Last week, I was discussing Suzanne Somers book, Knockout, one of the most daring books I have read. I find her very courageous to speak out about a subject that is absolutely “taboo” in a world controlled by special interest groups that manipulate systems to suit their whims and pockets.

First, I would like everyone to understand that the food industry has changed the face of our food and diet in the last fifty years. In result of this suboptimal diet of toxins, additives (preservatives, colorings, taste enhancers…); fluoride in water; heavy metals (mercury, aluminum, lead, arsenic) in food, food chain, and environment; simple sugars, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in snacks; and trans fats in fries, we have become diseased.

Such “foods” cause toxic buildup and stress in our bodies, which make silent inflammation and free radicals, robbing us the best of minds, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, productivity, and years, as well as increasing risk of metabolic syndromes (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, even cancer…). Toxic ingredients and style of cooking (frying, microwave) have altered the food we eat (if it is still called “food”).

Cattle are fed GMO corn and grains to fatten them instead of nature’s green grass. Thank God for mad cow disease; otherwise the herbivorous cows would still be fed animal leftovers. Cattle are given hormones to fatten them and make them produce more milk and of course antibiotics are also part of the “menu.” Due to overcrowded and unhygienic conditions in small cages, commercial chickens are given antibiotics to prevent disease. Arsenic is added to their feed to fatten them and it makes consume less feed (a profitable arrangement).

The essential fatty acids in food are not balanced anymore, because we consume more trans fats and omega-6 fats from vegetable oils (corn, canola, peanut, sunflower, safflower) and less of the heart and brain healthy omega-3 fats from fatty fish, organic meat and eggs, nuts, flaxseeds, and chia, also less of monounsaturated fats coming from olive oil, avocados, and nuts, and even less of medium chain triglycerides (MCT) from coconut oil. All man-made so-called foods interfere with health and cause damage on the cellular level (disruption in intercellular transmission), and cell malfunction, stress and inflammation that lead to cancer and other major disorders.

Having said that, I shall continue where I left last and start introducing to you the brave scientists and doctors, who are standing up for integrative and alternative medicine to heal cancer. Chemotherapy, radiation, or/and surgery have debilitated patients and had their immune systems destroyed. Patients are sometimes announced the death sentence within a short period of starting treatment.

Suzanne Somers, who has become an expert on cancer and natural treatments because of her experiences, wrote the book, Knockout. She took the effort to interview the following heroic doctors and let them explain their methods of healing to help desperate cancer patients and helpless terminal cases. As she puts it: “Knowledge is power.” Yes, she is absolutely right. Without information, we would be in the darkness of ignorance. But with the age of the Internet and speed, we can even get medical advice and most of the information we need to enlighten us about our health and what treatment is best for our condition. We can also communicate through the Internet or by telephone with the following medical professionals, oncologists, and scientists who treat with NONTOXIC therapies.

To make it even easier for you, I am going to condense what is written in Suzanne’s book to help you take the direction needed to treat a specific condition. You can have the individualized treatment that appeals to you without having recourse to “one-for-all” traditional cancer therapy (chemotherapy…). I shall sum up Somers’ interviews with these amazing doctors and scientists and follow the same sequence she adopted in her book. Now, I shall start with Dr. Ralph Moss.

Dr. Ralph Moss is a reputable science writer and a vocal critic of the current medical system for treating cancer with chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and surgery. He began his career in the field of cancer in the public relation division of the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Moss has written a library of books on cancer, cancer therapies, and the current cancer system. His books tackled nontoxic cancer treatments and prevention, alternative methods, always questioning conventional cancer therapies. Some of his books include “Cancer Therapy: The Independent Consumer’s Guide to Non-Toxic Treatment and Prevention;” “Herbs against Cancer;” “Questioning Chemotherapy;” “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment;” and more.

His writings give us unlimited information on cancer and the different methods of healing. His scientific background and knowledge on cancer reveal to us “the shocking truth that chemotherapy is inappropriate [and] ineffective” for many types of cancer, yet most oncologists recommend it to the six hundred thousand cancer patients without a second thought or hesitation.

From experience and as an experienced science writer, he says, “Once we start to reshape our writing about science to accommodate the wishes of doctors, patients, or institutions, rather than the facts, we are sure to end badly. We must always speak to cancer patients with a finely balanced mixture of compassion and honesty. Finally, we must always demand a fair evaluation of all treatments, conventional and alternative.”

It is so refreshing to read an interview with such a knowledgeable and honest scholar. Let us see how Ms. Somers’ discussion with Dr. Ralph Moss goes. It is about the effectiveness of conventional cancer therapies and the bias of mainstream medicine and the media for the industry’s research and conventional therapies and protocols vis-à-vis natural treatments.

Moss starts explaining that pharmaceutical industry research is heavily financed, while alternative treatments do not receive enough funds for research (read below), thus research is not even-sided and less toxic cures are not scientifically confirmed. Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) almost always sides with the pharmaceutical companies due to their financial influence in drug research.

Dr. Ralph Moss explains that when he worked in Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, laetrile, extract of a nutrient found in the seeds of plants (apricot seed), was found in their research labs to be an effective and “a promising nontoxic cancer drug.” The people of Sloan-Kettering, excited about the findings of their research, proceeded twice in 1974 and 1975 to Washington, arguing their points of view on laetrile and literally begging from the government for funds to continue the research and allow them to do clinical trials, as laetrile showed positive results on lab animals. According to Dr. Moss, they were met with “blistering opposition from the FDA, the American Cancer Society, and somewhat from the National Cancer Institute [as it] would probably have been the ruination of their careers.”

This attitude made Sloan-Kettering back off. Consequently, those for laetrile lost their enthusiasm for it. When Moss “broke ranks with the party line,” he was fired from his post, because he continued supporting laetrile as it did destroy cancer cells. According to the scientist, “The same people who fired me would admit these things in private.”

Obviously, it is not in the interest of the industry and special interest groups to have alternative or natural cancer cures replace their money-making drugs. Cures coming from nature are not profitable and cannot be patented.

For those who need advice or help, the contacts of Dr. Moss are found below:

Ralph Moss: 814-466-6514.

Next week, I shall continue Dr. Moss’s struggle to keep the truth in perspective.

Reference:

• Knockout by Suzanne Somers

N.B.:

Individuals with medical conditions or on medication should consult their physicians when they decide to introduce anything new in their diet even if it is natural.

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