Let's Talk Cancer

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Nice article on what Cancer is and what modern treatments do to it and how you can naturally reverse cancer.--------------------------http://www.jonbarron.org/baseline-health-program/2009-09-14.php

There's no question that over the years the largest number of

questions we receive at the Baseline of Health Foundation concern

cancer. Questions like:

I have prostate cancer, what should I do?I have breast cancer; I'm taking drug X from my doctor; is it okay for me to take graviola?My

friend has cancer. Her doctor has already cut off her breasts, but the

cancer has metastasized to other parts of her body anyway. What can I

tell her so she'll stop listening to her doctor?

Unfortunately,

for obvious legal reasons, we cannot diagnose and prescribe for

specific medical conditions. But even beyond the legal issues, there's

no way we could offer specific protocols for each individual situation

based on a casual email exchange. And on top of all that, we receive

thousands of emails a month at the Foundation, with hundreds of those

being requests for me to personally play doctor. For all kinds of

logistical reasons and time constraints (above and beyond the legal

issues), it's simply impossible to respond to all of these emails

individually.

 

However,

that said, what I can do legally is offer a general protocol for

dealing with cancer -- a protocol that pretty much applies across the

board to all cancers, with some specific exceptions such as waiting to

build your immune system until after your treatment if you are

undergoing medical treatment for leukemia. What I want to do, then, is

offer a protocol that is not so much expected to cure cancer by itself,

but rather, serves as the foundation for any program you are using to

treat your cancer -- natural or medical. (And, of course, if you are

already working with a doctor, you will want to run everything by them

before making any changes to your program.)

So, with that in mind…

What causes cancer?

I cover the nature of cancer, what causes it, and the reasons behind those causes in great detail in Lessons from the Miracle Doctors. But for now, let me summarize the key point concerning cancer.

No

one (from the pool of intelligent doctors) really believes that cancer

somehow magically appears in isolated spots in your body for no

particular reason. And yet somehow, these same doctors operate as if

they do in fact believe that removing or destroying that " isolated "

cancer means that you've cured it. One hundred years of medical

experience has shown that this concept is both silly and absurd.  And

yet, virtually all modern cancer research and treatments are based on

it. Think about it. The " cure " for cancer as practiced by the medical

establishment is to surgically remove it, burn it out with focused

beams of radiation, and poison it with chemotherapy -- or all of the

above together. Astonishing!

If we truly want to end the

cancer scourge, we must look elsewhere for answers. In fact, we need to

shift to an entirely different paradigm.

I

submit to you that cancer is fundamentally a disease of the immune

system. What do I mean by that? In your body, as part of the normal

metabolic process, you produce anywhere from a few hundred to as many

as 10,000 cancerous cells each day. Everybody does. So, why doesn't

everybody " get " cancer? Because your immune system has the ability to

recognize each and every one of those aberrant cells and remove them

from your body…if it's functioning properly. That's what a healthy

immune system does. Then why do some people get cancer? Because one of

three things happens (and, more often than not, all three together):

You

expose yourself to toxins and outside influences (such as heavy metals,

radiation, rancid fats, viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.) that

dramatically increase the number of cancerous cells that your body

produces so that not even a healthy immune system can handle the load.

(Incidentally, even as I am writing this, new studies have just been

published connecting the XMRV virus with prostate cancer.)You

compromise your immune system to the point that it can no longer handle

all of the cancerous cells your body produces, thus allowing some of

them to take root and establish themselves. Circulation (blood, lymph, energy) is impeded, leading to both 1 and 2 above.

And

yes, genetics can play a role, but much less than you might think -- or

that doctors would have you believe. And, in fact, the primary role of

genetics in cancer is not okayed by genes or DNA, but epigenetics,

the way your genes express themselves in response to changes in the

environment -- or to put it another way, how your body responds to

number 1 above.

For more details on:

understanding the state of cancer in the world today and the limitations of medical treatments in dealing with itgetting

a handle on the multi-billion dollar cancer industry and how it

severely impacts the treatments you receive and the information you get

that informs the decisions you make concerning those treatmentsan expanded discussion of the actual causes of cancerwhy the " War on Cancer " has failed…and will continue to failwhy most research on cancer is dead-ended before it starts

and

how the deck is stacked against alternative health treatments, and why

you will never receive an unbiased analysis of the efficacy of any of

those treatments from either the medical community or the mass media

Check out either Lessons from the Miracle Doctors or the audio file, Cancer, the Big Lie.

Lifestyle Changes Cut Breast Cancer Risk

Even

though, I referred you above to my book and talk for a more complete

discussion of how environment affects cancer, I would still like to

cite a study released earlier this month that supports that very

premise. The American Institute for Cancer Research

and the World Cancer Research Fund analyzed 1,000 studies to get a

better handle on the risk factors for breast cancer. Their conclusion

was that lifestyle is a strong modifiable risk factor for breast

cancer, and that the role of genetics is significantly overestimated

(something I've been saying

for years -- even as doctors begged to differ). In the end, the study

concluded that 40% of all cancers could be prevented with " simple "

lifestyle changes such as maintaining a healthy weight, eating well,

exercising, and limiting alcohol consumption. And keep in mind, that

40% figure is based on namby pamby " simple " lifestyle changes. Just

imagine how much higher that number would be if you add in regular

juice fasting, detoxing, and the judicious use of strong doses of

anti-cancer herbs and supplements. Incorporate those protocols and you

start approaching a number closer to the 90% reduction I've been citing

for years.

Cancer screening may do more harm than good

There's

one other medical bugaboo I need to deal with quickly before moving on

to my recommended options. The standard bromide is that testing for

cancer saves lives. Get tested regularly. Test for colon cancer. Test

for breast cancer. Test for prostate cancer. In fact, testing is hardly

the panacea promoted in the media, and while there certainly may be

benefit to testing and identifying cancer at an early stage, the

process is far less reliable then you have been lead to believe.

Mammograms,

for example, produce up to a 90% false positive. That's not good, but

it probably could be justified if regular mammograms could at least

catch all of the real cases of cancer and allowed

doctors to accordingly save those lives. If only that were so! In fact,

mammograms regularly miss 20-30% of all breast cancer incidents they

are imaging. Even worse, mammograms often detect cancers too late to

help, because the tumor is growing so fast by the time it is detectable

in a mammogram. In fact, a 2001 study found that " there is no reliable evidence that screening decreases breast cancer mortality -- not even a tendency towards an effect. " But wait, it gets worse. According to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, imaging tests such as CT scans and nuclear imaging may actually be provoking the very breast cancer women are trying to avoid, without providing any real benefits.

But

it isn't just breast cancer. Testing for prostate cancer comes with its

own set of problems. For example, there's the new study indicating that

PSA testing for prostate cancer

may actually be doing more harm than good. Yes, you read that

correctly. And how much harm and how much good are we talking about?

Well,

according to study co-author H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, " For every man

who avoids a prostate cancer death due to PSA screening, about 50 men

have to be treated unnecessarily -- and a third of these men will have

serious problems with treatment. "

In fact, we're talking about 943,500 men out of every million diagnosed with prostate cancer unnecessarily

getting treated with surgery and radiation. In Vegas, those would be

referred to as very long odds! But enough about medical testing and

treatments for cancer! Let's now look at the alternatives that can

dramatically change your odds. The following information is taken from

the new, expanded, hardcover edition of Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, which is available at bookstores everywhere.

Preventing cancer is easier than reversing it

It

is much easier to prevent cancer than to reverse it. The reason is

simple: isolated cancer cells are not very strong and have no built-in

support mechanisms, but once they take root and begin to multiply, they

build awesome support systems and acquire a life of their own. In the

case of tumors, for example, this includes the development of fully

functional, complex vascular systems capable of providing tremendous

amounts of nutrition and sustenance (unfortunately, at the expense of

your body's vital organs). Also, once they take root, cancer cells are

able to manifest their most important attribute -- immortality. Unlike

normal cells in your body, which have a limited life span (one of the

main reasons we age and die), cancer cells generally do not age and

die. Functionally, they can live forever, and this gives them a major

competitive advantage over healthy cells in your body.

Nevertheless,

your body is capable of reversing an established cancer -- doctors see

it all the time and call it a " spontaneous remission " -- but it takes

considerable effort. You do pretty much the same things you do to

prevent it, just more often, more intensively, and at higher doses.

Instead of doing four detoxes a year, you might end up doing several in

a row, back to back, or even simultaneously if needed. Instead of

fasting on juice and green foods for three to five days, you might do

30. Again, you do the same things, just more often, more intensively,

and at higher doses. So exactly, what do you do to prevent or reverse

cancer? This is the big question, isn't it? But unfortunately I cannot

prescribe or recommend any particular treatments. That would be against

the law.

However, it is not inappropriate to give you some guidelines.

Chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery

First,

surgery might play a role in treatment if a tumor is so large, for

example, that it impinges on another organ, thereby threatening

near-term death. In that case, surgery might make sense to give you the

time to pursue alternatives. But keep in mind, surgery has its own

risks. Anything can happen while under a surgeon's knife, including

death. In addition, there is the risk of collateral damage such as

impotence or loss of bladder control as is experienced as a result of

prostate surgery. But most significantly of all, surgery dramatically

increases the risk of spreading cancer cells from the original site

throughout your entire body. Nevertheless, there are times surgery

makes sense.

On the other hand, I would be very leery of any chemotherapy or radiation treatments and would need to see very

convincing statistical evidence that those particular treatments were

indeed effective for my particular type of cancer, at my particular

age. The success rate for chemotherapy is highly age-dependent. It is

much more likely to be effective with the young who have strong immune

systems, dropping to about 50/50 by age 50. And by 50/50, I don't mean

that it's effective 50 percent of the time, but rather that it's a

50/50 call as to whether doing chemotherapy or nothing at all is the

better option in terms of survivability. And by age 55, there's no

question; you're statistically better off doing nothing rather than

subjecting yourself to chemotherapy. Remember, chemotherapy and

radiation are " subtractive " treatments, a single role-of-the-dice

crap-shoot. You either win the big pot on the table or end up bankrupt

since those treatments destroy your body's natural ability to fight the

cancer. It's also worth, mentioning that although chemotherapy is " more

effective " in the young, they do not escape without consequences.

Chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment early in life tend to have

major ramifications down the road, regardless of what happens to the

original cancer in the short term. These include:

Long term brain impairmentChronic illness

Up to a threefold increase in the risk of subsequent cancers (1,2,3)

Chromosomal abnormalities in their own children

As

any gambler will tell you, the odds are always with the house.

Understand, when medical treatments are incorporated for dealing with

cancer, you are playing against the house. If you opt for chemotherapy

or radiation, it is absolutely imperative that you do something to

improve your odds. You need to repair your immune system concurrent

with your treatment. Check with your doctor about using natural immune

enhancers during your therapy as they have consistently produced

spectacular results in similar circumstances. Unless you have a

specific cancer, such as leukemia, that requires the destruction of

your immune system as part of your treatment, any doctor who does not

recommend natural treatments to support your immune system while

undergoing chemotherapy or radiation is acting irresponsibly -- or

ignorantly.

Alternative therapies for preventing and reversing cancer

It's

now time to take a look at the " additive " therapies -- the ones that

remove the toxins from your body, while at the same time building your

body's natural defenses against cancer.

These therapies are

additive in the sense that they can all build off each other. Do

everything, do it all at once, do it intensively, and repeat it. And

once you have the cancer on the run, keep doing it until there is no

sign of cancer for at least six months (so it doesn't sneak back in).

By

everything, I mean the Baseline of Health Program, which is

specifically designed to clean out and nourish virtually every major

system in your body. It is by no means a specific cancer treatment but

rather a system for optimizing the health of all your major body

systems so that your body can do what it was designed to do: prevent

and eliminate cancer. For that reason, it serves as the core of any

program you use to deal with catastrophic illness, including cancer.

Following the Baseline of Health Program

is the best method available for preventing cancer from taking root in

your body, and it also offers the best base from which to launch any

program intended to reverse cancer once it has taken root. It can play

a significant role in removing from your body the toxins that promote

the growth of aberrant cells and in rebuilding and optimizing your

immune system.

When using the Baseline of Health Program as

part of a regimen for reversing cancer, you need to do it completely

(no exceptions), intensively, and repeatedly. Be sure to change your

diet. As we discussed above, at a minimum, 40 percent of all cancers

are linked to food, lack of exercise, and body weight. Specifically, excess body fat and red meat

are linked to an increased risk of common cancers. The liver cleanse

and detoxification are crucial, and don't forget supplementing with

omega-3 fatty acids, juice fasting, mental exercises, and physical

activity. These are all key elements of the program.

In

addition, there are specific anticancer protocols that you might want

to check out in the library or on the Internet. The following are

listed in no particular order:

The Budwig diet.

Specialized antioxidants like curcumin, green tea, selenium, and L-carnosine.Supplemental acemannan and beta glucans can help build the immune system.

Ellagitannin extracts from red raspberries and pomegranates are proven powerful anticarcinogens, as is graviola (1,2).

Using high doses (12 tablespoons a day) of stabilized rice bran.AHCC (Active Hexose Correlated Compounds) (1,2,3).

Modified citrus pectin has demonstrated effectiveness against prostate, breast, and skin cancers.

Anvirzel and its low-cost alternative oleander soup.Over 20 peer reviewed studies have shown that Avemar

(a fermented wheat germ extract) enhances the effects of the standard

treatment agents and is particularly effective in reducing the chances

of cancer recurrence.Consider eliminating all forms of

propyl alcohol (internal and external) from your life since there are

indications these may play a role in fostering the growth of

cancer-promoting parasites in the body.Despite tremendous resistance from the FDA and various medical organizations, Dr Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy has proven effective in many cases.

Ozone therapy has been shown to be from 40-90% effective in inhibiting certain cancers. It's administered using rectal insufflation.

Rife technology is available in several machines that have expanded on the work of Royal Rife.

The basic premise is that cancers can be eliminated by frequencies

tuned to the individual electromagnetic signature of that particular

disease. The medical establishment and self-appointed " quackbusters "

try to discredit these machines. Nevertheless, they work if you find

the right machine, perhaps not as consistently as some proponents would

have you believe, but the technology can be a powerful addition to any

cancer therapy. Track down a scalar-energy

charging-chamber or consume large amounts of scalar-enhanced products

to help raise cellular energy levels.Supplementing with Poly-MVA can assist in raising the electrical potential of human cells

And you still want to alkalinize your body. Cancer thrives in an acid environment.Cesium is the most alkaline mineral in nature. Cesium chloride

is a salt form of cesium. If you're working with a healer who

understands it and can regularly monitor your body's pH, supplementing

with cesium chloride can be extremely helpful in improving your body's

pH very quickly. Other methods include the use of " ionic " water

machines that separate tap water into acid (for washing) and alkaline

(for consuming) streams, coral calcium supplements, and alkalinizing

drops added to your drinking water -- and, of course shifting your diet

to more alkalinizing foods.

A cure for cancer?

Let's

be clear -- the above program and therapies are not a cure for cancer.

Anyone who says they have a " cure " for cancer is misinformed. A " cure "

is a simple impossibility, even within the medical community. When I

see advertisements for hospital-based cancer programs where patients

talk about being " cancer free " for five or seven years, I always wince.

As we've already discussed, the simple truth is that no one is cancer

free, ever -- an important point to keep in mind. Why?

First of all, not everyone gets well, no matter what program they use.

That's

the nature of life. Sometimes it's simply because there are so many

variables. For example, if your house is concentrating radon gas

seeping up from the ground below and you never checked for it and

didn't know, then you could be doing every therapy program in the world

and your odds of overcoming lung cancer would be significantly

lessened. Then again, if you live in the middle of farm country and are

continually exposed to pesticides, that too lessens your odds, no

matter what you do. Sometimes, you just don't know all of the factors

influencing your cancer. But even in those cases, your odds are still

significantly better on a program designed to detoxify your body rather

than on a program that adds more toxins (chemotherapy and radiation) to

it.

Also, as we discussed earlier, it's important to

remember that every day of your life your body produces anywhere from a

few hundred to as many as 10,000 cancerous cells as part of its normal

metabolic processes. That's why I say that you're never completely

cancer free. The only question is: can your body deal with those cells

and prevent them from taking root and multiplying? That's it, pure and

simple. Any program that reinforces your body in that agenda is good

and will improve your odds dramatically. Any program that undermines it

is " questionable. " The choice is yours.

Place your bets.