your liver having to convert them. People who are sick cannot convert many vitamins to their active forms. http://www.vitacost.com/MHP-Activite-Sport [MHP 2200026, MHP Activite Sport, 120 Tablets. Serving: 4 tablets/day] * Grapeseed extract extract (100mg 3 times a day) strengthens intracellular "glue" so that cancer has a tough time dissolving it to spread. www.swansonvitamins.com [SWH098] * For Lung Cancer: Lutein 20 mg- take two twice a day; (80mg/d)(it also plays a major role in prevention of lung cancer). www.swansonvitamins.com [SWU277, 4x20mg/d -- Note: this high dosage is for Lung Cancer; for other cancers, 1/d of the Swanson multi-carotenoid should have enough lutein in it]. * DHA (1 capsule three times a day; 3/d) -- Calamarine oil from www.swansonvitmains.com [SWE062, Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamarine, $6.99 - 10%, 30 Sgels; Calamarine® EE Marine Oil 1.22grams; Total Omega-3 Fatty Acids (as ethyl esters) 675mg; DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) 500mg; EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) 125mg; Other Omega-3 Fatty Acids 50mg; Other ingredients: Gelatin, glycerin, purified (deionized) water, natural lemon flavor, proprietary antioxidant blend [natural tocopherols (from soy), rosemary extract, ascorbyl palmitate; molecularly-distilled to remove heavy metals and PCBs]; (Notice the great antioxidants to protect the oil! Take with full-spectrum vitamin E (sometime during the same day). Keep all oils in refrigerator after opening bottles]. Some supplements, including these, are oil soluble and will not be absorbed if swallowed with water: see Dr. Blaylock's book pp 14-15. (Note: Jon Barron, Dr. Blaylock and others have noted that people who are ill, overweight, middle-aged or elderly, or who eat a lot of omega-6 oils/fats tend to lack enough enzyme to convert the ALA in flaxseed oil to EPA/DHA, so I use purified DHA from Calamari (3/d) oil directly, as the unconverted ALA causes inflammation and increased, rather than decreased cancer). ["DHA has the more powerful anticancer effect and it is especially efficient in preventing cancer of the colon, prostate and breasts. Pure DHA is derived from algae, and an adult dose is 500 mg. a day. For children ages 2 to 12, the dose is 100 mg. a day. DHA inhibits cancer using a number of mechanisms -- principly inflammation reduction. Most of the others are beyond the scope of this newsletter. For more information on this and other cancer treatment topics, see my book, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients." -- Dr. Blaylock]. Note that it's not enough to simply increase the omega-3 oils to make the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio more healthful (most people's ratio is about 40:1; it should be 2:1 or 1:1) -- Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (You actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). * NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) 600mg is a glutathione precursor (main antioxidant) and also helps lungs; Swanson SW854 (900mg/d) 1.5/d; take one capsule with vitamins, then open a capsule and put 1/2 in your green drink at a different time during the day; 900-1000mg/d) * Apigenin 1/d - www.swansonvitamins.com , Swanson SWU375 (1/d) * The most powerful anticancer natural products include curcumin, quercetin, luteolin (artichoke extract), silymarin (milk thistle extract), ellagic acid (ellagitannins) and DHA (Calamarine oil from Swanson Vitamins). A low protein, high vegetable diet (especially specific raw organic blenderized vegetables) that is also low in sugar, simple carbohydrates, and omega-6 oils combines the many anticancer effects of natural substances. Iron should be avoided at all cost. * Vitamin D3 5000iu/d (get the kind that is mixed in CLA oil [http://vitamind3.blogspot.com/ less likely to go rancid], such as Country Life Brand, www.iherb.com [CLF-05808, Vitamin D3, 5,000 IU, 200 Softgels -- not the dry powder capsules). * Melatonin (seven 3mg/day at bedtime = 21mg/d fights cancer -- not primarily for sleep), Swanson (www.swansonvitamins.com) SW502 * Ginkgo Biloba, 3/d, Swanson SW893, 60mg, 24% (helps fight cancer) * Magnesium Citrate powder, Swanson NOW-01295 (5/8tsp 1 time a day in PM) [I use 500mg of malate in morning and 500mg of citrate in evening, mixed in my green drink with distilled water, barley grass, Berry Green, Miracle Reds, Magnesium Ascorbate, etc.] * Magnesium Malate 500mg/d, (1/4tsp 1 time a day in AM) http://www.vitacost.com/natures-life-magnesium-malate-12-7-oz [NLE 7007550, Nature's Life Magnesium Malate -- 12.7oz]; * Bilberry & Grape Skin extract, 100mg 3 times a day, (2-3/d) http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-European-Bilberry-Extract-with-Grape-Skin-Extract [NSI 3003464, European Bilberry Extract with Grape Skin Extract, 120 Capsules, $19.99, Bilberry Extract (standardized to 25% anthocyanidins) 80mg, Bilberry Extract (4:1) 120mg, Grape Skin Extract (standardized to 30% polyphenols) 225mg] Berry Complete, www.iherb.com [LEX-14066, Life Extension Enhanced Berry Complete with RZD Açaí, 60 Veggie Caps, $21.75*.84=$18.27]; * Optional: Zyflamend, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Zyflamend (anti-inflammatories are of great help for all types of diseases in which inflammation plays a key role, including arthritis, blood sugar problems, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc.) Take with food in the middle of meals (may cause a "warming" feeling on an empty stomach) for muscle/joint/bone aches and inflammation and to reduce cancer growth. [iherb NCR-04054, New Chapter Zyflamend, 120 hexane-Free Softgel Capsules NC-4054]; * Barley Grass (organic, non-GE),(2TBS/d in distilled water green drink) http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=392 [NOW-02662, $38.56*.84=$32.39, 2lbs]; http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-4560-now-foods-barley-grass-powder-organic-non-ge-2-lbs [from Kansas: 53381, NOW Foods - Barley Grass Powder--Organic, Non-GE - 2 lbs, $32.69]; * Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, http://www.nutritionexpress.com/lindberg/see+all/lindberg+greens+fruits+plus+organic+9.5+ounces.aspx [99-41, UPC: 092865099411, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, 9.5 Ounces, $23.99]; * Safe Deodorant, http://www.vitacost.com/HomeHealthDeodorantHerbalMagic-Unsctnd, $2.97, 2 oz (318858575091, HH 575091) * Optional: Swanson Ultra Carotenoid Complex (1/d), SWU260, 4mg, qty30Sgels (you'll get some of this if you're blenderizing a lot of organic greens, but if finances allow, you might want to also take 1/d of this) * Optional: Oil-soluble vitamin C (ascorbyl palmitate) (1/d, in addition to water-soluble buffered Magnesium Ascorbate form of vitamin C). * Clean air (HEPA air filters), clean water (Waterwise Distiller), clean environment (no harmful pesticides, bug sprays, moth balls, toxic cosmetics/shampoos/soaps/perfumes/air fresheners or household chemicals/cleaners). Because cancers are sensitive to oxygen (it kills cancer cells) deep breathing several times a day will increase blood oxygen and improve cancer cell killing. These are the major things known to improve the killing of cancer cells, especially lung cancer. Imagery/Visualization (abbreviated version -- full version is further down on this page): It's important that you do some imagery/ visualization to help yourself get better. It's a technique that strengthens the immune system. I taught Bernie Siegel about it in the early 1970's when my first wife had Hodgkin's disease. I didn't know as much about natural medicine back then, so I augmented radiation with imagery and the doctors at Yale, including Bernie, said that she recovered so quickly that they wanted to know all about the imagery (and said to keep on doing it). Shortly afterwards, Bernie quit surgery and went into teaching about imagery full-time. My method of imagery/visualization is quite simple. You can picture opposing armies, with your army winning, or cotton-ball shaped white cells swallowing up and killing black dots representing germs or cancer cells. While you're doing this, tighten up your solar plexus muscles and hold them for a few seconds until you visualize the cancer (germs, if you're using visualization to fight an infection) being dead and your white cells (or army) victorious. Next, I visualize a peaceful, relaxing scene -- it can be any you want. Mine is lying beside a babbling brook in the grass, under a blue sky with puffy clouds with birds singing and being totally healthy and happy. The key is to go away from the visualization really believing that you've beaten it. I had a friend who had Lymphoma do this for a few minutes twice a day. (She beat it). You can modify this, for example picture Pac-men or opposing armies, or etc. The important part is to each time visualize winning and leave it feeling at peace and healthy. Many people find that it helps to listen to some healing/meditation music (such as Reiki or Merlin's Magic, available on Amazon) while you're doing imagery and visualization; it relaxes them and contributes to their healing experience. Besides just the obvious physical aspects of illness, the state of your mind, emotions and spirit are also very important in health and to overcome disease. Your mind can help heal you or help kill you. This is the principle of voodoo: people who are cursed and believe in its power to kill them give up the will to live, stop eating, their white blood cell count plummets, and they die. People who don't believe in it don't die (some witch doctors have resorted to killing them in the traditional way in order to avoid losing faith amongst the "believers". Also, many of us know of a person who has died from some cause or another and soon afterwards the spouse dies because they simply have given up the will to live, making it easy for a heart attack, cancer or some other opportunistic disease to develop and kill them. Use your mind to enhance your recovery from disease, rather than deter from it by using imagery or visualization. Your belief system can also trap you into passively accepting treatments that have very low percentages of success (such as going with the flow, or with whatever the insurance company will pay for), rather than allowing you to make an objective study of treatments with a better chance of success. Your mind can help heal or help kill you. It can also cause you to deny that you should stop smoking, drinking, taking drugs, eating bad foods, staying out late, getting little sleep and not taking care of yourself, etc. The body needs some iron for the immune system to be healthy, but too much iron (especially from red meat and iron supplements) increases cancers and heart disease. Heterocyclic Amines formed from grilling and panfrying at high temperatures, as well as barbecuing and grilling (but not Broiling) cause liver and other cancers. Deep-frying (unhealthy anyhow because of the omega-6 oils used), baking and roasting produce some HCA's, but less. Oxycontin, Tylenol and other pain killers and alcohol hurt the liver further. Avoid carageenan, white starches, "whole wheat" flour and breads, artificial sweeteners, sugar, food colorings, MSG, flouridated or chlorinated water, omega-6 oils (vegetable, safflower, sunflower, corn, soy, canola, peanut, etc.) Morton Lite potassium salt -- any grocery store (instead of regular salt) Anti-inflammatories reduce cancer and relieve pain (instead of using steroids, which further suppress your immune system), are of great help for all types of diseases in which inflammation plays a key role, including arthritis, blood sugar problems, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc. Some anti-inflammatories: lots of ginger, hot pepper (NOT black pepper, which is toxic), garlic, onion; liberal use of hot pepper and ginger not only kills cancer cells but also reduces inflammation, a factor in cancer, and is especially helpful in lung and other cancers. Fresh parsley helps the kidneys detoxify your body. I also add fresh celery in blended juice to aid in detoxification. Also important is pure, distilled water (you can add a pinch of magnesium citrate to it, if you like). Statin and many other cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as Mevacor and Lipitor, elevate liver enzymes -- they did so in me to the point that they said I had beginning liver cancer. (That's why I flushed them down the toilet and did other things to bring my cholesterol under control! See my Cholesterol page for more info.) A note about buying supplements: if you buy "standardized" supplements (e.g., standardized for 24% silymarin, or etc.), you'll get more consistent results than if you simply buy whole herbs that aren't standardized (these are "pot-luck" -- some have enough or too much of the active ingredients in them, and others have very little or none). Also, this is why you want to buy reliable brands. You might consider using Froogle to shop so that you can compare prices quickly: http://froogle.google.com (Remember to take shipping into consideration, as some vendors charge more for shipping than for the product). The only kinds of fish that have appreciable omega-3 oil content are sardines, salmon, herring, tuna and mackerel (in decreasing order); these need to be packed in water (or olive oil) to get any benefit from them, not an omega-6 oil like soybean/cottonseed/corn/safflower/sunflower/etc. Other kinds of fish, such as cod, trout, etc. have only about 1/10th to 1/20th as much. See also: http://www.distance-healer.com/3.html Sources for Above Supplements: Because cancers are sensitive to oxygen (it kills cancer cells) deep breathing several times a day will increase blood oxygen and improve cancer cell killing. These are the major things known to improve the killing of cancer cells, especially lung cancer. Cancer-Fueling Nutrients Oil-Soluble Nutrients Drink Your Vegetables! Vegetables to Include in Your Vita Mix (See my Cancer&RawFoods page for more information: http://www.distance-healer.com/19.html) Fruits to Add to Your Vita Mix My Main Cancer Protocol for all Cancers Supplements I would take (Don't forget Metabolic Typing, Imagery, Pure Air & Water, Lifestyle and Spiritual Aspects, Household & Cosmetic Toxins): I have put together a starter protocol of supplements to go along with the diet that you need to determine using the Metabolic Typing test, imagery, prayer, pure water and air (lifestyle changes). You will save a lot of money by ordering them online. These are ones I use myself, and for my family, that I think are good quality standardized extracts, are in the proper forms, and don't have many harmful excipients and binders in them, as well as dissolve quickly or are in capsule form. (See pp11-16 of Dr. Blaylock's book re most vitamins are of harmful quality). You'll need to look through Dr. Blaylock's book (and PDF newsletters, if you subscribe to them through Newsmax) for cancer and breast cancer supplements, as well as some that prevent angiogenesis and metastasis, and boost the immune system and add them to the basic protocol. (See http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/ and www.NewsMax.com/BlaylockReports and his books http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/iWeb/Russell%20Blaylock%20M.D./Books.html) Dr. Blaylock's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210/) These are some of the most important things that I would be taking (sometimes I open the capsules into my green drink, or take pills with my vegetable juice if it would otherwise take too much water to swallow them: Your liver needs a lot of support with all of the toxins that it's trying to get rid of. Also, pomegranate extract, arabinogalactan and enzymes between meals fight cancer, grapeseed extract and MCP help keep it from spreading. In Dr. Blaylock's newsletters, some of the things that he mentions for breast cancer are the following (see his book and add any that you feel are important to this list): Maitake D- or DM fractions, 40-100mg/d extract, immune booster www.iherb.com [FDS-37136, FoodScience, Maitake D-Fraction, 60 Veggie Caps, $20.16; 25mg Maitake PD-Fraction (Grifola frondosa) Extract yielding 7.5mg D-Fraction/capsule; $.0448/g]; iherb [GME-10722, Grifron Maitake, Grifron-Pro, Maitake D Fraction Tablet 4X, Ultimate Immune Enhancer, 30mg, 120 Veggie Tabs, $76.76; Beta Glucan 80% purity; www.iherb.com [JRW-03023, qty60, $21.97*.86=$18.89 (1.83/g), 250mg, at least 80%, Jarrow Formulas Beta Glucan is made from WGP 3-6, a special ß1,3 / ß1,6 glucan extract of the Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cell walls. This product activates immune function by stimulation of NK cells, granulocytes, monocytes, and macrophages. Swanson KY048, Kyolic #100 Yeast-Free Garlic, qty300, 300mg, $16.99 ** Glyconutrients - modulate immune system (helps it to recognize friend or foe): this is a mixture of Gum Ghatti (if available) + Arabinogalactan + Aloe Vera that you put in your green drink with barley grass, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, Miracle Reds, Magnesium Citrate powder, etc. and distilled water; the other glyconutrients that work together with this are in capsule form and are mentioned below. Glyconutrients - Gum Ghatti [1-2tsp/d; less when cancer no longer active or gone] + high quality Arabinogalactan powder [3-5tsp/d; less when cancer no longer active or gone -- helps against liver metastasis and boosts immune system] + long-chain 200:1 Aloe Vera Powder [1-3tsp/d; less when cancer no longer active or gone] in bulk at a discount from mbullers@optonline.net, CSR Health & Nutrition, LLC -- email him for prices) These are some of the things I mix in my green drinks. Arabinogalactan is especially important when you want to prevent liver metastasis or treat tumors already in liver. Dramatically inhibits even more aggressive cancers from metastasizing; works better with above immune boosters (fucoidan, aloe, Thymulus, ProBoost, astragalus, echinacea, goldenseal, etc. The above "sugars that heal", including aloe, fucoidan, echinacea, goldenseal, etc. (technically, "polysaccharides", are different from harmful sugars that feed cancer; they're used by the body to recognize "friend" or "foe". Info at: http://www.nutrientsforhealth.com/ and http://www.glycoinformation.com/sugars.html ) Since these immune stimulants all work by different mechanisms, it's important to use several specific ones. You can make your own, if you'd like: http://www.burnoutsolutions.com.au/glyconutrients.htm) Note: Aloe is better absorbed when taken with a fatty meal and/or lecithin granules. Note for men battling prostate cancer: I would avoid taking any Chondritin Sulfate (for arthritis), since this can stimulate prostate cancer (since the prostate contains receptors for chondroitin). Arabinogalactan, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=16813 (3-5tsp/d; less when cancer no longer active or gone) http://www.vitacost.com/FoodScience-Arabinogalactan-Powder [$17.16, 100g, 20 servings of 1 scoop] (or you can get this from Mike Bullers above); (One of the Glycos that works together with the other glyconutrients). Fucoidan, iHerb DRB-00165, (2/d), immune booster; (One of the Glycos that works together with the other glyconutrients) Astragalus, iHerb Paradise Herbs, PAR-77727 (2/d), immune booster (works with above); (One of the Glycos that works together with the other glyconutrients) Fennugreek capsules or powder, http://www.vitacost.com/Planetary-Herbals-Full-Spectrum-Fenugreek [PLF 8105282, Planetary Herbals Full Spectrum Fenugreek -- 600mg - 120 Tablets, $6.38; Fenugreek Seed Extract (4:1) 400mg; Fenugreek Seed 200mg]; iherb [PTF-10528, Planetary Herbals, Fenugreek, Full Spectrum, 600 mg, 120 Tablets, $7.75*.84=$6.51]; One of the glyconutrients, immune booster & helps lungs; (One of the Glycos that works together with the other glyconutrients). long-chain 200:1 Aloe Vera Powder (1-2tsp/d); Dr. David Wheeler's MPS Gold: http://www.0disease.com/0dietary_molecularchart.html; http://www.0disease.com/0order.html; http://www.0disease.com/mpsgoldbasics.htm; Retail pricelist: http://www.0disease.com/pricelist.htm; http://www.0disease.com/0sweethealth.html; Dr. David Wheeler and his staff: by email at wheeleroffice@aol.com or by telephone toll free in the USA at 800-760-3530 or 888-342-6772 and international at 503-771-6943 9am to 5pm PST; (One of the Glycos that works together with the other glyconutrients) optional: Aloe Vera capsules (long chain), http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Aloe-Vera-200 (2/d) Thymulus, 1/d, http://www.vitacost.com/Enzymatic-Therapy-Immune-Strong-Wellness-Booster-Formerly-Thymulus [ET 040063]; Optional immune booster: Epicor, 500mg/d, http://www.vrp.com/ProductPage.aspx?ProdID=1491 [CP1491, EpiCor® 500 mg 90 capsules, 100% pure EpiCor® sold here — no fillers or flow agents used] Read about it at Epicor Manufacturer's Site http://www.embriahealth.com/ Optional Thymus and immune booster: ProBoost Thymic Protein A, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=7468 (1 packet daily initially, 1 every 2-3 days later due to expense – unless you can afford to take it daily with cancer)(helps Thymus gland cells identify cancer cells for NK cells to attack) optional: Echinacea, www.swansonvitamins.com SWH019 (2/d), immune booster (cycle: 3 wks on, 1 wk off) [Works with Goldenseal] optional: Goldenseal, Swanson NW147 (2/d), immune booster (cycle: 3 wks on, 1 wk off) [works with Echinacea] NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine), is a glutathione precursor (main antioxidant), and also helps lungs; Swanson SW854 (900mg/d) 1/2 capsule in green drink + 1 capsule with vitamins Sublingual Glutathione (one of the most important antioxidants in the body -- must be sublingual in order to be absorbed, and combined with NAC), iHerb SNS-01305 (1AM + 1PM; 2/d under tongue) B-12 (sublingual), iherb [SOL-01959, Solgar Methylcobalamin, 5000 mcg], 1/d under tongue Active Folate, https://secure.vrp.com/ProductPage.aspx?ProdID=1142 [1142, Active Folate (from calcium L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate) MTHF, 800mcg, 120 capsules, $10.97] 1/d Vitamin D3 as Cholecalciferol, iherb [CLF-05808, Country Life, Vitamin D3, 5,000 IU/d, 200 Softgels, $10.20*.84=$8.57, in MCT oil -- http://vitamind3.blogspot.com/ less likely to go rancid]; GLA (Gamma Linolenic Acid) - Borage Oil [Dr. Blaylock advises 1000mg GLA/d] http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-BioAsteri-Borage-Oil-1-300-mg-240-softgels (NI 006915, $27.99, qty240, 1300mg: 300mg GLA) Vitamin K2 as MK7, 1/d http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Vitamin-K-Complex-Vitamin-K2-as-Menaquinone-7-MK7-400-mcg-180-Softgels [NSI 3007325] (K2 inhibits cancer cell growth and promotes cancer-cell suicide, puts calcium back in bones and teeth instead of soft tissues and arteries: http://wrightnewsletter.com/2010/04/15/vitamin-k/) Vitamin K2 as Menatetrenone/MK2, http://www.vrp.com/ProductPage.aspx?ProdID=1092 [#1092,Ultra K2 90 capsules (15mg) 1/d or iherb [CAR-01001, Carlson Labs 5 mg 3/d] L-Taurine 1000mg Jarrow (helps prevent gallstones by improving bile solubility). (www.swansonvitamins.com) Swanson L-Taurine, SW827, qty100, 500mg, $3.14 TMG (also known as Trimethylglycine, or Betaine) for liver & heart Protection, works with Protease (an enzyme) & Bile - Swanson TMG [SWU466, 500mg, 90 Caps, $4.49] (1000mg/d), http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-5242-now-foods-tmg-trimethylglycine [54104, NOW Foods TMG (Trimethylglycine) 1,000mg] non-GMO Lecithin (2TBS/d with Milk Thistle, Aloe, other oil-soluble supplements to assist in their being absorbed by the body), http://www.vitaglo.com/2262.html 866-401-5402 [Now Vitamins brand Lecithin Granules- non gmo 2 lbs] Dandelion Root extract (3/d – careful if blocked gallbladder or gallstones) for liver support and detoxification, Swanson SW515 Livotrit Liver Protection by Biotics Research Canada for liver support and detoxification, (3/d), http://store.yahoo.com/spinelife/livotritplus.html http://store.yahoo.com/spinelife/livotritplus.html, http://store.yahoo.com/spinelife/biotics-research.html qty180 Livotrit Tablets $23.50; (spineliferewards101 for 10% discount; $8.95 Shipping if <$100) Milk thistle full-spectrum extract, 3/d (I use a whole herb extract, not just Silymarin), www.swansonvitamins.com, SWH051, 250mg 80% + 250mg Milk Thistle Powder, supports liver, aids in detoxification, helps fight cancer. Note that milk thistle is oil-soluble, and is best taken with fatty food, oil and/or lecithin. Liver CS, http://thymic.com/liverplus.php, 800-556-5530 / 770-972-2129, Jill (je@thymic.com) Preventative Therapeutics, Inc. Artichoke extract (Luteolin) (500mg twice a day – careful if blocked gallbladder or gallstones) for liver support and detoxification, iherb JRW-14062. This stimulates gall bladder to secrete bile which helps digestion and gets rid of liver toxins, so be careful if you have gallstones or it could rupture gallbladder. [iherb JRW-14062, 500mg, qty180, $17.37*.86=$14.94 (Note: You have to log into iHerb to see 14% discount; otherwise only 8%. Jarrow $14.97 at Vitacost, $14.45 at LuckyVitamin) (Make sure to set shipping or defaults to $12!]; http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-20280-jarrow-formulas-artichoke-500-mg [63718, $16.02]; Doctor's Best Digestive Enzymes http://www.vitacost.com/Doctors-Best-Best-Digestive-Enzymes-All-Vegetarian [DOC 0000476, Doctor's Best Best Digestive Enzymes All Vegetarian -- 90 Vegetarian Capsules, $19.50]; iherb, DRB-00047, Doctor's Best Digestive Enzymes, 90caps, $23.58*.86= $20.28 Zinc Citrate, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=8939 (one 25mg capsule every other day, along with the zinc and copper that is in Activite Sport) (if needed) Bile, http://www.spinelifestore.com/cholacol.html (Item# 2425 Spinelife.com, qty90, $12.60; spineliferewards101 for 10% discount, also Free S&H if >$100), http://www.vitacost.com/NutriCologyOxBile (if clay-colored, light brown stools from fatty meals, take 1 with fatty meals) Coconut Oil, extra virgin (1-2 TBS per day), iherb [JRW-16033, Jarrow Formulas Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, 16 oz (454 g), $7.80*.86=$6.71/ 16oz; Swanson [Coconut oil, JR014, Jarrow, 16oz (32- 1TBS servings), organic expeller pressed, $6.94]; http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-17548-jarrow-formulas-extra-virgin-organic-coconut-oil-16-oz [66706, $7.14]; http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Extra-Virgin-Organic-Coconut-Oil/ntt-NSI%207011568 MHP Activite Sport – very good quality Multivitamin/mineral with active forms of vitamins (people who are sick cannot convert many vitamins to their active forms) http://www.bulknutrition.com/?products_id=2330 [Activite Sport 120 Tablets $18.84]; http://www.vitacost.com/MHP-Activite-Sport [MHP 2200026, MHP Activite Sport -- 120 Tablets, $20.80]; http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-3512-mhp-activite-multi-vitamin-120-tablets [52230, MHP - Activite Multi-Vitamin - 120 Tablets, $21.98; serving: 4 tablets; 30 servings / bottle]; Magnesium Citrate powder, Swanson NOW-01295 (5/8tsp 1 time a day in PM) [I use 500mg of malate in morning and 500mg of citrate in evening, mixed in my green drink with distilled water, barley grass, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, Miracle Reds, Magnesium Ascorbate, etc.] [w/Activite: 0 AM, 5/8tsp PM (MgCitrate 393.75 + MgMalate 400 + Activite 100 + 225 Mg Ascorbate = 1118.75mg total)] Magnesium Malate 500mg/d, (1/4tsp 1 time a day in AM) http://www.vitacost.com/natures-life-magnesium-malate-12-7-oz [NLE 7007550, Nature's Life Magnesium Malate -- 12.7oz, $13.81]; [w/Activite Sport: .25tsp rounded tsp (2g) AM, 0 PM (MgCitrate 393.75 + MgMalate 300 + Activite 100 + 225 Mg Ascorbate = 1018.75mg/d total)] Magnesium Ascorbate Vitamin C powder as Magnesium Ascorbate (not Ascorbic Acid), 2610mg/d in divided dosages, Swanson NOW-00756 (3/8tsp AM, 3/8tsp PM; [1305 + 1305 + Activite Sport 300mg = vit C total of 2910mg/d, 225mg Mg;) Bioflavonoids, Swanson SW128 (3/d), need to take along with vitamin C Ginkgo Biloba, Swanson SW893 (3/d) Stabilized R-Lipoic Acid, 300mg/d, http://www.nutritiongeeks.com/r-lipoic-acid-genceutic-60/r-lipoic-acid-genceutic.html [2554, Genceutic Naturals R Lipoic Acid 300mg Na-RALA] Bilberry & Grape Skin extract, 100mg 3 times a day, iHerb JRW-14028 (2-3/d) Grapeseed extract extract (100mg 3 times a day) strengthens intracellular "glue" so that cancer has a tough time dissolving it to spread. www.swansonvitamins.com [SWH098] Fish Oil: www.SwansonVitamins.com [SWE062, Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamari, $6.99 - 10%, 30 Sgels; Calamarine® EE Marine Oil 1.22grams; Total Omega-3 Fatty Acids (as ethyl esters) 675mg; DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) 500mg; EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) 125mg; Other Omega-3 Fatty Acids 50mg; Other ingredients: Gelatin, glycerin, purified (deionized) water, natural lemon flavor, proprietary antioxidant blend [natural tocopherols (from soy), rosemary extract, ascorbyl palmitate; molecularly-distilled to remove heavy metals and PCBs]; taken with full-spectrum vitamin E; and with curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin powders mixed in : 500mg each time (i.e., 1500mg/d) of 95% Curcumin, 500mg of quercetin and 1 capsule (open it) of hesperidin dissolved in 2tsp (2TBS/d) Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil 3 times a day. Also, chew 1TBS non-GMO lecithin granules twice a day when you take the DHA oil, and take 1/d full-spectrum vitamin E. Open the capsules of curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin and mix well into 2 TBS / day Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil (if that is not enough oil to dissolve the curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin, add some more EV Olive Oil) using small bowl and spoon. [Some supplements, including these, are oil soluble and will not be absorbed if swallowed with water: see Dr. Blaylock's book pp 14-15]. See below for sources and amounts of above. (Note: Jon Barron, Dr. Blaylock and others have noted that people who are ill, overweight, middle-aged or elderly, or who eat a lot of omega-6 oils/fats tend to lack enough enzyme to convert the ALA in flaxseed oil to EPA/DHA, so I use purified DHA from Calamari (3/d) oil directly, as the unconverted ALA causes inflammation and increased, rather than decreased cancer). ["DHA has the more powerful anticancer effect and it is especially efficient in preventing cancer of the colon, prostate and breasts. Pure DHA is derived from algae, and an adult dose is 500 mg. a day. For children ages 2 to 12, the dose is 100 mg. a day. DHA inhibits cancer using a number of mechanisms — principly inflammation reduction. Most of the others are beyond the scope of this newsletter. For more information on this and other cancer treatment topics, see my book, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients." -- Dr. Blaylock]. Note that it's not enough to simply increase the omega-3 oils to make the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio more healthful (most people's ratio is about 40:1; it should be 2:1 or 1:1) -- Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). Curcumin 95% (3x500mg/d mixed well in oil -- see Dr. Blaylock's email below) plus http://www.luckyvitamin.com/790011140764.html , 888-635-0474 Hesperidin (2x500mg/day mixed into Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil with curcumin & quercetin), Swanson [SW1097, Swanson Premium Hesperidin, 500mg 60Caps, $5.49; Quercetin/Bromelain, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Quercetin-Bromelain (6/d in oil) Ginger, www.swansonvitamins.com NW486 (3/d) anti-inflammatory and also good for nausea/upset stomach [this is oil-soluble, so I open and mix the powder from these capsules in my Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil, although they can be taken with food or even water for nausea] Vitamin E (800 iu/d full spectrum oil soluble) keeps fish oil and DHA from Calamari from oxidizing as soon as it hits the stomach, and fights cancer; Swanson SWU209 (1-2/d) Pomegranate Extract Ellagitannins; www.iherb.com [SNS-02086, Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract, 500 mg standardized for ellagitannin content (not ellagic acid, which is very poorly absorbed) --500 mg three times a day. Also a very powerful cancer inhibitor. Examples of this are Red Raspberry or Pomegranate extract; Source Naturals is a reputable brand. (Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract: 4 tablets morning, 4 tablets lunch, 5 tablets supper or before bed (or same total number in divided dosages throughout day until cancer is gone -- then drop back down to 2 three times a day maintenance dose). iFlora Probiotics, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=13122 (Take 2 capsules daily on an empty stomach with water -- to get it out of stomach acid quickly; this kind has specific strains of bacteria that help your immune system fight cancer and other illnesses) Pancreatin enzyme, 36/day [2hrs after or 1 hr before food, morning, evening, between and with meals. I took 12 in AM + 12 in PM + 4 ea meal = 36/day], www.iherb.com [NOW-02946 (Now brand 4x pancreatic enzymes); Note that enzymes are a very important part of this protocol; some are taken with meals to help digest them, while others are taken between meals and at bedtime to help digest the fibrin coating with which cancer cells hide from the immune system.] Papaya enzyme with Bromelain [I took 2-3 each time with Pancreatin except no Papaya before bed because it upset my stomach lying down right afterwards]; iherb NOW-02972, (qty360 Chewable Lozenges, (Don't take enzymes at same time as Arabinogalactan, Immune Assist, Mushrooms, Echinacea, Goldenseal, Aloe or other immune boosters); Serrapeptase enzyme, Doctor's Best, 4/d, http://www.vitacost.com/DoctorsBestBestSerrapeptase, (40,000 units enterically-coated); Green Tea extract(EGCG) 2/d, http://www.cpmedical.net/productpage.aspx?ProdID=CP6351 [CP6351, 250mg, 120capsules available retain from www.vrp.com]; Swanson [SWH198, Teavigo, $7.99/30, 150mg; $1.76/g]; http://www.vitacost.com/Healthy-Origins-Teavigo [HEO 3413620, Healthy Origins Teavigo® -- 60 Capsules, $17.74; TEAVIGO™ Green Tea Extract (Camellia Sinensis)(150mg 90% EGCG=135mg); $2.19/g]; http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Teavigo-trade-Green-Tea-Extract-Caffeine-Free-160-mg-120-Capsules [NSI 3009718, NSI Teavigo™ Green Tea Extract Caffeine Free -- 160 mg - 120 Capsules, $28.99; TEAVIGO™ Green Tea Extract (standardized to 94% EGCG)(leaves) 160 mg Providing Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) 150 mg; $1.61/g]; Trans-Resveratrol, iherb [REA-97861, ReserveAge Organics Resveratrol Cellular Age-Defying Formula, qty60 Veggie Caps, 100 mg Trans-Resveratrol (different from plain "Resveratrol"), $19.99, SeMSc (a special form of selenium) 400-1000mcg/d with sufficient iodide (Lugol’s), Swanson SWU171 (note: other forms are toxic in these dosages. L-Se-methylselenocysteine, the same form of selenium found in garlic, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, SeMSC is a natural, high-bioavailability selenium/amino acid complex with unique protective benefits); works synergistically with Lugol's Iodine and 3 raw organic Brazil nuts each day. Lugol’s iodide solution (NOT tincture of iodine – it is poisonous if taken internally), Swanson LGS001, 3 drops/d in water [Swanson LGS001, J. Crow's Lugol's Solution 2%, 2 fl oz, $10.99; Two drops of Lugol's solution contain 5 milligrams of iodine and 7.5 milli-grams of iodide. J.Crow's Lugol's Solution 2% solution delivers 94% distilled water, 4% potassium iodide, and 2% iodine.] Blenderized vegetables (Vitamix) 3-4 servings a day (specific organic vegetables) (or 10 servings of vegetables a day if not blenderized) Extra Virgin olive oil (if you have trouble digesting fats, you may need to take bile tablets with oil-containing meals [Cholacol from www.spinelife.com] and enzymes [lipase in Now Pancreatin with fats, Now Pancreatin and Now Papaya enzymes with protein meals from LuckyVitamin or iHerb]) Zyflamend, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Zyflamend (anti-inflammatories are of great help for all types of diseases in which inflammation plays a key role, including arthritis, blood sugar problems, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc.) Take with food in the middle of meals (may cause a "warming" feeling on an empty stomach) for muscle/joint/bone aches and inflammation and to reduce cancer growth. [iherb NCR-04054, New Chapter Zyflamend, 120 hexane-Free Softgel Capsules NC-4054]; Boswellia, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Boswellia-Extract (anti-inflammatory that works with above. Note that this is oil-soluble, and should be mixed with your curcumin + hesperidin + quercetin in your Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil); Swanson Superior Herbs Boswellia Serrata, SWH010, 200mg, 120caps, $7.99 Barley Grass (organic, non-GE),(2TBS/d in distilled water green drink) http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=392 [NOW-02662, $38.56*.84=$32.39, 2lbs]; http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-4560-now-foods-barley-grass-powder-organic-non-ge-2-lbs [from Kansas: 53381, NOW Foods - Barley Grass Powder--Organic, Non-GE - 2 lbs, $32.69]; Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, http://www.nutritionexpress.com/lindberg/see+all/lindberg+greens+fruits+plus+organic+9.5+ounces.aspx [99-41, UPC: 092865099411, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus Organic, 9.5 Ounces, $23.99]; Miracle Reds [iherb MGI-00108, Miracle Reds Antioxidant Superfood Supplement, 30 oz (850 g) $64.77*.84 = $54.41 iherb [ARG-55650, Allergy Research Group/Nutricology King Chlorella, 600 Chewable Tablets, $20.54*.86=17.66, 4/$80.11, 12/$234.16]; http://www.vitacost.com/NutriCology-KingChlorella [NUC 7556508, NutriCology KingChlorella -- 600 Tablets, $19.69] [Dr. Rowen recommends and uses this per email The one chlorella product I trust more than any other 7-8-2009] Swanson Premium Brand Coriander Cilantro, SW1112, 425mg, qty60caps, $3.99; works with chlorella to help rid your body of toxins. Chlorella and Cilantro help you detox; chlorella takes the toxins outside the cells and then the cilantro picks them up and locks them so that your body can remove them -- it's a 2-part process. Broccoli or Broccoli Sprout extract, SWR035 (1-2/d all cancers; 2/d if colon or hormonal cancers, including breast, prostate, ovarian, uterine, etc.) Sulforaphane, Swanson SWR048 (1-2/d all cancers; 2/d if colon or hormonal cancers) Ginkgo Biloba, 3/d, Swanson SW893 (helps fight cancer) Ultra Carotenoid Complex, Swanson SWU260 (1/d) Apigenin, Swanson SWU375 (1/d) DIM, 2/d, http://catalog.designsforhealth.com/s.nl?sc=2&category=&search=DIM-Avail [DIM-Avail Softgels by DFH, qty60, Diindolylmethane (DIM) 100 mg, Other Ingredients: Rice bran oil, gelatin, lecithin, glycerin, beeswax, mixed tocopherols (vitamin E), d.salina, turmeric and annatto (as colorants). Due to its crystalline structure, absorption of DIM when given orally simply as a powder in a capsule is minimal, similar to CoQ10. DIM absorption can be greatly enhanced by emulsifying it with lecithin in rice bran oil, including with it compounds that hold it in solution such as beeswax, and finally adding fat-soluble nutrients that aid absorption through the gut wall. DIM-Avail is a unique combination of such ingredients. 800-FOR-HEALTH (800-367-4325)] Calcium d-Glucarate, 2/d, Swanson SWU123 Progesterone Cream, http://www.drkowalski.com/prcrpu3ozore.html (to balance estrogen: for men with prostate cancer or enlarged prostate use ¼” ribbon of cream/day; for women, follow directions on bottle. Some types of breast cancer are progesterone – rather than estrogen – sensitive: in that case, don’t use progesterone. Otherwise, progesterone helps balance the cancer-causing form of estrogen, estradiol.) Melatonin (seven 3mg/day at bedtime = 21mg/d fights cancer -- not primarily for sleep), Swanson (www.swansonvitamins.com) SW502 Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans, Arabinogalactan, Pectasol-C, and Lactoferrin (6 capsules/d on empty stomach) that STRONGLY reduce metastasis (cancer spread). PectaSol-C (a more effective form of MCP or Modified Citrus Pectins) is marketed in this country by EcoNugenics. You can contact them at www.econugenics.com/MCP, or call them at 800-521-0160 (http://www.econugenics.com/offer/page/mcp). Lactoferrin is available from www.swansonvitamins.com [SWU309] Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans, A.R.A.I., 817-320-8172; www.aidshivawareness.org/flaxhull.htm One 5.3oz cannister containing 32 servings costs $36 + shipping; [ACM Progressive Labs: Progressive Labs Flax Hull Lignans, Prod# 946, Pt Price: $36, 800-527-9512, www.progressivelabs.com] [FHL Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans, Ph (817)710-6918 or 817-886-8108; www.flaxlignanhealth.com. One tub of FHL Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans (a one-month supply) costs US$36.00, but HSI members can get one free tub when they buy two by using code HSI]. CoQ10 as Ubiquinol (100mg/d or 800mg/d regular CoQ10 Ubiquinone) for energy, cancer, and heart repair/protection (chemo damages heart also), http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Ubiquinol-CoQH-Featuring-Kaneka-QH-trade [NSI 7010554] BCAA [Branched-Chain Amino Acids (valine, leucine and isoleucine) per Blaylock Jan10p7 for wasting diseases, builds/helps to regain strength]; Vitacost [NSI 3003655, NSI BCAAs (Branche+N497:N500, Servings per Container: 60. L-Leucine 2500mg; L-Isoleucine 1250mg; L-Valine 1250mg]; iherb [NOW-00213, Now Foods, Branched Chain Amino Acid Powder, 12 oz (340 g), $22.93*.84=$19.26; $.05665/g; $1.61/oz;]; safe Deodorant, http://www.vitacost.com/HomeHealthDeodorantHerbalMagic-Unsctnd, $2.97, 2 oz (318858575091, HH 575091) Optional: IACC Immune Assist Critical Care Chinese medical mushroom extract (immune booster); www.alohamedicinals.com, 877-835-6091 or 775-886-6300 Optional: Inositol phosphate-6 (IP6) — This product was developed by a cancer researcher at the University of Maryland. It works by stimulating cellular immunity but also by binding iron. Iron is essential to cancer growth. Be careful taking this product, as you do not want to make iron levels too low. Careful monitoring is essential. For Lung Cancer: Lutein, (80mg/d), Swanson SWU277, 4x20mg/d -- Note: this high dosage is for Lung Cancer; for other cancers, 1/d of the Swanson multi-carotenoid should have enough lutein in it. Optional: Panax Ginseng, 1/d, iherb PAR-77712, Panax Red Ginseng made by Paradise Herbs]. Studies suggests that regular intake of ginseng may reduce one's chances of getting various types of cancer, especially lung, liver, stomach, pancreatic and ovarian. A laboratory study found that American ginseng may also enhance the effects of medications used to treat breast cancer, potentially allowing the doctor to use less chemotherapy. Optional: American Ginseng, 1/d, Swanson SWH003, qty120, 300mg10% + 200mg, $10.49 For Prostate Cancer: Lycopene, (20mg/d); 1/d of the Swanson multi-carotenoid contains 20mg of lycopene along with a full spectrum of other vitamin A components. For prostate cancer (Optional): HP8, http://www.hp8.org/, http://www.vitacost.com/American-BioSciences-HP8-Herbal-Prostate-Formula (these two supplements could be used together, as they have different ingredients); you could take saw palmetto, stinging nettle root and pygeum bark extracts along with pollen (Pollenaid 90caps/bottle, by Graminex in Saginaw, Michigan (http://www.graminex.com) 877-472-6469) along with Equiguard (and the other cancer supplements on this page) instead of HP8, but the specific amounts and herbs in HP8 have been tested against prostate cancer cell lines For prostate cancer (Optional): Equiguard, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15547720, http://www.heilpflanzen-welt.de/science/2002/11894110.htm, http://www.equiguardonline.com/index.html, http://www.seacoastvitamins.com/product_info.php?products_id=96, http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/cm/cm4.html The body needs some iron for the immune system to be healthy, but too much iron (especially from red meat and iron supplements) increases cancers and heart disease. Heterocyclic Amines formed from grilling and panfrying at high temperatures, as well as barbecuing and grilling (but not Broiling) cause liver and other cancers. Deep-frying (unhealthy anyhow because of the omega-6 oils used), baking and roasting produce some HCA's, but less. Oxycontin, Tylenol and other pain killers and alcohol hurt the liver further. Avoid carageenan, white starches, "whole wheat" flour and breads, artificial sweeteners, sugar, food colorings, MSG, flouridated or chlorinated water, omega-6 oils (vegetable, safflower, sunflower, corn, soy, canola, peanut, etc.) Morton Lite potassium salt -- any grocery store (instead of regular salt) Anti-inflammatories reduce cancer and relieve pain (instead of using steroids, which further suppress your immune system), are of great help for all types of diseases in which inflammation plays a key role, including arthritis, blood sugar problems, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc. Some anti-inflammatories: lots of ginger, hot pepper (NOT black pepper, which is toxic), garlic, onion; liberal use of hot pepper and ginger not only kills cancer cells but also reduces inflammation, a factor in cancer, and is especially helpful in lung and other cancers. Fresh parsley helps the kidneys detoxify your body. I also add fresh celery in blended juice to aid in detoxification. Also important is pure, distilled water (you can add a pinch of magnesium citrate to it, if you like). Statin and many other cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as Mevacor and Lipitor, elevate liver enzymes -- they did so in me to the point that they said I had beginning liver cancer. (That's why I flushed them down the toilet and did other things to bring my cholesterol under control! See my Cholesterol page for more info.) A note about buying supplements: if you buy "standardized" supplements (e.g., standardized for 24% silymarin, or etc.), you'll get more consistent results than if you simply buy whole herbs that aren't standardized (these are "pot-luck" -- some have enough or too much of the active ingredients in them, and others have very little or none). Also, this is why you want to buy reliable brands. You might consider using Froogle to shop so that you can compare prices quickly: http://froogle.google.com (Remember to take shipping into consideration, as some vendors charge more for shipping than for the product). The only kinds of fish that have appreciable omega-3 oil content are sardines, salmon, herring, tuna and mackerel (in decreasing order); these need to be packed in water (or olive oil) to get any benefit from them, not an omega-6 oil like soybean/cottonseed/corn/safflower/sunflower/etc. Other kinds of fish, such as cod, trout, etc. have only about 1/10th to 1/20th as much. See also: http://www.distance-healer.com/3.html Sources for Above Supplements:
The following is additional information from Dr. Blaylock in his email (to be used along with the essential info in his cancer newsletters and book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients": Avoid all excitotoxin food additives (MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, vegetable protein extract or isolate, soy protein or soy protein extract, sodium or calcium caseinate, broth, stock, carrageenan, enzymes, etc) They are proven to increase the growth, invasion and spread of lung cancers. Check all labels -- the best way is to avoid all processed foods. Avoid all MSG; most hospital foods contain MSG in some form. Drink only white tea (three cups of high concentrated (2 tea bags) - and distilled water and plenty of it: 10- 12 oz glasses a day. Avoid all sugar (especially high fructose corn syrup) and refined carbohydrates -- they suppress immunity and promote cancer cell growth. Sugar is the main fuel for cancer cells. Avoid all omega-6 oils (corn, canola, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean oils). They suppress immunity and have been proven to promote tumor growth and spread. Use either Extra Virgin olive oil and/or Extra Virgin coconut oil. (Check all processed foods -- most use the bad oils) Curcumin 500 mg and quercetin 500 mg should be mixed with olive oil (one tablespoon full) -mix well and take three times a day. Together they powerfully inhibit cancer cell growth and prevent many of the complications of chemotherapy. In addition, studies have shown that they enhance the effectiveness of the chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Ellagitannin (not ellagic acid, which is very poorly absorbed) is also a very powerful cancer inhibitor. Examples of this are Red Raspberry or Pomegranate extract; Source Naturals is a reputable brand. Natural vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) with high gamma-E. 1000 IU a day Vitamin C (water-soluble) 1000 mg of buffered (magnesium ascorbate) 3 times/day oil-soluble vitamin C (ascorbyl palmitate) (1/d) Trans-Resveratrol, 1/d, www.iherb.com [REA-97862, ReserveAge Organics] shown to inhibit cancer cell growth and to protect normal tissues from chemotherapy. A Good quality Multivitamin/mineral with active forms of vitamins (people who are sick cannot convert many vitamins to their active forms) http://www.vitacost.com/MHP-Activite-Sport [MHP 2200026, MHP Activite Sport] Because cancers are sensitive to oxygen (it kills cancer cells) deep breathing several times a day will increase blood oxygen and improve cancer cell killing. These are the major things known to improve the killing of cancer cells, especially lung cancer. Cancer-Fueling Nutrients Oil-Soluble Nutrients Drink Your Vegetables! Vegetables to Include in Your Vita Mix (See my Cancer&RawFoods page for more information: http://www.distance-healer.com/19.html) Fruits to Add to Your Vita Mix While diets derived from plants (fruits and vegetables) already utilize that food group’s unrivaled cancer-prevention power, there is a little-discussed secret that will allow you to maximize your exposure to the miracle substances in plants. The problem is that all of these cancer inhibitors are locked inside sealed compartments within fruits and vegetables. Every compartment is a cell, but unlike mammalian cells, each is enveloped in a casing of cellulose. Unfortunately, the human digestive tract does not possess an enzyme capable of dissolving these tough shells. As a result, unless you break them, you absorb little or none of your food’s nutrients. But there are several solutions to this dilemma. Chewing mechanically shatters some of the shells, but studies have shown that eating raw vegetables yields only about 30% of their nutrients since most people do not chew vegetables until they are a fine mush. Boiling also releases the nutrients, but some are destroyed by the intense heat, while some are lost to the water in which they are cooked. Steaming vegetables preserves more of their nutrients. The third method — which I prefer — is to puree fresh vegetables in a high-speed blender. I use a brand called a Vita Mix. When you blend or liquefy fruits and vegetables in a high-speed blender, over 90% of the nutrients are released for absorption. Many studies have shown that you must eat at least ten servings of fruits and vegetables a day to attain maximum nutritional effectiveness. For those over age 55, it’s twelve servings. That’s a lot of fruits and vegetables. A serving is a cup of loose vegetables, such as lettuce, and half a cup of more solid fruits and vegetables, like broccoli and strawberries. The reason you have to eat so many is that you are absorbing only 30% of the nutrients. But by putting the fruits and vegetables in a blender, you can consume a much smaller volume but still get the full benefit. Most people have to develop a taste for pureed vegetables. I love them. But don’t make the mistake of using only fruits or carrots in your mix. Remember — both contain a lot of sugar, and you’ll recall that sugar breeds cancer. You can add a halfcup of carrots or blueberries, but no more. One major problem with drinking fruits and vegetables is diarrhea. Some people new to this practice cannot tolerate the high concentration of fiber initially. It is best to start by diluting the mix with onethird volume of distilled water and drinking only 4 to 6 oz. Gradually increase the volume until you are drinking 8 to 12 ounces a day. Once you have adjusted, you can alter the concentration to suit your taste. This advice is based on the erroneous belief that chemotherapy and radiation treatments depend on free radical destruction of cancer cells. In fact, this is only partially true. Most treatments inhibit cancer via many different mechanisms. Nutrients from fruits and vegetables — especially the flavonoids — have remarkable powers that have been confirmed by a number of researchers and documented in most major oncology journals. They enhance the ability of most chemotherapy agents and radiation to kill cancer cells, at the same time protecting normal cells from their harmful effects. Unfortunately, most oncologists ignore these studies and instead concentrate on new chemotherapy protocols and radiation methods. Supplements: Six Of One, Half a Dozen Of The Other? One of the most common mistakes people make is to buy the cheapest supplements they can find, because they assume they’re all the same. Most wouldn’t even purchase toilet paper this way. Yet the public is not alone in this belief. Too many research studies on vitamin supplements and cancer prevention use vitamin samples that have no anti-cancer activity or are known to be of inferior quality. Take vitamin E for example. Manufactured forms — called DL-alpha-tocopherols and d-alpha-tocopherol acetate — have little anti-cancer activity and are both distributed and absorbed poorly in the body. And in high doses it interferes with carotenoid absorption. Yet these are the most common forms sold and used in experiments — especially in human testing. A number of studies have demonstrated that natural forms of vitamins E (containing d-alpha-tocopherol and three other forms of vitamin E) and d-alpha-tocopheryl succinate have excellent anticancer effects, are well absorbed, boost immunity, reduce inflammation and are much more powerful as antioxidants. The same can be said for beta-carotene. Synthetic beta-carotene is not only less active, but it can inhibit other vital anti-cancer nutrients. The synthetic form was used in the widely reported study showing increased cancer rates in smokers who took the supplement. A number of experiments using natural forms of beta-carotene (which naturally contains over a dozen forms) uncovered profound cancer inhibition. Like synthetic vitamin E, synthetic beta-carotene depletes the more active forms of the carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene and lutein. The form and quality of the vitamins make all the difference. When buying beta-carotene, select the natural form, which contains mixed carotenoids. It is usually extracted from an algae called Dunaliella salina. You should know that some carotenoids are more important than others in preventing specific cancers. For example, alpha-carotene is key to preventing breast and lung cancers, while beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein and lycopene are more important in stopping prostate and ovarian cancers, and astaxanthin has been found to forcefully inhibit bladder cancer. Multivitamin/mineral combinations should be taken in vegetarian capsules in dry powder form, as they are much better absorbed this way. Hard vitamin tablets are difficult to dissolve and absorb, especially in cancer patients experiencing gastrointestinal complications. I would also avoid vitamin chelates (combined with excitotoxic amino acids) and any vitamin or oil in a gelatin capsule. Gelatin is high in fluoride and glutamate and poses a high risk for mad cow disease. Herbs should be of the highest quality and must carry the label: “Guaranteed Potency Herb”. This confirms that the active ingredient is present in standardized amounts. Finally, some flavonoids and other nutrients are oil-soluble, so if you take them as a dry powder they will be poorly absorbed. What Your Oncologist Won’t Tell You… Most cancer patients trust their oncologist out of either blind faith or a fear of abandonment. Yet there is mounting evidence that the conventional treatments your doctor is recommending might actually make cancers grow faster and become incurable when used alone. Cancer survival statistics are never based on a comparison of nutritional and conventional treatments, but rather on the correlation between various conventional treatments and protocols. By manipulating these statistics, oncologists and drug companies can give the impression that they are significantly extending life for the cancer patient, when in fact it is all smoke and mirrors. For the major cancers, there has been no improvement in long-term survival using conventional treatments. Granted, with a number of the less common cancers, one does often see dramatic progress. The Big Secret So here it is: The most closely guarded secret that oncologists and especially pharmaceutical companies keep is that most conventional cancer treatments actually cause cancer themselves and leave survivors at risk of developing totally different secondary and even tertiary cancers. By damaging the DNA of normal cells, radiation and chemotherapy drugs heighten the risk that those cells will become cancerous at some point in the future. It has been documented that anywhere from 5 to 17% of patients who undergo conventional treatments will develop a new cancer. For example, some breast cancer survivors will develop leukemia. This is precisely why using nutrition to your advantage is so important. It allows you to protect normal cells from the inevitable DNA damage that cancer treatment will bring. Because the physiology of cancer cells differs from that of normal ones, select nutrients actually prime cancer cells to become more vulnerable to conventional treatments. In fact, without the benefit of proper nutrition, one of the biggest problems associated with chemotherapy is multi-drug resistance. In such cases, the cancer cells suddenly become resistant not only to the chemotherapy drug in current use, but to all others as well. When that happens, the cancer spreads like wildfire and becomes incurable. A growing number of studies are showing that select nutrients — especially flavonoids like quercetin and curcumin — can reverse this action, once again making the cancer cells susceptible to the cancer-killing drugs. Clearly, Detoxification Is Key Most cancer-causing chemicals do their damage by affecting detoxification, the process by which toxins are neutralized. While the liver is the key organ in flushing toxins, all cells — even brain cells — contain detoxification systems whose effectiveness greatly depends on nutrition. Many studies have shown that people with defective detoxification have high rates of disease, including cancer. Cancer patients undergoing conventional treatments are especially reliant on detoxification for survival. This is because as the chemotherapy and radiation treatments kill large numbers of cancer cells, toxic debris is released, flooding the body and poisoning other cells and organs. That is why cancer treatments often result in extreme fatigue, foggy thinking, nausea, vomiting and eventual collapse. I have treated many cancer patients with nutritional programs and found, as have others, that these symptoms either dramatically decrease or stop altogether. Patients have more energy, they feel good and they’re clear-headed. Boosting Immunity Is the Key to Stopping Cancer Doctors have long known that the key to cancer control is immunity. In fact, hundreds of studies have demonstrated that people with poor immunity are not only more likely to die from their cancer — they’re significantly more apt to develop it in the first place. This might explain why transplant patients (who require immune suppression) and those with diabetes are much more prone to cancers. But while the immune system is extremely complex, comprised of many parts and different types of cells, controlling cancer is not just a matter of stimulating immunity. In fact, in some instances doing so makes the cancer grow faster. It is the component known as cellular immunity that actually combats cancer. While humoral immunity (antibody production) can protect cancer cells against attack by immune cells, there is growing evidence that special proteolytic enzymes can clear away these harmful immune antibodies, leaving cancer cells more susceptible to aggression. Some of these enzymes can be purchased without prescription. Wobenzyme is a brand that has proved effective. It is taken on an empty stomach, three times a day. If you have stomach ulcers or chronic gastritis, you should check with your doctor, as these enzymes can worsen these conditions. In conjunction with enzyme therapy, you should stimulate your cellular immunity (T-cells and natural killer — NK — cells). As outlined in part one of this newsletter (Prevent Cancer Before It’s Too Late — Part One) www.newsmaxstore.com/ newsletters/blaylock/8.cfm), you can obtain several products that successfully induce the immune system to battle various types of cancers. Nutrients That Improve Detoxification Soy Dangers Recently I came across one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the true nature of soy and the dangers associated with its products. The Whole Soy Story by Kaayla T. Daniel, contains a detailed history of global soy use, how Asian soy foods differ from Western products as well as all pertinent research on the known dangers of soy consumption. For example, did you know that at least 75% of all soybeans in this country are genetically modified? Recent research has shown that genistein (the isoflavone component of soy) actually augments the growth of breast cancers (and this applies other hormonone-related cancers, including prostate, cervical, ovarian, uterine, and others) — as opposed to inhibiting them, as was previously thought. In addition, there is persuasive evidence that elevated soy intake might increase the risk of pancreatic cancer. And soy has soaring levels of the excitotoxin glutamate, fluoride and manganese (which can impair the developing brain and lead to Parkinson’s in adults). Of special interest is a 25-year Hawaiian study in which a group of people who ate soy products was compared to matching controls. The experiment found that the more soy that was consumed, the greater the brain atrophy — and hence dementia. A new study found that almost half of women who’d had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer still had live breast cancer cells circulating inside them 7 to 22 years after recovery. While the subjects showed no evidence of clinical disease, the cancerous cells could become active at any time — even decades later. This is why continued healthy nutritional practices are key to keeping dormant cells in check. See http://www.distance-healer.com/24.html and search for the third occurence (from here) of "Imagery/Visualization:" (without the quotes but with the colon) for information on how to use Imagery to help heal yourself. If you are currently undergoing Chemotherapy or Radiation, along with the above protocol, also see: http://www.distance-healer.com/4.html My main Cancer pages which include a lot of information that is very important for people with any type of cancer (or those who wish to avoid it) are: For information about metabolic typing, see: Some additional information about specific cancers. For example, about Breast Cancer (i.e., the information here is not complete unless you also read the above pages): http://www.distance-healer.com/83.html Cancer-Fueling Nutrients (See Dr. Blaylock's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210/): Oil-Soluble Nutrients Drink Your Vegetables! Vegetables to Include in Your Vita Mix (See my Cancer&RawFoods page for more information: http://www.distance-healer.com/19.html) Fruits to Add to Your Vita Mix Unlocking Your Food’s Potential — It’s Something To Chew On While diets derived from plants (fruits and vegetables) already utilize that food group’s unrivaled cancer-prevention power, there is a little-discussed secret that will allow you to maximize your exposure to the miracle substances in plants. The problem is that all of these cancer inhibitors are locked inside sealed compartments within fruits and vegetables. Every compartment is a cell, but unlike mammalian cells, each is enveloped in a casing of cellulose. Unfortunately, the human digestive tract does not possess an enzyme capable of dissolving these tough shells. As a result, unless you break them, you absorb little or none of your food’s nutrients. But there are several solutions to this dilemma. Chewing mechanically shatters some of the shells, but studies have shown that eating raw vegetables yields only about 30% of their nutrients since most people do not chew vegetables until they are a fine mush. Boiling also releases the nutrients, but some are destroyed by the intense heat, while some are lost to the water in which they are cooked. Steaming vegetables preserves more of their nutrients. The third method — which I prefer — is to puree fresh vegetables in a high-speed blender. I use a brand called a Vita Mix. When you blend or liquefy fruits and vegetables in a high-speed blender, over 90% of the nutrients are released for absorption. Many studies have shown that you must eat at least ten servings of fruits and vegetables a day to attain maximum nutritional effectiveness. For those over age 55, it’s twelve servings. That’s a lot of fruits and vegetables. A serving is a cup of loose vegetables, such as lettuce, and half a cup of more solid fruits and vegetables, like broccoli and strawberries. The reason you have to eat so many is that you are absorbing only 30% of the nutrients. But by putting the fruits and vegetables in a blender, you can consume a much smaller volume but still get the full benefit. Most people have to develop a taste for pureed vegetables. I love them. But don’t make the mistake of using only fruits or carrots in your mix. Remember — both contain a lot of sugar, and you’ll recall that sugar breeds cancer. You can add a halfcup of carrots or blueberries, but no more. One major problem with drinking fruits and vegetables is diarrhea. Some people new to this practice cannot tolerate the high concentration of fiber initially. It is best to start by diluting the mix with onethird volume of distilled water and drinking only 4 to 6 oz. Gradually increase the volume until you are drinking 8 to 12 ounces a day. Once you have adjusted, you can alter the concentration to suit your taste. This advice is based on the erroneous belief that chemotherapy and radiation treatments depend on free radical destruction of cancer cells. In fact, this is only partially true. Most treatments inhibit cancer via many different mechanisms. Nutrients from fruits and vegetables — especially the flavonoids — have remarkable powers that have been confirmed by a number of researchers and documented in most major oncology journals. They enhance the ability of most chemotherapy agents and radiation to kill cancer cells, at the same time protecting normal cells from their harmful effects. Unfortunately, most oncologists ignore these studies and instead concentrate on new chemotherapy protocols and radiation methods. Supplements: Six Of One, Half a Dozen Of The Other? One of the most common mistakes people make is to buy the cheapest supplements they can find, because they assume they’re all the same. Most wouldn’t even purchase toilet paper this way. Yet the public is not alone in this belief. Too many research studies on vitamin supplements and cancer prevention use vitamin samples that have no anti-cancer activity or are known to be of inferior quality. Take vitamin E for example. Manufactured forms — called DL-alpha-tocopherols and d-alpha-tocopherol acetate — have little anti-cancer activity and are both distributed and absorbed poorly in the body. And in high doses it interferes with carotenoid absorption. Yet these are the most common forms sold and used in experiments — especially in human testing. A number of studies have demonstrated that natural forms of vitamins E (containing d-alpha-tocopherol and three other forms of vitamin E) and d-alpha-tocopheryl succinate have excellent anticancer effects, are well absorbed, boost immunity, reduce inflammation and are much more powerful as antioxidants. The same can be said for beta-carotene. Synthetic beta-carotene is not only less active, but it can inhibit other vital anti-cancer nutrients. The synthetic form was used in the widely reported study showing increased cancer rates in smokers who took the supplement. A number of experiments using natural forms of beta-carotene (which naturally contains over a dozen forms) uncovered profound cancer inhibition. Like synthetic vitamin E, synthetic beta-carotene depletes the more active forms of the carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene and lutein. The form and quality of the vitamins make all the difference. When buying beta-carotene, select the natural form, which contains mixed carotenoids. It is usually extracted from an algae called Dunaliella salina. You should know that some carotenoids are more important than others in preventing specific cancers. For example, alpha-carotene is key to preventing breast and lung cancers, while beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein and lycopene are more important in stopping prostate and ovarian cancers, and astaxanthin has been found to forcefully inhibit bladder cancer. Multivitamin/mineral combinations should be taken in vegetarian capsules in dry powder form, as they are much better absorbed this way. Hard vitamin tablets are difficult to dissolve and absorb, especially in cancer patients experiencing gastrointestinal complications. I would also avoid vitamin chelates (combined with excitotoxic amino acids) and any vitamin or oil in a gelatin capsule. Gelatin is high in fluoride and glutamate and poses a high risk for mad cow disease. Herbs should be of the highest quality and must carry the label: “Guaranteed Potency Herb”. This confirms that the active ingredient is present in standardized amounts. Finally, some flavonoids and other nutrients are oil-soluble, so if you take them as a dry powder they will be poorly absorbed. What Your Oncologist Won’t Tell You… Most cancer patients trust their oncologist out of either blind faith or a fear of abandonment. Yet there is mounting evidence that the conventional treatments your doctor is recommending might actually make cancers grow faster and become incurable when used alone. Cancer survival statistics are never based on a comparison of nutritional and conventional treatments, but rather on the correlation between various conventional treatments and protocols. By manipulating these statistics, oncologists and drug companies can give the impression that they are significantly extending life for the cancer patient, when in fact it is all smoke and mirrors. For the major cancers, there has been no improvement in long-term survival using conventional treatments. Granted, with a number of the less common cancers, one does often see dramatic progress. The Big Secret So here it is: The most closely guarded secret that oncologists and especially pharmaceutical companies keep is that most conventional cancer treatments actually cause cancer themselves and leave survivors at risk of developing totally different secondary and even tertiary cancers. By damaging the DNA of normal cells, radiation and chemotherapy drugs heighten the risk that those cells will become cancerous at some point in the future. It has been documented that anywhere from 5 to 17% of patients who undergo conventional treatments will develop a new cancer. For example, some breast cancer survivors will develop leukemia. This is precisely why using nutrition to your advantage is so important. It allows you to protect normal cells from the inevitable DNA damage that cancer treatment will bring. Because the physiology of cancer cells differs from that of normal ones, select nutrients actually prime cancer cells to become more vulnerable to conventional treatments. In fact, without the benefit of proper nutrition, one of the biggest problems associated with chemotherapy is multi-drug resistance. In such cases, the cancer cells suddenly become resistant not only to the chemotherapy drug in current use, but to all others as well. When that happens, the cancer spreads like wildfire and becomes incurable. A growing number of studies are showing that select nutrients — especially flavonoids like quercetin and curcumin — can reverse this action, once again making the cancer cells susceptible to the cancer-killing drugs. Clearly, Detoxification Is Key Most cancer-causing chemicals do their damage by affecting detoxification, the process by which toxins are neutralized. While the liver is the key organ in flushing toxins, all cells — even brain cells — contain detoxification systems whose effectiveness greatly depends on nutrition. Many studies have shown that people with defective detoxification have high rates of disease, including cancer. Cancer patients undergoing conventional treatments are especially reliant on detoxification for survival. This is because as the chemotherapy and radiation treatments kill large numbers of cancer cells, toxic debris is released, flooding the body and poisoning other cells and organs. That is why cancer treatments often result in extreme fatigue, foggy thinking, nausea, vomiting and eventual collapse. I have treated many cancer patients with nutritional programs and found, as have others, that these symptoms either dramatically decrease or stop altogether. Patients have more energy, they feel good and they’re clear-headed. Boosting Immunity Is the Key to Stopping Cancer Doctors have long known that the key to cancer control is immunity. In fact, hundreds of studies have demonstrated that people with poor immunity are not only more likely to die from their cancer — they’re significantly more apt to develop it in the first place. This might explain why transplant patients (who require immune suppression) and those with diabetes are much more prone to cancers. But while the immune system is extremely complex, comprised of many parts and different types of cells, controlling cancer is not just a matter of stimulating immunity. In fact, in some instances doing so makes the cancer grow faster. It is the component known as cellular immunity that actually combats cancer. While humoral immunity (antibody production) can protect cancer cells against attack by immune cells, there is growing evidence that special proteolytic enzymes can clear away these harmful immune antibodies, leaving cancer cells more susceptible to aggression. Some of these enzymes can be purchased without prescription. Wobenzyme is a brand that has proved effective. It is taken on an empty stomach, three times a day. If you have stomach ulcers or chronic gastritis, you should check with your doctor, as these enzymes can worsen these conditions. In conjunction with enzyme therapy, you should stimulate your cellular immunity (T-cells and natural killer — NK — cells). As outlined in part one of this newsletter (Prevent Cancer Before It’s Too Late — Part One) www.newsmaxstore.com/ newsletters/blaylock/8.cfm), you can obtain several products that successfully induce the immune system to battle various types of cancers. Nutrients That Improve Detoxification Soy Dangers Recently I came across one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the true nature of soy and the dangers associated with its products. The Whole Soy Story by Kaayla T. Daniel, contains a detailed history of global soy use, how Asian soy foods differ from Western products as well as all pertinent research on the known dangers of soy consumption. For example, did you know that at least 75% of all soybeans in this country are genetically modified? Recent research has shown that genistein (the isoflavone component of soy) actually augments the growth of breast cancers (and this applies other hormonone-related cancers, including prostate, cervical, ovarian, uterine, and others) — as opposed to inhibiting them, as was previously thought. In addition, there is persuasive evidence that elevated soy intake might increase the risk of pancreatic cancer. And soy has soaring levels of the excitotoxin glutamate, fluoride and manganese (which can impair the developing brain and lead to Parkinson’s in adults). Of special interest is a 25-year Hawaiian study in which a group of people who ate soy products was compared to matching controls. The experiment found that the more soy that was consumed, the greater the brain atrophy — and hence dementia. A new study found that almost half of women who’d had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer still had live breast cancer cells circulating inside them 7 to 22 years after recovery. While the subjects showed no evidence of clinical disease, the cancerous cells could become active at any time — even decades later. This is why continued healthy nutritional practices are key to keeping dormant cells in check. Search this page (http://www.distance-healer.com/24.html) for the second occurence from the top of "Imagery/Visualization:" (without the quotes but with the colon) for information on how to use Imagery to help heal yourself. If you are currently undergoing Chemotherapy or Radiation, along with the above protocol, also see: http://www.distance-healer.com/4.html My main Cancer pages which includes a lot of information that is very important for people with any type of cancer (or those who wish to avoid it) are: For information about metabolic typing, see: In addition to this Main Cancer Protocol, also see additional information about specific cancers. For example, about Breast Cancer (i.e., the information here is not complete unless you also read the above pages): http://www.distance-healer.com/83.html I would also see Ingrid Naiman's book, Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment ( http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Salves-Botanical-Approach-Treatment/dp/1882834151), which shows describes many cures of breast, skin, pancreatic, liver, bladder and skin cancers by the use of cancer salves. Ellagic Insurance Formula (EIF), a very powerful cancer inhibitor (I started at 6/d and increased up to 18/d, staying at current dose or stopping for 2-7 days while detoxing if too much fluid accumulation in lungs from dying tumors before resuming at dosage left off -- J D Dennison, 866-294-1119, www.hopeforcancer.com EIF contains some enzymes, ellagic acid/pomegranate extract, Graviola, and selenium and are convenient to take, but you could buy and take all of the individual items it contains). You can still use it even if cancer has spread to the brain. For lung or brain cancers, start at 3/d for a week, then increase to 6/d for a week, then 9/d for another week, then 12/d until cancer is gone, at which point continue at half that (6/d) indefinitely to help keep cancer from coming back. (For other types of cancer, the duration at each dose is 3 days for other types of cancer that don't have fluid buildup problems; for lung or brain cancers, you take twice as long between each dosage increase: a week instead of 3 days.) If there are signs of fluid build up in lungs such as trouble breathing (or brain, if you have brain tumors, such as trouble breathing or headaches), decrease dosage for a few days before beginning to increase dosage again. For example, if you are taking 9/d and get fluid buildup, you would drop down to 3/d for a few days, then increase to 6/d for a week, etc. JD can help, if you call him. The dosage is tied to your weight and type of cancer. Typically, the dosage is about 10% of the weight for most cancers; what varies is how fast you get there. For cancer in the lungs and brain, you would increase from one dose to another after a week, instead of the typical 3 days. The maximum dosage is 12/d for 111 lbs, 18/d for 200 lbs, 21/d for 240 lbs or more. Optional: A good diet is also necessary (determine your Metabolic Type by going to my MT pages and taking self-tests and follow it along with no carbs/sugars/artificial sweeteners/msg/hydrogenated trans-fats) with green drinks [organic barley grass and Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus], lots of protein, including wild-caught/line-caught (not farmed) salmon or sardines, organic free-range chicken/turkey) alternated or with some dark colored beans (no fructose, sugar or other harmful additives, such as unspecified "spices"/MSG) and healthy fats, including DHA from Calamari, EV coconut oil, raw pumpkin seeds, raw organic flax seeds freshly ground with pure water added -- can be added to a little steel-cut or whole oatmeal, cold-pressed EV olive oil, garlic, onion -- diced or powder, however much cayenne can be tolerated, and powdered ginger (available in spice section of grocery stores, or open capsules) mixed in or sprinkled on top of the flaxseed/oatmeal mixture. You can add the garlic, onion and cayenne to other foods instead of the oatmeal, if you prefer – as long as you have enough of them each day. Note that carb Metabolic Types should get their carbs from vegetables, not starches. eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.) Taking these supplements in the correct dosages, as well as eating the green drinks (or blenderized vegetables), along with lots of specific fats (Swanson DHA oil from Calamari, EV coconut oil, cold-pressed EV olive oil) and lots of protein (somewhat less protein if kidneys are bad) with NO carbs are important parts of the protocol. If you are stage 4 and have lost a lot of weight and strength, this will also help you to gain enough weight to undergo ozone and cesium therapy. Note: all of these protein sources need to be taken with extra enzymes, since cooking destroys their enzymes, and the enzymes taken between meals are needed to attack the cancer and we don’t want to use them up digesting food. Lightly-cooked (in olive oil without smoking the oil or browning the meat – or baked) free-range, organic chicken/turkey; line/wild-caught salmon or sardines; Christopher’s brand free range organic high omega-3 eggs (660mg omega-3 per egg) available in many grocery stores (hard boiled or poached with butter and Morton Lite salt and enzymes); goat or sheep cheese in moderation (take with enzymes – any protein source that isn’t raw needs to be taken with extra enzymes, in addition to those in EIF); Avoid red meat (lamb, pork, veal, beef – even organic free-range) because it’s high in arachidonic acid and iron, which feed cancer. Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). VitaMix Blenderized Vegetables A major part of this protocol is a perfect, raw food diet without ANY sugars or carbohydrates, such as bread, pasta, macaroni, rice, beans, grains, and without processed foods (anything made in a factory that has an "ingredients" list). A 5% bad diet causes a 400% increase in cancer. The thing that I don't think many of you understand is that even if you somehow beat cancer, you still need to strictly adhere to an almost perfect diet FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE or the cancer will come back, so if you cannot do that now, while you're staring death in the eye, you should consider not ruining your doctor's reputation and getting him in trouble by dying and blaming him for it not working when really you will not have done your part. You can't wait until you get to the clinic to have ozone and cesium therapy to follow the diet -- you need to do it NOW, and to stop helping the cancer grow and spread. The way that this diet works is by denying cancer ALL of its carbs and sugars -- not some! That, by the way, is why many people don't think that you can affect disease by diet; it needs to be VERY strict and well-designed in order to therapeutically affect disease outcome. See http://www.drday.com/tumor.htm about how Dr. Lorraine Day healed herself of terminal cancer by diet, if you don't think it's important to follow a very strict diet. Cancer clinics put you on a 100% raw food diet for 21 days when you get there, and you will need to stay on it 100% until the active cancer is gone. Once you no longer have active cancer, you'll probably be able to eat a few organic, lightly cooked things along with MOSTLY raw, organic food, take your supplements, and not smoke or drink, etc., and in order to not get the cancer back, but right now, you need to be on a perfect diet, not giving the cancer ANY carbs or sugar with which to spread; that's why naturopathic doctors ask often about what you're eating, they want to make sure that you're totally committed to getting better. They don't want to treat someone who isn't (they've got too much "heat" on them already to take on any patient who isn't going put 100% into getting better). Metabolic Typing I wouldn't eat in a restaurant at all; I'd be doing everything possible to enhance my chances of beating it, and slowing it down until I could find a way to decrease it -- I definitely wouldn't be feeding cancer starches, sugars, bad fats, additives, processed-, fast- or restaurant-food! You must TOTALLY COMMIT to getting better, and understand the importance of not helping the cancer get ANY worse! Supplements: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other? One of the most common mistakes people make is to buy the cheapest supplements they can find, because they assume they’re all the same. Most wouldn’t even purchase toilet paper this way. Yet the public is not alone in this belief. Too many research studies on vitamin supplements and cancer prevention use vitamin samples that have no anti-cancer activity or are known to be of inferior quality. Take vitamin E for example. Manufactured forms — called DL-alpha-tocopherols and d-alpha-tocopherol acetate — have little anti-cancer activity and are both distributed and absorbed poorly in the body. And in high doses it interferes with carotenoid absorption. Yet these are the most common forms sold and used in experiments — especially in human testing. A number of studies have demonstrated that natural forms of vitamins E (containing d-alpha-tocopherol and three other forms of vitamin E) and d-alpha-tocopheryl succinate have excellent anticancer effects, are well absorbed, boost immunity, reduce inflammation and are much more powerful as antioxidants. The same can be said for beta-carotene. Synthetic beta-carotene is not only less active, but it can inhibit other vital anti-cancer nutrients. The synthetic form was used in the widely reported study showing increased cancer rates in smokers who took the supplement. A number of experiments using natural forms of beta-carotene (which naturally contains over a dozen forms) uncovered profound cancer inhibition. Like synthetic vitamin E, synthetic beta-carotene depletes the more active forms of the carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene and lutein. The form and quality of the vitamins make all the difference. When buying beta-carotene, select the natural form, which contains mixed carotenoids. It is usually extracted from an algae called Dunaliella salina. You should know that some carotenoids are more important than others in preventing specific cancers. For example, alpha-carotene is key to preventing breast and lung cancers, while beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein and lycopene are more important in stopping prostate and ovarian cancers, and astaxanthin has been found to forcefully inhibit bladder cancer. Multivitamin/mineral combinations should be taken in vegetarian capsules in dry powder form, as they are much better absorbed this way. Hard vitamin tablets are difficult to dissolve and absorb, especially in cancer patients experiencing gastrointestinal complications. I would also avoid vitamin chelates (combined with excitotoxic amino acids) and any vitamin or oil in a gelatin capsule. Gelatin is high in fluoride and glutamate and poses a high risk for mad cow disease. Herbs should be of the highest quality and must carry the label: “Guaranteed Potency Herb”. This confirms that the active ingredient is present in standardized amounts. Finally, some flavonoids and other nutrients are oil-soluble, so if you take them as a dry powder they will be poorly absorbed. Juiced fruit is much worse than whole fruit for anyone -- especially cancer patients or diabetics -- than plain, whole fruit, and whole fruit is discouraged for patients with active cancer; on this website, I talk about how sugar-free berry extracts should be used instead. Two 8 ounce glasses/day of specific (see main cancer protocol page and raw food page) lightly-blended organic vegetables in a variable-speed Vitamix blender (blended at low speed so that they're somewhat chunky still) are essential; some people have beaten cancer just on that alone. Once or twice a week, we also have a salad with EV cold-pressed olive oil + wine vinegar + spices (garlic, onion, parsley, etc.) My family and I also have a little Emperor's Forbidden black rice (whole grain) with dark colored, sugar-free (no fructose, msg, etc.) black/kidney/red/pinto (dark-colored) beans, onions, peas, lima beans, etc., free range organic chicken, line caught wild ocean fish that are baked or lightly cooked at very low heat (smoking oil and browned food causes more cancer) in EV olive oil (with some curcumin added to reduce oxidation), a couple hard-boiled organic eggs (Christopher's Brand 660mg omega-3 per egg free range organic eggs) each week or two, a slice of sprouted grain bread each day with grass-fed butter, some goat or sheep cheese (with garlic/onion powder and cayenne pepper sprinkled on for anti-cancer benefits). It's extremely important that you understand that diet and lifestyle changes are crucial to beating cancer. I also have sauerkraut (with no added msg or sugar) as a source of additional vitamin K2 and healthy bacteria (which boosts the immune system and helps digestion). I eat it with ground ginger, cayenne, onion and garlic powder + some chopped onion in it every day). See Chapter 3 in Dr. Blaylock's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210/) about much other useful information about hair loss, avoiding heart damage, pulmonary, neurological & gastrointestinal complications, liver and kidney injury, etc. from chemotherapy. Healthy Oils: I use Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamari oil; cold-pressed, extra-virgin olive oil; freshly-ground organic flaxseed (from www.flaxseedpro.com that I grind in a coffee grinder from the same place); Evening Primrose Oil; raw almonds (Note: this was before the Almond Board of California and the USDA decided to pasteurize almonds with heat, radiation and highly carcinogenic chemicals that are banned in the rest of the world, and still allow them to labeled "raw": http://www.newstarget.com/021989.html), so it's probably better to eat other nuts and seeds that you are sure are raw (but keep in mind that cashews and peanuts almost always have aflatoxin mold spores on them); raw pumpkin seeds; extra virgin organic cold-pressed olive oil; and some extra virgin organic coconut oil (1 tablespoon/day). Note: keep all oils in refrigerator, and add ground rosemary, lemon juice and some good quality, full-spectrum vitamin E to keep it from oxidizing, once opened. These oils normalize your omega-3/omega-6 ratio and fight cancer. Note that it's not enough to simply increase the omega-3 oils to make the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio more healthful (most people's ratio is about 40:1; it should be 2:1 or 1:1) -- Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). Sadly, most people finally realize that they've been tricked by the government, medical establishment and media into believing that chemo and radiation actually work for most cancers, and that "alternative" methods don't work until it's too late and they're at death's doorstep and it's too late to help them. The sad thing is that many of these people did not need to die, but did so because their minds -- their belief systems -- wouldn't let them see that they were being lied to. Being afraid of dying is NOT the same as really wanting to live, loving life and being willing to do whatever it takes to go on living. (See the book "Questioning Chemotherapy" by Ralph Moss about how chemo and rad help in less than 2% of all cancers -- and more than half of the few “cures” get secondary cancers caused by the treatment). According to Dr. Blaylock, "It's important to remember that secondary cancers are not recurrences of a previous cancer but entirely new cancers caused by the treatment. Most often, the secondary cancer is much more resistant to treatment than was the original cancer. Biopsies (including needle biopsies) also spread cancer in more than half of the cases." Cancer is a cry from the body to stop poisoning it with toxins, a bad lifestyle, etc. -- so what do most do? They go into denial, and poison it more with more Rx's, booze, bad diet (it doesn't help that most of what dietitians tell patients is totally wrong, either), and continue their bad lifestyle -- all things that led to them getting cancer in the first place. Over 80% of genetically-determined illness can be activated or deactivated by a person's diet or lifestyle (epigenomes turn on or off genetic tendencies -- search for "Epigenetics: How Your Mind (also diet, lifestyle, spirituality, attitude, determination to live and not accepting illness) Can Reprogram Your Genes" without the quotes elsewhere on this page, and also for "Imagery/Visualization:", which is immediately above the information on Epigenetics). There's precious little time to convince yourself that there are solutions with a much better chance that often work, but you needs to commit yourself to taking your supplements and herbs regularly (and not just a few – you need a more comprehensive protocol), along with a perfect diet (lots of organic, raw vegetables lightly blended in a variable-speed Vitamix blender, no white starches, sugars, msg, artificial sweeteners, harmful cosmetics/cleaners, restaurant or factory-processed foods, alcohol, etc.) and lifestyle. Also, you need to address the spiritual aspects of being healthy and use imagery (detailed on my main cancer protocol page) to help heal yourself, and give up destructive beliefs/attitudes/habits that are killing you quicker. It’s important to open your mind up to other solutions and undo all the brainwashing from years of staring at the blinking box of government and medical establishment propaganda (the TV), as well as the majority of newspapers, magazines, journals (i.e., the biased ones with an agenda) etc. An important part of beating cancer is to make yourself believe that it is possible to beat this thing, but it is going to be the hardest thing you’ve ever done in your life, and you really need to want it, believe in it with your whole heart, and totally commit to doing what is required to beat it, including following the protocol, dietary and lifestyle recommendations religiously. Lack of compliance (going off the protocol, diet and lifestyle) is the main reason that more people don't beat cancer and other diseases (besides waiting until it's too late). Going to St. Kitt's is an option, especially if you find it hard to break out of a rut and radically change your diet and lefestyle on your own, or if you need help with cesium and / or ozone therapy, etc. (you'd still need to accurately follow a healthy diet, lifestyle and supplement protocol.) When I am having a TIA ischemic Stroke or Heart Attack caused by clots/blockage (not bleeding/hemorrhagic/burst blood vessel), instead of Warfarin, Coumadin or other “blood thinners”, I take:
--- Some additional food and supplements I used for cancer were the following (Note: see link to Jerry Brunetti's protocol on this page and the information on my other cancer protocol pages, in addition to the information on this page. Most of the info on the various cancer pages is applicable to all cancers, human and animal): re Boron & Calcium: I would be careful not to take too much boron (I take 1mg/d from supplements) because it can increase estradiol, the bad estrogen. Also, I would be careful not to take too much extra calcium (I would take 500mg/d for sympathetic dominants/slow oxidizer/Group I, and 750mg/d for parasympathetics/fast oxidizer/Group II -- see Metabolic Typing pages); Dr. Blaylock says it's better to get as much of your calcium as you can by eating lots of greens (and supplementing the shortfall), along with adequate vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 so that the calcium gets deposited in our bones, not our soft tissues and arteries. Ginkgo Biloba extract, [160-320mg/d during and until 3 wks after chemo ends; 2/d (120-160mg/d) afterwards or if you've not taken chemo] -- protects nerves & brain from chemo (ginkgo biloba -- Swanson SW893, qty240, 60mg, 24% glycosides and 6% terpene lactones, $6.99) Zinc Citrate, Nutricology, 25mg, $3.69, qty60caps -- no DCP or stearates) -- (http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=8939), reduces absorption of excess copper that can cause angiogenesis, (including the amount in your multivitamin, Blaylock recommends 30mg/d, no more than 1 mg/d copper from supplements) Flaxseed (organic golden), 2-3TBS/d, http://www.vitacost.com/Arrowhead-Mills-Organic-Golden-Flax-Seeds [AW 476856, Arrowhead Mills Organic Golden Flax Seeds, 14 Ounces, $1.95*16/14 = 2.23/lb] I use a little Proctor-Silex Coffee Grinder for it. Borage oil (GLA), http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-BioAsteri-Borage-Oil-1-300-mg-240-softgels, ($27.99, qty240, 1300mg: 480mg GLA) or http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Evening-Primrose-Oil, ($.569/g GLA; $19.99, qty300, 1300mg: 117mgGLA). Dr. Blaylock advises at least 1000mg of GLA/day. (I take 2 EPO + 3 Borage per day, and keep open bottles of oil in refrigerator to minimize oxidation. Also, I mix powdered Rosemary, some lemon juice and squeeze a capsule of oil-soluble Vitamin E into open bottles of olive oil) Reduces Inflammation. Cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil (I take about 3-4 TBS/d mixed in my food and Vitamixed vegetable drink) Note: avoid sunflower seeds/oil, canola, safflower, soybean, corn oil, etc. -- they're omega-6 oil. Besides EV coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil fights cancer. No glutamic acid, methionine, glutamate/MSG/Kimchi with MSG, cow milk/cheese (see Blaylock's cancer reports). Goat's or sheep's milk or cheese is better. Garlic/Onion powder mixture, 0.5tsp AM, 0.5tsp PM (buy large bottles Sam's Club or elsewhere, plus eat fresh) – I mix equal parts of these (NOT onion Salt or Garlic Salt) and add them to green drinks Essiac Tea (organic non-irradiated), regular tea from these sites are probably a lot better than capsules, since many Esiak/Essiac herbs are now being irradiated and are not organic: http://www.healthfreedom.info/Cancer%20Essiac.htm, http://www.ojibwatea.com/essiac_quality.htm Essiac tea (Rene Caisse’s later 8 herb formula -- powdered 8 herb formula used late in Rene's life -- better). To order, go to www.vitacost.com and search for "Flor Essence" (without quotes; iherb costs a lot more), ($46.37/1lb, 7 month money-back lowest-price guarantee, organic non-irradiated. http://www.discount-essiac-tea.com/how-to-brew-essiac.html, (mfr's info: http://www.florahealth.com/Flora/Home/canada/Products/R8070.asp) Warnings: This product contains Turkish rhubarb root. Read and follow directions carefully. Do not use if you have or develop diarrhea, loose stools, or abdominal pain because rhubarb may worsen these conditions and be harmful to your health. Consult your physician if you have frequent diarrhea or if you are pregnant, nursing, taking medications, or have a medical condition. You could take some of the capsules and pills with your teas. Essiac Tea (organic non-irradiated), regular tea from these sites are probably a lot better than capsules, since many Esiak/Essiac herbs are now being irradiated and are not organic: http://www.healthfreedom.info/Cancer%20Essiac.htm, http://www.ojibwatea.com/essiac_quality.htm Optional: Sir Jason Winter's tea (note: I added Chapparal to it, since the tea that Sir Jason healed himself and others of cancer with contained it, but the FDA has made him remove it from tea sold in the US. See article on www.jonbarron.org about Chaparral and other “blood purifiers” (code for cancer-fighting herbs). Chromium polynicotinate (NSI) is preferable to picolinate (which has been shown to cause cancer in vitro) - http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Chromium-GTF-ChromeMate-200-mcg, (qty300, 200mcg chromium polynicotinate – best form that is bound with niacin, $9.99) 1/d, (Jarrow Multi Easy has 120mcg) Pomegranate extract (ellagic acid), 27/d -- causes apoptosis (cancer cells to die), http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-PomActiv-Pomegranate-Extract 250mg, (250mg 70%, qty300, $19.99). Cayenne or Red Pepper flakes and hot peppers - I used these liberally on my food at almost every meal. Besides being a good expectorant for lung problems, they cause apoptosis (programmed cell death of all types of cancer cells). Note: do not use black pepper; it is not a true pepper, and is thought to contribute to cancer. (See Dr. Rowen's article below entitled: "The Only Safe Way to Burn Cancer Out of Your Body". Lots of Fresh Garlic, Onion and Ginger root (or powder): you can add this to your Vitamix blend of vegetables, if you prefer. Ground cinnamon - lowers blood sugar. I also used gymnema sylvestre and yeast-based chromium to lower my blood sugar and keep from feeding the cancer. Also good are bitter melon and corosolic acid (from banaba or crepe myrtle). Cinnulin (water-soluble cinnamon extract; Dr. David Williams says that regular Cassia contains coumarin in its oils that can damage kidneys and liver over time), 4/d with meals, http://www.vitabase.com/supplements/split/diabetes/cinnamon.aspx ($12.96, 250mg, qty60, Cinnulin-PF, Free S+H >$50, otherwise $4.95 -- I take for help with cholesterol/triglycerides and blood sugar/insulin resistance) Potassium salt (Morton potassium and sodium chloride) - I use this instead of regular salt on my food. Some additional Immune Boosters (these work synergistically together to powerfully stimulate the Natural Killer and T-Cells of the immune system): Aloe Vera capsules: I also took 2-4 capsules of these along with the other Immune Boosters to be sure I was getting the powerful long-chain polysaccharides: http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Aloe-Vera-200 [CH 005106, New Chapter, $17.97, 60 Tablets, 300mg Organic freeze-dried Aloe Vera juice concentrate (leaf)(200:1)(equal to 2 oz. [60 grams] of fresh aloe vera juice)(min. 32% total polysaccharides - 96 mg, 45% short-chain polysaccharides - 43 mg, and 55% long-chain polysaccharides - 53 mg)] because it contains a lot of long-chain polysaccharides and none of the outer leaf sap (which causes diarrhea). PeakImmune4 250mg (immune booster), http://www.netnutri.com/browse.cfm/4.2460.htm (PeakImmune4, qty50, 250mg, $38.99),[formerly "MGN3", now called Peak Immune or BRM4] Boosts NK cells 3 times (rice bran arabinoxylan from fermenting with only the enzymes from shiitake to break down the rice bran hemicellulose; can be used by people with mushroom sensitivities: no mushroom remains in final product.) (Recommended loading dose: 12/d (250mg) (4,4,4) for 4wks to start, then 4/d maintenance) www.biobran.org/research [BRM4=MGN3] See http://www.biobran.org/comparison/ahcc.html for AHCC MGN-3 comparison (but I take both to be safe). [Fermentation or taking large dosages of Vitamin C taken with Reishi, etc. make it more effective against cancer by breaking the large molecules down so that they are better absorbed - Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine, a PDF by Dr. Lam] ProBoost Thymic Protein A (helps Thymus boost immune system) – Complementary Prescriptions aka Vitamin Research Products (Proboost Thymic Protein A, 30pkts, CP9122); http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=7468 (30pkts, $42.95) Proboost Thymic Protein A, 30pkts, CP9122) or http://www.vrp.com/det/9122.asp [The thymus is a small gland located behind the upper chest area, which plays a key role in proper immune functioning. This gland peaks in size at puberty, and then begins steady involution (shrinkage), until eventually it becomes incapable of producing certain proteins the immune system needs. All white blood cells (WBC’s) originate in the bone marrow. Some cells which can mature upon their release from the marrow are termed B-cells (“B” for bone). Other WBC’s are still immature when released from the marrow, and must travel to the thymus to receive proteins for activation. These cells are termed T-cells (“T” for thymus gland). The T-4 Helper cell is the “manager “ of the immune system. It is one kind of white blood cell that needs a thymic protein to be activated. Without a specific protein (protein A), the T-4 cell cannot function, and immune activity suffers. ProBoost Thymic Protein A supplies the missing thymic protein and activates the T-4 Helper cell. Each packet contains 4 micrograms (12 trillion active molecules) of freeze-dried, purified Thymic Protein A from calf thymus cell culture in a base of maltodextrin.] [LEF has Thymic Immune Factors (Bovine Thymus, Lymph and Spleen) $13.50/100 caps (2/d). Also, regarding ProBoost Thymic Protein A, Jerry Brunetti mentions that he used 1 packet/day or 1 ev other day for healthy people; more if sick.] Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) locks-up cancer cells that are trying to spread (www.iherb.com, or do an internet search for price comparison.) MCP just happens to be rich in the same sugar molecule (galactose) that the proteins on cancer cells (lectins) attach to. Once the cancer cells are “locked on” to the MCP molecules, they lose their ability to clump or penetrate normal cells. They then circulate in the system until they either die or are destroyed by the immune system. And, by “locking up” or neutralizing these cancer cells, MCP also helps lighten the load of the body’s immune system. Concentrated Flaxseed Lignans, helps prevent spread of cancer/metastasis (A.R.A.I., 817-320-8172; www.aidshivawareness.org/flaxhull.htm One 5.3oz cannister containing 32 servings costs $36 + shipping; for a limited time buy two and get one free. (mention 5-2008 HSI newsletter) [Also: http://www.brevail.com/content/locator.asp]) Optional, in addition to iFlora -- not instead (iFlora alone may be sufficient): Allergy Research Group, Nutricology, Russian Choice Immune. Russia's first choice for natural immunostimulant contains a specific strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus lysate powder. These Lactobacillus cell wall fragments have shown significant immune system supporting properties. Dosage: 1/2 teaspoon two times daily, or as directed by a healthcare practitioner. http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=8265&at=0 ($38.97, ARG-55710, Lactobacillus rhamnosus lysate powder 75grams, Serving Size: 1/2 Teaspoon (1.25 g), Servings Per Container: 60) [For more information, click here] Optional: Cat's Claw, http://www.luckyvitamin.com/733739046284.html Optional: Pau d'Arco, www.swansonvitamins.com SW424, $2.59/100, 500mg Optional: Goat-Milk Whey (not Cow's whey!) [Goat-milk whey is tolerated well by most people. CMW is highly concentrated, alkaline and contains minerals and electrolytes. (Potassium, Phosphorus, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium) Mt. Capra Goats are fed foods that are free of pesticides, herbicides and growth hormones and are not treated with antibiotics. CMW is minimally processed to preserve its original composition. There is rBGH (Bovine Growth Hormone), high levels of IGF-1 (insulin like growth factor), etc. in Cow's whey and milk products that cause cancer to grow faster: Goat Whey is better. (http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=3105) Optional: Mt. Capra Goat Milk Colostrum, qty120capsules, $21.00 -- CapraColostrum is harvested from goats, which are never given hormones or antibiotics (http://www.iherb.com/store/ProductDetails.aspx?c=Herbs&pid=MTC-00005) Alternative to Transfer Factor (one fourth as strong, but safer, since it doesn't come from cows.) Transfer Factor: Compounds that act synergistically with transfer factor include thymic protein factors, Chinese herbs (such as astragalus, cordyceps, shiitake, maitake, and reishi), inositol hexaphosphate (IP6), melatonin, 1-3 beta glucan (Epicor is a better form of this), glutathione, and associated antioxidants. Colostrum has 1/4 the potency (http://www.royalrife.com/tf/clinical.htm). Optional: A huge, very powerful neodymium rare-earth magnet (for about $200), that I put under my mattress, directly beneath the 3 1/2" lung tumor from http://www.engconcepts.net/List_Of_Special_Magnets.asp Optional: GraviolaMax, Raintree Nutrition, Inc., Ph. (800)780-5902; www.rain-tree.com. qty 120 capsules $21.95 plus shipping, 3/$20.95 each, or 6/$18.95 each. More info in Mar07 HSI newsletter. You need to gradually increase the amount you're taking, (and stop increasing for a while if you have lung cancer and are suddenly experiencing difficulty breathing from fluid buildup (or increased intra-cranial pressure for brain cancer) so that the toxins released from killing cancer won't overwhelm your body's ability to get rid of them. Anonna montana is a much more effective form of Graviola that the natives use instead of the original (Annona muricata) species of Graviola (Annona muricata). [Mountain Graviola is a new species of the genus Anonna, the active compounds of which are called acetogenins -and Taylor discovered it herself during a visit to her South American harvesting site. Though strikingly similar in appearance to the original species of Graviola (also known as Annona muricata), she noticed that natives never ate the fruit of this new tree-while the fruit, stems, and leaves of its close relative were regularly consumed by local tribes for medicinal purposes. After questioning them as to the reason, she was told that, unlike Graviola, the fruit from the Mountain Graviola tree (or Annona montana) was far too sour to be edible. But a closer look at the plant's structure revealed that this substitution had been coming at a price. Although the sweeter Graviola does in fact deliver potent curative properties, the less-palatable Mountain Graviola has nearly 26 novel acetogenins that you won't find in its relative-and even more of the acetogenin annonacin, which has been the focus of most of the published studies on account of its demonstrated cancer-fighting abilities and lack of toxicity.] Keep in mind that we're all individuals (one size does NOT fit all) and what is good for one is not necessarily good for another. For example, low-fat diets harm -- and can even kill -- 45% of the population. Some excellent books are Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210 and http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/iWeb/Russell%20Blaylock%20M.D./Books.html) and Medicinal Mushrooms by Georges M Halpern (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871319810/). Dr. Blaylock's special reports/newsletters are also very helpful: www.NewsMax.com/BlaylockReports and http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/) Optional if you typically have heartburn after meals (esp. meat-containing ones): Betaine Hydrochloride With Pepsin (if needed to increase stomach acidity – Note: the purpose of this is not to acidify your entire body but to help you digest your food), I take 1/d in AM (or cider vinegar 2tsp in water just before or along with meal), www.iherb.com, SNS-01362, Betaine HCI (Hydrochloride) with Pepsin, Source Naturals, 650 mg + 165mg 1:3000 Pepsin, 180 Tablets $10.39 [take with meals, in between food (not on an empty stomach). I only take one with breakfast, but some people may need to take with supper, too. If you get heartburn afterwards, then take an antacid and stop taking the Betaine at that particular mealtime. You can get heartburn from too much acid, but most people have indigestion from too little acid which they mistake for heartburn. True heartburn from too much acidity is relieved by taking a Tums, but someone who pops Tums all day typically has too little acid.] With meals: [Optional: Beta Plus, http://store.yahoo.com/spinelife/betaplus180t.html; Actizyme, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=5861 (180qty $20.49)]. Digestive Enzymes, 1-2 with each meal: 1 with smaller meals is okay; 2 doesn't hurt with smaller meals, but costs more (iherb, DRB-00047, Doctor's Best Digestive Enzymes, 90caps, $22.11) Pomegranate/Ellagic Acid (I started out taking 4 three times a day and gradually increased to 18-24/day [or take EIF]; see my website http://www.distance-healer.com/24.html if you experience fluid buildup from tumors dying) - Swanson SWH116, qty60, (250mg 75%=175mg ellagic acid), $4.79 Tri-Quench SSKI (potassium iodide), 3 drops/day ( 2AM + 1PM ) in water or blended vegetable juice -- essential especially with large amounts of selenium (see Jerry Brunetti's interview. I use 2 drops in the morning (in my green drink) and 1 drop at night. Kelp is way too weak, especially when you're eating large quantities of cruciferous vegetables, and because of the amount of Selenium you need) (I get mine from Dr. Wright’s Tahoma Clinic: http://www.tahomadispensary.com/istar.asp?a=29&search=tri-quench or http://www.tahomadispensary.com/istar.asp?a=6&id=110067!162) 888-893-6878 toll-free, 19mg/drop, 1250drops/bottle, $22.64, Tri-Quench (SSKI) potassium iodide. Free shipping >$95 if placed online. Tahoma Clinic, 801 Southwest 16th Street, Suite 125, Renton, WA 98057 [Tri-Quench is made by Scientific Botanicals, Seattle, WA 98103, info: http://www.tahoma-clinic.com/iodide.shtml] Being deficient in iodine can cause problems with the heart's rhythm, as well as low thyroid symtoms (hypothyroidism). SSKI/iodine (Jerry Brunetti simply applied some iodine tincture to a small section of his skin each day and his body absorbed what it needed. Helps with hormone-related illnesses.) A weaker alternative: Iosol (Iosol liquid iodine (per Dr. Wm's Apr2008 p80 Alternatives: start with 15 drops/day for a week or two, then 10-15 drops/day maintenance (higher amount if eating a lot of cruciferous vegetables seems to make you hypothyroid – cold hands and feet, slow thinking, etc.) See newsletter about painting tincture of iodine on skin to test for deficiency.) Available from TPCS, 660 Baker Street, Suite 229 , Costa Mesa , CA 92626 , 800-838-8727. Also: iherb (but costs more than TPCS) http://www.iherb.com/ProductsList.aspx?c=1&cid=801 (iherb, TPC-11302, TPCS, Iosol Formula II, 1 fl oz (30 ml) with eyedropper, $12.00, Iodine 1830 mcg/drop, Servings Per Container: 610 drops) Super Artemisinin extract, Nutricology, 60 Veggie Caps, iherb ARG-55400, 180mg, $32.00. Take 1 to 2 capsules, once or twice daily on an empty stomach. [I took 2/d for 3 months with active cancer; best to take apart from minerals.] Sensitive individuals may take with food. [Not for long-term use (i.e., more than 1-2 months at a time. You could alternate it with Jarrow's IP6) Take IP6 or Artemisinin on an empty stomach, apart from any nutrients or minerals, and be sure to take enough minerals to compensate the good minerals (except iron or too much copper) which it also binds and eliminates or you'll have a mineral deficiency. Helpful for Cancer because it binds/chelates iron which cancer needs, but monitor liver enzymes and hemoglobin.] See Dr. Blaylock's Natural Strategies for Cancer Pts book. For maintenance (when cancer's gone), only use them periodically -- not every day. Be careful when taking Artemisinin and/or IP6 as you do not want to make iron levels too low for normal cells. Careful monitoring (of ferritin levels) is essential. Falling ferritin levels can mean improved control of the cancer. Tests for ferritin levels are available in most laboratories and are relatively inexpensive (Blaylock p243-4). Note that excess copper and iron also stimulate cancer growth, and that a ferritin test is more appropriate to measure iron levels in cancer patients than the standard RBC and hematocrit, since the body attempts to bind and hide iron to protect itself. [See notes above under IP6] Long term administration (greater than 1 month) should be monitored by a healthcare practitioner and include liver enzymes and hemoglobin testing. Combining with antioxidants or iron may theoretically decrease effectiveness. Detoxification reactions may be experienced by some individuals. Artemisinin seeks out cancer cells and combines with the excessive iron inside them (quite a bit more than RBC's have) and detonates a free-radical "bomb" inside them, quickly destroying them! It also works on iron-containing pathogens, such as drug-resistant malaria. Dr. Rowen does consultations over the phone (or you can travel out to California and see him in person), and is very knowledgeable about Artemisinin. If you talk to him, ask him about the advisability of using IPT (insulin potentiation therapy) in your case, also. See below for his address, phone number and an explanation of IPT. Dr. Rowen's article about Artemisinin and Cancer: http://www.springboard4health.com/notebook/nutrients_artemisinin.html IP6 is similar; I used Artemisinin for 3 months, then used IP6 (cycled: not constantly) and took mineral supplements, but not at the same time of day as I was taking the IP6 (it'll bind the minerals and deplete your good as well as bad minerals). IP6 - Jarrow IP6 powder, JRW-20013, $9.57/100g -- (http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=193&at=0). IP6 is a water soluble antioxidant and protects against hydroxyl free radicals by chelating with reactive iron. Take with water on an empty stomach, apart from any minerals or medications. If you use IP6, you must carefully monitor your iron levels (via a blood ferritin test) to avoid lowering them too far: although too much iron is harmful, extremely low levels can impair your immune system. If your iron levels are high based upon your blood ferritin studies, you can take 500mg with each meal to bind the iron in your food and prevent its absorption. Another way to accomplish this goal is to take your green tea extract with your meals. To get the best immune stimulation, take 1000mg of IP6 with additional inositol between meals, and do not eat for 1 hour afterward in order to allow the IP6 to enter your bloodstream and tissues, and exert maximum cellular immune stimulation and iron chelation. IP6 (phytic acid) also binds with calcium, magnesium, zinc and other good minerals, so it's necessary to take supplemental good minerals and to take your IP6 apart from your minerals. Also, it's best to cycle IP6 rather than take it continuously, while keeping an eye on your ferritin level. Some of the things that can lower inflammation include Boswellia, Zyflamend, GLA, and Calamari DHA fish oil. Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). One of the best ways to follow cancer growth is to keep an eye on the level of C-reactive protein, which measures inflammation. This is a simple, inexpensive blood test that can be performed in most laboratories -- you can order one yourself at a nearby lab through Life Extension (www.lef.org/bloodtest/), or your doctor can order one for you. The blood level of CRP has been shown to be a reliable predictor of survival in cases of multiple myeloma, melanoma, lymphoma, ovarian, pancreatic, colon and other cancers: the higher the level -- that is, the greater the inflammation -- the worse the prognosis is. Improvement in the level of CRP is believed to indicate an improving control over the cancer. Like CRP, blood ferritin levels are also a good way to follow the progress of your cancer: very high levels are often seen with advanced cancers, especially cancers that have metastasized. Falling ferritin levels can mean improved control of the cancer. Tests for blood ferritin levels are available in most labs and are relatively inexpensive. In some instances, a high blood ferritin level is the first evidence of a malignant disease. Unfortunately, people were told for many years that they needed more iron. Little did people know that all the iron that the government added -- and still is adding -- to flour, breads, cereals, crackers and other foods, and manufacturers are adding to multivitamin pills were actually increasing their risk of cancer and other degenerative diseases, since excess iron (and copper) are free radicals. If they already had cancer, it caused their cancer to grow faster and spread more rapidly.] Note: when buying supplements, it's better to get "standardized" supplements (i.e., ones that say "standardized for 24% of Silymarin" or etc.); otherwise, one capsule might have a lot of the active ingredients and the next might be only dried leaves with little or no active ingredient. Standardized supplements ensure that you are getting the same amount of active ingredients each time. Also, www.consumerlab.com tests supplements and tells you which have little or no active ingredients, in case you're not sure of a brand (they have tested many, but not all brands). Also, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil fights cancer, and moderate exercise moves T-cells out of thymus gland and around the lymph system so that they can help the NK cells. Avoid glutamate/MSG/Kimchi with MSG, and cow milk/cheese (see Blaylock's cancer reports). Distilled Water: Drink plenty of distilled water: 10 to 12 oz glasses a day. (I've used Waterwise distillers for many years and am very happy with them: www.gulfcoastjuicers.com/waterwise9000.html; Product Review: Waterwise Water Distiller Company: http://www.naturalnews.com/z024282.html) Garlicin, qty90, 350mg, $6.89, Swanson NW015, 2/d Aged Garlic, Swanson KY048, Kyolic #100 Yeast-Free Garlic, qty300, 300mg, $16.99, 2/d Biotin, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Biotin, (5mg, 1/d, qty300capsules, $11.99) 300mcg is in JME (Jarrow Multi Easy vitamin powder) Calcium Citrate Powder, [Note: the 500mg/d that is in Jarrow Multi Easy powder is enough for Carb metabolic types without any additional Calcium powder; I would take somewhere between 500mg and 750mg/d of Calcium Gluconate powder (based upon individual acidity and diet) for Balanced types; and an additional 250mg/d of Calcium Gluconate powder for Protein types (total of 750mg/d). (http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1&pid=481) [NOW-01250, Now Foods Calcium Gluconate Powder, 7oz (198 g), $6.70, 1.25tsp = 200mg]. A short online test (best to compare the results of this with another test or two to verify): http://i.domaindlx.com/anilak/test.asp (See my Metabolic Typing web pages for more information about Metabolic Typing and how one person's food is another's poison). A vitamin D3 blood level of 50-70ng/ml is optimal for both Group I & II metabolic types; take 5000 iu D3/day and monitor via blood tests ev 3 mos. For Group II (parasympathetic dominants) Ca supplementation should be kept below 800mg/d with higher D3 dosages to avoid calcifications). Adequate Mg is needed for both Groups, with Group I emphasizing Mg in order to stay within optimal pH ranges, and Group II emphasizing Calcium. Phosphorous -- need a 2.5 Calcium to 1 Phosphorous ratio: about 416mg Phosphorous with 1040mg Calcium (http://www.perfect-prescription.com/product_detail.php?cid=3&pid=20) Perfect Prescription MSP, 4oz, $24.95 MSM / Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane, 1/d (http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-MSM-Methyl-sulfonylmethane (NI 001774, 1000mg, qty240, $9.99) Thuja 30X 250 tablets [1 tablet], $8.99 (http://www.elixirs.com/products.cfm?productcode=D10) or ** Note: enzymes, curcumin, pomegranate, milk thistle, immune boosters are very important! In addition to above, if taking Chemotherapy: Maharishi amrit kalash (http://www.mapi.com/ or 800-255-8332) Ligustrum Lucidum (p216 Blaylock), (iherb, NTA-00723, Nature's Answer, Ligustrum Fruit, Alcohol-Free, 30 ml, 1 fl. oz., $6.90). Blaylock: “If combined with Astragalus, Ligustrum increases survival time of people taking chemotherapy or radiation.” Hawthorn extract, during and until 3 wks after chemo ends (helps protect heart against damage from chemo)(Swanson, NW526, $6.59, qty90, 500mg 1.8-2.2% Hawthorn, Nature's Way, 90 Capsules) Siberian Ginseng, 3/d during and until 3 wks after chemo ends -- protects against chemo (http://www.vitacost.com/ParadiseHerbsSiberianEleutheroRoot (qty60, 250mg 50:1, $9.25, PA777036) Gugulipid, http://store.yahoo.com/iherb/guggulsterones.html, SNS-01840, $10.99, qty120, 37.5mg gugulsterones, 375mg 10%, 3/d (helps protect heart against damage from chemo) Pantethine, 3/d, www.swansonvitamins.com, SWU150, 300mg, qty60, $10.49 (helps protect heart against damage from chemo) L-Taurine, 2/d, Swanson SW827, qty100, 500mg, $3.14 (helps protect heart against damage from chemo) Policosanol, 2/d, Swanson SWU268, qty60 capsules, 10mg, $4.49 from sugar cane. [SWU204, qty60 capsules, 20mg, $8.29 are sometimes on sale - buy one, get one free] (helps protect heart against damage from chemo) Flush-Free Niacin (inositol hexaniacinate), 3-6/d (higher dose if cholesterol is out of control and liver is fine), www.swansonvitamins.com, [Swanson SWU081, 500mg Niacin + 140mg Inositol, qty240 capsules, $14.99 (helps protect heart against damage from chemo) L-Carnitine, 1-3/d; http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-L-Carnitine-Fumerate, (500mg, qty300, $29.99), 3/d (protects heart during chemo) Natto (nattozyme/nattozime/nattokinase, Nattokinase clot dissolver, Best time to take is at night or following heart attack or clot-caused stroke. Dr Wms advised to take 1AM, 1Lunch, 2Bedtime). This dissolves clots, is not an anticoagulant. Swanson SWU258, qty90, 65mg [1000 fibrinolytic units (FU)], $8.99 In addition to above, for Colon Cancer: Butyric Acid/N-butyrate [2 tablets/d], iherb ARG-50220, Allergy Research Group/Nutricology ButyrAid, 100tabs, $9.14, 4/$35.65, 12/$104.20, A source of butyric acid, calcium, and magnesium, in an enterically-coated tablet designed to release in the small intestine. Serving Size: 2tabs; Servings Per Container: 50. Per 2 tabs: Calcium (as Calcium Magnesium Butyrate and Calcium Phosphate) 250mg, Magnesium (as Calcium Magnesium Butyrate and Magnesium Oxide) 200mg, Butyric Acid (as Calcium Magnesium Butyrate) 200mg (grind before mixing into paste) - suppresses colon cancer. Also see my Colon Cancer page. Additional Supplements For Lung Cancer (in addition to the above): Lutein (80mg/d per Blaylock's email) www.swansonvitamins.com, qty100, $3.31, SW912, 6mg (so you'll need 12/d if taking Swanson Ultra Carotenoid Complex which has 12mg in 2 capsules) Oak & Comfrey Syrup and Breathe herbal capsules from www.theherbfinder.com (800-780-6934); Andrographis, http://www.luckyvitamin.com/033674153819.html, (Nature's Way, qty60, 300mg); American Ginseng, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-American-Ginseng-80 (500mg, qty300, 80%, $24.99); Agaricus Blazei (Brazil's immune-boosting "Mushroom of God"), www.swansonvitamins.com, (SWH122, qty90, $14.99, 500mg); Air Power, www.swansonvitamins.com, (ET004, qty100, $6.79); For hormone-related cancers (breast, ovarian, prostate, etc.), in addition to above: Calcium d-Glucarate and DIM. For enlarged prostates and prostate cancer: Saw Palmetto, raw pumpkin seeds (or pumpkin seed oil), Beta Sitosterol, http://www.luckyvitamin.com/021078014157.html [qty60, $5.98, 021078014157], Pygeum bark extract, Stinging Nettle root extract (not leaf), Pollenaid 90caps/bottle [by Graminex in Saginaw, Michigan (http://www.graminex.com) 877-472-6469 or 517-797-5502], and BetterMan [http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=7971]. If Needed to Stop Bleeding (best to order some to have on hand ahead of time): Sangre de Grado for bleeding. Better have some Yunnan Paiyao handy also. -- Ingrid Naiman. Yunnan Paiyao powder (http://www.chinesenaturalherbs.com/herb_pages/yunnanpaiyao.asp) or here [Also spelled “Yunnan Hongyao” 24 capsules for $2.29, Catalog ID: R13779 (http://nuherbs.com/items/detail/1634)] For Stress (if needed): Hyland's Arsenicum Album, 1 each time ev 4-6 hrs as needed, under tongue for cancer apprehension / anxiety (Vitacost or iHerb) For Cough: Pain Relief: • Instead of Tylenol, nsaids, motrin, aspirin which can damage the liver further, I use quercetin, capsaicin/cayenne orally and/or cream (swanson) and acupuncture. Other pain relievers and for headaches: Hyland's arnica montana, ruta, bryonia, headache formula, • Apis Mell. 6X (Hyland's) [1 tablet], iherb HYL-06034, 250tabs, $5.60 (http://www.iherb.com/) or Apis Mell. 30x (Hyland's), 250tabs, HY 290341, $3.89 (http://www.vitacost.com/Hylands-Apis-Mell) • Acupuncture: You can find Acupuncturists and Oriental Medical Doctors at http://www.nccaom.org/find/index.html -- Dipl.Ac. is the best certification for an acupuncturist) --- Other (low cost foods): Cinnamon, ginger, cayenne (I used lots of it -- if you add it to your juice, along with cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil, you can barely taste it) Deodorant that doesn't block toxins from coming out: Healthier cosmetics database: The cosmetic and body products women use every day can be contaminated with chemicals, and their effects could be especially harmful for teens. The Environmental Working Group (EW) tested 20 teenaged girls between the ages of 14 and 19 and found 16 chemicals in their blood and urine. The chemicals involved have been linked to hormone disruption and even cancer. Teens are especially vulnerable in two ways. First, they use more personal care products than adult women, using an average of 17 each day with a total of 174 ingredients compared to the average adult woman’s usage of 12. Second, the large number of products containing damaging ingredients comes at a time when girls’ bodies are developing rapidly, and reproductive, immune, blood, and other systems are maturing. Some of the sex hormones that guide the body’s changes are present in miniscule amounts as low as one part per trillion (ppt) and girls’ bodies may be particularly sensitive to chemicals that disrupt hormones. The group advises that consumers avoid the following ingredients found in cosmetics and other personal care products: • parbens (or ingredients that have “parben” as a part of their name). Linked to hormone disruption. • Sodium lauryl or laureth sulfate. May cause skin damage. • Fragrances and dyes. Tied to allergies, cancer, and difficulty with the nervous system • “PEG” and “-eth.” Toxic contaminants. • Methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone. Linked to allergies and difficulties with the nervous system. • Triclosan and triclocarban. May cause thyroid problems. • DMDM hydantoin and imidanzolidinyl urea. Toxic contaminants • Triehanolamine (TEA). Contain toxic contaminants and also linked to allergies. Some specific types of products the EWG also advises consumers to avoid include: • Anti-aging creams that contain lactic, glycolia, AHA and BHA acid • Nail polishes and nail polish removers that contain formaldehyde • All dark permanent hair dyes and dyes containing peroxide, ammonia, p-phenylenediamine, and diaminobenzene. The EWG recommends that the federal government set safety standards for cosmetic and other personal care products and reformulate products, removing potentially harmful ingredients. This three-nutrient cocktail reduces cancer by up to 59% Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to cure. It's one form of cancer you definitely don't want to get. And new research shows three different nutrients can substantially cut your risk. What's more, if you're a smoker, these nutrients can do even more to protect you. [Note: these flavanols are good for all types of cancer.] Not only can these nutrients lower your risk of pancreatic cancer, they can lower your overall risk as well. In this study, German researchers followed participants from many different ethnic groups. The eight-year study compared the cancer protection from three different flavanols (a type of plant polyphenols). The researchers found that all three of the flavanols can slash your cancer risk. In fact, they slashed the risk for pancreatic cancer by 25%. If you are a smoker, the reduction is even more pronounced. You can cut it by more than 59%. This was the first study to examine the specific classes of flavanols and their impact on pancreatic cancer risk reduction. The researchers studied the flavanols quercetin, kaempferol, and myricetin. You'll find quercetin in onions and apples, kaempferol in spinach and cabbage, and myricetin in red onions and berries. Of the three, kaempferol provided the largest amount of risk reduction - 22% - across all participants. Obviously, eating all three will give you even more protection. That's why these are some of my favorite and most recommended foods. I try to eat an onion and spinach in my salad every day. And it's logical to think that if they slash the risk of pancreatic cancer, they will reduce your risk for other cancers as well. You won't find these wonderful compounds in synthetic, processed, manmade petrochemicals. You can find natural quercetin and myricetin in supplement form on the Internet and in many health food stores (see Dr. Blaylock's suggestion about mixing quercetin along with 95% curcumin in a tablespoon of E.V. olive oil). But kaempferol is harder to find. So eat more of these foods to make sure you get all of the flavanols. And take additional quercetin and myricetin to increase your protection. Yours for better health and medical freedom, In addition to the above, I recommend using a Vitamix 5000 variable-speed blender that you run at lower speeds -- because the single or dual speed blenders generate enough heat on the blade surfaces to destroy the enzymes that are naturally found in food, and the standard juicers discard the all-important pulp. Use organic foods. Choose at least 5 vegetables from the list below for blending in your Vitamix blender (2 ten ounce glasses/day). If possible, use all the vegetables on the list (Note: Dr. Blaylock was referring to the first sentence under "Vegetables" below, but he didn't mean that the others he mentioned elsewhere weren't good, also). In general, especially when first starting your conventional therapy, avoid fruits, or at least use just a minimum amount (because of the sugar content -- unless you have an extract supplement without the sugar that you want to take in addition). Raw Vegetables: Beets (roots & tops), Broccoli (especially broccoli sprouts), Brussels sprouts, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Kale, Spinach (don't eat with Vitamin C or other acids because they'll increase the absorption of iron), Parsley, Purple cabbage, Tomatoes, Turnip greens. Also, from Dr. Blaylock's cancer newsletter issues: Chinese cabbage, Mustard greens, Collard greens, Squash, Cilantro (best taken with low-mercury chlorella, such as Kyoto brand), Onion, Ginger, Garlic, and Cayenne. Others mentioned by Jerry Brunetti: Cabbage (especially Purple cabbage), sweet potatoes (in moderation – root vegetables are starchy), winter squashes, asparagus, misc. greens such as raddichio, arugula, endive, dandelion, collard greens, mustard greens, beets, red, green & hot peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, artichoke, cilantro. Others from Dr. Williams’ Cancer report: Cress/watercress, radish, horseradish, rutabaga, kohlrabi, Bok Choy. Jalapeno, other hot peppers. Peppers also have cancer fighting substances. The spice turmeric can be added as well. [from Dr. Blaylock: The cruciferous vegetables — such as broccoli (especially broccoli sprouts), Brussels sprouts, kale and cauliflower — are loaded. Studies have shown that these vegetables provide superior cancer-preventing power. A number of other vegetables are big hitters, as well. These include turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, cabbage (especially purple and Chinese cabbage), carrots, green and red peppers, onions, beets including greens, celery, parsley, eggplant, tomatoes, artichoke and cilantro. Of the fruits, the most important are cranberries, currants, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries and apples (especially the McIntosh variety).] The juice should contain a significant amount of cruciferous vegetables including: broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower (this is for both the cancer and the critical protection of the liver) [Thanks to Dr. Russell Blaylock, Jerry Brunetti, and also to Webster Kehr at www.cancertutor.com for the above. For other helpful information, you might see: http://www.cancertutor.com/faq/faq_how_started.html] Add cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil (in a glass bottle is best) to your blended mix, along with spices if you wish. Fruits: Blackberries*, Blueberries*, Raspberries*, Cranberries, Grapefruit, Apples (especially McIntosh), Oranges*, Tangerines*, Red currants, Strawberries*, Currents, grapes* (only if organic and you check with the grower that they don’t use Cryolite, a fluoride-based insecticide, as all conventional and some organic growers use it.) * DO NOT ADD if you presently have cancer -- take ellagic acid/pomegranate extract instead and sugar-free blueberry extract. I also use BerryVin (http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-BerryVin-FKA-Berryvida-High-Orac-Berries , NI 001996). One of my favorite blends is (mostly organic) green onions, fresh parsley, fresh cherry tomatoes, celery, carrots, brussels sprouts and various other greens, fresh onion, garlic, some cayenne and a jalapeno pepper! (When blending, add about a cup of distilled water and some cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil to help it liquify). Dr. Blaylock recommends that you use Environne Fruit & Vegetable Wash (www.environne.com) and scrub and rinse them afterwards. He also said that since insecticides penetrate several millimeters into the skins of apples, he advises peeling apples before eating or putting them in the blender. (See my "Cancer&Raw Food" page for more info. By blenderizing, you can absorb up to 90% of the nutrients in vegetables and fruits, as opposed to only about 10% for people who chew their food an average amount, and about 20-30% for people who chew their food very thoroughly. Blenderizing (juicing at low speed to preserve the enzymes, and eating the pulp as well as the juice) raw vegetables and fruits (take concentrated berry extracts instead of eating fruits if you have active cancer because of the high sugar content in fruits) retains the plant enzymes and vitamins. Berries (mostly the skins, which some juices throw away) are also helpful. Organic is higher in nutrients, and safer because it is lower in pesticides. A good berry extract is: http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-BerryVin-FKA-Berryvida-High-Orac-Berries , NI 001996, NSI BerryVin. --- Excerpt from Dr. Blaylock's October 2008 newsletter, "The Great Cancer Lie -- It Is Preventable and Beatable": The most potent anticancer vegetables include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, and greens (mustard, collard, and turnip) and garlic. They should be blenderized for maximum potency. Because kale, broccoli and Brussels sprouts can contain chemicals that inhibit the thyroid gland in their raw state, I suggest lightly steaming them before blenderizing to neutralize the chemicals (Note: I include a moderate amount of these in my juice in their raw form). For references and more information on cancer and nutrition be sure to visit my Web site at To subscribe and access the Cancer Prevention newsletter that the above excerpts were taken from, along with several other newsletters detailing what to do if you already have different types of cancer, and other topics including vaccinations, health exams, how to select the best vitamins, healthy aging, etc.: https://www.newsmaxstore.com/newsletters/blaylock/offer9.cfm or call 800-485-4349. See the following for which foods are highest in pesticides, and therefore you should buy organic (if you cannot afford all organic): http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php, http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php, http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/update-2005-05-24/pesticides-in-food.htm, http://www.foodnews.org/index.php, http://www.foodnews.org/fulldataset.php The Foods That Are Most Affected by Pesticides Also, see my Links page for articles telling how to identify and avoid GMO / genetically modified foods / "Frankenfoods". Avoid these: No white starch, sugar, chlorinated/fluoridated water, hydrogenated trans-fats, artificial colors, artificial or natural sweeteners -- not even honey, raw cane sugar, fruit sugar/fructose, etc. (except Stevia, which I get from www.emperorsherbologist.com ) BGH (bovine growth hormone) in cow's milk and cheese increases a hormone called IGF and makes cancer grow rapidly. Goat's milk (preferably raw) is better. Note that sugar feeds cancer, whether it’s “organic”, “raw”, honey, corn syrup, fruit juice, etc. Essentials: a.) Clean air (I use HEPA filters in the living room & bedroom. No wood stoves/wood-burning fireplaces, burning candles, incense or air “fresheners”!) Also, avoid naphthalene (often used to deodorize toilets and urinals), mothballs, camphor, Vicks and other camphor rubs -- especially with lung cancer. b.) Pure water (distilled, to which I add some magnesium: http://www.iherb.com/store/ProductDetails.aspx?c=Herbs&pid=NOW-01405 ); c.) Clean house and environment (avoid harmful chemical pesticides, cleaners, etc. – we use half dish detergent + half water for June bugs; cucumber peels for ants; a spritz bottle with vinegar and another with 3% hydrogen peroxide for kitchen cleaning, using one followed by the other; vinegar + water + lemon juice for windows/mirrors; etc. Try to find non-toxic alternatives. d.) Clean body: The ingredients in cosmetics do not have to be tested for safety as the government doesn’t realize that they are absorbed internally through your skin. Aubrey Organics is one brand that is concerned with the systemic effects of its ingredients. Deodorants trap toxins in our bodies, which is especially significant in breast and lung cancer, although it plays a role in the detoxification of all types of cancer. Two brands I recommend are: Dessert Essence (Tea Tree Oil & Lemon Grass), http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=10575 , 243048, $4.11, 3 oz; and Home Health Herbal Magic unscented, www.vitacost.com , HH 575091, $2.97, 2 oz (318858575091). If additional protection is needed, after washing, rinsing and drying, you can apply ethyl rubbing or drinking alcohol (not isopropyl or other alcohols – they’re absorbed through your skin and are toxic to your liver), wait a few seconds for the alcohol to air-dry, then apply the deodorant. To learn more, and find non-toxic alternatives: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com, http://healthtruthrevealed.com/chemical-warfare.pdf, http://www.safecosmetics.org/your_health/poisonkiss.cfm, http://www.safecosmetics.org/your_health/index.cfm, Choosing Products That Promote Beauty and Well Being: e.) Clean, organic food: see Dr. Blaylock’s discussion of washing the pesticides off your foods, and if you cannot afford all organic foods (I, for one, cannot), then which ones you should only get organic. (search for Environne below, and see: http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/update-2005-05-24/pesticides-in-food.htm, http://www.foodnews.org/index.php, http://www.foodnews.org/fulldataset.php) f.) Enough sleep, rest, and freedom from excessive stress (some stress is actually good for you, but not if it’s excessive) g.) A moderate amount of exercise moves the Natural Killer cells and other immune cells out of the thymus gland and circulates them throughout the body. It also circulates the lymph and helps your immune system deal with cancer and infections. Excessive exercise is oxidizing and creates too many free radicals. h.) Imagery/Visualization: See the section entitled “Imagery/Visualization” below (or Edit, Search for it, using your browser). i.) Eat Right for Your Metabolism, Not Your Blood Type: Dr. Kelley cured himself of pancreatic cancer, which to this day is still incurable by conventional medicine, by eating an almost totally vegetarian diet, along with spiritual elements and supplements. When his wife became very ill, he tried the same diet on her and she became much sicker and almost died until he tried a last-ditch effort of giving her a lot of meat. She quickly recovered. Dr. Kelley spent many years investigating various metabolic types of people and what types of foods and supplements would keep each type in optimum health. You might have heard that everyone needs to alkalinize their bodies to recover from cancer by eating certain “alkaline” foods. Some types, such as parasympathetic dominant people, are actually too alkaline and need to be acidified! (See the article “Eat Right for Your Metabolism, Not Your Blood Type” in the section about Dr. Rowen below for more information.) Regarding what is healthy and what isn't, here is an excerpt of a report courtesy of Dr. Blaylock (www.NewsMax.com/BlaylockReports), a board-certified neurologist who is also a naturopathic doctor: If you listen to the mainstream press, you probably think that the perfect diet should contain lots of soy products, whole grains, vegetable oils, cheese and milk. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, all of these promote the inception and growth of cancer. Instead, your diet should mostly contain highly nutrient-dense vegetables, a few fruits, lean meats, low-glycemic carbohydrates and purified water. It is important that your diet contain no cow’s milk, cheese, vegetable oils, processed foods, beef or beef products, soy products, sugar or foods containing it, artificial sweeteners, MSG (even in disguised forms) or fluoridated water. Meats Hot dogs, bologna and other processed meats can put you at risk for Mad Cow disease and they contain cancer-causing nitrites. A number of studies have shown an association between pregnant women eating nitrites in meats and their children developing brain tumors. Organically raised turkeys, chicken, pigs and even cattle are much safer, but I am still hesitant about recommending organically raised cattle, since no studies have been done on the incidence of viral cancers in these animals. It is also important to avoid overcooked or seared meats, as they develop powerful cancer-causing compounds called heterocyclic amines, which are strongly associated with colon and stomach cancer. Barbecuing on an open grill is especially hazardous because of these chemicals. Some studies have shown that eating fresh vegetables with meats significantly reduces the heterocyclic amine danger, as do curcumin, quercetin, hesperidin and vitamin C. As with most things in life, quality trumps quantity when it comes to choosing fruits and vegetables. While fruits can have important cancer-fighting power, I don’t usually suggest you eat a lot of them. That’s because most are high in sugar, which increases your risk of cancer, as well as neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The link is that high calorie intake increases free-radical generation. Certain vegetables contain extremely high levels of cancer-preventing substances, while others have very few. The cruciferous vegetables — such as broccoli (especially broccoli sprouts), Brussels sprouts, kale and cauliflower — are loaded. Studies have shown that these vegetables provide superior cancer-preventing power. A number of other vegetables are big hitters, as well. These include turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, cabbage (especially purple and Chinese cabbage), carrots, green and red peppers, onions, celery, parsley, eggplant, tomatoes, artichoke and cilantro. Of the fruits, the most important are cranberries, currants, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries and apples (especially the McIntosh variety). You’ll probably notice that I omitted grapes, which do in fact contain a number of powerful cancer-preventing substances. The reason? Most commercial grapes are grown in California and are high in fluoride, which is used as an insecticide (cryolite) that is sprayed on crops. Fluoride, a very reactive element, binds to all the components of the grape and is still present even after the fruit is sold in bunches or processed into juice and wine. Organic grapes may or may not contain it, depending on the grower. Fluoride has been shown to increase cancer growth and bone cancer risk by 600% in young men. Several major studies found that cancer death rates in cities with fluoridated water were 10% higher than those of cities with fluoride-free water. Cancer Causers: Pesticides and Herbicides This shows how a number of cancer-causing chemicals and factors can act together to produce cancer. Sometimes they combine, in a process called synergism, to become infinitely more powerful than they would be alone. In our everyday lives, we are exposed to a number of carcinogenic agents — some weak, some strong. Many act synergistically, enabling two weak carcinogens to have a very strong cancer-causing effect. These food products neutralize the cancerous effects of pesticides and herbicides by stimulating the body’s detoxification systems, both in the liver and in all cells. Another way to avert danger is by removing the pesticide and herbicide residues from your fruits and vegetables. Like my friend’s wife, you should carefully cleanse all produce in a vegetable wash. Several brands are available. I use a product called Environne Fruit & Vegetable Wash (www.environne.com). When rinsing your produce, always use fluoride-free water, since the substance will bind to your food. Some produce (peppers, squash, cucumbers, etc.) is coated with a wax that has been permeated by pesticides and must be scrubbed with a vegetable brush. I would also avoid the skin on apples, as poisons penetrate several millimeters into the peel. I have never seen a cancer prevention study in which washed vegetables were used, so you can see how most studies are misleading. Fats: Friend and Foe The good fats include the omega-3 oils and other oils that are converted into EPA and DHA, such as alpha-linolenic acid. The omega-3 oils come from algae, which explains how fish obtain them. This is also why farm-raised fish are devoid of omega-3 oils, which are composed of two nutrients — EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Of the two, DHA has the more powerful anticancer effect and it is especially efficient in preventing cancer of the colon, prostate and breasts. Pure DHA is derived from algae, and an adult dose is 500 mg. a day. For children ages 2 to 12, the dose is 100 mg. a day. DHA inhibits cancer using a number of mechanisms — principally inflammation reduction. Most of the others are beyond the scope of this newsletter. For more information on this and other cancer treatment topics, see my newly released book, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients. (See http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/ and www.NewsMax.com/BlaylockReports and his books http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/iWeb/Russell%20Blaylock%20M.D./Books.html) Flaxseed oil is also one of the good oils. It is composed of alpha-linolenic acid, which the body actually turns into EPA and DHA. But not all people can efficiently convert the oil — infants, small children and the chronically ill are among those who have problems. And the stuff very easily becomes rancid. A test, the Essential and Metabolic Fatty Acid Profile, will indicate whether or not you are converting the oil. There is a really good article about the different types of fats and their effects upon health and cancer at: http://www.jonbarron.org/newsletters/02/10-21-2002.php Note that, even though the specific cancer that Jon's mentioning in this article happens to be prostate, because he's addressing a trial that only was looking at flax oil's effect upon prostate cancer, it applies equally to all types of cancers, and health in general. Here is some information from Dr. Jonathan Wright on fats: Q: I read that it's unlikely that anyone would be deficient in omega-6 fatty acids since they're found in most vegetable oils. Is that true? JVW: Omega-6 fatty acids are found in nuts and seeds, so it would seem logical that oils extracted and produced from them should contain adequate amounts. However, there are several steps in the production process of and use of vegetable oils (corn, sunflower seed, safflower seed, sesame seed, soybean, flaxseed, etc.) that basically destroy most of the oils' real nutrient value. When manufacturers extract oil from seeds, they usually leave behind most of the vitamin E and other antioxidants originally present in the various seeds. Plus, as soon as the oils are extracted, they start to oxidize. Storage of seed oils, especially in containers at home, involves repeated exposure to oxygen as the containers are opened and closed again, which causes further oxidation. Then, when you use heat up these seed oils to cook food, they're oxidized some more, and more of their nutritional quality is compromised. Given all of these opportunities for oxidation, it's a small marvel we get useful omega-6 fatty acids from seed oils at all! But it is possible to ward off at least a little of this oxidation. First, add at least 800 to 1,000 units of vitamin E to each container of oil as soon as it's opened. This not only helps keep the oil from oxidizing as quickly, but it also helps to make up for what gets lost in the production process). From there, try to limit your consumption of these types of oils to uses that don't involve heating them (as a salad dressing, for example). Keep in mind, though, the best sources of the omega-6 fatty acids are whole unroasted nuts and seeds. And remember that even though you do need omega-6 fatty acids, the omega-3s should "outnumber" them. Imagery/Visualization: It’s important that you do some imagery/ visualization to help yourself get better. It’s a technique that strengthens the immune system. I taught Bernie Siegel about it in the early 1970's when my first wife had Hodgkin's disease. I didn't know as much about natural medicine back then, so I augmented radiation with imagery and the doctors at Yale, including Bernie, said that she recovered so quickly that they wanted to know all about the imagery (and said to keep on doing it). Shortly afterwards, Bernie quit surgery and went into teaching about imagery full-time. My method of imagery/visualization is quite simple. You can picture opposing armies, with your army winning, or cotton-ball shaped white cells swallowing up and killing black dots representing germs or cancer cells. While you're doing this, tighten up your solar plexus muscles and hold them for a few seconds until you visualize the cancer (germs, if you're using visualization to fight an infection) being dead and your white cells (or army) victorious. Next, I visualize a peaceful, relaxing scene -- it can be any you want. Mine is lying beside a babbling brook in the grass, under a blue sky with puffy clouds with birds singing and being totally healthy and happy. The key is to go away from the visualization really believing that you've beaten it. I had a friend who had Lymphoma do this for a few minutes twice a day. (She beat it). You can modify this, for example picture Pac-men or opposing armies, or etc. The important part is to each time visualize winning and leave it feeling at peace and healthy. Many people find that it helps to listen to some healing/meditation music (such as Reiki or Merlin's Magic, available on Amazon) while you’re doing imagery and visualization; it relaxes them and contributes to their healing experience. Besides just the obvious physical aspects of illness, the state of your mind, emotions and spirit are also very important in health and to overcome disease. Your mind can help heal you or help kill you. This is the principle of voodoo: people who are cursed and believe in its power to kill them give up the will to live, stop eating, their white blood cell count plummets, and they die. People who don't believe in it don't die (some witch doctors have resorted to killing them in the traditional way in order to avoid losing faith amongst the "believers". Also, many of us know of a person who has died from some cause or another and soon afterwards the spouse dies because they simply have given up the will to live, making it easy for a heart attack, cancer or some other opportunistic disease to develop and kill them. Use your mind to enhance your recovery from disease, rather than deter from it by using imagery or visualization. Your belief system can also trap you into passively accepting treatments that have very low percentages of success (such as going with the flow, or with whatever the insurance company will pay for), rather than allowing you to make an objective study of treatments with a better chance of success. Your mind can help heal or help kill you. It can also cause you to deny that you should stop smoking, drinking, taking drugs, eating bad foods, staying out late, getting little sleep and not taking care of yourself, etc. When you have a disease, particularly a serious one, it's imperative that you make the effort to do your homework and explore all possible alternatives with an open mind. Too often, patients refuse to even consider treatments other than surgery, chemotherapy or radiation until it is too late and they are at death's door. In general, alternative treatments have a much higher success rate with degenerative diseases, particularly if they are done sooner in the disease process, before the body is destroyed by surgery, chemo, radiation or drugs, than when death is inevitable. Here is a link and excerpt from an article discussing this concept. (Note that it's better to help your mind to heal your body by augmenting imagery with proper diet, lifestyle and supplements.) http://www.naturalnews.com/023309.html It is beliefs, you see, that determine a person's possibilities in dealing with health challenges. People who believe in the limited options (and outdated paradigms) of conventional medicine are doomed to a life of disease and suffering. But those who free themselves from that outmoded pattern of thinking are able to tap into a whole new universe of possibilities for rapid healing. And since the body follows the mind, healing takes place almost instantly. The body literally creates a new reality based on what the mind believes. Symptoms vanish, and diseases become history. This is what Wellness at Warp Speed teaches the reader to do. It reminds me of a case where a woman suffering from multiple personalities was diabetic in one personality, but when she flipped to her alternate personality, her blood sugar was normal. Her "disease," you see, was merely the expression of who she thought she was, and as her personality switched from one belief system to another, her body automatically followed by either turning on the disease or turning it off. There are many, many cases in medical literature where patients demonstrate nearly instant cures of cancer, for example, when given inert serums that they believe to be breakthrough anti-cancer medicines. While conventional medicine would write this off as a placebo effect, more astute observers of this situation realize this demonstrates the power of the mind to determine the health outcome expressed by the body! Change your mind, in other words, and your body will follow. That's why real health transformation begins by shifting your belief systems. Wellness at Warp Speed is the book that can change your mind in a positive way. Simply reading it is a transformational experience that can open you to new possibilities for health and healing -- even for near-spontaneous disease reversal. No belief system is a replacement for emergency medicine, of course, if you need acute care of a broken leg from an automobile accident, for example, but holding the right frame of mind is absolutely crucial for preventing or overcoming so-called "degenerative" diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and others. These diseases do not exist anywhere other than in the expression of your physiology, and that's determined largely by what you hold to be true (or at least possible) in your own mind. Epigenetics: How Your Mind (also diet, lifestyle, spirituality, attitude, determination to live and not accepting illness) Can Reprogram Your Genes Story at-a-glance: * Science has shattered the Central Dogma of molecular biology, proving that determinism--the belief that your genes control your health--is false. You actually have a tremendous amount of control over how your genetic traits are expressed, by changing your thoughts and altering your diet and your environment * In 1988, the experiments of John Cairns demonstrated even primitive organisms can evolve "consciously," as DNA changes in response to its environment. The cell's "consciousness" lies in its membrane, which contains receptors that pick up various environmental signals. This mechanism controls the "reading" of the genes inside the cell * Contrary to the Newtonian belief in your body as a biological machine, epigenetic science reveals that you are an extension of your environment, which includes everything from your thoughts and belief systems, to toxic exposures and exposure to sunlight, exercise, and, of course, everything you choose to put onto and into your body. Epigenetics shatters the idea that you are a victim of your genes, and shows that you have tremendous power to shape and direct your physical health How much control do you really have over your own life in general, and your health in particular? These questions have puzzled many since the beginning of time. Now, the emerging science of epigenetics is offering some answers that put true control within your reach. According to some scientists, changing your health may be as "simple" as changing your thoughts and beliefs. "Contrary to what many people are being led to believe, a lot of emphasis placed on genes determining human behavior is nothing but theory and doctrine," writes Konstantin Erikseni. "We are free to make decisions that impact our lives and those of others. ... Our beliefs can change our biology. We have the power to heal ourselves, increase our feelings of self-worth and improve our emotional state." Epigenetics Shatters "The Central Dogma" The ramification of buying into the central dogma is that it leads to belief in absolute determinism, which leaves you utterly powerless to do anything about the health of your body; it's all driven by your genetic code, which you were born with. However, scientists have completely shattered this dogma and proven it false. You actually have a tremendous amount of control over how your genetic traits are expressed--from how you think to what you eat and the environment you live in. You may recall the Human Genome Projectii, which was launched in 1990 and completed in 2003. The mission was to map out all human genes and their interactions, which would than serve as the basis for curing virtually any disease. Alas, not only did they realize the human body consists of far fewer genes than previously believed, they also discovered that these genes do not operate as previously predicted. In the featured article, Eriksen describes the experiments of John Cairns, a British molecular biologist who in 1988 produced compelling evidence that our responses to our environment determine the expression of our genes. A radical thought, for sure, but one that has been proven correct on multiple occasions since then. Eriksen writesiii : "Cairns took bacteria whose genes did not allow them to produce lactase, the enzyme needed to digest milk sugar, and placed them in petri dishes where the only food present was lactase. Much to his astonishment, within a few days, all of the petri dishes had been colonized by the bacteria and they were eating lactose. The bacterial DNA had changed in response to its environment. This experiment has been replicated many times and they have not found a better explanation than this obvious fact -- that even primitive organisms can evolve consciously. So, information flows in both directions, from DNA to proteins and from proteins to DNA, contradicting the "central dogma." Genes can be activated and de-activated by signals from the environment. The consciousness of the cell is inside the cell's membrane. Each and every cell in our bodies has a type of consciousness. Genes change their expression depending on what is happening outside our cells and even outside our bodies." Your Emotions Regulate Your Genetic Expression Science has indeed taken us far beyond Newtonian physics, which says you live in a mechanical universe. According to this belief, your body is just a biological machine, so by modifying the parts of the machine, you can modify your health. Also, as a biological machine, your body is thought to respond to physical "things" like the active chemicals in drugs, and by adjusting the drugs that modify your machinery, doctors can modify and control health. However, with the advent of quantum physics, scientists have realized the flaws in Newtonian physics, as quantum physics shows us that the invisible, immaterial realm is actually far more important than the material realm. In fact, your thoughts may shape your environment far more than physical matter! According to Dr. Lipton, the true secret to life does not lie within your DNA, but rather within the mechanisms of your cell membrane. Each cell membrane has receptors that pick up various environmental signals, and this mechanism controls the "reading" of the genes inside your cells. Your cells can choose to read or not read the genetic blueprint depending on the signals being received from the environment. So having a "cancer program" in your DNA does not automatically mean you're destined to get cancer. Far from it. This genetic information does not ever have to be expressed... What this all means is that you are not controlled by your genetic makeup. Instead, your genetic readout (which genes are turned "on" and which are turned "off") is primarily determined by your thoughts, attitudes, and perceptions! The major problem with believing the myth that your genes control your life is that you become a victim of your heredity. Since you can't change your genes, it essentially means that your life is predetermined, and therefore you have very little control over your health. With any luck, modern medicine will find the gene responsible and be able to alter it, or devise some other form of drug to modify your body's chemistry, but aside from that, you're out of luck... The new science, however, reveals that your perceptions control your biology, and this places you in the driver's seat, because if you can change your perceptions, you can shape and direct your own genetic readout. This new science also reveals that you are in fact an extension of your environment, which includes everything from your thoughts and belief systems, to toxic exposures and exposure to sunlight, exercise, and, of course, everything you choose to put onto and into your body. As Dr. Lipton is fond of saying, the new biology moves you out of victimhood and into Mastery--mastery over your own health. It is a supreme confirmation of my favorite saying, "You Can Take Control of Your Health." How Nutrition Alters Genetic Expression "We believe that many diseases that have aberrant gene expression at their root can be linked to how DNA is packaged, and the actions of enzymes such as histone deacetylases, or HDACs. As recently as 10 years ago we knew almost nothing about HDAC dysregulation in cancer or other diseases, but it's now one of the most promising areas of health-related research." In a nutshell, we all have tumor suppressor genes, and these genes are capable of stopping cancer cells in their tracks. These genes are present in every cell in your body, but so are proteins called "histones." As Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center explainsv , histones can "hug" DNA so tightly that it becomes "hidden from view for the cell." If a tumor suppressor gene is hidden, it cannot be utilized, and in this way too much histone will "turn off" these cancer suppressors, and allow cancer cells to proliferate. Now here's where epigenetics comes in ... certain foods, such as broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, garlic, and onions contain substances that act as histone inhibitors, which essentially block the histone, allowing your tumor suppressor genes to activate and fight cancer. By regularly consuming these foods, you are naturally supporting your body's ability to fight tumors. Certain alternative oncologists also tap directly into the epigenetic mechanism, such as Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, who uses a three-pronged approach to cancer based primarily on nutrition and detoxification, and Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, who treats cancer with a gene-targeted approach. His treatment uses non-toxic peptides and amino acids, known as antineoplastons, which act as genetic switches that turn your tumor suppressor genes "on." A Healthy Lifestyle Supports Healthy Genetic Expression You can begin to do this on your own, long before you manifest a disease. By leading a healthy lifestyle, with high quality nutrition, exercise, limited exposure to toxins, and a positive mental attitude, you encourage your genes to express positive, disease-fighting behaviors. This is what preventive medicine is all about. It's not about taking any one particular nutrient as a supplement to fix one specific "part" of your biological machinery... The more people become willing to embrace this simple truth, the healthier everyone will get. It's also worth pointing out that epigenetic effects begin before birth. Epigenetic research from 2009 showed that rat fetuses receiving poor nutrition in the womb become genetically primed for a nutrition-poor environment. As a result of this genetic adaptation, the rats tended to be smaller. They were also at higher risk for a host of health problems throughout their lives, such as diabetes, growth retardation, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and neurodevelopmental delays. Again, while some are tempted to blame such "predispositions" on bad genes, the KEY factor is nutrition, i.e. the cellular environment. If you're ready to address your dietary choices, read through my comprehensive nutrition plan, which will give you tips and tools for eating healthy, dealing with stress, and living a lifestyle that will support your epigenetic health. You can also turn your genes off and on with your emotions too. Many, if not most people carry emotional scars; traumas that can adversely affect health. Using techniques like energy psychology, you can go in and correct the trauma and help regulate your genetic expression. My favorite technique for this is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but there are many others. Choose whichever one appeals to you, and if you don't sense any benefits, try another, until you find what works best for you. Please, remember that 'You CAN Take Control of Your Health.' References: i - Wake Up World March 26, 2012 (http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/26/the-science-of-epigenetics-how-our-minds-can-reprogram-our-genes/) ii - The Human Genome Project (http://ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml) iii - Wake Up World March 26, 2012 (http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/26/the-science-of-epigenetics-how-our-minds-can-reprogram-our-genes/) iv - 'Epigenetic' concepts offer new approach to degenerative disease, Eurekalert April 28, 2010 (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/osu-co042810.php) v - Epigenetic Therapy, NOVA, October 16, 2007 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetic-therapy.html) Source: Wake Up World March 26, 2012 (http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/26/the-science-of-epigenetics-how-our-minds-can-reprogram-our-genes/) Miss America contestant to surgically remove both breasts even though she has no cancer Doctors removing healthy breasts unnecessarily Genetic Testing Used to Convice Women to Remove Breasts is Completely Bogus! *** Search for epigenomes on www.mercola.com and www.naturalnews.com for info about how, even if you do actually have a genetic predisposition towards getting a certain disease, you can deactivate the genes in most cases by making changes in your attitude/belief system / desire to live / determination to beat it / non-acceptance of being sick, diet, lifestyle and taking certain supplements. Also search this page, and my main Cancer Protocol page (http://www.distance-healer.com/24.html) for "epigenomes" and also for "Epigenetics: How Your Mind (also diet, lifestyle, spirituality, attitude, determination to live and not accepting illness) Can Reprogram Your Genes (Falling for This Myth Could Give You Cancer and other Illnesses)" [without the quotes] *** Epigenomes: A top stem cell biologist says that genetics have little sway over your health. So much for the medical excuse that you were born with "bad genes" Cancer scientists propose new project that would study the human epigenome New discoveries mean that DNA doesn't have to be a disease factor, scientists say Epigenetics news, articles and information: Epigenome news, articles and information: Shocking new science reveals that mammograms are a medical hoax. How I Survived Lymphoma Cancer, It's No Accident. I'll Share With You The 6 Steps I Used To Get Back To A Normal Life. "I have put this website together to guide you through the process that I used to recover from lymphoma cancer and get my life back to normal. And I’ve included all the steps, tips, and advice that I discovered along the way. "At age 36 I was diagnosed with Lymphoma. That was September of 1997. My GP found a cancerous mass between my heart and my lungs and I was advised that surgery was too dangerous. The suggested treatment was 12 sessions of chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy. About half way through chemo I developed an extremely high fever and was advised to go to the emergency department of my local hospital immediately. Needless to say things went downhill from there. All in all I spent 3 months in hospital – one month in intensive care with a near death experience or two, a couple of weeks in the oncology ward where my doctors advised me that chemo and radiotherapy were no longer an option – it was too dangerous to continue with these treatments. I then spent another 6 weeks in a rehabilitation hospital where I had to learn to walk and move my limbs all over again. You see, after not moving for 3 weeks during the drug induced coma/heavy sedation, I had muscular myopathy which is when your muscles lose all strength and tone and you are left with virtually no mobility). During my hospital stay, I discovered a very interesting thing. Lots of people around me were feeling sorry for themselves. And that was absolutely understandable! I'd done the same thing. You wouldn't be normal if you didn't feel sorry for yourself at some stage. Anyway, I noticed some people got stuck in the "I feel sorry for myself" mode and weren't able to move forward from that spot - mentally. And because they were stuck in this mode of thinking they didn't really put 100%+ effort into recovering from cancer and getting their life back to normal. Now don't get me wrong, they wanted to recover. BUT they weren't aware that their thoughts were sabotaging their recovery efforts. And sometimes the sabotage was enormous. When I was able to eat again, I also discovered I had no real appetite for animal protein. I began ordering vegetarian meals at hospital. When I returned home my wife and I decided we would learn everything we could about real health and true nutrition. My wife Barbara was wise enough to realise that, as she puts it, I was “my own best doctor”, and never questioned my food choices. She set about discovering what a truly healthy diet consisted of and then implemented it. We set about finding the best program we could for perfect health. And mental, emotional and physical issues all had to be included. We then discovered true health retreats where naturopaths were advocating exactly what we had done over the prior few months and we’ve never looked back since. After my hospital stay I would regularly see my GP every fortnight. Within a few short months he was amazed at the transformation that had taken place. Considering I’d only had half the chemo, never started radiotherapy and almost died in hospital. My doctor didn’t believe that improving my mindset, diet and environment could have such a huge impact on my health. But he kept telling me to “keep doing what you’re doing” because it was working, and working well. Because we are thinking, feeling human beings, I cover the mental, emotional and physical aspects to recovering from this terrible disease. You really are doing yourself a disservice if you limit yourself to the physical aspects only! If you are looking for a specific part of the process, simply click on the appropriate step below, where you’ll access further detail. Otherwise, continue reading for all of the detail and links to resources you will need. My 6 basic steps to recovering from lymphoma were: Lymphoma and you. Your mindset. Step one—Lymphoma (or Cancer) and you. Your mindset. First things first. What you think is the single most important thing to get right. Did you know that what you think directly impacts the way you feel and act, and therefore dictates the things and results you get? If you focus on dying, do you think it will happen? I do. So don’t focus or obsess or stay there mentally all the time. This is how your mind works. The conscious mind is the reasoning part of you and it acts like a filter, where beliefs enter into your being via the sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind is the feeling, emotional part of you. It accepts what is coming into it, without restriction. We then act, and thus obtain certain things or results, some of them negatively impacting the body. And sometimes the body breaks down. Fortunately, the body is self repairing, if given the right environment. So what you think affects the way you feel which in turn can impact your body. Here’s what you need to do: Consciously decide to LIVE and consciously decide to be WELL, then believe it’s possible; Lymphoma isn’t necessarily a death sentence. There is hope, so consciously decide to be hopeful and positive. You are in control here. Step two—Have the end in mind Have the end in mind. What I mean is, are there things you have always wanted to do, places you have always wanted to see, things you have always wanted but have never gotten around to them? Well, of course there are. What I want you to do is be clear about what you want out of life and what you still want to achieve. Why? Because we need to clearly be focused on want we want, and not on what we have right now. Focus on what you want, not what you have. Step three—Building a strong immune system Follow the seven laws of health. These laws are pretty much commonsense. Like me, you’re probably aware of them, but had never given much thought to just how important they are. And so, haven’t really applied them. The 7 laws of health are: Pure Air Pure Air is crucial to our health. We can only survive a few minutes without it. Pure air will strengthen your body, increasing the oxygen levels of your cells and hence improving all bodily functions, including your body’s disease fighting ability. Do the following: Regular deep breathing exercises Sunlight Only expose your skin to early morning or very late afternoon sun. Don’t do the hottest part of the day (when your shadow is shorter than you), or you’ll burn (and increase your chances of skin cancer). Start slowly with 5 minutes a day and very gradually increase as your tan develops. Don’t overdo it. Use your commonsense. Expose as much of your skin as possible, especially those parts that require healing. Self control and balance Keeping a good work to life balance. Rest When you’re not feeling well, you generally have the urge to lie down and rest. That’s the ‘automatic pilot’ in your body telling you what you should do. Try to get 7-8 hours a night. Rest is a basic healer. It’s why my doctors decided the best course of action when chemotherapy almost killed me, was to induce a coma for 2 weeks - they ran out of options. “Let the body heal itself”, they said. For some of us, the mind is much stronger than the body. So you tell yourself, “I don’t need much sleep.” Just because your mind is alert and active doesn’t necessarily mean that your body isn’t tired. Make sure you adequately rest your body. Every night your body processes and eliminates wastes, and rejuvenates itself. Rest is crucial to your pH levels; keeping them balanced. My naturopath tells me that cancer thrives in an acidic body, and adequate rest helps maintain the alkaline levels in your bloodstream. Exercise Looking better, more shapely, toned and muscular However, are you aware that exercise also helps to cleanse your body by eliminating toxins when you sweat? Exercise can also give your organs a workout, while doing yoga for instance. Exercise also oxygenates your blood which helps your body fight disease. Here are some helpful hints: If you haven’t exercised for a while, start slowly. Gradually increasing to 20 minutes 3-4 times a week. Walking is a good place to start. So are simple stretching exercises like beginners yoga. You’ve probably heard the saying, “No pain, no gain”? Well, flush it! We’re not training for the Olympics here. Were trying to improve our life, not make it miserable. If you’re in pain, you could be doing some damage. Find an exercise you like; there are many! Walk the dog, join a gym, buy an exercise video. Diet & Nutrition and Metabolically Balancing your body In Volume 2 of the 1976 edition of the medical journal Lancet, an article by Allan Cunningham theorised that, based on his research, there is a direct connection between lymphoma and consumption of cow protein – milk and meat. In 1991 Dr T Baroody published the book "Alkalize or Die". Dr Baroody believes that the advanced symtoms of over acidity in the body are all forms of cancer. (Note: this is incorrect. There are actually a little more cancer patients who are too alkaline than too acidic -- see elsewhere on this page). In 1996 the Harvard School of Public Health released a report stating that inadequate diet, smoking and lack of exercise are the likely causes of almost 70% of cancers. Most of us are hardly surprised by the above. You know what you eat has a direct impact on the way you look, think and feel. When you are hungry your body is actually crying out for nutrients. Food should provide your body with quality fuel to keep it going. After eating you should feel energised, not sluggish or tired. Much of what we eat today lacks maximum nutritional value so many of us crave more and more food. What I recommend below is what many naturopaths recommend. By simply switching to foods with better nutritional qualities you improve your bodily functions and thus your immune system is stronger and you feel energised. Your body will be better equipped to fight disease so you can recover from Lymphoma (or other cancers). Eat right for your metabolic type (see elsewhere on this page and take a self test and/or Niacin or Vitamin C test). (Note: I have deleted the one-size-fits-all information that was here, because Michael was a carb type and it did not apply to the more than half of the population who are Balanced or Protein Metabolic Types. The pH of the ash left when a food is incinerated that Michael referred to in the deleted section has no relationship to its effects upon the human body -- see elsewhere on this page). Pure Water Here’s another law you’ll be familiar with. The body is made up of mostly water, as is your blood stream. Drink 6-8 glasses of pure water per day, more if doing strenuous work or in the heat. Why? Because, if our bodies are mostly water, then our bodies function at their peak when we are hydrated, this includes our brain. So does our blood. Functioning, processing, eliminating, in fact everything that happens on the inside works far more efficiently when we are hydrated, including our immune system. Try this: Drink 6-8 glasses of pure water a day, minimum. Don’t drink with your meals. This keeps your digestion efficient, as liquids dilute your digestive juices. Drink half an hour before a meal, and wait an hour-and-a-half after a meal before drinking. First thing in the morning have a large glass of warm water with the juice of up to half a lemon and a pinch of Celtic sea salt. Lemon is a good cleanser and the warm water will help with bowel movements and rehydrate your body after sleep. If you are tired try drinking a glass of water. Dehydration can often make you feel tired. Step four—Superfoods Superfoods are in a category all their own. These are foods that pack high potency nutrition or are highly beneficial to your body. Spirulina, wheat grass or barley grass powder. Take either daily in a large glass of half water and half organic non-citrus juice. Mix well in a shaker. Barley Grass is the most alkalizing. Seaweed is packed full of minerals. My wife finely chops wakame or arame seaweed and adds to soups stews and casseroles, much like you would a stock cube or bay leaves (without discarding). Seaweed salads are nice and you need to find a good recipe. Sprouts (alfalfa etc) are low in fat, high in fibre and living enzymes. Consume frequently. Very easy to grow yourself, in your kitchen. Vitamin C – a great immune booster and disease fighter. Supplement your diet with good quality Vitamin C. Garlic has antibiotic properties. It stimulates the immune system by increasing the efficiency of white blood cells and promotes T cell reproduction. Yogurt is great for restoring intestinal health. Use organic or biodynamic – sheep or goat yogurt is preferable to cow yogurt. Containing lots of beneficial bacteria. When your intestines and bowels are functioning correctly you body is better able to absorb the nutrients you are consuming. Step five—Detoxing your Body Complete a detoxification program. Detoxification is very beneficial in recovering from disease. Instead of bombarding your body with toxic substances and diverting your body’s attention to toxic crises, complete a detox program and divert your body’s energy to healing. There are many books on the subject available from good health food stores. Detoxification includes: A short course of fasting and juicing. Step six—Clearing mental and emotional issues. Research shows mental and emotional issues can compromise health and even cause illness. The mind body connection must be balanced and in harmony for the body to function at its peak. Mental and emotional issues include: Low self esteem Leukemia: Two books that I'd recommend getting (for all cancers) are: Prescription for Herbal Healing, 2nd Edition: An Easy-to-Use A-to-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies by Phyllis A. Balch CNC and Stacey Bell They're available used or new at the above links. Dr. Blaylock has extensive information about diet, herbs and supplements to help during chemotherapy or radiation, and specific supplements that help with leukemia in this book. I am attaching some of his newsletters with general information that applies to all cancers, but I would still recommend getting his book. The PDF's about radiation mention supplements and herbs that help reduce damage from it. A few things that she mentions about leukemia are the following (get her book for more detailed information): Risk Factors: smoking, environmental toxins (industrial solvents; radiation, including radiation treatment for other forms of cancer), genetic disorders, viruses (Epstein-Barr virus; human T-cell leukemia virus) Herbs that help with leukemia: Boswellia, Garlic (organic is best), Green tea, Rutin, Hawthorn, Kelp (from pure part of ocean, or Lugol's iodide solution in distilled water), Resveratrol, Curcumin (Turmeric concentrate/extract), Zedoary root (tea or capsules), Berberine (Goldenseal, Oregon Grape, Coptis). Formulas: Essiac Hoxsey Formula Minor Bupleurum Decoction reduces rate that some leukemia viruses (note that this says it reduces viruses, so it would be more effective on cancers caused by viruses than those who are not) reproduce by 80% without interfering with T-cell reproduction. Vitamin D3 or 20 minutes in Morning and Evening sunlight, along with Omega-3 oil (Calamarine fish oil or other pure DHA oil -- refrigerate it), Lycopene, Curcumin, Green tea or extract benefits AML. PSK (Polysaccharide Kureha) reduces cancer spread Bone marrow transplants can transfer Celiac Disease and other diseases from donor to recipient. I recommend seeing the information on my website about "Cancer&RawFoods", "Chemo&Rad Herbs", "Cancer Protocol", "Cancer Info", "Cancer- Stage 4", Metabolic Type and other MT pages, MSG, etc. My Hepatitis page also explains herbs and supplements to support the liver, which is important in cancer. Search for "Imagery/Visualization:" (without the quotes) on my "Cancer Protocol" page. On this same page, the supplements in the section "How I Got Rid Of My Stage 4 Cancer In Two Weeks For Less Than The Cost Of A Night At The Movies" are also helpful, but I would do more than just that. On this page, also see, "The following is additional information from Dr. Blaylock in his email". I also recommend searching for "How I Survived Lymphoma Cancer, It's No Accident. I'll Share With You The 6 Steps I Used To Get Back To A Normal Life" on this page ("Cancer Protocol") and on my Cancer Info pages (http://www.distance-healer.com/29.html), as well as other information on this page and others. Note that much of Jerry Brunetti's protocol with which he beat another type of blood cancer, Lymphoma, is also applicable to Leukemia and other types of cancer. Spirituality and REALLY BELIEVING that God is healing you also are important, as is a deep conviction and belief that life is worth living (strong will to live) and that you are going to beat it.
Here are some notes that I have about vitamin D3 dosages and testing: Aug07 VRP News: Some pts needed 8000IU Vit D3/d (Less if sunlight or other sources) to achieve proper blood levels (serum 25(OH)D levels of 80nmol/L) for cancer prevention and optimal health; older pts may need more. Pts should test D3 levels to determine dosage needed. Testing D3 & Ca is also important because in a small number of pts D3 supplementation can raise calcium levels too high (esp true in African Americans). The only way to determine one's 25(OH)D levels is through blood tests, which can be ordered through a physician or nutritionist. It should be noted that the UVB dose required to generate these levels is much less than would ordinarily be considered a risk factor for skin cancer, etc. The time required in the sun is probably 15 to 30 minutes per day with at least hands and face exposed in the mid-latitudes during summer, but depends on a number of personal factors. However, this works only when the sun is elevated high enough--for the four to five darkest months of the year it is impossible to produce any vitamin D from sunlight in Boston][From Vitacost: Magnesium functions alongside calcium to give bones their physical structure. Vitamin K is an essential co-factor in calcium absorption and retention. When there are insufficient levels of vitamin K, the body cannot properly incorporate calcium into bone. Vitamin K2 (MK-7, sourced from fermented whole food, gently redirects "lost" calcium back into the bone bank. Vitamin D3 completes the complex, aiding bone support and function] [Boik rec'ds 10-250ug/d=400-10,000iu/d D3, highest amts with blood tests to check if needed. Dr. Rowen & his wife take either 50,000iu twice a wk or 10,000iu/d (Less if sunlight or other sources; decreases to 5000iu in summer if they get plenty of sun without burning)] Note: I wouldn't take high calcium with lots of D3 or will get soft tissue calcification. I take 7500/d (one 5000/d + one 5000 ev other day = 7500/d avg). I would take some vitamin D3 via supplement -- maybe 2500 iu/d, but it's best to have a blood test for it. New research warns that blood levels that are too high can increase your risk of cancer. In a study on 200,000 banked blood samples of Nordic men, researchers found that the lowest risk of prostate cancer was found with blood levels of 25(OH) vitamin D between 40-60nmol/l. Above 80 and the curve starts going up. The researchers believe this is because extremely high levels may actually deactivate the vitamin. Cell division, a prerequisite for cancer, is slowed by adequate levels of D. Note: too much Vitamin D + Calcium = soft tissue calcification! Vit K2 may help prevent some of this. D*action home test kits (below) and LEF Blood Tests don't require a doctor and are inexpensive. It's best not to get direct sunlight between 10 and 2 because of all of the harmful, cancer-causing UV (although sunlight at other times is good for you). Two considerations because of the chemtrail spraying: they blew a huge hole in the ozone layer and don't know how to fix it, so there's an awful lot more of the harmful wavelengths of UV now. Also, the sky is mostly overcast or hazy and the healthier wavelengths of sunlight and photosynthesis are way down (along with people's vitamin D levels), with lots of plants struggling (or dying from all of the nano-particle aluminum and barium: www.distance-healer.com/Chemtrails.com). Are you getting organic selenium (not inorganic, like selenium selenite) from any other source, such as a multi? I would take 400mcg of the SeMSc organic form of selenium each day (the amount in Brazil nuts varies too much to accurately get the proper dosage). It'd be best to do the tincture of iodinetest (if you paint it right over the thyroid or breasts, it gets absorbed and used even better, but alternate the sites as some people get rashes if they have too much bromide from chocolate or baked goods -- bromide is mistakenly absorbed by the thryoid, and when you finally give the thryoid enough iodine, the bromide can come to the skin surface and cause a temporary rash). Lots of green vegetables won't give you enough iodine; on the contrary, they'll block some (or all) of the iodine from I-Thyroid and other sources, so I would definitely test my iodine levels. Also, take iodine away from green cruciferous vegetables and goitrogens, or virtually none of it will be absorbed (they also block iodine that you've taken at other times, so that is why people who eat a lot of raw vegetables need a lot of Se + I). Vegetables won't block the need for progesterone: the body still produces estradiol that needs to be balanced with Progesterone. There are a lot of Dr. Lee's articles about progesterone on the internet, as are Virginia Hopkins Health Watch articles (and Virginia's website). Here is some info on vitamin D3: So the first step to ensuring you are receiving all the benefits of vitamin D is to find out what your levels are using a 25(OH)D test, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D. There are two vitamin D tests -- 1,25(OH)D and 25(OH)D -- but 25(OH)D is the better marker of overall D status. It is this marker that is most strongly associated with overall health, and it is the one you should ask your physician for. Alternatively, you can have your vitamin D levels tested right in your own home by joining the GrassrootsHealth D* Action Study. D*Action is a worldwide public health campaign which aims to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic through focusing on testing, education, and grassroots word of mouth. When you join D*action, you agree to test your vitamin D levels twice a year during a five-year program, and share your health status to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient. There is a $60 fee each 6 months ($120/year) for your sponsorship of the project, which includes a complete new test kit to be used at home, and electronic reports on your ongoing progress. You will get a follow up email every six months reminding you "it's time for your next test and health survey." To join now, please follow this link to the sign up form: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/proj-welcome?pr=45284 What Do Your Vitamin D Test Results Mean? The point of vitamin D testing is, of course, to be sure you are maintaining a therapeutic level of vitamin D in your blood. A few years back, the recommended level was between 40 to 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml), but more recently the optimal vitamin D level has been raised to 50-70 ng/ml, and when treating cancer or heart disease, as high as 70-100 ng/ml. ("You'll want to elevate your levels of vitamin D to about 80-90 ng/ml, and continue to have them monitored throughout your treatment," from another article by Mercola about cancer treatment) This means that even if you do not regularly monitor your vitamin D levels, your risk of overdosing is going to be fairly slim -- even if you take as much as 8,000 IU's a day. As an aside, there is evidence that the safety of vitamin D is dependent on vitamin K, and that vitamin D toxicity (although very rare with the D3 form) is actually aggravated by vitamin K2 deficiency. So if you take oral vitamin D, ideally you should take vitamin K2 as well or use organic fermented foods that are high in vitamin K2, as you need about 150 mcg per day. Remember, unless you get a deep dark tan, which is a pretty good gauge that your vitamin D levels are where they need to be, it is wise to get your blood levels checked; that is the only way to know for certain you have reached therapeutic levels. Do you really need to take that much vitamin D? You probably already know how important vitamin D is for your health. It helps keep your bones strong, your immune system supercharged, and your tissues cancer free. Even though they know it's good for them, one thing people just can't understand is the importance of taking a lot of vitamin D. Almost every patient I test has low vitamin D levels. The blood reference range for vitamin D3 is 30 to 100 ng/ml. However, just being in this range is not enough. People with vitamin D3 levels over 60 ng/ml are about one-fifth as likely to get cancer as those with levels in the lower end of the range. So how much vitamin D3 do you really need to take in order to get the maximum benefits? Here's a newly published paper that will surprise some. Researchers at the University of California in San Diego wanted to find out how much vitamin D everyone should take. They stated, "Studies indicate that intake of vitamin D in the range from 1,100 to 4,000 units per day and a serum D level [25-hydroxyvitamin D3] from 60-80 ng/ml may be needed to reduce cancer risk." And then they asked the question, "So just how much vitamin D3 intake is necessary for most people to achieve this level?" Here's what they found. The researchers looked at 3,667 men and women between the ages of 40 to 65 years. It turns out that the dose necessary to ensure that almost all (97.5%) of these people had a vitamin D3 level of at least 40 ng/ml was 9,600 units per day. As you can see, even 9,600 units a day was not enough for many people to achieve the optimal levels (over 60) needed for maximum cancer prevention. I was not at all surprised by these results. I have been measuring vitamin D levels for over 10 years now. I can tell you that many people need between 15-20,000 units per day to reach optimal blood levels. But some doctors think this level of intake is somehow unsafe. Is it true? Do we need to be concerned about taking these higher levels of vitamin D? Not according to these investigators. In the entire group of patients, a rather large group, not one of them reached the potential toxic vitamin D limits of 200 ng/ml. Even those with a total vitamin D intake (supplements and diet) as high as 13,300 units per day didn't get close. The authors concluded by saying that, "Universal intake of up to 40,000 IU vitamin D per day is unlikely to result in vitamin D toxicity." I have never found it necessary to give anyone more than 20,000 units. So don't be afraid of vitamin D3. Take enough to bring your levels up to between 60-80 ng/ml. Once they are up there, check your blood calcium levels. Occasionally, optimal levels of vitamin D will result in excessive blood calcium levels, which could cause kidney stones. I have seen this in only two patients in the past 10 years. Frank Shallenberger, MD Aug07 VRP News: Some pts needed 8000IU Vit D3/d (Less if sunlight or other sources) to achieve proper blood levels (serum 25(OH)D levels of 80nmol/L) for cancer prevention and optimal health; older pts may need more. Pts should test D3 levels to determine dosage needed. Testing D3& Ca is also important because in a small number of pts D3 supplementation can raise calcium levels too high (esp true in African Americans). The only way to determine one's 25(OH)D levels is through blood tests, which can be ordered through a physician or nutritionist. It should be noted that the UVB dose required to generate these levels is much less than would ordinarily be considered a risk factor for skin cancer, etc. The time required in the sun is probably 15 to 30 minutes per day with at least hands and face exposed in the mid-latitudes during summer, but depends on a number of personal factors. However, this works only when the sun is elevated high enough--for the four to five darkest months of the year it is impossible to produce any vitamin D from sunlight in Boston][From Vitacost: Magnesium functions alongside calcium to give bones their physical structure. Vitamin K is an essential co-factor in calcium absorption and retention. When there are insufficient levels of vitamin K, the body cannot properly incorporate calcium into bone. Vitamin K2 (MK-7, sourced from fermented whole food, gently redirects "lost" calcium back into the bone bank. Vitamin D3 completes the complex, aiding bone support and function] [Boik rec'ds 10-250 ug/d = 400-10,000 iu/d D3, highest amts with blood tests to check if needed. This is some information about iodine, selenium, and a type of exercise that boosts the metabolism (to help burn fat). With exercising, you have to be careful not to compensate for the calories you burn off by eating additional calories. Hypothyroidism (if you have it) from not having enough iodine can also slow metabolism. [http://www.lugol-iodinesupplements.com/ What Do You Need To Take Along With Your Iodine Supplements? "Now this is important: if you are going to start taking iodine/iodide at levels that get results, you MUST take selenium every day. But here is the problem. Most selenium is not organic and hence toxic. You REALLY do not want to overdose on selenium (especially inorganic)." I take 1 Swanson 200mcg SeMSC + 1 Activite Sport multi (www.vitacost.com) containing 200mcg organic Selenium (total of 400mcg of selenium/day). I also take 20 drops of Lugol's iodide/day, along with painting tincture of iodine over my thyroid every day or two, in order to counter all of my raw, organic vegetables (goitrogens that block iodine absorption). Iodine: [Swanson LGS001, J. Crow's Lugol's Solution 2%, 2 fl oz (J.Crow's Lugol's Solution 2% solution delivers 94% distilled water, 4% potassium iodide, and 2% iodine. Note: 2% is 2/5 as strong as 5%, One drop of 2% Lugol's solution contains 6.25 x 2/5 = 2.5mg total Iodine and Iodide per drop); In addition, I test to see if I'm low on Iodine using Dr. Bruce West's technique with painting tincture of iodine on my skin externally (Lugol's is safe to take internally, but tincture of iodine can be poisonous if taken internally). I'm taking 20 drops a day (with periodic testing) because of all the raw cruciferous vegetables that I'm eating. Are you taking too much vitamin D? It seems that every month there is some new study published describing the wonders of vitamin D. It lengthens your lifespan. And it protects against cancer, diabetes, heart disease, colds and flu, strokes, MS, and more. Statistically, vitamin D will provide these benefits only when you take enough to get your blood levels up around 70 ng/ml. So is there any downside to having your blood levels this high? The answer might be yes. Take the case of Millie, for example. Millie is a 68-year-old woman with a serious decrease in her bone mineral density. Since she is white, fair skinned, and quite thin, she is statistically at risk for osteoporosis. To make matters worse, her balance has been failing her recently. All of these facts caused me to have some concern that she might fall and break her hip. So I put her on a program that consisted of regular exercise, Advanced Bone Support, bio-identical hormones, and of course vitamin D. I reassured her that I have never had a patient have a problem with osteoporosis while on this kind of program. Both she and I were feeling confident about the whole issue. But it turned out that there was going to be more to this story. And it had to do with a hormone called parathyroid hormone. Parathyroid hormone (different from thyroid hormone) is a hormone that your body uses to make sure that blood calcium levels never get too low. It is a very important hormone because low blood calcium levels can be life threatening. So if for some reason your calcium level starts getting too low, your body will secrete parathyroid hormone. And the parathyroid hormone will pull calcium off the bones and put it in the blood stream to correct the problem. I routinely check the parathyroid hormone level of all of my patients who have a strong risk for osteoporosis. Some of them might have an elevated level of the hormone, which will act to remove calcium from their bones and place them at further risk. And that was exactly what was happening to Millie. Her parathyroid level was 75 pg/ml. Normal is between 10-60 pg/ml. Her blood calcium level was normal, but that was because her excessive parathyroid hormone level was robbing her bones to maintain it. This was not a good situation. But parathyroid hormone also has another function. And that is to activate vitamin D. As you probably already know, vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium in the intestines. But it does this only in its activated form. So when the body perceives that calcium levels are too low, it secretes parathyroid hormone. This not only pulls calcium off the bones and into the blood stream, but it also activates vitamin D so that your body can absorb more calcium. Now here's the point. Millie's high level of parathyroid hormone might have been an indication that her vitamin D levels were not adequate. This would cause her body to make more parathyroid hormone to make up for the deficit. So just to rule out that possibility, I also checked her vitamin D level. It was 37 ng/ml. That is in the so-called normal range. But it was obvious to me that even though it was in the normal range, it was not nearly enough for Millie's needs. So I started her on 10,000 units of vitamin D per day. I'll tell you what happened next week. Finding your Real Cures, Frank Shallenberger, MD Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the problem. Analysis Finds Monsanto's GM Corn Nutritionally Dead, Highly Toxic Making Money and Living the Lie [by "Compromising" Between Right and Wrong] Compromise. That's what it's all about, eh? We are taught from early on that the only way to get along is to go along. Meet halfway, in the middle. Don't be such a stickler. Nothing is so sacred or important that it cannot stand a little compromise. And just were has this type of thinking gotten us? Just how willing should we be to compromise and lay our values down on the altar of coexistence? Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills and vaccines that we are ordered to get if we want to keep subsistence jobs working for people who would rather see us dead than alive because we are just a statistic and replaceable, and to poison our very water supply? We love the lies that make us feel like we are all powerful and in control of our pitiful existence. Yes, pitiful. Just how pitiful is it when poisons are sold next to healthy foods and we have to guess which is which, all under the banner of "choice" and "free will?" You tell me, because, quite frankly, I've had just about enough of it. I want truth. I want uncompromising truth, no matter how much it hurts. I talked with someone at Trader Joe's. She would not allow me to quote her, and referred me to the PR department, but the gist of the conversation, paraphrased, was this: Question: "Do you sell brands with GMOs?" Answer: "Yes, we do." She listed the brands. Question: "Will you be getting rid of your GMO brands anytime in the near future?" Answer: "No. We want the customers to have a choice. We won't get rid of them unless demand goes down." In other words, they want the customer to be able to choose between non-GMO and something unlabeled that might possibly be GMO, but you don't really know because it is not labeled. That's real choice, eh? If people simply stop buying the poisons, Trader Joe's will concede to that and stop carrying them because the company will lose money, not because removing poison from store shelves is the right thing to do, but because it is cost-effective. No wonder she didn't want me to quote her.... If people want it, the stores will sell it, doesn't matter what it is. No values, no honesty in advertising. No concern for anything other than the almighty buck. Hey, if it works for me, then to hell with everyone else. Let the buyer beware. This is the same type of thinking that says my neighbor can spray Roundup all over his place and pollute my organic garden through toxic runoff. It's his right to do so. What about my right to not be poisoned by his choices? My organics don't hurt anyone, whereas his chemicals do. That is the difference. When poisoned food is placed side by side with good food, with no outward distinction, not to mention the ethics of poison being sold as food anyway, how exactly is that real choice? It's not. It's compromise. Coexistence, if you will. Each and every time we compromise we lose a little bit of ourselves in the process. Each and every time we decide that just a little poison is okay, just as long as no one notices, or because everyone is doing it, and I just have to make a living, so I have to, we lose another piece of ourselves to compromise. And just how much do we have to lose before we cannot regain what was once good and true? What are the consequences if "everyone does it" except for the minority that chooses to not compromise? The radicals. The freaks, if you will. The people who choose to take a stand and fight the good fight for uncompromising honesty? I guess if the majority wants to poison itself, the minority just takes it in the shorts. So much for democracy in action. We live in a world where good is bad and bad is good. Where poisons are considered healthy, and good, clean food is illegal. Where people stand in line to register and poison their children, all mandated by a state that requires such "healthy" practices in order to participate in life on this earth. And don't dare try to really be healthy and share the wealth by sneaking any raw milk to your neighbor or you just might end up in jail. But it's all okay if the bottom line is in the black. If you have enough money to get all the zoo-zoos and wham-whams you want to keep yourself occupied with triviality while the world around you crumbles in a pile of toxic waste. For those who couldn't care less and prefer the status-quo, just keep making money and living the lie. It's easier that way. But for the rest of us who have a burning for the truth, and who spend every last breath here on earth searching for it, it's not nearly enough. No lie will replace it. So, we stand. We stand in the truth, and try to do what is right. We plant our heirloom seeds and pray for rain. We watch our gardens grow and feed our animals with the last remaining shred of food that hopefully has not been poisoned by liars, deceivers, and those who choose to compromise and coexist. When you are surrounded by falsehoods and compromise, it's time to make a choice. Sometimes, that choice is a hard one, but one that must be made by every man, woman and child on earth. That choice is to either stand for the truth or die defending the lie. As for me, I choose to stand for the truth, come what may. Please join me. It's our only hope in a compromised world full of deceit and trickery. ©2013 Barbara H. Peterson In the name of "evidence-based science," we are all being killed by GMOs, vaccine additives, processed food chemicals and other threats to life on Earth. I'm not an opponent of genuine, humble science and the search for answers in our universe, but what we're seeing today is the mass poisoning of us all under the false label of "science." In a special 10-part article series, I take a look at the top 10 "scientific" threats to our lives: #1) GMOs http://www.naturalnews.com/039778_evidence-based_science_murdered_GMO.html #2) Vaccines http://www.naturalnews.com/039777_vaccines_convulsions_death.html #3) Fluoride http://www.naturalnews.com/039776_fluoride_hydrofluosilicic_acid_insecticide.html #4) Pharmaceuticals http://www.naturalnews.com/039775_pharmaceuticals_side_effects_modern_medicine.html #5) Food additives http://www.naturalnews.com/039774_food_additives_chemicals_artificial_sweeteners.html #6) Pesticides http://www.naturalnews.com/039773_pesticides_Parkinsons_neurological_disorders.html #7) Chemotherapy http://www.naturalnews.com/039772_chemotherapy_treatment_cancer_clinics.html #8) Plastics http://www.naturalnews.com/039770_plastics_BPA_hormone_disruptors.html #9) Cosmetics http://www.naturalnews.com/039769_cosmetics_skin_care_toxic_chemicals.html #10) Radiation http://www.naturalnews.com/039768_nuclear_power_meltdown_radiation.html Trader Joe's eliminated GMOs from its private-label products back in 2001 - what's taking Whole Foods so long? What are GMOs? What foods are most likely to contain GMOs? With regard to our North American food supply, approximately 93% of soy, 88% of field corn, 94% cotton, and over 90% of canola seed and sugar beets planted in the U.S. (2012 data) are genetically engineered.According to the Non-GMO Project, the following are considered High-Risk Crops (in commercial production; ingredients derived from these must be tested every time prior to use in Non-GMO Project Verified products (as of December 2011): * Alfalfa (first planting 2011) ...shoppers looking for products that are sourced to avoid GMOs can seek out organic or Non-GMO Project Verified products. More information on other high-risk foods, monitored crops and common ingredients derived from GMO risk crops can be found on the Non-GMO Project website, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the use of non-GMO ingredients and verifying products that avoid GMO ingredients. A detailed explanation of their standards can be found on their website, http://www.nongmoproject.org/ Admitted: Prostate cancer screening is completely useless and actually harms men rather than helping them: Meet the Man Called 'Crazy' By Doctors Who Cured His Own Colon Cancer 233 studies on natural, evidence-based strategies to preventing and treating: Colon Cancer Research on reducing chemotherapy-induced toxicity: Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicity The story of how Dr. Charles Majors put into full remission stage 4 blood, bone and brain cancer without chemotherapy and radiation Cancer Killers: The Cause is the Cure | Paperback Suzanne Somers Refused Chemotherapy and Healed Cancer Naturally - GreenMedTV Stone Age · Top Commenter · Marina Management/Consultant, Boat yard development at Sanctuary Belize Chart showing which companies own which organic companies Carrageenan: Why is a known Toxic Substance in Organic Foods? 'Thunder God Vine' or lei gong teng - Chinese Plant Compound Wipes out Cancer in 40 Days, Says New Research Women: Think Twice About This Test, Even if Your Doctor Bullies You -- Mammography Use Melanoma breakthrough! Fruits and vegetables help halt skin cancer: There are six kinds of prescription drugs you should really think twice before taking. Here's the list: Top 10 most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods - never eat these again! (NaturalNews) The statement "everything causes cancer" has become a popular hyperbole, and one that some people use as rhetorical fodder to excuse their own dietary and lifestyle failures, particularly as they pertain to cancer risk. But the truth of the matter is that many common food items have, indeed, been scientifically shown to increase cancer risk, and some of them substantially. Here are 10 of the most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods that you should never eat again: 1) Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). It goes without saying that GMOs have no legitimate place in any cancer-free diet, especially now that both GMOs and the chemicals used to grow them have been shown to cause rapid tumor growth. But GMOs are everywhere, including in most food derivatives made from conventional corn, soybeans, and canola. However, you can avoid them by sticking with certified organic, certified non-GMO verified, and locally-grown foods that are produced naturally without biotechnology (http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html) 2) Processed meats. Most processed meat products, including lunch meats, bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, contain chemical preservatives that make them appear fresh and appealing, but that can also cause cancer. Both sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate have been linked to significantly increasing the risk of colon and other forms of cancer, so be sure to choose only uncured meat products made without nitrates, and preferably from grass-fed sources (http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/processedmeat050305.cfm). 3) Microwave popcorn. They might be convenient, but those bags of microwave popcorn are lined with chemicals that are linked to causing not only infertility but also liver, testicular, and pancreatic cancers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in microwave popcorn bag linings as "likely" carcinogenic, and several independent studies have linked the chemical to causing tumors. Similarly, the diacetyl chemical used in the popcorn itself is linked to causing both lung damage and cancer (http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400701/Microwave-Popcorn-Threat.html) 4) Soda pop. Like processed meats, soda pop has been shown to cause cancer as well. Loaded with sugar, food chemicals, and colorings, soda pop acidifies the body and literally feeds cancer cells. Common soda pop chemicals like caramel color and its derivative 4-methylimidazole (4-MI) have also specifically been linked to causing cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/031383_caramel_coloring_cola.html) 5) 'Diet' foods, beverages. Even worse than conventional sugar-sweetened soda pop, though, is "diet" soda pop and various other diet beverages and foods. A recent scientific review issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of more than 20 separate research studies found that aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners, causes a range of illnesses including birth defects and cancer. Sucralose (Splenda), saccharin and various other artificial sweeteners have also been linked to causing cancer (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290544/Aspartame-Cancer-premature-birth-fears-linked-fizzy-drink-sweetener.html) 6) Refined 'white' flours. Refined flour is a common ingredient in processed foods, but its excess carbohydrate content is a serious cause for concern. A study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Mile Markers, and Prevention found that regular consumption of refined carbohydrates was linked to a 220 percent increase in breast cancer among women. High-glycemic foods in general have also been shown to rapidly raise blood sugar levels in the body, which directly feeds cancer cell growth and spread (http://www.naturalnews.com/001812_cancer_prevention.html) 7) Refined sugars. The same goes for refined sugars, which tend to rapidly spike insulin levels and feed the growth of cancer cells. Fructose-rich sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are particularly offensive, as cancer cells have been shown to quickly and easily metabolize them in order to proliferate. And since cookies, cakes, pies, sodas, juices, sauces, cereals, and many other popular, mostly processed, food items are loaded with HFCS and other refined sugars, this helps explain why cancer rates are on the rise these days (http://www.naturalnews.com/038071_cancer_sugar_sweets.html) 8) Conventional apples, grapes, and other 'dirty' fruits. Many people think they are eating healthy when they buy apples, grapes, or strawberries from the store. But unless these fruits are organic or verified to be pesticide-free, they could be a major cancer risk. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that up to 98 percent of all conventional produce, and particularly the type found on its "dirty" fruits list, is contaminated with cancer-causing pesticides (http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list/) 9) Farmed salmon. Farmed salmon is another high-risk cancer food, according to Dr. David Carpenter, Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany. According to his assessment, farmed salmon not only lacks vitamin D, but it is often contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), flame retardants, pesticides, and antibiotics (http://www.albany.edu/ihe/salmonstudy/pressrelease.html) 10) Hydrogenated oils. They are commonly used to preserve processed foods and keep them shelf-stable. But hydrogenated oils alter the structure and flexibility of cell membranes throughout the body, which can lead to a host of debilitating diseases such as cancer. Some manufacturers are phasing out the use of hydrogenated oils and replacing them with palm oil and other safer alternatives, but trans fats are still widely used in processed foods (http://www.naturalnews.com/010095_hydrogenated_oils_unhealthy.html) Sources for this article include: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/7-of-the-most-unhealthy-cancer-causing-foods.html http://www.naturalnews.com/021808_cancer_prevention.html Shock findings in new GMO study: Rats fed lifetime of GM corn grow horrifying tumors, 70% of females die early Cancer causing chemicals found in cola coloring ingredient The top five cancer-causing foods Ever wonder which foods should be strongly avoided by those at high risk for cancer? We can begin identifying cancer-causing foods once we know which ingredients in our food cause cancer. Some of those ingredients are food additives and chemicals used to enhance taste, while others are used strictly for appearance or to increase product shelf life. The key to avoiding cancer-causing foods is knowing which ingredients are carcinogens -- or cancer promoters -- and then reading food labels to permanently avoid consuming those ingredients. Cancer tumors develop, in part, by feeding on sugar in the bloodstream. If you eat lots of sugary snacks loaded with simple carbs, you're loading your bloodstream with the chemical energy needed for cancer cells (and tumors) to proliferate. No biological system can live without fuel for its chemical processes, including cancer cells. Thus, one of the strategies to pursue for any anti-cancer diet is to eat low-glycemic diet. That means no refined sugars... ever! No refined grains (white flour, for example), no heavy use of sweeteners and the lifetime avoidance of sugary soda pop. Aside from starving tumors, eating foods low in sugar and avoiding simple carbs will also keep your weight in check while helping prevent blood sugar disorders such as type-2 diabetes. What to avoid on the labels: high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, sucrose, enriched bleached flour, white rice, white pastas, white breads and other "white" foods. The dangers of hydrogenated oils Besides being a cancer factor, trans fats promote heart disease, interrupt metabolic processes, and cause belly fat that crowd the organs and strain the heart. The essential fatty acids that the hydrogenation process removes are responsible for a number of processes in your body. When trans fats replace these essential fatty acids, they occupy the same space without doing the same job. The "anchor" portion of the fatty acid is in place (which is how the body recognizes the fatty acid and puts it to work) but the chemically active part of the fatty acid is twisted, distorted, and missing vital parts. After the hydrogenation process, the fatty acid can't biochemically function in the same way. Things like brain cell function, hormones, gland function, oxygen transport, cell wall function (keeping things in or out of your cells) and digestive tract operation (putting together nutrients and blocking allergens) are adversely affected. Food manufacturers don't tell you this on the product label, of course. Your body needs essential fatty acids and you are programmed to keep eating until you get them. If you're only eating trans fats, you'll never feel fully satiated, because your body will never get the fatty acids it needs for essential function. Since cancer needs high blood sugar and low oxygen levels, a person with lots of belly fat who just can't seem to put down those trans fat cookies or crackers (also loaded with flour and simple sugars) presents the ideal environment for the development of cancer. The acrylamide factor Sodium nitrite (and nitrates) The nitrites themselves are not the problem. People get more nitrites from vegetables than they do from meat, according to research by the University of Minnesota. During the digestion process, however, sodium nitrite is converted to nitrosamine, and that's where the cancer problems begin. Nitrosamine is a carcinogen, but since it is not technically an ingredient, its presence can be easily overlooked on the packaging. Nitrosamines are also found in food items that are pickled, fried, or smoked; in things such as beer, cheese, fish byproducts, and tobacco smoke. Knowing about all these ingredients doesn't mean there is simply a "short list" of foods that should be avoided. You have to vigilant and read labels constantly. Here are the five worst offenders: Hot dogs: The Cancer Prevention Coalition recommends that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of cancer. If you must have your hot dog fix, look for those without sodium nitrite listed among the ingredients. Processed meats and bacon: These meats almost always contain the same sodium nitrite found in hot dogs. You can find some without nitrites, but you'll have to look for them in natural grocers or health food stores. Bacon is also high in saturated fat, which contributes to the risk of cancers, including breast cancer. Limiting your consumption of processed meats and saturated fats also benefits the heart. Doughnuts: Doughnuts contain hydrogenated oils, white flour, sugar, and acrylamides. Essentially, they're one of the worst cancer foods you can possibly eat. Reader's Digest calls doughnuts "disastrous" as a breakfast food, and many experts agree it's probably one of the worst ways to start the day. French fries: Fries are made with hydrogenated oil and fried at high temperatures. Some chains even add sugar to their fry recipe to make them even more irresistible. Not only do they clog your arteries with saturated fat and trans fat, they also contain acrylamides. They should be called "cancer fries," not French fries. Chips / crackers / cookies: These generally contain white flour and sugar as well as trans fats, but it's not enough to simply look for these ingredients on the label; you have to actually "decode" the ingredients list that food manufacturers use to deceive consumers. They do this by hiding ingredients (such as hiding MSG in yeast extract, or by fiddling with serving sizes so they can claim the food is trans fat free, even when it contains trans fats (the new Girl Scout cookies use this trick). Besides avoiding these foods, what else can consumers do to reduce their risk of cancer? The main things are simple: Eat unprocessed foods and base your diet largely on plants. Consume foods that have omega-3 fats and other essential fatty acids. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables; many common ones have known cancer-fighting properties. Get regular vigorous exercise, since tumors cannot thrive in highly oxygenated environments. Keep your blood sugar stable to avoid being an all-you-can-eat buffet for cancer cells. Eat foods high in natural vitamin C, a nutrient that deters the conversion of nitrite into nitrosamine and promotes healthy immune function. Make sure you get adequate amounts of cancer-fighting vitamin D through exposure to sunlight -- about 10 to 15 minutes each day if you have fair skin, or ten times as long if you have dark skin pigmentation. Stay well hydrated to ensure that your body rids itself of toxins. Avoid smoking and don't use conventional fragrance, cosmetics and personal care products -- virtually all of them contain cancer-causing chemicals. Preventing cancer is actually quite straightforward. Even the World Health Organization says that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented with simple changes in diet and lifestyle. The truth is that most people give themselves cancer through the foods, drinks and products they choose to consume. In my opinion, over 90 percent of cancers are easily preventable. By the way, don't you find it interesting that the cancer industry seems to have no interest whatsoever in urging people to avoid eating sodium nitrite, or to stop using cancer-causing skin care products, or to get more sunlight on their skin so they can prevent cancer with vitamin D? As you'll read in many other articles I've written here, it is my firm belief that the cancer industry has no interest whatsoever in preventing cancer, and it primarily interested in treating cancer for profit. This view is generally agreed upon by noted cancer experts such as Dr. Samuel Epstein and Dr. Ralph Moss. See www.PreventCancer.com to learn more from Dr. Epstein. New Research Shows Cancer Caused By Carbohydrates, Sugars, White Flour, And Corn Syrup Avoid These Top-10 Worst Cancer-Causing Foods: B Vitamins Can Help Prevent Breast Cancer B Vitamins Cut Risk Of Lung Cancer By 50 Percent How Cancer Feeds On Sugar (And Other Big Reasons To Avoid Refined Sweets) Dangers of hydrogenated oils revealed in new downloadable report (press release) Health Risks Associated with Consuming Farm-Raised Salmon What Consumers Can Do to Limit Their Exposure (Farm-Raised Salmon) Some Of The Contaminants Found In Farmed Salmon The Full List 45 Fruits and Veggies EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ 30 is the new 45: Today's adults getting diseases 15 years faster than their grandparents GM Wheat May Permanently Alter Human Genome, Spark Early Death Top foods that chelate the body of heavy metals The Slow-Burn Exercise Technique (The Wheat, Gluten, and Slow Burn Connection) All the nutrients prescribed for Dave and our patients are made from food (phytonutrients). And there simply are no substitutes. Dave had taken an entire array of "natural" vitamins and minerals for several years prior to his heart attack, subsequent type 2 diabetes, and blood fat abnormalities. Thankfully, he is now living proof that getting the right phytonutrients will make a difference. Being a physician, Dave is inquisitive. And he closely monitors his blood sugar. He has told me that I was absolutely correct in recommending no wheat or gluten, along with heavy weight lifting. His sugar rises most precipitously and stays high longer when he eats wheat or gluten. And his sugar drops quickly and stays normal longer after his intense weight lifting. I recommended that Dave lift weights following the "slow burn" technique. This is lifting weights very slowly, for only 4 to 6 repetitions per exercise, and only once every 5 to 7 days. Sound good--lifting weights only once or twice weekly, instead of the usual 4 to 6 times? You bet. The studies show that when you exercise in this manner, the positive effects last in your body for the next 5 to 7 days! And Dave has proved that over and over again with the simple use of a blood glucose monitor. For anyone with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and/or blood fats problems, I always recommend a gluten-free diet and slow burn weight lifting. You can learn all you need to know about wheat, gluten, and being overweight by getting the book, Low-Fat Lies. You can get it at a discount from our store (www.healthalertstore.com or 1-888-525-5955). And you can learn all about the benefits and technique of slow burn weight lifting by getting the book, The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, by Frederick Hahn, Michael Eades, MD, and Mary Eades, MD. And slow burn is not just for younger folks. If you start this technique, it can be your personal fountain of youth. I have patients in their 90s who lift weights in this manner. Older folks routinely become stronger, more stable, more secure, more positive, and more independent after 3 months on this regime. Sound like the fountain of youth to you?
There are two vitamin D tests -- 1,25(OH)D and 25(OH)D -- but 25(OH)D is the better marker of overall D status. It is this marker that is most strongly associated with overall health, and it is the one you should ask your physician for. Alternatively, you can have your vitamin D levels tested right in your own home by joining the GrassrootsHealth D* Action Study. D*Action is a worldwide public health campaign which aims to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic through focusing on testing, education, and grassroots word of mouth. When you join D*action, you agree to test your vitamin D levels twice a year during a five-year program, and share your health status to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient. There is a $60 fee each 6 months ($120/year) for your sponsorship of the project, which includes a complete new test kit to be used at home, and electronic reports on your ongoing progress. You will get a follow up email every six months reminding you "it's time for your next test and health survey." To join now, please follow this link to the sign up form: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/proj-welcome?pr=45284 What Do Your Vitamin D Test Results Mean? ("You'll want to elevate your levels of vitamin D to about 80-90 ng/ml, and continue to have them monitored throughout your treatment," from another article by Mercola about cancer treatment) This means that even if you do not regularly monitor your vitamin D levels, your risk of overdosing is going to be fairly slim -- even if you take as much as 8,000 IU's a day. As an aside, there is evidence that the safety of vitamin D is dependent on vitamin K, and that vitamin D toxicity (although very rare with the D3 form) is actually aggravated by vitamin K2 deficiency. So if you take oral vitamin D, ideally you should take vitamin K2 as well or use organic fermented foods that are high in vitamin K2, as you need about 150 mcg per day. Remember, unless you get a deep dark tan, which is a pretty good gauge that your vitamin D levels are where they need to be, it is wise to get your blood levels checked; that is the only way to know for certain you have reached therapeutic levels. Do you really need to take that much vitamin D? You probably already know how important vitamin D is for your health. It helps keep your bones strong, your immune system supercharged, and your tissues cancer free. Even though they know it's good for them, one thing people just can't understand is the importance of taking a lot of vitamin D. Almost every patient I test has low vitamin D levels. The blood reference range for vitamin D3 is 30 to 100 ng/ml. However, just being in this range is not enough. People with vitamin D3 levels over 60 ng/ml are about one-fifth as likely to get cancer as those with levels in the lower end of the range. So how much vitamin D3 do you really need to take in order to get the maximum benefits? Here's a newly published paper that will surprise some. Researchers at the University of California in San Diego wanted to find out how much vitamin D everyone should take. They stated, "Studies indicate that intake of vitamin D in the range from 1,100 to 4,000 units per day and a serum D level [25-hydroxyvitamin D3] from 60-80 ng/ml may be needed to reduce cancer risk." And then they asked the question, "So just how much vitamin D3 intake is necessary for most people to achieve this level?" Here's what they found. The researchers looked at 3,667 men and women between the ages of 40 to 65 years. It turns out that the dose necessary to ensure that almost all (97.5%) of these people had a vitamin D3 level of at least 40 ng/ml was 9,600 units per day. As you can see, even 9,600 units a day was not enough for many people to achieve the optimal levels (over 60) needed for maximum cancer prevention. I was not at all surprised by these results. I have been measuring vitamin D levels for over 10 years now. I can tell you that many people need between 15-20,000 units per day to reach optimal blood levels. But some doctors think this level of intake is somehow unsafe. Is it true? Do we need to be concerned about taking these higher levels of vitamin D? Not according to these investigators. In the entire group of patients, a rather large group, not one of them reached the potential toxic vitamin D limits of 200 ng/ml. Even those with a total vitamin D intake (supplements and diet) as high as 13,300 units per day didn't get close. The authors concluded by saying that, "Universal intake of up to 40,000 IU vitamin D per day is unlikely to result in vitamin D toxicity." I have never found it necessary to give anyone more than 20,000 units. So don't be afraid of vitamin D3. Take enough to bring your levels up to between 60-80 ng/ml. Once they are up there, check your blood calcium levels. Occasionally, optimal levels of vitamin D will result in excessive blood calcium levels, which could cause kidney stones. I have seen this in only two patients in the past 10 years. Frank Shallenberger, MD My Regimen: Several of you have asked for my regimen so that you can see an example of how to implement your protocol, because it may seem overwhelming at first. (Note: even I complain sometimes about the amount of time and effort that this takes, but it's much better than the alternative -- not being around to complain any more!) Each weekend, I set out 21 empty vitamin bottles (three for each day of the week) and put into each of them most of the capsules and tablets that I will have to take with breakfast, lunch and supper for the week. Then I take the appropriate ones with my meals. This makes it convenient to take the right ones at work, etc. Every night, I set out some medicine cups (available from a pharmacy) and three empty vitamin bottles. Into one of the cups (for that night) and a bottle (for the next AM), I put my DIM, sublingual B12 and sublingual Glutathione tablets. Into another cup (for that PM) and bottle (for the next AM), I put my immune boosters. Into the third bottle, I put oil-soluble capsules that need to be opened and mixed (mix well with spoon) with Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil in a saucer: curcumin & quercetin. I add the hesperidin powder at the time I mix the capsules & oil. I also take another 2 bottles for my in-between-meals-and-nighttime enzymes and put my serrapeptase, pancreatin and papaya enzymes in them. (I mark each bottle #1,2,3 for breakfast, lunch & supper, and "E1", "E2" for enymes, etc. to tell them apart.) I have a large, two handled woven basket into which I place my various bottles of powder, etc. for ease in carrying them to the kitchen or dining room (and back to the cabinet I keep them in). Breakfast: For breakfast, before eating, I take my meal-time enzymes (pancreatin, papaya & digestive enzymes; enzymes also have to be taken between meals and at night). I have a little goat or sheep cheese with some powdered cayenne pepper and some sliced hot pepper on it (helps with cancer, lungs, circulatory system, arthritis, etc. We grow our own organic cayenne peppers); about 2-3 TBS of steel cut oatmeal (soak in water in the refrigerator the night before to reduce cooking time, and, in order to save time, cook enough for several days and keep in refrigerator. Do NOT warm in microwave; use stove, if you prefer it warm (you'll have to add some pure water because it tends to solidify). I just have my cold, and add my flaxseed, 1 TBS organic coconut oil, and some olive oil, stevia [or Erythritol, if you don't like stevia], cayenne pepper, cinnamon. Make sure you mix the ground flaxseed in enough distilled water (that you've added to the oatmeal) to thoroughly wet it, right after you grind it, so it won't oxidize: it goes rancid in 15-30 mins. I take 1 TBS of lecithin (I transfer some from the 10 pound bag to a container for convenience) and chew it. I also have 10 ounces of my Vitamixed vegetable drink (specific ones), to which I add some Morton Lite salt (potassium & sodium salt -- balanced), if it needs it for taste. I use a wide coffee mug to mix my powders in: distilled water, vitamin C (magnesium ascorbate), magnesium citrate & calcium citrate powders (I'm a protein type, so I need extra calcium), wheat/barley grasses, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus, Miracle Reds, onion/garlic powder, arabinogalactan and Jarrow Multi Easy. At this time, I take my morning supplements (the AM bottle from the 21 bottles I fill once a week, and the AM bottle that I filled the night before), and get from the refrigerator an iFlora capsule (1 ev other day), oil-soluble supplements (I mix curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin into1-2 TBS Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil for breakfast), measuring spoons and some GLA capsules and take them. [Note: it's hard for me to mix the oil-soluble things during the day, since I'm at work, so I double them up at breakfast (1000mg of curcumin + 1000mg quercetin + 1/4 tsp hesperidin), then take a single dose at night (500mg of curcumin + 500mg quercetin + 1/8 tsp hesperidin).] I often have a banana, apple, peach or other piece of organic fruit with breakfast. (Note: with active cancer, the apples are okay, but stay away from sweet fruit). Also, I have my Brazil nuts. While mixing things, I take my ProBoost and hold it in my mouth for several minutes until it is absorbed. I also take my sublingual tablets in between and after eating. Pre-Lunch: I take my immune boosters, then an hour later, take my enzymes & IP6. (You may prefer to take one of these after lunch, so you can eat lunch sooner). Lunch: For lunch, I often have wild-caught salmon and/or beans -- I like chick peas/garbanzo beans or dark kidney beans (along with fresh garlic, onion, cayenne, olive oil, and whatever other healthy spices, sliced vegetables, etc. you like). I also have 1 large or 2 medium organic apples, and about 6-8 ounces of unpasteurized sauerkraut (mixed with diced red onions, and a little garlic powder or diced, along with some red pepper flakes or chopped fresh cayenne peppers). You might also take Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil into which you've mixed curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin. [Note: it's hard for me to mix the oil-soluble things during the day, since I'm at work, so I double them up at breakfast (1000mg of curcumin + 1000mg quercetin + 1/4 tsp hesperidin), then take a single dose at night (500mg of curcumin + 500mg quercetin + 1/8 tsp hesperidin).] Dinner: For dinner, before eating, I take my meal-time enzymes (pancreatin, papaya & digestive enzymes; enzymes also have to be taken between meals and at night). For protein, I usually have 2 hard-boiled Christopher's eggs or organic, free-range chicken or wild-caught fish (cooked at low temp in olive oil so it doesn't brown and the oil doesn't smoke, or baked such that it doesn't brown much) or some organic, wild black ("Emperor's Forbidden") rice and beans (along with onion, garlic, hot peppers, etc. I also have 10 ounces of my Vitamixed vegetable drink (specific ones), to which I add some Morton Lite salt (potassium & sodium salt -- balanced), if it needs it for taste. I use a wide coffee mug to mix my powders in: distilled water, vitamin C (magnesium ascorbate), magnesium citrate & calcium citrate powders (I'm a protein type, so I need extra calcium), wheat/barley grasses, Lindberg Greens & Fruits Plus, Miracle Reds, onion/garlic powder, arabinogalactan and Jarrow Multi Easy. At this time, I take my dinner supplements (the PM bottle from the 21 bottles I fill once a week, mix and take my oil-soluble capsules & powder (curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin into1 TBS Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and get from the refrigerator my Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil (into which I mix curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin), measuring spoons, DHA oil from Calamari capsules, and some GLA capsules and take them. Before Retiring for the Night: I take the PM bottle (of immune boosters) that I filled the night before, along with 1 TBS of lecithin (I transfer some from the 10 pound bag to a container for convenience) and chew it (it boosts absorption of the immune boosters) and I take my ProBoost and hold it in my mouth for several minutes until it is absorbed. I also take my sublingual tablets in between and after eating. About an hour later, just before bed, I take my nighttime enzymes. (Note: papaya may upset some people's stomach if taken just before bedtime. If this is the case, take the extra nighttime papaya earlier, along with the in-between-meals enzymes.) More about medical mushrooms (for those who are interested) -- if I had a serious disease, I would take one of these formulas, or use the rotating protocol of two different mushrooms at a time for 3 months each (see below): Aloha Medicinals, www.alohamedicinals.com (Immune Assist Critical Care, qty84capsules ($.60g), 500mg, recommended dosage: 6-12 capsules/d. Voice or fax: 877-508-1077. http://www.alohamedicinals.com/IACC_MGN3.htm [84 capsules of 500 mg each = 1 week course of treatment at 12 capsules/day. Those who wish to use it as a maintenance dosage can take smaller quantities. Active Ingredients: Agaricus blazei - 58.5% Beta-Glucans (1-6, D-Beta Glucan); Cordyceps sinensis - 30% Beta-Glucans (plus Deoxyadenosine and other nucleosides); Maitake (Grifola frondosa) - 28% Beta-Glucans (Protein bound Fraction extracted according to Dr. Nanba's original formula); Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) - 40 % Beta-Glucans (including Lentinan and the Alpha-Glucan KS-2); Coriolus versicolor - 40% Beta-Glucans (including polysaccharides P and K); Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) - 40% Beta-Glucans (1-3,{8}1-6 D- Beta Glucan, plus Triterpenoids)]. My wife and I are using these currently, but at reduced dosage (4AM + 4PM for me, 3AM + 3PM for her) when we have infections, colds, etc. (along with Epicor, goldenseal, echinacea, astragalus, andrographis, and long-chain Aloe, Fucoidan, Gum Ghatti and Arabinogalactan. Note: I also take 1 TBS AM + 1 TBS PM of Now brand Non-GM Lecithin because it helps in absorption). I am using Immune-Assist Critical Care, and am quite happy with it: I used the recommended dosage when I had active cancer, and a reduced dosage for respiratory/sinus/flu infections, colds, etc. NorthWest Botanicals: Rick Miller at NWBotanicals (541-476-5588) sells the Immune Assist Critical Care (note that this is not the same as Immune Assist 247) for $59.95 for 84 500mg capsules: one week's worth at dosage of 12 caps/d for cancer. I would also take the thymus extract, thymic protein A, Astragalus, Echinacea, Goldenseal, long-chain Aloe, Fucoidan, Gum Ghatti and Arabinogalactan, Curcumin (Turmeric concentrate) and Pomegranate extract. Echinacea and Goldenseal (or Oregon Grape Root) can be added to your protocol too, but you need to cycle on and off these two so they don't stop working. Immune Assist contains concentrated extracts of: Agaricus blazei + Cordyceps sinensis HEAA + Coriolus [Trametes] versicolor + Ganoderma (Reishi) + Grifola frondosa (Maitake) + Lentinula edodes (Shiitake). HartAmerica (see link below) has qty84 500mg capsules (42grams) for $44.50, or $1.06/gram. http://www.pharmaceuticalmushrooms.nwbotanicals.org/products/immune84cc.htm, http://www.pharmaceuticalmushrooms.nwbotanicals.org/products/comparison.htm, http://www.pharmaceuticalmushrooms.nwbotanicals.org/index3.htm, http://www.alohamedicinals.com/ia-compare.htm?gclid=CPze_Lmfvo0CFRewOAodN1HRLg, http://www.hartamerica.com/IA_FAQs.htm, http://www.hartamerica.com/ImmuneAssist_Immune_Supplement.htm, Dr. Blaylock has written papers about the effectiveness of yeast cell-wall beta glucan, and there are articles about human studies in the book Medical Mushrooms, but it seems that yeast BG is not as strong as mushroom BG, tails off after 3-4 mos (doesn't work any more unless it's cycled), and affects different parts of the immune system than each of the mushrooms in turn do. Even each type of mushroom has its own benefits from its own unique form of beta glucan, also. Just using 1,3-1,6 beta glucan is not enough, because every type of mushroom and yeast has it's own unique combination of beta glucan and various proteins and peptides that allow it to uniquely stimulate different cells of the immune system. That's why it's important to use a variety of them, and to use ones that are carefully extracted via a hot water extraction so as not to damage each ones' unique molecular structure. Dr. Blaylock advises that we should get our calcium from greens, along with an increased intake of vitamin D-3 (with active cancer, I would take 50,000 iu twice a week, or 12,000 iu/d; since I no longer have active cancer, I take 8000 IU/d), vitamins K-2 and C, magnesium, and a high intake of vegetables (especially leafy green and yellow vegetables), so that the calcium gets deposited in our bones, not our soft tissues and arteries. Coral Calcium contains a lot of heavy metals, including lead. Also, not everyone needs to more alkaline (including not every cancer patient -- contrary to what you might have read on the internet or in books). Each of us is an individual, with our own Metabolic Type (See Metabolic Type page). For example, since I'm a parasympathetic-dominant metabolic type, along with some fruit, healthy oils, etc. (other things mentioned on this page), and raw organic vegetables, I eat moderate amounts of free-range, organic (hormone and pesticide free, grass-fed -- or algae/plankton-fed, in the case of fish) skinless chicken and turkey breast, and wild, line-caught (NOT FARMED) salmon, sardines and other fish, especially those high in omega-3 (not King Mackerel, tuna and other large fish, because they contain a lot of mercury and PCB's). They have Salmon from Alaska in cans at the supermarket that are high in omega-3 and low in mercury and PCB's, and they're often on sale for around a dollar for a large can. By the way, just like you shouldn't overdo carrots because they contain a lot of starch, you don't want to overdo spinach: not only is it high in oxalic acid, a toxin, but it is also high in iron which is a free radical and shouldn't be eaten in excess of the body's requirements. In particular, avoid eating spinach and other iron-containing foods with vitamin C and other acids that increase absorption of iron, and eat vegetables with any meats to reduce the absorption of iron from meat (heme iron from meat is much more absorbable than iron from plants). Note: this does not mean to avoid carrots and spinach, for they contain many very important phytonutrients, just to be sure to eat a mixture of vegetables. For more info about iron, see: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0857/is_n1_v14/ai_18027035/pg_1 I followed this same diet when I had cancer, and now that I don't. I took some enzymes with each meal (to help with digestion), and most of the enzymes between meals and before bed (to digest the outer layers of cancer cells so they cannot hide from the immune system). Researchers have found that the pancreas actually has a duct that releases enzymes directly into the bloodstream, besides into the first foot of the intestines (i.e., the "duodenum"). Notes about Calcium, Magnesium and Vitamin D: Dr. Blaylock advises that we should get our calcium from greens, along with adequate Boron (but don't overdo the Boron, especially with hormone sensitive cancers), vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 so that it gets deposited in our bones, not our soft tissues and arteries. [Dr. Rowen Feb8, 2006: "Osteoporosis Myth: More Calcium Means Better Protection". Blaylock 6/07: Other studies have shown that diets containing more than 2,000 milligrams of calcium a day (from all sources) dramatically increases the number of advanced prostate cancers when compared to diets containing fewer than 500 milligrams. There are two reasons for this: 1) calcium promotes the growth and spread of cancer directly; and 2) it can lower vitamin D-3 levels. Supplements of vitamin D-3 (2,000 IU a day) seem to reduce the risk caused by increased calcium. BlaylockDec2006_30.pdf: It is a myth that calcium is the cure for prevention (for osteoporosis). The best prevention is regular weight-bearing exercise, an increased intake of vitamin D-3 (at least 2,000 IU a day), vitamins K-2 and C, magnesium, and a high intake of vegetables (especially leafy green and yellow vegetables). In fact, a recent study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the best preventative against osteoporosis is a high intake of vegetables, both because of the high potassium content and the fact that a number of flavonoids in vegetables directly prevent calcium loss. In addition, avoiding a high intake of red meats is also essential. People who eat little or no meat have very low incidences of osteoporosis and this is confirmed by worldwide studies. Meat is acidic and depletes the calcium in bones. As far as risk of prostate cancer with high calcium intakes, this has been confirmed in a number of well-conducted studies and makes no difference if the calcium is from milk or as a supplement. There is some indication that this occurs mainly in people with low vitamin D-3 intake. A new study, also in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that only vitamin D-3 (cholecalciferol) and not vitamin D-2 (ergocalciferol, the form in most cheaper supplements), worked. Previous recommendations (RDA) for vitamin D were far too low at 200 to 400 IU a day. New recommendations are at least 2,000 IU a day.) (See my "Metabolic Type" page for more about Magnesium and Calcium (as well as foods and other supplements) requirements being different for different individuals.) Jerry Brunetti cured himself naturally of cancer using a protocol quite similar to the one I used, although I didn't know of it at the time: http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf (but avoid the methionine, RNA, all products from cows(use goat's, if you must have them), Glycine and Glutamic Acid/L-Glutamate that Jerry mentions, per Dr. Blaylock, because they stimulate cancer). http://annieappleseedproject.stores.yahoo.net/presbyjerbru.html (interview: Jerry Brunetti, Food as Medicine Retrospective) http://www.agri-dynamics.com/ (Jerry Brunetti used natural methods to beat cancer.) http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=1150&&page=article (An interview with Jerry with additional information about his protocol. Also see their main page for lots of good articles: http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/ ) See Jerry's "Cancer Nutrition & Healing" book on his website, that includes reference brochure with supplement lists, recipes and more: (It's also available from Amazon for the same price, but there is a lot of other useful information on Jerry's site, so I highly recommend that you at least visit his site). http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Nutrition-Healing-Jerry-Brunetti/dp/B000E42SMA "Jerry Brunetti has an unparalleled understanding of the interrelated dynamics of biological systems. His insight into livestock feeding is without equal. But his true genius shows when he correlates what we know of plant nutrition to animal and human needs." -- Acres USA (a human and animal health and organic farming site that shows how healthy soil, plants and livestock are related to human health.) Choosing Products/Cosmetics That Promote Beauty and Well Being The Foods That Are Most Affected by Pesticides Twelve Changes That Will Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half Chlorinated Water Can Affect Cancer Risk Six Surprising Facts About Soy The Evidence Against Soy IMP Taste Enhancer Chemical May be the New MSG 5 Ways to Keep BPA Out of Your Food Four Mushrooms for Cancer (from http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/TIP02103 ): There are many ways to help lower your risk of breast (and other) cancers; one is to incorporate medicinal mushrooms into your diet and health regime. The four fungi below are great choices to add to your meals, or to take in supplement form as cancer-preventive measures: Maitake (Grifola frondosa). This delicious mushroom provides anti-cancer, anti-viral and immune-enhancing properties, and may also reduce blood pressure and help regulate blood sugar. Find it dried or fresh in Japanese markets, gourmet stores or upscale supermarkets. Shiitake (Lentinula edodes). The shiitake has been found to have immune modulating, anti-viral and cholesterol-reducing properties. Certain extracts of shiitake mushrooms are used in Japan as adjunctive therapy to strengthen the immunity of cancer patients during chemotherapy and radiation. Find it - fresh or dried - in grocery stores and Asian markets. Agaricus (Agaricus blazei). This medicinal mushroom has anti-tumor and anti-viral activity, and is widely used by cancer patients in Japan and Brazil. You can get it as a culture or in extract form from Fungi Perfecti: visit www.fungi.com. Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum). Too woody and bitter to eat, reishi mushrooms are available in tea bags, capsules and liquid extracts. Animal studies have shown that reishi improves immune function and inhibits the growth of some malignant tumors. It also acts as a natural anti-inflammatory agent. (My note: I use standardized extracts of these and other immune boosters in capsule form for convenience; see below for others). A really good alternative cancer doctor (one of the best I know), who does conventional & alternative therapies. Ask him about IPT, which uses insulin with such small dosages of chemo that your hair doesn't fall out, you don't get nauseous, and your immune system isn't compromised, and when it's combined with alternative methods, it's more effective than full-strength chemotherapy: Robert Jay Rowen, M.D. The Only Safe Way to Burn Cancer Out of Your Body -- Dr. Robert J. Rowen For years, doctors and medical science believed the only way to effectively burn cancer out of your body was with radiation. Of course, they still hold to that dogma. But you don’t have to. There’s another way to burn cancer out of your body. And this method is completely safe to the surrounding tissues and the rest of your body. You may know that conventional medicine’s cancer management system does anything but protect your healthy tissues. Surgery will often expose healthy cells surrounding the tumor to the cancer cells. This makes it much easier for the cancer to spread. Standard chemotherapy poisons your entire body, not just the cancer cells. And radiation can burn everything in its path, whether it’s healthy or not. The thinking behind these treatments does have merit. Even many alternative-minded doctors will use these treatments as appropriate. I’ve occasionally used chemotherapy as part of my cancer treatment regimen, but usually at 1/10th the dose, with insulin (IPT). So the idea of burning your cancer out is a good idea. We just need to be able to do it without damaging the healthy tissues. And now there’s a way to do it. Researchers in two separate studies have found a way to burn your cancer cells with capsaicin rather than radiation. Capsaicin is the very hot extract of red peppers. In the first study, scientists evaluated the herbal extract’s effect on mice implanted with human prostate cancer cells. The extract killed 80% of the wayward cells. How? It induced them to commit apoptosis. Apoptosis is preprogrammed cell death (cell suicide) for when cells turn abnormal. In cancer, the mechanism of apoptosis is turned off and the cells become immortal (until something kills them or the host dies). Turning on that mechanism in cancer cells would be a major breakthrough. Capsaicin also had a profound effect on the cancer cells’ ability to multiply. In addition to killing 80% of the cancer cells, it dramatically slowed the development of tumors from the remaining 20%. That’s enough to allow other treatments to step in and successfully kill these cells. This study’s researchers found that capsaicin affected a protein called NF-kappa B. This protein protects cells from apoptosis and is involved in inflammation. Capsaicin may inhibit its action both in apoptosis protection and promoting inflammation. The hot stuff also affected androgen (male hormone) receptors. By doing so, it caused many hormone dependent cells to freeze in time. That doesn’t mean a cold freeze. The cells merely entered a cell cycle of no growth and stayed there. That’s what hormone therapy does for men who choose to take hormone blockers. However, with capsaicin, you aren’t likely to suffer breast growth, impotence, or other signs of male hormone wipe out, or estrogen excess (as you would with hormone therapy). But the news gets far better. A British study led by Dr. Timothy Bates has found that capsaicin directly attacks the mitochondria (energy furnaces) of cancer cells. But it leaves the mitochondria of normal cells untouched. The team found that lung and pancreatic cancer cells incubated with the hot extract died from the direct assault on their energy furnaces. Pancreatic cancer cells are particularly hard to kill, so this is great news. Study after study is showing the incredible healing power of spices and herbs such as red pepper and turmeric. I have already suggested to some people battling cancer to try capsaicin. Cayenne extracts can be extraordinarily hot and very uncomfortable. So I have asked Farmacopia (800-896-1484) to carry a dried extract in capsules (40,000 heat units each). I suggest you take seven capsules three times per day, but only for three days a week. If you find that this dose is too uncomfortable for you, please contact Farmacopia and let them know. I will definitely report back to you on the progress of those who try the nontoxic cancer burn of hot pepper extract. And I certainly would rely on this more than a petrochemical synthetic version. Ref: Cancer Research, March 15, 2006. This three-nutrient cocktail reduces cancer by up to 59% Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to cure. It's one form of cancer you definitely don't want to get. And new research shows three different nutrients can substantially cut your risk. What's more, if you're a smoker, these nutrients can do even more to protect you. Not only can these nutrients lower your risk of pancreatic cancer, they can lower your overall risk as well. In this study, German researchers followed participants from many different ethnic groups. The eight-year study compared the cancer protection from three different flavanols (a type of plant polyphenols). The researchers found that all three of the flavanols can slash your cancer risk. In fact, they slashed the risk for pancreatic cancer by 25%. If you are a smoker, the reduction is even more pronounced. You can cut it by more than 59%. This was the first study to examine the specific classes of flavanols and their impact on pancreatic cancer risk reduction. The researchers studied the flavanols quercetin, kaempferol, and myricetin. You'll find quercetin in onions and apples, kaempferol in spinach and cabbage, and myricetin in red onions and berries. Of the three, kaempferol provided the largest amount of risk reduction - 22% - across all participants. Obviously, eating all three will give you even more protection. That's why these are some of my favorite and most recommended foods. I try to eat an onion and spinach in my salad every day. And it's logical to think that if they slash the risk of pancreatic cancer, they will reduce your risk for other cancers as well. You won't find these wonderful compounds in synthetic, processed, manmade petrochemicals. You can find natural quercetin and myricetin in supplement form on the Internet and in many health food stores. But kaempferol is harder to find. So eat more of these foods to make sure you get all of the flavanols. And take additional quercetin and myricetin to increase your protection. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Avoid this new Trans Fat replacement ("interesterified" fats) The FDA and other government agencies have come down hard on trans fatty acids lately. You've probably noticed that a lot of corn and potato chips now say "0 trans fats." New York City recently banned trans fats from restaurants. And other cities are following their lead. This is a great move, as I've said many times that trans fats are killers. They wreak all kinds of havoc on your body. But these restaurants, in their scramble to find a replacement, are now using something that's just as bad as trans fats - and could be much worse! The replacement most food producers are rushing to use instead is "interesterified" fats. Interesterification is a process that enriches fat molecules with stearic acid, a relatively stable fatty acid. It's stable because it is saturated and relatively resistant to heat and oxidation, as are trans fats. But stable doesn't mean healthy. In fact, a new study shows that this kind of fat substantially increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Researchers in Malaysia and at Brandeis University found that interesterified fats hinder your body's ability to metabolize fat and cholesterol (which can cause weight gain). It also hinders your ability to metabolize insulin. Both of these are known factors in diabetes and heart disease. Study author K.C. Hayes notes, "In this study, we discovered that trans fat also has a weak negative influence on blood glucose. The newer replacement for trans, so-called interesterified fat, appears even worse in that regard, raising glucose 20% in a month." In other words, the new fat could cause just as many problems as the trans fat it replaced. You just can't alter fat and not cause problems in your body. It just doesn't work. The best fats are naturally extracted from plants without any processing. These include avocados, nuts, seeds, olives, coconuts, and a variety of others. If you want to stay healthy, eat foods that are as natural as possible. And when you eat out, stay away from restaurants that serve fake fats. When I eat out, I try to go to restaurants that serve organic foods that are as natural as possible. This does limit my choices. But it's worth the extra effort to protect my body. And the more we demand this type of food, the better our selections will become. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Ref: Sundram, K., T. Karupaiah, and K.C. Hayes, Stearic Acid-Rich Interesterified Fat and trans-Rich Fat Raise the LDL/HDL Ratio and Plasma Glucose Relative to Palm Olein in Humans, Nutr. Metab. (Lond.) 4:3 (2007). doi:10.1186/1743-7075-4-3. Interview with Webster Kehr on cancer treatments: "First, you should know that natural medicine (i.e. alternative medicine) has a much higher cure rate for cancer than orthodox medicine. Much higher!! But even for those who do not survive, those on natural medicine almost always (except in rare cases) have a much longer life and always have a much higher quality of life while they are being treated!! Second, you should know that if you want to get the most benefit from alternative medicine you need to do two things. You need to do your homework - lots of it - and you need to avoid the severe damage done by orthodox treatments to your body - especially to your immune system. In other words, your best chance of survival is to study natural medicine for yourself, and totally avoid the orthodox treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation." (Webster's Cancer Tutor website is http://www.cancertutor.com/ ) Why cancer comes back following chemotherapy, radiation or surgery One of the most common problems in cancer patients who choose to undergo conventional cancer therapy is recurrence. They might think they have beaten their cancer with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, only to find a few years later that tumors have spread into other tissues -- usually the lungs, brain, or even the reproductive organs. Conventional medicine has not yet caught on to what's happening here, but the reason why this phenomenon occurs is quite simple: Conventional cancer treatments only treat the symptoms of cancer (tumors or growths) and do not actually do anything to help the patient regain a level of health necessary to keep cancer in check. A tumor is not technically a disease. It is a symptom of an underlying imbalance in the patient. Unless you treat and reverse the underlying imbalances, you will never eliminate the underlying cause of the cancer. You will continue to see more tumors and complications, even if you are able to treat the first tumors. Think of it like this: suppose you have a dam holding up a body of water such as a lake. One day, due to poor maintenance, the dam begins to crack and water starts leaking through. In the world of conventional cancer treatment, they would say the problem is the water, and they would begin treating the water. They would try to evaporate the water or eliminate the water from flooding the valley below. But the problem isn't the water leaking through the dam; the problem is the integrity of the dam itself. Unless you diagnose the problem with the dam and repair it, then you will never stop the leaking water. The same is true with cancer. Unless you address the underlying integrity of the immune system and the body's self-repairing technology, all you're doing is chasing symptoms. You can treat all the cancer tumors in the world and still do nothing to actually help the cancer patient solve his or her underlying problem. The cancer industry remains ignorant of useful treatments Conventional cancer treatments actually harm the patient and the patient's immune system, making it even more difficult to overcome cancer in the future. Chemotherapy harms the immune system and impairs organs such as the brain, liver, and the heart. It's sort of like using TNT to blow out the water leaking through the dam. You destroy the dam at the same time. It leaves the patient unable to stop the progression of the cancer. The real answers to cancer prevention and cure are found in nutrition, exercise, reduction of stress, and avoidance of environmental chemicals and toxins. Chemotherapy is not a cure for cancer, nor is radiation, because both of those treatments actually cause cancer. When you poison the immune system and irradiate tissues, you create physical imbalances which in turn can create cancer. This is the simple reason why so many people who subject themselves to conventional cancer treatments find themselves battling recurring cancer years later. Where to start with curing cancer So, how do you cleanse your liver? I could write an entire article just on that, but here's something to get you started on what to investigate: The best modalities for liver cleansing are, in my opinion, Traditional Chinese Medicine and rainforest herbs (Amazon herbs). I'll be writing a lot more about Amazon Herbs in the next day or two, so come back to read more about that if you want to learn about which herbs and herbal products are best at removing toxins from your liver (and restoring healthy liver function). In my opinion, there is no such thing as a cancer recovery without a healthy, functioning liver. So start with supporting the liver. Isn't it interesting to note that chemotherapy -- which is still somehow accepted as the mainstream treatment for cancer -- is extremely toxic to the liver? In fact, chemotherapy compromises the body's ability to cure itself of cancer in the future, thereby ensuring continued entrapment in the pharmacological medical system. The reason conventional medicine is so incredibly profitable is that the chemical products they use harm patients just enough to make sure they need to keep coming back for more treatments. This July 4th, declare your independence from America's failed health care system Independence Day is a wonderful holiday. It's a time to remember the great success America's forefathers (and mothers) achieved in gaining freedom from tyrannical rule. This July 4th, whether you live in America or not, I encourage you to continue the great tradition of rejecting tyranny and embracing freedom by throwing off the shackles of conventional medicine and seeking, once and for all, a system of health care that actually cares for your health. Conventional medicine (also called "Western medicine" or "modern medicine"), you see, is a system of medical profiteering that destroys both patients and the health care practitioners attempting to help them (doctors, nurses and other health care professionals largely despise America's current health care system, much like patients do). Today's health care system is nothing short of a medical monopoly -- many even consider it a medical dogma -- and it is achieved through the censorship of alternative and the aggressive commercialization of medical products and services that most patients don't even need. This is no casual accusation. Read the articles on this website covering the FDA, Big Pharma and conventional medicine to learn the documented truth of how the profiteering corporations that dominate conventional medicine actually seek to exploit patients for profit rather than helping them heal. (In fact, the word "cure" isn't even allowed to be uttered in today' medical system. Rather, the focus is on high-profit "treatment" and "management" of disease. Any talk of a "cure" is immediately considered quackery regardless of its merit.) Conventional medicine offers no hope for either individual health or the health of the population at large. Its greatest achievement was the invention of antibiotics to battle infectious disease, and it often seems that conventional medicine hasn't achieved any meaningful progress since. In fact, the system is stuck in the germ theory of medicine, believing that every disease or condition (including degenerative disease) can be treated with a synthetic chemical. This is why you end up with drugs to treat osteoporosis, for example, when osteoporosis is quite clearly not caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency. There is no meaningful effort in medicine today to actually prevent disease, teach holistic nutrition to patients or promote non-patentable things that help people heal (like sunlight, water or medicinal herbs). And that's partly why conventional medicine doesn't work. The system has failed America, and this failure is obvious in the simple fact that while Americans pay the highest prices in the world for health care services, they simultaneously suffer the highest rates in the world of preventable degenerative disease (like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, depression, etc.) In no other industry would people pay far more, receive far worse results, and call it "the best in the world!" It boggles the mind that anyone still has faith in conventional medicine today. Most people who enter hospitals die there We all know this to be true by simple observation. Think of the last person you saw admitted to the hospital for chemotherapy, for example. How are they doing two or three years later? If they even survived the initial chemical onslaught, most chemotherapy patients begin to show symptoms of heart damage, liver damage, kidney damage or brain damage within a few years (if not right away). They often live in a state of severe immune system suppression, and when their cancer returns, they have few internal resources left to stave off the disease. That's why cancers often return as more aggressive diseases following chemotherapy. The chemo destroys the immune system and lets cancer have free reign over the body. Those cancer patients who have turned to naturopathic therapies, however -- who have declared their independence from conventional medicine -- have far better outcomes. Many are cured outright, and those who aren't are still able to live out their lives with far better quality of life than conventional cancer patients, who are essentially poisoned to death by chemotherapy. If you want to experience genuine health, and you're tired of being exploited and victimized by the conventional medical system that still dominates American medicine today, it's time to declare your independence and embrace naturopathic medicine. How to declare your own independence from health care tyranny There's only one catch: Under a naturopathic system of medicine, you have to take responsibility for your own health, whereas under a pharmacological system of medicine, you can play the victim role and go along with the false beliefs implanted in your brain by television commercials. You can place your faith in Big Pharma's version of snake oil -- "magic bullet" pills that promise to take away your pain and disease but in reality do neither for anything other than a deceptive short term. Under naturopathic medicine, you can cure yourself of virtually any disease, including cancer, but only if you embrace the simple truth that no external medicines, substances or practitioners can do the curing for you. Taking responsibility for your health means empowering yourself with the state of belief necessary to initiate spontaneous healing, and the body already knows how to spontaneously heal itself of even scary-sounding diseases like cancer, by the way. All you have to do is give your body the right nutrients, environment, movement, removal of toxins and avoidance of toxins. From these circumstances, the body naturally gravitates towards a state of balance (health). Botanicals, acupuncture, superfoods and other naturopathic therapies can accelerate this progress, but they cannot replace or override your role in the healing process. The benefits of health freedom • Save all kinds of time from no longer having to wait around in doctors' offices, clinics or hospitals. • Save the environment by not excreting pharmaceutical contaminants into waste water. • Deny profits to the wealthy drug corporations that mark up their drugs as much as 569,000% over the cost of their ingredients (that number is not a typo). • Economically boycott the entire system of western medicine by refusing to give it your hard-earned dollars. • Eliminate the need for expensive health insurance policies that mostly rip off patients by denying coverage for services that they promised to cover. • Save your liver, kidneys and brain from the massive inundation of toxic chemicals used in conventional medicine treatments. • Promote the proliferation and success of naturopathic health practitioners and companies who care about health, the planet and our collective future. • Avoid being trapped by oncologists or other specialists in a system of harmful medical treatments that primarily turn you into a lifelong patient requiring ongoing treatment rather than making you well enough that you no longer need their services or products. In all, declaring your freedom from America's failed health care system is the single most important thing you can do for your health. To learn more about how to join millions of other people who have already done this, keep reading the articles on this site (www.NewsTarget.com). Also, please remember: Never stop taking pharmaceuticals abruptly. You'll need to work with your naturopathic physician to slowly wean yourself off pharmaceuticals, only under the supervision of a qualified naturopathic health practitioner. The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science Promoters of conventional medicine claim that all the drug marketing, FDA approvals, surgical procedures, chemotherapy and all other treatments are based on "hard science." The term "science" is invoked with hilarious frequency: Science journals, science-based medicine, proven medical science and so on. As you might have guessed, however, there's surprisingly little genuine science to be found in the common practice of conventional medicine. Rather, what passes for "science" today is a collection of health myths, half-truths, intellectual dishonesty, self delusion, fraudulent reporting and wishful thinking. Take clinical trials, for example. These are supposed to be the "gold standard" of scientific study, and yet it has been well demonstrated that these studies almost always produce results beneficial to the organization providing the funding. The wishes of the study sponsors, not true scientific methods, determine the study outcomes. This is accomplished through an elaborate system of fraudulent trial design, selective reporting, dismissing study subjects who don't produce the desired outcome, statistical distortions and the application of career pressure to the researchers who carry out such studies. (Researchers who don't produce the desired results get blackballed by the industry.) The end result is that today's so-called "scientific medicine" has almost no resemblance to genuine science at all. The word "science" is simply used as a cover story for what's really going on behind the scenes -- a massive campaign of pro-drug propaganda, arm-twisting, public brainwashing, media control and regulatory failures that all add up to one thing: A system of medicine that is the greatest con ever perpetrated on the American people. Where is the skepticism about conventional medicine? Ultimately, these so-called quack-busting skeptics only question certain selected topics. All drugs get an automatic thumbs up, no matter how ludicrous the underlying science, while all natural therapies are automatically and routinely criticized by skeptics who equate their own lack of understanding with proof that something mysterious can't possibly work. They say homeopathy can't work, for example, simply because they can't find any mechanism to explain how it could work. That's tantamount to saying that nothing new will ever be discovered because skeptics already know everything there is to know about the way the universe works. Let's face it: Neither conventional medicine, nor its promoters, has attained any real membership in the club of genuine scientists. Real scientists are people like Richard Feynman, a legendary author, lecturer and infinitely curious individual who never allowed his own ego to cloud his open mind about the laws of the universe. If Feynman were alive today and observing the so-called "science" backing conventional medicine, he'd probably laugh out loud at the utter lack of scientific merit found in the drug studies published in so-called "scientific journals." The Church of Medical Truth This is how doctors have come to believe the incredible: That food has nothing to do with health, that antioxidants will kill you, that herbs interfere with drugs, and that only drugs can treat or cure disease. It's a cult-like belief system handed down by the high priests of conventional medicine, and if this intricate web of false beliefs was actually subjected to genuine scientific scrutiny, it would crumble into a thousand pieces of junk science and marketing propaganda. Conventional medicine, as practiced and promoted today, has nothing whatsoever to do with good science, but everything to do with promoting a particular cult-like worldview that says only doctors can treat or cure disease, not patients, or nature, or nutrition. And its proponents and practitioners are not scientists, but rather part of the congregation of the Church of Medical Truth. Mainstream media stories that parrot the cult-like beliefs of conventional medicine are the singing of the church choir, and the altar boys getting sodomized in the back room by high priests are like the public being chemically assaulted by pharmaceuticals. (A kind of "medical violence" perpetrated against the general public.) This is not intended to say anything bad about churches. I believe in Freedom of Religion just as I do Freedom of Speech. But I don't believe in giving a group of doctors and drug pushers the exclusive right to claim their particular beliefs are the one true "science," to the exclusion of all else, especially when their so-called science is really just another competing system of beliefs founded on circular logic ("Drugs are safe because they are subjected to scientific scrutiny in studies specifically designed to show that drugs are safe.") What skeptics should really be considering • There is currently no requirement whatsoever that surgical procedures be scientifically proven as either safe or effective before being widely performed on the public. • Chemotherapy has been scientifically proven to be worthless at curing cancer, enhancing quality of life or protecting the health of the patient. In fact, chemotherapy kills patients, and even the ones who survive it are left with permanent damage to their brain ("chemo brain"), kidneys, liver and other organs -- plus the fact if you happen to be pronounced "cured" you often get secondary cancer caused by the chemo and radiation. Chemotherapy is a medical hoax with absolutely no scientific validity. The size of a tumor is not a measure of the degree of cancer that exists on a patient's body, and shrinking a tumor is not a meaningful measure of a cancer treatment's success. • The rapid rise in depression, ADHD and other mental or "behavioral" disorders is so large that it can only be explained by either an infectious epidemic (in which case the CDC should be involved) or rampant disease mongering where drug companies invent diseases and push them onto children and adults in order to sell more drugs. Anyone who believes that ADHD is a real disease that has inexplicably stricken 1000% more children over the last twenty years is kidding themselves. This "disease" is pure fiction, and there is absolutely no blood test, no MRI, no lab test, nothing to diagnose ADHD other than the opinion of someone who most likely earns kickbacks from Big Pharma. • Nearly all pharmaceuticals receiving FDA approval today have been tested on only a few thousand people for a very short period of time (as little as six weeks in some cases). Yet, from such limited testing, the FDA declares the drugs to be safe for everyone, even for long-term use, without a shred of evidence that such long-term use is safe. • No scientific testing whatsoever has been done to fully document the toxic effects of combinations of medications. Deadly drug interactions are simply noted after the fact. Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs. • There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. The entire system of reporting is purely voluntary. • The entire paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine makes no sense. Chemicals are used to treat "biomarkers" or measurable biochemical states, yet disease and dysfunction is complex and always involved more than a single measurable number. Cholesterol drugs, for example, may artificially lower cholesterol numbers, but they completely ignore the root cause of elevated cholesterol. This is why cholesterol drugs have been scientifically proven worthless in preventing heart attacks or other fatal cardiovascular events. • Most drugs don't work on most people. Claims of benefits are highly exaggerated by reporting their relative percentage rather than absolute percentage of efficacy. For example, if two people out of 100 normally get breast cancer, and a drug causes that number to be reduced to one person out of 100, the drug company will claim a "50% reduction in breast cancer!" when, in reality, it's a 1% reduction across the population. Yet the drug will be marketed to everyone as a breast cancer "prevention" strategy. And yet 99% of the people who take it will experience no benefits from it. Most drugs are useless. A drug only has to work on about 5% of test subjects to receive FDA approval. Someday, future medicine may actually be based on open-minded curiosity about the laws of nature and how human beings may attain a higher state of health. But until then, we're living in the Dark Ages of medicine, where the power of the Church of Medical Truth seems absolute, and its own modern-day Inquisition conducts routine search-and-destroy missions on any health practitioner who dares to question the power of the Church. Real science is about the search for truth and an understanding of the laws of nature, but modern medical science (conventional medicine) is little more than a search for profits at the expense of public health. It has nothing whatsoever to do with genuine science. And as the public wises up to this, the future of conventional medicine doesn't have a prayer. After the collapse of Western medicine, real health care will inevitably end up returning to its roots: The healing power of nature. AveMar (and Epicor -- see above, under supplements that I took) is made from wheat germ that is fermented by brewer's yeast. There is an interesting story about it that Dr. David Williams tells in his "Alternatives" newsletter about a factory that produced the fermented wheat germ (before it was sold as Avemar), and it was noticed that almost no one at the factory ever got sick. After investigation, it was discovered that just working with and being around the wheat germ was supporting the workers immune systems. (Epicor costs less and contains no sugar, so I used it instead). Cancer-free newsletter (article about AveMar aka "Ave Maria", Cessiac tea): Combination of Ascorbic Acid, Lysine, Proline & Green Tea Extract keeps Breast Cancer From Spreading: Dr. Rath has developed a combination of supplements that helps block the enzymes that cancer uses to dissolve and invade surrounding tissues with. www.drrathresearch.org/lab_research/lab_research_printable/study_c_specific_human_cancer.pdf Some good websites for more information are: www.cancertutor.com (One of the best sites for alternative, complementary cancer information.) http://www.hopeforcancer.com/ellagic.html (Ellagic Insurance Formula and other great products for lung, breast, and other cancers; I use EIF myself, even though my lung cancer is now gone, as a preventative.) http://www.agri-dynamics.com/ (Jerry Brunetti used natural methods to beat cancer.) http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=1150&&page=article (An interview with Jerry with additional information about his protocol. Also see their main page for lots of good articles: http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/ ) www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf (but avoid the methionine, RNA, all products from cows(use goat's, if you must have them), Glycine and Glutamic Acid/L-Glutamate that Jerry mentions, per Dr. Blaylock, because they stimulate cancer). http://annieappleseedproject.stores.yahoo.net/presbyjerbru.html (interview: Jerry Brunetti, Food as Medicine Retrospective) http://www.beating-cancer-gently.com/ http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/ http://www.jonbarron.org (See his articles and free download "Lessons from the Miracle Doctors".) http://www.healthyherb.co.uk/herbal-remedies-articles/anti-cancer-lifestyle.asp http://www.drkelley.com/CANLIVER55.html (Dr. Kelley was a dentist who cured himself of pancreatic cancer, incurable by conventional medicine, and went on to live another 40+ years during which time he cured tens of thousands of people of cancer and other degenerative diseases. This is a link to his free, online book.) http://whale.to/cancer/kelley.html http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/ (Nicholas Gonzalez studied under Dr. Kelley, was funded to run clinical trials on the most difficult to treat pancreatic cancer by the NCI. He also has a private practice in New York City. He works with many types of cancer, and with other illnesses such as allergies, autoimmune disorders and chronic fatigue.) Jerry Brunetti, Food as Medicine Retrospective Jerry Brunetti, founder of Agri-Dynamics, a 25-year-old company that offers natural and alternative livestock health approaches, has vast experience with farming, and animal nutrition. Brunetti speaks often to farmers about innovative eco-farming. He is a dynamic and inspiring speaker and readily shares information, even when personal. When diagnosed with Lyme disease and then Non-Hodgkins lymphoma based, he took his treatment program in his own hands After looking at the serious side effects of the recommended chemotherapy regimen CHOP, the Gold standard for Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, he went about researching his own cure. He had a rather unusual story to tell about how he created his own special concentrated whey extract from a pregnant cow. Note: Jerry Brunetti cured himself naturally of cancer using a protocol quite similar to the one I used, although I didn't know of it at the time: http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf (but avoid the methionine, RNA, all products from cows(use goat's, if you must have them), Glycine and Glutamic Acid/L-Glutamate that Jerry mentions, per Dr. Blaylock, because they stimulate cancer). He advocates nutrient dense foods ala the Weston Price food recommendations. He talked about the importance of products from grass fed cows such as organic raw milk, eggs, and meat. He looks at food as medicine and reminds us to re-evaluate the benefits of nutrient dense, traditional foods including meat, fats, roe, fin fish, eel, organic fresh vegetables and fruits, esp. the berries. . He recommends Microlactin for arthritis and for cancer a hyper-immune milk product such as AiE/10, a purified, concentrated bovine extract that provides the body with lactoferrin, granulocytes, cytokines, disaccharides and memory transfer factors. He quoted Dr. Tikal Dhiman from the Utah State University who estimates that you should be able to lower your risk of cancer simply by eating the following foods each day: one ounce of cheese and one glass of whole raw milk from a grassfed cow, plus one serving of grassfed meat. The fact that people living a century ago would have eaten these foods as a matter of course may help explain our much higher rate of cancer today. For more information on Brunetti’s views, see http://www.acresusa.com/tapes/thumbnail.asp?catid=48&pcid=3 http://www.mosesorganic.org/ob/brunetti.htm, http://www.fst.ohio-state.edu/People/HARPER/Functional-foods/Passive-immunity.htm re: hyperimmune milk Jerry Brunetti cured himself naturally of cancer using a protocol quite similar to the one I used, although I didn't know of it at the time: http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf in printable PDF format, and also included on this page below (but avoid the methionine, RNA, all products from cows(use goat's, if you must have them), Glycine and Glutamic Acid/L-Glutamate that Jerry mentions, per Dr. Blaylock, because they stimulate cancer): This Eco-Consultant Found Solid Alternative to Chemotherapy About three years ago, eco-consultant Jerry Brunetti received word that without aggressive chemotherapy treatment he would be dead in as little as 6 months from lymphoma. He opted not to travel that route, and instead has embarked on his own journey seeking advice, treatments, alternative protocols, and handson care from a wide variety of sources. The result has been depth of understanding that is almost beyond compare, steady improvement in his own overall health, and a marked reduction in the size of the affected lymph nodes. Oh, and he’s still alive. We asked Jerry Brunetti to expand upon his remarkable speech on the subject of cancer, natural treatments, and his own health that he presented at the 2001 Acres U.S.A. Conference. His story will serve as inspiration and education for readers worldwide who are touched by cancer, either themselves or in a friend or loved one. ACRES U.S.A. Our subject is human health. So many biologically correct farmers do everything right for their soil, but ignore their own personal health. BRUNETTI. It’s a problem that’s too disconcerting for most people. It is interesting to me that many farmers who understand how a whole farm system includes understanding the laws of nature on that farm — whether it is their soils, forages or animals — lose track of all they know of those laws as soon as they get a death sentence from their doctor. Suddenly all bets are off, and they completely cave in to the medical establishment’s way of thinking. ACRES U.S.A. Why do we have this terrible reluctance to take our personal health into our own hands? BRUNETTI. I think the successful marketing of fear by government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry has convinced us that disease is far too complex and mysterious an issue for the average person to reconcile. When you are emotionally motivated, you do not necessarily always make the best decisions. Many farmers whom I have worked with in the last 20 years made the transition from being a conventional operator to a biological farmer because they were going out of business on the installment plan. The cost of production kept going up, the problems with the cows and the crops did not go away, and over the years the frustration increased to the point where somebody finally said, “Maybe I ought to look at some other ways of doing this.” You take a portion of your farm, make some changes and, lo and behold, you see that you are getting the kinds of positive responses that the forgiveness of nature can give you. When you are dealing with a health issue and the clock is ticking and some high priest physician is telling you that you’ve got six months or a year, the panic button is very close at hand. You just hope for the best and hope that this guy has your best interest at heart. Then, of course, you have the amalgamation of medicine with the insurance industry, so who is going to pay these outrageous fees that are supposed to save your life? ACRES U.S.A. You have personally had some experience in dealing with this problem, haven’t you? BRUNETTI. I was diagnosed with lymphoma about three years ago, and this diagnosis came about quite inadvertently. I had been in a car accident that caused a backache. After three or four months of not being able to get rid of the pain, I had an MRI done. The MRI showed that I had a couple of bulged disks that were causing the discomfort, but it also showed that I had some enlarged lymph nodes in my abdomen. I had a subsequent CAT scan, which verified that I had a high probability of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the type of which could be confirmed through a biopsy. I held off getting a biopsy because I am not a fan of surgery, but I eventually did get it — at the urging of a physician I work with — to confirm the type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that I had. By the time I received verification, I had already decided that I was going to take things into my own hands. ACRES U.S.A. What did you do first? BRUNETTI. The first thing I did was research. I went to the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society to find out just what kinds of survivability rates exist within the conventional model. What I saw there was not very encouraging. They were talking about 37 percent survivability rates within five years. Of course, the five-year benchmark is what they attribute to their success story. If you survive five years after conventional cancer treatment, you are a success story, even if you die six months later. I did not know how many people survived 10 years, but I am sure it was less than that. I decided that if I was going to have a chance at this thing, I certainly wasn’t going to work with odds of around one in three. ACRES U.S.A. But you did go to the doctors to get the odds? BRUNETTI. I went to nine physicians, and two of them were conventional oncologists. I did spend a lot of time talking to a lot of people. ACRES U.S.A. Tell us, blow by blow, how did that go? BRUNETTI. Some of the people I first went to were the conventional oncologists. Basically they said I had to do what they knew how to do, which was chemotherapy, and I had to do it immediately. These doctors told me that if I didn’t respond to their advice, I had a life expectancy of anywhere from six months to two years. I was taken aback by that, and I think that is where people usually cave in. When you hear that death sentence, it is like a punch in the gut, because you don’t have any experience with it, whereas this man you are talking to allegedly has loads of experience. It is pretty hard not to take his words at face value. I pressed the issue and said that I wanted to see what they were going to administer. They told me they were going to administer two drugs, called MOP and CHOP, acronyms that I found amusing in and of themselves. I was interested in what these drugs were, since I had never heard of them. I did find out that the “P” in both of the acronyms represents prednisone — there is so much inflammation caused by the other drugs in the cocktail that they have to give good doses of prednisone to keep the inflammation down. ACRES U.S.A. And you thought these were unsafe drugs? BRUNETTI. I asked the doctors for material safety data sheets (MSDS), a kind of OSHA requirement in the workplace. If someone is working with or shipping a hazardous material, these information sheets tell you whether there are any hazards to exposure, inhalation, skin irritation, eye irritation, GItract toxicity, etc. They are kind of like the LD50 analogs for poisons. I wanted to look at the MSDS sheets as well as the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) explanations of these drugs. When I read the materials, I found out that these drugs were quite cytotoxic — bone marrow was susceptible, kidney tissue, liver tissue — and they could cause anaphylactic shock. Right then and there I was turned off. I asked the physician what alternatives were being looked at, and, of course, there weren’t any. I had, at that visit, brought along a dossier of peerreviewed research using alternative compounds made from plant extracts, nutraceuticals and so forth. ACRES U.S.A. You brought papers from the professional literature? BRUNETTI. Yes. The only reason I brought it along was because I knew these physicians would not be inclined to look at anything that was not in the professional literature. Nevertheless, they had no interest in looking at peer-reviewed research on alternative treatments. In fact, they advised me that I ought to be a bit concerned about using things like herbs because they are dangerous. ACRES U.S.A. Herbs are dangerous, and they are feeding you things like prednisone? BRUNETTI. Right. I told them that I found their comment quite interesting, humorous and even paradoxical, since they just gave me a MSDS sheet and a PDR reference that showed that the drugs they so enthusiastically wanted to administer to me were dangerous. There was also the fact that, if I did take this medication, I would have to sign an indemnification release holding the hospital as well as the administers of these drugs harmless if something happened to me. At any rate, the first oncologist gave me that information. The second oncologist was even more grave and stern and indicated that I was taking a very, very big risk in not getting on the protocol as soon as possible. ACRES U.S.A. You decided to take that risk and give yourself a chance by dealing with your own immune system. Is that what you are saying? BRUNETTI. Yes. Since all cancer patients have a compromised immune system, and, in my case, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer that actually attacks the immune system, I realized that if I was going to have any logical solution to getting well, it was going to be based on my immune system coming back to life. I started pursuing avenues of research to find out which substances, foods and lifestyle changes would augment bringing my immune system back to normal. ACRES U.S.A. What is shutting down the immune systems of so many people these days? BRUNETTI. That is a big question. I think there are a number of reasons — for instance, look how sick the Earth itself is from pollution, destruction of habitats, toxic dumping, all of the negative ways we humans have left our mark. We are organisms of the Earth; if the Earth is sick, then we will be sick. The state of the human body, obviously, is a prime reason for immune system failure. First of all, one needs to know the levels and activity of natural killer cells in the body, the cells which defend the body against invasion by disease. The activity of these cells is measured through a determinant called lytic units, which is a measure of the natural killer cells’ ability to recognize and then attack cancer cells. Optimum lytic units would measure above 225 in an individual. Lytic units for the average American measure somewhere between 25 and 50, right around 200 points below the optimum level. My own measurement for lytic units was detected at 75, which puts me in the “fair” range, not best and not good. I have to continually work on my immune system even though I am above the U.S. average, especially because the cancer I have targets my immune system. ACRES U.S.A. So our immune systems have lost the ability to fight these diseases? BRUNETTI. There is a medical doctor by the name of Jesse Stoff who has written a couple of books — one on chronic fatigue syndrome and another on prostate cancer — and he has an acronym that I think sums up the immune system problem pretty comprehensively. It is called the PITTS. Those initials stand for the following: P for poor nutrition; I represents infection; the first T represents toxins of any kind; the second T represents trauma, which he defines as exposure to radiation; and the S stands for stress, which is a very generic, all-encompassing word that everybody can find their own personal definitions for. When I looked at that acronym, I started realizing where those particular components contributed to my health having a major compromise. Poor nutrition — although I did at least get good home-prepared food, a Mediterranean type of diet in an Italian-American family, I probably ate as many sweets and drank as many soft drinks as the next kid growing up in the ’50s and ’60s. I was exposed to a lot of American junk food, as kids are. ACRES U.S.A. Do you mean Wendy’s and McDonald’s types of food? BRUNETTI. Not so much that because those things showed up later — it was more the sweets. Refined sugar is one of the things that feeds tumors. As far as an infection, I had immunological compromising procedures done to me when I was very young. I think I had a reaction from a vaccination when I was quite young that caused an intestinal complication called intussusception of the intestine, and I had surgery to correct that. When they did the surgery, they did me the so-called favor of removing my appendix. About nine months later I ended up having an inflamed lymph ganglion in my groin, so they surgically removed that. Then nine months or a year after that, I had blown tonsils, and they removed those. By the time I was four, I had already had a lot of invasive surgery that attacked my lymph system. ACRES U.S.A. You may have been harboring a low-level infection ever since. BRUNETTI. Maybe. Every winter I would have to get penicillin shots to deal with strepthroat infections. Then, in 1980 I had a scar tissue accumulation that led to more surgery. They think the scar tissue was an accumulation from all of those childhood operations. There was a lot of medical history here. Then, in 1998, I got hit with Lyme disease, and again in 1999, and that brings us to the time of my diagnosis. ACRES U.S.A. What did you do for Lyme? BRUNETTI. In the beginning it was my acupuncturist who diagnosed it. I had these symptoms of high fever and very severe headaches, and she thought I had Lyme disease and advised me to see my regular physician and get the conventional treatment, which is an antibiotic. The doctors insisted it wasn’t Lyme disease — they misdiagnosed it. The disease progressed to the point where I had a very strong inflammation and ended up in the hospital because nobody knew what I had — they thought I had septicemia or cellulitis. After a few days in the hospital, getting nuked with these really powerful antibiotics — none of which were doing me any good — an infectious disease specialist came in and looked at me. The specialist told me that I had a classic textbook case of Lyme disease, and that none of the medication I was receiving was doing me any good. He prescribed an antibiotic that did work, and I responded to that. But in the meantime, my digestive system was so devastated by the drugs that I had to go out in my own garden and make an herbal porridge to restore a comfort zone. ACRES U.S.A. That is from the toxicity of the drugs they gave you? BRUNETTI. There was so much irritation and trauma. I had an extremely high titer of Lyme. The level of Lyme that showed up in the urine antigen test was a number over 300, and a positive is 45. The physician who got the report called me up and asked me how I was feeling after I had recovered from the symptoms. He told me that he was concerned because he had never seen a Lyme titer as high as mine, and he had seen thousands of them. I was interested in hearing that, because obviously my immune system recovered from Lyme. I was also interested because lymphoma seems to have a smoking-gun association with viral infections. There was a physician in Africa by the name of Denis Parsons Burkitt who did research and biopsies on many lymph nodes of lymphoma patients, and in close to 100 percent of the cases he found viral-herpes-family viruses in those lymph nodes. There does seem to be an association with the herpes family and the Epstein-Barr family, although I have never had any active herpes symptoms such as shingles, fever sores, or anything like that, but when I had the blood test done I did show presence for Herpes VII. ACRES U.S.A. If you are not availing yourself of the armamentarium that the medical profession has, what are you doing? BRUNETTI. I am doing several things. I take supplements. It is important to know when using supplements that there are two necessary types, which can be called “immune fuels” and “immune modulators.” The immune fuels nourish the immune system and include things such as selenium, Co-enzyme Q10, glutathione, etc. The immune modulators provide nourishment to molecules engaged in cellular communication within the immune system. I hooked up with a physician in New York City by the name of Dr. Bernard Bihari, who specializes in HIV and cancer patients. He is working on a medication, a pharmaceutical drug that I am taking, called low-dose naltrexone <www.lowdosenaltrex one.org>. It was a medication developed for heroin addicts because, when given at high doses (around 50 milligrams per day) it inhibited the endorphin cascade, thus blocking the intoxicating effects of heroin. It did not go over well because it caused sleeplessness and anxiety. But there was a researcher at Hershey Medical Center, Dr. Ian Zagon, who actually was doing research on laboratory animals and finding out whether or not this medication, taken at low doses, would have a paradoxical effect. In other words, would it raise endorphin levels? ACRES U.S.A. What effect would that have on the body? BRUNETTI. The importance of impacting the endorphin cascade is that when the endorphin levels rise, the natural killer cell levels also rise. The other thing that happens is that endorphins migrate to what is known as opiate-receptor sites. Some tissues in the body, such as the prostate, pancreas, testes and lymphatic tissue, are very rich in these opiate-receptor sites. These endorphins are released by the brain as you sleep, and they migrate to the opiate-receptor sites. If you have a cancer that grows out of tissue rich in these sites, then the cancer tissue itself is also rich in opiate-receptor sites, and these endorphins lock in to the sites and shut off cell division. So you have two things going on: you are raising endorphins, and you are creating a phenomenon known in the cancer industry as apoptosis, the shutting down of cancer-cell division. That is what you want to do with cancer: you basically want to shut the cells off. ACRES U.S.A. Isn’t it true that if you keep the alkalinity up to a certain level, then the cancer cannot progress? BRUNETTI. There seems to be very strong support for the idea that cellular and intracellular pHs have an optimum range, based on the fact that pH inside of the cell is ideally around 6.75, while that of the fluids surrounding the cell is around 7.4 — slightly acidic inside and slightly alkaline outside. This acid/ alkaline differential creates a positive and negative charge — a battery. ACRES U.S.A. In other words, we are talking about the cell now, and the cell is basically electrical? BRUNETTI. That is correct. When you have that optimum differential, you create about 70 millivolts of electricity, which dictates the opening and closing of the permeable membrane of the cell, so that waste can get out and the proper nutrients can get in. Since we are talking about an intracellular pH of 7.4, which is alkaline, we need to be focused on alkalinity. The question you have to look at is what are the ideal ways to alkalize the body? One of the best ways is to make sure that calcium becomes ionized. How do you ionize calcium? You need a good calcium- rich diet, and that is why I am a big proponent of leafy greens that are high in calcium, like kale, but also raw, grass-fed, organic types of dairy products. Not only do they carry the calcium and other minerals, like magnesium, but they are also a rich source of the ionizing agent known as vitamin D. ACRES U.S.A. Don’t all of the minerals figure very heavily in this equation? For instance, you need molybdenum to take the waste out. We are so short of minerals in our soil systems and diets that it is a wonder anybody even functions today. BRUNETTI. That’s it. There are huge mineral deficiencies, and all of these minerals, of course, are co-factors. They also represent the essence of the enzyme systems. All enzymes, without exception, are built on the presence of micronutrients. ACRES U.S.A. Trace-mineral keys. BRUNETTI. You need the micronutrients, and then you need the alkalizing. Interestingly enough, although calcium receives the most attention, it is not really more important than zinc or copper — it is, however, used by the body in greater quantities, as it is by soil and plants. Calcium is the governing mineral; it is the mineral that basically brings the other minerals to the cell. ACRES U.S.A. This ties back in to what Dr. Albrecht said. BRUNETTI. Precisely the same dynamic. You need to mobilize calcium up into the plant, and when that happens, you have a plant rich in other macro- and micronutrients as well — if they are there in the soil. ACRES U.S.A. You have to mobilize the food that you take in, and that means digestion. BRUNETTI. Absolutely number one. ACRES U.S.A. How do you handle digestion? BRUNETTI. I am very big on digesting enzymes both from foods themselves through juicing and from supplemental enzymes. I take enzymes with my meals, but I also juice. When I juice, I take a mixture of approximately one quart. The recipe is a mixture of carrot, celery, beet, ginger and turmeric and also consists of four to six ounces of cereal grass juice, which I produce by growing barley, wheat, rye and oats. I grow them outside on a bed, and I harvest about a colander-full first thing in the morning, then I run it through a wheat grass juicer to produce about four to six ounces of green juice. ACRES U.S.A. How do you get it down? BRUNETTI. With great difficulty. I do it as quickly as possible because it is definitely not a gourmet drink. Oftentimes I chase it with some grape juice. Into that juice cocktail I will throw high levels of enzyme powders. I use a lot of enzyme powders in the work I do with livestock, high levels of proteolytic enzymes. ACRES U.S.A. You use veterinary supply? BRUNETTI. Yes, I buy it by the drum because I use it in my business. I really pound the juice with the enzymes. I also throw in whey protein powder because I am trying to build glutathione levels. It is really important if you are going to be dealing with any kind of disease, particularly cancer, to take in high levels of the raw materials that build glutathione. Glutathione is an amino acid, if you will, that consists of three other amino acids: glycine, glutamic acid and cysteine. I try to build glutathione in my body rather than take glutathione because it is questionable how much you can absorb if you just take it by itself as a supplement. ACRES U.S.A. What is happening when people do not digest well and exhibit a great deal of flatulence and so on? BRUNETTI. What is happening is that if you are not eliminating, you are reabsorbing things that best are eliminated. I went through four months of an aggressive detox system whereby, in addition to the dietary things I was doing every day, I went to a day spa and did an hour’s worth of far-infrared sauna treatment followed by a couple of hours of lymphatic drainage treatment using an instrument that breaks up the congestion in the lymph system. Ultimately, the lymph drains into the bowel, so I finished up that treatment with a colonic. I did this once a week for four months. That really helped a lot in getting my elimination organs tuned up. If you do not do that, you begin to recycle indoles and other toxic compounds that are in the large bowel, which causes and awful lot of stress on the liver. It also suppresses the immune system and consumes quite a bit of energy. ACRES U.S.A. Do you make use of any herbal extracts in order to move the truckload of stuff along? BRUNETTI. Quite a few. I make herbal teas for antibacterial, liver cleansing, and lymph and blood cleansing purposes. To make sure that the bowel is swept clean pretty regularly, I also take a mixture of slippery elm bark and psyllium seed husk. The reason I take both is that slippery elm bark is an insoluble fiber, while psyllium seed husk is a soluble fiber, so it is a very good mixture. ACRES U.S.A. Do you get that as a capsule? BRUNETTI. Those are products that I use in my animal remedies, so I get them in bulk, and I mix them 50/50 in the blender, then drink it. It is very effective. It is effortless. I use that for the mechanical cleansing of the GI tract. ACRES U.S.A. We discuss these things quite openly, but you realize that practitioners who start entertaining these ideas begin to run into the law and the gold standard of world medicine. BRUNETTI. They have done an excellent job of repressing these nontoxic and quite inexpensive remedies. It is interesting that in January 1999 Business Week had a report that the fourth leading cause of hospitalization is from FDA-approved drugs, affecting over 2.5 million people — and these drugs are being used as directed. ACRES U.S.A. They actually lose something like 150,000 people, don’t they? BRUNETTI. That was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in an article on side effects from properly administered FDA-approved drugs. It is no surprise. An average of 65 to 75 percent of FDA employees end up working for drug companies after they leave the government. There is only one thing that we can expect from this. I think people have to realize why we have such a health holocaust; it is simply because of the fact that the pharmaceutical cartels have become inseparable from medicine. That is one of the reasons that I took a stand. ACRES U.S.A. The pharmaceuticals can kill you. BRUNETTI. I am not saying that people should not consider some conventional therapies. I certainly know that people have had good results. There are people who have come up to me and said, “I was treated conventionally, and I am OK right now.” I don’t have any argument with that. I will say to folks that if you are going to go down that road, you really should pay a lot of attention to what health really is. Health is not just the absence of a tumor. Health is about the state of the body — that tumor showed up because there was a systemic anomaly somewhere. ACRES U.S.A. You have to look at the total lifestyle. BRUNETTI. Cancer is caused by all of those things that were itemized in the PITTS. It is up to the individual to go back and unravel where this disease might have come from, or where it might come from next time, and address it. This unraveling takes a lot of work. You have got to get rid of toxins, you have got to reduce stress loads, and you have got to eat nutrient- dense foods. If you do have infections, you have got to augment the immune system. ACRES U.S.A. What other things are you doing? BRUNETTI. The other thing that I am doing for my immune system is taking a product called Proboost, which is thymic protein fraction A. It is basically a hormone that the thymus gland produces when you are young. It is an over-the-counter drug that comes in a powder form, and you put it under the tongue. It activates the T-4 cells, which are the cells that communicate especially to the T-8 cells — the cytotoxic cells. I also take another immune modulator called AIE-10, derived from colostrum milk harvested from cows that have been hyper- immunized with human vaccines in the udder. AIE-10 increases natural killer-cell activity, which is the immune system’s first line of defense. It also supports the functioning of T-4 and T-8 cells. ACRES U.S.A. In summation, would it be correct to say that if you have one of these problems, you had better know a lot more about it in three months than most physicians? BRUNETTI. I think if people really have the heart and will to figure out their health, the resources are tremendous. There are so many websites. I get calls from people who have heard I have lymphoma and have been diagnosed themselves with some form of cancer. They are calling for input and suggestions, and I tell them that there are tremendous resources out there. There are so many opportunities, whether it be clinics, alternative practitioners, or even if you want to try to do it on your own. I am not doing it entirely on my own, I am using two physicians as coaches, but I don’t see them all the time. I won’t work with anybody who is going to be antagonistic toward my viewpoint. I tell people that the responsibility is ultimately on the individual to deal with this. The bad news is also the good news: there are a lot of opportunities and a lot of options. In other words, you have got to filter it. You have got to talk to people and eventually make some decisions based on what you are comfortable with, because ultimately it comes down to that. It is your body, your health, and you are the one who has to decide what is best. Jerry Brunetti is managing director of Agri-Dynamics, a 23- year-old firm that specializes in the formulation and production of products for farm livestock and pets. He consults on such wide-ranging topics as golf course turf management, racing camel diets, dairy feed and husbandry issues, lagoon odor control, and eliminating “hot spots” on dogs and contends there are curiously similar dynamics at work in all of these seemingly unrelated areas. He works with such materials as seaweeds, herbs, enzymes, probiotics, vitamins, chelated minerals, “rare-earth” minerals and more. He can be reached at: P.O. Box 735, Easton, Pennsylvania 18044, phone (610) 250- 9280, fax (610) 250-7840, e-mail <jbrunetti@agridynamics. com>. Important Foods to Eat Important Foods to Avoid Supplement Arsenal Glutathione Builders T-Cell Tonic Jerry’s ‘Poten-Tea’ Copyright © 2002 Acres U.S.A. All rights reserved. For Further Information . . . BOOKS PHYSICIANS MAGAZINES ASSOCIATIONS Acres U.S.A. is the national journal of sustainable agriculture, standing virtually alone with a real track record — over 30 years of continuous publication. Each issue is packed full of information eco-consultants regularly charge top dollar for. You’ll be kept up-to-date on all of the news that affects agriculture — regulations, discoveries, research updates, organic certification issues, and more. To subscribe, call 1-800-355-5313 (toll-free in the U.S. & Canada) 512-892-4400 • fax 512-892-4448, P.O. Box 91299 • Austin, TX 78709, info@acresusa.com Dr. Mary Enig, On Lipids Dr. Mary Enig is world-renowned biochemist and nutritionist. She received her PhD in Lipid Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, and is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition. She is the author of Know Your Fats and co-author of Nourishing Traditions with Sally Fallon. She is presently working on her second book on trans-fatty acids. For more information on fats, see: http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny3.html Dr. Enig talked about the fallacies consumers are given about fats. The faulty hypothesis that saturated fats and carbohydrates cause obesity and heart disease are just not true. According to her research, we benefit from saturated fats. Our present diet is high in trans-fatty acids and omega 6, low in omega 3s and saturated fatty acids. Dr. Enig claims that fat is important for the brain, which contains mostly fat and cholesterol. Fat is important for organs, energy and cushioning. Omega 3 polyunsaturated fats promote immune function and omega 6 interferes with the immune function! She talked extensively about the dangers of transfatty acids that are everywhere in our food supply: margarine, popcorn, chips etc. Transfatty acids come with biohydration and are partially hydrogenated, which is not a desirable conversion and have no benefit. The anti-obesity saturates are palm and coconut oil, butter, pork, lamb, milk and beef. She emphasized that the new emphasis on lipids comes from bad science and domestic economic pressures, which has led the notion, that saturates are bad. Several lipid experts and prominent doctors such Walter Willet (1998) and Bill Lance disagree with the new notion on lipids. They’ve cautioned the public to limit their intake of transfatty acids and that saturated fats should NOT be avoided! --- Cancer Survivor Attributes Healing To Nutritional Principles of the Weston A. Price Foundation Investigative Reporter Pam Killeen Interviews Cancer Survivor Jerry Brunetti While Attending the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) conference at Penn State. (Courtesy of http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/) Jerry Brunetti is a cancer survivor and advocate of Sally Fallon’s “Nourishing Traditions” diet based upon the research of Dr. Weston A. Price. Jerry is a highly esteemed speaker at many sustainable agriculture and health conferences and is internationally renowned for his motivating and inspirational presentations on health, wholeness and community. Jerry studied Animal Sciences from North Carolina State University and served several years as Dairy Director of the National Farmers Organization. In 1979, he founded and is currently managing director of Agri-Dynamics (www.agri-dynamics.com), a company that produces natural feed additives and holistic remedies for livestock and pets, plus eco-friendly pesticides and bio-stimulants for the horticultural industry. Jerry currently serves on the steering committees of the Eastern PA Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Lower Mt. Bethel Environmental Advisory Council. Pam: Jerry, you’ve become quite an icon in the world of sustainable agriculture. Before we get into your personal story about surviving cancer, can you tell us how you got involved in this more holitistic form of farming? Jerry: I was an ag student in the late 60’s. In the early 70’s, I worked for a farmers’ organization as a union organizer. In the mid-70’s I had a cow/calf operation. In 1979, I became a consultant for other farmers, particularly livestock farmers in the northeast. Pam: From there, you developed your own business? Jerry: Yes. I developed a company that eventually became Agri-Dynamics. We primarily focused on soil fertility. We knew that livestock needed nutrient dense forages in order to be healthy. Then, clients began asking me to put together animal remedies that they could use as alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs. I started formulating nutraceuticals and botanicals that addressed specific issues that appeared in livestock operations (such as scours, mastitis, somatic cell count, foot rot etc…). Pam: So you were using natural remedies to help balance the animals and the soil? Jerry: That’s correct. We tried to hit it from the preventative side (from the soil – up) and then from the therapeutic side by using complementary formulas that could address an animal’s innate ability to heal itself. It’s just like you see today in the human alternative field with nutraceuticals, botanical medicines, homeopathic medicines and so on. Pam: Are the principles based upon minerals and probiotics? Jerry: We use a broad-spectrum approach including: minerals, vitamin formulations, botanicals, enzymes, probiotics, spray-dried soil based organisms, rare earth minerals. We put formulas together to address the specific needs of the farmer. Farmers choose these organic methods based upon principles and belief in holistic protocols. Organic farmers are interested in solutions that don’t include petrochemicals out in the fields and pharmaceuticals in the barn. Pam: Do you notice an increase in demand for organic or what is also called “eco-agriculture”? Jerry: It’s huge. It’s the only growing sector of agriculture right now. It’s the only hopeful sector of agriculture given the current failures of the industrial model, which has become too capital intensive with concentrated animal feeding operations. On the other hand, when farmers switch to a grass based system, the animals are less stressed, the families are less stressed and profits increase. It becomes a win-win situation. The environment wins, the local economy wins; people get healthy; animals are healthy. It’s the way it should be. Pam: Conventional farmers and their families tend to have a lot of health challenges, don’t they? Jerry: Yes. They don’t eat well. A lot of the farmers in the conventional model don’t even raise gardens. They’re even advised not to drink their own raw milk. In feedlots, animals are under a lot of stress because of the exposure to environmental contaminations from the tremendous amounts of manure in the confinement. Its no wonder the farmers who operate these “factory farms” become ill! They are breathing the same air as these very sick animals. Out in the fields, conventional farmers are also exposed to many pesticides. When industry imposes these types of unhealthy agricultural practices, the health of our food is compromised. Under healthy, organic, conditions food is far more medicinal. Pam: Exactly. We’re hearing a lot of stories in the news about mad cow disease, E. coli and such. I think if the animals were outside, eating grass, basking in the sunshine, we would all be better off. Confinement operations are simply not natural settings for animals. I have friends who have a confinement turkey operation. They won’t eat these turkeys. Instead, for their own consumption, they pasture their own turkeys. Let’s switch the topic back to you, Jerry. You’ve got quite an important story to tell about your health challenge. Can you tell us how you’ve been able to turn your health around? Jerry: In 1999, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (follicular cell). Based upon the tumor size found in my abdominal cavity, I was advised that, if I didn’t take aggressive chemotherapy, I was looking at 6 months to 2 years of life left. When I checked out the details associated with that, I found out that the survivability rates with this treatment were 35% within 5 years. I wasn’t given very good odds. I researched the MSDS and PDR to find out the side effects of the chemo agents the doctors wanted to use. Needless to say, after I reviewed the research, I declined mainstream medical treatment. The chemotherapy treatment mainstream medicine offered was called, “M.O.P” and “C.H.O.P.” Their approach was destructive to bone marrow, kidney and liver. My quality of life would have been pretty dismal had I chosen their protocol. I decided that they didn’t give me much of a chance. I wasn’t very excited about taking products that were cytotoxic (creating a lot of collateral damage to my own healthy tissues). In order to solve the problem, I chose my own protocols. I began searching for answers by finding out where the cancer came from in the first place. I started studying cell gene defects. The cell that has gene defects is what causes the malignancy to really take off. There are genes that are called “tumor suppressor genes” and there are cells that are activating the carcinoma. Many things can cause cancer: environmental toxins, stress and something I call “western malnutrition” (not eating enough of the right things such as the different types of good fats, amino acids, trace elements, macro elements and eating the wrong kinds of foods such as the bad fats, and sugar). Sugar is one of the main things that can predispose people to cancer. If they do get cancer, sugar really increases their susceptibility from dying from cancer because cancer is a “sugar junkie”. We’re consuming about 170 pounds of sugar per capita per year here in the United States. In the early 1800’s, we consumed about 10 pounds and sugar consumption translates into insulin production. Insulin is associated with inflammatory processes. All of the drugs, COX-2 inhibitors like Celebrex, Vioxx, are all predicated on the fact that we have so many inflammatory conditions today. Inflammation is coming from a deficiency in the long chain fatty acids (EPA, DHA), an excessive amount of the omega- 6 fatty acids (which are pro-inflammatory) and a high amount of refined carbohydrates and sugar consumption. When people consume an excess amount of bad fats, a deficiency of good fats and lots of sugar, doctors write a lot of prescriptions for Vioxx. Pam: Why did you avoid chemotherapy and radiation? Jerry: Neither chemotherapy nor radiation can cure cancer. That’s admitted by the National Cancer Institute the National Institutes of Health. In Fortune magazine, March 29, 2004, there was an article illustrating that survivability rates with people who have had metastatic cancer (where cancer spreads from the primary tumor to distant organs) has not at all improved over the last 30 years. That means that we’ve seen no improvement with the four major killers (breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancer). Over 200 billion dollars have been spent on cancer research. There have been 1.56 million published papers on cancer and 64 billion dollars spent annually to treat people with cancer. Pam: Cancer is a huge industry yet mainstream medicine is not making much headway in finding the cure. People need to start asking more questions, just like you did, Jerry. You initiated your own health campaign after you started doubting the efficacy of mainstream medicine. Jerry: The reports tell people that tumors don’t kill cancer patients; rather, metastatic illness kills cancer patients. Metastatic cancer spreads to the liver, brain, bones or other vital organs. That’s what kills people with cancer. In order to contain metastasis, you have to have immunity. A strong immune system is the only “drug” that works against cancer. By the time a tumor is discovered there’s at least a billion malignancies in that tumor and they’re rapidly dividing - they’ve already “seeded” the rest of the body by the time you’ve discovered you have cancer. In other words, you’ve got cancer seeds all over the body. What determines the survival rate of cancer patients has to do with whether or not the immune system is still operating effectively. Pam: Can you explain how the immune system works? Jerry: Well, you have to have raw materials to feed the immune system and you have to have components that modulate the immune system. Apparently, what’s going on is that there’s a communication breakdown among the cells. Cells communicate in an electromagnetic realm or, rather, they emit photons (which are light particles). Environmental toxins can block the frequencies that the cells communicate with. In other words, light is being emitted at a particular wavelength. Other cells are able to take that light as language and know how to do what they need to do. It’s called photon repair. Scientists know it exists, they don’t understand how it works but they know that’s what happens at the DNA level. There are 100,000 biochemical processes that occur on every single cell, every second. So we have about 70-100 trillion cells in the body. What’s orchestrating this organized biochemical cellular delivery that controls bodily functions? What causes 100,000 biochemical reactions to occur in order per second? It’s communication. Cellular communication breaks down when the body is out of balance (whether it’s cancer, autoimmune disorder or degenerative disease). The immune system also communicates cell-to-cell. The cells identify an “invader” and order the immune system to turn on to create what is necessary to destroy the “enemy” (be it a virus, bacteria or fungus). Different cells communicate with other cells with this information. If the communication system has broken down, you have to find ways to augment communication. That means you have to avoid things that are interfering with the communication (such as toxic compounds like heavy metals, arsenic, mercury, lead, aluminum, fluoride, bromine). These are all interfering carcinogenic compounds because they shut down communication and also interfere with the genes that are responsible for the cell correcting itself from having cancer. It’s interesting that humans have the ability to correct gene defects within 24 hours 90% of the time. That’s unique to humans. Lab rats can only do this 0-13% of the time. This is very meaningful because if you do cancer research on lab rats, the results don’t translate very well to humans. Pam: What measures did you take to improve your immune system? Jerry: I detoxified. I did tests to find out what kind of toxins were in my body. I found out I had a lot of heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead. I detoxified by using far infrared saunas, chelation therapy, chlorella, sodium alginate (from seaweeds) and cilantro. These are all good chelators of heavy metals. I also did the saunas to dump a lot of junk. I did colonics in order to cleanse the bowel because that’s ultimately where waste gets recycled back into the system. I increased my consumption of fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kefir. My primary focus was to start eating a lot of nutrient dense foods. Fortunately, I’ve always been an avid gardener so I could grow a lot of my own nutritious foods. Pam: What are the benefits of fermenting dairy? Jerry: If you ferment milk and turn it into kefir, or yoghurt, you’ve added more value to it by increasing fermentation organisms such as lactic acid, which produce anti-pathogenic compounds such as: nicin, benzoic acid, lactic acid, hydrogen peroxide, and lactoperoxidase. Fermented foods have a cleansing effect on the body and help digestion. Pam: Why do you think you developed this form of cancer? Jerry: I was predisposed to this cancer for a variety of reasons. It’s difficult to point out exactly why. There are 55,000 new cases of lymphoma every year. Up to 50% of these new cases may be coming from polio vaccines contaminated with the simian virus 40 back in the 50’s and early 60’s. And they know that 43-45% of the lymphoma biopsies show the presence of simian virus 40. Conversely, none of the controls had the presence of simian virus 40. There is also a strong connection between certain viruses and lymphoma. There seems to be a strong connection between the herpes family viruses and lymphoma. Contaminated vaccines may also suppress the immune system and cause individuals to be susceptible to cancer. Who knows where else cancer is coming from? Viruses seem to be associated with lymphoma, brain cancer, melanoma and possibly others. Pam: Do you think that there’s a connection between lymphoma and pesticides? Jerry: Yes. There also seems to be a strong connection between prostate cancer and the female cancers because pesticides act like estrogen. Pesticides are estrogenic compounds. Estrogen related cancers (i.e.: prostate, breast) have a strong connection to pesticides. Pam: Other than consuming nutrient dense foods and lacto-fermented foods, what else did you do nutritionally in order to boost your immune system? I know you also consumed a lot of raw dairy products even though authorities are telling us that raw milk is “dangerous”. Jerry: Land grant universities are suggesting that raw milk is potentially unsafe. Raw milk can be unsafe if it’s produced under feedlot conditions. Often, these animals are fed high levels of grain, which suppresses their immune system (grain is not a natural food for them). Feeding too much grain to an animal will alter, in an unhealthy way, the omega-3’s, omega-6’s, CLA in raw milk. Milk from a confinement operation is suspect. Many people are allergic to commercial milk. When doctors have taken their patients off of commercial milk, patients improve. Commercial milk is not the same food as raw milk from pastured animals. It’s radically different structurally and nutritionally. Milk is a living food. It has at least 35 different enzymes in it that help digest the milk itself. Lactase, an enzyme present in raw milk, will help people digest the dairy. Pasteurization destroys the lactase in milk and is one reason why people become lactose intolerant. I’ve seen people who were extremely allergic to commercial dairy do very well on raw dairy. There are a very small percentage of people who are truly sensitive to both raw and commercial dairy - they tend to do very well on fermented raw dairy such as kefir or yoghurt. When they gradually increase their consumption of fermented raw dairy, they eventually do very well on raw milk. Lacto-fermented dairy is a good way to build up your digestion. I’ve known many people who regularly consume raw dairy without any ill effects. Pam: What other benefits exist when the animals are out on pasture? Jerry: Raw milk from grass fed cows has tremendous benefits for human health because it’s got the fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A and D). We are very deficient of both of these very important vitamins. Vitamin D is extremely critical for cancer recovery. Every cell in the body has vitamin D receptors. Vitamin D is associated with apoptosis (cell death). If you want cancer cells to commit suicide (via apoptosis) you have to have adequate amounts of Vitamin D in the system. You can get a very small amount from the sun, but you have to have adequate amounts of cholesterol in your body in order to synthesize the vitamin D. We are so deficient in minerals. Vitamins work synergistically with minerals. Fat-soluble vitamins actually move minerals from the GI tract into the blood stream and ultimately into the cell. Strict vegetarians are at risk of becoming deficient in critical nutrients that only come from animal sources: amino acids, fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins Pam: Is there any research to show that raw milk is safe? Jerry: Research has been done (I think at UC Davis) where they added pathogens such as E. coli, salmonella, camphylobacter and listeria to milk and noted that these pathogens could not survive in raw milk. On the other hand, when you add these pathogens to pasteurized milk, they will proliferate. In other words, the pasteurized milk has no “immune system”. The lactic acid, lactic acid bacteria, enzymes, lactoperoxidase and lactoferrin in raw milk are all very beneficial. In fact, the FDA just approved lactoferrin as a spray to control pathogens in slaughterhouses because antibiotics and antisceptics aren’t working. Lactoferrin in milk is safe and effective in fighting pathogens. It’s another good reason to drink milk Pam: Can you explain how we bought into the myth of raw dairy being an unsafe food? Jerry: Hygiene is important. The Creator intended for animals to be outdoors, grazing on grass, basking in the sun, breathing fresh air and getting exercise. That animal is not the same animal that is in a feedlot surrounded by tons of manure. In feedlots, animals are fed too much grain, which causes acidosis, suppressed immune systems etc…Unhealthy compounds produced by a sick cow will end up in the milk and the meat. For centuries, milk was always consumed in its raw state. In the mid-1800’s, cows lived under horrendous conditions. The animals were undernourished, living in squalor. If an animal is undernourished, it’s immune system caves in and it now becomes susceptible to all the illnesses that can now show up in the milk. This was putrid, sick milk coming from dying animals. This was not the raw milk that our forefathers had raised their families on. In the late 1800’s, physicians formed an association to create a “certified raw milk” standard. They wanted to ensure that certified raw milk (from healthy cows on healthy farms) would remain available for medicinal purposes for their patients. The doctors were the milk inspectors because they wanted to make sure that healthy standards were respected. They knew that healthy milk could heal their patients. The Mayo Foundation (precursor to the Mayo Clinic) successfully used the “milk cure” on thousands of patients. Many clinics in the United States and around the world used the “milk cure” for curing everything from tuberculosis (which was supposedly caused by milk!) and several other ailments. On this regimen, you gradually increased your raw milk consumption to up to 10 quarts a day. You would drink small quantities of raw milk throughout the day. Rest and cleansing (sweating, colonics etc…) were also a part of the program. Raw milk proved to be a highly therapeutic food. Pam: You also increased your consumption of fats – especially saturated fats, correct? Jerry: Yes. Saturated fats have been around since the beginning of time. I come from an Italian background where we ate a lot of lard, egg yolk, meat, and milk fat. These foods were staples of many other indigenous cultures. Saturated fats were in all diets. When the cereal fat industry started producing oil in the early part of the 20th Century, we started to see heart problems. Supposedly, saturated fat was blocking the arteries like axle grease. The obesity and diabetes in the United States come from eating sugar. 35% of the babies that were born in the year 2000 will develop adult onset diabetes. And, diabetes is a precursor to so many other problems (stroke, cardiovascular illness, lower limb amputations, renal failure and impotence. We have an obesity epidemic. All of this fat is not coming from fat. We have good fats and we have bad fats. A balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fats is very important. As I said, saturated fats are now recognized as a healthy fat (as long as the cows are pastured). EPA and DHA from fish are also very important. And, you need fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin A, D, and K from an animal source. You can get vitamin D from sunlight if you have cholesterol (from saturated fats). Pam: Are you worried about cholesterol? Jerry: Cholesterol is not the enemy. I have an analogy for cholesterol – you can’t blame firemen as the cause for the fire. When you see a house burning, you see firemen trying to put out the fire. If you examine the association, you may think that the firemen caused the fire! Cholesterol shows up on the scene after the fact. Dr. Albrecht said a similar thing about crops – a diseased crop is an indicator that the soil is not balanced and the immune system of the crop is failing. Disease attacks the weak crops so that higher life forms will not eat them (because it is not fit for consumption). The same is true for the body. Other tests exist that are better indicators for heart disease (check for triglyceride levels, leptin levels, sugar fasting glucose levels, homocysteine and C-reactive protein). These are the tests that you ought to be paying attention to. What you really want to avoid is inflammation. If you have inflammation, you are at risk for heart disease or cancer (C-reactive protein is a good test for checking inflammation levels). Even if you don’t get these tests done, you still need to eat foods that don’t cause inflammation. Start eating foods that protect you from inflammation like anti-oxidants (from fat soluble vitamins) that protect the lining of the arteries. Also, colorful vegetables are very important for minerals, carotenoids and other pigments that are anti-inflammatory and augment the immune system. They also have salicylic acid (natural aspirin), which doesn’t have the side effects of aspirin (such as causing ruptures or hemorrhaging), and yet it thins the blood nicely. Food is medicinal. Pam: What foods should people avoid and why? Jerry: Generally speaking, people should avoid processed foods. People need to avoid sugar and highly processed carbohydrates (boxed cereals, cookies, crackers, etc…). One golden rule is that the more man touches a food, the worse it is for you. Be very careful of the industrialized fats and oils. Foods that are fried in omega-6 cereal oils (soy, corn, cottonseed) are highly oxidized. In other words, these oils become rancid, which means they become highly carcinogenic, damaging the lining of your arteries. These rancid oils also cause the liver to start producing cholesterol in order to protect the body from their damaging effects. Saturated fats (such as butter, coconut and palm oil) are a far better choice for health and they are far more stable for cooking. Your health will be determined by the combination of how many good foods you eat versus how many damaging foods you eat. Pam: Can you tell us about the importance of selenium and iodine? Jerry: I work a lot with livestock and use several trace elements as part of their protocol: copper, zinc, boron, manganese, iodine, selenium etc…. Iodine and selenium aren’t looked at because they’re not considered necessary for crop growth but they are necessary for animal health and productivity. Selenium is very intriguing because it’s part of an enzyme system where it combines with glutathione which is a tripeptide consisting of three amino acids (methionine, glycine, glutamic acid). When glutathione, the three amino acid peptide, comes together with the trace element selenium, glutathione peroxidase is created. Glutathione peroxidase is an enzyme. The trace elements are the “keys” of the enzyme system. All of the metabolic enzymes (including the ones that run our thinking, heart, muscles, vision, hearing etc…) are dependent upon elements. Many of them are trace elements that are very deficient in our foods because our soils are deficient. In order to fix this problem, we have to start replenishing our soil with the trace elements that are missing. To date, we have only been replenishing them with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to grow conventional crops. But, these are not nutrient dense, health giving crops. Selenium and glutathione peroxidase are very important for the immune system. Powerful white blood cells, known as nutraphils, attack fungal organisms, which are tough to get rid of. Selenium is very important for these enzyme systems to make an immune system. In other words, we’re talking about raw materials for the immune system. Secondly, selenium seems to interfere with viral replication. It almost acts like an anti-viral drug. AIDS is an epidemic in many African countries. However, in Senegal, they have a 1.77% HIV infection rate. The Senegalese live on what is known as “apatite” soil, which is what we have in the Great Plains and the High Plains. Dr. William Albrecht, at the University of Missouri, identified those soils as the most fertile soils on earth. 60 million bison fertilized the rich soils in the Great Plains and the High plains. The “apatite” soils in Senegal are basically the same material. They’re loaded with trace elements such as selenium. The Senegalese are eating mineral-rich food. Researchers believe that this is the reason why the HIV rate is so low in Senegal. When you put selenium in the diets of livestock, reproductive problems, infections, muscle disease disappear. Selenium is a very critical element. Veterinarians have been using it for the last 30 or more years. At one time, it was considered to be a toxic material – all trace minerals are potentially toxic if taken in high doses. This doesn’t mean you need to avoid the element. Iodine also fits that category. Iodine is critical for the thyroid. Selenium and iodine together are responsible for being able to convert the T4 to the T3 thyroxin. Without selenium and iodine you can’t have a healthy thyroid. Hypothyroidism is also an epidemic today, particularly amongst women. If you have problems with your thyroid, you’re going to have problems with your entire endocrine system. I think it’s one of the reasons we have so many menopausal problems. The thyroid gland is the master thermostat of the endocrine system, which regulates all of the other glands (including the glands that produce estrogen, testosterone, progesterone etc…). It’s no wonder we have so many endocrine related diseases! Pam: What can people do in order to address deficiencies in iodine and selenium? Jerry: We need to seek out nutrient-dense raw materials in order to combat these imbalances. The Japanese consume the highest amount of iodine in the form of sea vegetables and fish. The Japanese eat the entire fish (the head, eyes, etc…). If you burn seaweed down to an ash, you will find about .5% actual iodine. It’s a very rich source of iodine. The Japanese diet ranges from 100-500 times more iodine consumption than the American diet. The Japanese have the lowest incidence of cancers (breast, cervical, uterine, ovarian and prostate). Within a generation or two of the Japanese immigrating to the United States, they have the same levels of those same cancers that we do. The Japanese eat small amounts of fermented soy, which is a totally different food than other forms of processed soy we find here in the States. Soy and the brassicas are goitrogenic foods. Soy has to be fermented in order to get rid of the thyroid suppressing compounds. Like the Japanese, the Icelandic people had low levels of cancer. For many years, they fed their dairy cows fish meal. Consequently, the iodine from the fish ended up in the milk. When the government banned the feeding of fish meal to the cows, the cancer rates in Iceland increased dramatically. Pam: What other benefits come from iodine? Jerry: Iodine is a disinfectant and will kill parasites, bacteria, viruses, yeasts, in the blood. We use it in the cattle industry as an antibiotic. Since our immune systems are so weak today, we need to have elements, like iodine, in order to fight the pathogens. We also need these elements in order to keep our endocrine system going. Iodine is found in high quantities in the salivary glands, in the lining of the stomach, it’s necessary for digestion. I take high levels of iodine. Pam: Can you share the sources of selenium and iodine that you take? Jerry: I take different forms of selenium – SelenoExcell (an organically-bound yeast selenium) and Se-Methylselenocysteine (a water soluble selenium), and Selenomethionine (a chelated selenium to the amino acid methionine). I take anywhere from 400-800mcg. In a study with 1,350 subjects, men that were on 200mcg of selenium for over 10 years, cut their risk of prostate cancer by 50%. Iodorall is the dried form of Lugols iodine solution. Lugols is an old fashion medical and veterinarian remedy. It’s been around for about 100 years. It consists of 2 forms of iodine (iodine and iodide). The glandular system has preferences. Some of the glands prefer iodine and some of the other glands prefer iodide). I take about 50mg per day and will eventually taper off that dose. Right now I’m trying to flush out contaminants such as fluorine and bromine and heavy metals. I’m using it as a detoxifying agent at this dose for now. Pam: Can you tell us what you eat in a typical day? Jerry: I make a smoothie every morning which consists of about 12 ounces of raw milk, 4 ounces of raw cream, 2 raw eggs, 2 Tbsp virgin coconut oil, 1 Tbsp flax oil, 1 cup berries, 1 tsp cinnamon (cinnamon is great for regulating sugar metabolism and is an anti-microbial), ¼ tsp cloves, ¼ tsp allspice and a dash of pure vanilla. Cornell University did a study on these spices because they are great for preserving foods. I want to eat these spices in order to keep pathogens at bay. These spices are also good for digestion and they taste great. This combination makes about 1 quart. I sip on it all morning. I also juice carrots, celery, beet and ginger. I don’t like to drink a lot of carrot and beet juice because it is very high in sugar. I drink a lot of raw cream (high in fat), which helps slow down the uptake of sugar. Ginger is a COX 2 inhibitor – it is an anti-inflammatory. It’s a digestive aid. It’s one of my favorite herbs. I grow my own cereal grasses – wheat, barley, rye and oats. And, I’ll juice about 4-6 ounces of the cereal grass and add it to vegetable juice. If I don’t grow it myself, I take a dehydrated cereal grass product. This is very convenient, particularly if I’m traveling. I want the benefits of the chlorophyll in the cereal grass, but the chlorophyll hides all of the other wonderful pigments of the rainbow that you don’t see in the grass. The pigments consist of lutein, lycopene, anthocyanins, zeaxanthin, yellow, gold, blue…these are all powerful pigments for the immune system and cleansing. These grasses are also loaded with enzymes. I consume a lot of enzyme rich foods such as raw and fermented foods. The enzymes help improve my digestion. They can also help add enzymes to the metabolic reservoir that runs the rest of my body. I eat grass fed meat only. I eat wild salmon, Alaskan Sockeye. I eat lots of vegetables, raw, cooked and fermented. Pam: That all sounds very healthy. Over 5 years ago, the doctors didn’t give you much hope, Jerry. You look fantastic. I know your schedule and it doesn’t sound like you’re slowing down. You are certainly an inspiration to everyone. Would you like to share your email and website about your agricultural products? Jerry: Our company, Agri-Dynamics, has a holistic line of products for the agricultural community. The website is: www.agri-dynamics.com. My email is: jbrunetti@agri-dynamics.com. Pam: Before we finish up here, do you have any parting words? Jerry: Don’t believe that if someone has a medical degree they know everything they need to know about getting you well. How you feel is a good indication if what you’re doing is actually working. When I got sick, I hooked up with 2 “medical coaches”. The conditions were that they had to be on my team. I was the athlete, they were the coaches. It’s not about egos. It’s not who knows the most. It’s about winning this challenge to save my life. I had more time to do the research than my coaches did so they had to remain very open-minded while I shared information with them. I constantly asked them for their advice. I didn’t want them to answer me based upon their ignorance. I wanted them to answer me based upon their willingness to learn. They needed to respect the fact that I am capable of reading the English language well enough to interpret the research. If you want to get well, you’re not going to be successful without the food. Ultimately, that’s where you’re healing will come from. Pam: Where can people find the support they need and to learn more about how to follow your suggestions? Jerry: People need to join the Weston A. Price Foundation in order to learn about the wisdom of tradition. Dr. Price traveled all around the world studying the diets of primitive people and compared the health of these peoples to the health of neighboring villages where people were eating “western”, processed, foods. The people who were eating the processed foods were nowhere near as healthy as the people eating traditional foods. The results were dramatic. He saw this in many villages all around the world. Consistently, he saw that the traditional diets were high in fat. They were eating about 10 times more fat-soluble vitamins and 5 times more minerals than Americans were at that time (in the 1920’s – 1930’s). Seventy years have gone by and both the food and the soil have deteriorated in quality. These traditional diets are proof that diet does have something to do with being healthy. They work. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. I encourage everyone to go to www.westonaprice.org. Read Dr. Price’s book, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” and the other books associated with the foundation. Start or join a chapter in your area. Get educated. Find out that food is your answer. Food is medicine. Hippocrates said it back in his era (460 BC-377 BC). We have fallen so far off track by relying on drugs. Food is many things in many cultures; food is celebratory; food is a ritual; food is a sacrament; food is a notation of the seasons; food is a focal point for family and community to become unified; food heals and prevents illness. Pam: And, people need to start finding this wonderful food on farms so that they will know exactly how the food is produced. Jerry: Right. People need to find a new reverence that is being discovered on the small family farms. Go out and talk to farmers that are small farmers and get them involved in this movement. Get their raw milk, chicken, eggs, beef, vegetables and so on. If they aren’t producing these types of foods, you may be able to talk them into it. If they want to survive economically, they need to produce foods for the community. Their food is the pharmacy of the future. Peace on earth! Pam: Thank you for spreading such an encouraging message, Jerry. Jerry: Thank you! Note: Jerry's Cancer Protocol is at: http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf Education Not Medication -- a women's health program by Mike Adams (Note: this applies to other forms of cancer, as well) The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women with disease. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about breast cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it.
Find that hard to believe? Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark studied 500,000 women to determine the results of breast cancer screening programs. They found that for every one woman helped by breast cancer screening, ten were harmed through false diagnosis or unnecessary treatments that devastated their health. "What seems like good and obvious advice in everyday life is not always scientifically or medically sound", said Peter Gotzsche, MD, director of the center. "So we might say there is a benefit of one but a harm of 10 from screening for breast cancer." In other words, breast cancer screening is surprisingly harmful to women. That's partly because the procedure itself irradiates the breast tissue and actually causes cancer, but also because practically any screening result producing a questionable blur on the final image may result in a woman being manipulated through fear into undergoing aggressive, toxic cancer treatments even when they never had breast cancer in the first place. (False positives are extremely common in breast cancer screening, and in some cases, the machinery is incorrectly calibrated and doesn't even meet radiology standards.) Preventing prevention While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy -- a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs. Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry is interested in teaching any of these strategies to people. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! That's why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below. The cancer industry depends on more cancer Ever notice that cancer centers are not called, "Anti-Cancer Centers?" You see them in virtually every city and state across the country: The Washington Cancer Center, or the San Francisco Cancer Center. Here in Arizona, we have a massive, new building being constructed, and it's named the Arizona Cancer Center. These are all monuments to cancer, and they are for-profit businesses constructed for the purpose of making money from a woman's disease. They turn cancer into profit, and they depend on continued cancer to stay in business. That's why there's no real effort underway to teach women how to prevent breast cancer. There's no program in place to teach women about the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D (in fact, cancer industry groups like the American Cancer Society run public service ads warning people about sunlight!), there's no honest effort to teach women about the natural anti-cancer medicine founds in certain foods, and no one is telling women the truth about the cancer-causing chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics and personal care products. In other words, when it comes to preventing cancer, the cancer industry is silent. Why should they say anything, anyway? If they teach women how to prevent breast cancer, they lose customers. Besides, the scheme they're running right now is working brilliantly. They maximize revenues and profits by preventing prevention and waiting for women to get cancer, then treating them with high-profit pharmaceuticals, radiation and surgical procedures. They have the easiest business model in the world: All they have to do is keep their mouths shut about what causes cancer, and wait for new customers to fill the cancer centers. And to help them out, corporations, media organizations and volunteers (many are women!) actually help them raise more money! It makes about as much sense as holding a fundraiser for Bill Gates. It's time to teach genuine cancer prevention to people I also suggest that all these cancer treatment centers donate 100 percent of their profits to cancer prevention campaigns. It's wrong to profit from a woman's cancer, is it not? If these businesses really cared about stopping cancer, they'd refuse to profit from the disease and, instead, use the money to help stop cancer in future generations of women (and men, for that matter). What an idea, huh? That these ultra-wealthy non-profits and billion-dollar corporations might spend some money on teaching women how to prevent cancer... If it ever really happens, of course, it will only be as a cover-your-ass reaction to public awareness about the corporatization of the breast cancer industry. As word spreads, these non-profits will have to do something to save their reputation, so they'll start running tiny "prevention" campaigns to save face. But underneath the facade, make no mistake: cancer is big, big business, and the cancer industry is driven by profiting from a woman's body, not protecting it from cancer. The real answers to breast cancer prevention 18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order) Smoking cigarettes 22 things that PREVENT cancer: Vitamin D and sunshine - see the Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D The cancer industry attacks nearly all genuine cancer solutions After examining this list, it's not difficult to notice something quite curious: The cancer industry promotes many things that cause cancer while attacking most things that prevent cancer. Naturopathic doctors who once prescribed laetrile for cancer patients, for example, have been run out of the country or arrested. Herbal product companies have been censored to such a degree that none dare tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their own products, and even broccoli growers and marketers are scared into remaining silent about the remarkable, scientifically-proven anti-cancer effects of broccoli. In other words, if you want to know what the cancer industry supports or attacks, just check to see which list it's on. If it's on the list of things that prevent cancer, the cancer industry (including most of its doctors, oncologists, non-profits and government regulators) will be against it. If it's on the list of things that cause cancer, they will promote it. The exception to this is, of course, tobacco. That's a substance that doctors once gladly promoted in magazine advertisements, claiming that smoking was good for your health and even improved your teeth! But today, the tobacco scam has long since been revealed, and even conventional medicine is now squarely against this substance that they once strongly promoted. The American Medical Association, by the way, used to actually run ads for cigarettes in its flagship medical journal, JAMA. Doctors can always be bought off and made to promote whatever poison is making the most money this decade (these people have no shame). In the 1950's, it was cigarettes. Today, it's pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. Different drugs, same scam. But money was always -- and IS always -- the bottom line for conventional medicine. Beating cancer -- how to take charge of your cancer cure and outlive the lies of the cancer industry (http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html) Here's an example of how backwards health care really is in this country: it's actually front-page news that a cancer center is serving anti-cancer foods in its cafeteria. This is taking place at the Miami Cancer Center at Mercy Hospital. And it's apparently a big deal. Wow! Front-page news. Nation-wide news. Here is a cancer center serving foods that actually prevent cancer. Who woulda thunk it? Just the fact that this is news tells you how backwards the health care system in this country is, because if they're just now serving anti-cancer foods, what on earth have they been serving up until today? Cancer-causing foods? Today, you can find fast food restaurants, pizza joints and hamburger stands in hospitals all across the country. It should be an embarrassment to organized medicine. It should be an outrage to every patient who enters such an institution. These are supposed to be places of health, yet they are serving people foods with toxic ingredients like sodium nitrate, saturated animal fats, refined white flour in the buns of these hamburgers and MSG in the meats. There's sugar in the tomato sauce, acrylamides in the fried foods, and hardly a speck of life left in the menus of most hospitals. There is truly dangerous food being served right now in cafeterias at cancer centers, hospitals, clinics, and, of course, public schools, all across the country. Stop killing the hospital patients with junk food I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone with this, especially if you're trying to make a positive difference. I'm not trying to attack any particular individual, but how can we call this health care? How can we call it anything other than a disease care system? It's a sick care system, and the whole system itself is sick. It thrives on sickness. It thrives on keeping people sick by actually feeding them disease-promoting foods as they come into the hospital (and a little more disease-promoting food when they leave the hospital). By the way, right in the middle of your surgery recovery, they're going to bring you more disease-causing foods, right to your bedside. They're going to charge you gourmet meal prices for that food, even while it's loaded with chemicals that will probably make it even harder for your body to recover from whatever surgical procedure you just endured. How dare they call it medicine A medical degree does not give you the right to claim you know how to heal people. You know nothing about healing until you venture outside the bounds of traditional organized medicine and have healed yourself first. If you have a healthy body and mind and a healthy sense of self esteem, and you don't have to step on all the people around you with your over-inflated ego, and if you have the ability to be a healer and share information with people and help uplift people around you, then you can call yourself a doctor, and it doesn't matter what degree you have. You can call yourself a doctor when you are a true healer, not when you have a medical degree and you work in an institution of disease called a hospital or a cancer center. All hail the cancer center Shouldn't it be called an anti-cancer center? Shouldn't it be called a health or wellness center? Well, no, it's not their focus. Their focus is on cancer. It's called a cancer center, almost as if it's some kind of monument to the disease. I think that all the people whose jobs depend on disease in some way worship the disease. They worship them because those diseases give them job security. The very names of these institutions eliminate any possibility of living in a world free of cancer, because if you have an institution named the Cancer Center, then how in the world can anybody who works there even consider the possibility of curing cancer? Then what would it be? It would be the Empty Cancer Center. It would be the Closed Down Cancer Center. Shouldn't these institutions really be there to try to help people eliminate cancer? But that's not what all these cancer centers are doing. They are really there to manage these diseases. I say, bring in the alternative healers, and help these people be free of cancer. I can't tell you how many people I've talked to -- clinicians, people trained in herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, or even those trained in Western medicine -- who are doing some advanced research on cancer. They've cured cancer, or more accurately, they've helped patients cure their own cancers, because cancer is a disease that is actually quite easy to beat, especially if it's caught in the early stages. This is not a difficult disease to eliminate, but in modern medicine they try to make it complicated. They try to talk about the microbiology of what's happening, at the cellular level, what's happening with the angiogenesis factors and the genetic influences. They try to figure out the biochemistry and physics, but they get lost in all the details. They forget about the big picture, which is, "Hey, we want this patient to be free of cancer. What do we have that really works?" Many cures for cancer exist right now I'm here to tell you that there are cures for cancer. In fact, every day when I go running through the desert, I'm jogging by literally tons and tons of anti-cancer desert plants right outside my back yard. People are being cured of cancer every single day all over the world. They are curing themselves of cancer. It is just that it has been criminalized here in the United States. It has been outlawed because we live in the Dark Ages of modern medicine, in a system of oppression that tries to censor the truth and make curing cancer illegal. It's a system that tries to discredit all these alternative therapies and at the same time, tries to make a fortune managing all of these diseases that are easily preventable and curable if people just turn to therapies like a raw foods diet or the elimination of all animal products and processed foods from their diets. Remember, it's headline news that this cancer center is serving anti-cancer foods. That tells you just how far behind things are in this country. You would think with all the hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone into cancer research -- this so-called research that's going on to find a cure for cancer -- that with all these doctors who study cancer, all these oncologists trained in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and all this incredible research that the pharmaceutical companies claim to be doing to make your life better... with all this going on, you would think somewhere along the line, somebody would have said, "Gee, maybe we should feed these people some anti-cancer foods." It's common sense, right? If they put me in charge (which will never happen, so don't worry), I would walk in and scrap that whole menu at the cancer center, and I would give them a menu of serious anti-cancer foods: things like raw, organic vegan foods, loaded with broccoli, sprouts, cauliflower, kale, garlic, beans, berries, raw nuts and the like. After a couple of months of that, and some alternative therapies, those patients would never need to come back. Most of those patients would be free of cancer. Of course, that is one of the many reasons why they would never invite me to come in and do something like that. I would bankrupt these cancer centers by eliminating all their repeat business. I'd send people home cancer-free. And that's bad for business in the cancer industry. Their greatest fear, I believe, is that someone will actually promote a simple cure for cancer. It would wipe out a billion-dollar industry of profit and power. Cancer cures from nature You have anticancer properties in blueberries, and in all of the small fruits – blackberries, raspberries, acai and goji berries from Asia. Then you have onion, ginger and garlic. Garlic is phenomenal as an anti-cancer food. It contains sulphur compounds that just obliterate cancer cells. You've got spirulina, which contains anticancer phytochemicals called phycocyanin, which provide a blue-green color. When injected into breast tumors in laboratory studies in Japan, it's been shown to cause breast tumors to self-destruct. You've got chlorella and oxygen treatments. There is a product out there called Cell Food; when you take it into your body, it creates nascent oxygen and hydrogen. This oxygen helps create an environment in the body in which your body naturally eliminates its own cancerous cells. That's just the tip of the iceberg here. Then you have traditional Chinese medicine, with some powerful anti-cancer herbs. There's an outstanding book on that by Michael Tierra, who is a master herbalist, and really one of the best herbalist authors out there. He's got a book called Treating Cancer with Herbs. This book teaches you about medicinal mushrooms -- the reishi mushrooms and the shitake mushrooms. Beyond that, we have anti-cancer oils: salmon oil, flax oil and cod liver oil. The list just goes on and on. I haven't really covered them all, but in addition all those healing foods, there are all the foods you can eliminate from your diet to stop poisoning your body and stop giving yourself cancer. What are those foods? Well, there's sodium nitrate, which is in almost every processed meat product, found in every grocery store in the world, so if you just eliminate processed meats, your cancer risk plummets. You should also eliminate hydrogenated oils and partially-hydrogenated oils, both of which strongly promote cancer. Eliminate homogenized milk and dairy products. Stop drinking liquids excreted from the glands of other species. (You thirsty pervert...) Eliminate all red meat from your diet. Eliminate all liquid refined sugar, such as soft drinks made of high-fructose corn syrup. Eliminate all food additives, preservatives and artificial colors; eliminate MSG, which is known as monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed vegetable protein. Eliminate aspartame and sucralose and all the artificial chemical sweeteners. Eliminate white flour; stop barbecuing your meat, because barbecuing meat creates chemicals that cause colon cancer and stomach cancer. Stop cooking your food at extremely high temperatures. Or, better yet, become a live foods vegan. I'm just naming off a few things. You can be cancer-free if you follow the recipe. Curing cancer is not profitable The answers to cancer, to living free of this disease, are right here in front of us, right now. You can walk outside your door and look at nature, and those are the answers to cancer right there. It's not that difficult. It's eating foods of different colors; the rainbow diet. There's an anti-cancer strategy right there. There's another book called, Eat to Beat Cancer that lists all the anti-cancer foods out there, everything from nuts and peanuts to legumes, brown rice, onions, kale, spinach and cauliflower. If you do these things right, you won't have cancer. There's another book by Dr. Gabriel Cousens called Conscious Eating that gives you loads of information on using live foods to eliminate chronic disease (and heal the planet, too). Cancer is not a matter of luck. Only doctors and pharmaceutical companies want you to think it's a matter of luck. If they can convince you to believe that, then you'll go through life thinking it doesn't matter what you eat, and then you are much more likely to have a poor diet and end up with the disease, which makes them a lot of money. I am just astonished at what we have in this country -- this system that claims to offer health care is a complete myth. There is no health care. There is just disease management, exploitation and profiteering. That's the system we have in this country today, and the fact that it is headline news that a cancer center is serving anti-cancer foods is proof that we still live in the Dark Ages of modern medicine. We still live in an age of censorship and oppression, distortion and propaganda. The organizations out there pushing the pro-cancer propaganda include every major medical association and disease organization you can name. They also include medical journals that disallow the publication of articles on alternative medicine. These are some of the players who are defending this "Dark Ages" system they call medicine, which is really just a gimmick to turn the human body into a profit-generating machine for Big Pharma. You were designed to live in a state of perfect health If you want to be healthy, you've got to acknowledge your human nature and your interaction with the natural world around you. You have a blueprint for health in you right now. You're supposed to be healthy. That's your DNA. Doctors always talk about DNA as providing a blueprint for disease, which is hogwash. They never tell you about how your DNA actually is designed to keep you at a perfect point of health. That's the whole point of the DNA -- to pass on a blueprint that lets you survive and reproduce. That's basic science, folks. How on earth can doctors think that DNA passed down through hundreds of thousands of generations could have a gene that would cause heart disease? That's ridiculous. They must not know anything at all about natural selection, because if someone caries a gene that kills them, guess what? They don't reproduce. So the genes that you have are genes that have survived and thrived through all of these generations, from healthy ancestry down to today, giving you the gift of a blueprint for perfect health. The only reason you aren't in perfect health today, and the only reason we aren't healthy as a nation, is because we've gone off the map. We stopped following the blueprint. We changed our environment. We changed our foods, our diet, our levels of stress, our use of toxic products like personal care products, deodorants, shampoos, laundry products and soaps with triclosan and antibacterial chemicals. We started popping prescription drugs like a bunch of crack addicts in this country. Forty percent of the nation now is on prescription drugs. Then when people get sick, we poison them with chemotherapy and radiation, and we call it medicine. So you want to be healthy? Get back to your nature. Recognize that you have a natural blueprint for being perfectly healthy. Now, as one disclaimer to all this, I want to tell you that it is important to work with a qualified health professional during any major health transition. That should be a naturopathic physician, ideally... or an M.D. who has really educated himself or herself about alternative medicine, nutrition and lifestyle changes. And there are such M.D.s out there. You just have to ask around and find one. You can't just settle for any old M.D., or you might get someone who is a big drug pusher. And if you ever have to go to a hospital or cancer center, take my advice: Bring your own food. You don't want the stuff they're going to feed you; that is, unless you want to stick around the center for a lot longer. If that's the case, then go ahead and eat their hospital food. That will keep you in the hospital a few extra days, probably. But if you want to be healthy and free of disease, or if you want to recover from an injury or some kind of surgical procedure, bring your own food. Real medicine is taking place at the personal level. It's taking place with education across the internet. It's taking place in the homes of people who are taking charge of their health. That's real medicine and real healing. Be part of it. Be healthy, and help us move out of the Dark Ages of modern medicine and into an era of authentic healing and disease prevention; an age where we can have the majority of the population healthy rather than chronically diseased and addicted to toxic prescription drugs. Be healthy yourself. Set a good example. My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I thank you for your interest in this information. Consumer Health Warning -- Do not buy any foods or groceries containing the following ingredients: Sodium nitrite (meats) Learn why in the Health Ranger's food safety guide for consumers: Grocery Warning. Reduce your risk of diabetes, colon cancer, leukemia, breast cancer, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis and other diseases by learning to identify and avoid toxic ingredients in common foods and groceries. Click here to learn more: http://www.truthpublishing.com/grocerywarning.html There are many commonly disguised names for MSG. Here are some additives that always contain MSG: Additionally, here are more additives that frequently contain MSG: Note: Several meat products, including whole chicken, turkey and several beef products, are soaked, painted or injected with MSG-containing products. In addition, you should be aware that portobello mushrooms are high in glutamic acid - the harmful component of MSG. It is important to avoid omega-6 oils, such as corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean and canola oils. The omega-6 oils are powerful immune suppressants. Avoid all forms of sugar, which also suppresses immunity. Drink distilled water or water filtered by reverse osmosis and avoid sweetened drinks, even fruit drinks. Avoid all forms of fluoride, since it damages antioxidant enzymes, increases free radical production, damages DNA repair enzymes, suppresses immunity, produces skeletal and dental fluorosis and hypothyroidism, and produces extensive brain cell injury. Because most foods are contaminated with numerous excitotoxin additives, you should prepare your foods fresh. Additionally, to get the most protection against free radicals you should eat at least three to five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. They should be fresh and eaten mostly raw. Your diet should contain at least three servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily. Vegetables with the deepest color are preferred, but some white vegetables, such as cauliflower, are also important. It is also wise take 200 mg of DHA twice a day. Simply remove the gelatin capsule as you do with vitamin E. You also can get high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids by eating Christopher eggs daily and avoid corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean and canola oils, all of which are Omega-6 fats. And, finally, I highly recommend taking 2 to 3 mg. of melatonin at bedtime to help regulate your sleep. (Note: these dosages are if you are healthy). What Products Should You Avoid? Simply put, stop using fluoride in its many forms. This includes avoiding: Also, do not use lemon in your tea, since it will increase aluminum absorption enormously. Do not cook in aluminum or Teflon-coated cookware, and avoid using Teflon products. I would recommend avoiding the use of spray cans, such as hair spray, and getting rid of aluminum cans, such as those containing diet colas. Health food stores offer toothpaste without flouride. One type is Tom’s of Maine Natural Fluoride-Free Toothpaste. (We make our own by mixing 4 parts baking soda + 1 part salt, slightly dampen the toothbrush and dip it into some toothpowder that we've put in the palm of our other hand). The best way to remove pesticide and herbicide residues from vegetables is simply to wash them. California wines also should be passed up, since they contain high amounts of fluoride. Soy products, which are high in fluoride, aluminum, glutamate and manganese, are all known neurotoxins and should be avoided. It is critical that mothers avoid all soy-based infant formulas, especially if they are reconstituted by water in a fluoridated water system. Soy-based formula has very high levels of these brain toxins, and a baby’s brain is the most vulnerable until the age of two years. Get the Most Out of Your Medical Exam [My LDL converts to the extremely harmful Small Particle LDL and my HDL converts to the least beneficial HDL3 when I don't eat enough healthy fats and if I eat too many whole grain carbs (even when I was eating no sugar or white starch!). The trigger level for me is about 35% of my calories have to be from healthy fats (molecularly-distilled DHA oil from Calamari, raw seeds & nuts, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil). All carbs have to be whole grain, and even then can only be eaten in limited amounts. Raw vegetables that are washed in vegetable wash and scrubbed should make up a large amount of your diet, along with a few fruits that are not too sweet (or supplement extracts with no added sugar or corn syrup). When we chew our food, we get about 10% of the phytonutrients from them; blenderizing (with VitaMix 5000) lets you absorb about 90% of the nutrition from them, but you also need to be careful to choose certain vegetables each day, too. See the "Cancer&RawFoods" page on my website www.distance-healer.com, along with the other pages -- they apply to being healthier from all kinds of diseases, not just cancer.] The best way to get more from your doctor visit is to open lines of communication. Here’s a list of what you should ask about the next time you have blood work done: 1. A complete breakdown of your cholesterol — specifically the measure of the two types of LDL cholesterol: large, buoyant LDL and small, dense LDL. High levels of small-dense LDL-cholesterol increases the risk of its oxidation, and this increases risk. High levels of HDL-cholesterol usually lower your risk, but only if you are free of chronic inflammation. The combination of antioxidants and high HDL is very protective against heart attacks and strokes. The small, dense LDL level should be less than 20 mg/dl. HDL cholesterol levels should be over 55 mg/dl. This should be mostly of the HDL2 type, which should be greater than 15 mg/dl. 2. Lipoprotein(a) levels — This is a hereditary factor. If your father’s or mother’s level was high, yours will also likely be high. Some studies have shown that an elevated lipoprotein(a) increases your risk of a heart attack or stroke by 70 percent. Levels should be less than 10 mg/dl. 3. C-reactive protein — This test is more indicative of heart and stroke risk than cholesterol. This test measures inflammation, a key factor in atherosclerosis. The most accurate test is the highly sensitive CRP, called hs-CRP. Your level should be less than 1.69 mg/l. This is a simple, inexpensive blood test that can be performed in most laboratories -- you can order one yourself at a nearby lab through Life Extension (www.lef.org/bloodtest/), or your doctor can order one for you. The blood level of CRP has been shown to be a reliable predictor of survival in cases of multiple myeloma, melanoma, lymphoma, ovarian, pancreatic, colon and other cancers: the higher the level -- that is, the greater the inflammation -- the worse the prognosis is. Improvement in the level of CRP is believed to indicate an imporving control over the cancer. 4. Homocysteine — This measures a breakdown product found during the metabolism of the amino acid methionine. Even levels that are in the higher ranges of normal put you at a high risk of a stroke or heart attack. Your level should be between 4.72 and 7.0 umol/l. 5. Fibrinogen — This tests measures how easily your blood coagulates. A high level means your blood clots very easily, increasing your risk of a heart attack. Your level should be between 180 and 350 mg/dl. 6. Blood Ferritin — This measures iron levels in the blood. Like CRP, blood ferritin levels are also a good way to follow the progress of your cancer: very high levels are often seen with advanced cancers, especially cancers that have metastasized. Falling ferritin levels can mean improved control of the cancer. In some instances, a high blood ferritin level is the first evidence of a malilgnant disease. Unfortunately, people were told for many years that they needed more iron. Little did people know that all the iron that the government added -- and still is adding -- to flour, breads, cereals, crackers and other foods, and manufacturers are adding to multivitamin pills were actually increasing their risk of cancer and other degenerative diseases, since excess iron (and copper) are free radicals. If they already had cancer, it caused their cancer to grow faster and spread more rapidly. Tests for ferritin levels are available in most laboratories and are relatively inexpensive (Blaylock p243-4). Note that excess copper and iron also stimulate cancer growth, and that a ferritin test is more appropriate to measure iron levels in cancer patients than the standard RBC and hematocrit, since the body attempts to bind and hide iron to protect itself. -- Dr. Russell Blaylock "The Gerson Therapy: The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses", a book about juicing and calve's liver, although it's somewhat out-dated and is not enough by itself for battling cancer. Cancer: A Second Opinion, a book by Josef Issels M.D. Book Description This book is perhaps the most important book written on cancer in the twentieth century. This is because Josef Issels demonstrated in his Cancer Clinic in Bavaria the most successful results ever achieved with late stage cancer patients (16.6% five-year survival and 15% fifteen-year survival - more than 5 times better than any orthodox therapy before or since. How to Fight Cancer & Win by William L. Fischer Book Description Diet is the most important piece of the puzzle. A bad diet will destroy many alternative cancer treatments. In fact, many scientific studies have proven that diet alone can cause cancer. Many people have actually cured their cancer by doing nothing more than changing their diet! The cancer diet is just as important as the treatment. As I have compared many effective cancer treatments to those that were less effective, it is evident that even a small "glitch" in the cancer diet is sufficient to cause it to fail. -- Ty Bollinger A 5% bad diet equals a 400% increase in cancer. -- Webster Kehr Too Few Cancer Survivors Pursue Healthy Lifestyles April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer survivors who eat more fruits and vegetables, stay physically active and avoid tobacco have a higher quality of life than those who don't do these things. The bad news is that many cancer survivors aren't eating right and aren't exercising enough, although a good three-quarters do follow recommendations not to light up. "We all know that living a healthy lifestyle, eating well, being physically active and not smoking reduces the risk of physical problems and improves overall physical health," said Kevin Stein, director of Quality of Life Research at the American Cancer Society's Behavioral Research Center. "Here we have additional evidence that it not only reduces disease burden but also improves emotional health and quality of life and, moreover, the effect appears to be cumulative. The more you comply, the better your quality of life." Stein is senior author of a new study detailing the findings, published in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Yet the message doesn't seem to be getting through. "When I sit down and talk to patients about changing their lifestyle after treating them for cancer, a lot of times you're glaring into people's eyes, and they don't really believe what you're telling them," said Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La. "I don't think really people really grasp the importance of what they do in their lives in terms of how it affects what happens to them." That would include behaviors engaged in both before and after a cancer diagnosis and treatment. More than 10 million Americans are cancer survivors, making them more vulnerable to other health conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and, more generally, a reduced health-related quality of life. The American Cancer Society recommends that cancer survivors engage in 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week, eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and not smoke. Previous studies have shown that a healthy lifestyle can prevent cancer recurrence and prolong survival, yet many of these studies were conducted at elite cancer treatment centers, Stein said. The new study aimed to get a more realistic portrayal of the issue by asking more than 9,000 survivors about their quality of life. Participants were either two-, five- or 10-year survivors of six different types of cancer. Only 14.8 percent to 19.1 percent of survivors were meeting the five-a-day fruits and vegetables recommendation, while 29.6 percent to 47.3 percent were meeting the physical activity recommendation. On the other hand, 82.6 percent to 91.6 percent didn't smoke. But a mere 5 percent were meeting all three recommendations, up to 12.5 percent weren't complying with any lifestyle behavior recommendations, and less than 10 percent were meeting two or more. The findings echoed a recent study that found that cancer survivors have rates of obesity and physical inactivity similar to those of the general population. That study, published in the June 1 issue of Cancer, found that less than one-quarter of cancer survivors were regularly physically active, and more than 18 percent were obese. "We want to focus on survivors because of their increased risk" for other conditions as well as cancer recurrence, Stein said. "In addition, they're in the health-care system, so this is a teachable moment," he added. "We have an opportunity to talk to them about their health, communicate to them, 'Hey, you've dodged a bullet this time, here's an opportunity for you to live a healthy lifestyle and reduce the risk of a second cancer or another co-morbid condition and also improving your quality of life.' " SOURCES: Kevin Stein, Ph.D., director, Quality of Life Research, Behavioral Research Center, American Cancer Society, Atlanta; Jay Brooks, M.D., chairman of hematology/oncology, Ochsner Health System, Baton Rouge, La.; May 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology --- When your surgeon says "we got it all" -- don't believe him! If you're challenged with cancer and, after surgery, your doctor tells you you're cancer-free, this is imporatnat news for you. New evidence shows you probably have cancer cells in other places that simply haven't grown yet. For a long time, doctors though patients who developed cancer after a transplant did so because of the immune-suppressing drugs, but a startling finding suggest these cancers are from the donor organ! In the study, tests on female kidney recipients who later deveoped Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of skin cancer, found that the DNA of the cancers contained Y chromosome material. Y chromosomes are from males and would indicate the cancer came from male donor cells. Melanoma has been transmitted the same way. Now, how could a kidney transplant carry skin cancer cells to the recipient? When cancer goes into remission, it will often return at distant sites several months to many years later, so we know cancer cells migrate out from the primary site and seed other organs at a very early stage. Hence, in organ donors, their organs may be seeded with cancer cells, long before they know they have a cancer, and their immune systems were strong enough to hold them in check. In the recipient, who must take immune suppressive drugs to prevent organ rejection, the cancer cells have a huge edge on the immune system. Action to take: For years, we've heard doctors say to cancer patients, "we got it all." Only several months later, the same patient lies dying of the disease. I'm not a fan of one-stop cancer treatment (surgery) for this very reason: cancer is a systemic (covers the whole body) and lifetime disease, and must be treated as such. That's not to say that a cancer patient has to die of the same illness. In fact, I know the opposite is true, but now that you know cancer seedlings may be undetected, but living anywhere in your body, you might consider visiting an integrative doctor for systemic support and continuing to follow a very healthy diet and lifestyle along with taking specific supplements for life. I feel that the most advanced physicians for cancer will be those found on the website http://www.iptq.org/ -- Dr. Robert Rowen http://www.healthexcel.com/docs/_faq1.html QUESTION: Cancer runs in my family. I am 25 and already have had some early warning signs of the disease. Isn't there something that nutrition can do to help me avoid the same fate as my relatives? QUESTION: I just had a tumor removed from my colon. The doctors say that they got it all but are using chemotherapy to try to prevent a recurrence. I wonder if there's something I can do to help, too? HEALTHEXCEL: Cancer, as well as all other degenerative conditions, occurs due to an imbalance in body chemistry and a subsequent weakening in the efficiency of function of the body's cells, organs, glands and systems. Regardless of the therapy one chooses, balancing the body chemistry and improving the body's efficiency of function is the very least that a person must do in order to have any hope of restoring good health and well-being. In the case of cancer, methods may be used to kill the cancer . . . but, what about that which allowed the cancer to develop in the first place? What about the possibility of a recurrence? The destruction of cancer is not necessarily the same as obtaining good health. Killing the cancer removes the symptom of a deeper problem; but it does not remove the cause of the cancer the failure of the body's own defense mechanisms. IPT, The Amazing Treatment That Makes Chemotherapy 10,000 Times More Effective -- And Totally Safe! I'm sure you're asking, "How can any chemotherapy treatment be safe?" That's a good question, as chemotherapy destroys cells unilaterally -- good and bad. But the power of chemotherapy can be harnessed to work the way we want it to. Chemotherapy is the use of cytotoxic (cell-killing) chemicals in a system-wide effort to eliminate cancer cells. The first chemicals used for chemotherapy were not originally intended for that purpose. During a military operation in World War II, a large number of soldiers were exposed to the chemical warfare agent mustard (the agent used in mustard gas). Afterward, the military personnel were found to have abnormally low white blood cell counts and it was hypothesized that mustard gas might work as an agent against cancer, which grows at a similar rate as white blood cells. Later, several patients with advanced lymphoma were given the agent intravenously and their improvement was remarkable, if only temporary. This provided the basis to develop other drugs that would have similar effect on cancer cells. Conventional therapy relies on the fact that cancer cells are rapidly dividing. The process of cell division is a highly vulnerable state during which DNA or its controls can be poisoned, resulting in cell death. That’s the premise behind chemotherapy and radiation, which target dividing cells. However, normal cells also divide. The bone marrow (blood making cells) can divide as fast as cancer cells, and the gastrointestinal tract is not far behind. Consequently, these two systems also become highly poisoned by chemotherapy, resulting in the literally horrible “side effects” of chemo, which are not really side effects at all when you understand the process. They are really direct effects. In my whole career, I have never seen a documented case of metastatic cancer cured by chemotherapy, yet it is the predominate treatment offered in the country today. The real answer to cancer lies in prevention, not treatment once it occurs. Since many readers may already have cancer or know someone with cancer, the knowledge that there exists a kinder, gentler (virtually non-toxic) yet likely far more effective therapy than conventional chemotherapy should interest all of us. At a recent medical conference, I had the joy to hear Dr. Steven Ayre of Chicago give a presentation on a most novel way to administer chemotherapy – non-toxic and more effective. What a switch. Many years ago, he became aware of the work of a visionary Mexican physician who was using the hormone insulin to treat and cure a myriad of diseases, from end-stage neurosyphilis (even before the age of antibiotics) to cancer. Traveling back and forth to Mexico, Dr. Ayre observed and was instructed on the technique by the physician descendants of the pioneer, Donato Perez Garcia, MD. The results were extraordinary. The next step was to try to understand how the administration of insulin prior to exposing cancer to chemo would make the cells so much more sensitive, so that only a fraction of the conventional dose would be necessary to get the desired effect. These doses were so small that normal cells were left unharmed! Insulin Potentiation Therapy had its origins in the 1920s in Mexico City with a 28-year-old military doctor named Donato Perez Garcia. After reading about using insulin to treat non-diabetic malnutrition, Dr. Garcia decided to treat his own chronic gastrointestinal condition. He effectively treated himself for the disorder and then moved on to other diseases. Before the discovery of antibiotics, doctors used heavy metals, such as mercury, to treat diseases such as syphilis, the goal being to kill the disease before the toxic heavy metals killed the patients (much like doctors today use chemotherapy to treat cancer). Dr. Garcia believed insulin might aid the delivery of these drugs and keep the doses smaller while having a greater effect on the disease. Dr. Perez began treating the famous and wealthy people of Mexico, as well as normal patients. He treated them not only for syphilis, but also for ulcers, gallstones, and appendicitis. He was successful and word of his treatment spread by referrals. His results were so compelling that the Mexican Secretary of Health recommended further study of IPT and the Mexican Army established an experimental clinic to do just that. The results were certified in 1940 and were judged to be spectacular. In the spring of 1944, he made a trip to the Tijuana and San Diego area and treated many diseases, including syphilis, malaria, and even a gallbladder disease in a general’s wife. The trip was documented in a short article in Time magazine on April 10, 1944. World War II brought the first widespread use of penicillin (which was discovered in 1928, the same year as the development of IPT) and made IPT obsolete as a treatment of syphilis. Dr. Perez, however, continued to work with IPT as a treatment for other diseases. He even found that IPT boosts the effectiveness of antibiotics. In 1945, Dr. Perez used IPT to treat cancer for the first time. In 1947, he made one more trip to the U.S. to demonstrate IPT. It did not catch on and he returned to Mexico City and his private practice. In the late 1950s, Dr. Perez passed on his work in IPT to his son, Dr. Donato Perez Garcia y Bellon (Dr. Perez II). They worked closely from 1956 to 1971, when the elder Dr. Perez passed away. During this time, they further developed their treatments for cancer to include a simple electrophoresis technique and an apparatus called an “Oncodiagnosticator” that could detect a chemical imbalance that could lead to or support cancer. In the 1970s, Dr. Perez II continued his father’s practice in Mexico City and conversed with doctors, scientists, and pharmaceutical companies throughout the world with little success of spreading the word of IPT. He did, however, get the attention of two doctors: Dr. Jean-Claude Paquette from Quebec, Canada and the other was Dr. Stephen G. Ayre, the doctor who coined the phrase “insulin potentiation therapy”. In 1983, Dr. Perez II was joined by his son, Dr. Donato Perez Garcia (Dr. Perez III) at the family practice. In 1987, the Drs. Perez treated their first AIDS patient with IPT and an antiviral drug. The patient reported a reversal of symptoms and returned to health. In 1988, Dr. Perez III moved part of the family practice to Tijuana, just south of San Diego, to make IPT more available to patients from the U.S. Cancer cells need glucose to burn for energy. They are almost totally dependent on glucose as their energy source, while other cells can also burn fats. With few exceptions (muscles, brain), all cells require insulin to allow glucose to enter. Since cancer cells are totally dependent on glucose as their only energy source, it turns out they make many more insulin receptors on their membranes. In fact, they may have anywhere from 6 to 15 times the number of insulin receptors as normal cells, giving them a real competitive advantage in swallowing up fuel, but insulin has other effects as well. In addition to insulin opening up the path for glucose to enter, it also makes the cell membrane more permeable to other substances including chemotherapy drugs. Thus, because insulin receptors are so concentrated on cancer cells, cancer can be selectively targeted over normal cells to be more vulnerable to the drugs. More drugs will enter those cells in the presence of insulin. In fact, a study in the early 1980s showed that the chemo drug methotrexate had the ability to kill breast cancer cells magnified 10,000 times when the cells were prepared with insulin. What a potentiation of effectiveness! Further, insulin has properties that encourage the cancer cells to enter a phase of DNA synthesis and cell division, the vulnerable phase. Thus, preparing the patient with insulin provides a double whammy for the cancer. More drug enters, and in a more vulnerable time in the cell cycle. Thus, a far less quantity of chemo drugs needs to be administered. Hence – little, if any, toxicity. Amazingly, Dr. Perez was literally curing dreaded tertiary neurosyphilis in the 1930s, prior to modern antibiotics. He found that the blood brain barrier was made more permeable by insulin so that he could get enough of an antisyphilis arsenical drug into the nervous system to cure the patient. Finding insulin potentiated therapies, he moved on to cancer, discovering its effectiveness, with modern science, only after his death, able to explain the real mechanism described above. Dr. Perez died in the 1970s. Dr. Perez II continued his work until his own death in December 2000. Now the work continues and is taught by the grandson, also bearing the same name. Dr. Perez III tells me of miraculous cures of polio, MS, and many other terrible degenerative diseases by his father. Unfortunately, his father recently died, only days after I met him on the phone, but too late for me to get to meet him personally and pick his brain. Those of us trained in the technique are hopeful that Perez III will be able to decipher the records of his father and disseminate recipes for supportive treatment for these other conditions besides cancer. Now for some consecutive cases: D.U., a 62-year old male with lung cancer (I had been treating for six years) was seeing his tumor slowly grow. We embarked on IPT therapy and after the first month, the radiologist called up the clinic in disbelief that the tumor had regressed by 30% after following the patient for the past 6 years and never seeing it shrink. We reduced the frequency of treatment from two to one per week and the progress halted. When we reinstituted two treatments per week, the tumor again regressed with the progress described as “dramatic” by the radiologist. The patient to date has experienced no toxicity. M.S. is a 59-year-old male with esophageal cancer. The primary mass was excised, leaving metastatic lymph nodes. In the first month of therapy, the metastatic nodes had regressed by 40%, with no toxicity. He is still under treatment. D.L. is a 55-year-old male with cancer of the bladder. His surgeon wanted to remove the bladder and institute full dose chemo. He chose low dose IPT instead (after cystoscopic excision of the tumor from the inside of the bladder) and also received instillations of ozone into his bladder. A check-up by his urologist two months later revealed no sign of the cancer and the urologist told me, “I am impressed”. There was no toxicity. R.R. is a 77-year-old male with lung cancer. This is his third cancer. He was recommended t o receive full dose chemo. Choosing IPT, he did develop slight toxicity with minor hair loss and a slight fall in blood count, yet felt no worse for wear at all. Due to the slight toxicity, we reduced the frequency of treatments to every four to eight weeks and even after two months of no therapy, there has not been any further growth of the tumor. These are my own consecutive cases. Even if the tumors did not disappear completely, all of these patients have been afforded significantly more time, cancer-symptom free, and virtually free of any toxicity or “side-effects”. See http://www.iptq.com/ for more info, and http://www.iptforcancer.com/ to find an IPT doctor. Artemisinin and Cancer These days, it is not uncommon to hear about a therapy or nutrient that cures cancer. The problem is that few of them really work. I remember when shark cartilage was the new cure for cancer because, after all, sharks don’t get cancer. I work with a group of about 20 different doctors who try treatments like this, and we compare our results to find out what works and what doesn’t. Shark cartilage failed our tests miserably! While I never recommend that my patients treat their cancer by themselves, there is now an herb I can recommend wholeheartedly that’s safe and can be used at home and in conjunction with doctor-administered therapies. This isn’t just a supplement to help build your immune system. This herb aggressively fights cancer. Just how effective is it? Let me introduce you to Donald, a 47-year-old mechanic who is in great shape. He had a newly diagnosed lymphoma and came to see me just after his oncologist had biopsied the tumor. There was an ugly egg-sized mass on the left side of his head with a gaping hole from the biopsy and an angry redness from inflammation. I immediately put him on a derivative of this Chinese herb, and he took it for two weeks. At the end of that time, the lump developed a little depression in the center, but the perimeter had grown just slightly. Dejected that it didn’t significantly regress, he elected to stop further use of the product and take a “wait and see” approach. Four weeks later, I received a call from Donald. The tumor was gone! Returning with his wife and a big smile a few days later, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The skin was smooth, no mass was present, and the angry redness was fading fast. Artemesia is a simple plant that grows in Southeast Asia. I’ve used it for years to treat intestinal parasites. The World Health Organization lauds it as a safe malaria treatment. I discovered the cancer connection when Drs. Henry Lai and Narenda Singh, bio-engineering professors at the University of Washington, reported on the active agent of this Asian herb (artemisinin). Their report said the herb “might provide a safe, non-toxic, and inexpensive alternative for cancer patients.” What I didn’t realize was that artemesia is a close cousin to oxygen therapy. Chinese researchers said the key to its effects was a peroxide linkage (two oxygen atoms hooked together) within the herb’s active molecule. Remember our old friend hydrogen peroxide? All peroxides share a common feature. In the presence of free iron, they break down to form highly reactive oxygen-based free radicals. Malaria is a parasite (Plasmodium) that infects the iron-rich red blood cell and accumulates iron. While the body avidly shields iron in a bound-up state (hemoglobin, enzymes, etc.), excess iron accumulates in the parasite, and the accumulation allows some iron to spill out of the bound state and become free. When the artemisinin products contact the iron – boom! A huge burst of free radicals is unleashed, virtually blowing up the cell harboring the free iron and destroying the parasite. Some seven years ago, Dr. Lai, aware of the high accumulation of iron in cancer cells, wondered if this same mechanism might work in cancer cells, wondered if this same mechanism might work in cancer treatment. He and his colleague, Dr. Singh, conducted experiments in laboratory cancer cells documenting a 100% kill rate of breast-cancer cells in just hours. More importantly, it left normal breast cells and white blood cells unscathed. Then, one year ago, an article appeared in a major cancer journal demonstrating significant artemisinin anticancer activity in a wide variety of laboratory cultured cancer cells. But astonishingly, cancer’s resistance to common chemotherapy drugs shows no such resistance to artemisinin. It does not have the chemical structure a cancer cell requires to develop resistance! (This was reported recently in the International Journal of Oncology 18; 767-773, 2001 by Efferth, et al.) I started using the herb’s derivatives in my cancer treatment program. Donald, mentioned earlier, was on of my first cases. At about the same time, I continued to follow a long-term patient, a delightful 47-year-old female with stage-4 breast cancer. Diane was diagnosed only two years before with the promise of “we got it all” at her mastectomy. When shed came to me, she had developed metastases in her spine, which caused her to limp. A cancer-induced fracture in her vertebrae gave her significant pain and prevented her from performing the duties of her job. All the conventional doctors could offer was full-dose chemotherapy at a horrific toll on the quality of her life, but they also confided honestly that there was no hope it would lead to a cure. She chose alternatives instead, receiving insulin potentiation therapy (IPT), high-dose nutritional therapy, dietary changes, dendritic cell vaccine, multi-step oxygen therapy, and more. All of her symptoms regressed, but the CT showed no change. After a short course of artemisinin derivatives, she reported back to me that physically she couldn’t tell she had ever had cancer. She felt totally well. The CT scan showed regression, but there was no way to tell if the remaining lesion was a tumor or healing scar tissue. Results like this with absolutely no toxicity are simply amazing by any standards, convention or unconventional. Carol came to see me with an unsightly, massive open, and oozing cancer engulfing what had been her whole left breast. She had been fighting the cancer for two years and, convinced on her own that doing conventional therapy was a death sentence, she explored nearly every option she could. She started an artemesia derivative and sent me photos one month later showing exceptional healing. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Hoang of Hanoi, Vietnam, whose family of physicians has been using artemisinin for about 10 years to treat cancer. He reports that 50 to 60 percent of 400 cancer patients have achieved long-term remission utilizing artemisinin together with a comprehensive integrative cancer strategy. Dr. Singh is currently following many cancer patients. While not reporting remissions or apparent cures, he says all patients are responding and have at least stabilized. He has found no type of cancer unresponsive to Artemisia derivatives in his studies. Dr. Hoang recommends treatment for two years. Cancer could be like the malaria parasite. If just one cell remains, it can find its way back. Thus, as in malaria, although the parasite is cleared in a few days, prolonged treatment best prevents relapse. And the beauty of this treatment is that it is non-toxic, so you can continue taking it indefinitely with no expected sided effects. There are three common artemesia derivatives, and one must know the properties of each for best treatment. Artesunate is water soluble and may be the most active and the least toxic, but it has the shortest life within the body. Aremether is oil or lipid soluble and has the longest half-life. It also has the most toxicity (but this is related to rather high dosages, which are unnecessary). Its big advantage is that it can cross the blood-brain barrier to reach cancers in the nervous system. Artemisinin is the active parent compound of the plant. It has an intermediate half-life, is very safe, and also can cross the blood-brain barrier. The first two are slightly altered semi-synthetic derivatives of artemisinin, the concentrated and purified active agent. Dr. Singh reports that a combination of the forms may be the very best treatment due to these different properties (based on a lab experiment). Thus, he feels the best preparation will contain artemisinin and artemether to provide a dose of 0.5 – 2 mg/Kg of each form once daily before bed (away from an residual iron left in the stomach after the evening meal). Dr. Hoang reports that 500 mg twice daily of oral artemisinin by itself is the dosage he has been using with great success. The product is best taken on an empty stomach with some natural fat to enhance absorption. Any iron present from residual food may neutralize the peroxides. Milk is one of the few foods with minimal iron. Whole milk, cottage cheese or yogurt have ample fat to enhance absorption. Additionally, I believe simultaneous administration of cod liver oil (for its omega-3 and vitamin D) and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) will assist absorption, while providing therapeutic benefits. To date, with the exception of patients very near death, taking artemisinin or derivatives have stabilized, improved, or remitted every cancer patient I have followed. No one could deny this is nothing short of a miracle! We are in the infancy of our understanding of how to use artemesia products. The medical literature suggests that oxygenating the system, perhaps with multistep oxygen therapy, might make them more effective. Administration of certain chemotherapy agents (IPT), which kill cells through free radical mechanisms, is another option. Please note that artemesia herb products are not the same as the concentrated forms of the derivatives I’ve described here. The highest concentration of artemisinin (the active agent) in the raw herb under the best conditions does not even get beyond one half percent. Furthermore, there’s concern by Dr. Singh that unscrupulous dealers will label artemisinin content without performing a proper analysis. Thus, he has tested some products, finding perhaps only 10 to 20% of anticancer activity against cultured cancer cells compared to pure artemisinin. Nutricology (aka Allergy Research Group) distributes a high-grade artemisinin confirmed by independent lab analysis, which I recommend. But, remember, it is not a singular therapy. It should be used in conjunction with a comprehensive cancer management strategy, together with the help of an integrative medicine physician or an open-minded oncologist. The best news is that you now have more hope than ever that cancer will not take your life. This is the experience of some physicians and should not be considered a treatment or cure for cancer. If it is used it should be under the care of a physician, and in conjunction with a comprehensive cancer management strategy. DIM has been shown in studies to be quite helpful in breast, prostate, lung and other cancers by reducing DHT and estrogen. DIM is oil-soluble, so you cannot just take a capsule containing dry powder, or a tablet (bioperine increases absorption somewhat, but I open and mix my curcumin, quercetin and dim capsules into purified fish or EV olive oil. When I had DIM tablets, I put them in some food containing oil (actually, about 1-2 TBS of plain, unsweetened goat yogurt to which I had added quite a bit of EV olive oil and a little Stevia sweetener) and chewed the tablet into the oil and food prior to swallowing. Bananas -- even unripened ones -- are high in starch, which gets converted to sugar in the body, so I'd avoid fruit if I had active cancer. Dr. Blaylock says with active cancer to eat no fruit, but to take concentrated berry extracts. Avocado is high in mono-unsaturated fat (omega-9), as is olive oil. They are good for you, but I wouldn't say that they are particularly strong against cancer. Pomegranate/ellagic acid extract is much stronger against cancer, as are plenty of enzymes, along with curcumin + quercetin well-mixed in Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and Boswellia, and Zyflamend (if not available, see the ingredients for it and try to get them individually. I wouldn't eat walnuts because they're high in ALA, like flax seed oil, and can cause problems with the prostate in cancer patients because the body often lacks enough of the enzyme to convert ALA to EPA/DHA (fish oil); I take purified (molecularly-distilled) DHA oil from Calamari instead. We add a little water (just enough so that it can be blended and form a thick juice), and a couple tablespoonfuls of Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin olive oil -- not "Virgin olive oil", which is extracted using heat and chemicals after all of the good phytonutrients are extracted into the Extra Virgin oil that the manufacturer is making. See my Metabolic Typing pages for some quick tests to determine your metabolic type and how much fat you need. I'm a protein type, so I need a lot of healthy fats (4 TBS/d EV olive, 1TBS/d EV coconut, 4 capsules/d GLA/Borage, 3/d DHA oil from Calamari capsules, a small handful of raw pumpkin seeds (particularly good for prostate), some raw Brazil nuts, (I don't eat almonds any more, since the government's poisoned them here in the U.S. with propylene oxide, a carcinogen, and has permitted manufacturers to still label them as "raw" and not mention the cancer-causing ingredient), some line-caught canned wild salmon (it costs a lot less than fresh wild salmon -- not "farmed", which is low in omega-3 oils and high in mercury and pesticides!). Besides the olive oil in my juice, I add it to my steel-cut raw oatmeal and other foods (see my "Regimen" on the website). Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). Because kale, broccoli and Brussels sprouts can contain chemicals that inhibit the thyroid gland in their raw state, I suggest lightly steaming them before blenderizing to neutralize the chemicals (Note: I include a moderate amount of these in my juice in their raw form). Dr. Elizabeth Jeffery found that heating broccoli to 140 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes maximizes the effectiveness of cruciferous vegetables' cancer-fighting chemicals (PEITC). You can approximate this by lightly steaming your broccoli for three or four minutes until they’re between tough and tender in consistency (this is especially effective with broccoli). You can also do this with other cruciferous veggies, such as watercress, cabbage, winter cress, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, kohlrabi, and turnips. I also take Broccoli extract from Swanson, and use a Vitamix with specific fresh vegetables. I use only raw vegetables in my juice. My Cancer&RawFood page tells what vegetables should be included -- oxalic acid in spinach, chard and beet greens is not really a concern, because I eat a variety of the recommended vegetables, not just large amounts of raw spinach. I'm not sure if you can freeze the specific vegetables that are higher in oxalic acid and cruciferous vegetables, but you needn't freeze all vegetables prior to blenderizing them. You might see: http://growingtaste.com/oxalicacid.shtml for reference amounts of oxalic acid -- but, I don't consider it a problem (unless someone was eating large amounts of the ones highest in oxalic acid and had kidney disease, perhaps). I also take 3 drops of Tri-Quench potassium iodide solution (a concentrated source of iodine) that counteracts the iodine-binding of goitrogen vegetables (cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, bind iodine and make it unavailable to the thyroid, and can cause hypothyroidism if you don't take additional iodine. Dr. Rowen's information above about lightly steaming your cruciferous vegetables prior to blenderizing, in addition to taking the Tri-Quench would probably be the best idea, along with also including a moderate amount of raw cruciferous vegetables in your blenderized juice (Note: all non-cruciferous vegetables should be raw so that the enzymes and phytonutrients aren't destroyed). You might research if freezing the cruciferous vegetables and the vegetables highest in oxalic acid would counteract the side effects as well as lightly steaming them. I take 3 capsules/day of Dandelion; it helps support the liver and remove toxins. I don't particularly recommend Acai as additional supplement: it's a "current fad" tropical fruit that is overpriced and overhyped and not as good as pomegranate/ellagic acid extract. Note: pomegranate juice is not a good replacement, because it's high in sugar. To blend flax seed, I use this grinder: http://www.goldflaxseed.com/site/1411640/product/grd001 Flax seeds are not absorbed if they're not ground (you cannot completely chew them into as small pieces as a grinder can). Note that you need to add water to them right away & stir so that none are dry, and eat within 15 minutes or the oil in them starts to go rancid. Is blending worth the effort? Definitely -- it's a crucial part of the cancer protocol! When we chew our food, we get about 10% of the phytonutrients from them; blenderizing (with VitaMix 5000, which is variable-speed) lets you absorb about 90% of the nutrition from them, but you also need to be careful to choose certain vegetables each day, too. Note that we do not blend the vegetables in to a mushy, fine pulp, but rather into a coarse, thick juice eaten with a spoon that needs to be chewed somewhat. We use the variable speed on lower settings, because the surface heat of the blades of a high speed blender destroys the enzymes and damages the phytonutrients. Blenderizing releases the anti-cancer flavonoids and phytonutrients so that each cup of the mix is equal to eating five servings of vegetables -- 2 eight ounce cups equals 12 servings of chewed vegetables.
Recently, several studies have been published that seem to indicate that taking flax seed, or flax seed oil, might exacerbate or even cause prostate cancer. One of the modifications that I made to the Gerson protocol is replacing flaxseed with DHA oil from Calamari (molecularly-distilled) taken with full-spectrum vitamin E (to keep the oil from oxidizing when it hits the stomach). Most people lack enough of the enzyme to convert ALA in flaxseed oil to EPA/DHA due to having cancer, being overweight or sick, eating too many omega-6 or trans-fats, etc., and at best, very little ALA is converted anyhow, so I prefer to take the DHA (the body can make EPA from DHA as needed) that the body needs directly. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/10/walnuts-slow-prostate-tumors.aspx From Jon Barron: Probably the most damning of these was the dietary study in Uruguay that found that those with the highest intake of ALA (alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid precursor found at high levels in flax seed) had a 440% increase in their risk of getting prostate cancer compared with those at the lowest level. Therefore, ipso facto, since flax seed has a high concentration of ALA, it should be avoided by anyone who has prostate cancer or is worried about getting prostate cancer. For most of human existence, we have eaten foods containing omega-6 fatty acids (Linoleic acid and Arachidonic acid) and omega-3 fatty acids (DHA, EPA, and alpha-linolenic acid) in a ratio of about 1:1 to 2:1. Over the last 50 years, however, in the “civilized world” that ratio has changed to 20:1 or 30:1 and in some cases as high as 50:1. Our diets now include huge amounts of highly refined oils that are extracted from plants and used for cooking or in prepared foods. These oils (such as corn oil, safflower oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, and soybean oil) are all high in the omega-6s. As a consequence, we have dramatically decreased our intake of omega-3's as found primarily in whole grains, beans and other seeds, and seafood – now getting our omega-3's primarily as the secondary fatty acid in our highly refined bottled oils. And yet, it is over this exact same 50-year period, as we have moved away from raw seeds and oils such as flax (all high in ALA), that the incidence of prostate cancer has soared. (Just as a side note, the incidence of prostate cancer in Uruguay, the source of the referenced study, has increased by close to 80% in the last 50 years. And, for what it's worth, the Uruguayan diet is comprised largely of meat (a major dietary source of ALA), dairy, and lots of food fried in refined cooking oils such as canola oil (also a major dietary source of ALA) – and virtually no flaxseed or unheated cold-processed flax oil. Commonsense says that over the last 50 years we've been doing something wrong – as it turns out, probably several things. As detailed above, we now get most of our omega-3s from foods that are ever higher in the omega-6 fatty acids, thus accounting for the increasing distortion of the fatty acid balance. We have refined out the beneficial phytochemicals such as the lignans, which are an integral part of the oil complex, and which play a key anticancer role in the body. Since we rarely eat fresh food anymore, we are also now consuming an ever-larger portion of rancid (oxidized) fats in our diets, which produce a large number of cancer forming free radicals in the body. (Note: The less saturated a fat is, the faster it will go rancid – a particular problem for vegetable oils.) And yet, if you were to take the studies seriously, and listen to the advice of the medical community, you would be encouraged to keep moving in that same direction – but even more strongly than you are doing so now. Scientific Studies on Flax Seed Can't see the forest for the trees What happens to ALA in the body? Unfortunately, this process, which is governed by a particular enzyme (delta-6 desaturase), is significantly inhibited (up to 50% or more) by an overabundance of Linoleic acid. The enzyme is literally “used up” in the de-saturation process involved in getting rid of excess omega-6 fats, as found in sunflower oil and corn oil, etc. Therefore the enzyme is no longer available for converting ALA to it's more usable cousins, DHA and EPA. Delta-6 is further inhibited by high levels of insulin, a problem in large percentages of civilized societies where obesity and diabetes are soaring. In America, two-thirds of the population is now considered overweight. And finally, the process of delta 6-desaturation of Linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids slows with aging. Each and every one of these factors can lead to an accumulation of ALA, which is counterproductive. But alleviating that build-up is relatively easy. Stop using all plastic fats – that is, all hydrogenated vegetable oils and all super-refined vegetable oils. The high temperatures that these oils are exposed to dramatically changes their structure. This may be the single biggest flaw in the alpha-linolenic studies. No distinction was made between highly refined and cold-pressed oils. They are not the same. They behave very differently in the body. Stop cooking with high omega-6 oils, such as safflower, sunflower, and corn oil, and shift to olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and grass-fed organic butter (in moderation). And if you need to use oil for high-temperature frying or sautéing, use small amounts of refined avocado oil or Spectrum Naturals Super Canola oil, which are both heat resistant. Shift away from high-glycemic refined-carbohydrates and move to a more Mediterranean style diet to help lower insulin levels. And finally, an effective method of counteracting the effect of the slowed de-saturation of Linoleic acid is to provide the 6-desaturated metabolite, gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) directly. The delta-6 de-saturation of Linoleic and especially alpha-linolenic acid increases dramatically in the elderly with GLA supplementation. The best source of GLA is black currant seed oil. Another good source is evening primrose oil. One other advantage to GLA supplementation is that much of the GLA is converted to DGLA, which competes with Arachidonic acid and prevents the negative inflammatory effects that Arachidonic acid otherwise causes in the body. Conclusions: Oils So what do I do? I also use purified fish oil [DHA oil from Calamari is better] because the EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids are much more readily utilized by the body than ALA. In addition, the EPA and DHA partially replace the omega-6 fats, especially Arachidonic acid, in cell membranes. (If you're absolutely panicked by the flax warnings, you can use fish oil [DHA oil from Calamari] instead of flax and receive many of the benefits, but you will have to find another source of fiber, and you absolutely will not get the anticancer and cardiovascular-promoting benefits of the flax lignans.) Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). I take a black-currant-seed-oil (or Borage or Evening Primrose oil) capsule every day for its high GLA content (available in virtually every health food store or on the net). I use no hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil (just what sneaks in when I go to a restaurant). And I use no high omega-6 oil (for cooking, I use extra virgin coconut or olive oil and don’t heat it so much that it smokes). I don't eat red meat (iron feeds cancer); I eat only wild-caught or line-caught (not farmed) fish (Alaskan wild-caught canned Salmon is particularly good and cheap) and organic free-range chicken when I have meat; take with extra enzymes. I eat very little dairy -- maybe the equivalent of less than ½ pound of goat’s or sheep’s cheese a month. (High dairy consumption is associated with increased levels of prostate cancer, probably due to people not having enough vitamin D3, and also the fact that 80% of cow products contain live lymphoma and leukemia viruses.) I use a men's progesterone crème (along with Calcium d-Glucarate and DIM) to counter the effects of exposure to xenoestrogens, which stimulate the BCL2 gene, thereby allowing prostate cell growth to continue unabated – a major factor in the development of prostate cancer. I take red raspberry seed (or Pomegranate extract) ellagitannin extract to promote prostate cancer cell death for any abnormal cells that may appear. [(www.iherb.com [SNS-02086, Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract, 500 mg], start with 2 three times a day and increase until you get to 6 three times a day until cancer is gone -- then drop back down to 2 three times a day maintenance dose) And finally, I use an antioxidant formula and testosterone un-binder to inhibit the lipoxygenase enzyme that metabolizes Arachidonic acid into 5-HETE, the primary “food” that prostate cancer cells need to survive. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that prostate cancer cells die “massively and rapidly” no more than 1 to 2 hours after the production of 5-HETE has stopped. As it turns out, a number of the ingredients such as green tea, saw palmetto, wild oats, and nettles inhibit the lipoxygenase enzyme. Does this mean that I will never get prostate cancer? No. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in health, just odds. I believe that this program significantly improves my odds, and I believe that the new warnings concerning flax do not necessarily do that. I believe that these warnings are based on bad science, studies with so many flaws that the conclusions have to meaning. There were things in ground flax seed (lignans) that actually prevented prostate cancer and that were not found in fish oil. (Note: concentrated flax hull lignans are available and help keep cancer from spreading -- see my website) Well, the results of a new study of flax seed, sponsored by the National Institutes for Health, were just announced at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In summary the study found: Freshly-ground Flaxseed supplementation significantly reduced cancer cell proliferation rates in men with prostate cancer. Flaxseed is one of the richest known sources of lignans, which affect androgen metabolism and have antimitotic, antiangiogenic, antioxidant, and estrogenic effects. The flaxseed oil in the original Budwig Diet provides the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which was previously considered to be a 'good' omega-3 oil; however, more recent science has revealed that ALA is not at all equivalent to omega-3 essential fatty acids EPA (eicosapentanoic acid) and DHA (docosahexanoic acid), and that there is no known cellular need for alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) independent of its conversion to EPA/DHA. And in adults the conversion rate is tiny; the US Environmental Protection Agency has posted this PowerPoint presentation (slide 5) that explains less than 1% conversion of ALA to EPA (some sources say somewhat higher), and <0.01% to DHA. Though these details have traditionally escaped the followers of Joanna Budwig and Udo Erasmus, fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd Chilton fully explains them in his book Inflammation Nation. Chilton says (page 97), "I wish I could tell you that the (ALA) in flaxseed oil could replace wild fish as a rich source of EPA and DHA but the scientific literature simply does not support this contention. ...We do the conversion but very slowly, and we also eat a lot of fatty acids such as LA that 'compete' for enzymes that convert ALA to EPA and DHA, further limiting its conversion." Composition of flax seed oil: Fatty acid Percent Budwig and her followers including Udo Erasmus also purport to supply the needed fatty acids to rebuild cell walls so they can carry more oxygen and etc., by supplying ALA; however, cell walls actually contain negligible ALA and are high EPA and DHA. This data explains why for more than subsistence maintenance, in other words, to turn poor health around you may need vastly more EPA and DHA than an ALA supplement can provide, and that's why fish oil or purified EPA/DHA supplements are more popular for inflammation. Today, flax oil seems a less brilliant choice for biological support in humans than it did 50 years ago. Unlike ALA, EPA and DHA are essential to health and can reverse illness, including the coronary heart disease, skin disorders and cancer claimed by proponents of the Budwig Diet. The Budwig Diet revision ensures adequate EPA and DHA are supplied. Wild salmon oil, wild fish oil, and cod liver oil provide lots of EPA and DHA (be careful of toxins, heavy metals and PCB's). Wild salmon oil, even minimally refined oil, has almost no impurities. Inflammation can be further reduced by adding GLA or Borage oil. [Note: DHA oil from Calamari is much higher in the more beneficial DHA than fish oil, and it is claimed to be more stable and less prone to oxidation.] Instead of Budwig's Cottage Cheese, I take 3 capsules/day of Swanson EFAs Super DHA 500 from Calamari oil. I also mix Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil in a small bowl with 500mg curcumin + 500mg quercetin three times a day, take a full spectrum vitamin E capsule twice a day to keep the DHA oil from oxidizing when it hits my stomach, and I chew 1TBS non-GMO lecithin twice a day to help increase the omega-3 absorption of the DHA Calamari oil (phospholipids that combine with the fish oil better than cottage cheese does. [If you choose to have a little cheese, it's better if it's sheep (e.g., Romano) or goat's cheese, and grass-fed is better.] Heating omega-3 oil (flax or fish) oxidizes it and makes it harmful -- a source of free radicals. Cold pressing means that they keep the temperature from going so high during the pressing operation that would ruin the oil. Eliminate omega-6 oils (vegetable, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, corn, etc.); they are converted to arachidonic acid by your body and are pro-inflammatories that accelerate cancer. (Note: you actually need a small amount of pure omega-6 oils which you will get on this protocol from your GLA and olive oil, which contains mostly health-promoting omega-9 mono-unsaturated fat). Calcium D-Glucarate — A Cancer Preventer? By Robert Jay Rowen M.D. If you follow the news, you are no doubt aware of the tremendous harm chemicals are doing to the environment and, more importantly, the negative impact of those chemicals on your health. One major concern is the effect of environmental chemicals on hormone sensitive tissue. Mounting evidence is linking excessive levels of hormones and carcinogenic chemicals to breast, prostate, uterine, and probably ovarian cancers. Your risk of cancer and other serious illnesses increase in relationship to the accumulation of toxic chemicals and toxic levels of steroid hormones. Under ideal circumstances the body has a biochemical plan in place to help it to inactivate and eliminate hormones, drugs and other undesirable chemicals. One such plan or pathway is glucuronidation. Glucuronidation is basically a chemical reaction performed by your liver during which a water-soluble substance is combined with a toxin, allowing the toxin to be more easily excreted from the body. Normally the glucuronidation pathway of elimination works pretty well, unless the body is grossly overloaded with toxins, or unless some other chemical or even parasite or bacteria gets in the way. When this occurs, the body's intricate system of detoxification and elimination is threatened. Consumption of caffeine and processed meats, smoking tobacco, marijuana, even exposure to car-exhaust or pesticides all cause a loss of glucarate which impedes glucuronidation. However, the good news is that glucuronidation, can be enhanced. Turns out that providing an ample supply of a dietary supplement similar to glucuronic acid called calcium D-glucarate binds the enzyme so that it's unable to free the hormones/toxins being eliminated by the liver. Calcium D-glucarate is a safe supplement that has no known negative interactions or toxicity, it inhibits the undesirable bacterial enzyme, beta glucuronidase and thus aids our elimination of toxins. Calcium D-glucarate naturally occurs in fruits and vegetables. This may explain the protective effects of vegetables that reduce the risk of cancer. Many of them are abundant sources of D glucarate. They include the cruciferous vegetables cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. Other foods that contain it are grapefruit, apples, bean sprouts, and lettuce. Calcium D-glucarate is relatively inexpensive and is recommended by nutritionists for persons at risk of such cancers. The suggested dose ranges from 200-400 mg per day. If you have had a relatively low exposure to toxins in your life, a low dose may be fine. If you smoke or have lived in a very polluted area you might choose a higher dose, say 500 mg three times a day. I enthusiastically recommend it to my patients, especially female patients who I feel are at elevated risk of breast cancer, men at risk of prostate cancer, or both sexes at risk of colon cancer. The mucosal cells that line the colon may be a hotbed for cancer simply because they are at the end of the line for exposure to a wide variety of poisons being eliminated through the gut. Preventing the uncoupling of a toxin from the eliminating compound also helps protect colon cells from the increased exposure. Calcium D-glucarate supplements do not take the place of changing your lifestyle to a healthy one But they do offer good support of important detoxification pathways, especially if you've ever been a smoker, a lover of lunchmeats or hot dogs, or of coffee and sodas. If you are still a smoker, Calcium D-glucarate is a very appropriate supplement for you. It is not a cure for a body loaded with toxins, but it could give your body the support it needs to remain healthier longer. Calcium D-Glucarate is available at health food stores or online. The statements contained herein have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration Reprinted with permission from Dr. Rowen’s newsletter, Second Opinion, Atlanta Georgia http://www.secondopinionnewsletter.com/Health-Alert-Archive.htm Beat Sinus Infections Without Antibiotics If you are one of the 25 million Americans who get sinusitis yearly, this report should hit home. While the commonly accepted treatment of acute sinusitis -- antibiotics and steroids -- is anything but effective or scientific, there are alternatives that work wonders. A recent Journal of the American Medical Association study followed 240 patients. They had "properly" diagnosed sinusitis. The researchers randomized them to one of four seven-day treatment groups. These included antibiotic alone, steroid alone, both antibiotic and nasal steroid, or placebo. The nice part about the study is that the researchers gave all of the patients two medicines. They received both a pill and a topical preparation. However, they didn't know if either or both were placebo or the real McCoy. Now get this: The researchers found that neither the active antibiotic nor the steroid alone or in combination was effective! Why don't antibiotics work? One reason is that sinusitis, like many infections, can have mixed organism culprits. Viruses and fungi are not susceptible to antibiotics. In fact, antibiotics and steroids can make these infections much worse. In December 2007, Terri and I traveled to India. I developed an upper respiratory infection. Terri always packs up a supply of remedies. I sprayed silver hydrosol (Sovereign Silver) into my nostrils. I took loads of high-quality natural-source vitamin C (Pure Radiance C). I also shined a cold laser (888-696-6532) into my infected sinuses. Recovery was fast! If I was home, I would have added oxidation therapy. If I were concerned about fungal origins, I would likely have added oil of oregano (Biotics ADP one to two tablets, three times daily) and olive leaf extract (d-Lenolate -- one to two capsules, three times daily). These are also great for bacterial infections. Nebulized silver hydrosol can go a long way to resolve the problem as well. Silver will attack all microorganisms and this brand is harmless to you. These products (and vitamin C) are available at most health food stores or online. If you don't have access to oxidation therapy from an integrative physician, you might consider a home brew. Many patients have told me of fast relief. They dilute common grade 3% peroxide to 0.1% (30 ounces of water to one ounce of hydrogen peroxide) and use it in a humidifier or vaporizer. You can speed up the clearing of your sinuses by saline rinses. Mix one-fourth teaspoon salt and one-eighth teaspoon baking soda in four ounces of warm water. Use a bulb syringe or NetiPot (877-477-8633 or neilmed.com) to wash out your nose two to four times daily. Quercetin is one of my favorite immune-boosting and anti-inflammatory substances. It's not like immune-suppressing topical steroids. This natural bioflavonoid can decrease mucus production and swelling by blocking the release of histamine from your immune cells. Consider 500 mg, two to three times daily. Quercetin can also be taken as a dietary supplement. Two to six oral drops daily of SSKI (super saturated potassium iodide solution -- available by prescription) or one to two drops by mouth of Lugol's Solution (available online) can thin out secretions and assist your white blood cells in destroying invaders. Ref: JAMA, December 5, 2007. The Calcium Hoax Hits Mainstream "Got Milk?" Reads the ad featuring a painted white-mustached celebrity who earns more from that ad than most of us make in a year. It produces lucrative results. Many of my patients and radio listeners fearfully plead for my blessings on milk and ask, "Where else am I to get calcium?" Seems the marketers have done a great job. In October, I addressed the wonders of vitamin D and its link to bones. Now for calcium. Yes, cow's milk does have calcium, just as grass has magnesium. But does that mean grass or milk benefits humans? Let's examine the research. An ongoing study at Penn State University started following women at age 12. There was no significant effect on the bone density of these young women through age 20, whether their calcium intake was at the low end of 480 mg or at a high end of nearly 2,000 mg. Lead researcher Thomas Lloyd suggested that young girls' bones do not benefit from more than 500 mg calcium daily. And in countries where calcium intake hovers even less than 300 mg daily (less than 1/3 of average U.S. daily intake), bone fractures are far lower than the U.S. What, you ask, only 300 mg per day? It's true! A 2000 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition report stated in the face of all known research, "The conclusion is inescapable that there is no single universal calcium (emphasis added) requirement, only a requirement linked to the intake of other nutrients." And despite this, our Institute of Medicine has upped the recommended calcium intake from 1,000 mg to 1,300 mg for nearly everyone. And this was in the face of a Harvard study showing that women who drank the most dairy products suffered the most fractures. Meanwhile, our tax dollars are funding the federally supported calcium educational campaign "Milk Matters." Bone density, largely mineral related, contributes only 70 percent to bone strength. The bone matrix, which is made up of protein, determines the remaining 30 percent of bone strength. Thus, some relatively low-density bones with excellent protein matrix may be quite resistant to fracture, while high-density bones with poor protein quality may break! Low bone mass may not always equate or lead to osteoporosis fractures. Could we be using a scary test (bone density) that's not particularly predictive, much like the PSA test for men? In previous issues, I've told you of complementing nutrients, such as magnesium, boron, silicon, vitamin K, and others. These are absolutely vital for osteoporosis treatment and prevention. What needs to be stressed more than anything is the urgent need for physical activity. We know, for example, that astronauts in space rapidly lose bone density. Research shows that bone is constantly going through a process of breakdown and rebuilding. It is physical activity's microtrauma to bone that assists that process. Exercise places a torque on bone (like a wrench on a nut). The effects of the torque are miniscule electrical changes throughout the bone, which stimulate osteoblasts (the bone- forming cells) to action. Truth is, you could be taking calcium supplements all day long, but without the subtle electrical stimulation of the bone formers through exercise, the osteoblasts would have no stimulation to pick up the available calcium. Research is showing those younger women who exercise will have 10 percent higher bone density than couch potatoes. A good physician modifies his strategy in the face of experience or new information. Considering well-done published research, my recommendation is to rely far more on exercise for maintaining bones than calcium. More than enough terrific useable calcium (without supplements) is available in the vegetable-based diet I heartily recommend. Avoidance of high phosphate substances (like colas), caffeine, and alcohol, which either tie up or increase calcium elimination, is prudent for everyone. With the present data, I still believe a bone density test is valuable as a woman approaches menopause, and then again a few years later to look at the rate of bone loss. However, I don't take much stock in the static density of a single test and, therefore, don't recommend annual testing. If your doctor puts too much stock in an annual test, he may recommend one of the new osteoporosis drugs, like Fosamax, which you should avoid at all cost. The National Women's Health Network has declared, "Osteoporosis is not a disease, but simply one risk factor for bone fracture, in the same way that high cholesterol is one risk factor for heart disease." It's prudent to address all risk factors if known. So please get your body outdoors into the sun and torque your bones. The returns on this free investment will be far greater than any returns you find in the stock market. Miracles of Medicine Root Canals Can Cripple Geoffrey Gilbert is 51 years old and lived a normal life until about 10 years ago. Over this time, he has had gradual but progressive crippling of his left leg. It began to rotate inward so severely that he was forced to walk on the outside rim of his foot. The mechanics were degenerating his hip and knee. One podiatrist offered to cut away part of his calcaneous (heel bone) and reposition it. Another made an orthotic for him, a type of brace that forced a slightly more anatomic foot position that reduced the pain considerably, but he could not walk without it. When I saw him in July, his left hip couldn't rotate at all, the muscles in his leg had atrophied severely, and his foot had very little mobility. Please remember, he was normal until about 10 years ago. No one had attempted to find out "why," but instead his physicians were already set to cut. He came to me for prolotherapy, hoping it might help. I was more interested in uncovering the cause, likely to be an energetic dysfunction in his body. He had a number of root canals, including one that had recurrent abscesses and had started prior to the foot problem. It was tooth number 14, an upper left bicuspid. German acupuncture connects this tooth with the spleen meridian (energy flow) system, which runs up the inside of the foot, the arch itself, and proceeds up the inside of the leg. Anything hampering the flow of energy of a meridian (such as a dead and infected tooth) could cause problems anywhere along the path. There is a simple test to check for tooth involvement. Simply injecting a small amount of local anesthetic into the gum under the tooth can temporarily take the interference out of the circuit. I did this and within minutes Geoffrey had more rotation in the left leg than the right, and was able to walk unassisted. His foot moved freely. He was ecstatic! He went off to the dentist to have the infected tooth and tissues removed. Three months later, he returned to the office walking freely without a brace, with nearly full hip rotation and no pain in the leg. The foot was beginning to turn back to its normal position. Of course, one cannot say that after 10 long years of continual insult his foot and leg will return to normal, but fixing the source sure beats cutting up his calcaneous. How could a tooth, so far away, produce such profound effects? The body is interconnected energetically. Science is now able to document energy flows that are every bit as important to the health of tissues as is blood flow. A dead tooth can obstruct energy flow in its corresponding system. The incisors are connected to the bladder/kidney flows. The eye teeth to the liver/gallbladder. The lower molars and upper bicuspids are connected to the lung/large intestine. And the upper molars, lower bicuspids are connected to the stomach/spleen flows. What about the wisdom teeth? They are connected to the small intestine/heart meridian flows. This does not mean you will get a disease if you have a dead tooth, but I have seen disease in each one of these systems caused by dead teeth. However, it's been more likely, in my experience, that there will be pain or dysfunction along the energy path. Hence, if you have a root canal or dead tooth, or even a dental implant, and there are unexplained new symptoms, pick up an inexpensive paperback acupuncture book. If your symptoms are located along the path of the affected meridian (determined by the tooth location) have it checked out by a competent biologic dentist. The problem now gets even more complicated. The legendary Westin Price, DDS, found decades ago that root canals and cavitations (sites of bone infection from improperly removed teeth) were sites of bacterial infection. These could endlessly seed the body with bacteria and terrible immune-system-destroying toxins from decaying organic material in the decomposing tooth, still imbedded in the body. Patients should be warned to be wary of unexplained problems, even at a distant future date, after a root canal, tooth removal, or dental implant. There is now general consensus that bacterial infection from periodontal disease is a significant cause of heart disease. So why is it so hard to believe other mouth infection sites are responsible for infected or dysfunctional joints, muscles, or other tissues? Two excellent books on this topic are The Root Canal Coverup, by George Meinig, and the latest, The Root of Disease, by Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas Levy, MD, JD. In the latter, Dr. Kulacz details how he healed various disorders from headaches to congestive heart failure, simply by diagnosing and treating subclinical dental infections. Most integrative medical doctors are aware of a technique called neural therapy (the local anesthetic trick I described above). They can help diagnose you and direct you to a skilled biologic dentist aware of this insidious problem. Cooking Oils You may know that most oils are dangerous to cook with. Many are heavy in trans fats. And others oxidize and degrade too quickly to be healthy. But there are two oils that can stand the heat and remain somewhat healthy. Two new studies found that sesame oil and olive oil are the best oils to cook with, especially if you have high blood pressure or diabetes. After 45 days of sesame oil use, the researchers found the oil reduced both systolic and diastolic BP significantly. Additionally, body weight, body mass index, waist girth, plasma glucose, Hgb A1c, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and plasma sodium levels were all lower as well. That's a lot of risk factors. They also found that potassium-levels increased (a good change) and plasma antioxidant levels increased. After going off sesame oil, their blood pressures increased! In the olive oil study, researchers gave men who did not follow a Mediterranean diet supplemental olive oil (25 ml per day). They had a modest decrease of 3% in their blood pressure. I love sesame oil. I add toasted organic sesame oil to my homemade salad dressing for aroma and flavor. Sesame oil has the distinction of being relatively heat resistant. The benefit of these two oils is likely the polyphenols found in them. However, keep cooking with oil to a minimum. Even these fine oils will eventually oxidize and degrade. Try to keep your heat as low as possible while cooking. Yours for better health and medical freedom, British Journal of Cancer May 22, 2006;94(10):1361-8; Yahoo News May 25, 2006. Is Your Cologne Or Perfume Killing You? Did you know that most perfumes and colognes on the market today could be hazardous to your health? In fact, they could cause serious problems, including allergies, birth defects, and even cancer. Unfortunately, most people don't know what they're exposing their body to. A major loophole in Federal law allows fragrance makers to hide potentially hazardous chemicals in their products. We know that some of these chemicals are toxic to your body. Two of the worst are phthalates and artificial musks. Phthalates are extremely common in fragrances. I've discussed these in the past. I like to call them plasticizers because manufacturers add them to plastic to soften it. Inside your body, they act as some of the most powerful estrogens ever known. And we know that estrogen causes cancer. Artificial musks are unregulated chemicals. Scientists have linked them to skin irritation, hormone disruption, and even cancer. And they can accumulate in your body. Up to 75% of brand name fragrances on the market have one of these chemicals in them. So when you smell a chemical fragrance, or put it on your skin, you're exposing yourself to some downright terrible man-made chemicals. On the other hand, when you smell a rose, you're breathing in totally natural wondrous chemicals that are not harmful in any way. In fact, many natural smells are very healthy, which is why aromatherapy is so popular - it works! We all want to look good and smell great. So use what nature made. There are some fabulous smelling pure essential oils that have nothing in them but what the plant made. Look for these in your health food stores and pick the ones that smell to your liking. Just get confirmation from the company that the essential oil is pure and unadulterated. You don't want to use man-made chemicals that can cause serious health problems. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Reduce Your Risk of Cataracts by 18% I get a lot of interest in the cataract eye drops I developed. (You can find these on the website.) However, it's much better to prevent cataracts in the first place. I've told you how glutathione in your lens is protective. Now we have evidence that other antioxidants are helpful as well. A large study on female health professionals has found that lutein/zeaxanthin and vitamin E can reduce your risk. The researchers followed 35,551 women for an average of 10 years. Those in the highest quintile (20%) of lutein/zeaxanthin intake had an 18% less risk of getting cataracts. We know that nutrients protect your macula and retina. Now we see that some of these same nutrients can protect your lens as well. The best place to get these nutrients is from green leafy vegetables. But if you can't eat large quantities of these tasty veggies, you might consider Advanced Vision Formula from Advanced Bionutritionals (800-728-2288). It contains these wonderful compounds for your eyes. Ref: Christen, W.G., S. Liu, et al. "Dietary carotenoids, vitamins C and E, and risk of cataract in women: a prospective study," Arch Ophthalmol, 2008; 126(1): 102-9. The Experts Are Dead Wrong On Potassium Iodide For Radiation With the tragedy in Japan raising fears of radioactive contamination, there's been a massive run on potassium iodide. The experts are telling everyone that this combination will protect them from nuclear fallout. They're wrong! Potassium iodide is a good product. The potassium is supposed to protect you from the radioactive cesium. And the iodide protects against radioactive iodine. However, there are a couple problems with it. First, there's not nearly enough potassium in this combination to protect you against the radioactive cesium. In the body, cesium acts like potassium. So having enough potassium in your body is supposed to prevent your body from absorbing the cesium. But most people are so deficient in potassium, that the small amount in potassium iodide won't protect you. You need to take a separate potassium supplement to protect yourself. Second, you have to protect a lot more than your thyroid from radiation. Yes, the iodide in potassium iodide will protect your thyroid. However, it won't be as efficient at protecting your breasts and other organs. Here's why: Iodide is a form of iodine. Iodine is essential for your thyroid and several other tissues and organs. Your thyroid needs it most. So, your body has a heavy concentration there. If you're deficient, as most Americans are, your thyroid will pick up any iodine your body ingests. This includes radioactive iodine, which can poison your thyroid. On the other hand, if your thyroid is sufficient (full) of iodine, it will ignore any other iodine passing by -- including radioactive iodine. Iodide and iodine serve slightly different roles in your body. They each protect different organs in different ways. So in the event of nuclear fallout, it's vital you protect your body with both nutrients. Potassium iodide doesn't provide iodine. There are two products that provide ample amounts of both iodide and iodine. I've written a lot about Iodoral in past issues (available on my website). I think most people should take one capsule daily, just for general nutritional purposes. I do. After a few weeks, your thyroid should be sufficient in iodine and iodide, making your organs more resistant to radioactive iodine. A good alternative is Lugol's solution, which is the liquid form of Iodoral. Two drops of this iodine/iodide product is equivalent to one Iodoral. If you know there's a significant risk of radioactive iodine exposure, you can double or triple the dose in the short run. Regardless of whether radiation from Japan's nuclear facilities comes this way or not, these are great products to take on a regular basis. Both are readily available on the Internet. Finally, potassium iodide can't protect you against the radioactive heavy metals. Normally, chelation is the ideal way to deal with heavy metals. But there's a problem. Uranium atoms may be too large for conventional chelators to grab. So I recommend a totally natural supplement from decaying organic matter instead. It's my favorite for super heavy metals. This includes uranium, which is the heaviest naturally occurring metal. The product is Metal Magnet, which contains humic/fulvic acids. These are complex large organic molecules containing lots of carboxylic acid chemical groups. These attract metals like a giant catcher's mitt. All metals will fit in. And it is especially good at capturing toxic metals (see Second Opinion from June and July 2006). You can find Metal Magnet on the Internet. Strontium 90, a radioactive mineral, is a more difficult issue. It is chemically similar to calcium and can wind up in your bones. Since EDTA can chelate calcium, it would make sense that it would also grab strontium. And studies suggest it does. For strontium 90, consider both oral and rectal EDTA, which may offer limited protection. If you are exposed to radiation, I'd go directly to intravenous EDTA under the care of a trained chelation doctor. I also recommend taking Chlorella regularly (take 15 tablets daily). It is an excellent metal detoxifier and all around superfood. When Chernobyl melted down, researchers found that brown seaweed greatly reduced radiation poisoning. There are two products that offer brown seaweed, also known as alginate. The first is Modifilan (available on the Internet). The other is Pectasol Chelation Complex. Both products are rich in alginates. Another fantastic product I've used for years is Advanced Detox Formula. I use this formulation to help cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. The formula greatly reduces the amount of radiation your body absorbs. It also protects you with its sulfur-bearing detoxification nutrients, which also help regenerate glutathione. Be sure to take it along with supplemental vitamin C (2-8 grams daily) and vitamin E (1,200 IU daily) when exposed to radiation. My favorite vitamin E is Unique E, Carlson's E, and Delta-Fraction Tocotrienols (take one softgel, twice a day). You can order King Chlorella, Pectasol Chelation Complex, Advanced Detox Formula, and Delta-Fraction Tocotrienols from Advanced Bionutritionals. Finally, there are certain foods that can protect you. Start by eating as many Living Foods as possible. Remember, plant chemicals protect plants from solar radiation. They can help protect you as well. For general radiation exposure, whether nuclear, or even medical gamma ray exposure, you might be surprised to know that miso can protect you. I read years ago of a hospital right under ground zero in Japan, which survived the bombing. (Directly under the explosion, it was spared the destruction of the blast, which went out more than down.) The doctor walked out of the hospital, saw the total destruction, walked back in and told everyone to eat miso. Those who did were spared radiation sickness. Many studies have confirmed the protective effects of fermented soy! With nuclear radiation, potassium iodide can help. But, as you can see, it's not nearly enough. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Hiroshima J Med Sci., 2001 Dec;50(4):83-6; Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, volume 18, number 4, 612-616, DOI: 10.1007/BF01055029. Curing Incurable Cancer! When I first started seeing cancer patients 16 years ago, I repeatedly heard about a former dentist who had bucked the establishment (and paid dearly for it) by curing hundreds, if not thousands, of cancer patients. I was able to get a small paperback book he authored, but as a novice to the concepts, most of it was "Greek" to me. The dentist was Dr. William Donald Kelley and his work has followed me everywhere, most recently staring me in the face with the new information on metabolic typing. Suddenly, it came together -- Atkins, Pritikin, the Zone diet, all were correct, but for their own particular metabolic type, not for everyone. However, Kelley had gone much further, much earlier, and truly deserves the Nobel Prize for his work! In the 1960s, Kelley awakened from a surgery to be told he had pancreatic cancer. He said, "Just cut it out!" But when told it was inoperable and he should prepare for his death within months, Kelley, always a deeply religious man, surrendered to God and began his road to recovery. Kelley was aware of the obscure and almost lost work of a great embryologist, Dr. John Beard, who connected pancreas activity to the control of cancer. So Kelley started taking loads of pancreatic enzymes. As a student of the autonomic nervous system from college, and aware of acid-base chemistry in the body, he decided to alkalinize his body with a near vegetarian diet and he avoided acidifying animal protein. He also used coffee enemas to cleanse his colon and stimulate liver/gallbladder flushing and detox. Remember, he was diagnosed in the '60s, and he wasn't even 45. Kelley's recovery from cancer led him to work with thousands more cancer victims spanning over a decade before other problems led to an effective retirement in the '80s. I spoke with Dr. Kelley recently, more than 35 years after his diagnosis of an "incurable" cancer! The good news is anyone with cancer can use his program to defeat this deadly disease. There are three major parts to his program, all of which are natural and very simple: balancing pH through diet and supplements, taking pancreas enzymes, and detoxifying the body. Balancing pH -- Francis Pottenger, MD pioneered the study of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Kelley, in his university days, was well familiar with the two branches of the ANS, parasympathetic and sympathetic. The former controls digestion, lowers heart rate, relaxes, restores, and alkalinizes the body. The sympathetic is the adrenaline side. It pumps up the body, accelerates heart rate and metabolism, enables the "fight or flight" response, and acidifies the body. Kelley found that the majority of us have a dominant branch. He further observed that certain types of cancer arose in people dominant in a particular branch. For example, carcinomas, "solid" tumors like prostate, breast, lung, colon, stomach, etc., arose and thrived in the acid environment of the sympathetic dominant. "Soft" tumors, like lymphomas, leukemia, myeloma, and cancers such as sarcoma and melanoma arise in more alkaline systems, or parasympathetic dominants. Knowing what effects certain foods have on the body, Kelley designed diets to balance pH chemistry. For example, in a solid tumor, the sympathetic type, he would recommend a nearly vegetarian, meat-free diet, to alkalinize the body. For the soft tumor parasympathetic types, he recommended a protein and fat- rich diet to acidify the body. Additionally, from Pottenger's basic science discoveries of the action of nutrients on the two nervous systems, he formulated specific nutrient combinations to further help balance the ANS and pH. Pancreatic enzymes -- These were the cornerstones of Kelley's therapy. He used massive amounts around the clock, with less for parasympathetic types, since they already had a strong digestive system compared to the sympathetics (who also tend toward constipation). Pancreatic enzymes, he thought, dissolved the protective protein coat around the cancer cells as well as malignant proteins. Detoxification -- While the pancreatic enzymes were eating away at the cancer and destroying it, the body would come under great stress from the toxins liberated from the dying tumors. Hence, it was absolutely mandatory to encompass good detoxification techniques. These included daily (or more!) coffee enemas. Additionally, skin brushing, juice fasting, and liver/gallbladder flushes were regularly employed to enhance detox. I first heard of Kelley in the 1980s, but by 1990, while still in Alaska, I was seeing patients seen by him more than a decade before and still totally free of the cancer they once had. But could the fabulous statistics I kept hearing be true? I found Dr. Kelley and, in a phone interview, he reaffirmed his experience of the 1970s, during which he saw late stage-4 cancers resolving into complete remission among many who rigorously followed his program. However, he added that cancer today is an entirely different animal, with the population being exposed to many more toxic chemicals, vaccines, nutrient- depleted "foods," and stresses. Hence, we can expect inferior results in today's world. So is Dr. Kelley's therapy just pie in the sky hype? Hardly. A most trusted associate, Nick Gonzales, MD of Manhattan, was an apprentice of Kelley for six years (1981- 1987), and even lived in Kelley's house for part of that time. As a medical student at Cornell, he had heard about this enigmatic man and arranged a study project to assess the validity of what he had heard. Just the cases on pancreatic cancer alone were nothing short of fantastic. Of patients with confirmed pancreatic cancer, in whom a six-month survival, at best, would be expected, 11 completed the rigorous Kelley program. Five lived two years, four lived three years, and two went beyond four years. Among the 10,000 cases of many cancer types Gonzales reviewed, 500 had done extraordinarily well, in apparent remission. These were the ones who rigorously followed the entire program. Many more, who only partially followed the program, had comparable partial responses. Gonzales has been practicing and refining the Kelley methods for many years. He has compiled such an impressive anecdotal record of success that the National Cancer Institute recently awarded him a $1.5 million grant to study the method on pancreatic cancer, under the auspices of Columbia University. Amazingly, the NCI is willing to look at the whole program, not just a single agent, as do almost all medical studies. (If you are interested in participating in this study, please contact Dr. Gonzales' office at 212-213-3337.) I sat down with Dr. Gonzales recently and was able to review his 20-year-old research thesis summarizing Kelley's cases between 1974-82. He confirmed the fabled stories far beyond my expectations. Furthermore, he allowed me to sit in with several of his ongoing cases. Take Cheryl Wilkens for example. This brave 54-year-old woman drove 20 hours to see Dr. Gonzales in 1992 after being given less than one year to live with a metastatic sarcoma. Her surgeons were eager to amputate her arm even with known lethal metastases to the liver and kidney. Ten disease-free years later, she was back with Dr. Gonzales after severe stress from her workman's compensation injury case apparently caused a recurrence. Another patient I met was Tracy MacDonald, who was diagnosed in 1997 at age 28 with a high-grade six cm incurable glioma (brain cancer). The bulk of the tumor was surgically removed. In a September 2001 follow-up visit to Dr. Gonzales, she had no recurrence and only a slight neurological deficit from the surgery itself. I'm currently employing these methods together with other strategies I've previously revealed in these pages, and have no doubt as to the effectiveness of this inclusion in management. Diane Elhard of Alaska, having been through IPT and other intravenous therapies for her spine-metastasized breast cancer, has been off rigorous intravenous therapy for over a year now. First seen by me in May 2001 with intractable pain and neurological symptoms, she presently has no symptoms, lives a normal life, and her scans show the cancerous vertebral lesion is filling in with bone. Her long-term treatment is Kelley's sympathetic diet, detox (including coffee enemas), pancreatic enzymes (for life), and small amounts of artemisinin. The work of Dr. Kelley and Dr. Gonzales is truly revolutionary. The best news is that this therapy works just as well to prevent cancer as it does to cure it. Now metabolic typing isn't just a fantastic way to lose weight, it is also a life-saving way to eat. Here's are the steps you must take to prevent cancer, lose weight, and live a long disease-free life: (1) You must understand your own metabolic type and eat according to it. Dr. Kelley has developed a detailed questionnaire and other literature and products that are available from College Health Stores (888-477-3618) for assistance in self-performed metabolic typing. Additional sources of assistance are the websites www.healthexcel.com and www. bloodph.com. These sites can give you help in locating a physician familiar with this knowledge. (2) Changing your eating habits to fit your metabolic type will help rejuvenate your pancreas, but you need to take plenty of pancreatic enzymes to prevent cancer. I'll have more on pancreatic enzymes next month. For now, the best place to purchase them is from Nutricology (800-545-9960). (3) As I said earlier, pancreatic enzymes can create a large amount of toxic waste products, especially as cancer is being destroyed. So it's very important that you follow a stringent detoxification program. Coffee enemas are a good place to start and the regular use of calcium D-glucarate is important. I'll have more on detoxification in future issues. These three steps will go a long way toward helping you live a wonderfully healthy life, free from the ravages of cancer and many other diseases, including diabetes. If you already suffer from cancer, as always, I recommend you seek assistance from a physician who is familiar with these particular approaches. Ref: Beard, John. The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer, 1911; Kelley, William Donald Kelley. Metabolic Answer to Cancer and Cancer: Curing the Incurable; Nicholas Gonzales, personal communications. From the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients A Critique of the Kelley Nutritional-Metabolic Cancer Program Components of the Kelley Program: The pancreatic enzymes are the anti-tumour element of the program. Studies conducted in animals demonstrated that enzyme treatment has an anti-tumour effect. Several case reports documented tumour regression and even remission in terminal cancer patients treated with pancreatic enzymes. Enzyme treatment in conjunction with conventional therapy has been shown to be beneficial. The diet and supplements are designed to provide a supportive role for the patient's body. One study demonstrated that the 5-year survival rates of those patients who employed the nutritional therapy and detoxification were considerably higher than those reported elsewhere. The patients perform detoxification with coffee enemas in order to eliminate toxic materials from the body and to alleviate pain. The Kelley Program prescribes having faith and encourages patients to pray. Many researchers have reported that religiosity and spirituality are associated with enhanced health and well-being as well as decreased mortality. Introduction The Kelley Program is a collaboration of various natural cancer treatments into one. It includes 4 major components: pancreatic enzymes, nutritional therapy, detoxification and spirituality. The program prescribes that all four components be employed by the client in order to achieve maximum benefit. Cancer is a highly prevalent disease. In the United States each year over 1 million individuals learn for the first time that they have some type of cancer (Cotran et al, 1999). People living in the United States have about a one in five chance of dying of cancer. There were about 564,000 deaths from cancer in 1998 representing 23% of all mortality. Only cardiovascular diseases cause more deaths than cancer. Cancer as Defined by Allopathic Medicine The allopathic medicine theory on cancer believes that mutations in genes are partially responsible for the growth or reproduction of malignant cells. These mutations alter the quantity or behaviour of the proteins encoded by growth-regulating genes and alter cell division (Beers and Berkow, 1999). In most neoplasms (any abnormal growth of new tissue) the parenchymal cells bear a close resemblance to each other, as though they were all derived from a single cell. Infrequently, divergent differentiation of a single line of parenchymal cells creates what are called mixed tumours. The great majority of neoplasms, even mixed tumours, are composed of cells representative of a single germ layer (Cotran et al, 1999). Cancer as Defined by the Kelley Program In the first 5 days after fertilization in the formation of a human embryo, the growing mass of cells divides into two kinds of cells, an inner cell mass (embryoblasts), which becomes the embryo, the sexual generation, and an outer layer of cells called the trophoblast, the asexual generation, which later becomes the placenta. The trophoblast forms the primitive germ cell, which grows, doubling many times. After the cell mass attaches to the wall of the uterus, the trophoblasts invade the lining of the uterus, growing quickly and invasively. The trophoblast cells invade and digest a hole in the wall of the uterus and form a multinucleated mass with no cell boundaries. As the small blood vessels are invaded and digested by the invading trophoblasts, pools of blood form in the tissue, which nourishes the growing mass (Beard, 1911). While the trophoblast cells are infiltrating the maternal tissue, the inner cell mass becomes three germ cell types; the ectoderm, the endoderm and the mesoderm, which organize themselves to become the vast majority of cells of the body. The mesodermal cells are pleuripotential, with a vast ability to become many different kinds of cells. Some of these cells remain "sleeping," dispersed throughout the tissues of the body (Kelley, 2000). When these "sleeping" pleuripotential cells are activated through genetic, environmental or nutritional factors, a tumour mass similar to the invasive trophoblast cell mass can begin to form (Kelley, 2000). The trophoblast cells (cancer cells) now trapped outside of the uterus, grow rapidly, trying to form a placenta (a malignant mass) (Beard, 1911). The trophoblast cells grow rapidly and uncontrollably, having the ability to invade (metastasize) the wall of the mother's uterus to form the cancer mass (placenta). This cancer mass first opens a blood supply to the embryo for nourishment and second, firmly attaches (metastasizes) the placenta (with its blood supply to the walls of the uterus) to protect the embryo from falling out of the uterus. Malignancy, therefore, is not normal tissue that has gone into wild proliferation, but rather normal trophoblastic tissue that is growing in the wrong place at the wrong time (Kelley, 2000). Support for Beard's Cancer Theory If, according to Beard, all human cancer is trophoblastic in origin, one might expect them to express human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG); hCG is the standard hormonal marker of pregnancy and the standard hormonal marker of germ cell tumours. In 1994, scientists showed that cancer cells express hCG in all its forms (Krichevsky et al, 1994). Researchers showed that the "synthetic hCG...is a common biochemical denominator in cancer" (Acevedo et al, 1995). It was demonstrated that there was the presence of hCG, its subunits, and /or fragments, in 85 different cancer cell lines. Acevedo consistently found hCG in human malignant tumour tissues. He concluded that hCG, the hormone of pregnancy and development that also has chemical and physiological properties of growth factors, is a common phenotypic characteristic of cancer. Acevedo stated that after a century, "Beard has been proven to be conceptually correct" (Avecedo et al, 1995). Regelson (1995) wrote in an editorial that hCG defines the metastatic aggressiveness of the tumours in which it is found. Neither non-embryonic cells nor benign tumour cells express hCG, but hCG-beta is a defining phenotype statement of malignant transformation. An oncologist wrote that pregnancy and cancer are the only two biologic conditions in which antigenic tissue is tolerated by a seemingly intact immune system. The trophoblastic tissue has all the characteristics of true cancer; it is deeply invasive, it is highly anaplastic in morphology, it has a high mitotic index, and it produces oncofetal antigens. In every respect, it behaves as a true cancer (Lentz, 1990). In 1902, Beard described the role of "totipotent germ cells" in the development of cancer. In embryology, the word "totipotent" means a cell is capable of giving rise to all types of differentiated cells found in that organism. "Totipotent germ cells" are analogous to human embryonic stem cells (ESC), which were not isolated until 1998. Human ESCs are described as totipotent and in fact, they release hCG (Thomson et al, 1998). Allopathic medicine believes that cancer is caused by such things as viruses, X-rays, cigarette smoking chemicals, sunlight, and trauma (Cotran et al, 1999). A number of cancer researchers believe that these factors, rather than causing cancer, are indirect stimulators of a normal trophoblast-like pleuripotential cell (Kelley, 2000). Components of the Kelley Program In 1906, Dr. John Beard claimed that pancreatic proteolytic enzymes represent the body's main defence against cancer and would be useful as a cancer treatment. Continuing on Beard's trophoblast theory of cancer, he explained that what normally stops the trophoblast from being invasive is the presence of pancreatic enzymes of both the embryo and the mother. Pancreas functions throughout fetal life in a mammal though it has nothing to digest except the trophoblast. Nature itself has possibly provided a remedy for cancer through digestion of the trophoblast in the secretion of that important digestive gland, the pancreas (Beard, 1905). These pancreatic enzymes travel to the tumour and only digest the cancer, without harming the person's body in which the cancer is growing. Beard explained that the secret to how the enzymes can tell the difference between self (healthy cells) and non-self (tumour cells) lies in the difference in left and right handed molecule configuration. It is known that trypsin acts on cooked left-handed proteins and living (non-cooked) right handed proteins. Proteins that we eat are broken down in the small intestine by trypsin that is released by the pancreas. Trypsin does not act on the organs of the human body because these are living, left-handed proteins. However, trypsin is very effective at breaking down living, right-handed proteins (Beard, 1911). The cancerous tumour is made up of living, right-handed proteins. The trypsin travels via the bloodstream to the tumour, and its action there is on the protein mass that makes up the tumour (Kelley, 2000). The cancerous tumour makes an enzyme that digests organs and tissues of the human body as its food. This tumour-made enzyme is called malignin, which is the mirror image of trypsin. Trypsin will only digest the protein of the tumour (Beard, 1911), the enzymes can then safely travel throughout the body (Kelley, 2000). Beard believed that the enzymes had to be injected to prevent destruction by hydrochloric acid in the stomach (Beard, 1911). However, recent evidence demonstrates that orally ingested pancreatic proteolytic enzymes are acid stable (Moskvichyov, Komarov and Ivanova, 1986), pass intact into the small intestine and are absorbed through the intestinal mucosa into the bloodstream as part of an enteropancreatic recycling process (Gotze and Rothman, 1975, Liebow and Rothman, 1975). Studies on Enzyme Treatment Effects The adhesion molecule CD44 and variants of the molecule on tumour cells are involved in the process of tumour progression and metastasis (Gebauer et al, 1997). One study investigated the effects of the proteases (bromelain, papain, trypsin, and chymotrypsin) on the density of CD44 molecules present on human leukemia Molt 4/8 cells (Harrach, 1994). The protease bromelain was found to be most active in reducing CD44 receptor density. These findings implicate the possibility of the anti-metastatic activity of orally administrated bromelain with respect to CD44. Another study investigated the ability of several proteolytic enzymes to modulate the CD44 molecule on different tumour cell lines (Gebauer et al, 1997). They found that proteolytic enzymes like bromelain, papain, and chymotrypsin were able to modulate CD44 on cells of leukemic origin, as well as on melanoma and mammary carcinoma cell lines. These results imply that treatment with proteolytic enzymes might be useful in reducing the metastatic behaviour of malignant cells. Wald et al (2001) also found a correlation with a decreased expression of CD44 and CD54 molecules in tumours exposed to proteolytic enzymes in vivo. In one study, the experimental group of Swiss mice had a 260% increase in antibody production with the addition of 2% pancreatin to the diet, which indicated an immune enhancement effect for orally ingested pancreatin (King, 1965b). Another study on humans demonstrated that a proteolytic agent increased the T-cell counts significantly and this was most marked in older age groups and the patients with malignant disease (Holland et al, 1975), indicating that proteolytic enzymes may have an immune enhancing effect. Animal Studies on Enzyme Treatment Recent studies on animals with tumours treated with enzymes reveal similar results to Beard's studies, thus supporting Beard's theory on cancer. In 1965, a researcher reported complete prevention of tumours in a group of C3H mice carrying Bittner's milk factor virus that received oral pancreatin compared with 100% tumour occurrence in the control group (King, 1965a). In a study using C57B16 mice with the Lewis lung carcinoma, in the control group, which received no enzyme treatment, 90% of animals died of the metastatic spread of cancer by day 18. The treated groups A (received the enzymes from the time of primary tumour extirpation), B (received the enzymes from 6 days before primary tumour extirpation) and C (received the enzymes from 24 hours after intracutaneous tumour inoculation) showed survival rate 60%, 90% and 100% of animals, respectively, by 100 days (Wald et al, 1998a). The influence of proteolytic enzyme mixture was tested on spontaneous lymphoblastic leukemia development in an in vivo experiment in rat species SD/Ipcv. In the group treated by a mixture of trypsin, chymotrypsin and papain a significantly lower rate of blast cells in the peripheral blood during disease development was noticed. The average survival time in the experimental group was 150 days (50% surviving until the end of the experiment, 366 days), while the control group was 43 days (none surviving until the end of the experiment) following the appearance of the first blast cells. The proteolytic enzyme mixture has also had a positive influence on the stable weight gain in animals in contrast to the weight loss of the control group in the terminal stage of the disease (Wald et al, 1998b). This study investigated the effects of a mixture of proteolytic enzymes on C57BI6 mice with syngeneic melanoma B16. The results show that administration of proteolytic enzymes to mice inhibited the growth of primary tumours, tumour recurrences were less numerous and metastasis was considerably curtailed both in the vicinity of the primary tumour and at distant locales. The results demonstrate that the enzyme mixture is capable of inhibiting B16 melanoma tumour growth and metastasis in mice (Wald et al, 2001). This study investigated the influence of protease mixture in mice transplanted with human pancreatic carcinoma. The test group was administered a trypsin, chymotrypsin and papain solution, while the control group was administered saline. In the study, it was found that the protease mixture retards growth of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma in mice. These results confirm growth inhibition of primary tumour by trypsin, chymotrypsin and papain solution (Wald et al, 1999). The thiolprotease bromelain, isolated from pineapple stem, was suggested for use in adjuvant tumour therapy. In vitro treatment of the melanoma cells with bromelain F9 and papain injected into mice prevented lung colonization. The proteases inhibited growth of the melanoma cells in a dose dependent manner. The proteases reduced the invasive capacity of the melanoma cells maximally by about 30%. Crude bromelain was most active in abolishing the CD44 re-expression after protease treatment (Grabowska et al, 1997). Studies conducted on animals treated with enzymes revealed surprising results. The preceding studies demonstrated that enzyme treatment has an anti-tumour effect. It is important to note that even though studies on animals are able to exemplify the potential benefits for humans, the results are never completely transferable to humans. Case studies on Enzyme Treatment A 23-year-old woman was diagnosed with multiple fibrosarcoma of the tongue, and after multiple surgeries and reoccurrences of the tumours the case was considered practically a hopeless one. As a last resort the doctor decided to administer trypsin and pancreatic extract based on work he had read by Dr. Beard. Soon after the administration of trypsin and the pancreatic extract the tumours ceased to increase in size and after the doses increased, the tumours slowly began to decrease in size. The tumours were barely perceptible to the touch, the patient was able to speak distinctly for the first time, the patient's general health improved greatly, and she gained 11 pounds in weight. At this stage, at the patient's request, the treatments were discontinued. Upon examination three months later the growths had increased in size, the patient was depressed mentally and refused any further treatment (Wiggin, 1906). A 56-year-old man was diagnosed with malignant disease involving the left tonsil, base of tongue and epiglottis, which was deemed inoperable. The patient was failing rapidly and nothing better could be suggested, so they decided to try trypsin injections. Upon starting the enzyme treatment, the submaxillary gland rapidly decreased in size. The patient was swallowing more comfortably, feeling much better and had gained 3 pounds. The patient says that he feels well and believes that he is cured. Unfortunately, in this case, the initial diagnosis was clinical only (Campbell, 1907). A 65-year-old man had a rapidly growing abdominal tumour. He was told that nothing further could be done for him surgically. Cutfield treated this patient with injections of trypsin and amylopsin as recommended by Dr. Beard. The patient began to improve steadily. The vomiting, nausea and flatulence disappeared, his appetite improved, gradually the pain lessened, the swelling steadily diminished and his weight regularly increased. The only symptom left was some abdominal discomfort and occasional pain. He eats and sleeps well and attends to his business regularly and his weight is only a few pounds less than it had been for many years. Cutfield does not claim that this patient was cured but does state that there is no doubt of the immense improvements, especially considering how rapidly the patient was deteriorating before the treatment commenced and how promptly and steadily the improvement took place after the treatment began (Cutfield, 1907). Cutfield wrote that, it is extremely difficult to believe that the trypsin was not the cause of that improvement. Goeth wrote about 4 cases. In case 1 the patient was a man with a large vascular sarcoma on the side of the neck. The patient left Goeth's care in order to be operated on by another physician and died during surgery. In case 2 the patient was an elderly woman with cancer in both breasts and secondary cancers in glands on one side of her neck. She showed no improvement under the trypsin treatment and the treatment was discontinued for some time before her death. In case 3 the patient was a woman a little over 70 years old with cancer in the face, which had destroyed one eye. At first the trypsin treatment increased the lesion in her face. After a month, Goeth started alternating injections of amylase and trypsin and the patient began to improve at once, the lesion in the face began to heal rapidly until the eye cavity and the rest of the wound had a healthy skin over it. Also, her general health improved markedly and now she is able to do light housework. In case 4 the patient was a woman with cancer in one breast with secondary nodules in both axillae and around the diseased breast. At the start of the trypsin treatment every gland infected with cancer became inflamed and painful and the tumour mass was sloughing away rapidly. Goeth changed to alternating injections of amylase and trypsin and the pain was greatly reduced and her general health is improving daily. The microscopic findings revealed that the cancer cells were broken up so that it was difficult to find an entire cancer cell and the stroma of connective tissue was as intact and uninjured. Therefore, Goeth concluded that the pancreatic treatment attacks the cancer cells only (Goeth, 1907). Though case studies cannot, by themselves, prove that a method of treatment works, it does help to support the enzyme treatment for cancer, especially since different physicians observed results in cases that were treated in isolated situations. Unfortunately, Beard's theory became largely forgotten in the medical community and further clinical studies were not conducted. This was largely due to the fact that other physicians were unable to consistently reproduce Beard's work. Though, Beard believed these failures were due to commercially available enzymes being variable in quality and inadequate doses being administered to patients. Due to the lack of reproducible results, interest in his ideas virtually disappeared. Enzyme Treatment as Complementary Therapy In this randomized prospective clinical trial, oral enzyme therapy was given additionally with radiation to abdominal cancer patients and compared with radiation only. The coupled oral enzyme therapy improved the tolerance of the radiation significantly. The enzyme-treated patients had less deterioration of the it reduced the number of drugs needed for the treatment of radiation adverse effects (Stauder et al, 1991). The remission time of multiple myeloma patients after chemotherapy and after enzyme-chemotherapy were compared retrospectively. Enzyme-chemotherapy prolongs remission times in stage II multiple myeloma patients and reduces the concentration of progression markers, soluble TNF-receptors and ß2-microglobulin (Desser et al, 1997). Existing data was assessed on patients with multiple myeloma (stages I-III) treated with chemotherapy alone vs. chemotherapy and additional treatment with oral enzymes (OE). In the OE group for all disease stages had longer median survival times. Response rates are higher and duration of remission is longer in the OE group. OE decreased the estimated mortality risk by 50% to 60% (Sakalová et al, 1998). The results of these studies indicate the beneficial effects of using enzyme treatment in conjunction with conventional therapy. This also exemplifies the need for further studies on treating patients with enzyme treatment only, in order to discover if the noted improvements were due to the enzyme treatment alone or enzyme treatment in combination with chemotherapy or radiation. Nutritional Therapy In the 1930s, Dr. Max Gerson (1881-1959) designed a cancer treatment that includes nutritional therapy and detoxification using coffee enemas. The Kelley Program and the Gerson Program are very similar with respect to the nutritional therapy and detoxification, the one main exception is that the Kelley program includes the addition of pancreatic enzymes to the regimen. Therefore, examining the Gerson program provides a way to isolate and analyze the nutritional therapy and detoxification components of the Kelley Program. The Gerson diet requires that patients eat mainly a raw vegetarian diet, drink freshly prepared vegetable and fruit juices and do coffee enemas. Other key elements of the diet include salt restriction, potassium supplementation, extreme fat restriction, temporary protein restriction, iodine and thyroid administration (Lerner, 1994). Gerson restricted calories while simultaneously increasing metabolism in an effort to emulate the anti-tumour effect of calorie restriction. Enhanced calorie utilization rates can alter tumour growth, whether metabolism is accelerated by iodine medication or exercise (Moreschi, 1909, Rous, 1914). Gerson's regimen also included taking coffee enemas for detoxification. Gerson felt that in order for the body to heal itself, the body needs to be detoxified (Lerner, 1994). Enemas were taken as needed for their observed ability to alleviate pain and to improve nutritional conditions. Studies on Gerson's Therapy One retrospective study found that survival rates were more than double for self-selected melanoma patients who employed surgery along with Gerson's diet therapy when compared with those who relied only on non-surgical treatment (Hildenbrand et al, 1995a). A critique of this study pointed out that the control group were matched patients who refused the therapy, which was basically a flawed control group (Lerner, 1994). In another study, a research team visited Gerson's Clinic in 1989 and examined cases selected by the Gerson Institute (Weitzman, 1998). The researchers found little objective evidence of an anti-tumour effect. However, in a few patients, definite tumour regression was seen. There was subjective benefit to the patients and their families. The patients felt that they had control over their health, had high ratings for mood and confidence, with low pain scores and analgesic requirements, despite extensive metastatic disease. Lechner and Kronberger (1990) have observed improved tolerance of aggressive conventional treatments in patients who employed Gerson's therapy at the same time. There is evidence that psychological well-being is associated with a better response to conventional therapy and the nature of the Gerson and other dietary therapies "require an active contribution by patient and family to his state of health and meets a need not satisfied by conventional therapy." (Reed et al, 1990) Pain control appeared to be better with Gerson's patients (Lerner, 1994). Gerson's patients lived longer, were healthier, and had better responses to conventional therapies with fewer side effects, less pain and a better quality of life. It must be remembered, however, that the psychological characteristics of patients who will undertake and remain on this type of therapy may play a part in these results (Weitzman, 1998). The evidence for the efficacy of the Gerson diet remains questionable and a review by an expert panel found the Gerson diet to be "ineffective in curing cancer" (American Cancer Society, 1990). It appears that the Gerson diet, by itself, does not result in cure for any type of cancer, but that the diet may act as an adjunct to conventional cancer treatment, allowing for greater well-being and quality of life (Weitzman, 1998). In terms of the Kelley Program, it must be emphasized that the nutritional component of this regimen plays a supportive role for the body and is not believed to be the anti-tumour component of the program. Therefore, the studies that indicate that the Gerson diet alone does not cure cancer do not act to disprove the Kelley program. Detoxification The reasoning behind conducting detoxification techniques is because the enzymes, in sufficient quantities, can begin to break down the cancerous tumour, and during this process some intermediate proteins are produced and abnormal molecules of the tumour waste are released into the blood, which can be quite toxic to the human body (Beard, 1911). These toxic substances must be eliminated and are done so by laxatives such as epson salts and coffee enemas (Kelley, 2000). These toxic substances are filtered and detoxified by the liver. They are excreted through the bile ducts from the liver to the small intestine. The walls of the bile ducts are composed of smooth muscle that the caffeine in coffee causes to relax, causing the duct to open wide, allowing tumour toxins to pass into the small bowel. Research shows that the administration of coffee enemas does appear to cause biliary-duct dilatation and increased bile excretion (Lerner, 1994). The enemas act to lavage and thoroughly cleanse the walls, remove abnormal mucus and also empty the bowel. The tone of the colonic muscles is improved and the blood supply augmented (Friedenwald and Morrison, 1935). By cleaning out the colon, the system is afforded relief from toxic products and an unnecessary burden is removed from metabolic processes (Marshall and Thompson, 1932). The coffee enemas have also been found by many patients to alleviate pain (Kelley, 2000). Spirituality Many have reported that religiosity and spirituality are associated with enhanced health and well-being (Ellison, 1991; Ellison and Levin, 1998; Koenig et al, 1988, 1998; Idler and Kasi, 1997) as well as decreased mortality (Bryant and Rakowski, 1992; Goldman et al, 1995; Oman and Reed, 1998; Schoenbach et al, 1986; Seeman et al, 1987). Others (Sloan et al, 1999) however, assert these associations are not conclusive. Gonzalez' Research Gonzalez concluded, "A study such as mine cannot, of course, prove conclusively that Kelley's treatment cures cancer, since the patients who were evaluated were not treated under controlled conditions. Nevertheless, significant number of patients with appropriate diagnosed terminal cancer enjoyed impressive regressions of the disease while on the Kelley regimen. This finding alone warrants a full, fair and unbiased investigation of Kelley's methods." In June 1993, Gonzalez presented a selection of cases from his own practice at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as part of an NCI effort to evaluate non-conventional cancer therapies. He was encouraged by the NCI to do further studies. In 1999, he published a 2 year, unblinded, 1 treatment arm, 10 patient, pilot prospective case study that was used to assess survival in patients suffering inoperable stage II-IV pancreatic adenocarcinoma treated with large doses of orally ingested pancreatic enzymes, nutritional supplements, detoxification procedures and an organic diet. After 1 year 81% had survived, 45% survived 2 years, and 36% survived for 3 years (Gonzalez and Isaacs, 1999). These results are far above the 25% survival at one year and 10% survival at two years for all stages of pancreatic adenocarcinoma reported in the National Cancer Data Base from 1995 (Niederhuber, Brennan and Menck, 1995). Following this publication, Gonzalez was given a grant of $1.4 million from the National Cancer Institute for a larger prospectively randomized trial. It must be noted that the Gonzalez program is very similar to the Kelley Program, but not identical. The Gonzalez program has dispensed with the spirituality component. The Gonzalez program also allows animal proteins in the initial stages of the program, whereas the Kelley program absolutely forbids animal proteins in the initial stages of the program. This is because Kelley believed that one of the contributing causes of the tumours are due to the decreased efficiency of the body to break down proteins. Therefore, the Kelley program prescribes that all allowed proteins (grains, nuts, glandulars, eggs) be eaten before 1pm in order to give the body ample time to break down these proteins. Studies conducted on the Gonzalez program will give the scientific community insight into the efficacy of the Kelley program. Discussion Some critics say that there is no proof that this program is any better than a placebo effect. Within the medical community the term 'placebo effect' has a very negative connotation. With the Kelley program the client has complete control over their health. The Kelley program is a self-empowerment program. It involves being taught the method to heal yourself. The program works to activate the healing powers within each client. Therefore, this program is not eliciting the placebo effect; in contrary, it is empowering the patient and giving them control over their healing. A critique of the Kelley Program states that "a review of all the material published by Kelley and Gonzalez shows neither to have had training in oncology or board certification in any medical specialty or to have performed or published experimental work verifying their conclusions about the cause of cancer or about their treatment" (Green, 1998). This statement has no bearing on the effectiveness of the program. This program is not designed to diagnose but rather to treat the cancer once it has been diagnosed. Patients that enter the program have been diagnosed by conventional physicians, who, in many cases, have told the patient that the cancer is untreatable by conventional approaches. Dr. Kelley does not advocate dismissing medical doctors, but rather encourages the patients to maintain regular visits, to trust and to work with their medical doctors Additionally, Gonzalez is presently conducting a scientific study to verify his conclusions. Green (1998) states in rebuttal to the Kelley program that, different cancers do not have identical causes, growth characteristics or response to treatment. Conventional medicine has yet to firmly establish any cause for cancer. According to conventional medicine, they do not know nor fully understand the cause of cancer therefore they cannot prove that different cancers do not have identical cause and growth characteristics. What they do understand of cancer still remains consistent with Beard's theory of cancer. Robbin's pathology textbook states that in most neoplasms (any abnormal growth of new tissue) the parenchymal cells bear a close resemblance to each other, as though they were all derived from a single cell (Cotran et al, 1999). This statement regarding cancer actually helps to confirm Beard's theory. The statement that different cancers have different response to treatment is obviously true and cannot be argued as every person is an individual and responds uniquely in different situations to varying stimuli. Critics have mentioned that the Kelley program has no controlled studies. First, it must be mentioned that there are no controlled studies for human chemotherapy, radiation or surgery for cancer patients, as this is seen as unethical. Therefore the 'standard of care' used in allopathic medicine has yet to be scientifically proven. The study that Gonzalez is presently conducting on patients with pancreatic carcinoma does have a control group that receives conventional medicine treatment, which is 'state-of-the-art' chemotherapy. Having this control group is good for science but not necessarily good for human life. Chemotherapy for pancreatic carcinoma has been shown to have no convincing improvement in median survival (Ahlgren, 1996). Therefore, being in the control group is equivalent to a death sentence. This is about human life and randomly assigning a person to this type of control group for the sake of "good science" is completely unethical and devalues human life. The author believes that one can prove that this treatment is effective, meaning it has a strong claim for a causal relationship between the Kelly treatment and the various cure indicators, without having a control group, and the study can still be considered "good science." For example, the Kelley method can be studied using a quasi-experimental design, which does not involve random assignment to control groups, but does attempt to rule out threats to internal validity by collecting data that can be used to examine these threats (Shavelson, 1996). The time series design would probably be the most effective design, whereby multiple observations are taken before and after a treatment is administered. The multiple pre-treatment observations establish a control-group baseline and the multiple post-treatment observations establish a consistent change in response. The dependent variables that can be physically measured include tumour size and serum cancer markers. The standard of care in allopathic medicine to treat cancer is chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Chemotherapy and radiation act to kill all fast growing cells. It may degenerate the tumour cells but it also damages the healthy cells, like cells responsible for hair growth, the cells lining the digestive tract, skin cells and most importantly, immune cells. Damaging the healthy cells makes it more difficult for the body to heal itself. Allopathic medicine fails to understand the enormous capacity that the body has to heal itself and instead are working against our natural healing powers, when it would be more worthwhile to work with the body. In many cases the conventional approach to treating cancer is causing the patient more harm than good. Chemotherapy does not treat the cause of the problem. Removing a tumour by methods such as chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, does not remove cancer per se because cancer is a process and therefore you need to stop the process. Additionally, allopathic medicine tends to treat the disease, not the person, when it should be the other way around. The allopathic method to treat cancer requires putting your life in the hands of a doctor whereby the patient plays a passive role. The author believes many of these factors contribute to the ill-success of the allopathic approach to cancer treatment. There exists a major problem in the scientific model with regards to health. Human healing never happens in isolation. Therefore the scientific model is flawed and invalid when it comes to healing methods. Health cannot be defined by only one variable as it exists at 3 different dimensions; mind, body and spirit. Healing cannot be isolated, whereby all other variables are kept constant, as healing and achieving "health" is a multifactoral process. The scientific model also bases all conclusions on what they are able to see and what they can measure in the physical body. But in terms of health, people are more than physical beings. Nevertheless, the author does strongly encourage studies be done that test the Kelley program by using all the physical measures such as tumour size, serum cancer markers, side effects, survival time and quality of life as its measurements of effectiveness. The Kelley method for cancer treatment seems to have been completely overlooked by conventional medicine and deserves further investigation, as there is substantial research that does support its theory. Conclusion References Why Cancer Statistics are a Scam Our medical establishment has fuzzy math when it comes to cancer detection. The entire "detect it early" propaganda and the "5-year survival rate" stats also are fraudulent. The misconception is tha tif you detect cancers early enough, you can cure them. That makes two assumptions that no one has EVER proven. First, can we be catching cancer too early? Second, what is "cure?" Let's tackle the latter first. Cure to modern medicine is skewed to the so called five-year survival rate. The medical establishment manipulates these figures simply by controlling how researchers conduct their studies. Furthermore, detecting the cancer two years earlier, but not changing its course, gives a false impression about the five-year survival rate. What if they caught your cancer three years from now, and you lived three more years? You would be considered a failure (three-year survival from detection). But with early detection (such as with a mammogram), you catch it today and you die in six years (three for the earlier detection, plus the three that you would have lived anyway if it were detected three years from now). Now you are a success. And the credit goes to chemo and radiation, which destroyed the quality of your life for an illusory improved life span. But now let's tackle the harder part. You might be wondering if I have flipped out by proposing that we might be catching cancer too early. If we live long enough, all of us would get cancer. All men get prostate cancer -- 100%! But not all of us die from it. We have an immune system that searches out and destroys cancer. So, we know that men are getting prostate cancer all the time. But most never show a sign. The same is true for women and breast cancer. The era of mammography ushered in the foolish mentality of catch it early, cut it out, and poison the rest. Never properly tested, mammography jumped to the forefront of cancer strategy. And, at the same time, there was a sudden jump in the incidence of cancer. They just thought that they were honorably detecting more cancer. But that's not necessarily true. Early cancer detection isn't necessarily a good thing. First, it's very possible your body will kill the cancer without any help from medicine. Second, if your body doesn't kill it, adding surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation will only weaken your body and make it easier for the cancer to grow [and biopsies provide a channel for the previously contained cancer to spread through.] Chemotherapy has a role in cancer treatment, but not in the huge doses now used. If you have cancer growing uncontrollably in your body, Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT), and multiple other therapies will give you the best chance at a real survival rate. Just don't give in to the propaganda you hear these days. It could cost you your life. Search for "IPT" and "insulin potentiation therapy" (without the quotes) elsewhere on this page for more information. Most medical technology is an expensive sham. Take arterial stents, for example. After doctors spent billions and the manufacturer reaped huge profits, studies completely discredited it. However, once in a while, we see technology that offers a real breakthrough. These are the ones that spare you invasive procedures. And these are the ones I like. The latest is a new ultrasound test that might just spare you a breast biopsy. Women know that finding a breast lump will likely lead to a biopsy. These are painful, and can lead to complications, scarring, and disfigurement. Trouble is, most biopsies are useless and, in some cases, dangerous. A full 8 in 10 biopsies (80%) come back benign. Worse, a needle biopsy could miss a cancer all together. Or, in the alternative, it could provide a contained tumor an easy way to spread into your body! But that's not all. Biopsies are very expensive. They can cost up to $1,000. And it can take days to weeks to get final results. Wouldn't it be great if there were an accurate and painless alternative to biopsy? It's coming! The new technique is based on such simple principles, that I'm very surprised no one thought of it sooner. Cancerous tumors are densely packed with rapidly dividing cells. Benign tumors are much softer. Hence, logic suggests measuring elasticity of the tumor. The new technique is aptly called elastography. The technique uses safe sound waves (ultrasound). The mass is first checked with the transducer lightly touching your breast. Then, pressure is applied to the transducer over your mass, while it takes readings. If your mass is benign, it will yield and compress easily, more like a soft spring. If it is cancerous, it will be stiff and hold shape, more like a marble or a stiff spring. How does it stack up? A small study on 80 women correctly identified 17 out of 17 cancerous tumors and 105 out of 106 harmless tumors. That's fantastic accuracy! With elastography, hard (cancerous) tumors show up as dark areas and benign tumors as light areas. You could know the identity of your breast lump in minutes, at a cost of $100-200. And best of all, there's no risk. Action to take: This technology is not out yet, but will likely take off like a rocket when it does. There might be an investigation site near you in the future, even if it is not yet approved for general use. If you have a breast lump that your doctor wants to biopsy, show your doctor this article and ask about the availability of elastography before undergoing the needle or knife. With results like these, you will have an 80% chance to sleep well while avoiding an invasive procedure. Because this issue affects every woman, please forward this article to all your friends. Once this test is widely available, it could save them from a lot of pain and suffering. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Ref: Santa Rosa Press Democrat, December 2, 2006 The wrong way to find prostate cancer As you may know, I'm really down on the PSA test. I debunked the PSA as a marker for prostate cancer years before medical science did. Yes, it's great for detecting inflammation. But not for cancer. Some doctors still consider the PSA's "rate of rise" a better detector of cancer than just one score. But is it? The "rate of rise" works like this: Say your PSA is 1.0 this year and 1.1 the next year. Your doctor won't think much about it. But if it goes to 2.0 the next year? That when your urologist wants you in his office quickly for a dangerous and largely useless biopsy. Researchers recently studied the rate of rise as a predictor. And what they found is not too good! Sloan-Kettering doctors conducted the study on 5,519 men. They gave these men prostate biopsies (ouch!!) regardless of their PSA score. Then, they compared their results to their PSA levels. The researchers found that so long as the PSA remained relatively low (say less than 4.0), a rising PSA was NOT a good indicator for the development of cancer. Action to take: If your PSA score is below 4, never submit to a biopsy. It's a waste of time and money -- and it's very painful. Let's hope that this slows down the useless puncturing of the prostate and also the useless conventional treatments for prostate cancer as well. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Newly discovered plant chemical prevents prostate cancer It's no secret that broccoli is one of the world's great health foods. But we're really just beginning to uncover just how great this veggie is. For instance, broccoli contains the molecule sulforaphane. One study found that this molecule stimulates production of enzymes that protect your blood vessels. It also reduces toxicity from certain free radicals, molecules that can cause damage. We've known for some time that broccoli can prevent many types of cancer. But a recent study found that just four servings of broccoli per week might significantly reduce your risk of prostate cancer. The researchers divided 24 men with pre-cancerous lesions that increase prostate cancer risk into two groups. They had the men eat four extra servings of either broccoli or peas each week for a year. The researchers also took tissue samples from the men. The study found that those who ate broccoli caused 400-500 favorable changes in genes. All of these genes play a role in fighting cancer. How? The study found that isothiocyanates, a second chemical found in the veggie, can favorably modify genes. In other words, it might turn off genes that create cancer, and turn on genes that inhibit the disease. The authors said that you will likely see similar benefit from other cruciferous vegetables that contain isothiocyanates. These include Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, rocket or arugula, watercress, and horse radish. I eat one or more of these vegetables almost every day. I even eat the broccoli leaves of the plants we grow. The mildly bitter taste is an indication of the wonderful chemicals they contain. The goal of cancer management is prevention. I am 100% convinced that we can accomplish our goals to dramatically reduce cancer suffering by proper diet and reduction in toxins. And broccoli plays a major role in reaching that goal. Make it a point to include these superfoods in your diet every day. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD Ref: Reuters, July 1, 2008; PLoS ONE July 2, 2008; 3(7):e2568. Many Breast and Prostate Cancers Are Caused by One Nutritional Deficiency What if I told you there's a 90 percent chance you're grossly deficient in an essential trace element? What if I also said there's a good possibility this nutritional deficiency could cause breast or prostate cancer? Interested? Well, not only is all of this true, but if you're deficient in this one nutrient, it also could be causing your fatigue, chronic illness, or many other ailments. And, most amazingly, the cure for this nutritional deficiency could be sitting in your own medicine cabinet! So what is this common nutrient that isn't so common in your body? Iodine! Everybody knows iodine is essential to your body. But few know how much is essential. In the 1800s, when iodine was discovered, doctors quickly found iodine alone cured most goiters (enlarged thyroid). Iodine was the first trace element proven to cure a disease, which ushered in the era of "modern medicine." In fact, during the 19th century, iodine was considered the universal treatment: "If nothing else works, try iodine" was the adage. Considering the broad range of symptoms of thyroid deficiency (fatigue, hypertension, depression, hair loss, hoarseness, dry skin, constipation, cold intolerance, concentration difficulties, muscle cramps, menstrual problems, poor memory, inability to concentrate, weight gain, nervousness, infertility, irritability, bone thinning, just to name a few), no wonder it was promoted as the universal treatment. While we consider iodine common, it's a relatively rare element, with 67 of the 92 naturally occurring elements more abundant. There are not many good natural sources of iodine. It's found in seawater in low concentrations. Plants pick up iodine if available in the soil. However, iodine is more common on land close to coasts where winds can blow it in from evaporated sea spray. Iodine is lacking in the American Midwest, where the "goiter belt" exists. Forty percent of Michigan's school age children had goiter in the early 1920s. When potassium iodide was added to salt, goiter (and cretinism) incidence dropped precipitously and immediately. Cretinism -- a cause of deafness and mental impairment of children -- is an iodine deficiency! By 1950, goiter incidence dropped to 0.5 percent. Due to the success of this program, potassium iodine was routinely added to table salt in amounts of 110 PPM (parts per million). This equates to 77 mcg of iodine per gram of salt. While this amount was enough to shrink goiters, it pales in comparison to the amount the earlier researchers were using (12.5 to 37.5 mg daily). That's more than 100 times as much as that supplied in iodized salt. Iodine is concentrated in the thyroid, where it's used to make the hormone thyroxin. What you may not know, and what medicine ignores, is that every cell in the body contains and uses the element. Large amounts of iodine are (or should be) stored in your fat tissues, liver, heart, salivary glands, stomach cells, parts of the eye that deal with aqueous fluid and intraocular pressure, and even in specific brain cells that are related to Parkinson's disease. More than any other element, iodine is associated with intelligence. But that's not all. Your white blood cells absolutely require iodine to make germ-killing compounds! The stomach cannot make acid without it. And, if you're a woman, your breasts are a sponge for iodine. I'll tell you more about that fantastic pearl in a moment. You already know that the RDA is set up merely to prevent severe deficiency states. No RDA of any nutrient was ever evaluated for optimal performance. For example, the RDA for vitamin C was set at a paltry 60 mg, just enough to prevent scurvy, when studies have shown that 50-100 times that amount optimizes immune system performance. The early goiter belt studies led to endocrinologists setting the RDA of iodine at about 150 mcg, just enough to prevent most goiters. These guys were not looking at, nor even considering iodine's impact on other tissues. If you don't eat iodized salt or if you're on a salt-restricted diet, where are you to get it naturally? The Lord in His wisdom gave us seaweed, which is able to extract and highly concentrate iodine from seawater. Iodine was discovered when a French scientist working with seaweed noticed a peculiar violet color emanating after acid had been added to the preparation. He termed it iodin, the Greek word for violet. To more fully explain the iodine story, I need to explain a few terms regarding basic chemistry and pathology. Please bear with me for a moment. Hypertrophy is the enlargement of cells to work harder for what is asked of them. For example, if you have hypertension, your heart hypertrophies to pump your blood in the face of greater resistance. Hyperplasia, on the other hand, is when cells divide and multiply more than normal. In the uterus, for example, monthly cycles of estrogen cause cells to divide (hyperplasia), thickening the uterine lining. When estrogen is withdrawn, the cells shed off (menses), protecting the woman. If these cells remain exposed to the estrogen, they will continue to divide abnormally and cancer can result. You know that estrogen use can lead to uterine cancer. That's how! While hypertrophy is not good, hyperplasia is downright bad. It's critical for your thyroid to be producing adequate hormones. Every cell in your body depends upon it. So the thyroid is extremely adept at pulling iodine from your blood. As long as you get a minimum amount of iodine in your diet, your thyroid will find it. If you aren't getting enough iodine, you'll develop a goiter. A goiter is the result of the thyroid going into hypertrophy and hyperplasia (thus the large size of a goiter). And hyperplasia of any organ is an early step toward cancer. The FDA has determined that the required daily allowance (RDA) of iodine is only 150 mcg. This is because clinical deficiency of iodine is foolishly held to be goiter (no goiter = no deficiency). For adults, the RDA range is 150 mcg, with up to 250 mcg set for a pregnant or lactating woman. The small amount of iodine added to table salt in those who used such salt was sufficient to prevent 90 percent of goiters. So the medical minds of the day thought they had iodine all sewed up. Trouble is, if you have clinical signs of any deficiency (scurvy, hypothyroidism, goiter) you're in the "terminal" stages of the deficiency, according to Albert-Szent-Gyorgi, the brilliant Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of vitamin C. I contend that we should not determine minimum amounts of iodine needed for the body based on the thyroid alone. Let me explain. You see, the rest of your organs have greater difficulty finding iodine in your blood. This is good because it allows the thyroid to take out what it needs first before the other organs begin to use it. But in order for these organs to receive adequate levels of iodine, your blood needs to have an abundant supply. The second largest concentration of iodine in the female body is in the breasts. To give you an idea of how much iodine your body needs, the breasts must have 100 times as much iodine in the blood to have their fill as does the thyroid! The same is true for the other endocrine glands, the prostate, stomach, and white blood cells. What that means is that just because you don't have a goiter doesn't mean you have adequate levels of iodine. It also means that your mammary glands and these other organs could move into hypertrophy and hyperplasia because they don't have enough iodine! Again, those are the early steps toward cancer. So how much iodine do you need? Prior to RDA guidelines, many free-thinking medical scientists were daily providing up to 100- 400 times the RDA. Yes, you read that right! And this is still the standard. So is that dose toxic? Iodine has gotten a bad rap from the medical mob. It seems their synthetic iodine-containing drugs, such as amiodarone and X-ray dyes can lead to serious allergic and even fatal reactions. Even though their literature clearly has fingered the synthetic molecule forms, iodine itself is blamed. None of these chemicals are found in nature. Of course, they should be expected to have toxic effects. But you can't blame iodine. Still, some "experts" consider iodine to be toxic in just a little more than the RDA requirements. In fact, one recent medical publication blames iodine as a contaminant in preventing thyroid uptake of goitrogens (chemicals that induce goiters or serious thyroid dysfunction). Can you believe that craziness? This unfounded fear led to the removal of iodine from bread, used until a few decades ago as an anti-caking agent. While 150 mcg may prevent goiter, it might take five to 10 mg to fill up the breasts. In fact, studies on rats confirm exactly that! And people are no different. Japanese women have a very low incidence of breast cancer compared to American women. The same is true for Japanese men and prostate cancer. However, when natives move from Japan to America, their risk of these cancers approaches that of Americans. We've always attributed it to adopting the American diet. But let's look closer. The average daily dietary intake of iodine in Japan is about 13.8 mg per day, some 100 times the American RDA. Japanese living closest to the coast take in up to 100 mg daily and these have the lowest incidence of breast cancer. I haven't seen reports of iodine poisoning either! Their diet is rich in seaweed. How important is iodine to the breasts? Many of us integrative physicians have used iodine for decades to completely quell all symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease and menstrual-associated breast pain. Why? Because iodine is an absolute requirement to reduce unbridled sensitivity of mammary cells to estrogen. Without it, estrogen effects can run rampant! Estrogen is a well- known carcinogen. Animal studies confirm that iodine deficiency makes mammary glands much more susceptible to damage from injected estrogen! I hope you're beginning to see how important iodine is to your health and why you're likely deficient. What I haven't told you yet is how iodine deficiency could also be the cause of your fatigue, chronic illness, immune defects, and lack of stomach acid. Next month, I'll show you how iodine deficiency can lead to these problems. And I'll tell you how to test your iodine levels and fix any deficiency. You won't want to miss it. Wipe Out Fatigue, Chronic Illness, and Immune Disorders and Feel Great! Last month, I told you that many breast and prostate cancers are caused by one nutritional deficiency. What I didn't tell you was how this same deficiency can also cause fatigue, chronic illness (such as Graves' disease), and autoimmune diseases. And it might even cause your indigestion! The great news is that there's a simple test to determine if you're deficient -- which you probably are -- and an easy way to correct the deficiency. How can I be so sure you're likely to have this deficiency? Because the nutrient -- iodine -- isn't found in many of our food sources. Here's why: Forty years ago, the food industry regularly added iodine to store-bought bread. One slice of bread once contained about 150 mcg iodine, the whole day's RDA. Your average diet in 1960 contained about one mg of iodine per day, with bakery products providing 726 mcg. This amount was enough to significantly reduce your thyroid gland's ability to absorb radioactive iodine. It also was enough to lower excess thyroid hormone release, preventing hyperthyroidism. And it would provide more availability of iodine for your breasts or prostate. Then it was withdrawn for fear of adverse effects from too much iodine. I showed you last month that it's very difficult to get too much iodine from food. But to make matters worse, the food industry decided to replace the iodine with bromine. Bromine belongs to the halogen group of elements, also containing fluorine, chlorine, and iodine. All these elements have similar electrochemical properties, with bromine and iodine the most similar because of their larger sizes. To the thyroid, bromine looks like iodine and tightly binds to thyroid iodine receptors. However, bromine doesn't help the thyroid the way iodine does. And, what's worse, it also inhibits iodine's activity. Once the food industry stopped enriching your bread with iodine and replaced it with an element that doesn't work, and knocks out any remaining iodine, your body suffered a double whammy. Since the switch was made, Americans, across the board, are becoming severely deficient in iodine. This deficiency is causing some terrible health problems. Researcher Guy Abraham, MD, my mentor on the subject, has amassed a ton of literature to prove the disease connection to iodine deficiency. Here are just a few: Fatigue -- An underactive thyroid typically causes fatigue. Iodine supplementation can quickly activate the thyroid and relieve fatigue. Dr Abraham reports iodine deficiency may harm pituitary-adrenal function in rodents. Your adrenal is essential for energy and stamina. Thyroid disease -- When there's not enough iodine to bind with cell membranes, it allows enzymes called peroxidases (which can damage those membranes) to wreak havoc and cause autoimmune disease, such as thyroiditis (Hashimoto's or Grave's). In fact, Dr. Abraham has several cases of both thyroiditis and hyperthyroidism (not just hypothyroidism) that have corrected after sufficient iodine/iodide supplementation. For over a century, high doses of iodine have helped both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. Many doctors fear giving too much iodine will cause Hashimoto's to worsen. But this usually isn't the case. While iodine will help the thyroid increase the production of hormone where necessary, it also inhibits over-release from the gland by giving thyroid enzymes what they want. These iodine- seeking enzymes that attack thyroid membranes can be normalized when they get the iodine they need. This old information is terrific news for the many people (usually women) who have been told to have their thyroid removed to end hyperthyroidism. These draconian measures ensure the patient will have to rely on prescriptive thyroid hormone for the rest of their life. But iodine can completely solve the problem. One 1860 French physician mistakenly gave a tincture of iodine when he meant to give digitalis to a woman with Grave's Disease. She recovered within three weeks. When he discovered his mistake, he switched to digitalis, and her symptoms came back. He switched back to the iodine and achieved a remission. Poor digestion -- I showed you last month that many organs need iodine, but can't absorb it until the blood measurements reach very high levels. The stomach and salivary glands are two such organs, but they can't uptake iodine in any significant amounts until the blood level reaches 100 times what the thyroid needs. Most people do not produce enough stomach acid as they grow older. I firmly believe low gastric acidity can be caused by iodine deficiency, as iodine promotes stomach acidity! Breast, ovarian, and skin cysts -- In addition to fixing almost all cases of breast cysts, iodine also has a remarkable healing effect on ovarian cysts, and even on skin cysts. (For the latter, I recommend rubbing in iodine right over the cyst.) Dementia and glaucoma -- Iodine is found in large amounts in the brain (including the parts of the brain associated with Parkinson's disease) and the ciliary body of the eye, a possible factor in glaucoma. Other illnesses -- Iodine reduces the dangerous activity of lipoprotein(a). When elevated, this protein can lead to excessive blood clotting and vascular disease. Iodine has been used successfully in headaches, keloid formation, parotid duct stones, and Dupytren's and Peyronie's contractures. Doses up to six times the RDA have been used safely for months to combat the excessive mucous in chronic lung diseases. Now that I've shown you how important iodine is to your health, it's time for you to find out if you're deficient. Actually, you already know that you probably are deficient, but there are times when you might need to know for sure. Some of you may remember a simple patch test I recommended several years ago. With this test you would simply swab a quarter-size patch of iodine on your skin and watch to see how fast it would disappear. Unfortunately, I can't continue to recommend this test. While it won't harm you, it's simply not accurate enough. There is a test now that's far more accurate and is fairly inexpensive. The test was developed by Dr. Abraham and is called a loading test. With this procedure, the doctor administers four iodine tablets. If your body has all the iodine it needs, you would expect to urinate out most of the ingested amount over the next 24 hours. If not, your body would hold on to a significant amount of the iodine and you would know that you're deficient. But I'm not sure you need the test. David Brownstein, MD, author of the wonderful new book Iodine, (available by calling 888-647- 5616) also was performing loading tests on his patients. However, Dr. Brownstein and I stopped most of the tests after nearly every test we performed returned positive for deficiency. Now I just start iodine supplementation in any condition where iodine is a known factor. I do recommend a test under certain circumstances. If you're taking an iodine supplement for several months and experience no clinical results, you might have a problem with absorption. That's when a test should be performed. It commonly takes three months of supplementation to get sufficient levels. Another illness that might require a test is cancer. We know iodine deficiency is a factor in breast and prostate cancer, so there's no need to test. Other cancers probably warrant taking the test even though deficiency is likely. It would be good for the doctor to have a baseline to monitor your condition. Just how likely is deficiency in cancer? In an in-house study, 60 cancer patients (various types) were given the iodine-loading test and then measured for urinary excretion. All 60 patients were found to be seriously deficient in body stores of iodine and some had great excesses of bromine. The best case excreted only 50 percent of the load and the worst excreted only 20 percent (that means they were retaining a very high 80 percent). Folks, these are some serious numbers. One hundred percent of these cancer sufferers were deficient in iodine! I assure you the problem is population wide. Your doctor can administer the test very easily, or you can contact Dr. Flechas (828-684-3233), who offers the iodine- loading test for only $75. His iodine website is www.helpmythyroid.com/iodine.htm. If you're deficient and think iodized salt is your answer, I can assure you it's not. First, the amount of iodine (as potassium iodide) added is relatively small. You will need a minimum of 100 grams of iodized salt daily (20 tsp) to get adequate levels. Even saltaholics can't eat this much salt. Dr. Abraham has developed a convenient iodine/iodide preparation you can take by pill instead of the usually unpleasant Lugol's solution. Called Iodoral, a tablet is quite literally dried Lugol's solution, providing 12.5 mg of iodine/iodide. In his research, Dr. Abraham found that a person abundant in iodine should excrete at least 90 percent, over the next 24 hours, of a loading dose of four tablets (50 mg). If you excrete less, that means your body needs and is retaining it. Dr. Abraham believes the dose of iodine for maintaining sufficiency of the whole body is at least 13 mg per day (100 times the paltry RDA) -- six mg for the thyroid, five mg for the breasts, and two mg for the rest of the body. Men would likely need less, though not always. Not everyone needs this much, though. Take Betty for example. She visited me with complaints of terribly painful and cystic breasts. She often had to shoo her husband away. Simply providing iodide at a level of five mg per day completely reversed the problem and made her feel womanly and erogenous again. Of course, some people need more. Veronica, 46, limped in on crutches with stage-IV breast cancer with severe pain in her hip from an advanced metastasis. She received IPT, artemisinin, and nutritional supplements, which checked the disease. Her iodine- loading test showed great deficiency. After three months of Iodoral, her iodine level had not yet come up, but her excretion of bromide had increased 10 times. She now receives only occasional IPT, and is still stable on several nutritional supplements including Iodoral (six daily -- 75 mg). Dr. Abraham tells me he also has seen two apparent remissions of breast cancer from the use of Iodoral -- two tablets, three times daily. Another physician has a case of prostate cancer in apparent remission with the addition of Iodoral and other supplements. George Flechas, MD reports that many of his diabetes cases need lowered insulin or drugs when taking "sufficient" iodine. I have seen the same! Some people may see alteration in their thyroid blood tests or require adjustment in their thyroid medication and iodine dose. Medical supervision is suggested. If you want to get your iodine from food sources, brown and red seaweeds (kombu, fucus, etc.) contain the most iodine. I see no downside to getting abundant iodine from seaweed, since it's a whole food. Eat as much as you like. You can find it at your local health food store or Asian market. Another great source is Mendocino Sea Vegetables (707-895-2996 or www.seaweed.net). Your integrative physician can obtain Iodoral from Dr. Abraham's Optimox Corporation (310-618-9370). Lugol's solution is available at most pharmacies by prescription. Abraham, Guy. E., MD, Jorge D. Flechas, MD, and John C. Hakala R.Ph. "Effect of daily ingestion of a tablet containing 5 mg Iodine and 7.5 mg Iodide as the potassium salt, for a period of 3 months, on the results of thyroid function tests and thyroid volume by ultrasonometry in ten euthyroid Caucasian Women," The Original Internist, 9: 6-20, 2002. Abraham, Guy. E., MD, Jorge D. Flechas, MD, and John C. Hakala R.Ph. "Iodine sufficiency of the whole human body," The Original Internist, 9: 30-41, 2002. Abraham, Guy. E., MD, Jorge D. Flechas, MD, and John C. Hakala R.Ph. "Effect of daily ingestion of Iodoral," The Original Internist, 2002. Abraham, Guy E., MD. "The safe and effective implementation of orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice," The Original Internist, vol. 11, no. 1, March 2004. Pages 17-36. The Popular Fruit That Prevents Pancreatic Cancer Want to have your cake and eat it, too? When it comes to the miracle nutrient lycopene, it appears that you can. Lycopene is the red pigment that gives tomatoes and some other foods their rich red color. Food pigments are flavonoids, which have enormous free-radical scavenging ability. Plants manufacture them to protect themselves from the free-radical inducing effects of the sun's rays. Most men are already aware of the great benefits of lycopene, as it's been shown to significantly reduce the risk of prostate cancer. But the cancer-fighting benefits of lycopene don't stop there. A new study shows that another type of cancer -- pancreatic cancer -- is vulnerable to lycopene. Pancreatic cancer is a tough cookie because its symptoms are well hidden, usually until late in the disease process. Prevention here is worth a million treatments. A Canadian research team has found that people with the highest intake of lycopene had a striking 31% lower risk of this terrible cancer. The researchers noted that the lycopene in these diets came mostly from tomato products. You can be sure that the cancer prevention list will not end here. If research is done, I predict it will find lycopene, and other colored plant pigments reduce not only other cancers, but other chronic diseases as well. The average American diet is very deficient in these compounds. Now here's the rub. You know I'm a fan of living foods. But research has shown that lycopene in tomatoes is absorbed better when the tomatoes are cooked. So you get the lycopene, which is heat stable, but lose the vitamin C and other nutrients, which are less heat tolerant. So what should you do? First, feel free to eat cooked tomato products. Even as a proponent of living foods, I still love tomato products, cooked or uncooked. I just prefer foods that are not denatured by heat. However, I have to tell you about some interesting information I found on another lycopene source -- watermelon. Yes, the red pigment in watermelon is our friend lycopene! But you don't want to cook watermelon, do you? I sure don't. So, can your body absorb the lycopene? Usually, you have to cook a vegetable to make the lycopene more available. However, this isn't true with watermelon! A trio of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (part of the USDA) set out to examine the lycopene in watermelons. Using a simple metering device that measures color, they examined the lycopene content of various types of watermelons. In late summer 2000, two ARS researchers conducted a 19-week study on 23 healthy adults to assess the absorption of watermelon lycopene. Watermelon was juiced and frozen immediately without pasteurization. It was defrosted just before it was consumed, and the lycopene content analyzed. Participants were given a random regimen of supplemental lycopene from watermelon juice or tomato juice compared to the control group, which received no juice. All were on a lycopene-restricted diet otherwise. The researchers were surprised to find that lycopene bioavailability from unheated watermelon juice was the same as from pasteurized tomato juice. What wonderful news, bioavailable lycopene from an uncooked source with all its other nutrients intact. Watermelon is a great source of vitamins A, B6, C, and thiamin. Studies have shown that a cup and a half of watermelon contains about 9 to 13 milligrams of lycopene. That's about 40% more lycopene on average than raw tomatoes. The riper (not overripe), the richer it is in lycopene. I know winter is upon us, but watermelon is even available in winter. It's grown in desert areas. So enrich your diet with live watermelon, a lycopene source carrying all the other benefits of uncooked food. Throw the PSA Test Out the Window and Use This Test Instead There's a great way to determine the health of your prostate -- and fight prostate cancer at the same time. But it's not the PSA test. I've told you for years that the PSA test is one of the worst diagnostic tools you can use for prostate cancer. It's downright worthless at best, misleading and dangerous at worst. And now, two major medical articles have proven me correct. The first article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). And the PSA deathblow just arrived in the October 2004 issue of Urology. This time, at last, bigwigs are taking heed of the findings. If you have had or are considering a PSA test, please read this carefully. The NEJM article discussed a prevention trial of 18,882 men. Of these men, 9,459 were randomly assigned to receive placebo and undergo a yearly PSA test. During the study, 2,950 of those men (aged 62-91) never had a PSA level above four ng/ml or a positive rectal exam. In other words, they never had any clinical or lab diagnosis of cancer. These same men underwent biopsy after seven years in the program. The results were shocking! Fifteen percent of the men had positive biopsies and 15 percent of these had high-grade cancer! And that's just the beginning. Prostate biopsies are taken by random needle jabs into the gland. No matter how many sticks are made, there's no way to know if cancer lurks outside of the tract of the needle. So the real incidence might be far higher. And that brings us to the second article, which was written by Dr. Thomas Stanley, the man who originally told us PSA could be used to detect prostate cancer. The article, published in Urology, completely debunks continued use of the PSA for cancer screening. That's right, the man who first promoted the test has changed his mind! He even went so far as to issue a press release saying, "The PSA era is over in the United States." Wow, those are powerful words! But there's more. He said, "Our study raises a very serious question of whether a man should even use the PSA for prostate cancer screening anymore.... Our job now is to stop removing every man's prostate who has prostate cancer. We originally thought we were doing the right thing, but we're now figuring out how we went wrong. Some men need prostate treatment, but certainly not all of them." Check out those words, "how we went wrong." I want to stress them. Dr. Stanley deserves commendation for acknowledging his error. This is rarely seen in medicine. So what should you do about PSA? First, if using PSA at all, I recommend the "free PSA" test. This test measures the percentage of PSA that is not complexed (free floating) versus PSA, which is complexed with other blood proteins. Prostate cancer tends to have more complexed PSA. The higher your free PSA, the lower the chances of cancer. I think this is a valuable test. If you still decide to have a PSA test done, you need to use your own good common sense. A single PSA level means little, no matter how high it is (unless it's over 15 or so). Follow it over time. If it's rising quickly and the free PSA percentage is falling, chances are higher that cancer exists. Even then, I wouldn't rush off to biopsy. My treatment plan wouldn't change regardless of the pathology report. If you want to prevent prostate cancer, I strongly urge you to have your vitamin D levels checked regularly. Doing so, and correcting any deficiencies, will reduce your risk of cancer by 80 percent! Vitamin D is crucial in preventing prostate cancer. International vitamin D experts are now calling for a revision in the RDA, as there's no evidence of toxicity in daily intakes up to at least 10,000 IU. I routinely measure vitamin D as 25-hydroxyvitamin D. While most folks are within the reference range, they are far from my ideal levels of 45-50 ng/ml or 115-128 nmol/l. I currently have almost all of my male patients on a D3 supplement or cod liver oil (4,000 IU daily). I also suggest common sense exposure to sunlight. That doesn't include burning your skin. This isn't all I do to treat the prostate, but it's a far better way to test for prostate cancer risk than the PSA test. In future issues, I'll have more treatments you and your doctor can use to successfully treat prostate cancer. One final note: Several of you have asked about the AMAS test after seeing endorsements for it from other doctors. AMAS, which stands for Anti-Malignin Antibody in Serum, is an FDA-approved test that allegedly detects non-specific cancer antigen (protein). This means that even if it does work, and is positive, that you already have cancer. But the test cannot tell you where or in what organ. I admit, it sounds great to have a cancer screen, even if it's non-specific. However, those of us with hands-on experience with AMAS don't have a positive view of the test. The Orthomolecular Society meetings in San Francisco attract some of the brightest physicians in alternative medicine. We had an engaging discussion of our AMAS experiences and none of us were pleased. In particular, we repeatedly found negative tests when cancer was present, and in all stages (early, intermediate, and advanced). If the test is positive, it means you may have cancer somewhere in your body. But if negative, it would tell me nothing. What good is either reading? I abandoned the test many years ago, and many of my colleagues have told me they have done likewise. Chinese Herb Cures Cancer These days, it's not uncommon to hear about a therapy or nutrient that cures cancer. Problem is, few of them really work. I remember when shark cartilage was the new cure for cancer because, after all, sharks don't get cancer. Even some prominent newsletter writers bought into this supposed "miracle cure" and promoted it hard. Trouble was, it didn't work. I work with a group of about 20 different doctors who try treatments like this, and we compare our results to find out what works and what doesn't. Shark cartilage failed our tests miserably! Since then, we've found several therapies that really do work in many cases. I've told you about a few of these, including insulin potentiation therapy and cancer vaccines. Unfortunately, all of these are doctor-administered therapies. They work wonders, but you have to find a doctor who is willing to administer them, which is a serious problem for many of you. While I never recommend my patients treat their cancer by themselves, there's now an herb I can recommend wholeheartedly that's safe and can be used at home and in conjunction with the previously mentioned doctor-administered therapies. This isn't just a supplement to help build your immune system. This herb aggresively fights cancer. Just how effective is it? Let me introduce you to Donald, a 47- year-old mechanic who is in great shape. He had a newly diagnosed lymphoma and came to see me just after his oncologist had biopsied the tumor. There was an ugly egg-sized mass on the left side of his head with a gaping hole from the biopsy and an angry redness from inflammation. I immediately put him on a derivative of this Chinese herb and he took it for two weeks. At the end of that time, the lump developed a little depression in the center, but the perimeter had grown just slightly. Dejected that it didn't significantly regress, he elected to stop further use of the product and take a "wait and see" approach. Four weeks later, I received a call from Donald. The tumor was gone! My mouth dropped open and I could hardly wait to see him. Returning with his wife and a big smile a few days later, I couldn't believe my eyes. The skin was smooth, no mass was present, and the angry redness was fading fast. He said, "I had lots of people praying for me, I have faithfully followed your recommendations on diet, which are extremely important, but I'm convinced the artemesia product was the key." As you can imagine, I was jumping out of my skin! Artemesia is a simple plant that grows in Southeast Asia. I've used it for years to treat intestinal parasites. The World Health Organization lauds it as a safe malaria treatment. Little did I know I had a cancer cure sitting right under my nose. I discovered the cancer connection Drs. Henry Lai and Narenda Singh, bioengineering professors at the University of Washington, reported on the active agent of this Asian herb (artemisinin). Their report said the herb "might provide a safe, non-toxic, and inexpensive alternative for cancer patients." So I called Dr. Lai and he told me some earth-shaking information. What I didn't realize was that artemesia is a close cousin to oxygen therapy. Chinese researchers said the key to its effects was a peroxide linkage (two oxygen atoms hooked together) within the herb's active molecule. Remember our old friend hydrogen peroxide? All peroxides share a common feature. In the presence of free iron, they break down to form highly reactive oxygen-based free radicals. Malaria is a parasite (plasmodium) that infects the iron-rich red blood cell and accumulates iron. While the body avidly shields iron in a bound-up state (hemoglobin, enzymes, etc.), excess iron accumulates in the parasite, and the accumulation allows some iron to spill out of the bound state and become free. When the artemisinin products contact the iron -- BOOM! A huge burst of free radicals is unleashed, virtually blowing up the cell harboring the free iron and destroying the parasite. Some seven years ago, Dr. Lai, aware of the high accumulation of iron in cancer cells, wondered if this same mechanism might work in cancer treatment. He and his colleague, Dr. Singh, conducted experiments in laboratory cancer cells documenting a 100 percent kill rate of breast-cancer cells and leukemia cells in just hours. More importantly, it left normal breast cells and white blood cells unscathed. Then, one year ago, an article appeared in a major cancer journal demonstrating significant artemisinin anticancer activity in a wide variety of laboratory cultured cancer cells. But astonishingly, cancers resistant to common chemotherapy drugs showed no such resistance to artemisinin. It does not have the chemical structure a cancer cell requires to develop resistance! (This was reported recently in the (International Journal of Oncology 18; 767-773, 2001 by Efferth, et al.) I was more than intrigued. I was captivated. I thought if its antimalarial effects translated to anti-cancer effects, this could be the cancer breakthrough of our lifetime. So I started using the herb's derivatives in my cancer treatment program. Donald, mentioned earlier, was one of my first cases. At about the same time, I continued to follow a long-term patient, a delightful 47-year-old female with stage-4 breast cancer. Diane was diagnosed only two years before with the promise of "We got it all" at her mastectomy. When she came to me, she had developed metastases in her spine, which caused her to limp. A cancer-induced fracture in her vertebrae gave her significant pain and prevented her from performing the duties of her job. All the conventional doctors could offer was full-dose chemotherapy at a horrific toll on the quality of her life, but they also confided honestly that there was no hope it would lead to a cure. She chose alternatives instead, receiving IPT, high-dose nutritional therapy, dietary changes, dendritic cell vaccine, multi-step oxygen therapy, and more. All of her symptoms regressed, but the CT showed no change. After a short course of artemisinin derivatives, she reported back to me that physically she couldn't tell she had ever had cancer. She felt totally well. The CT scan showed regression but there's no way to tell if the remaining lesion was a tumor or healing scar tissue. Results like this with absolutely no toxicity are simply amazing by any standards, conventional or unconventional. Yet another patient, Carole, who was seeing my friend Dr. Donato Perez-Garcia for IPT, came to see me with an unsightly, massive, open, and oozing cancer engulfing what had been her whole left breast. She had been fighting the cancer for two years and, convinced on her own that doing conventional therapy was a death sentence, she explored nearly every option she could. She started an artemesia derivative and sent me photos one month later showing exceptional healing! I recently had the pleasure to speak with Dr. Hoang of Hanoi, Vietnam, whose family of physicians has been using artemisinin for about 10 years. He reports that 50-60 percent of 400 cancer patients have achieved long-term remission utilizing artemisinin together with a comprehensive integrative cancer strategy. Among these patients is a 47-year-old female who, presented with terminal liver cancer from hepatitis B and abdominal ascites (massive swelling from liver failure), was just days or weeks from death. Today, two-and-a-half years later, she is alive and well with no signs of any disease! Dr. Singh is currently following many cancer patients. While not reporting remissions or apparent cures, he says all patients are responding and have at least stabilized. He has found no type of cancer unresponsive to artemisinin derivatives in his studies. Dr. Hoang recommends treatment for two years. Cancer could be like the malaria parasite. If just one cell remains, it can find its way back. Thus, as in malaria, although the parasite is cleared in a few days, prolonged treatment best prevents relapse. And the beauty of this treatment is that it's non- toxic, so you can continue taking it indefinitely with no expected side effects. There are three common artemesia derivatives, and one must know the properties of each for best treatment. Artesunate is water soluble and may be the most active and the least toxic, but it has the shortest life within the body. Artemether is oil or lipid soluble and has the longest half-life. It also has the most toxicity (but this is related to rather high dosages, which are unnecessary. Its big advantage is that it can cross the blood-brain barrier to reach cancers in the nervous system. Artemisinin is the active parent compound of the plant. It has an intermediate half-life, is very safe, and also can cross the blood-brain barrier. The first two are slightly altered semi-synthetic derivatives of artemisinin, the concentrated and purified active agent. Dr. Singh reports that a combination of the forms may be the very best treatment due to these different properties (based on a lab experiment). Thus, he feels the best preparation will contain artemisinin and artemether to provide a dose of 0.5-2 mg/Kg of each form once daily before bed (away from any residual iron left in the stomach from the evening meal). Dr. Hoang reports that 500 mg twice daily of oral artemisinin by itself is the dosage he has been using with great success. The product is best taken on an empty stomach with some natural fat to enhance absorption. Any iron present from residual food may neutralize the peroxides. Milk is one of the few foods with minimal iron. Whole milk, cottage cheese, or yogurt have ample fat to enhance absorption. Additionally, I believe simultaneous administration of cod liver oil (for its omega-3 and vitamin D) and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) will assist absorption, while providing additional therapeutic benefits. Folks, my hat's off to Drs. Lai and Singh, medical saints who have brought this information to the world. To date, with the exception of patients very near death, taking artemisinin or derivatives have stabilized, improved, or remitted every cancer patient I have followed. No one could deny this is nothing short of an absolute miracle! We are in the infancy of our understanding of how to use artemesia products. The medical literature suggests that oxygenating the system, perhaps with multistep oxygen therapy, might make them more effective. Administration of certain chemotherapy agents (IPT), which kill cells through free radical mechanisms, is another option. Please note that artemesia herb products are not the same as the concentrated forms of the derivatives I've described here. The highest concentration of artemisinin (the active agent) in the raw herb in best of conditions does not even get beyond one-half pecent. Furthermore, there's concern by Dr. Singh that unscrupulous dealers will label artemisinin content without performing a proper analysis. Thus, he has tested some products, finding perhaps only 10-20 percent of anticancer activity against cultured cancer cells compared to pure artemisinin. Allergy Research Group (800-545-9960) distributes a high-grade artemisinin confirmed by independent lab analysis, which I recommend. But, remember, it is not a singular therapy. It should be used in conjunction with a comprehensive cancer management strategy, together with the help of an integrative medicine physician or an open-minded oncologist. The best news of all, though, is that you now have more hope than ever that cancer will not take your life! Calcium D-Glucarate -- A Cancer Preventer? If you follow the news, you are no doubt aware of the tremendous harm chemicals are doing to the environment and, more importantly, the negative impact of those chemicals on your health. One major concern is the effect of environmental chemicals on hormone-sensitive tissue. Mounting evidence is linking excessive levels of hormones and carcinogenic chemicals to breast, prostate, uterine, and probably ovarian cancers. Your risk of cancer and other serious illnesses increases in relationship to your body's accumulation of toxic chemicals and toxic levels of steroid hormones. Under ideal circumstances, the body has a biochemical plan in place to help it inactivate and eliminate hormones, drugs, and other undesirable chemicals. Such detoxification and elimination is one of the main functions of the liver. One such liver pathway is glucuronidation. Glucuronidation is basically a chemical reaction performed by your liver during which a water-soluble substance is combined or coupled with a hormone or toxin, both inactivating it and allowing the substance to be more easily excreted. This process is called "conjugation." Conjugation renders the original toxic compound inactive and makes it possible for the body to eliminate it through normal channels like the bowels or the urinary tract. Normally, the glucuronidation pathway works pretty well, unless the body is grossly overloaded with toxins or some other chemical, parasite, or bacteria gets in the way. An example of the latter exists in the intestines. The bacteria there produce enzymes that should support healthy elimination, but sometimes it has the opposite effect. Sometimes an enzyme (produced by the gut bacteria) called beta-glucuronidase works against the elimination of estrogens and carcinogenic environmental toxins. This enzyme has the ability to uncouple the toxin from its conjugated form, freeing it for reabsorption. When this occurs, the body's intricate system of detoxification and elimination is thwarted. Turns out, the dietary supplement calcium D-glucarate blocks beta-glucuronidase, which enhances your body's ability to secrete these toxins before they can be liberated and reabsorbed. Although we don't have direct human evidence, we do have very promising studies in both human and animal studies. Researchers have observed that humans with high levels of beta-glucuronidase activity in their gut have a higher risk of hormone-associated cancers, such as breast, prostate, and colon. And rats bred to have a very high incidence of cancer (100 percent) had a 56 percent reduction of cancer when fed calcium D-glucarate. And of the animals that did develop cancer, there was greater than an 80-percent reduction in the overall number of tumors. Some of the rats were protected even though they were genetically meant to have cancer and others had less threatening forms of the cancers. Calcium D-glucarate is a safe supplement that has no known negative interactions or toxicity, it inhibits the undesirable bacterial enzyme beta glucuronidase and, thus, aids our elimination of toxins. Calcium D-glucarate naturally occurs in fruits and vegetables. This may explain the protective effects of vegetables that reduce the risk of cancer. Many of them are abundant sources of D-glucarate. They include the cruciferous vegetables cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. Other foods that contain it are grapefruit, apples, bean sprouts, and lettuce. Calcium D-glucarate is relatively inexpensive and is recommended by nutritionists for persons at risk of cancer. The suggested dose ranges from 200-400 mg per day. If you have had a relatively low exposure to toxins in your life, a low dose may be fine. If you smoke or have lived in a very polluted area, you might choose a higher dose, say 500 mg three times a day. I enthusiastically recommend it to my patients, especially female patients who I feel are at elevated risk of breast cancer, men at risk of prostate cancer, or both sexes at risk of colon cancer. The mucosal cells that line the colon may be a hotbed for cancer simply because they are at the end of the line for exposure to a wide variety of poisons being eliminated through the gut. Calcium D-glucarate supplements do not take the place of changing your lifestyle to a healthy one. But they do offer good support of important detoxification pathways, especially if you've ever been a smoker or a lover of lunch meats, hot dogs, coffee or sodas. If you are still a smoker, calcium D-glucarate is a very appropriate supplement for you. It is not a cure for a body loaded with toxins, but it could give your body the support it needs to remain healthier longer. New Chemotherapy Treatment Safely Destroys Prostate and Breast Cancer (IPT) When Donna McDermott noticed a slight change in the shape of her right breast, she went straight to her doctor and received a mammogram and an ultrasound. The doctor told her she had fibrocystic breasts. But Donna was actually suffering from an advanced stage of breast cancer (chalk up another false negative to mammograms). She suffered from some of the classic symptoms of breast cancer, including fatigue, exhaustion, excessive hair loss, lower back pain, and, of course, the change in shape of her breast. The real giveaway, though, was the thickening tissue around the breast. At first, Donna refused to believe she had cancer, but within six months, "I knew I was dying," she told Chris Duffield, PhD, of Stanford University. "The tissue was thickening all the way up to my collarbone.... The tissue of the entire breast was calcifying." A biopsy confirmed her worst fears. Donna's surgeon scheduled a modified radical mastectomy (personally, I consider any mastectomy to be radical), but the last thing she wanted to do was submit to the usual cutting, burning, and poisoning conventional medicine offered. Instead, at Duffield's recommendation, she visited a friend of mine, Donato Perez Garcia, III, MD, who has successfully used a cancer therapy called Insulin Potentiation Therapy, or IPT, for nearly 20 years. IPT had its origins in the 1920s in Mexico City with Dr. Perez's namesake and grandfather, who at the time was a 28-year-old military doctor. After reading about using insulin to treat non- diabetic malnutrition, Dr. Perez decided to try using it to treat his own chronic gastrointestinal condition. He effectively treated himself for the disorder and then moved on to other diseases. In 1945, Dr. Perez used IPT to treat cancer for the first time. The results were astonishing! In the late 1950s, Dr. Perez passed on his IPT work to his son, Dr. Donato Perez Garcia y BellF3n (Dr. Perez II). They worked closely from 1956 to 1971, until the elder Dr. Perez passed away. During this time, they expanded the use of IPT to treat other diseases, including reversing polio paralysis in children. They further developed their treatments for cancer to include a simple electrophoresis technique and an apparatus called an "Oncodiagnosticator," which detects a chemical imbalance that is believed to lead to or support cancer. In 1983, Dr. Perez II was joined by his son, Dr. Donato Perez Garcia (Dr. Perez III), at the family practice. In 1988, Dr. Perez III moved part of the family practice to Tijuana, just south of San Diego, to make IPT more available to patients from the U.S. There are now more than 30 doctors actively using IPT throughout this hemisphere, in- cluding many in the U.S. How does IPT work? It's really very simple. Cancer cells need glucose to burn for energy. They are almost totally dependent of glucose as their energy source, while other cells can also burn fats. With few exceptions, all cells require insulin to allow glucose to enter. Since cancer cells are totally dependent on glucose as their only energy source, they have many more insulin receptors on their membranes (this is how the cancer cell consumes the glucose). In fact, they may have anywhere from six to 15 times the number of insulin receptors as normal cells, giving them a real competitive advantage in swallowing up fuel. But insulin has other effects as well. In addition to insulin opening up the path for glucose to enter, it also makes the cell membrane more permeable to other substances, including chemotherapy drugs. Thus, because insulin receptors are so concentrated on cancer cells, increasing the insulin in the cancer patient's body opens the cancer up. When this happens, the cancer can be selectively targeted by the cancer drugs without affecting the normal cells. More drugs will enter the cancer cells in the presence of insulin. In fact, a study in the early 1980s showed that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate had its ability to kill breast cancer cells magnified 10,000 times when the cells were prepared with insulin! Further, insulin has properties that encourage the cancer cells to enter a phase of DNA synthesis and cell division, which is where cells become the most vulnerable. Thus, preparing the patient with insulin provides a double whammy for the cancer cells. More drug enters and in a more vulnerable time in the cell cycle. This means a far smaller quantity of chemotherapy drugs are needed to achieve effectiveness. Hence -- little, if any, toxicity! When Donna first visited Dr. Perez III, he told her to expect anywhere from 12 to 20 treatments and that they would know if the treatment was working within a few weeks. After the first treatment, she "felt more energy and strength.... With each treatment, I felt a little stronger and the tumor got a little smaller." The only side effect she encountered was a little constipation from time to time. But she suffered none of the other well-known side effects such as hair loss (in fact, her hair grew thicker than it's been in 25 years), nausea, vomiting, night sweats, hot flashes, or swollen legs (to name just a few). After three months, "I woke up one morning and I knew that I was no longer dying. I could feel it." After 11 months, she was released from treatment, completely free from the cancer! Now all she has to endure is the follow-up blood tests and ultrasounds. Obviously, this treatment is new to the medical world, so the number of patients who have experienced its marvelous healing abilities is not large. But the treatment is so safe and effective, it should be one of your first choices for treatment, especially if you suffer from a solid tumor like breast or prostate cancer. These cancers are where we're seeing the best results. I personally have treated several people and have seen remarkable results. One 62-year-old man was suffering from lung cancer. I had treated him for six years with standard complementary therapies, but his tumor continued to grow, but slower than expected. We embarked on IPT therapy and, after the first month, his radiologist called up the clinic in disbelief that the tumor had regressed by 30 percent. He had followed the patient for the past six years and never saw it shrink at all. I reduced the frequency of his treatment from two to one per week and the progress halted. When we re-instituted two treatments per week, the tumor again regressed with the progress described as "dramatic" by the radiologist. While the patient hasn't been cured of his cancer (as of yet), he has been able to maintain a consistent quality of life. To date, he hasn't experienced any toxicity from chemotherapy. A 59-year-old man suffers from esophageal cancer. The primary mass was surgically removed, but the metastatic lymph nodes were left intact. In his first month of therapy, the metastatic nodes had regressed by 40 percent, with no toxicity. He is still under treatment. And finally, R.R. is a 76-year-old man with lung cancer. This is his third cancer. He was recommended to receive full-dose chemotherapy, but decided to go with IPT instead. He is one of the few patients who did develop slight toxicity with minor hair loss and a slight fall in blood count. But he felt no worse for wear at all. His tumor was growing each month prior to IPT, proven by CAT scans. After IPT started, there was no longer any growth of the tumor at all. Due to the slight toxicity, we reduced frequency of treatments to every four to eight weeks and even after two months of no therapy, there has not been any further growth of the tumor. These are my own consecutive cases. Even if the tumors did not disappear completely, all of these patients have been afforded significantly more time, are cancer-symptom free, and virtually free of any major toxicity or "side-effects." Because IPT uses standardized chemotherapy drugs, many insurance companies will pay for the treatment, though Medicare isn't usually as cooperative and most physicians who practice the technique have, out of justified fear of their own government, opted out of Medicare entirely. You'll have to check with your carrier to find out for sure if it will help pay for the treatment. The best resource for learning more about IPT is the Web site www.iptq.org. Chris Duffield has done an excellent job of hosting this Web site in an effort to promote IPT and help cancer patients find doctors who can help them. The Web site also has the complete story of Donna McDermott, which is definitely worth reading. If you don't have access to the Internet, you can get a list of doctors who have been trained in IPT from the technique's teacher, Dr. Steven Ayre, by sending $5 and a self-addressed stamped envelope to Contemporary Medicine, 322 Burr Ridge Pkwy., Burr Ridge, IL 60521. IPT is one of the few cancer therapies I would consider using if I had cancer. There are other therapies that work, including one in particular I'll be discussing in a few months. But if you have cancer, make sure you contact a doctor who practices IPT and see if the treatment is right for you. Ref: www.iptq.org The Only Safe Way to Burn Cancer Out of Your Body For years, doctors and medical science believed the only way to effectively burn cancer out of your body was with radiation. Of course, they still hold to that dogma. But you don't have to. There's another way to burn cancer out of your body. And this method is completely safe to the surrounding tissues and the rest of your body. You may know that conventional medicine's cancer management system does anything but protect your healthy tissues. Surgery will often expose healthy cells surrounding the tumor to the cancer cells. This makes The thinking behind these treatments does have merit. Even many alternative-minded doctors will use these treatments as appropriate. I've occasionally used chemotherapy as part of my cancer treatment regimen. But usually at 1/10th the dose, with insulin (IPT). So the idea of burning your cancer out is a good idea. We just need to be able to do it without damaging the healthy tissues. And now there's a way to do it. Researchers in two separate studies have found a way to burn your cancer cells with capsaicin rather than radiation. Capsaicin is the very hot extract of red peppers. In the first study, scientists evaluated the herbal extract's effect on mice implanted with human prostate cancer cells. The extract killed 80% of the wayward cells. How? It induced them to commit apoptosis. Apoptosis is preprogrammed cell death (cell suicide) for when cells turn abnormal. In cancer, the mechanism of apoptosis is turned off and the cells become immortal (until something kills them or the host dies). Turning on that mechanism in cancer cells would be a major breakthrough. Capsaicin also had a profound effect on the cancer cells' ability to multiply. In addition to killing 80% of the cancer cells, it dramatically slowed the development of tumors from the remaining 20%. That's enough to allow other treatments to step in and successfully kill these cells. This study's researchers found that capsaicin affected a protein called NF-kappa B. This protein protects cells from apoptosis and is involved in inflammation. Capsaicin may inhibit its action both in apoptosis protection and promoting inflammation. The hot stuff also affected androgen (male hormone) receptors. By doing so, it caused many hormone dependent cells to freeze in time. That doesn't mean a cold freeze. The cells merely entered a cell cycle of no growth and stayed there. That's what hormone therapy does for men who choose to take hormone blockers. However, with capsaicin, you aren't likely to suffer breast growth, impotence, or other signs of male hormone wipe out, or estrogen excess (as you would with hormone therapy). But the news gets far better. A British study led by Dr. Timothy Bates has found that capsaicin directly attacks the mitochondria (energy furnaces) of cancer cells. But it leaves the mitochondria of normal cells untouched. The team found that lung and pancreatic cancer cells incubated with the hot extract died from the direct assault on their energy furnaces. Pancreatic cancer cells are particularly hard to kill, so this is great news. Study after study is showing the incredible healing power of spices and herbs such as red pepper and turmeric. I have already suggested to some people battling cancer to try capsaicin. Cayenne extracts can be extraordinarily hot and very uncomfortable. So I have asked Farmacopia (800-896-1484) to carry a dried extract in capsules (40,000 heat units each). I suggest you take seven capsules three times per day, but only for three days a week. If you find that this dose is too uncomfortable for you, please contact Farmacopia and let them know. I will definitely report back to you on the progress of those who try the nontoxic cancer burn of hot pepper extract. And I certainly would rely on this more than a petrochemical synthetic version. Ref: Cancer Research, March 15, 2006. If you'd like to subscribe to Dr. Rowen's newsletter, you can do so by calling his Business Office in Atlanta at (800) 728-2288 or (770) 399-5617. The cost is $49 a year for 12 issues. How to Successfully Treat Skin Cancer A few months ago, I told you the incredible story about a cat with severe skin cancer. His owner completely cured the cat using a hand-held laser device. At the time, there weren't any cases of the laser working on human cases of skin cancer. Now there is. And, in a moment, you'll see the results. They are absolutely astounding! The laser I'm referring to is the one developed by Gerry Graham, DC. It has the incredible ability to heal pain, wounds, and now cancer. Dr. Graham is the one who told me about the cat. He showed me pictures of the cat with its squamous cell cancer. The cancer had grown across its right eye and down into its right nostril. It should have been "put to sleep." But its owner is a vet. And he wanted to see if the laser could help. So he treated the cat using only the laser. Within several weeks, the cancer was totally gone without a trace. And Kitty's eye was completely unharmed. When I saw the before and after pictures of this cat, I remembered something I learned in a book written by Randolph Howes, MD, PhD. (Utopia available at http://www.thepundit.com/.) He is my mentor on oxygen therapy. And his book shows how "free radicals" can be quite good for us. Well, in truth, we can't live without them. Our immune cells generate billions of them to kill bacterial invaders. Only when free radicals get out of balance do they become a problem. The antioxidants you take and eat help keep them in balance. Another fact that most people don't realize is that your body is constantly creating immense amounts of electronically modified oxygen derivatives (EMODs). Some of these are, in fact, free radicals. But EMODs also include our friends hydrogen peroxide and ozone. They are extremely effective at delivering reactive oxygen to your cells. All of your normal cells need and have a steady level of EMODs for ideal functioning. If the level drops too low, abnormal cells can proliferate. Cancer is abnormal cells that are proliferating non-stop. I've told you many times that cancer prefers a low oxygen environment. But if you can raise the level of EMODs in those cells, you can stop the proliferation. And even higher levels can cause apoptosis (cell death). That's what we want for wayward cells. In the past, you could go to a special clinic that used photodynamic therapy in order to improve the levels of EMODs in cancer cells. Dr. Howes explained to me that the 635nm is a perfect wavelength to create one highly reactive EMOD in cells. But photodynamic therapy is extremely expensive. And you probably won't find many clinics willing to use it to treat your cancer. (You can read about photodynamic therapy on the Internet.) But anyone with a 635nm laser (Dr. Graham's) can do the exact same thing for tumors the light can reach. It can activate normal oxygen to a particular reactive EMOD, which can enhance your immune system, and is toxic to cancer cells. This means that the 635nm laser may be the fastest, simplest, easiest, and most convenient way to administer oxidation therapy directly to a specific part of your body! This concept could revolutionize healing! At least it sounds good in theory. How does it work in reality? Well, we've already seen what happened with the cat. But now look at what happened to Todd Green. He's 37 years old and lives in Florida. He developed a basal cell cancer on his upper lip. His doctor removed it by biopsy three years ago. Everything was fine until two years later. In May 2006, something horrible came back with a vengeance on the same site. His dermatologist was not available for two weeks. And whatever it was, it was growing fast -- daily! Quite frightened, he was scheduled for a bigger surgery to take it off, but decided to try the laser that cured the cat's skin cancer. He used it for 90 minutes daily for 30 days. Remarkably, the growth totally disappeared. But Todd isn't the only incredible story. Peggy McKenna, also of Florida, developed a breast cancer with a huge mass in her left breast when she was 59. For two months, she used only the laser to treat the mass. The mass disappeared. And, as an added bonus, a knot in her neck totally disappeared too! Obviously, this new laser science is stunning. Dr. Graham may have unknowingly stumbled on to a relatively inexpensive and absolutely safe way to do photodynamic therapy for superficial or other cancers that can The lasers are expensive. But when you consider what they can do, I think they're well worth the price. The professional four-light model is $5,995. The two-light home unit is $2,995. You can order the laser from LazrPulsR Systems at 888-696-6532. Breast Cancer Industry A Scam? Support Education, Not Medication This is the second annual publication of NaturalNews's "Education, Not Medication" program designed to teach women the truth about how to prevent and even cure breast cancer. This disease is 90 percent preventable, mostly using completely free therapies. The breast cancer industry does not want women to be made aware of these free therapies because most of the better-known non-profits in the area of breast cancer are, themselves, dependant on revenues from the companies that profit from the disease. The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women who receive breast cancer treatments. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about breast cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it. "Breast cancer has been transformed into a market-driven industry. It has become more about making money for corporate sponsors than funding innovative ways to treat breast cancer." - Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons Inc. The emphasis on breast cancer "screening," and the circus of holding breast cancer awareness months is, of course, all about recruiting more women into a system of treatment that generates profits for drug companies. Using fear-based tactics of recruitment (like telling women, "You'll die in six months if you don't undergo chemotherapy..."), the breast cancer industry manages to corral women of all races and ages into treatments that actually harm far more women than they help. New research, for example, shows that certain classes of chemotherapy drugs are so dangerous to human health that they cause heart failure in many women who use them. The drugs are called anthracyclines, and the research was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (October, 2007). Chemotherapy is so dangerous to the heart, liver, kidneys and brain that the very act of screening for cancer tumors with mammography machines ultimately causes harm to most patients. Find that hard to believe? Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark studied 500,000 women to determine the results of breast cancer screening programs. They found that for every one woman helped by breast cancer screening, ten were harmed through false diagnosis or unnecessary treatments that devastated their health. "What seems like good and obvious advice in everyday life is not always scientifically or medically sound", said Peter Gotzsche, MD, director of the center. "So we might say there is a benefit of one but a harm of 10 from screening for breast cancer." You can read more about that story at www.NaturalNews.com/020829.html In other words, breast cancer screening is surprisingly harmful to women. That's partly because the procedure itself irradiates the breast tissue and actually causes cancer, but also because practically any screening result producing a questionable blur on the final image may result in a woman being manipulated through fear into undergoing aggressive, toxic cancer treatments even when they never had breast cancer in the first place. (False positives are extremely common in breast cancer screening, and in some cases, the machinery is incorrectly calibrated and doesn't even meet radiology standards.) Preventing prevention While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy -- a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs. Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry seems interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake here, and the cancer industry is banking on the continuation of this disease among the population. That's why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D, which has recently been shown to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of ALL cancers!) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below. The cancer industry depends on more cancer Ever notice that cancer centers are not called, "Anti-Cancer Centers?" You see them in virtually every city and state across the country: The Washington Cancer Center, or the San Francisco Cancer Center. Here in Arizona, we have a massive, new building being constructed, and it's named the Arizona Cancer Center. These are all monuments to cancer, and they are usually for-profit businesses constructed for the purpose of making money from a woman's disease. They turn cancer into profit, and they depend on the continuation of cancer to stay in business. That's why there's no real effort underway to teach women how to prevent breast cancer. There's no program in place to teach women about the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D (in fact, cancer industry groups like the American Cancer Society run public service ads warning people about sunlight!), there's no honest effort to teach women about the natural anti-cancer medicine founds in certain foods, and no one is telling women the truth about the cancer-causing chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics and personal care products. Recent research shows that even air fresheners are contaminated with phthalates, and new details about cancer-causing chemicals in household products seem to emerge every week. But when it comes to preventing cancer, the cancer industry is silent. Why should they say anything, anyway? If they teach women how to prevent breast cancer, they lose customers. Besides, the scheme they're running right now is working brilliantly. They maximize revenues and profits by preventing prevention and waiting for women to get cancer, then treating them with high-profit pharmaceuticals, radiation and surgical procedures. They have the easiest business model in the world: All they have to do is keep their mouths shut about what causes cancer, and wait for new customers to fill the cancer centers. And to help them out, corporations, media organizations and volunteers (many are women!) actually help them raise more money! Women raising money for cancer industry non-profit groups makes about as much sense as Jews raising money for Hitler. The cancer industry is exploiting these women, using their bodies to generate profits! It's time to teach genuine cancer prevention to women And doing so is surprisingly simple. All you have to do is raise awareness about the things that cause breast cancer vs. the things that prevent breast cancer. This can be done through public service announcements, information handouts, or even internet campaigns like this one. I also suggest that all these cancer treatment centers donate 100 percent of their profits to cancer prevention campaigns. It's wrong to profit from a woman's cancer, is it not? If these businesses really cared about stopping cancer, they'd refuse to profit from the disease and, instead, use the money to help stop cancer in future generations of women (and men, for that matter). What an idea, huh? That these ultra-wealthy non-profits and billion-dollar corporations might spend some money on teaching women how to prevent cancer... If it ever really happens, of course, it will only be as a cover-your-ass reaction to public awareness about the corporatization of the breast cancer industry. As word spreads, these non-profits will have to do something to save their reputation, so they'll start running tiny "prevention" campaigns to save face. But underneath the facade, make no mistake: cancer is big, big business, and the cancer industry is driven by profiting from a woman's body, not protecting it from cancer. "[The cancer industry is] a market-driven industry that feeds off breast cancer survivors." - Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons Inc. The real answers to breast cancer prevention 18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order) Smoking cigarettes Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms Chemotherapy and radiation Perfumes and fragrance products Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc. Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids - See Poison In the Food or articles on hydrogenated oils Plastic food containers - includes plastic lining inside food cans Sodium nitrite - found in most processed meats, see articles on sodium nitrite Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals Acrylamides (formed during high-heat food processing such as frying) Watching television / lack of exercise Severe emotional distress or relationship stress Refined sugars / refined grains Dry cleaning chemicals Hair color chemicals Nail polish remover 22 things that PREVENT cancer: Vitamin D and sunshine - see the Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D Anti-cancer foods - see articles about anti-cancer foods Medicinal mushrooms - reishi, shiitake, agaricus blazei, etc. See www.MushroomScience.com or www.DragonHerbs.com Green tea - see articles about green tea Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables - see articles about broccoli Lycopene and tomatoes Infra-red saunas and sweat lodges - because sweating expels toxins Chlorella - see articles on chlorella, or check out a recommended chlorella product: Rejuvenate! From IntegratedHealth.com (product to be launched soon) Pomegranate seeds - see artiles on pomegranate or http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=32 Omega-3 oils / chia seeds - available from GoodCauseWellness.com Rainforest herbs - There are many anti-cancer rainforest herbs, including graviola and Cat's Claw (Una de Gato). Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body's energy) Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers) Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker. Deep breathing / oxygenation / stress reduction - Best product is called Stress Eraser (highly recommended) Yoga, Tai Chi or Pilates - These all boost lymph circulation Cacao - (real chocolate) - Good sources are NavitasNaturals.com or Superfoods.com Therapeutic massage - helps move lymph, boost circulation Mint - grow your own (the easiest plant to grow) Apricot pits / laetrile / vitamin B17 - View this World Without Cancer video featuring G. Edward Griffin Blackberries - Most berries contain some form of anti-cancer medicine The cancer industry attacks nearly all genuine cancer solutions In other words, if you want to know what the cancer industry supports or attacks, just check to see which list it's on. If it's on the list of things that prevent cancer, the cancer industry (including most of its doctors, oncologists, non-profits and government regulators) will be against it. If it's on the list of things that cause cancer, they will likely promote it. The cancer industry, you see, isn't interested in stopping cancer. It depends on the disease! The exception to this is, of course, tobacco. That's a substance that doctors once gladly promoted in magazine advertisements, claiming that smoking was good for your health and even improved your teeth! But today, the tobacco scam has long since been revealed, and even conventional medicine is now squarely against this substance that they once strongly promoted. The American Medical Association, by the way, used to actually run ads for cigarettes in its flagship medical journal, JAMA. Doctors can always be bought off and made to promote whatever poison is making the most money this decade (these people have no shame). In the 1950's, it was cigarettes. Today, it's pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. Different drugs, same scam. But money was always -- and IS always -- the bottom line for conventional medicine. Today, doctors promote chemotherapy, which is far more toxic than smoking! What to take with selenium to fight prostate cancer As I said on Wednesday, I've been treating my patients with selenium for 25 years. It's a fabulous cancer preventive and detox mineral. But I've just discovered a way to make selenium fight cancer even better. A small study recently found followed 37 patients who had prostate cancer. All of them also had a radical prostatectomy (something I NEVER recommend). The researchers divided the participants into two groups. One group took a placebo. The other group took a combination of selenium (200 mcg) and milk thistle (570 mg) versus placebo. The main markers for success the researchers evaluated were lipid-panel-associated changes due to cancer, and quality of life. The participants started taking the supplements two to three months after surgery. And they continued to take them for six months. The nutrient combination improved the quality of life score and decreased LDL and total cholesterol. Selenium levels in their blood also increased. There were no changes in total testosterone or blood antioxidant status. The authors were pleased that the nutrient combination reduced two markers of lipid metabolism that we know affect prostate cancer progression in post-surgery men. These are LDL and total cholesterol. They felt the combination might be effective in reducing the cancer's progression. I've long, long suggested selenium as both a prostate cancer preventer and for treatment as well. The researchers looked at silymarin (milk thistle) for its suppression of prostate cancer in lab animals. Silymarin has a long history of use in liver protection and liver disease. While this study used selenomethionine, I prefer sodium selenite. The former is in vogue right now. But my research suggests that the inorganic form (selenite) is superior to get the maximum effects of selenium supplementation. If you're taking Healthy Resolve and Advanced Detox Formula, you're getting ample selenium. And you can get 50 mg of silymarin in Advanced Greens Formula. If you have prostate cancer or are at risk for it, you may want to take a silymarin stand-alone supplement as well. Take up to 600 mg daily. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub. 2010 Sep;154(3):239-44. Subscribe now to Dr. Rowen's Second Opinion Newsletter and Get up to 11 Free Reports Breast Cancer Research is a Fraud! The recent change in breast cancer screening guidelines caused huge waves in the medical community. For some reason, breast cancer has become a major press sensation. Everyone is wearing pink ribbons in support of breast cancer research.People are walking miles to raise money for breast cancer research. And this research has supposedly led to fewer breast cancer cases. Well, in November, I told my Health Alert subscribers that the only reason breast cancer cases have decreased is because fewer women use non-bioidentical hormone replacement therapy than they did a few years ago. You can read the November 25, 2009 alert (and sign up to receive these alerts for free) on my website. But now there's proof that all this research we're pushing for is nearly worthless. A study in The Scientist magazine says that almost all of the research done on breast cancer cells for the last 25 years is bogus. That's right! It's almost completely false. How is this possible? Lab research on tumors often used a consistent single standard cell line. Cancer cells are immortal. They will forever divide. So researchers can ship them from Unfortunately, the cell line they were using wasn't breast cancer! It was melanoma cells. The revelation is devastating to those researchers who say science is infallible. This news means that the 650 studies (or more) done on this cell line are invalid. They have nothing to do with breast cancer. Medical dogma insists that we should practice evidence-based medicine. That's how Big Pharma gets its edge. They can afford the studies. But now we know that "evidence" is easily flawed. Combine this with the medical ghostwriting I've told you about and all evidence-based science is now suspect. To me, the best evidence is a doctor's clinical experience. Unfortunately, that's just the sort of evidence that the establishment shoots down. Science has its place in medicine. But as scientific principles insist, it has to be repeatable -- even in the doctor's office. Scudellari, Megan. "A Case of Mistaken Identity." The Scientist, September 16, 2008; http://www.the-scientist. com/news/display/55013/. Fighting for GMO Labeling and Better Cancer Laws I'm writing this report especially to Californians. But the issues affect everyone in North America, as California is a bellwether state for issues like these. Congratulations to those who donated time and money to see this accomplished. It will be a tough fight. Monsanto and its minions will yell that it will increase costs to label and confuse people. The Fraud and Deception Administration (FDA) will chime in that GMO foods are identical to non-GMO. Of course, they're conveniently ignoring highly credible research that the Frankenfoods can cause serious reactions in animals, and quite possibly lead your intestinal bacteria to become a pesticide factory, right in your own body! If you live in California, please talk this up! This proposition must pass. Given the facts, I believe the voters will have the courage to do what their corrupt leaders simply will not do. You see, in at least one state, Monsanto effectively blocked the legislature from passing the same resolution despite overwhelming popular and legislative support. Vermont, with 96% popular support, nearly became the first state to pass a transparency in food labeling law. It essentially died in the legislature when Monsanto threatened to sue the state. I ask you, what is more fundamental than the right to know what you're eating? The next issue is a drive in California to legalize non-toxic therapies for cancer. It's hard to believe, but the Golden State has a law on the books making it a felony for anyone to treat cancer without poisons, surgery, or radiation. Yes, even though chemo has only a 2.5% five-year survival rate for stage-4 cancer, your doctor can go to jail if he cures you with vitamin C! This despite the fact that the National Institutes of Health is researching vitamin C for cancer. They know it has the ability to kill tumor cells via a non-toxic hydrogen peroxide mechanism. Does this archaic and draconian law make any sense? The government has condemned our citizens to therapies often worse than the disease, threatening innovation and success with imprisonment. It's the old "earth is flat" mentality. Please visit http://www.naturalnews.com/036179_cancer_integrative_medicine_ Here's another little-known breakthrough, one that may someday save your life or the life of someone you love ... The Amazing Treatment that Makes Chemotherapy 10,000 Times More Effective -- and Almost Totally Safe! (IPT) For most of us, there's nothing scarier than the thought of getting cancer. Over 500,000 Americans die of this cruel disease every year, and very often they die long, drawn-out, painful deaths. Natural remedies have proven to be woefully inadequate at fighting this vicious killer. And conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are even worse -- they cause additional pain and suffering while providing low rates of success. Even the biggest proponents of chemo will tell you that it fails well over 90% of the time! Indeed, when a recent poll asked oncologists what they would do if they had cancer, the majority of them said they would NOT take chemotherapy! Why is chemotherapy such a miserable failure? Because it kills all cells, not just cancerous ones. And because it wipes out your greatest ally in the cancer battle -- your immune system. But what if there was a way to get all the cancer-killing power of chemotherapy without harming healthy cells? What if there was a way to harness this power and get it to work the way we want it to? Wouldn't that be a tremendous boon to mankind? Well, brace yourself, because it appears that a courageous doctor named Donato Perez Garcia has discovered a way to do the impossible. He's found a way to increase the killing power of chemotherapy ... while making it safe and free of side effects! This free email service brings you cutting-edge information and Dr. Rowen's advice about your most pressing health concerns. You will also receive updates on new health research, discoveries, new product announcements, and exclusive special offers. Email: For the past two decades, Dr. Perez Garcia has been using a treatment he calls IPT. It's a treatment so ingenious ... so elegantly simple ... and so obvious that I'm amazed nobody ever thought of it before! IPT stands for Insulin Potentiation Therapy. It consists of giving the patient a dose of insulin, followed by a tiny dosage of chemotherapy. Here's why this works: Cancer cells need glucose to burn for energy. And while healthy cells burn both glucose and fat, cancer cells are almost totally dependent on glucose. They suck it up like crazy. Now, all cells need insulin in order to allow glucose to enter. But since cancer cells need more glucose than other cells, they need more insulin. In fact, it turns out that cancer cells have up to 15 times more insulin receptors than normal cells. This gives them a real competitive advantage in swallowing up fuel. So how does that help us? Well, it turns out that insulin has other effects as well. In addition to allowing glucose to enter, insulin also makes the cell more permeable to other substances ... including chemotherapy drugs! Remember, the cancer cells are jam-packed with insulin receptors. So when we give them insulin ... the cancer cells are "fooled into thinking they're going to be fed, when in reality they're about to be destroyed! Best of all, since so much chemo is entering the cancer cells, we can cut the dosage to just a tiny fraction of what is usually given. Result: we get to kill the cancer cells with almost NO toxicity to the healthy cells! Just how well does IPT work? Well, one study found that adding insulin made the chemo drug methoxtrate 10,000 times more potent. That's no typo, it's 10,000 times! Hundreds Cured Hundreds of patients have been treated with IPT, and the results have been astonishing. In cases of Stage I and Stage II cancer, about 80% of patients achieve complete and total remission. (Note that these patients were tracked for over 10 years after treatment, and continued to live healthy, cancer-free lives!) Among Stage III and IV cancers (the incurable stages), the results are mixed. Some people are cured, but unfortunately, many others die. Nonetheless, there are some amazing case studies of people who made miraculous recoveries: One woman had a large, hand-shaped tumor on her breast that stretched all the way up to her collarbone! Her doctors told her she had less than a year to live. After 23 IPT treatments, she was totally cured. Six years later, she is not only cancer-free but in superb health. All these people were cured with NO side effects and NO toxicity! What's more, in most cases, IPT was the only intensive therapy the patient used. This is important, because in cases where a patient has tried different remedies, we can only guess at the real reason he or she was cured. Since none of the patients above had tried any other treatments, their cures were almost certainly due to IPT. Well, you don't have to hit me over the head to get me to try something that can help my patients! I trained in IPT and started using it in 2000 ... and have had great success. While it's too early to tell if my patients will be permanently cured, I can tell you that everyone I've treated with IPT has seen an improvement in their condition ... and with little or no side effects. This cancer breakthrough is so important that I want everyone to know about it! That's why I've written a Special Report that tells you all about the treatment and where to get it. Currently, there are over 100 doctors in the U.S. and Canada who practice it. The report provides a complete list of these doctors, including their names, addresses, and phone numbers. But that's not all you'll find in the report. Since the best thing you can do for cancer is to make sure you never get it in the first place, I've included the latest news on how to prevent this terrible disease. You'll find my advice on cancer-fighting foods and supplements, as well as some very surprising lifestyle information. (Hint: some of the popular advice you're getting is dead wrong!) Lastly, I'll tell you about two additional cancer-fighting therapies that show great promise. The first is an innovative enzyme therapy developed by a Texas dentist. This dentist was given just months to live by his doctors. He went on this therapy, got rid of his cancer, and then went on to cure over 300 other patients! The second therapy is an ancient Chinese herb that I've had tremendous success with, including some total remissions! As I mentioned earlier, I've tried dozens of herbal remedies over the years ... and found most of them to be worthless. But this one seems like it might be the Real McCoy. It's totally safe and can be taken indefinitely, which means that it's probably an excellent cancer preventative as well. Complete details are in the report, and the report is FREE with your trial subscription to SECOND OPINION. Dr. Brewer's Archives Cancer Smart Bomb: An Idea from Ancient Chinese Medicine (Artemisinin) For Cancer - Zeolite: Powerful New Supplement from Volcanic Rock New Screening Test Helps Prevent Breast Cancer Mary painfully winced as her breast was placed on a plate, squeezed, and flattened to something more like a pancake. She was preparing to receive a "low intensity" X-ray beam called mammography. "It felt like my tissues were being ripped off my chest wall," she said afterward. Then she was startled when the mirror revealed her well-shaped and self-supported breasts were sagging for the first time. Later she told me she would never get another mammogram despite a strong family history of breast cancer. Mary is one of millions of women encouraged by breast- cancer "scare" infomercials to subject her breasts to the rather brutish mammography. This procedure requires mechanical flattening of the breast to get the best picture, since imaging through thick tissue will often obscure the result. What Mary wasn't aware of was the availability of another screening method that's highly accurate, doesn't compress the breast, doesn't use radiation, and is far superior at preventing breast cancer than mammography (which never prevents, just diagnoses the disease). Digital infrared thermography, or thermography, observes the breasts (or other body tissues) for the radiation the tissues naturally emit. Most people these days have watched enough television to understand infrared photography, which highlights objects with temperatures above absolute zero. Few people realize, though, that infrared photography actually picks up on the natural radiation our bodies emit to produce this heat. While most of the uses science has found for this technology are in the military realm (night vision goggles, satellite photography, etc.), new discoveries are making it invaluable for the medical arena. The average person's body temperature is right around 98.6 degrees, thanks mostly to the metabolic and blood-vessel activity in the body. This activity is what makes thermography so valuable. While mammography uses penetrating X-rays to observe structure, thermography observes function (metabolic activity) by heat observation and detection. Before tissue degenerates into cancer, the body's metabolic rate around the site increases. A unique aspect of cancerous tumor growth is a process called neoangiogenesis (new blood-vessel growth). As the cells multiply, they need an increased blood supply to bring in nutrients and remove waste. The increase in circulation gives off heat. An infrared-type camera can detect this heat, giving the patient and doctor an opportunity to take action long before a tumor develops. This makes thermography a tremendous weapon in the fight against breast cancer! Thermography has been around for decades, but advances in technology have led to significant improvements in imaging. In 1982, the FDA approved thermography as an adjunctive diagnostic breast-cancer screening procedure. Since then, there have been thousands of screens done and a multitude of reported studies. The results of the studies are startling. The average sensitivity (detection of disease) of breast thermography is 90 percent. The average specificity (ability to avoid false positives) is 90 percent, meaning only 10 percent of all positives will be false. In comparison, mammography carries a sensitivity rate below 80 percent and often as low as 65 percent. Its sensitivity declines even further in women on hormone replacement therapy, as estrogen makes the breasts denser (the most common reason for failed mammograms). Estrogen is now accepted as the greatest causal risk factor for the development of cancer. Then, in 1983, the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Detection Foundation presented findings that to this day remain undisputed. The findings showed a positive thermogram is the highest risk indicator for the future development of breast cancer. A positive thermogram carries a risk 10 times greater than having a close relative with the disease. One study had a patient base of 58,000 women and specifically followed 1,527 women with initially healthy breasts and abnormal thermograms for 12 years. Of the abnormal thermogram group, 40 percent developed cancer within five years. The study concluded, "an abnormal thermogram is the most important marker for the future development of breast cancer." Once the tumors begin to develop, thermography again proves better than mammography. A study in 1986 screened 4,716 patients with confirmed cancer, 3,305 women with biopsy-proven benign breast disease, and 8,757 general patients. Clinical examination picked up 75 percent of all tumors, but found only 50 percent of tumors less than two centimeters in size. Mammography detected 80 percent of tumors this size or smaller, but 27 percent were false positives. Thermography had an average sensitivity of 88 percent, with a false positive rate of 15 percent and picked up 85 percent of tumors less than one centimeter. Thus, it appears to have a far greater ability than mammography to detect small tumors. These authors did conclude that none of the common screening procedures should be used alone. They should be appropriately combined for the most efficient evaluation. When the procedures are appropriately combined, you can expect the sensitivity to be around 95 percent. With regards to survival of women with breast cancer, use of thermography appears to increase long-term survival rates by up to 61 percent (Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1983). The researchers concluded thermography has a "dramatic survival benefit." Thermography has also been shown to have predictive values in cancer growth: the hotter the tumor area, the faster the cell division, and the greater likelihood of metastases with shorter survival time. Now, if I still haven't convinced you with these impressive statistics, perhaps understanding the testing procedure will. Prior to the test, the woman is asked not to engage in any activity or apply anything to the skin within a specified period of time that could affect the heat emanations from the skin. Next, a proper examination will take place in a comfortable temperature-controlled room with no drafts, where the patient will sit disrobed from the waist up for 15 minutes in order to allow her skin to acclimatize to the ambient temperature. This can get a little chilly, but it's not terribly uncomfortable. The exam is then performed in seconds with a digital infrared camera that takes pictures from different angles and feeds the information into a computer. The images are either sent out or read in-house by a board-certified clinical thermologist. Some centers only offer testing, others also offer evaluation as well. Compared to a mammogram, getting a thermogram is a walk in the park. Dr. William Amalu in California, who has an active screening clinic, sees four specific advantages for thermography: (1) Unlike any other screening method, thermography can see developing pathology eight to 10 years before any other method. This is well in time to take corrective measures to stop or reverse the deterioration. (My research and years of clinical experience suggest that one can usually reverse precancerous cells. Once they become cancerous, you are dealing with another animal entirely.) (2) In addition to what thermography offers postmenopausal women, it also provides a great alternative to yearly mammograms for women under 40. This is particularly important since 15 percent of all breast cancers are now occurring in women under 45. I'm also concerned about the cumulative effects of mammography's radiation on younger women who get mammograms every year for 30 or 40 years. Thermography offers younger women a wonderfully safe, comfortable, and highly effective screening method without any of the negatives. (3) It can look at the metabolism (heat emissions) of the breasts to see if there is estrogen dominance (hormonal imbalance). Currently, the single greatest known risk factor for the future development of breast cancer is lifetime exposure to estrogen. The technology has the ability to also help in evaluating if a particular patient has a problem with hormone replacement therapy or oral contraceptives. Therefore, thermography is the single greatest tool to determine far in advance if estrogen poses significant breast-cancer risk. If so, the patient can seek help from a qualified preventive medicine physician for early corrective action (such as the use of progesterone) or other nutritional interventions. (4) It can give a risk assessment of future development of breast cancer, far more accurately than family history or estrogen or toxin exposure, because you can see the metabolism's shift in action. If positive, it can offer you radiation-free follow up and at frequent intervals. Since it looks at function and metabolism, it can be used to assess success of early intervention before cancer develops. For example, if you're on hormone therapy and have a suspicious test, the effects of stopping the estrogen and using progesterone can be assessed. That is not the case with mammography, which looks only at progression of structural changes. In addition to these four benefits, thermography is an effective screening tool in fibrocystic thickened breast tissue, unlike mammography, which is compromised by this type of tissue. Lactating women also can be screened easily and women with implants now have a fine reliable screening tool that will not burst, inflict pain on, or otherwise harm the implant. The thermography reading is not obscured by the implant. I would encourage you to visit Dr. Amalu's Web site (www.breastthermography.com) for further information. Doctors offering thermography can be found on this site. If there's not one near you, calling local imaging centers might help you locate a reputable thermography service. If you find a center this way, or hear of one from a friend, ask if the technician and especially the interpreter are board certified in the procedure. If they are not, don't let them image you. Just as with any health care technology, you only want personnel that are well trained providing the service. You'll also want to make sure the personnel and readers are not trained by the company that sells the device. They need to be board certified! You can also go to www.iact-org.org (International Academy of Clinical Thermology) to look over the qualifications of technicians and interpreters (they also provide a list of qualified centers worldwide). Thermography is a service my wife and I are now offering in Santa Rosa, California. It's important to remember that thermography is not the end all for cancer prevention. It does miss problems, but on an average, much less than mammography. However, appropriately putting the two together seems to offer the highest sensitivity (95 percent). Since mammography is not a benign procedure (radiation, compression, etc.), it makes far more sense to do an initial screening by photographing what your body is emitting. Thermography makes the most sense in women between the ages of 30 and 50 who have hormonally active and denser breasts. Pricing varies from center to center. The lowest I've found (including interpretation) is $150 per screening, with the higher end over $250. Finally, thermography is not just an examination limited to the breast. It can detect changes in temperature, circulation, and metabolism over any external part of the body, providing evidence for the existence of pain, a serious metabolic disorder, or derangement in the nervous system. This is especially helpful when all other evaluations have failed. NewsTarget.com printable article Low vitamin intake makes chemotherapy side effects even worse But here's the rest of the story you won't find in the press: taking even small doses of chlorella before undergoing chemotherapy has been scientifically shown to dramatically increase the survival rate. If you or anyone you know is considering chemotherapy, I strongly urge you to read the full account of this research in my free online book, Superfoods For Optimum Health. There, you'll read about research that shows patients who took chlorella supplements absolutely stunned doctors with their miraculous survival rates. Better yet, they largely avoided the nasty side effects of chemotherapy. The bottom line? Avoid chemotherapy in the first place. But if you're crazy enough to actually undergo this barbaric treatment for cancer, take loads of chlorella: you'll live longer and have far fewer side effects. Secret #2: Just take chlorella and skip the chemotherapy. Add spirulina to your diet, avoid sodium nitrite, stop eating all processed foods, and you'll probably cure your own cancer anyway. Modern treatments for cancer are largely a sham to begin with. Read Questioning Chemotherapy by Ralph Moss for details. With Chemotherapy or Radiation Therapy You Should Avoid Supplements, Right? Wrong! Multiple dietary antioxidants enhance the efficacy of standard and experimental Cancer patients can be divided into 3 groups: those receiving standard or experimental While impressive progress in standard cancer therapy has been made, the value of Patients unresponsive to standard or experimental therapies have little option except In this review, the author proposes that an active nutritional protocol that includes This nutritional protocol can also be used when patients become unresponsive to The authors also propose that after completion of standard therapy and/or experimental Experimental data and limited human studies suggest that use of these nutritional PMID: 15523102 [PubMed - in process] How Flying Increases Your Risk of Disease And How to Protect Yourself Did you know that flying in an airplane exposes you to radiation? In fact, one cross-country If you fly a lot, this is especially bad news. But a new study shows there?s an This study showed that cells cultured with my favorite free radical scavengers (i.e., The antioxidants completely or nearly completely protected the cells from a variety Action to take: If you fly, look for a single supplement containing the above nutrients. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Subject: HSI e-Alert - Crossed Purposes An HSI member named Pam sent an e-mail with this question: "Do you have any information on Chronic Fatigue? I have a friend who has cancer. She said she is always tired and thinks she has chronic fatigue." It sounds like Pam's friend may be suffering from a condition called cachexia that affects people with cancer and other chronic diseases. Cachexia symptoms include a general loss of vitality characterized by poor appetite, weight loss, decomposition of muscle, and depression. One of the most unfortunate aspects of cachexia is that doctors may unwittingly add to the problem with well meaning advice that is outdated and off the mark. Nutrients get the boot In a 2003 study of 200 patients with cachexia, UK researchers found that a daily high-calorie/high-protein supplement, enriched with vitamins C and E, and about 2 grams of omega-3 fatty acids prompted a significantly higher rate of weight gain, increased lean body mass and improved quality of life compared to subjects who received a similar supplement, but without the added vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids. Unfortunately, many doctors would reject this type of supplement regimen because of a belief that antioxidants interfere with chemotherapy and radiation therapies. Some of these types of cytotoxic therapies create free radicals that may help kill cancer cells. Researchers have theorized that antioxidant supplements might impede cytotoxic therapies. Some even suggest that patients treated with these therapies should avoid antioxidant-rich foods, which would cut virtually all fruits and vegetables from a cancer patient's diet. This theory was given a boost late last year with an article that appeared in the journal CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (published by the American Cancer Society). The article was written by Gabriella M. D'Andrea, M.D., of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. And the title of the article tells you just about everything you need to know about its content: "Use of Antioxidants During Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Should Be Avoided." In the e-Alert "What Would Hippocrates Do?" (10/4/05), I offered a rebuttal to Dr. D'Andrea's concept of denying key nutrients from patients who need them most. Now others have added their own rebuttals, and they need to be heard and clearly understood by any cancer patient whose doctor believes that antioxidants may do harm. Call and response On the web site for CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, several doctors and nutritionists Hal Gunn, M.D., director of the Centre for Integrated Healing in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, writes: "Belief and opinion do not constitute science." He notes that Dr. D'Andrea doesn't mention any of the studies in the "growing substantial body of supportive evidence" that demonstrate the significant benefits of antioxidant use during chemo and radiation. A clinical nutritionist named Neil E. Levine offers a more exhaustive rebuttal; complete with footnotes identifying many of the studies Dr. Gunn refers to. Here's a sampling of Mr. Levine's antioxidant defense: - Radiation and chemo treatments have been enhanced by vitamin E use (Clinical Cancer Research, 2002) -Vitamin E and selenium enhanced the effects of anticancer drugs (Pathology & Oncology Research, 2005) -Vitamins C and E have been shown to improve side effects of free radical damage to normal cells caused by radiation and chemo (Integrated Cancer Therapies, 2004) -Prostate cancer cell cultures were sensitive to lycopene, which increased apoptosis (spontaneous cell death) and arrested the cell cycle (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2005) -Recent studies show vitamin E may induce apoptosis in a wide variety of cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, colon, ovarian and cervical (Journal of Nutrition, 2004) -Several studies have demonstrated that antioxidants lessen side effects of chemo (Integrated Cancer Therapies, 2004) -Harsh radiation side effects were reduced with high doses of beta-carotene and vitamin E (Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2005) -CoQ10 enhanced the efficacy of tamoxifen (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2005) Mr. Levine also offers this quote from Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., the director of Nutrition, Cancer Treatment Centers of America: "Malnutrition actually kills about 40 percent of cancer patients." If you're being treated for cancer by a doctor who believes that antioxidants may interfere with your therapy, share this information with him and discuss the possibility that antioxidant use may in fact be one of the keys to cancer treatment success. High Doses of Antioxidants Including Vitamin C Do Not Decrease the Efficacy of Chemotherapy The idea that the use of antioxidants decreases the efficacy of chemotherapy is being used more and more by orthodox oncologists. It is based upon their hyposthesis that anything which decreases the oxidant effect of drugs will decrease the efficacy of chemotherapy. More and more I hear this from my patients after they are diagnosed and chemotherapy is discussed with them by their oncologists. This opinion is not universal but my guess is that about 75% of oncologists hold this view. The view that chemotherapy destroys tumor tissue because it introduces powerful oxidantion products, free radicals and that anything which decreases that must interfere with treatment. They know they are using sub-lethal amounts of toxic compounds that would never pass FDA standards in any different context. The aim is to kill all the tumor tissue without killing all the other tissues in the body. This is always a close call. Therefore, since vitamin C is a good antioxidant it must not be given with chemotherapy. One of my patients was told by his oncologist that if he took vitamin C he would not be given any chemotherapy. Well, what are the facts? The first fact is that there are no clinical series which show that patients given vitamin C and chemotherapy fare worse than those not given this vitamin. On the contrary, all the published series show just the opposite. I have treated over 1,100 cases with large doses of vitamin C and most of them had chemotherapy.(1-4). I have examined the follow up data and find that the mean difference on prolongation of life was heavily in favor of the use of the vitamins. In the first series I published with Linus Pauling those patients on my program lived 10 to 20 times as long as the patients not r eciving the vitamin. Recently Kedar N. Prasad et al (5) after reviewing 71 scientific papers, found no evidence that antioxidants did interfere with the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy and, on the contrary, suggest that the hypothesis that it would increase the efficacy. He is properly cautious, but anyone reading his paper knows that is clear the probability that these antioxidants prevent the therapeutic axtivity of chemotherapy is very low, and the probability that they do the opposite, i.e. enhance the action of these toxic drugs, is relatively high. Prasad et al (6) concluded, "Antioxidants such as retinoids, vitamin E, vitamin C and carotenoids inhibit the growth of cancer cells. These antioxidants individually and in combination, enhance the effects of x-irradiation, chemotherapeutic agents, and certain biological response modifiers such as hyperthermia, sodium butyrate, and interferon, on cancer cells. Antioxidants individually protect normal cells against some of the toxicities produced by these therapeutic agents. Therefore, the fear of oncologists and radiation therapiests that these antioxidants may protect cancer cells against free radicals that are generated by these agents is unfounded. It should be pointed out that other antioxidants such as sulfhydryl compounds will protect cancer cells at least against radiation damage. This is not true for any of the proposed antioxidants vitamins and carotenoids." Even earlier Charles B. Simone et al (7) on the basis of a large number of clinical studies (he also examined 71 scientific papers) came to the same conclusion. He reported "In a recent study of 50 patients with early-stage breast cancer I evaluated the treatment side effects of radiation alone, or radiation combined with chemotherapy, while the patients took therapeutic doses of nutrients. Patients also followed the Simone Ten Point Plan. Patients were asked to evaluate their own response to the treatment in terms of its impact on the quality of life. The results of the study were impressive. "MOre than 90% of both groups noted improvement in their physical symptoms, cognitive ability, performance, sexual function, general well-being and life satisfaction. Not one subject in either group reported a worsening of symptoms." He concluded, "...cancer patients should modify their lifestyles using the Ten Point Plan, which included modifying nutritional factors and taking certain vitamins and minerals especially if they are receiving chemotherapy, and/or radiation." Labriola et al (8) concluded that vitamin C may prevent the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy if given concurently and recommended that antioxidants be withheld until after the chemotherapy is completed. It is not clear whether they meant that the antioxidants should be withheld throughout the entire series of chemotherapy sessions or that is should be withheld only for the day that chemotherapy is given. If the latter is his suggestion, there is no harm done to the patients. Most of them cannot take anything, including vitamins, during these sessions. He based his conclusions on one case which suggested this had happened and upon a hypothetical examination of the role of free radicals and antioxidants on the action of chemotherapy on cancer cells. His report elicited two rebuttals, Reilly (9) and Gignac (10). I will not repeat the arguments, but it was evident that Dr. Labriola was not convinced by the points put forward by Reilly and Gignac. I think the factoid repeated by Dr. Labriola would have a much better chance of becoming a fact if he had considered the following points: 1) What is the therapeutic value of chemotherapy without any antioxidants? Even within the field of standard oncology there is a debate whether chemotherapy has any merit except for a small number of cancers (Moss 11). Before one can claim that a treatment has been inhibited, surely there must be pretty good evidence that treatment has any merit to begin with. It is possible (we do not know the probability for this) that chemotherapy interferes with the therapeutic value of the antioxidants. Almost all the studies testing large doses of vitamin C yielded positive results while there was no such unanimity with respect to chemotherapy. Letter by Dr. Abram Hoffer, founder of Orthomolecular Medicine Chemotherapy and Supplements (Re: Katie Wernecke -- a 13 yr old with cancer who fought the establishment, because their treatments were only making her worse.) When Katie was in our care during chemotherapy the first five months we gave her nutritional supplements. When CPS and M.D. Anderson had control of my daughter Katie for the next five months they wouldn't allow her to have any nutritional supplements. There was a lot of damage done to Katie mentally and physically by the chemotherapy without the supplements during the last five months. Consider the following article: The truth - from a very well-respected holistic MD If You're on Chemotherapy, You Should Avoid Supplements, Right? Wrong! 10/06/2005 I don't want you to be the victims of junk science, and especially if you have cancer. Take the recent "report" published by the American Cancer Society (ACS). This organization dares to suggest that taking antioxidants might hurt cancer patients. However, report is nothing more than unsupported opinion. It's the ACS that has given us the horrific slash (surgery), burn (radiation), and poison (chemotherapy) approach to cancer. Amazing! They dare to assert that antioxidants might interfere with therapies that kill. What an oxymoron. Truth is, this attack on supplements is nothing new. In fact, Kenneth Conklin published a fine review on the subject five years ago. Conklin reviewed several antioxidants including vitamin C, glutathione, vitamin E, NAC, selenium, and more. He did give a few precautions for specific antioxidants when taken with chemo agents. In particular, glutathione and NAC shouldn't be administered simultaneously with platinum agents. However, the general report not only suggested protection from the ravages of chemo. The report went on to say that antioxidants actually increase the effectiveness of it! Some agents, such as adriamycin and its family of chemicals, have well known and irreversible cardiac toxicity. CoQ10 can likely protect your heart against destruction wrought by this feared complication. I wonder how many chemo-induced heart attacks could have been prevented by CoQ10. In scores of my own cancer patients, I consistently find a far higher quality of life in my patients who take antioxidants - with or without chemo. I've witnessed miraculous cancer reversals. Patients with even stage-4 cancer who undergo a major metabolic program of detoxification and nutritional supplementation have recovered! As far as the alleged scientific studies showing antioxidants fail at expectations, we need to look at the methods of study. Typically, they're conducted with synthetic or refined nutrients. For example, most vitamin E studies are conducted with purified alpha tocopherol, not the more beneficial gamma tocopherol. Alpha tocopherol may actually displace what little good gamma tocopherol you have in your body. I say you can't beat nature. So your best bet to prevent cancer is to eat an organic diet as fresh and living as possible. Supplements are just that - supplements. And you should buy only quality brands. Even some supplements are synthetic and devoid of the biological cofactors God put together in a whole living food. Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Conklin, Kenneth A. "Dietary Antioxidants During Cancer Chemotherapy: Impact on Chemotherapeutic Effectiveness and Development of Side Effects," Nutrition and Cancer 37(1):1-18, 2000 posted by Katie W. @ Sunday, December 18, 2005 Antioxidant Compounds Taken Concurrently During Chemotherapy Dietary and endogenous antioxidants prevent cellular damage by reacting with and eliminating oxidizing free radicals. However, in cancer treatment, a mode of action of certain chemotherapeutic agents involves the generation of free radicals to cause cellular damage and necrosis of malignant cells. So a concern has logically developed as to whether exogenous antioxidant compounds taken concurrently during chemotherapy could reduce the beneficial effect of chemotherapy on malignant cells. The importance of this concern is underlined by a recent study which estimates 23 percent of cancer patients take antioxidants.1 The study of antioxidant use in cancer treatment is a rapidly evolving area. Antioxidants have been extensively studied for their ability to prevent cancer in humans.2 This paper reviews the use of antioxidants as a therapeutic intervention in cancer patients, and their potential interactions with radiation and chemotherapy. There has been significant investigation of this area, with promising findings which indicate continuing investigation is warranted. For further discussion of the use of antioxidants as sole cancer therapy, refer to the review article by Prasad published earlier this year.3 A number of reports show a reduction in adverse effects of chemotherapy when given concurrently with antioxidants. These data are more completely summarized by Weijl et al.4 Conflicting Views of Antioxidant Use in Cancer Therapy It was suggested in a recent publication that no supplementary antioxidants be given concurrently with chemotherapy agents which employ a free radical mechanism.5 The paper must be commended for pointing out that the combination of antioxidants and chemotherapy agents needs more investigation, and should serve as a wake-up call regarding how much we need further definition of the actions of specific antioxidants with chemotherapeutic agents. However, it should not serve as scientific closure on an adjunctive treatment of possible great promise in cancer therapy. The present authors are by no means recommending any lack of caution about use of antioxidants. On the contrary, published research indicates the cautious and judicious use of a number of antioxidants can be helpful in the treatment of cancer; as sole agents and as adjuncts to standard radiation and chemotherapy protocols. It was suggested that antioxidants might interfere with the oxidative mechanisms of alkylating agents.5 These drugs create substantial DNA damage, resulting in cell necrosis. However, recent evidence indicates a sizeable amount of chemotherapy damage is by other mechanisms, which trigger apoptosis.6 Antioxidants have been shown to increase cell death by this mechanism.7,8 Given this, any argument that antioxidants are likely to interfere with most chemotherapy is too simplistic and probably untrue. Numerous animal studies have been published demonstrating decreased tumor size and/or increased longevity with the combination of chemotherapy and antioxidants.7,9-16 A recent study was conducted on small-cell lung cancer in humans using combination chemotherapy of cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin (doxorubicin), and vincristine with radiation and a combination of antioxidants, vitamins, trace elements, and fatty acids. The conclusion was "antioxidant treatment, in combination with chemotherapy and irradiation, prolonged the survival time of patients" compared to expected outcome without the composite oral therapy.17 Two human studies found melatonin plus chemotherapy to induce greater tumor response than chemotherapy alone.18,19 The treatments producing these positive results would have been advised against by those advocating no antioxidant use during chemotherapy. These studies will be discussed in more detail below. It is the opinion of the authors of this paper that interactions between antioxidants and chemotherapeutics cannot be predicted solely on the basis of presumed mechanism of action. The fact remains that physicians must be aware of the available research to help their patients take advantage of positive interactions existing between antioxidants and chemotherapy or radiation. Additionally, physicians need to remain aware of the large body of evidence showing a positive effect of antioxidants in the period following chemotherapy administration. The general protocol with standard oncologic therapies is to follow a watch-and-wait strategy after therapeutic administration is concluded. This is a period when supplemental therapies are highly indicated and have been demonstrated to result in a higher percentage of successful outcomes.20,21 Combinations of Antioxidants Given that many antioxidants have been shown to have anti-tumor properties, it is worth exploring their use in combination. A study in mice found co-administration of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol led to much greater tumor regression than either agent alone. The effect was synergistic, being much greater than the sum of the mild tumor inhibition of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol.174 Other studies have shown multivitamin supplements were associated with fewer recurrences of solid tumors after remission following standard oncologic therapies.20,21 A small double-blind trial of a mixture of antioxidants, including 600 mg vitamin E, 1 g vitamin C, and 200 mg NAC taken only during treatment, looked at the potential of this mixture to prevent cardiotoxicity during chemo- and radiotherapy. No patient taking the antioxidant mixture had a fall in ejection fraction greater than 10 percent. In patients taking placebo, four of six patients undergoing radiotherapy and two of seven patients treated with chemotherapy had an ejection fraction reduction of 10 percent or more. Treatment outcomes in patients taking antioxidants versus placebo were not discussed.175 An open trial of combination antioxidant treatment along with chemotherapy and radiation in patients with small-cell lung cancer had encouraging results. Patients taking the supplement, which contained at least 15,000 IU vitamin A, 10,000 IU beta-carotene, 300 IU alpha-tocopherol, 2 g vitamin C, and 800 mcg selenium, were able to tolerate chemotherapy and radiation well. Their two-year survival rate was greater than that of historical controls (>33% to <15%), with 44 percent still alive at the end of the study (mean survival time for survivors = 32 months). No side effects from nutritional treatment were noted.17 Hopefully these promising results will be followed up with larger and more well-controlled studies. Conclusion Frequently, the effects of using antioxidants concurrent with chemotherapy and radiation are synergistic. Except for three specific interactions outlined above (flavonoids with tamoxifen, NAC with doxorubicin, and beta-carotene with 5-fluorouracil), there is no evidence to date showing that natural antioxidants interfere with conventional cancer therapeutics in vivo. It has been shown in two separate in vitro studies that NAC inhibits the cytotoxic activity of cisplatin.138,139 NAC may have a role, however, in the reversal of renal toxicity due to cisplatin.140 Other than use in salvage therapy, the combination of cisplatin and NAC should also probably be avoided at this time. Studies have shown patients treated with antioxidants, with or without chemotherapy and radiation, have many benefits. Patients have been noted to tolerate standard treatment better, experience less weight loss, have a better quality of life, and most importantly, live longer than patients receiving no supplements. It is time to research the role of these agents in conventional oncologic treatment, rather than dismiss them as a class based on theoretical concerns. The authors wish to thank Bastyr University for financial support of this project and Robert Karjala and Arnold Gore for this information. Chemotherapy and Radiation To treat cancer, doctors often prescribe strong treatments like chemotherapy or Some of the side effects can be handled, while others just have to be tolerated. Side Effects of Chemotherapy: Side effects vary from person to person, and it is possible that you may have only Usually side effects go away when the chemotherapy has ended because normal cells Some common side effects of chemotherapy are discussed below: Fatigue: Pain: Hair Loss: Hair loss usually begins several weeks into the treatment and can occur in all parts Nausea and Vomiting: Radiation Recall: Some other side effects caused by chemotherapy are: Infection Anemia Kidney and Radiation Therapy Radiation therapy is very hard on the body and produces heat not only on the radiation ImmunPro TM This immunity support formulation kills germs that cause fevers and infections. This formulation also provides effective blood purification and detoxification. We believe 'ImmunPro' should be tried before surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation. These are some of the conditions which 'ImmunPro's Ingredients' have proven AIDS, allergies, bacterial infections, Bronchitis, Cancer (all types), Candidiasis Ingredients: Korean Ginseng, Fo-Ti (Ho shou wu), Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceus), Suggested Use: http://www.beating-cancer-gently.com/nl97.html As you know, I don't ever recommend chemo for anyone. But if you insist on "listening "Why This Vitamin Is a Must for Cancer Treatment Doctors often warn chemotherapy patients against taking antioxidants. Where they The study found that vitamin C, one of conventional medicine's banned vitamins, In the study, patients took vitamin C along with the common chemotherapy drugs 5-FU The researchers found that vitamin C altered the DNA of the cancer, which made it I can't tell you how many of my colleagues were severely harassed for suggesting In my experience, I've seen vitamin C protect patients against the devastating effects If you or anyone you know is using chemotherapy, this is life-saving information. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD" Abdellatif, et al. "Vitamin C enhances chemosensitization of esophageal cancer cells Vol. XVIII, Issue 10 October 2008 Breakthrough Treatment for Prostate Disease Did you know that over 90% of men who reach the age of 70 will have some sort of prostate disease? This can include prostatitis, enlargement, or cancer. And all of them are serious problems. Prostatitis, inflammation of the gland, affects 50% of men sometime in their life. It's extremely common in men of all ages. BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy) is non-malignant enlargement of the gland. By age 60, it affects more than half of all men. By 70, it affects 90%. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among men in the U.S. There were 218,890 reported new cases in 2007 alone. Over 27,000 men reportedly die each year of the disease. One in six men will get it. New cases are rising very rapidly. But what if I told you there's now an amazing new treatment that can dramatically reduce the symptoms of all of these diseases? And what if I told you that it can even cure some cases of prostate cancer? Well, there is such a treatment. No, it's not a pill. Nor is it a Big Pharma drug, surgery, or high-tech device. In fact, you can do this breakthrough treatment of the decade in the comfort of your own home. What may really surprise you, though, is that this treatment is identical to one you would use to prevent heart attacks. The treatment is our old favorite chelation therapy. That's right! The powerful heavy metal detoxifier that works wonders for your heart also treats prostate disease. But you don't have to go to the doctor to get an IV. And you don't have to take it orally. No, the delivery system is easy to do for everyone. I'll explain it in a moment. How can chelation help your prostate? There's a growing body of evidence that biofilms of calcium accumulate in the prostate. These deposits can provide a nesting place for infection and inflammation, just like calcium deposits elsewhere. There also is good evidence that calcifications occur in tandem with toxic heavy metals deposition. Calcium belongs in your bones and teeth, not your soft tissues. We know that soft tissue disease, including prostate disease, is associated with increased calcium. Your prostate in particular is mineral sensitive. It needs zinc. But zinc is easily displaced by the toxic minerals cadmium and lead. Lead is associated with calcification in your arteries and brain. Furthermore, heavy metals can play a role in cancer as well. So it makes logical sense that if you could reduce calcium and heavy metals in your prostate, you could reverse or prevent prostate disease. And that's exactly what chelation therapy does -- it removes heavy metals. The significant accumulation of EDTA in your prostate could help it eliminate minerals that destroy the organ's function. EDTA grabs and removes both lead and cadmium. Getting rid of the heavy metals will allow your prostate to heal itself. There's one problem, though. EDTA is notorious for poor absorption. I love oral chelation. It's cheap. But it nets only 2-5% absorption at best. For many illnesses, this is adequate. But for the prostate, it doesn't do much. Intravenous EDTA is the gold standard. Obviously, 100% of it is absorbed. But it's expensive, requires a trip to the doctor's office, and you have to stick a needle in your arm. That leaves one more delivery system -- a suppository. Chelation by suppository? I know it doesn't sound like the most pleasant treatment. But trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. In fact, it doesn't hurt at all. Most people get used to it very quickly. And it works! At a recent conference, I met with Rita Ellithorpe, MD. She has been using EDTA suppositories as her mainstay of chelation therapy for over 10 years. She's treated thousands of patients. While visiting with Dr. Ellithorpe, she handed me an article she wrote about a study she conducted. When I saw that it was on prostate problems, and provided absolute proof as to the absorption of EDTA from suppositories, my eyeballs about popped out. This was the proof for which I had been looking for four years. Dr. Ellithorpe's team took 31 men, ages 41-73 (mean age 61). Twenty-four had evidence of mild to severe BPH/prostatitis. Seventeen had prostate cancer. Ultrasound evaluation confirmed 30 calcifications in the group. The researchers graded the men on symptoms by an internationally accepted scoring system. Let's look at how they fared. For symptoms of prostatitis: pain intensity dropped from 5.0 to 2.85; and urinary symptoms dropped by about one-third (from 3.4 to 2.6). Problems in quality of life dropped by about 25%. And it reduced total symptoms by about a third. The results for benign prostatic hypertrophy were amazing. Dr. Ellithorpe based her scoring on the International Prostate Symptom Score table. Here are the results: Incomplete emptying of the bladder fell from 1.7 to 0.9. Frequency fell from 3.5 to 2.8. Intermittency fell from 1.6 to 1.0. Urgency from 2.2 to 0.9. Weak stream dropped from 2.25 to 1.25. Straining from 0.7 to 0.5. Nocturia from 1.8 to 1.6. Quality of life improved 23%. Total mean score from 12 to 7.1. Five of these eight scores were statistically significant. Seven out of 15 men had improvement in erectile function, though this was not statistically significant. So why does chelation therapy for prostate work so well? To discover that, Dr. Ellithorpe did animal studies on rats. Her team administered radioactive labeled EDTA both by rectal suppository and by IV. Rita's group determined overall absorption by the rectal route was 36.3%. Obviously, the suppository doesn't get absorbed as well as the IV. But it does have one huge advantage. The rectal absorption was slower. As a result, EDTA was present in the rats' blood long after the EDTA by IV administration was gone. Therapeutic levels were still present eight hours later. IV EDTA was gone from the blood just two hours after the therapy. The prolonged presence could allow for greater tissue penetration. And, in fact, Dr. Ellithorpe proved it. They found EDTA concentrations in the prostate of the animals four times greater than with the IV route. That's what impressed me so much. Rectal chelation is a great way to direct EDTA next door to your prostate. The data shows it works, and that clinical benefits follow. Dr. Rita Ellithorpe and her colleagues have made a wonderful contribution to medicine. The 36% absorption of rectal EDTA blows away the 2-5% absorption of oral EDTA. And it stays in the blood longer than the IV. So it is possibly the absolute best way to get chelation, especially for the prostate -- but also for the entire body. Now, let's look at the cost. IV chelation at maximum dose averages over $125 from my informal surveys. The rectal EDTA comes in the product Detoxamin. The maximum dose of EDTA given via IV is about 3,000 mg. Since Detoxamin is 36% absorbed, you would need about 9,000 mg (12 suppositories of 750 mg) to get an equivalent home treatment. The price of the non prescription form of Detoxamin for this amount would be only $95. And it would save you the time and cost of travel to your doctor. Part of Dr. Ellithorpe's protocol included the antibiotic tetracycline (500 mg taken orally at night), which she gave at the same time as the suppository. Many doctors believe that there is a tiny bacteria called nanobacter that participates in calcifications. The kills this bacteria. You can't get it without a doctor's prescription. Even if your doctor won't consider providing it for you, Dr. Ellithorpe strongly believes that the Detoxamin preparation is key to the improvement. The 1,000 mg suppositories are sufficient for up to 160 pounds. If you are much heavier, or simply want a higher dose suppository, you'll have to consult with a However, I've contacted Detoxamin and asked them to give you a discount. To get this discount, simply call 877-656-4553 or visit the website http://detoxamin.com/. Give them the coupon code SAVE. This will get you a 10% discount off the regular price of your entire order. Breakthrough Treatment for Prostate Disease Did you know that over 90% of men who reach the age of 70 will have some sort of prostate disease? This can include prostatitis, enlargement, or cancer. And all of them are serious problems. Prostatitis, inflammation of the gland, affects 50% of men sometime in their life. It's extremely common in men of all ages. BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy) is non-malignant enlargement of the gland. By age 60, it affects more than half of all men. By 70, it affects 90%. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among men in the U.S. There were 218,890 reported new cases in 2007 alone. Over 27,000 men reportedly die each year of the disease. One in six men will get it. New cases are rising very rapidly. But what if I told you there's now an amazing new treatment that can dramatically reduce the symptoms of all of these diseases? And what if I told you that it can even cure some cases of prostate cancer? Well, there is such a treatment. No, it's not a pill. Nor is it a Big Pharma drug, surgery, or high-tech device. In fact, you can do this breakthrough treatment of the decade in the comfort of your own home. What may really surprise you, though, is that this treatment is identical to one you would use to prevent heart attacks. The treatment is our old favorite chelation therapy. That's right! The powerful heavy metal detoxifier that works wonders for your heart also treats prostate disease. But you don't have to go to the doctor to get an IV. And you don't have to take it orally. No, the delivery system is easy to do for everyone. I'll explain it in a moment. How can chelation help your prostate? There's a growing body of evidence that biofilms of calcium accumulate in the prostate. These deposits can provide a nesting place for infection and inflammation, just like calcium deposits elsewhere. There also is good evidence that calcifications occur in tandem with toxic heavy metals deposition. Calcium belongs in your bones and teeth, not your soft tissues. We know that soft tissue disease, including prostate disease, is associated with increased calcium. Your prostate in particular is mineral sensitive. It needs zinc. But zinc is easily displaced by the toxic minerals cadmium and lead. Lead is associated with calcification in your arteries and brain. Furthermore, heavy metals can play a role in cancer as well. So it makes logical sense that if you could reduce calcium and heavy metals in your prostate, you could reverse or prevent prostate disease. And that's exactly what chelation therapy does -- it removes heavy metals. The significant accumulation of EDTA in your prostate could help it eliminate minerals that destroy the organ's function. EDTA grabs and removes both lead and cadmium. Getting rid of the heavy metals will allow your prostate to heal itself. There's one problem, though. EDTA is notorious for poor absorption. I love oral chelation. It's cheap. But it nets only 2-5% absorption at best. For many illnesses, this is adequate. But for the prostate, it doesn't do much. Intravenous EDTA is the gold standard. Obviously, 100% of it is absorbed. But it's expensive, requires a trip to the doctor's office, and you have to stick a needle in your arm. That leaves one more delivery system -- a suppository. Chelation by suppository? I know it doesn't sound like the most pleasant treatment. But trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. In fact, it doesn't hurt at all. Most people get used to it very quickly. And it works! At a recent conference, I met with Rita Ellithorpe, MD. She has been using EDTA suppositories as her mainstay of chelation therapy for over 10 years. She's treated thousands of patients. While visiting with Dr. Ellithorpe, she handed me an article she wrote about a study she conducted. When I saw that it was on prostate problems, and provided absolute proof as to the absorption of EDTA from suppositories, my eyeballs about popped out. This was the proof for which I had been looking for four years. Dr. Ellithorpe's team took 31 men, ages 41-73 (mean age 61). Twenty-four had evidence of mild to severe BPH/prostatitis. Seventeen had prostate cancer. Ultrasound evaluation confirmed 30 calcifications in the group. The researchers graded the men on symptoms by an internationally accepted scoring system. Let's look at how they fared. For symptoms of prostatitis: pain intensity dropped from 5.0 to 2.85; and urinary symptoms dropped by about one-third (from 3.4 to 2.6). Problems in quality of life dropped by about 25%. And it reduced total symptoms by about a third. The results for benign prostatic hypertrophy were amazing. Dr. Ellithorpe based her scoring on the International Prostate Symptom Score table. Here are the results: Incomplete emptying of the bladder fell from 1.7 to 0.9. Frequency fell from 3.5 to 2.8. Intermittency fell from 1.6 to 1.0. Urgency from 2.2 to 0.9. Weak stream dropped from 2.25 to 1.25. Straining from 0.7 to 0.5. Nocturia from 1.8 to 1.6. Quality of life improved 23%. Total mean score from 12 to 7.1. Five of these eight scores were statistically significant. Seven out of 15 men had improvement in erectile function, though this was not statistically significant. So why does chelation therapy for prostate work so well? To discover that, Dr. Ellithorpe did animal studies on rats. Her team administered radioactive labeled EDTA both by rectal suppository and by IV. Rita's group determined overall absorption by the rectal route was 36.3%. Obviously, the suppository doesn't get absorbed as well as the IV. But it does have one huge advantage. The rectal absorption was slower. As a result, EDTA was present in the rats' blood long after the EDTA by IV administration was gone. Therapeutic levels were still present eight hours later. IV EDTA was gone from the blood just two hours after the therapy. The prolonged presence could allow for greater tissue penetration. And, in fact, Dr. Ellithorpe proved it. They found EDTA concentrations in the prostate of the animals four times greater than with the IV route. That's what impressed me so much. Rectal chelation is a great way to direct EDTA next door to your prostate. The data shows it works, and that clinical benefits follow. Dr. Rita Ellithorpe and her colleagues have made a wonderful contribution to medicine. The 36% absorption of rectal EDTA blows away the 2-5% absorption of oral EDTA. And it stays in the blood longer than the IV. So it is possibly the absolute best way to get chelation, especially for the prostate -- but also for the entire body. Now, let's look at the cost. IV chelation at maximum dose averages over $125 from my informal surveys. The rectal EDTA comes in the product Detoxamin. The maximum dose of EDTA given via IV is about 3,000 mg. Since Detoxamin is 36% absorbed, you would need about 9,000 mg (12 suppositories of 750 mg) to get an equivalent home treatment. The price of the non prescription form of Detoxamin for this amount would be only $95. And it would save you the time and cost of travel to your doctor. Part of Dr. Ellithorpe's protocol included the antibiotic tetracycline (500 mg taken orally at night), which she gave at the same time as the suppository. Many doctors believe that there is a tiny bacteria called nanobacter that participates in calcifications. The kills this bacteria. You can't get it without a doctor's prescription. Even if your doctor won't consider providing it for you, Dr. Ellithorpe strongly believes that the Detoxamin preparation is key to the improvement. However, I've contacted Detoxamin and asked them to give you a discount. To get this discount, simply call 877-656-4553 or visit the website http://detoxamin.com/. Give them the coupon code SAVE. This will get you a 10% discount off the regular price of your entire order. Are Chickens Poisoning You? Would you ever believe that you could get arsenic poisoning from chickens? I didn't think so either. But new evidence suggests that it's happening. And even if you don't eat chicken, this information is vital for your health. Apparently, chicken-feed manufacturers have been adding arsenic-based additives to their feed for years. Europe banned these additives in 1999. But they're still legal in this country. The chemical is Roxarsone, an organic arsenic acid. The manufacturers mix a whopping 2.2 million pounds of it into the food of about 70% of commercial chicken in the U.S. This compound itself is relatively non-toxic. However, the chicken's body converts substantial amounts of Roxarsone into inorganic (highly toxic) arsenic. They release the rest in their excrement. Partha Basu is an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Duquesne University. He and his colleagues recently reported that certain intestinal germs in chicken feces rapidly transform Roxarsone into inorganic arsenate under low-oxygen conditions. "We see (inorganic) Arsenic created in less than 10 days," Basu says. As a home farmer, this news is absolutely frightening to me. I used to use some chicken manure as fertilizer in my garden. I have friends who still use substantial amounts. We have been unwittingly contaminating our soil and ground water. How widespread is the problem? One study found that 55% of the 151 samples of raw chicken in these tests contained detectable arsenic ranging from 1.6 to 21.2 ppb. Nearly three-quarters of the samples from conventional producers had detectable levels of arsenic. Only one-third of samples from certified organic and other premium chicken suppliers had detectable levels. The good news is that they didn't find any arsenic in samples from Tyson and Foster Farms. Both have stopped using Roxarsone. Arsenic is highly toxic. It poisons DNA and can cause cancer and organ, neurological, endocrine, diabetes, and immune dysfunction. I cannot emphasize enough the need to buy nothing but organic. The quality of the products will be much higher and with far less chemicals. Organic chickens don't contain arsenic. Organic farms must use only organic fertilizers. I don't think that commercial chicken manure would be allowed on organic farms due to chemical use in commercial chickens. And now you have to be careful what you put on your vegetable gardens. Make sure the manure comes from animals that don't receive any chemicals whatsoever. If you eat a lot of chicken, you might want to do a heavy metal challenge test with a physician skilled in chelation. The best-qualified doctors will be those certified by the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (www.abcmt.org). If you do have arsenic, don't worry, there are many effective ways to detoxify, including the suppositories I mentioned earlier. Your ABCMT physician will be able to offer you other ways that can fit your needs and budget. Ref: Chemical & Engineering News, April 9, 2007, Volume 85, Number 15 pp. 34-35; Environ. Sci. Technol., 2007, 41, 818. The Surgery Breast Cancer Victims Must Avoid Women with breast cancer always fear having the cancer spread to their lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped organs in your armpit (and elsewhere in your body). They act as filters, removing cancer from lymph fluid before it goes into your bloodstream. If you have cancer in the lymph nodes under your arm, you have an increased risk of the cancer spreading. As a result, most cancer surgeons conduct radical lymph node dissection -- removing the lymph nodes. This lets the surgeon come back and tell the victim "we got it all." The problem is that the surgery leaves her with painful, disfiguring, and dysfunctional lymphedema. It also increases your risk for infection. But that's not all. A new study found that this draconian procedure makes no difference in survival or reoccurrence. The study looked at 891 breast cancer patients. The researchers looked at survival rates of those who had their nodes removed (445 patients) and those who did not (446 patients). After six years, the researchers found almost no difference in the survival rates of both groups (91.8% to 92.5% respectively). Based on this study, the New York Times said, "Experts say that the new findings, combined with similar ones from earlier studies, should change medical practice for many patients. Some centers have already acted on the new information ... But more widespread change may take time, experts say, because the belief in removing nodes is so deeply ingrained." I agree. This barbarian "treatment" needs to disappear. But it's not happening. It is "so deeply ingrained" that some states like California still mandate this surgery for treating cancer. If you have breast cancer, please don't allow your surgeon to do a radical lymph node dissection. If the cancer has made it to your lymph nodes, chances are quite high that it's elsewhere, and the horrific lymph node dissection will likely do you no good in the long run. I'm not against a sentinel node biopsy (single lymph node) for staging purposes, as it can give the doctor important information about your cancer without radical dissection. But tell your surgeon in writing that you don't want the lymph nodes removed. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: FDA, January 2011, "Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL) In Women with Breast Implants: Preliminary FDA Findings and Analyses," January 2011; JAMA, February 9, 2011;305(6):569-75; New York Times, February 8, 2011. The pill that makes cancer more dangerous As you may know, I've warned my patients and readers to stay away from cancer drugs (except in certain cases). In addition to the harm they cause, they don't cure cancer. They may shrink the tumor, killing the cancer cells. But they don't fix what caused the cancer in the first place. So the tumor usually comes roaring back. Now there's evidence that shrinking the tumor with drugs might cost you your life. But before I tell you about this study, let me tell you about one of my patients. This patient had advanced kidney disease. I gave him natural therapies and he felt much better. However, they didn't stop his tumor from growing. So his oncologist convinced him to take Sunitinib, also known as Sutent. When Sutent didn't work, the oncologist blamed my therapies. So the man took a holiday from my treatments for a month just to give the Sutent a chance. He promised to return if Sutent didn't work. Well, it did shrink his tumor. However, he went downhill so fast that he was unable to return to me. What happened? Well, this new study tells us what happened. This line of drugs can shrink tumors. But in the process, they also damage a particular cell called a pericyte. These cells cover blood vessels and act as gatekeepers against the spread of the tumor cells. When damaged in the chemical attempt to knock out tumor blood supply, the tumor vessels become even more hypoxic (less oxygen), and allow the cancer cells to leak into the circulation. Knocking out pericytes shrank tumors in mice by 30% in 25 days. Sounds great! But it wasn't. It actually increased the spread of the cancer by three-fold. But that's not all. The drug also made cancer cells more like stem cells and better able to survive. The entire cancer industry is a sham, literally. It's a complete fraud. It's a fraud that has the medical world, the government, insurance companies, and unsuspecting people at its behest. But the FDA allows Pharma to measure the effectiveness of a drug by tumor shrinkage. This study shows how awfully stupid that is! It shows that the drugs will shrink tumors in the short run, but become far more aggressive and deadly in return. While the researchers did this first experiment in mice, they confirmed the same action in human breast tumors. The less pericytes you have, the more deeply invasive the cancers become. And the five to ten year survival rates are less than 20%. I am convinced that most cancer patients who do well with conventional therapy were destined to do well regardless. We know that 20% of all cancers spontaneously disappear. So if you sometimes hear of a woman or man who had her breast or prostate carved out 20 years ago, does that mean you should rush to the knife or chemicals? No. In my book, they are in that 20% no-matter-what-you-do remission rate. I think we'd even see better remission rates if we eliminated toxic therapies altogether (certain cancer-types excepted). I know of few oncologists who would drink their own poisons. One final note: This is even more proof that oxygen is king. When you starve cancer cells of oxygen, they'll respond with even more aggressiveness. I've participated in two cases recently where oxygen/oxidation-based therapies have helped achieve remission or near remission of stage-4 cancers (colon cancer and melanoma). No, not everyone has been helped. But these kind, gentle therapies won't do anything worse than make you feel better, even if it doesn't tame the cancer. If you have cancer, don't feel like you have to submit to the cut, burn, and poison treatments your oncologist offers. There are other options. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Cancer Cell 1-17-12 Subscribe now to Dr. Rowen's Second Opinion Newsletter and Get up to 11 Free Reports How To Stop The Spread Of Aggressive Prostate Cancer In our last health alert, I showed you how vitamin K can help prevent prostate cancer. But this vitamin is much more powerful than that -- it can actually stop aggressive prostate cancer from growing. I've told you in the past that most prostate cancers never go anywhere. You won't die of these even if you do absolutely nothing. It's the highly invasive and aggressive cancers that kill. And now we know that vitamin K2 can reduce such aggressiveness. In fact, if you have a vitamin K deficiency, new evidence suggests that your risk for advanced-stage and high-grade prostate cancer goes up significantly. Vitamin K is essential to carboxylate molecules in your body. Carboxylation of proteins in your bones is essential for them to pick up and retain calcium. That's why a vitamin K deficiency also increases your risk for osteoporosis. Without carboxylation of these bone-forming proteins, you're not just at risk for osteoporosis. It also significantly increases your risk of aggressive prostate cancer. For every 10% decrease in carboxylation, there's a 38% increase in advanced-stage prostate cancer. Interestingly, the same carboxylation mechanism is involved with both vascular and prostate protection. One study says that natural vitamin K2 reduced arterial calcifications by 50%. And it also reduced cardiovascular mortality risk by the same amount. The dose they used in this study was only 45 mcg. That's a tiny dose. Personally, I think 100 mcg is the optimum dose. So try to take this much every day. The best food source of this vitamin is natto. This is a fermented form of soy that I've written about before. I happen to like natto, but you might not. So please be sure that your vitamin combination contains vitamin K2. Or look for supplemental vitamin K2 in the health food store. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD Ref: Journal of Nutrition, 2004 November;134(11):3100-5. Can This Common Supplement Actually Contribute to Cancer? You already know that hormone-related cancers (breast, prostate, uterine, and ovarian) are epidemic. You also know "autoimmune" and chronic inflammatory diseases are rampant. If you, a friend, or a loved one has any of these diseases, you know how devastating they are. But what you may not know is that there's growing evidence a popular supplement can fuel these diseases. That's right! Researchers are finding this supplement may actually contribute to cancer or make autoimmune diseases even worse. In fact, the supplement could be in your kitchen cabinet. Researchers from Texas A&M University showed in 1996 that this supplement damaged the testicular lining cells of male rats. At one-fifth the usual human dose, the rats had reduced sperm production and cellular damage. Another group of researchers showed ovarian damage in rats when exposed to the supplement at 10 times the usual human dose. And in 1994, Dr. Midori Yoshida, who is a top cancer researcher for the Sasaki Institute in Tokyo, Japan, published a study demonstrating that this same popular supplement can induce endometrial cancer (cancer on the inside of the uterus) in animals. While all of these studies were done on animals, there's good reason to believe humans may find similar trouble with this supplement. Let me explain. As we've already established, cancers of the breast, prostate, uterus, and ovaries are predominantly caused by abnormal hormone activity. Even many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are influenced by hormonal abnormalities. Your body makes a lot of hormones. When you put food, drinks, supplements, drugs, or anything else into your body, it affects these hormones. You already know that the type of food you eat will determine how much insulin (a hormone) your body produces to metabolize the food. Well, insulin and other hormones respond to every stimulus we put in our body. Hormones are tricky to work with. They are absolutely required for the body to function properly. But if you have too much or too little, they can cause significant problems. Take the thyroid hormone for instance. Too little causes hypothyroidism. Too much causes hyperthyroidism. Neither of which are desirable conditions. One of the trickiest hormones to work with is estrogen. Estrogen is required for many bodily functions, especially the sexual and reproductive functions in women. Both men and women require estrogen, though, just in different proportions. However, we now know that excess estrogen causes cancer. The Dangers of Too Much Estrogen A woman's uterus is designed to deal with normal estrogen by way of her monthly period, which sheds estrogen stimulated cells. With menopause, her body decreases its production of estrogen because her estrogen-producing egg follicles are all gone. When a woman is exposed to too much estrogen, it creates a situation called estrogen dominance, which causes a whole host of problems. With estrogen dominance, cells stop dying (which is what cells are supposed to do as they age and become abnormal) and continue to divide uncontrollably. This can eventually lead to cancer. Aside from cancer, estrogen dominance has other problems. It's related to mid-life obesity, PMS, recurrent breast pain, endometriosis, fibroids, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. For men, excess estrogen is now widely considered the likely culprit in prostate disease. Estrogen dominance is caused by several factors. Age and obesity are the most common. As we age and gain weight, an unwanted enzyme found in fatty tissue called aromatase becomes more prevalent in our body. This enzyme captures precious testosterone, already in decline with age, and spits it back out as estrogen. That's why you're hearing a lot about aromatase-inhibitor drugs in estrogen-related breast cancer. Inhibiting the enzyme reduces testosterone conversion to estrogen. The best way to keep that enzyme in check is to keep lean and get plenty of exercise! Another cause of estrogen dominance is genetics. Each of us has genetic factors that contribute to the development of estrogen-related cancers. In part, these factors are greatly magnified by your exposure to xenobiotics. Xenobiotics are man-made poisons. They are everywhere in our environment, including the food chain. They include chlorinated hydrocarbons and pesticides, which can have powerful estrogen-like effects on your body that are far stronger than your natural estrogens. Regardless of where the estrogen comes from, your body has to get rid it. To do so, the liver has to go through a biochemical process called hydroxylation. When the liver hydroxylates estrogen, it creates various types of estrogen byproducts. There are many of these estrogen byproducts (rather than naming all of them, we typically refer to them by their hydroxyl position in the estrogen chain). Some are dangerous and some are beneficial. For instance, scientists and doctors typically pay attention to two of them: the 2 and 16 positions (a.k.a. 2-hydroxy estrogen and 16-hydroxy estrogen). The 2-hydroxy estrogen is considered beneficial. It works to cause normal cell death (called apoptosis), which prevents cancer. On the other hand, 16-hydroxy estrogen causes cancer and inflammation. (Just remember that 2 is good and 16 is bad.) Many labs measure the ratio of 2-hydroxy to 16- hydroxy estrogens to help assess your disease risk. A good ratio is 2:1. If the ratio is lower, you're at greater risk of cancer and any number of inflammatory diseases. Living Up to the Hype? One nutritional supplement that's been touted to improve the ratio is indole-3-carbinole (I3C). However, I've recently learned that the safety claims about I3C may not be true. In fact, this popular supplement may have significant and hidden dangers. You need to know about its problems. I3C does improve the 2 to 16 ratio by generating more beneficial 2-hydroxy estrogen. However, that's not where the trouble lies. I3C also causes your body to produce a third estrogen byproduct called 4-hydroxy estrogen. This byproduct is definitely one of the bad guys. In fact, it could be the worst! It's the most toxic of the estrogen byproducts. Far more toxic than 16-hydroxy estrogen. This 4-hydroxy estrogen prevents cells from dying when they become abnormal. Such cells can further degenerate to cancer. In fact, 4-hydroxy estrogen can sit in one spot and spin out massive amounts of highly inflammatory and toxic free-radicals. This is possibly why women get more autoimmune disease than men (they have more estrogen to convert to 4-hydroxy estrogen). In this way, I3C acts very similar to the xenobiotics mentioned earlier. We know that these man-made poisons often have a "super" hormone-like impact on sensitive tissues, such as in the breast, prostate, or uterus. If these toxins were left alone by your body, they might not be so bad. But when your body naturally tries to get rid of them, it has to produce an enzyme that attempts to detoxify the poisons. However, this same enzyme also generates large amounts of 4-hydroxy estrogen. An example of how this works is the trouble we had with estrogen-loaded oral contraceptives when they came on the market many years ago. Shortly after they first appeared, we saw a lot of women smokers suffer from unexpected blood clots. The excess estrogen from the contraceptives coupled with the smoke (man-made poison) caused these women's bodies to create the enzyme that produces 4-hydroxy estrogen. The combination of estrogen and smoke created a time bomb in their bodies. Whether you're a man or woman, taking I3C could create the exact same problem -- too much 4-hydroxy estrogen. The resulting inflammation will greatly increase your risk of developing vascular or other problems. And conventional medicine doesn't understand the problem and doesn't have a clue about treatment. But there's a lot you can do about it. Action to Take Obviously, if you have been using I3C, you have cause for concern. That's why I'm now telling all my patients (and readers) to stop using it. Yes, I3C can be used in specific circumstances. The best use of I3C is to fight the papilloma virus, which causes growths on the larynx, and genital and skin warts. That's probably why I3C is so successful in treating abnormal growths in the cervix. Cancer of the cervix is now accepted to be a venereal disease caused by HPV (human papilloma virus). Studies show you need 300-400 mg of I3C daily to change estrogen to the 2-hydroxy form. But 300-400 mg of I3C increases your risk of developing 4-hydroxy estrogen and the health problems that come with it. So using it for any reason carries significant potential side effects. Incidentally, you don't have to take just my word on I3C. I recently spoke with Dr. H. Leon Bradlow. He is the Rockefeller University scientist who discovered the 2/16 estrogen modulating effects of I3C some 15 years ago and is considered the foremost expert on the subject. Dr. Bradlow took I3C himself at the time of his studies stating, "I would not want to give any of my human subjects something I would not take myself. But I would not ever take it again with the latest information. I3C is an 'at risk' compound if taken long term. There is indisputable evidence that 4-hydroxy estrogen is a human carcinogen. 4-hydroxy estrogen spontaneously forms semiquinones, which can directly damage DNA.... Even years ago, the National Cancer Institute held up funding for I3C studies due to FDA concerns over its safety." Do we have all the evidence we need to say this supplement definitely causes disease? Probably not. But if you couple Dr. Bradlow's information with the indisputable evidence that 4-hydroxy estrogen is a human carcinogen (of which I3C is a major producer), you have all the reason you need to avoid this supplement. The good news is there's a supplement that prevents most of these unwanted estrogen effects. It's one of the most important supplements I've ever used. It has none of the negatives of I3C, all of the positives, and so much more. It can help prevent all hormone-related cancers, many heart problems, and many inflammatory diseases, including arthritis. In fact, it's a supplement that I consider a "must take" for everyone. And I'll tell you all about it in next month's issue. Ref: Toxicol Sci., 2001 December;64(2):162-8. Redesigned Supplement Fights Breast and Prostate Cancer I showed you last month how a fairly popular supplement, indole-3-carbinole (I3C), is coming under scrutiny because of concerns about its safety. The evidence that this supplement may encourage cancer is really beginning to stack up. You may remember from last month's article that some estrogen byproducts are good (2-hydroxy estrogen) and some are bad (16-hydroxy estrogen and 4-hydroxy estrogen). The manufacturers of I3C say the product helps your body produce more of the good estrogen byproducts. This is true. But what was not known, until recently, is that I3C also produces 4-hydroxy estrogen - definitely one of the bad guys. This estrogen byproduct is a major producer of inflammation and toxic free radicals. And it can lead to cancer, heart problems, and many inflammatory diseases, including arthritis. What we need is a product that can help the body create more good estrogen byproducts and reduce the number of all the bad byproducts. The good news is there's a dietary supplement that can do all this, and so much more. In fact, there's strong evidence this supplement can help prevent all hormone-related cancers, including breast, prostate, and uterine cancers. The supplement is a nutrient commonly found in broccoli and cauliflower. You know I love vegetables, and cruciferous vegetables are strong medicinal plants. Well, our old friend DIM (diindolylmethane) is one reason these veggies are such powerful healers. DIM is a supplement I've long supported and used. It works by preventing the unwanted damage caused by excess estrogen and man-made poisons (called xenobiotics). When your body detects these toxins, it responds by increasing the production of a chemical receptor in your cells called AhR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor). When AhR reacts with the excess estrogen or xenobiotics, it creates the dangerous 4-hydroxy estrogen. Your body constantly fights against toxins, so it's creating these estrogen byproducts daily. When your body creates too many bad estrogen byproducts (due to an overload of estrogen or xenobiotics), it causes inflammation - the cause of many diseases. Unlike I3C, which is considered unstable and reactive in your body, DIM is a stable byproduct of I3C. Because it's the favorable end product of I3C, it has more specific and limited effects on estrogen. DIM produces a more modest increase in the beneficial 2-hydroxy estrogen. And it decreases 4-hydroxy estrogen by 20% or more. But, most importantly, DIM does all this without activating AhR! In fact, it does the opposite, which sets DIM apart from I3C. Just How Effective Is DIM? In a landmark study published in 2004, Harvard researchers followed DIM into the nucleus of the cell and showed that it shut down the AhR system. They found that DIM actually binds the AhR receptor protein and hauls it into the nucleus. That process turns down (or off) the trouble-causing AhR. With AhR activity reduced, carcinogens become less dangerous (they do far less damage when left alone). This is a protective mechanism against xenobiotics never before described. When study participants were given DIM, just 100 mg daily increased the ratio of 2/16 by 40%. When given 300 mg daily, the ratio increased by 100%. Now remember, women with the lowest 2/16 ratio have the highest subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. So increasing the ratio by 40-100% greatly decreases their risk of getting breast cancer. Not All DIM Is the Same While the research behind DIM is pretty amazing, there's a new form of DIM that is even more spectacular. In fact, new studies show that the typical crystalline DIM doesn't have as strong of an impact on the ratio of 2-hydroxy estrogen to 16-hydroxy estrogen as a newly redesigned form. Why? Because DIM is not very soluble. Solubility is a key factor in nutrient absorption. The new form, which was designed for high absorption, significantly increases the 2/16 ratio and fights disease. Just look at what it did for colleague Roger Servin: It's a Powerful Prostate Protector Roger is a holistic health practitioner from Naples, Florida. At 75, his PSA was 4.7. So he started taking 150 mg, two times daily of the new DIM. Within six weeks, his PSA fell to 4.1. Six months later, it was 4.0. "My body fat has gone down as well, from 14% to 10% and my stomach has hardened up. I have the body of a young man," he told me. And this isn't a one-time occurrence. In a pilot clinical study, using the new form of DIM, 11 of 12 men saw a statistically significant fall in their PSA. Dr. Michael Zelig, who performed the study (and manufactures the product), said, "In at least two of these men, the use of this supplement has resulted in the disappearance of abnormal prostate cells on repeat biopsy, after preliminary biopsy showed prostate intra-epithelial neoplasia (PIN). PIN is a precursor lesion to prostate cancer with similarities to cervical cancer." PIN is equivalent to cancer before it has invaded tissue. DIM appears to enhance the cell death of abnormal prostate cells. These are results we've not seen with traditional DIM products. What About Breast Cancer? Remember the results of the Harvard study on regular DIM and breast cancer? They were pretty impressive. However, the new DIM significantly outperformed its older cousin. This time, researchers studied breast cancer survivors. The subjects were treated with 300 mg of the new micro-encapsulated DIM formulation, which contains 75 mg of absorbable DIM. In these women with a history of breast cancer, their 2/16 ratio increased by 60% compared to 0% change in the control group. This, along with the Harvard study, proves that the 2/16 ratio can be modified in those who get cancer. And it also proves that women who are at higher risk can reduce their risk even more by using the new form of DIM. (The study also showed that recurrent breast pain, called cyclical mastalgia, could be dramatically improved with DIM, by about 66%.) Proof That DIM Lowers Your Risk Fortunately, we now have the technology to further prove how effective DIM is. You know I'm a fan of breast thermography, the scanning technology that looks at heat emissions within the breast. The more heat that shows up on the scan, the more likely you are to get cancer. I've seen two documented cases where abnormal breast thermograms were reversed on a program that included using the new formulation of DIM. One went from a moderate risk to a low risk. Additionally, this woman reported more stable moods, increased energy levels, less abdominal girth, and an easier time losing weight. I've seen evidence that uterine fibroid tumor size can be reduced over months with DIM. Fibroid tissue is estrogen sensitive. I've also heard plenty of anecdotal evidence. One woman I spoke with, Barbara Rogers, told me an incredible story. Barbara was having monthly breast pain so bad that it was difficult for her to sleep or even have her children sit on her lap. Anything touching her breasts, no matter how light, caused severe pain. A doctor suggested the new form of DIM. Within a few months, the pain vanished! She continued it for two years. Then she stopped. "I did not understand the name 'DIM' and was a little afraid of it. So I began natural progesterone, after reading of its benefits. Within a few months, the pain returned, nearly in full. I stayed on the progesterone for one-and-a-half years. The pain remained. Then I went to another integrative physician who recommended restarting the DIM and stopped the progesterone. Within a few months, my breast pain was all gone again." Action to Take I strongly suggest you begin taking a high-quality DIM product. I now consider it the most important supplement for both men and women. My preference is a patented formulation of DIM found in the product BioResponse DIM. While I'd like to see more independent research on this formulation, what I have seen is impressive. This unique formulation combines DIM with vitamin E and phosphatidyl choline in a process with a starch matrix. This makes it absorbable. Just two 150 mg capsules provide absorbable DIM equivalent to eating about two pounds of raw broccoli. I recommend one per day for prevention, and two per day (one twice daily) for sustained continuous benefits if you have any inflammatory disease (especially cancer). I don't know of any studies evaluating DIM's effects on invasive cancer. But this information strongly suggests a powerful role in its ability to fight hormone-related cancers. It's safe, relatively inexpensive, and a natural substance with no known risk. I know of no downside to DIM. You can find "BioResponse DIM" - containing DIM products in many health food stores. Or search online for "BioResponse DIM." Shop for the best price. I also recommend the book All About DIM by Dr. Michael Zelig, who was a big source of information for this article. The book is available from Vitality Fit (888-485-5851) and through most bookstores. Ref: Eur J Cancer Prev., 2004 February;13(1):83-6; Carcinogenesis, 2000 August;21(8):1593-9; J. Biol Chem, June 2003. Molecular and Cellular Biology, November 2003, p. 7920-7925, Vol. 23, No. 21. How An Insect Eating Plant Can Cure Your Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases What if I told you that a plant that captivated your interest as a child is a world-class healer?And what if I told you this plant could heal cancer, chronic fatigue, Lyme disease, and a multitude of other illnesses? I know, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But not in this case! I've used this product for many years and I've seen firsthand how it works. Dr. Dan Kenner of California also has personal and observational experience of its power and he says it "staggers the imagination." Can you imagine a plant extract that could provide you with an oral means to get a result similar to the expensive (IV) oxidation therapy I so often talk about in these pages? The amazing thing is, you probably played with this unique plant as a child. I sure did. I marveled at the amazing properties of Venus's-flytrap as a kid, watching for hours as it baited insects and, unlike any other plant, caught and digested them for its food. "How on earth does a plant do that?" I wondered. In the 1970s, German physician Helmut Keller was looking for alternatives to the toxic chemicals produced by the drug companies. He also marveled at Venus's-flytrap and its ability to digest protein (insects) without harming itself and without a digestive system. You know plants need nitrogen. But Venus's-flytrap lives in nitrogen-poor soils. It must get all its nitrogen from the insects it captures. And without a digestive system, it totally dissolves its prey! How? Dr. Keller believes that the compounds in Venus's- flytrap work on primitive and unshielded protein, such as those found in insects and microorganisms. Well, cancer is also a primitive cell with lots of irregular protein. And infected cells actually leak protein. Could Venus's- flytrap also be a miracle for a wide variety of disorders? Dr. Keller found that Venus's-flytrap juices digest a wide variety of primitive animal proteins (in insects) and malignant cells! Normal cells of higher organisms were left unscathed, due to the tight bundling of their more evolved proteins. In Germany, he shed light on some key attributes of Venus's-flytrap that make it an awesome disease fighter. Dr. Keller believes the key compounds are droserone (D), plumbagin (P), and hydroplumbagin, also found in other carnivorous plants. These remarkable and hard-to- make compounds are powerful oxidation catalysts, not dissimilar to the famous Koch catalysts. In the 1930s, Dr. William F. Koch was using catalysts to speed oxidation in cells. He cured many dreaded diseases. His successes created political problems forcing him to emigrate to Brazil to continue his work. D and P modulate the immune system. That is, they lift a weakened immune system, or stimulate a proper balance of activation and suppression. Too little of the former can lead to cancer and infection. Too little of the latter can lead to "autoimmune" disease. D and P also increase natural killer counts and function, essential in the defense against chronic disease. These oxidation catalysts are quite possibly able to induce many of the effects of intravenous and more expensive oxidation therapies in your body. Quercetin is one of the premier bioflavonoid-free radical scavengers. It has enormous properties in modulating allergy by stabilizing mast cells loaded with histamine. Otherwise, they could dump it into your system with little provocation, resulting in a whole host of allergic symptoms. Quercetin is a first-class heart muscle and circulation protector, a natural chelator (like most other bioflavonoids), and is an outstanding protector of liver function. Quercetin is not completely absorbed when it's taken orally. Its presence in Venus's-flytrap could increase its power since Venus's-flytrap can be used by injection. Myricetin, a bioflavonoid similar in properties to quercetin, is also found in Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap juice provides ample amounts of antioxidants, plus arginine, threonine, and other amino acids essential in detoxification, immune system stimulation and regulation, metabolism, liver function, collagen (your connective tissue) maintenance, and more. Proteolytic enzymes, powerful modulators of inflammation, are able to break down aberrant protein and are also present in Venus's-flytrap. Today, Venus's-flytrap is marketed as the herb Carnivora, for obvious reasons. I began using Carnivora in Alaska to treat cancer. Dr. Morton Walker, a medical journalist had detailed amazing cures of life-threatening diseases with Carnivora from firsthand interviews and travels to Dr. Keller's clinic. Dr. Walker estimated at least a 45 percent significant response rate to cancer with Carnivora alone. Dr. Keller said the results are much higher with integrated approaches. I had one patient, Jeff, a beloved retired Anchorage fire chief, who came to me with late-stage terminal disease. His physicians estimated a six-week life span. He was fortunately able to acquire intravenous Carnivora from Germany. Jeff lived a full life for his remaining nine months, traveling across Alaska and fishing, even up to the end. His wife was most grateful for the quality of life Carnivora extended him. Second Opinion reader Brian Lecompte, MD consulted with me on the use of artemisinin for his 81-year-old mother-in-law with newly diagnosed inoperable lung cancer. I suggested a dose. He added tincture of Carnivora and administered it to her by nebulizer (inhaled). Within a few months, the tumor shrank to a scar, never returned, and her astounded oncologist pronounced her cancer free! Now the exciting thing about Carnivora for most people is not just cancer but what it can do for very stubborn situations such as chronic fatigue, Lyme disease, parasites, and inflammatory bowel conditions. Take the case of internationally known healer Theresa Dale, ND, PhD (www.wellnesscenter.net). "I had a typical case of severe parasites (confirmed Blastocystis and Giardia): bloating, loose stools, much fatigue, and even skin breakouts around my colon area. I could feel pockets in my colon. Carnivora was a Godsend for me. I noticed a difference immediately. I took it for eight weeks three to four times per week. I recovered completely with Carnivora alone and confirmed myself free of parasites. I will admit I was prepared for this healing because I had already detoxed myself. I have used Carnivora on several other confirmed cases all with the same results." Dr. Dale recommended three capsules, three times daily in addition to the Carnivora tincture, one bottle for about two weeks. Folks, parasites can be a very difficult condition to successfully treat. This story is particularly impressive. Just one substance proved successful where several other products, including drugs, might be employed for the condition. Dr. Keller states that promising therapeutic results have been obtained in the treatment of: adult malignant tumors, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, eczema, certain autoimmune disorders, psoriasis arthropathica, immune deficiency diseases (AIDS), chronic fatigue syndrome, influenza, the common cold, and herpes infection. Dr. Kenner emphasized the latter with a stunning story: A woman, aged 46, with a three-year history of a continuous and painful herpetic lesion was seen for treatment. She was given an intramuscular injection. In 12 hours, the lesion of three years was gone. Kenner was astounded. Continuing intermittent outbreaks in different locations dwindled over time with oral treatment and occasional shots. Still in communication with Dr. Kenner, she has been free of herpes symptoms for three years now. Dr. Ron Schmid (www.drrons.com), of Watertown, Conn., visited Keller in the early '90s. He also was most impressed with Dr. Keller's cancer and AIDS cases. Shortly after, Carnivora became available in the U.S. in drop and capsule form. Dr. Schmid reports several cases of breast and prostate cancer (PSA ranging from 10- 60) who have experienced no disease progression on a regimen over two years on natural therapies and oral Carnivora. But Dr. Schmid proved to be a dramatic case himself. He contracted Lyme disease (proven with standard testing), which brought his robust and athletic body to its knees, with fatigue and "horrible" shooting pains, headache, and intermittent fevers. Diet (raw foods) and herbs helped significantly, but when he added Carnivora, the rest of the disease symptoms virtually disappeared promptly. He is milking cows and running again. His ESR, a measure of inflammation, dropped from a very high 60 to normal, meaning his inflammation was gone. Low-grade infection is still likely present, with mild symptoms occurring only every few months, which he promptly fixes with Carnivora at the time of symptoms. His self-prescription was two capsules, three times daily and 20 drops of tincture sublingually, with one drop of DMSO under the tongue six to eight times daily. Another naturopathic doctor (ND) in Minnesota, (name withheld by request) was bitten by a tick and developed a bull's eye rash after seven days. He took Carnivora (10 capsules daily). The rash was gone in one-and-a-half days and he never went on to develop further Lyme problems. He continued treatment for a month. This same doctor relates an even more stunning case. A married couple raising llamas on their 40 acres were both bitten by ticks in a highly infested Lyme area. The husband tested positive for Lyme and received antibiotics and his rash disappeared. His wife had no rash and did not test positive, so her physician refused antibiotics even though she went downhill fast. Within three months, she had severe spinal pain and could barely walk. The ND treated her with Carnivora tincture. She recovered sufficiently to return to her medical doctor requesting another Lyme test. It was positive for the Bannwarth variety of Lyme, the most serious form that can quickly unravel your nervous system with symptoms ranging from horrible neurological pain, to ALS symptoms, to schizophrenia. Her MD then prescribed antibiotics. She didn't reveal the Carnivora therapy to protect the ND. The wife made a full recovery to the astonishment of her MD, who confided to her that he also had Bannwarth's syndrome. He was confused why she should make a full recovery and he was still ill while he used the same antibiotic treatment on both. The only difference in treatment was the Carnivora! The ND reports 100 percent success in his Lyme clients using Carnivora when they test well for it by bioresonance testing. Dr. Dan Kenner, LAc of Forestville, California is an expert on botanical medicine, confirmed by his book: Botanical Medicine: a European Professional Perspective. Hearing about Carnivora, he traveled to Keller's German clinic in 1990. He, too, observed amazing cancer results. One woman in her late 50s was cured of breast cancer, and is still cancer free to this day! "She is now the picture of health and got the message to detox." Dr. Kenner's own experience is with infection. "I had a woman who had vaginal trichomonas (a parasite) continuously for months. It failed every conventional and herbal treatment given. My jaw dropped at the result. I gave her only the oral liquid extract and within three days it totally cleared up. The product did miracles for my female patients. It cleared other common vaginal infections very quickly and became my number one treatment for vaginosis (vaginal infections). Considering the miracles it did for already formed cancer, I experimented with it topically (intravaginally) on precancerous cervical lesions; I thought it might reverse them. In fact, it reduced the grade (severity) of the dysplasia in every case! "I recommend one to two capsules daily for travel in the tropics. None of my clients has ever become ill. It is the widest spectrum antimicrobial, and one of the most versatile botanical substances I've ever seen. In the case of viruses and protozoa, it is the most powerful. A 45-year-old man had high titers of CMV and EBV (viral infection) and massive brain fog. His viral titers shot down to almost nothing three days after oral Carnivora was administered. In bacterial infections, it's synergistic with antibiotics. Dr. Keller found that Carnivora extracts killed Lyme disease and even malaria parasites." Folks, a plant juice that digests everything from insects and cancers to parasites and Lyme, is an extremely powerful tool for a variety of the most terrible scourges affecting mankind today. I have heard of no toxic effects, although anyone can be allergic to anything. I've already reviewed how stealth infections, especially Lyme, can be behind over 300 different "maladies" encompassing almost any neurological, psychological, immune or fatigue syndrome. Samento, which I told you about in December, is a great start, but the more natural weapons in our arsenal, the better! Mild and moderate problems may respond to the capsules, anywhere from six to nine per day in three divided doses. More is not necessarily better. More serious cases should add the tincture as well. For Lyme, most physicians are recommending the use of sublingual drops as well -- 20 drops, six to eight times daily with one drop of DMSO to enhance its absorption. Hold these under the tongue two minutes before swallowing. I have not heard of any significant or unpleasant "die off" reactions, which are so prevalent with antibiotics. That's a great encouragement. Carnivora is the only brand of Venus's-flytrap I recommend. Most others are diluted with problematic solvents like propylene glycol, alcohol, or have glycerin added. These additives dilute your product, and can have negative effects on their own. Carnivora is 100 percent undiluted and uncut. It's manufactured in a GMP facility (good manufacturing plant, with government standards), and is sterile. You can get Carnivora directly from the company, Carnivora Research, Inc., 866-836-8735, or visit www.carnivora.com on the Internet. Beat prostate cancer with this one-two punch I've known for years that the curry spice turmeric inhibits prostate cancer. In India, where curry is a staple, prostate cancer is uncommon. I've traveled to India many times and I've seen firsthand how effective this spice is. But I've just learned that there's a way to make this spice even more effective. A group of scientists from Rutgers University in New Jersey made the discovery. They were well aware that the active chemical curcumin gave curry its cancer-fighting qualities. The scientists also knew that phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) also has anti-cancer qualities. PEITC is a naturally occurring compound in cruciferous vegetables. So they wanted to find out how effective the combination of curcumin and PEITC would be in fighting cancer. The researchers conducted the study in two parts. First, they injected mice with curcumin or PEITC, alone or in combination. The injections were given three times a week for four weeks. The day after the very first injection, they also injected prostate cancer cells. How to Use Your Eye's "Natural Sunglasses" to Protect Your Vision Don't let eyesight troubles rob you of your independence. Research from Harvard Medical School shows this little-known nutrient can help you halt vision loss and enjoy clear, healthy eyesight for years to come. Find out more: They found curcumin or PEITC significantly slowed the growth of cancerous tumors. Using PEITC and curcumin together produced even stronger effects. The second step was to see if the combination would help mice with well-established tumors. Their results showed that PEITC or curcumin alone had little effect. However, when they used both chemicals together, the combination significantly slowed tumor growth. The cocktail appeared to inhibit tumor cell division. It also induced apoptosis (programmed cell death of abnormal cells). The researchers said that "PEITC and curcumin alone or in combination possess significant cancer-preventive activities." They also said that the combination "could be effective in the cancer-therapeutic treatment of prostate cancers." Wow! What have I been telling you for years about the power of plants? Imagine if this report were about a cocktail of patented chemotherapy drugs. It would have been on the front cover of every newspaper in the country. But you can't patent a head of broccoli - so this wasn't newsworthy. Right now, you can't get PEITC in supplement form. And it's not yet available as a doctor-administered injection. While I expect that to change before too long, you can get plenty simply by eating cruciferous vegetables every day. Curry's compound, curcumin, is available at any health food store as a supplement. I suggest 500 mg twice daily for most people. And now I suggest you take the supplement any time you eat cruciferous vegetables. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert J. Rowen, MD Ref: Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 2005/03/050326114810.htm). Stop Prostate Cancer by Eating Fat! I had a heart-wrenching moment during one of my weekly radio shows a few years back. David called to ask me if there was anything he could do for his rapidly rising PSA level. Eight years before, at age 44, he had a slight rise in his PSA, prompting a prostate biopsy confirming "early cancer." Taking his doctors advice, he went for a radical prostatectomy. On the radio, with his voice quivering, he acknowledged the end of his wonderful sexual intimacy with his wife following the surgery, as well as some urinary incontinence. His marriage was strained as a result. His story was so devastating, my voice cracked as I related the sad truth that no conventional therapy has shown any value for prostate cancer over doing nothing. So by fighting his war on the cancer conventionally, he lost his ability to make love to his wife and, now that the cancer had returned, the war itself. He's not alone among prostate-cancer victims. Medical pundits have lauded the PSA test for prostate screening. Yet, it's surrounded by great controversy. Many men with PSA in the "normal" range have prostate cancer, even with known metastasis, and many men with an elevated PSA have no cancer at all. Dr. Otis Brawley, professor of medical oncology and epidemiology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, is concerned. National data, he said, make him wonder whether the PSA test is saving many lives. The test, Brawley said, has led to a huge increase in the number of prostate-cancer diagnoses. But if the PSA test were saving lives, the early diagnosis of prostate cancer should lead to a sharp downturn in its death rate. That has not happened, Brawley said. While the mortality rate has fallen, it did not fall significantly with the advent of PSA. He is very concerned that the PSA test is leading to a diagnosis of cancers that are not dangerous and would never lead to the death of the individual. And, many of the cancers being discovered may not be treatable by any means. "The concept that every cancer that can be found early can be cured is a faulty concept," he said. Thus, Dr. Brawley, at 42, has not been tested and refuses to do so. At 52, I haven't been tested either, and don't intend to be. Men undergoing PSA must understand that there are many false positives, as well as false negatives. And the finding of a cancer by PSA and a follow-up biopsy does not guarantee the cancer can be cured at that stage, or that the cancer would even be dangerous. Medicine knows that if you wait long enough, virtually all men will have microscopic clusters of cancer in the gland, but the fact that the cancer is not killing them all leads us to suspect the truth of Dr. Brawley's conclusions. By the time a dangerous cancer is detected, whether in the breast, prostate, or elsewhere, chances are great it has already spread. If not PSA testing, what then? I don't believe in screening for something when it's too late. By the time cancer triggers a positive mammography or a true high PSA, it's likely too late or, if fortunate, that particular cancer will not be a problem. It makes far more sense to prevent the problem in the first place. And there's clear data that prevention is possible. In 1996, Dr. Larry Clark, of the University of Arizona, published startling data suggesting that prostate cancer could be reduced by as much as an amazing 60 percent by supplemental yeast derived selenium, 200 mcg per day. Selenium is a powerful antioxidant that participates in key and crucial detoxification and free-radical scavenging enzymes. His work is being confirmed in other ongoing studies. In 1999, a New Zealand study published in the British Journal of Cancer, documented a 40 percent lower incidence of prostate cancer in men with the highest levels of the omega-3 fish oils EPA and DHA in their blood. The relationship held fast when other markers, such as lycopene intake and socioeconomic status, were taken into account. These findings have been confirmed in other studies. Conversely, another published report documents a high level of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in invasive prostate tissue samples. A common thread emerges when these studies are coupled with recent reports on the high levels of omega-6 fatty acids that are linked to breast cancer. The American diet is overwhelmed with omega-6 oils, such as corn, soy, safflower oils, etc. Excess omega-6 fatty acids can cause inflammation and secondary carcinogenesis. If the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats is in the right proportion (1:1), the omega-3s will directly counteract these negative effects of the omega-6s. But an out of balance ratio will overwhelm the omega-3s. Trans-fatty acids from hydrogenated oils seriously add to the problem. There are other nutrients that have been shown to reduce prostate-cancer risk. Vitamin E and lycopene have made the news. Both are antioxidants. Lycopene is found abundantly in tomatoes, especially cooked tomatoes. If you like salsa, eating plenty on a regular basis is a great way to fight prostate cancer (avoid salsa with sugar added). Finally, while red meat has been getting hit hard lately in the risk of cancer, I want to point out that most of America's meat supply is grain fed, totally upsetting the favorable natural omega-oil balance. Furthermore, another most favorable nutrient, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is richly present in beef and dairy products from grass-fed cows. CLA, like omega-3 oils, likely balances out the inflammatory and carcinogenic properties of the omega-6 oils. Action to Take (1) There's little dispute over the cancer- and circulatory- protecting properties of omega-3 fats, and the detriments of excessive intake of omega-6 fats. I recommend immediately ceasing all cooking oils and hydrogenated fats, including fried foods (unless lightly fried in butter, coconut oil, olive oil, or lard and don't use corn meal or flour). Increase your cold- water, wild-fish intake (NOT FARMED FISH, which are fed grains like cattle and have a poor content of healthy omega fats compared to their wild cousins). Shellfish is not a good alternative, either. Discontinue meat from unnaturally fed cattle. (2) On the plant side, flax, walnut, and especially hemp oils have the best beneficial omega-3 content. However, hemp oil may be scarce due to the government's shortsighted overzealousness in banning use of an exceptional food source because it's a close cousin to the marijuana plant. (3) I also recommend a natural source of mixed tocopherols (vitamin E), 400 IU per day, and selenium (best in this case is yeast derived), 200 mcg per day. (4) Eat organic foods whenever possible to reduce chemical and pesticide residues on food. Such compounds, called xenobiotics (man-made chemicals), have powerful estrogen-like properties and can cause cancer in both sexes. Men, like women, ought to consider a test for urinary estrogen ratios. An unfavorable ratio of 2:16 hydroxy estrogens (16 is likely carcinogenic) can be corrected with indole-3 carbinole, a nutritional supplement derived from Brassica vegetables. I personally believe prostate cancer to be estrogen related, not testosterone related! (5) Because omega-3 fatty acids are in short supply in most diets, I strongly suggest you take a fish-oil supplement, as well as CLA. I've worked closely with Healthy Resolve to develop one of the best essential-oil capsules you can buy. For more information, please see the enclosed insert. (6) If you have prostate cancer, please don't submit to surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. There's no evidence these will extend your life, but they will severely diminish your quality of life. In short, eat naturally, eat organic, load up on tomatoes and vegetables, high omega-3 foods and oils, and consider supplementing the diet with selenium, vitamin E, fish oil, lycopene, resveratrol, and CLA. I believe that taking these steps will do more to solve the prostate-cancer problem than any variation of the PSA test ever could, by dramatically reducing the development of prostate cancer rather than trying to detect it after the fact. (7) If you already have prostate cancer, your best alternative may be a treatment course centered around artemisinin, which I covered in the May issue. See page 8 for more on this therapy. Sexercise and Prostate Cancer There is now excellent evidence that frequent sexual activity protects the prostate as well as some of your favorite nutrients. A large study following 30,000 men over eight years showed one-third less risk of developing prostate cancer in men with the highest monthly frequency of ejaculations (at least 21). Each increase of three ejaculations per week (from zero) resulted in a 15 percent decrease in developing the cancer. The uterus in females sheds monthly until menopause. This gives women an edge over men in eliminating toxins. The only form of release of prostatic fluids is ejaculation. Limited frequency may allow accumulation of carcinogens that might otherwise be eliminated. It also may reduce microcalcifications associated with prostate cancer. Sexercise might just give you an additional edge. Ref: New Scientist, July 2003; J. Amer. Med. Assoc., vol. 291, p. When you should never treat prostate cancer Conventional treatments for prostate cancer, such as surgery to remove the prostate gland or radiotherapy, are dangerous. The good news, though, is that they may not be necessary for most men diagnosed with a low-grade of the disease. Prostate cancer surgery can result in serious problems. These include incontinence and impotence. Radiation treatment is not effective and can lead to major problems in your bladder and colon. Unfortunately, few medical professionals in this country will admit there's a better way. But the British are making headway. Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research in England found something I've been telling you for years. They discovered that men whose cancer is detected early by a PSA screening are not likely to die from the disease. They are far more likely to die from something completely unrelated. The study followed men between the ages of 55 and 59 with low-grade cancer. It showed that men in this age group have only a one in 100 chance of dying from the disease within 15 years. This was true even when they didn't receive any treatment at all. Treatments, such as surgery and radiation, are not likely to prolong survival in low-grade cases. Yet your urologist will jump to relieve you of your gland (and possibly your sex life) if cancer is present, no matter the grade. The PSA test measures levels of prostate-specific antigen. Your prostate gland produces this protein. Doctors believed for years that it provided an earlier detection. However, now we know that most elevated PSA levels are due to benign enlargement of the prostate. The British researchers are testing a new technique for prostate cancer called Active Surveillance. This technique will help ensure that doctors give treatment only to men who will benefit. Men who have high-grade, advanced, prostate cancer, for instance, would be more likely to benefit from treatments. As you can see, not all cancers are the same. All men will get prostate cancer. Should we go chopping and slicing on small chances that these cancers will be lethal? I think not. At last we're seeing some enlightenment in the medical industry. Too bad it's coming from Europe and hasn't had an effect in the U.S. yet. I predict it will be years before the sickness industry in this country looks itself in the mirror. The chances you'll die from prostate cancer are slim, especially if you have the more common slow-growing cancer. If you're in this group, don't submit to surgery or radiation. There are plenty of alternatives that work well and don't have any negative side effects. You can find these on my website at http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=r195308&si=w123073609&pc=i2002&ei=i114523 . Yours for better health and medical freedom, British Journal of Cancer May 22, 2006;94(10):1361-8; Yahoo News May 25, 2006. New, inexpensive supplement stops prostate cancer I've told you many times that prevention is the best way to treat cancer. But now there's evidence that a new supplement can actually reverse prostate cancer. Columbia University researchers say that a proprietary supplement called Zyflamend might help your prostate cancer. They looked at the product's effects on cultured prostate cancer cells. It reduced cancer cell proliferation by a remarkable 78%. But that's not all it did. The supplement actually induced apoptosis (death) of the cancer cells as well. The researchers were surprised. They lauded the product as showing "great promise." They're now studying the formulation in human volunteers with non-invasive prostate cancer. Zyflamend is a concoction of well known herbs and compounds, including berberine, ginger, resveratrol, curcumin, and others. All of these provide powerful bioflavonoids. The researchers believe the product works through these bioflavonoids. They are potent modulators of inflammation, especially the cyclo-oxygenase pathway of inflammation. This is the pathway that NSAID drugs, such as Motrin, Celebrex, and the infamous Vioxx, target. Some researchers now tout these drugs as a possible treatment for cancer. However, their side effects can kill. Bioflavonoids provide the same beneficial effects, but without toxicity. It's available online and at many health food stores. I've seen it offered for less than $20 on some websites. Remember, just because something works in a test tube doesn't mean that it will work in a human body. But there's nothing to lose in trying this - and a lot to gain. If you have prostate cancer and try Zyflamend, please send me an email (http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=s195309&si=w123073609&pc=i2002&ei=o135626) and let me know how it works. It's also important to remember that these aren't the only bioflavonoids that work. Zyflamend is a patented 10-nutrient formula. But other bioflavonoids will have the same or similar actions. One such example is resveratrol, which can work wonders all by itself. You can order resveratrol from Healthy Resolve by calling 800-728-2288. Yours for better health and medical freedom, The Three Most Important Nutrients for Treating and Preventing Prostate Cancer Up to 30,000 men in the USA will die from prostate cancer every year. If you're concerned about prostate cancer, there are three nutrients you must include in your daily supplement regimen. The first nutrient I told you about a couple months ago is DIM. It's so powerful in preventing and treating prostate problems, including cancer, that it's now on my list of must-take nutrients. Dr. Michael Zelig says, "The use of this supplement has resulted in the disappearance of abnormal prostate cells on repeat biopsy...." DIM actually enhances the death rate of prostate cancer cells. The second nutrient you need to fight prostate cancer is vitamin D. This one is becoming so well accepted that even conventional medicine is using it. A synthetic form of vitamin D (DN-101) has been found to increase the survival in men with prostate cancer by two years. Medical pundits are raving about this "big step forward" in that two years is the "highest ever seen in a randomized study." The drug was administered simultaneously with a chemotherapy drug, docetaxel. However, you don't need an imitation vitamin D to fight prostate cancer. Take the real thing - and lots of it. If you were in the tropics undressed, your body would use the sun to manufacture up to 10,000 units of vitamin D in one day. So the current RDA of 400 IU is ridiculously inadequate. If you can't get out in the sun enough, consider cod liver oil. Next to the sun, it's the best source of the vitamin. I recommend you take 4,000-5,000 IU per day of vitamin D in supplemental form. I know of no risk to this amount of vitamin D. As an aside, your bones and arteries will love you for it as well. Vitamin D can protect against hypertension and bone loss. And, finally, the last nutrient you must take is green tea. In a recent study, 62 volunteers aged 45-75 were divided into two groups. The experimental group received 200 mg three times daily of green tea catechins (GTC). These are the incredible antioxidants in green tea. The other group received a placebo. The men had prostate biopsies at six months and again at one year. The GTC group had one case of prostate cancer. Nine cases were found in the untreated group - a rate of 30%. That's consistent with what would be expected. The green tea extract group had a 90% reduced risk in this small study. There were no significant side effects or adverse reactions with the use of green tea. The amount of green tea extract (600 mg) in this study was between one and two times the amounts regularly consumed in China. There, the population averages 10-20 cups daily of the complete tea rather than encapsulated extracts. A fourth nutrient to consider is selenium, repeatedly reported here as a strong preventer of prostate cancer. If you have prostate cancer or want to avoid it, read this... I've told you in the past about cancer's connection to omega-6 fatty acids. The connection with prostate cancer is so strong you can greatly reduce your risk simply by cutting back on these fats. And a recent study from Jamaica proves this connection - and shows another great way to fight the disease. In this study, researchers followed men with proven prostate cancer. They biopsied each of the participants to confirm the presence of cancer. Then they did a fatty acid analysis of their blood cells. And here's what they found: There is a highly significant correlation of prostate cancer to high levels of omega-6 fatty acids. High levels of omega-6 means there is more than four times as many omega-6 fats compared to omega-3s. Most Americans have 20 times as many! The Jamaicans are even worse. This country has the highest incidence of prostate cancer of any country in the world. I've been to Jamaica. Their diet is full of fried foods. It's much like what I saw in India, where the incidence of cancer and vascular disease is skyrocketing. The culprit is dietary oil. Specifically, any oil that's full of omega-6 fatty acids. These include most vegetable oils, such as Wesson oil. Instead, use oils that are high in omega-3 fatty acids, such as coconut, macadamia nut, sesame, and olive oils. And keep their heat exposure to a minimum, as it damages the oil. Because most people have way too many omega-6s, I also recommend you take omega-3 supplements to compensate for the omega-6 overload. Stick to a good essential fatty acid product like the one that comes with Healthy Resolve's Max Plus. Yours for better health and medical freedom, J Urol, 2007; 177(1): 97-101. A New Plant Looks Promising for the Prostate Prostate conditions range from a nuisance to deadly. Typical orthodox treatments for enlargement range from the drug Proscar to reaming out the gland. Both of these therapies have significant drawbacks. Well-known alternative remedies include saw palmetto, stinging nettles, Pygeum Africanum, and other agents (similar to those found in Healthy Resolve's Advanced Prostate Formula). Recently, my artemisinin mentor, Dr. Hoang of Vietnam, gave me a translation of a just published article from his native land. This report discusses use of an extract of the botanical Crinum latifolium in the treatment of prostate conditions. Apparently, the value of this plant is not well known outside Vietnam. The report explains why this plant is considered a national treasure in Vietnam. A 72-year-old man was awakening several times at night to urinate due to an enlarged prostate. He was recommended to have his prostate surgically removed, but because of hypertension, he was introduced to Crinum. After just three courses (21 days for each course) of treatment, his prostate size reduced significantly. All his symptoms resolved and he felt healthy again. After seven years of research, Vietnam's International Hospital has achieved good results in well over 90 percent of its prostate disorder patients. Apparently, the doctors are using the extract for 21 days as a cycle, with seven days off in between cycles. They report no side effects and no lethal level in animals (meaning incredible safety). In one Vietnamese clinical study for patients with benign hypertrophy of the prostate, 158 patients were given a Crinum- based herbal preparation two times daily. In 64 days, patients were evaluated by clinical and ultrasound examination. The follow-up found clinical symptoms resolving with prostate size reducing to normal for 154 patients (97 percent). The follow-up after three years confirmed a high rate of long-term success for those who finished the therapy. Dr. Hoang told me about two patients with confirmed prostate cancer by biopsy and high PSA. After six months of a preparation containing Crinum and Phytosaponins (to promote healthy cell membrane functions), the men became concerned on learning that their PSA had increased from eight to 22, and from 45 to 60 respectively. However, all their disease symptoms had cleared with return of normal urination. Finding it hard to believe the cancer could have worsened, the men actually requested biopsies. The specimens failed to detect any cancer at all! Additionally, the size of their prostates had been reduced. I'm now beginning to use Crinum, and will report my findings as I've done with artemisinin. However, the Vietnamese report is so encouraging, I didn't want to hesitate in helping men with an enlarged prostate get a head start, and (I hope) report their ow |