Last week, I began discussing a delicate but painful subject, cancer. Why painful? It is because conventional cancer protocols have not advanced enough to reduce its ravaging side effects or improve remission results and survival rates. And what is even more disturbing is that the once rare disease has become quite prevalent and the number of people developing cancer has been escalating rapidly.

Could it be our modern diet of processed, fast, fried food or the tons of added sugar in soda and soft drinks, snack bars, ice creams, milk shakes, and café lattes? Could it be the additives (colorings, artificial flavors and taste enhancers) found in food and chemicals in water? Could it be the radiation, cigarette smoking, car exhaust, electromagnetic frequencies (EMF), chemtrail, or the heavy metals in the air and environment? Could it be the overprescribed drugs such as antibiotics, painkillers, and hormones we take and which are fed to the commercially raised animals we consume? Or, is it a combination of all the above? These are questions waiting to be answered and carcinogens to be addressed. Since I cannot answer these questions, I have decided to explore cancer and alternative ways of treating it without getting subjugating to the harsh chemicals, searing radiation, or maiming surgeries of modern protocols.

Last week, I began talking about an interesting and valuable book called Knockout written by actress Suzanne Somers who was stricken by breast cancer and managed to overcome it by using alternative therapies. Because she was an informed patient and used her common sense, she was able to choose the therapy that suited her best. She owes her remission to her integrative oncologist, Dr. Julie Taguchi, and the relentless support and love of her loving and proactive family who did extensive research on her case to help her make decisions.

Since we cannot do much about our contaminated Earth and bodies with toxic chemicals that cause cancer, Suzanne Somers came up with different solutions that work, other than orthodox cancer treatments. After being diagnosed twice with cancer, she went to great extents to educate herself about the disease and how to treat it with benign alternative methods and interviewing the integrative oncologists, doctors, and scientists, who apply them successfully on cancer patients. She pursued a road, which is taboo in mainstream medicine. She revealed to the public the paragons who defied the opposition and dedicated their science to non-destructive cancer healing and treatments. Because of their precious research, hard work, unconventional therapies, and natural medications, they have become haunted and harassed by government health officials and research institutions, backed by the powerful pharmaceutical industry.

Susanne says, “Being an informed patient saved my good health.” She wonders, “What is happening to the rest of the people…who trust in the system? Out of fear and desperation, the layman accepts the oncologist’s diagnosis and treatment without questioning or researching, as if it is the word of God, not realizing that the Internet offers a treasure of information, options, oncologists, and scientists, who treat with alternative methods or use both protocols.

Susanne went to great extents of research and interviews with such courageous medical professionals who defied the conventional system and even treat terminally ill patients with stage IV cancers. Such daring doctors are disillusioned by the deceit of an automated and profit oriented medical system and its “one for all cures.” She says this system is backed by the drug industry (Big Pharm), which finances doctors, hospitals, scientists, and their research.

Each one of the integrative oncologists, doctors, and scientists interviewed came up with benign but efficacious and holistic treatments to heal cancer by first building up immune systems, targeting defective of silenced genes, and correcting imbalances of nutrients, enzymes, antioxidants, peptides, hormones, and more. They also show compassion to the scared patient. While these pioneering doctors take into consideration diet, lifestyle habits, toxins, excess weight, genes, sleep loss, stress, radiation, smoking, the environment, and other factors that could trigger cancer cells to divide, multiply, and make tumors, conventional doctors ask no questions related to the underlying causes. Integrative doctors work on personalized treatments that address the cancer of that patient, whereas conventional medicine apply standard, one-for-all therapies (chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and drugs), which could hit or miss. It is a ‘pitch in the dark’ system.

When integrative doctors build the immune defenses with nutrients (vitamins, minerals) herbal plants, and antioxidants, they try to detoxify the body of toxic chemicals and heavy metals to address the underlying issue. Mainstream oncologists, on the other hand, destroy the cancer along with precious immune and natural killer (NK) cells with chemotherapy or opt for surgical removal of tumors, which might metastasize.

Knockout reveals the names, locations, and Somers’ interviews with these relentless fighters one by one and discloses their unorthodox treatments that have saved many desperate cancer patients who were told by mainstream oncologists to go home and…!!! Without compassion, they blurt out the death sentence.

Some of the integrative doctors, I will write about, use different approaches in their treatments and manners of dealing with patients. Some treat with peptides, antineoplastons. In the absence of such peptides, cancer cells multiply virally and spread. During his research, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski noticed that cancer patients are particularly deficient in these peptides.

Others treat with “pancreatic enzymes that target and kill cancer cells.” Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez also prescribes nutrient-rich organic diets, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements to supply tissue and organ deficiencies that could cause cancer. Treatments emphasize healthy lifestyles such as activity, relaxation, good sleep, detoxification, and emotional balance.

Bioidentical hormones are given to treat hormone imbalances and hormone-related cancers like breast cancer. Some of the healing treatments use “inexpensive nanotechnology patch[es] daily” to detoxify free radicals that lead to toxicity and cancer.

Some of these pioneers teach the use the power of the mind to help healing. Others prescribe supplements and antioxidants to help the healing process and prevent cancer recurrence. Natural therapies help along with conventional protocols (chemotherapy) to relieve patients from the debilitating side effects of nausea, depletion of nutrients and energy, hair loss, sleep loss, and depression.

We have to understand that for mainstream medicine, chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and surgery (lumpectomy) have become standard one-for-all therapies, not bothering to make chemosensitivity tests before administering the chemical concoction to the patient. Yes, such tests exist like allergy tests, but no one cares to see if the cancer is sensitive to that particular chemo.

Chemotherapy is very profitable for the drug industry, hospitals, and even doctors (oncologists), who take the oath. According to Somers’ book, “Cancer is a big business – approximately — $200 billion a year!” If you prefer to contribute with your health to this money-making machine, it is your choice. Conventional cancer treatment costs the patient hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sometimes the patient is given two courses of chemo without success. Because therapies sometimes stand impotent in front of certain cancers (pancreas, liver…), cancer cells spread even more ferociously. The patient is left helpless and depleted with barely months to live. The trauma and brutality of the treatments are sufficient to destroy the patient.

There are several paths to cancer healing and the patient should have a choice. Luckily, more and more scientists and doctors are beginning to practice alternative or integrative treatments to heal patients without destroying immune systems, while enhancing life expectancy and quality of life. With alternative treatments, orthodox drugs become more effective, producing less pain, and healing becomes possible.

Next week, I shall dig more into the subject and provide more information on alternative therapies and those who use them in the US.

Reference:

• Knockout by Suzanne Somers

N.B.:

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