A new study published in the journal Nature divides breast cancer into 4 genetic types. One of the most deadly types, "basal-like" cancer, shows strong genetic similarities to types of lung cancer and to ovarian cancer. A researcher is quoted in the New York Times as saying these similarities point to a common cause of the cancers. I laughed out loud when I read this because they're all caused by infection and the cancers with the similarities they've identified are caused by a common organism infecting similar kinds of cells in the different organs. It's right under their noses!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/health/study-finds-variations-of-breast-cancer.html?_r=0
I've noticed, reading these research reports, that cancer researchers are excellent at identifying the results of infection with carcinogenic organisms and even of finding treatments that are effective against these results, without identifying the underlying cause of the disease. For example, Tamoxifen and Taxol, two of the most important breast cancer drugs, are potent antifungal drugs. Breast cancer is caused by skin fungal infections. Researchers somewhere discovered these drugs work against breast cancer without knowing why! God bless them anyway - they've saved countless lives with their antifungal drugs.
It's important to note that early breast cancers are always intraductal - they form inside the ducts of the milk glands, which are open to the outside world through the milk gland openings in the breast nipple. Fungal organisms on the skin enter the ducts through the gland openings in the skin and infect and transform the cells lining the ducts. Breast cancer does not start in the deep breast tissue as you would expect if it were entirely a genetic disorder - it spreads to the deep tissue through invasion of the cancer cells through the walls of the ducts.
Statistically, breastfeeding before the age of 32 lowers the lifetime risk of breast cancer. I believe it is because breast milk contains potent immune factors intended to protect the nursing infant but that also protect the breast ducts from the infection. Breasts continue to make small amounts of milk for 10 years or more after weaning, so that increased immune protection for the breast continues indefinitely. A mother who first nurses after age 32 may already have an entrenched infection which would not be affected by the presence of breast milk.
Cancer rates are rapidly increasing, especially in young people, because our American food supply is over-manipulated. Our food is genetically modified (GMO) and contains chemicals and pesticides that our parents and grandparents were never exposed to. The alterations in our food supply are also causing our epidemic of obesity. The rest of the world isn't suffering these problems because they're still eating food that's wild-type, not scientifically altered.
Japanese women living in Japan have a low breast cancer rate but when they move to the U.S. they quickly reach the same rates of breast cancer as American women. Obviously genetics are not the problem - these women are exposed to new environmental factors when they move to the U.S. Japanese women consume large quantities of soy in their diets. My Chinese physician tells me that consumption of soy outside of the U.S. lowers the risk of breast cancer, but soy grown in the U.S. significantly raises the risk of cancer because it is 100% genetically-modified. To lower your risk of breast cancer in the U.S., you must eat wild-type or imported soy.
The genetic counselor I consulted for BRCA 1 and 2 testing told me that these breast cancer genes code for DNA repair. The presence of the BRCA genes decreases the body's ability to repair DNA damage. So women with these genes develop cancer at an earlier age. These genes do not code for cancer. They make women more susceptible to carcinogenesis. From what I've read about the mechanisms by which fungal organisms infect mammalian cells, it makes sense that when fungal organisms trick cells into taking them up into the cytoplasm and the organism shuts off programmed cell death in the cell nucleus, DNA damage must occur during the process which the BRCA genes are unable to repair. Perhaps shutting off cell death IS the DNA damage that cannot be repaired.
We develop cancer because our chemically altered, genetically altered food damages our immune defenses, allowing infections to proliferate, invade and genetically transform cells into cancer cells.
We must stop the genetic modification of our food, identify and eliminate the chemicals used in food production that weaken our immune defenses and identify and treat the infections that cause cancer without damaging our natural defenses in the process.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
What If I Could Do My Cancer Treatment All Over Again?
I've learned a LOT over the last 5 years through trial and error.
The standard Western medical approach to women with stage 4 breast cancer is give them chemo until they die, which they always do. I'm alive because I've been treated for the causative infection since the beginning.
A breast surgeon told me that stage 4 patients don't undergo mastectomies in the oncology protocols because they all die despite the surgery. I had to have a mastectomy after 3 years of chemo to eradicate the original tumor - chemo hadn't touched it. My surgical pathology report stated the tumor showed "minimal chemotherapy effect." After 3 YEARS of chemo!
If I could do my entire cancer treatment over again, this is what I would do:
1. Start Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the day I received the diagnosis to effectively and safely treat the causative infection.
2. Start hyperbaric oxygen therapy the day I received the diagnosis to immediately kill cancer cells and infectious organisms spreading from the original tumor.
3. Undergo a simple mastectomy ASAP to remove the original tumor.
4. After a month healing from the mastectomy, start a SHORT course of chemo to clean up any lingering cancer cells.
5. Continue Traditional Chinese Medicine indefinitely to heal from the surgery and chemo, effectively and safely CURE the causative infection and correct the underlying physical issues that allowed the disease to start in the first place.
Traditional Chinese Medicine seems miraculous to me as a physician and cancer patient. It has been developed and refined for 2500 years, each successive generation of geniuses perfecting it more. Modern Western medicine is only a century old. It has a LONG way to go, although it's best for emergencies like cancer spreading too rapidly to be controlled by slowly-acting Chinese herbs. I believe TCM has saved my life. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Go find a Chinese physician STAT!
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is an excellent adjunct to TCM. It's believed in TCM that cancer begins in areas of the body where there is a blockage, e.g. from constant muscle tension. I believe these are areas of decreased blood flow, therefore decreased oxygen levels, which impairs the activity of white blood cells. HBOT saturates the blood and the organs of the body with oxygen, leaving cancer cells nowhere to hide. The oxygen saturation directly kills infectious organisms and cancer cells and arms white blood cells with all the oxygen they need to make oxygen radicals (their ammunition). It provides the oxygen needed to make strong collagen during healing. It also immediately relieves swelling, which immediately relieves the pain caused by metastases.
The most effective HBOT uses hard-sided chambers to achieve pressures of 2.2 to 2.6 atmospheres. Soft-sided chambers only reach pressures of 1.5 atmospheres, too low to mobilize stem cells into the bloodstream. Soft-sided chambers may have benefits, but it takes many more treatments and much more time to see any results.
A good friend of mine, Robert Lyne Sands, is an expert on HBOT. You can check out his blog at http://sandsie.blogspot.com/. He's a redheaded Aussie who LOVES to pick fights, but he's also extremely smart and incredibly kind. He's a man on a mission.
I've tried a lot of alternative medicines and treatments and those I listed above are what work, with few or no side effects. I've tried Cimetidine, which did seem to slow the spread of my cancer while I waited for my mastectomy, but caused me stomach inflammation, I believe because it neutralizes stomach acid, leaving the stomach unprotected from germs in food. We NEED stomach acid! So use it only for short periods of time.
I've used colloidal silver - it's not only anti-bacterial and antifungal, it even kills fungal spores. I used too much of it and developed mildly abnormal kidney tests as a result. The best way to take it is put a tablespoon of the solution in a 2-liter water bottle and sip the water through the day.
The bottom line is, from my rocky experience, to use Traditional Chinese Medicine along with hyperbaric oxygen to eradicate the infection causing your cancer. Use your oncologist's recommendations, but CAUTIOUSLY. Be skeptical - you don't HAVE to do any treatment.
And never give up on yourself.
The standard Western medical approach to women with stage 4 breast cancer is give them chemo until they die, which they always do. I'm alive because I've been treated for the causative infection since the beginning.
A breast surgeon told me that stage 4 patients don't undergo mastectomies in the oncology protocols because they all die despite the surgery. I had to have a mastectomy after 3 years of chemo to eradicate the original tumor - chemo hadn't touched it. My surgical pathology report stated the tumor showed "minimal chemotherapy effect." After 3 YEARS of chemo!
If I could do my entire cancer treatment over again, this is what I would do:
1. Start Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the day I received the diagnosis to effectively and safely treat the causative infection.
2. Start hyperbaric oxygen therapy the day I received the diagnosis to immediately kill cancer cells and infectious organisms spreading from the original tumor.
3. Undergo a simple mastectomy ASAP to remove the original tumor.
4. After a month healing from the mastectomy, start a SHORT course of chemo to clean up any lingering cancer cells.
5. Continue Traditional Chinese Medicine indefinitely to heal from the surgery and chemo, effectively and safely CURE the causative infection and correct the underlying physical issues that allowed the disease to start in the first place.
Traditional Chinese Medicine seems miraculous to me as a physician and cancer patient. It has been developed and refined for 2500 years, each successive generation of geniuses perfecting it more. Modern Western medicine is only a century old. It has a LONG way to go, although it's best for emergencies like cancer spreading too rapidly to be controlled by slowly-acting Chinese herbs. I believe TCM has saved my life. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Go find a Chinese physician STAT!
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is an excellent adjunct to TCM. It's believed in TCM that cancer begins in areas of the body where there is a blockage, e.g. from constant muscle tension. I believe these are areas of decreased blood flow, therefore decreased oxygen levels, which impairs the activity of white blood cells. HBOT saturates the blood and the organs of the body with oxygen, leaving cancer cells nowhere to hide. The oxygen saturation directly kills infectious organisms and cancer cells and arms white blood cells with all the oxygen they need to make oxygen radicals (their ammunition). It provides the oxygen needed to make strong collagen during healing. It also immediately relieves swelling, which immediately relieves the pain caused by metastases.
The most effective HBOT uses hard-sided chambers to achieve pressures of 2.2 to 2.6 atmospheres. Soft-sided chambers only reach pressures of 1.5 atmospheres, too low to mobilize stem cells into the bloodstream. Soft-sided chambers may have benefits, but it takes many more treatments and much more time to see any results.
A good friend of mine, Robert Lyne Sands, is an expert on HBOT. You can check out his blog at http://sandsie.blogspot.com/. He's a redheaded Aussie who LOVES to pick fights, but he's also extremely smart and incredibly kind. He's a man on a mission.
I've tried a lot of alternative medicines and treatments and those I listed above are what work, with few or no side effects. I've tried Cimetidine, which did seem to slow the spread of my cancer while I waited for my mastectomy, but caused me stomach inflammation, I believe because it neutralizes stomach acid, leaving the stomach unprotected from germs in food. We NEED stomach acid! So use it only for short periods of time.
I've used colloidal silver - it's not only anti-bacterial and antifungal, it even kills fungal spores. I used too much of it and developed mildly abnormal kidney tests as a result. The best way to take it is put a tablespoon of the solution in a 2-liter water bottle and sip the water through the day.
The bottom line is, from my rocky experience, to use Traditional Chinese Medicine along with hyperbaric oxygen to eradicate the infection causing your cancer. Use your oncologist's recommendations, but CAUTIOUSLY. Be skeptical - you don't HAVE to do any treatment.
And never give up on yourself.
Four years with Stage 4 Breast Cancer and still going strong
I started this blog entry last fall, after 3 years of continuous chemo followed by 3 months of radiation to my chest and spine. I didn't finish it because the radiation after all that chemo made me horrifically sick. Now in Sept 2012 I still have not recovered from my standard Western treatment:
I'm doing very well despite being diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer 4 years ago. I'm about to celebrate my 50th birthday, which I did not believe I would reach 4 years ago. Because the cause of my cancer, a skin fungal infection, has been treated, I have not been overwhelmed by metastases.
I'm doing very well despite being diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer 4 years ago. I'm about to celebrate my 50th birthday, which I did not believe I would reach 4 years ago. Because the cause of my cancer, a skin fungal infection, has been treated, I have not been overwhelmed by metastases.
I've survived years longer than any other stage 4 patient my oncologist has treated in 25 years. I'm the only stage 4 patient in the United States involved in an Amgen drug study to survive. If all patients with hormone-dependent cancers were treated with anti-fungal drugs along with chemotherapy, everyone would survive like I have. Please see my previous posts, starting in 2009.
I've discovered more integrative medical treatments in the past year, which I want to share with you in the hope it relieves your suffering and saves your life, too.
I had a mastectomy last December, followed by radiation. The surgery was a breeze, but the radiation made me horribly sick and weak for
I had a mastectomy last December, followed by radiation. The surgery was a breeze, but the radiation made me horribly sick and weak for
I'm now coming up on my 51st birthday and my fifth anniversary of receiving my death sentence. I've worked for the past 5 years to create my own stay of execution. It's clearer to me now more than ever that all cancers start as infection and that cancers are the means by which these infections spread through the body. The worst thing we can do in fighting these infections is damage the body's defenses, particularly the immune system. The white blood cells that cause inflammation are doing their job - they're NOT the disease. They are fighting to control a life-threatening infection. If we effectively treat the infection, the inflammation will resolve on its own. Wherever there is inflammation, there is an infection.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Pectasol-C and Cimetidine are effective at keeping cancer at bay
I just had my mastectomy. My scans had shown my tumor enlarging in size after nearly 3 years of weekly Taxol. The Taxol was stopped and I had my surgery 4 weeks later. During that month, the tumor enlarged rapidly in size - I could actually see it enlarging day by day.
My awesome breast surgeon, Helena Chang, director of the Revlon UCLA Breast Center, got the entire tumor out with clean margins and even got the surgical site closed without a skin flap.
The surgical pathology report on the tumor showed it scored 8/9 on an aggressiveness score and showed minimal chemo effect, only 5% of tumor cells showed apoptosis.
I have lived 3 years now with a very aggressive cancer. I'm not cured but I am certain I will not die from this. I keep searching for new ways to treat the underlying fungal infection as it develops resistance to each new treatment. Conventional medicine has been absolutely necessary for my survival, but it is the alternative treatments and antifungal medicines that have saved me. This aggressive cancer would have killed me 2 years ago without IV Caspofungin and Chinese herbs.
Next I start radiation to the surgical site to clean up residual disease in the area.
Microscopic disease in my body beyond the surgical site is not being treated at this time. This is very dangerous given the aggressiveness of this disease. I requested Tamoxifen therapy during radiation until I start chemotherapy again. My wonderful oncologist agreed to this! It's the perfect drug because it's a potent antifungal agent, the real reason it's effective against breast cancer. It will keep metastases from developing while I'm waiting to restart chemo.
As soon as I started Tamoxifen, little stinging pains that had started in different places in my body immediately stopped. I believe it will be very effective in preventing metastases at this time. I would prefer to continue taking it while I'm on chemo - the infection causing the cancerous transformation would be treated at the same time as the cancer, an effective 1-2 punch. But at this time, Tamoxifen with chemo isn't considered safe because of the increased risk of blood clots.
Before my mastectomy I started taking Cimetidine (Tagamet), an over-the-counter stomach acid reducer. It's been known for years in alternative medicine to block the communication between cancer cells. Infectious organisms, including fungi, are known to communicate through chemical signals so the entire colony can act like a unit, like the Republican party. This is the reason resistance to treatment develops so quickly. I've read that when a primary tumor is surgically removed, the metastases immediately flare up and grow even more aggressively. I believe that reaction results from communication between infectious organisms - when the chemical signals from the largest tumor disappear, the remaining organisms are stimulated to grow even more aggressively to overcome the loss and insure the survival of the colony despite the loss.
So I started Cimetidine pre-op to prevent the flare-up when my primary tumor was removed. I also wanted to slow the growth of any metastases while I am off chemo. Before the surgery, the pain in my breast from the tumor had worsened steadily. When I took the Cimetidine, the pain completely stopped, but would come back with a vengeance 23 hours after the last dose - an intense burning pain, like the nasty buggers were trying to make up for lost time. I'm taking the Cimetidine every 12 hours until I restart chemo to prevent any flare-up when the organisms in the surgical site are fried by the radiation.
Pectasol-C is an absolutely brilliant compound with multiple benefits and it's completely safe. It is citrus pectin that has been broken into pieces small enough to absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. It has 3 important benefits:
1. Heavy metal chelation - very effective in the gut but also should chelate heavy metals in the blood since it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
2. Heals leaky gut - beneficial to prevent new allergies and heal the intestinal wall of breaks caused by toxic microorganisms in the gut. Should be beneficial for irritable bowel, Crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
3. Turns programmed cell death back on in cancer cells. When fungi infect cells, they shut off programmed cell death (apoptosis), the signals that tell the cell it's time to die. Without apoptosis, the cells become immortal and divide uncontrollably, i.e. become cancer. Researchers at Columbia University recently announced their findings on the effect of Pectasol-C on prostate cancer cells. They grew prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and added Pectasol-C and found that apoptosis was turned back on in these cells, resulting in a 54% kill rate in these cells, a strongly significant effect.
Both prostate and breast cancers have been known for years to respond to Pectasol. All of the hormone dependent cancers should respond as well, since they likely are caused by fungi, e.g. colon, melanoma, uterine, bladder.
I am using cimetidine and Pectasol-C along with Tamoxifen at least until I restart chemo in 2 months. I feel really excited and optimistic based on my immediate improvement in my general state of health and lack of side effects. The integrative medicine I am using as an adjunct to conventional treatment is benign and based on actual physiology and solid medical research.
I plan to continue to astonish cancer doctors with my survival and excellent condition for years to come.
My awesome breast surgeon, Helena Chang, director of the Revlon UCLA Breast Center, got the entire tumor out with clean margins and even got the surgical site closed without a skin flap.
The surgical pathology report on the tumor showed it scored 8/9 on an aggressiveness score and showed minimal chemo effect, only 5% of tumor cells showed apoptosis.
I have lived 3 years now with a very aggressive cancer. I'm not cured but I am certain I will not die from this. I keep searching for new ways to treat the underlying fungal infection as it develops resistance to each new treatment. Conventional medicine has been absolutely necessary for my survival, but it is the alternative treatments and antifungal medicines that have saved me. This aggressive cancer would have killed me 2 years ago without IV Caspofungin and Chinese herbs.
Next I start radiation to the surgical site to clean up residual disease in the area.
Microscopic disease in my body beyond the surgical site is not being treated at this time. This is very dangerous given the aggressiveness of this disease. I requested Tamoxifen therapy during radiation until I start chemotherapy again. My wonderful oncologist agreed to this! It's the perfect drug because it's a potent antifungal agent, the real reason it's effective against breast cancer. It will keep metastases from developing while I'm waiting to restart chemo.
As soon as I started Tamoxifen, little stinging pains that had started in different places in my body immediately stopped. I believe it will be very effective in preventing metastases at this time. I would prefer to continue taking it while I'm on chemo - the infection causing the cancerous transformation would be treated at the same time as the cancer, an effective 1-2 punch. But at this time, Tamoxifen with chemo isn't considered safe because of the increased risk of blood clots.
Before my mastectomy I started taking Cimetidine (Tagamet), an over-the-counter stomach acid reducer. It's been known for years in alternative medicine to block the communication between cancer cells. Infectious organisms, including fungi, are known to communicate through chemical signals so the entire colony can act like a unit, like the Republican party. This is the reason resistance to treatment develops so quickly. I've read that when a primary tumor is surgically removed, the metastases immediately flare up and grow even more aggressively. I believe that reaction results from communication between infectious organisms - when the chemical signals from the largest tumor disappear, the remaining organisms are stimulated to grow even more aggressively to overcome the loss and insure the survival of the colony despite the loss.
So I started Cimetidine pre-op to prevent the flare-up when my primary tumor was removed. I also wanted to slow the growth of any metastases while I am off chemo. Before the surgery, the pain in my breast from the tumor had worsened steadily. When I took the Cimetidine, the pain completely stopped, but would come back with a vengeance 23 hours after the last dose - an intense burning pain, like the nasty buggers were trying to make up for lost time. I'm taking the Cimetidine every 12 hours until I restart chemo to prevent any flare-up when the organisms in the surgical site are fried by the radiation.
Pectasol-C is an absolutely brilliant compound with multiple benefits and it's completely safe. It is citrus pectin that has been broken into pieces small enough to absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. It has 3 important benefits:
1. Heavy metal chelation - very effective in the gut but also should chelate heavy metals in the blood since it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
2. Heals leaky gut - beneficial to prevent new allergies and heal the intestinal wall of breaks caused by toxic microorganisms in the gut. Should be beneficial for irritable bowel, Crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
3. Turns programmed cell death back on in cancer cells. When fungi infect cells, they shut off programmed cell death (apoptosis), the signals that tell the cell it's time to die. Without apoptosis, the cells become immortal and divide uncontrollably, i.e. become cancer. Researchers at Columbia University recently announced their findings on the effect of Pectasol-C on prostate cancer cells. They grew prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and added Pectasol-C and found that apoptosis was turned back on in these cells, resulting in a 54% kill rate in these cells, a strongly significant effect.
Both prostate and breast cancers have been known for years to respond to Pectasol. All of the hormone dependent cancers should respond as well, since they likely are caused by fungi, e.g. colon, melanoma, uterine, bladder.
I am using cimetidine and Pectasol-C along with Tamoxifen at least until I restart chemo in 2 months. I feel really excited and optimistic based on my immediate improvement in my general state of health and lack of side effects. The integrative medicine I am using as an adjunct to conventional treatment is benign and based on actual physiology and solid medical research.
I plan to continue to astonish cancer doctors with my survival and excellent condition for years to come.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Oxygen Cures Insomnia
I worked in a hyperbaric oxygen center that used several different oxygen therapies. I noticed that elderly patients who simply sat for 15 minutes breathing 60% oxygen every day reported remembering their dreams much more clearly and vividly and possibly having more dreams.
Manfred von Ardenne, a brilliant German researcher, found that combining exercise with breathing supplemental oxygen dramatically improved oxygen delivery to the body for days, weeks, even months after treatment. He observed that exercise caused the capillaries to dilate, allowing the high oxygen levels in the blood to contact the capillary walls, which triggered an improvement in the responsiveness of the capillaries.
Von Ardenne and many German researchers believed that aging and illness were functions of decreased oxygen delivery to the body. With chronic stress, illness or advancing age, the capillaries become permanently constricted rather than dilating and constricting according to the body's varying need for oxygen. Simply breathing oxygen can overcome this chronic deprivation. Combining oxygen with exercise gives prolonged physiologic improvement in oxygen delivery.
I also noticed in the clinic that people with adrenal insufficiency or chronic lung problems like asthma would have an intense reaction to starting oxygen therapy. They would have an immediate extreme boost in energy and sense of well-being, followed 1 or 2 days later by a huge crash of headache and fatigue, to the point they had to stay in bed. It was necessary to strictly limit the initial exposure of susceptible people to tone down this strong response.
I was surprised by this strong connection between blood oxygen levels and adrenal function. It seemed that suddenly receiving oxygen during chronic oxygen deprivation, from asthma, for example, stimulated a huge adrenal surge and crash. Adrenal function must be closely tied to blood oxygen levels.
I recently started using an oxygen concentrator in the evenings to help with my ongoing fight against stage 4 breast cancer. Since starting to work in Integrative Medicine, I've noticed how many integrative treatments are actually oxygen therapies. Hyperbaric oxygen, exercise with oxygen, ozone, vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide all increase oxygen delivery and kill cancers and their underlying infections by increasing oxygen radicals in microorganisms and diseased cells.
When I started breathing 90% oxygen in the evenings with the concentrator, I immediately noticed I slept much more deeply, slept through the night and remembered vivid dreams, which I hadn't experienced since starting chemotherapy 3 years ago. It seems my REM sleep is improved.
How does this work? Stress leads to vasoconstriction and elevated blood pressure. This constriction must reduce oxygen delivery to the adrenal glands, which registers as danger (fight or flight). The adrenals must respond by increasing wakefulness and causing sleep to be more shallow in case of attack. If you alleviate stress, you relax, your blood vessels dilate and your adrenals get the message that "the coast is clear" and your sleep deepens.
If, as von Ardenne believed, our capillaries become permanently constricted with aging and chronic stress, by the time we reach our 40s our adrenals are constantly perceiving danger and keeping us from sleeping like babies.
Supplementing oxygen sends the message that we're out of danger and the adrenals send out the hormonal message that we can sleep deeply again. It's simple but very effective.
Deep sleep is essential for our psychological and physical well-being. My exposure to Traditional Chinese Medicine has shown me that disease, including the infections that turn into cancer, occurs wherever there are blockages to flow in the body, such as pressure from bra straps or chronic hunching over. The decrease in flow must include blood flow, including white blood cells for immune defense and red blood cells to deliver oxygen. White cells need oxygen to create oxygen radicals to fight infection and cancer.
I strongly believe that oxygen supplementation does help reverse the effects of aging and help effectively fight disease. I think we should all be breathing supplemental oxygen, either with exercise or for an hour at bedtime. Breathe oxygen all night if you have sleep apnea or other conditions that greatly limit oxygen intake.
Manfred von Ardenne, a brilliant German researcher, found that combining exercise with breathing supplemental oxygen dramatically improved oxygen delivery to the body for days, weeks, even months after treatment. He observed that exercise caused the capillaries to dilate, allowing the high oxygen levels in the blood to contact the capillary walls, which triggered an improvement in the responsiveness of the capillaries.
Von Ardenne and many German researchers believed that aging and illness were functions of decreased oxygen delivery to the body. With chronic stress, illness or advancing age, the capillaries become permanently constricted rather than dilating and constricting according to the body's varying need for oxygen. Simply breathing oxygen can overcome this chronic deprivation. Combining oxygen with exercise gives prolonged physiologic improvement in oxygen delivery.
I also noticed in the clinic that people with adrenal insufficiency or chronic lung problems like asthma would have an intense reaction to starting oxygen therapy. They would have an immediate extreme boost in energy and sense of well-being, followed 1 or 2 days later by a huge crash of headache and fatigue, to the point they had to stay in bed. It was necessary to strictly limit the initial exposure of susceptible people to tone down this strong response.
I was surprised by this strong connection between blood oxygen levels and adrenal function. It seemed that suddenly receiving oxygen during chronic oxygen deprivation, from asthma, for example, stimulated a huge adrenal surge and crash. Adrenal function must be closely tied to blood oxygen levels.
I recently started using an oxygen concentrator in the evenings to help with my ongoing fight against stage 4 breast cancer. Since starting to work in Integrative Medicine, I've noticed how many integrative treatments are actually oxygen therapies. Hyperbaric oxygen, exercise with oxygen, ozone, vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide all increase oxygen delivery and kill cancers and their underlying infections by increasing oxygen radicals in microorganisms and diseased cells.
When I started breathing 90% oxygen in the evenings with the concentrator, I immediately noticed I slept much more deeply, slept through the night and remembered vivid dreams, which I hadn't experienced since starting chemotherapy 3 years ago. It seems my REM sleep is improved.
How does this work? Stress leads to vasoconstriction and elevated blood pressure. This constriction must reduce oxygen delivery to the adrenal glands, which registers as danger (fight or flight). The adrenals must respond by increasing wakefulness and causing sleep to be more shallow in case of attack. If you alleviate stress, you relax, your blood vessels dilate and your adrenals get the message that "the coast is clear" and your sleep deepens.
If, as von Ardenne believed, our capillaries become permanently constricted with aging and chronic stress, by the time we reach our 40s our adrenals are constantly perceiving danger and keeping us from sleeping like babies.
Supplementing oxygen sends the message that we're out of danger and the adrenals send out the hormonal message that we can sleep deeply again. It's simple but very effective.
Deep sleep is essential for our psychological and physical well-being. My exposure to Traditional Chinese Medicine has shown me that disease, including the infections that turn into cancer, occurs wherever there are blockages to flow in the body, such as pressure from bra straps or chronic hunching over. The decrease in flow must include blood flow, including white blood cells for immune defense and red blood cells to deliver oxygen. White cells need oxygen to create oxygen radicals to fight infection and cancer.
I strongly believe that oxygen supplementation does help reverse the effects of aging and help effectively fight disease. I think we should all be breathing supplemental oxygen, either with exercise or for an hour at bedtime. Breathe oxygen all night if you have sleep apnea or other conditions that greatly limit oxygen intake.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Colloidal Silver Treats the Infection That Causes Breast Cancer
A naturopath recently recommended colloidal silver to me for my stage 4 breast cancer. It's a 10 ppm solution - he said to mix a tablespoon in a large water bottle and sip it throughout the day.
It turned out to be phenomenally effective - I had a flare-up of pain (which always happens when I start a new, effective treatment) then the pain completely disappeared. I have no pain in my cancerous sternum or rib lesions. I also suddenly gained 20 pounds - the healthier I am, the more I weigh, probably because my TNF alpha (cachexin) levels decrease.
This is the healthiest I've been since I developed cancer. I am astonished. I'm recommending colloidal silver to anyone with cancer or a chronic infection or any disease treated with steroids, which I believe are all caused by infection.
Colloidal silver was used to treat infections before antibiotics were discovered. It DOES NOT turn you blue if you avoid making homemade colloidal silver in your kitchen sink with tap water. One type of silver solution has protein in it - there's a risk of Argyria (permanently turning blue) with it. I've used silver almost every day for 3 months and I'm not blue. I suspect the pharmaceutical companies spread rumors about colloidal silver to keep people on their expensive drugs with nasty side effects.
Silver acts by blocking enzymatic reactions in infectious organisms. Be careful if you have kidney disease - silver can be hard on the kidneys. Take small amounts well-diluted in water.
Silver gels can be used on the skin for skin infections.
It turned out to be phenomenally effective - I had a flare-up of pain (which always happens when I start a new, effective treatment) then the pain completely disappeared. I have no pain in my cancerous sternum or rib lesions. I also suddenly gained 20 pounds - the healthier I am, the more I weigh, probably because my TNF alpha (cachexin) levels decrease.
This is the healthiest I've been since I developed cancer. I am astonished. I'm recommending colloidal silver to anyone with cancer or a chronic infection or any disease treated with steroids, which I believe are all caused by infection.
Colloidal silver was used to treat infections before antibiotics were discovered. It DOES NOT turn you blue if you avoid making homemade colloidal silver in your kitchen sink with tap water. One type of silver solution has protein in it - there's a risk of Argyria (permanently turning blue) with it. I've used silver almost every day for 3 months and I'm not blue. I suspect the pharmaceutical companies spread rumors about colloidal silver to keep people on their expensive drugs with nasty side effects.
Silver acts by blocking enzymatic reactions in infectious organisms. Be careful if you have kidney disease - silver can be hard on the kidneys. Take small amounts well-diluted in water.
Silver gels can be used on the skin for skin infections.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Infection Has Been Found To Be The Cause Of Heart Disease and Stroke
A cover story from the Santa Barbara News-Press last fall reported that viral infection has been found to be the cause of heart attack and stroke. The story reported that Cytomegalovirus (CMV) may be the culprit. It is highly infectious and 40% of all adults have it by the age of 40.
My family has a significant history of heart attack and stroke - our #1 killer, not cancer. I've been struck by how my paternal grandparents died like bookends, almost identical deterioration and death. My parents also suffered almost identical long, slow deaths from heart attack and stroke.
Viral infection would explain this phenomenon. My grandparents were infected with the same virus and my father contracted it from them and passed it on to my mother.
My father had cholesterol levels over 300. Whenever his doctor got his levels under 200 with cholesterol-lowering drugs, he would have a series of lacunar strokes, where tiny blood vessels disintegrate. When he would quit the drugs due to their side effects, he would stop having strokes.
It occurs to me that the body may raise blood cholesterol to repair the damage to the blood vessels caused by this viral infection. Cholesterol plaques occur in blood vessels where they experience the most trauma, e.g. high-flow areas. Cholesterol deposits may actually plug the holes that form in blood vessel walls, like plugging the leaks in a retaining wall.
Lowering my father's cholesterol levels actually harmed him. He apparently needed sky-high levels to maintain the integrity of his blood vessels, to prevent disintegration of the vessels resulting in stroke. He also had an abdominal aortic aneurysm that enlarged only when he was on cholesterol-lowering drugs.
My father and paternal grandmother both developed adult-onset diabetes after becoming seriously ill with congestive heart failure. When I pulled a jar of jam out of the back of my fridge and found it was still good after being back there a long time, it occurred to me that sugar is a very effective preservative. It burns microorganisms just like it burns the walls of blood vessels in diabetics.
It seems plausible that when the virus that causes heart disease inflames and damages blood vessels, the body responds defensively. Triggering insulin resistance, thus elevating blood sugar levels, may be a defense mechanism, scorching viral particles in the blood stream like napalm. Too much blood sugar ultimately damages the blood vessels, but this side effect may not be as harmful as allowing the viral infection to progress unopposed.
When people with high cholesterol and blood sugar levels improve their diets and exercise regularly, their numbers usually improve. Healthy diets and exercise greatly strengthen the immune system and increase antioxidants in the body. I believe diet and exercise help normalize cholesterol and blood sugar levels by fighting the underlying viral infection. When the infection improves, the cholesterol and sugar levels improve.
I believe elevated cholesterol and blood sugar levels are a response to the viral infection that causes heart attack and stroke; they are not diseases in and of themselves. The severity of these levels is an indicator of how severe the infection is. It can serve as a useful marker.
I believe that if we find an effective treatment for this viral infection, cholesterol and blood sugar levels will normalize on their own. We need to focus on treating the underlying infection to improve these levels.
Aggressively lowering cholesterol levels prevents blood vessel repair and leads to vessel disintegration and stroke. Cholesterol-lowering drugs are the #1 prescribed class of drugs in the world. We're on the wrong track here. It'll cost the big pharmaceutical companies a lot of profit, but we need to stop the cholesterol-lowering drugs and focus on curing the underlying infection.
Until a cure for viral infection is discovered, we must help ourselves with diet, exercise and antioxidants like Omega-3 and CoQ10 to fight the infection.
My family has a significant history of heart attack and stroke - our #1 killer, not cancer. I've been struck by how my paternal grandparents died like bookends, almost identical deterioration and death. My parents also suffered almost identical long, slow deaths from heart attack and stroke.
Viral infection would explain this phenomenon. My grandparents were infected with the same virus and my father contracted it from them and passed it on to my mother.
My father had cholesterol levels over 300. Whenever his doctor got his levels under 200 with cholesterol-lowering drugs, he would have a series of lacunar strokes, where tiny blood vessels disintegrate. When he would quit the drugs due to their side effects, he would stop having strokes.
It occurs to me that the body may raise blood cholesterol to repair the damage to the blood vessels caused by this viral infection. Cholesterol plaques occur in blood vessels where they experience the most trauma, e.g. high-flow areas. Cholesterol deposits may actually plug the holes that form in blood vessel walls, like plugging the leaks in a retaining wall.
Lowering my father's cholesterol levels actually harmed him. He apparently needed sky-high levels to maintain the integrity of his blood vessels, to prevent disintegration of the vessels resulting in stroke. He also had an abdominal aortic aneurysm that enlarged only when he was on cholesterol-lowering drugs.
My father and paternal grandmother both developed adult-onset diabetes after becoming seriously ill with congestive heart failure. When I pulled a jar of jam out of the back of my fridge and found it was still good after being back there a long time, it occurred to me that sugar is a very effective preservative. It burns microorganisms just like it burns the walls of blood vessels in diabetics.
It seems plausible that when the virus that causes heart disease inflames and damages blood vessels, the body responds defensively. Triggering insulin resistance, thus elevating blood sugar levels, may be a defense mechanism, scorching viral particles in the blood stream like napalm. Too much blood sugar ultimately damages the blood vessels, but this side effect may not be as harmful as allowing the viral infection to progress unopposed.
When people with high cholesterol and blood sugar levels improve their diets and exercise regularly, their numbers usually improve. Healthy diets and exercise greatly strengthen the immune system and increase antioxidants in the body. I believe diet and exercise help normalize cholesterol and blood sugar levels by fighting the underlying viral infection. When the infection improves, the cholesterol and sugar levels improve.
I believe elevated cholesterol and blood sugar levels are a response to the viral infection that causes heart attack and stroke; they are not diseases in and of themselves. The severity of these levels is an indicator of how severe the infection is. It can serve as a useful marker.
I believe that if we find an effective treatment for this viral infection, cholesterol and blood sugar levels will normalize on their own. We need to focus on treating the underlying infection to improve these levels.
Aggressively lowering cholesterol levels prevents blood vessel repair and leads to vessel disintegration and stroke. Cholesterol-lowering drugs are the #1 prescribed class of drugs in the world. We're on the wrong track here. It'll cost the big pharmaceutical companies a lot of profit, but we need to stop the cholesterol-lowering drugs and focus on curing the underlying infection.
Until a cure for viral infection is discovered, we must help ourselves with diet, exercise and antioxidants like Omega-3 and CoQ10 to fight the infection.
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