Page 64#15. Enzyme based therapies
To understand the next group of resources, we need to visit a little bit of
scientific history. In 1902 a Scottish doctor, John Beard, published an interesting
paper. He drew attention to the fact that when the placenta implants into the
uterus, the way it burrows in and invades the mother’s tissue is exactly like a
cancer.
Why didn’t the placenta just keep going and take over everything – like a cancer
does? Nobody knew at the time but John Beard noticed that the placenta stops
invading at exactly the moment when the infants pancreas starts to produce
enzymes. If that doesn’t happen, the deadly cancer of pregnancy - chorion-
carcinoma - ensues which is capable of killing the mother and baby very quickly
(today there is an excellent cure rate for chorion-carcinoma).
The cells of the placenta which invade are called the trophoblasts. Whenever you
see the word “tropho” or “trophic” in science, it means feeding. These cells set
out to establish the food supply line for the baby fetus.
Beard began to ask himself whether cancer cells, which look exactly like
trophoblast cells—young, vigorous, unspecialized—could also be turned off by
enzymes from the pancreas. In fact he went even further and speculated that
cancer came from hidden trophoblasts cells in the body, left over from days in
the womb, which got activated again, by stress and toxins. Perhaps normally
these get picked off by enzymes but sometimes they do not and cancer is the
result. So Beard called this the trophoblastic theory of cancer.
I think he hit the target right on bullseye and it’s worth making sure you
understand the implications of this theory and the treatments which result.
Because it does work. Within a few years there were hundreds of clinics which
sprang up offering pancreatic enzyme treatments for cancer patients. There were
40 centers in London alone.
Of course it was attacked as nonsense by the medical establishment. They
attack everything as history shows, from good diet, to surgeons washing their
hands and keeping everything clean, to anesthetics. But it wasn’t that which
saw Beard’s work disappear. Not long afterwards Madam Curie came along and
convinced people that X-ray was the way to go because it was so “safe” and
“effective” and the pancreatic cancer cure was quickly abandoned. Marie Curie
became famous and John Beard was promptly forgotten (that’s called “scientific
progress”!).