Most people are scared of cancer.  Particularly if your family has cancer deaths previously.  That genetic "weakness", predisposes you to cancer.  Before we start, we need to learn just a little about cancer. What is cancer? It's a lot of different things in different places in the human body, but basically, it's human cells that have been modified or mutated from normal growth to cancerous growth. How does this modification or mutation happen? A major cause of these mutations is "free radicals".  You've heard this term before as it's received a lot of media attention.  So, what are free radicals? They occur whenever some nutrient in the bloodstream is oxidized.  The oxidation process releases a hydrogen ion which whizzes around until it hits something. In some cases, the cell it hits, becomes modified, and starts to become a cancer cell, reproducing itself, and growing within the body.  There's no pain involved, so chances are, the person doesn't have a clue that it's happening. What can we do about these free radicals? Simple - keep our diet high in anti-oxidants! An anti-oxidant is a food nutrient that tends to prevent oxidation within the blood.  This is a major step in PREVENTING cancer. Anti-oxidants come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and all work to suppress free radicals by preventing oxidation in the blood.  Some also do other things, and there is some synergism as well. Synergism is very important in nutrition. It's where 1 + 1 = 3 - in other words, a combination of nutrients works much better than any one of them alone, or "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts"! There are several vitamins that are anti-oxidants.  Vitamins A, C, and E are the most common.  Vitamin A is also good for vision, and a deficiency causes night blindness.  If you don't see well at night, start taking 25,000 IU a day. Vitamin C is well known, but did you know that it's a viricide AND a bactericide for the blood.  Because it does so many jobs, it has to be taken in much larger doses than most people realize.  (I recommend 4 grams - 4000 mg per day as a MINIMUM.) To illustrate this amount, an orange has about 70 mg of vitamin C.  While it may prevent scurvy, it isn't even close to what we humans need in today's world. Vitamin E also does lots of things in addition to being one of the best anti-oxidants.  It helps to prevent blood clots (and therefore strokes).  For diabetics, it helps to improve circulation, in the extremities.  So, if you have cancer in your family, I recommend at least 400 IU per day of vitamin E. Perhaps one of the best "prevention and cure" agents of prostate and breast cancers is the enzyme CoQ-10.  It has been reliably reported that using 300+ mg of this every day has actually cured both these cancers in a few reported cases.  It should be noted here that these two cancers are somewhat different from other cancers, as both are mediated by sex hormones, and both seem to be unaffected adversely by simple vitamin C as are other cancers. There are lots of other anti-oxidants including the whole family of bioflavinoids.  Besides these anti-oxidants, there are other natural substances that help to prevent cancer.  Remember Laetrile? It was touted as a cancer cure, but pretty well discredited some years ago.  I'm not sure exactly what the story was, but I do know that Edgar Cayce in one of his "readings" said "to prevent cancer - eat two or three almonds per day".  Almonds contain Laetrile.  I don't know for sure if it helps, but I like almonds, so I eat some as a snack a few times a week. Let's not forget fiber! Some cancer may be started from poisonous stuff that wasn't disposed of properly in your waste system.  See Digestion concerning fiber and gut actions for more.  So, those horrible ads for breakfast cereals aren't all hype.  Whole grains contain fiber - most processed foods don't.  If you don't have enough fiber to absorb the poisons your body is trying to get rid of, they may be re-digested, and cause other problems.

Cancer "Cures"

There are a lot of "cures" offered by a lot of MD's and a lot of quacks. It's pretty difficult to pick and choose.  I've waded thru a lot of info on the subject, and I can give you my opinions and the theories I believe in. Vitamin C used as a cure. H. L. Newbold (an orthomolecular psychiatrist) wrote a very interesting book "Vitamin C Against Cancer" (published by Scarborough and probably available thru your local library on order).  In this book, he tells of the experiment that was conducted by Linus Pauling in Scotland.  1100 persons were selected that were all "terminal" from cancer.  Terminal in this case means that they had 3-6 months to live.  Then, out of this 1100, only 100 cases were taken at random, and these patients given no other therapy than 10 grams (10,000 mg) per day of vitamin C. At the end of a year, all 1000 "control" patients had died.  BUT, wonder of wonders - over half of the 100 taking vitamin C still lived.  What's more, some of these had complete remission of their cancer! I read this book around 1982, and since I had read other books by Dr.  Newbold, I respected his writings, and of course, I really respected Dr Pauling - the only two time winner of Nobel Prizes. So, a few weeks later, a man came to me with a terminal case of colon cancer.  He was in his 50's, and he had come to me for a hypnotic tape similar to Dr. Simonton's hypnotic cures of cancer. (This book is listed on the resource "books" page.) He didn't believe the vitamin C would do him any good.  I persuaded him to read the book, and lent him my copy.  He did, and he also got the hypnotic tape I made for him. Three months later, he came in to my office again.  Not for therapy, but just to thank me for saving his life.  He had had to go to 60 grams per day to reach "bowel tolerance", but between the Vitamin C, and the hypnotic tape, he was in complete remission.  My thought is "If it works for even one person, it isn't quackery".

Vitamins used WITH Radiation and Chemotherapy

A few months later, cancer hit my brother's oldest son.  He called me for help.  It was lung cancer - one of the quickest and most deadly of all for young persons.  I told him to go up to bowel tolerance and to take the base vitamin mineral regime, and to keep it up no matter what the MD said. He called me a week later, and told me that the MD wanted him to undergo radiation.  I told him to go ahead, but to keep up his vitamin C at the level he had established. A few weeks after that, he called again, and said "I don't know why people complain so much about radiation - it was nothing".  I asked him if he had kept up with his vitamin C, and he had.  I said "it was nothing for you because of the vitamin C".  Then, he told me that the MD wanted him to do a course in chemotherapy.  I told him to go ahead, but to keep the vitamin C up. A few months later, he called to thank me.  He said that the chemotherapy was not bad for him either, and he was now convinced that the vitamins and minerals along with the C did the trick for him.  He had a clean bill of health and was completely cured.  This case illustrates that you can use orthomolecular therapies along with "conventional" therapy to the benefit of the patient! Too bad so many MD's have been brainwashed against vitamins. The suggestions I gave to him for a vitamin regimen was: 1.  Go to "bowel tolerance" (just below diarrea level) for Vitamin C, and keep it until MD therapy stops, then gradually decrease dosage to 4 grams per day split into at least 2 grams AM and PM. 2.  Solgar VM-75 (or equal) daily. I have found in many cases that just the above regimen while undergoing either radiation or chemotherapy helps more than a little with side effects and stress of these dramatic therapies.  Many persons do not experience more than a little discomfort, and most do not lose their hair.  Remember that this regimen cannot hurt anyone.

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