She Felt ‘Poisoned’ by Chemo. Tackling Ultras Helped Her Heal

At age 35, with six months of chemotherapy and three weeks of radiation behind her for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Oregon resident Karen Baas didn’t feel relief because her treatments had ended. She felt poisoned.

“Of course I was grateful to have had treatment and get past it,” she told Runner’s World. “But before I got cancer, I was a vet tech, and one of the chemicals we use for euthanasia is red. It turned out one of my infusion chemo drugs is also red. I can’t tell you how disturbing it is to make that mental connection.”

Three days after her last treatment, she convinced her then-boyfriend-now-husband to go on a 40-mile bike ride, as a way to start her mental and physical reset. It was tough, and she fought fatigue and shortness of breath the entire way, but she made it.

“I remember he said, ‘You’re no Lance Armstrong. What can I expect next?’” she says. That joking-not-joking exchange turned into the motivational fuel Baas needed to start running—in part to keep the chemicals flushing from her system, as she described it, and to inspire her two children, but also to see the look on her doctor’s face.

“I think every runner knows that feeling of wondering how much further you can go, how much your body can really do,” she says. “For me, I was coming back basically from zero, and to be able to run was empowering. Difficult, humbling, and almost impossible on some days. But empowering.”

Besides which sometimes the chemo strengthens the cells it seeks to kill in a sort of "survival of the fittest" evolving method. This is why sometimes cancer comes back "with a vengence".

“Survival of the fittest evolving method...” Interesting...I have always wondered whether the atheist and Darwinist underpinnings of modern science have any impact —negative or otherwise— on our progress in terms of finding cures for diseases. How would a Creation-based biological reality shape our laboratory approach to tackling diseases even in the physical realm?

Keeping in mind that when God heals, He heals —and He will use anything including chemo. Or in spite of it.

“Besides which sometimes the chemo strengthens the cells it seeks to kill in a sort of “survival of the fittest” evolving method. This is why sometimes cancer comes back “with a vengence”.

Interesting...I have always wondered whether the atheist and Darwinist underpinnings of modern science have any impact —negative or otherwise— on our progress in terms of finding cures for diseases. How would a Creation-based biological reality shape our laboratory approach to tackling diseases even in the physical realm?

Keeping in mind that when God heals, He heals —and He will use anything including chemo. Or in spite of it.

Western medical science is based upon artifice, not nature: cut, burn, drug. They are invasive, coercive, traumatic.

These approaches are first and foremost, profitable. Chemotherapy is the cash cow at many hospitals, without which they would operate in the red. Chemo is simply a gamble that it will kill the cancer before it kills the host. It is supremely toxic.

Otto Warburg proved that cancer is anaerobic. An acidifying diet and lifestyle therefore promotes the growth of cancer. High pH = high oxygen; low pH = low oxygen. He received the Nobel prize. (Chemotherapy is emphatically not systemically alkalinizing.)

Johanna Budwig obtained great success in mitigating degenerative diseases, including cancers, by using diet, specifically, the Oil-Protein Diet (Fresh Flax Oil and Cottage Cheese). This diet is oxygenating to the tissues. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times.

The scientific method is based upon isolating a single variable, not upon viewing the organism as a whole. That favors focused, aggressive techniques like chemotherapy. Also, the science is highly compromised by that profit motive. Follow the money - always!

Germ Theory (Pasteur), which allowed for patented and profitable vaccines, was chosen over Terrain Theory (Beauchamp), which did not provide a profit motive. The concomitant development of modern sewage systems and physician hand washing before surgery, both of which played major roles in reducing communicable diseases, has been deliberately ignored by vaccine proponents.

The adherence to Darwin and Natural Selection certainly has its effect: We are just another animal, and we evolve; man-made substances and devices can thus be a factor in that evolution just as much as anything else. Many conventional conservatives, like Rush Limbaugh, hold ideas like that: We are a part of nature, so, no matter what we do, it is natural (no matter how unnatural it actually is).

I was a biology major, a pre-med, but I left for several reasons, chiefly: I was sick of the Evolution propaganda (and it is that), and medical science was failing me with my own growing physical problems.

I nearly died at 32, stopped going to medical doctors, and began my earnest study of natural healing the way the Creator provided.

I make use of natural hygiene, food combining, and selective use of herbs and spices, and emphasis on functional foods. [Genesis 1:29]

This is a great nation for dealing with trauma; it is not nearly so great at prevention. Artificial drugs are virtually all toxic, with multiple side effects.

I have not been to a doctor since 1995. I have been on zero medications since then. People think I am 15-20 years younger than my age. I have a 29” waist despite having a permanent leg injury that limits my exercise.

I must be doing something right.

P.S.

I had multiple awards in the hard sciences. I once had the only high A in upper division Genetics, despite working full time (swing shift), and nearing a physical collapse. I could do the science; I proved that.

So well said, thanks for the post. I was recently infected with Lyme and after the abject failure of the western pharma based medical prescription was able to clean that bio weapon from my system by the judicious use of natural medicines.

I am now feeling better than I have been for years.

Sida acuta, cryptolepsis for protozoa, artisimian to combat the immune suppression, oregano oil for the bio slime formations, chopped garlic, cayenne and black walnut for the parasite component.

Interesting book “Bitten” and information from Kentucky lyme association blog as source material.

Just thought I would point out the protocol to one who could appreciate it as this plague spreads across the country. Might help you and yours.

I was a biology major, a pre-med

Astounding!

I nearly died at 32

Incredible!

I make use of natural hygiene

Doubtful.

I have not been to a doctor since 1995

Lifetime ban for poor hygiene?

I have a 29” waist

Amazing!

I must be doing something right.

Virtuous!

I had multiple awards in the hard sciences.

Fantastic!

I once had the only high A in upper division Genetics

Brilliant!

I could do the science

How capable!

I proved that

Oh you've proved something alright, Yogi.
Yes you have.

There's not a doubt in my mind that a "Creation-based" view of life and speciation, is not incompatible with what is calle 'microevolution', natural selection, and genetic drift.

It is incontestable that environmental pressures tend to select and de-select certain genetic traits. We see it dramatically in species which have a fast life-cycle.

Bacteria reproduce exponentially, meaning one bacterium becomes two, two become four, four become eight, and so on. Because of this, bacteria populations can double in four to twenty minutes. Under optimal conditions, this gives bacteria the ability to form millions of cells in as little as a few hours. You can see for yourself that conditions select for certain traits to be optimized, others suppressed.

Same goes for cancer cells. High rate of growth, high rate of selection.

This does not mean that one species can turn into another. I think Darwin has been proved wrong about his central thesis in "The Origin of Species." Wrong about species.

But on the unicellular level? Darwin knew next to nothing about cells. But cells, yeah--- hit them with a major "near-extinction" challenge, and the survivors may produce a super-line of descendants.

God made this, and God alone fathoms it.

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