Nutritional deficiency, uncontrolled oxidation, and inflammation, we all know these things are bad, yet as soon as we check into the hospital doctors are quick to prescribe things that cause these problems. More than likely before they do anything you are hooked up to fluids and blood is drawn. I will even quote our doctor at UNC (under his breath, BTW) "Layla probably needed a blood transfusion due to all of the fluids she has gotten and due to the blood draws". They essentially created a nutritional deficiency by clearing her blood of necessary nutrients. For children who actually eat in the hospital, the next hit comes. More than likely a drink with HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) or sweetened tea, some sugar laden pudding, white bread, jello, vegetables with no butter to help with absorption, some low fat cut of meat, pizza with white flour dough and nitrite filled pepperoni, ice cream with HFCS, of course all cooked in polyunsaturated oils(oxidation) because saturated fats are so "unhealthy" right?(wrong)...I could go on and on. The dietitians who come up with this stuff need to be carried out back and shot, and I don't mean that lightly. They are literally killing these kids with poor nutrition by only focusing on macronutrients, but this is all that is taught in basic dietitian school, obviously. This is a situation where the BEST nutrition should be, considering the onslaught of chemotherapy and radiation these kids are receiving. All of the fructose, sugar, polyunsaturates, additives like nitrites and synthetic dyes all do one thing, increase inflammation in the body. Many of these substances are known carcinogens, yet doctors and dietitians ignore the latest research, out of arrogance, ignorance? Who knows?
Next, god forbid you get a low fever, even though many chemotherapy's side effects include low fever, here come the antibiotics. It has been proven that healthy gut flora are anti-tumorous, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and more including managing your mental health. Without so much a thought, I hear the doctor, "let's start her on so an so bad antibiotic drug". "We just can't risk it", they say. Now I'm not necessarily opposed to antibiotics in a situation where you have no immune system left due to chemotherapy, it's more of the whole premise that the treatment actually caused you to have no immune system in the first place. Of course with Layla's last hospitalization, her white counts were great and her immune system was working. Megadose Vitamin C actually rid her of her fever all night long and allowed her to sleep peacefully. I think my wife disagrees with this, but in my mind a real doctor would have removed the reservoir causing the infection and treated her to allow her body to heal itself, leaving her healthy gut flora in place and not causing C.Diff...but I digress. My low point for modern health care was when Layla was in PICU and started having bowel issues. Figuring there have to be excellent nutraceutical type probiotics out there, I asked the doctor for a non-dairy broad spectrum probiotic, because it should clear up the problems we are having. He replied, "there is no such thing". The PICU is full of kids with RSV and swine flu being treated with their strong antibiotic drugs and again, no thought goes into gut health. What do the doctors do for these kids with loose stools? Oh, that's right, chalk it up to another death from C.Diff or some other malady so they can continue living in their little world where drugs are the only answer to people's problems.
It may look like I hate all doctors, I don't. I just think they have been pharmaceutically indoctrinated. Many doctors I talk to don't even really understand how different parts of the body interact after conversing with them and I didn't even go to medical school! I was flabbergasted a few years ago when I learned that doctors don't go to school to learn how to make people healthy, they learn how to prescribe drugs. So beyond anatomy and physiology, a basic nutrition course and a residency under another allopathic indoctrinated doctor, that's who you are looking up to for health advice. Believe it or not, one of Layla's oncologists had not even heard of the spice turmeric, let alone curcumin when I questioned him about it. This particular oncologist said "Linus Pauling did some great work (with vitamin C), no one has followed up on it though". He also stated "I just don't know how it (vitamin C) is going to react with what I prescribe so I stick with what I know". There is a research institute at UNC as there are at many other hospitals. Why hasn't it been followed up on? I think I have an answer and it's preceded by a dollar sign.
I personally believe a two-pronged approach would be most effective at treating cancer. Even in natural health circles, rational thinking scholars understand you have to get rid of large existing tumors. Many tumors have just progressed too far for natural substances or your immune system to handle. This is probably best handled by our modern allopathic methods and surgery. But after the tumor is reduced or removed is where modern allopathic medicine needs to change. "Preventative Chemo" to me is an misnomer. All you are doing with preventative chemo, in most cancers, as shown in the link at the bottom of this post, is delaying the inevitable and more than likely creating more cancer due to chemo's inherent inflammatory reaction. At this point, the doctors should go into "whole body health overdrive". A healthy diet, probiotics, fiber, high vitamins, food supplements like whey powder, natural anti-cancer supplements with no toxicity, all things that have PROVEN research behind them to improve total health and boost the immune system. Here in lies the problem with the modern medicinal system. They can't "prescribe" these things, nor get a kickback from pharmaceutical rep. Therefore, they don't even think, or in their minds "waste their time", on the health side of the equation. Most will just throw some pain meds at you to make you happy or tell you to go to the emergency room if it goes much beyond a short call or e-mail. One oncologist, I won't name any names, even goes so far as saying organic foods are a croc, just because a friend of his got brain cancer that ate organic foods, as if that is the only factor in total body health!
What causes these cancers in the first place? No one really knows for sure what causes one individual's cancer in most cases, but we know nutritional deficiency, uncontrolled oxidation, and inflammation cause cancer. We know when we add anti-inflammatory nutrients to an experimental animals diet and give them strong carcinogens, it often prevents or delays the cancer. The primary cause of cancer is our diet. The paleo-diet people will tell you it's because we are naturally hunter-gatherers and agriculture has been the downfall of man's health. The Weston A. Pricer's, of which I prescribe to, believe it's more about food preparation and choices of foods that are causing the problem based upon the studies of the health of isolated tribes of people from the past who did not show the degenerative diseases we have today. The blame can go around everywhere. Some of the worst offenders for oxidation and inflammation are wheat, corn products(especially GMO), and soybeans. The primary source of this in many people's diets is in the form of polyunsaturates that are essentially pre-oxidized oils that have been deodorized so you will buy them in the first place and then put on the shelf in clear bottles for further breakdown by UV rays. I have often said that if the United States grew coconuts and oil palm trees, saturated fats would be called the healthiest fat on earth (which they actually are, in addition to milk fats, but that's another story). We know that high intake of polyunsaturated oils which oxidize easily cause oxidation and inflammation in the skin when exposed to excessive sunlight because the skin concentrates a large portion of the oils we eat to protect you from the environment. Deprive these oils of their vitamin E content by frying and you have a double whammy, hence the bias against frying anything. It's not the frying that is necessarily the problem, it what you are frying in. Don't get me wrong, high temperature cooking creates some byproducts that your body has to get rid of, but we are made to deal with a certain amount of toxins in the body, so long as we have adequate nutritional status. Pile on all the other synthetic, plastic, factory foods like margarine, food dyes, teflons, plastic estrogens, high fructose corn syrup and sugar in general, hydrogenated oils, environmental toxins etc. plus low nutritional status and you have a prescription for genetic abnormalities in children and cancer.
My view and analogy of treating cancer naturally is to "completely smother it into comfortable submission with kid gloves". Study after study shows placing an anti-inflammatory substance against a cancer cell either causes it to self-destruct or actually REVERT back to a normal cell! From my research it appears that cancer cells create a "mini-environment" that is composed of different chemicals than the surrounding tissues. This is why most natural treatments do not affect the person but only the cancer as the natural substance reacts with these unique chemicals creating a reaction that causes the cancer to stop growing, die, or become normalized. Vitamin C, an example, when it comes into contact with a cancerous tumor it actually creates hydrogen peroxide at the site of the tumor. We know to put hydrogen peroxide on a cut or scrape because it is anti-microbial, same thing happens in the body. There are many theories as to how cancer begins, fungus, microbes, fusion of healthy stem cells are just a few that experts believe. Paul Stamets, the world's leading expert on mushrooms and fungus states that we actually carry the fungal spores to decompose our bodies once we die. These are only activated, WHEN WE DIE, meaning they only grow in the proper environment. Something causes the environment to change in the body when a cancer develops. This seems to be why anti-inflammatory substances such as vitamins A, C, D, E, resveratrol (coincidentally an anti-fungal substance when actually in the grape, hmmm), curcumin, organic sulfur and sulfur compounds, and more are so effective against cancers and disease, especially in vitro when it is easy to change the environment in the petri dish by making the levels of these substances high enough to effect cancer cell reversion and death. In addition, we now know from anti-aging research, the most potent anti-oxidant is glutathione, a substance that with proper nutrition, we actually manufacture in our own bodies!
I am so thankful for the support I have received from my Facebook friends as well as those in the community for their prayers and financial contributions. There is not a day that goes by that Layla doesn't get exactly what she needs nutritionally due to this. I feel sorry for and my heart goes out to the children and their families who don't have the financial ability or the knowledge to take care of their children the way I am able to for Layla. There are some who still do not even have the internet as a resource or don't speak english which makes it even more difficult. They are totally in the hands of the medical system and either get the pitiful hospital food and snacks or whatever their families can provide at the best they can. Their insurance essentially requires them to use whatever the doctor prescribes and from my experience above, proves the doctors can't prescribe good health which is crucial to beating cancer over the long term. Again, a change in the system is necessary.
Below is my original Facebook post that really got my wheels turning to actually put on paper, so to speak, my views on the causes and how to battle cancer, as well as the modern medical system and it's flaws in giving children and adults with cancer the best care possible. This is my anti-cancer manifesto.
This is a great article of why chemotherapy does NOT cure most cancers. AT/RT especially as from studies I have read has multiple copies of stem cells. This is even noted on the resveratrol-AT/RT study that I plastered all over the internet. Radiation is the most effective allopathic treatment because it obliterates everything in it's path, but it only takes one stem cell to regenerate. This is why I have been focusing on more natural methods, as these are the only methods that I have seen that can actually go into a cell and actually "convert" it back to a normal stem cell or actually destroy the rogue stem cell. This is why much of the new cancer research is based upon the sulfur compounds because they have the ability to do this. Someone actually turned me onto this by telling me about the chromatin remodeling research that is very active. When I looked up what it entailed, of course they are looking for "synthetic and patentable" cures, but the basis was sulfur compounds like sulforaphane that are from broccoli and broccoli sprouts for example. Genetic expression is the new buzzword as we now know that regardless of what your DNA has in it, the good parts or the bad parts are expressed based upon the cell's surrounding environment. If you notice almost ALL anti-cancer nutrients and supplements are anti-inflammatory. Create a happy environment and the cells change what they express. This flies completely in the face of traditional cancer treatments which are extremely pro-inflammatory. This is also why I do everything possible to make sure Layla gets every single nutrient necessary for proper health every single day. One deficiency could send her into an inflammatory state and trigger more tumors. This is also why using only coconut oil, butter and palm oil, are crucial as they do not oxidize easily in the body. Cod liver oil inflammation is modulated by Vitamin A, as some oxidation is necessary to kill pathogens and fuel our systems.
Here is a key quote from the article in the link.
"Traditional cancer treatments-chemotherapy and radiation-target fast-dividing cells. CSCs divide slowly. Chemo and radiation doesn’t kill them, and they live on to make new tumors in close-by and distant places. It might take just one cell for a tumor to relapse. That has been shown in a leukemia experimental system. If you see a complete destruction of a tumor but have one or two surviving cancer stem cells, you could have a recurrence. Normal stem cells check how they are doing. If there are too many gene alterations, they commit suicide. Cancer cells and CSC don’t look at DNA damage. They keep dividing despite mutation after mutation, which in turn is advantageous because it gives them new abilities to evade our current treatments. Until we identify what makes cancer stem cells survive, we won’t be able to cure solid tumors. Cancer is so much more complex than we thought 30 years ago, and the CSC model of cancer helps explain much of that complexity."
