2008 May: Web Notes

Re: Happy New Year!

2008-05-31 14:42:41

Thank you Marianne and Rosie for the nice compliment. You are a sweet
person too. Happy and Healthy New Year right back to all of you.
Love, Sharon

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Re: [Stage IV Breast Cancer] Brenda's alternative treatment

2008-05-31 13:27:08

I thought Id try and explain to you the kind of treatment I got recently,
and continue to get. It is an alternative treatment. I learned so much about
nutrition and how it works to correct things that go wrong in the body. I was
given supplements, the sources, info about the biochemistry of the body that
makes this stuff work. The diet is not as difficult as I thought it would be.
It's very similar to what I've already been doing with the addition of the
Budwig part. (I had stopped doing that awhile back as it doesnt work if
youre taking chemo.) Budwig was a German scientist who had an above 90 % rate
of getting rid of cancer in her over 1000 patients, many told to go home and
die, and was nominated for the Nobel prize 7 times.) She used flax oil with
cottage cheese, but my protocol is not "by her book" because of advances in
technology. For example, a kind of whey is used with the oil instead of the
cottage cheese, but I was told not to use any other kind
of protein whey because this one was processed a certain way to preserve the
"aliveness" of the cells. I have this mixture twice a day. Plus one tablespoon
of cod liver oil.
I'm supposed to have 7 Tablespoons of supercharged glyconutrients a day and
other supplements. Glyconutrients that I'm taking are the 8 essential sugars
the body needs. Four recent Noble prize winners have done studies on
glyconutrients. We used to get these sugars in our diet, but now that things
are picked green and not ripe off the vine, and now that things are treated
to increase shelf life (destroying electrons) we are not getting but two of
these glyconutrients in a typical diet. Also, most folks don't eat organic.
The first order on the agenda on Monday, Dec. 5th, was to get my pain taken
care of. We went to a place where a robot worked on lengthening some muscles so
that the back was not pulled out of position. Now I have a kind of clamp that
is a hand tool based on the computer robot that lengthened my muscles in the
front so that the pain in the back would go away. My right side could do the
belly dance thrust really well; the left side did not go out so far, but now it
does, and when he got finished with me, my butt automatically tucked under,
posture was better, and I felt like I was 10 feet tall. Bob bought a massage
chair because the guy who invented the computer muscle machine purchased too
many and had them on sale to move them...at $699. He buys from Panasonic but
has the chairs tailor-made to his specifications. The chair is not the robot;
it is just a massage machine with a special adaptation. The doctor there,
Doctor John, (Bob saw him too) made out a prescription
so that we can get reimbursed for the chair and for Bob's visit to get his
back and legs to be less painful. This is Al's website: www.meilus.com if
interested. Al treats lots of athletes...Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, Dwight
Gooden, etc., and treats frozen shoulders and muscle tightening that causes
pain. Chiropractors get bones back in line but they get back out because the
muscles pull them back out of alignment.
All of this shows me so much promise, and I love the side effects...more
energy, slows down aging making skin look better, pain under control, etc.
They had had one breast cancer patient who was worse off than me. Don't know
when she started with them but they just started in Jan. of this year. She is
now doing great. They are not advertising; do not have phone # in the
directory, etc. for fear of being shut down. There was a place (not sure where
but I think it's near Tampa) where there was an experiment going on where 100
terminal cancer patients were given injections of aloe. Of the 100, all but 4
lived. But the FDA came in and shut the place down and put them in jail. I
happen to think that if they had been given chemo, the deaths would have been
more.
The doc and pharmacist that I saw had just returned from Texas where they
consulted with a scientist who was an expert on the aloe (where they extract
some of the essential sugars or glyconutrients) and he told them that aloe was
absorbed by the skin! Now the aloe used is not what you buy in the health food
store, but one that uses the new technology (I think freeze drying it). One
night I was wrapped around the waist (Bob wrapped me) with little gauze patches
of this aloe. Interesting. But what was suggested is a soak in a tub of it,
but it would have to be cold as heat destroys it. So, I suppose the best option
there would be to put something warm on your top and sit with your bottom in
the stuff. It would last a week so you would sit in it each day for an hour.
May try this. Don't know what it cost. Another source of the sugars but not all
of them is the kind of mushroom that my friend Judy is growing that you make a
tea from. No plant source has all of the 8
sugars. Glyconutrients allow the cells to communicate with each other. For
example, if a cell makes protein and it's to be sent somewhere, it is coded
(like with a zip code) and sent on its way, but if the sugars aren't there, it
gets lost and ends up not being effective. Also, if a cancer cell needs to be
zapped, the body may know it needs to send the soldiers out, but they get lost
or if the sugars are not there, the body tries to make them from the two that
they do get and the cancer is multiplying while the body is trying to make the
sugars. Too slow a process.
The pharmacist is brilliant, and was our primary source of information. He
has incredible knowledge of the biochemistry involved in the body (a bit over
my head as far as understanding all of it), and can also tell you of any bad
effects of drugs, etc. Almost like a walking encyclopedia of info. The doctor
answered all of my questions; we saw him less but the two men work so well
together...are on the same page and if you have a concern, you are paid
attention to and that concern is taken care of. The doctor has a patent for
something he invented and the pharmacist is in the process of patenting
something that will make treatments easier so you open one package with a
combined amount of several things.
My treatment cost $7000 but it was worth it. I have hope; whereas my other
option, the conventional treatment of chemo and radiation would eventually kill
me (my opinion, because of the stage of my cancer which has spread) and what I
see as a slow, unpleasant decline. When the supplements I'm on run out (they
are expensive as well) I will get more and the next batch will cost $1100. I
had to take out a loan, but again, its survival time for me. The treatment
there was phenomenal with individualized attention to every detail, to getting
my pain under control first, to showing us (there was another couple there in
treatment with me) how to fix meals and even fixing them for us, to taking us
to every place we needed to be---the orthomolecular place for infusions of Vit
C, the doc's office, back to our time share, to the health food store so we
could ask questions about what to buy and what not to buy and how to read
labels and what to avoid when reading the contents. Not
the typical treatment in a doctor's office where you wait and wait, and often
get caught up in glitches with the appointments, etc.
As for the Vit C, wow! I learned about its importance and was amazed. One
example: the body usually gets enough calcium for bones but if there's not
enough Vit C, the collagen needed to have it stick to the bones is not there
so the calcium doesn't work. The first infusion was for 50 G, next day 100 G,
next day 125, next day 150 and Friday 175 G. That should kick some butt
(cancer!) As it doesn't go through the digestive system, it does not cause
diarrhea in massive doses. I am to have a home care nurse infuse me twice a
week for a month. Since I was unable to set one up quickly, Bob and I went
back across the state and let the same folks infuse me two days in a row. But
tomorrow, I will have my first infusion here at my house. Medicare will pay
for the nurse to administer it but I will have to pay for the ingredients and
paraphernalia for the infusions. I will do two a week for a month and then
one a week for 6 weeks. Cost will be $115 a shot. What happens with Vit C in
the body is this. Cancer loves sugar, and Vit C has a chemical makeup very
close to that of sugar. So, cancer gobbles it up thinking its sugar. When
Vit C gets inside the cell, it turns into hydrogen peroxide and zaps the
cancer. Linus Pauling was a pioneer in studies with Vit C.
The other very important component of the program is to eat the right
oils. I can have coconut oil to cook with and flax oil only. The Omega 3 and
the Omega 6s should be in a ratio of 1 to 1 or 1 to 2, but a typical diet today
has a ratio of 1 to 20. The bad oils (any sold in a bottle that are yellow in
color) are as if you wrapped Saran wrap around the cells and nothing can
penetrate. Good oils and the Budwig part of the protocol allow 100 % cell
permeability. In the 1930s a scientist discovered that the cause of cancer was
a drop of 35 % of oxygen in the cells causing them to "ferment" or become
cancerous. Lack of oxygen was known to be the cause way back then. The Imitrex
I was taking lots of for my migraines shuts down oxygen to the cells. The other
patient who was being treated with me who had another kind of cancer also took
about the same amount of Imitrex (about 15 a month) for over 10 years!!! And of
course, this is touted as a safe drug. The doctor gave
me another way to get rid of these migraines.
I'm on iodine. Was told that women after a second child have depleted
whatever they had and need to have it added. It helps things in the body flow
better.
The Foundational Health Center treats most other diseases, but cancer is the
one they almost don't want to touch because of the fear of being shut down. So
word of mouth is how they're going as of now. They are thinking of cancer
treatment in another country. But that would be down the road quite a bit as
they're just getting started with their own place, and working out how to
proceed with all of this. The way they treat disease is different from
traditional medicine where most of it is to treat the symptom. Here they try
and treat the root cause of the problem but dont rule out traditional medicine
totally.
Well, thats probably more than you wanted to know.
Happy New Year everyone! Brenda in Ft. Lauderdale
Brenda Young Olson
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Bellydancing, it's the hip thing to do.

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Hi, I'm new to the group

2008-05-31 03:37:44

My name is Carol,
I found out about this group from a post by Marianne on the other group.
I found out I had bc and bone cancer last May. At that time they gave
me only weeks to live as it was spreading so fast! But I'm still here!
So far I have had 11 months of hormone based chemo, a mastectomy and I
am now on my third round of radiation. the first two were on each arm
and this one is on the chest where the surgery just took place a few
weeks back.
I started with Mariannes group and I only posted a couple of
times...mostly just was comforted by daily reading the others ...but
now it is time to get more involved!
joyfully
Carol