aromatherapy and cancer

 I am packing for Russia, and I am planning to give Mom massages with aromatherapy, first of all, to help her rest, second of all, to relieve pain, and third of all, to improve immune system. I am doing research so I could buy the needed oils.


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http://www.holisticonline.com/cancer/cancer_immunity-aromatherapy.htm

Alternative Medicine for Immune System Strengthening


Aromatherapy has a broad range of application in immune system support because virtually every essential oil in therapeutic use is active against one or more bacteria, and almost all of them stimulate production of white blood cells. It has been found that people who use essential oils regularly have a high level of resistance to illness. They catch fewer colds and other diseases and recover quickly if they do.
Essential oils support and strengthen the immune response by two different ways:

1. By directly opposing the threatening micro-organisms
   
2. By increasing the activity of the organs and cells that fight them.
   

Best Essential Oils for Immune System support are (they do both these actions):

	Bergamot
	Eucalyptus
	Lavender
	Manuka
	Ravensara
	Tea-tree

These essential oils increase the immune response.
Other Essential oils Useful for immunity:
Rosemary and Geranium support the adrenal glands and stimulate the lymphatic system.
Black Pepper and Lavender strengthen the spleen.
If your immune system is depleted, aromatherapy treatment should be continued for at least a month. This will help bringing the micro-organisms in the body under control, repairing the immune system and strengthening the immune system to withstand from further attack.


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http://www.avianweb.com/aromatherapycancer.html

Here's a list of popular oils that address some common problems, as well as those common among people in treatment for cancer...

• Lavender. Great as a general relaxant, it also treats migraines and relieves stress. It is excellent for insomnia resulting from cancer treatment.
• Rosemary. For muscle pain, low blood pressure (do not use if you have uncontrolled or high blood pressure) and cold feet and hands. Rosemary aids a loss of appetite.
• Spearmint. Used to ease nausea and to help digestion. Also can help ease gas and other treatment-related digestive problems.
• Eucalyptus or peppermint. For rubbing on sore muscles. Eucalyptus may also help joints, including arthritic ones. Eucalyptus may increase the absorption of certain cancer drugs that are applied topically, so use caution and try a patch test first, avoiding application to the same area as the cancer drug.
• Pink grapefruit or juniper berry. Used with massage to encourage lymphatic drainage of toxins and waste. Pink grapefruit is one of Perez's favorites for cancer patients, as she believes it helps energize them and raise their spirits. This and all citrus-type oils should be avoided during chemo and radiation -- and should not be used until speaking with your doctor.
• Lemongrass, tea tree and orange. Mix together into two cups of Epso salts. Use five drops of each oil -- a total of 15 drops -- for a soothing bath (use one-half cup per bath). (Please note: Serious toxicity in avians can occur from topical exposure to teatree [melaleuca] oil.) *Please note that tea tree oil is toxic to all pets (birds, cats, dogs, etc.) 

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 http://www.naha.org/articles/cancer_and_aromatherapy.htm

The Miasm

                At the Fourth Wholistic Aromatherapy Conference on the Therapeutic Uses of Essential Oils in San Francisco in November of 2000, Dr. Bruce Berkowsky, founder/teacher of the Natural Health Science System™, gave a fascinating lecture on "Essential Oils and the Cancer Miasm".   I found it absolutely intriguing considering my own experience with cancer and my studies in “energy work”.

                Bruce Berkowsky states that a miasm is a reactional mode, or predisposition, to disease transmitted from generation to generation bioenergetically rather than by a genetic mechanism.  (The word miasm comes from the Greek word miasma meaning stain, pollution or defilement)  The themes of loss of control and inability to establish one’s personal identity are characteristic of the Cancer Miasm.  Some of the primary essential oils found effective in treating this miasm are: angelica (Angelica archangelica); geranium (Pelargonium graveolens); lemon (Citrus limonum): pine (Pinus sylvestris).  

Angelica and the Cancer Miasm

                The following essential oils are well suited to treat the Cancer Miasm—they include:  Angelica (Angelica archangelica), Frankincense (Boswellia carterii), Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), Ginger (Zingiber officinalis), Lemon (Citrus limonum), Neroli (Citrus aurantium), Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin), Pine (Pinus sylvestris), and Violet leaf (Viola odorata).  Most of these oils contain the chemical constituent Limonene and related terpenoids, which have been shown to prevent carcinogen-induced mammary cancer.  .

 Angelica (Angelica archangelica) is in the Umbelliferae family whose members have a strong affinity for the process of aeration, reaching out from the watery element from which they thrive and up into the airy element.  Angelica is a water loving plant that is found growing near streams and rivers or wetlands.   The root of the Angelica plant, in particular, has the strong affinity for water.  The umbelliferaes tend to have hollow stems and stalks, inflated leaf sheaths and air-chambered rootstocks.  Umbelliferae’s, angelica included, strive to bond with the realm of air - the medium of one of the three constituent elements of vital force: the astral body. 

                As plants are essentially etheric organisms whose formative forces are water-dependent, by reaching out to the airy element and becoming aerated, angelica draws from the astral plane (air) and incorporates it into its fluid nature.  This feature of joining air and water / astral and etheric, is the foundation of angelica’s clinical benefits.  Angelica’s essential oils are extracted from either the seeds or the roots of the angelica plant (for this discussion we will refer to the essence extracted from the root). 

                In anthroposophic science, the root of the plant, due to the diversity of its sensory functions, is associated with the human nerve-sense system and the metabolic limb system.  As a root oil, angelica is believed to have very strong associations with both of these systems.  It is through the root that the plant confronts the soil "universe".  The root must discern the enormous menu of substances in the soil and choose or grasp the ones that it requires for its growth.  This selectivity equates to the human consciousness facilitated by the nerve-sense organs of the head, because the head organ shows similar selectivity when sifting through the bombardment of incoming sensory data from the outer world (keep in mind, as earlier discussed, the astral body perceives and internalizes impressions from the external world, which are then given expression in the form of behavioral responses and choice of movement). 

                Furthermore, the roots’ ability to select or choose is based upon its sense of Self, as each plant will select different substances in accordance with its individuality as a plant organism.  Similarly, the spirit and astral bodies of human beings are charged with establishing a consciousness of Self.  The root of the plant absorbs mineral salts out of the earth and utilizes them for growth and nutrition.  These salts permeate the plant and make it an earth organism.  The human head can be compared to a hardened root, as it must process that which it chooses to consume or absorb.  This absorption continues to initiate the process of solidification, and tissue contraction to elimination.

                Root oils have obvious metabolic associations as well.  They are actively involved in the processes of nutritional absorption, and the processes involved with the intake of fluid and hydration.  The intestinal system is a type of “inner root” that draws nutrients and water into the blood.  With Angelica’s dual air/water affinities, and its link to both upper and lower poles of the body (head and bowel), it lends great potential to integrate the nerve-sense forces (which depend upon air) into the metabolic processes which require a watery medium.  Therefore, it may prove an exceptional treatment of mental exhaustion due to nutritional depletion as well as for a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms linked to the failure of the astral body to incarnate from the head into the metabolism.  Indicators include indigestion, flatulence and nausea.

                Looking at one of the major symptoms in the Cancer Miasm, loss of control, we see a dysfunctional relationship between the astral and etheric bodies.    For some recipients, for example, angelica rehydrates or revives volatile emotions like exhaustion and anxiety, and aerates sodden ones such as moodiness, “heartache” and alcohol addiction.  There is an element of violence in the animal nature of the astral body that makes its direct action on the physical body harsh and unfeasible and such actions can result in spasm, pain, tissue destruction and depletion.  Therefore, the astral body’s passions and drives must be buffered by, and communicated through, the watery medium of the etheric body. 

                Angelica is noted as a medicine for gastric ulcers and colic—the former, due to astral passions expending themselves upon stomach tissue, and the latter, due to astral-induced intestinal spasms.  As a balancer of air and water, angelica is not only beneficial for excesses of the astral body, but of the etheric body as well.

                Again, when the astral body inadequately incarnates into the metabolism, the etheric forces are unchecked, thus, cellular overgrowth and loss of control of the fluid organism may occur.  This becomes particularly evident in the glands which are primarily etheric organs.  Angelica has proven to be very helpful for swelling, inflammation and swelling of the lymph nodes, especially of the head and neck region.

                Angelica oil may also offer a way of responding to the bioenergetic aspect of cancers of the fluid organism such as leukemia and Hodgkin’s Disease, both of which involve lymphoid tissues and are characterized by etheric hyperproliferation and misguided astral behavior.  

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 http://www.worldwidehealth.com/health-article-Aromatherapy-and-Cancer-To-Treat-or-Not-To-Treat.html

Massage and cancer
There is no research to prove the myth that massage can carry cancer cells throughout lymphatic tissue to other sites in the body, although it is recommended that deep tissue massage is not used on someone with cancer. Gentle aromatherapy massage is designed to relax and gently detoxify the body. In cases of localised cancer, it is perhaps best to avoid that area.

Obviously, a light, gentle massage within the client's pain threshold, given over a period of time that is suitable to the patient, is going to be beneficial rather than harmful. The lymphatic system is massaged slightly by muscular action of the body, and since simple, gentle massage would be no more stimulating to the body than ordinary, muscular action resulting from movement, then the results would be very similar. In other words, the likelihood of spreading cancer cells with gentle massage is no greater than with normal exercise.

The value of massage on a patient with cancer is enormous. The sense of touch is one of the most basic of human senses, and helps to create a feeling of being loved and comforted through the illness. When we talk about massaging somebody with cancer we generally assume whole body massage. It is usually advised never to massage over the site of the cancer or over an area receiving radiotherapy treatment and, if in doubt, just to massage one small part of the body. A simple hand massage or foot massage, for instance, can bring great stress relief and help the patient emotionally. It is important not to massage over the site of radiation because the skin is readily broken down. Areas affected by radiation should be avoided at all costs, and be allowed to repair naturally (Tisserand and Balacs 1995: 101-102).

Horrigan (1991) offers the opinion that surface massage will not make the cancer grow due an increased blood supply, nor make the cancer spread, nor interfere with chemotherapy or radiotherapy, nor cure cancer by natural means (Price & Price: 1995). Movements and stokes that can be used with a light rhythmical touch and stroking, are effleurage, passive exercises, gentle pulling and stretching (McNamara 1995).

A type of massage only used by professional masseurs/cancer specialists is manual lymph drainage to stimulate the circulation of lymph fluids, encouraging the flow of lymph without force, thereby enhancing the immune system. Reflexology, with very gentle pressure applied to the relevant points, can also help to relax the patient.

Essential oils and cancer
In the normal low dosage usually adopted by trained aromatherapists there should be no risk factor. Do not use unresearched oils or unfamiliar oils. There is no evidence that either essential oils or aromatherapy has caused cancer in humans (Tisserand & Balacs 1995: 102). Valnet cites useful oils as being: Syzigium aromaticum (clove), Cupressus sempervirens (cypress) and Pelargonium graveolens (geranium).
Lavender and citrus oils of a good quality are also useful for relieving stress. As a general rule, oils that would be useful for children are gentle enough to be used on cancer patients.

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Nausea, vomiting
-ginger, peppermint, orange

Help falling asleep:
- lavender, vetiver, myrrh,  frankincense, chamomile

General relaxation:
- lavender, bergamot, clary sage, palmarosa, vetiver, ylang-ylang, basil, chamomile

Help to stay awake:
- basil, rosemary, geranium, peppermint, grapefruit, lemon, black pepper

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http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Aromatherapy_and_Cancer.html




Aromatherapy can be beneficial as a complementary treatment since the essential oils have properties that promote healing on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Smells register in the limbic system, or “old brain”, that receives impulses directly from the olfactory nerves and subsequently triggers emotions and memories. This plays an important role in determining which oils to use, and because a person can be sensitive to smell, it is important to let them select acceptable oils before each treatment. Most importantly, an aromatherapist must consider a person’s overall health to determine if essential oils should be used and how they should be administered. Following are some examples of how aromatherapy may be used in cancer treatment, with the essential oils marked in italics.
Diffusing oils in a room is a non-invasive way to treat cancer symptoms such as vomiting (neroli, peppermint), nausea (ginger, lemon, peppermint), fear (rose, neroli, spikenard, vetiver), and insomnia (lavender, neroli, marjoram, valerian). A lamp ring that uses the heat from a light bulb is an easy way to diffuse oils into a room.
Compresses with hydrosols, also known as floral water, can ease pain (roman chamomile, peppermint), relieve constipation (marjoram, neroli), itching (roman chamomile, peppermint) and edema (lemon, grapefruit). They are useful after surgery.
A weak person may not be able to tolerate full body massage. Instead you can give a light, 5-minute hand and/or foot massage with gentle immune stimulating oils such as rosewood, bergamot, lemon, cardamom, almond or sandalwood that encourage relaxation and promote feelings of comfort. A footbath can also be soothing and beneficial.
The essential oils may chang, melissa and almond have anti-tumoral properties. Use combinations of rose, may chang and almond or almond, cardamom and sandalwood in a 1 to 1.5% blend with a massage oil.
Essential oils offer multiple uses for hospital and hospice workers. Family and friends can find relief from stress by diffusing oils throughout the house, as well as in the sick room. The stress and sleep deprivation that they often experience can be taxing on the adrenal glands. Neroli and black spruce oils can be used to help in such cases.
Some oils should not be used with certain types of cancer. While may chang is useful in stomach cancer, its use should be avoided on anyone with prostate cancer. If it is an estrogen-dependent cancer, avoid essential oils containing phytoestrogens and phytoprogesterones.


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http://www.arthritistoday.org/treatments/alternative-therapies/aromatherapy-pain-relief.php


Relax: vanilla. In the Columbia University Medical Center study, subjects who smelled vanilla while completing stress tests had more stable heart rates and blood pressure readings than those who took the tests in an unscented environment.
Try: Place a few drops of vanilla extract onto a handkerchief and carry it with you throughout the day.
Recharge: peppermint, jasmine, citrus. These scents make you feel more awake. “Even though these scents are pleasant, they act as mild irritants and the effect is similar to that of smelling salts,” explains Dr. Hirsch.
Try: Sprinkle a few drops of the essential oil of your choice in a candle diffuser, or dilute two drops in 1 tsp. of avocado or almond oil, then rub it onto the back of your hand.
Relieve: Green apple. “We found that the smell of green apples reduced the severity and duration of migraine headache pain and may have a similar effect on joint pain,” says Dr. Hirsch. “The scent seems to reduce muscle contractions, which are the main cause of pain in migraines.”

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Aromatherapy Nerve Pain Relief

The nerves in your body register pain, so when nerves are damaged, the condition will be quite painful. Injured nerves take a long time to regenerate, but aromatherapy treatments can help with the process. They initially relieve pain, and people who use them appear to heal more quickly than others.

Essential oils of lavender, chamomile, and marjoram are excellent at easing the pain of a pinched nerve or sciatica. A less well-known essential oil called helichrysum is specific for this condition. Apply the oil directly on the back or hip to reduce pain. It is also wonderful on painful shingles. People with serious nerve-related problems, such as multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome, get noticeable pain relief from the Nerve Pain Oil (see recipe below). For carpal tunnel syndrome, rub this oil into the wrists. Since nerve conditions can be difficult to heal, talk to someone skilled in natural medicine for more ideas on how to treat them.

Essential oils for nerve pain: chamomile, lavender, marjoram, peppermint, sandalwood


Aromatherapy Nerve Pain Treatment

Reduce your suffering from nerve pain with this gentle and effective formula.

Nerve Pain Oil

• 4 drops chamomile oil
• 3 drops marjoram oil
• 3 drops helichrysum oil (if available)
• 2 drops lavender oil
• 1 ounce vegetable oil or St. John’s wort oil

Combine the ingredients. Apply as needed throughout the day for pain relief. This formula is even more effective if St. John’s wort oil is used instead of plain vegetable oil. Buy it at a natural food store. 

Shrinking tumors - teat tree oil

http://www.mypureradiance.com/thousand-year-old-oil-beats-cancer/ - tea tree shrinked tumors under the skin

Catabolic / metabolic states of cancer

http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-029.shtml

Catabolic Wasting

 Catabolic wasting or cachexia is a clinical wasting syndrome that is characterized by unintended and progressive weight loss, weakness, and low body fat and muscle. At least 5% of body weight is lost. Cachexia is not caused by poor appetite and nutritional intake, but rather by a metabolic state in which a "breaking down" rather than a "building up" occurs in bodily tissues no matter how much nutritional intake occurs. Additionally, whether a patient receives nutrition orally or intravenously makes no difference. The patient simply cannot gain weight, so eating more is not an answer.
It is estimated that half of all cancer patients experience catabolic wasting, with a higher occurrence seen in cases of malignancies of the lung, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. The syndrome is equally common in AIDS patients and can also be present in bacterial and parasitic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic diseases of the bowel, liver, lungs, and heart. It is usually associated with anorexia and can manifest as a condition in aging or as a result of physical trauma. Catabolic wasting is a symptom that diminishes the quality of life, worsens the underlying condition, and is a major cause of death.

Cachexia and Cancer

Researchers previously believed that cancer increased metabolic demand (stolen protein), produced toxins, and suppressed appetite, resulting in malnutrition. New research, however, shows that although cancer may raise resting metabolic rate, improved nutrition does not alleviate the symptoms of anorexia, chronic nausea, early satiety, and changes in taste that make even favorite foods unpalatable to some cancer patients. The view of clinicians is that bodily wasting is the result of a combined action of tumor products and host immune factors--in particular, cytokines--that lead to poor appetite, muscle wasting, and an altered metabolism. The cytokines interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6, interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and brain-derived neurotrophic factor appear to increase and play a role in the progression of cachexia in cancer, as well as in other diseases associated with bodily wasting.

Other metabolic alterations associated with the syndrome are hyperglyceridemia, lipolysis, and accelerated protein turnover, all leading to a loss of fat mass and body protein. The dysregulation of metabolic processes produces a negative energy balance.

Clinicians are currently treating cancer-related catabolic wasting with a variety of interventions, including nutritional supplementation, administration of cytokine inhibitors, steroids, hormones, cannabinoids, and thalidomide. Gemcitabine, a chemotherapeutic drug, has shown clinical benefits in treating cachexia. Newer nutritional intervention with megestrol acetate derivatives, gamma-receptor agonists, amino acid manipulations, myostatin inhibitors, and uncoupling protein modifiers is currently being explored. Further research must be done to investigate gender differences in relation to pathophysiology and therapy.

There is some evidence that the drug hydrazine sulfate may help cancer patients gain weight and improve the cachectic state. The drug is by prescription and should be given by a complementary physician familiar with its use, as it can be toxic. The dose is usually 60 mg a day. Narcotic painkillers or benzodiazepine anxiety-reducing agents cannot be given concomitantly.

Fish Oil Studies

Depletion of muscle and adipose tissue in cancer cachexia appears to arise not only from decreased food intake, but also from the production of catabolic factors secreted by certain tumors such as tumor necrosis factor and other autoimmune cytokines. Experiments with a cachexia-inducing tumor in mice showed that when part of the carbohydrate calories in their diet was replaced by fish oil, host body weight loss was inhibited. The catabolic-inhibiting effect occurred without an alteration of either the total calorie consumption or nitrogen intake (Tisdale et al. 1990).

Fish oil concentrate was found to inhibit tumor-induced lipolysis directly (Beck et al. 1991). The catabolic fat loss-preventing effect of fish oil arose from an inhibition of the elevation of cyclic AMP (adenosine monophosphate, a nucleotide involved in energy metabolism) in fat cells. The increased protein degradation in the skeletal muscle of catabolic animals was also inhibited by fish oil; this effect was due to the inhibition by fish oil of muscle prostaglandin E2 production in response to a tumor-produced proteolytic factor. Thus, reversal of cachexia by fish oil in this mouse model results from its capacity to interfere with tumor-produced catabolic factors (Tisdale 1996). Similar factors have been detected in human cancer cachexia.
Studies show that the DHA fraction of fish oil is the best documented supplement to suppress the inflammatory cytokines involved in the catabolic process such as TNF-a, IL-6, IL-1(b), and prostaglandin E2(Khalfoun et al. 1997; De Caterina et al. 1998, 1999; Jeyarajah et al. 1999; Kelley et al. 1999; James et al. 2000; Kremer 2000; Watanabe et al. 2000; Yano et al. 2000; Das 2001; Tepaske et al. 2001). Catabolic wasting patients should consider taking 8 capsules a day of Super GLA/DHA, a combination of gamma-linolenic acid and primarily the DHA fraction of fish oil. Both GLA and DHA significantly suppress inflammatory cytokines (Purasiri et al. 1994; Mancuso et al. 1997; Dirks et al. 1998; DeLuca et al. 1999; James et al. 2000).

Beneficial Effects of Glutamine

Glutamine has been one of the most intensively studied nutrients in the field of nutrition support in recent years. Animal studies show that glutamine is effective against catabolic stress (Millward et al. 1989; Castell et al. 1994; Ziegler et al. 1996). Glutamine supplementation was shown to improve organ function, survival, or both in most published studies. These studies also have supported the concept that glutamine is a critical nutrient for the gut mucosa and immune cells (Furst et al. 1989; Castell et al. 1994; Campos et al. 1996; Ziegler et al. 1996).

Molecular and protein chemistry studies define the basic mechanism involved in glutamine action in the gut, liver, and other cells and organs (Ziegler et al. 1996). Double-blind prospective clinical investigations suggest that glutamine-enriched diets are generally safe and effective in catabolic patients (Griffiths 1997). Intravenous glutamine has been shown to increase plasma glutamine levels; exert protein anabolic effects; improve gut structure and function; and reduce important indices of disease, including infection rates and length of hospital stay in selected patient subgroups (Sacks 1999).

Glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in the human body. In catabolic stress situations, such as after surgical operations or trauma and during sepsis, glutamine is rapidly transported to organs and to blood cells. This results in an intracellular depletion of glutamine in the muscles and the ensuing catabolic wasting effect (Balzola et al. 1996). Increasing evidence suggests that glutamine is a crucial substrate for immunocompetent cells. Glutamine depletion decreases the proliferation of lymphocytes, possibly by arresting a critical phase of the growth cycle of the cells (Roth et al. 1996).

Glutamine is a precursor for the synthesis of glutathione and stimulates the formation of heat-shock proteins (Zhou et al. 1997). Moreover, there are suggestions that glutamine plays a crucial role in the stimulation of intracellular protein synthesis (Hankard et al. 1996). Experimental studies revealed that glutamine deficiency causes a necrotizing enterocolitis--an inflammation of the small intestine and colon, leading to cell death--and increases the mortality of animals subjected to bacterial stress (Becker et al. 2000).

A clinical human study involving bone-marrow transplant patients demonstrated, after supplementation with glutamine, a decrease in the incidence of infections and a shortening of hospital stay. In critically ill patients, parenteral glutamine reduced nitrogen loss and caused a reduction of the mortality rate (Roth et al. 1996). In surgical patients, glutamine invoked an improvement of several immunological parameters (Slotwinski et al. 2000). Moreover, glutamine exerted a nutritional (tropic) effect on the intestinal mucosa, decreased the intestinal permeability, and thus may prevent the translocation of bacteria.

In conclusion, glutamine is an important metabolic substrate of rapidly proliferating cells. It influences the cellular hydration (molecular water content) state and has multiple effects on the immune system, intestinal function, and protein metabolism (Sacks 1999). In several disease states, glutamine may become an indispensable nutrient supplement. Catabolic wasting patients should consider supplementing with 2000 mg of glutamine a day.

Summary

Catabolic wasting can be counteracted by proper nutrient supplementation. A daily dose of 2000 mg of glutamine is suggested to prevent glutamine depletion in the tissues and the ensuing catabolic effect. Fish and borage oil supplementation, in the dose of 1300 mg of DHA, 500 mg of EPA, and 1200 mg of GLA a day, should be considered to suppress inflammatory cytokines and prostaglandins that can destroy tissue. Two 1000-mg CLA capsules should be taken 2 times a day to facilitate the transport of glucose into muscle cells. The intake of 30 grams a day of biologically active whey protein concentrate, 10-20 grams of arginine, 2400 mg of L-carnitine, and a branched-chain amino acid complex may produce a dramatic anticatabolic tissue-sparing effect and regulate immune system cytokines that are thought to cause cachexia.
A multinutrient formula should be given to all people with catabolic breakdown to provide the basic building blocks the body needs to start rebuilding.
A person at risk for developing catabolic wasting syndrome or who is already suffering from cachexia (tissue wasting) should consider the following supplements:

1. Glutamine, 2000 mg a day, available in capsule or powder form.
2. Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) 1200 mg, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) 500 mg and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) 1300 mg daily.
3. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), (76%) 2000 mg 2 times a day.
4. Biologically active whey protein concentrate, 30-60 grams a day.
5. Arginine, 10-20 grams a day in divided doses.
6. L-carnitine, 2400 mg a day in divided doses.
7. Multinutrient formula daily in divided doses.
8. Consider growth hormone, DHEA, and/or testosterone replacement therapy.
9. Branched chain amino acids, 1200-2400 mg a day.

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http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/kellymetabolicdiet13dec02.shtml

Protein (Phase One)

We have maintained throughout this treatise that cancer is nothing more than a pancreatic enzyme deficiency. The greatest cause of this deficiency is the amount of cooked protein (mutated amino acids) fed into the body. The pancreas simply cannot manufacture enough enzymes to digest the large volumes of pasteurized milk and cheese and cooked meat we eat and have any enzymes left over to digest the foreign protein we know as cancer. If people would not eat protein after 1:00 p.m., 86% of cancer in the United States could be eliminated.

However, a cancer patient should never give up all protein, as they might be tempted to do when they first learn that too much protein in the diet prevents the pancreas from ridding the body of cancer. The pancreatic enzymes themselves consist of protein (amino acids), and unless the body is fed adequate protein, the pancreatic enzyme production will stop and the cancer tissue will make a very rapid growth. The total withdrawal from protein has been the fallacy of many cancer diets, such as the "Grape Cure." This is also the reason these diets have worked so well for the first few months — no protein — thus freeing the pancreatic enzymes to digest the cancer. Yet, over prolonged periods of total abstinence from protein, the pancreas fails. Proper balance and regulated intake is the answer.

Protein Timing

It is not only imperative that the correct kind and quantity of protein be eaten, but of equal importance, it must be taken at a specific time. We have found that regular proteins should be taken at breakfast and lunch only. When this is strictly observed the pancreatic enzymes, used in digestion of protein, are used only about 6 hours. This leaves 18 hours for production of pancreatic enzymes to digest cancer tissue.

Eggs

 
Eggs are an unusually good source of protein — well balanced and the standard by which all protein is evaluated. They have all the essential amino acids in proper proportions. The cancer patient may have two eggs (preferably raw) each day at anytime.

Proper preparation of eggs is of vital importance. The eggs must be heated in the shell. We bring our eggs to a temperature of 140º F. to 160º F. (which is the normal temperature of hot tap water), for five minutes before cracking them. This destroys an enzyme just inside the membrane under the shell that prevents the biotin in the egg from functioning normally. When biotin functions properly, it greatly reduces the cholesterol risks of eating eggs.

After preheating before cracking them, the eggs may then be eaten, as you prefer them. Raw and soft-boiled eggs are the most preferable, though it isn’t absolutely necessary to eat them in these forms. In keeping with the use of as much raw food as possible, a good procedure is to eat the eggs raw in a blended drink of some kind, flavored to suit one’s taste.

Liver
Liver is a wonderful energy food and cannot be surpassed as a blood builder. It is especially crucial for leukemia and lymphoma patients, as their blood is unusually weak. However, all cancer patients can benefit from the intake of raw liver before noon each day. In the mid 1960s, when Dr. Kelley was told he was in the final stages of pancreatic and liver cancer, he found that raw liver blended into carrot juice gave him strength when everything else he ate made him feel ill.

1. The liver can be sliced about ¼ inch thick, placed on a cookie sheet, and frozen. After it is frozen, it can be cut into ¼ inch cubes. One can then use plastic sandwich bags, putting 3 to 6 tablespoons of frozen cubed liver in each bag and storing them in the freezer for daily eating. This frozen liver may be chewed or swallowed whole, followed by a sip of juice if desired. Some prefer to allow the liver to thaw and then to place a spoonful at a time in the mouth and chew it or swallow it whole with a sip of juice.

2. Liver may be placed in the blender with carrot, pineapple, or tomato juice (and seasoning of one’s preference if desired), blended, strained to remove the fiber if preferred, and used as a morning "pep-up" drink. 

Meat (Cooked and Commercially Produced)
The cancer patient will want to give up cooked and commercially produced meat such as beef, pork, lamb and fowl immediately (except for raw liver — see above). Cooked meat is harmful for the cancer patient, as the very same enzymes used in its digestion are needed for fighting and digesting the cancer. All natural, self-made enzymes your body can produce should be used to fight the cancer. Commercial meat should be avoided for another reason; it has a high female sex hormone content. For commercial reasons most animals, especially beef and fowl produced in the United States have been fed large quantities of hormones. Since an overabundance of female sex hormones initiate cancer, meat of this type should be excluded from the cancer patient’s diet.

After being on Metabolic Medicine’s Cancer Cure Diet for 9 to 12 months, when the tumors are under control, one may gradually resume consumption of meat as long as one’s metabolic type requires it (see Chapter VIII, Metabolic Typing — Discovering Your Personal Nutritional Needs) and adequate enzymes and hydrochloric acid are taken to digest it.

If and when one does go back to eating meat, it will be extremely wise to make every effort to find a source that can provide meat, which has been produced without chemical feed, hormones, antibiotics, and pesticide residues.

Seeds and Sprouts
Raw seeds and sprouts are good foods for cancer patients, and may be eaten after 1:00 p.m. We freely use brown sesame, sunflower and pumpkinseeds. Many people enjoy sprouted seeds, such as alfalfa and mung beans, buckwheat, wheat and soybeans.

The most "living foods" are sprouted seeds. When seeds are soaked in water, their protective enzyme inhibitors are removed and the enzymes, which have been "asleep," become active, and in three days the nutritional values of the seeds are increased tremendously. The seeds also become much easier to digest.

For the best in nutrition, be sure to eat your sprouts raw. Eat as many as you desire.

Beans
Dry beans of all types are a good source of food for the cancer patient, and may be used two or three times a week at anytime of the day. The best way we’ve found to prepare them is to cook them at a temperature of 200º F. We place two cups of dried beans (washed) in a bean pot to which we add five cups of RO filtered or distilled water, five garlic cloves, two tablespoons of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of sea salt or kelp, and 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper. We place the pot, (covered), in an oven overnight at 200º F.

Vegetable Juice and Fruit Juice (Phase Two)

Vegetable Juices (Fresh and Raw)
The second most important phase of our cancer diet is that of fresh raw juices. At least one quart of carrot and one pint of celery juice should be taken each day. As much other fresh raw vegetable juice in volume may be taken as desired. One should consider alfalfa, beet, cabbage, cucumber, dandelion, endive, lettuce, parsley, potato, spinach, and turnip juice. Vegetable juices are the builders of the body. Juice is better than the whole vegetable because so much energy is used to digest the whole vegetable. Juice has a proper balance of vitamins and minerals in a concentrated solution. We recommend that the juice be made fresh and used immediately.

Fruit and Fruit Juices (Fresh and Raw)
Fresh raw fruit and fruit juices are the cleansers of the body. The cancer patient may eat as much as desired of fresh raw fruit or fresh fruit juices. Small amounts of dried unsulfered fruit may also be taken.

Whole Grain Cereal (Phase Three)

We have found that it is desirable in building the body to eat a mixture of raw whole grain cereals for breakfast each morning. Mix together well in a large container one pound of each of the grains and nuts below. Store in refrigerator (if too large a quantity is mixed it will keep in a cool, dark pantry).

Multi-Grain Porridge
Objective: to obtain as many different nutrients as possible from as many different seed and grain gene pools as possible from as many different sources (fields) as possible.

Contents by equal weight of Organic:

Amaranth Pumpkin Seeds

Barley Rice, Brown long grain

Barley Flakes Rice, Brown short grain

Buckwheat Groats Rye Berries

Corn Meal Blue Spelt Berries

Corn Meal Yellow Sunflower seeds

Kamut Triticale Flakes

Millet Wheat, Hard Red Spring

Oat Groats Wheat, Soft Pastry

Adding Almonds, English Walnuts and Bananas makes a complete tasty meal.

Directions

Daily at bedtime:

A. Grind 1/3 Cup porridge grains in seed mill.

B. Add 1 Cup boiling water. Stir well.

C. Let soak at room temperature overnight.

D. For breakfast add fruit, concentrated fruit juice and/or unheated honey to taste.

Flax Seed Oil (Phase Four)

Take two tablespoons per day of unrefined, fresh flaxseed oil for the first month of Metabolic Medicine’s Cancer Cure Program, and one tablespoon per day from the second month of the program to completion. (Formula F provides Essential Fatty Acids — Essential Fatty Acids must be provided in the diet, as the human body cannot make them.)

Unrefined Flaxseed oil, in practice, inhibits tumor growth and is useful in the natural treatment of cancer. EFAs, from refined oil, on the other hand, help promote tumor growth (due to trans- fats present in all American commercial vegetable oil). All oils except unrefined, fresh olive and flaxseed oil are forbidden on Metabolic Medicine’s Cancer Cure Diet.

Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine’s Cancer Cure Diet
The Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine’s Cancer Cure Diet is:

"Take nothing into the body that has been cooked or processed except items mentioned."

When a person eats anything processed he or she is not only eating "dead food" (those in which the enzymes have been destroyed), but he or she is adding a second very destructive force to his body, the destructive force of food preservatives. This may not be too significant for a normal healthy person, but for the cancer patient it may mean life or death. The liver must detoxify, destroy, or metabolize all foreign substances from the body. When one eats foods with preservatives, it adds an extra burden upon the liver, which the cancer patient cannot accept.

Milk
The cancer patient must give up pasteurized cows’ milk forever, except in the form of raw (unpasteurized), homemade yogurt, and for a while must avoid raw milk too, except raw (unpasteurized) goats’ milk. Cows’ milk, like meat, has too high a protein content and pasteurization compounds the problem as it alters or mutates the protein. Pasteurized cows’ milk requires too many pancreatic enzymes for digestion.

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Alternative Cancer Therapies (Aloe,

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/altthrpy.htm

info@mnwelldir.org 

Mesothelioma is a dreaded cancer that is nearly always caused by just one factor: exposure to asbestos. It's an unfortunate truth that millions of Americans and people all over the world have been exposed to toxic levels of asbestos potentially causing malignant mesothelioma or lung cancer directly caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers. Legal options may be available, contact a Mesothelioma lawyer

Perhaps we should call these "unproven therapies" since many of them are on the American Cancer Society's infamous black list. Simply because something is "unproven" does not mean that it has been "disproven." And if a therapy fits the following—
1. It works.
2. It's inexpensive.
3. Few, if any, negative side effects.
4. It's not patentable.
—odds are it will stay on the black list because no one is going to spend a dime to prove its effectiveness. Medicine is a business. Cancer is a business. The FDA is running a protection racket, protecting drug companies and the AMA from anyone with an inexpensive and effective treatment for money making diseases.
The following therapies are not guaranteed to work, at least by us. They are presented to you for information purposes only. For many, their effectiveness has been shown in limited clinical trials, but each one, by itself, is not enough. Everything works, when you do everything.
Using an alternative therapy is not holistic, it is simply one rung in the ladder you must climb to reach your goal of perfect health. Some of these therapies can be used as preventative measures, but, even a preventative measure can help to fight an existing cancer, when used with a life style change and other therapies. Work your program! Top
Please Note: WE DO NOT SELL ANY OF THESE.
If we know where to get the therapy, we post it. If not, you've got to go find it on your own. 


714-X
In the 1930s, somatids (Latin for "tiny bodies") were discovered. They were called the basis of all life, and according to Gaston Naessens, they are "probably the precursor of DNA, and undoubtedly capable of transforming energy into matter." Hard to tell if they are really the basis of all life, but they cannot be destroyed by 3000º temperatures or by HCL (300 years after they dig you up, they will find live somatids), though bombarding them with electrons will destroy them, thus they were never discovered with the electron microscope. Gaston Naessens, who was chased out of France for practicing medicine without a license, took an interest in the life cycle of somatids. He developed the Somatoscope which was able to observe the living organism with 160 Angstrom resolution which is 3 time more powerful that the best electron microscopes at that time. He has produced a video explaining the life cycle of the somatid. Spending over a decade researching somatids, he has also discovered that the first sign of disease is when the somatids begin producing yeast, and veer off their normal three stage life cycle to a sixteen stage life cycle.
He developed 714X, a camphor derivative, that returns somatids to their normal life cycle and, according to his studies, reverses degenerative diseases. Additionally, Gaston Naessens has developed ANA-10 from his work in somatidian biology for use in AIDS, and clinical trials are underway. You should pick up a copy of You Don't Have to Die—Unraveling the AIDS Myth, by Leon Chaitow, ND, DO and James Stroheker. In it you will read about Barry, who had full-blown AIDS, went to Naessens and was put on a detoxication program, dietary changes, supplements and lifestyle changes. He received 714-X injections and regained full health.
For more information, you can contact Cose, Inc. at 5270 Rue Fontain, Rock Forest, Quebec, Canada J1N 2B6, phone (819) 564-7883. His video is fascinating and well done, showing the life cycle of the somatids, and printed materials will offer you a look at the results of his research as well as an explanation of darkfield microscopy. The video costs $25.00, and if you ask, they will send you a list of clinics using 714-X, but all of them are outside of this country. Look to our neighbors to the North and South for treatment with 714-X. Top

 
ABM Mushroom
In the seventies, two researchers from Penn State visited the Sao Paulo, Brazil area and discovered the local natives to be extremely healthy with a very low rate of disease. The longevity rate was disproportionately high with people living well over 100. Their secret? It was a simple mushroom, they told the researchers, the ABM mushroom (Agaricus Blazei Murill).
Subsequent studies over the next 25 years have shown the ABM to stimulate the immune system and promote natural mechanisms to battle infectious disease and cancers. ABM stimulates lymphocyte T-cell and Helper T-cell production. The polysaccharide contained in ABM stimulates production of interferon and interleukin that indirectly function to destroy and prevent the proliferation of cancer cells. Additionally, ABM turned out to be a very powerful antiviral agent preventing viruses from entering tissues.
Normally, the polysaccharides found in fungus only affect solid cancers, however the polysaccharide in ABM is effective against Ehrich's ascites carcinoma, sigmoid colonic cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and liver cancer as well as against solid cancers.
In Japan, ABM, in an injectable form, was found to eliminate all cancerous tumors in 90% of the experimental mice. Additionally, when the mice were fed ABM as a preventative and then injected with a very powerful cancer causing agent (Sarcoma 180), 99.4% of them showed no tumor growth. Conventional medicine has no preventive this powerful. 
The studies in Japan showed ABM to be 80% more effective than the world's number one cancer drug, PSK. It contains much higher levels of beta glucans than the other medicinal mushrooms (Maitake, Shiitake, and Reishi) and stimulates NK (Natural Killer) cell activity. 
It should be noted that the beta-glucans in these mushrooms work best when taken with vitamin C.
The studies in Japan were so successful that today Japan is now buying over 90% of the available ABM from Brazil.
The ABM mushroom is available in the US and you can check out the following links:
Ultimate Immune has a Glucan Infusion that is far superior to most ABM Mushroom products (always take with Vitamin C).
ABM freeze dried extract in capsules: http://www.hplus.com/a36.html  
To order mushrooms in bulk, wholesale from China: http://www.abmcn.com/   
RF1000 is an ABM Mushroom product that also contains Cats Claw and Pau D'Arco. Jana Shiloh, a homeopathic consultant in Arizona handles all manner of ABM Mushroom products. You can write to life@sedona.net, visit her web site: www.alternative-health-4u.com or phone her at 888.282.9362.    
New products have recently been made using this wonderful mushroom. The first is probably the most potent extract thus far is RAAX11. It is currently being studied in Brazil with some astonishing results for breast cancers. Another is OPC Rainforest Mixture has, among other things, Oleander in it.
Both of these, and more, MIGHT be available here: http://takesun.com; we say "might" because these people are nearly impossible to get a hold of, and they have no means of purchasing their products over the internet.

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One of the largest suppliers in the world is www.agaricus.net. They have links to sites that sell their products and you can also become a distributor.
A special note: Japan's chief chemotherapy for cancer comes from a mushroom and is nontoxic. Japan employs chemotherapeutic drugs that are toxic only after trying the nontoxic therapies first. At the time of this writing, according to the World Health Organization's statistics, Japan stands first in overall longevity while the US stands at 24th.  
Our friends at Mitobi Enterprises are now your one stop mushroom shop. They now carry the ABM mushroom and if you look all over the web, you'll see that they have the best prices available. And no, we do not get a kickback from their sales, but please, if you need your mushrooms and you need them fast, this is the place to go: www.mitobi.com. 
Please note that though these mushrooms are called the ABM Mushroom, because mushroom classification is based upon few criteria, these are NOT exactly the same as the mushrooms from Brazil. There are farms in China now, and all over the world growing these ABM mushrooms, but they are "not exactly" the same mushrooms from Brazil. They are close, and they do contain healing properties, but the original ABM mushroom can only be grown in the conditions of a rainforest.
Here is what Mitobi publishes about the ABM mushroom: 
In the 1970's researchers noticed that an unusual percentage of people in a small town in Brazil (Piedate, in Sao Paulo) had a very low rate of a number of serious adult diseases. The common factor in these people's diets was the ABM (Agaricus Blazei Murill) mushroom known to the locals as 'Cogumelo de Deus' or 'Mushroom of God'.
Researchers have isolated large amounts of polysaccharides in this mushroom which appear to significantly boost the immune system. Polysaccharides are made up of individual sugar molecules chained together to form larger sugars. The polysaccharides appear to activate a type of white blood cell known as a macrophage which filters the blood by destroying viruses, bacteria, and perhaps even cancer cells. Shiitake, Maitake and Reishi also contain these polysaccharides.
ABM is also known as Himematsutake and can be used in your cooking the same way as other mushrooms are. Daily dosage for normal body maintenance and prevention is about 6 grams (about ¼ of a dry mushroom) or 40 grams (aprox. 2 mushrooms) for serious illness. Tea is also a popular way of taking the mushroom. Use about 1 mushroom per liter (1 quart) and boil it for an hour. Drink a cup a day, warm or cold. Take vitamin C in conjunction with your medicinal mushrooms to assist in the absorption of the beneficial properties of the mushroom. 
We must also inform you that we've spoken with a naturopathic physician who visited this "small" village and reported back to us that it's not all that small, and happen so be situated just a few miles from a very large, cosmopolitan city. We originally published the myths surrounding the discovery of this mushroom by Japanese researchers; how there was an overwhelming population of people over eighty and into their nineties; and how certain diseases were non existent to this "small village." However, our source tells us that, even though the research on the mushroom has to be accepted, the myths surrounding the discovery of the ABM are probably overblown.
AHCC is a combination of mushroom extracts that is use more than chemotherapy in Japan. We list information on AHCC in our section (within these pages) on Mushrooms.
NOW Foods has the most inexpensive form of AHHC we've found. I love NOW Food products because they are the best of the cheapest (or cheapest of the best). One reason they are so inexpensive is that they do NOT advertize and they have NO sales staff.

Aloe Vera

Aloe Vera is a wonderful detoxifier. Its anti-cancer value has been demonstrated in study after study. It is also an immunomodulator, meaning it will balance your immune system. I recently ran into an individual who was having colon polyps removed every visit to his proctologist. He began a regimen of 8oz of Aloe vera daily, and on his next trip to the proctologist, they found no polyps.
There are many Aloe Vera products on the market, and the FDA hasn't helped much by allowing companies to claim 100% Aloe Vera juice if they add only one tablespoon of 100% Aloe Vera juice to a gallon of water. Additionally, companies can claim their product to be cold processed if they use HTST (High Temperature Short Time) processing. It took us years of research to find R PUR Aloe 18X Concentrate (whole leaf, cold processed, and powerful stuff, yet good tasting―four ounces a day is recommended).
In an article by Dr Bruce Eric Hedendal, D.C., Ph.D. he points out the effects of orally consumed Aloe Vera juice: "Urinary indican values decreased, indicating lowered bowel bacterial conversion of tryptophan and possible improved protein digestion and absorption, as well as reduced bowel putrefaction. This change, by itself, could help prevent colon cancer."
And finally, Dr. H. R. McDaniel, M.D., pathologist and researcher at the Dallas-Fort Worth Medical Center, has said, "The use of Aloe Vera will be the most important single step forward in the treatment of diseases in the history of mankind." Top


Anticoagulants (Prevent Metastases)
In a study of 300 breast cancer patients on anticoagulants [first reported to us in Alternatives], one eighth of them died from breast cancer, but not one developed metastases. Anticoagulants stop fibrin from forming. Fibrin (a natural substance needed for blood to clot) has a pretty significant role in the development of metastases: it coats maverick cells  in the blood stream, and thus protects them from the immune system, and it gives off a signal to start angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels (which a metastasis would need in order to root and grow).

Antineoplastons
Antineoplastons are a non toxic therapy developed by Dr Stanislaw R Burzynski, MD, PhD which are currently undergoing FDA monitored Phase II Trials. They are slated to be approved by the FDA for certain cancers, and a pill form has already been approved and is available through prescription.
To read more on Antineoplastons, click here: Antineoplastons. 

Antioxidants
We mention antioxidants here because some readers will feel we've overlooked an important factor to preventing and fighting cancer. Cancer begins in the cell. Cellular changes are brought about by toxins, alcohol, smoke, malnutrition, dehydration, free radicals, and the aging process. Antioxidants turn these free radicals and their precursors (the toxins) into harmless chemicals. Your antioxidants are vitamins C, D, A, E, and selenium. New antioxidants are being discovered (invented) all the time: Pycnogenol, Amrit Kalash, Microhydrin just to name a few. Our most recent discovery is Electrolyzed water (link temporarily out of commission). Prevention is the key here, and incidentally, antioxidants also play a large role in the prevention heart disease and strokes. Top

Alkalinization research

http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/flyer.html


Understanding Cancer
Cancer does not develop for some unknown reason. Once you understand why and how it develops, and learn how to support your body so that it may more effectively fight cancer, it may never be too late to get healthy again. (No matter what type, they have the same underlying causes.) Cancer is a natural process where, to put it simply, an overworked and weakened immune system cannot kill it as fast as it is multiplying. Toxin, carcinogens, radiation, even viruses, combined with an unhealthy internal environment , and in conjunction with a weakened immune system, cause more cells to turn cancerous, and allows them to thrive.


You must change your internal environment to one in which cancer cannot thrive. Just as we couldn't live on Mars with no oxygen, cancer can't exist in cells where there is enough oxygen. Unfortunately, all too often our cells are low in oxygen. Fortunately it is possible to increase the levels of oxygen in cells, thus, making your body's internal environment a place where cancer can't easily survive.

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Immune System Support for Cancer
Cancer is a perfectly natural process. A very small percentage of cells in every person who has ever lived turn cancerous. And the body usually gets rid of those cancerous cells before they do harm. This process has been going on for eons. It is only when more cancer cells are being created than the body can get rid of that the problem comes. With increased toxins, viruses, carcinogens, etc. our immune systems have become significantly overworked and weakened.


The underlying cause of all cancer, no matter what type, may have been discovered by Otto Warburg over 50 years ago. He actually won two Nobel Prizes for work proving cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen respiration in cells. He stated in "The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer" that the cause of cancer is no longer a mystery, we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.


"Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

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Research Implications

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." J.B. Kizer, a biochemist and physicist at Gungnir Research in Portsmith, Ohio explained, "Since Warburg's discovery, this difference in respiration has remained the most fundamental (and some say, only) physiological difference consistently found between normal and cancer cells.


A nurse who works in medical research said, "It's so simple. I don't know why I never thought of it before. When we're working with cell cultures in the lab, if we want the cells to mutate, we turn down the oxygen, to stop them, we turn the oxygen back up."


Ma Lan, MD and Joel Wallach DVD, point out that one type of white blood cells kills cancer cells by injecting oxygen creating hydrogen peroxide into the cells. Looking at cancer in this light, it makes sense to drastically increase cellular oxygen levels and to detoxify the body so that more cells stay oxygenated.

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ACID vs. ALKALINITY

In chemistry, alkali solutions (pH over 7.0) tend to absorb oxygen, while acids (pH under 7.0) tend to expel oxygen. For example, a mild alkali can absorb over 100 times as much oxygen as a mild acid. Therefore, when the body becomes acidic by dropping below pH 7.0 (note: all body fluids, except for stomach and urine, are supposed to be mildly alkaline at pH 7.4), oxygen is driven out of the body thereby, according to Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg, inducing cancer. Stomach fluids must remain acidic to digest food and urine must remain acidic to remove wastes from the body. Blood is the exception. Blood must always remain at an alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can retain its oxygen. When adequate mineral consumption is in the diet, the blood is supplied the crucial minerals required to maintain an alkaline pH of 7.4.


However when insufficient mineral consumption is in the diet, the body is forced to rob Peter (other body fluids) to pay Paul (the blood). In doing so, it removes crucial minerals, such as calcium, from the saliva, spinal fluids, kidneys, liver, etc., in order to maintain the blood at pH 7.4. This causes the de-mineralized fluids and organs to become acidic and therefore anaerobic, thus inducing not only cancer, but a host of other degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus, etc.. Everyone knows that the human body is made up of 78% water by weight, and that water is hydrogen and oxygen gases. When nitrogen gas and carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and methane gases are added, the total gas in the body by weight becomes over 95%. Almost half of the remaining 5% that makes up the human body and controls all biological functions is the mineral calcium. No other mineral is capable of performing as many biological functions as is calcium. Calcium is involved in almost every biological function. This amazing mineral provides the electrical energy for the heart to beat and for all muscle movement. It is the calcium ion that is responsible for feeding every cell. It does this by latching on to seven nutrient molecules and one water molecule and pulls them through the nutrient channel. It then detaches its load and returns to repeat the process. Another important biological job for calcium is DNA replication, which is crucial for maintaining youth and a healthy body. DNA replication is the basis for all body repair and can only occur on a substrate of calcium.


Thus, low calcium means low body repair and premature aging. As important as all these and hundreds of other biological functions of calcium are to human health, none is more important than the job of pH control. Calcium to acid, is like water to a fire. Calcium quickly destroys oxygen robbing acid in the body fluids. Thus, the more calcium, the more oxygen, and therefore, the less cancer and other degenerative disease.

Calcium is the Key

In the 1950s, Dr. Carl Reich M.D. discovered that his patients were able to cure themselves of almost all degenerative diseases by consuming several times the RDA of calcium, magnesium, vitamin-D and other nutrients. Dr. Reich was the first North American doctor to prescribe mega doses of minerals and vitamins to his patients and is considered by many to be the father of preventive medicine. By the 1980s Dr. Reich had cured thousands, but lost his license for explaining that the consumption of mineral nutrients, such as calcium, could prevent cancer and a host of other diseases. This concept was considered too simple to accept by the medical wisdom of the day. However, by the late 1990s, other medical men of wisdom were also discovering that calcium supplements could indeed reverse cancer.

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http://home.earthlink.net/~anitaastrologer/bicarbcancer.htm


Baking Soda (the clean kind from the Health Food store that doesn't
contain Alum) is cyanide to cancer cells!
"Most of us are going to be surprised to find out that there is an
oncologist in Rome Italy, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, destroying cancer tumors
with sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate is safe, extremely
inexpensive and unstoppably effective when it comes to cancer tissues.
It's an irresistible chemical, cyanide to cancer cells for it hits the
cancer cells with a shock wave of alkalinity, which allows much more
oxygen into the cancer cells than they can tolerate. Cancer cells cannot
survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen. Sodium bicarbonate is,
for all intent and purposes, an instant killer of tumors. Full treatment
takes only days, as does another cancer treatment that heats the cancer
cells with laser generated heat."
"The extra cellular (interstitial) pH (pHe) of solid tumors' is
significantly more acidic compared to normal tissues. [ii]"
It's all about PH:
"Studies have shown how manipulation of tumor pH with sodium bicarbonate
enhances some forms of chemotherapy.[iii] Proteins can be modified both
in vivo and in vitro by increases in acidity. In fact pH is the
regulatory authority that controls most cellular processes. The pH
balance of the human bloodstream is recognized by medical physiology
texts as one of the most important biochemical balances in all of human
body chemistry. pH is the acronym for "Potential Hydrogen". In
definition, it is the degree of concentration of hydrogen ions in a
substance or solution. It is measured on a logarithmic scale from 0 to
14. Higher numbers mean a substance is more alkaline in nature and there
is a greater potential for absorbing more hydrogen ions. Lower numbers
indicate more acidity with less potential for absorbing hydrogen ions."
"Our body pH is very important because pH controls the speed of our
body's biochemical reactions. It does this by controlling the speed of
enzyme activity as well as the speed that electricity moves through our
body. The higher (more alkaline) the pH of a substance or solution, the
more electrical resistance that substance or solution holds. Therefore,
electricity travels slower with higher pH. If we say something has an
acid pH, we are saying it is hot and fast. Alkaline pH on the other
hand, biochemically speaking, is slow and cool."
"Patients receiving sodium bicarbonate achieved urine pHs of 6.5 as
opposed to 5.6 with those receiving sodium chloride. This alkalinization
is theorized to have a protective effect against the formation of
free-radicals that may cause nephropathy.[v] Dr. Michael Metro"
"The pH scale goes from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral. Below 7 is acid
and above 7 is alkaline. The blood, lymph and cerebral spinal fluid in
the human body are designed to be slightly alkaline at a pH of 7.4."
"At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5
cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live. This has given rise
to a variety of treatments based on increasing the alkalinity of the
tissues such as vegetarian diet, the drinking of fresh fruit and
vegetable juices, and dietary supplementation with alkaline minerals
such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, cesium and rubidium. But nothing
can compare to the instant alkalinizing power of sodium bicarbonate for
safe and effective treatment of cancer."
"Like magnesium chloride or sulfates are excellent emergency medicines,
basic chemicals, nutritional in nature, sodium bicarbonate is a
nutritional medicine meaning it cannot and will not end up controlled by
CODEX. To control bicarbonate they would have to demand mothers stop
making cake with it. We might thus identify sodium bicarbonate as an
emergency medicine for cancer with the above supporting approaches
working on broader levels to help overall physiology change to a degree
where body chemistry is unfavorable for new cancer growth."
However:
"Cancer seems to grow slowly in a highly acid environment (because the
acids cause it to partially destroy itself) and may actually grow more
quickly as your body becomes more alkaline prior to reaching the healthy
pH slightly above 7.4 where the cancer becomes dormant. Therefore it is
important to get pH above 7.4 QUICKLY. Once one has achieved a pH above
7.4, it is useful to monitor saliva pH regularly to ensure that the body
remains sufficiently alkaline."
"The therapeutic treatment of bicarbonate salts can be administered
orally, through aerosol, intravenously and through catheter for direct
targeting of tumors." All of Dr. Tullio Simoncini's treatments with
sodium bicarbonate are directed as specifically as possible to the
organs involved, for example, vaginally as well as abdominally into the
peritoneal space for cervical cancer, through the hepatic artery for
liver cancer in order to get the solution as close to the affected area
as possible. Sodium bicarbonate administered orally, via aerosol or
intravenously can achieve positive results in most tumors, including the
brain, while others, such as the serious ones of the bones can remain
unaffected. Dr. Simoncini, with the help of interventionist radiologists
was able to reach those areas of the body that had previously been
inaccessible. This was achieved through positioning appropriate
catheters either in cavities for peritoneum and pleura, or in arteries
to reach other organs.[vii]
"Sodium bicarbonate injection is also indicated in the treatment of
metabolic acidosis which may occur in severe renal disease, uncontrolled
diabetes, and circulatory insufficiency due to shock or severe
dehydration, extracorporeal circulation of blood, cardiac arrest and
severe primary lactic acidosis. Sodium bicarbonate is further indicated
in the treatment of drug intoxications, including barbiturates. Sodium
carbonate has been found effective in treating poisoning or overdose
from many chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs by negating the cardiotoxic
and neurotoxic effects. [ix] Sodium bicarbonate is useful in treating
neurological disorders in children."
"pH of the blood is the most important factor to determine the state of
the microorganisms in the blood."
"The closer the pH is to 7.35 - 7.45, the higher our level of health and
well being and our ability to resist states of disease."
Sodium bicarbonate is an anti-fungin substance that is very diffusible
and thus very effective.
In short:
"Cancer is actually a four-letter word ACID, especially lactic acid as a
waste product due to the low oxygen level and waste products of yeast
and fungus."
Bicarb-BalanceTM (patent pending) is a mineral dietary supplement of
potassium bicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate, in a convenient tablet
form, designed for slow release in the intestine.
1.Potassium and sodium are stronger alkaline minerals than calcium and
magnesium. Potassium and sodium in Bicarb-BalanceTM can release calcium
build-ups in stones and arthritis.
2.Taking Bicarb-BalanceTM is like trickle charging the battery of life
to maintain the bicarbonate level in the blood.
It is this reduction of bicarbonates in the blood that affects blood
flow and makes it difficult to manage the continuous outpour of acid,
making it difficult to eliminate acid waste from the body and thereby
developing many acid-induced degenerative diseases.
3.Bicarb-BalanceTM can assist in balancing acid wastes in protecting
against:
¨ blood clots
¨ acid reflux
¨ heart disease
¨ osteoporosis
¨ gout
¨ diabetes
¨ high blood pressure
¨ kidney disease
¨ cancer
¨ strokes
Alzheimer's disease is nothing but a slow acidification of the brain.
All these diseases are caused by systemic acidosis, which means
insufficient bicarbonates in the blood.''


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http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/cancer5.html

One guy's description of his wife's treatment course.




Bicarbonates are ok for neturalizing lactic acid and uric acid that leaks into cellular spaces, phew,...less pain,... but I had been using this baking soda for two years, and is probably why it never spread venously and she outlived her prognosis until that horrible doctors visit.

So, yes baking soda ok! But wasn't the magic bullet but better than traditional medicine,...what a brain number that is that baking soda was better than modern science!

So we then used intense alkalinization using very heavy buffers that were very harsh and alkaline, very dangerous stuff if not instituted correctly.

Also, DMSO- cant say enough about this, if you don't put a few drops in your supplements,...you are just plain naive, foolish, haven't read enough research yet.

In the End, we layered alkaline, oxygen, blood sugar strategies all at once, immune boosted and detoxed using chlorophyll, and then went in for chemo,.....and my wife breezed through, although first two were rough, but they all got easier. (Thank you dmso and chlorophyll)