| Melatonin also seems to help reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy as well as some of the complications from it. One study divided thirty people who had advanced brain tumors into two groups and treated one with radiation therapy and the other with radiation therapy plus 20 mg of melatonin. After a year, only one of the sixteen (6 percent) in the radiation-only group was still alive compared to six of the fourteen (43 percent) in the radiation plus melatonin group.
Reboot Your Brain
Then there's melatonin's most famous use— helping to regulate sleep. |
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 Naturally, they're still limiting its application to minor conditions like treating pain following surgery, or reducing nausea after chemotherapy, saving the BIG diseases for those heroic, high-profit procedures like heart bypass surgery and chemotherapy. That's how organized medicine marginalizes the wisdom of five thousand years of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The only reason modern doctors even tolerate acupuncture is because, as one MD recently told me, "At least we get to puncture patients with something. |
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 I don't think there's enough safety data on the drug yet to draw that kind of a conclusion, but I do know that many of the other cancer treatments out there are highly toxic. chemotherapy is really poison. It poisons the whole body, too, not just the cancer cells. That's why people who undergo chemotherapy have such terrible life expectancy. Doctors and oncologists can claim that your tumor shrank, but what they don't tell you is that your heart, liver and kidneys were damaged at the same time. Now, you're going to need prescription drugs for the rest of your life. |
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 It can also be a reaction to radiation therapy or chemotherapy, as well as to certain drugs such as decongestants and medications for hyperthyroidism. Speaking of drugs, smell loss—like a runny nose—can result from snorting cocaine or other illicit drugs. It can also be your body's way of warning you that you're smoking or drinking too much.
DANGER SIGN
Smoking can cause loss of sense of smell, not to mention loss of life. In addition to lung and heart disease and cancer, smokers are at increased risk of causing and being in house fires. |
Bill Sardi
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 She was looking for a way to conquer cancer without poisoning herself, and her caregivers were telling her to suffer through more chemotherapy. It made no sense to me. Chemo would destroy her immune system in an attempt to cure her, when the immune system is what keeps cancer at bay. But who am I to second guess doctors? Patti succumbed to cancer in a relatively short period of time. Treatment seemed to quicken her passing. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Her rheumatologist worried about the ramifications of having her on a roller coaster of prednisone and decided to try Imuran, a chemotherapy medication that suppresses the immune system in general, which he and Joy had been hoping to avoid since it carries with it a heightened risk of lymphoma and leukemia. She stayed on Imuran for fifteen months. At that point she seemed stable enough that her doctor began to wean her off it, but suddenly she had another severe flare—her joints swelled and she developed pleurisy, an inflammation of the lining of the lungs. She began having severe migraines. |
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 Somewhere during that devastating treatment for cancer, the patient might say that he or she wants to take some antioxidants to protect the healthy cells in the body while the chemotherapy is killing the cancer, but many conventional doctors will say, "No, don't take antioxidants. How dare you think about supporting your immune system with nutritional therapies and life-saving supplements! You will interfere with the chemotherapy!" The patient says, "Oh, I'm sorry for trying to make a choice to support my own health outcome. |
| This is how conventional medicine creates doubt in the minds of customers who, out of fear, continue to suffer the harm of prescription drugs, chemotherapy and other barbaric medical procedures. You see this all the time with cancer. An oncologist is talking with a patient, trying to convince them that they have three to six months to live, but if they get chemotherapy, he says, they will live six to 12 months. Of course, the patient wants to live six to 12 months, so the patient says, "Go ahead, doctor. Put in the IV and pump me up with toxic chemicals. |
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 Interestingly enough, using chemotherapy for lung cancer is beneficial less than 1 percent of the time, which would make it one of the biggest placebos in history. Yet, they recommend it when anyone has lung cancer.
That aside, here's an interesting concept: Alternative health tends to be additive. Medicine tends to be subtractive. In other words, you do chemotherapy and it pretty much destroys your immune system, eliminating the option of using the immune system to fight the cancer. Alternative health tends to be additive. As I said, you use protocols. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Closer analysis shows that the introduction of streptomycin barely changed the slope of decline, and that, moreover, chemotherapy accounted for only 3.2% of the entire reduction of deaths since 1848 from that once dreaded disease.14
The story repeats itself in the United States. Between 1900 and 1971, reductions in mortality from tuberculosis accounted for 16.5% of the total decrease in mortality. Yet most of this benefit occurred prior to the availability of antibiotics. According to calculations by the McKinleys, only 8. |
| In 1997, a National Institute of Health Consensus Development Conference concluded that "there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain."6 Interestingly, a common site for these practices is on hospital grounds. Our local hospital, for example, has what is called a "Center for Integrative Medicine" where one can learn about treatments disdained in the recent past. |
| As a result, they are more likely to conduct research on chemotherapy rather than on herbal treatments for cancer. It follows inevitably that the body of published research, even with its sample biases, will defend the status quo.
PLAN OF THE BOOK
It goes without saying that medicine and the medical model, at the very heart of American culture, will not disappear. But the very act of so imagining allows us to evaluate its role: for the good—and also for the harm—it does in contemporary society.
Our plan is straightforward. |
| A very dangerous drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5FU), commonly used in chemotherapy for colon cancer, did not—as purported—reduce mortality. "One can only hope," he wrote, "that the good judgment of the American physician will dissuade him from treating thousands of postoperative colon cancer patients with this toxic drug in the misinformed belief that it will provide them with therapeutic benefit."
Two years later, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Moertel still maintained that 5FU had no clinical value. |
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 Food and Drug Administration recently approved "light therapy" to fight advanced esophageal cancer and early lung cancer—with fewer risks than are found with the use of surgery and chemotherapy. Although it has been known for over 100 years that light can kill diseased cells, it is only since a number of convincing research studies have been conducted that there has been a sudden resurgence of interest in light therapy. |
| Other ailments which Astragalus may be used to treat are: AIDS, arteriosclerosis, chemotherapy side effects, chronic active hepatitis, diabetes; genital herpes, high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism, and insomnia.
Sage Oil—A Memory Booster
In the 17th century, noted herbalist Nicholas Culpepper wrote that the herb sage could "heal" the memory, while, "warming and quickening the senses." Sage has always had that reputation, but no one knew why. Researchers from the Medical Plant Research Centre (MPRC) at the Universities of Newcastle and North Umbria in the U.K. |
| Treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are certainly capable of poisoning or burning many cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc., which often leads to permanent irreparable damage of entire organs and systems in the body. A real cure of cancer doe not occur at the expense of destroying other vital parts of the body. It is achievable only when the causes of excessive growth of cancer cells have been removed or stopped. |
| In 1982, his doctors added multiple radiation treatments to the regular chemotherapy, but these produced severe side effects, including loss of all body hair and his sense of taste. His distress was considerable. Yet, despite the traumatic experiences caused by the various treatments during the following fourteen years, Jeromy was not willing to give into depression and desperation. His strong fighting spirit permitted him to continue his work as a general manager of a successful business enterprise. |
| The following are common side effects:
This is what leading oncologists, university professors and MDs said about the effectiveness of modern cancer treatments:
=> chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing a second cancer by up to 100 times, according to Dr. Samuel S. Epstein. ~ Congressional Record, Sept. 9, 1987. => If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment center. Cancer victims who live far from such centers have a chance. ~ Professor Georges Mathe, French cancer specialist. => ... |
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 A previous case of medical terrorism involved a Texas teenager who was kidnapped by authorities and forced to undergo toxic chemotherapy treatments that her parents desperately insisted on avoiding.
See State-sponsored medical terrorism: Texas authorities arrest parents, kidnap their teenage daughter, and force her through chemotherapy against her will. |
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| That's why people who undergo chemotherapy have such terrible life expectancy. Doctors and oncologists can claim that your tumor shrank, but what they don't tell you is that your heart, liver and kidneys were damaged at the same time. Now, you're going to need prescription drugs for the rest of your life. So chemotherapy actually creates new customers for Big Pharma. (Besides, shrinking tumors does nothing to solve the underlying systemic cancer problem in the first place. |
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 Treating cancer with anything other than deadly, FDA-approved chemotherapy, radiation or surgery has been outlawed, and most of the good cancer doctors have either fled the United States or operate in secret, afraid to advertise their therapies for fear of being raided at gunpoint by health authorities.
3) Drug companies now own and operate the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. lawmakers and the mainstream media. No decision is made by the FDA unless it ultimately helps drug companies either make more money or avoid public scrutiny. New laws passed by U.S. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Ginseng is used in the treatment of adrenal deficiency, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, anemia, appetite loss, atherosclerosis, chemotherapy side effects, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, diarrhea (chronic), drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, heart palpitations, infertility (male and female), insomnia, low libido, low sperm count, malabsorption, memory loss, menopause symptoms, night sweats, organ prolapse, post-traumatic stress (physical and emotional), radiation exposure, shortness of breath, stress, stroke, and tuberculosis. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Pomegranate fruit juice for chemoprevention and chemotherapy of prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2005 Oct 11;102(41):14813-14818.
Mori-Okamoto J, Otawara-Hamamoto Y, Yamato H, Yoshimura H. Pomegranate extract improves a depressive state and bone properties in menopausal syndrome model ovariectomized mice./Ethnopharmacol. 2004 May;92(l):93-101.
Pantuck AJ, Leppert IT, Zomorodian N, Aronson W, Hong J, Barnard RJ, Seeram N, Liker H, Wang H, Elashoff R, Heber D, Aviram M, Ignarro L, Belldegrun A. |
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| In addition, more than one-third of patients who undergo chemotherapy complain of persistent hiccups.
SPEAKING OF SIGNS
Hold your breath, and if after you have done so for some time the hiccup is no better, then gargle with a little water, and if it still continues, tickle your nose with something and sneeze, and if you sneeze once or twice, even the most violent hiccup is sure to go.
—Eriximachus, physician to Aristophanes
STOP SIGNS
There are several home remedies for common hiccups. Many raise blood carbon dioxide levels or stimulate the vagus nerve to help it get back on track. |
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 And then the patient is urged to undergo chemotherapy "just in case.")
Prevention is the only real solution
The only way out of this cancer madness is through prevention. As Dr. Cedric Garland, professor at University of California, San Diego, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and Moores Cancer Center said about Canada's decision, "I think this is an important and historic step in the right direction. I think it will offer leadership in the world... as Canada will be the first country in the world to adopt this public health recommendation... |
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| Unfortunately, as most of us are all too aware, sudden hair loss can be a reaction to chemotherapy and radiation treatment for cancer. Just as these treatments stop rapidly dividing cancer cells from multiplying, they also stop the rapidly growing hair
SIGNIFICANT FACT
SIGN OF THE TIMES
The Polish-French composer and pianist Chopin was purported to have had a beard on only the right side of his face—the side seen by the audience.The unseen side, he claimed, didn't matter. |
| For example, hair color—like hair texture—can change temporarily after chemotherapy. A blonde may become dismayed to find her hair growing in dark brown or black, while a former brunette may be thrilled to find that she's become a blonde. Hair color
I'm not offended by all the dumb-blond jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not a blond.
—Dolly Parton, country-and-western singer changes can also signal genetic, metabolic, nutritional, or other disorders. They can even be the result of environmental factors. |
| Both hair texture change and hair loss are also common reactions to chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer. The good news is that both these changes are usually temporary.
VYour hairdresser can be your friend in more ways than one. Hairdressers are often the first to recognize and remark on hair texture changes.These changes may be the early clues to thyroid conditions and other underdiagnosed disorders.
HAIR COLOR CHANGES
Hair color, like eye and skin color, depends primarily on how much melanin (color-producing pigments) we inherit from our parents. |
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 Tamiflu®: Upon exposure to flu, high-risk patients (the elderly, debilitated, immune compromised, asthmatics, and chemotherapy patients) are encouraged to take the drug Tamiflu® within the first 72 hours. It can sometimes lessen the severity and duration of symptoms if taken on the day of exposure.
Rest and fluids: Treating an active case of flu involves taking rest, plenty of fluids, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for aches and pains are advisable.
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