Some people respond quickly and dramatically to treatments that support
the body’s own immune function. Fredrick arrived at Oasis terrified and
barely able to swallow, from huge tumors pressing on his neck and
tongue. He describes them as “melting away” in just two weeks. He
explains here what he’s doing that he feels makes the most difference in
his treatment:
Back to the Oasis series tomorrow!
I’m just home from 5 days in New York City, one of my favorite places on the planet. It was 60 degrees the whole time, and we saw a bunch of fabulous shows, one being Brooke Shields in The Addams Family, but my favorite one was Hugh Jackman. I love to see people exactly my age, as both Brooke and Hugh are, who are at the top of their game instead of sliding off into inertia.
Did you know Hugh is not just Wolverine and one of the handsomest men on the planet—but he can sing like crazy, and dance his feet off? Wow. Two-hour one-man show and you’re on the edge of your seat the whole time.
Lately what I do when I travel is freeze a bunch of pint jars of green smoothies. Or carrot-apple-beet-celery-collard juice (made with my Norwalk juicer). I put them in my suitcase, well cushioned with Ziploc bags around them. Then I put them in the hotel mini-fridge and have some every morning.
Jamie wasn’t about to eat another raw restaurant (she hates them everywhere we go), so she brought stuff from Starbuck’s missed out on the best meal I have EVER had, bar none, at one of the best raw vegan restaurants on this planet: Sarma Melngailis’ Pure Food and Wine. Tell me you won’t miss it, if you go to New York!
But my biggest adventure in the Big Apple was on my Saturday morning 6-mile run along the Lower East Side. People who train at 4200 feet elevation like I do LOVE running at sea level—we can go forever. I was enjoying the waterfront in Battery Park, the nice weather, and the view of the Statue of Liberty, when I…..discovered a dead man in Hudson River 10 feet from me.
Just what everyone hopes to encounter on vacation! Ten minutes later, two FDNY boats, a helicopter, a fire truck, at least 100 cops and as many bystanders descended on the scene to watch the boats fish the body out.
Soooooo, that was weird. I haven’t seen any news report of it—must be just another day in the Big Apple. My main thought was: “WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE, TOTO!” Meantime, back at GreenSmoothieGirl.com…..
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Structural Realignment: Every day, Dr. Lodi would ask me, “Have you seen Kathleen yet?” On my last day, I finally went to see her. She trained for a year in a branch of the work pioneered by Dr. Ida Rolf (I have heard of this therapy as “Rolfing” and have a friend who experienced miraculous results from it). The body is covered by fascial straps, and as we become de-aligned and fatigued, the body binds us in ever-more-restrictive fascial straps. Kathleen is phenomenally gifted at what she does. Some people are intuitive healers, and she is one of them. I was astonished, after one treatment (which felt amazing) that I could turn and look all the way over my right shoulder for the first time in years. (Due to a car accident when I was 5 years old that locked my neck vertebrae into a straight formation, rather than the very significant curve of an undamaged cervical spine.)
FAR Infrared Sauna: I have been studying FAR Infrared treatment for detoxification all year. In fact, I have been investigating all the companies to find one I wanted to not only invest in for myself, but to offer wholesale prices in a group buy to my readers. I now have mine and am madly in love with it. I am working out the deal for those of you who have the space and the money to put a powerful healing tool in your home.
The effect of far infrared is not something you have to take on faith, as with many treatments, because it’s so easily felt, the detoxification that occurs. It significantly reduces blood pressure due to dilation of vessels in one session of over one hour. (It also burns calories—300 to 600 according to various reports. My resting heart rate is 45, and after 30 mins. in my sauna, it doubles. This is exciting for people unable to exercise.)
The waves penetrate 1 ½” deep, which means even organs can detoxify. You’re loosening and releasing, through various organs including the dynamic organ of the skin, heavy metals, sodium, cholesterol, dozens of pesticides and cleaning agents and endocrine disruptors, alcohol and nicotine.
A traditional steam sauna just heats the surface of your skin, and it’s hard to breathe in them, as the temperature is so high and can make the lungs feel like they’re burning. (I personally find myself claustrophobic and terrified in a regular sauna.) You won’t experience this in an infrared sauna, which is very comfortable, as the heat is dry and lower temperature, but deeply penetrating. The amount you perspire is just phenomenal, much more than in a steam sauna—and so good for you in releasing the chemical toxins stored in your fat cells and organs!
It opens clogged or malfunctioning powers and heals skin and acne and scars. One source I read says far infrared is the only antidote to sun damage (excess ultraviolet radiation). And Japanese researchers concluded that the radiant heat is also an antidote for the negative effects of EMF. I have read papers describing the positive clinical effects tested on people with depression.
Dr. Lodi says that while regular cells function optimally at 98.6 degrees—everyone knows this—immune cells go into hyperdrive and function optimally at 103.5 degrees! With the increase in body temp in the sauna, imagine your white blood cells speeding up and energizing, to gobble up macrophages!
That includes cancer cells, and many practitioners have patients doing far infrared therapy multiple times a day. You’re getting the positive effects of a fever, which is one of the body’s most important healing mechanisms that serves a critical purpose. (A Dr. Lodi quote: “People think that a fever is a sign of a Tylenol deficiency.”) Jumping in your far infrared sauna at the first sign of an illness can be very helpful.
Using the sauna to heal is highly effective. (My son and his athlete friends crowd into our 3-man unit, which they call the Bro-Zone.) It decreases joint stiffness and muscle spasms, increases blood flow, relieves pain, and decreases inflammation. One of my favorite things, besides how relaxed I feel, is how soft my skin is after. Matthew texted me the day after we used it for the first time: “Feel the skin on your face!” It’s a wonderful treatment for acne, eczema, and psoriasis.
One strange thing: I thought it would relax me, but if I do the sauna right before bed, I do feel relaxed, but so rejuvenated and energized, I can’t go to sleep!
Professional Colonics, and Coffee Enemas: I’ve still never done the coffee enema, but I’ve read extensively of their benefits from the Gerson Institute. The idea is that the portals to the liver and kidneys are dilated by the caffeine so that waste products inherent in breaking down cancer can evacuate the body via the rectum quickly and easily without being reabsorbed over and over. (Coffee taken orally does not have therapeutic benefit.) Professional colonics can irrigate higher into the colon that enemas can.
Wheat Grass Juice: Leveraging the work of Ann Wigmore, An Oasis of Healing allows you a wheat grass shot every day. Wheatgrass is powerful against cancer in myriad ways: it’s highly oxygenating, and it is rich in chlorophyll, which increases hemoglobin production so that more oxygen gets to the cancer, starving it. It also contains anti-cancer selenium and laetrile. Plus, it’s possibly the most alkaline food on the planet.
Hypnosis: Deborah is an incredible hypnotherapist, another of the gifted healers at Oasis (right up there with Brandi and Kathleen!). She has been developing a way of working with cancer patients to discover what their cancer is trying to teach them.
It’s a dangerous path to traverse to suggest that someone’s cancer is their own fault. That’s not a place a practitioner is likely to go. But now you “have” cancer. What does your subconscious tell you that may be terribly helpful in move forward in your healing? Could it be possible that you have some unresolved traumas that are in the way of your body accomplishing its higher purposes? Deborah taught me how to self-hypnotize. I came by at the end of Shirley’s first session and found her very emotional about what she had learned from her subconscious that day about what ovarian cancer’s positive message to her may be.
Education, Yoga, Meditation: Patients are educated by Dr. Lodi as well as others on his staff, and there is a yoga class every morning that anyone, even those who are not able to otherwise exercise, can participate in. Dr. Lodi repeatedly states that one should wake up and meditate for 20 mins, read a good health book for 30 mins, and exercise before beginning the day. All these are beneficial for physical and spiritual healing.
Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide: It’s found in nature, in breast milk, it’s just H2O2. It’s a natural byproduct of cellular respiration. But it’s toxic to cancer cells. At Oasis, over 90 minutes, a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution drips into the vein in your arm.
It kills viral and bacterial cells. I proved this on myself by putting a highly diluted (8%) solution on a little wart I got on my arm about a year ago. It burns a little when I put it on. But in a week, the solution has almost eaten the wart completely, while surrounding tissues are fine. Hydrogen peroxide administered via IV was first used in WWII, when field hospitals discovered how powerful it was in preventing gangrene.
When H2O2 is injected, the chemical reaction that occurs is that a single oxygen atom is spun off and only water (H2O) remains. The oxygen kills cancer cells on contact since cancer cells require tremendous energy and must live in an oxygen-deprived environment.
Aerobic organisms, such as probiotics in the gut, thrive in the presence of hydrogen peroxide.
If this solution is so simple and effective, why doesn’t modern medicine use it anymore? Simple: you can’t patent it. Therefore you can’t make money on it. It has fallen by the wayside but is a good first-line antibiotic without side effects. (Do not drink it, though—some people do, but you won’t achieve the effects putting it into your stomach, the reasons why would take me a few paragraphs—it needs to reach your blood circulation.) Some people bathe in a diluted peroxide, and many, including Dr. Christian Bernard (who performed the first heart transplant) used it several times daily to reduce arthritis and aging.
UV Light: Blood is removed and exposed to UV light in a vial, killing cancer as well as other pathogens. Dr. Lodi says, “Hemoglobin has the exact same structure as chlorophyll, except hemoglobin has iron, and chlorophyll has magnesium. Why did nature give us photoreceptive cells? We must be capable of converting light into energy!”
(Many recent studies on Vitamin D are now confirming this. Contrary to what has believed for decades, several types of cancer have an inverse relationship with sun exposure, including skin and breast cancer—the more sun exposure, the less cancer people get! Sun is carcinogenic in combination with excess Omega 6 fats, Dr. Lodi says in one of his articles. Omega 6 overdose is the result of refined oils in the diet, in fried foods, prepared salad dressings, and much more.)
In 1941, American Journal of Surgery published Surgeon George Maile’s work with UV light, curing six years of septic patients. Septic is when infection is rampant, everywhere in the body. These patients are virtually always in intensive care, and many die. With UV treatment, 100% of the mild cases were cured, 100% of the moderate cases were cured, and 55% percent of the moribund patients were cured. That’s beyond statistically significant. That’s astonishing. But traditional medicine ignores it.
Intravenous Sodium Selenite: This is a little-known therapy being used by only one other doctor in the United States. Sodium selenite is a potent oxidative version of the essential trace mineral Selenium that attacks destructive cancer cells: it’s a non-toxic chemotherapy.
Dr. Lodi brought it into his practice recently because of a paper published in Sweden reviewing a variety of studies, all of them very exciting for cancer treatment. Early studies in the 1960′s and beyond showed phenomenal cancer prevention in animals. In one, mice were given a carcinogenic compound, but 100% in the group supplemented with selenium were alive 25 days later, and in the control group that did not take selenium, all were dead.
A well known 1996 study (Clark et al) in the U.S. documented a 50% reduction of prostate cancers and 25% reduction of all cancers for people taking this nutrient in supplement form over 10 years. Yu et al showed an even better 35% cancer reduction after 8 years. (Participants took 200 mg of selenized yeast.)
Looks like low to moderate long-term use of selenium orally is a great preventative. But for therapy, high doses are toxic to malignancies. Oral administration of high doses have side effects including nausea, which are bypassed with intravenous administration.
IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy, or low-dose chemo): A cancer cell is 19 times less efficient than a normal cell, with 19 times more insulin receptors. With this treatment used since 1933, you first starve cancer cells of sugar (patients are required to fast), creating an insulin-receptive environment. Then injection of extremely low-dose chemo goes directly to cancer cells, without hair loss and other toxic side effects.
Patients undergoing IPT at Oasis of Healing wear ice helmets to prevent chemicals from getting to hair follicles and cause hair loss. They put ice packs on their hands and feet to prevent the chemicals from getting to their extremities and causing neuropathy. That written, I had read of it for years, but I’m here to say it’s low toxicity, and that’s a relative assessment—it’s not “no-toxicity.” One Oasis patient told me the next day that she pulled over on the way home from her treatment and threw up. Others did have symptoms. I shiver thinking about what it would be like to have 10 times that much.
The criticism of IPT is that clinical trials haven’t been completed. Clinical trials are expensive and completed by drug companies trying to get FDA approval. Why would a company whose drug is already approved pay for a study to show that using only 10 percent of that drug may be more effective with this targeted therapy as the massively more profitable standard dose is, with (clearly) fewer side effects and no deaths associated with it? No drug company is stepping forward to conduct the study but Dr. Lodi claims to have used it successfully with hundreds of patients. And Dr. Lasalvia in Uruguay published a small government-funded trial showing that insulin plus a low dose of chemotherapy is far more effective than high-dose chemo.
Acupuncture: A real Chinese practitioner, Dr. Lu, discovers where energy pathways are blocked and releases them, to improve the body’s ability to heal itself. I had never done it before. The needles in my legs did not hurt.
Lymphatic drainage therapy: The lymph system is so important. A sedentary lifestyle causes many people’s lymphatic fluids and tissues to become a stagnant swamp. We need the lymph system to actively, dynamically clean the blood, critical not only to avoid lymphatic cancer itself, but also to help in cleaning the debris in the bloodstream as cancer tissues are breaking up in the healing process. Brandi, a former ER nurse, has an interesting, comfortable one-hour lymphatic drainage protocol using an electrical system developed 14 years ago in Europe.
I tell you for the next 3 days what treatment at Oasis consists of, most of which I participated in, myself.
I will report in more detail in the book and documentary we are working on. In the coming year, Dr. Lodi and an international investor are opening a clinic that will not only serve cancer patients better with even more services, but will also offer a holistic healing spa for people like me who want to participate in the therapies for wellness, anti-aging, and prevention. They closed on a property while I was there. Very exciting!
This is the original 4-minute video I saw by Dr. Lodi. I was completely gripped by it, and immediately wanted to go visit:
http://www.anoasisofhealing.com/?gclid=CKDIhJDWvKwCFQZThwodsDEPpg
I recommend before you go to Oasis, you contact Clothilde and ask her your questions. She’s delightful and patient-oriented. Ask before you go how you can get the most treatments in your day as possible, if you’re coming from out of town to stay for a month. If your energy is strong and you’re ambitious like I am, see if you can schedule these healing therapies from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. every day—don’t miss a thing! See if you can get in the sauna twice a day—I highly recommend it.
Here are modalities used at Oasis—I personally did all of them except UV light and IPT:
Juice Feast: You can choose to eat raw vegan meals, or drink just juice, or water fast. Just veggie juice is much better than chewed food, if you’re wanting to starve out cancer cells, because you’re getting the nutrition of 15-20 lbs. of vegetables every day, that way. And a water fast is best of all. Phil makes you 3 quarts of green juice (see my blog entry a week or so ago with the recipe), and a quart of alkalizing juice (ginger lemonaide). It would take you a couple of hours, and about $50, to make that amount of juice. I never managed to finish more than three quarts. And because I ran 5 miles every morning, I did eat some of Kels’ raw-food meals. (He’s my filmmaker and he was leaving to get takeout every night, so it was going to waste!)
Minor Autohemo Therapy: Nurses removed a vial of blood from my arm. Then they added oxygen to the vial and I shook it hard for a few minutes, watching it turn my blood bright red. Then they injected it back into my hip. As Dr. Lodi predicted, after you have it done, you feel like you can walk on water! Remember, cancer can’t live in the presence of oxygen. Cancer is fermentative and thrives in an anaerobic environment, devoid of oxygen. For this reason, many holistic cancer treatments, like this one, are oxidative. Major autohemo is more expensive but more comprehensive: it pulls a pint or more of blood out of the body and oxygenates it and puts it back in.
Intravenous Vita C: Massive intravenous doses of Vitamin C have been linked to extending the lifespan of cancer patients, and in fact working well as a complementary chemotherapy adjunct. You can google for peer-reviewed journal articles. Injected into the blood in doses you could not possibly swallow, effects are seen that do not occur with oral supplementation, including selective killing of cancer tumor cells. Even traditional oncology is beginning to use it. While meeting with Shirley, Dr. L pulled a journal article out of a file that showed the National Cancer Institute, the FDA, and National Institutes of Health verifying the efficacy of intravenous Vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide. He said, “Take this to your insurance company, and sometimes they’ll reimburse you for the treatment.” (Pathetic that they don’t just pay for it upfront, that patients must beg for this very logical and non-toxic treatment.)
Vita C is one of the most-studied, most-potent antioxidants known to man. Imagine it running around your body mopping up, neutralizing free radicals that feed your cancer cells.
TWELVE more therapies described in the next 2 days.
Tomorrow I won’t be blogging, as I’ll be going for a Central Park run, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and working in a soup kitchen in New York City, like last year. I’ll be having fun and counting my blessings. And working on my next book (I’ll tell you later) on the plane.
I’m thankful for my beautiful sons and daughters. I wanted them for years before they came to me, and each of them is a gift.
I’m thankful for lovely friends who support me when I pull something off, and carry me in the hard times. Kristin, Matthew, Jamie, Jean, Jennie…..you are my lifelines.
I’m thankful to have regained my health in the past 20 years. I am a better athlete, I need far less sleep, I having a more positive outlook on life, I weigh less, I have much more energy, and I’m without chronic conditions. I’m on my knees with gratitude for that, because it makes everything else possible.
I’m thankful for the community of friends who read this blog. I know that you want the same things I do: for our loved ones, and us, to reach our potential.
I’m thankful for the freedom and opportunity to speak my mind, make mistakes, learn, and grow.
Thank you for being part of my world. I love the opportunity to reflect on my many blessings this week, and as often as possible.
XOXO,
Robyn
I still have so much cool stuff to share with you about Dr. Lodi’s work. But first, some announcements:
My new book JUNK FOOD DUDE’S YUMMY HEALTHY RECIPES has just released! It’s a recipe book, a companion to the story book THE ADVENTURES OF JUNK FOOD DUDE. The set makes a great Christmas present, and you can get $6 off both books together with the coupon code “TwoDudeBooks.” There’s a full-color page of photography for every single recipe, and kids can make easy main dishes, snacks, smoothies, nut mylks, treats, and more.
ALOHA to my Hawaiian friends! The Vegetarian Society and Down to Earth stores are bringing me out to teach these two FREE classes, get tickets for MAUI or HONOLULU.
Thursday, March 15 on Maui
Saturday, March 17 in Honolulu
And here‘s over 300 people on my blog wanting to form a co-op, should you still be looking for someone to order with. over 1,100 posted here on the forum. This is your last blog reminder that you have till Nov. 30 to place an order in the GROUP BUY.
(We are behind in shipping almonds because almonds are late coming out of the trees, sorry for the wait! We’ve been told dates several times only to have almonds NOT show up on the truck after all. Hope you can forgive us—the group buy is such an undertaking that Jenni and I debate every year whether we can suck it up to do it next year or not because we tear our hair out! But we know people love it, and we love that it helps people with preparedness aspect. Everyone should have food stored against emergency. And how exciting when it’s nutritious food so your health can thrive, rather than merely survive, in an emergency like job loss, natural disaster, or economic crash.)
Finally, we are planning ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO area classes for June 6-8 and need a couple of helpers to line up locations and sponsors. Talk to Amanda@greensmoothiegirl.com if you can help.
I’m back to my Oasis of Healing series on Weds. Meantime, as we talk about cancer, the FDA just ruled Friday that the best-selling cancer drug in the world, Avastin, shouldn’t be used for breast cancer anymore, even though its dangers have been known for at least 18 months. The drug is being pulled not only because it doesn’t work, but also because it destroys the cardiovascular system. (It’s used for many cancers, though—and it’s okay to keep causing massive bleeding, severe high blood pressure, and heart failure for THOSE cancers.)
In the article below, FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg agonizes over destroying a billion-dollar-a-year cash cow for Genentech, saying she’ll “absolutely” reconsider if the Genentech finds “the right evidence.” (Have repeated studies documenting how Avastin destroys blood vessels and doesn’t cure cancer been the “wrong” evidence?)
And Genentech scrambles to find some evidence to keep their chemical out there killing more people. Finally, inexplicably, despite the FDA revoking its approval, doctors can still prescribe it, and Medicare states it will continue to pay for the drug, which costs about $100,000 per year for a single patient! An outstanding use of taxpayer dollars, wouldn’t you say?
Meantime, Medicare and our health care companies have no interest in paying for even reasonably well documented natural treatments, even while they WILL pay for experimental, unproven, expensive patented drug treatments.
Read the Associated Press story HERE.
As appalling as it is, I’m unsurprised how long it took for the FDA to respond to death and devastation caused by Avastin. In 1994, I was shocked reading a Los Angeles study by Peters, et al in Los Angeles showing that kids who eat 12 hot dogs per month or more (or their fathers do!) have NINE times the risk of leukemia. Samuel Epstein, M.D. wrote this petition at that time asking for the FDA to require warnings on hot dog packages, citing 23 different studies linking nitrites in processed meat to cancer.
Guess what the FDA has done about it, to date? Seventeen years later, it’s done exactly nothing. FDA approval doesn’t give me any reason to feel at ease about chemicals in my food. Or cancer drugs.
I met Christine, who obtained a list of “cured” patients from An Oasis of Healing who agreed to talk to other patients. Christine told me she called every single one of them. (I obtained the same list and will invite those former patients to share their stories in my book.) They all answered the phone and told her that, indeed, they were healthy and well after undergoing treatment with Dr. Lodi.
She told me that the things she’s been most impressed with at Oasis is that ‘the staff here walks the talk.” It’s true, and that struck me, too. Dr. Lodi is virtually the only M.D. I know who is a raw vegan (since the year I was born, 1967!), and his staff is all fit and healthy, and you see them all drinking vegetable juices or green smoothies. I’m going to show you a video later with one of the healers there who eliminated debilitating lupus with a high-raw (80%) diet.
Enjoy Christine’s story here:
Sunday I want you to meet Christine, a patient at Oasis, who did a massive amount of homework before choosing to work with Dr. Lodi.
Today I’m giving you some nuggets from Dr. Lodi’s lecture after mine in Mesa, plus other things he said last week during a patient education session, and talking with me privately. (He might be the most quotable person I’ve ever met.) Here are a few:
“Your first 50 years are free. You have to earn the second 50.”
He says the best way to earn your last 50 years is a 42-day water fast, since the body will go into ketosis and consume every abnormal cell first. (You don’t have to eat tons of bacon and eggs to achieve ketosis, per Dr. Robert Atkins, imagine that!) Dr. Lodi give me a bibliography of half a dozen books on water fasting and feels it is very safe. But he monitors people on it for their own peace of mind, and you can stop, if dipping for ketones tells you the body has begun to consume muscle.
(Note: I just read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, an author who has been bedridden with Chronic Fatigue for many years and has not met the subject of her book. It’s the phenomenally written and meticulously researched, incredible story of Olympic runner Louie Zamperini’s WWII experience. He crashed a plane in the ocean and lived 47 days on a raft without food or water, except what they were able to catch during rainstorms, or occasional birds/fish they were able to grab and kill. Louie and his pilot survived and were caught by the Japanese, Louie weighing 67 lbs.
They were tortured and grossly underfed with less than 500 calories daily, for several years in miserable POW camps that disregarded the Geneva Convention about humane treatment of prisoners. He was injected with syringes full of chemicals by the Japanese. They survived beriberi and dysentery, gangrene, lice, leeches, fleas. He was beaten and tortured countless times. When he came home, PTSD sent him into five years of nightmares, sleeplessness, rage, and alcoholism, until a lecture by Billy Graham changed his life. I read a quote in a news article where he said, “When you have a good attitude, your immune system is fortified.”
Did you know that the #1 factor leading to longevity is extreme thinness? Perhaps Phil and Louie lived because their body didn’t have to focus on Dept. of Maintenance, eating so little food. I’m not saying that a 500-calorie diet is ideal. But all Louie’s body’s energy was able to go to Dept. of Defense, for 2 1/2 years of extreme deprivation. If you went around here looking like the folks in this world who live to 120, people would be constantly asking you if you are ill, and they’d worry about you, because Americans are almost never that thin. Louie Zamperini is alive and well at 93.)
More Dr. Lodi quotes:
“The body has a wisdom beyond our comprehension. The body has infinite wisdom.”
“If you eat according to your biological requirements, you can achieve optimal functioning.”
“It’s a lie that health is impossible, disease is inevitable. Health is our birthright!”
“Cancer is not a big deal. It is a word, not a sentence. It is easily gotten rid of.”
In answer to the question, “Should I do chemotherapy?”:
“High-dose chemotherapy should never be done. It hits everything equally.” He then described the IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy) that I talk about tomorrow.
In answer to the question, “Should I have surgery?” Dr. Lodi said don’t have surgery first, because it weakens you and it isn’t a local condition anyway. (Cancer is a failure of the immune system and burning the bump off does not remove cancer. Usually the killer is the organ the cancer metastasizes to—not the original lump or bump.)
Even if you “debulk” the tumor because it is cutting off a vital function (patient Frederick’s neck cancer was impacting his ability to swallow), the bump is a symptom of the cancer, or the tip of the iceberg. Without dealing with the underlying cause of it, which is causing organ damage as well, “You have to change your habits or your body will keep making cancer.” Dr. Lodi recommends that you go 100% raw first, doing a juice fast, and THEN have surgery only as a last resort.
That’s the opposite of what most people do. Most panic, bring in all the nuclear warheads, and then, later, with Stage 4 cancer, they may consider the gentler alternatives to try to rehabilitate immune function.
Another great observation, more paraphrase than quote here:
“Those who come to my clinic to care for their loved one with cancer discover what I call ‘second-hand health.’ That is, they live according to the same principles and nutrition, and their own health issues start to fall away.”
After listening to my green smoothie show where I teach a preventative diet, he said:
“The 80/20 principle leads to a long, happy life. But if you’re facing a serious illness, go 100%. Don’t see it as deprivation of anything. See it gratefully. See it as, ‘I just learned how to live!’”
“The best thing about treating cancer is that the patients stop negotiating.” (Heart disease patients, he says, want to know how much they can eat and get away with it.) “Cancer patients are very compliant.”
Dr. Lodi says one of the nice things about opting out of the modern-medicine rat race is that he has been able to continuously learn about biochemistry because he doesn’t have to spend all his time studying about drugs. He says other docs hate talking to him because their lack of knowledge in that subject quickly becomes glaring. That’s because their post-graduate education tends to default to nothing more than pharmacology.
I was supposed to go up, at the end of his lecture, and tell him we had to stop, to be out of the building. But I was so mesmerized, I sat on the stage and took notes instead, even though we filmed the whole talk. He is so bold in his speech against the establishment, a few times I gasped out loud. But far from angry or paranoid, Dr. Lodi is dealing with Oncology’s castoffs every day. He’s earned his righteous indignation when he says,
“The medical profession isn’t negligent, or ignorant. It’s evil. Doctors are mercenaries.” (Mercenaries: a hired army, paid to kill.)
“Ask your doctor what health is. If they can’t define health, tell me how they are going to restore you to it. They know only disease.”
