A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol By Tony Isaacs

Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves, modern medicine fails miserably.

In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins and a weakened immune system - we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with.

As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition. Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom.

Nature, on the other hand, gives us an array of tools to beat cancer and the underlying causes that lead to cancer, including foods, vitamins, minerals, supplements and lifestyle choices. Here is a suggested protocol based on what we know about cancer and its causes and what nature and lifestyle choices have to offer:

As soon as possible, cleanse your body to get rid of built up toxins like heavy metals and pesticides, as well as the undigested food, fecal matter and gallstones that build up in the body by cleansing your colon and liver and by chelation to rid the body of heavy metals. Such contaminations are breeding grounds for, and causes of, disease and illness. A toxic and unclean body weakens the body's immune system that should be your first line of defense. Plus, once cleansed, the body is much more receptive to the good measures you take to rebuild your immune system and fight disease.

Cleanse your environment to the greatest extent possible and eliminate bad habits. In an ideal world, you would move to the country where there was plenty of fresh air and sunshine and less stress. In the real world you may not find that possible, so eliminate common toxins in your household, workplace and other places you spend time. If you have mercury amalgam fillings in your teeth, have them replaced. In many instances, this step alone has led to elimination of cancer.

Immediately eliminate bad habits and begin building build good ones so that you will make sure that you no longer have habits that weaken your immune system and that you will be able to build your body to fight and conquer illness. A sedentary lifestyle with a poor diet, lack of pure water, sunshine and fresh air, and constant exposure to toxins will in time lead to bad health conditions. Remember, bad health habits are open invitations for illness and disease to enter your body.

Begin and maintain a healthy immune-boosting and cancer fighting diet. A good balanced diet, pure water, fresh air, sunshine and exercise are some of the essentials. You will find that a good diet does not have to be a bad tasting diet – far from it! However, it should be noted that the very best and most healthy diet is one that is close to the diet our ancestors evolved to utilize: lots of fresh and uncooked vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots and tubers, and fish and meat uncontaminated by growth hormones, artificial fertilizers or pesticides – and little or no grain or dairy products. It should be noted that of all the foods, essentially only raw vegetables and fruits contribute to an alkaline pH.

Rebuild and strengthen the body's natural immune system. It is very likely that a weakened immune system contributed to your illness in the first place. It is absolutely certain that a rebuilt and strengthened immune system will help you beat your illness and keep it at bay. Again, good diet, nutrition and habits are all important – they lay the foundation for a strong and healthy immune system. However, they are not enough by themselves. You should build a good foundation and then make your body a healthy fortress against disease and illness. Quite simply, disease and illness hate healthy hosts. The stronger your immune system is, the harder it is for disease to survive and grow. And, to be the very strongest you can be, you need extra measures in the form of supplements as well as the healthiest foods. An oleander extract very much like you get when you make oleander soup was tested in Europe in 1986 - 87 and found to have six times the immune stimulating activity of the most powerful immune stimulators known to man.

Cleanse, restore and protect the liver before, during and after your anti-cancer and disease battle. Cancer cannot develop unless the liver is impaired to begin with. Plus, an effective cancer fighting regimen will result in the release of a cascade of toxins that are released when cancer cells die. Such a release can overwhelm an already impaired liver and can even be fatal if measures are not taken to protect and regenerate the liver. Some of the very best anti-oxidants to used to protect and regenerate the liver are the ones used in the Berkson Clinical Study: Milk Thistle (silymarin), alpha lipoic acid and selenium.

Maintain an alkaline pH and get plenty of oxygen to the cellular level. Cancer cannot survive in the presence of an alkaline cellular pH level, nor can it survive in the presence of highly oxygenated cells. Dr. Johanna Budwig of Germany has shown that for proper cellular utilization of oxygen to take place, our diets must contain adequate amounts of unsaturated fatty acids.

Make sure you have plenty of iodine, potassium and Vitamin D. All have been proven to be essential in beating and avoiding cancer. As mentioned above, cancer cells have lost the ability to be shut off by the body in what is called cellular apoptosis. These cancerous cells simply become abnormal and outlive the other cells in their normal cell life/replacement cycle and end up crowding out a territory over time. Iodine goes in and both does away with the surrounding cyst where cancer has set up residence and then also goes in and allows the specific shut down of the individual cells that are abnormal, diseased, or beset w/ pathogens to make room for new cells.

Drink plenty of pure water and get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Water is essential for all healthy life; however, regular tap water contains trace amounts of hundreds to thousands of pesticides, carcinogens and other industrial pollutants. For that reason, the author recommends only the purest drinking water, such as reverse osmosis filtered water. Don't overdo the sunshine, but sunshine is essential to the production of vitamin D, and, strange as it may sound, has been found to be essential in warding off melanoma as well as other cancers.

Exercise in moderation. Regular exercise does not have to be grueling, but it is essential. Exercise stimulates the immune system, stimulates the production of natural human growth hormone, stimulates the production of hormones and pheromones that make us happier and healthier, and simply leads to a longer and happier life period. Innumerable studies have demonstrated the overall health benefits of exercise and the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle lacking in exercise. It is not a coincidence that studies have shown up that those who exercise only a few hours each week have up to 50% less chance of developing many different kinds of cancer.

The next element of beating your disease and keeping it at bay is to go on the attack. As a matter of fact, all of the elements of the this anti-cancer and disease protocol are elements of attack, because they make the body strong and inhospitable to disease. What I am talking about here is more than just making the body inhospitable to your disease – I am talking about going on the attack and wiping it out! In the case of cancer, there are many very potent anti-cancer supplements. such as the ones listed above and several others.

One such supplement, named OPC (not to be confused with the European anti-oxidant of the same name), based on a remedy I have researched and written about , has been used for the past three years in South Africa to treat HIV and cancer. Of approximately 350 HIV patients, all are still alive and well with their symptoms either reversed or stabilized. Of 80 cancer patients, some in very late stages, 72 are alive and well and either cancer free or with their cancers in remission and tumors shrinking. Of the 8 that did not survive, 5 were in their very final days and could not hold down the supplement. Another three succumbed to organ failure as a likely result of prior traditional Western treatment via chemo. Compare that with the results of any mainstream medicine or treatment!

Perhaps the supreme cancer destroyer I have found is Inositol/IP6, such as is found in the product Cell Forte. A one to two month intensive regimen is best. According to several users I have spoken with, it seems to just melt away tumors in a very short time period, and works well to normalize the PSA readings in prostate cancer sufferers. One caution - Inositol/IP6 may deplete minerals and/or interfere with mineral absorption, especially calcium and magnesium. Be sure to get plenty of Calcium and Magnesium (a good thing to do anyway) and take a good mineral supplement, preferably plant derived minerals (a second good thing to do anyway). Also, I believe that it is good to only take a maintenance dose most of the time and to take occasional breaks from the maintenance dose of up to one month. No more than one or two yearly intensive regimens is recommended.

Colloidal Silver is another must in my opinion - it has been shown to be deadly to single cell organisms and pathogens. The caution with Colloidal Silver is that it is not specific and you need to supplement with pro-biotics (yet another good thing to do anyway - especially after cleanses).

Poly MVA is widely reported to have excellent results in beating cancer and is an excellent immune booster as well but it is quite pricey ($3600 for a four month treatment plus doctors fees) and does carry restrictions on what other supplements may be used with it.

Remember, what you avoid can be just as important as what you consume: Avoid sugar to the greatest extent possible. Sugar feeds cancer and other illnesses and causes a myriad of other health problems. Refined sugar is also the number one single cause of health problems in the entire world! Likewise avoid bread and other items containing bleached white flour, which is essentially empty and harmful calories that convert to sugar once ingested. Other items to avoid include non-fermented soy, pork, MSG, ALL charred foods and foods cooked at high temperature, aluminum and coated cookware, micro-waved food, food in plastic containers and styrofoam.

The final key to winning your battle is your mental attitude. Remove as much stress from your life as you can and believe that you are going to win. Stress and worry accomplish nothing – worse, they are actually allies of illness and disease. You have surely heard the term "stress, the silent killer"? It's true! So you must do whatever it takes to remove stress from your life and make your mental attitude your ally. Meditate, take yoga, change jobs, retire, go fishing, find a pleasant hobby – do whatever you must to remove stress and have a positive mental outlook. Just remember, anyone who introduces or keeps worry and stress in your life is neither a friend nor an ally during this fight. And make no mistake, it is a fight - likely the most important one of your life. But it is a fight you can and will win. Think it, believe it and live it.

Some in the field of natural health will tell you that you can beat cancer through diet alone, or through diet and de-toxing. In many instances that is true, and some of the most effective and popular natural anti-cancer protocols, such as the Budwig Diet, are based on such a premise.

However, in my opinion, the more weapons you have in your natural arsenal, the greater your chances of success will be. That is why I advocate including one or more of the powerful natural supplements that have been proven to beat cancer and boost the immunes system, and which address what we know about cancer.

Our depleted soils and the introduction of modern industrial toxins and contaminants makes it hard to build a strong enough immune system through diet alone. Our immune systems were not designed to handle the multitude of modern toxins they now face, which is why cancer is largely a modern disease.

As a final note: for those of you who continue to believe the big lie that the harsh and ineffective options offered by mainstream medicine (and its half century record of broken promises to deliver a cure or significant breakthrough) are superior to nature, I ask: When did God become a quack?

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

Tony Isaacs is a natural health researcher and author of Cancer's Natural Enemy. He manages The Best Years in Life website and is a featured author for Utopia Silver. http://www.tbyil.com

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Vitamin C Does Not Prevent Colds?

A few years ago, studies debunking alternative health treatments came along maybe every six months. Lately, though, it seems like I could do a blog a day rebutting some new piece of nonsense. I’m beginning to think that it’s actually a requirement that researchers must get a partial lobotomy before they can receive grant money to perform a study. So what’s today’s nonsense?

The Cochrane Library has just published the results of a review of scientific literature that says that taking regular supplements of Vitamin C to prevent colds is not justified unless you are exercising hard or living in an extremely cold place, in which case taking about 200 mg a day may cut your risk by 50 per cent.

And my problem with that is?

The whole premise of the study was to reassess Linus Pauling’s observations that vitamin C supplementation could prevent colds. Pauling’s protocol specifically called for doses of 1,000 mg or more per day. The Cochrane Library analysis started at 200 mg a day, one fifth of Pauling’s recommended dosage.

Let me make this brain-dead simple. If you’re trying to evaluate a health protocol, you actually have to use the protocol in question if you wish to assess it. You can’t arbitrarily cut doses by 80% and conclude the protocol doesn’t work.

This study is akin to deciding to determine whether you can lose weight on a low calorie diet of 1,000 calories a day by feeding people 5,000 calories a day


from John Barron's bloghttp://www.jonbarron.org/blog_published/2007/07/vitamin_c_does_not_prevent_col.html#more

Life's Sons and Daughters

By Luella May

“. . .Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

Kalil Gibran

I have held this in my heart from the moment I gave birth to my first child. I still watch my children as they go through life's journey and see them as sons and daughters of the cosmos. It has been my privilege to have them in my life from little babies to the adults that they are now.

The above rendition does not pertain to merely to children but to every human in the world. Oh, if we were to view every individual in this manner, we would live in a perfect world. Today though, I am speaking of a certain segment of society, our mothers and fathers. They, the bows from which we shot forth, also deserve the same deference. They too are sons and daughters of the cosmos, no different from ourselves, and no different from our very own children.

At a certain point, however, life makes a swift change and we find that those sturdy bows that once cared for us are the ones that now need our care. It is we who are now responsible for their welfare, for their everyday sustenance. It is very important that their value never diminishes in our eyes. They may become very fragile, but they are nothing less than the most beautiful and delicate crystal ever held.

Many of us are our parents caregivers. Although being the most demanding job ever, physically, mentally, and emotionally, it is by far the most rewarding. You see, as you are caring for your parent, you are giving back to them the love and nurturing that they gave you. We are the ones who now sing the lullabies. We are the ones that now rescue them when they fear the dark. We are now the ones that conform our schedules to sleep when they sleep.

While we are taking charge, nursing them, taking them to the doctor, scheduling their daily activities, it is very important to always let their individuality shine. The hardest thing for a person to do is to surrender their independence to another. Always include them in the decision making process, and let them have an integral part in their day-to-day activities. Make every day fun, even to the smallest activity. Find a certain time of the day to spend quality time with your parent, doing something that they enjoy. Keep quality in their life.

While caring for a parent, days become very structured, very uniform, only to be interrupted with rushing your loved one to the hospital or calling an ambulance. It is very easy to fall into the role of being the “boss” and not giving the parent a voice in decisions, be they medical, or whatever else, just because we “know better.” And many times we do know better. However, we should be careful to never let our parent feel that they are insignificant. Sometimes we gently but firmly have to tell our parent that this is really for their own good. I used to make a joke of having to tell my mom that a specific situation had to be. I used to say, “Remember when I was little and you used to tell me that something was for my own good? Well, now it's my turn.” And I would laugh, and then she would laugh. Laughter is contagious. But whenever possible, give them a voice in their care, in their activities, in their daily life. This is so important.

Our elderly mothers and fathers have their own preferences. These preferences should be honored, along with their wishes. I was at a nursing home recently when I noticed a well meaning daughter blatantly disregarding her mother's wishes. In my capacity, I was unable to intercede, but merely observed simply aghast. What would I have said? “Listen sweetie, I am your mother and will always be your mother. . .” That would have been the beginning. And I wouldn't have stopped anytime soon.

To ensure that health and final arrangement wishes are honored, everyone should have a living will. However, this is not always the case. Regardless, our parents deserve to have their wishes honored. As their children, this should be our primary concern. The hardest thing I ever had to do was stand by and watch the non-resuscitate order go into effect when my mother went into cardiac arrest. I wanted so badly to violently grab the nurse next to me by the hair, neck, it really didn't matter, and yell in her face as loudly as I could DO SOMETHING NOW! You don't realize how you will react until the situation is upon you. No rehearsals, this is it.

Given a diagnosis of cancer or other serious disease, your parent should have full say on the treatment they receive. For example, I only use alternative health methods. I would not opt to be treated with chemotherapy and radiation. My children would not agree with this at all, but to go against my wishes would be nothing less than a grievous assault on my very soul. By the way, a physician telling a patient that they are terminal is nothing less than emotional rape. Cancer can indeed be cured by natural methods, but this is for another article. In the same way, if a parent opts for conventional medicine, again, that is their decision. I would do everything in my power to convince them to go the alternative route but, in the end, the decision is theirs. We do not have the right to force our will upon another. Our children are not our possession and neither are our parents.

In the end, we all belong to the Creator. We were made in His image and likeness, every one of us. Our children, our parents, sisters, brothers, families, friends, even the strangers that we briefly encounter, they are merely loaned to us for a time. Let us cherish each other as the entities we really are. As a caregiver, we know that our time with our moms and dads is not long. They will be going back to the Creator soon. Our time together is almost up, the appointed time is nigh. Keep the quality in their lives until the time when they soar off to their new life. Lastly, don't wait until they are almost departing to build those sweet memories. Start today, and one day when they are gone, the sweet memories will live forever.

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