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The Budwig Diet Revision

Germany's

Dr. Joanna Budwig is widely credited for discovering that 2 simple food

items, cold-pressed flax seed oil and low-fat cottage cheese, will cure

or prevent many forms of cancer and a long list of other degenerative

diseases including cardiovascular diseases and skin diseases. But the

50-year old "Budwig Diet" is long in the tooth and newer data has

emerged that shows where we can improve on it.

essential fatty acids referencesSulfur-rich

protein and calcium in the "Budwig protocol" is provided by cottage

cheese. Because many people can not take "dairy", lets look more

closely at the cottage cheese. Human milk is higher in whey and much

lower in casein than cow milk or goat milk; casein is the main protein

in cheese and cottage cheese. Caseins differ somewhat; cow milk

contains a lot of alpha-casein, which because of its different

properties is the main cause of milk and "dairy" indigestion in humans.

Beta lactoglobulins in cow milk can also be problematic as allergens,

and cow milk also contains more alpha s1-casein than goat milk. All of

this explains why many people find goat milk less problematic than cow

milk.

The problematic milk components can be removed leaving low-fat

whey, most of which is an exact match across the whole mammalian order.

The common ingredients are more easily assimilated than any other

protein and do not produce sensitivity or allergy issues. The

Physicians Desktop Reference for Prescription Drugs lists one pure whey

isolate as "well-tolerated by even severely milk-sensitive

individuals", and practice corroborates that.

Bottom line - although biological incompatibilities exist in

foreign milk, comments that lump 'dairy' products together as

problematic are sloppy; the statement does not apply to high-quality

whey, and it is widely acknowledged to be the most healthy fraction of

milk.

The Budwig Diet revision uses undenatured whey instead of cottage

cheese. Undenatured whey contains the sulfur-containing amino acids

methionine and cysteine compounds including cystine. Methionine is

transformed into cysteine by the liver. Cellular cysteine is the

rate-limiting factor in production of glutathione, the body's master

antioxidant and detoxifier. Glutathione is crucial to life; it's

involved in ATP energy generation, immune system support, liver and

other organ support, reducing toxin load and oxidative stress, and

importantly, it shrinks tumors when levels are maintained. More

glutathione information including the role whey can play in cancer

therapy is available here with glutathione references.

Cottage cheese doesn't boast those benefits; in fact it's only a

sulfur amino acid source. The Budwig Diet revision's replacement of the

bio-incompatible cottage cheese with compatible cold-processed whey

adheres to the principles of the "Budwig Diet", and will provide huge

additional benefit. Unlike cottage cheese, cold-processed whey is

mildly alkalizing to the body, and several cold-processed wheys are

listed in the US PDR as a specific anti-cachexia (anti-wasting)

formula.

The flaxseed oil in the original plan provides the essential fatty

acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is thought to be a 'good'

omega-3 oil; however, more recent science has revealed that it's a

common but faulty assumption that ALA is physiologically equivalent to

omega-3 essential fatty acids EPA and DHA, and that there is no known

need for alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) independent of its conversion to

EPA/DHA. And in adults the conversion rate is tiny; the US Environmental Protection Agency has posted this powerpoint presentation (slide 5) that explains less than 1% conversion of ALA to EPA (some sources say somewhat higher), and <0.01% to DHA.

Though these details have traditionally escaped the followers of

Joanna Budwig and Udo Erasmus, fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd Chilton

fully explains them in his book Inflammation Nation. Chilton says (page

97),

"I wish I could tell you that the (ALA) in flaxseed oil

could replace wild fish as a rich source of EPA and DHA but the

scientific literature simply does not support this contention. ...We do

the conversion but very slowly, and we also eat a lot of fatty acids

such as LA that 'compete' for enzymes that convert ALA to EPA and DHA,

further limiting its conversion."

This competition is most pronounced in the common

condition of low EPA/DHA and higher omega-6 fatty acid intake seen in

the modern diet. Thus the omega-6 content of the flax oil, (25% of the

amount of ALA) seen in the table below, also inhibits the conversion.

Composition of flax seed oil:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fatty acid

 

Percent

 

 

Alpha linolenic (omega-3)

 

55

 

 

Linoleic (omega-6)

 

13.8

 

 

Oleic

 

21.5

 

 

Stearic

 

2.2

 

 

Palmitic (saturated)

 

7.1

Budwig and her followers including Udo Erasmus also purport to

supply the needed fatty acids to rebuild cell walls so they can carry

more oxygen and etc., by supplying ALA; however, cell walls actually

contain negligible ALA and are high EPA and DHA.

This explains why for more than maintenance you may need vastly

more EPA and DHA than an ALA supplement can provide, and why fish oil

supplements are more popular for inflammation. For these reasons flax

oil seems a less brilliant choice for biological support in humans than

it did 50 years ago.

Unlike ALA, EPA and DHA are essential to health and can reverse

illness, including the coronary heart disease, skin disorders and

cancer claimed by proponents of the Budwig Diet. The Budwig Diet

revision ensures adequate EPA and DHA are supplied. Wild salmon oil,

wild fish oil, and cod liver oil provide lots of EPA and DHA. Wild

salmon oil, even minimally refined oil, has almost no impurities.

Inflammation can be further reduced by adding GLA or Borage oil.

Some people may feel safer by staying closer to the original diet

by adding these EFAs rather than replacing the flax oil of the original

Budwig diet, but it is unwise to not include them at all, thus this

Budwig Diet revision was probably inevitable.

 

 

 

 

Essential Fatty Acids References:"Specific

inhibitory effect of dietary eicosapentaenoic acid on

N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced mammary carcinogenesis in female

Sprague-Dawley rats" (Carcinogenesis; 11(11): 2015-9, Nov 1990) found

that EPA significantly reduced (60% versus 93.3%) mammary tumour

incidence and number in rats and significantly reduced prostaglandin

levels, suggesting that the breast cancer inhibition by EPA may be

mediated via lipid metabolism and associated reduction in prostaglandin

synthesis.

Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil significantly reduced weight loss

and tumour growth rate in an experimental colon cancer cachexia system

in this study: (Tisdale MJ and Dhesi JK. Inhibition of weight loss by

omega-3 fatty acids in an experimental cachexia model. Cancer Res;

50(16): 5022-6. Aug 15 1990)

"Anticachectic and antitumor effect of eicosapentaenoic acid and

its effect on protein turnover" (Cancer Res; 51(22): 6089-93. Nov 15

1991) studied the effect of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and

gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) on weight loss and tumour growth in mice

with cachexia-inducing colon cancer. EPA inhibited both weight loss and

tumour growth rate in a dose-related manner; body weight was

effectively maintained (weight loss did not occur even when tumour

growth resumed), there was delay in tumour progression of growth, and

overall survival was approximately doubled in EPA-treated animals. EPA

significantly reduced protein degradation without affecting protein

synthesis. The effect of GLA on both host body weight loss and tumour

growth was much less pronounced than that of EPA.

"Effects of fatty acids and eicosanoid synthesis inhibitors on the

growth of two human prostate cancer cell lines" (Prostate; 18(3):

243-54. 1991) showed that while linoleic acid and omega-6 fatty acid

stimulated the grown of (androgen-unresponsive) human prostate cancer

cells, EPA and DHA, two omega-3 fatty acids, were equally efffective in

inhibiting growth of these same prostate cancer cells in a

dose-dependent manner, with a 65% reduction in growth.

In the small double-blind, placebo-controlled study, "Effect of

omega-3 fatty acids on rectal mucosal cell proliferation in subjects at

risk for colon cancer", (Gastroenterology; 103(3): 1096-8. Sep 1992) 20

patients with sporadic adenomatous colorectal polyps were given omega-3

fatty acid supplementation for 12 weeks. While there was no change in

the controls, the group of 10 that received fish oil containing EPA and

DHA the "S"-phase cells (a reliable marker of colon cancer risk)

significantly dropped in 2 weeks and stayed lower throughout the trial.

Arachidonic acid (inflammatory) levels also decreased.

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I have seen the “Budwig Revision”

before. Undenatured whey is a good if it is the right kind or it is made fresh

(actually fresh is always better). We sometimes use it for those who need

to put on weight or have concerns with anemia. However, we do not advise mixing

it with the FO/CC mixture.

 

Many ingredient combinations look good on paper and even in a petri dish

(especially when they attack cancer cells) and therefore “should”

work in “theory”. But once they get into the human

body, things may not happen the way that was “predicted”. Why should

we change something that has worked for so many people? I see this all

the time with cancer patients or natural cancer sites in that they want to make

a proven protocol fit into what is more convenient for the patient or they just

totally throw caution to the wind and post the protocol using incorrect

directions. Dr. Budwig knew what she was doing and the results speak for

themselves. Many don’t understand all the how’s and why’s

because they either don’t understand Quantum Physics or they make it a

point to try to disprove Quantum Physics because they think it is

pseudo-science. Many do not understand the importance of the emulsification

process between the cottage cheese (quark) and the Flax seed oil and how this

really works in the body. I notice that the person who wrote the Budwig Revision is also selling Borage Oil

and Omega 3 Fish Oil (both of which he recommends in the article) underneath

the Budwig article. How many have been cured using the Budwig Diet

Revision? Truly, if people are getting results then Iet’s see some

testimonies.

 

Certainly I have no problem with finding

additional products that would work in the same way that the cottage cheese

does as I am not “married” to cottage cheese, but in order to do

that it means that there would have to be diagnosed cancer patients (not people

who “think” they have cancer) who are willing to step out and try

something that Dr. B did not recommend. Again, if this has already happened,

I would love to read some testimonies.

 

The CO/FO is only PART of the Budwig

protocol. There is so much more to the protocol, for instance daily

sunshine without sunglasses or sunscreen. Because so many are looking for

a one-ingredient or one-product cure-all (even among the natural health

community) we try to focus on just one part or aspect. This is the

thinking of conventional medicine. However, the body will always heal in

a synergistic way which means no one product, food, modality will heal

completely. It is always about bringing the whole body into health in a

synergistic manner. Many refuse this concept, do their own thing and then

wonder why they do not get results.

 

I did a seminar several years back with

a person who I respect and who has a very good book on healing cancer. We

were doing a question and answer session at the end and I was shocked when this

person said that using non-organic cottage cheese with the flaxseed oil was

acceptable. I tried to disagree in as nice of manner as possible.

There are many versions of the Budwig Protocol directions on the Internet and

probably 90% of them are incorrect. People think that it will not hurt to

change this or that or to add this or that. Again, they do not understand

synergy.

 

Possibly the “Budwig Revision” came about out of the concern for

those who are supposedly lactose intolerance? Dr. Budwig said that she

never once had a problem with her patients being lactose intolerant on her

program. So why do we see this now? The main reason is because she had

easy access to raw, un-adulterated dairy. Raw, organic cottage cheese would be

the BEST to use with the FO for those who are lactose intolerant. Another

reason would be that some have been warned that they are allergic to dairy and thus

refuse to even try raw, organic cottage cheese. The emulsification process

between the oil and the cottage cheese allows many, many “lactose

intolerant” people to do just fine on the protocol. However, the must

be willing to give it a try.

 

Below is information

from www.healingcancernaturally.com which

contains a lot of good information about the Budwig Protocol:

 

Suggested & Possible Reasons for

Dairy/Lactose Intolerance and Sensitivity

 

Pasteurization: generally speaking, all commercial

milk seems to be pasteurized, even organic milk. Pasteurization destroys

beneficial bacteria (probiotics) and enzymes naturally occurring in milk

products, both of which help in digestion.

Homogenization: various research points to

homogenization of milk being a culprit in consumers experiencing lactose

intolerance symptoms and “milk allergy”.

Non-organic milk (see below)

 

 

Why use Organic Dairy

 

1. Antibiotics - Conventional milk (and meat) products are very likely to

contain antibiotics which harm and destroy the good (beneficial) intestinal

flora. This apparently both impedes proper digestion/optimal mineral nutrient

assimilation and immune system performance and contributes to the currently

observed Candidiasis epidemic (Candidiasis being defined as “overgrowth

in the gastrointestinal tract of the usually benign yeast [or fungus] Candida

albicans”). Candida fungus overgrowth has become widespread apparently

due to indiscriminate antibiotics use in the food chain.

 

2. Genetically engineered bovine growth

hormone (Posilac) - Conventional dairy products in the US may or do contain

bovine growth hormone. See for instance rense.com/general48/milk.htm

(“cows treated with Posilac have been developing bone cancers”).

 

 

Tips and Suggestions For Dairy/Cottage Cheese/Lactose Intolerance/Sensitivity

on the Budwig diet:

 

How To Tolerate Dairy Products

 

Use organic milk only.

Use organic raw dairy products wherever

obtainable. It is easier to find raw products than most of us

think. Yes, you might have to be a little inconvenienced to find it. J

Re-introduce beneficial gut bacteria

into pasteurized milk products by culturing your own yoghurt and making yoghurt

quark from it by straining.

Buy products with live cultures (such as

Nancy's Cottage Cheese, see www.nancysyogurt.com which also provides a store

locator).

Use goat’s milk products/goat yoghurt

(best to drain it to obtain yoghurt quark). Goat milk is more expensive than

cow’s milk.

Use kefir.

Use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique): EFT

is also reported to have healed lactose intolerance. (“EFT is a

meridian-based DIY technique helping many to overcome compulsions and

addictions [and numerous other issues and complaints], of which an aversion to

cottage cheese could be considered. EFT may warrant investigation by those who

really want to carry out Dr. Budwig's protocol as she intended and overcome

their aversion to cottage cheese.”)

Take the enzyme lactase when consuming

dairy (lactase pills etc.). Try probiotics and systemic enzymes.

Try organic low lactose milk (if

available) and make yogurt and/or yoghurt quark with it.

 

Below are several posts from the FO/CC group

who have a lot of experience using the Budwig Protocol:

 

Wilhelm – Budwig Scholar from the Flax Seed Oil Group: " Yes, whey

helps to raise the glutathione level as does Quark and CC, and any cystine,

cysteine and even methionine foods. Be sure not to overdo it with supplements

because it can also raise the homocysteine level which is not desirable.

 

" I don't know what you gain by

using a whey supplement. There are many brands and qualities of whey powder

available. One thing that I don't like about whey powders is that you don't

know the origin of the milk

from which they were made. As I

understand it, whey powders come from almost any place. At least with milk, CC,

etc. you either know where these products come from or you have a fair idea

from what area they

are coming and what the farming

practices are in those places are.

 

" Sulphurated proteins (SPs) are the

sulphur containing proteins cystine, cystein and methionine. Many foods contain

them but only in very small amounts. Dairy products are high in SPs, especially

quark

and cottage cheese because the whey has

been removed, leaving mainly the milk solids where the proteins are. "

Sandra: “The reason for

draining off the whey is to have a denser amount of sulphur proteins that will

bond with the oil to make it more water soluble and readily metabolized. Quark

and CC have a denser amount.”

--

Wilhelm explains reasons not to add whey

powder to the BP. These are some of the same reasons why Dr. Budwig did not

care for supplements in general – 1) it's difficult to know what is

really in them and – 2) an excess of one isolated nutrient can cause an imbalance

in your system, as with homocyteine, that can interfere with the BP working as

well and as easily as it could otherwise. Dr. Budwig created a protocol that is

ideal for healing the cancer patient as well as those with other diseases.

Practically every part of it has been questioned over the years and the FO/CC

is fortunate to have Michael B. who lives in Germany and is a

Budwig scholar himself, with his own Budwig website in German, as well as Wilhelm,

who grew up in Germany, adding insight to these questions. Both can read Dr.

Budwig's German books as well as those in English.

 

 

 

Robyn writes: (PhD in Biochemistry in the area of

milk protein, was asked to explain how quark or cottage cheese makes flaxseed

oil water soluble.) The statements below apply equally to quark, organic

low-fat cottage cheese, drained yoghurt cheese and kefir cheese of which all

can be used with the flaxseed oil.

 

Quark or cottage cheese is mostly casein

that has been precipitated from milk. When casein is held in solution ie before

milk is coagulated to make cheese, it is rolled up, a bit like a long length of

string might be rolled into a ball. It does not unravel because small sections

of the string are attracted to other sections of the string. The points of

attraction are sulphur atoms. So a sulphur on one section of the string sticks

to a sulphur somewhere else along the string and a " disulphide

bridge " is formed. Disulphide bridges are strong in chemical terms. They

hold everything in place.

 

The sulphur needed to form the

disulphide bridges comes from the amino acid, cysteine. All proteins are made

up of long strings of amino acids and cysteine is just one of them, but it is

one that contains sulphur and very few amino acids contain sulphur. That makes it

special.

 

When the milk is subjected to heat and

acid (vinegar), or a culture, the casein is affected. Its disulphide bridges

are broken. It unravels and exposes other types of chemical forces (previously hidden

and shielded inside the rolled up ball) and now lots of caseins stick together

in a big mess. That is, it coagulates and precipitates to give us curds(cottage

cheese) and whey.

 

At this point the sulphurs that

previously teamed up with another sulphur to form a disulpide bridge or link

are still sticking out of the precipitated casein, but now they are just single

unattached sulphurs. They are desperate to attach to something else. Flax seed oil

is a great candidate.

 

Oils are not generally water soluble.

They repel water. However when the flax seed oil is grabbed by the sulpur in

casein, its water repellant properties are modified and it is no longer so

water repelling. So as long as the flax seed oil is stuck on to a sulphur in

the casein it can be thought of as " water soluble " . In reality it is

not so much water soluble as less water repellant. In any event it can now go

places it would not otherwise be able to go, so long as it is attached to

cysteine.

 

Cottage cheese is therefore a

" carrier " of flax seed oil. The flax seed oil is bonded to the casein

through the sulphur in cysteine. The sulphur has only become available because

the casein has been unraveled. I don't know of another source of readily

available sulphur which is available for bonding.

______________________________

 

Certainly if people want to substitute ingredients, that is their choice.

All fish oil is contaminated to an extent, even though the extent may be very

small, it is still contaminated. There have been people on the BP that

have used Fish Oil supplements and again, their choice, but it is not part of

Dr. Budwig’s Protocol. There have been just as many NOT use it and

got excellent results.

 

For these reasons flax oil seems a less brilliant choice for

biological support in humans than it did 50 years ago. Dr. Budwig did not pass away until

2003 (she was 95 and still very active) and did not see fit to change her

protocol. This was only five years ago.

 

Dr. Budwig was able to cure countless

cases of cancers by combining flaxseed oil with a sulfur rich protein food

source such as low fat cottage cheese. Just two simple food ingredients,

flaxseed oil and low fat cottage cheese, easily obtainable from any health food

store and supermarket, could save millions of cancer victims. There was nothing

suggestive in her years of

experimentation and proven clinical trials using flaxseed oil to defeat cancer;

she PROVED it beyond all

reasonable doubt and published her results

 

I know, from experience, that there is great necessity in correctly following a

protocol, if you want results. I am NOT saying that using whey protein

will not give results, because I don’t know. What I am saying is

that IF this “revised program” works, where are the results?

If I had cancer and was going to use the BP, I would want to use the exact same

protocol that Dr. B promoted and has worked for many, many people.

Conventional medicine does enough of the guinea-pig game. I actually participated

in it for one month and quickly decided not to play. One year later I

found out that one of the chemicals in my chemo cocktail (“double whammy”

is what my onco called it) had been stopped because the “clinical trials”

(no one told me I was in a clinical trial) showed that it was being given in dosages

that were KILLING people!

 

For even more information, a very good article summarizing the correct BP along with many testimonies can

be found at: http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Budwig.html

 

 

Be Well

Loretta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sent to me by one of our members:

The Budwig Diet

Revision

 

 

 

 

Germany's Dr.

Joanna Budwig is widely credited for discovering that 2 simple food items,

cold-pressed flax seed oil and low-fat cottage cheese, will cure or prevent

many forms of cancer and a long list of other degenerative diseases including

cardiovascular diseases and skin diseases. But the 50-year old " Budwig Diet "

is long in the tooth and newer data has emerged that shows where we can improve

on it.

 

essential fatty acids references

 

Sulfur-rich protein and calcium in the " Budwig protocol " is provided

by cottage cheese. Because many people can not take " dairy " , lets

look more closely at the cottage cheese. Human milk is higher in whey and much

lower in casein than cow milk or goat milk; casein is the main protein in

cheese and cottage cheese. Caseins differ somewhat; cow milk contains a lot of

alpha-casein, which because of its different properties is the main cause of

milk and " dairy " indigestion in humans. Beta lactoglobulins in cow

milk can also be problematic as allergens, and cow milk also contains more

alpha s1-casein than goat milk. All of this explains why many people find goat

milk less problematic than cow milk.

 

The problematic milk components can be removed leaving low-fat whey, most of

which is an exact match across the whole mammalian order. The common

ingredients are more easily assimilated than any other protein and do not

produce sensitivity or allergy issues. The Physicians Desktop Reference for

Prescription Drugs lists one pure whey isolate as " well-tolerated by even

severely milk-sensitive individuals " , and practice corroborates that.

 

Bottom line - although biological incompatibilities exist in foreign milk,

comments that lump 'dairy' products together as problematic are sloppy; the

statement does not apply to high-quality whey, and it is widely acknowledged to

be the most healthy fraction of milk.

 

The Budwig Diet revision uses undenatured whey instead of cottage cheese.

Undenatured whey contains the sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine

compounds including cystine. Methionine is transformed into cysteine by the

liver. Cellular cysteine is the rate-limiting factor in production of

glutathione, the body's master antioxidant and detoxifier. Glutathione is

crucial to life; it's involved in ATP energy generation, immune system support,

liver and other organ support, reducing toxin load and oxidative stress, and

importantly, it shrinks tumors when levels are maintained. More glutathione

information including the role whey can play in cancer therapy is available

here with glutathione references.

 

Cottage cheese doesn't boast those benefits; in fact it's only a sulfur amino

acid source. The Budwig Diet revision's replacement of the bio-incompatible

cottage cheese with compatible cold-processed whey adheres to the principles of

the " Budwig Diet " , and will provide huge additional benefit. Unlike

cottage cheese, cold-processed whey is mildly alkalizing to the body, and

several cold-processed wheys are listed in the US PDR as a specific

anti-cachexia (anti-wasting) formula.

 

The flaxseed oil in the original plan provides the essential fatty acid

alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is thought to be a 'good' omega-3 oil;

however, more recent science has revealed that it's a common but faulty

assumption that ALA is physiologically equivalent to omega-3 essential fatty

acids EPA and DHA, and that there is no known need for alpha-linolenic acid

(ALA) independent of its conversion to EPA/DHA. And in adults the conversion

rate is tiny; the US Environmental Protection Agency has posted this powerpoint presentation (slide 5) that explains less

than 1% conversion of ALA to EPA (some sources say somewhat higher), and

<0.01% to DHA.

 

Though these details have traditionally escaped the followers of Joanna Budwig

and Udo Erasmus, fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd Chilton fully explains them in

his book Inflammation Nation. Chilton says (page 97),

" I wish I could tell

you that the (ALA) in flaxseed oil could replace wild fish as a rich source of

EPA and DHA but the scientific literature simply does not support this

contention. ...We do the conversion but very slowly, and we also eat a lot of

fatty acids such as LA that 'compete' for enzymes that convert ALA to EPA and

DHA, further limiting its conversion. "

This

competition is most pronounced in the common condition of low EPA/DHA and

higher omega-6 fatty acid intake seen in the modern diet. Thus the omega-6

content of the flax oil, (25% of the amount of ALA) seen in the table below,

also inhibits the conversion.

Composition of

flax seed oil:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fatty

acid

 

 

Percent

 

 

 

 

Alpha

linolenic (omega-3)

 

 

55

 

 

 

 

Linoleic

(omega-6)

 

 

13.8

 

 

 

 

Oleic

 

 

 

21.5

 

 

 

 

Stearic

 

 

 

2.2

 

 

 

 

Palmitic

(saturated)

 

 

7.1

 

 

 

 

 

Budwig and her followers including Udo Erasmus also purport to supply the

needed fatty acids to rebuild cell walls so they can carry more oxygen and

etc., by supplying ALA; however, cell walls actually contain negligible ALA and

are high EPA and DHA.

 

This explains why for more than maintenance you may need vastly more EPA and

DHA than an ALA supplement can provide, and why fish oil supplements are more

popular for inflammation. For these reasons flax oil seems a less brilliant

choice for biological support in humans than it did 50 years ago.

 

Unlike ALA, EPA and DHA are essential to health and can reverse illness,

including the coronary heart disease, skin disorders and cancer claimed by

proponents of the Budwig Diet. The Budwig Diet revision ensures adequate EPA

and DHA are supplied. Wild salmon oil, wild fish oil, and cod liver oil provide

lots of EPA and DHA. Wild salmon oil, even minimally refined oil, has almost no

impurities. Inflammation can be further reduced by adding GLA or Borage oil.

 

Some people may feel safer by staying closer to the original diet by adding

these EFAs rather than replacing the flax oil of the original Budwig diet, but

it is unwise to not include them at all, thus this Budwig Diet revision was

probably inevitable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essential Fatty Acids

References:

 

" Specific inhibitory effect of dietary eicosapentaenoic acid on

N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced mammary carcinogenesis in female Sprague-Dawley

rats " (Carcinogenesis; 11(11): 2015-9, Nov 1990) found that EPA

significantly reduced (60% versus 93.3%) mammary tumour incidence and number in

rats and significantly reduced prostaglandin levels, suggesting that the breast

cancer inhibition by EPA may be mediated via lipid metabolism and associated

reduction in prostaglandin synthesis.

 

Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil significantly reduced weight loss and tumour

growth rate in an experimental colon cancer cachexia system in this study:

(Tisdale MJ and Dhesi JK. Inhibition of weight loss by omega-3 fatty acids in

an experimental cachexia model. Cancer Res; 50(16): 5022-6. Aug 15 1990)

 

" Anticachectic and antitumor effect of eicosapentaenoic acid and its

effect on protein turnover " (Cancer Res; 51(22): 6089-93. Nov 15 1991)

studied the effect of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and gamma-linolenic acid

(GLA) on weight loss and tumour growth in mice with cachexia-inducing colon

cancer. EPA inhibited both weight loss and tumour growth rate in a dose-related

manner; body weight was effectively maintained (weight loss did not occur even

when tumour growth resumed), there was delay in tumour progression of growth,

and overall survival was approximately doubled in EPA-treated animals. EPA

significantly reduced protein degradation without affecting protein synthesis.

The effect of GLA on both host body weight loss and tumour growth was much less

pronounced than that of EPA.

 

" Effects of fatty acids and eicosanoid synthesis inhibitors on the growth

of two human prostate cancer cell lines " (Prostate; 18(3): 243-54. 1991)

showed that while linoleic acid and omega-6 fatty acid stimulated the grown of

(androgen-unresponsive) human prostate cancer cells, EPA and DHA, two omega-3

fatty acids, were equally efffective in inhibiting growth of these same prostate

cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner, with a 65% reduction in growth.

 

In the small double-blind, placebo-controlled study, " Effect of omega-3

fatty acids on rectal mucosal cell proliferation in subjects at risk for colon

cancer " , (Gastroenterology; 103(3): 1096-8. Sep 1992) 20 patients with

sporadic adenomatous colorectal polyps were given omega-3 fatty acid

supplementation for 12 weeks. While there was no change in the controls, the

group of 10 that received fish oil containing EPA and DHA the " S " -phase

cells (a reliable marker of colon cancer risk) significantly dropped in 2 weeks

and stayed lower throughout the trial. Arachidonic acid (inflammatory) levels

also decreased.

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