ALTERNATIVE CANCER THERAPY

By Lawrence Wilson, MD

Thousands of people are still alive, years after they were given up by their doctors, thanks to alternative cancer therapies. Many of these exist. However, this article will mainly focus on prevention and basic procedures you can do to alleviate many symptoms.

I will briefly discuss three excellent natural and much less toxic therapies. The first is the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy. This is the most complete program, when one includes the use of an infrared lamp sauna. However, it is costly, about $2000.00 per month for some cases, and must be continued for at least a year and usually far longer.

Therefore, the Kelley program has this drawback. However, it is quite effective, even with advanced cases, when done properly. A second drawback for those who are busy is this program takes more time and energy. It is recommended that one have full time available for any cancer therapy program, but this one in particular due to its nature, which is slow and sure. I have seen excellent results from this therapy and was on it myself many years ago.

The second remedy is much less expensive and yet effective in a lot of cases, even some advanced cases. It is called Protocel, and also goes by the name of Cantron or Entelev or an older name, not used anymore of Cancell.

Protocel or Cantron is just a remedy, not a total program of diet, supplements, lifestyle, enemas and the rest, as is the Kelley program, so one should supplement the remedy with a total program, as described later in this article.

However, I have seen excellent case histories with this program, at least as good or better than with conventional therapy at much lower cost and many fewer side effects. One should continue taking the product, unfortunately, forever, or the cancer could come back. However, by combining it with a diet, lifestyle and detoxification program that are described in this article and in other publications, this should not be as needed.

The third remedy is an herbal ointment called Black Salve or bloodroot salve or other names for essentially the same thing. This product is widely available on the internet, as the others are, too, and extremely useful for removing pre-malignant or malignant skin cancers.

It does not do anything for benign moles, but can be easily applied to any questionable mole on the body. It is very cost effective and usually does not leave much of a scar. Usually there is just a slight discoloration, much better than many surgical scars, with less cost and less trauma.

With black salve, precancerous and cancerous moles and even tumors near the surface of the body actually drop off the body. Moles usually fall off after about one week. I don’t know how long it takes for a larger tumor.

Procedure For Removing Precancerous and Cancerous Moles: The salve burns a little and is applied only for 12 to 24 hours. Then it is taken off and a Band-aid placed over the mole with some Vaseline or oil to keep the area moist. This is changed daily and washed with hydrogen peroxide before placing a new Band-aid on it. It can be used anywhere on the body but is not good in sensitive areas such as around the eyes, where more caution is needed,

OFFICIAL STUDIES OF THESE REMEDIES

What I will say is depressing to contemplate. With all the sick people out there, these methods and remedies have not been studies by official medicine, at least not in an unbiased way. So beware, if you look these up on the internet and read the National Institute of Health of other government efforts to prove or disprove these, you will hear that they are totally unproven. This is true, but it is only their fault.

However, they work! They are not perfect, as no therapy is perfect. However, they have helped many, many thousands of innocent victims of the medical system who have chosen not to take chemotherapy, radiation or surgery and have lived to tell their story.

A Few of these stories are in a book called Outsmart Your Cancer, by Tanya Harter Pierce (2004). I highly recommend this book to anyone who is contemplating alternative cancer therapy. Another interesting new book is called The Breast Stays Put by Pamela Hoeppner (2008). These are inspiring stories, to say the least.

The fact that, after spending billions of your taxpayer dollars, these methods have not been officially tested by the government is sufficient proof to me that they could care less about your health. This is intense talk, but is the absolute truth about government research and governments in general. They prefer a sick population or this would have been thoroughly researched. It has not been researched at all, as evidenced by their own website reports on Protocel and the other methods described in Outsmart Your Cancer and numerous other excellent books on this subject.

NUTRITIONAL BALANCING AND CANCER

This website has many articles on nutritional balancing science. One might therefore conclude that I recommend it for cancer patients. This is not the case, as explained below.

However, once a person has stabilized and cleared the cancer and achieved a higher level of health, I believe the nutritional balancing approach is best. It uses many of the same therapies as the Kelley program, which are not too costly such as the coffee enema, colon cleansing and the infrared sauna therapy.

Here are the reasons why I do not recommend nutritional balancing for cancer patients:

1. It is not powerful enough, by itself. This is critical to know about it. It is is not a criticism of nutritional balancing science at all. It is simply that caner may be described as an acute condition that must be stopped immediately or the life of the person is in doubt.

Nutritional balancing is not designed to do this, so it is not such an appropriate treatment for cancer.

2. The nutritional balancing approach uses chelated minerals and other supplements that are not always best for cancer patients, who may have lost their ability to utilize these minerals. Therefore, it is not recommended for this reason as well. These minerals are fine for everyone else, in my view, but not for the very ill cancer patient. One also cannot know how ill one is, because it may not manifest with physical or mental symptoms. Thus, a second reason exists why I prefer the two therapies above for cancer.

3. Nutritional balancing is somewhat costly, about $200.00 per month. This is more than many can afford for any length of time. For this reason, Protocel and/or Cantron/Entelev may be used with some success for a short time at a lower cost, in my estimation, and this is beneficial to save a life.

THE CAUSES OF CANCER

One major fact about cancer is that it is universal. This means that it is actually a normal tissue of the body. This is disputed in medicine. However, the evidence for this is overwhelming and is explained in the next section. The idea is termed the trophoblastic theory of cancer and needs to be thoroughly understood.

It is important for our discussion because the factors that cause the growth of the trophoblast are well-understood all apply to cancer as well. Reverse the conditions and the cancer/trophoblast tissue will decrease and can go away completely. Ignore these factors and cancer will grow, despite the use of any therapy.

Cancer is a terrible scourge today, and will continue to get worse until the cause and correction are understood well.

WHAT IS CANCER?

In 1902, Dr. John Beard published a paper in The Lancet on the trophoblastic theory of cancer. It is quite simple and has never been disproven. In fact, it recently received strong confirmation by scientists at the University of Michigan. Dr. Beard showed that a normal tissue of the body, the trophoblast, exhibits characteristics identical to cancer. It is invasive, metastatic, forms new blood vessels (angiogenesis) and has the same specific markers and chemical composition as cancer cells.

The trophoblast is a special totipotent or stem cell that grows around a developing fetus during the first eight-twelve weeks of pregnancy. The word trophoblast means 'nourishing the baby'. The proper function of this tissue is to burrow into the lining of the mother's uterus and supply the fetus with blood until the placenta forms. It is essential for life!

The trophoblast normally disappears between 8 and 12 weeks of pregnancy. If it overgrows, the result is a very virulent form of cancer, choriocarcinoma. It usually kills both mother and fetus within a few weeks.

One may say, if the trophoblast only develops during pregnancy, how can it explain all the other cancers? Dr. Beard found that the cells that form the trophoblast, called totipotent or stem cells, are present all over the body in small numbers. Given the right stimulus, they begin to grow when and where they are not supposed to grow. A key to understanding cancer is to understand what makes these cells grow.

ESTROGEN, THE PRIMARY CARCINOGEN

The primary stimulus for the growth of the trophoblast is unopposed estrogen circulating in the blood, as occurs during pregnancy. Estrogen is associated with cell proliferation and is well-recognized as a potent carcinogen. This was demonstrated recently in a large study that found that women taking replacement estrogen for menopausal symptoms demonstrated a higher cancer rate.

There are actually many compounds that are called estrogens. The most toxic of these common ones is estrone. Others are estradiol and estriol. Estrone is the most harmful. When the liver becomes toxic, estrone increases and the stage is set for cancer.

One may ask, however, why so much cancer occurs in men and in post-menopausal women who do not produce much estrogen? The answer is, everyone's adrenal glands produce estrogens, in both sexes and at all ages.

Normal estrogen production by the adrenals or ovaries is not a problem. The liver converts the estrogen into a harmless or less-toxic products, which are excreted in the bile and the feces. The problem arises, however, when the liver is toxic, congested or compromised in some way. In this situation, it cannot detoxify estrogen properly.

Unfortunately, liver toxicity, congestion or other impairment to some degree is the rule rather then the exception. This may not show up on any standard blood tests or scans, as it can be a subtle disturbance of liver function that causes these imbalances. However, the causes are quite obvious to those who understand that the liver is the body’s main filter for poisons of all types. I will divide these into primary toxins and secondary causes of liver problems.

Primary liver toxins include:

* Toxins in the food supply. These include pesticide residues, toxic metals, other chemicals, such as from plastic packaging, hundreds of food additives and more.

* Other Ingested Toxins. All pharmaceuticals are synthetic chemicals that must be detoxified and excreted, primarily by the liver. Many herbs are toxic as well, though much less than most drugs. Even some vitamin products that contain sea minerals and land-based mineral deposits often contain toxic metals.

A portion of any ingested drug or chemical remains in the body, often for years. These will build up and can be an important source of liver toxicity.

Water used for drinking and bathing is another important source of toxicity. All municipal water contains toxins, either natural or added to the water such as chlorine, fluorides, aluminum, copper and more. Check with your local water company if you are unsure what is added to your water.

In addition, most water supplies are contaminated with toxic metals and at times hundreds of toxic chemicals. Recently, it has come to light that many city water supplies contain residues of pharmaceutical drugs and over-the-counter remedies. These do not break down in the body are are “recycled” by the sewer systems.

Wells are also often a problem due to contamination by many metals, especially iron and manganese in some areas of the nation.

* Thousands of organic chemicals and toxic metals in the air and absorbed through contact. This includes air pollution and skin contact with hundreds to thousands of metals and toxic materials in modern society. More specifically, it includes dental materials, especially silver amalgam fillings, and skin contact with toxins found in soaps, detergent in solvents, detergents, skin care chemicals and many other household and industrial chemicals.

* Electromagnetic Pollution. This, along with radiation toxicity, are generally ignored by most people. Electromagnetic pollution and radiation sickness can be so subtle they are hard to measure. However, many people feel ill sitting in front of computers or television screens all day. Others notice they do not feel well talking on cell phones or even portable phones for more than a few minutes.

All these devices, along with many more, give off harmful electromagnetic fields. Some can be avoided, depending on your lifestyle, location, and effort you willing to make. However, they all affect us, no doubt. We hope more will be said about them in the future as they are a major source of problems for some people.

* Radiation Exposure. Everyone today is exposed to radiation from bomb fallout and nuclear accidents (most of which are never told to the public). Other sources, often more important, include extensive use of x-rays and CAT scans in medical, chiropractic and other doctors’ offices, and radiation that finds its way into homes and other locations cue to smoke detectors and other devices that utilize radioactive materials. Certain areas are naturally radioactive and emit radon gas. Homes must be ventilated in these areas. Radioactive material is sometimes used in ammunition, sad to say, because uranium and other radioactive elements decompose to lead used to make shot and other ammunition.

Many nations are talking of building many more nuclear power plants to provide electricity. This will only make radiation toxicity worse, however. This is a terrible idea, in terms of health and healing.

We would be much better off using coal, oil and other natural sources of power. Conservation would help a lot, as well, along with new technology. There is no reason for amping up our exposure to any radioactive materials whatsoever.

In addition to these toxins, indirect causes of liver toxicity are many . Among the most important are:

* Fatigue and Adrenal Exhaustion. Stress or fatigue from any cause activates the sympathetic nervous system. You can read more about this fascinating topic in the article entitled, Healing The Nervous System.

This effect severely impairs digestion, which has effects described below that are extremely detrimental. It also reduces the detoxification ability of the liver, kidneys and other organs, leading to an impaired ability to remove all types of poisons from the body. It also directly causes some suppresses of aspects of the immune system. This includes white blood cell counts and more.

Stress also contributes to adrenal exhaustion. This may sound simple, but it is not. The adrenal glands, also called the fight-or-flight glands, are the body’s major defense against stressful events. They are responsible for the secretion of many hormones that protect our bodies from insults and injury in many ways. When the adrenals are impaired, the immune system and many other body organs and systems are not going to function adequately.

This is another indirect cause of cancer in many people. One can read much more about Adrenal Burnout by clicking on the article title here. Among many other effects, adrenal fatigue gives rise to more sluggish liver activity and therefore impairs detoxification severely. Also, the body compensates for it by accumulating certain metals including copper, iron, manganese , aluminum, cadmium and lead. These toxic metals further impair the body’s ability to cope with stress and to repair itself adequately to maintain one’s health.

* Nutrient Deficiencies. This factor is also a major contributor to the cancer problem today. Never in history has the food supply been more damaged by industrial agriculture, food processing, hybridization of food and poor dietary habits.

The effects are multiple. However, the main one is that without the minerals, in particular, in abundance, the human body cannot repair itself, protect itself, eliminate waste materials and do all the things it must do to keep going. This leads to all manner of illness, with cancer as just one of the many of them.

* A Cancer Personality. There are metabolic types who are more prone to cancer. This is well known in medicine. These individuals are described as perfectionistic, angry, resentful, and often tired. Some act very sweet to compensate for their anger, while others are obviously very upset all of the time.

This is sometimes called Sympathetic Dominance as a personality type. It is described in a separate article. Suffice it to say at this time that one’s personality and emotions can play a significant role in contracting cancer and in healing it.

In fact, it is a crucial part of our program, although there are therapies that can heal without discussing personality tendencies. However, success will be far greater and more permanent if personality and emotions are addressed in a positive manner, as we will discuss later.

* Impaired Digestion. Poor digestion causes the production of toxic substances in the intestines due to fermentation and putrefaction of food. A vicious cycle occurs in which a toxic liver does not produce enough bile and digestive enzymes.

As a result, food is poorly digested, which generates toxins that, in turn, worsen the condition of the liver. This further impairs enzyme production that, in turn, results in more toxins in the intestines. This a widely ignored factor in cancer and most other illnesses today.

Most people do not eat well to begin with, and, in addition, their bodies are unable to produce adequate digestive enzymes to break down their food. This is a deadly combination of factors that lead to intestinal toxicity, which further intoxicates the body. This theory is called auto-intoxication and was known about for years, but is out of favor with medical practitioners. It is the truth, however, and needs to be acknowledged widely if we are to conquer cancer and most other degenerative diseases.

This is the reason we give everyone a digestive aid, regardless of their ages, sex, or condition. That is how common the problem is. It is simple to overcome, however, with proper diet of mostly steamed vegetables and a few grains and some protein. However, eating refined foods, and too many foods at one meal, particularly sugars with starches, damages the intestinal flora to such a degree that the body cannot digest properly.

We therefore endorse basic food combining principles, which dictate that one eat vegetables with either starch or protein, but not both at one meal. This is the simplest food combining rule and not a bad one. More important, however, is to avoid starch and sugars at the same time. This will greatly help many people’s digestion without requiring significant food habit changes. Just eat the junk without the sugar and one is better off. Avoid it altogether, of course, is the best route for healing, especially with cancer and any serious health condition.

* Chronic or Acute Infections. This is a second much overlooked factor in the etiology of most chronic illnesses. Infections are widespread and are often ignored or not diagnosed because they are viral, do not affect standard serum tests by much, and there are no simple cures for most viral diseases.

These infections damage the body in many ways. For one, they produce what are called endotoxins and, when they die, they produce extotoxins. These chemicals are so toxic they can kill a person, even if the bacteria or virus is minor, such as in a tooth or even a skin lesion.

Yet these toxins are permitted to circulate in the bloodstream, where they can affect any organ or system of the body. Endocarditis from a simple dental cleaning is a common example of their destructiveness. However, most people have these at all times, to some degree.

Teeth are a primary source, as the mouth is hardly a sterile place. Those with poor oral hygiene are extremely susceptible. However, they are found in skin lesions, eyes, ears very commonly, sinuses almost all the time, and many other locations where drugs cannot reach them easily.

Now let us turn to treatments for cancer that are not toxic in the slightest, and in fact depend on detoxifying the body, instead of making it more toxic.

PANCREATIC ENZYMES AND CANCER

At about 12 weeks of pregnancy, the trophoblast mysteriously stops growing and the placenta takes over the function of nourishing the fetus. Dr. Beard found that enzymes produced by the fetal and maternal pancreas.stops the growth of the trophoblast.

This is the basis for the pancreatic enzyme treatment of cancer promoted widely by Dr. William Kelley, DDS and others. Large quantities of pancreatic enzymes are given by mouth which helps stop the growth of the malignant cells.

The pancreas plays another role. Pancreatic enzymes are needed for proper digestion. A weakened, toxic or depleted pancreas contributes to a toxic liver by failing to provide adequate enzymes for complete food digestion.

This belongs to the causes, but is included here because it relates to the pancreas, a vital organ in cancer treatment, along with the liver. Many people do not produce enough pancreatic enzymes or they overeat, exceeding their enzymatic capacity.

Normally, excess pancreatic enzymes are secreted so that any cancer that gets started will be destroyed. However, if the diet is so deficient in nutrients that the pancreas will not make all the enzymes needed for digestion of any tumors that arise, they will continue to grow unopposed by the action of the pancreatic enzymes. This is a major factor in the cancer problem, and one easily solved by supplementing with pancreas extract, usually porcine, unfortunately, but this is the most effective type of pancreas extract available.

Causes for deficient pancreatic activity are similar to the causes of liver toxicity. They include poor-quality diets, poor eating habits, nutrient deficiencies and toxic exposures, particularly to iron, which damages the enzymatic and insulin-related activities of the pancreas.

CORRECTING CANCER

Nourishment. From the above perspective, we can see easily how to reverse the cancer process, as we might call it. One must nourish the body much better, including the use of supplemental items to save time.

Rest. Also, the body needs much rest. Most patients are very tired, although they may be so stimulated by their toxic bodies they are not aware of their fatigue in many instances. However, they need to rest anyway, even if the rest seems unproductive.

Detoxification. This is the third item that always needs attention, as it should be with any illness of any kind, even emotional diseases. The idea is to rid the body of the toxins that are causing damage, and do it as fast and as completely as is humanly possible. This is, by far, the most difficult part of the job, as the organs of detoxification themselves are often severely impaired by the time the patient reaches the doctor’s office. Therefore, remedies are often required that slow the cancer process directly, although this is or should never be a substitute for thorough detoxification.

Other Measures. All other measures should support these first three. This is the key to success. Support the nourishment function, the elimination function and the rest function and many people will survive well into their later years without a recurrence. However, when remedies are the primary modalities used, then success is not at all assured.

Now let us discuss particulars. The first is nutrition, followed by rest and then detoxification procedures. After we discuss these simple, but critical ideas, we will proceed to more specific therapy for tumors.

THE FIRST BASIC STEP, THE DIET

There is no substitute for fresh, chemical-free or organically grown food . That is the basic principle, once again. This will contain thousands of plant and animal chemicals our bodies need on a daily basis.

Vegetables. The best foods are vegetables, lightly steamed. Foods with powerful anti-cancer and protective effects include broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, asparagus, parsley, cilantro and garlic to some degree in moderation. Others include rutabaga, a very wonderful root. Turnip is excellent, as is carrot and onion as well.

Protein. Avoid all meats for a while, especially red meats. The chicken and turkey may be eaten a little, once per week, perhaps. Eggs may be eaten soft boiled, poached or soft scrambled only.

We do not recommend much protein for cancer patients for at least six months. One may have some beans such as lentils and others. If eaten with rice, for example, the protein is complete. Other proteins that are excellent include almond butter, preferably raw, though toasted is okay. Some protein powders such as whey protein powder or egg may be eaten in very small quantity.

Fruit. Fruit was once another healthful category of food, but is no longer. Articles on this website explain why in full detail. However, for a while, fruit may be eaten in small quantity, not more than 1 piece per day of a juicy fruit. Try to avoid very sweet fruits, even bananas, as they can cause blood sugar problems. Most fruit is horribly hybridized today, and horribly sprayed unless labeled organic, though this is not some guarantee. If you feel ill on a food, stop eating it as it may be sprayed without your knowledge or consent.

Grains or Cereals. Rice, preferably brown rice or Basmati white rice, is good, though not great. They are too starchy for many people who are ill to digest well. Therefore, they should be eaten in small quantities with not too many combinations to make them easier to handle.

Blue organic corn chips and even yellow organic corn ships and blue or yellow corn tortillas may be eaten. These are, in fact, excellent foods for Americans, in particular, including those of Canada and Mexico. Other grains are to be avoided. A small amount of quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, flax and others may be eaten once in a while. However, all are difficult to digest by someone who is very ill. Vegetables should remain the mainstay of the diet and may be eaten all alone at a meal, with preferably just one or two at a meal. Rotate all foods to avoid developing sensitivity to them.

Foods To Avoid. Potato is not good, nor are beets, unless it is the golden beet. The red beet has a substance that is somewhat toxic in it and so the golden ones are better, though the red beet is a nourishing food as well.

Equally important are to avoid all spoiled and refined foods, including white flour products in general, sugar in general, white breads in particular because of their iron content and much more.

Also, avoid wheat for the best digestion, as it is no longer a healthful product for most people. Most dairy is also not that healthful, thanks to antibiotic use in animals, hormone supplements, hybridization of cows and more atrocities against this product category.

It is best to avoid all soy products, as most are extremely hybridized today. Even tofu and tempeh, which are excellent traditional soy foods, may not be that healthful today. It is safer to avoid them all, until health improves. Then a little soy is acceptable. However, isolated soy protein or textured vegetable protein (TVP on some labels) is a junk food. It is leftover when soy oil is extracted with chemicals from soy beans. Please avoid all such items that contain it, though it can be better than some other junk items such as sugars of all kings.

Sweet Foods. Sugars of all varieties are harmful for everyone. They should not be in the diet at all, in our estimation. They enter the blood stream rapidly and upset blood sugar. This applies to honey, maple syrups and even delicacies like agave nectar and fruit concentrates, including dried fruits. They are simply too sweet for most people. This also includes sweet fruits such as dates and to some degree dried figs, though they are less sweet than dates.

The worst are the refined sugars, with fructose in particular a horrible food item that is so widespread in soda pop, junk food, candies, cookies and so much more. Even vitamins and many over-the-counter drugs contain it. It not only upsets blood sugar, but upsets metabolism the worst of the sugars. The others, dextrose, glucose, mannose and others are somewhat better, though still harmful for anyone who wishes to avoid or be healed from cancer.

Even worse are most artificial sweeteners, as they confuse the body to think it is eating something sweet when it is not true. Please avoid these as well. Use a little honey or maple syrup or other natural sweetener if absolutely necessary. However, with some practice, one can learn to be very happy without sweeteners in the diet.

REST, THE SECOND KEY FOR SUCCESS

One cancer patient who called me had been through 11 surgeries for breast cancer over a period of years. I was amazed that no one addressed the fact that she only sleeps five hours a night. It is difficult to get well on that much sleep. None of her many allopathic or naturopathic doctors had addressed this basic cause of illness.

Anyone with a diagnosis of cancer needs at least 12 hours of rest per day. Read this again, as it is very important. One may take some of this as a nap or two in the morning and afternoon. However, the total should be about 12 hours of rest time each and every day.

Resting this much just on weekends or when the mood strikes will not be the same. The body needs this much time to rebuild, repair and regenerate itself. There is no substitute for this, just as there is no substitute for the proper diet or for detoxification.

Rest is not only for the body, however. It is for the mind just as much. Many, if not most cancer patients are so mentally exhausted that unless they close their eyes for this much time, the mental exertion of their lives wears them down quickly, in many cases. Thus, rest is a key component of our healing program for cancer, as well as for most chronic illnesses we can think about.

Rest is not only for the body and mind, but for the spirit as well. This may sound odd, but it is not. The human body and mind are dependent upon rest because during sleep, in particular, but also during deep rest periods, the spirit or soul can leave the body and return home to its native environment. This is sometimes called soul travel when, in fact, being awake in this physical world is the real travel and the soul longs to be back in its real environment in other dimensions of reality. So rest is critical for this purpose as well.

DETOXIFICATION THERAPIES, THE THIRD KEY TO SUCCESS

Doctors and even natural practitioners often overlook this aspect of cancer therapy, in our experience. It cannot be emphasized too much that all cancer suffers are quite toxic. They may look radiant. However, it does not matter. The problem is they cannot often eliminate toxins well, as the process is complex.

Toxins that are stored deep within body cells, organs and systems must first be removed from the tissues and placed in the bloodstream. This is not so easy, because some of the toxins are quite dangerous to the body. So the body must have the proper transport mechanisms operable to chelate the toxic metals, for instance. For other toxins, such as free oxygen atoms called free radicals, the body must have the buffering ability to prevent them from damaging other tissues as they are being eliminated.

For some toxins, such as bacteria and viruses, the body must protect the tissues from further infection as best it can. The list goes on in this fashion. The point is that if one believes that toxin elimination is just a matter of flushing things from the body, this is far from the truth. It is extremely complex, in fact. And it is not easy for a sick body at all. In fact, it is not easy for a healthy one, either, for which reason we recommend some fairly drastic methods to assist the process. Let us discuss these in some detail. The first and best is the coffee enema.

Coffee Enemas. These were first recommended by Dr. Max Gerson, MD, a holistic physician from Germany, who said he learned about them around 1900 from his cleaning lady, as they were a folk remedy that he somehow tried on a few patients with excellent success. We say somehow because getting patients to do these procedures is not always easy. He worked originally with tubercular patients who had little other hopes for healing and he was able to improve most of them using little more than coffee enemas, carrot and other juices (there were few vitamin pills available) and loads of rest.

The coffee enema procedure has changed not at all from the days when Max Gerson, MD used them. While he died in 1958 an old man, they have survived him and continue to help cancer patients and many others worldwide. The procedure is available on this website by clicking here.

However, this is only the beginning of the procedure. The ramifications of this procedure are quite varied, beyond the physical, as with rest and diet. We emphasize this point because it is too easy to overlook the mental, emotional and even spiritual aspects of these procedures and keys to success and substitute a more “convenient” or easier method, thinking it is just as good when it is not nearly as good.

So, for example, it is obvious that one could simply take a vitamin or herb and detoxify the liver in this manner. However, it will not do the same thing. We emphasize this over and over. Substituting will not work as well. In fact, there is no substitute for this simple folk remedy that costs practically nothing and is done in the privacy of the home at least once daily for several years. One may do it more often, but this is usually not needed, especially if the next procedure is employed along with the enemas.

Near Infrared Sauna therapy. If I were to single out one method to combat cancer-causing environmental causes, it is the use of a near infrared lamp sauna. You can read more about this type of sauna by clicking on the Sauna Therapy article.

The regular, daily or twice daily use of a near infrared sauna is extremely effective for reducing the level of many toxins in the body. It also has many other benefits described here, and in more detail in our book, Sauna Therapy. Among its many benefits are reducing the levels of all the toxic metals, many toxic chemicals and even reducing the load of ionizing radiation all must cope with today. It does this by actually destroying mutated cells that are heat-sensitive, an ancient form of cancer therapy called thermotherapy or heat therapy. Raising the body temperature a few degrees not only stimulates the immune system, as occurs naturally with fever. However, it also damages or even kills weaker cells. This may seem destructive, but these are the cells that are filled with chemical or biological toxins or radiation that the body cannot get rid of as easily without the heat.

In this sense, saunas have genetic effects that improve the overall quality of the body's DNA. Genetics researchers who are seeking to explain cancer as a genetic defect often overlook the facts that nutrients activate genes while many types of toxins block gene expression.

Infrared sauna therapy is also the most powerful method I have found for uncovering and promoting the healing of deeply buried chronic infections. One must use the sauna for 30-60 minutes once or twice a day. Cancer patients may require it three times a day for a while. The best times to use it are first thing upon waking up in the morning and last thing before bed at night. These are the times when we are most relaxed, so that the most toxins will be removed. It may be used at any time, however, with great benefit.

Any sauna will be helpful for a cancer patient. However, patient feedback and other research indicates the near infrared lamp sauna is best for cancer patients. The secret of the light sauna, compared to the standard “hot rocks” sauna or even the far infrared type is its employment of a combination of mechanisms simultaneously. These include but are not limited to:

1. Heating The Body Has Many Benefits. Hyperthermia is a well-known and underused method of killing cancer cells. Cancer cells are weaker than normal cells and more susceptible to damage from heat.

Heat therapy is not new. Coley's toxins was and is a very simple and at times useful cancer therapy developed over 100 years ago by an oncologist who worked at the sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City. It is based on inducing a fever by injecting pyrogenic (fever-causing) bacteria into the body. Its effectiveness is somewhat less today because the causes of cancer have changed somewhat in 100 years. Today, the food and chemical toxins we are exposed to demand that we also detoxify the body, not just induce fevers for healing it of cancer.

Researchers at UCLA are experimenting by using malaria toxin to induce fevers in cancer patients in another use of this concept. Others in Germany and elsewhere use warm baths, electric blankets and other methods to induce a fever.

Saunas are a safe, gentle and the easiest of these to control. We are concerned about safety anytime a fever is used for healing, as fevers can be quite dangerous, as anyone knows who is familiar with them.

Infrared saunas of any kind are more efficient at heating because they penetrate the skin and heat the tissues directly up to about one to three inches beneath the surface. Infrared electric light saunas heat the tissues the deepest, and this is their primary benefit over the other types of saunas.

Our recommended design also places all the heating power on one side of the body, intensifying the effect even more. Rotating the body is necessary in this situation, however, and this is an inconvenience for some people. In these cases, the lamps can be spread around the sauna, though this presents a few design issues that must be resolved safely.

Our book, Sauna Therapy, addresses these concerns for cancer patients who are too debilitated to sit in a sauna for any length of time. As mentioned earlier, 30-60 minutes is needed at about 120 degrees F. for a typical sauna session. However, less time is best when one begins until one is sweating adequately so that the body does not have a chance of overheating.

2. Heating Can Normalize Body Temperature. This is an unusual feature of heating most people’s body that have cancer growing in them. Heating a degree or two often normalizes the body temperature. This may not seem important, but it is quite vital for healing in some cases.

Low body temperature is associated with low thyroid and low adrenal activity. It is often the case with what we call slow metabolizers, for this reason. As these glands begin to weaken and fail, the temperature drops. As a result, normal enzymatic activity involving thousands upon thousands of chemical reactions in the body become stalled or inhibited to some degree. While one or another system may be okay, the overall effect is a reduction in enzyme efficiency in the body. This can and does have serious consequences.

Many people report feeling so much more relaxed during or after a sauna session. One important reason for this is that the sauna allows the body temperature to become normal, greatly assisting enzymatic activity. This can be another key to healing of cancer in the body.

3. Heating The body In A Sauna Inhibits Powerfullly The Sympathetic Nervous System. Saunas are excellentto shut down the sympathetic nervous system. At least two mechanisms cause this.

According to Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology, heating the body causes the cessation of normal heat production, a sympathetic nervous system activity. Saunas also draw blood from the center to the periphery of the body. This also requires less sympathetic nervous system activity. In fact, other mechanisms work with this at the same time, but these are the main ones.

4. Sauna Therapy Dramatically Enhances Circulation. Cancer often grows in tissues with poor circulation. This includes places such as the breasts in women, the lungs in men and women and the prostate and testicles in men. For this reason, these tissues may receive less nutrition and oxygenation, predisposing them to a cancer situation.

Saunas are excellent to enhance overall circulation to bring needed nutrients, hormones, oxygen and other substances to all body tissues. Also, excellent circulation is essential to help remove toxins from all the body tissues and to drain toxins from the internal organs, with which the sauna also assists.

5. Sauna Therapy, Especially With The Near Infrared Type, Decongests The Internal Organs. Excellent health depends on the activity of the liver, kidneys and other internal organs. Sympathetic nervous system activity drives blood toward the interior of the body and can cause congestion of these organs, which impairs their functioning.

The sauna has an opposite effect, causing blood to move toward the surface . This decongests the internal organs and can enhance their level of enzymatic activity greatly.