My trip to Singapore to see Dr Ramakrishnan, the allopathic trained homeopathic doctor was good. Dr Rama is a well known in the homeopathic fraternity around the world for his treatment of cancers having treated over 5,000 patients. I am glad that Dr Rama travels around the world to London, US and Singapore to meet his patients once every two months. I contacted Dr Rama in mid October 09 to make an appointment to meet him so that he can begin my treatment.
Homeopathic treatment, unlike allopathic treatment or some other treatments requires an understanding of the patient's past behaviour and character. Homeopathy is a system of medicine which is based on treating the individual with highly diluted substances given in mainly tablet form, which triggers the body’s natural system of healing. Homeopathy has been widely used throughout the world for more than 200 years. So, when Dr Rama began my treatment, it reminded me of the shows I watch on TV or movies where the patients talk to a psychiatrist, going back to the past and remembering details of events, likes, dislikes, fears and the emotional aspects of a person. Once that is gathered, Dr Rama had a look at my CT scans and also wanted to know the recommendations of the oncologist/urologist. After considering the facts of the case, he recommended me to consider going for removal of the tumor kidney as he is also of the opinion the removal would assist the body in dealing with less tumor cells thereby facilitating the treatment. He also prescribed me some homeopathic medication for the next two months until I meet him again in January 2010. The strategy that he has adopted is to ensure the tumor/nodules does not deteriorate and spread. Once that is achieved, he will begin the second phase of reducing the size of the nodules in my lungs.
As I have said earlier, my modified Gerson therapy of detox and juicing is not the complete therapy and juicing alone WILL NOT help to heal a cancer patient. I am a very good example. What I did up to now is only managed to slow down the growth, to buy myself time so that I can find the appropriate treatment - in this case homeopathy. To heal, we must still deal with the tumor cells. I am most likely to do my surgery at SJMC using the keyhole surgery method while allows the patient to heal faster but cost 25% more.
On Sunday, I finally managed to summon the courage to inform my parents of my actual condition. My mother is wondering all this while why I am going here and there to meet this or that doctor and now that I may want to proceed with the operation, why do I still need to do medication? I had planned to reveal a little at a time so that she will not be shocked with the news and it looks that the plan is working. She accepted the news calmly and shed some tears in between. I was holding on for as long as I can while taking my lunch. I quickly went to wash my plate upon completion and also wipe out my tears. I need to show to my mother that although I am down with a very serious problem, I am having it under control. Then she said I would overcome this difficult chapter in my life and I told her yes I would. That evening, we packed dinner and ate with my parents. My mother normally do not cook on Sundays but I told my wife and kids, we need to be close to my parents to offer support to each other.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
6 November 2009
Today I will follow-up with yesterday's blog on cancer and share some more information on cancer treatment, in particular the Gerson method. There are many approaches to treating cancer and what I will be concentrating on is the alternative therapy and not conventional or mainstream medicine. Actually, mainstream medicine should be called alternative treatment, after all they have been around only for about 200 years or so whereas Ayurveda or traditional Chinese medicine have been around for thousands of years and was the mainstream medicine before this. Although cancer has been in existence through the ages but those days were rare. According to Philip Day in his Book Why We're Still Dying To know The Truth provides the following table:
Source: WHO 1970
A number of alternative treatment normally recommends that you start with detox. Detox is important because you must get rid of the toxins in your body to allow the organs such as the liver, pancreas, kidney and other organs to function normally again. For cancer patients, these organs are sometimes impaired and be nursed back to health. Therefore detox is not a single step once a week program because the person has cancer. It starts of with a more rigorous program and continues for a period of time. It is not possible to rid the toxins with just a few detox applications. There are two important information information you need to know about detox. although you already knows the end in mind but are you aware a) what ingredients will you use for detox and b) how will the body rid of the toxins? The blood circulate the liver once every three minutes. The three ways that toxins are removed from your body are through your sweat, urine, and bowel movements. Your liver is the organ that filters toxins and decides what will be removed from your body. For cancer patients, normally the liver is already not functionally properly. So when you detox, what happens to the toxins that has been released? Do not expect the liver to cope as in a ordinary person. Therefore, it is also important when you detox, you must do it slowly because you do not want too many toxins to be released at the same time. The Gerson detox uses coffee enema to detox the liver (and other parts of the body). Please see my 2 November 2009 blog for more info on coffee enema. Dr Gerson has this to say "If we do not help the patient intensively day and night to eliminate these additional poisonous substances, as I have seen it in the beginning of this treatment, there is a serious danger that the patient may fall into a hepatic coma". Granted, different therapy may require different detox regime.
I will not touch on the nutrition and diet. I will leave this for another day. I have said "JUST ON JUICING AND PLANT DIET IS NOT ENOUGH". In the Gerson therapy and also the Metabolic therapy, they also use supplements. Supplements are not just vitamins are we know. For Gerson, the supplements are actually medication. Professor G. von Bergmann said "Cancer metabolism take place once the body is no longer capable of producing an active 'inflammation metabolism'... the cancerous organism is anergic (meaning cannot prevent cancer growth nor respond and defend itself against it) in respect to inflammation". His assistants in lab experiments has found that normally body can kill cancer by producing an inflammation. Dr Gerson remind us that we should not assume that the tumor, the glands and the metastases can be influenced at one time or even cured all together. The concept of totality should not let us forget that each sick organ, even each node and gland, has its own pathological anatomical conditions, on which the method of healing essentially depends. This is why even two cancer patients with the same symptoms and cancer will require different treatment. This is because their body makeup and the degree of sickness of the organs are different. So how can you treat these patients with a standard formula? The treatment to start the inflammation is just to jump start it but more needs to be done. The body must be able to produce the inflammation on it own to be effective against cancer. So in order to maintain the healing process, it is necessary to apply treatment long enough to restore all vital organs to normal function to produce the same reactive processes as used by the body itself, for healing purposes. During the healing process when the tumor masses are in the process of dissolution, there is a greater amount of highly active protein-intermediary substances such as histamine, histidine, etc which can activate different pathological reactions all over the body. This counteract the healing power. To neutrilise and eliminate them is the task of the therapy. The Gerson medication uses two main body minerals - iodine (I) and potassium (K). According to Holler and Singer iodine invades cancel tumors when inflamed. Potassium appears to play an indispensable and unique role in tissue protein synthesis. Muscles, brain and liver normally have higher potassium content than sodium but the situation is reversed in tumor cells. Other medications used (depending on cancer and disease) includes acidol pepsin (to aid the pancreas), royal jelly (50gm half hour before breakfast), niacin (one of the vitamin B2 given at the beginning to bring back sufficient glycogen into the liver cells) and vitamin B12 (to bring the sick body to combine aminoacids to build protein substances).
This morning, I woke up at the usual time but my stomach was full of gas. There are also more noticeable pain around the tights and ribs. I am not sure if there are flare-up or the disease is getting the upper hand. My digestion is also no good. This week, I did a lot of errands and as a result I did not have sufficient juices to drink. I have lost another kg and this could be due to me not eating enough throughout the day. I am suppose to eat when I am hungry but I did not. I also skipped my supper and tidbits in between. I need to be more discipline to ensure that I followed the therapy closely for I risk the consequences. I suspect it was the apricots seeds that I took a few days ago that cause the change. Today I decided to put my own house in order, to try and follow as closely as possible. I am looking forward to tomorrow for the Homeopathy treatment that I will be receiving. Up to now, the battle has been status quo. Although this although is good news that the disease did not deteriorate but it cannot be sustained over long periods.
Source: WHO 1970
| Country | Per capita GBP | Cancer Per Mil |
| Mauritius | $140 | 3 |
| Sri Langka | $225 | 316 |
| Portugal | $479 | 1,115 |
| USA | $3,960 | 1,698 |
A number of alternative treatment normally recommends that you start with detox. Detox is important because you must get rid of the toxins in your body to allow the organs such as the liver, pancreas, kidney and other organs to function normally again. For cancer patients, these organs are sometimes impaired and be nursed back to health. Therefore detox is not a single step once a week program because the person has cancer. It starts of with a more rigorous program and continues for a period of time. It is not possible to rid the toxins with just a few detox applications. There are two important information information you need to know about detox. although you already knows the end in mind but are you aware a) what ingredients will you use for detox and b) how will the body rid of the toxins? The blood circulate the liver once every three minutes. The three ways that toxins are removed from your body are through your sweat, urine, and bowel movements. Your liver is the organ that filters toxins and decides what will be removed from your body. For cancer patients, normally the liver is already not functionally properly. So when you detox, what happens to the toxins that has been released? Do not expect the liver to cope as in a ordinary person. Therefore, it is also important when you detox, you must do it slowly because you do not want too many toxins to be released at the same time. The Gerson detox uses coffee enema to detox the liver (and other parts of the body). Please see my 2 November 2009 blog for more info on coffee enema. Dr Gerson has this to say "If we do not help the patient intensively day and night to eliminate these additional poisonous substances, as I have seen it in the beginning of this treatment, there is a serious danger that the patient may fall into a hepatic coma". Granted, different therapy may require different detox regime.
I will not touch on the nutrition and diet. I will leave this for another day. I have said "JUST ON JUICING AND PLANT DIET IS NOT ENOUGH". In the Gerson therapy and also the Metabolic therapy, they also use supplements. Supplements are not just vitamins are we know. For Gerson, the supplements are actually medication. Professor G. von Bergmann said "Cancer metabolism take place once the body is no longer capable of producing an active 'inflammation metabolism'... the cancerous organism is anergic (meaning cannot prevent cancer growth nor respond and defend itself against it) in respect to inflammation". His assistants in lab experiments has found that normally body can kill cancer by producing an inflammation. Dr Gerson remind us that we should not assume that the tumor, the glands and the metastases can be influenced at one time or even cured all together. The concept of totality should not let us forget that each sick organ, even each node and gland, has its own pathological anatomical conditions, on which the method of healing essentially depends. This is why even two cancer patients with the same symptoms and cancer will require different treatment. This is because their body makeup and the degree of sickness of the organs are different. So how can you treat these patients with a standard formula? The treatment to start the inflammation is just to jump start it but more needs to be done. The body must be able to produce the inflammation on it own to be effective against cancer. So in order to maintain the healing process, it is necessary to apply treatment long enough to restore all vital organs to normal function to produce the same reactive processes as used by the body itself, for healing purposes. During the healing process when the tumor masses are in the process of dissolution, there is a greater amount of highly active protein-intermediary substances such as histamine, histidine, etc which can activate different pathological reactions all over the body. This counteract the healing power. To neutrilise and eliminate them is the task of the therapy. The Gerson medication uses two main body minerals - iodine (I) and potassium (K). According to Holler and Singer iodine invades cancel tumors when inflamed. Potassium appears to play an indispensable and unique role in tissue protein synthesis. Muscles, brain and liver normally have higher potassium content than sodium but the situation is reversed in tumor cells. Other medications used (depending on cancer and disease) includes acidol pepsin (to aid the pancreas), royal jelly (50gm half hour before breakfast), niacin (one of the vitamin B2 given at the beginning to bring back sufficient glycogen into the liver cells) and vitamin B12 (to bring the sick body to combine aminoacids to build protein substances).
This morning, I woke up at the usual time but my stomach was full of gas. There are also more noticeable pain around the tights and ribs. I am not sure if there are flare-up or the disease is getting the upper hand. My digestion is also no good. This week, I did a lot of errands and as a result I did not have sufficient juices to drink. I have lost another kg and this could be due to me not eating enough throughout the day. I am suppose to eat when I am hungry but I did not. I also skipped my supper and tidbits in between. I need to be more discipline to ensure that I followed the therapy closely for I risk the consequences. I suspect it was the apricots seeds that I took a few days ago that cause the change. Today I decided to put my own house in order, to try and follow as closely as possible. I am looking forward to tomorrow for the Homeopathy treatment that I will be receiving. Up to now, the battle has been status quo. Although this although is good news that the disease did not deteriorate but it cannot be sustained over long periods.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
5 November 2009
Doing any cancer therapy is very difficult. If you go conventional, many people (including myself) will be questioning. Doing alternative therapy is even worst. Suddenly you have so many "experts" even giving their own opinions, be it friends and family. I believe all of these people have one thing in mind, that is the your welfare at heart. They think what is best for you and many have read from books or that articles. Some articles are complementary and some are contradictory. I myself had read a number of books and this book says it's ok but not that book. Same goes for advices given by friends. I believe that no matter what advice have been given, as an interested party, we must understand first the nature of our own problem and then the solution being recommended. We must do some research. After all, a life is at stake. For cancer patients, we may not get second chances and our trial period is very short. A short two months could mean the end. I have no single solution either.
Many books on cancer attempt to explain how cancer is caused. For example Cherie Calbom in her book The Complete Cancer Cleanse, explains that cancer is a malignant growth that starts from a cell which escapes homeostatic control and reproduces at will and shows abnormal growth pattern. From there these cells compete with normal cells for nutrition and to some degree autonomous. As they grow, they invade surrounding tissues and formation of secondary growth - known as metastasis. Many of the conventional medicine therefore treat cancer as a local phenomena. Got tumor in kidney, cut the kidney. Got tumor in the breast, cut the breast. Got tumor in the liver, cut the liver. Got tumor in the lungs, oops... maybe cannot cut as the patient may die. Instead apply chemo over the lungs. But if you noticed, the cancer almost always come back with a vengeance. What does this tells you? Conventional medicine only treat the symptoms. Alternative treatment such as homeopathy, Gerson therapy and others looks at cancer from a different point of view. The cells are only the vehicle for the cancer to spread. Beneath the cells are enzymes that causes the cells to misbehave. How did these enzymes come about? So to handle the problem, you handle the enzymes, or the root cause of the problem. Cancer cells are all over the body. So when you get cancer, your body is telling you something that you ate in the past is not right and you are given an opportunity to correct it. For Dr Max Gerson, cancer is not a local but a general disease, caused chiefly by the poisoning of foodstuffs prepared by modern farming and food industry. Dr T. Colin Campbell in The China Study in 2005, which is a "survey of death rates for twelve different kinds of cancer for more than 2,400 counties and 880 million (96%) of their citizens" conducted jointly by Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine over the course of twenty years. The authors introduce and explain the conclusions of scientific studies, which have correlated animal-based diets with disease. The authors conclude that diets high in protein, particularly animal protein (including casein in cow's milk) are strongly linked to diseases such as heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes. In an interview by Mike Anderson in the educational DVD Healing Cancer From the Inside Out, Dr Campbell states that cancel cells can be turn on and off through diet. So now you know.
I have been keeping contact with my ex-colleagues, even those 30 years ago from my first job (though not every one of them). But my best ex-colleagues that I met was from HLA and MPI days. We may have our differences at work, but I believe if one is sincere in his work, there will always be true friends, friends that do not fore sake you. I have seen and felt it. Yesterday Peter Tai gave me a visit and brought me some financial help contributed by these ex-colleagues of mine. Earlier in the day I met my ex-CEO, Fook Wah during breakfast and he has also chip in to help. Words cannot express my gratitude and I would like to thank all you you sincerely. One way is for me to recover and then come and visit each of you to thank you personally as I have the list of names.
Although I have started my Gerson therapy for over 6 weeks now, I am not following the full therapy. As a result, I have to rely on additional therapy. For this, I am seeking treatment of Dr Ramakrishnan (http://www.drramakrishnan.com), a prominent Western trained doctor but uses homeopathic medicine to treat cancer and other advance diseases. Although based in India, Dr Rama travels around various regions of the world to offer his services. I am fortunate that he visits Singapore every two months and need not go to India to meet him and seek treatment. I will be meeting him this Saturday and this will start my alternative treatment and meet him once every two months for medication. Together with Gerson therapy, I believe this combination will be my road to recovery. The road is long and will take two years but then again, this is no ordinary sickness. That's why prevention is better than cure.
Many books on cancer attempt to explain how cancer is caused. For example Cherie Calbom in her book The Complete Cancer Cleanse, explains that cancer is a malignant growth that starts from a cell which escapes homeostatic control and reproduces at will and shows abnormal growth pattern. From there these cells compete with normal cells for nutrition and to some degree autonomous. As they grow, they invade surrounding tissues and formation of secondary growth - known as metastasis. Many of the conventional medicine therefore treat cancer as a local phenomena. Got tumor in kidney, cut the kidney. Got tumor in the breast, cut the breast. Got tumor in the liver, cut the liver. Got tumor in the lungs, oops... maybe cannot cut as the patient may die. Instead apply chemo over the lungs. But if you noticed, the cancer almost always come back with a vengeance. What does this tells you? Conventional medicine only treat the symptoms. Alternative treatment such as homeopathy, Gerson therapy and others looks at cancer from a different point of view. The cells are only the vehicle for the cancer to spread. Beneath the cells are enzymes that causes the cells to misbehave. How did these enzymes come about? So to handle the problem, you handle the enzymes, or the root cause of the problem. Cancer cells are all over the body. So when you get cancer, your body is telling you something that you ate in the past is not right and you are given an opportunity to correct it. For Dr Max Gerson, cancer is not a local but a general disease, caused chiefly by the poisoning of foodstuffs prepared by modern farming and food industry. Dr T. Colin Campbell in The China Study in 2005, which is a "survey of death rates for twelve different kinds of cancer for more than 2,400 counties and 880 million (96%) of their citizens" conducted jointly by Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine over the course of twenty years. The authors introduce and explain the conclusions of scientific studies, which have correlated animal-based diets with disease. The authors conclude that diets high in protein, particularly animal protein (including casein in cow's milk) are strongly linked to diseases such as heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes. In an interview by Mike Anderson in the educational DVD Healing Cancer From the Inside Out, Dr Campbell states that cancel cells can be turn on and off through diet. So now you know.
I have been keeping contact with my ex-colleagues, even those 30 years ago from my first job (though not every one of them). But my best ex-colleagues that I met was from HLA and MPI days. We may have our differences at work, but I believe if one is sincere in his work, there will always be true friends, friends that do not fore sake you. I have seen and felt it. Yesterday Peter Tai gave me a visit and brought me some financial help contributed by these ex-colleagues of mine. Earlier in the day I met my ex-CEO, Fook Wah during breakfast and he has also chip in to help. Words cannot express my gratitude and I would like to thank all you you sincerely. One way is for me to recover and then come and visit each of you to thank you personally as I have the list of names.
Although I have started my Gerson therapy for over 6 weeks now, I am not following the full therapy. As a result, I have to rely on additional therapy. For this, I am seeking treatment of Dr Ramakrishnan (http://www.drramakrishnan.com), a prominent Western trained doctor but uses homeopathic medicine to treat cancer and other advance diseases. Although based in India, Dr Rama travels around various regions of the world to offer his services. I am fortunate that he visits Singapore every two months and need not go to India to meet him and seek treatment. I will be meeting him this Saturday and this will start my alternative treatment and meet him once every two months for medication. Together with Gerson therapy, I believe this combination will be my road to recovery. The road is long and will take two years but then again, this is no ordinary sickness. That's why prevention is better than cure.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
4 November 2009
This morning, I was in town to run some errands (as in Monday as well). By the time I completed my work and came home, it was almost 11.30am. although I did bring some carrot+apple juices in a thermos flask, the quality of the juices deteriorates over time. For vegetable juices, you cannot even store them and must drink immediately upon juicing.
I have also been religiously doing my coffee enema. But of late, I noticed that salt taste around my mouth. I am not sure if this is the k-salt or the salts excreted during the coffee enema. My skin feels a little saltish like you just came out from swimming in the sea.
The last few days, I noticed some changes to my body. Every morning I wake up to bad breath. In addition I also experience some pain around my neck. There are also some little pain around my ribs and right arm pit. These are not very good signs. I then re-examined my diet to see what I could have done wrongly. The only change I made to my diet was when I took in apricot seeds from 24 October onwards. This recommendation was based on the book by Philip day, CANCER Why We're Still Dying To Know The Truth wherein it was recommended to take 6 seeds per hour with a daily quota of between 50-60 seeds. That was the only additional thing I did in my diet. Is this change giving me problems? Under the Gerson therapy, seeds and nuts are not allowed. This is because seeds and nuts contains too much oil and protein as well which is bad for cancer patients. The bad breath was due to the protein in the apricot seeds. The breath went away when I stopped eating the apricot seeds but I have been eating the seeds for almost 10 days. Dr Gerson is very particular of his therapy and even wrote in his book on page 217 "It is advisable not to start the treatment, if for any reason strict adherence to it is not possible". Even in many of the other therapies that are similar to Gerson, they do use different form of supplements. In my case, I had to modify the Gerson therapy not because I did not want to follow but some of the supplements are not obtainable in Malaysia. I am also sad to report that sometime ago, a lady that followed the Gerson therapy did not make it. According to my homeopathic practitioner, it did lengthened the lady's life but she could not be saved. He felt that she did not commence treatment of the cancer. JUST ON JUICING AND PLANT DIET IS NOT ENOUGH. The Gerson therapy comprises three crucial elements: coffee enema detox (to detox the whole body over a period of time), organic plan nutrition and diet (no salt, sugar and oil) and supplements (to kill off the cancer cells). Most of us are able to perform the first two but not the third due to the non availability of some of the supplements and this is the danger of going fully on the Gerson therapy. Since I am on a modified therapy, I need to vary it. For the supplements part, I tried to follow as closely as possible but I also supplemented with homeopathic treatment to deal with the tumor cells. Now that i have stopped eating the apricot seeds, I will monitor for changes.
The female cancer statistics for the years 1998-2002 for Singapore are as follows:
The above are major cases affecting women. As with the males, the higher your age group, the more at risk you are. So change you lifestyle. Go for prevention rather than detection. Save yourself now! The numbers in the tables are not correctly displayed and I will correct them later.
I have also been religiously doing my coffee enema. But of late, I noticed that salt taste around my mouth. I am not sure if this is the k-salt or the salts excreted during the coffee enema. My skin feels a little saltish like you just came out from swimming in the sea.
The last few days, I noticed some changes to my body. Every morning I wake up to bad breath. In addition I also experience some pain around my neck. There are also some little pain around my ribs and right arm pit. These are not very good signs. I then re-examined my diet to see what I could have done wrongly. The only change I made to my diet was when I took in apricot seeds from 24 October onwards. This recommendation was based on the book by Philip day, CANCER Why We're Still Dying To Know The Truth wherein it was recommended to take 6 seeds per hour with a daily quota of between 50-60 seeds. That was the only additional thing I did in my diet. Is this change giving me problems? Under the Gerson therapy, seeds and nuts are not allowed. This is because seeds and nuts contains too much oil and protein as well which is bad for cancer patients. The bad breath was due to the protein in the apricot seeds. The breath went away when I stopped eating the apricot seeds but I have been eating the seeds for almost 10 days. Dr Gerson is very particular of his therapy and even wrote in his book on page 217 "It is advisable not to start the treatment, if for any reason strict adherence to it is not possible". Even in many of the other therapies that are similar to Gerson, they do use different form of supplements. In my case, I had to modify the Gerson therapy not because I did not want to follow but some of the supplements are not obtainable in Malaysia. I am also sad to report that sometime ago, a lady that followed the Gerson therapy did not make it. According to my homeopathic practitioner, it did lengthened the lady's life but she could not be saved. He felt that she did not commence treatment of the cancer. JUST ON JUICING AND PLANT DIET IS NOT ENOUGH. The Gerson therapy comprises three crucial elements: coffee enema detox (to detox the whole body over a period of time), organic plan nutrition and diet (no salt, sugar and oil) and supplements (to kill off the cancer cells). Most of us are able to perform the first two but not the third due to the non availability of some of the supplements and this is the danger of going fully on the Gerson therapy. Since I am on a modified therapy, I need to vary it. For the supplements part, I tried to follow as closely as possible but I also supplemented with homeopathic treatment to deal with the tumor cells. Now that i have stopped eating the apricot seeds, I will monitor for changes.
The female cancer statistics for the years 1998-2002 for Singapore are as follows:
| Cancer | Total | 0-15yr | 16-35Yr | 36-55Yr | 56-75Yr | >75Yr |
| Colon | 1,840 | 3 | 57 | 489 | 929 | 361 |
| Bronchus | 1,597 | 1 | 40 | 344 | 815 | 397 |
| Female Breast | 5,500 | 2 | 655 | 3,393 | 1,252 | 197 |
| Cervix Uteri | 1,033 | 1 | 118 | 545 | 297 | 54 |
| Ovary | 1,055 | 24 | 197 | 545 | 254 | 35 |
The above are major cases affecting women. As with the males, the higher your age group, the more at risk you are. So change you lifestyle. Go for prevention rather than detection. Save yourself now! The numbers in the tables are not correctly displayed and I will correct them later.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
3 November 2009
I have met a number a number of ex-colleagues over the last three weeks and I am happy to note that I am blessed with caring friends. Not only have they taken their time off but also money to assist me in whatever way they can. Thank you to all. With some weight losses of about 8kgs, I think I am now healthier than before. The saying of you are what you eat is really true. Being lighter, I do not carry excess baggage. The body feels lighter and less fatigue. Food intake also becomes reduced. Many said my completion looks better than before. Yes, I do feel alive and in control and hope to keep that way.
When I was in Singapore to meet my oncologist and urologist, while waiting to meet them, i read some interesting cancer statistics which I like to share. National Cancer Center Singapore started keeping cancer statistics way back in 1968. The number of cases by age group of males from 1998 to 2002 is shown below:
As you can see from the above, the older you are the more likely you can get cancer. Some of the reasons could be that the general health condition of a older person declines, continuation of bad eating habits, declining immune system, not exercising and possibility the not taking care of general health. The older you are, the more you have to be careful. You can still make a difference today. Don't wait till it's too late. I will publish the female's statistics tomorrow.
Today I want to talk a little bit about the diet that I am having. Yesterday one of my ex-colleague Chin Aik called me and told me that he also did vegetable juicing but felt giddy possibly due to to lack of energy. He used a centrifugal juicer. As I have said previously, such juicers will kill the nutrients and enzymes and what's left is just the water and taste of the vegetables. Hence, the person will not get sufficient nutrients that his body needs. Furthermore, you cannot actually use the juicer to substitute for say lunch or dinner. This is because, if you do juice, you must ensure that you have sufficient calories, that means drinking juices on more regular intervals and also ensure that your juicer is not a centrifugal one. I alternate between carrot+apple and vegetable juices and take about 10 juices per day at hourly intervals except during lunch and dinner time. So ensure that you use the correct type of juicer and also sufficient calories. Also the centrifugal type will also contain the vegetable pulp which you will drink along. your stomach will be quite full and it will be difficult for you to juice and drink regularly. i only drink the juices and discard the fruit and vegetable pulp. Do it right, I believe you will have an extremely healthy body.
When I was in Singapore to meet my oncologist and urologist, while waiting to meet them, i read some interesting cancer statistics which I like to share. National Cancer Center Singapore started keeping cancer statistics way back in 1968. The number of cases by age group of males from 1998 to 2002 is shown below:
| Cancer | Total | 0-15yr | 16-35Yr | 36-55Yr | 56-75Yr | >75Yr |
| Colon | 1,840 | 3 | 57 | 489 | 929 | 361 |
| Nasopharynx | 1,079 | 1 | 216 | 647 | 215 | 1 |
| Stomach | 1,422 | 0 | 42 | 287 | 888 | 224 |
| Colon | 1,855 | 4 | 75 | 472 | 1,060 | 244 |
| Rectum | 1,415 | 1 | 39 | 476 | 748 | 151 |
| Liver | 1,515 | 11 | 52 | 479 | 822 | 151 |
| Bronchus | 3,571 | 0 | 49 | 724 | 1,683 | 516 |
| Prostate | 1,346 | 2 | 6 | 128 | 945 | 265 |
As you can see from the above, the older you are the more likely you can get cancer. Some of the reasons could be that the general health condition of a older person declines, continuation of bad eating habits, declining immune system, not exercising and possibility the not taking care of general health. The older you are, the more you have to be careful. You can still make a difference today. Don't wait till it's too late. I will publish the female's statistics tomorrow.
Today I want to talk a little bit about the diet that I am having. Yesterday one of my ex-colleague Chin Aik called me and told me that he also did vegetable juicing but felt giddy possibly due to to lack of energy. He used a centrifugal juicer. As I have said previously, such juicers will kill the nutrients and enzymes and what's left is just the water and taste of the vegetables. Hence, the person will not get sufficient nutrients that his body needs. Furthermore, you cannot actually use the juicer to substitute for say lunch or dinner. This is because, if you do juice, you must ensure that you have sufficient calories, that means drinking juices on more regular intervals and also ensure that your juicer is not a centrifugal one. I alternate between carrot+apple and vegetable juices and take about 10 juices per day at hourly intervals except during lunch and dinner time. So ensure that you use the correct type of juicer and also sufficient calories. Also the centrifugal type will also contain the vegetable pulp which you will drink along. your stomach will be quite full and it will be difficult for you to juice and drink regularly. i only drink the juices and discard the fruit and vegetable pulp. Do it right, I believe you will have an extremely healthy body.
Monday, November 2, 2009
2 November 2009
I talk about coffee enema sometime back and how good the benefits were. I left something important. Any treatment or advice given must not be taken wholesale. This is because each individual makeup is different. Our immune system, specific health and other things about our bodies are different. There is no general formula and those that professes that they do, I run as far away as I can.
The point is this. What is good for someone may not be good for you. Take any advice with care. Understand what you are taking in, understand your own system first. There is something about coffee enema that you should know. If you have done or still on chemotherapy, it's best to not to take coffee enema for if you do, the toxicity of the chemo will be released during the enema would possibly cause more damage to the host. If you have ulcerative colitis, then no coffee enema, only chamomile enemas to be taken. Colostomy patients - only two coffee enema per day. If you have diarrhoea, then no coffee enemas only chamomile ones and if you are doing the modified version of the Gerson therapy like me, then two to three coffee enemas only. After each coffee enema, remember to replace you body with fluids to that an electrolyte imbalance does not occur. Generally, three juices should be taken with every enema.
Now with the administrative stuff out of the way, I will share with you more about coffee enema. The general understanding is that coffee enema is to detox the colon. Well, we will see if this is the only thing it does. Some of my friends have asked me, if coffee can detox , why then not just drink it? I will answer that as we go. Well first off, coffee and tea is bad for the nervous system and for people with degenerating disease, it is best to avoid drinking it.
Coffee enema was thought to originate from the Manual of Discipline, recorded two thousand years ago, a third century Aramaic manuscript found in the secret archives of the Vatican and has been in use for general detoxification since the ancient times. During the I World War, Germany was surrounded by the Allies military forces and many imported materials are missing or short in supply. When soldiers were sent back from the front lines severely wounded, and in need of surgery there was usually just a bit of anesthesia available, just enough for the operation. when it wore off, the soldiers would cry in pain. Doctors would normally ordered plan enemas after operations but the nurses were desperate;y looking for something to help the soldiers. The Doctors would often drink coffee to keep themselves awake round the clock to help the patients. Some nurses thought since the coffee is doing good to the doctors, it may also do good to the patients and the nurses poured the leftover coffee into the enema buckets. The soldiers receiving the enemas reported that these were doing them good and their pain is much relieved.
During the 1920s, two medical doctors were experimenting the effect of caffeine when given rectally to rats. They observed that that caffeinated enemas stimulated the laboratory animals to open their bile ducts. Coffee enema detoxifies the liver and the liver is the main body for the regeneration of the metabolism for the transformation of food from intake to output. Dr Harold Manner, PhD, an alternative cancer treatment specialist describes how the body's cleansing mechanism works.
While the coffee enema is being retained in the gut for 12 to 15 minutes, all the body's blood passes through the liver every three minutes. The hemorrhoidal blood vessels dilate from the exposure of the caffeine; in turn, the liver's portal veins dilate too. Simultaneously, the bild ducts expand with blood, the bile flow increases, and smooth muscles of the internal organs relax. The blood serum and its many components are detoxified as this vital fluid passes through the individual's caffeinated liver. The quart of water being retained in the bowel stimulates the visceral nervous system, promoting peristalsis. the water delivered through the bowel dilutes the bile and causes even greater increase in bile flow. there is a flushing of toxic bile which is further affected by the body's enzymatic catalyst known to physiologists as glutahione S-transferase (GST). The GST is increased in the quantity in the small bowel by 700%, which is an excellent physiological effect, because this enzyme quenches free radicals. These quenched radicals leave the liver and gallbladder as bile salts flowing through the duodenum. the bile salts are carried away by perstalsis in the gut, traveling from small intestines, through the colon, and out in the rectum.
In 1990, an Austrian surgeon Dr Peter Lechner, MD and his collegaues reported the benefits of increasing quantities of the GST in the gut as follows:
- GST binds bilirun and its glucuronides so that they can be eliminated from the hepatocytes (liver cells).
- GST blocks and detoxifies carcinogens, which require oxidation or reduction to be activated. It catalytic function produces a protective effect against many chemical carcinogens.
- GST forms a covalent bond with nearly all highly electropilic (free radical) substances, which is the precondition of the elimination from the body. the intermediate products of potential liver poisons (hepatotoxic cytostatics) also belong in this category of forming free radical pathology.
Besides these doctors and researches, many others also investigated into the effects of coffee enema. Sufficient to say coffee enema has a very specific purpose in the treatment and reversal of degenerative disease. It lowers the quantity of blood serum toxins, literally cleaning the poisons out of the fluids nourishing normal cells. Introducing boiled coffee soluition into the colon will accomplish the following physiological effects:
- It dilutes oortal blood and, subsequently the bile.
- Theophylline and theobromine, major nutraceutical constituents of coffee, dilate blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut.
- the palmitates of coffee enhance glutathione S-transferase, which is responsible for the removal of many toxic radicals from the blood serum.
- The fluid of the enema itself stimulates the visceral nervous system, promoting peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from the duodenum out of the rectum.
- Because the stimulating enema is retained for up to 15 minutes, and because all the blood vessels in the body passes the liver every three minutes, coffee enemas represents a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall.
You can buy the coffee enema sets from Newlife International in SS2/24 (same row as Affin Bank) or from any of its distributors. You should also know that when you do coffee enema, you can experience flare-up (which means that the body is recovering) such as headache or too much gas in the stomach. This is expected and if you do and don't know what to do, please leave a message in this column and I will respond ASAP, not that I am an expert but somethings you can do to alleviate the situation. Before you do the first coffee enema of the day in the morning, make sure you empty you bowels first. Otherwise you will have a difficult time to hold for even 3 minutes.
The point is this. What is good for someone may not be good for you. Take any advice with care. Understand what you are taking in, understand your own system first. There is something about coffee enema that you should know. If you have done or still on chemotherapy, it's best to not to take coffee enema for if you do, the toxicity of the chemo will be released during the enema would possibly cause more damage to the host. If you have ulcerative colitis, then no coffee enema, only chamomile enemas to be taken. Colostomy patients - only two coffee enema per day. If you have diarrhoea, then no coffee enemas only chamomile ones and if you are doing the modified version of the Gerson therapy like me, then two to three coffee enemas only. After each coffee enema, remember to replace you body with fluids to that an electrolyte imbalance does not occur. Generally, three juices should be taken with every enema.
Now with the administrative stuff out of the way, I will share with you more about coffee enema. The general understanding is that coffee enema is to detox the colon. Well, we will see if this is the only thing it does. Some of my friends have asked me, if coffee can detox , why then not just drink it? I will answer that as we go. Well first off, coffee and tea is bad for the nervous system and for people with degenerating disease, it is best to avoid drinking it.
Coffee enema was thought to originate from the Manual of Discipline, recorded two thousand years ago, a third century Aramaic manuscript found in the secret archives of the Vatican and has been in use for general detoxification since the ancient times. During the I World War, Germany was surrounded by the Allies military forces and many imported materials are missing or short in supply. When soldiers were sent back from the front lines severely wounded, and in need of surgery there was usually just a bit of anesthesia available, just enough for the operation. when it wore off, the soldiers would cry in pain. Doctors would normally ordered plan enemas after operations but the nurses were desperate;y looking for something to help the soldiers. The Doctors would often drink coffee to keep themselves awake round the clock to help the patients. Some nurses thought since the coffee is doing good to the doctors, it may also do good to the patients and the nurses poured the leftover coffee into the enema buckets. The soldiers receiving the enemas reported that these were doing them good and their pain is much relieved.
During the 1920s, two medical doctors were experimenting the effect of caffeine when given rectally to rats. They observed that that caffeinated enemas stimulated the laboratory animals to open their bile ducts. Coffee enema detoxifies the liver and the liver is the main body for the regeneration of the metabolism for the transformation of food from intake to output. Dr Harold Manner, PhD, an alternative cancer treatment specialist describes how the body's cleansing mechanism works.
While the coffee enema is being retained in the gut for 12 to 15 minutes, all the body's blood passes through the liver every three minutes. The hemorrhoidal blood vessels dilate from the exposure of the caffeine; in turn, the liver's portal veins dilate too. Simultaneously, the bild ducts expand with blood, the bile flow increases, and smooth muscles of the internal organs relax. The blood serum and its many components are detoxified as this vital fluid passes through the individual's caffeinated liver. The quart of water being retained in the bowel stimulates the visceral nervous system, promoting peristalsis. the water delivered through the bowel dilutes the bile and causes even greater increase in bile flow. there is a flushing of toxic bile which is further affected by the body's enzymatic catalyst known to physiologists as glutahione S-transferase (GST). The GST is increased in the quantity in the small bowel by 700%, which is an excellent physiological effect, because this enzyme quenches free radicals. These quenched radicals leave the liver and gallbladder as bile salts flowing through the duodenum. the bile salts are carried away by perstalsis in the gut, traveling from small intestines, through the colon, and out in the rectum.
In 1990, an Austrian surgeon Dr Peter Lechner, MD and his collegaues reported the benefits of increasing quantities of the GST in the gut as follows:
- GST binds bilirun and its glucuronides so that they can be eliminated from the hepatocytes (liver cells).
- GST blocks and detoxifies carcinogens, which require oxidation or reduction to be activated. It catalytic function produces a protective effect against many chemical carcinogens.
- GST forms a covalent bond with nearly all highly electropilic (free radical) substances, which is the precondition of the elimination from the body. the intermediate products of potential liver poisons (hepatotoxic cytostatics) also belong in this category of forming free radical pathology.
Besides these doctors and researches, many others also investigated into the effects of coffee enema. Sufficient to say coffee enema has a very specific purpose in the treatment and reversal of degenerative disease. It lowers the quantity of blood serum toxins, literally cleaning the poisons out of the fluids nourishing normal cells. Introducing boiled coffee soluition into the colon will accomplish the following physiological effects:
- It dilutes oortal blood and, subsequently the bile.
- Theophylline and theobromine, major nutraceutical constituents of coffee, dilate blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut.
- the palmitates of coffee enhance glutathione S-transferase, which is responsible for the removal of many toxic radicals from the blood serum.
- The fluid of the enema itself stimulates the visceral nervous system, promoting peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from the duodenum out of the rectum.
- Because the stimulating enema is retained for up to 15 minutes, and because all the blood vessels in the body passes the liver every three minutes, coffee enemas represents a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall.
You can buy the coffee enema sets from Newlife International in SS2/24 (same row as Affin Bank) or from any of its distributors. You should also know that when you do coffee enema, you can experience flare-up (which means that the body is recovering) such as headache or too much gas in the stomach. This is expected and if you do and don't know what to do, please leave a message in this column and I will respond ASAP, not that I am an expert but somethings you can do to alleviate the situation. Before you do the first coffee enema of the day in the morning, make sure you empty you bowels first. Otherwise you will have a difficult time to hold for even 3 minutes.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1 November 2009
My Christian and Muslims friends have been praying very hard for me. So are my Buddhist friends that radiate metta (loving kindness) through their mediation to me. Not forgetting to all those who calls, SMS and writes me email. To all of you, thank you and please continue doing. Obviously its helping me one way or the other.
My vegetables for lunch and dinner are all steamed. One thing about steaming vegetable is that they are not so soft but if you like crunchy, then this is quite good. However, I discovered that after 2 weeks of steaming, I have had enough. So from tomorrow onwards, it will be boiled into soup. The vegetables will be softer and I get some soup at the same time. To get better taste, adding of tomatoes and celery would enhance the soup and vegetables. When the vegetables are ready, I normally add k-salt and when the vegetables cools down, a teaspoon of flax seed oil. Flex seed oil cannot be used in hot cooking and will be harmful then beneficial.
I have experimented with quite different types of vegetables and I can tell you certain vegetables are best not juiced. The following are a few:
1. Raddish (spicy taste)
2. Watercres (very bitter and a little spicy taste as well)
3. Spinach (very bitter taste)
4. Kai Choy (not sure of the English name. Very bitter)
5. Generally very green vegetables (leafy taste)
The following are what I used for juicing:
a. Fruits
a1. Green apple (preferred, because not so sweet), cost between RM15 to RM20 per kg
a2. Local Papaya (raw, 40% ripe and juiced with the skin), costs RM4 per kg
b. vegetables
b1. Carrots (Australian and larger in size than US), costs RM15 per kg
b2. Local lettuce (few varieties, slightly leafy in taste), costs RM10 per kg
b3. Broccoli (Australian), costs RM15 per kg
b4. Local Cauliflower, costs RM10 per kg
For juicing, I normally prepare at least 10 juices of 8oz (about 1 cup of 250ml) per day. No water is to be added, just pure juice. Two carrots + an apple would make 1 cup. However, for vegetables, you have to experiment a little to find how much much makes one cup. I alternate between drinking carrot+ apple and vegetables juice. This way, you will have 6 cups of carrot + apple juices and 4 vegetables juices per day. I alternate between carrot + apple and vegetable juicing. One thing to note about apples. You must ensure that the apple is free from wax and damage due to rough handling. So it is better to cut away damaged parts of the apples for it contains unfriendly bacteria. Same goes for the carrot and vegetables.
Today had been quite normal. I had the day planned well and retired a little early than usual. In between I also managed to catch the 5.30pm movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" with my whole family. The trick is to time the juicing well and also prepare dinner in advance. I had prepared ABC soup (3-4 tomatoes, 1 small potato, half onion, some celery, some carrots, some leeks) boil and then simmer for 2 hours in slow fire. Add k-salt and I cooked for both lunch and dinner at the same time. For lunch I had brown rice mee (not recommended because it contains sea salt and some wheat flour) and organic brown rice and boiled potatoes.
I feel my body is responding well to the diet although I did get a twitch around the ribs once in a while. I think this happens when I take in salt. The body weight has stabilised and I think overall, I am kind of have good feeling.
My vegetables for lunch and dinner are all steamed. One thing about steaming vegetable is that they are not so soft but if you like crunchy, then this is quite good. However, I discovered that after 2 weeks of steaming, I have had enough. So from tomorrow onwards, it will be boiled into soup. The vegetables will be softer and I get some soup at the same time. To get better taste, adding of tomatoes and celery would enhance the soup and vegetables. When the vegetables are ready, I normally add k-salt and when the vegetables cools down, a teaspoon of flax seed oil. Flex seed oil cannot be used in hot cooking and will be harmful then beneficial.
I have experimented with quite different types of vegetables and I can tell you certain vegetables are best not juiced. The following are a few:
1. Raddish (spicy taste)
2. Watercres (very bitter and a little spicy taste as well)
3. Spinach (very bitter taste)
4. Kai Choy (not sure of the English name. Very bitter)
5. Generally very green vegetables (leafy taste)
The following are what I used for juicing:
a. Fruits
a1. Green apple (preferred, because not so sweet), cost between RM15 to RM20 per kg
a2. Local Papaya (raw, 40% ripe and juiced with the skin), costs RM4 per kg
b. vegetables
b1. Carrots (Australian and larger in size than US), costs RM15 per kg
b2. Local lettuce (few varieties, slightly leafy in taste), costs RM10 per kg
b3. Broccoli (Australian), costs RM15 per kg
b4. Local Cauliflower, costs RM10 per kg
For juicing, I normally prepare at least 10 juices of 8oz (about 1 cup of 250ml) per day. No water is to be added, just pure juice. Two carrots + an apple would make 1 cup. However, for vegetables, you have to experiment a little to find how much much makes one cup. I alternate between drinking carrot+ apple and vegetables juice. This way, you will have 6 cups of carrot + apple juices and 4 vegetables juices per day. I alternate between carrot + apple and vegetable juicing. One thing to note about apples. You must ensure that the apple is free from wax and damage due to rough handling. So it is better to cut away damaged parts of the apples for it contains unfriendly bacteria. Same goes for the carrot and vegetables.
Today had been quite normal. I had the day planned well and retired a little early than usual. In between I also managed to catch the 5.30pm movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" with my whole family. The trick is to time the juicing well and also prepare dinner in advance. I had prepared ABC soup (3-4 tomatoes, 1 small potato, half onion, some celery, some carrots, some leeks) boil and then simmer for 2 hours in slow fire. Add k-salt and I cooked for both lunch and dinner at the same time. For lunch I had brown rice mee (not recommended because it contains sea salt and some wheat flour) and organic brown rice and boiled potatoes.
I feel my body is responding well to the diet although I did get a twitch around the ribs once in a while. I think this happens when I take in salt. The body weight has stabilised and I think overall, I am kind of have good feeling.
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