My Regimen

A lot of people have been asking me about my alternative/naturopathic cancer regimen, here's a bit of information to summarize with more to come:

I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma last year and went through chemo treatments from Sept - Dec. They didn't work for me (everyone if different), but I was able to get myself into remission using alternative/natural methods involving diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, etc. My sister had lymphoma about 4 years ago and chemo worked for her, a couple of friends I've made in the last six months that had lymphoma also went into remission with chemo/radiation. My problem was that it just made my body too weak, so I couldn't get my immune system strong enough to fight the battle I needed to fight.

I wanted to pass along some things that were helpful to me in my anti-cancer regimen. Bill Henderson's book 'Cancer Free' was my intro course to alternative protocols - lots of options here. Available as an ebook at

http://www.beating-cancer-gently.com/

This was the first book I read, which pointed me in the direction of 'The Budwig Protocol'. There is an yahoo email group for the protocol at:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlaxSeedOil2/

This email group has been a great support as well as a fountain of information for me. I hold omega-3 fatty acids to be hugely responsible for my recovery from a dietary perspective.

I also did a heavy metal chelation cycle using a standard compound called DMSA which I ingested orally - I tested positive for toxic levels of lead and thallium. I also did 3 cycles of IV ascorbic acid (vitamin C). I've been feeling a lot better since I finished the chelation which took 2.5 months under the supervision of a naturopathic doctor.

I swiched my diet to about 75% raw organic fruits, veggies, nuts and sprouted grains. This is balanced by 5% dairy and approx. 20% cooked grains/veggies. I gave up cane sugar, corn syrup, animal products (except a little cheese) and all processed foods. I only cook with coconut butter (the only oil that remains stable at high temperatures and doesn't break down into carcinogens) and the only other oils I eat are raw flax oil and raw extra virgin olive oil.

Supplements which have helped me are: spirulina, chlorella, blue green algae, vitamin D3, vitamin A, full spectrum probiotics, turmeric, proteolytic enyzymes and MSM.

An excerpt from an essay by Vincent Gammill - Director at The Center for the Study of Natural Oncology

Conventional medicine for advanced cancer is a death sentence. Progress is measured on one hand in weeks or months of added survival and on the other hand the acceptability of nightmarish side effects. This is the standard. "Complementary" medicine is by its wimpish nature deferential to this conventional approach. It might soften the impact of the death warrant of conventional medicine, but it will not cure. Most conventional strategies for fighting cancer are too broken to be fixed.

The conventional approach is one of throwing alkylating hand grenades into the DNA -- hopefully targeting some of the tumor. Once the cancer is defined as terminal and the insurance is balking at paying for "treatments" the patient is shifted to hospice for closure. What could a person possibly want to do to "complement" such a forgone conclusion?

I would like to see a revolutionary awakening of consciousness to two
simple and incontrovertible facts:

-- There was virtually no mutagenic disease (read cancer) in any
culture until exposure to the western chemical-besotted lifestyle and
inundation with electromagnetic pollution. So our techno-shamans
treat cancer with chemicals mutagens and and mutagenic radiation
which only digs us into a deeper hole. Fight fire with fire?

-- The treatment/maintenance of chronic disease is the most
profitable business in the history of the planet. There is no
motivation to cure anything that brings in the big bucks. Quite the
opposite: the medical industry demands creation of new chronic
diseases by industrial pollution (e.g., fluoridation), by defining
normal human behavior as diseased (e.g., childhood inattentiveness),
by "treating" chronic disease with meds with toxic sequelae and by
criminalizing anything or anyone who rocks the conventional
money-money-money paradigm.