Archive for January, 2012

think about a cute wiggly piglet before you eat that sausage!

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What if anytime you ate pork, you had to see a cute little piggy? Do you think people would be less interested in gobbling it up? Check out what happens when people are offered a fried blob of pork in the grocery store, and then they are shown just how fresh that meat might really be! Just a fun video Matthew sent me today—back to hard-hitting content tomorrow!

 

Dietary philosophy and supplements, part 2 of 7

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DIETARY PHILOSOPHY

Dr. Connealy’s program, executed by her nutritionist, Liliana, is 80% alkaline and 20% acid foods (like animal products, grains, berries). They feed patients 20% fat, 30% protein, 50% carbs in the form of veggies, and about 50% raw in the form of vegetables, 2 green juices, and two salads daily. They do not serve any foods with dairy or gluten, and use only minimal grains and starchy vegetables (potatoes, yams, carrots, sweet vegetables). No more than 20 grams of sugar (no refined sugars) per meal.

SUPPLEMENTS DR. CONNEALY PRESCRIBES

Dr. Connealy says, “Every drug causes a nutritional deficiency. You must supply nutrients against the deficiency. For instance, Metformin causes B vitamin deficiency. Statin drugs deplete CoQ10. Red yeast rice also depletes CoQ10.”

I like how she studies the work of other pioneers and revolutionaries in integrative medicine and references and leverages their work regularly. (This is critical so that practitioners build on a foundation and everyone isn’t reinventing the wheel. Some, however, like Stanislaw Burzynski, truly invented “a wheel,” if not “the wheel.”)

She uses some of the research and/or best practices of Dr. Nick Gonzales, the Nobel Prize-winning Otto Warburg, the Gerson Therapy, Ann Wigmore, and more. (In fact, the Gerson Clinic used to be housed in Oasis of Hope, by Dr. Connealy’s partner Dr. Francisco Contreras.)

Tumors are formed, she said, when the immune system is depressed, through too much exposure to toxic chemicals and heavy metals, toxic foods, viral loads, and stresses. It takes about 8 years for a tumor to form. Cancer cells have been coating themselves with fibrinogen glue and mucous, creating 15 layers of protection.

Her philosophy is to use nutraceuticals to slow down the cancer, then stop it, then turn the body around and bring it back to a healthy state. The ideas below are to shift the pH, shut down the blood supply to the tumor, increase natural killer cell production, detoxify the patient, increase antioxidant levels, increase SOD production, strip the glue layer from the cancer cells and kill them.

pH Balancer: This product uses cesium and rubidium together to shift the pH around the tumor to 7.4, as cancer thrives in an acidic environment. This must be done at the cellular level; it is not enough to increase the pH of the blood.

Pancreatic enzymes: Dr. Connealy notes that Drs. William Kelly (and Nick Gonzales) proved that enzymes must be a major part of any integrative treatment of cancer. The kind I have used for years are not effective for me personally, I learned when Liliana tested me using Zyto technology. (Then I came home and had my friend Laura Jacobs test me again, with the same result.) I am switching brands, based on their testing of frequencies of many different products, relative to my own biochemistry. (Sometimes using the same product for a long time causes your body to react to it less effectively. What’s right for me might not be precise for you.)

Dr. Connealy likes Nutrizyme, taken 1-2 hours before meals. It is enterically coated so it can pass through stomach acid and enter the blood stream to break down the fibrinogen glue layer of a cancer cell. This product also has anti-carcinogen factors attached to aid the immune system in killing the cancer cell.

5,000 to 10,000 IU of Vitamin D: It’s absolutely critical as probably the nutrient most linked to cancer prevention. Hundreds of studies now show that cancer could be slashed in half, or better, if people did not fall below Vitamin D minimum thresholds.

4000 mg of oral Vita C: Even the FDA and National Institutes of Health (NIH) now acknowledge, due to incontrovertible evidence, the power of Vitamin C. It may be the best antiviral agent available—I have gotten rid of hundreds of little bugs in my family by administering this amount of it the minute anyone feels ill. Vitamin C increases the antioxidant level in your body on a cellular level, to stop damage to DNA.

Dr. Connealy manufactures VITALITY C that has a neutral pH so high doses will not upset your stomach. Part of the magic of Vita C is that it is mistaken for a glucose molecule by a cancer cell, which has 43 receptors for glucose, compared to a healthy cell that has only 2. When a cancer cells grabs it up, hydrogen peroxide is produced, which kills the cancer cell.

Essential Detox (Badmaev 269): Dr. C believes this to be the best natural antiviral medication and detoxifier of metals and environmental pollutants. It’s made from botanicals based on traditional Tibetan medicine but was developed by physicians in Russia, Europe, and the U.S.

Noni: Morinda Citrifolia increases natural killer cell production, and Dr. C prescribes Nutriceuticals’ freeze-dried Noni fruit in capsules, which retains enzyme activity and is 30 times more powerful than other Noni liquid or capsule.

Ecomer and V-Statin: Ecomer is used to shut down the blood supply to the tumor, as evidenced by 37 clinical trials, using shark liver oil. In addition to its anti-angiogenesis properties, it also increases white and red blood cell and platelet counts in all human beings, and detoxifies mercury by encapsulating it, carrying it through the kidneys with no damage, and excreting it in the urine.

Stress Release: This is fetal wheat tissue product (no fiber, no gluten, only protein) developed over 50 years by a family of botanists from Michigan. They used it in Chernobyl to detox the radiation damage. It increases SOD (Super Oxide Dismutase) in the body that detoxifies poisons from chemo and radiation, which reduces their side effects. SOD is the intracellular garbage man in the body. Fetal wheat protein increased SOD level in 100% of those tested.

Natura Herbals Anti-Cancer Formulas: Dr. Huang Chuan Gui is Asia’s most respected cancer physician, and his family has made herbal medicines for cancer for over 900 years. His proprietary formulas are specifically for the respiratory, digestive, urinary, ductless glands, blood, lymphatic, motor system, and central nervous system.

Cancer Treatment at Oasis of Hope IRVINE (Center for New Medicine), part 1 of 7

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Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy spoke before I did, in Costa Mesa, to 300 GSG readers, before I began studying with her at her clinic, Center for New Medicine, in Irvine the next day.

We also went to dinner at Jenny Ross’ 118 Degrees restaurant. Fabulous raw vegan food! Jenny is a beautiful young, and very pregnant, mom. She’s also a brilliant chef who healed herself of her health problems, as a young model 10 years ago. Her full-color best-selling recipe book is Raw Basics. Here’s a photo with her, me, and Dr. Connealy.

Oasis of Hope Mexico, right across the border, is much less expensive, and has fewer high-tech treatments available. However, it also has non-FDA treatments available.

Oasis of Hope Irvine, inside Center for New Medicine, allows you to stay in the U.S. and has a wide array of non-invasive testing and treatment technologies available that I’ve not seen elsewhere, likely due to the expense of the equipment for clinics to acquire.

Treatment in Irvine, then, is of course more expensive, about $10K/week. One major celebrity was being treated while we were there (no, I can’t say who). But working-class people were being treated who traveled from other states. It is more expensive than Mexico by about 40% ($6k/week in Mexico). However, you must also pay for your own lodging close by, which can be arranged by Dr. Connealy’s staff, as the facility is not inpatient.

Some time ago, before I met Dr. Connealy, I learned, hearing her speak, that we all have, on average, about 75 million cancer cells. (Since then, I found this in a study from Japan. And since then, I’ve also learned that our bodies manufacture 50,000 or so cancer cells a day.) Your immune system, hopefully, is making quick work of those cells, staying on top of its job. When it doesn’t, mutant cells begin to replicate quickly and form their own vascular system and possibly eventually affect an important physical function..at which time you discover a lump or bump.

This happens at about the time you have 1 billion cancer cells. (Or later, if it’s an internal organ where functioning has not been noticeably compromised and a mass may become very large before you find it.) By that time, even if you’re told it’s “Stage 1,” the docs I’ve been working with say “there is no such thing.” That is, if you have a lump, that cancer is elsewhere, too.

What’s consistent among all the integrative cancer docs is this information: the tumor does not tell the whole story.

The point isn’t to become fearful. The point is to understand that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Change your ways NOW. Not when you find you’re one of the ½ of men and 1/3 of women who will be diagnosed with cancer. I’m not trying to increase FEAR in people—I’m trying to avoid, actually, that acutely fearful place that we are all hurtling towards if we don’t address the issues of our fuel. Will it be cancer-preventative, or toxic and carcinogenic? There isn’t much that’s “in between.”

Then you can be excited about your future because your disease risk will be LOW. And then you don’t have to say stupid things like junk food addicts do. For instance, “At least I’m going to die happy.” Also, “Everybody dies of SOMETHING.”

(These are the most common, and my least favorite, things that I hear people say who want to feed addictions instead of eat responsibly so they’re around to meet their grandkids.)

One person I know just died last Sunday – it was his second round with cancer and he lived only a few weeks post-diagnosis. He was once a famous boxer, and one of the kindest, gentlest, most service-oriented human beings I’ve ever known. Another (a 30-y.o. mother of two toddlers) was disconnected from life support and died, 2 days after my other friend passed away—due to metastatic breast cancer.  That isn’t dying happy. Besides being buried alive or long, slow torture, based on experience with those close to me, I can’t think of many fates worse than chemo and radiation death.

As a few cancer patients who have experience with this have said to me, “There are worse things than death. One of them is chemotherapy.”

Dr. Connealy said to me, “Chemotherapy doesn’t work by itself. We have 50 years of it and death rates haven’t gone down.” (She is right: volumes of data document that.)

These are some of the services available at Center for New Medicine:

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment, Intravenous Vitamin C, Light Beam Generator (Lymphatic Therapy), Ondamed, Biomeridian, and Zyto (biofeedback devices) testing, Breast Thermography (an alternative to mammogram that doesn’t smash your breasts flat, potentially spreading cancer cells, and exposing you to high levels of cancer-causing radiation)

Dr. Connealy on Camera: Cancer is Systemic!

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Dr. Connealy explains here how cancer is not a tumor—it’s a systemic problem and therefore must be treated systemically:

Co-existing with cancer, or curing it?

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Of course, every cancer patient hopes for the words “remission” or even better, “cure.”

Those things are possible and do happen regularly, especially with early-stage cancers. But, one thing that has been a surprise to me in my studies thus far is that practitioners almost universally talk about how cancer does not have to be a death sentence, while admitting that they cannot always make it disappear.

In other words, Contreras and others talk about co-existing with cancer. They tell stories of patients who have spots on their lungs and in their bones, for many years, even decades, without them growing or causing health problems. (This was the case with my grandfather, who had a cancer behind his eye for most of his adult life—you can tell by looking at photos—before it finally killed him in his late 70′s. His M.D., whose treatments my grandfather refused, told him that the healthy diet he ate with my grandmother, for many years, made that possible.)

Co-existing peacefully with cancer is possible due to solid integrative treatment in the beginning, and excellent detoxification practices, mental/emotional self-care, and nutrition for the long haul after that.

Who knows what ONE thing makes the difference. Both Drs. Contreras and Connealy said to me that it’s not just one thing—but many pieces in a puzzle that accomplish these objectives:

–break down tumor tissue

–cut off its blood supply

–oxygenate tumor and surrounding tissues

–alkalize the body and tumor tissue

–detoxify to eliminate chemicals and metals

–strengthen the immune system

–stop feeding the cancer

This whole-body, integrative treatment makes it hard to compete for print in the medical journals. Dr. Contreras said to me, “I hope one day soon, whole-system therapies are published in peer-reviewed medical journals.”

Many patients go in to have their tumor markers monitored, and the tumor masses measured, and then increase their diligence with green juices and avoiding sugars, if there has been any activity, to get it in control.

I’ve talked to patients who have done this for decades—and practitioners who describe it as a common occurrence. Did you see the video of Andie, treated at Oasis of Hope Irvine? She eats a raw vegan diet with virtually no sugar—and thinks cabbage is a treat because her tastes have changed so much. Her breast cancer, which she believes began during her horrific divorce and custody battle several years before a 2-cm. tumor was detected, is not gone—it’s just gone except for scar tissue.

Most patients going to Oasis of Hope are Stage 4. Unfortunately,  the cancer revolution I predict — Medicare cannot sustain $100K to $1 million chemotherapy invoices, and the American public is getting sick of it—is still in embryonic stages. So people do chemo FIRST and go to the integrative or alternative docs when they are full of cancer.

Dr. Contreras says, of his mostly Stage IV practice, that his statistics “show that we are making progress toward the goal of turning advanced cancer into a chronic disease that can be managed in the long term, rather like diabetes, as opposed to a rapid death sentence.”

He continues, our treatment protocols are in a constant state of evolution. Barely a month goes by that we don’t add some new element to our regimens, or modify them in a way that seems likely to improve their efficacy.”

Libby Goes Vegan

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You know I don’t   promote any “isms”–vegetarianism, veganism, raw foodism.  I’m secretly a fan of all those movements. But I don’t adopt them as extremist positions because I think they send most people running for the hills. And I believe that sticking to the idea of eating MORE PLANT FOODS wins more converts.

But I don’t cook/serve animal flesh in my home. My older daughter, though, is a militant vegetarian.

The younger one, Libby, 14, struggles. She admires her sister’s “cause” orientation, and has “gone veg” several times but it doesn’t stick. She goes to her dad’s where meat is a staple, and she caves in, falls off the wagon. She has been looking at vegetarian vids on youtube and studying the issue.

Today she brought me this typed statement:

“I, Libby Pay, am going vegan. I will not eat anything with eggs or milk. Or meat. So I want to make  special veggie foods for myself since the rest of you drink kefir in the mornings. If I have to drink kefir I will be deeply hurt. Anyways, to make my special food I would like these ingredients. Some of them I have already, but just want to make sure I am allowed to use them. I want to be hardcore vegan. You don’t have to be. But I really want to.”

“Brussels sprouts, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, sweet potatoes, fresh kale (to try this one recipe I found), black beans, that seaweed stuff you buy, big carrots, garlic and onion, green and black olives (not needed, just somewhat wanted!), green beans, cucumbers.”

“I feel very strongly about this. If it gets too hard, I’ll just be vegetarian, but I really want to do this.”

A few hours later, she came in with a binder she’d made, with lots of printed material about cruelty to animals and nutritional support for a plant-based diet, in plastic sleeves. The cover page has this printed, in large text:

“WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT:

“Yes, God may have put them on the earth for us to eat. But in the scriptures it says to eat meat sparingly in times of winter and famine. I don’t think our Heavenly Father intended for the animals we eat to be tortured, stuffed into tight cages for their whole lives, beaten, and to rarely see sunlight. Chickens, pigs, and cows have been chemically altered to grow way bigger than they are supposed to. They put steroids in the animals to make more meat. These animals can’t walk, and are tortured daily.”

I’m so proud of my kids when they stand for something. When it’s something that will benefit them and the world, even better!

Now if I could just get them to take a vigilante stand against SUGAR.

My Subversive (Garden) Plot

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Listen to Roger Doiron’s TedTalk, about how we take control of our food supply and change the world. This video is worth your time:

View Roger Doiron’s TedTalk HERE!

I’m a huge fan of growing your own food. It can truly change your life. It empowers you. It connects you to your food source. It gets you out in the sun with your hands in the dirt, which gives you the most important hormone/vitamin to prevent cancer, and grounds you to help eliminate the harmful electromagnetic frequencies you build up. It saves you money. It will make you feel happy, I promise.

Step 5 in 12 Steps to Whole Foods is all about how to grow an organic garden, in any amount of space, and use everything you grow. Thank you to Marianne, our new webmaster and a longtime GSG reader, for sharing this video with me.

Treatment modalities at Oasis of Hope, pharmaceutical and neutraceuticals, part 4 of 4

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The following is a list of drugs and other neutraceuticals that Oasis docs prescribe. Reading my abstract below may seem like all of the herbal supplements do the same things. Inhibit enzymes that fend off T-cells in the tumor, cut off the tumor’s ability to increase its blood supply, enhance chemotherapy efficacy, and support immune functions such as stimulating killer T cells and white blood cells.

And that’s true, though they may have similar effects through different mechanisms. It may have value, then, to try a number of different supplements at once, because often time is not on the patient’s side. The difficult thing about this, scientifically, is that you cannot always tell which of many treatments made the difference when cancer reverses.

And you cannot, therefore, isolate one factor to publish in peer-reviewed medical journals.

However, with inexpensive, natural, nontoxic supplements, why would you try one at a time to measure the results scientifically? That could take years. Objective #1 is to save the patient. This is one of the difficult things facing integrative oncologists. All the docs I have studied with say, “There is no ONE thing.” Dr. Connealy says, “Everything is just a piece of the puzzle.”

No one is likely to have millions of dollars to fund a four-phase clinical trial on un-patentable natural extracts. Those who scorn everything-but-drugs are fond of saying, “I won’t believe it until you show me the clinical trial.” Clinical trials, though, are an invention of drug companies. They’re almost the only ones who can afford them, since they will make billions on a patented drug.

(Natural substances are temporarily useful for the drug companies to study in less-expensive lab and animal studies, though. Then they bury the research about the natural substance, and molecularly alter the natural substance to make it an unnatural substance, and therefore proprietary and potentially worth $1 billion or more. The initial research studies have value for those willing to find and utilize the findings and the original plant material. Keep in mind more than half of pharmaceuticals originate from plants in the Amazon. The original findings on the natural substance are needed to justify the expense of a human clinical trial.)

In the following list, in each case, in mice and in petri dishes, the effects were protective of healthy cells and toxic to cancer cells, with little or no toxicity.

My including them here is not an endorsement (because some are mild drugs, with side effects, though most are natural and without side effects). This is simply my summary of the purposes of the drugs and supplements Dr. Contreras uses:

AHCC: An extract of medicinal mushrooms that modulate the immune system and stimulate killer T cells to eradicate mutation.

Caffeine: Several cups a day if you tolerate it well are recommended, as Oasis docs feel caffeine’s energizing effects are evidence of blocking activation of adenosine receptors in the brain and will do the same in tumors.

Cimetidine: It’s an anti-ulcer drug shown to reduce metastasis in some cancers.

Coenzyme Q10: A naturally occurring substance involved in energy production that declines as we age. It scavenges carcinogenic free radicals and destroys cancer. It’s inexpensive and documented in many studies to be very powerful.

Diclofenac: It’s an NSAID drug that inhibits the enzyme Cox-2; Oasis uses it with low-dose aspirin (because of risk of heart attack with NSAIDs), instead of the much-maligned Vioxx and Celebrex in that family of drugs.

Fish Oil / Omega 3. Fish oil has properties that prevent tumor growth, angiogenesis (building blood supply to the tumor), and cachexia (wasting of muscles in late stage cancers).

Green Tea Extract: A drug has been derived from boswellic acid-rich extracts that has shown cancer-retardant activity in hamsters with pancreatic cancer. But Oasis chooses to use the natural extract itself because it is inexpensive and well known to be safe because of a history of use in Ayurvedic medicine. It is promising in animal studies and one human study for brain tumors.

Melatonin: Multiple clinical studies in Italy show melatonin, taken before bedtime, having a statistically significant impact on survival in patients with advanced cancer. The hormone has multiple indirect effects that stimulate killer T cells to work more effectively.

Pancreatic Enzymes: Some U.S. integrative doctors, like Nick Gonzalez in NYC, have had excellent results using pancreatic enzymes as a primary treatment modality. Research shows that taking proteolytic plant enzymes (from papayas and pineapples) and proteolytic pancreatic enzymes such as pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin prolong survival time, reduce signs and symptoms of cancer, and improve quality of life.

Probiotics: These supplements introduce live, healthy bacteria into the gastrointestinal tract to stimulate the immune system. Other supplements and food can’t be absorbed effectively in the stomach if the terrain in the gut is eroded, inflamed, and controlled by hostile bacteria.

Salsalate: This a natural compound found in white willow bark used for decades to treat inflammatory conditions like arthritis, and acne. Drug companies are trying to create expensive chemical versions of it, but recent research indicates it inhibits an enzyme and consequently boosts chemotherapy efficacy, slows the spread of cancer and angiogenesis. That said, there is a side effect of temporary loss of hearing.

Selenium: Many papers in Europe I have reviewed document the natural chemotherapeutic effects of selenium at elevated doses. (A preventative dose can be obtained by eating a few Brazil nuts every day.)

Silibinin and Silymarin: These two different milk thistle extracts are liver-protective but have recently been discovered to prevent and treat cancer as well. It’s another set of natural compounds documented to increase the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemo, and retard metastasis.

Spirulina. This is well known as a high-nutrition, high-protein algae. But it also contains a phytonutrient called phycocyanobilin, another enzyme inhibitor that stops cells from being able to defend against killer T cells. Spirulina also interferes with the tumor’s ability to build blood pathways to feed it. In fact, there are at least four ways that spirulina naturally inhibits cancer growth. It’s a therapy patients can do at home, after leaving Oasis as well.

Treatment modalities at Oasis…..part 3 of 4

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Ultraviolet Light. Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UVBI) eliminates bacteria in the blood, and Dr. Niels Ryberg Finsen won a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1903 for successfully treating 300 lupus patients with UV light, a modality still used and accepted in Europe.

What happened to it, then—for lupus, and in general? A century of American obsession with antibiotics eclipsed it. A few doctors and scientists are now back to looking at research that, for instance, as early as 1928 treated septic infections with UVBI, with spectacular success, since we must conclude that antibiotics will not save us.

Dr. Contreras states that the combined effect of ozonating the blood, then treating it with ultraviolet light (through quartz glass), is greater than the sum of its parts.

How does it work? American scientists E. Knott and V. Hancock concluded, from their research, first, that a “vaccination effect” occurs when UV-treated blood’s bacteria and viruses die and are returned to the bloodstream. The immune system identifies the dead bacteria and seeks out and destroys it in the rest of the body.

Second, when the small amount of irradiated blood is reintroduced, it spreads throughout the entire volume of blood in the body. These cells give off secondary radiation, which destroys viruses, bacteria, and toxins, as well as activates white blood cells.

After six sessions of UVBI treatments, East German researchers found that the number of chromosomal mutations diminished, leading them to the conclusion that UVBI therapy stimulates DNA repair.

And the treatment is safe. A Russian study of 2,380 UVBI sessions revealed a rate of only 1.2 percent of patients experiencing mild side effects.

The potential is exciting for a cancer patient wanting options that are scientifically documented but don’t destroy the human being along with the tumor.

Laetrile. In the 1960′s and 1970′s, amygdalin, or Laetrile (Vitamin B-17) was all the rage in cancer patients, and they lined up out the door at Oasis of Hope, hundreds every day. The cyanide released by amygdalin is deadly for malignant cells.

Cyanide! Are you kidding me, you say? Everybody knows that’s what killed Socrates.

Keep in mind that 130 foods, including strawberries, apples, and pineapples, contain the natural compound cyanide. Your body can’t function without it. That doesn’t mean that taking massive doses of synthetic cyanide won’t kill you, because it will. Tiny doses in a whole-foods source is not toxic.

This kind of thing is how the allopathic statement that the difference between a CURE and a POISON is in the DOSE, came to be.

The problem with this logic is, while that’s true in principle, and I just gave you an example, some things are just poisons. Never cures. Even if they shrink a tumor. I understand when a tumor is threatening the human life, that it must be reduced at almost any cost. But for the vast majority of cases, my studies lead me to the belief that the toll is not justifiable, and that people who survive live in spite of chemo and radiation, not because of it. I believe that most people submit to it only because they are offered no options, and they are pressured into the treatment when they are most vulnerable and terrified.

And the reasons they are offered no other options have absolutely nothing to do with efficacy. They have to do with three things, as I see it. One, medical schools’ exclusive focus on the “Big 3″ (surgery, chemo, radiation) with relation to biochemistry, giving rise to an army of doctors who know nothing else unless they take massive professional risks, educate themselves, and operate in modalities far less profitable.

Two, the medical profession’s obsession with the tumor—rather than what caused it and what inevitably remains even if the tumor is de-bulked, and (3) the fact that insurance companies pay only for the Big 3.

Back to laetrile, a natural substance that the body needs in microscopic amounts, even if a big dose killed Socrates. June deSpain did a study giving three groups of rats white bread, whole-wheat bread, or laetrile. After three months, 75% of the white-bread rats were dead and those still alive were comatose. The whole-wheat rats were in good shape. The rats who ate Laetrile were all alive and in the best condition of the three groups. The point is, laetrile is not to be feared and white bread that most Americans eat every day is far more toxic.

My grandmother crossed the border for the still-not-FDA-approved Laetrile treatment, which she believed had a powerful role in curing her cancer, along with an all-raw vegan diet that involved lots of vegetable juice. The idea is that the cyanide is released inside malignant cells, depleting the supply of cysteine. The major decrease in cysteine means glutathione is not produced intracellularly, which desensitizes tumors to treatment.

As I talk to practitioners now, some of them continue to use it but feel it is an adjunct therapy, not a cure in itself. Much has happened in the past 50 years: our environment has tens of thousands more chemicals in it, and food is far more nutrient deficient and more refined. We may need bigger, badder treatments.

Laetrile by itself is not a cure, but is an anti-tumor agent and a helpful adjunct, with other potent nutrients like Vita D, melatonin, Vita A, and Vita C.

Bicarbonate Therapy: Put simply, the patient drinks baking soda. This is to reduce acidity and give the body a more alkaline environment, because so many studies show that cancer thrives in acidity, which makes malignant cells more aggressive and protects them from the efforts of the immune system.

Drinking baking soda has no discernible impact on blood or normal tissues, but it normalizes pH in tumors according to the research of Dr. Gillies in Florida, who evoked tumor suppression in mice with bicarbonate in water, and is in process of completing a clinical trial. This looks like something that will not harm people and may be worth a try, costing virtually nothing—but needs more clinical evidence.

Cyclophosphamide in low doses. This is a chemotherapy drug, mild enough that side effects are rare, which precedes administration of the lymphocytes via a blood donation from an unrelated person. This is done a month apart, three times, using a different donor each time so the patient doesn’t develop antibodies to attack the imported lymphocytes. The idea is that along with other immune-stimulating treatments, killer T cells are activated, and tumors are blocked from growing.

Video: Treatment modalities at Oasis of Hope, part 2 of 4

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Ozone therapy. This is the same minor or major autohemo therapy I told you Dr. Lodi does in AZ even though it is not yet FDA approved. (His staff injected it into my backside, though. OW. It’s on video. I just haven’t shared it with you.) In Mexico, they removed a bag of my blood, shook oxygen into it, and passed it through a tube under a UV light as it went back into my arm.

Check out the video here:

When ozone, or O3 (one more molecule compared to O2 known as oxygen), is added to blood, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is produced. Several exciting things happen that help healthy tissues and hurt diseased tissues. First, oxygen is increased in the tissues, especially in tumor tissues where there is little or no oxygen. Second, it dilates blood vessels, improving oxygen flow. Third, it inhibits angiogenesis, or the formation of new blood vessels to feed the tumor. Fourth, when hydrogen peroxide penetrates white blood cells, assassins called cytokines are produced. All of these are critical functions in killing a tumor or slowing its growth.

In addition to ozone’s potent effect by itself, it also strengthens the body if a patient will be undergoing chemotherapy. In Japan, patients are often prepared for two months before surgeries to strengthen the immune system. In some countries, patients’ tumor biopsy is tested (in a lab in Germany) with various chemotherapies, to find out which ones the cells are immune to, and which ones the cells are susceptible to.

When I learn of things like this, I am no longer surprised that the U.S. has only the 47th lowest mortality rate in the world. We are nothing short of callous in the way we treat cancer patients. It’s a national disgrace. We do nothing for them before, nothing for them after. The suffering is epic in scope. I am hoping for a cancer treatment revolution, where we focus on prevention and demand integrative care. Where we throw out the most expensive protocols which happen to be deadly and ineffective anyway.

 

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