Presented by THE ROBERT CATHEY RESEARCH SOURCE http://www.europa.com/~rsc --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THINGS YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU HAVE CANCER The following is extracted from a book under preperation for publication as a paper-back, with diets, pictures, testamonials, etc. However, I believe it is important to share this information at the earliest possible opportunity. So we are presenting it to the internet community in progress. Forward We live in an age or a culture that believes in explosives. We are told we have cancer, and we think the way to deal with it is to blow it up, nuke it, poison it. Destroy. Today in the medical orthodoxy that reflects this general all-out warfare mentality, the same generalized attitude behind the use of agent orange in Vietnam is applied to chemotherapy. Everything dies to get at the enemy. But in nature, most of the energy that operates constructively is subtle, relatively speaking, innocuous. Cancer, as a natural phenomenon is also in its inception, subtle. There has been a gradual growth, a preconditioning that has seen the wearing down of natural control factors until a threshold has been reached, and we suddenly become aware of a serious problem. The disease seems sudden, so naturally we are immersed in an emergency and we think we need explosive answers. In the information that follows one will find specific information that goes into some detail regarding the science of cancer itself and then the metabolic approaches that will help correct the pre-conditions that lead to the cancer, and the existing problem as well. In order to fully benefit from this information, one must slow one's mind down, and get out of the hysterical, emergency fast-track mode of thinking. It requires concentration and rationale thinking. In this way one may then make rationale choices, and feel comfortable once those choices are made. We hear again and again from people who've thrown themselves into standard orthodox regimes of treatment that they'd think differently if they had it to do over again. Many times this is said on their death beds. For those who survive and then resort to the metabolic philosophy and successfully recover, there is no question that it was not the orthodox route that did the trick. But one must be careful about overgeneralizations. In some cases short term use of toxic chemotherapy along side the metabolic protocols have been thought to be what helped get over the hump. With the discovery of chronatherapy in chemotherapy, the required amounts of cytotoxins or antimetabolites have been drastically reduced. And no one questions that these compounds do in fact kill cancer cells. But the primary objection has always been that they are not selective, they inflict their destructive activities on ALL cells, normal as well as the cancer. And in addition, they are often carcinogenic in themselves, and reak havoc on the immune system. The metabolic protocol also involves extremely effective and toxic agents...however, as will be explained, the naturally derived chemotherapeutic agent specifically relied upon is selective, is not toxic to normal cells under normal circumstances, enhances the immume system and they kill the cancer cell as has been clinically and experimentally proven. We believe that individual participation in the healing process is most important to the overall success of any regimen. Getting well is never a magic carpet ride, where the "white knight" comes and rescues us. Statistically it is well established that the patient who takes a pro-active role has the higher chance of recovery. Furthermore, the individuals who refuse to be defined by his or her illness, who are willing to divorce themselves from those people who, or those conditions which do not support their determination to change their condition; and who cultivate a positive support group have much the better results in getting well. It is truly a lifestyle change. The patient who takes command, the leading role, has the highest chance. Those who sit back expecting miracles become statistics. In the case of children, this situation is of course much different. They must be impressed with absolute attention by and presence of the loving parents or guardians. It is also essential that they sense confidence from those around them. We believe the following information will yield such confidence, as an understanding of this disease will eliminate the nebulous uncertainty that underpins so much fear. While not overly technical, a certain degree of technicality must be indulged in to sufficiently elucidate the treatment rationales used in metabolic therapies or dietary preventioin programs, and as noted above, one must make some effort to understand for obvious reasons. However, a link (#Actions) is provided to pass over these directly to the things one can do when one has cancer. The following information is not all encompassing, and is meant to give the basic outlines of the actions the individual can take towards getting well. Be creative, follow the logical thread to enhance these suggestions. If this helps or you have other suggestions, please feel free to share by writing or emailing to: The Robert Cathey Research Source Cancer Information Project 113 S.E. 61st Avenue Portland, Oregon 97215-1234 Email: rcrs@europa.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Well on Your Own (go to Actions now) By Roger Scott Cathey © 1996 Introduction After 20 years of independant research of the scientific literature dealing with cancer as well as alternative approaches with legitimate claims of success in its treatment, I have become convinced that any popular book which purports to explain cancer, or to explain the successful treatment thereof, must in reality be touching on the underlying facts introduced by the classic monographs on this subject: The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer; and The Nitrilosides in Plants and Animals. These two scientific papers subsume the most salient points about the natural "intrinsic" and "extrinsic" factors which are called into play in the body's control of cancer. There are additional or adjunctive factors, of course, but they may, almost always, be considered under the heading of nutrition or factors normal to the animal economy, which furthermore constitutes the basis of the metabolic protocols of treatment.. These two papers can be found on our web site: * http://www.europa.com/~rsc/unitari1.htm * http://www.europa.com/~rsc/nitrilo1.htm Both monographs mentioned are found in the appendix of this book. Both papers have in common a single author, only recently passed away this year (1996) in November. I believe future generations will recognise this man as the champion par excellence of the truth about cancer in the late 20th century. His name was Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. Ph.D., director and founder of the Beard Memorial Foundation in San Francisco. He was most widely known as the discoverer and chief proponent of the use of Laetrile, the anti-cancer vitamin B-17, in the treatment and prevention of cancer, as well as the co-discoverer of vitamin B-15 or pangamic acid. I knew Dr. Krebs for over 20 years, and carried on many conversations with him, "interrogatories" he liked to call them, on cancer research. I know he would not wish me to dwell on his personality. His work was the thing. But I would like to state for the record that he was a true humanitarian, a man of the highest moral character and personal courage. A good man who bore calumny, insults and assaults from his enemies regarding his research with equinimity and grace. It is ironic that almost all of his most renowned former detractors and critics have ended up dead from cancer; while at the same time, for those who ended up acquiescing to the truths he advocated regarding cancer, he held no resentment, and regarded not a few of such as personal friends. He did not seek personal reward, or acknowledgement. The thing was to solve the problem of cancer, and thus to get this information out. When I asked Dr. Krebs permission to post his articles to the internet, his response was "of course, it belongs to humanity." He often asserted that everyone should make it their job to be well informed about the facts of cancer. This personal research will do more, he said, towards the eradication of this disease than millions of dollars of contributions to "professional research". Because then the individual merely implements the practical elements of his or her knowledge, all of which will be non-toxic and freely available in nature. People don't have to accept his conclusions, he'd point out. Beginning with the biological, biochemical and histological facts of cancer, someone with no knowledge whatsoever of Krebs' or John Beard's work and who had access to epidemiological, botanical and nutritional data would come to the same conclusions: cancer is a chronic, metabolic deficiency disease, sharing over 300 hundred characteristics with ordinary pregancy trophoblast, and not with normal cells. From such a realization, it is only a minor leap of reasoning to conclude that cancer should be capable of control by factors normal to the economy of man or animal. Just as preganancy trophoblast is. Dr. Krebs was preparing to publish an extensive and rigorously referrenced book on the science of cancer when he died. We will inform the public in our newsletter (Sources) or on our internet site (The Robert Cathey Research Source: www.europa.com/~rsc) when Dr. Kreb's book is sent to press, and how it may be ordered. The following presented as a summary of the more technical aspects of Dr. Krebs and our own and other researcher's findings as outlined in the various papers we have on our web site authored by Dr. Krebs, or others. Cancer: a chronic, metabolic disease John Beard (1857-1924) was the earliest researcher to definitively identify pregnancy trophoblast with cancer. He was a lecturer of Embryology at the University of Edinburgh around the turn of the century. He found that cancer, like trophoblast, is a parasitic, asexual, autonomous tissue, with fermentative chemistry. Following the clues provided by his extensive study of embryology and stereochemistry he deduced that the same biological protocols invoked in pregancy for the control of trophoblast would, if cancer were truly trophoblastic, also act successfully to control the cancer process. And he found through experiment that this was true. These endogenous means of controlling pregnancy trophoblast are the pancreatic enzymes, specifically trypsin and amylase. Where-ever Beard's ideas were applied as he advocated them, it was found that cancer did indeed respond to pancreatic therapy. He published a book on his research in 1911, entitled the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Its Scientific Basis (Chatto and Windus, London). Years after Beard's findings were mindlessly and inaccurately criticized and forgotten, his book was discovered by a young Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. He was a student and collaborator with Charles Gurchot, Ph.D, ,to whom he showed the book as well as his father, San Francisco physician and surgeon Ernst Krebs, Sr. By 1949 the father and son Krebs and associate Howard Beard (no relation to John Beard), published their update to this work: The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer. (Medical Record, 1950). Dr. Krebs liked to point out that the problem of cancer was primarily a dietary one, specifically, a deficiency set up within an otherwise evolutionary completeness. In short, as a chronic and metabolic disease, cancer belonged in the same category as such diseases as scurvy, pellagra, and pernicious anemia. In the history of medicine, he would point out, not one chronic and metabolic disease has ever been resolved by anything but factors normal to the animal economy. Such factors as are derived from food, water, air or excersize. Cancer, then, is not the expression of a genetic defect as such, but the manifestestation of a normal cell in the life cycle induced into activity in the wrong time and/or place in the presence of a chronic deficiency of two primary and complementary factors: the dual intrinsic factors of pancreatic enzymes in concert with the immune system; and an extrinsic factor: nitrilosides (vitamin B-17, Laetrile) which have a specificity of metabolic activity in the cancer environment. While the cancer cell so defined has a normal place in the life cycle, it's natural or life-cycle homolog (trophoblast) is a temporary episode in the life cycle during pregnancy, and is always an autonomous cell type, and does not enter into the constitution of the body at any time during development. Furthermore, it is not embryonic. While the umbilical chord does derive from trophoblast, the primitive trophoblast is restricted to the interface between the mother and the placenta, consisting of cytotrophoblast and syncytial trophoblast. Again, trophoblast does not enter into or become a part of the fetus or embryo, and thus is not embryonic tissue. It is autonomous. The act of impregnation really represents, after fusion of sperm and egg, the introduction of a foreign entity into the mother's body. Furthermore, the fusion of the sperm and egg represents an entirely autonomous process...systemically and structurally seperate from the mother. The only point of contact between the mother and the zygote is provided by the placental tissues, specifically syncytiotrophoblast. Just beyond the syncytial trophoblastic layer--toward the fetal side--are found the cytotrophoblastic layer. These placental tissues all evolve or differentiate from trophoblast. Furthermore, the syncytial layer is ultimately rendered inert and rejected along with the afterbirth. After the sperm successfully unites it's share of genes with the egg, the ovum floats down the fallopian tubes on its way to the uterine wall which has swollen in preperation for the implantation of this fertilized "egg". This swelling may be seen as a defensive action by the mother to an immenent "infection". Once the egg has begun its downward journey, it has already begun to divide very quickly. Next to the horny growths of deer antler, nothing grows as quickly as the pregnancy trophoblast cells in nature. The trophoblast makes up 80% of the mass of the zygote before it becomes emplanted. While the fetus will become reliant upon the oxygen in the mother's blood stream, the trophoblast does not rely on the oxidative stream of the mother's blood. It does not need this oxygen however, since the trophoblast lives primarily, if not exclusively, by anaerobic processes or sugar fermentative processes for energy, as it must during the independent phase of it's life in the fallopian tubes. The trophoblast begins immediately to introduce a hormone known as human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) into the uterine fluids, which contributes to the retention of the uterine mucosa, rather than it's being sluffed off. Trophoblast alone produces this hormonal protein, another fact shared by cancer. Indeed, a sensitized version of the Aschheim-Zondek or hCG pregnancy test is utilized as a means of determination of cancer, with close to 100% accuracy. The mother's body responds to this hormone by production of an enzyme called beta-glucuronidase. As we will see, this plays an important dual role in the activity of the dietary extrinsic control factor. More of this further on. Thus the mother's uterus is swollen in preperation for receiving the zygote. The trophoblasts' initial activity is to infiltrate and eat or erode a niche into the uterine mucosa in the implantation of the zygote, which it begins to do instantly upon contact with the uterine wall. It is a commonplace observation that this behaviour of trophoblast is identical with metastasizing cancer. Pregnancy trophoblast cells are often found in various other locales in the early phase of pregnancy: the lungs, liver, "metastasized." [Note: processes similar to the swelling of the uterine mucosa with it's extended blood supply are found in tumor sites, and this fact is being addressed in the use of "shark-cartilage factor", seeking to limit the body's production of new blood supply to such areas. But as we will see, this activity is restricted to the normal somatic components in its attempt at structural resistance to the tumor, and while the said factor may sometimes be helpful, it does not directly address the malignant component, and may limit regenerative production of necessary blood supply damaged by neoplastic incursions.] Because of the nature of the defensive components and the nutritive chemistry of the sera in the mother's blood any internal gestatitive process must overcome several, potentially damaging or toxic components. There is for example the phagocytic (phago=to eat + cyt=cell) leuckocytes or white blood cells or macrophages (macro=large + phage=eater) which engulf anything which is foreign to the normal constituents of the healthy system. They also pick up dead or dying cells, debree, etc. which originate within the host. Again we must stress this point: the "egg"/zygote begins as a unit completely outside the mother, and always remains seperate and distinct from the mother. Thus it is truly an autonomous (auto=unto self) entity. For this reason, pregnancy, the implantation of the infant, is commonly referred to as an "allograft" (allo=other, different + graft=splice). Similarly, the cancer is such an "allograft", remarkable for this fact of non-rejection by the host. The immune resistance of trophoblast has been well noted. Trophoblast has several defenses against the white blood cells, and one of these is the production of a mucous coat that has the same electrochemical charge as the white blood cells (WBC). They are thereby mutually repulsive. This explains in part the body's non-rejection of the normal pregnancy implant, as well as the cancer homolog where-ever it arises, which also produces this mucus coating. The trophoblastic basis of cancer explains why the body's true front line of immunological defense are the pancreatic enzymes, such as the proteolytic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin, which digest the cancer's glyco-protein coating (seilomucinous coat), thus making the trophoblast/cancer cell open to attack by the phagocytic and cytotoxic leuckocytes, with further digestion by the pancreatic enzymes. In fact the whole gamut of pancreatic enzymes will be called into play, including the erepsins, maltase, sucrase, lactase and steapsin (lipase). However, the trophoblast mucous membrane is permeated by certain enzyme inhibitors (protease inhibitors) used to defend itself from digestion by these enzymes in the mother's blood stream (or that of the cancer patient). It is not until about the 7th or 8th week of pregnancy that the fetal pancreas begins to function so that the combined action of mother and fetus begin to have an upper hand in the control of the growing and metastasizing trophoblast. It is a battle determined by a balance of forces. If the fetal pancreas should fail in development, or be dysfunctional, the trophoblast wins out, and the result is chorio-carcinoma, the most active form of cancer known, consisting of nothing but trophoblast. [Note: the presence of specific tryptic inhibitors from the cancer cell has also been used as a means of diagnosis or prognosis in cancer. Dr. Krebs pointed out in his monograph, The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer, that West and Hilliard found that 15 grams of crystalline chymotrypsin would be needed to neutralize the average excess of chymotrypsin inhibitor in the serum of the advanced cancer patient. Hence the protocols for therapeutic dosage of these enzymes is indeed extremely individualistic.] We should note before going further, that trophoblast has an entirely different structural and functional nature in terms of stereo-chemistry from normal cells. Stereo-chemistry refers to the ability of various compounds to affect the polarization of light passed through a solution of the substance. Thus, dextrose causes a beam of light passed through it to rotate to the right, while levulose turns it to the left, (Dextro = right, laevo = left). This is based on the asymetric nature of the carbon atom in these structures. Thus, while the fetus and the mother utilize dextro-sugars, the trophoblast (cancer) utilizes laevo-sugars (by inversion). The normal body cell consists of laevo-proteins, while the trophoblast (cancer) cell consists of dextro-proteins. Trophoblast contains l-glycogen (animal starch) or glyco-proteins; normal cells the opposite. Trophoblast is akin to the life in the mirror. It is truly distinct from normal tissues. Human trypsin and chymotrypsin are both laevo-rotatory, thus they digest the dextro-rotatory protein coat of the cancer (trophoblast). Enzymes act primarilly on their mirror image substrates. Trypsin will act weakly on dead laevo-proteins or albumins, but especially on living dextro-proteins and albumins, such as those of trophoblast (cancer). Hence our intrinsic pancreatic enzymes do not act on our own tissues, but on trophoblast. While cancer enzymes are antithetical to our tissues, and its secretions are all inhibitors of their stereochemical opposites present in normal body chemistry. The digesting enzymes of the pancreas are activated in the small intestine after being secreted. Again, the ones of chief concern in cancer are specifically: trypsin, chymotrypsin and amylase, but the entire gamut of enzymes should be supplemented in cancer. [Note: The amylase acts on the d-glucose components of the cancer cell glycogen breakdown products, and is important in the successful detoxification, and also, should be used in double the amounts of protease enzymes. Amylase is also adjunctive to the action of the leuckocytes. Also, trypsin is noted for it's ability to induce differentiation in developmentally arrested leuckocytes as is seen in one form of leukemia.] Thus trophoblastic processes or cancer encounters the digestive enzymes and the surveilant WBC. As noted above the trophoblast or the cancer cells produce enzymes whose ostensible purpose is to defend against the digestive enzymes and the subsequent immune response. However, it may also encounter exogenous or nutritionally supplied compounds, forming the defensive chemistry of the mother as derived from diet, such as the nitrilosides. Nature hedged her bets when it came to the extended process of internal gestation, so that if the intrinsic factors were insufficient in controlling this alternate asexual generation (trophoblast), then external factors would back them up. We mentioned that the contiguous tissue of the mother, the normal somatic components, respond to the cancer chemistry (hCG steroids) by excreting a class of enzymes known as glycosidases in an attempt to detoxify them. This endogenous, or internal and intrinsic chemical response of the body to the trophoblastic (cancer) hormones make the cancer simultaneously susceptible to destruction by the extrinsic or dietarily derived compounds: namely the nitrilosides. It is believed that the wide-ranging and sometimes unusual appetite of the gestating mother represents in part a search for dietary nitrilosides. Instinctive insurance provided by the intricasies of evolution. These dietary components (nitrilosides) in the mother's blood and lymph fluids that the trophoblastic (cancerous) process encounters falls under a class of compounds called cyanophoric glycosides, a food factor or natural compound found in diverse plants, fruits and seeds. Dr. Krebs chose to give them the generic name Nitrilosides, due to the fact they all bear nitriles (any compound of trivalent nitrogen, N-3, in a cyanogen group) in their makeup. Typically they are a three part natural compound containing cyanide, benzaldehyde, and a sugar or non-sugar (aglycon). These compounds are chemically locked together in nature, and are only unlocked by specific enzymes, such as the glucuronidases found concentrated in the trophoblastic or malignant environs. We can explain only briefly here the suggested mode of action of the nitrilosides, or vitamin B-17 in the cancer environment. Specifically, the body releases from the contiguous tissues Beta-glucuronidases. This enzyme happens to act specifically on vitamin B-17, or Laetrile. The nitriloside amygdalin, a glucoside, when partially metabolized is converted into a glucuronoside (oxidized glucoside). When the glucuronoside comes into the cancer environment, it is broken into its component parts, releasing cyanide and benzaldehyde, which destroy the cancer, without harming the host. [Note: The free portions of nitrilosides active in cancer control and prevention are predominantly in the electrochemical negative group. Thus, the pregnancy trophoblast (and cancer) defends itself against these compounds by means of the seilomucinous coating mentioned before. Thus it is logical that the mother should avoid taking supplemental pancreatic enzymes of the proteolytic class during the first 6 weeks of pregancy. John Beard suggested that amylase may be supplemented, however, after the seventh week, to ameliorate the well known symptoms of "morning sickness", when the combined trypsins of mother and fetus begin the breakdown of the syncytiotrophoblast. Beard noted that such symptoms, known as eclampsia, often appeared in the trypsin treatment of cancer, and they were always resolved by additional amylase, usually twice the amount of amylase over trypsin. Furthermore, it is obvious that for the nitrilosides to be effective, they must also be preceeded by sufficient pancreatic activity due to the mucus coating.] The most commonly used nitriloside compounds in cancer treatment are amygdalin and Laetrile. Laetrile derives its name from the formal chemical descriptor of the patented synthetic version: laevo-mandelo-nitrile-Beta-[di]glucuronoside. Today it is commonly referred to simply as vitamin B-17, while the natural occuring compound is a glucoside.[Note: It has been argued that there is no reason to believe dietary glucosides would be active in the cancer environment, since there is no glucosidase enzyme found there. But this is not true. Both glucosidase and glucuronidase are found in the embryonic environs, both of which are free to perfuse the placental or trophoblastic interface. A lack of either enzyme is noted in at least two forms of perinatal disease: Gaucher's Disease for beta-glucosidase; and Mucopolysaccharidoses for Beta-glucuronidase defeciency. And possibly some glycogen storage dysfunctions for glucosidase: Pompe's disease, an alpha-l,4-glucosidase deficiency.] While the cyanide and benzaldehyde of the nitriloside are deadly to the cancer, they are not deadly to the surrounding normal tissues with normal and aerobic chemistry. Normal cells contain an enzyme known as rhodanese, or thiosulfate transulfurase. By means of this compound, in the presence of available sulfur, the cyanide is detoxified by the normal cells into thiocyanate, which is then excreted in the urine, sweat, and tears. The cancer cell lacks rhodanese, and thus has no defense against this component. The benzaldehyde is converted by oxygen into benzoic acid which has known analgesic and antiseptic action. Again, the cancer cell is lacking in oxygen, and can only slowly detoxify it. Hence there is an evolutionary specificity of nitrilosides in the control of this tissue. Several different pathways of metabolism of nitriloside are discussed by Dr. Gurchot on our web site. (www.europa.com/~rsc/gurchot.htm) Carcinogenesis The various means whereby trophoblast/cancer arises outside pregnancy is subsumed under the perview of carcinogenesis. These inducers are widely varied, and include hormones, toxins, virus, bacterial pathogens, parasites, and chronic injury. How each operates to produce cancer (trophoblast) is a complex issue we will not go into in any depth here. Neither will we delve into theoretical considerations regarding a normal role of trophoblast in healing. In every case, the above factors can only be successful inducers of trophoblastic (cancerous) differentiation in the deficiency of pancreatic enzymes and dietary nitrilosides (vitamin B-17). It will suffice to note that in several of these factors, two pathways combine dangerously: suppression of the intrinsic defensive systems and induction of chronic injury. Heavy metal toxins, asbestos, pathogens and parasites represent amongst the most common problems in typical experience. Below we will discuss methods of addressing these. Hormones, specifically estrogenic hormones or similar steroidal chemicals, come into play in all forms of carcinogenesis, as they do in the development of pregnancy trophoblast, but needless to say, exogenous or environmental sources of steroids have made inroads via the meat and milk industries and steroid-like toxins from industrial waste. While elimination of the carcinogens or inducers as much as possible will be helpful, especially in prevention of recurrence, elimination of them after the fact will not always result in resolution or remission. Needless to say complete elimination of inducers is impossible. While it may be that these things are always with us, it is also obvious not everyone affected comes down with cancer. Indeed, most people do not experience clinical manifestations of cancer, though it is believed the generation of cancer happens in everyone. For most people the intrinsic and extrinsic control factors are sufficient to prevent a gross manifestation of cancer. By whatever means cancer arises, the same tissue type is elicited: trophoblast, the anaerobic, parasitic asexual generation of the life-cycle; and pre-existant and normal parameters of control stand as the ultimate protection against cancer. With the above in mind, we may now briefly outline what logically follows from the delineated facts as to what an individual may do to resolve their problem. Keep in mind that cancer is a natural phenomenon, and while claims have been made that chemotherapy and radiation have succeeded in resolving some cancers, the scientific evidence for their utility in the majority of cancer cases is non-existent in the strict definition of scientific proof. It is much more likely that in those cases apparently helped by these toxic and dangerous methods, the system resolved these cancers in spite of these artificial interventions by means outlined above. DETOXIFY Why? Because many toxins (such as heavy metal ions) can disable the anti-cancer enzymes secreted from the pancreas as well as other essential enzymes and fatty acids; they can disable the immune response, they lower energy; and cause a host of problems. Furthermore, all the known toxins can contribute to carcinogenesis by various means [related topics: detoxification/activation, P-450]. How does one detoxify? One should begin by getting a check up: test for heavy metal toxicity. Such tests help focus on major problems that can be addressed through various detox protocols. A hair analysis or blood elemental analysis is the usual procedure. Also, it is useful to have a micro-Aschheim-Zondek test, a sensitized pregnancy test, to discern the level of chorionic gonadotrophic hormone (CGH) in the blood. Monitoring this level will give an accurate picture of your progress in beating cancer. You can pass up on such tests if you want, your health won't be harmed by not having a test. BUT, tests also provide important data that will be useful after you recover.....as proof that this works. There are various means of detoxifying, which we'll divide up into two phases: the first we'll call do-it-yourself; the other is provided via clinics of various kinds. DO IT YOURSELF AUTODETOX First: what are the toxins? What constitutes toxicity? There are two kinds of toxins: endogenous...toxins produced by the body; and environmental. Regularity The buildup of toxins in the body come primarily from improper or inadequate evacuation. One of the primary sources of this is lack of water, and lack of bulk in the foods we eat. Subsequent to endogenous toxic buildup, we may develop an unnatural flourishing of the micro-fluora of the intestines with consequent gas, and a population of infective pathogenic or parasitic organisms, robbing us of the nutriments we need for optimum health. The complete evacuation of cellular waste, of carbon dioxide, metabolic byproducts, all require water. WATER We need not pause here very long, as it should be obvious that since our body is made up of over 90 % water, that our blood serum--the plasma--that carries blood, and the plasma in the cells is mostly water, that we need to maintain this water level for optimum functioning. Evacuation of pollutants and toxins relies on an adequate supply of fresh water, and this must be taken between meals AS PURE WATER. [Note: NOT DISTILLED WATER, it leaches necessary nutrients from the cell. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, or even flavored water do not count. We recommend everyone read the book: Your Body's Many Cries for Water, By Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., Global Health Solutions, Inc. P.O. Box 3189 Falls Church, Va. 22043. This book delineates the many different diseases mistakenly attributed to other causes which in reality result from lack of water.] A note about water: Glacial Milk: It would be nice if we all lived on the slopes of some Glacier where we could drink the run-off of pure snow-melt carrying the gamut of essential trace minerals and metals. But we can approximate such by using colloidal minerals IN DILUTED FORM. There are several marketers of colloidal minerals, but in the U.S., many of these are simply re-packaging Clark's mineral formula. These liquids are derived from natural mineral-rich deposited silt. But the recommended amounts to use daily are, we believe, far too great. One capful of such a colloidal concentrate could treat 6 to 7 gallons of water to last over several days to a week. The concentrations are then in keeping with natural occurences. We should always stick to evolutionary precedents. When we modify such experience, we screw up. FOOD We need bulk in our food to facilitate solid waste evacuation. We should have at least as many bowel movements as we have meals per day. When waste matter collects in the lower intestine, beside providing mechanical problems, there may be a reverse osmosis of toxins produced by anaerobic pathogenic bacteria, as well as the waste products deposits from the liver. This can lead to immune dysfunctions and other problems. The delays in motion of the material results in three results on intestinal organisms: multiplication is facilitated; they extend beyond their usual habitats, and pleomorphic alterations may result as the chemistry changes, bringing about pathogenic strains; then the problems go beyond intestinal toxemia, since by entering the blood stream, toxins or pathogens may infect other organs and glands. Sprouts provide all the necessary proteins, amino acids and vitamins required for perfect health, and also provide the kind of bulky material so needed for natural elimination, and increasing their use can help correct stasis effectively and harmlessly, even for those with diverticulitis. Whole grains, while providing needed bulk, also provide essential fatty acids, minerals, vitamins that are lost by refinement. "Enriched" flours have little in common with real whole grains, with their bran, germ and starches. Many foods provide natural compounds that will detoxify the system of pollutants such as the toxic metals: mercury, copper, cadmium, aluminium, lead and even silver ions. [Note: it is believed that the body can probably use every element that occurs naturally in the topsoil of the earth, no matter what it is, as part of its evolutionary experience, but in specific, and usually micro-amounts. Copper is necessary, but not in excess. Colloidal forms of these metals are easily rejected by the body, but the mon-atomic ions are not.] Oat groats will take up such toxins, as will other grain bulks, which can act like carbon filters as well as having chemical compounds which bind to toxins. The porous aspects of these bulkous foods assist evacuation and take the poisons with them. Chemically, certain compounds provided by fruits are natural detoxicants: malic and citric acid assists in the elimnation of aluminium. Apricot kernals and other seeds provide glucosides which when oxidized in the body provide glucuronides. Glucuronic acid is a natural detoxicant, which binds with toxins and makes them easily eliminated. Many people are now using Kombucha tea as a natural means of detoxification.(Note: it is not certain Kombucha contains glucuronic acid, or if it simply facilitates the oxidation of glucosides which go to produce precursors for it.) Needless to say, many herbs have been used for thousands of years as detoxicants, purgitives, etc. Some of these are natural laxitives, or diuretics, and the action of others is uncertain on a rational basis, but empirically have a good track record for purification. Golden Seal, and Hyssop ("Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." Psalms 51:7) are good examples. Talk to your herbalist. Clinical Detox Chelation therapy will pull out many of the heavy metal toxins, and a competent therapist will assist in reconstitution with neccessary elements or minerals that might be swept out during the chelation therapy. There are two major chelation programs: EDTA and DMSA. The use of chelated or colloidal mineral complexes will bring one back into the proper requirments that might be affected. TEETH Get rid of mercury amalgams in the teeth, and any abcesses, caries and defective root canals that might be septicemic or harboring pathogens. Mercury disables digestive enzymes WHICH ARE CRUCIAL IN CONTROLLING CANCER; and mercury has many other deleterious effects on the body. Monatomic silver and copper ions also deactivate pancreatic enzymes, as does arsenic. We are not talking about trace quantities, but gross toxicity. PARASITISM Go through a parasite cleansing program. Most parasites produce anti-trypsin or anti-protease enzymes which our bodies use to pull down the cancer proteins and albumins and their byproducts. The parasites use these anti-protease enzymes as a defence against our digestive enzymes so they can survive in the gut and wherever these enzymes may be encountered. While we can survive for a long period with these parasites and their effects on our own enzyme system, this condition leads to diminished health, makes us more susceptible to infection, and ultimately cancer. They are also, by disabling our digestive enzymes, disabling the nutrition of the body leading to sub-acute cachexia: starvation of the host, which of course leads to suppressed immune response. The pancreatic enzymes are the first line of defense against many pathogens, parasites, and especially cancer cells. It is important to rid the body of these parasites and their harmful effects on our defense and digestive mechanisms. The native Central and South Americans have used the diluted sap of fig trees for centuries to rid themselves of intestinal worms and parasites with great success. The active ingredient or enzyme is called "ficin", and it will disolve Round worm,(Ascaris), whipworm (Trichuris trichura) and other parasites which normally are unaffected by trypsin. There are several anti-parasitic programs which we'll delineate at the end of this paper. But talk to a good herbalist, who will be able to advise you in a program suited to your individual needs and locale. Native peoples have been known to go through a "de-worming" seasonally...when the sap is running usually. Again: Drink lots of water. And go on a one day fast twice a week for three weeks. Then cut back to one day per week fast, taking in only water on those fast days, for another two weeks. Then once a month. Drink lots of water, between meals, always. Water dehydration creates numerous problems that may be mistaken as something else. Water is the most important thing after air in nutrition. Air, water, food. DIET The system needs fresh, raw foods as sources of enzymes and pre-enzymes. Sprouts are practically a perfect food. Alfalfa, barely, millet, flax, chia, wheat, buckwheat, oat, mung bean, lentil, chick-pea (garbonzo), are all especially rich in nitrilosides. They all provide abundant amino acids, both essential and others, as well as amylase and proteolytic precursors; vitamins up to 900% greater concentration than the seed or full grown plant per volume. As noted, sprouts provide nitrilosides. a compound that is specifically anti-neoplastic (pulls down the cancer). This is raw food in its most unadulterated state. There is no destruction of the balanced vitamins and enzymes as provided from nature in the sprouted seed. The body evolved with raw foods. In evolutionary terms, cooking is a modern innovation, that has had serious consequences in terms of human health, where the diet may consist in nothing but prepared foods. Cooking has also made many foods available which otherwise would not be palatable or edible, but man cannot experience optimal health without raw foods. Lentils, lima beans, garbonzo beans (chickpeas), barley, millet, as whole grains, or legumes can be cooked which will also provide needed protein, and nitrilosides. Eating fresh fruits also provides raw neccessary vitamins (co-enzymes) and enzymes in their full natural potency. Eat the seeds of all fruits (*be sure they are certified organic, so as not to toxify the liver with pesticide residues). Fruit seeds are one of the richest sources of nitrilosides. Always eat only as many seeds as you would the whole fruit, and preferably along with the fruit. That's how the body expects it from millions and millions of years of eating. Whole foods. However, in cancer, especially advanced cancer, many people eat 1 or 2 seeds per ten pounds of body weight per day. Not all at once, but over a period of a day. While non-toxic in normal practices as suggested, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. One woman who had ovarian cancer ate 175 seeds all at once, and she passed out, and didn't awaken until 72 hours later. A week later, she went in to have a hysterectomy, and when they got in there, they didn't find a trace of living cancer. Her system metabolized the nitriloside, but it obviously was a dangerous thing to do. However, I'm sure SHE'S glad she did it. She's now cancer free. Was it worth the gamble? From her point of view the alternative was obviously unacceptable. Before you try this, you should note that the woman's body mass is unknown, and what is fatal to one person may not be to another. And while she survived eating 175 or so seeds of apricot or peach, someone else may experience untoward effects eating less than that at once. So it is safer to follow the above guidelines, which falls well within the known capacity of the body to metabolize the nitrilosides from seeds and foods, and also provide anti-cancer activity. There is no accumulation of nitrilosides or vitamin B-17 in the body. It is not stored. They must be replenished every day to do their work, just as with vitamin C, for example. In cancer, the use of milk and milk products, the eating of meat, the eating of fish, eggs, and heavy proteinaceous, hybridized nuts are cut out. The secretion of trypsin, chymotrypsin, and the other pancreatic enzymes such as amylase, maltase, lipase, etc., are all called into action by the presence of the cancer cell. Eating meat, etc., increases the secretions of these enzymes, which are thereby diverted in working on the meat, etc., and thus are not fully free to act on the cancer, and it's breakdown products. By combining beans, rice, eating fresh vegetables, of many different types and the use of limited intake of nuts and the seeds and sprouts provide sufficient complete proteins to maintain homeostasis. A moderate use of eggs is alright, and the use of milk products such as whey, and cottage cheese is also occasionally alright. But the primary aim is to leave the pancreatic enzymes free to act on the cancer cells. SUPPLEMENTAL AND CLINICAL PROTOCOLS Besides the purely dietary regime, many people bolster their pancreatic enzymes with supplemental proteolytic and glycolytic enzymes in pill or injectible form. These enzymes are trypsin, chymotrypsin and amylase. A good source in sufficient strengths is: ------------------------------------ Pancreatin 1000 mg. One Protein Coated Tablet Contains: Pancreatin (formulated with quadruple strength)...1000 mg. Supplying: Amylase...25,000 USP Units Protease (trypsin and chymotrypsin)...25,000 USP Units Lipase...2000 USP Units In a specially coated tablet form to provide release of the pancreatic enzyme in the intestines. Hypo-Allergenic Contains No Yeast, Wheat, Corn, Soy, Milk, Salt, Sugar or Starch Bottles of 60 #4380 Call Nature's Plus at 1-800-937-0500 for more information. http://www.natplus.com/np_enzm.htm ------------------------------------ The increased use of vitamin A is typically included with the supplemental pancreatic enzymes in most clinical settings. The best type of Vitamin A is emulsified, and the dosages go as high as 500,000 units in the emulsified form, avoiding toxic overload of the liver. Linus Pauling's research on the use of high dosages of vitamin C show that cancer patients survive much longer than those who do not use high doses of vitamin C. Considering that it is non-toxic, especially in Pauling's esterified form which makes it much easier on the system, there is no reason not to supplement the daily diet with high C intake, but following the evidence of how much cancer patients benefit from high doses should determine our course. What works is what counts. However, as Pauling's own death of cancer testifies, vitamin C alone is not sufficient to conquer cancer. But he probably lived much longer, and certainly more comfortably than if he had not used such megadoses. Pangamic acid or vitamin B-15 (also discovered by Dr. Krebs, and his father) is also used to help increase the oxygen exchange rate across cell membranes. It is a well established fact that fermentative processes are diminished by aeration. This is sometimes called the "Pasteur effect". Thus anything that optimizes the oxidative respiration process will be anti-thetical to the facultative anaerobic processes of cancer. Germanium is used as a cojunctive element for increasing transmethylation processes. Glutathione is noted for its ability to activated deactivated or bound pancreatic enzymes, so it has a logical place in supplementation. In clinical situations, the current dosage with injectible nitriloside, Laetrile, for example, has gone from 50 milligrams in the early days, to a gram or two a day over a month or two month program---up to 30 to 60 grams over that period [Note: two gram doses usually are given every other day, to provide the system time to eliminate the breakdown products of the cancer]. Then a maintenance dose of about a half gram per day for life, by diet, preferably, or pill form. The Cancer Microbe and Parasitism in Cancer It has been suspected for many years that the problem of recurring tumors after an initial remission are the result of an undetected virus or "cancer-microbe", which either acts as a continuous source of irritation and damage, leading to evolution of cancer; or by activating a specific set of genes in the genome responsible for the differentiation into primitive cellular characteristics or cancer. We have a fairly convincing reference list showing the recurrent detection of a cancer microbe in most cancers, and it's ability to induce cancer when reintroduced after culturing. These studies have satisfied Koch's postulates for determination of an active pathogen. Anti-parasitic protocols may eliminate many virus that infect the parasites, but they do not necessarily specifically address virus or "filterable" microbes. Some people have claimed certain herbal remedies, such as Essiac, which has a very good track record for helping people with cancer, may act on virus directly or indirectly due to the presence of certain compounds which initiate a generalized immune responce. However that may be, without a sample of the actual virus or microbe supposedly responsible for cancer, a definitive vaccine is impossible. The Rife Ray tube as designed by Royal Rife in the 1920s and 30s, is said to have direct action on the cancer virus/microbe which he discovered in cancer tissues, and which he cultured, and photographed. Rife's treatment protocol dispenses with vaccines, and destroys the microbe directly. In recent years, researchers have developed modern versions of the Rife equipement which many people are experimenting with and which hold promise of reproducing the anti-cancer-microbe effects of Rife's original equipment. The most widely used such device today is probably that of Dr. James Bare of Albequerque, New Mexico. A link to Dr. Bare's web page is listed on our web site. The device operates through radio and audio frequencies emanated from a tube filled with a noble gas, usually Argon. The individual treated is not physically connected to the device, but receives these emanations from a distance. So far many people have testified that this device has helped them substantially. Many electronic protocols that rely on physical contact pads, or probes have no substantive record I am personally aware of that show they successfully cause cancer remissions. However, all of these, including the Rife-Bare device are still in the experimental stage, and most reports seem to indicate that they are, if nothing else, harmless. In Conclusion This brief outline will give the reader the necessary clues for fuller development of protocols that will meet individual cases. It is certainly not all inclusive, but the unitarian or trophoblastic facts of cancer, and the specific relevance of dietary nitrilosides explains the actions of many alternative "cures". The Hoxsey formula, the Essiac formula, and many other herbal means of treating cancer all contain nitrilosides, and adjunctive properties stimulating the immune system and activating pancreatic enzymes. Thus these protocols can be implemented simultaneously. I note that one of the most discussed compounds found in Kombucha tea is glucuronic acid, which is a natural by product of nitriloside metabolization. The use of glutathione as having some anti-cancer properties is also logical, since it is a well known activator of bound proteolytic enzymes as found in plants, and deactivated enzymes as a result of various poisons or toxins. The use of Hydrazine sulfate has relevance to the sugar metabolism of the cancer cell. It is non-toxic, and very inexpensive. Dr. Gold who developed the rationale for its implementation has a web site linked from our web site under Health Search. This page is under continuous construction. So check back, as we update it with references and additional items. The date at top will reflect this. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Current Document Location: http://www.europa.com/~rsc/getwell2.htm) RETURN TO INDEX Go to Krebs Lecture on Nitrilosides Go to Krebs Monograph on Nitrilosides Go to Krebs Monograph on Trophoblastic Thesis --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Contact by mail, send an email with your mail address, and receive a sample Newsletter "SOURCES": Roger Cathey, Associate ROBERT CATHEY RESEARCH SOURCE e-mail:rsc@europa.com Immediate Comments:rsc@europa.com . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer. 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