Showing posts with label chemotherapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chemotherapy. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Vitamin C and Cancer
This is sad that they combine C with chemo and the tumor grows much larger so it means that vitamin C protected against the DNA damage the chemo normally induces. That does not mean that Pauling was wrong. He saw this as a monotherapy, i.e. used all by itself without chemo would extend the average cancer patients life considerably. Read more
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Dr Bigelsen Protocol - Cancer - Mold
The Truth as I See It: What Is IT?
Beating Cancer With the "Bigelsen Protocol"
©Copyright 1999 by Harvey Bigelsen, MD, USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 9, Number 2)
For the past five years I have been working as a consultant at the Instituto de Medicina Biologica in Mexico, where most of the patients have cancer. I have been asked, how can you beat cancer and all the U.S. researchers and physicians cannot? My answer is that in the U.S. there are approximately 600,000 physicians, who are some of the brightest, most intelligent people in our society. The problem is that they are not allowed to think for themselves.
All standards are set by academicians who are funded by pharmaceutical companies, to prove that their new drug works. These physicians, who only treat rats in laboratories, set the standards for the physicians who are out there in practice. Cancer is the Sacred Cow of the Medical-Industrial-Complex. To cure cancer would destroy their industry.
Also, frankly, they have no idea what cancer is all about. They remind me of the moron, who lost a dime on a dark night, and was looking 2 blocks down the street because that where the street-lamp was. On the other hand, Mexico has offered all the freedoms that a physician should have. The Medical Community in Mexico will totally cooperate with me. If I asked a Radiologist for 25 Rads, he says "Sure". In the U.S. I would be reported to the Medical Authorities for such a request. With this kind of cooperation, results improve greatly. It makes no difference what treatments I use, as long as the patient improves everyone is happy. If this cooperation and care were used the U.S., cancer would have been cured long ago.
First of all, let us examine what is cancer? Albert Szvent-Giorgi, Nobel Prize winner, father of modern biochemistry, stated "They will never find the answer to cancer unless they understand the meaning of life". All modern cancer therapies, whether they are alternative, or traditional, are based on the magic bullet concept. Everyone is looking for the single treatment to kill cancer, but it will never work! Cancer is not a mutation of one cell gone wild. Mutations are rare, and cancer is epidemic. Those of you who are involved in Terrain understand that cancer is a mold of the human body just like a mold of cream cheese.
Cancer spreads like a mold. If there is a green mold on the cream cheese and we cut it out, the next day there will be 12 more spots. The mold is not metastasizing; the whole cream cheese is rotten. There are no blood vessels or lymphatic vessels in a cream cheese. As a point of scientific fact, there never has been found a cancer cell in a lymphatic vessel. The lymphatic system drains waste products. If you have an infected tooth, the lymph node under the jaw will get enlarged. A woman with breast cancer gets enlarged lymph nodes in her armpit. The node is draining the waste mold growing in the lymph node that contains human garbage. If I throw seeds to asphalt, nothing grows. But, if I throw seeds in manure, they will grow.
Also, why does breast cancer go to bones, first? A woman can develop 20 spots in the bones and yet none in the lungs, liver, etc. There are a billion miles of blood vessels the human body. Just by the law of chance, if cancer traveled through the blood, some spots would develop in other places and not all in the bones. Breast cancer goes to the bones first, because the mold of breast cancer feeds on calcium. Therefore, the spread of cancer is not random. The mold can only grow in certain pHs and chemistry of the cells. Cancer can only grow when the cells are acid, the blood is alkaline, and there is poor oxygenation.
Now that we know what cancer is and how it spreads, the next of important thing to understand is how does the body fight cancer? Every day old cells die and new cells are being created. The natural death of the old cell is called apoptosis. As the old cell becomes weakened, its DNA and RNA start to break up. The body contains proteins, called cytokines. These are analogous to hormones of the immune system. One of these cytokines' key purpose is to seek out and destroy those cells with weakened DNA. Knowing these facts, I have developed over several years a multi-dimensional plan of attack against cancer. With the following 4-step program I have had some extraordinary results.
"Bigelsen Protocol"
Step 1: The Use of chemotherapy and/or radiation
This may seem repugnant to many purists, but let me explain. I will use anything to help my patient. Cancer cells have a faster metabolism than normal cells. The traditional system uses some of the strongest poisons in huge doses to kill the cancer before they kill the person. I use only the mildest forms of chemotherapy in very low doses.
The purpose is to not kill the cancer cell but just to weaken the DNA of the cancer cell and not to harm the normal cell. Traditional medicine also uses radiation. The standard dose is 300-500 Rads a day, five days a week, for five to seven weeks. I use no more than 75-150 Rads for 3 to 5 days. Again, just to weaken the DNA of the cancer cell. I monitor the dose by using my Darkfield Microscope and BTA. This procedure of chemotherapy and /or radiation is repeated every 4 to 8 weeks. If the patient is monitored closely, I have seen virtually no side effects using this method.
Step 2: The use of cytokines
I have been using a product which is a multi-cocktail of cytokines and probably various other molecules. The B-Lymphocyte is grown in culture and the supernatant extracted. This extract contains multiple different molecules, most of which is still unknown. The key cytokine produced by the B-lymphocyte is TNF-Beta or Tumor- Necrosis- Factor Beta. The purpose of this cytokine is to cause apoptosis of the cell that has damaged DNA. The dose that I use is measured in nanograms. The most familiar cytokines belong to the Interferon and Interleukin families. The exact effects and impact of many of these cytokines on human body still are not fully understood. Overdosage will cause a toxic shock syndrome. The dose that is used by traditional medicine is billions of times stronger than the dose that the normal human body possesses. Also, cytokines always work in a balance, and the use of massive doses of only one type of cytokine can cause many serious negative effects.
Step 3: This part of the treatment program is based on the philosophies of Professor Enderlein.
Now that we have killed the cancer cells that are present, we must prevent the cancer from returning. The daily treatments that I use are designed to stabilize the pHs and slowly bring the fungus/mold back to a normal symbiotic state by using the Isopathic remedies. It took many years for the mold of cancer to grow and, therefore, you must take your time step by step to slowly return the terrain back to a healthy symbiosis. If I can keep the pH of the blood at 7.35 and under each day, then the cancer will not grow that day. Most of cancer therapy is done in a state of panic. But, if you have patience, and daily monitor the case, your results will improve. By using the Isopathic remedies developed by Professor Enderlein and by understanding the BTA and Darkfield Microscope, the Terrain can be manipulated on a daily basis. I also use Homeopathics, Cell therapy (not the whole cell, only cytoplasmic products), and the philosophy of Homotoxolgy in order to strengthen and follow my patients closely. By using these remedies I can prevent the mold from spreading by increasing the vital force of each specific organ system. Mold will not grow in tissue that has good vital force.
Step 4: The life style and the stresses of the patient must be addressed and changed.
This is an extremely important step as it is the life style of the patient that created the disease. Hammer in Germany has demonstrated that there are specific emotions and stresses associated with each disease. Every single disease has its pattern, like a fingerprint or snowflake (I like to call it a BIOGRAM). For example, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, etc., all had cancer of the lungs. The lungs de-tox themselves by crying. These macho men would smoke cigarettes instead of crying, thereby setting the terrain to become cancerous. Every single disease known to man has its own personality or BIOGRAM. In order to change the disease picture, we must change the personality (BIOGRAM) of each disease. This is an extremely important point to understand. There is only one cause of disease and that is "Consciousness". Diet, chemicals, poisons, etc. do not cause disease. Linda McCartney, wife of the "Beatles" Paul McCartney, died of breast cancer, and she wrote many books on vegetarianism. We are all exposed to noxious agents, yet, only some get ill and others do not. This concept of specific disease patterns (BIOGRAMS) I will write about in future articles.
A former teacher of mine stated "Miracles only happen when you know what you are doing. By the time that you see cancer the size of a pinky nail, the whole body is too far gone just to use only natural therapy". In order to treat cancer, you must have all of your weapons available in your arsenal that you can use. It will usually, take from 6 months to 1 year, at least, to be able to completely reverse a Stage 4 cancer into total " remission". Then, it will take me at least another year, to totally change the "Biogram" of the patient. The major problem, I believe, is that it is virtually impossible to treat cancer in the U. S. Since, the results that I have achieved thus far in prostate cancer have been so astounding and so easily reproducible, that I would like to propose a research project without walls. *Any physician who would like to join me in this project, please contact my office for further information @602-581-2988. (Prostate cancer is so easy, that I would like to be able to publish 50 cases of cure, over the next few years. That would really make the establishment stop, look and listen! I do well with other cancers, also, but prostate cancer is such a "gimme". My results have been 100%).
Finally, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation at this time to the Country and People (who are absolutely delightful to work with) of Mexico, for allowing me to be free to work and search for answers, without any restrictions. Also, my partner and dear friend Salvador Vargas M.D., who has worked with me side by side to create this "Protocol". I have often been asked, "Would you come back to work in the U. S.?" (I was thrown out.) I would equate this as if I would be Jewish in 1938 Germany and I moved to London, would I move back to Germany in 1942? Why would I ever return to the U.S.? I feel like I am in Heaven, already. I will only come back to work in the U.S. if they make me Surgeon General.
About the Author
Dr. Bigelsen is the first medical doctor to practice Isopathy or Biological Medicine in North America. He is a trained MD, was a trauma surgeon in Vietnam and helped author the law that made Arizona Homeopathy what it is today. As the first president of the Arizona Homeopathic Medical Board, he drafted guidelines and standards for the practice of "Holistic" Medicine that were precedent setting in U.S. History. He believes his successful political effort in Arizona, led to the Medical Establishment finding him guilty of defrauding the U.S. Government and its taxpayers of $70.00. For this "grave" crime, he was banned from practicing medicine in the U.S. and its territories. He now works in "exile" and in freedom in Tijuana, Mexico at the Instituto de Medicina Biologica.
http://www.explorepub.com/articles/bigelson3.html
Beating Cancer With the "Bigelsen Protocol"
©Copyright 1999 by Harvey Bigelsen, MD, USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 9, Number 2)
For the past five years I have been working as a consultant at the Instituto de Medicina Biologica in Mexico, where most of the patients have cancer. I have been asked, how can you beat cancer and all the U.S. researchers and physicians cannot? My answer is that in the U.S. there are approximately 600,000 physicians, who are some of the brightest, most intelligent people in our society. The problem is that they are not allowed to think for themselves.
All standards are set by academicians who are funded by pharmaceutical companies, to prove that their new drug works. These physicians, who only treat rats in laboratories, set the standards for the physicians who are out there in practice. Cancer is the Sacred Cow of the Medical-Industrial-Complex. To cure cancer would destroy their industry.
Also, frankly, they have no idea what cancer is all about. They remind me of the moron, who lost a dime on a dark night, and was looking 2 blocks down the street because that where the street-lamp was. On the other hand, Mexico has offered all the freedoms that a physician should have. The Medical Community in Mexico will totally cooperate with me. If I asked a Radiologist for 25 Rads, he says "Sure". In the U.S. I would be reported to the Medical Authorities for such a request. With this kind of cooperation, results improve greatly. It makes no difference what treatments I use, as long as the patient improves everyone is happy. If this cooperation and care were used the U.S., cancer would have been cured long ago.
First of all, let us examine what is cancer? Albert Szvent-Giorgi, Nobel Prize winner, father of modern biochemistry, stated "They will never find the answer to cancer unless they understand the meaning of life". All modern cancer therapies, whether they are alternative, or traditional, are based on the magic bullet concept. Everyone is looking for the single treatment to kill cancer, but it will never work! Cancer is not a mutation of one cell gone wild. Mutations are rare, and cancer is epidemic. Those of you who are involved in Terrain understand that cancer is a mold of the human body just like a mold of cream cheese.
Cancer spreads like a mold. If there is a green mold on the cream cheese and we cut it out, the next day there will be 12 more spots. The mold is not metastasizing; the whole cream cheese is rotten. There are no blood vessels or lymphatic vessels in a cream cheese. As a point of scientific fact, there never has been found a cancer cell in a lymphatic vessel. The lymphatic system drains waste products. If you have an infected tooth, the lymph node under the jaw will get enlarged. A woman with breast cancer gets enlarged lymph nodes in her armpit. The node is draining the waste mold growing in the lymph node that contains human garbage. If I throw seeds to asphalt, nothing grows. But, if I throw seeds in manure, they will grow.
Also, why does breast cancer go to bones, first? A woman can develop 20 spots in the bones and yet none in the lungs, liver, etc. There are a billion miles of blood vessels the human body. Just by the law of chance, if cancer traveled through the blood, some spots would develop in other places and not all in the bones. Breast cancer goes to the bones first, because the mold of breast cancer feeds on calcium. Therefore, the spread of cancer is not random. The mold can only grow in certain pHs and chemistry of the cells. Cancer can only grow when the cells are acid, the blood is alkaline, and there is poor oxygenation.
Now that we know what cancer is and how it spreads, the next of important thing to understand is how does the body fight cancer? Every day old cells die and new cells are being created. The natural death of the old cell is called apoptosis. As the old cell becomes weakened, its DNA and RNA start to break up. The body contains proteins, called cytokines. These are analogous to hormones of the immune system. One of these cytokines' key purpose is to seek out and destroy those cells with weakened DNA. Knowing these facts, I have developed over several years a multi-dimensional plan of attack against cancer. With the following 4-step program I have had some extraordinary results.
"Bigelsen Protocol"
Step 1: The Use of chemotherapy and/or radiation
This may seem repugnant to many purists, but let me explain. I will use anything to help my patient. Cancer cells have a faster metabolism than normal cells. The traditional system uses some of the strongest poisons in huge doses to kill the cancer before they kill the person. I use only the mildest forms of chemotherapy in very low doses.
The purpose is to not kill the cancer cell but just to weaken the DNA of the cancer cell and not to harm the normal cell. Traditional medicine also uses radiation. The standard dose is 300-500 Rads a day, five days a week, for five to seven weeks. I use no more than 75-150 Rads for 3 to 5 days. Again, just to weaken the DNA of the cancer cell. I monitor the dose by using my Darkfield Microscope and BTA. This procedure of chemotherapy and /or radiation is repeated every 4 to 8 weeks. If the patient is monitored closely, I have seen virtually no side effects using this method.
Step 2: The use of cytokines
I have been using a product which is a multi-cocktail of cytokines and probably various other molecules. The B-Lymphocyte is grown in culture and the supernatant extracted. This extract contains multiple different molecules, most of which is still unknown. The key cytokine produced by the B-lymphocyte is TNF-Beta or Tumor- Necrosis- Factor Beta. The purpose of this cytokine is to cause apoptosis of the cell that has damaged DNA. The dose that I use is measured in nanograms. The most familiar cytokines belong to the Interferon and Interleukin families. The exact effects and impact of many of these cytokines on human body still are not fully understood. Overdosage will cause a toxic shock syndrome. The dose that is used by traditional medicine is billions of times stronger than the dose that the normal human body possesses. Also, cytokines always work in a balance, and the use of massive doses of only one type of cytokine can cause many serious negative effects.
Step 3: This part of the treatment program is based on the philosophies of Professor Enderlein.
Now that we have killed the cancer cells that are present, we must prevent the cancer from returning. The daily treatments that I use are designed to stabilize the pHs and slowly bring the fungus/mold back to a normal symbiotic state by using the Isopathic remedies. It took many years for the mold of cancer to grow and, therefore, you must take your time step by step to slowly return the terrain back to a healthy symbiosis. If I can keep the pH of the blood at 7.35 and under each day, then the cancer will not grow that day. Most of cancer therapy is done in a state of panic. But, if you have patience, and daily monitor the case, your results will improve. By using the Isopathic remedies developed by Professor Enderlein and by understanding the BTA and Darkfield Microscope, the Terrain can be manipulated on a daily basis. I also use Homeopathics, Cell therapy (not the whole cell, only cytoplasmic products), and the philosophy of Homotoxolgy in order to strengthen and follow my patients closely. By using these remedies I can prevent the mold from spreading by increasing the vital force of each specific organ system. Mold will not grow in tissue that has good vital force.
Step 4: The life style and the stresses of the patient must be addressed and changed.
This is an extremely important step as it is the life style of the patient that created the disease. Hammer in Germany has demonstrated that there are specific emotions and stresses associated with each disease. Every single disease has its pattern, like a fingerprint or snowflake (I like to call it a BIOGRAM). For example, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, etc., all had cancer of the lungs. The lungs de-tox themselves by crying. These macho men would smoke cigarettes instead of crying, thereby setting the terrain to become cancerous. Every single disease known to man has its own personality or BIOGRAM. In order to change the disease picture, we must change the personality (BIOGRAM) of each disease. This is an extremely important point to understand. There is only one cause of disease and that is "Consciousness". Diet, chemicals, poisons, etc. do not cause disease. Linda McCartney, wife of the "Beatles" Paul McCartney, died of breast cancer, and she wrote many books on vegetarianism. We are all exposed to noxious agents, yet, only some get ill and others do not. This concept of specific disease patterns (BIOGRAMS) I will write about in future articles.
A former teacher of mine stated "Miracles only happen when you know what you are doing. By the time that you see cancer the size of a pinky nail, the whole body is too far gone just to use only natural therapy". In order to treat cancer, you must have all of your weapons available in your arsenal that you can use. It will usually, take from 6 months to 1 year, at least, to be able to completely reverse a Stage 4 cancer into total " remission". Then, it will take me at least another year, to totally change the "Biogram" of the patient. The major problem, I believe, is that it is virtually impossible to treat cancer in the U. S. Since, the results that I have achieved thus far in prostate cancer have been so astounding and so easily reproducible, that I would like to propose a research project without walls. *Any physician who would like to join me in this project, please contact my office for further information @602-581-2988. (Prostate cancer is so easy, that I would like to be able to publish 50 cases of cure, over the next few years. That would really make the establishment stop, look and listen! I do well with other cancers, also, but prostate cancer is such a "gimme". My results have been 100%).
Finally, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation at this time to the Country and People (who are absolutely delightful to work with) of Mexico, for allowing me to be free to work and search for answers, without any restrictions. Also, my partner and dear friend Salvador Vargas M.D., who has worked with me side by side to create this "Protocol". I have often been asked, "Would you come back to work in the U. S.?" (I was thrown out.) I would equate this as if I would be Jewish in 1938 Germany and I moved to London, would I move back to Germany in 1942? Why would I ever return to the U.S.? I feel like I am in Heaven, already. I will only come back to work in the U.S. if they make me Surgeon General.
About the Author
Dr. Bigelsen is the first medical doctor to practice Isopathy or Biological Medicine in North America. He is a trained MD, was a trauma surgeon in Vietnam and helped author the law that made Arizona Homeopathy what it is today. As the first president of the Arizona Homeopathic Medical Board, he drafted guidelines and standards for the practice of "Holistic" Medicine that were precedent setting in U.S. History. He believes his successful political effort in Arizona, led to the Medical Establishment finding him guilty of defrauding the U.S. Government and its taxpayers of $70.00. For this "grave" crime, he was banned from practicing medicine in the U.S. and its territories. He now works in "exile" and in freedom in Tijuana, Mexico at the Instituto de Medicina Biologica.
http://www.explorepub.com/articles/bigelson3.html
Friday, August 08, 2008
Dr. Josef Issel's Whole Body Therapy
A pioneer in alternative cancer treatment, Josef Issels, MD, of Germany, achieved remarkable remissions, even in advanced cases, through combination of therapies designed to shrink the tumor and repair the body's defense mechanisms. His "whole body" approach included anticancer vaccines, an anticancer diet emphasizing organic raw foods, and fever therapy to stimulate immune function. He also used a variety of methods to rebuild the immune system and change the body's biochemistry to eliminate an evironment favorable for the development of cancer.
Occasionally he also used very-low-dose chemotherapy, surgery, radiation and ozone therapy in combination with immunotherapy. He prescribed organ extracts to repair damage to organs and improve their functioning. He also administered organ-specific RNA and DNA, proteolytic enzymes to destroy the protein coat surrounding tumors, as well as vitamins and minerals to strengthen the body's enzyme activity. He recommended his patients to have the infected teeth and/or tonsils, and metallic (especially mercury amalgams) fillings removed, because he felt these could have unfavorable effect on immune system. His program also includes psychotherapy to deal with the emotional factors that he felt could hinder recovery.
Dr. Issels gave patients a "fever shot" once a month to raise the body temperature as high as 105 F. He induced active fever with the ethical drug Pyrifer, made from specially treated coli bacteria. He induced passive fever by means of hyperthermia: the patient was placed inside a cylinder containing electrodes that bombarded his or her body with ultra short waves.
He tried to motivate the cancer patients to take on full time struggle against cancer. As one unusual example, his cancer patients were routed out of their beds to do light mountain climbing in the Bavarian Alps. The patients also participated in a daily exercise that included jogging.
Two independent studies - one at King's college Hospital in London, the other at the University of Leyden in Holland - confirmed that about 17 percent of Issel's terminal patients led normal, cancer-free lives for at least five years. Their life expectancy upon admission had been less than one year.
In 50s and 60s the German medical establishment was nowhere near as liberal as now. It boycotted and isolated Dr. Issels. Finally, the German medical authorities leveled trumped-up charges of fraud and manslaughter against Issels, and in 1960, Issels was imprisoned in a cell block containing only convicted murderers. Eventually, however, Dr. Issels was acquitted of all charges. Continue Reading >>
Occasionally he also used very-low-dose chemotherapy, surgery, radiation and ozone therapy in combination with immunotherapy. He prescribed organ extracts to repair damage to organs and improve their functioning. He also administered organ-specific RNA and DNA, proteolytic enzymes to destroy the protein coat surrounding tumors, as well as vitamins and minerals to strengthen the body's enzyme activity. He recommended his patients to have the infected teeth and/or tonsils, and metallic (especially mercury amalgams) fillings removed, because he felt these could have unfavorable effect on immune system. His program also includes psychotherapy to deal with the emotional factors that he felt could hinder recovery.
Dr. Issels gave patients a "fever shot" once a month to raise the body temperature as high as 105 F. He induced active fever with the ethical drug Pyrifer, made from specially treated coli bacteria. He induced passive fever by means of hyperthermia: the patient was placed inside a cylinder containing electrodes that bombarded his or her body with ultra short waves.
He tried to motivate the cancer patients to take on full time struggle against cancer. As one unusual example, his cancer patients were routed out of their beds to do light mountain climbing in the Bavarian Alps. The patients also participated in a daily exercise that included jogging.
Two independent studies - one at King's college Hospital in London, the other at the University of Leyden in Holland - confirmed that about 17 percent of Issel's terminal patients led normal, cancer-free lives for at least five years. Their life expectancy upon admission had been less than one year.
In 50s and 60s the German medical establishment was nowhere near as liberal as now. It boycotted and isolated Dr. Issels. Finally, the German medical authorities leveled trumped-up charges of fraud and manslaughter against Issels, and in 1960, Issels was imprisoned in a cell block containing only convicted murderers. Eventually, however, Dr. Issels was acquitted of all charges. Continue Reading >>
Thursday, July 31, 2008
IS CANCER CAUSED BY VIRUS?
ARVIND KULKARNI
Radio-oncologist, Pittsburgh, PA
All over the world, intense research is going on cancer. The type of research done in the past 30 to 40 years has not led to any satisfactory solutions. Although there are advances in surgical techniques, radiation machines and chemotherapy drugs, the overall outcome still remains poor.
Patients, because of the toxic side effects and expensive medical care, fear cancer treatments. Furthermore there is no guarantee of cure! This has led to renewed interest in study of Alternative Medicine, not only for treatment of cancer but for many chronic diseases where modern medicine has no satisfactory answers. People all over the world are turning to alternative medical sciences like ayurved, homoeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, herbs, yoga, meditation, energy medicine, mind-body methods etc to find better options for their health care.
On this background, the study of Dr. Rife’s work on cancer is very interesting. Dr. Royal Rife worked in California in 1930s and 40s. He was reported to have cured even advanced cancers with a simple but novel method, which unfortunately was neglected by medical industry at that time. There has been renewed interest in his work, especially in Germany, France, England, Australia and now in America. Before we understand what the Rife Method is all about, it would be helpful to get some facts on cancer. Continue Reading >>
Radio-oncologist, Pittsburgh, PA
All over the world, intense research is going on cancer. The type of research done in the past 30 to 40 years has not led to any satisfactory solutions. Although there are advances in surgical techniques, radiation machines and chemotherapy drugs, the overall outcome still remains poor.
Patients, because of the toxic side effects and expensive medical care, fear cancer treatments. Furthermore there is no guarantee of cure! This has led to renewed interest in study of Alternative Medicine, not only for treatment of cancer but for many chronic diseases where modern medicine has no satisfactory answers. People all over the world are turning to alternative medical sciences like ayurved, homoeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, herbs, yoga, meditation, energy medicine, mind-body methods etc to find better options for their health care.
On this background, the study of Dr. Rife’s work on cancer is very interesting. Dr. Royal Rife worked in California in 1930s and 40s. He was reported to have cured even advanced cancers with a simple but novel method, which unfortunately was neglected by medical industry at that time. There has been renewed interest in his work, especially in Germany, France, England, Australia and now in America. Before we understand what the Rife Method is all about, it would be helpful to get some facts on cancer. Continue Reading >>
Friday, November 09, 2007
FDA Issues New Warnings for Anemia Drugs
(HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved new "black box" warnings on labels of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, which are drugs used to treat certain types of anemia.
The warnings cover the drugs Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit, and detail their dangers to patients with cancer and patients with chronic kidney failure. Those dangers include heart attack, stroke, heart failure and cancer tumor growth and shortened survival.
The drugs had been touted as a treatment to lessen fatigue and improve quality of life among cancer, HIV and other patients with anemia, but the new label says there's no evidence to back that claim.
"Today's labeling changes are being made to make clear recommendations about the safe and effective use of these products and to strengthen the information about the risks that these drugs pose to patients with cancer and to patients with chromic kidney failure," Dr. Richard Pazdur, the FDA's director of the Office of Oncology Drug Products at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said at a Thursday teleconference.
This is the fifth time the FDA has called for label changes for these drugs -- also known as ESAs -- since Procrit was approved in 1989, Pazdur said.
"We are emphasizing that ESAs should be used at the lowest dose necessary to avoid blood transfusions, since that is the only identifiable benefit for ESAs," Dr. John Jenkins, director of the FDA's Office of New Drugs. "Doctors should have discussions with their patients about whether to use ESAs at all."
These drugs are synthetic versions of a protein made in the kidney that tells bone marrow to produce red blood cells. The drugs are manufactured by Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Procrit is marketed and distributed by Ortho Biotech LP of Bridgewater, N.J., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter, Amgen's executive vice president of research and development, said in a prepared statement that his company "has been working closely with the FDA and J&JPRD [Pharmaceutical Research and Development] to ensure that the information contained in the approved labeling for ESAs accurately reflects the current state of knowledge of these important products and to develop a comprehensive and feasible clinical study program to complement our existing pharmacovigilance program.
"In the current label revisions, we have endeavored to include as much information as possible so physicians and their patients can make informed treatment decisions," he added.
For cancer patients, the new warnings emphasize that the drugs can cause tumor growth and reduce survival among patients with advanced breast, head and neck, lymphoid and non-small cell lung tumors. This is especially true when the dose is designed to produce a hemoglobin level of 12 grams per deciliter of blood or more.
For hemoglobin levels less than 12 grams per deciliter, the label will say there is no evidence to determine if the drugs cause any of these problems, the FDA said.
"We recommend that prescribers talk to their patients about the risks that ESAs might cause cancer to grow or shorten survival before they prescribe these drugs or continue ESA therapy, Pazdur said. "The risks should be weighed against blood transfusions and their associated risks."
The new label will also make it clear that ESAs should be used in cancer patients only when their anemia is caused by chemotherapy and not from other causes. Also, ESAs should be stopped when the patient's chemotherapy has ended, the FDA said.
For patients with chronic kidney failure, the new black box warning says that ESAs should be used to keep hemoglobin levels between 10 grams per deciliter to 12 grams per deciliter. Higher hemoglobin levels in these patients can increase the risk for death, stroke, heart attack or heart failure, the FDA said.
The new labeling also gives instructions for dosage adjustments and hemoglobin monitoring for chronic kidney failure patients who do not respond to ESA treatment.
The new label also says there is no evidence that ESAs improve symptoms of anemia, quality of life, fatigue, or patient well-being in cancer patients or patients with HIV taking the drug AZT.
"There are no data from controlled trials demonstrating that ESAs improve symptoms of anemia, quality of life, fatigue or patient well-being," Pazdur said.
The FDA is working with Amgen on new clinical trails and is also reviewing a Medication Guide that will explain the use of these drugs to patients, Pazdur said.
Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp are used to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney failure and anemia caused by chemotherapy in some cancer patients. Epogen and Procrit are also used in some anemic patients who are undergoing surgery to reduce the need for blood transfusions. These drugs are also used to treat anemia in HIV patients taking AZT.
More information
For more information on ESAs, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The warnings cover the drugs Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit, and detail their dangers to patients with cancer and patients with chronic kidney failure. Those dangers include heart attack, stroke, heart failure and cancer tumor growth and shortened survival.
The drugs had been touted as a treatment to lessen fatigue and improve quality of life among cancer, HIV and other patients with anemia, but the new label says there's no evidence to back that claim.
"Today's labeling changes are being made to make clear recommendations about the safe and effective use of these products and to strengthen the information about the risks that these drugs pose to patients with cancer and to patients with chromic kidney failure," Dr. Richard Pazdur, the FDA's director of the Office of Oncology Drug Products at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said at a Thursday teleconference.
This is the fifth time the FDA has called for label changes for these drugs -- also known as ESAs -- since Procrit was approved in 1989, Pazdur said.
"We are emphasizing that ESAs should be used at the lowest dose necessary to avoid blood transfusions, since that is the only identifiable benefit for ESAs," Dr. John Jenkins, director of the FDA's Office of New Drugs. "Doctors should have discussions with their patients about whether to use ESAs at all."
These drugs are synthetic versions of a protein made in the kidney that tells bone marrow to produce red blood cells. The drugs are manufactured by Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Procrit is marketed and distributed by Ortho Biotech LP of Bridgewater, N.J., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter, Amgen's executive vice president of research and development, said in a prepared statement that his company "has been working closely with the FDA and J&JPRD [Pharmaceutical Research and Development] to ensure that the information contained in the approved labeling for ESAs accurately reflects the current state of knowledge of these important products and to develop a comprehensive and feasible clinical study program to complement our existing pharmacovigilance program.
"In the current label revisions, we have endeavored to include as much information as possible so physicians and their patients can make informed treatment decisions," he added.
For cancer patients, the new warnings emphasize that the drugs can cause tumor growth and reduce survival among patients with advanced breast, head and neck, lymphoid and non-small cell lung tumors. This is especially true when the dose is designed to produce a hemoglobin level of 12 grams per deciliter of blood or more.
For hemoglobin levels less than 12 grams per deciliter, the label will say there is no evidence to determine if the drugs cause any of these problems, the FDA said.
"We recommend that prescribers talk to their patients about the risks that ESAs might cause cancer to grow or shorten survival before they prescribe these drugs or continue ESA therapy, Pazdur said. "The risks should be weighed against blood transfusions and their associated risks."
The new label will also make it clear that ESAs should be used in cancer patients only when their anemia is caused by chemotherapy and not from other causes. Also, ESAs should be stopped when the patient's chemotherapy has ended, the FDA said.
For patients with chronic kidney failure, the new black box warning says that ESAs should be used to keep hemoglobin levels between 10 grams per deciliter to 12 grams per deciliter. Higher hemoglobin levels in these patients can increase the risk for death, stroke, heart attack or heart failure, the FDA said.
The new labeling also gives instructions for dosage adjustments and hemoglobin monitoring for chronic kidney failure patients who do not respond to ESA treatment.
The new label also says there is no evidence that ESAs improve symptoms of anemia, quality of life, fatigue, or patient well-being in cancer patients or patients with HIV taking the drug AZT.
"There are no data from controlled trials demonstrating that ESAs improve symptoms of anemia, quality of life, fatigue or patient well-being," Pazdur said.
The FDA is working with Amgen on new clinical trails and is also reviewing a Medication Guide that will explain the use of these drugs to patients, Pazdur said.
Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp are used to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney failure and anemia caused by chemotherapy in some cancer patients. Epogen and Procrit are also used in some anemic patients who are undergoing surgery to reduce the need for blood transfusions. These drugs are also used to treat anemia in HIV patients taking AZT.
More information
For more information on ESAs, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Test Spots Genetic Damage Done by Smoking
(HealthDay News) -- An experimental lung cancer screening test designed to look for precancerous genetic damage could help better identify patients at risk for the disease, while opening up the possibility for earlier diagnoses and preventive treatments, a new study suggests.
The procedure enabled the researchers to screen people for evidence of chromosomal abnormalities in the lungs that are found among virtually all lung cancer patients. More than 80 percent of patients who did not yet have lung cancer -- but whose smoking placed them at high-risk -- were found to have such disease biomarkers.
"We were able to see precancerous genetic changes in the bronchial cells lining the airways of the lungs in both high-risk smokers and in patients who have lung cancer in another part of the lung," said lead author Dr. Wilbur A. Franklin, a professor of pathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Reporting in the September issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the authors cautioned that they are not yet certain that the genetic changes they identified will always lead to lung cancer. However, they said the prospect of such an association was fuel for further research.
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States, causing more fatalities than colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined, the researchers noted.
They added that genetic markers for lung cancer risk are good targets for screening interventions, given that once chromosomal abnormalities occur, they are considered irreversible -- even among smokers who kick the habit.
Franklin and his team used two laboratory techniques -- spectral karyotyping (SKY) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) -- to check the chromosomal status of lung tissue among 71 people. Fourteen of the study participants had already been diagnosed with lung cancer, 43 were considered at high-risk for the disease because they were smokers, and another 14 people were healthy men and women who'd never smoked.
Chromosomal abnormalities were found in 100 percent of the cancer patients and 82 percent of the high-risk smokers.
The researchers also established a so-called chromosomal abnormality index (CAI) to illustrate the extent of genetic damage. They found that while non-smokers had CAI readings of less than 1 percent, high-risk smokers had reading above 10 percent, and cancer patients topped 15 percent.
The researchers said it's not yet known when such potential genetic "markers" for future lung cancer develop or what constitutes the initial "genetic hit" that triggers chromosomal changes.
Still, they were able to identify four chromosomes -- numbers 5, 7, 8, and 18 -- that were most often affected among both cancer patients and the high-risk smokers.
Franklin emphasized that the technology his team used would not be practical for widespread medical use outside of a research setting. But he said he hoped the study is a "small step" forward in the effort to develop widely available screening options that could offer patients at risk of lung cancer a chance at earlier and more effective treatment.
"Ultimately, the point is to identify those patients who are likely to go on to get cancer before they get it," he said. "And, ultimately, we'd like to develop chemo prevention drugs that would target these high-risk individuals."
Franklin said he expects a biomarker screening technique for lung cancer to be available in the "not too distant future."
Dr. Timothy Winton, an associate professor of surgery and division director of thoracic surgery at the University of Alberta and the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, called the new study a "very interesting" effort to harness modern technology to get a jump on lung cancer diagnoses.
"This is an attempt to look inside the cell at a very early genetic change level to get useful insights into the damage that's been done and the risk that is associated with it," he said. "It's an extension of a series of screening studies ongoing for decades to catch cancer at a very early stage, so it can be cured by surgery or surgery plus chemotherapy.
"It's also further strong evidence that not smoking is one of the major things that people can do to protect themselves from lung cancer," Winton added. "Because the message here is that smoking leads to genetic abnormalities, which go on to lead potentially to cancer. And very few people that do not smoke get lung cancer."
More information
For additional information on lung cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.
The procedure enabled the researchers to screen people for evidence of chromosomal abnormalities in the lungs that are found among virtually all lung cancer patients. More than 80 percent of patients who did not yet have lung cancer -- but whose smoking placed them at high-risk -- were found to have such disease biomarkers.
"We were able to see precancerous genetic changes in the bronchial cells lining the airways of the lungs in both high-risk smokers and in patients who have lung cancer in another part of the lung," said lead author Dr. Wilbur A. Franklin, a professor of pathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Reporting in the September issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the authors cautioned that they are not yet certain that the genetic changes they identified will always lead to lung cancer. However, they said the prospect of such an association was fuel for further research.
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States, causing more fatalities than colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined, the researchers noted.
They added that genetic markers for lung cancer risk are good targets for screening interventions, given that once chromosomal abnormalities occur, they are considered irreversible -- even among smokers who kick the habit.
Franklin and his team used two laboratory techniques -- spectral karyotyping (SKY) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) -- to check the chromosomal status of lung tissue among 71 people. Fourteen of the study participants had already been diagnosed with lung cancer, 43 were considered at high-risk for the disease because they were smokers, and another 14 people were healthy men and women who'd never smoked.
Chromosomal abnormalities were found in 100 percent of the cancer patients and 82 percent of the high-risk smokers.
The researchers also established a so-called chromosomal abnormality index (CAI) to illustrate the extent of genetic damage. They found that while non-smokers had CAI readings of less than 1 percent, high-risk smokers had reading above 10 percent, and cancer patients topped 15 percent.
The researchers said it's not yet known when such potential genetic "markers" for future lung cancer develop or what constitutes the initial "genetic hit" that triggers chromosomal changes.
Still, they were able to identify four chromosomes -- numbers 5, 7, 8, and 18 -- that were most often affected among both cancer patients and the high-risk smokers.
Franklin emphasized that the technology his team used would not be practical for widespread medical use outside of a research setting. But he said he hoped the study is a "small step" forward in the effort to develop widely available screening options that could offer patients at risk of lung cancer a chance at earlier and more effective treatment.
"Ultimately, the point is to identify those patients who are likely to go on to get cancer before they get it," he said. "And, ultimately, we'd like to develop chemo prevention drugs that would target these high-risk individuals."
Franklin said he expects a biomarker screening technique for lung cancer to be available in the "not too distant future."
Dr. Timothy Winton, an associate professor of surgery and division director of thoracic surgery at the University of Alberta and the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, called the new study a "very interesting" effort to harness modern technology to get a jump on lung cancer diagnoses.
"This is an attempt to look inside the cell at a very early genetic change level to get useful insights into the damage that's been done and the risk that is associated with it," he said. "It's an extension of a series of screening studies ongoing for decades to catch cancer at a very early stage, so it can be cured by surgery or surgery plus chemotherapy.
"It's also further strong evidence that not smoking is one of the major things that people can do to protect themselves from lung cancer," Winton added. "Because the message here is that smoking leads to genetic abnormalities, which go on to lead potentially to cancer. And very few people that do not smoke get lung cancer."
More information
For additional information on lung cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Cleansing Diet
Healing the liver can be helped through the use of foods friendly to the organ and a diet that contributes to overall health. By: Kerri Buckley “There are two ways to clean a dirty water glass,” my teacher observed, with the studied deliberation that told me he was going to say something simple but with vast implications. “The first is to turn it upside down and wash it out.”He paused for me to digest what he’d said. “The second is to let fresh water run into it, fill it, and overflow—continuously running in and out over a long period of time.” Then he asked, “Which do you think works best?” I hesitated, suspecting it was a setup.
Before I could venture a reply, he volunteered, “You think it’s the first, the emptying and the washing, but it’s not. The gradual approach is more thorough in the long run.” — From Radical Healing by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D. Facing a diagnosis or treatment plan for an illness like hepatitis C can be overwhelming because with that diagnosis or symptoms of this serious condition also comes a feeling of powerlessness over your body and ultimately over your life.Hepatitis C is a complicated and insidious virus involving much more than just the liver, and there are many things to educate yourself about.
You’ll have decisions to make about your treatment plan. Will you choose traditional therapy and interferon, alternative treatments, or a combination of both? As a certified chef who has been working with the special diet population for 20 years, I find that people truly heal best when they have hope and when they feel as if they themselves are most responsible for their own health. They adopt the attitude that their practitioners are partners in their healing journey, and they choose the therapies and healers that work best for them.
Clean Up Your Diet One thing that is dramatic in both empowering people and bringing rapid, physical relief is a cleansing diet. A gentle and consistent cleanse with foods not only takes the load off the liver to process food, it improves digestion, cleans the lymphatic system, and energizes and strengthens the immune system. It can be used with both traditional and alternative medicine. A competent cleansing program will include enzyme therapy, alkalize the body with vegetables, cleanse all the toxins from the body, and help restructure the body’s defenses. The drastic improvement in well-being offers hope, and hope is the spark that ignites the process of healing.
There is an emerging group of doctors who are blazing a trail in a new methodology of healing. They are medical doctors, naturopaths, chiropractors, and biologists. There are centers around the country that deal with cleansing the body of toxins, such as the Hippocrates Institute in Florida, Bastyr University’s Hepatitis C Clinic north of Seattle, the Gonzalez clinic in New York, and the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat.
These centers are producing miracles, and practitioners of all kinds are following the advice of this new breed of physician—physicians like research biologist Robert Young, naturopathic doctor Hulda Clark, Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, author of Radical Healing, and Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, known for his break with conventional medicine in treating cancer patients and others with chronic diseases with methods like coffee enemas and enzyme therapy.
The advice they share is not new—Hippocrates advocated a plant-based diet 2,500 years ago, along with pure water, sunshine, rest, and fresh air. He believed that the body would heal itself if nurtured with these conditions. What is new is the level of research. It takes physics and microbiology to a very new and exciting level—one that can help patients with chronic illnesses.
How Your Body Cleanses To understand how a cleanse works, you should have a basic understanding of how the body cleanses itself. It is a miraculous process. Our bodies cleanse primarily through the colon, skin, lungs, and bladder. Assisting these four primary ways of elimination are the liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system.
The liver is responsible for most of the body’s detoxification. It processes and converts the body’s fuel supply from foods. It breaks down fats and detoxifies substances like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, pesticides on produce, drugs, antibiotics, unfiltered water, chemicals, and additives in processed foods. If the liver is overworked or not functioning properly, it can’t convert toxins into waste matter for elimination, and you can end up literally poisoning yourself—a process called autointoxication.
The liver is the organ with the most enzyme systems, and it is enzymes that enable it to do its job well. Factors that stress the liver are improper digestion (a result of eating cooked and processed foods), yeast overgrowth, parasites, fats in the diet, dehydration, and inadequate water intake. Clark, author of The Cure For All Diseases says, “One-hundred percent of all cancer patients have parasites in the liver.
Cleansing the liver is the most powerful procedure you can do to improve your body’s health.” She says you must also cleanse the body by getting rid of all toxins in the body, including amalgam and polluted water—that is, water with heavy metals or PCBs. After following her protocol at her clinic for two to three weeks, she says, “Patients simply don’t have the virus present in their bodies anymore.” Watching Your pH A program that cleanses the liver removes those substances from a diet that would normally require the liver to work harder.
This means adding live enzymes to the diet rather than depleting them from the liver and alkalizing the body. Both goals are accomplished with fresh, organic vegetables. Young says, “There is only one illness, one disease—and that disease is improper pH balance in the body due to an acidic environment. You cannot separate disease from acidity.”
He goes on to say, “Our health can be measured in only one way, whether our tissues are more acidic in pH or more alkaline. The body becomes acidic by our eating, drinking, and thinking.” According to his research, when the body utilizes food at the cellular level, it leaves an ash that is either acid or alkaline in nature. If the ash is alkaline, it is easily handled by the body and used for fuel-energy and repair. If it is acidic, it acts as a toxin, and the stress placed upon the body leads towards decline and eventual disease.
When the tissues in the body are alkaline, microbes within the body are inert or they regenerate and repair, but when tissues are acidic they take on the natural role of decomposing the body. The body becomes diseased. The average American diet is mostly acidic. Foods that are acidic are meats, soft drinks, yeasted breads, coffee, tea, cheeses, dairy products, sugars, most fruits, and all fried and junk food. Foods that are alkaline are vegetables and legumes.
With regard to any disease of the liver, including cancer and hepatitis, Young says, “In an alkaline environment, the liver is capable of regenerating itself—in six weeks you can have a brand new liver.” He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl. “The fish is only as sick as the water it lives in,” Young says. “If you change the water in a fishbowl, the fish gets well. Since our bodies are 70 percent fluid, changing the fluid environment changes our health, and you do that with your foods, drinks, and thinking.”
The Internal Environment Lloyd Katz, a chiropractic doctor in Amherst, Va., agrees. “Louis Pasteur was on his deathbed when he admitted that the terrain is more important than the bug. Our diet is essentially everything we take into our body—food, drink, air, our thoughts, even what we watch on television.” Dr. Katz says he has seen people who had to be carried in to treatment and had lost hair due to chemotherapy and were “as weak as kittens” regain their health in only weeks from raw foods and wheat grass enemas. “It is truly amazing what the body is able to do when cleansed and provided with the right environment.”
Proper digestion is essential for a healthy liver and begins in the mouth with the enzymes produced by the chewing process. As we age, our stomachs are less capable of producing the enzymes that help break down food. All enzymes in foods are destroyed above 117 degrees Fahrenheit. Without enzymes, proteins (amino acids) are difficult to digest. Keeping the colon clean is essential for a cleanse.
This is accomplished by adding fiber to your diet, drinking lots of water, chewing everything well, and taking at least a brisk walk every day. Some people might benefit by seeing a colon therapist. Jeremy Rodrock, a chiropractic doctor from Baldwin City, Kan., concentrates on digestion as a way to improve immunity with his patients who have HCV. “Mainstream treatments for hepatitis C suppress the immune system,” he says. “I usually recommend raw fruits and vegetables for the antioxidants and the fiber.
I also tell my patients to avoid all ‘white’ foods—anything with white flour or any product that has been bleached. White foods tend to have chemicals because they are processed.” Michael Taylor is a biologist and microscopist—he looks closely at blood samples of people to determine what kind of microbes are present in the body. He says there is a whole new vocabulary necessary with this new thought of “bio-ecology.”
Taylor says the most important thing a person with HCV can do is “realize the body strives to heal itself daily. Remove the things supporting the microbes within the terrain, and replace it with whole foods as a supplement to rebalance.” He also stressed that you should recognize denial or resistance to change and eliminate it.
Foods For Health A cleanse should consist of mostly raw foods, simple proteins, such as beans and legumes, whole grains, fish, and lots of pure water. Cleansing will starve the overgrowth of yeast present and balance the body’s pH through foods that alkalize. Raw foods are freshly harvested foods that are not cooked or processed in any way. These foods are packed with fully functioning enzymes that help your body with digestion. For disease prevention, five servings of vegetables a day are recommended by such organizations as the American Dietetic Association and American Cancer Society.
Through Dr. Young’s research, it is easy to understand why. He advocates an 80/20 ratio of raw foods to cooked foods. You can get four to five servings of vegetables in two cups of freshly juiced vegetables. Buying a juicer is the best investment you can make in your health, he says. Wheat grass juice is an excellent cleanser.
Don’t stop with the juice, however. Eat small and frequent meals to keep your calorie intake up and add more vegetables, raw or lightly steamed—like zucchini, braised cabbage, or fresh tomato and cucumber salad—along with green drinks, whole grains, and plant-based sources of protein, such as beans, chickpeas, soy, and nuts.
Use herbs and spices liberally. Avoid sugar and even most fruits when you cleanse, because the sugar causes a yeast overgrowth and makes you crave more sugar. Breads with yeast should be avoided, but sprouted breads are available at health food stores and flatbreads are easy to make. Stevia can be used in place of other sweeteners and does not contribute to the growth of yeast. Include essential fatty acids such as flaxseed oil.
Avoid caffeine. Grain coffee tastes similar and does not affect the body’s pH the way that coffee does. Herb teas are wonderful, especially mate and lapacho. Nut milks are delicious, easy to make, and great for cleansing. Include lots of fresh water—the rule is one ounce of purified water per pound of body weight. Green powders also are fabulous for the liver. Smoothies made from soy or rice milk, green powders, protein powder, and natural flavorings satisfy your cravings while keeping up your protein intake.
The green powders are easy to digest and are full of enzymes. Smoothies are fast and easy to make, and they go a long way in helping your body cleanse and rebuild. The Natural Way To Eat The Hippocrates Institute in Florida is known for its persistent and steadfast education on raw foods. General manager Reenie Brewer says, “I see miracles here every day.
People come in with walkers and canes, and they get well. It’s all accomplished through their efforts to stop putting into their bodies the things that don’t belong there and replace them with the things that do.” If you are used to meat and potatoes or daily fast food, a cleansing diet will be very different. It is, in fact, a most natural way to eat.
It is time for us to learn to eat to live instead of living to eat. This is not really a diet, but a process. It is a choice to be proactive in improving your own health, immunity, and energy levels. People often ask how long they should eat this way.
It should be slow, gradual, and consistent—a lifelong process. You don’t have to declare yourself a vegetarian to benefit from a diet that is 80 percent raw. If you find yourself feeling much better, you won’t mind getting creative with veggies, grains, and legumes. There are cookbooks on raw foods that contain recipes for raw, enzyme rich, dehydrated foods.
You can even make bread and pizza this way. As you cleanse the body and starve the yeast, you may find that you no longer crave sugar, hamburgers, and coffee. Below you’ll find some recipes that will help you cleanse, will alkalize your body, and are rich in enzymes.
To your health, to your liver, and to hope!
Kerri Buckley is a freelance writer and certified chef from Ocean Shores, Wash.
This article came from HEPATITIS MAGAZINE© 2002
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
What is the Cause of Cancer and Where Does it Begin?
During Week 2 of our Thursday night teleseminar we answered several questions. The following is an overview of those questons and answers.1) What is the origin of cancer or where does cancer begin?
Cancerous tissue, above all other consequences of choice, has countless secondary causes. But even for a cancerous condition there is only ONE PRIME ORIGIN and CAUSE.
I have simply summarized this origin and cause of cancerous tissue in a few words. The prime origin and cause of cancerous tissue is the over-acidification of the blood then the tissues due to lifestyle and dietary choices. A cancerous tissue begins with our choices of what we eat, what we drink, what we think and how we live. Cancer is a liquid and this liquid is a toxic waste product of metabolism or energy consumption.
In 1966, Dr. Otto Warburg, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for his discovery of the cause of cancer delivered a lecture at an annual meeting of Nobelists at Lindau, Germany. In his speech he described the primal cause of cancer as follows: "The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.
All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes. From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of life this difference between nomal and cancer cells is so great that one can scarely picture a greater difference.
Oxygen gas, the donor of energy in plants and animals is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by an energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely, a fermentation of glucose."The following is a summary of understanding cancerous tissues:Cancer is not a cell but a poisonous acidic liquid.
A cancer cell, is a cell that has been spoiled or poisoned by metabolic or gastrointestinal acids.
A tumor is the body's protective mechanism to encapsulate spoiled or poisoned cells from excess acid that has not been properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration. The tumor is the body's solution to protect healthy cells and tissues.
Cancer is a systemic acidic condition that settles at the weakest parts of the body -not a localized problem that metastases. Metastases is localized acids spoiling other cells much like a rotten apple spoiling a bushel of healthy apples.There is no such thing as a cancer cell.
A cancer cell was once a healthy cell that has been spoiled from acid.The tumor is not the problem but the solution to protect healthy cells and tissues from being spoiled from other rotting cells and tissues.The only solution to the acidic liquids that poison body cells causing the affect that medical savants call cancer is to alkalize and energize the body.
In conclusion, the human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function! If we desire a healthy body we must maintain that alkaline design.
2) Does diet and lifestyle have anything to do with cancer?
Absolutely! Cancer is not something we get it is something we do as a consequence of daily choice of what we eat, what we drink, what we think and how we live. We either have an alkaline lifestyle and diet and enjoy a fit and healthy body or we have an acidic lifestyle and diet and experience the aches, pains and suffering from metabolic acids.
The former US Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, had this to say about diet:"YOUR CHOICE OF DIET CAN INFLUENCE YOUR LONG TERM HEALTH PROSPECTS MORE THAN ANY OTHER ACTION YOU MIGHT TAKE."
3) If cancer is preventable how do we prevent it?
I have said many times that the cure for cancerous tissue will not be found in its treatment but in its prevention. That prevention can only be obtained by making healthier lifestyle and dietary choices. A cancerous condition is the consequence of choice.
For example, if you want to reduce your risk for cancereous tissue of the lung by 100%, then stop smoking and stop associating or working around people that do smoke. Secondary smoke is just as acidic and damaging to the lung tissue. If don't want a cancerous liver then stop drinking alcohol and carbonated drinks. If you don't want a cancerous pancreas then stop eating the acid sugar. If you don't want a cancerous bowel then stop eating protein.
It is that simple. The following are a few research studies from around the world that substantiate my own findings:Study: Human study at Harbin Medical College in ChinaResults: CABBAGE was the most important single food in reducing the risk of stomach cancer
Study: Italian study on SmokersResults: Smokers who consumed GREEN LEAFY and other VEGETABLES had a THREE FOLD REDUCTION in their risk of lung cancer with smokers who rarely ate vegetables.Study: Hebel Cancer Institute in ChinaResults: GARLIC, ONION AND TOMATO had the ability to INHIBIT the CELL MUTATION caused by common chemotherapeutic drugs... this is based on conclusive evidence that chemotherapy drugs cause cell mutations and lead to other types of cancers later in life.
Study: Mayo Clinic
Results: Cancer patients receiving radiation therapy can benefit dramatically from optimal VEGETABLE based diets.
Study: University of Athens School of Medicine in Greece
Results: Women who consumed the LOWEST level of vegetables had 10 TIMES the rate of BREAST CANCER compared to women consuming the HIGHEST level of vegetables.
Study: Human study in AustraliaResults: Consumption of CABBAGE, CARROTS AND GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES substantial protection against COLON CANCER.Study: Aichi Cancer Institute of JapanResults: Eating VEGETABLES reduced the risk of CERVICAL and BREAST CANCER in women.
Study: Cancer Control Agency of British ColumbiaResults: Eating VEGETABLES dramatically reduced incidence of BREAST CANCER.
4) If I have cancer, such as colon, lung, or prostate cancer can I reverse it naturally?
The answer to this question is absolutely! Once you understand the cause of ALL cancerous tissues as latent tissue acidosis you can then begin the process of reversing, regenerating and preventing the consequences of acidic choices by making healthier alkaline choices. The protocol for a healthier and energetic body, free from all sickness and dis-ease, is found in Chapter Eleven of our latest book, "The pH Miracle for Weight Loss."In closing, I would like to share with you my vision of medicine in the 21st century.
My vision of the relative purpose of medicine is to include prevention of illness and promotion of health and fitness rather than focusing all our attention on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. I believe the ultimate purpose of medicine is to help people discover something fundamental within themselves.
And that is the awareness that the true source of well-being, joy, and contentment that we all seek lies within one's mind and heart - the emotions and the spirit - not in the physical world. This is important, so we can all begin to be freed from the process of grasping for happiness in this physical world.
To support this approach, I believe we must begin to embrace a more spiritual vision of ourselves and of humanity as a whole. While providing great love, care and attention to the physical body, medicine can then and only then can we help people discover the nonphysical, spiritual dimensions of themselves. When this happens, we can all live and work with less fear, stress, grasping to preserve the physical body at all costs - we can truly be free.
Cancerous tissue, above all other consequences of choice, has countless secondary causes. But even for a cancerous condition there is only ONE PRIME ORIGIN and CAUSE.
I have simply summarized this origin and cause of cancerous tissue in a few words. The prime origin and cause of cancerous tissue is the over-acidification of the blood then the tissues due to lifestyle and dietary choices. A cancerous tissue begins with our choices of what we eat, what we drink, what we think and how we live. Cancer is a liquid and this liquid is a toxic waste product of metabolism or energy consumption.
In 1966, Dr. Otto Warburg, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for his discovery of the cause of cancer delivered a lecture at an annual meeting of Nobelists at Lindau, Germany. In his speech he described the primal cause of cancer as follows: "The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.
All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes. From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of life this difference between nomal and cancer cells is so great that one can scarely picture a greater difference.
Oxygen gas, the donor of energy in plants and animals is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by an energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely, a fermentation of glucose."The following is a summary of understanding cancerous tissues:Cancer is not a cell but a poisonous acidic liquid.
A cancer cell, is a cell that has been spoiled or poisoned by metabolic or gastrointestinal acids.
A tumor is the body's protective mechanism to encapsulate spoiled or poisoned cells from excess acid that has not been properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration. The tumor is the body's solution to protect healthy cells and tissues.
Cancer is a systemic acidic condition that settles at the weakest parts of the body -not a localized problem that metastases. Metastases is localized acids spoiling other cells much like a rotten apple spoiling a bushel of healthy apples.There is no such thing as a cancer cell.
A cancer cell was once a healthy cell that has been spoiled from acid.The tumor is not the problem but the solution to protect healthy cells and tissues from being spoiled from other rotting cells and tissues.The only solution to the acidic liquids that poison body cells causing the affect that medical savants call cancer is to alkalize and energize the body.
In conclusion, the human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function! If we desire a healthy body we must maintain that alkaline design.
2) Does diet and lifestyle have anything to do with cancer?
Absolutely! Cancer is not something we get it is something we do as a consequence of daily choice of what we eat, what we drink, what we think and how we live. We either have an alkaline lifestyle and diet and enjoy a fit and healthy body or we have an acidic lifestyle and diet and experience the aches, pains and suffering from metabolic acids.
The former US Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, had this to say about diet:"YOUR CHOICE OF DIET CAN INFLUENCE YOUR LONG TERM HEALTH PROSPECTS MORE THAN ANY OTHER ACTION YOU MIGHT TAKE."
3) If cancer is preventable how do we prevent it?
I have said many times that the cure for cancerous tissue will not be found in its treatment but in its prevention. That prevention can only be obtained by making healthier lifestyle and dietary choices. A cancerous condition is the consequence of choice.
For example, if you want to reduce your risk for cancereous tissue of the lung by 100%, then stop smoking and stop associating or working around people that do smoke. Secondary smoke is just as acidic and damaging to the lung tissue. If don't want a cancerous liver then stop drinking alcohol and carbonated drinks. If you don't want a cancerous pancreas then stop eating the acid sugar. If you don't want a cancerous bowel then stop eating protein.
It is that simple. The following are a few research studies from around the world that substantiate my own findings:Study: Human study at Harbin Medical College in ChinaResults: CABBAGE was the most important single food in reducing the risk of stomach cancer
Study: Italian study on SmokersResults: Smokers who consumed GREEN LEAFY and other VEGETABLES had a THREE FOLD REDUCTION in their risk of lung cancer with smokers who rarely ate vegetables.Study: Hebel Cancer Institute in ChinaResults: GARLIC, ONION AND TOMATO had the ability to INHIBIT the CELL MUTATION caused by common chemotherapeutic drugs... this is based on conclusive evidence that chemotherapy drugs cause cell mutations and lead to other types of cancers later in life.
Study: Mayo Clinic
Results: Cancer patients receiving radiation therapy can benefit dramatically from optimal VEGETABLE based diets.
Study: University of Athens School of Medicine in Greece
Results: Women who consumed the LOWEST level of vegetables had 10 TIMES the rate of BREAST CANCER compared to women consuming the HIGHEST level of vegetables.
Study: Human study in AustraliaResults: Consumption of CABBAGE, CARROTS AND GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES substantial protection against COLON CANCER.Study: Aichi Cancer Institute of JapanResults: Eating VEGETABLES reduced the risk of CERVICAL and BREAST CANCER in women.
Study: Cancer Control Agency of British ColumbiaResults: Eating VEGETABLES dramatically reduced incidence of BREAST CANCER.
4) If I have cancer, such as colon, lung, or prostate cancer can I reverse it naturally?
The answer to this question is absolutely! Once you understand the cause of ALL cancerous tissues as latent tissue acidosis you can then begin the process of reversing, regenerating and preventing the consequences of acidic choices by making healthier alkaline choices. The protocol for a healthier and energetic body, free from all sickness and dis-ease, is found in Chapter Eleven of our latest book, "The pH Miracle for Weight Loss."In closing, I would like to share with you my vision of medicine in the 21st century.
My vision of the relative purpose of medicine is to include prevention of illness and promotion of health and fitness rather than focusing all our attention on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. I believe the ultimate purpose of medicine is to help people discover something fundamental within themselves.
And that is the awareness that the true source of well-being, joy, and contentment that we all seek lies within one's mind and heart - the emotions and the spirit - not in the physical world. This is important, so we can all begin to be freed from the process of grasping for happiness in this physical world.
To support this approach, I believe we must begin to embrace a more spiritual vision of ourselves and of humanity as a whole. While providing great love, care and attention to the physical body, medicine can then and only then can we help people discover the nonphysical, spiritual dimensions of themselves. When this happens, we can all live and work with less fear, stress, grasping to preserve the physical body at all costs - we can truly be free.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Marijuana-Like Compound May Ease Stomach Cramping
(HealthDay News) -- A synthetic form of a chemical component found in marijuana may help relax the colon and reduce stomach cramping after eating, says a Mayo Clinic study.Researchers compared the effects of dronabinol and a placebo on colonic motility and sensation in 52 health adults. Dronabinol is a synthetic version of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana.
The study found that dronabinol relaxes the colon and reduces post-eating contractions and cramping. The effect was most apparent in women.
"The potential for cannabinoids to modulate colonic motor function in disease deserves a further look," study leader Dr. Tuba Esfandyari said in a prepared statement.
Currently in the United States, dronabinol is used to prevent nausea and vomiting for cancer patients after chemotherapy. But it's used only when other kinds of medicine for nausea and vomiting don't work. It's is also used to increase appetite in AIDS patients.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about dronabinol.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Polymorphic Symbionts as Potential Cofactors in Cancer Processes
by Karl Windstosser© Copyright 1997 Explore Publications, Inc. Republished with their permission.1915
G. Fichera and Citelli (Milan) described "bacterial form elements" in human tumors; after 1925, this included various developmental phases of these in coccal and rod form. It is not clear whether Fichera produced a therapeutic agent from this -- which he designated as "Oncovaccina" -- or whether this name applied to an extract derived from sheep spleen, thymus, duodenum, lymph glands and bone marrow, which Fichera injected his patients with beginning about 1934.
That would make this researcher -- at about the same time as Niehans -- one of the founders of organocellular or cytoplasmatic therapy, which is based on the empirical fact that sheep are the only mammals that are never (or extremely rarely) infested with cancer and that malignant vaccination tumors are just as unlikely to be transferable to them. This is especially true of the younger animals and lambs. We now know that the spleen, thymus and lymph glands exercise central functions in defensive and regulatory processes.
Somewhat later, Clara Jolles-Fonti (1954) and Guarnieri silently took over Fichera's ideas and therapy and added their own work to it. The ingredients of the preparation were simplified, initially to a combination of liver, spleen and duodenal extracts, and, finally, just liver and spleen. In this form, Permicutan (now biosyn.) took over production from Guarnieri in 1950. One milliliter of the preparation "Factor AF 2 Guarnieri" contains the extract from 7 grams liver and 3 grams spleen. The preparation has earned a good reputation in the field of holistic tumor therapy, despite the omission of the thymus component.
1916
Günther Enderlein (1872-1968), biologist and zoologist, professor and curator at the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin, first presented his revolutionary reconfiguration of bacteriology (developed during the war years -- he had been an army bacteriologist) to the Society of Friends of Natural-Science Research [Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde].
1916
Günther Enderlein (1872-1968), biologist and zoologist, professor and curator at the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin, first presented his revolutionary reconfiguration of bacteriology (developed during the war years -- he had been an army bacteriologist) to the Society of Friends of Natural-Science Research [Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde].
Because of war-related problems, his book Bacterial Cyclogeny. Prolegomena to Investigations into the Structure, Sexual and Asexual Reproduction and Development of the Bacteria, finished in the same year, was not able to be printed and published until 1925. Ever since Cohn (1870) and Koch (1876), bacterial monomorphism had become dogma, even though this idea had at first only had provisional status, to provide a framework for additional research.
Even its promulgators continued to report casually on morphological variants of the microbes they observed -- and, in the foreword to his Bacterial Cyclogeny, Enderlein cites a series of predecessors and contemporaries who agreed with the generally postulated and concretely described process of the developmental cycle. In his tireless studies and interpretations, he found the explanation for many controversial microbial findings -- many first described by him, in part heterogeneous, in part identical -- as well as the key to many hitherto (and to some extent to this day) scientifically unexplained processes in pathogenesis and diseases transmission, healing and immunity.
According to Enderlein, all microbes go through a species-specific cycle, which bacteriological theory accepts as quite self-evident for malaria, but which to this day it resists acknowledging for bacteria and fungi, even though there is no exception in the whole wide world to the law of eternal change and the unity of the macrocosm with the microcosm."Cyclogeny" means the transformation and migration of all pathogenic and apathogenic germs through all phases (valences) from the limits of the visible and smaller -- the viral region -- on through the higher-valence phases of the textbook coccal and rod forms and up to the culminant phases of fungi and their mycelia.
In this, the bacterial nucleus plays an important role, which, though Enderlein was aware of it, was not correctly interpreted as to function. Its reduplication corresponds to the length of the bacterial body. According to Enderlein's "Anartatic Fundamental Law", valence increase depends on the prevailing pH of the blood or tissues. The bacteria multiply -- and this, too, was one of Enderlein's fundamental insights -- either asexually by fission or budding (Auxanogeny) or sexually after preliminary nuclear fusion (Probaenogeny).
The latter is always the prerequisite for phasal development upward or downward. The principle of polymorphism and sexual -- i.e. by means of nuclear fusion -- reproduction of bacteria was confirmed 40 years after Enderlein by the Nobel Prize laureates Lederberg, Taumg and Hayes (cited in Seeger, P. G.: Immune Processes and Cancer [Immungeschehen und Krebs] Semmelweis Verlag, Hoya).
Before Enderlein, Mori (1910) had already supported this idea.Out of the many concepts which Enderlein created for his theory, we can here only mention those which are of specific significance for oncological considerations. But this terminology was necessary and justified, since to go back to the usual terminology of orthodox bacteriology or to the nomenclature of the microbe researchers before Enderlein would only have given rise to more new misunderstandings or misinterpretations.Enderlein designated the smallest and lowest bacterial stage as Protit.
It consists of the bare nucleus (Mych) with no protoplasmic coat (Trophosom). One-dimensional reproduction leads to the formation of extremely fine threadlets, or Filits, two- and three-dimensional reproduction to Symprotits. In all, these 3 phases represent Chondritosis, within which a continuously alternating phase-change takes place. Chondrits are in the virus size range (15-300 nm) and are barely visible in the darkfield. Bacteriophages -- Enderlein's interpretation of which differs radically from the orthodox view -- also belong to this stage.
Bacterial flagella are likewise Filits.Higher developmental stages arise -- always dependent on environmental conditions -- through the formation of double- and multiple-nucleus cells with Trophosomes, in which each reduplication of the nuclei corresponds to the next higher stage, or Valence, of the Endobiont. The Enderleinian terms are, in sequence: Basit, Phytit, Rhabdit, Linit, Ascit, Synascit and -- the highest developmental form (Culminant) -- Amoebit.
This represents the fully-developed fungus with all its typical characteristics, flagellum, mycelium and spore formation.Besides the clarification of these morphological phenomena, Enderlein succeeded in identifying the most important vertebrate (but not invertebrate!) symbiont as Mucor racemosus Fresen 1870 in all of its stages from virus to fungus. In the Chondrit stage (see above), it lives as a physiological and innocuous -- probably in fact even useful -- symbiont in the blood and tissue of healthy people.
However, as soon as the biochemical equilibrium changes, the Chondrits ascend to the higher phases or valences and in the process take on pathogenic characteristics. This applies to all civilization-induced diseases, particularly cancer. One can thus designate it as "obligate Mucor parasitism".Retrograde development from higher to lower valences also takes place exclusively via the sexual route by means of nuclear fusion among Chondrits present in sufficient number. This process is blocked in sick persons.
To this end, Enderlein developed Chondritin, with which a chain-reaction-like retrograde development of the pathogenic valences is set into motion. Dealing with the resulting mass of Protits is furthered with the aid of a serum derived from rabbits injected with higher valences and Protits.The hematological changes associated with phasal and virulence increase manifest themselves -- aside from the rise in pH -- in increased (up to 100%) infestation both of erythrocytes and neutrophilic leukocytes as well as plasma with higher-valence Endobionts which present themselves to the eye morphologically as Symprotits, Symplasts, Basits, Ascits, etc.
The erythrocytes, normally the storage depot of dormant symbionts, often take on the so-called burr-cell form, which the orthodox medical laboratories don't know what to do with. These are the microelements, appearing everywhere and active in full virulence. Some of these developmental stages are illustrated in the excellent photomicrographic reproductions in the two discussed books by Bleker and Haring (p. 15ff).
The anemia which often accompanies preliminary and early stages of malignancies is likewise explainable along these lines. The alert observer will not miss the phantom corpuscles, which only appear in the darkfield and which signalize the progressive Endobiont virulence which drives the destructive process. Now, it must be kept in mind that certain stages of this blood infestation can also appear in cases of other chronic and consumptive diseases, i.e. not just cancer and pre-cancerous processes, for example PcP, Hepatitis, MS, radiation and chemotherapy damage, focal diseases (especially in the teeth) etc. With a balanced alkaline diet, cleansing, holistic change therapy and sensible use of Enderlein preparations, these conditions -- even in cases of incipient or early-stage malignancies -- can often be halted or rolled back.
In 1932, Enderlein discovered the second facultative pathogen (unlike the Mucor symbiosis, however, not physiologically endobiotic), the black-spored mold Aspergillus niger van Tieghen, which, in its entire polymorphism and phase-dependent pathology, is the tuberculosis germ. Fontes (1910) provided the proof of this by transmitting the disease by means of bacterium-free filtrates.
The Chondrit and Basit phases give rise to clinical pictures in man which were given all sorts of names by Enderlein's contemporaries -- such as scrofula, lymphatism, camouflaged tuberculosis (Patromikolas), masked tuberculosis (Willy Bircher), certain rheumatic forms (Poncet), tuberculotoxicosis and paratuberculosis.
These also include Much's granules and Spengler's fragments. Other researchers have dedicated themselves to the therapeutic exploitation of these phenomena; these include Pirquet, Ponndorf and the above-mentioned Spengler (see 1902).The Basit, Linit and Ascit stages of Aspergillus are the short and long rod forms of Sclerothrix tuberculosis Koch 1882, solid and not acid-resistant, whose culturing in all phases from s on up to the spore-forming Aspergillus is described accurately by Enderlein.
For therapizing tubercular and pretubercular diseases, Enderlein recommended various preparations, each available in various strengths, which can be administered subcutaneously, intramuscularly or orally, depending on the clinical picture:
1. Stabilized -- i.e. apathogenic -- Aspergillus or tuberculosis Chondritin with mode of action as described for the Endobiont's Chondritin.
1. Stabilized -- i.e. apathogenic -- Aspergillus or tuberculosis Chondritin with mode of action as described for the Endobiont's Chondritin.
2. The caretta Chondritin as cycle phase of the culturing of Sclerothrix antituberculosis Friedmann 1920, the agent of tuberculosis in the sea turtle Thalassochelis caretta. It is not pathogenic to man, but instead has a therapeutic effect like a homeopathic nosode in cases of human tuberculosis. Friedrich Franz Friedmann, who had to endure many attacks and much defamation in his life, deserves our thanks for his research and development of this therapeutic agent, which has fallen into obscurity only because of the chemotherapeutic treatment of tuberculosis.
3. The vaccines of Sclerothrix tuberculosis Koch, containing higher valences than the Chondritin.
4. The sea turtle tuberculosis vaccine, acid-resistant and non-acid-resistant.
5. The tuberculosis sera of rabbits that have been immunized against Sclerothrix tuberculosis Koch. Mode of action as per the Endobiont sera.
6. For all diseases which are, simultaneously or serially, of an Endobiontic or tuberculous nature, the Pliogen-Chondritin consisting of Mucor and Aspergillus Chondrites.
All of the isopathic preparations developed by Enderlein were produced under his personal supervision in his laboratory in Hamburg/Aumühle until shortly before his death. In 1975, the firm of SANUM-Kehlbeck (Hoya) acquired the production license and took over the business. The old, instructive preparation names were changed and many new agents (not from Enderlein) were added. Information and pertinent literature can be requested from the above-named company or from the associated publishing arm, Semmelweis Verlag.Besides these preliminary research results and their therapeutic consequences for the Mucor and Aspergillus cycles, Enderlein published, after 1937, his ideas concerning the cancer-specific or carcinogenic properties of the higher developmental stages of the Mucor Endobiont.
His argument is structured as follows:
1. Human blood is not sterile, as had been previously assumed, but rather harbors in all cases a minuscule parasite. It had not been discovered previously because it exists there primarily in an unusual and hitherto not described form, namely in the submicroscopic Protit stage. This most primitive developmental stage is of the same size order as viruses, which, according to Enderlein, are likewise to be ascribed to the species-specific cycle.
1. Human blood is not sterile, as had been previously assumed, but rather harbors in all cases a minuscule parasite. It had not been discovered previously because it exists there primarily in an unusual and hitherto not described form, namely in the submicroscopic Protit stage. This most primitive developmental stage is of the same size order as viruses, which, according to Enderlein, are likewise to be ascribed to the species-specific cycle.
The apparent sterility of standard blood cultures is explained by the fact that these stages in their parasitical property can only be cultured with great difficulty on artificial culture media, and only develop very slowly and poorly. However, sterilely drawn and incubated blood, or simply in blood maintained at room temperature, develops lively growth after a few weeks.
2. The parasite's life in the erythrocytes can be detected in fresh blood through its germination into free Chondrits or Symprotits in blood serum.
3. The relationship of the infection of the erythrocytes to cancer turns out to depend on the following factors:
a. Number of infected erythrocytes and phantom corpuscles;
b. Number of parasites in each infected erythrocyte;
c. Dynamovalence or size of the erythrocyte inclusions.
4. The bacterial form in the blood demonstrates, by its lively mobility, its existence as a special life-form in native preparation.
5. Free and enclosed (in nucleus or cell plasma) Symprotits and Symprotit barbells can also be found in the tumor, usually in enormous numbers.
6. Bacterial rods are also found -- although seldom -- growing out of the tumor cells.
7. Higher bacterial structural forms such as Cystits, Thecits, etc. can also be culturally obtained in blood (or nutrient glucose broth, etc.) and are massively present in tumors, either free or in cell bodies.
8. In sectioned tumors, one finds the highest forms observed in the human body of the parasite's developmental series, namely as fungal mycelium (Developmental History of the Bacteria [Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien], Vol. 1 Number 3).
2. The parasite's life in the erythrocytes can be detected in fresh blood through its germination into free Chondrits or Symprotits in blood serum.
3. The relationship of the infection of the erythrocytes to cancer turns out to depend on the following factors:
a. Number of infected erythrocytes and phantom corpuscles;
b. Number of parasites in each infected erythrocyte;
c. Dynamovalence or size of the erythrocyte inclusions.
4. The bacterial form in the blood demonstrates, by its lively mobility, its existence as a special life-form in native preparation.
5. Free and enclosed (in nucleus or cell plasma) Symprotits and Symprotit barbells can also be found in the tumor, usually in enormous numbers.
6. Bacterial rods are also found -- although seldom -- growing out of the tumor cells.
7. Higher bacterial structural forms such as Cystits, Thecits, etc. can also be culturally obtained in blood (or nutrient glucose broth, etc.) and are massively present in tumors, either free or in cell bodies.
8. In sectioned tumors, one finds the highest forms observed in the human body of the parasite's developmental series, namely as fungal mycelium (Developmental History of the Bacteria [Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien], Vol. 1 Number 3).
Enderlein included an aphorism of Lao-Tse's in some of his studies, which applies precisely to the Bacterial Cyclogeny he created: "When things have unfolded to their fullest development, they always return to their roots."
Publications of Enderlein's Numerous Scientific Writings
All together, they number over 500, of which 377 cover entomological topics in the years 1891 to 1942 -- we can here mention only those which are concerned with Endobiosis research and bacterial polymorphism. A complete listing of these, as well as of the contributions of other authors on the same topic, was put out in the sixties by the AKMON Verlag, at that time situated in Aumühle near Hamburg. In addition, we would like to call attention to the reprints listed here of some of Enderlein's and other pertinent publications, published by the Semmelweis Verlag in Hoya.
· "Basic Elements of the Comparative Morphology and Biology of Bacteria." [Grundelemente der vergleichenden Morphologie und Biologie der Bakterien] Session Reports of the Society of Friends of Natural-Science Research [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde], Berlin 1916 (provisional presentation of the concepts of "Bacterial Cyclogeny").
· "Bacterial Cyclogeny." Prolegomena to Investigations into the Structure, Sexual and Asexual Reproduction and Development of the Bacteria. [Bakterien-Cyclogenie. Prolegomena zu Untersuchungen über Bau, geschlechtliche und ungeschlechtliche Fortpflanzung und Entwicklung der Bakterien] Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin/Leipzig 1925. Reprinted by: Semmelweis Verlag, Hoya 1980.
Translated into French by Dr. G. Langevine, Paris.
· "Concerning the Pliocyclody of Bacteria. The Biological Significance of Bacterial Gonits, Gonidies and Cystits." Lectures, ref. in: Session Reports of the Society of Friends of Natural-Science Research [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde], Berlin 1981.
· "Conclusions from the Definitive Unmasking of Monomorphism as a Specious Dogma." [Folgerungen aus der endgültigen Entlarvung des Monomorphismus als spekulatives Dogma] Archive for the Developmental History of Bacteria [Archiv für Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien] Vol. 1 Nr. 1, p. 162ff. (1933).
· "Concerning the Pliocyclody of Bacteria. The Biological Significance of Bacterial Gonits, Gonidies and Cystits." Lectures, ref. in: Session Reports of the Society of Friends of Natural-Science Research [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde], Berlin 1981.
· "Conclusions from the Definitive Unmasking of Monomorphism as a Specious Dogma." [Folgerungen aus der endgültigen Entlarvung des Monomorphismus als spekulatives Dogma] Archive for the Developmental History of Bacteria [Archiv für Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien] Vol. 1 Nr. 1, p. 162ff. (1933).
· "The End of the Cell's Reign as the Ultimate Biological Unit." [Das Ende der Herrschaft der Zelle als letzte biologische Einheit] Archive for the Developmental History of Bacteria [Archiv für Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien] Vol. 1 Nr. 2, p. 171ff. (1933).[Translated and published in Explore! for the Professional, Volume 6, #1 (1995)]
· "The Cycle of the Cancer Agent, Mucor neoformans." [Der Kreislauf der Krebs-Urhebers, Mucor neoformans] (Doyen 1902) Archive for the Developmental History of Bacteria [Archiv für Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien] Vol. 1 Nr. 8, p. 183ff. (1937).
· "On the Hypotheses Concerning the Parasitical Nature of Oncogenesis on the one Hand and the Knowledge Developed over the Preceding Century and a Half concerning the Parasitical Nature of Cancer on the Other Hand." [Zu den Hypothesen über die parasitŠre Krebsentstehung einerseits und den seit eineinhalb Jahrhunderten entwickelten Erkenntnissen der parasitŠren Krebsnatur andererseits] Folk Medicine 3 [Volksheilkunde] (1949).
· "On the Source of all Chronic Diseases." [Vom Urheber aller chronischen Erkrankungen] Folk Medicine 8 [Volksheilkunde] (1955).
· "On the Nature of Chronic Diseases, Specifically of Cancer and Glandular Cancer." [†ber das Wesen der chronischen Erkrankungen, speziell von Krebs und Drüsenkrebs] Private Clinic and Sanatorium 4 [Privatklinik und Sanatorium] (1955).
Periodicals Edited and Published by Enderlein
· Archive for the Developmental History of Bacteria [Archiv für Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bakterien] Vol. 1 Numbers 1-4; Vol. 2 Nr. 1. Verlag Erna Enderlein, Berlin 1931-1940, AKMON Verlag 1941-1972.
· Immunbiologica. Writings on Immunobiological Methods of Fighting Disease. [Immunbiologica. Schriftenreihe über immunbiologische KrankheitsbekŠmpfung] Vols. 1-4: Siebeneicher Verlag, Berlin/Frankfurt 1946-1950; Vols. 5-6: IBICA Verlag, Aumühle near Hamburg 1954.
· AKMON -- Elements of Complete Health and Akmosophy [AKMON -- Bausteine zur Vollgesundheit und Akmosophie.] Vol. 1/1955; Vol. 2/1957 (both IBICA Verlag, Aumühle near Hamburg); Vol. 3/1959 (AKMON Verlag, Aumühle near Hamburg). This has been reprinted by Semmelweis Verlag, Hoya 1980. It contains 23 articles by Enderlein, 12 by other authors.
· Folia Isopathica. Vol. 1/1961 (improved new edition 1970), AKMON Verlag, Aumühle near Hamburg.
· Relevant titles in the complete bibliography: [12, 17, 32-34, 46, 77, 90, 103, 106, 107, 118, 133, 139, 149, 150, 196, 197-199, 201].
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Patient Report - Carole Conquers Cancer - One Woman's Odyssey
by Carole Bradford
On March 25, 1993, Carole Bradford faced two key events in her life: she was turning a young-looking 53 - and she was to undergo a lumpectomy to remove what she hoped (indeed, prayed) was a benign cyst.
What else could it be? Certainly not the feared "C" word.
"I remember thinking what kind of cosmic joke it would be if I, Carole Bradford, would come down with breast cancer. No way, Jose!" she recalled.
Why should she not think this way?
After all, she was the hard-driving CEO of California-based American Biologics, an international bio-tech and nutritional supplement company whose origins dated back to the laetrile wars of the 1970s.
She "ate right," took up to 30 vitamin/mineral/enzyme tablets a day, and was fully aware of the nature of cancer.
Of equal or greater importance, she was the globe-trotting wife of Dr. Robert W. Bradford, the founder of American Biologics, the scientific director and co-founder of American Biologics-Mexico SA Medical Center in Tijuana, the co-founder of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, (the reason for the nationwide "decriminalization'' moves for laetrile in the 1970s/1980s), the author or co-author of numerous books and scores of research monographs on the metabolic management of cancer and degenerative diseases, the primary author of the "Primordial Thesis of Cancer." the reason behind the textbook delineating Oxidology as a medical subspecialty, and, of more recent vintage, the pioneer/developer and worldwide patent holder of the Bradford Variable Projection Microscopy system (BVPM¨) and the two revolutionary peripheral blood tests HLB and HRBM (LBA) he developed that assess morphological changes in the blood as a means of evaluation of balanced body chemistry (homeostasis).
Carole Bradford had circumnavigated the globe more than once as the good right arm of Robert Bradford, and had sat in on as many or more scientific sessions on cancer, degenerative disease and microscopy lectures as any licensed professional. She knew cancer intimately: it was in her family, among her friends. She knew what it was, what it could do.
"I had had cysts for several years, so had my mother, and my grandmother had died of breast cancer. But there was something different about this lump," she recalled. "I could feel this one easily, since it was growing fast - and it was associated with a lot of heat."
She remembered some "orthodox" miscues along the way:
Three years before, in 1990, she had been at the American Biologics (AB) hospital for her annual three-day trip for rejuvenation treatment: some live cells, chelation, blood work, Dioxychlor "drips." She had a breast cyst at the time and she recalled that a staff surgeon had encouraged her to have a needle biopsy, "just to make sure."
"Of course I can't be sure, but I think that is what they would call 'the initial insult.' I don't feel right about biopsies and I'll never do one again," she said.
Carole Bradford now believes that she was incubating a malignant process in a minimally active state at least since that time (1990) but was keeping it under control with her disciplined diet and supplements.
By January 1993, this fast-growing cyst had her worried. She did another "orthodox" procedure - an ultrasound assay of the right breast. The ultrasound spotted an area of inflammation but the official analysis was that it was just another cyst.
Because she was so busy at the office she did not feel she could take the time away from her duties to have the cyst removed then. So she waited three months until her birthday, March 25, 1993, to have the lumpectomy, which she undertook while wide awake and following the procedure with keen interest. "When I saw the tumor in the operating room I exclaimed "God - that's big!" The tumor was 4cm x 4-1/2 cm x 3.8 cm plus extra tissue taken - it looked like a golfball.
After five days, Carole Bradford went back to her routine: long hours (up to 12 deskside) at her American Biologics office in Chula Vista, California, with endless telephone calls, constant involvement in the routine operation of a thriving business and all that went with it, with scant time available to enjoy her beautiful sprawling ranch in east San Diego County.
Two weeks later, on April 9, she was sitting at her desk when Robert Bradford entered her office. He had just been on the phone with Rodrigo Rodriguez, MD, the veteran medical director of the AB-Mexico hospital. He in turn had already heard from the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic Department of Surgical Pathology, where the lumpectomy sections had been sent.
Carole Bradford, remembered it well:
"Bob came in and sat down in front of my desk. His behavior was very calm. He just said it all at once: it was confirmed that I had breast cancer. It was a 'high-grade infiltrating ductal cell carcinoma of the right breast, Bloom-Richardson grade 3.' So I'm just sitting there trying to take it all in. Not an easy moment.
"But within two minutes I was asking Bob to check my blood on the microscope. I wanted to see what my blood looked like. And I needed to see it for myself."
"But I never had this feeling of, 'Why me - 'Why not me?' I'd been through this with enough patients to know not to be too negative, even if the information was tough to take. I do remember one thought, looking back, that really sank in: being who I was, and what we were involved in, how could I not pull through? I didn't sleep very well that first night, though. It was really a rude awakening."
Working side-by-side for years with me
dical maverick Robert Bradford, she had come to have enormous admiration for him and all that he had done, particularly in helping to get the "AB" hospital functioning in Tijuana. He and the old nucleus group of the activist Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy Inc., had formed the first Bradford-oriented medical center in 1975 (Cydel Clinic later called Manner Clinic).
"I thought, 'Of course I'll pull through this. My God, haven't we all been working for this? Don't we have the best therapies and techniques available? Does anyone know more about cancer than we do?' I decided then and there I was going to do everything to beat this thing. I was lucky. I had access to every conceivable cancer therapy.
I was well backgrounded in the subject matter, and I had a brilliant husband who would be directing my treatment in every way."
The Bradfords' general belief is that the earlier signs of a possible malignant process were masked because Carole was nutritionally doing all the right things. But between her rejuvenation visits and blood analyses several things had happened:
Both were travelling extensively to Europe and China, where there has been a major effort to use the Bradford microscopy system and blood tests as therapeutic modalities. Too, Carole was taking very personally some personnel upheavals at work.
"I'm not trying to make excuses here," she said. "But I am saying that I was extremely stressed by these problems. Aside from that, until the diagnosis came like a proverbial knock on the head, my favorite place was my desk and I spent a great deal of time there. In retrospect, I can only think now that the needle biopsy of 1990 and this personnel problem in late 1992 were what it took to knock over the dominoes and bring my malignancy to the fore."
The "coagulation" blood test (HLB) did in fact pick up areas of suspicious inflammation, adrenal stress and bowel flora imbalances.
The AB hospital had become a major center for the use of another test - AMAS, or the test for antimalignin antibody, preformed in Boston; and the five-parameter Augusti test, pioneered in France by Dr. Yves Augusti, a collaborator of the Bradford Research Institute (BRI). Neither has received the full blessings of the US medical establishment, but the AB hospital and BRI incorporate both as useful monitors.
Admitted to the AB hospital the day before the scheduled lumpectomy, Carole Bradford's Augusti test had shown a suspicious rise in the "allergic" parameter, frequent in cancer cases. The AMAS test was slightly "positive." Later, from medical orthodoxy, a breast cancer "marker," CA 15-3, turned out to be very high.
"Okay, the results were in. It was cancer, no doubt about that, and it was happening to me, Carole Bradford," she recalled.
"So I decided to take charge of my illness and created with Bob my own injectable program, what we later came to call the 'Bradford cocktail.' I had a hospital at my disposition, and a collaborating medical staff. I could have anything done I wanted to."
AB-Mexico's primary claim to fame, by 1993, was already in the cancer department. Since creation of the original AB medical group in 1975 and the opening of American Biologics-Mexico in 1980, the AB team had seen upwards of 18,000 cancer cases. It was securing some kind of positive responses in 95% and reaching what American orthodox oncology described as a "cure" - meaning five years free of symptoms - in at least 20%, a remarkable feat at a time when metastatic, or "spread" cancer, was "curable" in the US about 9% of the time.
Carole Bradford then began her incredible treatment odyssey. But it began with an attitude change:
"I knew I was going to have to spend a long time away from my desk, resting in one of our recliner treatment chairs at AB-Mexico. I was going to have to learn to relax, read books, watch television, whatever. After the first week of this, I told myself, 'Hey, this isn't too bad now.' Several weeks later I began to play tennis on a more regular basis, to swim, took Spanish language classes, and really began working on getting de-stressed.
"This was the beginning of healing and I have to add that, thank God, I was never in pain. I did not have to go through the horrors of awful pain that I have seen and heard about from so many patients."
Carole Bradford was an "outpatient" at the AB Medical Center at least four times a week, returning to her desk at Chula Vista for only a few hours in the afternoons. "Suddenly, I found I didn't really need to spend all those hours at the desk. All that paperwork was somehow getting done by able staff members and it became less all-consuming to me," she remembered.
"I kept a record of my visits to the clinic for my injections, like a score card and after 100 injection days I stopped counting. Now that is a lot of injections." Her daily program consisted of:
In the first "drip bag" she received: 9 grams Laetrile, 25 grams of vitamin C, 10 cc of GE-OXY 132 (germanium sesquioxide), 10 cc of reduced glutathione, 5 cc of pangamic acid, 16 mg of superoxide dismutase (SOD), 10 cc of NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine), 2 cc of thymus extract, 5 cc of licorice extract (Biorizin), 10 cc of taurine, 3 grams of sodium butyrate, and 20 cc of DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide).
In her second "drip bag" she received 100 cc saline with 10 cc of Dioxychlor, the oxidative agent pioneered by the BRI.
Her oral program, which reached up to 100 tablets or capsules daily during 1993, consisted of around 30 items: liquid Vitamin A in the form of A-E emulsion (200,000 units), between 15 to 20 grams of Vitamin C, proteolytic enzymes in the form of the AB product Inflazyme Forte, antioxidant enzymes and other substances in the form of the AB product Oxy-5000, Acidophilus/lactobacillus combinations as Bio-Dophilus Complex, co-enzyme Q10, three different combinations of "omega" fatty acids, spleen glandular, adrenal glandular, a combination of vitamins/minerals/nutrients as AB's Multiplex, shark cartilage, selenium, licorice extract (Glycyron), Basic 9 minerals complex, thymus glandular, GE-132 oral (germanium sesquioxide), laetrile (amygdalin tablets), benzaldehyde, mammary glandular, beta-carotene, herbal specialty products called Coleus forskohlu, Ascorfutaruplex, Lapachoplex (from the South American pau d'arco therapy), homeopathic burdock root, chitin (crab extract) and apricot kernels (a natural high source of laetrile and other useful nutrients.)
She also took a combination of homeopathic injectable extracts from the pioneering Heel Company of Europe which consisted of 12 separate products including mistletoe extract (Iscador, from Viscum album).
And that was not all:
For 90 days daily, and then once or twice a week for many more months, she utilized treatments by another Bradford-pioneered breakthrough:
ACN (Accelerated-Charge Normalization), which alters the negative tissue potential usually found in breast cancer to the normal or positive potential characteristic of breast tissue without cancer.
By establishing a positive tissue potential, immune cells, being negatively charged, are attracted to the malignant site and greatly enhance the body's immune response against cancer.
In addition to the obvious therapeutic advantage there is also a diagnostic or assessment advantage in measuring the tissue potential which can be related to tumor activity.
In Carole's case, the tumor's negative charge exceeded 200 millivolts. This is over 100 thousand times the potential required to repel the immune system's macrophages from the breast tumor. In other words, her body did not recognize there was an ongoing malignancy. Amazingly, it took over nine months of integrative therapy for the potential in her breast to normalize.
Also "working" was Carole Bradford's adherence to the anti-cancer diet long followed at AB-Mexico and also detailed in the recipe book she co-authored with Beverly Novak: Cookbook for Healthful Living.
"Another reason we dared not fail," she said. "It would be bad press! If we couldn't save me, then who could?"
Within a six-month period, most all her blood tests were turning back to normal. "The only orthodox things I ever did in my cancer program were the lumpectomy and yes, tamoxifen. It was suggested that I needed this, particularly against breast cancer. But I took this only for about 60 days.
"I just knew that it was doing something abnormal when I began having daily cervical discharges. So after two months, I said, 'No more.' I would never do it again. Some things are just intuitive in nature and you have to listen to your body! Once again, I was taking charge of my health, not the doctors."
(It would subsequently be learned that, however useful tamoxifen might be in the short term against breast cancer, it increases a woman's risk of both endometriosis and cervical cancer. It still remains an optional treatment within an integrative program.)
In May of 1993 she allowed a follow-up mammogram of her left breast since AB doctors had noticed abnormal tissue and feared that the cancer had spread.
"I have my doubts about mammograms too. I wouldn't do them again, either. Squeezing the breast into a vise can't be any good. And it seems barbaric," she assessed.
(Some research, particularly in Canada, has sustained her fears: clamping breasts into a vise for a mammogram can indeed have the effect of damaging tissues and enhancing an existing malignant process, at least in some cases.)
"Doctors, including some of our own, kept pestering me about using chemotherapy, because of a suspicious lesion in the left breast showing up in the mammography. One doctor insisted I have a needle biopsy of the left breast. Re-thinking what happened with the initial needle biopsy in 1990, I refused.
"Weeks later, the surgeon came to me as I sat in the treatment room and waved his finger in my face, telling me, 'You have a fast-growing tumor and you're not taking it seriously. You could die.' He had suggested a double mastectomy or at least a 'quad.' I rejected all of this.
"I remember saying, 'We're a holistic hospital, we've been in this business for 20 years now and that's what we're all about. I believe that's what is best for me and we must prove that we're right.' Maybe the big thing is that I never accepted the fact that I might die of cancer. I said in essence, "We're into holistic/integrative therapy. This is what we're all about."
But she was also aware of the developing doctrine of the true nature of cancer: it is not a tumor, but a malignant process; it is not "curable" in the sense that all aspects of it vanish forever; it is susceptible to long-term control, even for the whole of a lifetime. But you don't "get over" cancer and follow the same lifestyle as before. The key word is "control" - not "cure."
"I am a very disciplined person. I said on more than one occasion to my husband when he would forget to take his 'few' vitamins; 'It's a good thing I'm the one who has cancer - because of the discipline necessary to stay on the program.' I was able to stick with the program," she recalled.
Carole Bradford did stick with the program. Year in and year out, one blood test after another, reducing her oral program back to 30 tablets or more, occasionally taking "drips," even cramming 12,000-gauss magnets into her brassiere as a daily kind of localized magnetic therapy, in conjunction with ACN.
Now the magic date was looming; March of 1998 - if she had five years free of symptoms, she would be "cured" by the definition of standard Western oncology.
"Even though we in holistic medicine perhaps laugh at the premise that after exactly the fifth year you're instantly 'cured,' the mind still plays games with you and for me, even though I had been completely healthy for the past perhaps 3 years, I still celebrated the fact," She remembered.
Carole had another birthday - March 25, 1998 - with a series of health assessments and blood tests. Her birthday gift this year was the best of all:
She was certifiably free of cancer!
On March 25, 1993, Carole Bradford faced two key events in her life: she was turning a young-looking 53 - and she was to undergo a lumpectomy to remove what she hoped (indeed, prayed) was a benign cyst.
What else could it be? Certainly not the feared "C" word.
"I remember thinking what kind of cosmic joke it would be if I, Carole Bradford, would come down with breast cancer. No way, Jose!" she recalled.
Why should she not think this way?
After all, she was the hard-driving CEO of California-based American Biologics, an international bio-tech and nutritional supplement company whose origins dated back to the laetrile wars of the 1970s.
She "ate right," took up to 30 vitamin/mineral/enzyme tablets a day, and was fully aware of the nature of cancer.
Of equal or greater importance, she was the globe-trotting wife of Dr. Robert W. Bradford, the founder of American Biologics, the scientific director and co-founder of American Biologics-Mexico SA Medical Center in Tijuana, the co-founder of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, (the reason for the nationwide "decriminalization'' moves for laetrile in the 1970s/1980s), the author or co-author of numerous books and scores of research monographs on the metabolic management of cancer and degenerative diseases, the primary author of the "Primordial Thesis of Cancer." the reason behind the textbook delineating Oxidology as a medical subspecialty, and, of more recent vintage, the pioneer/developer and worldwide patent holder of the Bradford Variable Projection Microscopy system (BVPM¨) and the two revolutionary peripheral blood tests HLB and HRBM (LBA) he developed that assess morphological changes in the blood as a means of evaluation of balanced body chemistry (homeostasis).
Carole Bradford had circumnavigated the globe more than once as the good right arm of Robert Bradford, and had sat in on as many or more scientific sessions on cancer, degenerative disease and microscopy lectures as any licensed professional. She knew cancer intimately: it was in her family, among her friends. She knew what it was, what it could do.
"I had had cysts for several years, so had my mother, and my grandmother had died of breast cancer. But there was something different about this lump," she recalled. "I could feel this one easily, since it was growing fast - and it was associated with a lot of heat."
She remembered some "orthodox" miscues along the way:
Three years before, in 1990, she had been at the American Biologics (AB) hospital for her annual three-day trip for rejuvenation treatment: some live cells, chelation, blood work, Dioxychlor "drips." She had a breast cyst at the time and she recalled that a staff surgeon had encouraged her to have a needle biopsy, "just to make sure."
"Of course I can't be sure, but I think that is what they would call 'the initial insult.' I don't feel right about biopsies and I'll never do one again," she said.
Carole Bradford now believes that she was incubating a malignant process in a minimally active state at least since that time (1990) but was keeping it under control with her disciplined diet and supplements.
By January 1993, this fast-growing cyst had her worried. She did another "orthodox" procedure - an ultrasound assay of the right breast. The ultrasound spotted an area of inflammation but the official analysis was that it was just another cyst.
Because she was so busy at the office she did not feel she could take the time away from her duties to have the cyst removed then. So she waited three months until her birthday, March 25, 1993, to have the lumpectomy, which she undertook while wide awake and following the procedure with keen interest. "When I saw the tumor in the operating room I exclaimed "God - that's big!" The tumor was 4cm x 4-1/2 cm x 3.8 cm plus extra tissue taken - it looked like a golfball.
After five days, Carole Bradford went back to her routine: long hours (up to 12 deskside) at her American Biologics office in Chula Vista, California, with endless telephone calls, constant involvement in the routine operation of a thriving business and all that went with it, with scant time available to enjoy her beautiful sprawling ranch in east San Diego County.
Two weeks later, on April 9, she was sitting at her desk when Robert Bradford entered her office. He had just been on the phone with Rodrigo Rodriguez, MD, the veteran medical director of the AB-Mexico hospital. He in turn had already heard from the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic Department of Surgical Pathology, where the lumpectomy sections had been sent.
Carole Bradford, remembered it well:
"Bob came in and sat down in front of my desk. His behavior was very calm. He just said it all at once: it was confirmed that I had breast cancer. It was a 'high-grade infiltrating ductal cell carcinoma of the right breast, Bloom-Richardson grade 3.' So I'm just sitting there trying to take it all in. Not an easy moment.
"But within two minutes I was asking Bob to check my blood on the microscope. I wanted to see what my blood looked like. And I needed to see it for myself."
"But I never had this feeling of, 'Why me - 'Why not me?' I'd been through this with enough patients to know not to be too negative, even if the information was tough to take. I do remember one thought, looking back, that really sank in: being who I was, and what we were involved in, how could I not pull through? I didn't sleep very well that first night, though. It was really a rude awakening."
Working side-by-side for years with me
dical maverick Robert Bradford, she had come to have enormous admiration for him and all that he had done, particularly in helping to get the "AB" hospital functioning in Tijuana. He and the old nucleus group of the activist Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy Inc., had formed the first Bradford-oriented medical center in 1975 (Cydel Clinic later called Manner Clinic).
"I thought, 'Of course I'll pull through this. My God, haven't we all been working for this? Don't we have the best therapies and techniques available? Does anyone know more about cancer than we do?' I decided then and there I was going to do everything to beat this thing. I was lucky. I had access to every conceivable cancer therapy.
I was well backgrounded in the subject matter, and I had a brilliant husband who would be directing my treatment in every way."
The Bradfords' general belief is that the earlier signs of a possible malignant process were masked because Carole was nutritionally doing all the right things. But between her rejuvenation visits and blood analyses several things had happened:
Both were travelling extensively to Europe and China, where there has been a major effort to use the Bradford microscopy system and blood tests as therapeutic modalities. Too, Carole was taking very personally some personnel upheavals at work.
"I'm not trying to make excuses here," she said. "But I am saying that I was extremely stressed by these problems. Aside from that, until the diagnosis came like a proverbial knock on the head, my favorite place was my desk and I spent a great deal of time there. In retrospect, I can only think now that the needle biopsy of 1990 and this personnel problem in late 1992 were what it took to knock over the dominoes and bring my malignancy to the fore."
The "coagulation" blood test (HLB) did in fact pick up areas of suspicious inflammation, adrenal stress and bowel flora imbalances.
The AB hospital had become a major center for the use of another test - AMAS, or the test for antimalignin antibody, preformed in Boston; and the five-parameter Augusti test, pioneered in France by Dr. Yves Augusti, a collaborator of the Bradford Research Institute (BRI). Neither has received the full blessings of the US medical establishment, but the AB hospital and BRI incorporate both as useful monitors.
Admitted to the AB hospital the day before the scheduled lumpectomy, Carole Bradford's Augusti test had shown a suspicious rise in the "allergic" parameter, frequent in cancer cases. The AMAS test was slightly "positive." Later, from medical orthodoxy, a breast cancer "marker," CA 15-3, turned out to be very high.
"Okay, the results were in. It was cancer, no doubt about that, and it was happening to me, Carole Bradford," she recalled.
"So I decided to take charge of my illness and created with Bob my own injectable program, what we later came to call the 'Bradford cocktail.' I had a hospital at my disposition, and a collaborating medical staff. I could have anything done I wanted to."
AB-Mexico's primary claim to fame, by 1993, was already in the cancer department. Since creation of the original AB medical group in 1975 and the opening of American Biologics-Mexico in 1980, the AB team had seen upwards of 18,000 cancer cases. It was securing some kind of positive responses in 95% and reaching what American orthodox oncology described as a "cure" - meaning five years free of symptoms - in at least 20%, a remarkable feat at a time when metastatic, or "spread" cancer, was "curable" in the US about 9% of the time.
Carole Bradford then began her incredible treatment odyssey. But it began with an attitude change:
"I knew I was going to have to spend a long time away from my desk, resting in one of our recliner treatment chairs at AB-Mexico. I was going to have to learn to relax, read books, watch television, whatever. After the first week of this, I told myself, 'Hey, this isn't too bad now.' Several weeks later I began to play tennis on a more regular basis, to swim, took Spanish language classes, and really began working on getting de-stressed.
"This was the beginning of healing and I have to add that, thank God, I was never in pain. I did not have to go through the horrors of awful pain that I have seen and heard about from so many patients."
Carole Bradford was an "outpatient" at the AB Medical Center at least four times a week, returning to her desk at Chula Vista for only a few hours in the afternoons. "Suddenly, I found I didn't really need to spend all those hours at the desk. All that paperwork was somehow getting done by able staff members and it became less all-consuming to me," she remembered.
"I kept a record of my visits to the clinic for my injections, like a score card and after 100 injection days I stopped counting. Now that is a lot of injections." Her daily program consisted of:
In the first "drip bag" she received: 9 grams Laetrile, 25 grams of vitamin C, 10 cc of GE-OXY 132 (germanium sesquioxide), 10 cc of reduced glutathione, 5 cc of pangamic acid, 16 mg of superoxide dismutase (SOD), 10 cc of NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine), 2 cc of thymus extract, 5 cc of licorice extract (Biorizin), 10 cc of taurine, 3 grams of sodium butyrate, and 20 cc of DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide).
In her second "drip bag" she received 100 cc saline with 10 cc of Dioxychlor, the oxidative agent pioneered by the BRI.
Her oral program, which reached up to 100 tablets or capsules daily during 1993, consisted of around 30 items: liquid Vitamin A in the form of A-E emulsion (200,000 units), between 15 to 20 grams of Vitamin C, proteolytic enzymes in the form of the AB product Inflazyme Forte, antioxidant enzymes and other substances in the form of the AB product Oxy-5000, Acidophilus/lactobacillus combinations as Bio-Dophilus Complex, co-enzyme Q10, three different combinations of "omega" fatty acids, spleen glandular, adrenal glandular, a combination of vitamins/minerals/nutrients as AB's Multiplex, shark cartilage, selenium, licorice extract (Glycyron), Basic 9 minerals complex, thymus glandular, GE-132 oral (germanium sesquioxide), laetrile (amygdalin tablets), benzaldehyde, mammary glandular, beta-carotene, herbal specialty products called Coleus forskohlu, Ascorfutaruplex, Lapachoplex (from the South American pau d'arco therapy), homeopathic burdock root, chitin (crab extract) and apricot kernels (a natural high source of laetrile and other useful nutrients.)
She also took a combination of homeopathic injectable extracts from the pioneering Heel Company of Europe which consisted of 12 separate products including mistletoe extract (Iscador, from Viscum album).
And that was not all:
For 90 days daily, and then once or twice a week for many more months, she utilized treatments by another Bradford-pioneered breakthrough:
ACN (Accelerated-Charge Normalization), which alters the negative tissue potential usually found in breast cancer to the normal or positive potential characteristic of breast tissue without cancer.
By establishing a positive tissue potential, immune cells, being negatively charged, are attracted to the malignant site and greatly enhance the body's immune response against cancer.
In addition to the obvious therapeutic advantage there is also a diagnostic or assessment advantage in measuring the tissue potential which can be related to tumor activity.
In Carole's case, the tumor's negative charge exceeded 200 millivolts. This is over 100 thousand times the potential required to repel the immune system's macrophages from the breast tumor. In other words, her body did not recognize there was an ongoing malignancy. Amazingly, it took over nine months of integrative therapy for the potential in her breast to normalize.
Also "working" was Carole Bradford's adherence to the anti-cancer diet long followed at AB-Mexico and also detailed in the recipe book she co-authored with Beverly Novak: Cookbook for Healthful Living.
"Another reason we dared not fail," she said. "It would be bad press! If we couldn't save me, then who could?"
Within a six-month period, most all her blood tests were turning back to normal. "The only orthodox things I ever did in my cancer program were the lumpectomy and yes, tamoxifen. It was suggested that I needed this, particularly against breast cancer. But I took this only for about 60 days.
"I just knew that it was doing something abnormal when I began having daily cervical discharges. So after two months, I said, 'No more.' I would never do it again. Some things are just intuitive in nature and you have to listen to your body! Once again, I was taking charge of my health, not the doctors."
(It would subsequently be learned that, however useful tamoxifen might be in the short term against breast cancer, it increases a woman's risk of both endometriosis and cervical cancer. It still remains an optional treatment within an integrative program.)
In May of 1993 she allowed a follow-up mammogram of her left breast since AB doctors had noticed abnormal tissue and feared that the cancer had spread.
"I have my doubts about mammograms too. I wouldn't do them again, either. Squeezing the breast into a vise can't be any good. And it seems barbaric," she assessed.
(Some research, particularly in Canada, has sustained her fears: clamping breasts into a vise for a mammogram can indeed have the effect of damaging tissues and enhancing an existing malignant process, at least in some cases.)
"Doctors, including some of our own, kept pestering me about using chemotherapy, because of a suspicious lesion in the left breast showing up in the mammography. One doctor insisted I have a needle biopsy of the left breast. Re-thinking what happened with the initial needle biopsy in 1990, I refused.
"Weeks later, the surgeon came to me as I sat in the treatment room and waved his finger in my face, telling me, 'You have a fast-growing tumor and you're not taking it seriously. You could die.' He had suggested a double mastectomy or at least a 'quad.' I rejected all of this.
"I remember saying, 'We're a holistic hospital, we've been in this business for 20 years now and that's what we're all about. I believe that's what is best for me and we must prove that we're right.' Maybe the big thing is that I never accepted the fact that I might die of cancer. I said in essence, "We're into holistic/integrative therapy. This is what we're all about."
But she was also aware of the developing doctrine of the true nature of cancer: it is not a tumor, but a malignant process; it is not "curable" in the sense that all aspects of it vanish forever; it is susceptible to long-term control, even for the whole of a lifetime. But you don't "get over" cancer and follow the same lifestyle as before. The key word is "control" - not "cure."
"I am a very disciplined person. I said on more than one occasion to my husband when he would forget to take his 'few' vitamins; 'It's a good thing I'm the one who has cancer - because of the discipline necessary to stay on the program.' I was able to stick with the program," she recalled.
Carole Bradford did stick with the program. Year in and year out, one blood test after another, reducing her oral program back to 30 tablets or more, occasionally taking "drips," even cramming 12,000-gauss magnets into her brassiere as a daily kind of localized magnetic therapy, in conjunction with ACN.
Now the magic date was looming; March of 1998 - if she had five years free of symptoms, she would be "cured" by the definition of standard Western oncology.
"Even though we in holistic medicine perhaps laugh at the premise that after exactly the fifth year you're instantly 'cured,' the mind still plays games with you and for me, even though I had been completely healthy for the past perhaps 3 years, I still celebrated the fact," She remembered.
Carole had another birthday - March 25, 1998 - with a series of health assessments and blood tests. Her birthday gift this year was the best of all:
She was certifiably free of cancer!
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
New Finnish bio immune therapy in the cancer therapy (after Professor Dr. Thomas Tallberg)
Summary from “bio immune therapy Dr. med. Martin Landenberger 08.2005” The number of the malicious Tumore in Germany increases, 38% of the population gets sick in it.Which therapeutic concepts can we offer? Is there causal, the causes eliminating and beginnings user-friendly in the cancer therapy?Mali gnomes (Tumore) - a Mitochondrienerkrankung (“energy stations”)?
The German Nobelpreisträger Otto being castle already formulated 1966 on the occasion of the Nobelpreisträgertreffens in Lindau (2): “no disease cause is more well-known as the cancer cause!” It took a structural defect in the breathing chain of the Mitochondrien on (each cell has 1200-1500 of these energy stations).Now are the well-known cancer forms to be due to degenerate body cells, with which the mitochondrialen products were misplaced? Is cancer “only " a mitochondriales structure or nutritives deficit (deficiency symptom)?
I want to try, this question so far it today possible am to be clarified. The school medical profession doubt the use of the chemotherapy with solid tumors. Meanwhile the classical school medicine sets further on the concept of mutated cell cores, whose product “onkogen transkriptierten” cancer cell by ever more sophisticated cellular poisons from to be made is.In view of the remained the same survival rates of patients with solid Mali gnomes of Mamma, Prostata, lung and intestine in the last 26 years Hölzl stated that it concerns a “poison cure without use” (3) and”… feared that the systematic expansion of the chemotherapy could be responsible straight with cancer of the breast for the decrease of the survival rates ". Schaller, Gynäkologe of the University of Bochum, resigned: “Survive for that from women with advanced cancer of the breast has the chemotherapy so far practically nothing bringing much noise by nothing.” similarly the director/conductor of the Gynäkologie of the urban hospitals Duesseldorf, Jäger: “There were and give no successes.
There enormous quantities of women are treated, without a use would be actually proven. If you say that to the female patients, those despair totally.” Already 1985 explained Thomsen, at that time to director of the Gynäkologie of the University of Hamburg: “It should tune us thoughtfully, if an increasing number says of lady doctors: At me will I such a therapy not make to leave.” And 1995 placed Abel, epidemiologist University of Heidelberg, shaken firmly that “with most organ cancers no vouchers for it exist that the chemotherapy particularly also those ever more around itself seizing high dose therapy the life expectancy extended or the quality of life improves.” Hölzl summarizes: “
There is at all no systematic documentation” and demands clean vouchers instead of trick research.
The German Nobelpreisträger Otto being castle already formulated 1966 on the occasion of the Nobelpreisträgertreffens in Lindau (2): “no disease cause is more well-known as the cancer cause!” It took a structural defect in the breathing chain of the Mitochondrien on (each cell has 1200-1500 of these energy stations).Now are the well-known cancer forms to be due to degenerate body cells, with which the mitochondrialen products were misplaced? Is cancer “only " a mitochondriales structure or nutritives deficit (deficiency symptom)?
I want to try, this question so far it today possible am to be clarified. The school medical profession doubt the use of the chemotherapy with solid tumors. Meanwhile the classical school medicine sets further on the concept of mutated cell cores, whose product “onkogen transkriptierten” cancer cell by ever more sophisticated cellular poisons from to be made is.In view of the remained the same survival rates of patients with solid Mali gnomes of Mamma, Prostata, lung and intestine in the last 26 years Hölzl stated that it concerns a “poison cure without use” (3) and”… feared that the systematic expansion of the chemotherapy could be responsible straight with cancer of the breast for the decrease of the survival rates ". Schaller, Gynäkologe of the University of Bochum, resigned: “Survive for that from women with advanced cancer of the breast has the chemotherapy so far practically nothing bringing much noise by nothing.” similarly the director/conductor of the Gynäkologie of the urban hospitals Duesseldorf, Jäger: “There were and give no successes.
There enormous quantities of women are treated, without a use would be actually proven. If you say that to the female patients, those despair totally.” Already 1985 explained Thomsen, at that time to director of the Gynäkologie of the University of Hamburg: “It should tune us thoughtfully, if an increasing number says of lady doctors: At me will I such a therapy not make to leave.” And 1995 placed Abel, epidemiologist University of Heidelberg, shaken firmly that “with most organ cancers no vouchers for it exist that the chemotherapy particularly also those ever more around itself seizing high dose therapy the life expectancy extended or the quality of life improves.” Hölzl summarizes: “
There is at all no systematic documentation” and demands clean vouchers instead of trick research.
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