Decide to Live Second Edition Softcover

Decide To

Live

Rod Czlonka

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Decide To Live

Copyright 2010 by Rod Czlonka

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INTRODUCTION IV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII DECIDE 1 CONVENTIONAL THERAPY 17 CAUSAL 40 NEMESIS 85 MANUAL 160 MATTER 173 DISINFORMATION 212 MIND OVER MATTER 236 MY ANTI-CANCER REGIME 247 GLOSSARY 248

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Introduction

My name is Rod Czlonka and I am actually very

grateful to be here, talking to you through this

text. I feel this way because about 7 years ago I

was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and was

told that I would die and that there was no hope.

Perhaps you have come to these words for the

same reason; someone told you that you were go-

ing to die. Someone told you that there was no

hope…

Now, I have no special insights into who gets to

live and who dies, but you do. That may come as a

surprise, but there is no doctor on the planet who

can heal your body, only you can. So in this regard,

you are the master of your fate, and the designer

of your life. And the only way to commandeer this

power is through a simple act of decision. A deci-

sion to live is worth a thousand medicines. A belief

that you can survive despite what you have been

told is, as the commercial says, “priceless.”

I truly do not believe in disclaimers but the law

says otherwise, so before reading another word

you should know that I am not a doctor. I am an

unremarkable, run-of-the-mill father, husband,

neighbor just like many of you, with no exceptional

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accolades next to my name. However, I consider

this a tremendous asset because the message I

am going to share with you is not encumbered by

red tape or politics. My only agenda is to help you;

period. In the pages that follow I will give you all

the information necessary to treat and survive

your cancer. But cancer is not A+B=C. Cancer is

the result of a multitude of causes and hence re-

quires a multitude of solutions, all being carried

out simultaneously. This is how the medical pro-

fession takes advantage of people. They tell them

that all they have to do is take this Chemo, and

undergo a little Radiation and they will be cured.

This is a blatant lie. Today in America, Cancer is

the #1 killer, surpassing even heart disease. Obvi-

ously, if doctors could really treat it effectively,

this would not be the case. Without changing the

conditions of your life; the same conditions that

caused your illness to start with, no long term so-

lution can be found. This is little more than com-

mon sense.

With that said, please understand that it’s

really not all that hard to treat your cancer. But

you will need a lifestyle change and I understand

that change is hard. I’m sorry, but I won’t lie to

you. However, I won’t tell you that you are going

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die either. The good news is that changing your

lifestyle effects much more than the cancer you

are battling; it impacts the entirety of your exis-

tence. It does cure your cancer but it also pre-

vents your heart disease. It stops toxic metals

from invading your brain and causing your body to

suffer the ravages of Alzheimer’s and MS. It pro-

vides a clear understanding of how our bodies

work so that we can work with, rather than

against it. It is knowledge that can save your life

and save your child’s life, your mother’s life, your

spouse’s life. It is the opportunity to grow from

your experience and to help others in the process.

As with all roadblocks in life, you must “decide”

on how to proceed. Remember though that the

“quick” answer is rarely the “right” answer. Tough

problems usually call for tough solutions. Be tough,

and know that developing cancer is not your fault.

All of us live our lives in a certain fashion, and

more often than not, we never change what we are

doing unless there is good reason to do so. Under

these conditions, disease can become a vehicle of

change, and a conduit for personal evolution.

Health and prosperity to you my friend.

Rod Czlonka

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As always I would like to thank my family for put-

ting up with my unbelievably time-consuming voca-

tion. Writers are just a pain in the butt to live

with, so thank you to my wife Debbie and my four

children; Matt, Brittany, Tim and Lauren for living

without a father while these thoughts were put to

text.

In the words of Michael Crichton “books are not written, they are re-written.” There is really no getting around it, and because of this unfortu-

nate fact, I would like to thank my savior John

Dillion for doing my editing and giving insightful

input and accurate suggestions. His guidance

makes me look much more proficient than I really

am.

I would also like to thank Dennis Mamelson for

his support with the rewrite of this text; Dennis

poured through my words with a fine tooth comb

and the material is much better for his efforts.

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I consider myself truly fortunate to be a person who is tasked with helping others. My help usually comes in the form of advice or the sharing of trivial bits of research. But, as the saying goes, “big doors swing on little hinges.” When the subject is cancer and the question is “what do I do now” these are big doors. In each and every instance when I speak to someone, share my thoughts on email or in books (such as the one you are reading) my first advice is simply decide to live.

Such advice may sound naively simplistic, and for that reason and no other people sometimes dismiss the informa-tion out of hand. But I will say it again; I will yell it from the roof tops and preach it to whoever might listen. . . . Decide to live. There is no other force you may wield which has so much power; that can change your life so profoundly, and speed your personal development, as a committed decision.

There are many reasons why this is so, not the least of which is the inner workings of the universe. If you are sick right now or someone you love is sick, then get ready, you are about to embark on a journey. Where you end up is your choice, your decision.

For those of you not familiar with my story I was diag-nosed with a malignant brain tumor in the summer of 2003. Not all that long ago, but so much has changed since that time. I passed out on the job and the next thing I knew I was being wheeled down a hospital corridor. I looked up at the EMT who was steering and asked him where I was; he told that I was in the hospital, but nothing seemed to sink in. I was swimming through a very murky haze. I recall my first thought was that I must have done something wrong, like breaking the law. I don’t know why that thought floated to the top of my mind, but it did. After about 10 or 15 minutes my brain began to clear.

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Doctors buzzed around me, floating in and out of the room like June bugs around a bright light. “What hap-pened?” I asked, just like a hundred people before me had probably asked in the same space that I was now occupying.

“You blacked out and had a seizure” I felt like the fog must have returned to my brain because this answer made no sense.

“A seizure, why would I have a seizure?” “We don’t know, were going to have to run some tests.”

And then he was gone; leaving me there to contemplate whatever my hazy mind was capable of assembling.

Prior to leaving they insisted that I take a CAT Scan. A CAT scan is used to render a 3 dimensional image of an object by taking a series of x-rays. These are often employed when examining the brain. One of the staff doctors gave it a cursory examination and then signed off on it.

“We don’t know why you had a seizure, but you should probably go see a neurologist, just to be safe.” A week later I made an appointment with a veteran neurologist who spotted a white mass on the CAT scan immediately. He pointed to it and told me that this was my problem. I stared at the film like a 5 year old trying to understand advanced physics.

“Okay, what am I looking at?” I said. “I can’t be sure, but it looks like a tumor.” He replied. I sat

back in the chair for a second and then slowly leaned forward again.

“A tumor, a brain tumor?” I mumbled bewildered. The man sat back down and said “I’m afraid so, I could be

wrong but I don’t think so. “ I wish I could share all the crazy thoughts which filled my

head at that moment, but to be honest the purest memory I had was that it just couldn’t be real. It just did not seem like it was possible that I could, have such a thing. And the thought that I could die; well, forget it. Now I would like to believe that this was a type of precognition of what was going to fol-

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low, but honestly it was most likely just arrogance. I was in a phase of my life when I thought that I was invincible and nei-ther this nor anything else was going to slow me down. I had lots of important things to do, don’t you know. After all I was Rod Czlonka.

The thought that my intelligence alone would not carry me through this never occurred to me. First, I would need to find a neurosurgeon and then get this thing taken out, that’s all. I had heard that this was fairly common, so I should be able to pull it off, no problem. My wife and I jumped onto the inter-net and started putting a list together of people who could do the operation. We called our insurance and they had doctors they could recommend, I even found one who worked out of the hospital near my house. This was not going to be so bad.

I was still working while all this was going on, so I had to schedule appointments to interview surgeons around my work week. It was at this point that my confidence began to wane. With each doctor I spoke with, I kept getting more and more feedback that was less than promising. Less than prom-ising? Not only was it bereft of any real positive promise, it was always frustratingly different. Some doctors said the growth was likely benign (non-cancerous), some declared it malignant, and some weren’t sure it was a tumor at all. Maybe, they ventured, it’s a blood clot or something? One doctor promised to make a small 1 x 1 incision, just big enough to extract the tumor. This seemed logical to me at the time, but there were two alarming thoughts that were slowly dawning in my brain. The first was that I might actually die from the procedure. Okay easy enough. However, the second thought was by far the scarier of the two. Even if I survived, I might have severe deficits for the remainder of my stay on this planet. This scenario worried me a great deal. To be hon-est, it scared the shit out of me. I tried to bury both of these thoughts and kept looking for another doctor.


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People I met personally and in business were very forth-right with their own information. For some reason still un-known to me, people like to brag about their doctors, like they are one of their kids or something. “My guy is the best” they proclaim as if they had paid his or her way through medical school. They smile when they tell you, maybe just because it makes them feel like they knew something that you did not. I don’t know, but most of this advice turned out to be useless. However, one name did come up over and over again. At my wife’s urging we made an appointment to see him.

The man’s name was Lenard Cerullo and he was a legend in the medical community; at least in Chicago. Dr. Cerullo was articulate, smart and pleasure to talk with all around. I was immediately put at ease and my wife felt the same. He reviewed at my CAT scan slides and the additional MRI films which had been taken of my head, just prior to our appoint-ment. MRI an acronym for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and is touted as a non invasive form of testing. It uses high mag-netic fields to again construct a three dimensional image of the area to be scanned, much like a CAT scan. This is usually enhanced with a radioactive dye in a process called infusion, to highlight the area and give the resulting image more con-trast and definition.

My neurosurgeon (see I’m doing it too) held the scan up to the light and gave each of the slides a quick, but absorbing look. “It’s a tumor, probably benign but it’s hard to say. We’d really need to examine it before I could tell you, but you need to have it taken out. We do these all the time; you’ll be back on your feet in a few weeks.”

I sat there quietly contemplating his words. It was the first good news I had heard in two weeks. I looked over at my wife to see if she had heard the same thing that I did. Her face told me that she had. I knew what he told me was probably true. The clinic he worked out of did nothing but surgery on the brain and spinal column; if there were any experts to be

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found, this guy was it. Besides everyone in the city had heard of him so he must know what he is talking about.

We both left his office, inspired if nothing else. The next hurdle to overcome was insurance. If you haven’t had your brain operated on in a while the going rate, at that time was about $60,000. We found that this doctor was covered on my insurance but not that clinic. The clinic is a huge portion of the bill and so my initial thought was that I could not use this doctor. So I spoke to another doctor very close to my home who also seemed to be very competent. He was of the opinion to make the incision as small as possible, minimizing the scarred area. This would have been a kind, considerate and as you will see, completely inappropriate way to perform the procedure. He was a good doctor who simply did not take rudimentary cosmetics into consideration.

I thank my wife for sticking to her guns about what was best. She firmly believed that Dr. Cerullo was the right choice no matter what it cost, and that we had to get him. As it turned out the company I worked for was a major customer for this insurance organization. After several conference calls between my company, the insurance carrier and the clinic it-self, an agreement was reached. The bottom line of which was that I would not need to take any additional funds out of my own pocket. Looking back now the idea of worrying about the cost seems moronic; most brain tumor patients die anyway, so I’m not sure what I was thinking? You can see that the reality of my situation had not fully buried itself in my brain yet. But it would…

After the dust cleared, a little more than a week remained until my surgery. Foolishly, I did not acknowledge this. I kept my attention on my life at hand, the life I knew. I guess that is because all of us feel safe there. There are no monsters at the door. The grim reaper doesn’t know that address. I obviously survived the event, but in retrospect I should have taken that time and completely immersed myself in my family and


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friends. Unfortunately, I did not. My arrogance did not allow me to do it. In retrospect, I am thankful every day that I did have the chance to atone for this. I did have the chance to spend days on end with my children. I did have the chance to volunteer my time to help others. I did have the opportunity to become a better husband. I was granted precious time to evolve.

It is said that a watched pot never boils, and it must be true because I was trying to ignore the pot, and was it boiling. I had planned to take the day off before my surgery to pre-pare for the event; and make ready for my questionable fu-ture. One of the hardest things I have ever done was to ad-dress the people at my work before leaving for that surgery. Not only did I not have clue what about what to say, I was ashamed of myself for who I was saying it to. Just a few weeks ago, I was engaged in many of the small, petty, office resentments that occur in the workplace. But now as I looked out over all those concerned faces, I could not recall a single reason why I had ever felt that way in the first place. In retro-spect it all seemed very immature and adolescent.

I tilted my head and left the conference room; for some reason I did not want to make eye contact with any of them. My entire life, I had been a casual observer of death and mis-fortune, but now, now I was the poster child for it. I hated the look of pity in people’s eyes; I understand how lepers must feel. It is at that point where you feel that you’ve lost a slice of your humanity. You cease being a person and start being a condition, a cautionary tale, something said in hushed tones.

I walked back to my office and started to pack my imme-diate belongings for whatever duration I would be away. The idea that this might be a waste of time was not lost on me. However, I knew even back then, expectation was a big part of the creative process, and it was my intention to return to work. It was my intention to survive.

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The ride home from work that day was nothing excep-tional; I remember listening to motivational tapes and trying to pretend it was just another daily commute. “See, I’m just like all of you, nothing wrong with my brain. I’m not going to have my melon cracked open in two days, no sir, I’m just like all of you.” It’s funny, I was irritated by the traffic just about every day of my life, but at that moment I was happy to be one of the huddled masses stuck in my four-wheeled sar-cophagus, just an average guy, nothing wrong here.

I recall getting home and thinking, I’ve got to spend the night with the kids, like it was a check point on a to-do list, a harried chore which I had not yet done. As if I was going to say, “all right kids, I have been totally self-absorbed over the past 4 years but let’s make up for all of that tonight.”

But children are little people, and people do not respond in this way. If you have been too busy for your kids for years on end, the chance that they will drop everything to jump in your arms and hug you are slim. It wasn’t that I was a bad fa-ther to them, because I wasn’t. It wasn’t that I was a mean person because I did not fit that description either. I was just busy. Busy intellectually. I loved my children. I would have died to protect them, but they were not constantly on my mind as they should have been. They were not the mental priority that they easily could have been. I believe that what-ever you focus on expands; but what about the things you ex-pend no mental concentration on, what happens to them?

My wife and I tried to make ready for what was to follow; we talked, we walked and made love. In short, the simple pleasures couples engage in when they first get together, the basic enjoyments we silently let slip to the wayside. We did them. The thought that this was good, really good, was rolling around in the back of my mind. I contemplated it all in amazement, like an atheist who got his first glimpse of God. Why hadn’t we always done these things?


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The morning of the surgery was on me before I could deal with it. I remember thinking “this could be it” what do I say? How do I leave the house; how do I leave the children? As I was throwing my shaver into one of the bags I remembered turning to my wife and saying “tell the kids I met this thing standing.” Which was pure bravado; by now I was scared shitless.

The ride to the clinic took 40 minutes in early morning traffic, but I can barely remember it. I know my wife was try-ing hard to be optimistic and upbeat. But to me it was like giving a pep talk to a horse you were taking to the glue fac-tory. What was the point?

The clinic had valet parking and I thought “hey this is great, we don’t need to look for a place to park?” What an id-iot; but your mind keeps trying to take you back to normality, back to safety. After checking in I calmly changed into the stylish surgery apparel left in the room and then I waited. I looked at my wife, she looked back at me. I had no idea what to say so I sat there silently contemplating what might be the remainder of my existence. A thought occurred to me then, and has returned many times since that day, what if I was the one who did this? What if I had somehow created this growth in my brain? I wasn’t talking about physical creation, every-one who succumbed to a brain tumor had some physical in-volvement. No, I was talking metaphysically. Was this possi-ble? I thought it was, something told me it was, but why? How? Why would I do this to myself? I didn’t have clue, slowly I calmed myself down; now wasn’t the time to wrap my mind around this problem. That would keep for later…

I was being loaded on the gurney and wheeled to wher-ever. My wife rode up with us in the elevator but had to go back down when we got to the fifth floor. Up until that point my wife was being a trooper and keeping her chin up, but she lost it there. I lost it there. She was crying and she looked to me like she might fall over. She kept saying “I love you, I love

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you” over and over until the elevator doors silenced her. I stared back at the silver metallic entrance wanting to be there with her; wanting to be anywhere but here. But the gurney remained on its smooth, silent course to what would be my future. I laid there watching the progression of fluorescent lights overhead. However, miraculously, a thought occurred to me as they wheeled me down that hallway. An old lesson from Napoleon Hill popped into my mind; life never takes anything away from you without leaving something of equal or greater benefit. Yeah right…

My memories of what happened after that are wholly un-remarkable. They wheeled my gurney to the center of the room, put two IV lines into me and then I was gone. Surpris-ingly my waking memories were much more vivid. I laid in the recovery room and remembered being very, very cold. I tried to look down at my chest without moving my head, and they had a blanket over me but I was cold all the same. I recall lying there for quite a while, floating on my drug induced haze, but somehow still aware.

I have recollections of two orderlies wheeling me out of there. I told them how cold I was and they said that they were taking me to my room, and that there were extra blankets there. This seemed to satisfy me and I cooperated by allowing them to complete the journey in silence.

Unbeknownst to me, my wife was standing vigil in the waiting room with no news of my surgery. What I found out later was that she along with her girlfriend and my mother had waited for 8 excruciating hours for word on my outcome. 8 hours, can you imagine? Finally her girlfriend had the wherewithal to burst into the nurse’s station and tell them that they knew I was out of surgery and that they wanted an update on my condition, immediately! The nurses allowed both of them to enter my room. I was awake already and I made eye contact as they came in.


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I am by nature a practical joker; always have been, always will be, I guess. My wife and her girlfriend entered the room very slowly, perhaps not sure what they might be seeing. My brain must have been working a little bit because I looked right past my wife’s smiling face to her girlfriend and then reached out to her and said “Angie.” My wife’s facial features immediately changed and she said “Rod, it’s me Rod.” To which I kept staring at her girlfriend and saying “Angie.” This went on for about 20 seconds and then I couldn’t keep it up anymore. I looked at my wife and smiled and then she got it. It was yet another of Rod Czlonka’s practical, albeit highly inappropriate jokes.

A portion of the way my mind worked then and probably even today, is to negate a problem through laughter. So when my father, Ron Czlonka walked in the room 5 minutes later, he got the same treatment, only this time I called him Joe. He kept telling me “Rod its dad.” True to form I just looked at him and said “Joe” over and over.

If you are saying to yourself “what a jerk” I couldn’t agree more. But each of us handles life’s dramas in their own fash-ion; and this was how I handled mine. I wanted people to know that the person they all remembered was still there, still alive. I guess it is part of my ego which wants to jump back up after I have fallen down. That same part of our ego which makes us scramble to our feet after falling on the ice. We do these things not because they make sense or help us feel bet-ter, but rather because we do not want others to see our weakness and pain. Most of all we do not want to see the re-flection of pity in their eyes.

Shortly after my oh-so-witty series of jokes, the surgeons filed into my room. They announced that the prognosis was good and that they had gotten the entire tumor. Furthermore, the cancer was of a low grade, which sounded good at the time. We all felt a sense of relief wash over us. The surgery went well, the cancer was low-grade and I seemed to be my-

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self. This was the best of all possible scenarios and I was in-deed a lucky fellow. The need for normality flooded back over me. I imagined myself going back to work and putting my life back together; blending back into the mix. That’s what I craved, to just fit in again. I didn’t want to be the guy people pointed at and spoke about in hushed tones anymore. I just wanted to be me again. This turned out to be an illusion; one I would foolishly chase after for months and even years.

By nature, I am not a sitter, and pursuing a career as a couch potato has never been on my itinerary. So the pain of lying around in a hospital bed was almost as excruciating as the surgery itself. The first day was over, but the night was another story altogether. They were giving me a cocktail of pain killers, one of which was morphine. If you have ever ex-perienced a surgery and were given morphine for pain then you already know that one of the delicious side effects is nau-sea. I was told by my doctor earlier that no matter what hap-pened, I should not throw up because it might pull-out my sutures.

Now I don’t know if you have ever had occasion to try to stop yourself from throwing up, but denying this basic urge was hard. It took all my will power to control the impulse as I felt violently ill. But I laid there willing myself for the next 5 hours not to vomit. This was to be the first of many wars of will which I would play with myself over the coming months.

The next morning brought with it a settled, but hungry stomach and a clear head. I was given ice and then soon graduated to Jell-O. By the second day I felt I was ready to leave, and I whined until they were sick of me and sent me packing. It was noon by the time I was on my way home and I can recall it being a very bright, pleasant day. I remember thinking how can it be so nice out here after what I have been through? You don’t really ask yourself these questions in a literal fashion, it is just you feeling sorry for you.


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For those of you who’ve never had a brain tumor, this may sound strange but when I came home, my house looked wrong to me. There were things that needed to be done that I had put off for years. Now, even after the surgery, I looked at my home and felt guilty, at a time when I did not need to feel guilty. Nevertheless, I did. They say a brain tumor changes you. I know it changed me. Most notably, the things that should have been important somehow were not. And when I say things, I am not just talking about the honey-do list of household chores. I am talking about the people who made up that house as well. There were so many little details that as a parent I should have been aware of, which prior to this had somehow eluded me. But as I looked at the fragments which was my life the fog was beginning to lift, right in front of my eyes.

I came through the back door and sat at my kitchen table like I had a thousand times before but it was unlike any of my past experiences. Everything looked off to me, but at this point my head looked like a baseball and I was lucky to be alive, so I just sat there and quietly noted what I saw.

My wife made me a bowl of soup and we talked. We spoke casually, the mood somewhat somber but mostly up-beat. Ironically it was at this time that my wife took a picture of me eating my soup at the kitchen table. This picture became the cover of my first book on cancer entitled A State of Being.

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Picture 1.1 Home from the hospital – August 23 2003 As I sat there I couldn’t imagine why my wife or anyone

would want to take such a picture. Today I am indebted to her for her foresight. It is my sincere hope that this picture embodies the ideal that no matter what your situation, no matter how dire the circumstance, there is always a way to turn your life around.

The next 10 days were a true exhibition of my stupidity and egotism in action. As I said earlier; I am not a sitter. With the exception of when I am locked to this keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, I do not sit. So it probably came as no true surprise to anyone that three days after my surgery, I went to the flea market with my brother-in-law during the heat of summer. Even my egotistical brain finally concluded that this was not too bright of an idea. The sunlight seemed to pierce my skull and I had to slip from one shaded area to the


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next just to survive. As you might guess I didn’t exactly have a great time.

My doctor had told me that I could exercise so 7 days after the surgery I thought weight lifting would be a good idea. With every rep I made my imagination simulated the sutures ripping out of my brain and spilling their contents onto the floor, so that lasted about 15 minutes. However the last and perhaps the greatest act of lunacy occurred ten days after my surgery. We were having our annual block party which is a huge amount of work to set up. Every year we would make the pilgrimage to the local liquor store to pick up kegs of beer. This year was no exception. However, for some reason still unknown to me, I opted to go with the beer team. This in-cluded loading and unloading the kegs off the back of the truck. After the last kegs were unloaded my head felt differ-ent and I immediately knew I had screwed up. Later it began to rain, slowly at first then harder and harder. Again, anyone else would have just gone home, but not me. Many of the people who attended the party were friends and family mem-bers. They had made the trip there just to see me, and it was because of this and nothing else that I stayed.

I had attended 7 such block parties in the past and each and every one of them had flown by, but this day seemed to be stuck in sludge. An hour seemed like forever. The steady and constant beating of rain on my head was like Chinese wa-ter torture and it was not long before I detected an unfamiliar throbbing under my incision. To me it felt as though some-thing in my brain had ripped loose; a myriad of ugly scenar-ios washed over me. I could see myself needing to be readmit-ted for surgery to repair a broken blood vessel, torn stitches or any one of a hundred other undesirable outcomes. I remem-ber being truly frightened and somewhere around 8:00 that night, I decided I had enough. I went home to lie down while a friend called my neurosurgeon.

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I actually felt bad about disturbing the man, but my friend looked at me as if to say “are you nuts” and picked up the phone. His answering service paged him and in 15 minutes he was on the phone. He assured me that everything was alright and that I was just feeling the movement of cranial fluid through my skull with the beating of my heart; great. I went to his office two days later and his assessment had not changed. Nothing was wrong, just go home and rest. How-ever a week later on a return trip to have my sutures taken out, my entire world was about to change once again.

The throbbing in head had passed and I felt good. As I said, I was scheduled to have my sutures taken out but just prior to my office visit, I received a strange fax from my doc-tor’s assistant. It was the results of my tissue biopsy. At that time I didn’t understand much of what was in the report other than I had a grade 3 tumor. I did a little research on the web which said that grade 3 brain tumors were terminal. I didn’t know what to make of that because my doctor had said that my tumor was low grade, so this confused me more than it scared me.

I showed up at his office and one of his understudies came in and promptly removed the sutures with minimal pain and I had to admit that the incision was healing nicely. Shortly af-ter, my neurosurgeon entered. A bright smile across his fea-tures made me feel immediately better.

“How are you feeling?” “Good, really good; I’m surprised.” I told him. He contin-

ued to smile as he looked at my post op MRI slides. He held each one up to the light “yeah, yep, good” and then he set them down and said “they look good. Everything seems to be healing nicely.” Next he pulled the copy of my tissue biopsy out from a folder on his desk.

“The lab report says your tumor was a grade 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma”

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“Well it means that you are going to need to start adjunc-tive therapy.”

“What is that?” “Well for cancers of this kind, we recommend 6 weeks of

radiation therapy along with 6 months of chemotherapy.” “Wait, when you came into my room after the operation

and said that you got all of the tumor out, and that it was a low grade. Why do I need to take chemotherapy?”

“Well, it looked low grade but we really can’t tell until we biopsy them. And no matter how much of the tumor we cut out, you can’t get all the cancer cells. We need to do this just to be safe.”

Such was my fall into the world of conventional cancer therapy. This was a journey that should never have been taken and it is my hope that my mistakes need not be your mistakes. What I am about to share with you are my experi-ences with so called “adjunctive therapies.” These are thera-pies which are administered without thought, care or even reason. It is that which is worst in the human condition, to exploit the pain and suffering of others for personal gain and profit. At some level most of us know that this is true, but we give it little thought until we experience it first hand.

My personal goal in life is to witness the demise of these sadistic tools of fraudulent healing known as Chemo and Ra-diation therapy. My quest is to teach people everywhere how cancer really works, and how to stop and prevent it in our lifetime. This is a large undertaking, I know. However, if we do not fight this war now, then when? If not us, then who?

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Conventional Therapy

Con-ven-tion-al Conforming to socially accepted customs of behavior or style, especially in a way that lacks imagination. I find the standard definition very insightful when applied

to the topic of modern medicine. Other terms such as “en-trenched medical dogma” also aptly fill the bill. No matter what nomenclature we use to describe it, our medical com-munity is the essence of “closed mindedness.” Hence our medical, not to mention social, evolution is greatly encum-bered.

If I am the protagonist in the play of my life then what fol-lows is the darkest act yet. After having the A-bomb of all up-dates dropped on my personal Hiroshima, I was sent to the basement of the building to see my first oncologist. For those of you who have never met an oncologist, as the saying goes, “you’re not missing much.” It would be unfair to say that they are all the same, but I found very little deviation within their programs. The gentleman I was taken downstairs to meet was a very nice Indian doctor; he sat me down and told me how easy the adjustment to chemotherapy would be due to recent advancements in the field. He assured me that I would still need to come in once a week to monitor my condition but the whole thing would go without a snap.

I questioned him about whether I could get the same treatment from my local hospital and he said that I could. I live in the southern suburbs of Chicago and his practice was downtown so I opted not to enlist his services.

If you were shopping for a car chances are that you would check out at least 6 dealerships. If you were going to buy a house you may not jump at the first one you saw unless it was

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your dream home. But for some reason when people are tasked with finding an oncologist their criteria is who is clos-est and do they take our insurance? I would like to say that I was different in this regard but I would be lying. Part of the reason this occurs is that doctors, all doctors, make it seem as though there is such a standardization of protocol that it liter-ally can be administered by any doctor, anywhere. So the can-cer patient ends up with the most convenient choice in lieu of the best one.

I, along with my wife, went to see one of these “conven-ient” doctors. My stay in the waiting room was one that I would never forget. From the front desk I could see into other areas of his office, rooms occupied by old men and old woman with tubes snaking out of each of them. These people were long past the age where chemotherapy would be an ethical or beneficial option. If you have a senior in your family who is diagnosed with cancer, please do not subject them to this inhuman torture because a doctor says you should. Later in this text you will see that many oncologists give patients chemotherapy even when cancer is deemed “unresponsive.” For those who do choose to go down this slippery path, their last years are filled with pain, misery, and what eventually becomes the humanity of death.

Everything that I saw in this office turned me off, but so much for listening to your instincts. At the urging of my wife, I sat there and listened intently while he quoted statistics off the top of his head. I shot him a couple questions about his experience with brain tumors and he admitted that he had lit-tle. But what he was willing to do was put me in touch with a very prominent oncologist from a clinic that sounded like a breakfast cereal, (hint) whose name I had heard several times in passing. She would orchestrate his movements and hence I would get the benefit of her knowledge and experience. At this point I believed that she represented the cutting edge ad-


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vancements which I had prayed for. So because of this one point and nothing else, I stayed with this local doctor.

I have been in management for more than a decade and I have squared off with some pretty tough hombres, but this did little to prepare me for this woman. She was refuted to be one of the best doctors in the city specializing in cancer of the brain. She was so somber I am confident that a smile has not crossed her face since the early days of the Clinton admini-stration. She methodically went through the package of slides that I brought with me that day. She held up my MRI films to the screen and pointed at the specks on the screen.

“You see, this could be the tumor coming back.” I asked her if it could be scar tissue and she said probably

not, more than likely it is the tumor. After several well re-hearsed sessions of pointing at spots on the screen and ooing and aahing she looked at me and said that it was imperative that we start chemo and radiation therapy as soon as possible.

It was at this time when I asked her what I considered an intelligent question. I had been doing a great deal of studying about brain tumors in those 5 weeks and I felt that my cell phone was a catalyst to the tumor growth. So I asked her “if radiation from the cell phone is what started this in the first place, does it make any sense to hit my brain with even more radiation now that I am sick? I mean, won’t it hurt my good cells too?”

She looked at me and said that there is no conclusive proof that cell phones cause brain tumors and that if I don’t do this, I won’t have any good cells. I won’t have any cells at all be-cause I will be dead.

“Some people do survive this she said; some as long as 12 years, but those are the rare exceptions, not the rule.” (For-ward 6 years) I was immediately put off by this woman and as you will see; my instincts about this charlatan were well founded.

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Study Links Brain Cancer to Children Using Cell Phones Tuesday March 17, 2009 People who begin using mobile phones before age 20 are more than five times as likely to develop a malignant brain tumor, according to an international group of scientists who studied the effects of elec-tromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation on living cells and human health. Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New Study Finds Mon Dec 20, 2004 04:38 PM GMT

MUNICH/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday.

Mobile Phones Tumor Risk to Young Chil-dren London Times, January 12, 2005

CHILDREN under the age of eight should not use mobile phones, parents were advised last night after an authoritative report linked heavy use to ear and brain tumors and concluded that the risks had been underestimated by most scientists.

If you have never been told that you will die before, it is

the ultimate sobering experience. The woman’s words fell on me like a piano from a second story window. My wife was crying. My best friend was there trying to be positive and ask all the right questions and my brain had turned to mush. All in all it was a very bad place to be. The thought that ran kept running through my mind was that she was very overbearing, to the point of being heartless in fact. Perhaps she thought that she must drive her point across, or maybe it was some-


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thing else? This book is in its first revision and since that dark day and I’ve lived to see many truths be unearthed. 7 years later I had a conversation with the widow of another brain tumor patient who continued to see this heartless woman, and she admitted that trusting her was the biggest mistake of her husband’s life. Ultimately by the end of his journey, this emo-tionless Greek bitch of a doctor would not even take her phone calls. In fact, she yelled at the poor woman in the lobby for bothering her.

What I find fascinating about all of this is, if you were choosing a mechanic and they treated you like dog feces, you would immediately choose another. However for some reason which is still a mystery me, most people continue to see their doctors even after being treated harshly. Why? In most cases a mechanic is much more useful. All of us would like to believe that doctors are there to help people, and that they became doctors for that reason and no other. However, where cancer is concerned this is not the case. There is a fundamental rea-son for this. Conventional cancer treatments do not work, if they did headlines like these one would not exist:

Cancer Now No. 1 Killer in U.S. Jan. 20, 2005 (AP) For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of

Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday.

Cancer deaths 'to DOUBLE by 2050' in 'catastrophic' rise driven by obesity crisis, warns expert By David Derbyshire Last updated at 11:50 PM on 22nd February 2009

Professor Sir John Marmott, said seven million people die from cancer worldwide each year. The toll will rise to more than 10million by 2020.

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If conventional cancer treatments do not work and doctors

continue to administer them aggressively then they have bro-

ken the most important rule of medicine “do no harm.” It is

easy to see where all this is heading. The question is do we

want to go there? Surely there must be some success stories

for the ethical use of chemotherapy, or we would not continue

to use them…right?

Alan C. Nixon, PhD, Past President of the American Chemi-cal Society-“As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incompre-hensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.” http://whale.to/cancer/quotes1.html Oncologist, Albert Braverman, MD - “No disseminated neo-plasm (cancer) incurable in 1975 is curable today... Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumour, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure.” www.healingcancernaturally.com John C. Bailar III, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University - “the relentless increase in cancer deaths in the face of growing use of toxic chemotherapy”. He concluded that scientists must look in new directions if they are ever to make progress against this unremitting killer.” www.cancerinform.org Ralph Moss - "If you can shrink the tumor 50% or more for 28 days you have got the FDA's definition of an active drug. That is called a response rate, so you have a response..(but) when you look to see if there is any life prolongation from taking this treatment what you find is all kinds of hocus pocus and song and dance about the dis-ease free survival, and this and that. In the end there is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and


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this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of the patient." www.worldwithoutcancer.org Julian Whitaker M.D.- I’d turn my back on 50 years of institution-alized expertise, because it follows the wrong paradigm. Everything that is done in medicine today or in any other discipline fits some paradigm. The paradigm I use for cancer is that it is a systemic problem in which the normal control mechanisms of your body are altered. Your immune system likely bears the largest burden for this control; thus, all techniques that enhance it are promising. Those that damage it are not." www.soundbodycm.com Two Time Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud." www.whatquote.com Hans Nieper M.D - "You wouldn’t believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn’t believe this, or directors of the AMA, or ACA, or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes. That’s the fact." www.whale.to So what is the truth? Is the medical profession correct? Are all these dedicated doctors I have just quoted lying, and if so to what end? Perhaps there are other factors clouding our doc-tor’s decisions regarding which therapy they administer?

Cancer drug boom projected Sector said to more than double by 2009, surpassing cho-lesterol-reducing drugs, says IMS. September 19, 2005: 3:16 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Drug sales for cancer treatments are ex-

pected to more than double over the next five years, with cancer

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drugs replacing cholesterol-reducers as the number one pharmaceu-

tical sector

Cancer Therapy Market to Cross US $78 Billion by 2012 March 30, 2009

Worldwide market for cancer treatment is anticipated to exceed

US$ 78 Billion by 2012, corresponding to the cut-throat competition

among the pharma giants to launch new drugs.

So you see we the people are facing the oldest nemesis of

all time - greed. It is so financially lucrative for an oncologist to prescribe chemotherapy that it goes against human nature for anyone to expect them not to. So how much profit do doc-tors make from chemotherapy? Well if they purchase the chemo directly from the drug companies the savings can be tremendous. An article published January 26, 2003 in the New York Times cited the following:

• Among cancer doctors, it is called the chemotherapy concession.

At a time when overall spending on prescription drugs is soaring,

cancer specialists are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars

each year by selling drugs to patients - a practice that almost no

other doctors follow.

• The General Accounting Office, which studied federal payments for can-

cer drugs in late 2001, discovered that doctors, on average, were able to

get discounts as high as 86 percent on some drugs. Doctors paid less than

$3 for a single dose of leucovorin, for example, while patients paid them

around $3.50 out of a total reimbursement of about $17.50.

• The concession may also lead some doctors to recommend chemotherapy

when patients may not benefit. In a 2001 study of cancer patients in Mas-

sachusetts, conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. Ezekiel J.

Emanuel of the National Institutes of Health, the authors found that a

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their lives, even when their cancers were considered unresponsive to

chemotherapy. Those findings strongly suggested overuse of chemother-

apy at the end of life.

• Over the course of the 1990's, oncologists have been able to rely on the

sale of chemotherapy drugs as an important source of revenue. They are

now among the best-paid doctors, surpassing obstetricians and general

surgeons, according to data from the Medical Group Management Asso-

ciation. In 2001, the median compensation for an oncologist in a large

practice was $274,000. While compensation for specialists has increased

19 percent, on average, since 1997, oncologists' compensation has risen

slightly more than 40 percent.

So we see a profession which espouses the use of chemo-

therapy above all other forms of therapy. These others who stand in contrast therefore must be quacks. And they will warn you against these evil men. But what do these stoic men of science really think of chemotherapy? I mean when they get together at a cookout with their fellow oncologist and they are having a beer, what is their real take on the whole deal?

“In 1986, McGill Cancer Centre scientists sent a question-

naire to 118 doctors who treated non-small-cell lung cancer. More than 3/4 of them recruited patients and carried out trials of toxic drugs for lung cancer. They were asked to imagine that they themselves had cancer, and were asked which of six cur-rent trials they themselves would choose. 64 of the 79 respon-dents would not consent to be in a trial containing cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug. 58 found all the trials unaccept-able. Their reason? The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity.”

After you have read this it makes it much more frustrating

to consider the following headline:

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Cancer doctors don't know when to give up More patients getting futile chemo treatments, even in final days

Updated: 10:13 a.m. CT June 7, 2006

ATLANTA - Doctors are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of

cancer patients getting chemo and other aggressive but futile treat-

ment in the last days of their lives. Nearly 12 percent of cancer pa-

tients who died in 1999 received chemotherapy in the last two

weeks of life, a large review of Medicare records revealed. That is up

from nearly 10 percent in 1993, and the percentage probably is

even higher today, researchers said.

After all is said and done, after all the crying and gnashing of teeth of teeth, what do the numbers say?

The Real Inconvenient Truth

Estimated Deaths Actual Deaths % of all deaths 2009 - 562,340 2006 - 559,888 23.10% 2008 - 565,650 2005 - 559,312 22.80% 2007 - 559,650 2004 - 553,888 23.10% 2006 - 564,830 2003 - 556,902 22.70% 2005 - 570,280 2002 - 557,271 22.80% 2004 - 562,810 2001 - 553,768 22.90%

The real truth my friends is that the numbers are going up,

not down. More people are dying, not less. Larger segments of the population are suffering and no progress is being made. The numbers are the numbers, and it makes little difference what the headlines say.


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See any progress?

So you can see there were a lot of incentives other than just medical ineptitude working against me. Before I go any far-ther, and to be fair, I am not attacking all doctors. In fact, I am not even attacking all oncologists. Truly, if there were any chance for systematic reform it must come from doctors them-selves. Most of the great medical discoveries, (some of which I will share with you) have come from doctors. So you see, doc-tors are our hope for the future, but nothing will change until the medical community acknowledges the fact that what they are doing is not working. I like money, everyone does but we can no longer hurt each other to achieve it, no matter what the law says about it. Speaking of the law, I would like each of you to know just how little authority you really have to make choices for the health of your child.

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Judge hears 11 hours of testimony in case of Va. teen fighting to treat his cancer his way By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer July 11, 2006

RICHMOND, Va. -- A teen cancer patient fighting for the right to use alternative treatment on his illness told a judge Tuesday what it was like to go through chemotherapy and why he didn't want to relive that. The judge heard 11 hours of testimony over two days, concluding with nine hours on Tuesday. He is expected to issue a written decision by July 18.

16-year-old Ordered to Undergo Cancer Treatment July 22, 2006 1:00 p.m. EST

Norfolk, VA (AHN) - A 16-year-old boy suffering from cancer has been or-dered by a judge to undergo whatever treatment doctors feel is necessary to fight his cancer. The boy and his parents had been fighting to continue using alternative treatments.

Abraham underwent three months of chemotherapy last year that made him nauseated and weak. When his Hodgkin's disease returned, he and his parents decided not to continue with that form of treatment. A social worker asked a judge to make the teen undergo standard treatment and the legal battle began.

Starchild Abraham Cherrix must report to a hospital by Tuesday according to the order. The judge also found that his parents, Jay and Rose Cherrix, neglectful for allowing him on a treatment of a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal supplements supervised by a Mexican clinic.

I tracked this court case with disgust coursing throughout my body. This is probably not a healthy thing to do, but I couldn’t help it. When my wife and I became parents we did all the things that parents are supposed to do; we fed and clothed our child. We tended to their needs and tried to be


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there for the all the challenging moments that life had to offer them. We did these things because we loved them. The law expects you to do these things as well; it is in fact illegal not to do so. However, after tending to the needs of their child for 16 years, the parents of this young man were forced to suspend their thoughts and beliefs because a social worker deemed it necessary and an errant legal system agreed with her. Parents it seems, are only the guardian and caretaker of their child un-til a lawyer questions their right to do so. Then you are found to be “neglectful.” As luck would have it, this story actually ended amiably. Due to the boy’s age and adamant desire not to undergo chemotherapy, on July 25 the judge granted him the right to choose. And what was the outcome of this judg-ment? Va. teen cancer patient improving By Shelia Byrd, Associated Press Writer | September 16, 2006

GREENWOOD, Miss. --A Virginia teenage cancer patient appears to be

improving less than a month after he won a court fight to forgo chemother-

apy and seek alternative treatments, his doctor said Friday.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that his treatment would work. Cherrix was going to Mexico for Hoxey treat-ments, which has cured thousands of people since the 1950’s. The terrible truth is that even for those who believe this, if their child is stricken with cancer, they are powerless. The person who has given birth, raised and cared for that child, cannot make a decision about their care. Neither you nor I can make a choice about how our own child will fight for their life. I can think of no sadder challenge for a parent to face than this one and it happens every day, of every week, of every year.

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12-year-old with cancer taken from her parents Folks don't want radiation treatment, but state claims it's best option for girl Posted: June 9, 2005

A Texas couple is fighting to regain custody of their 12-year-old cancer-stricken daughter after the state seized the girl, claiming her parents have not done enough to treat her. Katie's parents, Michele and Edward Wernecke of Agua Dulce, Texas, say their daughter's Hodgkin's disease is in remission and she doesn't need radiation treatment after under-going a round of chemotherapy. Mr. Wernecke is worried that more treatment will have harmful long-term effects on his daughter and wants an opinion from doctors outside Dris-coll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi.

If you are a judge and you happen to be reading this, please, please trust me. Chemo and radiation do not cure anyone of anything. People survive in spite of these proce-dures, not because of them. Take a brave step toward showing your humanity and never, never, allow much less mandate, that a child undergo this terrible ordeal.

YOUR INNER VOICE

In retrospect, 7 years ago I was not even aware that stories like the ones above existed. Despite the fact that I had huge reservations about both chemo and radiation therapies, I went forward with both programs. A good deal of this decision came at the urging of my friends and family. However, the


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little voice in my head told me that this was wrong. In fact it screamed that it was a mistake but my dull logic prevailed.

My wife was a trooper about everything. After my dismal visit with the oncologist from hell, the chemotherapeutic agent Temodar was to be my drug of choice. Temodar comes in capsules and is taken for 5 days out of every month. On the first day of the treatment my wife positioned the family around me on the couch, got a good comedy and tried to cre-ate an up-beat tone for the evening. I took the capsules and sat next to them. The movie was Happy Gilmore, one of my favor-ites. I sat there for about 45 minutes and felt nothing. I re-member thinking “maybe this is not going to be so bad after all.” Then at the one hour mark things began to change, I could feel my chest tighten and my head felt different. Within 5 minutes I felt like I was having a heart attack. I sat on the couch, my heart pounding in my chest. The pain was beyond scary and I thought my body was really shutting down and dying.

My wife called my oncologist and had him paged. He called back and listened to my symptoms and told me that they would probably pass in a little while. It was just your body getting used to the drugs.

An hour later the pain in my chest did subside, but this was to be replaced with extreme nausea. I spent the better portion of that night in the bathroom worshiping the porce-lain goddess. As I lay there I had to laugh, I could remember many times when I was younger being curled up on the same floor only for a much different reason. Those were innocent times, but what was happening to me now was anything but innocent. It was as if my body was crying to me in one huge voice “hey stupid, what are you doing?”

Three weeks after my operation I had returned to work and, even after my disaster with the first round of chemo, I still showed up at the office the next day. I don’t know why, it was just that ego thing rearing its deformed head again. Peo-

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ple could tell immediately that something had changed about me. They kept asking “Are you alright?” I assured them that I was but I wasn’t so sure myself. The next night’s session went much easier and before I knew it, I had made it through my first month’s treatments. I now had 25 days in which to heal up enough for the next round.

Two weeks later I had a visit with my oncologist. The man struck me as inept for lack of a better term. Not like a doctor seeing to the needs of his many patients, but more like Elmer Fudd running from one rabbit hole to the next, trying to fig-ure out where that “wascal wabbit” was now? I was to start my next round of chemotherapy in a little more than a week and I wanted to make sure that the dosage was correct, due to the severe reaction I had on the first night of treatment. I asked Doctor Fudd what the correct dosage was. Based on his 7 years of schooling, and 30 years of on-the-job experience, he said “doesn’t it say on the bottle?” As you might imagine, I was overcome with confidence in my physician.

RADIATION

Radiation therapy or External Beam Radiation Therapy was something different still. The entire concept of radiation therapy is to cause the cancer cells to die with each new cellu-lar mitosis or division. To start this program a mask is made for your head so that the radiation can be applied to a specific spot every time. After this mask is made the patient puts it on and then is strapped into what is in essence a linear accelera-tor. The entire treatment takes less than 5 minutes and you really cannot feel anything, at least during the treatments you can’t.

What the techs administering this therapy attempt to do is shoot the tumor from two different angles over and over again. With repetition and by allowing ample time for the cells to divide and then die, the cancer is defeated. This seems


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reasonable on the surface but the problem with this vein of thought is that the radiation not only covers the tumor bed but everything before and after it, literally blasting a path through your brain. I know this first hand because about 10 sessions into my treatment I was having a great deal of trou-ble seeing. I asked my radiologist why this was happening and he said “I don’t know, the radiation pattern is not near the optical nerve.” This of course was a nice way of say that he didn’t have clue. The other thing I noticed is that the radia-tion pattern was no where near as precise as I had been lead to believe. My tumor was roughly 1 inch in diameter and the radiation pattern that I was seeing on my hairline was more like 3 inches.

If I could carry one message to brain tumor patients spe-cifically, it would be this: no one is especially worried about your eyesight, or your comfort or even being anatomically ac-curate in your treatment. Why? Because they look at you as if you’re already dead. Now I am not so closed minded that I believe that this one statement applies to all radiologists world wide, but for the vast majority I stand behind the valid-ity of what I have said.

My loyal wife would accompany me for every treatment and, though it took only a short time to complete, we were there for at least an hour including the set up and prep. When I was being retrofitted with my Hannibal Lecter mask, my wife would talk with the nurses who were very nice, but equally as jaded. She would say that I was going to survive and they would look at her with tears in their eyes and say “you’re in denial dear.” This nurse really meant it, she was sincere. This was not an isolated incident either, it happened several times in different fashions, but the message was al-ways the same. He is going to die.

Now if you are a radiologist reading these words, or a nurse in the same field, and you felt strongly that it was not going to work, why would you continue to do it? This is an

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answer that very few physicians are brave enough to ask themselves. And make no mistake, these questions require bravery. For almost every physician who has squared off with the current medical establishment has been chewed up and spit out. Consequently, doctors don’t engage in a whole lot of boat rocking.

Now let’s flash forward 7 years once more. At the urging of the medical profession I had endured 19 sessions of radiation therapy before I called it quits. However, I was never sure why radiation therapy was used in the first place. By the time I pulled the plug I knew it was a dead end street. But why did doctors start using radiation in the first place? Was it because over the years they had successes with this form of treatment and it had then developed in the current mode of therapy? I mean at least I could understand this if it were the case. How-ever the truth is rarely what it seems…

The real reason I was advised to un-dergo 19 sessions of radiation therapy was because of Madame Curie; a 2 time Nobel Laureate believed that ion-izing radiation could in effectively treat cancer. The ultimate irony of this story is that John Beard’s enzymatic therapies were gaining acceptance within the European community up until this point. Curie herself died of Aplastic Anemia in 1934 due from ex-posure to ionizing radiation. She would keep vials of radioactive material Madame Curie on her desk because she like the glow.


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MOMENT OF TRUTH

When you are initiated into conventional therapy you are told the candy coated ugliness of what to expect. I have to say that the doctors were forthcoming with the information, espe-cially as it applied to me loosing my hair. It is a small thing I guess, but we are all vain creatures and, like Samson, the loss of my hair brought with it great despair. I was still working and now all the hair which had preciously grown over my scare, effectively covering it was now gone. I was baseball head again and that made everything much harder. For the brain tumor patient life deals some very tough cards.

In this book I have included all of what I did to survive. Much of it sounds like “rah, rah, motivational bullshit.” How-ever, if you do not embrace being positive, seeing the good in every situation, feeling gratitude for what you still have, the odds are good that you will die. Thought and feelings are creative; they are your point of attraction for what is to follow.

If the pain and humiliation of loosing my hair again was not enough, I became frail from the sudden loss of weight. I was somewhat muscular prior to all of this and now the change was pronounced and, as if that were not enough, can-cer patients undergoing chemotherapy often take on a beauti-ful grayish hue to their skin. So you basically look like one of the creatures from a Resident Evil movie. People went from asking me if I was alright to just staring at me as I walked by. Even after all of this, it was not until my wife commented on how negative I had become that I reached my personal mo-ment of truth. Why? Because, you can overcome hair loss, you can overcome being thin and weak or even turning a sexy shade of gray. But what you can’t overcome is negativity and depression. Where you mind leads, your body will follow without fail.

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It was at this point, and not to make excuses, but the chemo was causing me to fall into depression. It almost seemed unavoidable; chemo, much like Felix the cat, brings with it a wonderful bag of tricks, one of which is depression. When you are depressed there is no fight left in you, and without fight you quietly slip away in some forgotten corner and die. (I will explain why later) People shake their heads, cry, say what a shame it is and then move on with their lives. And after all the crying and shaking, kissing and hugging, the many prayers given in your name at Sunday mass, for all the well wishers, get well cards and letters, it comes down to this; you must make this happen for yourself.

I was half way through both my chemo and radiation therapies when I quit. I told both doctors that I felt this was not right for me and that I was going to go it alone. I couldn’t be sure, but I thought I heard a sigh of relief in my radiolo-gist’s voice. He had grown to like both my wife and myself, and I’m sure he could see where this was headed. I have heard similar accounts from other cancer patients. Upon fi-nally announcing that they were ending their therapy, the doctor gave them a silent nod of approval.

Doctors know that these tactics do not work, but they face a huge conundrum. This is how they make their living, this is how they make their Mercedes payment, this is how they pay the mortgage on their 5,000 sq. foot house, this is how they afford their luxury condo in Cancun, three kids in Ivy League schools and the alimony for 5 ex-wives. I encourage financial abundance and do not deny them any of these things, but money wrought on the pain and suffering of others is, well, primitive. As any judge would tell you, ignorance of the law is no defense. It does not matter if the current laws say you can do this legally, nature has it’s own set of laws. The whole what goes around comes around thing applies. What you reap you sow and a thousand other pearls of wisdom. No good can ever come out of doing harm to another.


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Many of us hide behind such shields but your mind knows the truth; it knows what you know. If you are helping your-self at the expensive of another you are making a “lower” choice. Man has made lower choices throughout history. This does not mean that you are the antichrist, it just means that you are not evolving, not progressing. None of this says that you should not charge another for your product or services, but in true commerce all parties benefit. All people have de-sires and look forward to how the fruition of these desires might benefit them, but lying to people about a therapy which not only will not cure them, but will bring about their swift and painful demise, does not qualify.

Okay, so far I have called both my doctors, checked out of the program, now what? Well, I am not a psychologist, but I can tell you this, your brain expects you to do something. Everyone expects you to do something, and your brain is no exception. The human brain is the greatest machine ever cre-ated and it absolutely has the power to cure your body of vir-tually anything. However, this same miraculous organ will beat you to death with fear, doubt and remorse if you do nothing.

Now I will say one thing for conventional medicine; it has a protocol. An errant protocol to be sure, but at least there is consistency. When a person fires their doctors they know in-stinctively that they must shift to another type of therapy, most of the time this is natural healing. I will define natural healing as anything which employs that use of raw foods, herbs and extracts to fortify the body and to aid in healing. Now it was my turn to make the switch, but how do you do that? Remember what I said about the mind; how do I stop that from happening? Having your mind beat you up every-day is really no better for you than being in the depression from the chemotherapy.

I remembered what Nietzsche said about gazing into the abyss, that is where I was and I had no doubt that it was gaz-

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ing back at me. So I had to start somewhere, but there were no protocols for natural healing. I would come across an article on this diet or that diet, which allegedly helped cancer pa-tients, or some new supplement which would miraculously cure me. Everything was revolutionary and groundbreaking or one of a kind. Before we go any farther my experience is that there are no magic bullets to be found. I cannot speak for every supplement out there, but I can attest to dozens, many of them help but nothing I have found to date will do it all. And if we are going to be honest here, there are just as many snake oil salesmen in the natural supplement game as there are in the conventional. The difference between the two is that Shark Cartilage is not going to kill you, chemotherapy will. One thing that helped me immensely early on was to learn how cancer works. What the causal factors are and how to prevent them. When you understand the mechanism of can-cer, and you will by the end of this book, then you can pick and choose the supplements which will help you. You can understand which enzymes apply; you can intelligently make choices which will extend your life.

After I quit my conventional therapies I spent the next 3 years in research and writing. I was supposed to be long gone by then and had I stayed with conventional therapies, I would have been. But there is one thought that stayed with me through those very tough years. Somewhere there is a small child which is just about to endure everything I just went through. I personally cannot allow that. It is one thing for an adult who has the freedom of choice to suffer this fate, but not a child. This must be stopped. So everyday I got up and made it my personal responsibility to reverse this trend. I will con-tinue to write, and to open people’s eyes until my own eyes close for good.

Many wars have been fought throughout history which we have long since been forgotten and this war will prove to be no different. One day in the near future this entire industry


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will change and our grandchildren will forget that it ever happened. They will forget that people were made to endure inhumane therapies, just as we have long forgotten that Pelle-gra victims were once lobotomized. But make no mistake, this will be a long, bloody battle to bring about that change. This war will not be fought with muskets, bayonets, M16’s or rocket launchers. This war will be fought with money and lawyers. When David bested Goliath he had much better odds than the mass of humanity now has against its own pharma-ceutical industry. Hence, we are our own worst enemy.

So I had a whole list of reasons to go on living. Besides watching my kids grow up and reaching old age with my wife at my side, I now had a mission statement which, all in all, is not a bad place to start.

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CAUSAL

Caus-al A link which exists between the deceptive act and the injury.

Few elements in the universe exist outside of the cause and effect palette. There are causal factors for virtually everything in life. You drink too much and your wife leaves you. You gamble too much, they take your home, and your wife leaves you. You eat too much and end up 400 pounds overweight, Geraldo does an episode on you, and then your wife leaves you. Name any result and if you peel back the onion, there is a cause. Natural law makes no exception where cancer is con-cerned and so there are causes for cancer. That is a good thing, because if there are causes for cancer, there are solu-tions for cancer. It is natural law.

Before we look at these solutions we need to define what the catalysts for this condition really are. I told you that after quitting chemo and radiation therapy I spent the next 3 years immersed in research and writing. During this time I amassed what would ultimately become reams of data. A virtual li-brary of information on this one topic, but I found that this topic linked to another topic and then another. It was like the popular game based on six degrees of separation, only in this game’s case: the actor Kevin Bacon. You know, Joe starred in a movie John who went to school with Kathy, who dated Stan, who wrestled Joey Lewis, whose mom worked at the bank with Kevin Bacon’s aunt.

Before this book is finished you will understand the mechanism of cancer. However, to get to that point we need to understand the causal factors which bring about this horri-ble disease. When you get sick, there is always a great deal of

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either guilt or blame accompanying the disease. It is either guilt because you realize now that feeding your child maca-roni and cheese everyday for 3 years straight might have had something to do with it. On the other hand, there is blame, “I am here because life dealt me shitty cards.” Or, “This person did this to me or that to me. I have been unlucky my whole life, why should this be any different?” Whatever.

To start with, if you are being overcome by guilt, put your-self at ease at least a little bit. We live in a country that has bil-lions to spend on the machinery of war and hostility. At the time of this writing the figure which was being bandied about was 1.2 Trillion dollars will be spent in Iraq when all is said and done. I capitalized Trillion because that is a hell of a lot of money. So what does that have to do with you? Well I, like most of you, was raised to believe that government was look-ing out for us. If eating too much macaroni and cheese was bad for us, they would do something. If drinking diet cola with aspartame in it was bad for us, they would do some-thing. If using Vioxx for our arthritis was bad for us, they would do something.

Think about it; we’ve got Trillions to spend on a war that none of us really care about but we’ve got no one watching or regulating the foods we eat? So if you were one of the naive masses like me, don’t feel bad, you are not alone. Don’t blame yourself for anything, you were just living your life and blame never helps any situation. As a matter of fact, feeling bad about cancer or any disease will not serve you, so if you are carrying around this baggage lose it.

The truth is that the government for whatever reason will not intercede on your behalf. They should, and they say that they will, but they don’t. So it is up to you and me to figure what is degenerative to us. The first and most obvious source of this degeneration is our food. When I was growing up “you are what you eat” was a popular slogan. But as far as I can tell after years of research, there is no more accurate or more per-


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fectly summarized injunction, change what you eat and you change what you are.

I see the result of this in my own home. As parents we are much more concerned with the fact that the children eat something than we are about what they are eating. Yet, every culture in the world where people regularly live past 100 years age, food intake is a level of 2000 calories a day or less. These same cultures have very few degenerative diseases. As parents we have hectic schedules and are hurried to get the kids out the door in the morning, so we shove anything down their throat believing this is better than nothing at all. Food makers know this and they design a large portion of their product line to quick, easy and good tasting foods that your children will not fight you to eat. The thought of whether this food is beneficial to them does not enter into the equation. The main ingredient to most of these foods is sugar, or a sugar substitute. Not only do food manufacturers target their efforts to this demographic, they beat us over the head with com-mercials for their products. So when the mother or father goes shopping for a breakfast cereal or an after school snack, the manufacturer of these products has programmed the children to instruct their parents on what to buy. However, the ma-chinery that produces many of these cereals is cleaned with solvents like Xylene which opens the body up to a myriad of disease. The proverbial deck is stacked against us.

With conditions such as ADD, ADHD and others soaring in our childhood population, it is insanity to also have more sources of sugar available within hallways of our schools. But we are only now waging a war to have cola machines and known junk foods displaced from our schools.

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Zero tolerance for junk food at schools? The Detroit News

Friday, April 07, 2006

Congress wants to ban French fries, candy bars, even

at some fundraisers. Congress wants to expel all bad food from the nation's schools. That means waist-

expanding snacks like pop, candy and fries may soon disappear, thanks to legislation introduced Thursday.

One of the leading advocates for this program was Cali-fornia Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. California and its health-conscious Governor addressed the issue of childhood obesity and poor nutrition by being the first state to pass the following amendment:

California says 'no' to junk-food sales in schools September 06, 2005 A statewide ban against certain vending machine sna cks in public schools would be the first of its kind.

LOS ANGELES – California is poised to ban sales of soda and fast foods

on public school campuses - including high schools - in a move being

closely watched by many other states that are weighing whether to do

likewise. If obesity were the only problem, then this might all be a

whole-lot-about-nothin. But obesity is the just the unattractive aesthetic veneer; below there are much more sinister events taking place. Incessant sugar consumption throws a child’s insulin levels out of whack. Joel Wallach, author of Dead Doc-tors Don’t Lie, is one of the true pioneers in curing diseases with nutrition. As a matter of fact, Doctor Wallach claims that


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with a change of diet and proper nutrition, all diseases can be conquered.

As it applies to school children consider the following: we are currently experiencing an epidemic of attention defi-cit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). By 1996 American young-sters were consuming 90% of the world's Ritalin. Boys, as no one who is a parent of one will be surprised to learn, are much more likely than girls to be diagnosed with ADHD. In 1996, 10% to 12% of all American schoolboys were taking Ritalin. All parents of hyperactive children have faced the school gauntlet of teachers, principles and counselors who are there to tell you that it is their considered, professional opin-ion that their child be put on Ritalin or some derivative im-mediately. As a first time parent you do not know any better and often you listen to these so called experts because of in-experience and little else. What has come to pass in the last decade is that Ritalin is not just an aid to help your child fo-cus; it is a psychotropic drug which very often leads to vio-lence.

Ritallin is not a "smart pill" but a very-- DANGEROUS-- DRUG-- AN ADDICTIVE NARCOTIC DRUG. THE KIDS ARE ON AN ADDICTIVE NARCOTIC DRUG. NO WON-DER THEY ARE THE WAY THEY ARE IF THEY DON'T GET THEIR FIX! It acts on the brain with slower onset but almost identical to cocaine and amphetamines. Side effects include nervousness, agitation, anxiety, panic, paranoid delusions, psychosis, hallucinations, withdrawal, disorganization, ag-gressiveness, and assaulting. And if all this weren’t enough it causes cancer in mice.

Doctor Wallach also warns that antibiotic overuse is a con-tributing factor in many ADHD children. When a child is rou-tinely given antibiotics for common maladies such as ear in-fections, it not only kills the bacteria causing the infection but also the “good” (flora) bacteria found in your stomach. This good bacterium is responsible for controlling yeast infections

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and Candida levels. We need the good bacteria to maintain a healthy, balanced body. Without good intestinal flora, yeasts can grow wild, producing toxic chemicals and wastes. All of them act as poisons to the nervous and immune systems re-sulting in children who are simply out of control.

I have first hand experience in this area; my youngest son had a succession of ear infections and was also diagnosed as ADHD by his teachers. Fortunately for him, we had already gone through the Ritalin gambit with my oldest son. Back then we were young, inexperienced parents and at the urging of teachers our son was put on this drug. Almost instantly we did not like what we were seeing and eventually took him off Ritalin altogether. If you are a teacher reading these words, you will be able to get much more done with a child by hav-ing him take acidophilus or eat yogurt than by using Ritalin. Ritalin may even contribute to the onset of major illnesses like cancer. So, school professionals, before you tell some scared, unwitting couple to give their first born a drug so that it will be easier for you to do your job, you might want to suggest that they have their child tested for food allergies. It’s cheaper and a hell of a lot healthier.

So you see, even the all-too familiar foods and drugs which permeate our lives have inherent dangers. They are causal to seemingly unrelated conditions, although nothing in our bodies are really unrelated. Like the food chain, a small change anywhere up or down the line changes the entire eco-system.

So food is a causal factor to our health, perhaps the great-est causal factor. This is why you will see stories documenting how a person treated their own illness with diet alone. Noth-ing impacts your body chemistry as profoundly as the foods and liquids we ingest. Hence, Edison’s statement - The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.


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If you are questioning who was Edison to comment on such things? I would retort by saying that he was an engineer, a person who took things apart to see how they worked, and more importantly, why they failed. Who better to observe the failings of the human healthcare system and devise a plan of improvement?

So food is a causal factor, then which foods do I eat and which ones do I avoid? In chapter five, I am going to try to identify some of the foods to avoid, but this text is not going to be another instructional book on healthy eating. These books are to be found everywhere and the information is readily available. What I hope to accomplish is to make you aware of some of the supplements, herbs and treatments that you haven’t heard about before. These products are well off the beaten path but very effective. An additional hope for this writing is to also expand on some of the supplements you might already know about and tell you why they work for cancer, as well as a myriad of other degenerative diseases. I mean it is sound nutritional advice to tell you that you should eat Blueberries. And the party line for such a statement is that this fruit contain Bioflavonoids, which are beneficial to your health and help to fight cancer. All of which is true, but I doubt that it helps you to understand how cancer unfolds in the body. What we will discover later in the text is that Blue-berries and many other berries are laden with a water soluble sugar compound known as Nitrilosides. Nitrilosides have the unique ability to poison cancer cells while fortifying their healthy counterparts. However, this must be orchestrated with the ingestion of enzymes and other supplements in order to see results. More than anything else, cancer is a process, and you must understand this process before making deci-sions regarding your form of treatment.

So when we are looking at foods, which ones are bad for us? Well, just about anything that isn’t alive. That takes in a lot of territory, but someone told me a simple formula which

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has stuck with me over the years, when you go to the grocery store, do not buy anything from the center isles. In other words look for the fresh, live foods which border the perimeter of the store. This simple outlook helped me a lot. In a perfect world we would all buy organic food because it is grown without the use of pesticides, and in a much more pristine environ-ment. Yet, most of us do not, or cannot, live in that world for several different reasons, one of which is economic. Organic food is expensive and currently there are not natural food stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joes or Wild Oats on every street corner. Where I live the closest store of this type is 10 miles away, not the end of the earth, but definitely well out-side the realm of convenience.

Conversely, over the past 5 years I have seen great changes in this arena; both supply and demand are growing at an ex-plosive rate and cultural change is imminent. Consumers now demand more, they expect fresh fruits and vegetables in abundance and the merchants are responding in kind. So, to get back to the issue at hand, EAT LIVE FOOD. If you are sick this is imperative but even if you are not, it just makes good sense. Try to find organic fruits and vegetables whenever pos-sible and, if not, scrutinize the foods you do buy, wash and prepare them thoroughly. High pH 11.5 Kangen water is excel-lent for this. It can actually remove oil-based pesticides and toxins.

For the cancer patient a change of lifestyle is unavoidable and this should be known from the onset. If a doctor tells you that you can be successfully treated for cancer without a radi-cal change of life they are lying to you. Cancer, of all diseases, calls for the most disciplined about-face that you will ever be asked to endure. Even before quitting my chemo and radia-tion I made the switch to vegetarianism. I did this for thera-peutic reasons, not because I wanted to adopt a vegan life-style. As we will see later, not taxing your digestive system with animal proteins, processed sugars and preservatives are part of the temporary changes a cancer patient must make.


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One of the ideals I have committed to in each of my books is never to recommend items to others that you have not tried out for yourself. After quitting my therapies I tried so many different supplements, herbs and vitamin products that I would literally fight off light headedness on a daily basis. As I experienced more and more of my own biology, I learned what I could take, and what I couldn’t. I found what I needed to ingest with food, and what goes down on an empty stom-ach. A great deal of the time which followed was spent walk-ing around feeling spacey. A point I would like to make right now is that none of those sensations existed prior to conven-tional therapy. 5 weeks after my surgery my head was clear and I felt great. It took years of supplement therapy and or-ganic eating to reverse these symptoms. This is not merely an anecdotal observation, this is my life.

All of these events are small epiphanies which your doc-tor will not share with you. They omit this in part, because they just do not know. It would be like trying to give advice on running a marathon despite never having run one. An in-experienced advisor can say so and so ran it this way or that way, but until he’s been there, until he’s been the one who pushes himself at mile 15 to go on, to fight through the cramping in his legs and pain in his back, until he has felt those sensations and warded off those emotions, he cannot accurately counsel on the subject. Running and surviving cancer are not events you can speak of vicariously!

So what are other causal factors which we can avoid? For starters if you have a wooden deck on your property built be-fore 2003 or, worst yet, a child’s play fort, you might want to get rid of it immediately. These decks contained Arsenic Tri-oxide. For this reason all building materials containing Chro-mated Copper Arsenate (CCA) are being withdrawn.

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Ban on Pressure-Treated Wood Begins Tomorrow Aired December 30, 2003 BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Pressure-treated wood can be found in about 50 million homes across the country. Research now finds, though, that kids who play on structures made from it have a higher risk of getting cancer.

This article went on to say that after December 31, 2003

this wood can no longer be used in residential construction due to the fact that these carcinogenic chemicals can exist up to 40 years! If you were to have asked your doctor about this 5 years ago, most likely they would have retorted that there is no proven “causal” link between treated lumber, and cancer. What I found really interesting about all of this is that while Arsenic Trioxide has been taken out of construction materials due to the fact that it causes cancer, it appears to be safe for people with Leukemia – an ironic and contradictory applica-tion of the hair of the dog that bit you perhaps?

FDA APPROVES ARSENIC TRIOXIDE FOR LEU-KEMIA TREATMENT IN RECORD TIME FOR A CANCER DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM September 26, 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) - A form of arsenic once used as insect poison won

Food and Drug Administration approval Tuesday as a leukemia treat-

ment after studies found small doses helped patients with a rare but

deadly form of the disease. Common side effects include, but are not limited to:

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o diarrhea o abdominal pain o fatigue o edema o hyperglycemia o dyspnea o cough o rash or itching o headaches o dizziness

Below are listed comments from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services:

Hazard Summary:

• Arsenic Trioxide can affect you when breathed in and by passing through your skin.

• Arsensic Trioxide is a CARCINOGIN-HANDLE WITH EXTREME CAUTION!

• Skin contact can cause irritation, burns, itching, thickened skin, rash and loss of pigment.

• Eye contact can cause irritation and red watery eyes.

• Breathing Arsenic Trioxide can irritate the nose and throat.

Now I did not make up these comments, they were taken from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Ser-vices – December 1995; RTK Substance number 0161

http://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0161.pdf These are not isolated observations by the New Jersey De-

partment of Health: consider the following comments made by the EPA on this extremely toxic compound:

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EPA Chemical Profile CAS Registry Number: 1327-53-3

Date: October 31, 1985

Revision: November 30, 1987

CHEMICAL IDEN-

TITY --

ARSENOUS OXIDE

Synonyms: Arsenic Trioxide; Arsenic

(III) Oxide; Arsenic Oxide; Ar-

senic Sesquioxide; Arsenicum

Album; Arsenious Acid; Arsen-

ious Oxide; Arsenious Trioxide;

Arsenite; Arsenolite; Arsenous

Acid; Arsenous Acid Anhy-

dride; Arsenous Anhydride; Ar-

senous Oxide Anhydride; Arso-

dent; Claudetite; Crude Arsenic;

Diarsenic Trioxide; White Arse-

nic

Chemical Formula: As2O3

Molecular Weight: 197.82

Health Hazards

(Acute, Delayed, and

Chronic):

Material is considered super

toxic; probable oral lethal dose

(human) is less than 5 mg/kg,

i.e., a taste (less than 7 drops)

for a 70kg (150 lb.) person. Ma-

terial causes acute gastrointesti-

nal and central nervous system

symptoms. Renal and hepatic

damage have also been ob-

served (*Gosselin 1976). Chronic

exposure to material has led to

nasal septum perforation, de-

rmatological symptoms (lesions,


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necrosis, etc.) and an increase in

the incidence of lung and lym-

phatic cancers (*Gosselin 1976,

*Clayton and Clayton 1981-82,

*Venugopal 1978, *ACGIH

1981). Appreciable exposure to

respiratory irritant promoters

such as metal oxide fumes elicits

a carcinogenic response from

arsenic trioxide (*Clayton and

Clayton 1981.

This information was taken from the EPA website originally published on October 31, 1985 under CAS Registry number 1327-53-3 and can be found at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/oswer/ceppoehs.nsf/Profiles/1327-53-3?OpenDocument

Here we have two official government agencies which state not only passively but emphatically that Arsenic Triox-ide is EXTREMELY TOXIC. And yet the FDA has authorized drug companies to produce this deadly adjunctive therapy for people who have already had their immune systems com-promised. In the comments section it even says that Arsenic causes lung and lymphatic cancers. If you are like me, you might be asking yourself, how can this happen in America? How can it happen anywhere for that matter? Even the most barbaric Nazi would never torture someone for years before their sad demise. The challenge that all of us face is that we hold the foolish belief that if this were true; someone would be doing something about it. Maybe there is a crusading humani-tarian organization looking out for us, big brother perhaps. In the mean time, Arsenic Trioxide is the poster child for Causal and so far neither Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or The Lone Ranger have been able to do anything about it.

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IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD As we shall see in the pages that follow, sometimes it is the

most common, most familiar, products which pose the great-est threat to our health. One of these familiar elements is the fillings in your teeth; silver fillings. Why would this be a prob-lem? I mean silver is good right? There are silver bracelets, silver necklaces, silver earrings and silverware that we use for eating. So why are silver fillings such a problem? Well, unlike all the other products which I have just mentioned, silver amalgam fillings contain Mercury. And Mercury my friends is death in carnet:

"I don't feel comfortable using a substance designated by the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency to be a waste disposal hazard. I can't throw it in the trash, bury it in the ground, or put it in a landfill, but

they say it is OK to put it in people's mouths. That doesn't make sense." - Richard. Fischer, D.D.S. [www.silentbetrayal.com]

"If I was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease, I would

definitely extract any questionable teeth. The infected tooth you leave in could be the one that is killing the patients." - Harold Ravin,

D.D.S [www.silentbetrayal.com]

"What is it about the mouth that makes this same stuff non-toxic?" - Sandra Denton, M.D. [http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/cancer_dental_risk.asp]

So how bad is Mercury for our health? Mercury is the sec-

ond most toxic substance on the planet bowing only to pluto-

nium in its ability to destroy life. When the material to make

amalgam fillings is shipped to a dental office, it is shipped as

Hazardous Waste. OSHA requires that when silver Amalgam

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must dispose of them. Why? Mercury from those fillings

could pollute the environment. OSHA is not worried about its

polluting us, but the environment must be kept safe. So the

question is, how much of a Silver Amalgam filling is Mer-

cury? On average the filling consists of 50% Mercury, 35% sil-

ver, 15% tin. That’s right, 50%. [USA Today, 4/18/2006 Eliza-

beth Weise]

What follows are some amazing facts regarding Mercury:

• Initial figures revealed that while 78% of the American public have dental fillings, 95% of the people with Inter-national Classification of Disease Codes 340-349: "Dis-orders of the Central Nervous System", which include MS, Epilepsy, Paralysis and Migraines, have dental fill-ings.

• 78% of American adults have dental fillings. If there are 200 million American adults that would mean that .78 x 200,000,000 would give us 156 million American adults with dental fillings. If the average American adult has 8 fillings with 800 mg. of amalgam that gives us 3.2 grams of mercury (amalgams are 50% mercury) in their fillings per American adult. 3.2 g x 28g/oz x 156 million = 17,828,571 ounces of mercury x 1/16 (ounces per pound) = 1,114,286 pounds of mercury or 557 tons of mercury stored in our mouths.

• Over ten years ago the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial (12 ) calling mercury fillings the chief source of mercury exposure to the US population.

Information found at (www.mercola.com)

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Dentist Told to Shut His Mouth.

Really Published: November 16, 2003 By Avi Salzman New York Times Dr. Breiner, a dentist from Orange, said the amal-gam fillings that many dentists use to repair teeth, commonly called ''silver'' fillings, could have toxic levels of mercury and should be banned. He wrote an opinion article in The Connecticut Post in July urging the Congress to pass a bill that would ban them. The Connecticut Department of Public Health, however, wants Dr. Breiner to stop expressing these views. Officials there said he violated a consent decree he signed two years ago that limited what he could say about the fillings.

Mercury poisoning via Silver Amalgam fillings is a well

documented problem. It is so well known that Austria, Can-

ada, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden have all banned the use

of silver amalgam fillings. In one European country you can-

not even be eligible for health insurance until you have all sil-

ver amalgam fillings removed from your mouth. At a German

Amalgam Conference, Dr. Lars Friberg, who is the world's

leading authority on mercury poisoning and was Chief Advi-

sor to The World Health Organization, revealed in an inter-

view that: There are NO safe Levels of mercury, and the Dental Associations of the Western World are flat-out wrong in telling peo-ple that mercury amalgams fillings are "completely" SAFE.

For dentists who might be reading this, statistics show that

Dentists are 6 times more likely to commit suicide and have

much higher divorce rates than other professions. Female

dental personnel have a higher spontaneous abortion rate, a

raised incidence of premature labor, and an elevated prenatal

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against tooth decay you might opt to just work with only

composite fillings in your practice.

FDA says mercury-based fillings not harmful Critics say agency playing politics, seek ban on th eir use in pregnant women Updated: 7:36 p.m. CT Sept 1, 2006

WASHINGTON - Silver fillings used to patch cavities aren’t dan-gerous even though they expose dental patients to the toxic metal mercury, federal health researchers said Friday. With amalgam fill-ings, mercury vapor is released through tooth-brushing and chewing. In general, significant levels of mercury exposure can permanently damage the brain and kidneys. Fetuses and children are especially sensitive to its harmful effects.

For those of us who are expecting the government to in-

tervene on your behalf please banish this thought. As anyone

can discern from this recent headline, nothing is going to

change anytime soon as far as the FDA is concerned. This is a

question of money and Amalgam fillings are cheap and unfor-

tunately, durable.

There are reams of data and research attesting to the fact that Mercury causes disease, but no one wants to listen. Dur-ing the early 1990’s a study was compiled [H. Lichtenberg, D.D.S, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine] which looked specifically at these symptoms before and after the removal of silver amalgam fillings. There were 118 different participants in the test. An initial survey discovered 38 common symp-toms, each of them traits of mercury poisoning. Some of the more notable symptoms were as follows:

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Fatigue 83% Headaches 58% Poor Concentration 76% Bloating 58% Poor Memory 65% Throat Pain 57% Irritability 64% Joint Pain 57% Muscle Fatigue 62% Allergies 55% Metallic Taste 61% Poor Appetite 51% Prior to removal of the amalgam fillings all patients had

on average at least 17.4 of the 38 known symptoms. Patients were categorized through blood serum globulin reactions to the metals in their systems.

After all participants had been surveyed, work was under-taken to remove all silver amalgam fillings as well as crowns with metallic substrates. Each of these fillings was replaced with a biologically compatible substitute. The participants were then surveyed four years later. The findings were as fol-lows:

48% of the symptoms were reduced. 31% of the symptoms were eliminated. 21% were unchanged. In total 79% of the symptoms were either reduced or

eliminated by the removal of silver amalgam fillings and me-tallic based crowns.

The cause and effect pallet for disease has rarely been as

vividly depicted as it is in dental science. The symptoms

above were alleviated by simply removing the mercury fill-

ings from the patient’s mouth. Your dentist, who is most


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likely a very nice and friendly fellow, may be unwitting bring-

ing about your demise. For the cancer patient, this could be

the foundation of the concept of causation.

An experiment was conducted on adult sheep that had been

given amalgam fillings with radioactive mercury (203Hg). The

FASEB Journal reported that after 29 days the sheep were sacrificed

and measurements of the mercury were taken in different tissues of

the body. Their data concluded that mercury does, in fact, come out

of the fillings as vapor (or gas) and as a liquid. It is colorless, odor-

less, and tasteless and was found in the brain, lungs, liver, gastroin-

testinal track, and jawbone of the sheep. They also concluded that

additional research could prove beneficial toward public health in

general and that humans with amalgams are being poisoned every

time they chew or brush (Haun et al. 2646). Dr. Hal A. Huggins

also conducted a vapor test experiment to determine if mercury va-

por does come off the teeth. Using a device that detects mercury va-

por in milligrams per cubic meter (mg/M3), Dr. Huggins found that

"some patients exhibited vapor emissions up to 600% greater than

OSHA's (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) maxi-

mum permissible dose for a forty hour work week".

[Huggins, Hal A., D.D.S.. It's All In Your Head. Life Sci-

ences Press, 1989.]

This portion of my book is not really about amalgam fill-

ings, it is about Mercury poisoning, plain and simple. But the

symptoms are not plain and simple, they spill over into a va-

riety of diseases and maladies that make it hard for doctors to

diagnose much less treat. Anyone who has a neurological dis-

ease should consider Mercury as a causal factor. MS, Cancer,

Parkinsons, Alzheimer’s, all may find their roots in Mercury

poisoning. This could be true even if you do not have silver

amalgam fillings. Coal burning power plants dump 50 tons of

Mercury into the atmosphere every year. Also, many of the

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shots that we are required by law to give our children contain

a preservative Thiomersal, which is laden with Mercury, and

as Dr. Lars Friberg has stated already that there is no safe

level for Mercury. NOTE: currently in 2009 the government is

again using Thiomersal as a preservative in Swine flu Shots. Part of

this problem stems from the fact that our government does

not realize how susceptible the human body is to even the

smallest amounts of Mercury. Today dentistry has turned into

a toxic playground and while none of these Doctors intend to

hurt their patients, the results they produce are irrefutable: "Mercury amalgams are as close as you can get to the centre of

the illness universe; their use in dentistry has set us up for most of the health problems we see today."--Bruce Shelton, M.D., M.D.(H)

"Dental mercury amalgams are not stable…they undergo COR-

ROSION, and dangerous amounts of MERCURY VAPOR are daily released….that may be inhaled by the lungs and in that way enter the general blood circulation and pass into the whole body. However far more dangerous are similarly released mercurial FUMES, which instead settle down on the mucous membranes in the upper region of the NASAL CAVITY, from where the mercury is transported di-rectly to the brain! These pathways are either by the OLFACTORY NERVES or by the valve-less cranial VENOUS system that presents an open venous communication between the oro-nasal cavity and the brain."—Patrick Stortebecker, M.D., Ph.D

"Worldwide there are over 4000 research papers indicating mer-

cury is a highly toxic substance. How can dentists be so thoughtless as to place one of the deadliest toxins in existence "two" inches from our brain?"—Tom Warren

"You wouldn’t take a leaky thermometer, put it in your mouth,

and leave it there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Yet that’s exactly what happens when an amalgam filling is installed in your mouth."----Dr Michael Ziff


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"The first case of MS was diagnosed in Paris 1832, and the first

amalgam was placed in Paris 1832." Hal Huggins, D.D.S. "In large measure, those martyred by dementia are showing the

results of toxicity from mercury, aluminum, lead, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals. Their neurons have been poisoned. They are turned into Alzheimer’s victims directly through the efforts of den-tists who blindly follow the party line of their trade union organiza-tion, the ADA."—Dr Casdorph, M.D.

Mercuric compounds are the potential sources of the mercuric

ion that, at the worst, kills all living things, or, at the very least, causes cellular damage and organ dysfunction. When ingested in any form Mercury produces destructive changes in the mucous membrane linings of the gastrointestinal tract. It enters the blood circulation, travels to the tissues, and then damages literally every cell with which it comes into contact. Mercury molecules, no matter how tiny the amounts that enter the body, cause destruction, particu-larly in cells of the kidneys, liver, and brain” ---Cadorph & Walker

"Three thousand doctors of the Toxicology Society came to-gether at a medical conference in Seattle, Washington, several years ago to condemn mercury-silver amalgam fillings. Their revelations should have made banner front page headlines all around the world. Just three short stories appeared in the Press."---Tom Warren

Above quotes taken from (www.whale.to/a/toxic_denistry.html)

I could fill the remainder these pages with observations

made by doctors and toxicologists just like the ones you’ve

just read. All of this information makes little difference if next

time you are at the dentist you allow them to put an amalgam

filling in your mouth either because it is cheaper, or it is what

they recommend. You must remember, it is not your dentist’s

fault per se. I personally know a very good, very conscience

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dentist. He would never knowingly harm anyone. However,

he is being told that you get more Mercury from eating shell-

fish than you do from escaping Mercury vapors in your fill-

ings. He is a good man, given bad information. So in this in-

stance, you and I must be more informed than they are. We

must take control of what goes in our mouths.

Dentistry is a profession which should require the aspirant

to become a toxicologist prior to entering. Mercury is not the

only substance, and fillings are not the only protocol, in which

your dentist engages that ultimately harms your body. For

whatever reason years ago dentists came up with the idea that

putting metal into their patient’s mouths would be a good

idea. Today we are becoming aware of the plethora of prob-

lems this action brings with it. One of those problems is Elec-

tro Galvanism, which occurs when two dissimilar metals are

present in the mouth along with saliva. The result is that a

small electrical current will begin to flow. Saliva acts as an

electrolyte when it mixes with amalgam fillings. This creates a

measurable electric current of 900 millivolts. This current

overpowers the body's normal 450 millivolts and interferes

with energy flow to the brain. Additionally, Electro Galva-

nism increases the output of Mercury vapor coming off of the

filling by over 50%. This is very similar to electro plating;

molecules of Mercury are released due to the flow of electrical

current between the teeth. This is well documented and dem-

onstrates how all fillings leak.

Any metallic materials in the mouth such as gold crowns,

chrome cobalt partial dentures, mercury fillings, titanium im-

plants, etc. will cause galvanic currents to occur. In 1985, a re-

search team (A. Knappworst, E. Gura, D. Fuhrmann and A.

Enginalev) revealed that when mercury fillings were in close

proximity to gold crowns, the mercury release was ten times


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greater than when compared to mercury fillings alone. Yikes,

this means that as bad as Mercury is on its own, it is much

worse when put next to a gold crown or other conductive ma-

terial.

The bottom line to all of this is to ask questions and re-

member that no metallic substance should be put into your

mouth for any reason - period. Mercury and tin are common

elements in dentistry and they are both neurologically toxic.

Years ago there may have not been biologically compatible

substances that we have available to all of us today. Make

your choices. Before you allow your dentist to put any partial,

any filling, any crown, any bridge, any anything, into your

mouth, find out if it is metallic. If so, refuse it. There are non-

metallic choices for everything done in dentistry today. Ask

questions, be informed. Electro Galvanism accounts for the

following symptoms:

• Lack of concentration and memory

• Insomnia

• Psychological problems (depression)

• Tinnitus (ringing in ears)

• Vertigo

• Epilepsy

• Hearing loss

• Eye problems

• Mouth pain

Can you believe all of these problems just because your den-

tist put a silver filling in your mouth when he could have

given you a composite just as easily?

The last item I would like to touch on as it relates to den-

tistry is root canals. The problem with root canals is that they

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are not fully sealed. Within that dead tooth we have bacteria,

in the absence of oxygen most things die except bacteria. They

undergo an alteration called a pleomorphic change; it is simi-

lar to a mutation. When bacteria go through pleomorphic

change, they learn to live in the absence of oxygen. When this

happens they produce thioethers, which are some of the

strongest poisons on the planet which are not radioactive. Can

you believe that? Wait, this gets better, there is a surprising

connecting between root canals and heart disease. Weston

Price knew this back in 1920, Price was at one time in charge

of research for what was yet to become, the American Dental

Association. He, along with a hand-picked 60 man team, de-

veloped the focal infection theory. This theory stated that

when a root canal is performed bacteria will continue to grow

in that dead tooth. In the case of root-filled teeth, the no

longer-living tooth lacks a blood supply to its interior so cir-

culating antibiotics don't faze the bacteria living there because

they can't get at them. So they continue to live, mutate, ex-

pand and ultimately become pathogenic (capable of produc-

ing disease.)

Price would take a person who had had a heart attack,

remove the tooth with the root canal, take a little segment of it

and surgically place it under the skin of a rabbit. In about 10

days that rabbit would die of a heart attack. Price noted that

you could take it out and put it under the skin of another rab-

bit, and it also would die in 10 days of a heart attack. Price

said he could do this to 30 rabbits and every one of them in

97% of the cases would die of heart disease.

Price’s experiments were not confined to just heart disease.

Common, debilitating diseases such as arthritis produced the

same results. People who had been medically crippled for

years had their root canalled teeth removed, and they slowly


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regained their ability to walk and use their hands. The teeth

that were removed were again implanted into a rabbit, which

became crippled and eventually died. This, in my estimation

is one of the greatest medical findings I have ever been made

aware of; root canalled teeth have been called the greatest

single source of disease known to man. Yet no newspapers, no

camera crews or media show a glimmer of interest. "I have been told about a woman who had a breast tumor. On-

cologists (cancer specialists) do not like to operate if there are signs of other infection. Her physician asked the woman to have an ab-scessed tooth taken care of before surgery. Immediately after the dental appointment, while lidocaine was present in her system, the woman had a Thermograpy x-ray that revealed a thin white line ex-tending from her tooth, down her neck, through the tumor in her breast and on down into her stomach. In light of the discovery, her physicians decided not to operate. Four months later the tumor dis-appeared. That was the first time direct connection to disease fol-lowing an acupuncture meridian was clinically observed and was an immeasurably important observation for western medicine. Every tooth has a separate acupuncture meridian running though major or-gans in the body."- Tom Warren (http://www.midnightcafe.com)

Joseph Issels from Germany successfully treated terminal

cancer cases for over 40 years. He started working with pa-

tients only after they had chemo, surgery, and radiation. They

had 3 strikes against them before they even got up to the

plate. He astonishingly turned around 24% of 16,000 patients.

What is the first thing he did? He had a dentist take out the

root canalled teeth. As a result, the patient is left with some

very undesirable choices. How do I fill the void left by this

tooth? A safer alternative to removing root canalled teeth

might be to have the root canal redone with a material known

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as Biocalex. Biocalex is considered toxin free and maintains an

infection free pulp area within the tooth.

Traditional dental work and the use of toxic materials

which it employs, definitively categorizes it as the winner,

and all time champion for causal. But unfortunately the list of

contenders goes on…

Cancer Group and Ralph Nader Release First An-nual "Dirty Dozen" Consumer Product List

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 21, 1995 The Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC) and Ralph Nader will release tomorrow a "Dirty Dozen" list of consumer products used in most American homes, and manufactured by giant U.S. corporations. Brand named "Dirty Dozen" products include: Ajax Cleanser®, Clairol® Nice n' Easy Hair Color and Lysol® Disinfec-tant. (www.preventcancer.com) As the above press release states; the Cancer Prevention Coali-tion and Ralph Nader compiled a list of 12 household prod-ucts which represent a qualified cancer threat to consumers. These products define the word “causal” and should be avoided at all costs. Remember, many products which cause illness may take years to be exposed, if ever. Do not wait for the FDA to tell you something is dangerous, use your mind, use your instincts. Many if not all of these products are still on the market. Here are their findings:


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Beef Frankfurters - (eg. Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation) Unlabeled Toxic Ingredients BENZENE HEXACHLORIDE, Carcinogenic. DACTHAL, Carcinogenic (can be contaminated with dioxin); irritant; strong sensi-tizer. DIELDRIN, Carcinogenic; xenoestrogen. DDT, Carcinogenic; xenoestrogen. HEPTACHLOR, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; reproductive toxin; xenoestrogen. HEXACHLOROBENZENE, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; teratogenic. LINDANE, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; damage to blood forming cells. HORMONES: Carcinogenic and feminizing. ANTIBIOTICS: Some are carcinogenic, cause allergies and drug resistance. Labeled Ingredient NITRITE, Interacts with meat amines to form carcinogenic nitrosamines which are a major risk factor for childhood cancers. Safer Alternative: Nitrite-Free Organic hot dogs or tofu franks.

Whole Milk - (eg. Borden or Lucerne) Unlabeled Toxic Ingredients DDT, Carcinogenic; xenoestrogen. DIELDRIN, Carcinogenic; xenoestrogen. HEPTACHLOR, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; reproductive toxin; xenoestrogen. HEXACHLOROBENZENE, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; reproductive toxin. ANTIBIOTICS: Some are carcinogenic, cause allergies and drug resistance. RECOMBINANT BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE and IGF-1: Also, risk factor for breast, colon and prostate cancers. Safer Alternative: rBGH-free Organic skim milk

Talcum Powder - (Johnson & Johnson. Inc.) Labeled Toxic Ingredient: TALC, Carcinogenic and a risk factor for ovarian can-cer; lung irritant. Safer Alternative: Corn Starch

Cover Girl Replenishing Natural Finish Make Up (Fou ndation) Labeled Toxic Ingredients BHA, Carcinogenic. TALC, Carcinogenic; Lung Irritant. TITANIUM DIOXIDE, Carcinogenic. TRIETHANOLAMINE (TEA), Interacts with nitrites to form carcinogenic nitrosa-mines. LANOLIN, Often contaminated with DDT and other carcinogenic pesticides. PARABENS, Contact dermatitis. FRAGRANCE, Wide range of unlabeled, untested, and toxic ingredients; contact dermedatitis. Safer Alternative: Max Factor Pan-Silk Ultra Creamy Makeup (Max Factor, Inc.)

Crest Tartar Control Toothpaste - (Procter & Gamble. Inc.) Labeled Toxic Ingredients:

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FD&C BLUE #1, Carcinogenic. SACCHARIN, Carcinogenic. FLUORIDE, Possibly carcinogenic. Safer Alternative: Tom's of Maine Natural Non-Fluoride Toothpaste or baking soda.

Alberto VO5 Conditioner (Essence of Neutral Henna) (Alberto-Culver USA. Inc.) Labeled Toxic Ingredients: FORMALDEHYDE, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic; contact dermatitis and sensitizer. POLYSORBATE 80, Generally contaminated with the carcinogen 1,4-dioxane. FD&C RED #4, Carcinogenic. FRAGRANCE, Wide range of undisclosed ingredients; contact dermatitis. Safer Alternative: Earth Preserv Hair Vitalizer (all scents, but with fragrances) (Earth Preserv, Inc.)

Clairol Nice 'n Easy (Permanent Hair Color) (Clairol. Inc.) Labeled Toxic Ingredients: QUATERNlUM-15, Formaldehyde-releaser; carcinogenic; neurotoxic; contact der-matitis and sensitizer. DIETHANOLAMINE (DEA), Carcinogenic; also interacts with nitrites to form a car-cinogenic nitrosamine. PHENYLENE-DIAMINES, Includes carcinogens and other ingredients inadequately tested for carcinogenicity; contact dermatitis. PROPYLENE GLYCOL, Contact dermatitis. FRAGRANCE, Wide range of undisclosed ingredients; contact dermatitis. NOTE: Also evidence of causal relation to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple mye-loma and other cancers. Safer Alternatives: Igora Botanic - Schwarzkopf, Inc. or Logona Henna Black - Natur Kosmetik

Ajax Cleanser (Colgate-Palmolive. Inc.) Unlabeled Toxic Ingredients: CRYSTALLINE SILICA, Carcinogenic; eye, skin and lung irritant. WASHING SODA,Caustic. NOTE: Carcinogenicity of silica is admitted in 1994 Material Safety and Data Sheet (MSDS). (Manufacturer claims to have reduced silica levels since 1993.) Safer Alternative:Comet Cleanser (Procter & Gamble, Inc.)

Zud Heavy Duty Cleanser (Reckitt & Colman. Inc.) Unlabeled Toxic Ingredient: CRYSTALLINE SILICA, Carcinogenic; eye, skin and lung irritant. (Carcinogenicity is denied in Material Safety and Data Sheet.) Safer Alternative: Comet Cleanser (Procter & Gamble, Inc.)

Lysol Disinfectant Spray (Reckitt & Colman. Inc.) Labeled or Unlabeled Toxic Ingredient: ORTHOPHENYLPHENOL (OPP): Carcinogenic; irritant. (Carcinogenicity is denied


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in Material Safety and Data Sheet.) Safer Alternative: Airwick Stick Up (Reckitt & Colman, Inc.)

Zodiac Cat & Dog Flea Collar (Sandoz Agro. Inc). Labeled Toxic Ingredient PROPOXUR, Carcinogenic; neurotoxic. Safer Alternative: Trader Joe's Herbal Flea Collar for cats or dogs

Ortho Weed-B-Gon Lawn Weed Killer (Monsanto Co.) Labeled Toxic Ingredient SODIUM 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETATE (2,4-D), Carcinogenic with evi-dence of casual relation to lymphoma, soft tissue sarcoma and other cancers ; neurotoxic; reproductive toxin. Safer Alternative: Organic pesticides

So how do these and other products actually relate to cancer?

• Breast cancer: Milk, HGH, the pill, hormone replace-ment therapy, mamography (radiation)

• Childhood cancers: Lindane lice treatments, hotdogs, Ritalin, pesticides in home.

• Colon cancer: HGH, Milk. • Liver Cancer: Tamoxifen • Ovarian Cancer: Evista, Talcum powder (baby pow-

der) • Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Permanent hair dyes,

Pesticides, Mercury • Prostate Cancer: Milk, MGH Many of the items on this list are common to the American

household; it seems remarkable that they can be so prevalent and deadly at the same time. Remember, familiarity is not a synonym for safety. These products are a threat, treat them as such. This information and a great deal more can be found on the www.preventcancer.com website.

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HANDYMAN One of the ideals which is drilled into all of us, is to do our

own house work and renovations when possible. I personally have done so many home improvement jobs that I couldn’t possibly list them all here. But I want you to think about this, how much is your health worth? Truly, what value do you put on your health? I like to say that most of us are great at Majoring in Minor Things. What do I mean by that? Well you’ll make sure that the oil in your car is clean, that your grass is cut and edged. You might even pride yourself on the fact that your house is the best decorated at Christmas time. But all of these activities are esthetics, and contribute very little for your overall well-being.

What I have observed is that do-it-yourselfers will risk their health, their future, and their happiness to cleanup a $4.00 paint brush. I mean, think about it, haven’t you always cleaned out your brushes after staining wood, or applying a coat of varnish? And what did you clean those brushes out with? Xylene, turpentine, gasoline? Kevin Trudeau has made the statement “do not put anything on your skin that you would not eat”. This is so simple and yet profound. I know that none of you would knowingly ingest gasoline, but when you are soaking your bare hands in these chemicals you are doing just that, you are ingesting them. Our skin protects us from many dangers such as infections and disease but when your bare skin comes directly into contact with Xylene, for example, bad things happen.

Remember many of these chemicals are absorbed through the skin and others through inhalation. So these toxic ele-ments are now entering your body through two different bio-logical mechanisms. If your body does not excrete these toxins naturally they can remain embedded in your tissue for years, causing neurological trauma, cellular dysfunction and making


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you susceptible to parasitic infection. Dr. Hulda Clark be-lieved that many diseases are the result of solvents such as xylene, toluene, benzene and isopropyl alcohol present within our organs and allowing fluke worms and other parasites to complete their lifecycle and flourish. You must ask yourself honestly if the project is worth exposing your body to these chemicals. And be smart; never subject your body to the dan-gers of cleaning out a paint brush, roller or rag. Throw them away and use new ones the next day. Believe me; you’re worth the $4.00.

BREAST CANCER

Pop quiz; what is the biggest killer of women between the ages of 44 to 55? This is a quiz question that scares the bejesus out of every woman in America, and with good cause. Breast cancer is running rampant; so prevalent in fact that woman willingly undergoing double mastectomies for little more than piece of mind. So frightened are these woman that they faith-fully, and dutifully, have a mammogram performed each and every year. Early detection is the key right? Well ponder this if you will, the incidence of breast cancer has risen sharply since mammograms were adopted. Hmm, what do you think that means? Is it possible that mammograms use radiation, and that ionized radiation is naturally carcinogenic? What do you think?

Dr. John W. Gofman, an authority on the health effects of

ionizing radiation, estimates that 75 percent of breast cancer

could be prevented by avoiding or minimizing exposure to the

ionizing radiation. This includes mammography, x-rays and

other medical and dental sources. Since mammographic

screening was introduced, the incidence of a form of breast

cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased by

328%. Over 200% of this increase is allegedly due to mam-

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mography. In addition to harmful radiation, mammography

may also help spread existing cancer cells due to the consid-

erable pressure placed on the woman's breast during the pro-

cedure. According to some health practitioners, this compres-

sion could cause existing cancer cells to metastasize from the

breast tissue. (Alternative Medicine by Burton Goldberg, page 588)

Cancer research has also found a gene, called Oncogene

AC that is extremely sensitive to even small doses of radia-

tion. A significant percentage of women in the United States

have this gene, which could increase their risk of mammogra-

phy-induced cancer. Researchers estimate that 10,000 A-T car-

riers will die of breast cancer this year due to mammography.

The risk of radiation is apparently higher among younger

women. The NCI released evidence that, among women un-

der 35, mammography could cause 75 cases of breast cancer

for every 15 it identifies. Another Canadian study found a

52% increase in breast cancer mortality in young women

given annual mammograms. Dr. Samuel Epstein also claims

that pregnant women exposed to radiation could endanger

their fetuses. He advises against mammography during preg-

nancy because "the future risks of leukemia to your unborn

child, not to mention birth defects, are just not worth it." Simi-

larly, studies reveal that children exposed to radiation are

more likely to develop breast cancer as adults.

So these are the dangers, what are the benefits? Are these

tests even accurate? Is mammography an effective tool for de-

tecting tumors? Some critics say no. In a Swedish study of

60,000 women, 70% of the mammographically detected tu-

mors weren't tumors at all. These "false positives" aren't just

financial and emotional strains, they may also lead to many

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positive mammograms do not, upon biopsy, show any pres-

ence of cancer. These are pretty big mistakes!

So what should women do to get a jump on breast cancer?

When it comes to diagnosing breast cancer in symptomatic

women, age is what counts, according to researchers in Aus-

tralia. For women under 45, an ultrasound is more accurate

than mammography. It could be the best initial imaging test

in this patient group.

The Sydney Breast Imaging Accuracy Study included 240

women from 25 to 55 years of age with breast cancer, and 240

control subjects of matching ages. They underwent both ultra-

sounds and mammograms. Researchers gauged accuracy and

specificity for both tests in symptomatic women separated by

age. Overall accuracy for ultrasound was 81.7% compared

with 75.8% for mammography for women younger than 45.

The findings were published in the April issue of the Ameri-

can Journal of Roentgenology.

I can almost guarantee that if your doctor tells you to get a

mammogram, and you tell him that you would prefer an ul-

trasound he will have no problem with making the change.

Most people simply do not question mammograms, so they

remain the tool of choice. I was recently talking with my neu-

rosurgeon in a follow-up visit and I told him what my per-

sonal therapeutic formula was like: food, supplements, medi-

tation, the works. He was nodding his head in approval as I

spoke.

“Yes I approve of all them,” he said. “When I look at my

patients who are doing well, without exception they all medi-

tate and are on some type of supplement program. I think it is

really important.”

Now, as I have said earlier, this man is an awesome sur-

geon, the best of the best without a doubt. However, if doctors

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wait until their patients walk up to them and ask, “what

about chlorella, or seaweed or laetrile or meditation?” it may

be too late. If doctors do not share this information with a pa-

tient at the onset, then the doctor is not helping them at the

highest level possible. Why? Because most people do little re-

search; they are counting on the medically trained to help

them navigate through this minefield called cancer. But if the

doctor does not tell his patients what works, both convention-

ally and naturally, then he is not doing his job. Sorry doc, but

that is the truth. When I became sick all I was told about was

chemo and radiation therapy, nothing else. I am sure that this

is because of liability concerns, but I see very little liability in

telling patients that there are two schools of thought concern-

ing therapy. Patients should be told that ultimately they must

decide, but there have been success’s in both categories. At

the end of the day, there can be only one reason not to share

this information with the patients; the medical community is

in it for the money. And that is a poor commentary on the

state of our collective humanity. Case in point, iodine…

IODINE The Universal Medicine

Approximately 41,000 woman and men succumb to breast

cancer each and every year. This number is not dropping as

many in the medical community would lead you to believe; it

simply is not. Now the part that is interesting about breast

cancer is the same basic information that is so compelling

about Prostate cancer. The body stores Iodine in 2 places. For

the ladies it is in the Thyroid and Breast, for us guys it is the

thyroid and prostate. Of all cancers, breast and prostate lead

the pack as the two biggest killers in America. Do you believe

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When you were a child and fell down, your mother might

have pulled out a bottle of red liquid and dabbed it on the

open wound. That red liquid was iodine; mom knew that it

would kill anything trying to infect your body through that

cut. What she didn’t know, and what most of us had no clue

about, was that it worked the same way in your body as well.

The human body via the thyroid disperses iodine into the

blood killing parasites, bacteria, and fungi, whatever. Breast

disease and prostate cancers are closely tied to iodine defi-

ciency. In actually, most diseases are tied to this deficiency,

because most diseases have the pathogenic origins.

Now what makes this little nugget of information all that

more tantalizing is that up until the early 1960’s, Iodine was

used as a dough conditioner in baked goods. Up until that

time virtually everyone could ingest 400-500 mcgs with just a

couple of slices of bread. However, for some reason I am sure

is not tied to the government or the FDA, bromide replaced

iodine in baked goods and remains in place to this very day.

Bromide is toxic to the human body. Furthermore, because of

something called halogen displacement, bromide displaces what

little Iodine is left. Although due to the fact that we no longer

have iodine in baked goods and every doctor in the world

tells people to avoid salt, the average person has a very, very

low intake of iodine. My only commentary on this is that it

sounds too perfect to be accidental.

Dr. Brownstein has tested over 4,000 different patients and

has found that over 95% of them were iodine deficient. Many

of them have come to Dr. Brownstein with fibrocystic breast

disease, which is a precursor to breast cancer, and he has

completely reversed their symptoms with iodine therapy. The

dosing for this type of therapy is 6 – 50 mgs per day. This is a

far cry from the 150mcg RDA that conventional medicine rec-

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ommends. The point which is crucial and overlooked with io-

dine therapy is that bodily tissue must be in the correct pH

range in order for the iodine to be absorbed and utilized. This

is true for virtually all nutrients. See www.drbrownstein.com

The reason I tell you this iodine story is to illustrate what

was written earlier, doctors are programmable appliances just

like VCR’s, sprinkler systems and alarm clocks. Even if they

had knowledge of the effectiveness of iodine therapy they

would never mention it to you as a patient. For the most part

they will always spit out the same standard answer unless

you offer them an alternative. They might be fine with the use

of an ultrasound versus a mammogram, but it may be policy

to recommend the mammogram as the first line of testing. In

this world you must think for yourself. You must be inde-

pendent of the good opinion of your doctor, or those in your

family. You must believe that your body can, and will, repair

itself given the proper environment; one which is free of ra-

diation.

So you can see, even tests design to save us from the rig-

gers of cancer can backfire and expedite the tragic result you

were trying to avoid. The food we eat, the products we use to

bath our bodies and even the dyes we employ to change our

appearance, all can and do invoke disease.

Electro Magnetic Field

EMF is an acronym which is showing up more and more in the media. Once a laughable complaint by those who worked around such fields, EMF is now a known causal factor for cancer, and one which will continue to claim lives for years to come if we do not take action now. So what are EM fields? Where do they come from and what can be done about


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them? Well, the dictionary defines EMF as a form of radiation given off by all electronic devices. This definition is accurate but not particularly useful. Anywhere there is electricity there ex-ists an electrical field and anytime we run this electricity through a conductor we create a magnetic field. Together these two forces create an electromagnetic field. Sources with high voltage produce a strong electrical field, while sources with high current produce strong magnetic fields. The mix and match combination of these two fields are producing disas-trous effects in the human condition.

The strength of these fields and the distance away from your body are the two key issues. In the case of your can opener which will produce a strong EM field, the exposure is limited and brief, which most likely does not pose a serious health threat. However, devices like heating blankets, water beds and, as we shall soon see, cell phones are responsible for constant exposure to these fields. Heating blankets and wa-terbeds have fallen by the wayside, but cell phones have never been more popular.

There are currently a reported 4 billion cell phone users worldwide. With this explosion in the use of cell phones, the number of brain tumor patients, including children, has dramatically increased. Before we go into the specifics of what this energy does to the human body, it would be beneficial to understand how cell phones are a hybrid piece of technology which not only presents a threat in the form of EMF and ELF, but also information carrying radio waves in particular. Dr. George Carlo is an epidemiologist and from 1993 to 1999 he headed the Wireless Technology Research program (WTR), a $28.5 million research program which employed over 200 doctors and scientists. This project was actually funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones. He was really hired to debunk the fact that cell phones cause brain, and other forms of cancer.

After a 6 year study here are some of the findings:

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Studies show that radio frequency radiation causes

biological cell membrane dysfunction that leads to genetic

damage, cellular dysfunction including blood-brain barrier

leakage and disruption of intercellular communication - all

harbingers of serious disease, including cancer.

A carrier wave oscillates at 1900 megahertz (MHz) in most phones, which is mostly invisible to our biological tissue and doesn’t do damage. The information-carrying secondary wave necessary to interpret voice or data is the problem; that wave cycles in a hertz

(Hz) range familiar to the body.

The human heart, for example, beats at two cycles per second, or two Hz. Our bodies recognize the information-carrying wave as an “invader,” setting in place protective biochemical reactions that al-ter physiology and cause biological problems” These include:

• intracellular free-radical buildup • leakage in the blood-brain barrier • genetic damage • disruption of intercellular communication • an increase in the risk of tumors

The bottom line here is that none of this is all too good; our cells cannot get rid of waste products, which make them more acidic. They cannot take in nutrients which make them weaker, and they cannot communicate with each other which eventually lead to mutations. This is the largest danger which the cell phone presents, however there are also energy drain-ing aspects of this technology that are just as important.

To start this discussion a small lesson in physics is in or-der. Your body, the chair you are sitting on and the coffee you are drinking are all energy. In fact, everything is energy. All things are made of the same material vibrating at different frequencies. The universe has seen fit to create the planet you


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live on and the body you inhabit. The same energy which cre-ated this planet provides an inexhaustible source of energy to replenish everything on it. This energy goes by several differ-ent names; Zero point energy, Tachyon energy, Scalar wave energy, God energy and many more. Whatever you decide to call it is a matter of semantics; and its presence allows all things to live and regenerate. Your body, as we shall see later, is a huge regeneration machine. Your cells are constantly be-ing replaced with new ones, and by the end of a year you are literally a brand new you. The “energetic blueprint” for mak-ing that “you” is contained within your subtle organizing en-ergy field or SOEF for short. This is not new-age hocus pocus; physics has acknowledged that there is an energy field which defines your body. Many people believe that this field can be seen with the aid of Kirlian Photography.

Picture 3.1 Kirlian Photograph – Courtesy Joshua P. Warren Lemur team.com

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In picture 3.1 we can see that although the leaf was actu-ally severed, the energetic blueprint remained. So, in theory, the foundation of what it took to make that leaf was still in place. So too, is the blueprint for you and me. However, now EMF comes along. EMF is categorized as a Chaotic energy. The definition of a chaotic energy is: Energy which tends to unravel or derange a person, object, or situation.

This definition is a good one because it paints a vivid pic-ture of what effect chaotic energy has on a healthy organism. In healthy plants and animals the subtle organizing energy field (SOEF) is of a higher order. When a chaotic energy comes into contact with a higher, more orderly energy, it will try to harmonize itself at the expense of that higher orderly field. This is a complex way of saying that the chaotic energy will take your energy in an attempt to normalize its own energy field. This of course is not an intelligent energy; the action of EMF just follows the electrical characteristics of an incoherent energy. But until we acknowledge that our bodies are electrical-biological systems and much more than just a mere assortment of cells, we will not dispel this danger.

So what do we have so far? Our bodies are bio-electrical units which resonate at a given frequency. The energies that form our skin, skeleton, brain and organs are called SOEFs. These SOEFs are a higher orderly energy which can be de-pleted when they come into contact with an EL or EM field. If EMF does drain our intrinsic energy pattern, what are the ef-fects of this draining? How does it really change us? And more importantly; what role does this play in chronic long-term illnesses such as cancer?


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Dr. Carlo felt strongly about the effects of cell phone radia-tion on DNA stating; “Unwanted cell death occurs, releasing the micronuclei from the disrupted DNA repair into the fluid between cells (interstitial fluid), where they are free to replicate and prolifer-ate.” Carlo thought this to be the most likely mechanism which contributes to cancer. My research has revealed that there might be more happening than just the mutation of ge-netic material. When the blood-brain barrier is open, anything and everything living in the blood stream can enter your brain. This includes parasites and fungus. There are no data points for the percentage of the population which is being overrun with Candida Albicans, a fungi of the intestinal tract. However Candida has the ability to migrate to different or-gans of the body including the brain. When the information carrying radio waves that cell phones operate from open this blood-brain barrier, Candida can enter the brain and propa-gate. This is one cause of brain cancer.

Dr. Tullio Simoncini is an Italian oncologist, he is the au-thor of Cancer is a Fungus and here is what he says:

“My idea is that cancer doesn’t depend on mysterious

causes (genetic, immunological or auto immunological as the official oncology proposes, but it comes down from a simple fungal infection, whose destroying power in the deep tissues

is actually under estimated.”

So we must get away from the idea that cell phones and EM fields only impact us from a radiation perspective. They actually impact us on an electro-chemical level, one which is ultimately much more dangerous.

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Blood-brain barriers and mutant DNA are just some of the most apparent side effects of this energy. We have seen that EM fields have the ability to zap our energetic blueprint; this in turn causes a degenerative effect to the organizing power of the cell. Hence, defects start to occur. We are constantly re-building and replacing the particles which form our body; how can this process continue safely if the original blueprint frequencies have been compromised?

One does not need to prove this scientifically to under-stand that it is true. When you are at a computer terminal all day, you feel drained. We use this word for lack of a better term, but it is accurate. Your energetic blueprint has been drained; you have been depleted of the quantum energy which constitutes “you” and consequently you don’t quite feel like yourself. We know these things instinctively and yet we ignore them. Understanding and controlling the toxic side-effects of EMF will be one of the greatest health challenges facing our planet for the remainder of the current century.

When we look at any living organism from an “energy” perspective we can see that if the subtle energy which brings life via the energetic blueprint is de-energized or drained, all of the corresponding energy patterns will also be altered, in-cluding DNA. This is where modern medicine picks up the ball and “tries” to run with it. They consider whatever hap-pens from this point on to be medically relevant, but this completely overlooks the fact that there is a source energy which defines and renews DNA and every other cellular ac-tivity up and down the biological ladder. If in fact this energy could be nurtured and protected, then DNA and everything which comes “after” DNA would benefit.

Now I am sharing this information with you, not just as a writer but as a father. We are quick to note what an “expect-ing mother” eats will impact the growth of the child but we do not realize that, likewise, all environmental factors which impact the mother do, in fact, impact the unborn fetus. Cali-


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fornia’s Kaiser Permanente is the largest health maintenance organization in the United States. Their research has shown that women who work more than 20 hours per week at video display terminal (CRT not LCD) have more health problems and twice as many miscarriages. Moreover, in the babies who are born, we see greater birth defects and fetal abnormalities.

In 1990, The American Journal of Epidemiology reported on two studies regarding the use of electric blankets. One of these studies revealed a quadrupling in the risk of brain tumors among children whose mothers slept under electric blankets during the first trimester of pregnancy. The second study simply con-firmed that children who used an electric blanket were at in-creased risk of developing cancer. Not surprisingly, the same results were obtained from exposure to waterbeds. Dr. Nancy Wertheimer and her colleague Ed Leeper reported an in-creased incidence of childhood leukemia, lymphomas, and nervous system tumors in Denver Colorado in 1979 In a significant July 2002 study sponsored by, among others, the National Institute of Environmental Health and the Department of Energy, "It is now well established that low frequency (<300 Hz) electromagnetic (EM) fields induce biological changes that include effects ranging from increased en-zyme reaction rates to increased transcript levels for specific genes... Despite cell and tissue differences (e.g., mammalian, dipteran, yeast, bacteria), approximately the same EM field exposure, 60 Hz, 80 mG for 20 min, (Goodman and Blank, 1998) induces hsp70 synthesis in all systems studied... DNA is known to conduct electrons, and stud-ies on ATPase, cytochrome oxidase, and the BZ reaction, show that EM fields accelerate electron transfer rates. We have suggested that EM fields activate DNA by generating repulsive forces when accel-erating electrons within the DNA double helix.

The government understands that exposure to EM and EL fields can impact cellular formation and DNA. In a draft re-port issued in March 1990, the EPA recommended that EMFs

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be classified as a Class B carcinogen-a "probable human car-cinogen and joined the ranks of formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins and PCBs. After the EPA draft report was released, utility, military and computer lobbyists came down hard on the EPA. The EPA's final revision did NOT classify EMFs as a Class B carcinogen Rather, the following explanation was added:"

At this time such a characterization regarding the link between cancer and exposure to EMFs is not appropriate because the basic nature of the interaction between EMFs and biological processes leading to cancer is not understood." In other words, if research-ers cannot articulate what is going on, then they cannot warn against it. Personally, I cannot intelligently describe what process takes place when you drink gasoline other than to say that it is not good for you. So if I apply this logic to my per-sonal life, I should not warn my children about drinking gaso-line because I do not understand the process of how it will kill them. Duh…we do not need to fully understand the cause and effect pallet for all the elements in our life before we opt to avoid them. Some forces, some chemicals, some foods are degenerative to us. We do not need to take apart a bomb to understand the results that it produces. You do not need to understand how crack cocaine works to cause dependency before we warn our children not to try it. And we do not need to understand exactly how EMF impacts DNA before we choose to avoid or negate its affects. There; I feel better. I can climb down off of my soapbox now and resume writing.

So there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that sug-gests that EM and EL fields are bad for our health and will in fact kill us. EMF decisively falls into the category of causal. If there is a challenge with this chapter it is that there are so many factors and elements listed within it that it is easy to say “everything causes cancer” and throw your hands in the air. And, to be sure, these are just the ones we are aware of today. In the decades which follow, many more will be revealed. But this is the work that we signed up to do, every generation


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picking up the ball and running it farther down the field. Do this for your children if you will not do it for yourself. This is our legacy, and it is up to all of us, professional or not, to carry this flame to its conclusion.

For the first time in our history, we have developed the technologies to safeguard ourselves and our families from this deadly foe. Please visit my website to read about these tech-nologies and solutions. www.healinghut.net

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N e m e s i s

Nem-e-sis a bitter enemy, especially one who seems un-beatable.

There have been so many parallels drawn in reference to can-cer, who am I to add another? Yet this one seemed to fit, so please indulge me. Few elements in all of history have had such an affect on the psyche of people as cancer. Now there have been plagues throughout the centuries, and it is true that millions have died as a result of these nasty little bugs. How-ever, at no time have so many people given their lives and their money in vain as they have for cancer.

As a people, we often seem to lose our will to fight and stand up for what we know intrinsically to be right. Since I first started my journey into the world of cancer, I have had the good fortune to talk with many people. Some of them were cancer survivors just like me, but more often than not, they were family members left behind to live their lives in quiet contemplation of what they could have done differently. These people have all said to me in almost a unanimous, but silent, scream, “Those damn doctors killed them with all their junk!” Afterwards, they replay the painful events of how their loved one left this plane of existence in the vilest of condi-tions.

This story has become all too familiar to me. As hard as it is for me to hear the saga of a mother or father who has passed; it is much harder to hear the details when it involves a small child. I am a father of four, and the thought of a child with cancer is beyond my comprehension, yet, it is an all too real and all too common part of our collective existence. The axiom “knowledge is power” has never been truer. By the end of this chapter I hope to give you the answers you seek for

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your own illness, if that is why you came to these words. If it is for a loved one; you will find yourself in the unique posi-tion of being able actually help them. However, let me warn you right now. There is a sea of opposition to what I am going to tell you. No conventional doctor will take your side in this matter, but you must soldier on, knowing that this advice is the truth. Finally, if this were not enough, you must try to convince the patient that investing in their health is the ulti-mate answer.

Recently, a woman from my home town died; we’ll call her Angie. Angie had been diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumor (GBM) 1 ½ years earlier. Her husband had come to me at that time asking about my protocol and how I fought this disease. He was a very appreciative, upbeat and a surpris-ingly optimistic man, and I did all I could to help him. He embraced the program which I gave him and tried to follow-though on all aspects of the therapy. However, his wife was not as enamored with the life-changes which the protocol asked of her, even though she knew her life literally hung in the balance. To beat a disease as devastating as brain cancer, you will need to change virtually every aspect of your life. This is not something another person can do for you. Angie, for whatever reason, was not ready to make these changes. In her defense the doctors were not telling her to change her life-style, so why should she put herself through all of these in-convenient changes at a time when her health was so poor?

Angie was a wonderful woman, and what I am recounting here is in no way meant to slander her fine memory, but it is absolutely imperative that the patient understands that he or she MUST BE WILLING TO COMPLETELY CHANGE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE! I can’t say it any stronger other than to use a bigger font. Even after all is said and done, there is no guar-antee that this will save the person’s life; there is, after all, a place in nature for death. However it is better by far to AS-SUME that you were meant to live, and then GO FOR IT!


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Everything in my program is based on the following prem-ise:

If you undergo conventional therapies, you may cause the

disease to go into remission and with no small amount of

damage done to your vital organs, perhaps tapering years off

of your future existence. However, when you choose a meta-

bolic approach, with a natural lifestyle, the retreat of the dis-

ease can mean only one thing; that you are cured. The peace of

mind which accompanies that statement is worth more than

gold. As a matter of fact, it is worth more than anything else

in your life. Remember, over 90% of your body’s cells are re-

placed each year, so you must start forming those cells today.

Here are some examples:

• All of the cells in your small intestine are re-placed every 5 days.

• The life span for your blood cells is 10-12 days.

• We change our skin every 27 days. • Our entire skeletal system is replaced every

two years. • Your internal organs also have the ability to

generate new cells as needed. • Once thought to be incapable of cell growth,

our brains have the ability to generate new cells. This is in the area of the Hippocampus which is associated with learning.

• Lastly, we know that the body regenerates roughly 86.4 trillion cells each and every day.

So at the end of a year, you are practically a whole new

you. If this is true, and I can assure that it is, then we must start now to impact how those cells are formed, or reformed. On a personal level, what you do today will impact who you

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are next year and the year after that. Mitigating the causal fac-tors outlined in chapter 3 is a great first step in this process. This is so important because any school child can see that if you treat only the symptoms and not the true cause of the dis-ease, it is improbable that any lasting cure will result from your efforts. Scientifically it is impossible, much less meta-physically. So where do we start?

If there is a place from where we must launch our new life, it is in the acceptance that we created the swamp that spawned the mosquito called cancer. When we take responsi-bility for causing an event, then we also give ourselves the power to change it. Without claiming this responsibility, we are powerless. Blame, however, is not part of the process. Blaming yourself for developing cancer can only hinder your progress. You lived your life in a certain fashion and cancer was result of that life lived; now you are deciding on a differ-ent life, and a different outcome.

Part of this new life is the understanding that food offers us the best opportunity to impact how our body’s cells will be formed. To this end, we take what we already know about nu-trition and build on it. So what do we know? Well, for starters we know that fast food is degenerative and should be avoided, especially when fighting disease. This should be ob-vious because the incidence of chronic illnesses in the United States such as cancer and heart disease have quadrupled when compared to that of the rest of the world. Most of us have heard stories of how some undeveloped country got their first McDonalds and their incidence of disease went through the roof. This was the subject matter for the movie Supersize me, which was terrific. It convincingly illustrates how fast food destroys the human body. In addition, many of the Styrofoam hamburger containers were made in machines drenched with solvents, aka: xylene, benzene.


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McDonalds to double presence in China; chronic disease follows the Western diet around the globe Thursday, 26 February, 2004 (www.newstarget.com)

As we will discover, food is not just food, food is oxygen. To be more specific, certain types of food allow our body to process much more oxygen. And there is one crystal clear fact that each and every cancer patient must acknowledge: cancer cannot grow in an oxygenated environment. As a matter of fact, for cancer to thrive there must be oxygen deprivation. Consider the following comment from Otto Warburg who won the noble prize for medicine way back 1931: "But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar. All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation" (Adapted from a lecture originally delivered by O. Warburg at the 1966 annual meeting of Nobelists at Lindau, Germany.)

So oxygen seems to be a pretty important part of this equation; especially to the cancer patient. Unfortunately, we do not logically associate food with oxygen. However, most of us understand that some foods are more “acidic” than others. For example, if I asked you to name an acidic food you might say vinegar or coffee; both of which would be correct. But it might surprise you to learn that such common items as pud-ding, meat, fish, nuts and cheese are also highly acidic. Acidic food and water can hold very little oxygen; however alkaline water (Kangen) can hold large amounts of oxygen. This in-cludes the water in your cells. It follows, then, that the more acidic your cells are, the less oxygenated they will be. To in-crease the amount of oxygen in your cells, you therefore need to create a more alkaline environment within your body.

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When you are born, your body is at its optimum state of alkalinity. As the years go by our bodies turn more and more acidic, ending in its most acidic state; death. At death our bod-ies become almost completely acidic and that is why decom-position soon follows. However, for those of us who are still alive but overly acidic, disease and premature aging are the status quo. This is, in fact, a living state of decomposition.

Acidity and alkalinity are part of our day to day existence, an essential part of life as we know it. Our body is basically a huge balancing act. At one end there is acidity and at the other alkalinity measured as pH. pH is the acronym for poten-tial for hydrogen. The entire spectrum looks like this:

0 4 7.36 10 14

Too acidic pH Too Alkaline

In our bloodstream a balance must be maintained at all costs. 7.36 is the optimum number, this makes us slightly al-kaline and that is exactly where we want to be. However, your body will make changes on its own to maintain this bal-ance. It will vary tissue and fluid pH to maintain the consis-tency of this balance.

Being too acidic has huge implications; first, it will cause your body to leach alkalinity from any available source. This usually means it will start with the bones, as calcium is a very alkaline mineral. (Now we can understand why many old people suffer from osteoporosis.) This process will also be the cause of many day to day mishaps in your life such as brain fog, weight gain, heartburn, hypoglycemia and hormonal im-balances. These are really just the day to day inconveniences, but the bottom line is that your body will just not work right. More importantly, let’s look at the entire mosaic as it relates to cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many others:


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When the human body is too acidic, it will take some of the alkaline forming elements from the enzymes in the small intestine, just to stay balanced. The small intestine then be-comes too acidic to digest food correctly. This in turn causes the pancreas (diabetes), gallbladder and the liver to make up for the deficiency, and in addition to their normal functions, assist in absorption of food. It is at this point of deterioration where disease finds its origins in the body. When this se-quence of events occurs, your immune system is working at a distinct disadvantage. Many of the natural enzymes, which would have helped to destroy cancerous cells, are now not being produced or are being used for more basic functions such as digestion.

John Beard was one of the first to identify two of these en-zymes as Chymotrypsin and Trypsin. He published his find-ings in the work The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer back in 1911. Nearly a hundred years ago! Both enzymes are extremely important to the body as they remove the pericellular outer layer from cancer cells. This outer layer is a protein coating, which can only be removed via these two enzymes. They fall into a broader category known as Proteolytic Enzymes. Once this protein coating has been stripped away, the white blood cells will resume their attack on the cancer, just as they would to any invading foreign body. It should be noted that the rea-son for this deficiency initially was a weakened pancreas. The cause of this weakened organ was an acid lifestyle in which the body was called upon to process too much sugar and animal proteins.

Acidity is generated by ingesting foods which zap our bodies of oxygen and leave an acid ash. Examples of these foods are as follows: Sugar, sugar substitutes, beer, alcohol, fried foods, soft drinks, red meat, dairy, cigarettes (another reason to quit), butter, coffee, eggs, vinegar, sauerkraut, cheese. Sex (kidding)

So what is left? What can I actually eat? It’s not as bad as it sounds: Most green vegetables, wheat grass, barley grass,

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spinach, asparagus, romaine, kale, cucumbers, celery, arti-choke, brussels sprouts, figs, apple, apricots (more on this later), strawberries, mangos, oranges, nectarines and all mel-ons. Some meat and fish such as chicken (no, not fried), tur-key, duck, quail, water packed tuna. Most beans and lentils are good and some nuts and seeds such as almonds are excel-lent. Ironically, as we will see later, many of these green foods are rich in vitamin B-17.

The entire list is much longer than this of course. There ac-tually is a great deal of food that you can eat, there really is. After all is said and done, the bottom line is this: EAT LIVE FOOD. The less processing your food has undergone the bet-ter and healthier you will be. That is easy to remember. If you are at one of the fast food restaurants for lunch, order a salad. Today fast food franchises all have salads, taking away any excuses we might have for ordering something unhealthy. And to tell you the truth, most of the ones I have tried tasted pretty good.

There are a million things you can do to add to this, like get a juicer (watch for EMF), start a garden, become a tempo-rary vegetarian or join a health club. If you opt for the health club, here is something that you should consider. The very act of exercising produces lactic acid in you body.

Remember this; “No pain, no gain?” Today, I would tell you that exercise is necessary, but should be done in modera-tion. Putting yourself through killer workouts without alkaliz-ing and mineralizing your body will do you more harm than good. Hence walking is better for you than running and so on. The bottom line is the more you work out, the more you will be required to ingest alkaline rich materials. Your body will need more calories and more essential nutrients. However, I will tell you this is easier said then done. Shortly, I will share the incredible solution I found for this problem.

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of acid in your bloodstream that you cannot escape. One of the side-effects of acidity which will no doubt hit a chord with many of us is that when your body is overly acidic, it must do something with all that acid to keep it out of our blood stream. Why is this? We learned earlier that your body must balance alkalinity and acidity at 7.36 for your body to function properly. If it is too high or low by more than one point, we could die. So when we are overly acidic, our body searches for places to store acid. One of these locations is bodily fat. The body will actually create fat and cellulite to store acid, think about that for a minute. Your body understands that this acid can actually eat holes in organs and arteries and in an attempt to protect these organs from acid, it creates fat.

However, you should understand that no matter what you do, no matter how much you exercise, or cutback on you food intake, your body will not let go of the fat because it is storing acid there. To your body it is much more important to be alive than be slim, so it retains the fat stores. Sound like anyone you know?

I was very surprised when I first learned this, but after giving it some thought, it began to make sense. How often have you gone on a diet or started the year out and said, “That’s it. This year I’m going to lose 20 pounds.” You start out in earnest and peddle your butt off on one of those ma-chines at the gym. You cut back on your food intake and try to throw a few more salads in there. If you are really dedi-cated, you pull back on the food so much that you are per-petually starving. This causes stress in your body, and stress is a universal and is self-perpetuating toxin. After all that you drop 5 pounds and your brain says “I did all that and I only lost 5 pounds.” Or worse yet, you lose no weight at all or ac-tually gain weight. When this happens, your brain really freaks out. In either case, long-term success rarely happens in diets due to these issues. Let me tell you what happened to me when I adopted an alkaline lifestyle, or should I say a

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more alkaline lifestyle. (I still drank coffee, substituting honey for sugar). I lost 6 pounds in a week. I actually got mad at my nutritionist for putting me on the diet in the first place. My body no longer needed to store the fat to hide the acid. The weight literally fell off of me, with very little exercise, and I have kept it off. The challenge with the alkaline diet is that it requires a great deal of discipline and is not cheap. You must give up animal proteins and most dairy products. Eating raw, natural food all the time is, well, hard to do. I was dying so I made it a mandate, but most people will not.

The Solution Six years into my cancer journey I discovered a technology

that was so amazing I re-wrote this edition of my book to in-clude it. We have seen the challenges with achieving alkalin-ity in the body, but for 6 years I searched for a manageable solution. It takes a great deal of broccoli, spinach and salad just to buffer a single cup of coffee. Now I understand why; coffee is a liquid. Recently I had started analyzing all of the liquids I was ingesting and guess what, with the exception of green tea and a spirulina drink, all of them were acidic. That’s right, all of them, even the water.

Now ask yourself, what do you think gets absorbed more readily into the body, a liquid or a solid? You don’t even need to think about that one do you? The answer is a liquid of course. Like any good holistic practitioner, I was drinking 8 glasses of water a day; guess what? It wasn’t alkaline either. I had 3 cups of coffee every day that was acidic, 8 glasses of water that was acidic and really 1 glass of spirulina juice which was slightly alkaline (8.1 pH). The green tea was barely alkaline at just over 7 pH. So slowly, over 6 years, acidity started to creep back into my life. The first sign of this was weight gain. Try as I may, the pounds were making an un-


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welcomed return. I knew the ramification of this so I tried employing different strategies such as taking lemon water to work with me. However, adding alkaline lemons to acidic wa-ter produces very little results. So the quest continued…

We have talked about how acidity has an effect on disease, weight gain and even the proper function of organs within the body, but another unknown factor is mineral assimilation. Your body will not absorb many of the nutrients which you ingest unless your bodily tissue is at the correct pH. So all of the supplements I was taking would be for naught if I could not regulate my pH. Iodine is a great example of this as it has a very tight pH range requirement before it can be absorbed into the cells. Armed with the knowledge if you ask the universe a question, you will get an answer; I embarked on a quest to find the answer.

My answer came upon returning from the 4th of July weekend in 2009. My neighbor lady called and said a friend was giving her alkaline water and asked if I would be inter-ested in trying some. Of course I did, and in less then 2 weeks I noticed changes in my body and how I was feeling. I moved up to a gallon a day and really liked what I saw in the mirror. I started taking on projects which had been shelved and over-all my ambition began to grow. Within the first month I started a new lecture tour and the rewrite of this book.

This miraculous liquid is called Kangen water and the ma-chines that produce it are from a company called Enagic. On the surface this does not make any sense; how can water make such profound changes? Well, when you think about it your body is 70% water, when you were born it was closer to 90%. So, just like a fish tank, if your internal fluids are dirty you better clean them up or the fish will die. The machine will produce 7 different types of water, 3 of which are for drink-ing. The pH levels for the drinking waters are 8.5, 9.0 and 9.5 and if varying the pH was all the machines did they would still be a great value. However, they do much more. Because

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of the electrolysis process used to separate the alkaline and acid water, this machine micro-clusters the water. What this means is that the water is run over the solid platinum coated titanium plates, the water is broken down in size from a clus-ter of 15-20 molecules to around 5-6 molecules resulting in the body being hydrated up to 6 times as much as regular water. Due to its smaller clustered size, this water will penetrate and hydrate all areas of the body. This water actually hydrates, oxygenates and detoxifies your body all at once. If this were not enough it also induces a measurable antioxidant effect within the water.

Herein lies the irony in all of this; for years I was drinking reverse osmosis and tap water; both were acidic and both were oxidative. This means that they rusting me from the in-

side out. You see, we take antioxidants because they are elec-tron donors to satiate the need of free radicals which are elec-tron stealers. This is measured as ORP, Oxidative Reduction Potential. If I said that the average vitamin C capsule has an ORP value of -100, just for example sake, (all antioxidants have a negative reading because electrons are atomically negative) and the ORP value of tap water was +350, then taking the vitamin did me no good from an antioxidant perspective. This is what has been what has been going on for decades. We take anti-


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oxidants with oxidative water yielding little or no results. Kangen water on the other hand has an ORP of between -250 up to -900 depending on source water. The real surprise here is that bottled water is no better than tap, and yet we spend as a nation $30 billion on bottled water each year for one reason, and one reason only; we believe it is better for us. Some households in fact buy nothing but bottled water for drinking, but here is a fact to consider: only 5% of plastics make it to recy-cling. So where is the rest of it going?

Save The Planet and Yourself I have a vested interest in helping every cancer patient on

the planet. I frequently give away books and material to those who cannot afford to purchase them. Just as important to me is the health of the planet, so here is the bottom line; the pub-lic purchases bottled water because they feel it is better, cleaner, and, in a word, healthier than tap water. This is not really true but it is a belief that lingers. As a result Americans ingest water from 2 million plastic bottles every 5 minutes! Enagic produces machines which produce the finest alkaline, micro-clustered and antioxidant rich water in the world. For those who own a machine, carrying a reusable water con-tainer with them is just part of this new paradigm.

As I am writing these words, there is an island of plastic bottles twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. This is causing havoc on every living thing from the smallest plankton to the whales and sea birds and every aquatic class in between. Each disposable plastic product presents its own biological challenge. For example, most people are aware of the bottles but not the plastic caps which seal them. These separated caps are made of different plastic entirely (polypro-pylene) and sometimes float on the water for years; seabirds mistakenly ingest them as food. You can imagine the effect of

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having 20 plastic bottle caps, which will never dissolve float-ing around in your stomach…the bird dies. The bottles which are paper thin do break apart but do not disintegrate. This al-lows them to get entangled in many of the Ocean’s other food chains such as Zooplankton and Seaweed. This problem truly is pandemic for lack of a better word. Now here is the rub; I do not live by any Ocean and hence I do not have any poten-tial to actually clean up a beach or impact the Ocean through my physical actions. However, this is what I know for sure: if I stop buying plastic water bottles, and my mother and father stop buying plastic water bottles, and my brother and sister quit buying plastic water bottles, and our neighbors quit buy-ing, collectively our actions will make a HUGE impact. It is my belief that our world will find a way to clean up the Oceans but for right now, TODAY in fact, I can completely alleviate anymore plastics from entering the debris field. That is powerful. Now anyone can swear to do this with or without a Kangen machine, but if we are honest with each other, most people are not willing to sacrifice their own health for that of the planets. This is just the reality that we live in. We have options; change your water, change our lives.


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Until you get a Kangen machine my suggestion would be to find a good green drink to accompany your dietary efforts. Green drinks are just as the name implies, loaded with natural green foods. Many of these green drinks such as wheat grass are the better choice. Why? It gives you all the benefits of other green drinks and as we will see, it is an incredible source of B-17. Unless you have a source of fresh Wheat Grass or Barley grass you will most likely need to purchase them in powdered form and mix them with water. As we have seen, Kangen water is micro-clustered and will enhance the absorp-tion into the body many times over. Perhaps the greatest benefit that these machines provide is that of Hydroxyl Ioniza-tion. This is the process where the ionizer cleaves off a Hydro-gen atom from H20 (which has two hydrogen atoms bonded to an atom of oxygen.) This produces the Hydroxyl Ion effect which increases the amount of oxygen in the water and is a rich source of electrons, negating free radical damage.

In addition it is still good to adhere to an alkaline diet. Drinking Kangen water does not give you a waiver to cheat on your diet, it just gives you a valuable tool to expedite the process. In addition, alkaline foods provide enzymes which are critical to the digestion process. An important point to note is that Kangen water should not be drank 45 minutes before or after a meal. Doing so circumvents the enzymatic process as well as diluting the Hydrochloric acid which is es-sential for proper digestion. A good rule of thumb suggests that we should not drink any liquids with our meals, the only exception to this rule being vegetable juices which contain en-zymes.

Chart 4.1 illustrates many of the foods that can be eaten to maintain an alkaline balance of foods. Optimally 80% of the foods we eat should be alkaline, while the remaining 20% should be acidic.

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ALKALIZING FOODS

VEGETABLES Garlic Asparagus Fermented Veggies Watercress Beets Broccoli Brussel sprouts Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chard Chlorella Collard Greens Cucumber Eggplant Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Dulce Dandelions Edible Flowers Onions Parsnips (high glycemic) Peas Peppers Pumpkin Rutabaga Sea Veggies Spirulina Sprouts Squashes Alfalfa Barley Grass Wheat Grass Wild Greens Nightshade Veggies

FRUITS Apple Apricot Avocado Banana (high glycemic) Cantaloupe Cherries Currants Dates/Figs Grapes Grapefruit Lime Honeydew Melon Nectarine Orange Lemon Peach Pear Pineapple All Berries Tangerine Tomato Tropical Fruits Watermelon PROTEIN Eggs Whey Protein Powder Cottage Cheese Chicken Breast Yogurt Almonds Chestnuts Tofu (fermented) Flax Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Tempeh (fer-mented) Squash Seeds Sunflower Seeds Millet Sprouted Seeds Nuts

OTHER Apple Cider Vine-gar Bee Pollen Lecithin Granules Probiotic Cultures Green Juices Veggies Juices Fresh Fruit Juice Organic Milk (unpasteurized) Mineral Water Alkaline Anti-oxidant Water Green Tea Herbal Tea Dandelion Tea Ginseng Tea Banchi Tea Kombucha SWEETENERS Stevia SPICES/SEASONINGS Cinnamon Curry Ginger Mustard Chili Pepper Sea Salt Miso Tamari All Herbs ORIENTAL VEGETABLES Maitake Daikon Dandelion Root Shitake Kombu Reishi Nori Umeboshi Wakame Sea Veggies

ACIDIFYING FOODS

FATS & OILS Avocado Oil Canola Oil Corn Oil Hemp Seed Oil Flax Oil Lard Olive Oil Safflower Oil Sesame Oil Sunflower Oil FRUITS Cranberries GRAINS Rice Cakes Wheat Cakes Amaranth Barley Buckwheat Corn Oats (rolled) Quinoi Rice (all) Rye Spelt Kamut Wheat Hemp Seed Flour DAIRY Cheese, Cow Cheese, Goat Cheese, Processed Cheese, Sheep Milk Butter

NUTS & BUTTERS Cashews Brazil Nuts Peanuts Peanut Butter Pecans Tahini Walnuts ANIMAL PROTEIN Beef Carp Clams Fish Lamb Lobster Mussels Oyster Pork Rabbit Salmon Shrimp Scallops Tuna Turkey Venison PASTA (WHITE) Noodles Macaroni Spaghetti OTHER Distilled Vinegar Wheat Germ Potatoes

DRUGS & CHEMI-CALS Chemicals Drugs, Medicinal Drugs, Psychedelic Pesticides Herbicides ALCOHOL Beer Spirits Hard Liquor Wine BEANS & LEGUMES Black Beans Chick Peas Green Peas Kidney Beans Lentils Lima Beans Pinto Beans Red Beans Soy Beans Soy Milk White Beans Rice Milk Almond Milk

Chart 4.1 Acid and Alkaline Foods

The rewrite of this book is taking place around the fall of

2009, and currently the greatest fear rambling through West-ern society is the H1N1 virus. It is a huge source of conjecture and debate and many people are coming down with common


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flu symptoms which are being labeled has Swine Flu. One of my daughter’s friends literally walked into my house and said; “I hurt all over, I feel sick, I can’t sleep, etc. etc. Immedi-ately I gave him 2 gallons of Kangen water and told him to go home, drink as much of the water as he could tolerate, and just take it easy and watch some television. I saw him 2 days later and he was smiling and confirmed that he was no longer sick and that the water really did the trick. I was happy to hear the news but miraculous recoveries always make me take pause, what really happened there? A report released from Mercola.com stated that the Obese are at six Times Higher Risk from H1N1 Complications. Why do you think this is occurring? Well, as we have seen; when you are obese you are acidic. The more acidic you are the more your immune system has been compromised.

Your immune system can’t fight disease or respond to the most mundane of threats when you are overly acidic. Every operation and bodily function is greatly improved when you become more alkaline, and hence more oxygenated. Every American who is taking calcium supplements in the hopes of one day avoiding osteoporosis is walking down a dead end without first addressing the issue of body alkalinity. Every person who is suffering from cancer or heart disease will not prevail without addressing this issue. Our lives and our health are sitting on the cornerstone of this principle and yet no one seems to care. I do not have the vocabulary to state this any stronger. Your life, your health and your longevity hang in the balance. What are you going to do about it?

If you research longevity one of the things you find is that centenarians embrace an alkaline lifestyle. This is true across the globe, whether we are talking about the Hunza people from Tibet or the Okinawans who utilize seaweed heavily in their diets. All of these cultures incorporate alkaline fruit and vegetables into the diet. This is the common element that many nutritionists seem to overlook. You can be taking the

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best supplements, the finest colloidal minerals and eating the most unspoiled food on the planet, but if your body is overly acidic it will not be able to absorb all of the wholesome good-ness you have been nourishing it with.

People are eager to dismiss a simple tactic like using alka-line water to impact your system, not because they cannot understand alkalinity, but because we have all been led to be-lieve that solutions that are medical in nature must come from a doctor. This simply is not the case, you are your own best doctor, and you must take back that status in your life. Why is it so important that we put this additional focus on alkaline foods and increasing available oxygen?

OXYGEN SOURCES ARE

VANISHING!

I have noted that 200 years ago there was a much lower in-cidence of cancer than we are seeing in the world today. I have attributed a great deal of that to environmental factors such as mercury, household cleaners, food and food additives and last but not least, EMF’s. But there is another factor and to be honest, this might be the most insidious of the bunch. Con-sider the following statement: Less than 200 years ago the Earth's atmosphere was comprised of 40% oxygen; today we breathe only 19% - 21%. Lack of oxygen on our planet is due to pollution, burning of fossil fuels and overall destruction of our ozone layer.

So basically there is a lot less oxygen today than there was only 200 years ago. I don’t claim to be an environmentalist, but I do believe that if greenhouse glasses are causing all of these problems then we need to take action. You do not need to be a “tree hugger” to feel this way, a simple desire to live will suffice. Now there are people who will tell you that this is not the case, and that global warming is not taking place. I


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would encourage those individuals to see the movie An In-convenient Truth. Through imagery, the movie relates the se-verity of the climate crisis. I would fall short attempting to address the problem with mere words. (Al Gore won an acad-emy award and Nobel Prize for this film.) Global warming is happening and, like gravity, it will exist whether you or I ac-knowledge its presence or not. However, because everything on this planet seemingly affects everything else, it only makes sense to embrace this cause. Through a series of reactions such as the destruction of trees, algae and plankton, the amount of naturally occurring oxygen is decreasing, the con-sequence of which is an increase in the incidence of disease. We as residents of this small sphere need to take up arms if necessary, to overt this process. Here are just some of the comments from the medical community:

Certainly there is scientific proof that the oxygen concentra-

tion in the atmosphere is being slowly reduced...In Japan we now

see the regular use of 'oxygen booths' and portable oxygen cyl-

inders because the people realize that the air is so contaminated

they are not getting sufficient oxygen from it."

Dr. John Muntz, Ph.D.

"Insufficient oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can

result in anything from mild fatigue to life threatening disease.

The link between insufficient oxygen and disease has now been

firmly established."

Dr. W. Spencer Way, M.D.

Journal of the American Association of Physicians

"All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack

of oxygen at the cell level." Dr. Arthur C. Guyton, M.D.,

"Simply put, disease is due to a deficiency in the oxidation proc-

ess of the body, leading to an accumulation of toxins. These tox-

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ins would be ordinarily burned in normal metabolic functioning."

Dr. Albert Wahl, M.D.

Because there is much less oxygen available to us today, it

only makes good sense to fortify our bodies with as much oxygen as possible; hence, the alkaline diet is essential to not only fighting disease, but extending and improving life. So oxygen is indeed our friend; what can you do to get more oxygen into your body?

• Take long walks in the woods; this gives you the benefit of exercise along with increased oxygen.

• Grow as many plants in your home as possible. This is especially important in your bedroom.

• Sleep with a window open in your bedroom when-ever possible, even if this means it is just cracked open.

• Use air conditioning as little as possible. Condi-tioned air has up to 35% less oxygen in it.

• Use natural supplements like B-15 to increase oxy-gen utilization within the body.

• Practice deep breathing exercises. Many people simply are not in the habit of breathing deeply.

• Invest in a Kangen water machine. While we are on the subject of acidity and how it affects

the oxygenation of your body, let’s consider what may be the most acidic endeavor any of us enter into…thought. A mis-take I initially made was not to give thought its due, at least not medically. This is a mistake. We attribute thought to bringing us wealth, notoriety, spouses and overall lifestyles but we do not think to apply this same power to healing. Your thought is a form of energy, one that we will explore in great detail later in this text, but for right now understand that your thoughts create your world, consequently, the statement “thought can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” Whatever


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you are thinking about and feeling about at this moment, you are being at this moment. If you are habitually nervous, con-demning, critical, or just irritable, you are creating an acidic environment in your body.

BEING IS CREATIVE

So given the fact that being is creative, then it only follows that controlling this creative process is everything. Control-ling our mind means controlling our health, our wealth and our destiny. This is literally creating the world that we want, the way that we want it.

Many people access this creative portal through medita-tion. Meditation; this word means a lot of things to a lot of people. However, its relationship to healing is absolutely es-sential. Many believe that meditation has religious connota-tions, I do not. And whether we describe it as prayer, a state of utter relaxation or oneness with the universe, trust me, we all need it. It has been said that those who do not go within, go without. Even if you just sit in a chair and calm your mind you have helped your cause. When your mind is calm and you feel at ease, stress is alleviated. Stress, my friend, is a larger cause of disease in the body than diet or any other single fac-tor. It is an intangible and as such is harder to quantify, but as you look at your life from a different perspective, you will see that this is so.

The second value of meditation is visualization. This is nothing more than making a picture in your mind over and over of what you want to show up in your life. Today I use this for everything, from the lost set of car keys to the impor-tant people and significant possessions in my life. Simply hav-ing a clear picture and then trusting in that picture makes all the difference. This is what is known as living your life delib-

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erately. All of that is fine and well, but how does it translate to the real world? How can you use meditation and visualiza-tion to improve your health?

Can you think yourself strong?

A recent study which was done at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic in Ohio proved that visualization can actu-ally strengthen muscles. The summary findings of the clinic are: just thinking about exercising a muscle can make it stronger. They split 30 healthy young adults into 3 groups. These groups were required to visualize exercising a specific muscle group for 15 minutes each day, 5 days a week for the 12 week trial. Group number 1 imagined exercising their little finger. Group number 2 imagined exercising their biceps and group 3 acted as the control group and did no imagery.

So how did all this psychological mumbo jumbo work? Well, group number one; the finger guys, increased their strength by a staggering 53%. Group number 2 turned in what I consider to be a more impressive number by increasing bi-cep strength by 13%. It is one thing to make a finger stronger, but biceps are a much larger muscle group. These results could equate to being able pull yourself over a bar which was otherwise unobtainable. This can not even be delegated to the status of a training technique because no real training was ever done. In this example their bodies were impacted by the mind and the energy thought produces, and nothing else.

When Tiger Woods was only twelve years old he vividly imagined winning the Masters Tournament. He ran this im-age over and over in his head until it felt real. This is a re-markable trait for a twelve year old, but Tiger Woods is a re-markable person; or maybe it is because of visualization, that he is so remarkable.


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Visualization creates our world. The story is told of the great football hero James Brown who was sitting in an ice cream shop when a young boy walked up to him to ask for his autograph. The boy who was suffering from rickets, a nu-tritional disease caused by lack of Vitamin D and calcium, was a young O.J. Simpson. Simpson was forced to wear leg braces from the time he was two years old, and he still had them on that day at the ice cream parlor when he asked for the autograph from the football icon. Before hobbling away he told Jim Brown that he would break all his records when he grew up and as we all know, he did. Make no mistake this could not have happen without Simpson first seeing it clearly in his mind.

Dr. Charles Garfield is a keynote speaker and has done ex-tensive research on peak performers, both in athletics and in business. Garfield became fascinated with peak performance in his work for the NASA program, watching the astronauts rehearse everything on earth, again and again in a simulated environment before they went into space. He decided to study the characteristics of peak performers in all fields. One of the main things his research showed was that almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers use visualiza-tion. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they ac-tually do it. They begin with the end in mind. They make it so real, so compelling that their mind cannot tell the difference. Arnold Palmer used this same technique to create one of the most successful golf careers of all time. Palmer stated that he never took a single shot without first playing it forward and backward in his mind.

In 1905, at the age of twenty-six, Albert Einstein published five journal articles, three of which are said to be among the greatest in the history of physics. Trying to explain the origin of these ideas, Einstein said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by "combinatory play" with "images" in his mind. Only at a secondary stage did he "labo-

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riously" translate these images into "conventional words" or the signs of mathematics. In Thomas G. West’s book Thinking Like Einstein he makes the following observations; Albert Ein-stein was a classic example of a strong visual thinker, a person who tends to think in images and visual patterns and sometimes has dif-ficulty with words and numbers. Several highly creative visual thinkers, such as James Clerk Maxwell, Nikola Tesla, and Richard Feynman, all had a long history of using visualization rather than words or numbers to solve problems. www.innovationwatch.com

One of the most famous business men of all time also em-ployed these strategies. Walt Disney, who set the standard for animated pictures and who introduced America to a new type of theme park, embraced these ideas. Disney died before ever setting foot into Disney World in Orlando Florida, but be-cause of his clear use of imagery, he had designed the park years before and knew what it would look like in each and every detail.

With this wealth of knowledge; with the unprecedented amount of data showing that the mind and the energy of thought creates our existence, everyone is now wisely utiliz-ing this creative power, right? One of the many observations which I have made since first becoming ill is this; we are eager to praise the business man who makes good by seeing his fu-ture and then makes it happen. We herald the entrepreneur who harvests an empty building and, by doing so, improves lives and changes fortunes. We love the athlete who struggles against all odds to become a champion. In fact we worship these people: Rocky, Rudy, Remember the Titans - all tributes to this ideal. In spite of that, when it comes to believing or making ourselves believe that the proper application of thought can heal our bodies, we feel naïve, or at the very least, wrong for considering such thoughts. We act as if this reality were any different than the outcome of poverty or that of abundance. Both are self-created.


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All of the great fortunes of this world, all of the records set by our finest athletes, all of the strides made by our greatest doctors and physicists were done with the aid of creative visualization. Sadly, we are made to believe that when we are sick this power is no longer available or no longer feasible. In as many words we are told to step aside and let the profes-sionals handle it, abandon the power which nature has given us; which God has given all of humanity.

Well, if you are not ready to oppose the laws of nature and abandon your creative process, then stay with me, be-cause your thoughts do control your life and your mind can heal your body. This is not the theoretical ramblings of some PhD with too much time on his hands; this is the real and per-sonal account of one who has been there.

If Walt Disney can visualize a theme park and then make it show up, then you can envision a body bereft of disease, and likewise make it happen. Sometimes it comes down to not knowing how to visualize the solution. For example, I can tell you it is much easier to make a film of a Porsche showing up in your life than to make one of cancer cells leaving your body. I mean how do you picture that? So we must utilize es-tablished knowledge to go along with our creative powers.

We know that white blood cells, specifically T-cells and NK-cells, have the ability to attack and kill cancer cells. Un-derstanding this, I would visualize armies of white blood cells marching on my tumor bed. You can give these white blood cells any form you like. For me, they were warriors similar to those in The Lord of the Rings. Each of these sword-wielding soldiers pulled out cancer cells and skewered them on the spot. This is your movie so you can make as many of these warriors as you like. You can tilt the odds in you favor just through the use of numbers alone, allowing you to make your army unbeatable and overwhelming.

Another technique I would employ was to picture a golden light soaking through my body and eradicating the

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cancer cells. This technique is similar to what you may have seen in any of the popular vampire movies; sunlight causes them to burst into flames leaving only smoldering ashes. There are many ways to use imagery to eradicate cancer; however, the patient must start in earnest. Especially when you are sick, these exercises cannot be left for tomorrow, there is no tomorrow.

My favorite technique for treating my body is to imagine a cave and within this cave there is a bright blue light that runs from one side of the cave to the other. Upon closer inspection the light is really a glowing stream of liquid light. I disrobe and step inside of the stream of flowing, liquid light. What I notice immediately is that I can feel the blue liquid flowing not just around, but through my body. The heavy liquid is pulling toxins, cancer cells, bacteria and anything else which is harmful to my body. As it removes these toxic elements it nourishes the healthy cells left behind. The liquid light is revi-talizing the cells of my body and each of them pulsates with energy. The key to using this technique is to feel the liquid flowing through and around your body, to experience the disease being pulled from your body and vitality being fun-neled into each of your cells. Then the sensation of each of these newly revitalized cells is resonating at higher levels, al-most as if they were singing to you. When you visualize at this level and with this much detail, your body has no choice but to respond.

However, visualization is more than just telling your body what to do; it is in fact altering the creative process of your entire life. This may be hard for you to accept, and all I can say in defense of this ideal is that it has been my direct experi-ence that it works. As with any other creative process, there are tricks of the trade and manifestation is no different. So I will pass on only one caveat to this process; and that is that you must let go of the desired outcome. Huh…what the hell


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does that mean? What is the purpose of desiring an outcome if I have to let go of it?

When you say to the universe, “I intend to have health and vitality in my life,” and then visualize the event in detail, the next step is to let go of the desired outcome. By doing this you are confirming that you understand the process, that you are in fact controlling the process. If we try to force life into re-sponding, what we are really saying is that we do not believe in this process and that is a statement in itself, a statement which will illicit a negative response from the universe. It is much more beneficial to believe that whatever we focus on will appear, and proceed from that point. Much of what de-lays or blocks our ability to produce these results is our level of expectation which actually shows up as resistance to the desired outcome.

So I would ask everyone, healthy or otherwise, to set aside a few precious moments everyday for imagery. A fair ques-tion might be “if I do this what kind of benefits can I expect?” Here is a smattering of results obtained through the use of visualization alone:

1. A controlled study of fifty-five women examined the effects of imagery

and relaxation on breast milk production in mothers of infants in a neona-

tal intensive care unit. They received a twenty-minute audiotape of pro-

gressive relaxation followed by guided imagery of pleasant surroundings,

milk flowing in the breasts, and the baby's warm skin against theirs. They

produced more than twice the milk as those receiving only routine care.

2. Heidi, thirty-five, was scheduled for a round of chemotherapy for breast

cancer. The treatment was to take place on Friday and she and her hus-

band had tickets to fly to Hawaii on Saturday for a week's vacation. As is

routine, she was called into the treatment center for a blood check on the

Monday before to make sure her white cell count had recovered enough

from the previous treatment to allow her to qualify for the next one. To her

shock, she was told that her white count was only about half what it should

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be and she would probably have to forego her vacation. For four days she

practiced imagery intensively several times a day, concentrating on rais-

ing her white count. She used images of the bone marrow releasing a

steady, strong flow of white cells into her bloodstream and spreading

throughout her body. She also imagined directing her breath into the bone

marrow and thereby nourishing the stem cells (that produce the white

cells) so that they could grow and release more white cells. On that Friday,

she went in for another blood test. Her white count had more than doubled.

She was able to have the treatment and the next day was able to walk on

the beach with her husband. “This one concerns me; if she believed

that she could completely change body chemistry; why not just fo-

cus on ridding yourself of cancer without chemotherapy?

3. Danish researchers found increased natural killer cell activity among

ten college students who imagined that their immune systems were becom-

ing very effective. Natural killer cells are an important part of the immune

system because they can recognize and destroy virus-infected cells, tumor

cells and other invaders.

4. Imagery can also help alter menstrual cycles and relieve symptoms of

premenstrual syndrome. In a preliminary study, researchers at Massachu-

setts General Hospital in Boston found that 12 of 15 women, ages 21 to 40,

who used imagery for three months lengthened their monthly menstrual

cycles by an average of nearly four days and slashed their perceived levels

of premenstrual distress in half. They also reported fewer mood swings.

So visualization can help with everything from breast milk

to menstrual cycles and everything in between. Whatever

your belief is, do not feel like spiritual healing is reserved ex-

clusively for mystics and sages, anyone can use these tech-

niques. Napoleon Hill was the father of motivational speaking

and he said that we were born with everything that was needed to

make our life’s journey. He knew, as I know, that learning how

to run your mind is the most important of all human endeav-


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ors. Just expect for this power to work and do not add logic

to the mix. Logic says that cancer cannot simply disappear

from your body; however creation knows a very different

story.

A question which has been asked, mostly by the medical

profession, in regards to meditation, has been “how can this

produce real change within the human body?” My answer to

this is that the human body is not a static event. The body you

see today is not the same body you had last year or even last

month. As we have already seen, your body is constantly in a

state of repair. When you think about it, sending explicit in-

structions to your body about what you do or do not want to

appear makes a lot of sense.

Thought has energy; there is no way around this idea.

When we send thought to a problem we send energy to a

problem. The only question is, what energy are we sending?

Are we focusing on the current problem? Are we focusing on

the future solution? Awareness of a negative state which ex-

ists in your body followed by subsequent re-focusing on pic-

tures of health flooding over the effected region will produce

a positive outcome.

I compare thought to driving a car. Most of the time you

move along with little or no problems, but occasionally some-

thing is thrown in the middle of your road and this stops you.

Maybe it is a tree or a rock. Contemplating the rock, the tree

or any other object on your road, will continue to halt your

progress. It is almost as if your thought solidifies the obstacle.

Always, it is the contemplation of moving past the obstacle

which delivers the answer. It is impossible for the body to

move past the object which blocks health without the con-

templation of renewed vitality, which reinforces the statement

whatever we focus on expands. If we employ this philosophy as

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it relates to health, it is impossible to heal if we are constantly

focusing on the disease, and not the desired outcome. Hence,

more and more people die each year of cancer and heart dis-

ease. I guarantee that many of these poor souls are focused

completely on the disease and why they were unfairly struck

down in the prime of their life. They ask poor questions and

receive poor results. Their mind sends the wrong energy mes-

sage to the problem, and very often death is the outcome.

If out of all these words I could relate one idea, one con-

cept to people, it would be that your thoughts about the prob-

lem you are currently facing determine the results you will

receive in advance. So decide now what type of future you

want to experience.

He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician -Chinese Proverb

Alright, let’s talk about diet again. The very first thing that

any of us can do to stop the growth of our cancer is to elimi-nate sugar and sugar replacements from our diet. Sorry folks, I know that is a big one but so what? Earlier we looked at what Dr. Otto Warburg said about cancer and its causes. He won the Nobel Prize by proving that cancer cells received their nourishment, not through oxidation as do normal cells, but through the fermentation of glucose or sugar. 1931! He went on to prove that oxygen actually retards the growth of cancer cells. Can you believe that? Oxygen levels in our bod-ies must drop by more than 35% before cancer can take root permanently. Do you think it might be important for doctors to make their patients aware of this startling new discovery? NO MORE SUGAR! I had one friend who underwent a crani-otomy in April and then again in July, only 3 months later. When I spoke with his wife she confessed that he had a tre-


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mendous sweet tooth but was never given any instructions to alter his diet. This poor sole was unlucky enough to have had the same Oncologist that I had.

If you are a doctor and you are reading these words, please go back and rethink your course of treatment. Look at the pathetic results that you and your colleagues are getting and realize that it is up to you to make a difference today. If you see no other option than to put your patients through the cutting, burning and poisoning exercises that we have out-lined earlier, then please be humane enough to put them onto the right path nutritionally. There are several sugar alterna-tives such as Xylitol which are safe for cancer patients and taste just like regular sugar.

Perhaps some of this attitude towards nutrition comes from the fact that most doctors receive only 4 hours of nutri-tional education while in medical school. 4 hours! Ironically, nurses receive more nutritional training than our doctors do. When we couple this with the huge financial incentives doc-tors receive for touting one drug over the other, then the pro-verbial deck is increasingly stacked against the patient.

All right, so you buy into the concept of changing your diet, even if you are not sick. So what’s next? I am sorry to say that there is a lot, so just hear me out. I said earlier that I be-lieved my cell phone to be a contributing cause of my cancer. Later in the text we will look at how cell phones specifically deplete our body’s energy and immune response. But some people do use cell phones without succumbing to disease; this as much as anything is proof that a properly orchestrated immune system can still spell the end to disease. So for those of us who have fallen prey to disease, there had to have been chinks in our personal armor for this to be possible. Those chinks are found largely in our diets.

I am not confining this statement only to cancer, but to all diseases. Linus Pauling did groundbreaking research using simple nutrients such as vitamin C, to extend life and fight

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illness. First of all consider the following: On average, elite athletes will die by age 67, almost 10 years earlier than the av-erage American couch potato. It is even more dismal for play-ers in the NFL who, per their own players association, have only a life expectancy of 58! These are men and women who are bigger, stronger and more physically fit than virtually anyone else on the planet. Yet they succumb to disease much earlier than you or I?

So, how can this be? Every doctor in the world says that we need to exercise in order to be healthy, yet the fittest amongst us have the shortest life expectancy. Hmm, then what are the elements which impact health and longevity? All of my research has shown that there are two significant fac-tors; first athletes sweat a great more than the average Joe on the street. When you sweat, you are losing more than just po-tassium and Gatorade; you are sweating out all of your nutri-ents, especially the essential ones. We will explore this in de-tail in chapter 5. The second factor which impacts longevity is acidity.

Alright, I said before that I will try to bring things full cir-cle, so let’s see if I can do that. First of all, we saw that an acid lifestyle consisting of the wrong types of foods, such as sugars and substitutes, fried foods, coffee, dairy products, alcohol, eggs, soft drinks and activities such as smoking, must be avoided. After these items are omitted we will need to infuse our body with alkaline rich foods such as Kale, cucumbers, wheat grass, barley grass, spinach, asparagus, romaine, celery, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, figs, apples, apricots and al-monds. Next we reinforce this new behavior by looking at some of the possible outcomes from not adhering to a more alkaline lifestyle. Most of these were inconveniences but we also saw how the interruption of enzyme production in the body can have devastating effects on long-term health. This can give rise to diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Know that by making these few changes that you will be there


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to celebrate the milestones of your life, whatever that might mean to you. For me it was the goal of walking both my daughters down the isle. This is a goal I have every intention of fulfilling.

To whatever extent, for all the dietary concerns discussed here, the last and largest fragment of this acid equation is our emotions. Let me say in particular, nothing will have a stronger impact on the overall health of your body than the emotion of stress. Stress is a big word, but for this writing I will define it as any emotion which causes you to tighten up, loose your temper, or make your heart start to race. We all experience stress in varying degrees, simple causes such as falling behind on your bills, running late for work, or trying to help our children with their homework could all catalyze the emotion.

We can feel our stomach clench, our muscles tighten and our brain swims with thought, most of which are not very beneficial. I will not explain this any further because every person reading these words is aware of the experience. Of all the chemical reactions that we can put our body through, this is the most detrimental. Strangely, it is so common that we do not notice when it occurs. In my own life, I sometimes experi-ence sore muscles the next day after a major event such as purchasing a home or taking a new job. We do not even con-sciously realize that we are doing this to ourselves, but we are. Next time there is a news story about someone who lived to be a hundred or more, notice what they did for a living prior to retirement. It is usually some simple position, which presents very little stress to the person doing it. For all of us who are working ourselves up the corporate ladder, toward a life filled with amenities, our actions are most likely self-defeating. Life is not just a race, it is a marathon, and you can’t win it if you’re dead. The whole “richest man in the graveyard” stuff is very real. Check your mental dipstick eve-ryday; if you have habitual patterns of worry, fear or anger in

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any form, then you must change. Sometimes just becoming aware that it is going on will be enough to change your thoughts. By changing your thoughts, you are changing the chemical reactions taking place in every cell of your body on a daily basis.

The solution to this problem came to me from a man who had been dead for 35 years; his name was Napoleon Hill. For the majority of his life Napoleon had worked alone, spreading his message of prosperity through the use of focused thought, to the common man. However, nearing 70 years of age, he formed a partnership with the great insurance magnate W. Clement Stone. Stone had adopted Hills teachings years ear-lier after reading Think and Grow Rich. He made it mandatory that all of his insurance salesmen should adopt Hill’s policies as well. Napoleon had stated many times that Stone was the one person who was immune to stress. Indeed, he said that Stone would be actually insulted by this emotion. In reality, Stone knew that he could handle any situation that presented itself. Knowing this, it made little sense to worry about any-thing. He would play the cards where they fell and then move on.

How many of us could benefit from such an outlook? I know that personally it was one of the mindsets that saved my life. When you have cancer, particularly brain cancer, it is so easy to become enamored by worry and doubt - the next seizure, the next MRI, the next doctor’s visit - so much to worry about. But I saw what Stone had accomplished and the incredible results he had experienced and I thought; there were much worse people I could have chosen to model. So what were those results? What was the outcome of all Hill’s positive gobbledygook? Well, Stone retired a billionaire. He never stopped endorsing Hill’s methodology and he finally left this world at 100 years of age.

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has been said that whatever you fear, you attract and whatever you focus on will grow stronger in your life. Stone’s life was a liv-ing testament to this fact. In Jack Canfield’s excellent book The Success Principles, he recounts his early interactions with this great man. Stone identified himself as an inverse-paranoid. He actually expected that each and every day the world was plotting to do him good, and it did, massively. It should be noted that Stone had no one to impress, he had nothing else to prove, he had done it all but he held steadfast to Hill’s teach-ings simply because they improved the quantity and quality of his life.

Be cognizant of the day to day emotions and thoughts which are hurting you, killing you in fact. Don‘t shrug them off. Controlled thought has been called the highest form of prayer; it is much more powerful than any single diet or sup-plement. Take control of your thoughts; they are truly the only element that God has given you complete sovereignty over. I do this all the time now; when I’m stuck in traffic, I fo-cus on cars moving. When I want anything to happen in my life, I focus on that outcome. I do not get bogged down in the details of how it will come about. You know, let go and let God. If for any reason you get mad or fearful of a situation ask yourself why you are doing it? Take a step back and sim-ply refocus on the outcome you want. It is your choices in life that make you who you are. Decide to make a better choice, decide to have a better outlook, decide to utilize this experi-ence to help yourself as well as others. A simple act of deci-sion brings all these powers into play. It is my experience that controlled thought is the most powerful energy on the planet. So as we put all of these elements together, a new picture starts to appear:

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Have you ever noticed how most things that are profound

in life are three-sided? To simply say, “lose your negative emo-tions” is ludicrous. However, just the act of being aware, can help with much of this. Later in the text I will share another factor which I have discovered that equally affects and perhaps even con-trols the health triangle.

Note; if you cannot control your emotions effectively, then seek other sources of knowledge and people to help you. Know this though; no lasting success in life or health can be main-tained through improper use of thought. So if there is anything in life that you must make a mandate, controlled thought should make the list. Conversely, controlled thought is of little or no benefit without supporting beliefs and expectations. If you do not expect that you can recover from a disease because the statistics are grim or that you are not lucky, then it is almost assured that this darker belief will become a self fulfilling prophecy. Expectation truly is the glue which holds the other two sides of the triangle together. An easy way for anyone to reprogram themselves can be implemented with a simple rubber band. Slip the rubber band over either wrist, next time you are experiencing stress or a negative thought snap the rubber band. After the snap, immediately initiate a more beneficial image or idea in your mind. Within 30 days we can condition our brains with this new pattern of thought. This is pretty simple stuff.

Thought/Expectation Emotions/Feelings

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To finish the triangle and complete the health cycle, we need to look at diet and specifically supplements. I am not re-ferring to the plethora of late-night infomercial products we have all been subjected to, I am talking about vitamins, en-zymes and minerals. It is a fact your body needs all of these to function properly. There are many examples of why this is so, and the terrible price which has been paid for not adhering to such rudimentary knowledge, none as poignant as the scourge of Scurvy, which took place between 1500-1800 AD.

During that time, the British navy was said to have lost over 1 million sailors to this single disease! Can you imagine 1 million people filling a huge stadium? The “good ole days” were not always so good. Medical experts from that era thought that scurvy was a genetic disorder. I mean what else could it be? A sailor got scurvy and died, his son grew up, went to sea got scurvy and died and then his son did the same. It was clearly genetic.

The interesting part of this story is that many years earlier in 1535, the French explorer Jacques Cartier was given the cure for scurvy. A friendly Indian showed them how to make a drink from tree bark and needles from the white Pine. To-day, we know both of these are rich in vitamin C. The concoc-tion showed almost immediate improvement in his crew who were no longer dying but who began to thrive. Cartier was so excited about this that upon his return he reported the news to the medical community. Then, as now, truth was met with a tidal wave of medical resistance. Doctors from that time branded the information as the work of witch doctor savages and summarily dismissed all of it. No part of the knowledge was utilized for another 200 years. Can you imagine how many young men died in that time span, all for the lack of such a common nutrient as vitamin C? It was the English who first addressed the issue by requiring limes to be part of the provisions, hence the term Limeys. It has been theorized that Great Britain eventually took control of 25% of everything in

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the known world due to this one advancement in metabolic therapy. Even back in the 1800’s entrenched medical dogma existed. This need to be right, to be the most intelligent, has cost us more lives than all the wars in history.

How about Penicillin? Today antibiotics are as prevalent as popcorn but can you imagine a time when the medical pro-fession scoffed at the idea? Dr. Alexander Fleming, who dis-covered penicillin, sadly stated: "Penicillin sat on my shelf for 12 years while I was called a quack. I can only think of the thousands who died needlessly because my peers would not use my discovery." If the medical profession will sit on an idea as profound and quick-acting as Penicillin, than what can be expected for slower and more subtle forms of cancer therapy? Infections can be cured in days but no cancer treatment (however prom-ising) unfolds in such a short period of time.

There have been similar incidents with diseases such as Pellagra. In the 1900s, Pellagra ran rampant in the American Southeast. Doctors of that time period said it was a yet to be unidentified virus. (If you don’t know what it is, it is always a virus). However, Dr. Goldberger had proven that the disease had its origins in the diet. He stated that it could be prevented by simply consuming fresh green matter. His first approach to this was to prescribe brewers yeast. Still, another 30 years passed before the medical profession finally acknowledged Pellagra as a vitamin B3 deficiency. Prior to this, the sug-gested therapies of the day were Arsenic and Mercury. So most of the Pellagrans were thrown into asylums where they were eventually lobotomized.

Other diseases that have been consigned to the medical achieves include Pernicious Anemia, which at one time had a 99% mortality rate. The elusive cure for this disease was to eat liver 3 times a week. The doctors Murphy, Shipple and Minot were chastised for suggesting such a thing. Eventually though, the entire disease was seen for what it truly was, a simple vitamin B-12 deficiency.


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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

-Albert Einstein

It will serve you to understand that virtually every new concept, no matter how apparent if may seem today, was at one time met with violent opposition. In 1847 Dr. Ignaz Sem-melweis was the head resident at Vienna General Hospital in Austria. His best friend was Jakob Kolletschka. Kolletschka accidentally cut his finger while performing an autopsy and died shortly after from symptoms similar to Puerperal Fever. Puerperal fever was killing 13 percent of woman giving birth at that time. However, a clinic around the corner which was run by midwives only lost 2% to the same illness. Semmel-weis noticed that students move between the autopsy room and the delivery room without washing their hands. On a hunch, he sets up a new policy; doctors must wash their hands in a chlorine solution prior to leaving the morgue. This single additional step causes mortality from puerperal fever to fall sharply down to 2%.

Semmelweis feels that he has made a huge medical break-through and tries to tell the world about it. Sadly, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the medical community com-pletely rejects Semmelweis’s discovery and subsequent writ-ings. Again and again he shows the medical community the evidence and over and over it is rejected. He is eventually ex-pelled from his position. The poor, broken man eventually has a mental breakdown and is institutionalized in 1865; shortly thereafter he dies. That same year Dr. Lister starts spraying carbolic acid during surgery to kill germs. In the end, it's Lister who discovers bacteria and gives our unhappy hero his due. Lister states, "Without Semmelweis, my achievements would be nothing."

At some point in the future many of the holistic therapies I am sharing with you through this writing will be validated.

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But this can take decades or in the case of Scurvy, hundreds of years. So please, do not wait for Marcus Welby to knock on your front door and tell you it is okay to take vitamins and minerals. Common sense is all you need.

Many people in the medical field are now coming around to the fact that Cancer and other chronic illnesses are really nothing more than vitamin and enzyme deficiencies coupled with acidic lifestyles. Anyone can see that it is imperative that we have the proper dietary missing links filled in. For cancer, the missing link is vitamin B-17. If you have never heard of B-17, don’t be surprised, most people have not. That is largely due to the fact that in the 1970’s and 80s, a huge amount of effort was expended by the FDA to have B-17 banned in the United States. B-17 can also be referred to as Laetrile, Amyg-dalin or Nitrilosides. This is very similar to the government ban on the supplement MGN3, which has shown tremendous value for cancer patients. However, on July of 2004, the FDA, after a five year court battle, banned MGN3 for sale to the public. Thirty years ago, the exact same crunch annihilated B-17 in our country. Today, B-17 is not exactly illegal, but health stores are afraid to carry it due to government persecution.

Before we go any further down this rabbit hole let’s back-up and look at why B-17 is so important as a segment of our diets. The origins of this story start as far back as 1908 when Professor John Beard proposed the Trophoblastic Theory of Can-cer. Beard was studying stem cells at the time when he dis-covered that trophoblast cells which occurred during preg-nancy were not any different than malignant cancer cells. What Beard found that really unraveled the entire mess was that these cells were absolutely essential for the embryo to grow and find nourishment within the uterus. This was ac-complished by eating away at the walls of the uterus so that the embryo could attach itself there. Trophoblast cells are eas-ily observable because a hormone (hCG), appears whenever they are present. Today home pregnancy test still search for


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the presence of this hormone. Beard found what happen next to be quite remarkable; after the 56th day of pregnancy, the baby’s pancreas came online and began emitting enzymes that killed off the trophoblast cells and continued the preg-nancy. The key enzymes that the pancreas produces which are essential to this process are Trypsin and Chymotrypsin.

So what does this mean? Well, for the lack of a more tech-nical definition, these enzymes kill the (trophoblast) cancer cells. Or, to be more specific, they removed the protein (pericellular) coating from the outside of cancer cells which normally protects them from the best efforts of our white blood cells.

What eventually became known is that the hormone estro-gen triggers the production of Trophoblast cells. These cells are used to repair any damage done to the body. This makes perfect sense if we consider that when a person smokes, dam-age is done to the lungs. Trophoblast cells are then generated to repair that damage; however, for a pancreas which is al-ready overly acidic and hence enzyme deficient, turning these cells off when repairs are done proves to be all but impossible. Now it should be noted that the author is not just quoting the findings of some obscure doctor who died 70 years ago, Beard’s findings have been confirmed time and time again. In 1946 Dr. C. Oberling stated “Someday perhaps it will turn out to be one of the ironies of nature that cancer, responsible for so many deaths, should be indissolubly connected with life.” In 1994 Dr. A Krichevsky and his team of researchers showed that cancer cells exhibited hCG in all its forms, once again confirming Beard’s findings. So the view from 30,000 feet is that this really is a perfect system and one that, no doubt, evolved from a time when man ate mostly live food and not an excess of sugars or animal proteins.

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Estrogen-testosterone combo could raise breast cancer risk Posted 7/24/2006 4:06 PM ET

CHICAGO — Older women who take hormone pills that combine estrogen and testosterone more than double their risk of breast cancer, according to a study of more than 70,000 nurses.

Headlines like these are prevalent today. Millions of woman have been needlessly subjected to hormone replace-ment therapy and have more than doubled their risk of can-cer. Every doctor in the world would have been aware of why this occurs if Beard’s work with enzymes had been embraced by the medical profession instead of those by Madame Curie.

In the early 1940’s a biochemist by the name of Ernst T. Krebs Jr., a student of Beard’s research, studied the use of Chymotrypsin, Trypsin, Bromelain and Papain as cancer treatments. Paralleling this research Krebs along with his fa-ther Ernst Krebs Sr., also isolated a new nutrient which would eventually become vitamin B-17. B-17 which would later be known as Laetrile or Amygdalin, was an extract from bitter Apricot Kernels. Nothing more and nothing less.

Apricot kernels are rich in B-17, so in fact, are most of the seeds from common fruits, such as cherries and peaches. As it applies to B-17, all of these water-soluble sources have fallen into the broader category known as Nitrilosides. The long and the short of this story is that Apricot Kernels, along with 1200 other foods such as the meager sweet potato, contain inert forms of Hydrogen cyanide and Benzaldehyde. However, due to the way our bodies process these chemicals, hydrogen cya-nide and benzaldehyde are only released in the presence of cancer cells. Or to be more exact, in the presence of Beta Gluco-sidaise, an unlocking enzyme which always accompanies can-cer cells. Krebs observed that because virtually only cancer cells showed the presence of this enzyme, hydrogen Cyanide


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and Benzaldehyde were released destroying the cancerous cells. The two elements working in concert proved to be much more lethal to the cancer cell than either working alone.

What about the healthy cells which come into contact with B-17? When B-17 is not in contact with Beta Glucosidaise, no cyanide is released and its toxicity is less than that of white bread. This is due to the fact that there is no unlocking mechanism present within healthy cells. Quite the opposite is true; Rhodanese is one of the enzymes present in all health cells. When B-17 comes into contact with Rhodanese two very beneficial bi-products are produced; Thiocyanate and Benzoic acid. Thiocyanate is taken into the liver to form vitamin B-12. Benzoic acid is the active ingredient in Noni Juice, long known for its medicinal properties. Because of the way B-17 interacts with cancer cells, it should be seen as a perfect mechanism, one which nature has provided us in order to deal with disease. The truth is that we were designed as a species to be much more dependant on fruits and vegetables than chemically altered animal proteins and processed foods.

A point which should be stressed is that none of the re-searched sources of B-17 have ever shown toxic effects on a human being. THERE IS NO ACTIVE CYANIDE IN APRI-COT KERNELS! I shout this only to dramatize what has al-ready been said. Without the presence of the unlocking en-zyme Beta Glucosidaise, no cyanide and no benzaldehyde will be released. In any case, this should not be confused with the Potassium Cyanide which was notoriously used in the gas chamber. As with anything else in the world, common sense must be observed; our bodies still must be given ample time to dispose of the excess B-17. You should not eat a bucket of apple seeds and expect a positive outcome, just as you wouldn’t expect to take a bottle of aspirin without conse-quences. The press denounced Laetrile and Cyanide then, as it does today. But Ernst Krebs, the man who discovered B-17, went on to demonstrate the safety of B-17 by injecting a mega

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dose of the vitamin into his own arm. He sustained no side effects from the injection, but proved very convincingly that B-17 was not toxic.

Cyanide Poisoning From Apricot Kernels

NEW YORK, Dec 09 (Reuters Health) Apricot kernels, marketed

as a "health food," can cause potentially fatal cyanide poisoning,

according to a report in the December issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Lengthy Jail Sentence for Vendor of Laetrile—A Quack Medication to Treat Cancer Patients

June 22, 2004

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the outcome of its investigative efforts by the Office of Criminal Investigations, conducted jointly with the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Eastern Dis-trict of New York and the New York Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), to bring to justice a businessman who had victimized cancer patients by heavily advertising and selling Laetrile, a highly toxic product that has not shown any effect on treating cancer.

Periodically the media is used to run headlines like these in the hopes of scaring cancer patients away from natural therapies. To the great chagrin of the natural supplement community, such media theatrics actually work. The above article is about Jason Vale, who saved his own life with Lae-trile and then went on to distribute it to others across the na-tion. For this he was imprisoned for 63 months. Now a word on toxicity, there is nothing on the planet with the exception of Mercury that is more toxic than chemotherapy, which kills people every single hour of every single day, but the FDA has nothing to say about this.


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There is no limit to what the powers that be will do to dis-credit Laetrile as being either ineffective or dangerous. Either of which will scare most people away from using it. In his fan-tastic book Alive and Well, Dr. Philip Binzel outlined several occasions where he grappled with the medical board and the FDA. This is a portion of the testimony given by one of the doctors called to the stand by the FDA: “if you open a vial of Laetrile, it must be done in a large room with all the windows open, everyone in that room must wear a gas mask.” Doctor Binzel then testified that he had opened over 4,000 vials of Laetrile with-out any ill effects. For myself, I personally take laetrile each and every day of the year without problems. I have never been poisoned and would not be here to write these words had I not adhered to this protocol.

Perhaps the best barometer of truth is to study human be-havior. If you headed a large government organization con-trolled or aligned with pharmaceutical companies and a product which endangered your very livelihood became available, how would you react? Be honest, you would utilize all of your political clout to alleviate this product completely. You can always get some chump doctor of questionable stat-ure to sympathize with your point of view.

If you remember what Hermann Goering said of war at the Nuremburg Trials: “TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING AT-TACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." What better way to control people than through their fears? Tell them they are being attacked, is this not the same as saying “cyanide, are you crazy, its poison!” Is this not the same tactic used by doctors to bully their patients into dangerous and life-taking therapies? I tell you I believe it is. They will look each of us in the eye or worse yet our wives and husbands, and then explain how we must act now or death is inevitable.

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The only way for this trend to change is for doctors to quit lying to themselves. I am sure that they hear the whispers in the back of their minds, they tell themselves it is for the “pa-tient’s own good” but I am here to tell you that this is a lie. Choice is in the patient’s own good, and the job of a doctor should be to inform these fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, that they have options and what these options are.

Cyanide targets cancer Wednesday, 6 September, 2000, 17:24 GMT 18:24 UK Scientists are using cyanide to attack tumors. The cassava plant, almond tree and hydrangea, all have an enzyme that will produce cyanide when it comes into contact with a particular sugar molecule.

Cyanide Has Potential as Cancer Fighter Sept. 11, 2000 This cyanide-producing enzyme is attached to a cancer-seeking antibody that, when injected into the body, is capable of recognizing a protein that exists only in certain cancers. The combined antibody and enzyme mole-cule has been shown to generate small amounts of cancer-killing cyanide when a second, non-toxic substance is introduced to it. This method, called Antibody Guided Enzyme Nitrile Therapy (AGENT), could lead to a safe and effective way to kill cancer cells without harming the body's healthy tissue.

Tapioca treatment for cancer

Monday, April 12, 1999 Published at 18:05 GMT 19:05 UK Hydrogen cyanide Professor Monica Hughes has been studying cassava and cancer for seven years. She has cloned the genes from the plant which are re-sponsible for producing hydrogen cyanide.

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this research, are doing nothing more than solidifying what Krebs said 50 years earlier.

Those in the medical profession who endorse this point of view are labeled quacks, only isn’t this really a reference to their lack of bureaucratic patriotism? Understand that when someone tries to sell laetrile in the United States, he does not get a letter from the FDA asking him to cease and desist. In-stead, he gets an armed team of police breaking down your front door. This is a bitter reality for anyone in the holistic marketplace and the irony is that all this persecution exists while Arsenic is being sold at huge profits, as a chemothera-peutic agent. Moreover, all of this exists at a time when Vioxx has killed tens of thousands of people, and injured many, many more. The ultimate indignation is that all of this exists seemingly outside our control.

The fact that the FDA has put such a priority on this small insignificant, supplement is almost all the proof anyone needs. I would understand if thousands of Americans were dying, horrible undulating deaths due to Laetrile exposure, but this is not the case. There are thousands of natural reme-dies on the market today that claim to be instrumental in fighting and curing cancer. The fact that most of them are still available to us is almost conclusive proof that they do not work.

So, for the moment, let’s assume that the aforesaid is true and go back to our original scenario; we absolutely need Ni-trilosides as part of our daily intake of nutrients. This is just the way the human body is made. Years ago, our diets con-sisted mainly of green, leafy vegetables and fresh fruits and berries. All berries contain Nitrilosides. With the exception of citrus, all fruits contained seeds which are rich in B-17. Almost any fruit such as apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines will contain these seeds. As I have said, there are actually over 1200 different natural sources for B-17. Today, however, we are all taught not to eat the seeds from our fruit.

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In truth, most of us do not even eat the fruit. The irony of all this, of course, is that these seeds contain the vitamins and just as importantly, the enzymes that make everything happen. Nature had designed our systems to utilize this process and that is why cancer was almost unheard of at the beginning of the 20th century, striking only 1 in 200; a sharp contrast to to-day’s number of 1 in 2 to 1 in 3. There are other great sources of B-17 such as Wheat, Arrow and Barley grass as well as a slew of other natural grasses. However, when was the last time you talked to someone who ingested any of these on a regular basis? It is important to understand that very little of the Nitrilosides will get into the tissues of the body without a sufficient level of zinc present. This has been bolded be-cause it is that critical. Zinc is the transportation mineral which makes it all possible.

So where am I going with all of this? Well, besides your regular accompaniment of vitamins and minerals, it should be equally important to include these sources of B-17 into your diet. June de Spain wrote an entire book about this called The Little Cyanide Cookbook, which lists hundreds of great meals that are rich in B-17. June was a former toxicologist and pharmacologist for the FDA. She saw the same potential for foods rich in B-17 that Krebs did. She also realized that the average person had no idea how to incorporate this knowl-edge into their day to day diets. This gave rise to the book that followed.

A word about laetrile - it is, in my estimation, more than just effective, or helpful. The knowledge I am sharing here saved my life. I believe that B-17 is one of the great nutritional deficiencies that we spoke about earlier. Our bodies need vi-tamin C to survive and they need vitamin B-17 as well; it is as simple as that. Hence, it is not a cure but a requirement. Let’s look at history for a moment:


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Disease Prevented by Death Rate Status Scurvy Vitamin C Varies Defeated

Pellagra Vitamin B3 97% Defeated P. Anemia Vitamin B12 99% Defeated Beriberi Vitamin B1 Varies Defeated Cancer Vitamin B17 Varies Can Be Defeated

These are all verifiable diseases, killers in fact, and the

medical archives will attest that the deficiency of these vital nutrients were the root cause. But now we are asked to be-lieve that cancer is something different, something more sinis-ter. At one time pernicious anemia had a 99% mortality rate; that seems pretty sinister to me. At the turn of the 20th century the Pellagra epidemic in the United States persisted for 4 dec-ades; there were 3 million cases and over 100,000 deaths as a result of it. The numbers of Pellagra victims had swollen to such an incredible size that everyone was sure that the disease was communicable. Dr. Goldberger was put in charge of the program immediately noted that at the special institutions where these patients were housed, that as many of 75% of the patients might be affected by the disease, however the nurses were not.

At that time the medical community performed many ex-periments on these patients, including arsenic treatments which ultimately caused insanity. These patients were then given even more specialized medical care by being loboto-mized. Goldberger ultimately cured the disease with, of all things, brewers yeast, a rich source of Vitamin B3. It is impor-tant to understand that whole institutions were erected to treat just Pellagrans, there were that many of them. When I was growing up they had cancer wings at hospitals. Today they have whole hospitals dedicated to nothing more than the treatment of cancer. A disease which in the future will finally be consigned to the medical achieves as yet another vitamin B deficiency. What is interesting about all of this is that due to

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the diligent efforts of the FDA, health food manufacturers dare not list B-17 on their vitamin itineraries. So even if you were consuming a green drink for example, that might have vitamin B-17 as one of its contents, you would never know it. It is blasphemy to even speak the name. Remember what happen to MGN3; big brother can shut you down. There are many, and I mean thousands of, documented cases in which Laetrile has saved lives and returned people to normalcy. This has all been documented over 30 years and multiple reprints of World Without Cancer by G.E. Griffin.

So the question remains, if all this is known, why not add it to your arsenal of defense? As far as I can tell, California is one of the only states through which you can purchase lae-trile. However, it is easy enough to go online and find a source such as www.apricotpower.com. If you choose to ask your doctor about it, don’t expect them to endorse your choice. As a matter of fact they may allude to the fact that Lae-trile is cyanide and hence poison. They may even tell you all of the nasty symptoms associated with cyanide poisoning. These same physicians will often shrink into their chairs when you tell them that there is B-17 in sweet potatoes, Tapioca pudding and the flaxseed oil that doctors are so fond of rec-ommending today. I wonder how they will react when you tell them cranberries and alfalfas are abundant sources of this same cyanide. They are not exactly ready to field such com-ments. It is not in their best interest to condone this type of therapy, even if they were to understand it. So you must make it a priority to be knowledgeable in this area; after all, it is your life which will be won or lost. I have included some natural sources for B-17 that anyone can incorporate into their daily diet. This information can be used in accordance with The Little Cyanide Cookbook to maximize results. It goes with-out saying that the more of these food you can purchase from organic retailers like wholefoods, Wild Oats and Trader Joe’s, the better.


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Fruits Range* B-17 Content blackberry, domestic low blackberry, wild high boysenberry med. choke cherry high wild crabapple high market cranberry low Swedish (lignon) cranberry high currant med. elderberry med. to high gooseberry. med. huckleberry med. loganberry med. mulberry med. quince med. raspberry med. Seeds Range* B-17 Content apple seeds high apricot seed high buckwheat med. cherry seed high flax med. millet med. nectarine seed high peach seed high pear seeds high plum seed high prune seed high squash seeds med. Beans Range* black low black-eyed peas low fava high garbanzo low to med. green pea low kidney low to med. lentils med. lima, U.S. low

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lima, Burma med. mung med. to high shell low Nuts (all raw) Range* bitter almond high cashew low macadamia med. to high Sprouts Range* B-17 Content alfalfa med. bamboo high fava med. garbanzo med. mung med. Leaves Range* alfalfa high beet tops low eucalyptus high spinach low water cress low Tubers Range* B-17 Content cassava high sweet potato low yams low Range* High — above 500 mgs. nitrilosides per 100 grams food Medium — above 100 mgs. per 100 grams food Low — below 100 mgs. per 100 grams food. Perusing the list, many of the foods may look familiar. To-

day more and more doctors, and even hospitals, are recom-mending that you change your diet to incorporate some of these foods. What they do not realize is that all of these items are sources for B-17 in varying degrees. I mean it is easy to go on television and tell poor unwitting viewers that this terrible


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drug Laetrile will poison them; however, it is much more challenging to convince someone that Tapioca pudding will bring about their demise.

After all is said and done, the question remains - will B-17 save you from the ravages of cancer? My answer to you would be a resounding yes. But I would like to amend this declaration by saying it takes more than just ingesting laetrile. Unfortunately, for the person dying of cancer, it will take more than just purchasing a pill to reverse their symptoms. It will call for a lifestyle change and many people are not ready to make those concessions. Let’s look at what else is involved in treating cancer, what additional steps will be required? I would like to point out before going forward that even if a person chooses to go ahead with conventional therapy, all of the foods on this list will neither harm nor impair the effec-tiveness of the treatment. At the very least these foods will al-kalize the body and we have already seen some of the benefits which this bestows onto the patient.

Note: One very important point which should be consid-ered is that if you are currently fighting cancer and you want to add B-17 to your arsenal, it is imperative that you add the necessary pancreatic enzymes to augment this therapy. The FDA has tried to prove the ineffectiveness of Laetrile for many years. In each and every example, no adjunctive en-zyme program was adopted and the doses of Laetrile tested were too low. As I mentioned earlier, one must believe in the therapy they will undergo, and this belief is a table that must be given legs. The following research is part of the legs which held up my belief table. It is my sincere hope that this infor-mation will help carry you through this ordeal.

For five years, between 1972 and 1977, Laetrile [B-17] was meticulously tested at Sloan-Kettering under the direction of Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura. Dr. Sugiura was the senior laboratory researcher at Sloan-Kettering with over 60 years experience. He had earned the highest respect for his knowledge and in-

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tegrity. He was the perfect person to conduct experiments since his quest for truth blocked out anything else. Dr. C. Chester Stock, the man in charge of Sloan-Kettering's labora-tory-testing division wrote this about Dr. Suguira, "Few, if any, names in cancer research are as widely known as Kane-matsu Sugiura's”

After a 5 year study the official report about Laetrile from Dr. Suguira read as follows: "The results clearly show that Amygdalin significantly inhibits the appearance of lung metastasis in mice bearing spontaneous mammary tumors and increases sig-nificantly the inhibition of the growth of the primary tumors. Lae-trile also seemed to prevent slightly the appearance of new tumors… The improvement of health and appearance of the treated animals in comparison to controls is always a common observation.”

This was obviously unexpected and the powers that be at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who were formerly drooling over Suguira’s work, were now trying desperately to discredit it. They switched gears and immediately put new researchers on the case in order to rebuke what he had uncov-ered. However, after all the hoopla, after all the mudslinging targeted at this elderly gentleman, Dr. Sugiura was asked suddenly by a reporter at a press conference if he stuck to his original report. Dr. Sugiura clearly and boldly stated, "I stick," despite the fact that since his original statement, Sloan-Kettering was trying to discredit everything which he had done.

Dr. Ralph Moss was the new public affairs director for Sloan-Kettering at the time. He was told by his superiors, time and time again, to discredit any findings in favor of Laetrile. Other researchers had been assigned to laetrile in order to cast doubt at what Suguira had discovered. These researchers would mimic tests done by Suguira using only ¼ of the amount of laetrile and, to no ones great surprise, laetrile failed in such instances. As with any drug or supplement, there


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must be a threshold amount of the substance given before re-sults can be obtained.

Dr. Moss watched for several years while all of this un-folded. During this time he was told to lie, distort findings and to drive a nail in the Laetrile coffin. Now Ralph Moss wasn’t rolling in money, he had two small children and a wife who did not work. He liked his job and felt that he was on a great career path at Sloan-Kettering. Moss said he loved his job but found himself in a place which was “morally unten-able.” It was because of this that, on a Friday in November of 1977, he convened his own press conference and raised charges that information on Laetrile had been suppressed, and that Suguira’s work proved that it was effective as a pal-liative drug.

Upon returning to work on the following Monday, Dr. Moss found his belongings packed and was told that he was fired. He was then escorted out of the building by armed guards mumbling threats to him. Now this is nothing new. Over the years, many people have gone to bat for Laetrile only to be shot down by the institution. Unfortunately, this is a battle won by those who shout the loudest and the longest. A single rebellious doctor seldom has the financial where-withal or stamina to wage such a war. Anyway, the list that follows is all doctors who did take it upon themselves to en-gage in such battles, to stand up for what they knew to be true and face whatever was thrown at their feet:

Dr. Hans Nieper is a world famous oncologist and the developer of the standard anti-cancer cytotoxic drug cyclophosphamide. In 1970 he co-authored a brief paper on Laetrile with Dean Burk, in which they stated that "...in the treatment of cancer, the active principle of nitrilosides [B-17] is to be used mainly in prophylaxis [prevention] and early protective therapy.... On the other hand, the complete atox-icity [lack of toxicity] of this method of treatment, which is maybe nothing else but a rediscovered natural principle, permits the unlim-

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ited use of this substance". (18) In 1972 Nieper told reporters while in the U.S.: "After more than 20 years of such specialized work, I have found the non-toxic Nitrilosides - that is, Laetrile - far superior to any other known cancer treatment or preventive. In my opinion it is the only existing possibility for the ultimate control of cancer".

Robert Atkins, M.D., notes that "Amygdalin [B-17] appears to neu-tralize the oxidative cancer-promoting compounds such as free radi-cals.... It's just one more key component for keeping cancer from growing or spreading. Contrary to what people have said about Lae-trile... it should be considered an effective, entirely safe treatment for all types of cancer."

P.E. Binzel published his results from treating cancer patients with Laetrile between 1974 and 1991. He used a combination of intrave-nous and oral Laetrile. Intravenous doses started with 3 gms and worked up to 9 gms. After a period of months, oral Laetrile, 1 gm at bedtime, was begun in place of the injections. Binzel also used vari-ous nutrient supplements and pancreatic enzymes, as well as a low animal-protein, no junk-food diet as part of his regimen. Out of a series of 180 patients with primary cancer (non-metastasized, con-fined to a single organ or tissue), 138 were still alive in 1991 when he compiled his treatment results.

Dr. John Morrone reported his results from using Laetrile with 10 patients suffering from "inoperable cancer." The treatments ranged from 4 to 43 weeks in length, and a range of 9 to 133 gms Laetrile was given through intravenous injections. Morrone concluded his report: "The use of Laetrile... in 10 cases of inoperable cancer, all with metastases, provided dramatic relief of pain, discontinuance of narcotics, control of fetor [stench from a tumor], improved appetite, and reduction of adenopathy [swollen lymph nodes]. The results suggest regression of the malignant lesion.... No other side effects [other than transient episodes of low blood pressure] were noted ex-cept slight itching and a sensation of heat in the affected areas, which was transitory in all cases."


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Dr. John Richardson - “Radiation and/or radiomimetic poisons will reduce palpable, gross or measurable tumefaction. Often this reduction may amount to seventy-five percent or more of the mass of the growth. These agents have a selective effect—radiation and poisons. They selectively kill everything except the definitively neoplastic [cancer] cells. For example, a benign uterine myoma will usually melt away under radiation like snow in the sun. If there be neoplastic cells in such tumor, these will remain. The size of the tu-mor may thus be decreased by ninety percent while the relative con-centration of definitively neoplastic cells is thereby increased by ninety percent-

Ralph Moss - "I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tu-mor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't."

John Diamond, M.D. & Lee Cowden, M.D. - "To the cancer estab-lishment, a cancer patient is a profit center. The actual clinical and scientific evidence does not support the claims of the cancer indus-try. Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best. Decades of the politics-of-cancer-as-usual have kept you from knowing this, and will continue to do so unless you wake up to their reality.”

Dr Warner, M.D . - "Chemotherapy is an incredibly lucrative busi-ness for doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies…The medical establishment wants everyone to follow the same exact pro-tocol. They don’t want to see the chemotherapy industry go under, and that’s the number one obstacle to any progress in oncology."

Charles Brusch, M.D. - "For I have in fact cured my own cancer, the original site of which was the lower bowels, through Essiac alone."

Dr Budwig. - "I have the answer to cancer, but American doctors won't listen. They come here and observe my methods and are im-pressed. Then they want to make a special deal so they can take it

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home and make a lot of money. I won't do it, so I'm blackballed in every country."

Alan Nixon, Ph.D., Past President, American Chemical Society - "As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good."

Glen Warner, M.D. oncologist - "We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison are better than three doses of that poison."

Dr Ley former Commissioner of the FDA - "The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as differ-ent as night and day."

M. Costello - "A doctor whose patient had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, showed signs of recovery. When the doctor rang me he confirmed it was me who had helped the patient, then said, "I will stop you from doing this to our industry". Now that he has stopped the importation of this treatment he can now boast to his patients and colleagues that he has stopped cancer patients from purchasing Essiac in Australia."

Pierce - "I have never known anyone in 20 years to metastasize or affect another secondary area after the enzymes were started.”

Ed McCabe (1992). Ed McCabe is currently in jail, 1998 -"Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have AIDS, cancer, and almost any other disease you can think of, due to the continual and correct application of oxygen therapies."

Hans Nieper - "You wouldn’t believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as pa-


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tients in Hanover. You wouldn’t believe this, or directors of the AMA, or ACA, or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes. That’s the fact."

Dr Julian Whitaker, M.D. - "I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients."-

Alright, enough, I could easily fill a book with comments just like these. It was very easy to find them because doctors have been screaming them for years. Now let’s look at their motives for taking an unconventional stance; it made them rich… No, most of them were labeled as quacks and ostra-cized. It made them famous…no, if anything they became in-famous. Despite the damage done, their consciences would not allow them to hurt others and this was the only method they knew: to warn people! Writing these words is the only method I know to warn you, and to prepare you for what you must do. If you choose not to trust conventional medicine as I did, you are going to have some explaining to do - to your family, to your friends but most importantly to yourself. It is paramount that you believe in what you are doing. The pres-sure put on you to conform will be enormous. It is the single hardest act in the world to tell the people you love, and who love you, that are going to blaze your own trail. But ulti-mately you are responsible for your own life. Nothing, and no one, can supersede that. This single decision will follow you all of your days.

Hopefully I’ve given you some mental ammunition to fire back at your friends and family when they accuse you of be-

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ing “crazy”. So let’s get back to the program. What do you need to do to regain your health and win back your life?

• Augment your diet with supplemental

amounts of pancreatic enzymes. I.E. Trypsin, Chymotrypsin. These can be purchased or simulated with Bromelain. Wobenzyme and Megazyme Forte are enzyme products which supply all of these.

• Only take enzymes on an empty stomach,

otherwise you are just digesting your food. This can upset the stomach so dosages should be increased over time.

• Infuse your diet with as many forms of B-17

as possible. I.E. Laetrile, Cassava, Barley Grass, Cherry pits, Apricot Kernels, Peach Kernels.

• Alkalize your system with green drinks and

fresh fruits and vegetables. Kangen water is the single most effective way to do this.

A point which should also be considered is the impact of

these dietary changes on your body. As we have seen, intro-ducing Nitrilosides into your diet is beneficial for fighting cancer, but these are not without side effects. When B-17 comes into contact with rhodanese it was noted that thiocy-anate was produced. Often, when people become sick one of the first things they are instructed to do is abandon table salt, dairy products and most breads. These are for the most part the only sources of iodine in the American diet. This descrip-tion of what happens when we are iodine deficient and pro-duce too much thiocyanate, was taken from the ISHS website:

Cassava contains a potential goitrogenic agent that may aggra-vate iodine deficiency disorders that have goiter and cretinism, a se-


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vere form of mental retardation, as their main effects. Cassava con-sumption may result in cyanide exposure if cyanogenic glucosides and their breakdown products are not sufficiently removed from the roots during processing. The main part of the dietary cyanide will in the human body be converted to thiocyanate which is the goitrogenic factor directly involved. The effect of thiocyanate mimics entirely the ones of iodine deficiency. However, the goitrogenic effect of a thiocy-anate overload from cassava only aggravates iodine deficiency disor-ders if the iodine supply is below the recommended daily intake. Therefore the goitrogenic action of cassava depends on the glucoside levels in fresh roots, the effectiveness of processing, the frequency of cassava consumption and the iodine intake. The goitrogenic effect of cassava can be corrected entirely by increasing the intake of iodine.

ISHS is an organization of horticulturists and have nothing to do with cancer or research. The observations listed above are just that, observations, but they reinforce what has been said about hydrogen cyanide and also give us a key insight as to what side effects can occur if a diet is iodine deficient. Io-dine deficiency is exacerbated by the introduction of addi-tional thiocyanate from high nitriloside sources. So by in-gesting more B-17 we are mimicking iodine deficiency.

The problem is that iodine is so common today that no one gives it a second thought. However, when a body is flooded with thiocyanate due to increased amounts of ni-trilosides in the diet, many of the symptoms of iodine defi-ciency come into play. Iodine deficiency has its own delicious potpourri of symptoms, many of which rival cancer. The sim-plest way to counteract this is to purchase Lugol’s Solution or a pill equivalent such as Iodoral.

The RDA for Iodine is only 150 mcgs, which is very little. However the Okinawans who live much longer and healthier lives than us, ingest 12 mgs per day. Most of this is in the form of kelp. 2 drops of Lugols is equivalent to 12.5 mgs.

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To summarize a bit, we can see that B-17, along with pro-teolytic enzymes, will kill cancer. But without balancing out the entire equation with adequate amounts of dietary iodine, you will not feel the benefits. I believe this is why many pa-tients fall into a depression and allow them selves to quietly pass away. What has really happened is that they have fallen prey to a simple mineral deficiency, one which has accompa-nied us since we collectively crawled out of the Sea.

While there is a major movement by the medical profes-sion to take as much salt out of the American diet as possible, there is not one study which validates that table salt truly augments hypertension. So the question is where will people get their iodine from? Seaweed, shellfish; most people do not ingest these on a regular basis. There is a reason why iodine was added to salt many years ago as an essential mineral. It is little wonder why so many people suffer a wide range of dis-orders which are hard to identify. (Picture 4.3)

To speak the truth, I do not trust the medical profession, period. The words Standard Therapy have been the undoing of millions of people around the world. There is nowhere on the planet where this is truer than in the United States of Amer-ica. As fine as our doctors are at trauma care and reacting to life threatening injuries, we are lacking at our approach to chronic illness. Our doctors must stick to a basic protocol which is now more than 50 years old. This protects them from lawsuits but does little for medical advancement. It is always up to you and me to decide the proper course of action for our disease and our life.

For all that has been done, we are still much like the scurvy ridden sailors of the 1800s, giving life and limb to their country for no other reason than ignorance. Most, if not all, chronic illnesses are the result of a nutritional deficiency. (I didn’t say that, Linus Pauling did and he was accredited with two Nobel prizes.) Today, it is estimated that there are over 1 billion people worldwide who are iodine deficient. Iodine de-


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ficiency is almost impossible to isolate at it touches so many different aspects of human health. Here are some of the symp-toms experienced by those suffering iodine deficiencies:

Goiter, severe stunting of growth, skeletal retardation, and sex-ual immaturity, dwarfism, fatigue, depression, poor concentration, coldness and intolerance to cold environments, weight gain, consti-pation, fluid retention, muscle cramps, menstrual irregularities, hand numbness and carpal tunnel syndrome, joint pain (esp. shoul-der), vertigo, hearing loss, lateral eye brow thinning, cool, dry, rough skin, coarse hair, brittle nails, hair loss, muscle weakness, low heart rate and cardiac output, hoarse voice, enlarged tongue, ele-vated diastolic BP, slow DTRs, lowered basal body temperature, es-trogen dominance, infertility. Mild iodine deficiency has been re-ported to reduce intelligence quotients (I.Q.) by 10-15%.

Picture 4.3

In picture 4.3 we see what goiter actually looks like. A hor-

rible condition caused by a deficiency of the most common of

elements. This is not the list of symptoms for some forgotten

disease now confined to the medical achieves. This is right

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here, right now, and is still occurring each and everyday on

our planet.

So what can be done? Simple, first realize that all chronic

diseases are metabolic, meaning they are created via the holes

in our diet. Very few elements in our life are more important

than nutrition. . . . It is everything. When we as a people recog-

nize nutrition for what it is, then we will move ahead and cre-

ate the future and the society that we desire. This is not just

true for physical diseases; it is part of the mosaic of life which

is essential to our mental health and happiness. Again and

again we see it reflected back to us as ingesting the appropri-

ate minerals impacts our simple ability to be happy. Aug-

menting Chromium, lithium and Vanadium as well as B com-

plex vitamins and essential fatty acids (flaxseed oil), goes a

long way toward balancing mental health, therefore, improv-

ing the quality of life on every level.

Perhaps what is most vexing about this information is that it is all there. Anyone can mine these facts from the internet and use it to improve their life. In our society, doctors do not advocate the use of such practices, so we must accept this re-sponsibility as our own. There are two problems with this sys-tem. The first is that doctors do not understand these concepts because treating disease with nutrition was never part of the curriculum. The second is that the entrenched medical estab-lishment has never opened its mind to new concepts. This has always been the case, even when the proof of conclusive effec-tiveness was right before their eyes. The following story is in-controvertible proof of this sentiment:

This repaid me for all my work - giving my mother 18

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One of the most striking accounts of the medical profes-sion squashing a proven cancer cure was the case of Essiac therapy. Essiac is Caisse spelled backward, named after its creator Rene Caisse. She was a Canadian nurse from the 1930’s until 1962. Rene was given what she was told to be the cure for cancer from a miner’s wife. The woman stated that it had initially come from an Ojibwa Indian medicine man. Caisse refined the formula from its original eight herbs down to the current 4. These are Burdock root, Sheep sorrel, Slip-pery Elm bark and Turkish rhubarb or Indian rhubarb.

Rene founded the Caisse Cancer Clinic. During the years that followed she honed the formula and the techniques by which it was administered. In 1931 she was given permission to open the Bracebridge Cancer Clinic. From 1931 until the clinics closure in 1941, Caisse treated and cured literally thou-sands of patients, most of who were given up for dead by the medical profession. In 1941 the pressure from the health au-thorities was too great and she was forced to close her doors. At that time fifty-five thousand (55,000) people signed a peti-tion to the Ontario Government Legislature in favor of Caisse’s treatment for cancer, as did three hundred and eighty-seven (387) patients and many doctors, all to no avail. The following was taken from I was Canada’s Cancer Nurse;

“About the time I opened my Cancer Clinic in Bracebridge, my own dear mother became ill. The four local doctors said she had gall-stones, and her heart was too weak for surgery. Mother was 72 years old at the time. As she got worse, I insisted on calling Dr. Roscoe Graham, a consulting specialist of international fame, for an exami-nation and consultation with the other doctors. After the consulta-tion, Dr. Graham came to me and said: “Your mother has cancer, Miss Caisse. Her liver is a nodular mass.”

Dr. McGibbon, a local doctor who was set against my cancer work, said very sarcastically, “Why don’t you do something?” “I’m certainly going to try, doctor,” I replied. And I asked Dr. Graham,

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“How long does she have to live?” Dr. Graham thought it would be only a matter of days.

I immediately started treating her with ESSIAC. I gave it daily for 10 days. When she improved I reduced the treatment to three a week, then to two, then to one. She continued to improve. To make a long story short, my mother completely recovered. She passed away quietly after her 90th birthday – without pain, just a tired heart.

This repaid me for all my work – giving my mother 18 years of life she would not have had without ESSIAC. It made up for the great deal of persecution I have endured at the hands of the medical world.”

It should be noted that Rene actually suffered two mental breakdowns during this time period. She never took a dime for any of her treatments and ended up selling the recipe for Essiac to the Resperin Corporation shortly before her death for the princely sum of $1.00.

Common Elements As I began delving into some of the most documented

cancer cures that have been proven effective over time, I found some interesting results and elements they had in common:

• Essiac – Contains Benzaldehyde, also found in B-17

and known to be fatal to cancer cells. • Hoxey formula- Made from wild flowers and

plants, some of which contain B-17. • Budwig diet – Utilizes the combination of flaxseed

and cottage cheese. Flaxseed is a rich source of B-17. What I have come to believe is that many of these cures

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cells and it just makes sense that there are many different paths to bring these chemicals into our body. Hence, it has been a confusing quest for most people to rationalize how any of these fit together. Many doctors, in particular, look at the simplicity of these treatments and dismiss them out of hand. Their rational is that if it were that easy, the cancer riddle would have been long since solved. Sadly, others know the truth and understand the implications and, still, they do noth-ing.

It is truly a mystery to me how anyone, anywhere, believes that withholding information of this caliber is going to be of benefit to them. If you make a billion dollars profit by hiding a medical truth, you have killed those people, just as sure as if you had put a gun to their temple. There is no corner of the globe where this money will be well received. There is no jus-tifiable cause for such actions, even if you do not believe in Karmic Debt; most people acknowledge that what goes around does indeed come around. You cannot hide from the truth in your own mind. We are all responsible for the outcome of others. This is true for the actions which you take, or the re-sults which you fail to avert. We are all connected. Therefore, what you do to your neighbor, you do to yourself. This is no longer a religious dictate. As we shall see later, these are the results which our science has begun to validate.

Why me?

At the end of all this, the lingering question is always, why me? Why have I been stricken with such a beleaguering dis-ease? This is probably the most detrimental question you can contemplate. If you ask yourself, “God, why has this been done to me,” make no mistake, answers will follow, and none of them will be good. Your mind will review all of the less

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than spectacular events and deeds from throughout your life and say “Here you go. See, you deserved this.” Then you wal-low through your therapy unsure of direction or if you even deserve to survive in the first place. This is not where you want to be. Ask a better question. Attach yourself to a better ideal. What can I learn from this? Who can I become from this? How can I evolve from this? Who can I now help be-cause of this?

When I got sick the first thing I decided was that I was go-ing to find the answer to my cancer. Next, I was going to share those answers with anyone who would listen. Now, I know that I am not the first person to have such aspirations and that many have failed before me but, like anything else in life, you keep trying. You keep chopping away at that tree, a little bit everyday, and sooner or later it is felled.

After all is said and done, cancer gives us the opportunity to change our lives. No matter if we survive our cancer or not, one day we will all leave this world. The question is will we leave it as a better people? Did we evolve while we spent our time here? Did we take the negatives and turn them into posi-tives? Did we teach our children to do the same? Will we have caused anyone, anywhere, to say “I would like to pick up where he or she left off?” If you can say “yes” to these ques-tions then it has been a life well spent and the world is a richer place because you are here. If not, there is still time to change.

If you make these changes in your life, if you evolve be-cause of this disease or any other, than it was a real blessing in disguise. If not, you are truly beaten. You decide, with the understanding that your decision will shadow you all of your days and nights. Your children will recount how you faced death when they experience peril in their own lives. Your ac-tions will impact others for years to come, so make them good, strong and hopeful.


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Cancer is a call to action. Get off your butt and do some-thing! For me, it has been a way to take much of what I have always taught my children and add reality to it. It has been the walk the talk stage of my life. After all, it is one thing to speculate about the inner-workings of the universe, but it is another thing entirely when your understanding of this proc-ess holds your life or death in the balance. People thought I was crazy when I told them that this was an incredible oppor-tunity and not a death sentence. But in my mind was the be-lief that if I could, through the power of my intent and the fo-cus of my thought, remove cancer from my life, then what could oppose me? Sounds like an opportunity to me.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his

heart draws him, and then choose that way with all

his strength -Hasidic Saying

As I have said, one of the biggest questions a cancer pa-tient will face in their lifetime is which path do I take with my treatment? Should I go conventional, holistic, a combination of both, or perhaps neither? What you decide is not nearly as important as the conviction with which you adhere to it. If you go on a quest to talk with as many cancer survivors as you can find, what you will discover is that they may have done multitude therapies. Some, if not most, will have gone conventional. Many will have used metabolic or vitamin ther-apy. Surprisingly, very few will have done nothing at all. Most, however, will have used a combination of both thera-pies to some degree.

For anyone making this choice, statistics show that pa-tients who chose to do nothing had greater survival rates than those who underwent conventional therapies. Let me say that again, for those patients who opted not to take chemo or ra-

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diation therapy, on average, lived longer. The reason for this, as we have seen, is that the tumor is not the cancer; it is the symptom of the cancer, just as a rash is a symptom of an al-lergic reaction. I absolutely believe this to be the truth. I have endured both chemo and radiation therapies and can attest to the life zapping qualities both of these embody. It is my fervent belief that those people who survive while on conventional therapies, do so not because of the treatment, but in spite of it.

Another movement I have noted as of late is to diagnose patients with grade one cancer, then pulverize them with the full regimen of chemo and radiation treatments. I feel this is most likely a feeble attempt to improve the cure ratio of con-ventional medicine. A spin off of this is to diagnose patients as a grade 4, when in reality their cancer is of a much lower grade. The author recently had lunch with a woman who was diagnosed with grade 4 cancer; almost certain death. Her doc-tors, who she did not care for anyway, were advising an ag-gressive course of Chemo and radiation therapy. I urged her to take her tissue samples and have them biopsied by another lab. To her great surprise, this time, her cancer was diagnosed as grade 1. She immediately switched doctors. The current physician now suggests only a short session of chemotherapy. If you have never had cancer you might not be able to absorb the gravity of this. The difference between grade 1 cancer and grade 4 equates to falling off a step ladder or a five story building. Grade 4 has much more immediate and grave con-sequences.

Our expectations for survival are just as important as the therapy we undertake. Black men, on average, have a 33% lower chance of surviving cancer than do white men. The rea-son? Black men have a lower expectation for being cured due to their economic conditions. Their belief, or view, of the situation is that they cannot get the same level of medical treatment that is available to whites. A simpler way of de-scribing this process is that they have a belief which lowers


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their level of expectation. This decreased level of expectation transcends into very real implications. These expectations must hold true for black women also. From 1995-2002, nearly 90% of white breast cancer patients survived for at least five years. That percentage was dramatically smaller for blacks (75%).

When you are hoping to survive, or praying to survive, you are not nearly as powerful as when you are expecting to survive. If you broke your arm and the doctor set it and then sent you home, you would expect to get better. It would not be an “iffy” situation. You would simply assume that you would get better. If he said take these pills or do these actions, more than likely you would get better and go about your life. More importantly, you would not be focusing on the fact that you have a cast on your arm as much as you would when it was coming off. Cancer is no exception. If you and I expect to survive, more than likely we will. This will not always be the case, but it does improve survival statistics so why not use it?

Early in my illness I took up the habit of talking to brain cancer survivors to get their insights about the road that lay ahead. One woman I spoke with was a school teacher, and I remember her vividly. She had multiple tumors in her brain which had all been removed 5 years prior. I asked her about her tumor and she had no idea what grade it was, much less, what type. Her doctor told her that she would be okay and she trusted him completely. He had not laden her with grim statistics or doomsday scenarios. Her simple acceptance of this no doubt saved her life. She returned to work after two weeks off and has been fine ever since. If you are a doctor; please realize the weight of your words. They are more than likely the most important part of the therapy which you will administer.

Another woman who was a close friend of the family went to see her doctor for an unrelated condition and was inadver-tently diagnosed with lung cancer. After several tests and a

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biopsy it was decreed to be grade 4, so bad she was told that they could not even treat it with chemotherapy. This was at the end of June and, upon hearing the news, I went to see her immediately. From what I observed, she was fine. She was not gasping for air, hacking or even coughing. She did have pain in her legs which the doctor attributed to blood clots. This woman lived in the neighborhood, so I would drop in to see her every week or so. I’m not a psychologist but I could see the fight going out of her eyes. She was not really antici-pating surviving the event, and by Halloween of that year she was dead. I am 100% confident that had she not gone to the doctor and gotten that dismal diagnosis, she would be alive today.

It has been said that a witch doctor can kill a tribesman by shaking a bone at them. For the doctor who delivers such a verdict to a patient, you are indeed shaking that bone. He is taking the life that each of these men and woman has created and carelessly obliterating it. Doctors are destroying this life with tangible elements such as chemo and radiation. But, more importantly, they are fostering its demise through the power of hopelessness. We are incredible creatures, contained within each of us is the power of creation. The power which allows us to miraculously heal is, sadly, the same power that causes us to gratuitously die.

Four years after my own illness, I would tell anyone that I am staunchly against chemo and radiation therapy. If I could wave my hand and remove them from our planet, I would do so. However, I cannot, but you can. If cancer patients across this nation will reject what is currently taking place in our medical community then neither I nor anyone else will need to fight such battles. At the end of the day the medical indus-try, as well as all others, are based on simple supply and de-mand. If we have no need, they will have no reason to supply. All of us, through our own ignorance, empower doctors. When I speak with doctors I look at them as I would a gar-


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dener or landscaper. They make recommendations and sug-gestions and I pick and choose which ones I agree with. You would not completely redesign your yard because a land-scaper told you to. You would not give up on life because your gardener said your flower beds were beyond hope. In other words, you do not internalize what the gardener tells you. You view them as suggestions and then go on to the next challenge in your life. Why do we view doctors so differently? In most instances gardeners understand what makes flowers grow and nurture those needs, whereas doctors do quite the opposite. Remember, we do not lose 783,936 people a year in home and garden centers.

Medical system is leading cause of death

and injury in US October 29, 2003 The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions

(ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evi-dent that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.

[Statistical evidence is cited by Gary Null PhD, Caroly Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD and Dorothy Smith PhD from recent paper Death by Medicine] i·at·ro·gen·ic Induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy.

Again, while it may sound like I have a vendetta against

doctors, I do not. I do have an ax to grind with regards to our current medical community which is very simply controlled by the pharmaceutical industry. The information above

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should make you aware of one unsettling fact. WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT WORKING! Like a good defense law-yer, all I am trying to do here is create a shadow of doubt, just enough for you to say, “Hmm, maybe there is another way?” Maybe I don’t have to stick my head into a microwave like that dumb bastard Rod Czlonka? Maybe I don’t have to take chemo until all my hair falls out and I feel like the inside of a shoe?

(At the conclusion of this book I became aware of a woman named Hulda Clark and her theories concerning cancer. Many of these paralleled my research and I have tried her parasitic protocols in earnest. Although my exposure to her treatment program has been brief, I firmly believe in the science behind it. I have also taken to zapping parasites as Dr. Clark recommends and this has produced some immediate and significant results for common maladies such as colds, flues and even cysts. I believe this to be another powerful weapon for the cancer patient to incorporate into their arsenal.)

As a cancer patient, you need to do something, because your brain expects you to take some action. If you don’t your brain will beat you up with remorse and second guessing, causing even more stress. So, if you must take action, take ac-tion in a way that will not cause further complications to your, already, beleaguered frame. Change your diet, take nu-trients, exercise and alkalize your body. We will talk more about exercise later but for right now understand that you need to take action; make a list of all the changes you have made in your life to show your brain what you have done. Meditate everyday. (I use this term inter-changeably for prayer.) Here, in my opinion, is the most important part of the entire process: When you pray, thank God in advance for granting your wish. Say, “God, thank you for bringing wealth and abundance into my life,” or “God, thank you for flooding my body with health and vitality,” or “God, thank you for healing me, thank you for restoring me.” If you do this every day of your life, and expect results because you understand


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that this is how the process works, then you have done your best to prepare for the moment.

I make no guarantees, but it has been my experience that, more often than not, this will work. Like a brow beating boss, your brain looks for action. When you repetitively show your mind what you are doing and why you are doing it, and then finish off the scenario with the outcome you want, good things are bound to happen. If there was anything which I found enlightening about getting sick it was the fact that it taught me how to focus my thoughts, today I focus only on what I would like to see materialize in my life, nothing else. I have learned not to concentrate on the problem, but to see the solution. Then, to my utter amazement, it appears.

I believe that most of us get bogged down with the details of how we will heal or how we will secure a new job. How-ever, when people get to the point where they have tried eve-rything else and just say “I want to be healed” results appear. It is almost as if when we stop telling the universe “how” we want things to happen and just focus on “what” we would like to happen, that change takes place. To simply “know” this, will change your entire existence. You will set your mind on only the things you want, everyday, all day long.

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MANUAL

man·u·al A book that contains information and instructions about the opera-tion of a machine

How do we work? There are thousands of health writers

out there telling us to eat this, exercise that, and avoid every-thing in between. To be honest, any foray into this area is an educated guess, and nothing more. But I think what I am about to share with you is a good guess and, if nothing else, it will give you a new way to look at how your body oper-ates.

Within the first 6 months of my journey into cancer I had done what many, if not most, people would consider ex-tremely stupid; I had quit chemo, quit radiation and then started taking natural supplements. Yea, like that is going to work; but it did. I survived, and somewhere along the way, I discovered who I was. It was not luck that I lived, the actions I had taken and the supplements I was using were turning the tide. People kept telling me “you’re looking good,” and I knew that it was true. I was getting stronger, and all the re-search I was doing was making me well, smarter, or at least, better informed. I had beaten the odds and beaten the ex-perts and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that luck was not the only factor.

When I started all this research everything I read stated, emphatically, that you must exercise as part of a rehabilita-tion program. I have always exercised so I had no real prob-lem with this, but a thought occurred to me. If I had been exercising all this time and I still got sick, maybe there was more to this exercise thing than just throwing barbells around or running first thing in the morning. This knowl-

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edge was slow to come at first, but eventually I put the pieces together. My pre-cancer exercise regiment looked something like this: I would lift weights on Sundays and then run or walk the rest of the week. In retrospect, the pro-gram was not all that bad. As it turns out though, most of this activity was counter productive to my overall health. You might be asking yourself “how can that be?” Every doc-tor on this planet says we need to exercise to stay healthy, so who am I to say otherwise? What I discovered is that we do need exercise for a number of reasons:

1. It increases cardiac function and blood flow, which

is a good thing. 2. Additional blood flow equals increased oxygen

through out the body, which is a good thing. 3. Exercise assists in removing waste and toxins from

our bodies, which is a good thing. 4. Exercise increases our Natural Killer cell activity,

which is a good thing. 5. Exercise causes you to sweat profusely, draining

you of your vital nutrients, which is a bad thing… One of the surprises my research uncovered was that ath-letes had more health challenges and lower life expectancies than their non-athletic counterparts. In fact, elite athletes, the best of the best, had only a life expectancy of 68 years. These are men and woman who are consistently in peak physical condition, through years of training and discipline. Let’s compare these human Adonis to their couch-potato neighbors who completely bypasses the gym on the way to Dunkin Donuts. How long do you think this lethargic Louie will live; about 76.5 years.

Immediately, this did not make any sense to me. How could the fittest among us have drastically lower life expec-


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tancies? I mean, they have lower body fat, like all the medi-cal experts tell us we should. They have a fit cardiovascular heart, and I am willing to bet that anyone who puts that much time and energy into their body probably eats pretty well. So, again, what’s the deal? Does your body have only a limited amount of energy which, once expended, is then de-pleted? Na, I didn’t believe that either. So, then, what was the answer? As I alluded to earlier, the answer is sweat. Ath-letes, very simply, sweat more than the average man on the street. This explains two things. When injuries occur, your body does not have the nutritional stockades with which to repair the problem, which accounts for the fact that athletes have so many long-term and recurrent injuries. Second and more importantly, some of these nutrients which come out in sweat are integral to life and longevity. It might be a good idea to figure out what these nutrients are so, as we sweat, they can be re-supplemented back into our body.

When I first started driving my dad gave me a list of do’s and don’ts, what would and would not damage my 67 Buick Wildcat. I had gotten the car from my grandfather. My grandparents were firm believers in trading your car in every two years for a new one, even though they really didn’t drive them anywhere. So when my dad was recanting the do’s and don’ts of automobile ownership he warned, “You’ll probably have to take that thing out and really run it. The worst thing you can do to a car is to let it sit.”

I have no idea why that single comment has stuck with me all these years, perhaps because, in a crude way, this metaphor allowed me to see my health from a new perspec-tive. I believe what my dad told me as it is indeed bad to let a car sit. Gaskets get hard and crack, fuel sitting in a cars en-gine tends to varnish, carbon builds up, the tires dry rot. Well, you get the picture. However, as bad as that could be for your car to sit and atrophy, running the engine with no

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oil in it would be much worse. I believe this is the exact sce-nario that applies to most athletes. They are not impacting their engines via entropy; they are overusing their joints, their heart, and their muscles without the capacity to replen-ish the human oil which allows the machinery of life to run.

If you are one of these athletes, do not blame yourself for not knowing this because all of our medical advisors do not seem to know this. In fact, even today, many doctors do not seem to understand that your body needs vitamins and min-erals to function. In this day and age it would seem unbe-lievable that a doctor would not recognize this as fact, but it is true. I was talking with a doctor just a short time ago, and the patient we were discussing was having air funneled into her mouth via a machine. Her throat was raw and there seemed to be tissue damage up and down her esophagus and into her lungs. Now, I have stated emphatically that oxygen is essential to health within the body, however, oxy-gen, by its very nature, will produce what is known as free radicals. Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons and can be formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules. Once formed, these highly reactive radicals can start a chain reaction, like dominoes. Their biggest danger comes from the damage they can do when they react with important cellular compo-nents such as DNA, or the cell membrane. Cells may func-tion poorly or die if this occurs.

Heart DiseaseHeart DiseaseHeart DiseaseHeart Disease With respect to heart disease, the reason we get clogged

arteries is much more than just how much fat and choles-terol we ingest. Fast foods have long been held as the usual culprit to obesity and poor health. Now, I would not dispute this but, little has been printed to indicate the reality of why


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these foods are so damaging. The way it really works is that fats get oxidized when they come in contact with free radi-cals, so these fats are extremely susceptible to damage by these rogue molecules. Food processing, especially heat treatment and drying, induces cholesterol oxidation. Oxi-dized cholesterols are detected in various food products, in-cluding dairy products, eggs, meat and fish. So what hap-pens next?

Baked products, made with eggs and butter, are also loaded with oxidized cholesterol. When free radicals oxidize this fat, it changes into the gummy form known as plaque which coats the insides of arteries. This is the biggest cause of heart disease. So how do we stop this from happening?

To prevent free radical damage the body has a defense system of antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules which provide extra electrons and safely interact with free radicals, terminating the chain reaction before vital cells are dam-aged. Although there are several enzyme systems within the body that scavenge free radicals, the principle micronutrient (vitamin) antioxidants are vitamin E, beta-carotene or vita-min A, and vitamin C. Additionally, and most importantly, is selenium, a trace metal that is required for proper function of one of the body's antioxidant enzyme systems. The body cannot manufacture these micronutrients so they must be supplied in the diet. In short, a study of antioxidants is a study of physics. A simple way to understand the process is the words OIL RIG; Oxidation Is Loss of an electron, Reduc-tion Is Gain. So, when oxidation occurs this is always refer-ring to the loss of an electron. Where our body is concerned, we want to stop the oxidation and the subsequent destruc-tion of our cells.

This understanding of free radicals has existed for dec-ades, and by now every doctor in the world should be adept at the use of antioxidants and how they affect the body.

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When you supplement someone’s oxygen intake, you in ef-fect, create more free radicals producing more free radical damage. More free radicals interact with fats in our body to produce clogging plaque and damaged cells. Doctors should make it a priority to supplement the patient’s nutritional in-take with antioxidants to prevent this from happening. Dur-ing the conversation I asked the doctor why this was not be-ing done and if it was something we should look at doing immediate? He said, and I quote, “There is no evidence for that medically. There’s not a lot of evidence that antioxidants do any-thing, there is not a lot of evidence that antioxidants really do help, even when you are talking about cancer and other things.” I countered and told him that I have never heard of that any-where and he said “it depends on what you read.”

Now, I know it sounds like I’m picking on the doctors again, and I guess at some level I am, but ask yourself, if the doctors do not understand the bare basics of physics that we have covered here, how could they possibly council us on how to heal the body? Here is a point to consider; Joel Wal-lach wrote a very successful book in the early 1990’s entitled Dead Doctors Don’t Lie. Doctor Wallach’s claim was that the average American lived to 76 years of age while the average M.D. only survived to only 58. He went on to ask the ques-tion “if the doctors only live to be 58 and the average Joe lives to 76, then why would you take advice from your doc-tor?” He went on to say that, statistically, you could live longer by simply avoiding medical school. Since that time I have read scores of rebuttals stating that doctors live much longer than 58 and that the average life expectancy of an M.D. was in actuality 70. Of all the articles and documents which I have read, not one stated that doctors outlive pa-tients, which means Dr. Wallach was right from the get go. The reason for this discrepancy has already been explained; doctors do not, and cannot, advocate the use of nutrients to


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treat disease. To do so would be to admit that these deficien-cies caused the disease in the first place. Thus, medical igno-rance is present even with the ranks of the medical commu-nity.

No matter if you are a runner or a weight lifter, you must supplement your body with lost nutrients. As we have just seen, our bodies cannot produce vitamins A, C, E or sele-nium and they must be taken in through diet. These are so important, in fact, that our entire enzymatic free radical scavenging system cannot operate without them! But, yet, there are scores of doctors out there, just as the one which I have just quoted, who believe that these nutrients are inef-fective against free radicals. In effect, they believe free radi-cals exist, they just do not believe nutrition will negate the effects. Make no mistake - this is what they were taught in school, and this is what they teach their client community.

So, for the athlete, all of the factors that a non-athletic person faces are expanded. When you exercise you are breathing much harder than when you are not, the added oxygen creates more free radicals. The combination of these free radicals, along with increased levels of lactic acid, ac-counts for the pain and injury done to the body via exercise. New research is now revealing just how important it is to address the issue of sore, achy muscles. Athletes expect this after a strenuous workout, I know I did. I would rank my workout by how sore I was the next day.

What results is an odd irony, we do need exercise to stay healthy, but exercise creates more free radicals and lactic acid which makes us unhealthy. This is why so many people get confused, why doctors get confused. The fact that vita-mins are so common today that no one gives them a second thought does not help the situation. But many researchers are applying these new ideas to the existing paradigm. To test the effects of vitamin C in preventing muscle soreness,

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researchers at Western States Chiropractic College gave 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C to a group of students. An-other group of students received placebos. After both groups had been taking pills for three days, the students who took vitamin C developed significantly less muscle soreness after exercising than the group that took the placebos.

Vitamin C is also needed to help make collagen, the "glue" that holds muscle cells together. Following an injury, even a minor one like a sore muscle, the body needs to make more collagen to repair the damaged tissue.

All of this says to me “Hey, I need antioxidants; I need nutrition.” So given that this is true, and trust me, it is, what do we specifically need to know about nutrition? Well, for starters, we need to understand plants. Plants are incredible organisms that can manufacture oxygen, provide vitamins and enzymes which are necessary to start and maintain life in the first place, and they can alkalize your body through simple consumption. Yes, plants can do all of these miracu-lous things, but they cannot produce minerals. It’s that sim-ple; if there are not minerals in the soil then they can’t be found in the plant. To add to the confusion, minerals do not occur in a uniform blanket around the earth. For example, an element present in the soil in Belgium might be absent in Indiana. Simply consuming a vegetable or plant and not knowing its origin can produce vastly different results for the recipient.

This is the great lie contained within the statement, “we get all the vitamins and minerals we need within the 4 food groups.” Moreover, this is the same great lie which may be included in most natural supplements. If you take St. Johns wart grown in Kansas it might have vastly different proper-ties than the same plant grown somewhere else. The specific minerals in the soil make all the difference. I am going to make reference to senate document 264 which was origi-


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nated in 1936 and was prepared by Dr. Charles Northern. The Senate actually released this document proposing that vitamin deficiencies will cause disease. Now, everyone in the natural supplement industry has seen this document and it is almost like pulling out some old, tired adage like “you’re as old as you feel” when giving advice. Document 264 should serve as an eye-opener for those who believe doc-tors when nutritional therapies are mentioned, for people who say there is no evidence one way or the other that nutri-tion has anything to do with disease, and for those who still believe in the misguided content of the food pyramid. The great pyramid of Giza is one the 7 wonders of the world, but the food pyramid which follows is anything but wonderful.

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Unabridged Excerpts From Senate Document No. 264, 1936 74th Congress, 2nd Session Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dan-gerous diet deficiencies, which cannot be remedied until the de-pleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance?

The alarming fact is that foods—fruits and vegetables and grains—now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us—no matter how much of them we eat! You’d think, wouldn’t you, that a carrot is a carrot-that one is about as good as another as far as nourishment is concerned? But it isn’t; one carrot may look and taste like another and yet be lacking in the particular mineral element our system requires, which carrots are supposed to con-tain. Laboratory test prove that the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, the eggs and even the milk and the meats of today are not what they were a few generations ago. (Which doubtless explains why our forefathers thrived on a selection of foods that would starve us!) No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the mineral salts he requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn’t big enough to hold them! And we are running too big stomachs.

No longer does a balanced and fully nourishing diet consist merely of so many calories of certain vitamins or a fixed proportion of starches, proteins, and carbohydrates. We now know that it must contain, in addition, something like a score of mineral salts.

It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any consider-able lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives.


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Understandably, that was 1936, long before the medical profession realized the implications for health and nutrition, before corrupt politicians began twisting the truth to satiate superiors and people trusted only their doctors for advice during illness. So as you can see, that was a very different time. But let me ask you this, if our soils were that depleted in 1936, how are they today? Do you imagine that it has got-ten any better? When farmers plant crops they do not sup-plement the soil with more than 3 minerals; nitrogen, phos-phorus and potassium. These minerals are the bare minimum given to bolster the plant’s health and not those who are eat-ing them. Soil is depleted in every cycle regardless of field rotation, if you keep taking it out and not putting anything back in bad things happen. In our case the bad news is that no minerals in the soil = no minerals in the plant = no miner-als in our body. But here is the most important part, if there are not minerals in your body, almost all of the vitamins which you take are worthless. That’s right, worthless. Your body cannot utilize vitamins without their mineral counter-parts. Another excerpt from Senate document 264 echoes this sentiment:

We know that vitamins are complex chemical sub-

stances which are indispensable to nutrition, and

that each of them is of importance for the normal

function of some special structure in the body. Dis-

order and disease result from any vitamin deficiency.

It is not commonly realized, however that vitamins

control the body's appropriation of minerals, and in

the absence of mineral's they have no function to

perform. Lacking vitamins, the system can make

some use of minerals, but lacking minerals, vitamins

are useless

-Senate Document 264

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So the government, in a short lapse of judgment, actually admitted that a deficiency of these vitamins and minerals will result in disease. They did not say maybe or shows promise; instead, they said the presence of these nutrients is a requirement of good health. So the first question which springs to my mind is what diseases? What vitamin or min-eral could possibly prevent a life threatening disease? I mean, it sounds too simple to be true. This fact, above all others is why the American culture has not embraced nutri-tion with abandon, as they have baseball and hotdogs.

So, if I’ve got your attention, here is a list of the some of the time honored nutritional cures for disease:

• Cancer – Vitamin B-17, Vitamin B-15, Antioxidants,

Pancreatic enzymes, Selenium • Heart Disease – Antioxidants, Vitamins A,C,E and

most importantly Selenium. • Diabetes – Trace minerals- Chromium, Vanadium. • Alzheimer’s – Vitamin E, Selenium • Arthritis – Knox Gelatin, Calcium • Hypertension – High dosage Calcium • Aneurysms – Colloidal Copper • Ulcers – Trace Mineral Bismuth and Tetracycline • Low Back Pain – Copper and Calcium • Rickets – Vitamin D • Cystic Fibrosis – Selenium

Selenium and Calcium alone address dozens of diseases. I am not trying to beat you over the head with this; either

you will accept that poor nutrition is the cause of disease, or you will not. However, with all the verified diseases which have been ended with the use of proper nutrition, why would you not? There are so many factors which impact our lives that we can do nothing about, but this is one that we


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truly can improve and fortify. How many diseases can be avoided? How much mental illness can be erased? How many dangerous drugs can be eliminated? And, ultimately, how much ugliness can we wipe away by simply evolving our knowledge about nutrition? We need vitamins and min-erals to live, common sense and history prove this to be true. Moreover, despite what our doctor says, we need to educate our children about nutrition and the avoidance of disease. Then and only then, can we hope that the next generation will get it right. Maybe they will find the strength and intel-ligence to make the changes that we could not.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. -Mark Twain

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MATTER

mat·ter Matter, material, stuff, substance REFERS TO

THAT OF WHICH PHYSICAL OB jects are composed.

Matter - this word is such a part of our lexicon that we do not even contemplate its true meaning. Hence, “what’s the matter?”, “it doesn’t matter”, and so on. As trivial as we have made the word, a true conversation about matter is a talk about the stuff of life, the fabric of the universe, and at the very least, the cells of our body. For all that matter is, and all of the subtleties which it embraces, matter is a by-product of energy. It would serve all of us to remember what Einstein said about the make-up of the human body, “it is 99% empty space or energy, what remains is about 1% matter.” He went on to theorize that we could fit the entire physical mass of humanity into an area the size of a baseball.

So what is the energy that Einstein is referring to? We learned earlier that our bodies have an actual energetic blueprint, and when outside forces such as EMF, ELF, Geopathic Stress, toxins and a slew of other factors impact this blueprint, disease is the result. These forces actually al-ter our DNA and, hence, our genetic future. Cancer and autoimmune diseases are just the start; long term contamina-tion of our gene pool is a near possibility. So when I started looking at all of this, I tried to figure out how I could fit this data into what I was doing. How can I make this work for me?

I have listed some of the many entropic forces which im-pact and permeate our bodies, but what about the good heal-ing energies of the world, where are they? There are legends that have persisted throughout the ages testifying to the healing powers of the waters at Lourdes, in southwestern

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France. Although Lourdes has a population of fewer than 20,000 people, every year they experience over 5,000,000 visi-tors, 75,000 of which are disabled people. They visit the shrine at Our Lady of Lourdes, the waters from the spring there are said to have miraculous healing powers. Visitors seem to instinctively know that there is some energy at work that is beneficial to them.

Sprawling miles along the holy river ganges, the city of Banarask, also called Varanasi or Kashi, is the most visited pilgrimage destination in all of India, with millions paying homage each year. Myths and hymns speak of the waters of the Ganges as the fluid medium of Shiva's divine essence. A bath in the river is believed to revitalize the body and wash away sins.

For me, locations such as Muir woods just to the north of San Francisco California, offers natural healing energy. It is impossible to enter into this forest without feeling the force of life pulsating all around you. It is the “natural high” that people talk about. All of this is more than just fresh air, beautiful scenery and serotonin in our brains. There is en-ergy to life, an energy which flows to and through us. So, given that this is true, it would make sense for all of us to increase the “good” energies in our life while eliminating the bad ones. Because this type of energy is un-quantifiable, there is little in the way of scientific advice on which to for-mulate a system. Most of what I have come to know and be-lieve in has been accomplished by digging deep, experi-menting with products, and then forming opinions based on these experiences. So they are in a word “anecdotal.”

Let’s start with how to negate some of the damaging forces in our lives. If you are recovering from any type of ill-ness, and not just cancer, this is of the utmost importance. EMF, as we have seen, alters our DNA, and deprives us of our vital life force, so this is probably a good place to begin.


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When I first started to learn about EMF and how it dete-riorates our bodies, I made the investment into a low cost Gauss Meter. That is how you gauge the amount of EMF ra-diation that is present, in milligauss. My meter was about $100.00 and I thought it was money well spent, given my situation. I eagerly picked up the meter on my way to work the next day and took it to my office, which was located on the 5th floor of a large business complex. I was certain that I was going to find the presence of this life draining force running rampant throughout the building, or at the very least in my office. To my surprise, after greedily unpacking the unit and installing the batteries, I found little evidence of EMF present there. It was true that if I put the gauss meter in front of my computer terminal, it would produce a strong reading of 22 mG. However, by pulling the meter back from the screen, the radiation levels dropped off sharply. This was the case for most of the electrical devices which existed there. There was a strong EMF field right next to the ma-chine, but by keeping a space cushion, most the danger was dissipated. At that time I hadn’t considered testing the radia-tion coming off my cell phone, not yet anyway.

So, to be honest, I left for home that day feeling some-what disappointed. I was now questioning if it was all-that-intelligent to spend the $100.00 in the first place. When I got home I thought about it, and I promised myself to at least do a cursory inspection of my house before making a decision to return the meter. This single thought proved to be life-changing, to say the least. I live in a bungalow which is basi-cally a ranch house with a full basement. My search began in the kitchen because it contained the most electrical devices, you know, microwaves, can openers, dishwashers, refrigera-tor, toaster ovens and any other cutting edge electrical appli-ances that no one needs, and everyone wants. With one ex-ception, I found nothing that really surprised me. The

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strongest EM field was coming from the microwave oven, but only when it was being operated. Just to give you a ref-erence, anything over 2 mG is considered to be degenerative to living organisms. Well, the amount of radiation leaking out from my microwave was in the 35-40 mG range. This seems to be somewhat in the norm for microwave ovens. Since that time I have tested dozens of these units and the amount of radiation usually falls somewhere in that range. This was especially distressing to me as a parent because when my children were younger, I could remember them trying to watch popcorn cook through the glass. We also heated my son’s baby bottles in like fashion.

What I discovered was that, as bad as the microwave was, putting a space cushion between me and the unit dropped my level of exposure greatly. I found the minimum safe distance to be 5-6 feet, a safety cushion not feasible in many kitchens across the nation. Next, I tested the can opener which literally produced a reading which went off the scale. For my unit this means that the reading was in ex-cess of 200mG. Like with the microwave, this reading dropped sharply by putting two feet of distance between myself and the opener. This seemed to be the norm for many appliances, short, powerful bursts of EMF radiation, dimin-ishing to nothing when the unit was not in use.

Exceptions to this rule were my juicer which can be run for 20 minutes or more, and the blow dryer, which was liter-ally off the scale. That’s right, the blow dryer. These are really bad because you put them right next to your melon, sometimes for up to 5-10 minutes. Not good. After all was said and done though, I had anticipated some of these. What I didn’t anticipate was what happened next. Holding the meter in my hand I walked with it facing the floor. I made several passes across the length and width of my kitchen. Each time I did this I detected a reading in the same spot


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under my kitchen table. This seemed strange to me because there was nothing electrical to be seen. I concluded that it was something in the basement that I would look into later.

Some guass meters work on more than one axis, mean-ing that they can detect radiation in any direction. Mine was a cheaper unit, and could only detect the radiation if the me-ter was in-line with the source of the radiation. So a good amount of the time was spent pointing the unit this way or that way, trying to get a reading. Once I got a fix on this reading in the kitchen, I noticed that it ran the entire length of my house. This included the space where I ate dinner, bathed and slept. I took the meter downstairs to isolate the problem. This did not seem to help because there was noth-ing I could see which could cause that type of radiation. Ul-timately, and to my great surprise, the source of the readings were coming from a waterline, running from the front to the back of my home. If I was confused before, I was really screwed up now. How could a waterline be the source of the EMF problem in my house? EMF comes from electrical mo-tors, high tension wires and cell phones, not waterlines… right?

This was my reasoning at the time, and as practical as it might have sounded, it was wrong. The reason for this was that years ago, when my home was built, electricians felt that the best way to ground the electrical service was to at-tach a cable to the main water line. You can see what this looked like in picture 6.1.

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Picture 6.1 Courtesy Silencingthefields.com The illustration in picture 6.1 is almost an exact layout of

how my house was configured at that time. Because of the way the service was grounded, the readings I was getting from this water line were 90mG! This is 45 times the accept-able limit for EMF exposure. When your home is configured in this way, the EM fields are constant, running day and night, 24/7. Few forces are as detrimental to the human con-dition. I also found that huge amounts of EM radiation were permeating my bedroom floor from ballasts found in the flo-rescent lights in my basement. Some of the reading taken from the floor of my bedroom where in excess of 130 mG! What this transcended to were readings of 5-6 mG at the level of my mattress. If 2mG is the maximum acceptable ex-posure to EM fields, could you imagine sleeping in a bed that was bathed in 6 mG each and every day of the year? With readings like this, there is little surprise as to why or how my brain tumor developed.

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ple do not even understand that the danger exists. I was in-vited to watch a football game at a friend’s house and, out of courtesy; I brought my trusty gauss meter with me. It was a newer home and I thought that they would appreciate the fact that I checked it out for them. I discovered that the breaker box downstairs was creating a huge EM field, which was positioned directly below their kitchen table. I went up-stairs to check the readings and I found that the levels there were 7-8 mG. This is where the family ate dinner virtually every day of their life. Wouldn’t you want to know if there was a danger present? Would you not want a heads up on something this critical? Well, I am sure you can see where this story is headed; not only did the husband not want a heads up, he became aggravated by the entire situation. However, this is not an isolated response, most of our popu-lation does not have any idea what EMF can, and does, do to our quality of life. So when this was brought to their atten-tion they become somewhat hostile, as if I had done some-thing to berate their home. I had no such intentions, but I am deadly serious about getting the word out about EMF and what people can do to shield their loved ones from this un-necessary killer.

Anyway, I will show you what I did to my own home to turn things around. There are very sound electrical reasons why EM fields are generated within the home and I started to search for answers. I pieced together solutions from sev-eral different websites. What I came up with was that if I could sever the conductive metallic water line path, it would isolate the house from the water main and eliminate water line currents. So I basically inserted a plastic union into the waterline where it entered my home.

This is illustrated in picture 6.2. It should be noted that changing the grounding configuration can cause electrical safety concerns, so it might be wise to consult an electrician.

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When I did this to my own home I noted no changes other than the fact that I no longer burned out light bulbs at an ac-celerated rate, and my electrical bills were lowered.

Picture 6.2 - Plastic union installed on water main.

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Picture 6.3 – EM Fields in lamp cord In picture 6.3 we can see two electrical wires running side

by side. Both wires generate and electrical field, each in turn, canceling the other out. But in the case of an electrical system which is grounded to the water main, net currents may re-sult. What is a net current? Much of the grounding-system current will flow into the plumbing at any house that has its electrical system especially grounded to an all-metal city wa-ter supply system. This includes many of the houses built before 1960. Part of the return current flowing back from a house to the power company will go into these water pipes instead of the regular wires. So there is a current deficit sometimes called a "net current" in the cable to the house -- as well as in the water pipe grounding paths.

My father and I installed the union pictured in 6.2 and then I anxiously grabbed my gauss meter and placed it next the water line. To my total amazement the reading was zero. That’s right, zero. I could not believe that something so small and inexpensive could seemingly have eliminated such a large problem. What I realized at that moment was that this is not just a crisis affecting my home, but millions of homes

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across the country. And the effects of this are not just cancer, but a myriad of diseases and behavioral disorders as we have already seen.

However, my jubilance was short-lived. The main water line into my home was now reading zero, that was true, but my home was not free of EMF. As a matter of fact the more I checked the more I found. The problem still existed with the EM field generated by the ballasts in my florescent lights and now I was finding readings in other parts of my home. One of these that especially concerned me was in my heat registers. My home has hot water heat and, consequently, any EMF that was leaking into the water system was finding its way into these registers. These registers outline the pe-rimeter of my home and, in a sense, were surrounding my family with EMF. So my work was far from over.

So, again, I fired up the internet to do more research. What did I need to do? Was there someone I could hire to dispatch the problem? I talked with a couple of electricians and they practically laughed at what I was telling them. They reassured me that all homes have this type of problem. But I made a habit of checking other homes for EMF, and every home seemed to have varying levels of EMF present. This was definitely not a “one size fits all” situation.

In my internet journeys I encountered a lot of companies which claimed to have the answer to the EMF problem. I am not going to criticize any of them here, but I will say that most did not seem to work, or at the very least had limited effectiveness. Interestingly, all this information was ulti-mately leading me down a path where I was being exposed to the concept of subtle energies. According to a National Institutes of Health study, at least 52 terms are used for "sub-tle energy": chi, prana, holy spirit, manna, ether, orgone, biomagnetism and zeropoint, among many others in our current vocabulary.


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So all of this was coming together for me; whatever EMF was, it was attacking these subtle energies, the results of which were being seen as sickness in the human body. I had to start approaching the problem from this angle. During this phase of my research I became aware of many different people who were looking at ways of impacting these subtle energies. One of these men was Masuru Emoto. He had be-come famous by exposing water to, of all things, words. That’s right, words. He simply wrote words on the side of a container of water and then froze the water and looked at it under a microscope. Not to paint too simplistic a picture, but what he found was that words with positive intent such as love, thank you, gratitude, appreciation, hope, peace or God would form crystals when frozen and then photographed. Other words, which we might call “negative” words, like you fool, hate, rage, fear, anger and Hitler would not. Not only would they not form crystals, they sometimes produce horrendous malformed shapes and outlines.

To this day Dr. Emoto is one of the scientists I respect and admire the most. Dr. Emoto was kind enough to allow me to publish some of these pictures in an earlier text, A State of Being. He intimately understands how words and intent impact water and, with you and I being 70% water, how words impact us. To be more accurate, he understands how the subtle energy of words impacts us. Dr. Emoto actually experimented with the effect EMF has on water. In the ex-periment he tied a flask of water to a cell phone and made 10 one minute phone calls. He froze this sample and found that the water could not generate a crystal formation. Next he took the same phone and tied a note saying Love and Grati-tude and repeated the 10 phone calls. This time the water formed crystals. So with the simplest of tools, three words, Emoto gave us a way to introduce a nourishing energy into our lives and negate some of the entropic effects of EMF.

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After absorbing the research and meeting Dr. Emoto in person at a lecture, I was beginning to see the big picture. I made a habit then, and continue to this day, of displaying positive words and sayings throughout my home. Live, Laugh, Love hangs on a banner in my living room. Peace, Tranquility decorates my kitchen. Love, hangs in my sun-room and Peace and Harmony appear in many rooms of my house. It is perhaps not in the norm to believe that some-thing so small can make a difference, but it does. I can feel the change in my home and my life. True, this is not tangi-ble, and I cannot tell you that happiness went up by 26% percent when I made these changes, but I think you would have to agree that no harm can come of them. And maybe, just maybe, these words and phrases permeate our subcon-scious mind without our knowledge.

Many of our greatest leaders, both political and economi-cal, have employed the use of this idea. It is highly likely that upon entering the office of any successful person that there will be evidence of this principle in use. A poignant quote from Vince Lombardi, a beautiful thought from Mother Theresa, a brilliant insight from Albert Einstein, or a dogged determination held by Winston Churchill. These quotes and phrases represent what is best in all of us, and we look to them in time of need. We pattern our own phi-losophies after them, and we emulate the mindsets of those far more evolved than our own. We endorse their views and, for a fleeting moment in time, we become them.

I have to admit, prior to becoming sick I most likely would not have given these ideas their due. For example, Feng Shui has been practiced in the Orient for thousands of years. I had heard of it, even seen some examples, but I never really believed it. However, after seeing Emoto’s work and understand some of the physics of subtle energy, I looked at Feng Shui in a whole new light. If words could af-


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fect my body then maybe the placement of furniture and plants within my home did mean something. Maybe it did change the energy or at least the feeling of the room.

I found a book at the library on Feng Shui and started reading. To my great surprise, one of the chapters in the book illustrated a home with poor Feng Shui; it was my house! It seemed weird, but the floor plan they had depicted was virtually my floor plan. Later in that chapter the author showed how simple changes could be made to change the energy and hence the Feng Shui of the room. This actually transformed a sparse, uninviting room, into one that my family now uses often. None of the changes were profound; a plant here a mirror there, but when all was said and done the energy of the room had completely changed. For those who would counter that these changes were not real, and that it was merely a product of my imagination, I would say “what is the difference?” Anything which can alter thought will alter energy through exposure. Energy is thought and thought energy. The two are intertwined and no man can mentally put them asunder. We could make much wiser use of our energies by acknowledging this relationship as fact, than by trying to find flaws in the fabric of its existence.

So to this end I say post positive sayings in all the rooms of your house. Write love and appreciation on water bottles and food containers. Energize your living space with the power of words and possibilities. Remember that every thought you have and every emotion you experience has an effect on the remainder of your life. Take charge of this proc-ess. Controlled thought is everything.

The first 2 years of my cancer journey I wore a pendant around my neck. It was called The Guardian, and its crea-tor’s alleged that they had created an antenna for Zero Point Energy. Initially I had no idea what this was about, what the heck was Zero Point Energy? However, I was in a situation

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where I was open to pretty much everything and they stated the pendant would set up a protective sphere around the body which would shield me from environment toxins, EMF cell phones and all other degenerative energies. They also stated that the Guardian would detoxify any energetic pat-terns within my body which would harm me. Now it was true that I did have part of my brain missing, but I was not stupid and this sounded like a load of Snake Oil B.S. to me, but then another part of my mind queried what if it were true? Would you be worried about spending a $100 on a pendant if all or even half of those things were true? (I will tell you right now this single thought has served me well and is one of the primary reasons that I am still here.)

So I purchased the pendant, put it on, and I have to tell you, I did not feel much of anything. However, the more I read, the more I realized the point was to allow all of us to operate unencumbered by the living space surrounding us. Zero Point Energy, as it turns out, is ubiquitous. It’s every-where, yet, we cannot always access this energy, or at least not at the levels necessary to maintain optimal health. As I have said, this energy is everywhere, and is the most in-credible fuel source known to man. 100 years ago Nicola Tesla tapped into the Zero Point field, he called it radiant energy, but names are really semantics. He created a huge tower called the Warrdencliff Generator, where he could col-lect and disperse this energy wirelessly to any point on the globe. This project was shut down by his financial backer J.P. Morgan. Morgan instructed his men to tear down the tower and tear up all of Tesla’s research.

Next, Tesla made a much smaller version of his tower collector and removed the engine from a car called the Pierce Arrow. He replaced the massive engine with a small, benign looking box with vacuum tubes sticking out the top of it. This strange looking device actually powered the car liter-


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ally off of thin air. What he had really done was create a Zero Point Antenna, just as the creator of the Guardian had. The other aspect of the Zero Point field is that it does not know duality. Seemingly, everything in our world has equal measures of both good and bad, but not so in the Zero Point field. Everything there is perfection and this is one of the reasons why this technology could make the bizarre claims that it did. All physical matter emanates from this field. Not only does it emanate from the field but it is also continually replenished and regenerated by it. This was truly a self-perpetuating energy source. Needless to say, I became fasci-nated by this technology and tracked down one of its crea-tors. His name was Dan and I spoke with him several times at length over the first year of wearing the technology. Dan was actually happy to share his vast amount of intellectual wealth with me, and I greedily soaked up knowledge through each exchange.

Life went on. I was back at work, the family was growing and I fell back into my normal pattern, which was fine with me. However, by now I was writing and I instinctively knew that energetic healing was the future of medicine; a fervent belief which I still hold to this very day. So I began to look at other companies, one of which was Advanced Tachyon Technologies. Advanced Tachyon used very similar lan-guage and concepts very similar to those Dan taught me, and because I always keep an open mind, I purchased some of their products. It turned out that this technology also worked and, more importantly, I really liked the company and the opportunity for me to share their products from my website. A year later a new friend introduced me to a com-pany call Biopro and I purchased one of their pendants. I immediately had it checked out by a doctor who does EAV testing and she confirmed that it did shelter me from EMF and ELF, so I offered their technologies from my site as well.

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It is always my intention to share the best technologies I can find with those who visit my site and read my books. The truth is that most people do not even know that these tech-nologies exist and I seem to stumble onto more of these than the average Joe, so it all strangely seems to work out.

In early 2009 I discovered yet another company named Zero-Point Global and their products utilize the Zero Point field to shel-ter your body from harm and ne-gate any chaotic energies. In addi-tion, these products have been programmed with blueprint fre-quencies to match the organs of the body. This all sounded vaguely familiar to me and, as it turned out, my old friend Dan was one of the founders. He had teamed-up with some really brilliant people and pro-duced a group of incredible next level technologies. What makes them “incredible”? Well, for starters, there were sev-eral companies that produced products that lessen the ef-fects of EMF, ELF and cell phones on the human body.

The Zero Point products did this and a great deal more. They actually have the ability to protect body against all en-vironmental toxins. This includes solvents, food additives, tainted water and food, as well as ELF and EMF. In a word, this technology will shelter the immune system from envi-ronmental stressors which will shut it down. When our im-mune function is down, we are susceptible to anything that happens to be “hanging out” at the time. This could be a vi-rus, bacteria, fungus, parasites, you name it.

Now I realize that this is a big statement but it is my ex-perience that this is true. Since World War 1, there have been 80,000 new chemicals alone introduced into our living space. The less your immune system is compromised by these


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forces the fewer times that you will become sick. This is also true for non-life threatening diseases such as colds and flues. Additionally, the company produces other healing aids such as the Naturalaser, which in-corporates the same blueprint frequencies as the pendant. This product has the ability to relive pain and restore balance to any location on the body. By simply running the beam back and forth across the problem area, the pain can be negated. This works extremely well for people who have bad backs, sprained ankles and sore knees. Know what? There is not a sole who believes it until they try it for themselves. So I real-ize all this sounds like hype, but today there are thousands of people all over the world who are discovering this tech-nology and incorporating it into their daily lives. I will be the first to say that it is not the end-all be-all to good health, but, to date, it has proved to be one of the most consistent tools for healing that I have ever experienced.

This data may be summarily dismissed by people just be-cause it is so far out of the box, but when we consider the fact that NASA actually holds a patent for a ZPE collector, some of this hesitation abates, at least it did for me. Zero Point Global currently offers the best solution to this prob-lem. I continue to examine and test new products and tech-nologies as they become available. My allegiance to Zero Point Global begins and ends with the fact that they are the most effect tool on the market for shielding the human body from environmental stressors. My readers should make no mistake in understanding that if a better product comes out next month or next year, I will advocate those products in-

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stead. My first priority is to help those who are navigating through this most tricky of minefields. EMF is an incoherent energy by its very nature. However, by wearing Zeropoint Global products and placing others such as Earth Hearts, on their cell phones, microwaves, can openers and other appli-ances this incoherent energy is harmonized into a coherent field.

The most insidious item on the aforementioned list is the microwave. Many technologies help with EMF but not a mi-crowave; it is just too strong and un-harmonized. When I tested my unit with a gauss meter I found that I was still get-ting dangerous readings up to 4 feet away. That is how much entropic energy that these machines produce. It liter-ally bathes your kitchen in chaotic energy, which is why many opt to dispense with the microwave altogether. My thought is that if you must keep this appliance, why not make it safe? With regards to microwaves, I am going to share a true story with you to illustrate just how dangerous these units are: MICROWAVED BLOOD KILLS! In 1991, word leaked out about a lawsuit in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, only to be killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfu-sion in a microwave oven"! (J. Nat. Sci, 1998; 1:2-7).

Common sense suggests that if heating or cooking is all there is to it, then it doesn't matter what mode of heating technology one uses. However, it is quite apparent that there is more to 'heating' with microwaves than we've been led to believe. Many people do not understand the process that a microwave utilizes to heat food. The micro-waves start on the inside and then move outward. The food molecules are hit by the electromagnetic radiation and forced to reverse


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polarity very quickly. That is, the molecules start spinning. This tears them apart and sometimes rearranges them into toxic substances that cause many allergic responses. It is this friction which produces the heat that `cooks' the food. Unfor-tunately, this violent force also rips apart and deforms the molecular structure of the food. It is no longer `food' - it has the appearance of food, but that is where the similarities end.

Microwave radiation alters food, alters blood, and not in a good way. When I was raising my first child we routinely used the microwave to heat the baby bottles. Today we know this is not good for a number of reasons. Heating any plastic in a microwave is an invitation for disease, but now we understand that this is because the molecular structure of the formula is changed by this process. The Russians did ex-tensive research in this area. Among other things, it was found that heating food via microwave radiation produced the following changes:

• Decreased bioavailability of vitamin B complex, vita-

min C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropic factors in all foods tested.

• Various kinds of damage to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and Nitrilosides.

• The degradation of nucleoproteins in meats. Russian researchers reported a marked acceleration of

structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. I have bolded the word Ni-trilosides; if you remember, Nitrilosides are naturally occur-ring B-17, or Laetrile. It is little wonder why there is so much cancer. Microwaved food actually degrades the few sources of nitrilosides that we do have in our diets. The Russian

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government had actually banned microwave ovens starting in 1976 and this ban was not lifted until Perestroika in the mid 80’s. Sadly, this action was taken only for the benefit of economic reform.

In my own home my microwave was housed in a wooden enclosure with cabinets both above and below it. Mine was an older unit and when it was energized it gave off readings in the 60-80 mG. range. These were the readings directly in front of the machine, but the greater danger was emanating from the top, bottom and sides of the machine. The cabinets above and below the microwave were receiving 80mG of radiation each and every time the unit was used. This meant that all the food in those adjacent cabinets were being radiated; were being altered. Most people have their microwave on a counter or under a cabinet, but very few of us realize the effects that has on our food. Having a micro-wave oven in your kitchen assures that you bath your family and the food they eat in EMF radiation every day 24/7.

I have said time and time again, we believe that if some-thing poses a danger it would not be used by so many peo-ple, but I tell you that this is a lie. Microwave ovens destroy cells, both in our bodies and those of the provisions we cook. They rob us of the life giving benefits of nourishment and that is the only reason to eat food in the first place. We all have this belief that someone out there, we are not sure who, is looking out for us. WAKE UP! There is no official gov-ernment agency which is fulfilling this task. Today, people value money more than health, more than the well being of their friends and family, and more than the future of our race. We have to see through this guise. We need to look down the path where we are headed and ask ourselves, “do we really want to go there?”

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those same destructive energies focused completely on your brain. When you can do this, then you will begin to under-stand what cell phones are really all about.

This is a complex issue, and one that the entire cell phone industry would like to completely avoid. However, there is nothing you will do this week or next week or the 50 weeks after that, which is as important as addressing this single is-sue. I am not speaking from reference material here. This is my direct life experience.

For many years of my life I worked without the need for a cell phone on the job. But when I received a promotion I found myself in a setting where I used my cell phone every-day, sometimes for hours on end. My routine was set in stone. After having a cell phone pressed against my ear all day, I would come home from work and place the phone on counter next to the television. Each and every time it rang, the television freaked out with static and we could not hear any of the audio. And just about every day my wife said “that’s not right. That thing is going to give you a brain tu-mor. “

Besides living with the fact that my wife’s “I told you so” came true, I realized that this entire mess could have been avoided. So let’s look at my life at that time. I was an outside salesman on the road and on the phone, and then I came home and ate dinner at a kitchen table smothered in EMF, and then slept in a bed bathed in the same energy. Is it any wonder that I got a brain tumor? My cell phone was off the scale in terms of EMF, and it was pressed next to my unpro-tected brain every day of my life. Sound like anyone you know?

I want you to benefit from the events which cost me so dearly. If that happens, then everything I went through has a meaning, if not, then I got this fancy scar on my head for nothing. So when I first put 2 + 2 together, I scoured the

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internet to see if there were other heavy cell users with brain tumors. What I found is that there were thousands of credi-ble accounts that this was taking place. For some reason, still unknown to me, I found that the mass of humanity suppress these ideas and notions. No one wants to consider them for very long because then they would have to do something and, to be honest, it is not clear what can be done.

It is true that I could say to you, do not use cell phones. However, the majority of us would simply dismiss this and then go about our lives. In truth, we are at a precipice that does not even require that we use cell phones to be subjected to the radiation. Recently, it was determined that there are 266 antennas within 4 miles of my house. Bottom line is that this energy is ubiquitous; it is not something you can turn on and off. So, as always, I am going to give you solutions. It is up to you what you do with them.

Besides my own paranoid delusions about cell phones, what is the evidence that this is so? For the answer, let’s go back a few years. This rather long letter was written by Dr. George L. Carlo. Dr. Carlo was hired by Michael Armstrong and the cell phone industry to debunk the growing allega-tions by cell phone users. This letter was the summation of 6 years of intensive research. In it he states that cell phones are responsible for an increased number of deaths due to brain tumors. He identified a doubling of neuro epithelial tumors, and noted acoustic neuroma tumors were 50% higher in us-ers of cell phones. He also makes several references to cell phones altering DNA. This is spelled out plainly to anyone who can read. This letter should be taken at face value be-cause Dr. Carlo actually presented data which would be fi-nancially detrimental to those who hired him. I consider this an incredibly brave and uncommon thing to do.


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It is difficult to get a man to under-stand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

7 October 1999

Mr. C. Michael Armstrong Chairman and Chief Executive Officer AT & T Corporation 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 100313-2412

Dear Mr Armstrong:

After much thought, I am writing this letter to you, personally, to ask your assistance in solving what I believe is an emerging and serious problem concerning wireless phones. I write this letter in the interest of the more than 80 million wireless phone users in the United States and the more than 200 million worldwide. But I also write this letter in the interest of your industry, a critical part of our social and economic infrastructure. Since 1993, I have headed the WTR surveillance and research program funded by the wireless industry. The goal of WTR has always been to identify and solve any problems concerning consumers' health that could arise from the use of these phones. This past February, at the annual convention of the CTIA, I met with the full board of that organization to brief them on some surprising findings from our work. I do not recall if you were there personally, but my understanding is that all segments of the industry were represented. At that briefing, I explained that the well-conducted scientific studies that WTR was overseeing indicated that the question of wireless phone safety had become confused. Specifically, I reported to you that:

• The rate of death from brain cancer among handheld phone us-ers was higher than the rate of brain cancer death among those who used non-handheld phones that were away from their head;

• The risk of acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the auditory nerve that is well in range of the radiation coming from a phone's antenna, was fifty percent higher in people who reported using cell phones for six years or more, moreover, that relationship be-

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tween the amount of cell phone use and this tumour appeared to follow a dose-response curve:

• The risk of rare neuro epithelial tumours on the outside of the brain was more than doubled, a statistically significant risk in-crease, in cell phone users as compared to people who did not use cell phones;

• There appeared to be some correlation between brain tumours occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head;

• Laboratory studies looking at the ability of radiation from a phone's antenna to cause functional genetic damage were de-finitively positive, and were following a dose-response relation-ship.

I also indicated that while our overall study of brain cancer occurrence did not show a correlation with cell phone use, the vast majority of the tumours that were studied, were well out of range of the radiation that one would expect from a cell phone's antenna. Because of that distance, the finding of no effect was questionable. Such miss-classification of ra-diation exposure would tend to dilute any real effect that may have been present. In addition, I reported to you that the genetic damage studies we conducted to look at the ability of radiation from the phones to break DNA were negative, but that the positive finding of functional DNA dam-age could be more important, perhaps indicating a problem that is not dependent on DNA breakage, and that these inconsistencies needed to be clarified. I reported that while none of these findings alone were evi-dence of a definitive health hazard from wireless phones, the pattern of potential health effects evidenced by different types of studies, from dif-ferent laboratories, and by different investigators raised serious ques-tions. Following my presentation, I heard by voice vote of those present, a pledge to "do the right thing in following up these findings" and a com-mitment of the necessary funds. When I took on the responsibility of doing this work for you, I pledged five years. I was asked to continue on through the end of a sixth year, and agreed. My tenure is now completed. My presentation to you and the CTIA board in February was not an effort to lengthen my tenure at WTR, or to lengthen the tenure of WTR itself. I was simply doing my job of let-ting you know what we found and what needed to be done following from our findings. I made this expressly clear during my presentation to you and in many subsequent conversations with members of your industry and the media. Today, I sit here extremely frustrated and concerned that appropriate steps have not been taken by the wireless industry to protect consumers


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during this time of uncertainty about safety. The steps I am referring to specifically followed from the WTR program and have been recom-mended repeatedly in public and private for and by me and other experts from around the world. As I prepare to move away from the wireless phone issue and into a different public health direction, I am concerned that the wireless industry is missing a valuable opportunity by dealing with these public health concerns through politics, creating illusions that more research over the next several years helps consumers today, and false claims that regulatory compliance means safety. The better choice by the wireless industry would be to implement measured steps aimed at true consumer protection. Alarmingly, indications are that some segments of the industry have ig-nored the scientific findings suggesting potential health effects, have re-peatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all con-sumers including children, and have created an illusion of responsible follow up by calling for and supporting more research. The most impor-tant measures of consumer protection are missing: complete and honest factual information to allow informed judgment by consumers about as-sumption of risk; the direct tracking and monitoring of what happens to consumers who use wireless phones; and, the monitoring of changes in the technology that could impact health. I am especially concerned about what appear to be actions by a segment of the industry to conscript the FCC, the FDA and The World Health Or-ganization with them in following a non-effectual course that will likely result in a regulatory and consumer backlash. As an industry, you will have to deal with the fallout from all of your choices, good and bad, in the long term. But short term, I would like your help in effectuating an important public health intervention today. The question of wireless phone safety is unclear. Therefore, from a pub-lic health perspective, it is critical for consumers to have the information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this un-known risk they wish to assume in their use of wireless phones. Inform-ing consumers openly and honestly about what is known and not-known about health risks is not liability laden - it is evidence that your industry is being responsible, and doing all it can to assure safe use of its products. The current popular backlash we are witnessing in the United States to-day against the tobacco industry is derived in large part from perceived dishonesty on the part of that industry in not being forthright about health effects. I urge you to help your industry not repeat that mistake. As we close out the business of the WTR, I would like to openly ask for your help in distributing the summary findings we have complied of our work. This last action is what always has been anticipated and forecast in the WTR's research agenda. I have asked another organization with which I am affiliated, The Health Risk Management Group (HRMG) , to help us with this public health intervention step, and to put together a

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consumer information package for widespread distribution. Because nei-ther WTR nor HRMG have the means to effectuate this intervention, I am asking you to help us do the right thing. I would be happy to talk to you personally about this. Sincerely yours George L. Carlo Ph.D, M.S., J.D Chairman Wireless Technology Research LLC 1711 N. Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington DC 20036-2811”

Now check the date on the letter, 1999, that’s right - 11 years ago! Everyone in America should have heard about this letter but very few have. I wish that I would have. No one told me. The government did not even make these com-panies issue disclaimers. The American people must under-stand that it is easy to blur findings from any study, any test and by doing so say the results are inconclusive. Trust me when I say that you do not want someone whom you love to go through what I have gone through; what I am still going through.

Here is a look at how EMF radiation penetrates the hu-man brain depending on the age of the user:

Pictures 6.4

10 years old 5 years old Adult

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One of the most poignant observations made by Dr. Carlo and his team was that frequency radiation from cell phones causes leaks in the blood brain barrier. This allows all the toxins and parasites within your blood to enter the brain, opening the doors to a myriad of diseases and brain cancers.

On any given day that I take my family to the local mall, I see small children, some as young as 5 and 6 years of age us-ing a cell phone. In pictures 6.4 we can see the actual pene-tration levels experienced by our children. One of the most common scenarios is the overwhelming amount of teenagers who use these phones everyday of the week. My son was in the habit of falling to sleep with a phone on his bed almost every night. I understand that many other teenagers due this as well. As a parent, I feel it is my responsibility to tell as many other parents about the danger that this poses. Our children need us. They count on us to make good decisions for them, even if they cannot initially understand our rea-sons. To that end I would tell anyone not to buy their child a cell phone. However, most people will not adhere to this be-cause it makes their lives far too easy. We all tell ourselves the same lie, they’ll only use it for emergencies, but we know that this will not be the case. Soon after getting a cell phone they will call their friends and text their friends, play games and anything else the phone can do. This is the reality of children and cell phones and I do not believe that anyone including myself, Kid Rock or Beyonce could talk them out of it. As a result, I believe if we cannot abstain from purchas-ing cell phones, then we must seek some technology that render cell phones safer. A headset is the first, best choice, but few of us use them because they are pain. So what else can parents do? I told you that Zero Point Global provided EMF protection for the home; indeed they have smaller ver-

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sions of the same technology incorporated into the Zero-Point Pendant for your cell phone.

I have one of these on my cell phone. Why? Before I rec-ommend anything, to anyone, I test it out on yours truly. The only way I really know how to test for the benefits of this type of technology is EAV testing. Back in the late 1940's, Dr. Reinholt Voll, M.D. began an investigation of the effects of electricity on the human physiology. EAV is an ac-ronym for Electro-Acupuncture according to Voll. Just as the name indicates, the acupuncture meridians of the body are employed. The EAV machine, via a test probe, will perform a simple impedance check when applied to the flesh. Imped-ance is defined as resistance to the flow of electricity. As you might guess, most of our body’s flesh has a relatively high resistance to the flow of electricity. The only exception to this is the body’s acupuncture meridians, long used in Chinese medicine. Testing revealed that the impedance is much lower at these acupuncture points. Voll discovered a way to electrically validate what the Chinese had known for centu-ries. The principle is simple. There are established baseline readings along these acupuncture meridians, and any devia-tion above or below these readings is an indication to the physician that something is amiss.

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As you can see from chart 6.1, EAV testing produces neat and practical results for hundreds of foods and supplements. The chart indicators are broken down into three main cate-gories: Green is balanced, Red is stressed, Yellow is weaken-ing or degenerative. For example, if you suspected that you might have an allergy to wheat, it could be determined al-most immediately via the EAV. Allergies may not be the life-threatening or even sneeze-inducing reactions that most of us associate with the concept. Many people who are allergic to something just feel blah or rundown. Some people feel sick all of the time, others are frequently depressed. In Chart 6.1, we can see the test results from someone who was aller-gic to coffee. Most Americans drink coffee everyday of their lives; can you imagine drinking something which was weak-ening you, every-day-of-your-life? What would the long-term affects be on your body? Would you feel weak? Tired? Sick depressed, suicidal? Would you manifest a terminal ill-ness? All of these are possible outcomes to repeated allergic exposure.

Unlike muscle testing, an EAV machine does not require that you provide a sample of the material for evaluation. The reason for this is that EAV can simulate the substance via its frequency. As we saw earlier, everything is vibrating, and everything, I mean everything, has a specific frequency. If not, the EAV machine could not discern a carrot from a can-taloupe. When these specific frequencies are induced along the acupuncture meridians, the body will respond in a Green, Red or Yellow fashion.

Today, EAV machines are really highly advanced com-puter programs with test probes at the inputs. They can simulate the frequencies of over 40,000 different substances. Because of this, EAV testing can also suggest remedies for specific ailments. In the past, diagnoses and treatment for an illness were at the discretion of the doctor. Success was

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completely dependant on the level of knowledge, experience and competency that the physician possessed. It should be obvious that no doctor can be aware of all treatments for every disease. Even medical books are general guidelines and not patient specific. However, because the EAV machine can generate the frequency of virtually any known remedy, a customized plan of treatment can be devised. This can save months of time and trial and error, not to mention pain and discomfort. In some cases, violent reactions to the wrong medication can result in Adverse Drug Reactions or ADR. Is this important? Consider that JAMA, or the Journal of the American Medical Association, attributes over 100,000 American deaths per year to ADR. In Chicago where I live Soldier Field holds almost 70,000 people and it is a sight to behold when it is filled. Now if someone where to set off a bomb and kill all of those innocent people, it would be con-sidered a national disaster. But we have doctors who kill over 100,000 nationally each and every year and no one says a word, all of which could be avoided with a simple EAV test. Think Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson and Brittany Murphy.

I have had several of these tests done over the span of my illness. In each and every instance they have given me key insights as to how my body was healing, where I was weak and where I was strong, what substances where helping or hurting me. The last of these tests was done specifically to measure the amount of stress a cell phone would induce in my body. The parameters were simple; I first did the test by calling my voice mail and watching the readings reflected by the EAV machine. After that, I repeated the same procedure only this time with a protective Earth Hearts on the back of the phone. The results were just as I had expected. On the first go round the EMF emanating from my cell phone forced my readings into the Red on the EAV scale. Then by


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simply reapplying the Earth Hearts to the back of the phone, all my readings stayed in the green. I had the doctor repeat this test several times just to be sure. This proved to me quite convincingly that EMF from our cell phones can be negated through the use of Zero Point Global materials.

Picture 6.5 – Earth Hearts from Zero Point Global You and I now have the advantage of choice. More im-

portantly, you have the opportunity to make choices that I did not. I encourage you to take the time to research this technology. It is frivolous for me to expect that people will abstain from using their cell phones, just as it’s all but im-possible for parents to stop their children from using them. However, if you choose to keep this technology in your life, take the precautions to make sure they are safe. All of us spend countless hours preparing for the welfare of our chil-dren. We work hard to buy them the best things life has to offer. We try to move to the best neighborhoods, with the best schools and ultimately the best options. We sign them up for sports and activities. We research the best colleges and pay huge sums of money to get them there. After all that, after everything we have sacrificed to raise our child, it makes no sense not to protect them from this avoidable threat. The cost of the Zero Point Global Earth Heart is in the

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$25 range, about the cost of movie and popcorn. The Zero Point pendants are around $150 and will last a lifetime. None of us would think of owning our home or cars without insurance, and yet all of them are things. The most impor-tant wealth that we all possess is our families.

There is one other part of your body’s energy system which I would like to talk more about, and that is the thy-mus. The ancient Greeks believed that the Thymus was the body’s energy center, the Greek word Thymos actually means Life Energy. Today, testing with EAV machines and muscle testing are showing us just how intuitive the Greeks actually were.

The job of the Thymus is critical to our immune function; it is considered the master organ for the immune system. White blood cells enter the Thymus and are transformed into T-cells which are critical to fighting off any disease. Perhaps this is why EMF has such a pronounced effect on the im-mune system. By lowering the energy in the Thymus, we are lowering our body’s immune response through attrition. As a result, our entire body is de-energized. This simple cause and effect observation is easily remedied by wearing a Zero-Point Global pendant over the Thymus, which is 4 finger widths down from the hole over the windpipe. This place-ment shields our body from the effects of EMF and stops the depletion of our immune system. The Thymus is considered to be part of the body’s Chakra system. The Thymus is tied to heart Chakra, which is one of 7 main Chakras within our body.


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Chart 6.2 – 7 Charka System The Sanskrit word "chakra" literally means "spinning wheel". The chakra system within the human body consists of seven major chakras and several minor chakras. To those who can see energy fields, a major chakra resembles a spin-ning wheel when looking directly into the chakra. However, viewed from the side, it looks more like an energy vortex somewhat resembling the shape of a tornado. Why is this important? I mean if you are not into spirituality why do you need to know this? Earlier we talked about Zero Point Energy, and how our body naturally utilizes this energy in our day to day lives. When the flow of this natural energy is blocked because of a trauma, a buildup of toxins or even a powerful emotion impediment, disease is the result. Some-

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times that disease is cancer, sometimes MS or heart disease. Maybe it is nothing as pronounced, but it causes you to feel tired all the time, to feel depressed or grouchy or just blah. When we feel blah, we’re probably not going to jump off the couch and take the kids for a walk, or visit some friends on the other side of town. We’re probably not going to take one of those rides in the country that we like so much, but just can’t seem to get around to. We’re not going to do a lot of things. A new picture now emerges that our bodily energy is more than just how we feel; it is the absolute quality and quantity of our lives. Use it wisely, protect it and most im-portantly, be thankful for it.

I would like to say that of all the techniques and technol-ogy that I have mentioned here, of all the sources of energy we have touched on, none are more powerful than our thoughts. That’s right, our thoughts. Physics is now proving and re-proving that the entire physical universe is made of the same stuff. This stuff is energy vibrating at different fre-quencies. Thought also has a frequency, a higher frequency. When the energy of thought is slowed down it can become matter, in fact, it does become matter. This is why every great teacher, seemingly from the dawn of time, has taught us that our thoughts create our world. This is not a meta-phor; this is real, tangible physical matter. It is the tangible world that you touch and hold and live and die through, each and every day of your life. We believe these things to be more important because we can feel them with our tactile senses, but they are only there because of our thoughts and the thoughts of others. We all co-create the world we bare witness to. There is a divine intelligence to everything which happens and we need to understand this process, to harness this power and to re-define our life with intent.

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particles for a lifetime. His thoughts were as follows: the new science requires a radical change in how we conceive the world. It is no longer possible to see it as a collection of autonomous parts, as Newton did, existing separately while interacting. The deeper revelation is one of undivided wholeness, in which the observer is not separate from what is observed.

Once, during a discussion between John Wheeler and Richard Feynman, two of the greatest physicists of our time, Wheeler said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass."

Feynman asked. “Why?” “Because,” said Wheeler “they are all the same electron!”

Other discoveries made by modern physics have further opened the rift conceived in the Newtonian model. One ex-ample of this concerns subatomic particles, which sometimes decay into two particles. When this happens, the phenome-non is known as twins, a single system with two parts, spin-ning in opposite directions. No one knows which is spinning in what direction until a measurement is taken. However, the laws of physics state that they must balance each other out. Now if these two particles were to fly apart, one into space, while the other remained in the laboratory, and if you could nab one of the particles and reverse its spin, it was theorized that the other particle would have to reverse itself as well. This would be true even if it was light years away. According to the laws of quantum physics, this is exactly what would happen. Some unknown form of communica-tion, faster than the speed of light, would cause each particle to “know” and respond to what the other was doing.

If I fall prey to disease, I must re-define my life with the intent of health. If I fall prey to poverty, I must re-define my life with the intent of abundance. If I fall prey to hopeless-ness, I must re-define my life with the intent of joy. This seems to be unobtainable when we are desperate and fearful,

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but by clearly defining what we want to happen and ignor-ing what we are currently experiencing, we can literally alter matter. Our feelings are a feedback mechanism from the universe. When we are feeling good, we are attracting more “good” things into our life, and when we are feeling bad, we should recognize this as a signal, and immediately change what we are focusing on. This alone will produce an instant change in the energy and vibration of our thoughts. Many of us do not understand this simple connection because we keep changing our focus, and the experience of our life changes with it. For you or I to manifest anything in life into physical form, time will be a factor. We must choose the out-come we want to experience and then repetitively see and “feel” those sensations, before we can bring it into our physical world. There are good reasons for this process. Imagine one day we wanted to be an astronaut and then a week later we chose to be fireman. With our desires flipping back and forth, we would never decide which profession we really wanted to become. Life allows us time to ponder our choices.

This book is about health and I will tell you that most people focus on the disease and not the abundance of health which they desperately desire. We create our health by choosing that outcome each and every day. It takes years to manifest your cancer, and it may take years to completely alleviate it, but know this: we can change the outcome, but not if we don’t change our focus. We will all experience the death of our physical body one day, it is unavoidable. However, if we use our disease as a method to evolve, then it has served us and not the other way around.


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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine

-Sir Arthur Eddington

It would serve us all to remember what Einstein said about matter; “energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It is merely converted from one form to another.” When we focus on images of our tumor dissolving, of our disease retreating, we are converting energy from one form to another.

Imagine that every time we utilize creative thought an icicle is formed in the water, (which is what Emoto observed) exactly corresponding to the thought. We might have millions of icicles of different forms, colors and sizes but these icicles would still be water. If we could heat these icicles they would melt, and all the forms would again become fluid. But in reality, nothing would have changed but form. This is all there is to matter. This is all there is to disease; alter the icicles and you alter the outcome.

Thought and feelings will affect matter; it truly has no choice. Yet, we need to deal with the element of time. Time is not a reality but a perception of reality. Our mind creates the illusion of time and, having done so, it creates the illusion of waiting. If we do not see an instantaneous result, we assume that the energy we are sending to something via our thoughts is not reaching the intended target. Or worse, we do not believe that thought can influence the physical world at all. The truth, however, is that all thought is creative, all thought is formative. We are impatient by our very nature and often miss out because of this inherent shortsightedness. Keep choosing the same thing, day in and day out and know that by choosing this outcome you are creating the events and actions necessary for its fulfillment.

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Mentally use expressions such as Love and Gratitude when contemplating a problem. By doing this, we are focusing thought energy toward the alternate outcome, converting the energy of disease to yet another form, that of healthy tissue.

This will be hard for many people to hear, much less to embrace, but this is my direct experience. Exposing a slower and lower frequency such as disease, to a higher, faster frequency (focused thought) will convert the energy of disease into another form. I believe this whole heartedly or I would not write the words. Utilizing these energies to overcome disease is just as important as taking Laetrile or Selenium. They are all tools which we can wield as we fight for our life. But even fight is not the correct word because what you resist persists. Conversion is not fighting, it is not even aggression, it is decision. It is the act of entering a dark room and not contemplating the darkness, but with the flick of a switch, making a choice to convert what once was shadows into light.

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DISINFORMATION

Dis-infor-mation misinformation that is deliberately dissemi-nated in order to influence or confuse ri-vals (foreign enemies or business competi-tors etc.)

I am sure that we all have our own definition for this word, but as with any real assessment of a truth, disinformation is lying, plain and simple. Any honest author will tell you that a good deal of what he or she writes is to some degree based on the same principle. Writers selectively target those key words and phrases which will help us to drive our point home, to make you, the reader, believe. As Americans, we unethically embellish the facts; we quote from studies and tests, and take parts of the data and manipulate them to serve our needs.

Drug companies know how to do this too, and they have entire departments dedicated to the proposition of taking creative license with the truth. I have spent considerable time within the confines of these pages explaining why nourishing your body in the proper way can cure you of disease, and extend your life. Your decision on whether to adopt these policies is predicated on the fact that you believe what I am saying, that you, my book reading friend, have at least a morsel of faith that I know what the heck I am talking about. But even given the fact that I survived terminal brain cancer, perhaps you’re still not completely convinced. Millions of American’s find themselves in this situation and the drug companies know it. I tell you that you should take 10 grams of Vitamin C a day if you are fighting cancer, and yet you see headlines like this:

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Vitamins under the spotlight again June 15, 2001 - Telegraph.co.uk

Vitamin C, known to be a DNA-protecting "antioxidant", is also ca-pable of inducing the production of DNA-damaging compounds that are linked to cancer, suggests a study in the journal Science.

There was a barrage of conflict when this headline was published. Doctors and nutritionists from around the world were posting numerous studies done by accredited institutions such as John’s Hopkins, Biochemistry Bio-physical Research in London and Immunosciences Labora-tory in California. They all reported that vitamin C was a strong antioxidant and safe even at higher dosages. Retrac-tions were made because the above test was done in a test tube and not on living creatures or humans. The lead re-searcher, from the University Of Pennsylvania Center for Cancer Pharmacology, was outside the country and could not easily respond to questions. He was reported to cover his story by saying "Absolutely, for God's sake, don't say vita-min C causes cancer." But the headlines read otherwise, and year on year vitamin C sales fell by 19%. One doctor made the following observation:

Can you imagine how Science mag. would have responded if the said

test-tube experiment had produced a group of anti-cancer, tumor-

inhibiting compounds? Of course, they would have said "this needs fur-

ther study and corroboration with animal or clinical tests before we can

publish such a claim". Since the claim goes against Vitamin C, they put

out the red carpet. It really is a transparent lie they have woven, fully

understandable when you consider that 50% of the pages of Science mag.

are composed of advertisements for the bio-tech and pharm industry.

[www.vitaminfoundation.org] -James DeMeo, Ph.D.


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Sadly, people remember the headlines, not the small friendly health articles placed at the back of the newspaper. It is becoming more obvious that misinformation about vi-tamins, minerals and herbal products is being planted in the news media and published in medical journals in a calcu-lated fashion. The reason is that more and more Americans are taking health care into their own hands, and relying less and less on doctors and drugs to elicit a cure. The big secret is that the biological action of virtually every prescription drug can be duplicated with nutritional supplements at a far less cost, and with fewer side effects. The only way to counter the growing demand for natural remedies is to con-fuse the public with misinformation. Books such as Kevin Trudeau’s Natural Cures They Don’t Want You To Know About are gaining popularity, as more and more people are becom-ing aware. However, this phenomenon is nothing new. In 1970, Linus Pauling, the only man in history ever win two Nobel Prizes in different categories, published Vitamin C and The Common Cold. The public read what Pauling had written; he had obtained a high level of credibility in academic circles as well, so this information was embraced by the masses. The response was that vitamin C consumption surged by over 300% nationwide. In the years that followed, Coronary Disease dropped by a staggering 40%, which is massive change. Many researchers attribute this dynamic turn around to the publication of Pauling’s book and nothing more.

Figure 1 neatly depicts this decline. We can now see why heart disease was at one time our nation’s biggest killer. Be-cause the public is now much more aware of the term anti-oxidants, heart disease is in a slow decline. But very few of us realize that the level of antioxidants in our system will dic-tate the amount of plaque in our arteries, and ultimately the amount of blockage we will endure.

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Courtesy [http://internetwks.com/pauling/mortality.html]

So what happened? We could see that things were going in the right direction. Why would we abandon nutrition as a treatment right when we are starting to see real benefits? "Did you hear about these pro-vitamin C results? Probably not, because unlike the scare stories, these positive findings and comments passed without mention in the mainstream media. - Ralph Moss

The truth is that the media is always looking for forces that threaten us. Things that threaten us sell papers, increase viewers and add to the bottom line of the company. Seem-


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ingly, no one cares if vitamin C stops cold, cancer and heart disease. That is not very dramatic, not very profitable. Con-sider this as well; many Universities are funded extensively by the pharmaceutical industry. When economic pressure is brought to bear on these colleges, data can become tainted, to say the very least. They have the money and so they have the media to help them. If you can get doctor so-and-so to say that Vitamin C is bad for you, you pepper the television and the newspapers with the news, and you will easily scare a percentage of the population out of taking Vitamin C. This will result in increased coronary blockage, increased free radical damage and any number of diseases can manifest when those conditions are met. It is a perfect formula.

Vitamin C is useless in fighting the com-mon cold 2005-06-29 Those who start eating lemons at first symptoms of the com-mon cold should slow down. According to a recent st udy, Vi-tamin C does nothing to prevent the common cold .

Now you might say to yourself; “this is useful informa-

tion. Vitamin C does not help with the common cold so I should not even bother taking it,” and if you did not read the rest of the article that would be your assessment. But here is what was said at the end of the story: Nevertheless, one study found that very large doses of Vitamin C - 8 grams - taken on the first day of a cold appeared could shorten the disease itself. The authors say that the clinical significance of this minor reduction "is questionable, although the consistency of these findings points to a genuine biological effect." But the au-thors did find evidence that the vitamin could help prevent colds in people exposed to extreme physical exertion or cold weather. Those

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taking the vitamin experienced, on average, a 50 percent reduction in common cold incidence.

Please reread the headline again, what did it say? Vita-min C is Useless in fighting the Common Cold. But then, it begrudgingly admits that there is a consistency of biological effects and that it helps people in cold weather prevent colds by up to 50%. Now let me ask you a question. When do peo-ple take vitamin C for colds? Is it in the heat of summer? Most likely it is in cold weather. But if you were an average reader skimming through the newspaper or surfing the net, a totally different picture would have emerged - a false pic-ture. This cannot be coincidence. The press allegedly prides themselves on their ability to get the story straight, to tell the unbiased truth. Large Doses of Vitamin E May Be Harmful, Study Says By GINA KOLATA People who take high doses of vitamin E - those exceeding 400 international units a day - to improve their health may be slightly increasing their risks of dying earlier.

November 11, 2004 HEALTH NEWS

Vitamin E Fails to Stop Progress of Alzheimer's By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Vitamin E supplements are no more effective than sugar pills for delaying the onset of Alzheimer' s disease in people with mild memory changes, a study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests.

April 19, 2005 HEALTH NEWS

Wow, this vitamin E must be some really dangerous

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Rea Blakey: Advances in Alzheimer's research July 18, 2002 Posted: 2:36 PM EDT (1836 GMT)

CNN Medical Correspondent Rea Blakey talked to CNN anchor Paula Zahn on Thursday about the latest research from a medical conference in Sweden. Blakey: If you can't get all those things in, there's Vitamin E. If you take 2,000 units of Vitamin E a day, which researchers have tested in live people instead of just in mice ... that's actually shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. So that's key. If you can't get all the other things done, the exercise, the diet, at least get the Vitamin E.

I guess that it doesn’t matter if a person takes extra vita-min E and retains his mind and memory because the posting in the New York Times says you have an increased risk of dying due to high dosage consumption of Vitamin E. So we might as well forget about the whole thing and just succumb to Alzheimer’s and be done with it. Years ago when I was first exposed to nutrition, Joel Wallach announced in his book Dead Doctors Don’t Lie that Alzheimer’s could be treated with high doses of vitamin E. I first heard that tape around 1990. It should become apparent how this program is set up? Vitamins work, then they don’t work, then they are dangerous. Do you believe that all our medical research-ers are this inept? We create technological miracles every-day, but we cannot accurately determine if vitamin E is good for us? And what about God? He must be equally confused about what he was doing by putting dangerous vitamins like E and C in our fruits and vegetables.

Vitamins were given to us by nature for a reason, namely that our bodies need them. But as we read earlier, you can’t have people running around preventing heart dis-

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ease and cancer with vitamin C. I mean, what is the world coming to? Vitamin E May Fight Heart Disease, Too By JANE E. BRODY (NYT); Science Desk VITAMIN E, a potent antioxidant that can help keep cholesterol from clogging arteries, may also protect against heart disease and stroke by preventing blood clots, a new study of its biochemistry suggests. Although vitamin E has long been known to have some anticoagulant properties (people with bleeding problems are cau-tioned against taking supplements of it), this clot-breaking ability has largely been ignored by researchers studying its potential role in combating cardiovascular deaths.

Common sense, combined with information we have al-

ready reviewed, explains why vitamin E is essential to fight-

ing heart disease, Alzheimer’s and blood clots. Vitamin E is

an antioxidant which has anticoagulant properties. It makes

you wonder how this wonder of nature could ever be seen

as anything but a medical miracle. However, if you are a

drug company which is touting statin drugs like Lipitor,

Pravachol and Crestor you do not want people taking vita-

min E. This should be easy to understand, vitamins erode

profits. These companies have billions of dollars at their dis-

posal, so why not propagate the media with scare stories

about natural cures. People remember the headlines, not the

stories.

I don’t want to get sidetracked, but here are the facts re-

garding cholesterol: dietary intake of cholesterol has no im-

pact on the level of cholesterol in your blood. If we look at

two major long-term studies, Framingham and Tecumseh, it

is clear that those who ate the most cholesterol had exactly

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the least cholesterol. What’s more, people with low levels of

LDL cholesterol have the same amount of heart disease as

those with high levels. Statin drugs have a long list of side

effects like cancer, depression, cognitive impairment, etc, etc.

Sorry about that. I didn’t want to get side tracked but

these are all really tied to each other. Drug companies will

go to virtually any extent to dissuade us from trying natural

supplements as a treatment for our diseases. Not only that,

they will try to introduce new products which will create

even more problems within your body, such as depression,

in the last example. It is a remarkably vicious circle.

Big Study Finds No Clear Benefit of Calcium Pills By GINA KOLATA (NYT) Published: February 16, 2006

A large, seven-year study of healthy women over 50 found no

broad benefit from calcium and vitamin D supplements in pre-venting broken bones, despite widespread endorsement by doc-

tors for the supplements.

This study states that calcium and Vitamin D offer no broad bene-fit, so why take them right? However, if this were true consider the following statement placed at the end of the article: “Nonetheless, said Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, the study's director, the subgroup data and the increase in hip bone density do indicate the value of adequate calcium and vitamin D. "Based on all the results, women — particularly those over 60 — should consider taking calcium and vitamin D for bone health,’ she said.”

I’m confused. Is that what the headline said? No, the headline says there is no broad benefit from calcium and vi-tamin D intake, but Dr. Nabel, the director of the study says there is an increase in hip bone density. And not only does

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she fail to berate Calcium and vitamin D but she goes on to endorse them at the end of her comments. How could a re-porter make up such a headline when neither the report, nor the corresponding data, suggest that this is correct?

If the drug companies are selling Fosamax at $75 a bottle and people realize they can get superior benefits from a bot-tle of Coral Calcium at Walmart for $8.00, they might not be so inclined to pay for a prescription every month and watch their jawbones melt. (Fosamax side-effect)

Another point to consider is that no single vitamin or mineral can be properly metabolized and, hence, used with-out supportive nutrients. For example most nutritionists would note that calcium is best utilized while taking magne-sium and zinc. Any vitamin is virtually useless without min-erals. We saw this earlier with Laetrile; Laetrile is useless without zinc. When doctors are carrying out these tests it is all too easy to overlook these contributing factors and so the value of the nutrient goes unheralded. And you, the faithful reader is misinformed and now much more susceptible to a myriad of diseases, 160 of which find their origins in calcium deficient diets.

Studies Find Beta Carotene, Used by Millions, Doesn't Forestall Cancer or Heart Disease By GINA KOLATA January 19, 1996 HEALTH NEWS (NYT) Two large studies have found that, contrary to the beliefs or hopes of the millions of Americans who take it, beta carotene, a vigor-ously promoted vitamin supplement, is completely ineffective in preventing cancer or heart disease. One of the studies found that it might even be harmful to some people. Federal health officials said they hoped that this would spell the end of the beta carotene fad. The idea that a simple supplement capsule might fend off can-cer and other diseases, they said, has simply proved too good to be true.


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Again, these comments were taken from the back of the same article: But some critics of the research said the beta carotene dose, 20 milligrams a day, had been too low to

find the benefit that they had expected. This is what is known as disinformation, folks, and it is

very effective. We regrettably are easy targets. The tactics of disinformation used by big pharma through the media are the publication or research which is designed to fail because of small dosage requirements. Today in the United States the RDA for Vitamin C is 60 MG. As valuable as vitamin C is, 60 MG will do little good to prevent or fight disease. These me-dia-heralded tests are a manipulation of the facts, designed to create headlines. However, in most of the articles I re-searched for this book, there was some reference that actu-ally endorsed the nutrient in question. It was almost as if the reporter did not read the entire research before sensational-izing a fear-inducing headline.

A CALL TO ARMS All of this controversy has been the cause of a war within

the midst of our own country, a war over the right to treat our bodies as we see fit. In truth, this could not be consid-ered a fair war. On one side we have the pharmaceutical in-dustry, teamed up with the FDA, AMA, NIH and a few other powerful, political acronyms. And on the other side of the field, we have the natural supplement industry and a few guys like me who don’t have the time, money or inclina-tion to fight such a powerful enemy. Now, to tell you the truth, I don’t even want to be in this fight. I just want to state my case and be done with it. However, that is like announc-ing that you want to end world hunger. Just saying it does little good. After a while you notice that the problem is still

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there, and then you find yourself doing something about it. So, well, here goes.

We are Americans. As Americans, we expect to have the right to do as we like, as long as this does no harm to others. For the most part our laws enforce this concept. The excep-tion to this rule occurs only when huge sums of money are involved. Every person on the planet knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease and many other illnesses, but we do not ban cigarettes. Why? Be-cause there are huge financial interests which will not allow our politicians to make these decisions. It is no different in the natural supplement industry. As people turn more and more to supplements to treat disease, drug companies put pressure on government agencies to protect their interests. The headline below is an example of that:

F.D.A. Steps Up Effort to Control Vitamin Claims By LENA WILLIAMS (NYT) Published: August 9, 1992

In Texas, state health inspectors raided health food stores across the state in May and, as startled customers and bystanders watched in amazement, removed hundreds of products, including vitamin C, aloe products and herbal teas. That raid on May 6, captured on videotape by a patient and later broadcast on television news programs, shows F.D.A. agents, dressed in bulletproof vests, bursting into the clinic and commanding clinic employees to freeze. The agency said the clinic was raided because it made illegal drugs, including "vitamin-mineral concoctions," that were being injected into patients.


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The FDA raided health food stores not because they were tainting food with lead or mercury, not because they plan-ning to over throw the government, but because they were selling vitamins. Vitamins are not illegal. Ah. . . . but if you put vitamins and minerals together then they become an il-legal concoction? Really? How can the FDA legally do this? The short answer is that, legally, only “drugs” can cure dis-ease. Any claims made to the contrary are grounds for incar-ceration. Now here is the list of FDA approved drugs which have either have been taken off the market or have con-sumer warnings against side effects:

• Ephedra (Dietary Aid) – recalled, heart attaches, Seisures, Strokes

• Crestor (Cholesterol) – Fatal Muscle Disease. • Fen Phen (Dietary Aid) – recalled, heart valve

problems, Hypertension. • Tequin (antibiotic) – Serious blood sugar prob-

lems. • Baycol (Cholesterol) – recalled, kidney failure,

blamed for over 100 deaths. • Meridia (Dietary Aid) - abdominal pain, indigestion,

anxiety, back pain, constipation, coughing, dizziness, headaches, dry mouth, flu symptoms/bronchitis, insom-nia, joint pain, loss of strength, nausea, painful men-struation, rash, sore throat, shortness of breath, cramps, kidney problems, heart problems, seizures, and other side effects.

• Neurontin (Epilepsy Drug) – Phizer agrees to pay $430 Million for marketing drug for unapproved uses.

• Prempro (Hormone replacement) – cancer, heart at-tack, stroke and alzheimers.

• Celebrex (Painkiller) – heart attacks, stroke, cardiovas-cular problems.

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• Vioxx (Painkiller) – recalled, Merck pays $253 Million in damages. heart attack, stroke, blood clots. Over 100,000 deaths are attributed to this single drug.

• Bextra (Painkiller) – recalled by Pfizer, severe skin re-actions, cardiovascular risk.

These medicines represent only a handful of the largest

and most recent drug recalls and warnings. When we are watching television, and a commercial comes on for some new drug, aren’t the scenes always filled with people smil-ing and laughing? Even though they are reading off the dis-claimer with some very ugly side effects, your mind is see-ing people laughing and happy. How happy are you when you are taking a pill for muscle pain and the side effect is di-arrhea or a stroke? How happy are you when you take a drug to retard bone loss only to have your jawbone rot and your teeth fall out?

These are real problems which take place everyday. But you say “my doctor is such a nice guy, I can’t believe he would give me something that would hurt me.” You must consider that doctors find out about most new drugs from pharmaceutical salespeople, not through research. Doctors get residuals for every drug they write prescriptions on and your condition becomes little more than a cash cow for them. Drug companies like conditions which require you to stay on medication indefinitely. Cure is not part of their under-the-counter lexicon. DIET DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN A IS REVEALED AS A MAJOR KILLER By ERIK ECKHOLM

September 3, 1985 SCIENCE NEWS

DIETARY deficiencies of vitamin A, long implicated as a cause of blind-

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dren each year in Africa, Asia and Latin America. New findings, de-

scribed by one expert as ''electrifying'' in their implications, are galvaniz-

ing international efforts to combat the deficiency. The studies indicate

that the vitamin deficit, which is widespread in the third world and a ma-

jor cause of blindness there, is also responsible for significant increases

in measles, diarrhea and other potentially deadly diseases among tens of

millions of children. International health officials are developing a plan

they hope will eliminate the deficiency worldwide and, in the process,

reduce childhood deaths.

With all of these dangers threatening our world today why would the FDA focus on health food stores selling vi-tamin and mineral concoctions? The most obvious answer is because they can. But really, what is going on here? How can this exist in our country? The truth is that this is always about the money. I hate to sound cynical, but that is one of the unfortunate realities which currently exist in our world: it’s the money. Don’t believe me; consider what Dr. Herburt Ley the FDA commissioner had to say at a senate hearing:

"First it is providing a means whereby key individuals on

its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through

granting special favors to certain politically influential groups

that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to

the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one

can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection'

from the FDA itself. Secondly, as a result of this political fa-

voritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that for-

mula whereby cartel oriented companies in the food and

drug industry are able to use the police powers of govern-

ment to harass or destroy their free market competitors.”

Do you think that things have gotten any better since Dr. Ley was in this position? Consider the following, courtesy of mercola.com:

The FDA is negotiating with the drug industry over a possible

user fee increase which, if it goes through, would give the in-

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dustry even more in setting the goals and priorities of its sup-

posed regulator. Industry user fees were first introduced in the

early 1990s in an effort to help speed up the FDA's approval

process; prior to that, the FDA had been funded entirely by

Congress.

But steadily rising payments have led to drug makers funding

more than half of the FDA's drug review process, giving them

immense clout in determining how the agency is run. In 1993,

$8.9 million of user-fee money accounted for 7 % of the FDA's

drug review budget. By 2004, the amount had risen to $232

million and 53% of the drug review budget.

Drug Firms Use Financial Clout To Push Industry Agenda at FDA BY ANNA WILDE MATHEWS Wallstreet Journal, September 1, 2006 The Food and Drug Administration is bargaining with the pharmaceutical industry for an increase in fees, giving the industry a greater role in shaping the priorities of its regulator.

Clearly user fees enacted in the 90s are allowing the drug industry

to have major leverage over the FDA, and that control is con-

tinuing to increase. When the new changes take effect in fiscal

2007, if the FDA receives all it is seeking, the user fees will ac-

count for two-thirds or more of their drug review budget.

So please realize that the FDA, as currently configured, cannot

adequately protect your health. What it can, and does, do is further

the plans and profits of the multi-national drug companies.

Currently, within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,

about 80% of the resources are geared towed the approval of drugs

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Drug safety is a measly 5 %. This would account for the long list

of drugs that were taken off the market or have consumer warnings

concerning their use. [www.mercola.com]

The FDA is a self fulfilling prophecy, one who’s only real

job is to approve drugs in record time, not to assess the

safety or threat any new drug or product will present to the

consumer. Is it any wonder why this organization would

raid health food stores, and harass other organizations

which promotes self healing? In my book A State of Being, I

depicted the entire history for the food sweetener known as

aspartame. From the time of its conception in 1965 by the

G.D. Searle Company, until its first official approval in 1974,

numerous tests were performed by Dr. John Olney. In each

of his tests Dr. Olney found that Aspartame contains aspartic

Acid, which produced holes in the brains of infant mice.

Searle’s own researchers confirmed this. In 1973 FDA scien-

tists reviewed aspartame’s safety data and found that the

information by Searle is “inadequate to permit an evaluation

for toxicity.” Then, in 1974 the FDA grants aspartame ap-

proval for restricted dry foods. Objections are filed by Dr.

Olney and Attorney Jim Turner. In 1976 these petitions trig-

ger an FDA investigation into Searle’s laboratory practices,

which are deemed to be “shoddy, full of inaccuracies and

manipulated test data.” In 1977 FDA requests U.S. Attorneys

office to begin grand jury proceedings to investigate whether

indictments should be held against Searle for misrepresenta-

tion and concealing facts.

While the grand jury probe is underway Sidley and Aus-

tin, the law firm representing Searle begin job negotiations

with the U.S. Attorney in charge of the investigation, Samuel

Skinner. Later in 1977 Searle hires Donald Rumsfeld, (that’s

right, the same Rumsfeld who was replaced in the Bush ad-

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ministration) as CEO to turn the company around. He has

ties to all the powerbrokers in Washington. Next Searle hires

Samuel Skinner from the U.S. attorney’s office. That’s right,

“if you can’t beat’em, buy’em.” This should be enough to

have people thrown into jail or, at the very least, barred from

the legal profession. This next fact is an important one. With

the resignation of Skinner the grand jury is stalled so long

that the statute of limitations of the charges against aspar-

tame runs out! Hence the grand jury investigation is

dropped!

In 1979 the FDA establishes a Public Board Of Inquiry

(PBOI) to rule on safety issues surrounding Nutrasweet con-

taining aspartame. In 1980 the PBOI concluded that Nu-

trasweet should not be approved pending further investiga-

tions of brain tumors in animals. In 1981 Ronald Regan is

sworn in as president. Regan’s transition team included, you

guessed it, Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle. So what

do you think happened next? Regan appoints Arthur Hull

Hayes Jr. as the new commissioner of the FDA.

What follows the appointment of Hayes is nothing short

of biblical. An FDA panel is established to review issues

raised by the PBOI. 3 of the 6 in-house FDA scientists advise

against Nutrasweet, stating that the Searle tests were unreliable

and not adequate to determine product safety. In July of 1981, in

one of his first official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr. the new

FDA commissioner, overrules his own PBOI and approves

Nutrasweet for dry products…

Sadly, in the days that followed, Searle applied for more

approvals, the first set of these was in 1982. Searle applied

for approval for carbonated beverages and other liquids.

Now get this, in 1983 even the National Soft Drink Associa-

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for carbonated beverages. When liquid aspartame is stored

at temperatures above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, it breaks down

into formaldehyde, which, last time I checked, was a toxic

chemical used to embalm people. In July of that year the

NSDA drafted an objection to the final ruling which permits

the use of Aspartame in carbonated beverages and syrup

bases. There are several suits filed as well. Now get this, in a

hail of PR bullets for taking unauthorized rides on a General

Foods jet, Hayes resigns and takes a job with Burson-

Marsteller, Searle’s public relations firm. How can this be

legal? There is no accountability here.

But in the fall of 1993, despite all the screaming and the

yelling and the gnashing of teeth, the first carbonated bever-

age containing aspartame was made available to the public.

And this trend has continued from that point in time. In

1984, even the CDC, that’s right the Centers for Disease Con-

trol, compiled a report entitled “Evaluation of consumer

complaints related to aspartame use.” The request followed

an increase in aspartame-related complaints in the latter half

of 1983. Complaints to the FDA increased from 108 in the

first 6 months of 1983 to 248 in the last 6 months. This in-

crease coincided with approval of aspartame for use in soft

drinks in July 1983. What did the CDC find? Approximately

25% of the complainants had stopped and then restarted,

corresponding with their having stopped and then restarted,

either purposely or by accident, aspartame consumption.

Data released in 1995 discovered that human brain tu-

mors like those in the animal studies rose 10%, and previ-

ously benign tumors turned virulent. Searle and FDA's

deputy commissioner said the data posed no problem. Years

later this same FDA official became vice president of clinical

research for Searle. This is, for lack of a more descriptive ad-

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jective. . . . Immoral. If this is not a twilight zone, textbook

illustration of a conflict of interest, then what would be?

FDA deputy commissioner to join Monsanto St. Louis Business Journal - June 14, 1999

Dr. Michael Friedman will leave his post as deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to head clinical research at Monsanto Co.'s G.D. Searle & Co. unit.

To date, there have been over 10,000 complaints filed

with the FDA against aspartame, more than any other sub-

stance in FDA history. Aspartame can now be found in over

7,000 different products listed under the trade names nu-

trasweet and Equal. Arm yourself with this knowledge.

Anytime you see a product which says fat free or low calorie

check for aspartame - especially children’s chewing gum.

NEW THREATNEW THREATNEW THREATNEW THREAT

What I am going to tell you right now is as important to

your future health and wellbeing as going to work is for

your financial wellbeing. You simply can’t afford to look the

other way at this. I have said time and time again that the

drug companies are to some degree controlling the media

through random acts of disinformation. I have also de-

scribed the monetary connection between the FDA and the

big pharma-companies. This is all true. It is a fact of life in

the nation we call home. But none of this, of course, is “big”

enough. Now big pharma is a world wide operation. These

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Blatant attacks on natural therapies are pointless because

these companies know that they are wrong. However, as al-

ways, it is easier to take the back door approach to getting

what one wants. As a result, the World Health Organization

or WHO is formed. What is the job of the world health or-

ganization? Well, to watch out for the health of the world of

course.

So you might ask, what is involved in watching out for

the health of the world? One of the activities this group is

engaged in is the regulation of health products worldwide. I

am told that in some parts of the world today it is illegal to

sell vitamin C in 200mg dosages. Illegal? The WHO is regu-

lating our right to choose and our freedom to decide. People

are being arrested for menial crimes against protocol; this is

serious business. With all the crime that is running rampant

in our world, we have government agencies arresting people

for selling vitamin C. In America today exists the DSHEA

bill, which basically protects our rights to purchase and use

natural supplements.

Recently, some very promising legislation has appeared.

Maurice Hinchey of NY has introduced Food and Drug Ad-

ministration Improvement Act (FDAIA), a sweeping reform

bill that would end the inappropriately close relationship

between the drug industry and the FDA, empower the

agency with increased authorities, eliminate conflicts of in-

terest on FDA advisory committees, and vastly improve the

agency's post-market drug safety operations.

Hinchey pulls no punches, stating "The FDA has essen-

tially become the government affairs office of the pharmaceutical

industry," said Hinchey, who is a member of the House Appropria-

tions Subcommittee on Agriculture. "The data surrounding the

FDA's meetings on PDUFA IV make it more clear than ever that

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the agency and drug industry continue to have a relationship that

is far too cozy and inappropriate. By treating the drug industry

like a privileged client that deserves preferential treatment rather

than a regulated industry, the FDA is jeopardizing the health and

safety of the American public. There is no reason for the FDA to

meet nearly two dozen times as often with the drug industry than

it does with consumer and patient groups. It's time for Congress

to step in and fix a broken system so that the American people are

the only clients the FDA serves." It only makes sense to support any legislation which

would bring about reform to our misguided and corrupt

FDA. What can you and I do about it? It’s simple. Just go to

www.saveoursupplements.org, enter your zip and they will

issue a standard email that will automatically be sent to 4

different representatives in government pertaining to cur-

rent health legislation and supplements. You can also access

this through my website www.healinghut.net.

All of this information says that, depending on which

political organization is in power, the accuracy and validity

of the products you and I use and consume is in doubt. We

live in a world where accuracy and competency are less

worthwhile than political correctness. How this can correlate

to medical imperatives is beyond me, but trust me, it does

happen. The facts we have just seen are known and easily

verified, and yet all of these illegal results still exist. There is

no big brother looking out for us. That is a sentimental, pa-

triotic notion that simply is not true. Please do not take my-

self or anyone else at their word. Do research; take the time

to validate facts from several different sources. Use your

brain, God gave it to you for a reason. Abolish the word

“expert” from your lexicon. Do what any good CEO does;

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to what they have to say, and then make the best informed

choice that you know how. In most cases you will choose

wisely. Just remember the basics.

1. If your choices hurt anyone in anyway, then there

are better choices to be made.

2. Look at the motives for those who endorse contro-

versial products, i.e., are they on the board of di-

rectors for a drug company? Is he/she a doctor

who stands to gain by prescribing this drug?

3. Does it foster your body’s natural healing mecha-

nism? If not, proceed with caution, your body

knows how to heal itself. Doctors and drugs do

not heal disease, your body heals disease.

4. Do you understand the mechanism of healing? As

in cancer, do you understand how the disease

works, if not, why not? Become a quick study of

the disease you are battling. You can amass a great

deal of knowledge in a very short amount of time.

One of my personal epiphanies, one which has been re-

flected back to me, time and time again, is that our world is

whirling by at a blistering pace. Few, if any, of us have time

to stop and catch our breath, much less rectify any injustices

which we are aware of. And, to be sure, you can’t stop for

every bump in the road, sometimes the most prudent choice

is to just keep moving through your problems. Don’t lose

momentum, just keep pushing. However, there are other

situations such as Cancer which do not disappear with in-

creased effort. In these instances we must stop what we are

doing, in some cases, everything we are doing, and learn as

much as possible and then proceed forward. I invite you to

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embrace this methodology for the remainder of your days. I

promise you this. . . . If you trust this job to another, you will

meet with disaster. Nature is structured so that each of us

must take control of our own destiny. Allowing others to do

this for us, allowing them to think and act in our stead cir-

cumvents this natural protocol and renders the mass of hu-

manity powerless. There are no experts in life, we are all just

bumping into the walls and trying to find our way. But

whatever way we decide on, it must be of our choosing and

no one else’s, especially, anyone who draws a paycheck

from an acronym such as the FDA. We are all divine crea-

tures. Trust in that, and know that this provides the innate

ability to overcome any challenge. Just that subtle realiza-

tion can change the world.

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Mind Over Matter Mind-over-matter This idea was already expressed by Virgil in the Aeneid (c. 19 b.c.) as Mens agitat molem, "Mind moves matter," and it appeared in vari-ous forms in English by 1700

This term is weary of over-use, but its popularity is tied di-

rectly to its simple, yet descriptive, honesty. Mind moves mat-

ter, as our friend Virgil would tell us. We have touched on

this idea several times within the text, but this book is about

life and healing life. And I don’t believe in writing anything

that you cannot immediately apply to this experience. So this

chapter will be no exception.

As a cancer survivor I have run into brick walls, been

knocked down, picked up, dusted off and thrown to the mat

again and again. I wish I could tell you that cancer is easily

dispatched, but that would be a huge lie. Cancer is the fight of

your life. It is the “all in” portion of your life’s Texas Hold’em

game. It is the part of your journey when you say to yourself

“If I’m going to be a bear, I’m going to be a Grizzly.” Any-

thing else is just a waste of time. You might as well just take

the chemo and the radiation and have done with it. But if you

were that type of person, you would not be reading these

words. You want to live, you want to survive, and I am here

to tell you that you must make up your mind that you will do

anything and everything to make that happen. You must say

to yourself “I will survive NO MATTER WHAT” and mean it.

You must picture yourself happy and healthy and feel the

sensations of health pouring over your body. Better yet, carry

around a picture of yourself when you were happy and

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healthy. Review it often and revel in the feelings associated

with that image. When you are thinking like that, when you

are at that level of commitment, when you fully expect dis-

ease to retreat, miracles start to happen.

As I was writing this book people would tell me stories

that they had seen or heard about. I am sure that they had no

idea that I was ingesting the information, but I was. One of

these stories was a about a woman named Laura who had an

astrocytoma brain tumor, just as I had. She was diagnosed in

1989 and was given less than 2 years to live. Laura used visu-

alization to battle her tumor. If you are still asking yourself

how to do that, well, here is what Laura did: "When I washed

my hair, I thought of washing the tumor cells out of my head,

and pulling weeds in my garden represented plucking out the

tumor," Her mind created symbols that were carried out in

the body in a very literal sense. Her thought manipulated the

matter which was a tumor.

Laura was not the only one either. An eight year old girl

with an inoperable brain tumor was told to visualize a small

bunny rabbit visiting her tumor every day and nibbling on it

until it was gone. Amazingly, over time the tumor actually

disappeared. Again, the energy of this girl’s thought altered

the energy and matter of the tumor. Want more?

Glen was a youngster sent home to die with an inoperable

brain tumor. One of the staff at the Mayo Clinic taught Glen

to imagine flying around inside his head in a rocket ship,

shooting at his tumor. He imagined the cancer as "big, dumb,

and gray," and he blasted it regularly. After several months of

dedicated, concentrated visualization, he said to his father, "I

just took a trip through my head in a rocket ship, and, you

know, I can't find the cancer anymore." You might have

guessed the outcome, Glen received a CAT scan and the can-


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cer was completely gone. Note to reader, if you find yourself in

this situation do not undergo a CAT scan which uses even more ra-

diation, instead, use a MRI, which is less invasive. For women, al-

ways avoid any radiation to the breast area. A woman’s breast and

in particular, their areolas are sensitive to radiation and in turn, can

actually cause cancer. Ask your doctor for an ultrasound instead.

The next example is a favorite of mine because I am a Star

Wars fan. This story is about another young boy with yet an-

other inoperable tumor. This young boy visualized Star Wars

space ships attacking the tumor and blowing it to bits. Over a

period of time, the tumor disappeared. This one actually

made national news. Doctors heralded this as a medical mira-

cle but it was nothing of the sort. It was the power of thought.

It was the power of focused thought. This example should

educate all of us to the possibilities of repetitive, focused

thought.

You may have purchased this book because you wanted to

hear my story, and to find out what I personally did to com-

bat this disease. I said earlier that I had brain surgery to re-

move the tumor, and where cancer of the brain is concerned,

most of the time this is a necessary evil. So I embarked on my

mission of discovery and the quest to amass the knowledge

that you are reading now. But early in my illness I read Lance

Armstrong’s book about his experience with cancer. I took

one very strong belief away from that text; I must visualize

what I want my body to do. This has proven to be essential in

my health and every other venture I have entered into. Lance

is obviously good at this, as evidenced by several tour de

France trophies.

So, taking Armstrong’s lead, I started visualizing early in

my illness, even before chemo or radiation therapy. I have al-

ways been a fan of Tolkien and the current movies were a

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great representation of his work. For my own program I visu-

alized myself talking to Aragon, Legolas and Gimbly, telling

them that the fate of our kingdom was dependant on their

success, telling them to destroy every Orc (cancer cell) that

they encountered. I visualized them walking into the tumor

bed with thousands of soldiers and utterly destroying every

cancer cell there. I saw pictures of the three of them pulling

these cells out of holes and caves and crevices in the ground.

They pulled them out from shacks and dwellings, out from

any insidious places that they might be hiding. In a word, to-

tal destruction.

Now if you are saying to yourself “what a geek,” I can

only plead “guilty as charged”, but I think it is important to

have characters that I believe in, characters who I would trust

with my very life, fighting for me. I did this visualization over

and over. While it was true that I was not obliterating a tumor

as was seen in these other examples, this proved to be a tre-

mendous precautionary exercise for peace of mind. Ironically,

it is a tool which all of us have at our disposal, one which is

much more effective than chemo, radiation or even Laetrile.

Visualization is thought, and thought can be creative or de-

structive.

This is not just for people with cancer. Visualization works

for virtually any situation or illness. Even patients suffering

from MS, which is the deterioration of the Myelin sheath cov-

ering the brain, can benefit. This covering is a critical part of

neurological health. There are cases of people on record who

have actually regenerated this sheath. How’d they do it? Be-

cause the brain could be seen as nerve fibers, patients were

instructed to visualize flocks of birds landing on a telephone

line. The birds represented the Myelin sheath and the tele-


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phone line the nerve fibers. Over and over again, focused in-

tent, and the Myelin reappears.

People who suffer from enlarged prostate glands visualize

the gland becoming smaller and smaller and you know what?

The prostrate responds in physical form and size, relieving

the pressure put on the bladder, without the use of drugs,

surgery or depressing statistics.

The trick to all of this, really the trick to anything, is to un-

derstand the problem you are tackling. For instance, if you are

trying to shrink a tumor you must become a study of cancer

and how it is formed in the body, where it resides in the body

and what you want it to look like when you’re done. Actually,

for any medical challenge it only makes sense to get drawings

from Grey’s anatomy or another comparable medical journal,

and then visualize vividly. Give your body a clear picture of

what you want it to do.

As I reviewed all that had been learned about visualization

and imagery I began to realize a much larger truth; maybe

this is part of our original operating system. It has been said

that the joke played on mankind was to never equip us with

the operating manual for our own body. Maybe this is a chap-

ter from that manual. Maybe we were always designed to be

able to heal our bodies with our minds. I once heard a story of

a man who suffered a very deep cut on his foot from a broken

piece of glass while playing volleyball. His feet were bare be-

cause they were playing in sand. To complicate matters, the

location was remote, and they had hiked in. He was bleeding

badly and no one had any medical supplies. With no other

alternatives, the man applied his knowledge of visualization

to the problem. He first imagined a custodian for his body.

This custodian was tasked with repairing the torn flesh. So,

like any real maintenance person, the imaginary custodian

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pasted the wall of the foot back together. In his mind he saw

the custodian using mesh and plaster to cover the damage in

the wall of his foot, mending the cut. In a matter of minutes

the bleeding had stopped completely. A short time latter the

man was able to re-enter the volleyball game.

Maybe, just maybe, this was part of the plan all along. I

mean think about it; as a man thinketh so is he. Could this easily

be changed to as a man visualizes, so is he? I believe so. And if

this is part of the plan to heal our body, then it must also be

part of the plan to heal our lives - visualize your outcome, see

what you want to experience. Experience what you see. Sci-

ence has shown us that the average person has up to 60,000

thoughts per day. Ironically, many of these thoughts were the

same as those the day before, and the day before that. But

even this news is encouraging because it reinforces what has

been said; we are what we think about. Thinking about the

same thing everyday, expecting the same thing everyday,

produces the same results - everyday. Now I am not saying

that being locked in a mundane loop is the best way to spend

our lives, but it is easy to understand the results which it pro-

duces. We are what we think about, you and I. And more

than anything else, we are that which we decide to be and to

do. Commit yourself to living, no matter what, to be there

next year, no matter what. Declare to the world that this chal-

lenge will make you a greater version of you, no matter what.

This is my kind of success, and I wish you the same.

If you get to a point were all this positive thought seems to

fail you, and you are sure that things will work out the wrong

way, turn to the next page and look at this man. Hear what he

has to say and know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he has

the simple and profound answer to your survival.


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Never, Never, Never Give Up

-Winston Churchill

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As I look at this final chapter, which for me has turned out to be yet another adventure in writing, I search for what to say to you that will stick. I say stick, but the real word I am searching for is “stay.” I would like to relate my life experi-ences in a way that will stay with you. I want to make sure my mistakes do not turn into your mistakes, and the mistakes of your children. I would like you to pick up the ideals that have come to me and carry them farther than I have. That would be a good thing. Cancer is said to be a disease but I think it could also be called a culmination of wrong choices, wrong choices about what to eat, what to drink, how to take care of our body and our teeth, how to regulate what we think and feel. All of these are the wrong turns that cancer patients have made. I am not finding blame here, just making observa-tions. And these statements are true in all instances with the exception of our children. They truly do not know what is good or bad for them. They have little knowledge of what will hurt them, or how the body is delicately held together. They do not know, and it is up to you and me to tell them, to edu-cate them. So this portion of the text is to my children, and to your children. To all who will follow after us, and after them: Dear child, I would like to tell you that the world is like the one you see on television, and read about in books, but it is not. There is such beauty in this life, and an equal share of pestilence, violence and hatred. Shelter your mind from them, and they will not invade your life. Avoid the people who indulge in them, and they will not enter your exis-tence. Instead, be a student of the world around you; learn what works and what does not and avoid the latter. Love the part of life which you do choose to experience and it will love you back. Look at your body as something which is in-credibly fragile and take the time to listen to its needs.


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Take the best care of your teeth; they are attached to nearly everything in your body. Eat the freshest foods, drink purest water, and give your body the vitamins and minerals that it patiently calls to you for. When life does not go the way you anticipated, do not look at it as a bad thing. You don’t really know what any event means. Instead, try to find the benefit in every situation, no matter how challenging that turns out to be. Focus your mind on what you want to happen, and know that by choosing that, it will come to pass.

Never look at other people who are hurting you on pur-pose or accidentally as bad people. They are just lost and looking for someone like you to remind them who they really are. Whatever you want to own for yourself, it’s okay. You should have everything and anything you want in your life, and you should help others get what they want as well. By helping the other person, you are really helping yourself, because we are all connected. I promise, there is more than enough of everything you both want to go around. Whatever you draw to yourself be thankful for it. Live in an attitude of gratitude and it is almost impossible to ever be sick. Remember that nothing new can come into your life until you are thankful for what you already have. Take the time to make everyone you meet happy that you were there. The easy way to do this is to just be inter-ested in them, make them feel good about who they are. When you do this, people will defend you with their very life, because you gave them something that they could not give themselves - appreciation. I wish I had more to tell you but this is as far as I’ve gotten. Please feel free to add what I’ve started. Good luck and God bless. Bewell, Rod Czlonka

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As for myself, I am alive. I continue to learn, to grow and to celebrate my life. I am thankful for the opportunity which has been given to me, and I get to help others while I’m help-ing myself. This is a gift. I still have small children at home and job one will always be to take care of their needs; every-thing else is second. My oldest daughter is in college, a son in high school and my youngest is in grade school. It’s a hand-ful. But these are good problems to have - really good.

Today I look at my life with a sense of optimism and hope, which means I look at our world through the same lens. I run a website for cancer patients and people who are just con-cerned with improving their health: www.healinghut.net. I try to add knowledge as it comes to me and make people aware of the dangers and the politics that are unfolding all around them. The world is a toxic place and it is up to all of us to make it better. If you don’t know how to do that, start by making it a kinder place and change will follow. I know that any situation, no matter how grave, can be turned around. If you are in a dark place you are not alone. . . . I am here. A lot of people are here. We can all get through this together. Stay strong, and know that, just like Capra’s George Bailey, you do make a huge difference in this world.

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Many people have written and inquired to me over

the years about what treatment program I employed

for my cancer. As you can see it can become quite

harried, so I have put together a one page quick ref-

erence sheet for anyone who would like to treat

their disease with these tactics and supplements.

When I became sick no such document existed. To-

day however people have a choice; you no longer

need to turn yourself and your loved ones over to the

medical profession because you do not know what

else to do. You are empowered.

Good luck and God Bless.

Visit us on the web at:

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The following is an anti-cancer regime that anyone can

follow B-17 – This can be purchased as Laetrile and apricot kernels on the net at www.apricotpower.com. 2 to 5 grams a day, this can be in the form of laetrile capsules or apricot kernels, preferably a combination of both; 10-20 kernels a day to tolerance. Appropriate levels of Zinc must be present for this to be effective, 10-20 mgs. Pancreatic Enzymes – Also known as proteolytic enzymes. These are commonly found at health food stores in the form of Bromelain or an en-zyme formula containing Trypsin and Chymotrypsin. (Must be taken on an empty stomach.) Wobenzym is reputed to be one of the best; up to 8 tab-lets a day. Essiac Tea – Also to be taken on an empty stomach. Can be purchased as Essiac or Fluor-essence tea. 1-2 ounces a day. Rene Caisse saved thou-sands of people with nothing more than this tea. Contains benzaldehyde also found in B-17. Brown Seaweed - Konbu – Rich source of cancer killer U-Ficoidan, it also detoxes, alkalizes and supplies vital nutrients. Research done on Japa-nese people in Okinawa has shown a 10 fold decrease in cancer as com-pared to other parts of the country. It supplies iodine, which is required for excess B-17 consumption. Selenium – Shown to decrease the occurrence of Cancer by 50 to 80%. Take 250 mcg. per day. This is the single most important nutrient. Curcumanoids – Also known as Turmeric, super powered antioxidant up to 150 times stronger than vitamin E, blocks the growth and stimulates the death of cancer cells, this is a must! 2 – 3 caps per day. Antioxidants – Emulsified Vitamin A, E and C. Some companies offers Selenium along with vitamins A,C,E in a capsule form. This is a compre-hensive formula for cancer patients. Take 2-4 capsules daily EMF Protection – Zero Point Global produces the best products to protect the human body from the riggers of EMF as well as environmental toxins. Water – ½ ounce per lb of body weight. Your body is 70% water, hence, this is the most important step. My personal choice is the Kangen water machine by Enagic. In 7 years of research this is my most profound dis-covery and the most important tool for healing. Parasite removal -Wormwood and Black Walnut leaf – 2 caps, twice a day before meals. Killing these parasites may be the single most important step in treating cancer. See the works of Hulda Clark – recommend zapper. Alpha Lipoic Acid – Detoxification of heavy metals and Isopropyl Alco-hol derivatives. These allow parasites to propagate within the body.

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SUPPLEMENT GLOSSARY

Vitamin A (beta carotene) – enhances immune function and suppresses tumor occurrence. For fighting disease emulsified form may be preferable. B Complex – Essential for enzyme production. B6 and B12 have been shown to slow production of pre-cancerous cells in smokers. B12 also suppresses tumor growth. B2 and B3 help with detoxification of chemicals such as benzene and xylene. Detoxification of these chemicals is critical to anyone fighting cancer. B-17 (Laetrile) – Whatever you believe, the fact that the FDA is so staunchly set against it, speaks volumes about this type of therapy. G. Edward Griffin’s book, World Without Cancer is the definitive work on the subject. Mr. Griffin makes very convincing arguments to support his claims that B-17 may be the cure for Cancer as well as a myriad of other diseases. The text is somewhat antiquated but I believe it to be accurate. Also reference Cancer, why were still dying to know the truth, by Philip Day. B-17 may also act as a parasite killer due to the re-lease of hydrogen cyanide. B-15 (Calcium Pangamate) – Also known as DMG, this super supplement almost does too many things to list. To the cancer patient, the benefits of improved blood oxygenation are paramount. Ernst Krebs called it instant oxygen. Added to this B-15 has been shown to increase energy and stamina, reduce seizures and increase immune system response by 300 to 1000%, extend cell life and detoxify pollutants. Benzene – Industrial solvent found in many products such as harmless breakfast cereals and personal cosmetic items. Ben-zene along with similar solvents xylene and toluene saturate

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areas of the body and allow parasites to complete all stages of the life cycle ending in the laying of eggs. When this happens cancer is one outcome to the process. Bromelain – Bromelain is the name of a group of powerful protein-digesting, or proteolytic, enzymes that are found in the pineapple plant. Krebs discovered that these enzymes were a key to stripping the protein coating from cancer cells, allowing white blood cells to do their job. Vitamin C – Linus Pauling was noted for curing terminal cancer patients with nothing more than 10 grams per day. He himself took 18 grams a day and lived into his 90’s working over 10 hours a day. Dr. Hulda Clark noted that Vitamin C was useful for killing molds commonly found in food and should be kept in a shaker and applied to everything. Vita-min C therapy may prove to be another critical answer to can-cer and parasites within the body. Brown Seaweed – There are various forms of brown seaweed, all of which will alkalize your body, provide trace minerals including iodine, and remove toxins from your body. How-ever, most beneficial is that Laminara Joponica or Kombu as it is called provides the greatest amount of U-Fucoidan. U-Fucoidan is a polysaccharide which induces apoptosis or cel-lular suicide. The enzyme activity of seaweed is said to be “trypsin like”. This is no doubt one of the contributing factors to the apoptosis that U-fucoidan initiates within the cancer cell. It should be restated that, for the cancer patient, seaweed is essential due to the need for more iodine caused by ingest-ing B-17 on a regular basis. Chlorella – This one simple organism does more than I can describe within the confines of this text. The main benefits are that it will detoxify your body. It is a super immune system

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builder, aids in digestion and provides almost all the nutrients that your body requires. Best of all, it is considered a food and not a supplement, per se, so you can literally eat large portions with no risk of toxicity. When first used, a marked increase in bowel movements will occur. An average dose could vary from 3 to 5 grams a day. Coconut Oil – Another supplement that seemingly cures eve-rything. Its importance can be understood for cancer patients exposed to radiation as coconut oil will alleviate hypothyroid-ism. It also helps our bodies do a much better job of absorbing nutrients; all of these other supplements will be much better received. Another major benefit is that Coconut oil requires no pancreatic enzymes to break them down, which is impor-tant for those fighting cancer. Colloidal Silver – One of the world’s oldest and most power-ful bactericides. Silver disables the enzyme that one-celled bacteria, viruses and fungi need for their oxygen metabolism. They suffocate without corresponding harm occurring to hu-man enzymes or parts of the human body chemistry. Colloi-dal Silver is refuted to kill 650 different types of microorgan-isms; many of these are associated to chronic diseases. It is unparalleled at fighting infections and the common cold. Many doctors now believe colloidal silver will be a valuable tool in the event of a bird-flu epidemic. Colloidal silver offers another way for us to kill parasites within our body, which always seem to be present at the cancer site. Curcumin – Also known as Turmeric; a super-powered anti-oxidant up to 150 times more powerful than vitamin E. Recent studies have shown that turmeric will block tumor growth and kill cancer cells. It is a must for anyone who has been di-agnosed with cancer.

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Vitamin E – Protects cell membranes from oxidation and pre-serves cells from rancidity. Essiac Tea - Developed by Rene Caisse, a Canadian nurse during the 1930’s. Folk lore states that she got the remedy from an Indian medicine man. Can be purchased under sev-eral different names such as original Essiac also Fluor-essence tea. Also refuted to kill parasites. Green drinks – Some examples of these are Emerald Greens, kyro-green, Supreme Greens and perfect food by Garden of Life. Each of these products provides a large amount of nutri-tion from vegetables and green, leafy plants. Coincidentally, many of these same plants are natural sources of Laetrile or B-17. Iodine – This common substance should be augmented or at least monitored by those using B-17 therapy because it is de-pleted as the body produces more thiocyanate. It is also de-pleted by adding broccoli and cauliflower to your diet. Iodine deficiency can be much worse than even cancer. Supplements such as Brown Seaweed will provide the necessary iodine in your diet to balance increased B-17 consumption. Kangen Water – Enagic is a 37 year old Japanese company. They produce machines which Ionize, alkalize and micro-cluster water (hexagonal) for the home. These waters mimic the attributes of the famous waters of Lourdes France. Noni Juice - Contains more than 140 isolated nutraceuticals, it does too much to mention and there are urban legends which claim it cures everything from Cancer to heart disease. Noni may be a source for pancreatic enzymes which is superior to bromelain or even standard multi-enzyme formulas.

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Selenium - A study from Cornell University found that a supplement of 200 mcg of selenium a day doubled the body’s capacity for cell replication. Scientists in Arizona gave a group of men and women selenium supplements and gave another group a placebo over a seven-year period. They discovered that the group taking the selenium was 42% more likely to replicate cells properly. In Norfolk, England, the people are said to be among the longest-living people in England. Scientists believe it is due to high concentrations of selenium in their soil. In addition, sci-entists in Brussels, Belgium, found those taking selenium on a daily basis improved immune system functions by nearly 80%. Zapper – Created by Dr. Hulda Clark and her son, a zapper is a small battery operated device that kills parasites within the bloodstream. Dr. Clark recommends doing this in intervals of 7 minutes on, 20 minutes off, 7 minutes on, 20 off and then one last session of 7 minutes on. There is no harm in using this device even for patients undergoing conventional thera-pies. Zinc- This all important nutrient is the transportation mecha-nism for B-17 and other vitamins throughout the body. It stimulates the activity of approximately 100 enzymes. Zinc supports a healthy immune system, is needed for wound healing, helps maintain your sense of taste and smell, and is needed for DNA synthesis. Zinc also supports normal growth and development during pregnancy, childhood, and adoles-cence. I cannot overstate the need to maintain appropriate levels for success with this program. (20-30) mg for adults, less for children.

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—A—

Acid, 90 adjunctive therapy, 52 alkalinity, 90, 93 Amygdalin, 127 Apricot Kernels, 127, 144 Arsenic Trioxide, 50, 51, 52

—B—

B-12 deficiency, 123 B-17, 92, 124, 125, 127, 128, 132, 133,

135, 137, 138, 144, 145, 146, 151, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252

B3 deficiency, 123 benzaldehyde, 127, 128, 247 Benzoic acid, 127 Beta Glucosidaise, 127 Bracebridge Cancer Clinic, 149 brain tumor, 156 Bromelain, 126 Brown Seaweed, 247, 249, 251 Budwig diet, 151

—C—

Cancer, 68, 89, 124, 125, 134, 149, 150, 156, 247, 248, 251

cancer cells, 127 cells, 87, 89, 91, 109, 115, 125, 127,

151, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252 Chlorella, 249 Chymotrypsin, 91, 125, 126, 144, 247 Controlled thought, 119 cyanide, 127, 128, 130, 135, 145, 146,

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—D—

Dr. A Krichevsky, 126 Dr. Alexander Fleming, 122 Dr. C. Oberling, 126 Dr. Goldberger, 122 Dr. Lister, 124 Dr. Otto Warburg, 115

—E—

EMF, 92 enzymes, 91, 121, 125, 127, 132, 138,

144, 146, 247, 249, 250, 252 Ernst T. Krebs Jr, 126 Essiac, 149, 150, 151, 247, 251 expectation, 111, 155

—F—

FDA, 52, 124, 131, 133, 134, 138, 248 frequency, 145

—H—

hCG, 125, 126 Hermann Goering, 130 holistic, 154 Hoxey formula, 151 hypothyroidism, 250

—I—

iodine, 145, 146, 147, 247, 249, 251

—J—

Jacques Cartier, 121

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John Beard, 91, 125 June de Spain, 133

—K—

Kangen water, 47, 95, 97, 99, 101, 104, 145, 247

—L—

Laetrile, 127, 134, 138, 144, 247, 248, 251

Linus Pauling, 147, 249 longevity, 116 Lymphoma, 68

—M—

meditation, 106, 113 Mercury, 123 metabolic, 87, 122, 148, 154 MGN3, 124

—N—

Napoleon Hill, 118 necrosis, 51 Nitrilosides, 127, 132, 145 nutrients, 116

—O—

oxygen, 89, 91, 115, 250

—P—

Papain, 126 Pellagra, 122 Penicillin, 122 pericelluar, 91 Pernicious Anemia, 123

pharmaceutical, 129 prayer, 105, 119, 159 Proteolytic Enzymes, 91 puerperal fever, 123

—R—

radiation, 68, 154, 157, 250

—S—

scurvy, 121 Semmelweis, 123 Stress, 105, 117

—T—

therapy, 52, 68, 122, 131, 135, 138, 149, 154, 155, 156, 157, 248, 251

Think and Grow Rich, 118 thiocyanate, 127, 146 toxins, 249 Trophoblast, 125 trophoblastic theory of Cancer, 125 Trypsin, 91, 125, 126, 144, 247 tumor, 109, 248, 250

—U—

U-Fucoidan, 249

—V—

Vioxx, 131 visualization, 106

—W—

W. Clement Stone, 118 water, 92, 127, 137

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—X—

Xylitol, 115

—Z—

Zeropoint, 187, 188, 189, 191, 205, 247

zinc, 132

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