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Sunday, March 16, 2014

A cancer treatment from the bees

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Cancer May be No Match for
The Bee’s “Liquid Gold!”

Sweet, sticky honey has been known to have healing properties for thousands of years.
In fact, Hippocrates even wrote about the ‘liquid gold’ when he said that “honey causes heat, cleans sores and ulcers, softens hard ulcers of the lips and heals carbuncles and running sores.”
Even though ancient civilizations might not have known why this was so, they could see that honey was effective. As Yogi Berra reportedly said, “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
Now we have a clue as to why honey works. Modern science has revealed that when bees take nectar from flowering plants, they add an enzyme to it that produces hydrogen peroxide. This is part of what gives honey such astounding healing properties.
But there’s one type of honey that’s particularly effective – or at least it’s been studied and validated more than other varieties. And the evidence suggests it can be a weapon against cancer. Here’s the type of honey you want to get. . .
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How Carolyn Reversed
Her Alzheimer’s by
Disobeying Her Doctor
    An all-natural protein melts away the brain-clogging mineral that triggers memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s — and cuts brain cell death in half! And yet this Nobel Prize-winning discovery is being ignored by 99% of doctors.
    That’s why I’d like to tell you about Carolyn.
    If you or someone you care about is suffering from memory loss, dementia or Alzheimer’s, then you know how cruel these diseases can be. The emotional and physical toll they take on the patient — as well as on the entire family — can be devastating.
    That’s why the news of the breakthroughs I’m about to reveal could literally have a life-changing effect on you.
    Best of all, these solutions are available and being used successfully right now — even while most doctors still throw up their hands when it comes to memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s, using words like “hopeless” and “irreversible.” It’s hard to believe, I know. . .

The honey produced from the manuka or tea tree has racked up an impressive track record. This flowering plant from New Zealand and southeast Australia produces a honey with awesome antibiotic properties.
And some scientists are convinced that it can even put the brakes on cancerous growths.
Study suggests manuka honey is a
promising cancer killer!
A group of researchers from the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain conducted a study that shows manuka honey contains properties that can block tumor growth in the breasts, colon, and skin.
According to study results published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, Professor Basel Al Ramadi, head of the Microbiology and Immunology Department at UAE University, led a research team to determine the extent of manuka honey's ability to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
The team learned that this type of honey directly caused apoptosis or programmed cell death!
Your body uses apoptosis to balance the creation of new cells with the demise of older ones. It’s essential to your health to keep these two processes in balance, for two main reasons:
  1. Excessive apoptosis will cause your tissues to atrophy, and
  2. Insufficient apoptosis leads to uncontrolled cell growth, similar to what happens when a person has cancer.
The UAE University research suggests that manuka honey helps eliminate cancer cells by bringing on apoptosis.
Manuka honey has amazing
antibacterial properties, too!
Scrubbing cancer cells from your body isn’t the only health benefit of this sweet syrup. Recent tests conducted at Sydney University's School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences showed that manuka honey killed every type of bacteria tested.
Scientists from the University of Ottawa, and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa achieved similar results when testing honey against pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) and staphylococcus aureus (SA).
The Canadian group conducted in vitro (i.e. lab culture) testing of honey against these strains of bacteria. They found the honey to be effective in killing 100 percent of the isolates in their planktonic form. And when the germs were made into biofilms, the manuka honey killed 63 percent of the PA bacteria and 91 percent of the SA. (A biofilm is a group of microorganisms that stick to one another on a surface. Planktonic cells, by contrast, exist individually, each by itself.)
The researchers said these rates were significantly higher than those achieved when using antibiotic drugs against staphyloccus bacteria.
Sounds wild, but I remember reading some 30 years ago that honey is a highly effective wound dressing because it kills microbes. And, as I mentioned before, our ancestors knew this before the time of Christ.
So the recent scientific findings simply echo what ancient civilizations already knew about the healing properties of honey. Manuka honey takes no prisoners when it comes up against:
  1. Helicobacter pylori- which causes most stomach ulcers
  2. Escherichia coli - the culprit behind most infected wounds
  3. Streptococcus pyogenes - which causes sore throats
What’s more, manuka honey is also being touted as a marvelous all-purpose medicine that can help:
  • Heal superficial burns
  • Cover and heal surgical wounds, particularly for diabetic patients
  • Soothe inflammation
  • Treat leg ulcers, pressure sores and wounds from skin cancers
How do you use this all-purpose honey healer?
There’s no special method or preparation you need in order to use honey. You can apply manuka honey directly to your skin as a balm for infections, or to soothe insect bites and cuts.
And you most certainly can swallow a spoonful or mix it with some tea to help soothe your throat and digestive tract.
Because manuka honey is a food, you can eat it the way you would any other honey product and enjoy the health benefits!
With all this positive press... you might be wondering if there’s any downside to using manuka honey. Well, ease your mind because no earth shattering revelations are coming your way!
There are no known side effects of active manuka honey when used internally, unless you are allergic to honey (as some people are). But there are some reasonable warnings and cautions.
It should be no surprise that diabetics might need to avoid or limit their intake of honey because of the high sugar content.
And you shouldn’t give honey to children under 12 months old (I’m guessing this is because of the potential for allergic reactions). You should also know that active manuka honey has stronger properties than regular manuka honey.
“Active” manuka honey contains an additional, non-peroxide component known as methyl glyoxal. Scientists don’t know why, but this element is not found in all manuka honey, only in some. When present, it makes the honey vastly more powerful at fighting bacteria.
So powerful, in fact, that researchers have devised a special rating system for manuka honey based on a batch’s “unique manuka factor” or UMF. It’s used as a marker to determine the honey’s therapeutic value.
At times, active manuka honey applied directly on an external wound can sting. If you find this to be true in your case, simply use regular manuka honey instead.
Regardless of how you may choose to use the honey—you can be sure that you’ll be tapping into one of Nature’s sweetest health healers!
In our last issue we talked about how you can save thousands of dollars a year on fresh organic foods – and the ones we recommend are packed with more nutrients than those you’ve been buying in food markets. If you missed this tip, you can read it now just below this.

30x the Nutrients of Organic Vegetables…
Why Do So Few Take Advantage of
This Amazing Food Bargain?

One of the most often cited reasons for poor eating is the cost of fresh produce, especially organic produce. I confess it gives me sticker shock, and I don’t know how anyone who’s not in the “one percent” can afford a pure diet of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
But there IS a way to do it on the cheap…to eat fresh, organic “super foods” every day for pennies. Do this and you will flood your body with more bioavailable vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids than you’ll get from anything you buy in a store.
Keep reading and I’ll unveil this secret that’s worth thousands of dollars a year – and added years to your life!
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Turn Back Your Skin’s Aging Clock 
By repairing your skin’s DNA, you can soften your skin and erase wrinkles, tighten up your sagging jaw line, make your crow’s feet disappear, and banish sun and aging spots.
This Nobel Prize winning secret makes it possible.
Your “telomeres” determine how long your skin cells live. Telomeres are the “time keepers” attached to every strand of DNA. Each time your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter. The shorter your telomeres, the more your skin cells age… causing dry and wrinkled skin. Maintain the length of your telomeres, your skin will stay supple, radiant, and youthful.
Dr. Sears’ Revive DNA Rejuvenation Cream turns back your skin’s aging clock and helps you show a younger face to the world.

    
The most affordable, healthy organic foods on the planet are far fresher than you could ever purchase in a grocery store! I’m talking about sprouts. They can be grown anywhere, even on your kitchen countertop.
When you grow your own sprouts – and don’t worry, it’s brain-dead simple – you’re helping the environment, because the food doesn’t have to be trucked thousands of miles, or shipped by air from Latin America during the winter. And of course there’s no need for herbicides or pesticides on your kitchen produce.
Most of the plant foods you eat begin their life as sprouts. “Sprouting” is simply the way the seed cracks open for the first time.
Because the nutrients and antioxidants in a seed are so incredibly concentrated, they pack a real wallop of nutrition.
9 reasons to eat sprouts
Consider adding sprouts to your diet, for these nine reasons.
  1. Sprouts may contain up to 100 times more enzymes than raw fruits and vegetables. Enzymes catalyze your body’s various functions. And getting these additional enzymes gives you the building blocks available for every bodily process to work more effectively. (For the full story on enzymes, see my Special Report The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.)
  2. Increased fiber. Fiber is critical to weight loss and colon health. It binds to fats and toxins to give them their marching orders out of your body. It also prevents or slows down the absorption of digested food from your intestine into your bloodstream, thereby preventing blood sugar spikes and also giving you a feeling of fullness, so you eat less.
  3. Improved quality. Proteins change and get a boost from the soaking and sprouting process.
  4. Huge nutritional boost. The overall vitamin content of some seeds and nuts increases by up to 20 times their original value with just a few days of sprouting. This is especially true for vitamins A, B-complex, C, and E. For example, mung beansprouts (often called just beansprouts) boost vitamin B1 by 285%, vitamin B2 by 515% and niacin by 256%.
  5. A rich dose of essential fatty acids. EFA levels increase during sprouting...
  6. More minerals, more bioavailable. Boost your calcium, magnesium, and other minerals for better body chemistry that promotes proper weight and better health.
  7. Energy is ignited through soaking and sprouting.
  8. Alkalizing. Many illnesses, including cancer, are correlated with an acidic body.
  9. Ridiculously inexpensive! The most budget-friendly health food on earth. Mere pennies per serving.
Before we get into how simple it is to grow sprouts, consider these additional benefits of sprouts.
Why a raw sprout-based diet, anyway?
Eating sprouts directly benefits your health, and allows you to eat the freshest, cheapest, most nutritional food.
  1. Your immune system benefits. The Hippocrates Health Institute and Tufts University did a joint study to see how raw food affected the immune systems of healthy disease-free people. They found that the more cooked food a person eats – as a percentage of their total food intake -- the weaker the immune system becomes. Look at the table below. If roughly two-thirds of your diet is cooked foods, your immune system may be off by half compared to its peak performance. And I’d venture a guess that very few Americans eat a diet that’s less than two-thirds cooked foods. Meaning, all of us are immune-system-compromised.
  2. Raw Food Intake as percentage of total diet
    Cooked Food Intake as percentage of total diet
    Immune System Function Lost
    75%
    25%
    No Loss
    70%
    30%
    17% Loss
    65%
    35%
    50% Loss
  3. Hormonal benefits. Studies show that people may be able to break down the hormones in sprouts and turn them into usable human hormones. Men and women both seem to be able to use these phytonutrients exactly the way they need to, without developing the characteristics of the other gender. This is relevant because some authorities are concerned that phytoestrogens found in plants may act like human estrogen in our bodies, leading to an excess of these hormones.
  4. Best of all nutrients. Phytonutrients – nutrients derived from plants -- are the best nutrients scientists have identified. And sprouts are much richer sources of phytonutrients than fully-formed adult plants are. As such, they are among the most potent disease fighters you can get. And which type of sprout is the best? Glad you asked. . .
The most cancer-protective sprout of all
Broccoli sprouts have decided advantages over mature broccoli.
Johns Hopkins scientists found that three-day old broccoli sprouts consistently packed 20 to 50 times the chemo-protective compounds found in mature broccoli heads.
When you eat a sprout, you’re eating the entire plant at a very young age. That is, you eat the root, stem, and head in one concentrated little package.
As the plant sucks water and grows, the cancer-protective compounds called sulforaphanes (part of a group called glucosinolates) are diluted. They’re still there, in roughly the same amount. But now instead of merely eating a sprouted seed to get them, you have to eat the entire plant!
When you buy broccoli at the store, you’re buying just a portion of the whole plant. Glucosinolates were left in the ground (the root), others are in the leaves you discarded, and others were removed when the stem was cut off (many people just eat the florets).
You might be wondering, why not just eat the seed before it even sprouts? Well you could… but sprouts are far more tasty, nutritious and easier to digest. Non-sprouted broccoli seeds taste terrible!
Sprouted broccoli seed may also offer a simple dietary means of reducing prostate and colon cancer risk.
Plus, they may bolster your defense against heart disease, stroke, and high cholesterol, while at the same time they support your eye health, lung health, and immune system. When eaten during pregnancy, they may provide children with life-long protection from cardiovascular disease.
That’s a lot of benefit from a humble seed and its pennies-per-serving sprouts.
Store-bought organic produce has a dark side
If all this isn’t enough to convince you to try sprouting, consider the reality of the organic foods your grocer carries.
By the time you buy your organic produce, it’s likely been refrigerated for days, weeks, or even longer. Farms store it before shipment, and it travels for days to arrive at your store, where it’s stored yet again. By the time you get it, it may have lost its freshness.
Most phytonutrients are inactive after about three weeks. Vitamins reportedly decline to a fraction of their original levels. The plant hormones may no longer be viable, and enzymes no longer active.
Your organic produce is massively compromised by the time it reaches you. A farmer’s market is a better choice, but why not grow your own and eat them at their peak of freshness?
Eating organic does lower your toxic load from pesticides. But you’re still losing the freshness you could have if you grew your own sprouts.
So why not earmark some of your current produce budget to buy seeds you can sprout at home?
How to grow your own sprouts
So, are you ready to embark on this new and exciting, yet simple, adventure in eating? You just need a little basic equipment and some seeds.
You can get canning jar lids and sprout your seeds in a canning jar. It’s the cheapest way to get started, but drainage is a real problem.
An 8x10 tray two-section stackable sprouter such as the Sprout Master (http://www.sproutmaster.com/) is a much easier way to go. They cost about $20 each, and come with tray, drain tray and cover. For greater variety and rotation, buy two trays. We have no affiliation with this provider.
This is your only investment for most sprouts, besides your organic seeds. While broccoli is loaded with amazing benefits, it’s wise to consume a wide variety, for interest and nutrition. Try broccoli, alfalfa, radish, cabbage, peas, beans, and lentils.
For tiny seeds like alfalfa, four tablespoons of seed will make a full 8x10 tray full, enough for one or two people for a few days. A tray of organic sprouts costs about $1.00 to $1.50, depending on your seed type and source… a far cry from a $6 plastic tub of organic greens.
And growing them is simple!
  1. Select your seeds and soak in water for 10-12 hours in a bowl. Allow for a 300% expansion.
  2. Pour the soaked seeds into the drainable tray, and spray them gently to even them out.
  3. Rinse and drain, morning and evening to keep seeds moist.
  4. Sprout with the lid on. In hot climates, use a warm, damp cloth without lid for better airflow. Keep sprouter out of direct sunlight. Sprouts grow best at 75 to 80 degrees.
  5. Taste in three or four days. When you like the taste, leave them uncovered but out of direct sunlight to develop greenness.
  6. Refrigerate to stop growth. Tray units with lid/tray make excellent crispers.
  7. Scrub tray thoroughly before reusing.
Sprouting times vary according to type of seed.
Sprouts are an extremely cost-effective way to get your fill of vitamins, minerals and enzymes.
They’re far cheaper than high-quality supplements or organic vegetables from 2,000 miles away. Eating them may be the safest and best way of getting outlandishly fresh produce with no risk of contamination.
And who knows? Besides their load of vitamins, you may find yourself able to shed a few pounds too. Why not give it a try?
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References:
Alandejani, T. et al. 2009. Effectiveness of honey on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery. Available at http://science.naturalnews.com/pubmed/19559969.html
Godiyal, S. 2013. Can manuka honey prevent cancer? Natural News. Article available at http://www.naturalnews.com/041372_manuka_honey_cancer_natural_health.html
Moczulski, J.P. 2007. Honey making a medical comeback. NBC News. Article available at http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22398921/
The Alternative Daily. 2014, Jan. 17. Manuka Honey – 200x More Germ Fighting Power Than Any Other Honey. Article available athttp://www.thealternativedaily.com/manuka-honey-200x-germ-fighting-capabilities-honey/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=N140117

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Curing Breast Cancer Without Surgery? Great Start to the New Year!

Consider This New, Easy Way To Treat Small Breast Tumors
(No Scars!)

In an earlier article I told you about a procedure doctors have been using since the 1990s to kill prostate cancer cells without surgery. Now it looks like this same innovative approach can be used on small breast tumors as well.
It’s exciting news (and not just because it’s almost painless, is an out-patient procedure, and leaves no scars). Nearly all women who are told they have early-stage breast cancer elect to have it cut out rather than take their chances on alternative treatments.
Although it’s a normal response, it’s also a panic response. I’d give alternative therapies two or three weeks, at least – and I bet you’ll be happy with the results. If you want to know what the best alternatives are, consider our Special Report Breast Cancer Cover-Up.

But if you’re in the majority who just wants to get rid of the darn thing, now conventional medicine has come up with a new way that sounds more reasonable to me than surgery. Keep reading to learn more. . .
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The Amish Cancer SecretHow to cure just about any cancer the Amish way
Is it possible to cure just about any cancer the Amish way? Is it true that many Amish people easily get rid of cancer in just three or four weeks? Are the Amish onto something BIG?
To find out, I interviewed Jakob and Fannie, a young Amish couple from southern Minnesota. Jakob and Fannie are just two out of roughly 800 Amish people each year who travel 2,000 miles by train to go to a little-known cancer clinic.
They told me an amazing, lifesaving tip that everyone should know. . .but almost nobody does.
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Cryoablation—also known as cryotherapy or cryosurgery—involves the use of controlled freeze-and-thaw cycles to destroy cancer cells in both malignant and benign tumors.
In 2012, IceCure Medical Ltd. of Israel successfully used their IceSense3 cryoablation procedure on four breast cancer patients to treat small, early stage breast cancer tumors (fibroadenomas).
Traditionally, a surgical biopsy was the only option for removing these tumors. But cryoablation provides a less invasive option that even the Food and Drug Administration approves for treating fibroadenomas.
IceSense3 has been developed specifically for breast tumors and uses ultrasound imaging to guide thin, hollow needles into the tumor.
Doctors then use liquid nitrogen or argon gas to cool the end of the needle to -274 F (-170 C). This turns the tumor into a ball of ice and allows your body to reabsorb the dead cells over time.
Use of the probe also helps ensure that only breast tumor cells are killed—leaving surrounding tissues unharmed.
Eisuke Fukuma, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Breast Center at Kameda Medical Center in Kamogawa City, Japan, is leader of a clinical trial that will eventually involve 30 small early stage breast cancer patients. Four have been treated as of the latest information I have.
In a company statement, Dr. Fukuma said “this procedure is an exciting step towards moving treatment of small, early stage breast cancer tumors from open surgery to a minimally invasive cryoablation procedure.”
What are the pros and cons
of this treatment?
Cryoablation has been used for years to treat both malignant and benign tumors. Over 400 published studies document the clinical value of cryotherapy to treat prostate cancer.
And recent studies show ten-year cure rates as high as 90% for low risk (presumably early stage) patients. This represents the same success rate as surgery or radiation treatments.
I actually think cryotherapy sounds like a more reasonable approach for early-stage breast cancer than for prostate cancer (see Issue #110 for my take on the latter). Situated deep within the body, the prostate is harder to reach with the probes and it’s more difficult to identify all the tumors and their precise locations.
But when treating breast cancer with freezing probes it sounds like it’s fairly easy to get where you want to go, kill only cancer cells, and get out with no damage to healthy tissue.
Recent technological advances have resulted in smaller probes that are easier to manage. These are ideal for use in treating breast cancer.
This new breast cancer treatment provides several advantages, including:
  • No hospitalization required—the procedure can be performed safely in a doctor’s office or breast center.
  • No anesthesia or sutures needed—this helps minimize any risk of infection or reactions to anesthetics, such as heart attack or stroke.
  • No invasive surgery involved—the 5 to 15-minute procedure helps speed recovery time.
  • No huge medical bills—cryoablation costs less than cancer surgery which may require lengthy hospital stays, anesthesia and prescription drugs.
  • No pain or scar tissue—most patients report minimal pain with the procedures and have little to no scarring within six months.
Now in all fairness, you must consider the less favorable aspect of cryoablation. In my opinion, it’s very minor, but I’ll mention it: It DOES involve the use of needles. Small and thin though they may be… some folks just can’t stomach them.
You’ll need to endure a needle for the local anesthesia as well as the one used to administer the gases to freeze the tumor cells. I don’t know why this would bother a person any more than being cut with a scalpel, but some people might have a different take.
U.S. researchers achieve similar results
In 2010, Peter J. Littrup, M.D., reported encouraging results in a study of 13 breast cancer patients who refused surgery. He’s an interventional radiologist and director of imaging research and image-guided therapy for the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan.
In a Science Daily article, Dr. Littrup explained that researchers inserted several needle-like probes through the skin at even spaces, which delivered the cold gas directly to the tumor.
A major difference between this study and prior methods of breast cryotherapy is the use of two or more probes to deliver the cold gas. Prior breast cryotherapy studies used only a single cryoprobe.
Littrup said early researchers also suggested that breast tumors larger than 1.5 centimeters could not be adequately treated with cryoablation.
But this assertion ignores the fact that men’s prostate glands—which average 5 centimeters—have been treated successfully with cryoablation for more than a decade!
When treating prostates with cryoablation, doctors typically use more than six probes to transfer the deadly cold temperatures throughout the whole gland.
Littrup’s team used this concept to attack breast tumors to ensure that the freezing gas saturated all areas of the women’s tumors.
Many medical professionals are encouraged by results of cryotherapy as a breast cancer treatment. One of the most positive results from the Michigan study is that the patients didn’t have to undergo additional surgery, aimed at proving the cancer tumors had been treated completely, following multi-probe cryoablation.
Although he stressed the need for more large studies on the use of this approach, Dr. Littrup said he believes cryotherapy will allow “accurate targeting of more difficult-to-see breast tumors.”
The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 40,000 people will die from breast cancer in 2013. Cryoablation could be a promising new treatment to help cut that number down to size!

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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Cancer remedy heals brain injuries, even dementia

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The cancer remedy that can
even heal brain injuries


This is the second of two reports about the Doctors' Symposium of the Cancer Control Society, September 3, 2013, Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.
by Andrew Scholberg

    Author Archie Scott astonished the audience in his speech about "DMSO: The Latest Update on a Proven Therapy." DMSO has long been a favorite therapy of alternative/holistic/integrative cancer doctors because it calms inflammation, gobbles up free radicals, and boosts the effect of cancer-killing therapies such as high-dose vitamin C and laetrile.

    In fact, one of Mexico's top cancer doctors, Gilberto Alvarez, M.D., used only those three therapies -- DMSO, laetrile, and vitamin C -- to cure the inoperable, terminal cancer of a two-year-old toddler from Pittsburgh, Jeremy Snyder, nearly 30 years ago. Jeremy not only survived, but grew up, graduated from college and is now married.

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Why are these doctors
canceling colonoscopies?
    Thousands of patients around the globe are gladly hearing a BRAND NEW message about an embarrassing routine procedure.

    "I want to cancel your colonoscopy--FOREVER."

    This unbelievable video reveals why M.D's overseas are crossing routine colonoscopies OFF their calendars at a record pace... And the reckless reason American doctors are still putting your life in danger.

    One medical insider now wants to make it clear--skipping your next colonoscopy could SAVE YOUR LIFE. And he's not the only one...

    See why a few prominent, fearless physicians are calling the routine colonoscopy the greatest medical sham on earth! PLUS your invitation to reserve a FREE, NEW 10-volume library packed with over 80 cancer cures, arthritis secrets, Alzheimer's answers, heart disease myths and more.

    This video is not for the faint of heart--but if you're over 50, and especially if you're over 65--this is new information could save your life.


    Scott did admit there's one problem with DMSO: the smell. As you may know, DMSO makes people smell like garlic. There's no way of getting around that, but chlorophyll can reduce the smell. Parsley may also help.

    Most importantly, a temporary smell is only a small disadvantage for something that can help save your life. (For those who really can't tolerate the garlic smell after using DMSO, another substance known as MSM offers similar benefits without the smell. MSM, however, isn't as powerful as DMSO.)

    Scott is convinced that every cancer patient should be on DMSO, period -- even patients who choose conventional treatment. A Russian study found that 25 cancer patients who took DMSO before chemotherapy and radiation avoided nausea and internal burns, in contrast to a control group of 25 others who didn't take DMSO before chemo and radiation.
Near-miraculous reversal of brain damage
    Incredible as it sounds, Scott claimed that DMSO even repairs DNA double-strand breaks. And he added that DMSO is being used as the principal therapy to reverse the brain damage suffered by retired professional football players after scores of minor brain traumas suffered in practice and during games. One retired football player said after his first DMSO treatment: "This is the best I've felt in years." According to Scott, that was 10 months ago. "Now he has no sign of any brain damage."

    Scott said that anyone who suffers brain trauma or a stroke should get DMSO as soon as possible to soothe and repair the damage right away. A lady in Eugene, Oregon, had been in a coma for three months when her husband started giving her DMSO. She snapped out of the coma, left the convalescent hospital, and went home.

    Three years later, Scott visited her and found that she was back to doing her normal household duties. She still had a slight speech impediment, but she had a sharper memory than her husband, who'd never had a stroke. Scott asserted, "We can practically eliminate Alzheimer's disease with DMSO. Anybody can use it."

    How do you take DMSO? Holistic doctors give it intravenously, but you can put a half teaspoon of DMSO in a glass of water and drink it. You can also apply DMSO on the skin, but Scott said that "90 percent is the highest concentration you should use for topical use."

    Regarding topical use, Frank Cousineau, the president of the Cancer Control Society, gave this caution: "Don't put on polyester clothing after applying DMSO to your skin." Frank added that if a loved one is unable to take DMSO by mouth, it can be poured over the loved one's head. "Instruct your family members how to pour DMSO over your head," he recommended.

    Where do you get DMSO? Apparently, it's available at feed stores. Frank Cousineau said DMSO comes from two sources: petroleum and wood. He recommended DMSO from wood only. He said people should avoid DMSO from petroleum because it can cause nausea.

    Archie Scott describes himself as a "DMSO Specialist" and has a website athttp://archiescott.com/. He has provided consulting services on the use of DMSO to many doctors and hospitals in the course of the last 40 years.
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"X-rated" diagnostic therapy beats mammograms
    Ironically, mammograms increase the chance of breast cancer because of the trauma to the breast. Dr. Vicki Hufnagle, M.D., presented a safe diagnostic alternative to mammograms that gives a very early warning of atypical pre-cancerous cells long before these cells turn into a cancerous lesion. It's called HALO.

    What does the HALO machine do? Dr. Hufnagle said it collects the nipple aspirate fluid lining the breast ducts. The machine does this by sucking the breast, which is why she calls it "X-rated." She said, "You put the machine on, it takes five minutes, and the fluid is sent to the pathologist for assessment." It doesn't hurt at all because lidocaine spray is applied to the nipple before the test, eliminating any discomfort. Unlike a mammogram, this procedure doesn't traumatize the breast.

    Only a slight amount of fluid is needed: just enough to smear across a slide to be examined. If the test comes up completely dry, that means it's even less likely that any cancer is starting to develop, according to Dr. Hufnagle.

    But mammograms will likely remain the standard diagnostic tool because physicians normally buy mammogram machines on the installment plan and need to sell mammograms to meet their monthly payments.
Some cancer patients need meat!
    You may have heard that a vegetarian diet cures or prevents cancer. That's not so, according to Dr. Amin Nezami, M.D., of the Pacific Medical Center of Hope in Fresno, California.

    Dr. Nezami told the audience, "A vegetarian diet doesn't cure or prevent cancer. Some cancer patients improve on a vegetarian diet. Some should avoid a vegetarian diet. One size doesn't fit all. Nutrition is important, but it has to be customized."

    In fact, Dr. Nezami believes just about everything in cancer treatment needs to be customized, including DMSO, high dose vitamin C, and low-dose chemo. To find out how much of these substances is optimal, Dr. Nezami tests the patient's genes with epigenetics. Epigenetics involves gene expression — and what influences it -- as opposed to actual changes in the DNA. The result of this testing is a new method of treating cancer that Dr. Nezami calls Multi-Molecular Targeted Epigenetic Therapy (MTET).

    Surprisingly, Dr. Nezami said that iron-deficient cancer patients should avoid iron. Even if the cancer patient is anemic from iron deficiency, he said that adding iron is the worst thing you could do because iron promotes angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels that help feed cancer tumors.

    If a cancer patient has too much iron, it's not necessary to donate blood or to go to a doctor for a phlebotomy (blood-letting). Dr. Gary Gordon, M.D. of Arizona pointed out that vitamin C, Wobenzyme (a proteolytic enzyme manufactured in Germany), and EDTA can overcome iron overload.

    Dr. Nezami usually sees cancer patients after conventional cancer therapy has failed and their immune systems have been damaged from the harsh chemotherapy and radiation. His treatments also include hyperbaric oxygen therapy. He has some impressive video testimonials from cancer patients on his website.
The hidden culprit in cancer deaths: copper
    Helayne Waldman, the author of The Whole Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors, addressed the audience on nutritional testing. She said one thing doctors should look at is the patient's level of copper because too much copper -- like too much iron -- promotes angiogenesis, which feeds tumors. If a patient's copper level is too high, she said it can be brought down with a chelating agent called TM, a treatment that has taken some Stage Four cancer patients into long-term remission.

    Most often, cancer patients suffer from deficiencies in minerals they need to be healthy. For example, Waldman said zinc and magnesium are two incredibly critical anti-cancer minerals: "Magnesium is my favorite mineral in the world. It's responsible for several hundred enzyme processes. It affects the permeability of cell membranes. Without this permeability, nutrients can't get in, and waste can't get out. Cellular health is critical to a healthy body. Magnesium also helps remove heavy metals. Stress depletes magnesium."

    Waldman said iodine is especially important for breast health, and she gives patients a urine test to measure iodine levels. One of the most important things cancer patients should get tested is the level of inflammation. Inflammation can be addressed with natural substances such as turmeric, ginger, and fish oil.

    Waldman has no difficulty interpreting the various tests and giving patients a nutritional roadmap to better health, but she can't order certain tests because she's not a physician. She partners with physicians for the benefit of patients.

    She recommends avoiding GMO (genetically modified organism) foods such as corn, soy, canola, and sugar beets, which have become ubiquitous in the food supply. Waldman said, for example, that 95 percent of sugar beets are genetically modified. Sugar from GM sugar beets is "frankensugar, which is even worse than sugar," she said. For that reason, cane sugar is better than beet sugar.

    Waldman warned against eating animals that were fed an unnatural diet. For example, she said a cow that eats soy is a frankencow. A farm-raised fish that eats soy is a frankenfish.

    To improve her patients' colon health, she strongly recommends eating fermented foods such as raw sauerkraut, which are jam-packed with healthy, beneficial bacteria. "You can't get enough fermented foods. Otherwise, go on probiotics," she advised.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Did a Leading Cancer Doctor Really Admit This?

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If you asked oncologists what they really think of cancer treatments, you’d be shocked.
According to one report, when a leading doctor at the Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center found out that he had advanced‐stage cancer, he told his colleagues, “Do anything you want—but no chemotherapy!”
And he’s not alone. Another official reportedly refused to allow his mother to undergo “state‐of‐the‐art” therapy at his own hospital. What did he do? He sent her to Germany for “alternative” care.
But it’s not surprising when you consider the side effects of traditional treatment...hair loss, nausea, fatigue, cancer even!
So then why wouldn’t you hear more about a natural treatment? One that not only destroys cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched?
A study on people who received this treatment for cancer and other ailments noted that “the results have been spectacular; the only side effect is ‘chronic good health.’” 
You read that correctly. Chronic good health was the only side effect. That’s a far cry from any of the conventional methods you’ll hear about.
Go HERE to find out all the details including how the mainstream almost killed one of the greatest cancer discoveries in history. Prepare to be outraged.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Just say no to this dangerous test

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X-rays are a major cause of cancer


    We Americans are the most over-X-rayed people on earth, and the heavy doses of radiation we get are a major, and growing, cause of cancer. A British study suggests nearly one percent of all cancer cases in the United States (0.9 percent, to be exact) are due to diagnostic X-rays. That's a full 50 percent more than in the UK, where about 0.6 percent of cancers are caused by doctors taking pictures. The Brits don't subject patients to as many X-rays as we do.

    Doctors, of course, would have us believe the benefits of X-rays outweigh the "small" increase in risk. One cancer out of a hundred may not sound like much, but just imagine if, say, a supplement like C0Q10 were found to be the cause of one percent of all cancers. It would be pulled off the shelves so fast your head would spin, and there would be no talk of balancing the dangers with the benefits (which happen to be enormous for this supplement).

    What does radiation do to you? Let's take a look...

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We're in the middle of an X-ray epidemic
    American medicine has gone X-ray crazy. The total amount of X-radiation we receive went upsix times from 1990 to 2006, according to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (2009, Report 160).

    The New England Journal of Medicine says CT scans alone account for half the medical imaging dose we get. The article estimates that CT scans cause something like four out of every thousand cancers (Issue 357). The number of patients getting very high doses doubled every yearfrom 1996 to 2010, says the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    A recent study of people who had cancer when they were children demonstrates the dangers of radiation. More than 95 percent of them suffered from chronic health problems by the time they were 45, including lung, hearing and heart problems.

    You see, radiation damage is long term and shows up decades later. As Dr. Melissa Hudson, one of the study's authors, puts it, "Doctors may not be thinking about a heart-valve disorder in someone in his 30s, but if you had radiation to your chest at 10, this is something to think about."

    The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are based on detailed physicals conducted on 1,700 adults who were treated for cancer at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis from ten to 40 years ago.

    The researchers found that the parts of the body treated then are precisely the ones that are falling apart now. There's strong evidence that conventional cancer treatments accelerate the aging process of organs. The damage is profound, but it's not evident right away.

    Adult survivors who received radiation to the brain as children suffer from thinking and memory problems typical of much older people. Those who were subjected to chest X-rays are likely to have heart-valve changes, including scarring and leaky valves. For this group of people whose average age was 33, "the health problems were considered striking" (the Wall Street Journal'schoice of words, not mine.)

    These people were cancer survivors — you could argue their treatment was successful. But two points are worth making. One is that alternative treatments could have done the job gently, with no damage, instead of the lifetime health problems these young people now face. There are something like 395,000 childhood cancer survivors in our country. This is a vast tragedy.

    The second point is that those of us who just receive routine diagnostic X-rays — not cancer treatment — face similar risks.
Everyday X-rays and your risk of cancer
    To be fair, the doses of radiation used to treat cancer patients are vastly great than those you receive in diagnostic X-rays. But X-ray damage is permanent and cumulative, so all those "little, routine" X-rays add up. Once the damage is done, it never goes away. And each time you have another X-ray, you add to it. Given the escalating use of X-rays in our medical system, the problem can only get worse.

    When I was young, I had many chronic health problems myself and received tons of X-rays, so this is personal with me. The X-rays never turned up anything useful. The results were always negative. The problems I was trying to solve — chronic headaches, chronic body pain and fatigue, terrible GI-tract upset, unhealthy skin — were all eventually solved by alternative medicine.

    My health problems were mostly due to the Standard American Diet (SAD), consisting of sugar and other refined carbs, hormone-and-drug-fed beef and chicken, heaven knows what preservatives and other chemicals, over-cooked vegetables, no fiber and a desperate lack of nutrients. X-rays were never going to identify any of those problems, but if you walk into a doctor's office with head pain or back pain or intestinal problems, you're probably going to get an X-ray.

    I have plenty of company when it comes to being over-X-rayed. It's normal, and the consequences are a disaster. A study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute found, for example, that women who had had an average of 25 back X-rays had a 70 percent greater risk of dying of breast cancer than the general population. If you think nobody ever has 25 X-rays, ask a friend with long-term chronic pain. I had four back X-rays that I can remember, maybe more.

    A recent study at the University of Hong Kong found that the risk of soft-tissue sarcoma is doubled if a person receives an amount of radiation equivalent to two CT head scans. One of the study's authors, Dr. Dino Samartzis, said, "The study has highlighted that even low to moderate levels of exposure are enough to cause genetic mutation."

    Yup, I had a brain scan, too, for those mystery headaches I used to have, plus a full set of sinus X-rays.

    In one recent year, 2008, a study found that 1.65 million children received a CT scan during a visit to an emergency room — five times as many as in 1994. A CT scan is equivalent to three to seven years of absorption of the amount of radiation we get naturally from the environment — all packed into a few minutes. A child exposed to just two or three scans faces three times the risk of developing brain cancer later in life.

    A couple of years ago, TV star Dr. Mehmet Oz set off a mini panic when he noted that thyroid cancer is the fastest-growing cancer in women. As one of the causes he cited the harmful effects of radiation from sources like dental X-rays and mammograms.

    Thyroid cancer is pretty rare. It accounts for only about 3 cancers out a hundred in women. It's also highly treatable and nearly everyone who gets it survives. But who needs any kind of cancer? Your dentist should X-ray no more than one or two of your teeth a year. If he's doing a full X-ray every year, get a new dentist.

    One of the strongest voices against our X-ray mania was the late Dr. John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. and Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He wrote six books on the effects of ionizing radiation on health, his last title being Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease. In this 700-page tome, he presented strong evidence that medical X-rays not only play an important role in causing half of all cancer cases, but also cause 60 percent of heart disease cases.

    X-rays are not the only causes of these diseases (see my previous comments about diet) but they are major causes. Preventing cancer is the fine art of trimming your exposure a little bit here and a little bit there, wherever you have the opportunity. Never say, "It's just one little X-ray" — especially if you've already dozens during your life up to this point.

    Sometimes you need an X-ray to diagnose a medical problem, but they should generally be avoided and resisted. This newsletter is on record against mammograms, the most common unnecessary (and largely useless) use of X-rays. Consider thermography. It's a better way to diagnose breast cancer.

    When a doctor urges (or orders) an X-ray, ask whether an MRI or ultrasound is possible instead. These diagnostic tests involve no radiation at all. Refuse X-rays that are part of a general physical "just to make sure everything's all right." If you don't have any symptoms, why have an X-ray?

    One thing that's under your control is your exposure to natural radiation from radon. Check your home and, if possible, your work place to ensure you're not being irradiated every day without even knowing it. As bad as medical X-rays are, radon accounts for an enormous portion of the public's exposure to radiation. 21,000 lung cancer deaths a year are attributed to radon, second only to smoking.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Don't let cancer kill your bank account

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    The diagnosis is devastating... the treatments doctors recommend can be traumatic...

    ... and when the bills start rolling in—you quickly realize that the cost of curing cancer is just about as bad as the disease! Here's what cancer does to your bank account, and what you can do about it...

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    A recent study1 indicates that cancer patients are three times more likely to declare bankruptcy than people without the disease.

    According to a June 2013 study from the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research in Washington, younger people with cancer were five times more likely to declare bankruptcy compared to older patients.

    Those odds are alarming when you consider that tough economic times have driven bankruptcies sky high for people who aren't dealing with a cancer diagnosis!

    Study co-author Karma Kreizenbeck says that while their paper shows how cancer causes patients to run up medical debts that can lead to bankruptcy, "it could also mean people have to take second jobs, end up with lower credit scores or have to make other decisions."

    If you're wondering about the numbers, consider this estimate from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)2 ...

    According to their research, cancer costs in 2010 reached a staggering $124 billion in the United States. And you can bet these numbers will continue their upward trend, with some estimates of cancer costs reaching at least $158 billion by 2020.

    If you're already emotionally and physically exhausted from dealing with disease, the last thing you need is the stress of worrying about how to pay for treatments.

    But that's the unfortunate reality for thousands of sick cancer patients. Let's take a look at some of the costs you can expect to face…
A surefire way to drain your bank account
    Cancer.net, a website of cancer information from American Society of Clinical Oncology, breaks down some of the common costs associated with cancer. These include:
  • Doctor appointments—Even when you have medical insurance, you typically are responsible for a co-payment for each visit. The amount of the co-pay is set by the insurance company and can really add up when visits are frequent. What's more, you'll often be on the hook for separate charges associated with each laboratory test done as part of your appointment.
  • Treatment expenses—These include charges for any medical care, such as radiation and chemotherapy sessions, that you receive during your cancer treatment. A study from Duke University Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute3 showed that 215 insured cancer patients reported spending an average of $712 a month in out-of-pocket expenses.

    And even insured women with breast cancer can expect to shell out anywhere from $150-200 weekly for radiology visits if they have high insurance co-pays!

    Because cancer treatment can take anywhere from a few days to months or years—you'll need a doctor or nurse to help you determine how often and for how long you may incur these out-of-pocket costs.
  • Medication costs—It's likely your share of the cost of cancer drugs will be high. So count on shelling out B-I-G bucks for chemotherapy plus other medicines to help relieve side effects.
  • Transportation—Don't overlook gas and other expenses you may have when traveling to and from your treatment facility. And if you're seeking treatment outside of your home state, you'll have to foot the travel costs for tickets, lodging and food while you're away.
  • Family and living expenses—You may incur costs related to running your household during your cancer treatment. These could include childcare or elder care expenses.
  • Caregiving, at-home care, and long-term care—Cancer patients may require extensive assistance during treatment, such as fixing meals or transportation to medical appointments. Some patients even require long-term nursing care.
  • Employment, legal, and financial issues—A cancer patient may incur costs for professional guidance to help address loss of wages for the patient or caregiver, to help sort out the tax implications of medical expenses, or to help write a will.
    This is just a snapshot of some of the costs you may incur. But it should be more than enough to show that fighting cancer is truly a financial burden.

    So is there any help available?
Some resources to help ease your burden...
    Of course, some of the most effective treatments are natural foods and supplements that don't cost very much at all. I firmly believe, based on the people we've interviewed during the last eight years, that patients can beat cancer on their own at home or by working with an alternative doctor on an outpatient basis.

    Particularly for late-stage cancer patients, I believe the conventional treatments are almost worthless and you're better off with alternatives. Don't waste your last dollar on the chemo treatment that's supposed to give you two more months (it probably won't). Try the kinds of things Bill Henderson recommends in How to Cure Almost Any Cancer at Home for $5.15 or Day, or that Ty Bollinger recommends in The 31-Day Home Cancer Cure.

    These are proven, validated cancer protocols that work for a lot of people. They don't work for 100 percent of patients — that's not realistic -- but I'm convinced they have a MUCH higher success rate for late-stage cancer than do conventional treatments.

    But if you're an early-stage cancer patient you may decide to roll the dice on conventional treatments, or maybe you want to combine conventional and alternative therapies. Or perhaps you have a family member with cancer who won't consider alternatives.

    In that case, you may need to brace yourself for a financial shock. In Issue #268, we covered a variety of resources that are available to people in the mainstream medical system and — sometimes — to patients undergoing alternative treatments. I suggest you take a look at that issue, and make sure you aren't missing any help that might available.

    There are many non-profit organizations that provide assistance with medications, lodging, transportation, cleaning and other services for cancer patients.

    And "Obamacare" -- the new federal law officially known as The Affordable Care Act -- is supposed to make healthcare more affordable and available to people diagnosed with cancer and other grave diseases. We'll see.

    My wish is that the half million cancer patients diagnosed each year find the financial, emotional and medical support they need!

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Footnotes:
1Ramsey, S. et al. 2013. Washington state cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without a cancer diagnosis. Health Affairs. Published online before print May 2013, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1263. Available at
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/6/1143

2National Cancer Institute. (2011, January 11). Cancer prevalence and cost of care projections. Retrieved from
http://costprojections.cancer.gov/expenditures.html

3Duke Medicine News and Communications. 2011, June 6. Medical bills force cancer patients to skimp on care andnecessities.DukeHealth.org website. Available online at
http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/medical-bills-force-cancer-patients-to-skimp-on-care-and-necessities
Addtional Resources:
American Cancer Society. 2012. Health insurance and financial assistance for the cancer patient. Available at
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/findingandpayingfortreatment/managinginsuranceissues/
healthinsuranceandfinancialassistanceforthecancerpatient/health-insurance-and-
financial-assistance-options-for-uninsured


American Cancer Society. 2011. The Affordable Care Act: How it helps people with cancer and their families. Available at
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@editorial/documents/document/acspc-026864.pdf

Grens, K. 2011. Cancer costs highest for individually insured. Fox News. Available at
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/06/01/cancer-costs-highest-individually-insured/

Lacoma, T. 2013. The average cost of chemotherapy. Available on the eHow website at
http://www.ehow.com/about_5591219_average-cost-chemotherapy.html

National Cancer Institute. 2013. Coping with cancer: Financial, legal and insurance information. Available at
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/financial-legal

Health Disclaimer: The information provided above is not intended as personal medical advice or instructions. You should not take any action affecting your health without consulting a qualified health professional. The authors and publishers of the information above are not doctors or health-caregivers. The authors and publishers believe the information to be accurate but its accuracy cannot be guaranteed. There is some risk associated with ANY cancer treatment, and the reader should not act on the information above unless he or she is willing to assume the full risk.