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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, and our immune system is usually successful in destroying it, so a strong immune system is a key 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" below) 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 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 oil 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 Berry Green) 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, molecularly distilled fish oil (3-6 TBS/d with full spectrum vitamin E), organic free-range chicken/turkey and line-caught/wild-caught fish (Alaskan canned salmon is hishg 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 Berry Green 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 in fish 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. We 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);
The blended vegetables, perfect diet, organic barley grass, Miracle Reds, Berry Green 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 pure liquid fish oil -- capsules are usually rancid, and you need too much fish oil to take capsules) 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. 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. Supplements I would take: Fish Oil (molecularly-distilled to remove heavy metals and PCBs) taken with non-GMO lecithin granules, full-spectrum vitamin E, curcumin, quercetin and hesperidin powders (see below for sources and amounts; open capsules and mix in well using small bowl and spoon) 2TBS/day liquid fish oil, iHerb NTA-26137 (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 fish oil directly, as the unconverted ALA causes inflammation and increased, rather than decreased cancer) Vitamin E (800 iu/d full spectrum oil soluble) keeps fish oil from oxidizing as soon as it hits the stomach, and fights cancer; Swanson SWU209 (2/d) Vitamin E Succinate (400iu/d water soluble) www.luckyvitamin.com/p-925-now-foods-dry-e-400-d-alpha-250-vegetarian-capsules [49488], 1/d Vitamin C powder as Magnesium Ascorbate (not Ascorbic Acid), 2g/d in divided dosages, Swanson NOW-00756 (2.5tsp/d) Vitamin C (oil soluble form), Vitamin C (oil-soluble ascorbyl palmitate), http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Ascorbyl-Palmitate (1/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, the sodium salt of R-Lipoic Acid (RLA). Unlike pure RLA, Na-RLA is a stabilized form of RLA that won't degrade at high temperatures, is more bioavailable than regular RLA and has no solvent residues), NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine), is a glutathione precursor (main antioxidant), and also helps lungs; Swanson SW854 (600mg/d) CoQ10 as Ubiquinol (100mg/d or 800mg/d regular CoQ10 Ubiquinone) for energy and heart repair/protection, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Ubiquinol-CoQH-Featuring-Kaneka-QH-trade [NSI 7010554] Magnesium Citrate powder (900mg/d), Swanson NOW-01295 (1/2tsp 3 times a day; 945mg/d) Melatonin (21mg/d fights cancer -- not primarily for sleep), Swanson (www.swansonvitamins.com) SW502 White/Green Tea (some is in EIF; take additional to make 1000mg/d) 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 (2/d under tongue) Vitamin D3 (5,000iu a day or 10,000iu every other day, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Vitamin-D3-as-Cholecalciferol-10-000-IU-365-Capsules [NSI 7011865, NSI Vitamin D3 as Cholecalciferol, 10,000 IU] 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 promote cancer-cell suicide: 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 Livotrit for liver support and detoxification, (3/d), http://store.yahoo.com/spinelife/livotritplus.html Dandelion Root extract (3/d – careful if gallbladder problems) for liver support and detoxification, Swanson SW515 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; TMG (1000mg/d), http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-5242-now-foods-tmg-trimethylglycine [54104, NOW Foods TMG (Trimethylglycine) 1,000mg] non-GMO Lecithin (2TBS/d), http://www.vitaglo.com/2262.html 866-401-5402 [Now Vitamins brand Lecithin Granules- non gmo 2 lbs] Luteolin (2x500mg/d), iherb JRW-14062 Artichoke extract (2/d – careful if gallbladder problems) for liver support and detoxification, iherb JRW-14062 Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans, Arabinogalactan, Pectasol-C, and Lactoferrin (6 capsules/d on empty stomach) that STRONGLY reduce metastasis (cancer spread). PectaSol-C 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] ProBoost (helps Thymus gland cells identify cancer cells for NK cells to attack) Grapeseed extract extract (3/d) strengthens intracellular "glue" so that cancer has a tough time dissolving it to spread. www.swansonvitamins.com [SWH098] Pomegranate extract [(www.iherb.com [SNS-02086, Source Naturals Pomegranate Extract, 500 mg standardized for ellagitannin content (not ellagic acid)], 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) [some is in EIF; subtract it from above amount and take whatever additional is needed. Note that it is unclear if EIF contains mostly un-absorbable ellagic acid, or the more desirable ellagitannin. If you want the safer, rather than more convenient, method, you might take the individual brands I have mentioned. I used EIF myself when I had active lung cancer, but would use the individual components, which I have each selected for high quality, if I had to do it again.] White/green tea extract 2x500mg/d [some is in EIF; subtract it from above amount and take whatever additional is needed] Optional: Graviola -- 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. (Note: this is in EIF) Selenium as SeMSC 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) [some is in EIF; subtract it from above amount and take whatever additional is needed] Lugol’s iodide solution (NOT tincture of iodine – it is poisonous if taken internally), Swanson LGS001 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], http://store.yahoo.com/iherb/pancreatin4.html, NOW-02946 (Now brand 4x pancreatic enzymes); Note that enzymes are a very important part of this protocol 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]; http://www.iherb.com/store/ProductDetails.aspx?c=Herbs&pid=NOW-02972, (qty360 Chewable Lozenges NOW-02972, (Don't take enzymes with Arabinogalactan, Immune Assist, Mushrooms, Echinacea, Goldenseal, Aloe or other immune boosters); Aloe Vera capsules (long chain), http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Aloe-Vera-200 (2/d) Serrapeptase enzyme, Doctor's Best, 4/d, http://www.vitacost.com/DoctorsBestBestSerrapeptase, (40,000 units enterically-coated); Melatonin (21mg/d = seven 3mg/day at bedtime -- 21mg/d. It's a cancer fighter) www.swansonvitamins.com SW502 Echinacea, www.swansonvitamins.com SWH019 (2/d), immune booster (cycle: 3 wks on, 1 wk off) Goldenseal, Swanson NW147 (2/d), immune booster (cycle: 3 wks on, 1 wk off) Fucoidan, iHerb DRB-00165, (2/d), immune booster Astragalus, iHerb Paradise Herbs, PAR-77727 (2/d), immune booster (works with above) Ginger, www.swansonvitamins.com NW486 (3/d) 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.vitacost.com/MHP-Activite-Sport [MHP 2200026] Ultra Carotenoid Complex, Swanson SWU260 (1/d) Apigenin, Swanson SWU375 (1/d) Bioflavonoids, Swanson SW128 (2/d), need to take along with vitamin C Gingko Biloba, Swanson SW893 (3/d) Broccoli extract, SWR035 (2/d for colon cancer) Sulforaphane, Swanson SWR048 (2/d for colon cancer) Zyflamend, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Zyflamend (anti-inflammatories are of great help, along with EIF, for all types of diseases in which inflammation plays a key role, including arthritis, blood sugar problems, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc.) Boswellia, 2/d, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Boswellia-Extract (anti-inflammatory that works with above) 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 (1/4 tsp 3 times a day, mix in fish oil with curcumin & quercetin), iHerb LEX-13830 Quercetin/Bromelain, http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Quercetin-Bromelain (6/d in oil) Barley Grass (organic, non-GE), http://www.luckyvitamin.com/733739026620.html (2TBS/d) Berry Green powder, http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Berry-Green-360g (2TBS/d in distilled water) Green/White Tea extract (organic), http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Green-White-Tea (2/d) Thymulus, 1/d, http://www.vitacost.com/Enzymatic-Therapy-Immune-Strong-Wellness-Booster-Formerly-Thymulus ET 040063; 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) 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) B-12 (sublingual), iherb [SOL-01959, Solgar Methylcobalamin, 5000 mcg], 1/d under tongue Arabinogalactan, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=16813 (3-5tsp/d; less when cancer no longer active or gone) 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/ Zinc Citrate, http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=8939 (1 every other day, along with the zinc and copper that is in Activite Sport) (if needed) Bile, http://www.vitacost.com/NutriCologyOxBile (if clay-colored, light brown stools from fatty meals, take 1 with fatty meals) Coconut Oil (extra virgin), http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Extra-Virgin-Organic-Coconut-Oil/ntt-NSI%207011568 (1-2 TBS per day) Bilberry & Grape Skin extract, iHerb JRW-14028 (2-3/d) Potassium Chloride Powder, iHerb NOW-01450 (1/8 tsp 2-3 times a day in food or green drink) 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. Lycopene, (20mg/d); 1/d of the Swanson multi-carotenoid contains 20mg of lycopene along with a full spectrum of other vitamin A components. Glyconutrients - Gum Ghatti [3-5tsp/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 -- he also sells high quality and long-chain Aloe Vera in bulk at a discount -- 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. Maitake-D or DM fraction, 40-100mg/d extract, immune booster Panax Ginseng, 2/d, iherb PAR-77712, Panax Red Ginseng made by Paradise Herbs] Ginkgo Biloba, 3/d, Swanson SW893 (helps fight cancer) DIM, 2/d, http://catalog.designsforhealth.com/s.nl?sc=2&category=&search=DIM-Avail [DIM-Avail Softgels by DFH, qty60, $12.50, 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.) Fennugreek capsules or powder, Swanson SW534, 610mg/d, immune booster & helps lungs (for prostate cancer) 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) 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 safe Deodorant, http://www.vitacost.com/HomeHealthDeodorantHerbalMagic-Unsctnd, $2.97, 2 oz (318858575091, HH 575091) 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). 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: 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). 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 the 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 1000 mg of buffered (magnesium ascorbate) 3 times/day & 1/d oil-soluble C (ascorbyl palmitate) (3000mg/day total). 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] 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 New Chapter's Berry Green], 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 pure fish oil, 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. Taking these supplements in the correct dosages, as well as eating the green drinks (or blenderized vegetables), along with lots of specific fats (fish oil, 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. 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 Now brand molecularly-distilled, lemon-flavored fish 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. Steel cut organic oats - you can soak them in pure water in the refrigerator overnight to reduce cooking time. I have these with a little Stevia on them in the mornings. Baked cereals, starches, french fries, chips, etc. are high in cancer-causing acrylamides. I add 2 tablespoonfuls of freshly-ground organic flax seed to my oats, along with some extra water (which I stir in and make sure it covers the ground flaxseed so it will prevent oxidation), because the flaxseed absorbs quite a bit within a couple minutes. I usually let it sit about 3-5 minutes before eating to give the flaxseeds a chance to thicken. Note: flaxseed needs to be ground fresh each time, since it starts going rancid within a half hour. If you can't get steel cut, then rolled organic oats are the next best thing. Stay away from instant oatmeal, and those other types with added sugar, hydrogenated fat, artificial flavors/colors/preservatives. 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). 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). Also, I really think it would help for you to go to St. Kitt's (you'd still need to accurately follow a healthy diet, lifestyle and supplement protocol.) For Clots: 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. Gingko 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. One of the best ways to follow cancer growth is to keep an eye on the level of C-reactive protein, which measures inflammation. Some of the things that can lower inflammation include Boswellia, Zyflamend, GLA, and fish oil. 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 or purified liquid fish 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. 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 fish 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, Berry Green, 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), fish oil (I mix curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin into1-2 TBS fish 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 fish 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, Berry Green, 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 (hesperidin), and get from the refrigerator my fish oil (into which I mix curcumin, quercetin & hesperidin), measuring spoons 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 fish oil, 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 olive or purified fish 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) fish oil 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, 3TBS/d fish oil, 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 cannded 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). 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 fish oil (molecularly-distilled) taken with full-spectrum vitamin E (to keep the fish oil from oxidizing as soon as 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 EPA/DHA 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 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 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.) 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), 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. Wild salmon oil, even minimally refined oil, has almost no impurities. Inflammation can be further reduced by adding GLA or Borage oil. Instead of Budwig's Cottage Cheese, I take 1TBS purified, molecularly-distilled liquid fish oil and mix it 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 fish oil from oxidizing as soon as it hits my stomach, and I chew 1TBS non-GMO lecithin twice a day to help increase the omega-3 absorption of the fish 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. 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
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