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Let me tell you how important your own body tissues are: did you know (very
few doctors know) that a cancer tumor is typically composed of about 50% your
own immune white blood cells, in there, fighting for you against the bad cells?
Shrinking the size of the tumor sounds great; but it may mean mostly the loss of
white defensive cells and not cancer cells.
Yet shrinkage of the tumor, regardless of what this may mean, is the ONLY
criterion that is used to judge the worth of a chemo drug. Increased survival time
is NOT even considered as a measure of the drug’s efficacy. Yet time is the only
thing that matters to the cancer victim!
Protecting your defence mechanisms is probably the most critical reason I
would encourage patients to adopt
alternative and holistic remedies,
like vitamins and herbs. You can,
to a degree, measure how well
you are doing so by how much you
can reduce the ugly side-effects of
chemo. For example, very few of my
patients ever lost their hair because of chemo.
Chemo is intended to hit at rapidly dividing cells, which is what cancer cells are.
Unfortunately, hair cells also rapidly replace themselves and the lining of the gut
and bone marrow cells. So the common side effects of this treatment are hair
loss, nausea and stomach upset, and dangerous lowering of both red and white
blood cells.
Good nutrients, like vitamins and detox supplements, which I’ll explain in
due course, can be very helpful in removing these side effects. Yet here the
exasperating ignorance of orthodox doctors becomes evident, when you hear
stories of patients being told not to take vitamins because “it will help the
cancer”.
First off, there is no evidence of any kind whatsoever that vitamins and minerals
can do this - it’s opinionated prejudice of the first order, which could cost you
your life (well, there appears to be one tiny sub-set of lung cancer pateints, in
one study, where the patient continues to smoke—Duh!)
Secondly, it shows remarkable ignorance of basic life biology: cancer cells are
malformed rogue cells that do not behave as normal cells do and for whom
You need to help your white blood cells
all you can. It’s them that will save you,
ultimately, not chemotherapy or other
treatments. Your own white cells. Keep that
firmly in your mind, like a mantra.