She is perhaps best known for her role as Catwoman in the 1960s "Batman" series. During her career, Kitt endured a 10-year blacklisting owing to her sharp criticism of the Vietnam War. Today, the 79-year-old singer is battling colon cancer. She told the New York Post, "I never expect anything to happen to me. "I'm the healthiest person in the world."

I too had colon cancer and it spread to my liver , lungs and pancreas. Now it is completely gone. I did 5 weeks radiation, 11 days chemo then went to alternative treatment.

With alkaline diet (and water)to not give it a good place to live (the cancer). No sugar to feed it. Immunocal to build the immune system. Cesium to make the cancer even more alkaline. Graviola also as an immune system builder and attacks the cancer. Juicing (specific type). And a few other things. I am free of cancer now.

But you have to be committed to the regime.
thx
Dennis

A very lonely place. Outside the operation theaters.

Entrance, Ward 4.

Many a meal taken here, the hospital canteen. And many a friend was made here too. Picture shows the cleaner ladies having their buka puasa. I can count them as my friends now.

No, its not an advertisement for Starbucks. Sept 18 2008. Re-admission to hospital. Re-stitching of the wound that did not quite heal. Two operations in a month, not for the faint of heart nor a body wrecked by cancer.

Sept 26, 2008. Breathing problems, back to ICU for the 2nd time in a month. Doctors make a dire prognosis - "She doesn't have much time left..." Decision was made to start the B17 protocol, very likely the first time this is being allowed and done in a hospital in the country.

5th day on B17. Dramatic improvement in health, all tubes removed. Here we see the very attentive nurses giving the all smiles.

The B17 protocol stashed away in a little cupboard by the hospital bed. Still, the doctors are very impressed with whatever it is in those bottles. Two doctors express (one in writing on the medical log) "its a miracle."

Discharged. The Ward 4 nurses make a rare gesture - escorting the patient all the way out to the hospital's main entrance. Words cannot express the care and attention given by these lovely ladies.

It was the young surgeon who on September 30 pulled me aside and told me that Rokiah's condition was very serious and that "she may not have much time left." This same surgeon wrote in her medical log a few days later (after the B17 protocol started) that "its a miracle."

Today, on the eve of her discharge, the doctors made what would be their last visit to Rokiah's now too familiar hospital bed. The first, the lady doctor, came by when Rokiah was having her breakfast. Besides the usual "how are you today" greeting, she also smiled and knowingly remarked "It's a miracle, you know."

The second visitor was the primary surgeon. He came to the ward when the nurse was helping give Rokiah her 9am B17 "medication." (The B17 regime starts at 7am and ends at 10pm - all in, a total of 9 feedings.) His remark? Nodding to the nurse, the surgeon said "Yes, give her more of that stuff!"

Is this really a miracle?

Time will tell.

September 4: The long journey from Johor Baru to the hospital near Subang.
September 5: Major colon surgery carried out.
September 13: Discharged from hospital.
September 19: Re-admitted, because of wound infection - fluids discharging from wound.
September 20: 2nd operation in a month to re-stitch the wound.
September 25: Developed breathing problems, doctors are concerned. Returned to ICU and will remain there for another 3 1/2 days. Heart rate: 128-130. Oxygen level (with oxygen aid): 96%
September 28: Back to a normal ward, breathing only slightly improved.
September 29: Doctors express grave concern over her continued gasping for air. One even opined that if the breathing gets worse, everybody should be prepared for the worst.
September 30: With almost no medical options left should the breathing become worse, I made a decision, with the approval of her three doctors, to start B17.

There's Always Another Option.....

October 1: Hari Raya. Started 19-day B17 protocol/regime.
October 2: Breathing improves. Respiratory doctor expresses surprise at her recovery.
October 3: Heart rate drops from 130 to 110. Swelling in arms disappears.
October 4: Breathing without any oxygen aid. Heart rate: 105, oxygen (on her own steam): 98%.
October 5: All tubes removed except urinal tube (drip tube, oxygen tube, intravenous feeding tube).
October 6: Last tube removed (urinal tube). Stand-by surgeon writes "miracle" in medical log.
October 7: Heart rate: 100, oxygen 98-100%. Starts to walk, with assistance.
October 8: Swollen legs (from Sept 1) subsides completely. Continues with walking exercises.
October 9: Primary surgeon says she can be discharged by October 11. I chose to let her stay one more day in hospital, so that the physio can continue with the walking exercises.

October 12: Discharged.

DO READ: A World Without Cancer

B17 has very likely saved a life.

I am a rational, educated individual. I do not believe in magical cures. I do not believe in voodoo, black or white magic or using helmets to knock the devil out of one's head. I do not think too highly of bomohs or any medicine man promising a quick cure.

But I believe in B17 because I have personally witnessed, on a day-to-day basis, the almost magical improvement in the health of a person suffering from stage 4 colon cancer.

http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/

http://www.oasisofhope.com/

Meet Your Fat

Fats are always complicated to explain and to comprehend mainly because they are not a single homogeneous group. Some fats are good, and some are bad. But things are not that simple. Some good fats can cause problems if taken in certain amounts and with a certain combination. When talking a bout fats, there are so many terms involved that making sense of the whole picture is despairing.

It's almost impossible to skip the biochemistry of lipids to understand how they work. I will try to simplify this aspect as much as possible. Our bodies can manufacture all the fatty acids they need except for essential fatty acids (EFAs). There are two EFAs: linoleic acid (Omega-6) and linolenic acid (Omega-3). The body needs to get these acids from the diet.

Both EFAs are precursors to prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are hormones found in virtually all tissues and organs. They are synthesized in the cell from the essential fatty acids (EFAs) and, among many functions, they have the capability to regulate tumor growth. By varying the ration of EFAs, it is possible to manipulate prostaglandin synthesis and therefore affect tumor growth.

Amount of Fat

First of all, the total amount of fat in the diet is very important. Too much fat in the diet is linked with increased tumor growth. All fats are potentially harmful if eaten excessively, they stimulate the spread of cancer cells, and inhibit the immune system. When fat intake is decreased, the immune system activity increases. In hormone related cancers such as prostate or breast cancer a very low fat diet slows the spread of cancer cells.

During the 1950s, when Japan's cancer rates were very low, fat intake represented less than 7% of the calories in the Japanese diet. In rural China, the average fat intake today is approximately 19% of daily calories. The China Study examined provinces with fat intakes ranging from 6 to 24% of calories and found that breast cancer was more common on those provinces at the higher part of the range. Today's American Cancer Society recommendation of a 30% fat intake is simply too dangerous to follow.

When a high fat diet is followed, one of the most powerful natural forms of estrogen (Estradiol) is increased in the body by up to 30%. Many hormone related cancers like breast and prostate are fueled by estrogen. The higher the production of estrogen, the higher the stimulation of cancer proliferation. Simply put, on high-fat diets, estrogen levels increase; on low-fat diets, they decrease. In dozens of animal studies, a high-fat diet has been shown to stimulate the growth of cancers. Another study from the British Journal of Cancer showed that with a 15% low-fat diet, strictly followed for two years, estradiol levels lowered by 20%.

The Kind of Fat

The type of fat in the diet is also important. Diets that contain more linolenic acid (Omega-3) than linoleic acid (Omega-6) will slow tumor growth and increase immune system activity. Omega-6 promotes a type of hormone (prostaglandin E2) that stimulates cancer growth and reduces the ability of macrophages and natural killer cells to kill cancer cells and tumors. Linolenic acid (Omega-3) competes with Omega-6 fatty acid molecules for the same enzymes.

Udo Erasmus explains how literally all the processed fats we ingest not only decrease the healthy Omega-3s, but also alter their molecular structure becoming highly toxic for our health. Heat, hydrogenation, light, and oxygen produce chemically altered fat products that are toxic to our cells. Products altered by processing include margarine, shortenings, partially hydrogenated oils, deep-fried oils, refined and deodorized oils, cooking oils, oils exposed to light or oxygen during storage, oils fried in food preparation, and oils that have become rancid from exposure to air after opening. These fats kill people.

Terrorist Fats

You should absolutely avoid trans fats, meaning trans fatty acids or partially hydrogenated oils. Trans fatty acids may be one of the major causes of cancer. They become part of the cell's wall (replacing cholesterol) making it rigid and sticky and forcing the cell to turn anaerobic (i.e. the first step to becoming cancerous) because of their inability to take in oxygen. Like refined salt, these fats also destroy the electrical charge of red blood cells, causing them to "stick" together.

Fat, by various mechanisms, makes the blood sticky.  The body converts fat into body fat quickly and easyly: 100 calories of ingested fat can be converted to 97 calories of body fat by burning a measly 3 calories. In digestion, fats are broken down and emulsified into small drops called chylomicrons. Different from other nutrients, such as glucose and amino acids, which are carried directly to the liver by the bloodstream, fats are absorbed into the lymphatic system, a slow-moving auxiliary circulation to the blood system. The lymphatic system bypasses the liver and empties the fat  into the blood at the heart level. Now, the heart pumps the fat throughout the body within the bloodstream. The bottom line: consuming an excessive amount of fat means a clogged lymphatic system and a bloodstream full of fat.

Once in your blood, fat coats the cells in the bloodstream and makes them bond together. The action of red blood cells clumping together and slowing the general circulation is called Rouleaux Formation, or red blood cell aggregation. Most frequently it's described as "sticky blood cell syndrome". This gumming of red blood cells prevents oxygen molecules from entering the cells. The result is a deprivation of oxygen, which is the main factor that turns a healthy cell into a cancerous one. Cancer cells thrive in a oxygen-deprived environment. Any substance that diminishes cellular oxygen will foster the growth of cancer cells. Estimates of such oxygen loss after a single high-fat meal have been calculated at 30%.

Plus, fat is an appetite stimulant: the more you eat, the more you want. Consequently, the more fot in the diet, the more changes you'll crave for empty-glucose-laden calories that eventually might fuel your cancer.

Good Fats

The healing fats in cancer include EFAs and the fresh, unrefined oils that contain them. EFAS, particularly Omega-3s, enhance oxygen use in cells, decrease tumor formation, slow tumor growth, decrease the spread of cancer cells (metastasis), and extend the patient's survival time. In clinical practice, they are used to help dissolve tumors. So your target is to reduce the amount of fat to a minimum, and only ingest unrefined, raw, and rich sources of Omega-3s. And unrefined means as much directly from the natural source as possible. You should know that even vegetable oils are controversial because they have gone through a certain level of processing and denaturalization, plus they have been separated from their natural fibers which, among many things, bind with dangerous estrogen-cancer-causing molecules. Rely on natural sources of fat, rather than their oils, no matter how "cold-pressed" they had been.

The Case Against Vegetable Oil

Dr Joel Furhman is very clear in his approach to vegetable oils. We are hearing today from all kind of sources that we don't need to go on a low-fat diet, we merely need to replace the bad fats with the good ones. We are still cofused and receive conflicting messages. He considers that vegetable oils are not health foods. We consume 60 grams of added fat in the form of vegetable oils, which is over 500 calories a day from this form of no-fiber, empty calories. Refined, unrefined, even cold pressed; these oils are too rich in calories and too low in nutrients. Vegetable oils are 100% fat. There are studies that suggest that even vegetable oils increase the levels of estrogen in our bodies and rise the levels on free radicals. Vegetable oils are too fat-concentrated, they pack too many calories. Unprocessed  foods such as nuts, seeds, and vegetables, utilized as a source of fat instead of vegetable oil, contain cancer fighting phytosterols and precious fiber that are completely absent from vegetable oils.

Dr Joel Furhman states that if you are thin, exercise a lot, and are obviously disease-free, 1 tablespoon of a EFA rich unrefined, cold-pressed, organic vegetable oil is no big deal. Otherwise, the best choice is no vegetable oil at all. I agree with this approach, unless you follow the Budwig Protocol, a proven anticancer treatment).

Omega-3 Source

In Udos book, he refers to hemp seed oil as the best-balanced plant source of both EFAs. However, if you have cancer you might actually be better off finding a source of higher Omega-3 vs Omega-6 ratio. Cancer also alters our own lipid metabolism and makes Omega-6 EFAs more available. So hemp seed oil is good if you are healthy, but not the best if you are fighting a disease.

For quite some time I keep reading that flax seeds are the richest source of Omega 3 EFAs. If you are a cancer patient this is the most recommended source of Omega-3s. Unless you follow the Budwig Protocol, you should keep this oil to a minimum; no more than a tablespoon a day, considering that you are active and that you have already removed any anti-nutrients from your diet. Better yet, grind the flaxseeds and eat them right away. The fact is that all vegetable oil loses part of the Omega-3 EFAs when they are "juiced" from the seed. That's why I recommend to eat the flax seeds instead of their oil.

Chia Seeds

But, is there a better choice than flax seeds? I actually learned about a seed which oil naturally contains more than 60% Omega-3 fatty acids, the highest percentage of Omega-3 of any commercially available source: chia seeds.

These are the percentages of Omega-3 EFAs on different seeds:

1. Chia seeds: 62.3%
2. Flax seeds: 54.6 %
3. Hemp seeds: 19.9%
4. Borage seeds: 0.5%
5. Evening Primrose oils: 0.4%

Chia has no odor, doesn’t go rancid, it's easy to store, easy to use, doesn't have to be grind, it is easily digestible, has very little flavor/taste. Chia seed is a complete source of dietary protein, providing all the essential amino acids. Compared to other seeds and grains, chia seed provides the highest source of protein, between 19 to 23 percent protein by weight. Chia seed produces a thick mucilage in water, absorbing up to 30 times its weight in water. This soluble fiber cleans the intestines by binging and transporting debris, toxins, and dangerous hormones withing your body so that they can be eliminated efficiently and regularly. Since they contain a generous amount of soluble fiber, chia seeds slow the absorption of sugars and starches into the system, keeping blood glucose levels more stable. They are, in fact, the best choice of healthy EFAs.

A Word About Body Fat

Body fat has dangerous consequences when it comes to cancer. Body fat triggers insulin surges, and insulin stimulates cancer growth. Unfortunately, insulin also promotes the storage of more body fat and encourages your fat cells to grow. As more fat is packed away on the body, it interferes with insulin uptake into your muscle tissues, leaving more glucose available for your sugar-hungry cancer cells. The pancreas senses that the glucose levels in the bloodstream are high and pumps out even more insulin, promoting more cancerous growth and fat storage, perpetuating a diabolical dangerous cycle. A little extra fat stored in your body results in interference with insulin effectiveness, something you can't afford when you are trying to starve cancer cells from getting glucose. Two to five times as much insulin may be secreted in an overweight person and in a thin person.

The best advice for cancer prevention and cancer treatment is to lose body fat. It's an advice you might never hear from conventional oncologist, despite the fact that the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research recommend people to be as lean as possible within the healthy range, and avoid body fat gain throughout adulthood in order to prevent cancer. Even if you are still within the healthy range, putting on body fat increases your cancer risk.

Conclusions

• Avoid any kind of oil in your diet (Unless you follow the Budwig Protocol)
• Avoid fat intake as much as possible.
• Rely exclusively on EFA-rich, organic, raw, and unprocessed sources of fat (seeds, nuts, and vegetables) to cover your daily energy needs.
• Avocados, almonds, and flax seeds are a great source of rich Omega-3 EFAs.
• The less activity, the less dietary fat.
• Chia seeds have the highest percentage of Omega-3 of any commercially available source. Eat at least 2 tablespoons a day, particularly whenever you eat something that might raise your blood glucose levels (like fruit).
• Avoid body fat and increase muscle tissue. Your goal should not be to loose weight per se, but to loose body fat and gain muscle. Loosing too much muscle will make you less insulin effective.

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Recommended Reading:

• How to Manage Carbohydrates to Defeat Cancer
• Excess Body Fat Causes Cancer
• Eat to Live
• What to Eat if You Have Cancer
• Nature's Cancer Fighting Foods

]]> http://greatkarma.wordpress.com/?p=76 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:37:12 +0000 randolph http://greatkarma.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/evil-came-in-september/ September 1, 2008. The pain in the lower right abdomen was something that just couldn't be ignored. This was not one of those days where the pain would go away after a while. Eating was not a problem. In fact, she had a very good appetite. The pain never did leave her. Not during the day. Not during the night. It was almost evil.

As noted in an earlier post, some new masses have been found.  One of the masses is a couple inches below my belly button and is superficial.  I can feel it and it freaks me out.  Anyway, this particular mass is causing the most pain.  We have talked about radiation therapy in the past and it is not really an option for me, as my cancer is not contained in one tumor or one area.  However, since this new tumor is superficial and in an area we can "get to", we have chosen to do radiation therapy on this single tumor to shrink it and alleviate the pain.  Wikipedia has a good write up on radiation therapy here.

I spent about three hours in a radiology oncologists offices today getting worked up and mapped out for the treatment that I will be receiving.  I start my radiation therapy treatments tomorrow and will have 10 sessions/treatments.  At that time, the tumor should be under control and the pain should also be under control.

While I am undergoing radiation therapy, I cannot get chemo.  So, when we are done with the radiation treatments, I will start chemo again.  I will be getting a new drug, called Vectibix.  It has some nasty side effects, but at this point, we need to be aggressive, so I need to look past the side effects.

That is it for now.  Radiation therapy for the next 10 days and then starting a new chemo drug after that.  Keep praying!!

REFUSE TO LOSE!

In a ground-breaking study entitled “Variants of the Adiponectin (ADIPOQ) and Adiponectin Receptor 1 (ADIPOR1) Genes and Colon Cancer Risk” (JAMA. 2008 Oct 1;300(13):1523-31), Virginia G. Kaklamani et al found a statistically significant correlation of a SNP in the ADIPOQ gene with incidence of colon cancer in a large cohort of subjects with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. This work is ground-breaking because it is the first published study to establish a real statistical correlation of a SNP based variant of the adiponectin gene with the incidence of colon cancer, after many circumstantial, indirect observations. Ironically, the SNP in the ADIPOQ gene was negatively correlated with colon cancer risk. In other words, individuals with the SNP containing GG or GC (found in 48% of all study participants) at the variant site were 27% less likely to develop colon cancer than those with the more common CC genotype. It is very important to remember, however, that as the authors caution, these results must be confirmed with further studies.

Adiponectin is an adipokine, or a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, that facilitates insulin sensitivity. Paradoxically, as adipose tissue mass increases, adiponectin levels decrease, and this is correlated with insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is correlated with elevated levels of other proteins, such as C-peptide and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP1) that is linked to increased risk of colon cancer. The results of this study suggest that there may be some identifiable genetic and biochemical connections between obesity, diabetes, and colon cancer.

In Rokiah's case, the pain in the lower right abdomen started in late 2007. But like so many of us, we looked for easy ways to ease the pain - vitamins, health supplements, visits to the local medicine man (sinsehs) and for that matter, anyone else who promises relief without having to undergo more pain. The pain went away, but came back with a vengeance in September 2008.

Colon cancer is the country's second leading cancer killer. Nearly 50,000 Americans are expected to die of colorectal cancer this year.  Yet, new government guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommend that most seniors, 75 and older, should stop getting routine colon cancer tests. Mature market experts, what do you think? This is a departure from the advice of many other medical experts. Is it good advice?

Dietary fibre has been linked to lower rates of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.  Scientific emergence of resistance starch as a star fibre for gut health is evident in the NHMRC's nutrient reference values report indicating that "resistant starch may be as significant if not more so for many health conditions."  Resistant starch is widely acknowledged in the scientific community as having valuable health benefits particularly in relation to bowel health. A review paper in 2001, by Dr Topping highlighted the finding that resistant starch plays a more significant role than non-starch polysaccharides in colorectal cancer prevention.  It is believed that the preventative effect was most likely mediated by short chain fatty acid, butyrate. Other health benefits conferred by resistant starch include satiety for weight management, oral rehydration therapy for treatment of diarrhoea, increase in mineral absorption, reduction of growth of pathogenic bacteria and promotion of probiotic bacteria colonisation of the gastrointestinal tract.

The NHMRC (2006) recommendations for adequate intake of dietary fibre are 25g/day for women and 30g/day for men.  Most Australians consume only a third of the above recommendation. 

Native Africans have 10 times lower colon cancer rates than their white counterparts possibly because they regularly consume cold maize porridge as a dietary staple.  Maize porridge is rich in resistant starch which ferments to produce short chain fatty acids which lower the pH in intestinal lumen. This phenomenon plays an integral role in protecting against colorectal cancer.

So where can you get your resistant starch? 

1. Cooked cooled potatoes
2. Cooked cooled rice
3. Cooked cooled pasta
4. Cooked maize
5. Cooked beans / lentils (pulses)
6. Heinz baked beans
7. Wonder White bread
8. Uncle Toby's fruit bars
9. Healthwise cereals
10. Sanitarium Up and Go drinks
11. Nabisco high fibre premium
12. Kellogg's K-time bars
13. Vogels breakfast cereals
14. Lowan whole foods soy flakes
15. Heinz soft fruit bars
16. Aussie Bodies Protein FX Energy bars
17. Basco Gluten Free Wheat Free Pancake Mix

If big name celebrities like Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Andie Macdowell, Janet Jackson, Cindy Crawford, Paris Hilton, Alicia Silverstone, and Liv Tyler can do it why shouldn't you?

This blog is about food and the equipment to create. Many of the foods for cleansing are meant to be pureed or juiced, consult your physician or dietitian which methods are best for you as well as the right program.

Sometimes your stomach gives you misleading information. Sometimes your hungry and really your thirsty, the best choice is to drink a cup of water and wait a couple of minutes, and then decide if you're really hungry.

“But the concerns we identified with stool DNA testing are all solvable,” says David Ahlquist, M.D., lead researcher in the study that included 4,482 participants and 22 academic medical centers. Researchers have hoped that stool DNA testing could be the user-friendly and accurate screening tool that would increase screening numbers.

This blinded study, conducted from 2001 to 2007, compared screening effectiveness of two widely used fecal blood tests (Hemoccult and HemoccultSensa) with a stool DNA test in average-risk patients, ages 50 to 80. The DNA test used was the prototype for PreGenPlus, the first commercially-used stool DNA test, and was performed on samples sent to EXACT Sciences in Marlborough, Mass. All participants underwent a colonoscopy, the gold standard in current screening. Researchers used colonoscopy as the benchmark to detect cancer or precancerous polyps.

The dull ache in my groin and the appearance of a small amount of blood should have sent me rushing to the doctor. But it didn't. I hoped it would go away. The mind, that master of self-deception, invented an endless list of ridiculous possibilities. Diverticulitis, irritable bowel, ulcerative colitis, haemorrhoids, washing-up scourer. Anything but cancer. That happened to other people.

Eventually, cornered by unimaginable pain, I dragged myself to my GP who referred me for tests. Following a colonoscopy, I was informed that a tumour blocking my colon was so advanced it had prevented passage of the camera. My blood had also tested positive for hepatitis C. I was a mess. The doctors explained that an appointment had been made to arrange for urgent surgical intervention during which any further spread would be assessed.

'You mean that you want to take out half of my colon without knowing the full extent of my condition,' I gasped, visions of colostomy bags filling my mind's eye. The pressure to conform was intense. I wanted six weeks to think about it, I told the doctors. 'You probably don't have that long to live,' they said. 'Immediate surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy is the only cure. Everything else is snake-oil quackery.'

One in two people in the West will be afflicted with cancer at some point despite the trillions of dollars spent on decades of research. I wanted better odds than those. I took my six weeks. In fact, in the end, I took three months.

Returning home, I decided to take time to go deep into myself mentally in order to make what was probably the most crucial decision of my life. Sitting back, I took a breath and let go.

When I'd left behind the chatter of a restless mind, something remarkable happened. I felt as though I was embraced by a vibrant stillness, a feeling that would stay with me for the next 20 months. In that very moment, I knew I had reached the heart of listening that lies at the core of the healing process and that whatever happened it was going to be OK.

A lifelong interest in holistic therapies meant that I could make informed choices. I'd read a book by a Dr Max Gerson about his successful use of nutrition in the cure of chronic metabolic diseases and advanced cancers. He recommends the use of copious, freshly made organic vegetable juices, detoxing coffee enemas and intense supplementation designed to help regenerate a compromised metabolism.

Accordingly, I put myself under the guidance of a holistic physician who favoured a modified model of the Gerson therapy that took into account the increased toxicity of contemporary life. He included cutting-edge, high-dose supplements and enzymes uniquely geared to fighting cancer, a sweeping detoxification programme and a total revision of diet and lifestyle.

The key was to boost and nurture the immune system so that the conditions of cells are transformed, no longer providing a toxic ground for cancer to flourish. Although case histories show it to be effective in the treatment of even late-stage cancers, it should be understood that pursuing such a course is rigorous, lengthy and expensive, requiring the discipline of a monk.

After three months of this therapy combined with a six-week fast, during which I sustained myself on organic vegetable juice, my immune system was boosted to help protect my cells against metastasis during surgery.

Sue Rose, my partner, and I were lucky enough to find a surgeon, who although she didn't profess to understand my methods, was sympathetic, agreeing to remove the minimum amount of malignant tissue, for I needed as much of my colon as possible for the enemas. Her major concern was that given the amount of time I had left it there was a real danger of the cancer having spread into the liver, in which case it would be inoperable. A CT scan showed that it hadn't. For this I thank my regime.

After surgery, the biopsy showed the cancer had spread into the lymph, hardly surprising given the amount of time I had been in denial. This didn't concern the holistic physician I was under, who was completely confident of being able to deal with it. Not wishing to have chemotherapy, I was discharged.

I was deeply moved by the devotion of nurses and doctors working to save lives within an overwhelmed National Health Service and grateful for their understanding which allowed me to combine conventional and holistic treatment. In my view, if holistic, nutritional medicine, instead of being so unfairly and short-sightedly vilified, got the smallest crumb of research funding, compared to the astronomical sums allotted to pharmaceutical cartels, many patients would benefit.

My day would begin around 6am when I drank the morning mid-stream of my own urine (urea helps to protect the liver), took my first juice, followed by the first of three daily coffee enemas. I grew my own wheatgrass, which formed part of a daily requirement of 10 freshly prepared juices. Three times a day I ate a porridge bowl full of pills and capsules, knocked back with a witch's brew of liquid supplements administered under the guidance of the physician, who understood the importance of not disturbing the balance of electrolytes when using high-dose supplements.

Every moment was taken up with preparing the next fresh juice, washing equipment, preparing and taking enemas, pills and potions along with daily saunas and hyperthermic baths which help the process of detoxification. Sacks of organic vegetables and fruit were organised in industrial quantities. A water purifier was installed. Supplements were ordered from around the world.

Friends came and went, filling the place with fresh flowers, making sure I wanted for nothing. 'If anyone can do it, you can,' they enthused. Often, they arrived at enema time, which with the help of a blanket and a half-open bathroom door I was able to perform discreetly while holding court, much to their amusement. But in the face of death, trivialities such as modesty are hardly a serious consideration.

One of the demands of a diagnosis of cancer is that everything must change. All activities inessential to survival stopped. Some days, overwhelmed, I crawled around the floor sobbing. At the same time, my monthly blood tests showed a steady improvement, as my cancer markers dropped.

One night, nauseated by a blinding headache, the process reached a crisis. Becoming progressively weaker, I lay down like a dying animal. Gaunt and hollow-eyed, I lost muscle mass rapidly. Physical anguish penetrated deep into my bones with every attempted movement, preventing me from sleeping, even though I was exhausted.

For the first time, I acknowledged the possibility of death. Yet deep down, I understood this heavy torpor to be nature's way of imposing the long healing rest that was needed. In the end, I surrendered, trusting the process.

By December 2002, my legs had swollen and my belly grotesquely bloated with fluid pressed painfully up under my diaphragm, making it hard to breathe. My haemoglobin count had halved. Catching myself naked in the mirror I gasped in horror at the pestilential image that stared back, unrecognisable with its big belly, protruding ribs and skeletal limbs. Friends sat around, whispering in hushed tones.

Just when it seemed as if death had me checkmated, a miracle turned the tables and I began to recover. Before Christmas, I went to hospital, and a barrage of painful, scary, intrusive cameras, needles and probes explored every orifice. Then we waited for the results. No gift could have been more wonderful than the morning of Christmas Eve when the doctors telephoned to tell me that there was not a sign of cancer anywhere.

In January, the liver doctors diagnosed advanced cirrhosis due to long-term hepatitis C. Thinking of Muhammad Ali on the ropes during 'the rumble in the jungle', I continued with my regime. Sue Rose did everything. Carried sacks of carrots and apples up the stairs, prepared the juices, attended to every need. In many ways, it was harder for her than it was for me. She could only watch and help as best she could and while she put on a brave face in my company she spent much time crying when she was on her own. Nevertheless, she had complete faith in me, and only in rare moments did she doubt that I would make it.

There is no evidence to date of the return of cancer and my liver tests are normal. Happier than I have been for years, I cycle around London while friends tell me I look 10 years younger than I did before all this started. When it was obvious that I really was on the mend, Sue Rose collapsed, having held things together for so long.

There are other equally important factors in the process. I spend hours tending my garden, running my fingers through the soil. Watching its transformation has become a metaphor for my own recovery. Sitting down to play music, I soar with inspiration as my fingers run over the piano keys, the Bach Fugue, my early morning prayer of gratitude. I'm thankful for every God-given moment. Life is exhilarating and precious.

There is an irony in my recovery, however. Last year, in spite of opposition from 200 MPs and a million-strong petition, the Government passed the European Union Food Supplement Directive into UK law. This will effectively remove some 5,000 vitamin and mineral products from this country's health-store shelves from August 2005. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour MP, says he 'sees the hand of the pharmaceutical industry at work'. For millions of us who choose to take supplements to maintain our health in the face of chemically drenched food crops, this is catastrophic.

For myself, having survived cancer through nutritional methods, it is a life-threatening disaster.

Tony Jackson lives in London where he works as a jazz musician and craniosacral practitioner.

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Research has suggested that colon cancer risk rises with increasing weight, but this finding points to a genetic reason for the link.

"We have discovered that a genetic variant of the adiponectin gene, called ADIPOQ, is associated with colon cancer risk," said lead researcher Dr. Boris Pasche, director of the division of hematology and oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "This genetic variant may identify individuals who have a higher risk to develop colorectal cancer," he said.

The report was published in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

For the study, Pasche's team focused on ADIPOQ. This gene promotes the formation of a fat hormone called adiponectin. People who inherit a common variant of the gene have up to a 30 percent lower risk of colon cancer compared with people without this gene variant, the study found.

On the other hand, the researchers believe that people who do not have this gene variant, or those who have high levels of adiponectin in their blood, may be at a slightly increased risk for colon cancer and could benefit from early screening for the disease.

"Adiponectin, a hormone exclusively secreted by the adipose [fat] tissue, is now genetically linked with colorectal cancer," Pasche said. "This is the first evidence that genetic variants of a 'fat hormone' affect risk of colorectal cancer," he said.

Whether people without this gene variant can reduce their risk of colon cancer through diet and exercise isn't clear, the researchers noted.

"This adds a little bit more to our understanding of one place where genetics plays a role in prostate cancer development," said Dr. Durado Brooks, director of colon and prostate cancer prevention programs at the American Cancer Society. "It helps point us in some more specific directions; it adds another piece to the puzzle," he said.

Brooks does not believe that the finding is definitive, however. "It supports some of the other work that has already been done, identifying this particular gene region with colorectal cancer," he said.

The finding does help clarify one element linking obesity and colon cancer, but "there is no clinical application to this finding in the immediate future," Brooks said. "I don't think we would alter any recommendation, other than encouraging people to maintain a healthy weight."

Dr. Georgia Wiesner, a cancer geneticist at University Hospitals' Case Medical Center in Cleveland, agreed.

"I'd love to say that any time we find a new gene that identifies risk or alters risk we would be able to put that into a new drug treatment or at least identify people who are more at risk," Wiesner said. "But in this study, it might just tease out the pathogenesis of disease," she said.

It's already known that people who are obese have a higher risk for colon cancer, Wiesner said. "I don't know that telling somebody they might have a specific marker is really going to alter what they are going to do," she said. "It doesn't mean that these people don't need regular screening."

More information

For more on colon cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.

SOURCES: Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., director, division of hematology and oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Durado Brooks, M.D., director, colon and prostate cancer prevention programs, American Cancer Society, Atlanta; Georgia Wiesner, M.D., cancer geneticist, University Hospitals' Case Medical Center, Cleveland; Oct. 1, 2008, Journal of the American Medical Association

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

Last Updated: Sept. 30, 2008

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A major breaktrough!!!

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A new research study (sep. '08) reveals the first-ever genetic link between obesity and colon cancer risk, a finding that could lead to greater accuracy in testing for the disease, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The findings were published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association.

Boris Pasche, one of the researchers says:

"Our hope is that we can significantly improve the screening and early detection for this disease, and open new avenues for better understanding the genetic and lifestyle factors that influence colon cancer risk".

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Source: endonurse.com ]]> http://biohermit.wordpress.com/?p=510 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:43:16 +0000 biohermit http://biohermit.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/how-to-manage-carbohydrates-to-defeat-cancer/ So many diets, so little time. Nutritional correction might possibly be the best single and most effective treatment to slow, halt, and even regress your cancer. But, where do you start? No matter what the medical establishment has managed to make you believe, the cancer epidemic is directly linked to a serious nutritional imbalance due to food-chain contamination, food-processing techniques, nutritional abuse, sedentary life, and nutritional misinformation.

The link between nutrition and cancer is indisputable and many scientific studies have proved it. A cancer nutritional approach is as crucial as a cancer treatment. In that approach, what you are supposed to eat is as important as what you are supposed to exclude. Reversing your diet will reverse the conditions that were necessary for the cancer to develop. A cancer diet severely changes the perspective on what you can introduce in it and what you have to restrict, and unfortunately, the majority of people might not be prepared for such change. This will be in fact the biggest fight you will face against cancer. It's not chemotherapy, it's not radiation, it's not surgery: it's your disposition to change your diet and, trust me, for some people this is the most difficult thing to change.

Nutrition should be the basics of your cancer treatment. Whatever you decide to do apart from your nutritional plan will be secondary. In other words, no matter what kind of supplements, vitamins, or pills you take, if your diet is not based in solid anticancer principles, you will be diminishing your chances of success and increase your chances of failure. Is that simple. You cannot expect that such or such supplement will cure your cancer if you haven't addressed your nutritional offenses and deficiencies first.

The problem that we face when we understand that we need to change our nutritional course is that there are many approaches on how to do proceed. It is difficult to recommend a specific diet for cancer. There are many options and they all have good principles, but some of the diets often have opposite views and that makes it difficult to decide. Over the course of your re-education on your disease, you will find nutritional approaches that will build up to what you already know, so it's best to incorporate nutritional knowledge as you encounter it.

Carbohydrates and Cancer

Cancer feeds on glucose. You've heard it many times and it's easy to act on it. On my post about sugar and cancer I try to explain how glucose feeds cancer and debilitates your immune system. Cancer cells will actively change the metabolism of your body to make glucose more available to them, and more inaccessible to healthy cells. It is a diabolic mechanism. On one way, cancer cells will increase the liver process of making more sugar from amino acids, the building blocks of your proteins, which leads to a loss of muscle tissue from the skeleton and internal organs. On the other way, insulin resistance on healthy cells is increased so that glucose will not be as able to enter them, leaving increased blood sugar levels readily available to super insulin sensitive cancer cells.

It is the fact that cancer alters your own metabolism to get more fuel that makes it vital to adopt a strict and rigorous diet. It is not just the fact that you eat healthier during cancer, it's the fact that compelling your body to rely on certain foods for nutrition will actually break the cancer metabolism. Diet is a treatment. It might be a very easy concept to visualize, but the reality is that it is difficult to actually inculcate this message in the majority of cancer patients, mainly because one of the reasons of the cancer diagnosis is precisely the consequence of an out of control diet. Reverse that tendency becomes hopeless most of the time.

Ban Sugar, Any Kind of Sugar

In whichever diet approach you decide to embark on, the main purpose should always be to deny cancer cells of glucose while enabling healthy cells to be more sensitive to it. It is one of the fastest and easiest ways to kill cancer cells and break the cancer metabolism. How can you achieve that? Simply by keeping sugar levels as low as possible and as stable as possible.

That's why sugar is strictly prohibited in all nutritional therapies for cancer. You should absolutely avoid anything that tastes sweet, specially on an empty stomach: fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, sucrose, corn syrup, lactose, milk sugar, dextrose, maltose, barley malt, brown rice syrup, honey, molasses, fruit juice, maple syrup, sugar cane juice, daikon syrup, and agave nectar. No matter how high in amino acids or minerals or how low on the glycemic index, sweets will feed cancer cells, weaken your immune system, cause more acidity, more lack of oxygen, and more insulin growth factors. As long as you eat sweets, your cancer will continue to progress.

How About Fruit?

As hard as it might be to learn this, you should know that fruit will increase your blood sugar as well, just like sweets, and that might compromise your goal of starving cancer. I find a very good idea to reduce the amount of fruit to a minimum or to nothing at least the first 8 weeks of nutritional treatment, as Dr. Robert O. Young recommends. Fruits have many advantages and are full of antioxidants but having a specific plan on how to manage their consumption is essential. Restrict all kinds of fruits the first two months. Dr. Young excludes avocados and lemons from the restricted fruit group. Lemons are actually a required part of any cancer treatment because of their beneficial effect on the liver and because they get oxygen into the body. Avocados are very low in sugar and have very beneficial fats.

One exception to this general no-fruit rule is special fruit "fasts," such as the Johanna Brandt Grape Cure, which is a potent cancer cure, or carrot juice regimens, like Gerson's.

After two months, or once you have achieved progress in your blood work and your tumor markers, I'd recommend to approach fruit cautiously. Always consider fruits that are native or local and also seasonal, and always eat them raw. Avoid tropical fruits, unless there is a specific reason why you should include them (like noni juice or goji berries). Avoid cooked, canned, or dried fruit. Every time you take in fruit by itself, your sugar levels will rise. It is best to eat whole fruit along with fiber, no matter what you have heard about food combining. By doing so you will release the glucose from the fruit more slowly, so eat it along with some greens.

I am combining three approaches from 3 perspectives on this personal fruit advice. On one hand, Macrobiotics always recommends to stick with what's local and what's seasonal because it is precisely what is naturally meant for your always changing inner biology throughout the year. I also like the approach of Maureen Keane and Daniella Chace in their book What to Eat if You Have Cancer. They name fruit as a potential insulin unstabler and recommend to eat it along with fiber. In her book Green for Life, Victoria Boutenko also recommends to always mix fruits and non-starchy leafy vegetables to make sure your glucose levels don't go to the roof with fruit alone. And Dr. Robert O. Young, on his amazing book Sick and Tired recommends to abstain from fruit the first weeks of a nutritional therapy, which I think is a very effective strategy.

Again, only if, and when, your blood work and tumor markers show improvement you can move to another stage. Dr Joel Furhman in his book Eat to Live states that cancer is a fruit and vegetable deficiency disease. His fantastic calorie restriction diet allows any kind of fruit, as much as you want, anytime you want. He excludes fruit juices, canned fruit, and dried fruit because of their high sugar levels. I think it's a good idea to always eat fruit raw. Ultimately, I think that's the kind of approach you can take after, specially when you fully regain your health back or if you want to prevent a health crisis from striking.

Sweeteners, the Bad and the Good

ALL man-made sweeteners (e.g. aspartame - NutraSweet, Equal) should be avoided. These items are most often associated with brain cancer, but everyone with or without cancer should avoid them. There is only one acceptable sweetener in a cancer diet: unrefined Stevia, which is an herb that will actually help you manage your blood glucose levels, among other things.

Alcohol

It is a common misconception that alcohol "turns to sugar" and will raise your blood glucose. In fact, the opposite is true, alcohol will decrease your insulin levels. Is that a good thing? Alcohol is not food and it does not provide any essential nutrients. It is in fact an anti-nutrient. Even though your body can use the calories for energy, it cannot use the alcohol itself to make glucose. When calories from alcohol aren't used for immediate energy, they are changed to fat and stored as triglycerides. In other words, it is easier to think of alcohol as being like a fat, rather than a carbohydrate.

When yeast ferments glucose in sugar, fruits, or cereal grains, ethanol (a type of alcohol) is produced. Ethanol within the human body is converted into acetaldehyde and then into acetic acid. Acetaldehyde is highly toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic. It has been shown to increase the risk of multiple forms of cancer apart from developing cirrhosis of the liver and cause addiction. There is no safe dose of alcohol, no matter what you read about it. Any kind of alcohol intake is dangerous and extremely carcinogenic. It also generates free-radicals, depresses DNA-repair, reduces nutrients due to reduced absorption, and reduces consumption of food nutrients associated with obtaining calories from alcohol.

There is no small amount of alcohol that does not cause dependency. In other words, you don't have to become an alcoholic to become addicted to alcohol. Any amount of alcohol develops addiction. It is often more difficult to stop drinking when you have a drink once in a while than if you are an alcoholic. I mention this because if you think it will be easy to give up your once a month wine glass when you go dining, think again. For some people even a small amount of alcohol becomes impossible to quit.

Ethanol consumption increases serum estrogen and decreases serum androgen in both men and women, which explains its direct incidence in hormone related cancers: breast cancer and prostate cancer. Ethanol is known to also reduce T-cells (Thymus-derived lymphocytes), a suppression of the immune system that can increase cancer incidence and decrease resistance to infectious diseases. Ethanol may also suppress DNA methylation of oncogenes (cancer-inducing genes) leading to dedifferentiation and proliferation.

Polyphenols and resveratrol (a phytochemical synthesized by grapes in response to fungal infections) are anti-cancer compounds found in high quantities in red wine but there is no need to drink red wine to get polyphenols and resveratrol. The polyphenols in green tea may well be more potent and you can get concentrated resveratrol in supplement form without the dangers of alcohol.

No matter what you hear or read, NO amount of alcohol is safe for you, yet alone beneficial. The only safe amount of alcohol is ZERO. If your conventional oncologist does not promote complete alcohol abstinence upfront, you should find another doctor you can really trust. I can only tell you this: of all the most well grounded alternative research and publications I've come across, there is not a single view that recommends alcohol in any form, in any dosage, particularly if cancer is involved. As a matter of fact, even alcohol-based colognes and perfumes are considered highly xenoestrogenic because of their alcohol content going to your bloodstream through your skin and affecting your hormones. Even alcohol-based mouthwash is carcinogenic.

Grains, Beans, and Starchy Vegetables

My first approach to a cancer diet was Macrobiotics. There are many people that fully recovered from their cancers thanks to this fabulous nutritional approach. It is generally described as a grain based diet. My dad still follows it and he's in great health. But as I was reading along about other approaches and principles, my opinion on it has evolved and changed, mostly because of it's approach to carbohydrates. Despite its greatness and effectiveness, I find it too focused on cooked starches. I think it is a great diet to consider when you regain total control of your health but maybe the first months of diet correction should be more rigorous.

As strict as it may sound, I personally believe the first 8 weeks of nutritional therapy you should consider to avoid any grains, legumes, and starchy vegetables whatsoever. Again, Dr Robert O. Young makes the case why the first weeks you should abstain from anything that increases your blood glucose, and that includes ANY grains. Only when you find your blood and tumor markers coming out of any danger zone you might want to reintroduce grains, legumes and starchy vegetables, but be cautious. Here are some ideas on how to introduce grains:

• Avoid any glutinous grain (wheat, rye, barley, kamut, spelt). Gluten is a dangerous and addictive protein that might causes havoc in our bodies. Introduce non-glutinous grains like buckwheat, millet, and quinoa.
• Avoid any kind of flour, glutinous or non-glutinous. Flour is digested faster and has a greater impact on your glucose levels. It can also lose nutritional properties. Avoid any kind of baked products whatsoever.
• Soak grains at least 24 hours before cooking. Soaking causes pre-sprouting, which reduces the carbohydrate content and increases the protein content of the grains, plus it removes any enzyme inhibitors that might interfere with your digestions and nutrient absorption.
• Restrict whole, organic, and non-glutinous grain consumption to one cup a day, preferably in the evening, when it's easier to digest and might keep your fasting glucose levels low during the night.

As for legumes and starchy vegetables, introduce them carefully based on your overall progress. Dr. Furhman recommends legumes at lunch, when your digestion is stronger. Soak them as well. Inducing early stage germination increases their nutritional value, shortens cooking time, deactivates enzyme inhibitors, and reduces blood sugar impact. He doesn't seem to put any restrictions on legumes. Just adjust its consumption to your activity levels. He does restrict the amount of starchy vegetables to one cup a day. Consider anything that is not green to be a high starch vegetable.

Finally Hulda Clark recommends to wash grains and legumes with ascorbic acid, to kill any mold. You can do that after the soaking. You can even soak them with a little bit of ascorbic acid, and even cook them with it. I will add that it is a great idea to store your grains and legumes in the freezer to prevent molding and rancidity.

A cancer diet is a fasting diet. You purposely include certain nutrients and exclude others. Fasting has no exceptions or intermissions: you start one day and you break it another. It's better to approach your cancer diet plan this way. Unfortunately, cancer has no days off so you might as well understand that discipline and consistency play in your favor.

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Conventional oncology uses statistics to convince you that Chemotherapy and Radiation are your only path to treat cancer. I've written of the reasons of why you should resist such treatments here. Data manipulation becomes another reason why you should stand up to those treatments. It turns out that all information published in major medical journals has been altered to showcase success and cover up failure.

This new investigative work exposes the fact that less than one out of five medical human trials gets published (exactly only 17.6 percent). The rest of the human trials gets lost somewhere and never sees the light. Why? You could argue that something went wrong about the trials, but then up to 90% of the trials that end up being published are always positive towards the application of conventional cancer therapies. Sounds fishy? That's because it is fishy! What's wrong about the 82.4 percent of the trials about conventional cancer therapies that never see the light? Why don't you and your oncologist know about those?

It turns out that they are kept out of circulation because they show too many negative side effects and also because of the pressure from publishing entities to show data that has positive impact. Who wants to read bad news all the time?

To make matters worst, it seems that whoever conducting a trial is influencing the likelihood such data would see the light of day... or not. Studies sponsored by industry (such as drug companies) had the lowest publication rate: just 5.9 percent, leaving 94.1 percent of data in the dark! So for example, when pharmaceutical industries begin developing novel chemotherapy cocktails — mixtures of drugs initially tested on their own — and toxic reactions may emerge, as low as just 5.9% of such toxic reactions get published and read by the conventional oncology community. The rest, who cares?

What happened to those never seen results? Did they involve treatments that didn't work? Did they have disastrous side effects? Did they cause dangerous irreversible damage? Neither you nor your oncologist will ever know... But in the meantime you might be laying in the hospital getting the dose of chemo your uninformed doctor prescribed...

James H. Doroshow, director of the National Cancer Institute’s division of treatment and diagnosis, notes that last year alone some 50,000 patients took part in trials that his institute funded. The “apparent lack of access to the final efficacy and toxicity data for cancer clinical trials from all sponsors, but especially for industry-sponsored studies, poses multiple scientific and ethical questions." No kidding!!!

It doesn't matter what reasons drug company's have in hiding bad data. What's important is that Chemotherapy and Radiation are not backed by statistics, the main reason why conventional oncologists encourage them. And guess who pays the price for such cover up?

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• One in Five Cancer Clinical Trials Is Published
• Cancer data: Burying bad news

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