Actually I would be very interested in reading the “opinion” pieces on the “cancer is a fungus” and “sugar feeds cancer” and the “you can adjust your body’s Ph level” written by Naturopaths - please provide them as it would be well, “interesting” reading. It would also be interesting if they have any scientific studies to back them up and not just anecdotal claims and “testimonials” from happy “customers”. BTW, my posts had links to studies. All your posts are nothing more than your opinion.
I’d also be interested in reading anything you have on other things that Naturopaths promote like homeopathy (completely debunked as being of any use BTW), “energy healing modalities”, biofeedback, high doses of intravenous vitamin C, massage therapy, chelation therapy, colon cleansing, color therapy, black salve and other such nonsense. In other words the opinions of Naturopaths while entertaining, it means as much to me as Madame Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network.
But while Madame Cleo might separate the fools from their money, totally eschewing modern science based medicine in favor of so called “natural” medicine alone and many of the quacks who practice it can be deadly.
What's the harm in naturopathy?
It has nothing to do with my “feelings” but rather your “feelings” which run quite high; perhaps there is homeopathic tincture for that. Give me the facts, the science based evidence, scientifically reviewed and replicated in multiple clinical trials performed in accordance with how such trials are conducted in “real” medicine and with a large enough sampling to make any results meaningful and I might change my opinion. In the meantime what you are promoting here is quackery that at the least; will not help anyone even if it does no lasting harm but at worst; could end up killing someone who foolishly follows your advice.
FWIW, my SIL is a 20 year breast cancer survivor – she had a double mastectomy followed by radiation and chemo – cancer free after 20 years. I also was good friends with a woman whose toddler was diagnosed with leukemia and she was treated at John’s Hopkins with conventional medical treatments and last I heard, she had graduated from college and was engaged to be married and was completely cancer free.
Of course I’ve known people who died from cancer too; my husband’s niece died at 36 from aggressive breast cancer for instance, but in her case, the doctor she saw after she detected a suspicious lump, told her not to worry about it, that she was too young for breast cancer and to come back in a year to see if the lump changed but by the time she did, it was too late (bad doctor, very bad doctor). But due to aggressive treatments, although she eventually lost her battle, she lived much longer than expected. My husband’s nephew’s wife was diagnosed with leukemia and she lived less than a year after being diagnosed, it was sad and tragic but homeopathy wasn’t going to save her either. But then of course this is all anecdotal unless you look at the actual cancer survival rates among the total population who receive conventional medical treatment vs. those who chose not to have any and go for “all natural” remedies – their survival rate is not good - (See the link above – “What's the harm in naturopathy”) and look up cancer survival rates. Also look up how cancer is on the decline.
Now if I had someone very close to me who had cancer and they sought out some “alternative” treatments in compliment to and along with traditional medicine, say getting acupuncture or massage therapy to help them deal with the pain, took up Yoga or Tai Chi or Art Therapy classes, started going to church every day, joined a prayer group, sought counseling from a priest or pastor or rabbi etc. to help deal them with the stress and their spiritual well being, or even consulting with a Naturopath on diet, far be it for me to tell them they were wasting their time. But on the other hand, if their Naturopath told them that modern medicine was akin to “witch doctoring”, that they should stop all conventional treatments only take “natural” and “alternative” medicines and treatments, drastically modify their diets and in terms of taking dangerous amounts of supplements, attempt to change their Ph by ingesting lots of vinegar and or baking soda, submit to colon cleanses, telling them that these things would cure them, – I’d be all over that like white on rice, just as I would if some charlatan from the Psychic Readers Network was trying to scam them, but as I said before; Madame Cleo will drain ones wallet but scam medical practioners can actually kill you.
Sorry I am so results oriented, that I cannot see the trees for the forest.
Interesting turn of phrase but it makes no sense. In actually you are not at all interested in seeing the forest but rather in only the very few trees standing alone that for you proves your preconceived correlation = causation, you refuse to look at all the other trees and the forest as a whole nor do you follow those few trees that seem to support your hypothesis over any length of time to determine objectively if the “results” were sustained nor do you see any reason to try to replicate those results in other trees – in other words – it’s not science but rather your “feelings”.
And if I was excreting excess Acid yet read the same Ph in my mouth at the same time, how is excess expressed in my mouth? Why is my urine not more acid or more base to reflect the excesses? Seems to indicate to me that I am excreting what my current Ph is, more than the biological function of excess control or balance. There is not a magic balance point that we gravitate to in the middle. In order to balance to a set point of say 7 you would need to excrete the difference between your set point and your current point in a multiple.
You have no idea how the human body and body chemistry works.
Your Urine is Not a Window to Your Body: pH Balancing – A Failed Hypothesis
Key takeaway:
What does this mean to my urine, and the urine test strips?
Your urine’s pH varies, as it’s a waste facility for the metabolic waste. Excess acidity is eliminated in the kidneys. And this can be manipulated by your diet. Your urine’s pH will reflect a number of metabolic, digestive, and other processes. But measuring the urinary pH to estimate of the blood’s pH is nonsensical, because your blood pH does not change unless you’re seriously, seriously, ill. There remains no convincing evidence to demonstrate that measuring (and manipulating) your urine’s pH has any correlation with your risk of medical conditions like osteoporosis or cancer, or any of the other medical conditions that advocate claim are the result of “excess acidity.”
There are links in this piece to actual studies if you are interested in reading them. The bottom line is that while you can manipulate the Ph level of your urine through what you eat, that has nothing to do with your over all body Ph and of your blood Ph levels. In drinking vinegar or ingesting foods high in acid or high in alkaline, your digestive system will in much the same as it does with other toxins or excess chemicals or vitamins (which are also toxic in high levels), divert them to your liver and or then to your urine system, processing those excess toxins including the alcohol in your gut and liver and trying as best as it can to not allow those toxins into your blood stream. Of course a very high consumption of alcohol or of any other toxins can over load your system but with disastrous and sometimes fatal results. For instance it is known that people who ingest high levels of baking soda (the sodium and bicarbonate) risk lowering their potassium levels to very dangerous levels and to the point it could and may very well lead to cardiac arrest.
Please read: Simoncini Cancer Therapy, baking soda
Further reading (again with links to studies and not merely opinion pieces):
And: Alkaline Diets and Cancer: Fact or Fiction?
The takeaway:
Are Urine and Saliva pH Test Strips a Good Way To Measure the Body's pH?
The only way to directly measure the body's pH is by testing your blood. Testing your urine only tells you the pH of your urine. Urine is naturally more acidic and has a lower pH (~ 6.0). Similarly, saliva test strips only measure the pH of your saliva, not the pH of your blood.
You do know of course I’m sure being that you are being that you are an “expert” in such matters, that cancer cells and tumors are feed by blood vessels and not by saliva or urine. Your body constantly adjusts your Ph level to keep it within a normal range unless you are gravely ill in which case you may very well die, and your body excretes the excess acids and alkalines through urine and to some extent another bodily “waste” products – saliva and excretions of the mucus membranes. Again it is true that consuming foods, drinks and supplements will affect the acidity or alkalinity of urine, but it is the only fluid that is affected. In fact, excess acid or base is excreted in the urine to help maintain proper pH balance in the body - the excretions of excess acids and bases means that they are not getting into your blood stream or into your body on a cellular level. But you know that, right?
As far as Ph readings in your mouth, yes drinking soda and vinegar, brushing your teeth with baking soda, will affect the Ph level in your mouth as does with eating sugar. But merely waiting 10 or 20 minutes before testing the Ph level in your mouth after consuming such proves nothing as your mouth, your gums, tongue, spaces between your teeth are full of crevices that hold those compounds with either an acidic or alkaline Ph. This is why dentists tell us to brush our teeth thoroughly after each and every meal and in the morning and before going to bed as eating foods or beverages especially those high in acids contribute to tooth decay and enamel erosion.’
You do, I presume brush your teeth on a regular basis, no? Or perhaps being that being you proscribe to Naturopathics; you take a homeopathic tincture of highly diluted and often shaken water that once may have been within a few miles of some fluoride toothpaste.
American in Israel; I think your heart is in the right place, that you believe passionately and sincerely in what you believe but that you are seriously misguided. Please educate yourself and while you do so, please stop promoting ideas that could result in someone dying an unnecessary death.
I am not an MD, don't pretend to be, but I have found in my life and in the personal stories of others that the things I talk about do work. Most of the stuff you quoted I cannot buy. I really do not care to share my medical history or my stories publicly, in my experience with that it is only used to be mocked at anyway.
Are you aware of the omega 3 and omega 6 balance issues with breast cancer? How about the use of vitamin D as a chemotherapy drug? I am sincerely not mocking, I am just curious as to if these two had reached you yet. I am taking your MD at face value.
Like I said, if I was in an accident, I would head to the emergency room to get patched up, and get the heck out of there. I find Doctors to be some of the best of the best, I find pharmaceuticals to be a horrible way to do business. My battle is not with doctors, my battle is with disease and its causes.
Now if I had someone very close to me who had cancer and they sought out some “alternative” treatments in compliment to and along with traditional medicine
You and I are in complete agreement. I would add that if you walk away from a Medical doctor to try and find your way through all the hokum out there you are most likely going to die. Medicinal practices are proven methods. Most of the stuff that passes for Naturopatic you have listed are frankly crap. But a good Naturopath medically trained is a great second opinion. They will help steer you around the garbage. Every single one of the things you listed in the madam cleo paragraph is total bunk, that is the 80% I have heard of. So we can clear things up by flushing that toilet.
But, to walk a strictly MD pharma solution is almost as bad. Nobody has all the answers and when you drift into symptomatic relief you are in very dangerous territory also.
Actually what I value the most in trying to figure out alternative medicine issues is First, personal testimony, and secondly medical studies. Thirdly frankly does not exist. If you cannot show results in a study, done with a wide enough test base you have no card to play.
However on the other hand, if I read posts about people trying to clear up ring worm with pharmaceuticals, paying lots of money and not being able to get results, then they try a naturopathic method that has immediate results? That to me is a small scale test. If I am unfortunate enough to have to try it on myself and it works, that also counts.
How many people survive breast cancer? Quite a few these days, specially with a double mastectomy to accomplish it. Hey, it works. If its broke hack it off does get rid of the immediate problem. But, if you were to read of many others that found an alternative method, and it also worked, would that not garner a try? If you found a medical study that found a 50% remission rate of breast cancer by a double blind study preformed on over 2000 women with flax seed oil would that not substantiate it? Why you would think that it would be news paper headlines.
It wasn't. Go figure.
As fungal issues are systemic and carried by the blood, just hacking out the tumor may be ignoring a major infection that will just crop up later in another organ.
Nuking the body to near death with radiation and poisonous chemicals might just cure it.
or a diet heavy on cinnamon, oregano, garlic and oak leaf rotated every two weeks could do it too. No burns, no puking and it costs about a hundred grand less.
When you see multiple studies with 50 to 500 people in them showing a around a 40% mean reduction in heart problems with 400 units of D-alpha-trophiperol daily, that would mean something. But if then the American Heart Association put up a counter study of 9 whole people, with L Alpha Trophiperol that actually increased heart problems, followed by a large campaign to get people to stop taking vitamin E it is a thing that makes you go Hmmm.
Because L Alpha Trophipherol is known to be flushed by the body as its is artificial and it actually reduced the levels of natural vitamin E in so doing.
Was the American Heart Association greedy in making such a small and easily biased study? (Or kind to not kill more study people) or just stupid in ignoring the L vs D issue. Because that add campaign make a lot more people die and made them more money. So it isn't kind. Sadly it isn't stupid either in my opinion. But very very greedy.
That is a primary issue that my offense comes from and some of my passion on the issue. A second layer is that Bush signed a compliance law with European medicine that will make the access to non traditional medicines all under doctor control in the near future, in compliance with European laws.
That will kill a lot more.
I don't like that.
The flax study was done in the UK by the way. Don't have a copy or a link. Doug Kaufman on his site has quoted from it, I suspect you can get a link from him.
He also is a big pusher of the alkaline diet idea, if you dare hold your nose you might learn a bit of the other sides reasoning on the issue. It is mostly about influencing the digestive tract, and why.
I by the way, did try his phase one diet, it really helped me. However I would not consider my endorsement a blank check, at the same time as I was doing the phase one diet (ph and simple sugar control) I was taking natural anti fungal foods and vitamins. I know that I beat a systemic fungal blood infection I had carried for years during that time, and a sinus fungus infection I had had all my life.
Was it the diet? The Ph balance or the vitamins or the anti fungals? Cant tell you, might have been all of the above. But I can breath through my nose now, never was able to before. I am no longer allergic to a half a dozen foods, I have great energy and sleep well and rise rested. And my cholesterol dropped by over 200 points in a month. It has stayed down when I returned to a normal diet sans so dang much sugar. (But, I eat desert every night so I am not religious about it).
This stuff I am so passionate about, is because it has worked to change my life. And some of my friends lives.
For example, a lady going to our church had MS. She resisted changing her diet till the doctor basically said to her, get your stuff in order, there is nothing left I can do. At that point she could not use her hands and feet, was wheelchair bound and had tunnel vision.
Then she tried a diet change. Her vision is now normal, she does not use a wheel chair and is still alive. And, still has MS. She is religious about organic food and juicing and has gone way beyond me that way. But like me, she is quite passionate.
I know, its impossible MS is irreversible. But try telling her that. Silly woman just will not listen. I do not advocate ignoring doctors, I do advocate getting one that is newer out of school as science is catching up on a few of these things. I by the way have medical insurance. I am not a nature nut, which Pharma nuts always assume. It gets tiring.
But what I write about, works, and if you break your arm, there is not a salve that beats a cast.
But if you have a tumor, and you have a doctor monitoring it, alternate things can be tried. If the tumor grows flipping get surgery. But if it "spontaneously remits" skip the surgery and chemo and radiation.
But Mexico can be a better source for surgeons because they do not have their hands tied by the FDA. Instead of insutro biopsy, you can just get the lump removed. Then if you are curious, biopsy the lump in the jar. But to puncture the lump in the breast is STUPID. Because if it is a fungus, you just spread it through the body, and the FDA mandated test in the nearest lymph nodes area the armpit is gonna show damaged dna. OH NOES, Cancer! (Oh another commonality between fungus and Cancer, both splice dna.) OH NOES, misdiagnosis due to not realizing that it was a fungus NOT a cancer. ) Because the test cannot tell the difference and the test is mandated by the FDA and if you as a doctor do not do it, you are going to be loosing your license.
What does cancer do in the breast? It collects calcium, that is what you spot in a mammogram. What does the body to to combat a fungal spoor sack formation in the body? It deposits calcium to glue the spores down.
Sugar concentrated in cancer. And fungus.
Hmmmm... Suspect tomorrows discovery will be fungus, but today people are dying and being milked by chemotherapy and burned with radiation that could perhaps be solved with a little flax seed oil every day. As shown in medical studies that are not being acted on yet.
We know the tip of the ice burg in medical science. Lets no pretend we know it all. People can die from others pride goes both ways.
The link between sugar and breast cancer has been known and discussed for years. But NOW it exists because a machine sees it. Humans have seen it with eyes for years, but that does not count because the humans do not have lab smocks.
So blessings on you, I will read your links later, you can read mine. But I promise you, if you hold your prejudice in check you will learn something, and if you do you can help others with it. If nothing else, by scientifically debunking the false trails.
Until then, chow ( its dinner time )