“During the past fifty years scientists experimenting with thousands of animals
have found 700 ways of causing cancer. But they have not discovered one way of
curing the disease.” – J. F. Brailsford, M.D.
The purpose of this book is to support the film of the same name, Healing Cancer
From Inside Out. If you haven’t seen the film, you should pick up a copy[1]
because it contains vital information not found here. This book focuses on
providing the details for supporting cancer patients with nutrition and
essentially picks up where the film leaves off. The exception is Part I, where I
provide a detailed explanation of how ineffective – and harmful – current
conventional treatments are to the cancer patient.
This book is both a summary and interpretation of what I’ve discovered over the
years about healing cancer with diet. It is based on the best scientific and
practitioner knowledge to date. What I hope is that the material presented in
this book will enable those with cancer to make their own treatment decisions
based on all the facts.
I am neither for nor against conventional treatments of cancer. Nor am I for or
against alternative treatments of cancer. What I am for is any treatment that
truly works, particularly those that work in the long run and keep cancer away
for good.
As is made clear in the film, the difference between cancer prevention and
reversal is one of degree, not kind. Natural cancer reversals occur all the
time. At this moment, there are millions of people with cancers growing in their
bodies and they don’t have a clue. In fact, the average American gets half a
dozen serious bouts of cancer during his or her lifetime without even knowing
it! This means there are millions of people who have healed their cancers on
their own – including you. It also means that, overall, there are many more
natural cancer reversals than there are diagnosed and treated cancer cases.
Obviously, the more a cancer has progressed, the more difficult it will be to
reverse. In other words, the sooner you adopt a true cancer-fighting diet, the
better your chances of reversing the cancer and never having it return. Dietary
reversals have occurred in all stages of cancer, including patients who were
given only a few months to live, so you should never give up hope or stop
fighting this disease.
The diet outlined in this book is strict, as it has to be. The closer you adhere
to it, the more effective it will be. The basic guidelines are taken from the
book, The Rave Diet & Lifestyle, which I also authored. The book you’re reading
now contains guidelines specifically tailored to fight the disease, as well as
much more information about cancer. Once the cancer is under control, you can
return to a more relaxed diet with wider food choices, such as that outlined in
the Rave Diet & Lifestyle.
Dr. Bernie Siegel has said that when given a choice between a change in
lifestyle and undergoing surgery, eight out of ten patients will say,
“operate.”[2] The two people out of ten who choose lifestyle changes, he calls
“extraordinary” because they have chosen a different path – one that addresses
the cause of the problem instead of having the doctor treat a symptom. Because
you are reading this book, you should consider yourself an extraordinary
individual because you have the courage to walk a path that is not well-trodden.
That path is full of long-term successes which have rid the body of cancer not
just for a few years, but a lifetime. I want to personally congratulate you for
your decision. As you read the book and adopt the diet, you will find that you
are not alone and have many resources to support you.
There is a story about a professor of medicine who would always make jokes about
heart attacks to his medical students and the jokes would always elicit
laughter. One day, he thought he would augment his heart disease jokes with some
about cancer. But when he told the jokes, no one laughed. Of course, the reason
no one laughed is because we have no effective treatments for cancer. Cancer is
seen, by most, for what it is today with conventional treatments: a death
sentence for all but a very few. And, yet, it doesn’t have to be.
We can make jokes about heart disease despite the fact that it kills as many
people as cancer. And cardiovascular disease, of which heart disease is a
subset, kills over twice as many people as cancer does. This is not to say that
any disease is a laughing matter, but to point out that we have a very different
attitude about cancer than we have about other diseases. Much of that attitude
stems from the fact that conventional medicine has no effective treatments and,
as a result, doctors are all too often giving patients death sentences. They
have tried their ineffective treatments, the patient is told there are no
alternatives and therefore the patient has only “x” number of months to live.
Sentencing a patient to death is the worst thing a doctor can do. The doctor is
giving the patient a nocebo – the opposite of a placebo – which is, in effect, a
kind of hex, whose underlying message to the patient is to die. So what does the
patient do? He goes home, grapples with his fate and dies right on schedule. The
doctor expects the patient will die and the patient follows the doctor’s
expectations right to his grave. The doctor’s prophecy becomes self-fulfilling
due to the blind faith patients have in modern medicine.
When patients are told there is no alternative but death, that’s criminal
because there are alternatives, even with late stage cancers. Unfortunately, the
medical culture and legal system limit treatment options to the worst therapies
ever to visit the human body. Doctors are ignorant of any treatment beyond
drugs, radiation and surgery. Hope is dead and so, too, will be the patient.
“Drugs tend to worsen whatever they’re supposed to cure, which sets up a vicious
circle.” – Dean Black, M.D.
A common occurrence is what I call the “Cancer Cycle.” A person is diagnosed
with cancer, treatments are applied, the body is devastated, but the patient is
“cured.” A few years later, the cancer returns. More treatment is applied, the
body is further devastated, and the cancer is once again “cured.” A few years
later, the cancer returns yet again. At this point, either further treatment
kills them or the side effects do.
In fact, the “Cancer Cycle” is so common it’s been estimated it occurs, in
varying degrees, with over 90 percent of all cases where treatments are
rendered.[3] Why? Because conventional medicine only treats the symptoms of
cancer (e.g., a tumor) and does not address what caused the cancer in the first
place. Since the dose of radiation or chemo required to kill all cancer cells
would also kill the patient, you still have malignant cancer cells in your body
even after you have been “cured,” they’re just hiding under the radar. Normally,
your body could deal with this, but the treatments have devastated your immune
system and set the stage for the return of a serious cancer. This is the
fundamental problem with conventional treatments: They damage the body so much
that it is incapable of defending itself against cancer. And this is what sets
up the Cancer Cycle.
Adding injury to insult, radiological and chemo treatments actually increase the
likelihood that cancer will develop in other parts of the body[4] because both
of these treatments are active carcinogens! Don’t you think it’s strange that
one of the possible side effects of our cancer treatments is cancer itself?
Women who received radiation treatment and survived early Hodgkin’s cancers, for
example, were 75 times more likely to develop breast cancer by age 45![5] As Dr.
Samuel S. Epstein has said, “Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of
developing a second cancer by up to 100 times.”[6]
Chemotherapy is advertised as somewhat effective against a very small number of
cancers: Hodgkin’s disease, acute lymphocytic leukemia, testicular cancer and
choriocarcinoma. When you look at its long-term effectiveness, however, the
value of the treatment diminishes over time.
A study of over 10,000 patients with Hodgkin’s, who were treated with chemo,
showed they were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and six times more
likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints and soft tissues than those
patients who did not undergo chemotherapy.[7] Children who were “successfully”
treated for Hodgkin’s are 18 times more likely to later develop secondary
malignant tumors; the risk of leukemia increases markedly just four years after
the treatment has ended; and the risk of developing solid tumors approaches 30
percent after 30 years.[8]
With childhood cancers, 73 percent of patients will develop a chronic illness
within 30 years and 42 percent will develop a severe, disabling,
life-threatening or fatal condition, including heart disease, lung scarring,
strokes and second cancers.[9] Blindness, deafness, infertility, early
menopause, neurocognitive defects, depression, anxiety and moderate to extreme
physical pain are also common side effects. Many have bones more osteoporotic in
their 20s than people in their 70s. And no one has ever seen a childhood
survivor make it to 70 years of age. It’s no wonder that survivors of such
treatments are advised to find jobs at big companies with good medical
insurance!
A study of women who survived ovarian cancer following chemo treatments showed a
100-fold greater incidence of leukemia over those who did not receive
chemotherapy. In some studies, when chemo and radiation were combined, the
incidence of secondary tumors was 25 times the expected rate.[10]
In other words, the Cancer Cycle can have a very long and painful time frame
because the treatment itself often causes later death from secondary cancers and
other treatment-related diseases. And along the way, the treatment will enter
the books as a success because the patient survived for just five years. Someone
who dies of pneumonia, because his or her immune system was destroyed by
chemotherapy, for example, is generally not counted as a “cancer” death.
Likewise, someone whose liver is destroyed by chemo, and dies of liver disease,
is also not counted as a cancer death. Cancer mortality as a result of treatment
is grossly understated because the cause of death is taken from a death
certificate. The direct cause of death may have been liver failure, but the
liver failure was caused by the treatment. Because of the way deaths are
recorded, it makes “cure” rates look far better than they actually are.[11] In
fact, it’s been said that if you add up treatment-related deaths, conventional
cancer treatments have done far more harm than good.
Because you are reading this, you no doubt have cancer, or know someone who
does. With such a serious disease, not everyone gets well, no matter what
program they follow. That’s the nature of life and this disease. But if you play
the odds and follow a strict program of diet and lifestyle changes, your chances
of beating cancer will skyrocket, compared to if you did not follow these
guidelines.
When you heal the body nutritionally, you heal the entire body – the heart,
liver, spleen, colon and every single cell in your body. In contrast, our
current medical model uses powerful poisons to rearrange body chemistry in order
to suppress symptoms of the disease. It also cuts out or surgically alters
organs that are causing problems, instead of healing those organs. The beauty
about diet and lifestyle changes is that you don’t have to know a thing about
cancer to reverse it. You just have to know a thing or two about what you put
into your mouth and how to live your life. The purpose of this book is to tell
you a thing or two about how to do both.
If you are diagnosed with cancer, fear will undoubtedly cloud your judgment,
which can lead you down that slippery slope of hasty, regrettable decisions.
Even though the cancer has taken years, if not decades, to develop the doctors
will tell you that you must have chemo and/or radiation and/or surgery
immediately! They will also use scare tactics to try to force you into treatment
(“You will die if you don’t have treatment” is the usual phrase). Here is what I
would suggest:
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[1] Healing Cancer From Inside Out is available at www.RaveDiet.com.
[2] Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., Love, Medicine & Miracles.
[3] You will hear lower figures, but these refer to a recurrence of a specific
type of cancer, e.g., breast cancer. We are talking about a recurrence of
cancer, regardless of the type. This means the body is still making cancer and
it simply shows up as a different type of cancer, in a different area of the
body. See Part 2 for more on this.
[4] Chemotherapy releases an abundance of oxidants, which are highly reactive
oxygen molecules that support the life of cancer. This not only makes the
conditions within the body hospitable to the cancer, but toxic to the immune
system, thus further encouraging the life of the disease. Instead of
strengthening the immune system, chemo devastates it.
[5] Breast Cancer and Other Second Neoplasms after Childhood Hodgkin’s Disease,
S. Bhatia, et al., NEJM, 1996, 334:745-51.
[6] Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Congressional Record, Sept. 9, 1987
[7] NCI Journal 87:10.
[8] NEJM, March 21, 1996.
[9] Philip M. Rosoff, M.D. The Two-Edged Sword of Curing Childhood Cancer.
Volume 355:1522-1523, No. 15.
[10] Discussed in Seeds of Destruction: The Science Report on Cancer Research,
Thomas A. Maugh and Jean L. Marx. On a related topic, one reason why cancers
seem to return with such a vengeance after chemo treatments is that cancer cells
resist the drug by replicating even harder and faster than before the chemo
(they are in a survival mode, after all). Chemo drugs are lethal so cancer cells
are stimulated to survive in any way they can, which results in faster growth.
In the presence of any lethal drug, they resist and the more they resist, the
stronger they get. This is simply an adaptation by cancer cells to stay alive.
The chemo provokes this adaptation and the rapid cancer growth can quickly
overwhelm a patient. Of course, the chemo knocks down the immune system and the
cancer regains its powers and starts growing long before the immune system is
strong enough to combat the illness.
[11] Cancer registries, such as the NCI's SEER database, rely solely on
information provided by death certificates. And, yet, cause of death is often
recorded as something else, when in fact the underlying cause is advanced
metastasized cancer. Cancer mortality is also underestimated due to the steady
decline in the number of autopsies done on patients who die in hospitals. In the
US, the autopsy rate has plummeted from around 45 per cent several decades ago
to only around 11 per cent today. Some hospitals now perform autopsies on fewer
than 5 per cent of patients who die there.