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.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
31 October 2009
How time files as we use to say. It's been 7 over weeks since this episode began for me. Two months is a short period for many but for cancer patients, they live in months, not years. So far, I am pleased to report that I have gain from strength to strength. My energy levels are up, my pain around the body has been reduced drastically and everyday I wake up to a fully charged day. I now work harder and longer than my working days because of the dietary regime that I have chosen. I believe this regime is also helping me to contain the problem inside me while waiting for my treatment to start next week. Yes, I have not been on any medication other than diet and supplements. Actually, that's good medicine because I only consume fresh organic vegetables and fruit juices throughout the day. Typically my food for the day:
0. 7.00am - Urine therapy
1. 7.10am - Breakfast (organic oats + raisins)
2. 7.30am, 9.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm & 9.30pm - fruit juice (carrot + green apple)
3. 1pm - lunch (organic brown rice + vegetables + sometimes ABC soup)
4. 8.30am, 11.30am, 4pm & 6pm - vegetable juices (lettuce + broccoli + red cabbage)
5. 6.30pm - dinner (same food as lunch)
6. 10am, 3pm & 8pm - coffee enema detox
7. 10pm - supper (same as breakfast)
8. In between - bananas, oranges, apricot seeds, corn, red apples, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and rye bread.
Total calories: Not less than 3,500 calories (average required is 2,500 calories). Would have consumed about 15 lbs of fruits and vegetables per day!
Despite under such eating regime, weight gain is minimal. For the first time in my life, eat and not have to worry about weight gain.
I hope what I am doing is going to sustain me like it did for the thousands that followed the Gerson (and other similar) therapy over the last 75 years all over the world. However I have also supplemented with some other therapies like urine therapy, Vitamin B17 and soon to be Homeopathy. All these are complementary. Although the tumor in my kidney is large, the main concern are the nodules in the lungs. That area will determine whether I live or not because it interfere with the breathing. These therapies will be ongoing for the next 2 years but the critical period is the next 6 months. The idea is to get the tumor cells to go into regression and then control it by diet for the rest of my life. Of course, after two years, the diet can changed to be a bit more flexible with possible intake of fish and eggs. Other stuffs are also possible but it will be like once in few months or better still to avoid all together.
0. 7.00am - Urine therapy
1. 7.10am - Breakfast (organic oats + raisins)
2. 7.30am, 9.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm & 9.30pm - fruit juice (carrot + green apple)
3. 1pm - lunch (organic brown rice + vegetables + sometimes ABC soup)
4. 8.30am, 11.30am, 4pm & 6pm - vegetable juices (lettuce + broccoli + red cabbage)
5. 6.30pm - dinner (same food as lunch)
6. 10am, 3pm & 8pm - coffee enema detox
7. 10pm - supper (same as breakfast)
8. In between - bananas, oranges, apricot seeds, corn, red apples, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and rye bread.
Total calories: Not less than 3,500 calories (average required is 2,500 calories). Would have consumed about 15 lbs of fruits and vegetables per day!
Despite under such eating regime, weight gain is minimal. For the first time in my life, eat and not have to worry about weight gain.
I hope what I am doing is going to sustain me like it did for the thousands that followed the Gerson (and other similar) therapy over the last 75 years all over the world. However I have also supplemented with some other therapies like urine therapy, Vitamin B17 and soon to be Homeopathy. All these are complementary. Although the tumor in my kidney is large, the main concern are the nodules in the lungs. That area will determine whether I live or not because it interfere with the breathing. These therapies will be ongoing for the next 2 years but the critical period is the next 6 months. The idea is to get the tumor cells to go into regression and then control it by diet for the rest of my life. Of course, after two years, the diet can changed to be a bit more flexible with possible intake of fish and eggs. Other stuffs are also possible but it will be like once in few months or better still to avoid all together.
Friday, October 30, 2009
30 October 2009
I had plenty of time to reflect on my way down to Singapore. I had taken a bus instead of a flight because the time taken would be about the same. Furthermore I had special dietary requirements that necessitated me to prepare in advance my food and water that I will take along the way. Going by plane will not be so convenient to bring my own food and water. I was thinking whether I am doing is right or wrong? Many of my friends have introduced me to alternative treatment despite having read my blog. Does it mean I am missing out on something that they see and I don't?
So far, I found a number of books has promoted using dietary and nutrition for cancer treatment. Besides Gerson, Phillip Day's CANCER Why We're Still Dying To Know The Truth and Cherie Calbom and John Calbom's The Complete Cancer Cleanse are a few examples. In all these books, they have testimonies of people having being cured after being told by their doctors that conventional medicine cannot be of any used further. My brother Jon, a Christian also emailed me a site (http://www.hacres.com/about/history.asp) that use a nutritional diet which they called Hallelujah diet, apparently based on the Bible for which a priests cured himself of cancer in 1976. Again there are also many testimonies that the diet work for them. Of course I am happy to find so many sources that seems to support that plant nutrition diet is one of the ways to handle cancer treatment. JC, my ex-MPI colleague asked me to check on this website http://cacare.com/. On the rightmost column, there was a caption that says "Ho, ho, ho --- give it a good clap. I love my doctors. They say I can eat anything I like. My cancer couldn't care less what I eat. Good news to the patients but bad news to their families because soon these people may end up all dead!" Of course, that statement was made according to the latest research done by Jeffrey Meyerhardt, M.D., MPH.(of Dana-Faber Cancer Institute - a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School), as reported in Journal of the American Medical Association, 15 August 2007.
As I have said, my friends and even my family members were worried when I told them I would give alternative medicine treatment as the first choice. Despite some people having experience cancer through their love ones, I can say none could fathom what is happening on the mind of the patient. Cancer patients are so lost in their own problems that they have no idea what to do and leave it to the "experts". Of course not many would take out a book to read and find out. After all there is no motivation and we continue to depend on this doctor or that doctor giving talks on cancer. With due respect to the doctors, they all learned from the same source, so what do you expect to hear? Still many expect me to say I take chemo. Anything that harm my immune system no matter how good it can kill the cancel cells, it also kills the host. I have also taken time to explain to many who does not understand why this and not that because they have not read alternatives but continue to feed themselves with allopathic(or conventional) news. Who knows more than the doctor? There is no doubt that the doctor is well read. Unfortunately there are also other things that the doctor is not educated in, so how can he say this or that does not work? But I think this debate is pointless and academic.
In my situation, the important thing for me is to believe in a system (after due investigation) that is workable for me. That believe must also be strong. In an experiment, a women was given a drug and was told the drug would cause her hair to fall off. She did lose all her hair but the drug she was given was not medication but just flour. Because the person believes in so much of the drug, she made it happen, the cure is in the mind. This is also called a placebo effect. Many good things happened during faith healing where the mind is very pure. Some people called it miracle. Whatever it is, it is good and that is the first step towards healing.
So far, I found a number of books has promoted using dietary and nutrition for cancer treatment. Besides Gerson, Phillip Day's CANCER Why We're Still Dying To Know The Truth and Cherie Calbom and John Calbom's The Complete Cancer Cleanse are a few examples. In all these books, they have testimonies of people having being cured after being told by their doctors that conventional medicine cannot be of any used further. My brother Jon, a Christian also emailed me a site (http://www.hacres.com/about/history.asp) that use a nutritional diet which they called Hallelujah diet, apparently based on the Bible for which a priests cured himself of cancer in 1976. Again there are also many testimonies that the diet work for them. Of course I am happy to find so many sources that seems to support that plant nutrition diet is one of the ways to handle cancer treatment. JC, my ex-MPI colleague asked me to check on this website http://cacare.com/. On the rightmost column, there was a caption that says "Ho, ho, ho --- give it a good clap. I love my doctors. They say I can eat anything I like. My cancer couldn't care less what I eat. Good news to the patients but bad news to their families because soon these people may end up all dead!" Of course, that statement was made according to the latest research done by Jeffrey Meyerhardt, M.D., MPH.(of Dana-Faber Cancer Institute - a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School), as reported in Journal of the American Medical Association, 15 August 2007.
As I have said, my friends and even my family members were worried when I told them I would give alternative medicine treatment as the first choice. Despite some people having experience cancer through their love ones, I can say none could fathom what is happening on the mind of the patient. Cancer patients are so lost in their own problems that they have no idea what to do and leave it to the "experts". Of course not many would take out a book to read and find out. After all there is no motivation and we continue to depend on this doctor or that doctor giving talks on cancer. With due respect to the doctors, they all learned from the same source, so what do you expect to hear? Still many expect me to say I take chemo. Anything that harm my immune system no matter how good it can kill the cancel cells, it also kills the host. I have also taken time to explain to many who does not understand why this and not that because they have not read alternatives but continue to feed themselves with allopathic(or conventional) news. Who knows more than the doctor? There is no doubt that the doctor is well read. Unfortunately there are also other things that the doctor is not educated in, so how can he say this or that does not work? But I think this debate is pointless and academic.
In my situation, the important thing for me is to believe in a system (after due investigation) that is workable for me. That believe must also be strong. In an experiment, a women was given a drug and was told the drug would cause her hair to fall off. She did lose all her hair but the drug she was given was not medication but just flour. Because the person believes in so much of the drug, she made it happen, the cure is in the mind. This is also called a placebo effect. Many good things happened during faith healing where the mind is very pure. Some people called it miracle. Whatever it is, it is good and that is the first step towards healing.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
29 October 2009
I believe there is definitely some differences between the specialist doctors in Malaysia and that compared to Singapore. Qualifications aside, the approach are also different. The doctors in Singapore are much more well trained in counseling and also open minded. Their offer more options and perhaps more importantly the willingness to be open and listen to the patient is thinking that makes the big difference. To cut the story short, I think the trip was quite fruitful as I did not expect to get much out of it. The recommendation of both the oncologist and urologist is to remove the right kidney that contains the major tumor. The rationale is that the body would have lesser burden to deal with the lungs and perhaps the liver as well. The urologist felt that even if the liver is infected, it would serve no purpose to remove any of the cancel cells in the liver as the lungs are already infected. (My KL urologist justified not having surgery in that cutting the liver is complicated and I could die from the surgery.) After surgery to consider treatment with expensive drug that I said earlier that costs S$9k (RM20+K) per month. Unfortunately this drug has to be taken a lifetime and it seems it has been proven effective within a 2 year period, most likely to mean that it prolong the patient's life by at least 2 years. Every treatment cycle last for 6 weeks with 2 weeks break before the next cycle begins. So for a two year treatment, it would cost approximately S$54K (RM133+K). After that, depends on your luck if the tumor goes into remission or not. While on the drug, it has the impact of restricting or perhaps reduce its growth. The downside is that besides the side effect of while skin and hair, the body always feels lethargic.
When you talk about cancer, many people have read and some even have indirect experience with it through their love ones. However, unless you have cancer, you will never have any idea what goes on in the mind and can never put yourselves in their shoes to imagine what it is like. Such people have very difficult decisions to make. The doctors coupled with some who insists that this treatment is better than that. Some of us are so lost in our own problems that we leave it to the "experts" to select the choice of treatment. All my friends who tells me about people they know and suffer from cancer had only one ending. Death! They normally go for conventional treatment and when that didn't work they went for alternative, most of them died within the year. There is a saying if you want a different outcome, then you must do things differently. That's why some of my friends and even my close family members at one point in time was so worried about my choice to go alternative treatment as the first choice. My Singapore oncologist after confirmation with the radiologist told me that my nodules in my lungs did not grow and in fact shrunk a little bit. This is good news and this is also why he recommended me to remove the tumor in my kidney. With lesser burden to deal by the immune system, there is good opportunity to contain or even shrink the nodules in the lungs. Whatever that I am doing now is the right because the oncologist had expected it to grow but it did not. My oncologist has advised to watch my weight to ensure I don't lose further weight and also get enough calories and not so much protein. My 11 cups of 8oz juices per day yields about 3,500 calories while the average intake per day is 2,500 (based on American standards). The Gerson is one therapy that allows me to eat whenever I am hungry, even in the middle of the night! They even recommend we leave apples and vegetables beside the bedside so that we can eat whenever we want.
Well I am not asking that you to follow what I am doing or that is the right thing to do. I am just sharing with you my experience and some of the thought process. You know, following the Gerson therapy is not easy. While you may have a maid to prepare the 11-13 juices a day (and boil the coffee) but you can't have your maid assist you to do the coffee enema (unless you are female). You see, I am naked when I do the coffee enema and it is very difficult to hold for even 5 mins. Also eating no salt, oil and sugar organic and vegetarian diet is not everyone's cup of tea. In fact it is still very difficult for me after one month. Since I am preparing it on my own, I am experimenting it with different vegetables to improve the natural flavour. That's why when things are so simple in principle, it is always so difficult to follow.
When you talk about cancer, many people have read and some even have indirect experience with it through their love ones. However, unless you have cancer, you will never have any idea what goes on in the mind and can never put yourselves in their shoes to imagine what it is like. Such people have very difficult decisions to make. The doctors coupled with some who insists that this treatment is better than that. Some of us are so lost in our own problems that we leave it to the "experts" to select the choice of treatment. All my friends who tells me about people they know and suffer from cancer had only one ending. Death! They normally go for conventional treatment and when that didn't work they went for alternative, most of them died within the year. There is a saying if you want a different outcome, then you must do things differently. That's why some of my friends and even my close family members at one point in time was so worried about my choice to go alternative treatment as the first choice. My Singapore oncologist after confirmation with the radiologist told me that my nodules in my lungs did not grow and in fact shrunk a little bit. This is good news and this is also why he recommended me to remove the tumor in my kidney. With lesser burden to deal by the immune system, there is good opportunity to contain or even shrink the nodules in the lungs. Whatever that I am doing now is the right because the oncologist had expected it to grow but it did not. My oncologist has advised to watch my weight to ensure I don't lose further weight and also get enough calories and not so much protein. My 11 cups of 8oz juices per day yields about 3,500 calories while the average intake per day is 2,500 (based on American standards). The Gerson is one therapy that allows me to eat whenever I am hungry, even in the middle of the night! They even recommend we leave apples and vegetables beside the bedside so that we can eat whenever we want.
Well I am not asking that you to follow what I am doing or that is the right thing to do. I am just sharing with you my experience and some of the thought process. You know, following the Gerson therapy is not easy. While you may have a maid to prepare the 11-13 juices a day (and boil the coffee) but you can't have your maid assist you to do the coffee enema (unless you are female). You see, I am naked when I do the coffee enema and it is very difficult to hold for even 5 mins. Also eating no salt, oil and sugar organic and vegetarian diet is not everyone's cup of tea. In fact it is still very difficult for me after one month. Since I am preparing it on my own, I am experimenting it with different vegetables to improve the natural flavour. That's why when things are so simple in principle, it is always so difficult to follow.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
28 October 2009
Today, I will be making a trip down to Singapore to see the oncologist tomorrow and then the urologist to get a second opinion based on the second scan results. Although I have made up my mind for the treatment, surgery is still an option if the tumor becomes life threatening. Further having alternative treatment, one must still be friendly with the oncologist as I will need to meet him periodically to review my progress through scans.
I want to share to you something about juicing that I have been talking about. Actually there are a number of therapy out there that recommends juicing but the Gerson is one of them that not only explain why juicing is important but also provide a how to guide. First off, just six months ago when my friend's wife was suggesting to get a juicer for RM1,600 I laugh her off. My juicer that I just bought costs only RM2,600. Why the sudden change? This is because of my ignorance. Why do you juice in the first place? You must learn to calculate the ROI on juicer to make it easier for you to decide. Is there a ROI? You bet. Let say you juice twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening and every time you use 2 apples. Say each apple costs RM0.75. You have four in the family. So your cost of juicing per day is RM12. My friend Nik asked me why is it that the moment his wife juice out the apple juice, it turned into light brown. By the way, that means the juice has just oxdised, lost all the nutrients and enzymes. You are just drinking water with an apple flavour. There is a trick you can do though. Put it some ice cubes that will slow down a little of the oxidation but the bulk of the nutrients and enzymes are gone. Basically RM12 wasted per day. Multiply it by 365 days and you will get RM4,389. With your juicer costing RM2,600 your ROI is just 217 days. Not only that, you body will get all the nutrients and enzymes that you want to help you lead a healthier life. So would you rather spend RM250 on those centrifugal juicer? A check on the Internet would reveal even more reasons.
This posting will be brief and I will try and update if I can get hold of a PC in Singapore.
I want to share to you something about juicing that I have been talking about. Actually there are a number of therapy out there that recommends juicing but the Gerson is one of them that not only explain why juicing is important but also provide a how to guide. First off, just six months ago when my friend's wife was suggesting to get a juicer for RM1,600 I laugh her off. My juicer that I just bought costs only RM2,600. Why the sudden change? This is because of my ignorance. Why do you juice in the first place? You must learn to calculate the ROI on juicer to make it easier for you to decide. Is there a ROI? You bet. Let say you juice twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening and every time you use 2 apples. Say each apple costs RM0.75. You have four in the family. So your cost of juicing per day is RM12. My friend Nik asked me why is it that the moment his wife juice out the apple juice, it turned into light brown. By the way, that means the juice has just oxdised, lost all the nutrients and enzymes. You are just drinking water with an apple flavour. There is a trick you can do though. Put it some ice cubes that will slow down a little of the oxidation but the bulk of the nutrients and enzymes are gone. Basically RM12 wasted per day. Multiply it by 365 days and you will get RM4,389. With your juicer costing RM2,600 your ROI is just 217 days. Not only that, you body will get all the nutrients and enzymes that you want to help you lead a healthier life. So would you rather spend RM250 on those centrifugal juicer? A check on the Internet would reveal even more reasons.
This posting will be brief and I will try and update if I can get hold of a PC in Singapore.
27 October 2009
I read with amusement in The Star on page N23 under "Bowel cancer commonest in Malaysian men" by Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Liow Tiong Lai. I would like to quote what Datuk said "Surgery remains the mainstay of treatment although there has been tremendous progress in terms of chemotherapy". I would like Datuk to publish statistics on how many were treated and how many saved so that we can see the progress on chemotherapy. Perhaps I would like to remind Datuk to check history and see what some others said in the past about cancer:
1. Cornelius Rhpads, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1953 - "We can look forward to something like a penicillin for cancer, and I hope within the next decade."
2. Reader's Digest article on chemotherapy, 1957 - "There is, for the first time, a scent of victory in the air."
3. American Cancer Society full page ad in the New York times, 1969 - "We are so close to a cure for cancer. We lack only the will and the kind of money... that went into putting a man on the moon."
4. Testimony to congress from the Director of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, 1969 - "...with a billion dollars for ten years we could lick cancer."
5. Lucien Isreal Conquering Cancer, 1978 - "The next few years will see the emergence of an arsenal of new drugs..."
6. Peter Greenwald, M.D. The National Cancer Institute, 1989 - "Cancer deaths can be cut in half by the year 2000."
7. Congressman Benjamin Cardin, 2006 - "We are going to lick cancer by 2015."
A study in US in 1985 shows that chemotherapy is somewhat effective in only 2 - 3% of cancer patients primarily on Hodgkin's disease, acute lymphocytle, leukemia, testicular cancer and chorlocarcinoma. Uric Abel, M.D. of the University of Heidelberg said in 1990 "For most of today's common solid cancers, the ones that cause 90% of the cancer deaths each year, chemotherapy has never proven to do any good at all." N.J. Temple, M.D. in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1991 said "Evidence has steadily accrued that [cancer therapy] is essentially a failure." Fortune Magazine reported in 2004 that "...the percentage of Americans dying from cancer is about the same [now] as in 1970... and [even] in 1950..."
Why am I making such an attack in today's blog? Yesterday I met up with an ex-colleague from my Saudi Arabian days who was back on holiday. After he found out my condition, he told me that his father-in-law died of stomach cancer; from stage 3 when it was first discovered and it was all over in 5 months. He himself had two removals of intestinal polyps, the last was done in 2006. Not only he did not changed his diet, he was also ignorant of the effects of chemo which has been brainwashed into all our minds. He felt that his father in law would lived a few months longer had he been on chemo. Hello, a few months more of what? Suffering and what quality of life? That poor chap is already bed ridden and needs to have morphine jab every 6 hours because the pain was so incredible that he could not eat and sleep. Now three more months so that the can enjoy more morphine jabs and die as a drug addict? I think you see my point. Please stop reading such nonsense from the mainstream media which are controlled by the pharmaceutical companies (under threat of advertisement boycott should the newspaper publishes something otherwise) and go to the Internet and search for more balanced information. You owe it to yourself and you love ones. Give them the chance they deserve. Now some statistics on a study of every randomized, controlled clinical trial from 1990 to 2004 in the US:
Source: Clinical Oncology (2004) 16: 549-560
The industry considers any success rate that is lower than 30% as not successful. The last two cancers only form 2% of total cancers. Even the majority of oncologist surveyed said they will not take chemo on themselves or their love ones had cancer. So you decide on whether progress has been made in treatment of cancer or not.
I am appealing to all of you, please change your diet before it is too late. Two of my friends asked me how come I got cancer. Actually everyone lives with cancer. The average person gets about 4 billion cancer cells before it can be detected. It takes cancer cells 10 years to grows before being detected. So it does not mean that you have no problem now, you are cancer free. The best medicine is prevention! Getting cancer is not the big problem. Dying of cancer is. It is one of the most painful and the torture can last for a few months.
Now to some cancer prevention which can be easily done. Remember apricot seeds (vitamin B17)? Continue to take them (8 - 10 seeds a day). The next cancer prevention recipe was taken from my wife's email sent by her friend. Wash and partly dry several medium-size papaya leaves. Cut them up like cabbage and place them in a saucepan with 2 quarts/litres of water. Bring the water and leaves to the boil and simmer without a lid until the water is reduced by half. Strain the liquid and bottle in glass containers. The concentrate will keep in the refrigerator for three to four days. If it becomes cloudy, it should be discarded. The recommended dosage in the original recipe is 3 Tablespoons/ 50ml three times a day. If you take this tonic, it must not be used with any kind of thyroid stimulators (e.g.: KC-X) or with CoQ10 (coenzyme Q10).
1. Cornelius Rhpads, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1953 - "We can look forward to something like a penicillin for cancer, and I hope within the next decade."
2. Reader's Digest article on chemotherapy, 1957 - "There is, for the first time, a scent of victory in the air."
3. American Cancer Society full page ad in the New York times, 1969 - "We are so close to a cure for cancer. We lack only the will and the kind of money... that went into putting a man on the moon."
4. Testimony to congress from the Director of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, 1969 - "...with a billion dollars for ten years we could lick cancer."
5. Lucien Isreal Conquering Cancer, 1978 - "The next few years will see the emergence of an arsenal of new drugs..."
6. Peter Greenwald, M.D. The National Cancer Institute, 1989 - "Cancer deaths can be cut in half by the year 2000."
7. Congressman Benjamin Cardin, 2006 - "We are going to lick cancer by 2015."
A study in US in 1985 shows that chemotherapy is somewhat effective in only 2 - 3% of cancer patients primarily on Hodgkin's disease, acute lymphocytle, leukemia, testicular cancer and chorlocarcinoma. Uric Abel, M.D. of the University of Heidelberg said in 1990 "For most of today's common solid cancers, the ones that cause 90% of the cancer deaths each year, chemotherapy has never proven to do any good at all." N.J. Temple, M.D. in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1991 said "Evidence has steadily accrued that [cancer therapy] is essentially a failure." Fortune Magazine reported in 2004 that "...the percentage of Americans dying from cancer is about the same [now] as in 1970... and [even] in 1950..."
Why am I making such an attack in today's blog? Yesterday I met up with an ex-colleague from my Saudi Arabian days who was back on holiday. After he found out my condition, he told me that his father-in-law died of stomach cancer; from stage 3 when it was first discovered and it was all over in 5 months. He himself had two removals of intestinal polyps, the last was done in 2006. Not only he did not changed his diet, he was also ignorant of the effects of chemo which has been brainwashed into all our minds. He felt that his father in law would lived a few months longer had he been on chemo. Hello, a few months more of what? Suffering and what quality of life? That poor chap is already bed ridden and needs to have morphine jab every 6 hours because the pain was so incredible that he could not eat and sleep. Now three more months so that the can enjoy more morphine jabs and die as a drug addict? I think you see my point. Please stop reading such nonsense from the mainstream media which are controlled by the pharmaceutical companies (under threat of advertisement boycott should the newspaper publishes something otherwise) and go to the Internet and search for more balanced information. You owe it to yourself and you love ones. Give them the chance they deserve. Now some statistics on a study of every randomized, controlled clinical trial from 1990 to 2004 in the US:
| Cancer | Percent 5-year Survival |
| | |
| Bladder | 00.0 |
| Kidney | 00.0 |
| Melanoma | 00.0 |
| Multiple myeloma | 00.0 |
| Pancreas | 00.0 |
| Prostate | 00.0 |
| Soft tissue sarcoma | 00.0 |
| Unknown primary site | 00.0 |
| Uterus | 00.1 |
| Stomach | 00.7 |
| Colon | 01.0 |
| Breast | 01.4 |
| Head & Neck | 01.9 |
| Lung | 02.0 |
| Rectum | 03.4 |
| Brain | 03.7 |
| Esophagus | 04.9 |
| Ovary | 08.9 |
| Non-Hodgkin's lymp | 10.5 |
| Cervix | 12.0 |
| Testis | 37.7 |
| Hodgkin's disease | 43.0 |
The industry considers any success rate that is lower than 30% as not successful. The last two cancers only form 2% of total cancers. Even the majority of oncologist surveyed said they will not take chemo on themselves or their love ones had cancer. So you decide on whether progress has been made in treatment of cancer or not.
I am appealing to all of you, please change your diet before it is too late. Two of my friends asked me how come I got cancer. Actually everyone lives with cancer. The average person gets about 4 billion cancer cells before it can be detected. It takes cancer cells 10 years to grows before being detected. So it does not mean that you have no problem now, you are cancer free. The best medicine is prevention! Getting cancer is not the big problem. Dying of cancer is. It is one of the most painful and the torture can last for a few months.
Now to some cancer prevention which can be easily done. Remember apricot seeds (vitamin B17)? Continue to take them (8 - 10 seeds a day). The next cancer prevention recipe was taken from my wife's email sent by her friend. Wash and partly dry several medium-size papaya leaves. Cut them up like cabbage and place them in a saucepan with 2 quarts/litres of water. Bring the water and leaves to the boil and simmer without a lid until the water is reduced by half. Strain the liquid and bottle in glass containers. The concentrate will keep in the refrigerator for three to four days. If it becomes cloudy, it should be discarded. The recommended dosage in the original recipe is 3 Tablespoons/ 50ml three times a day. If you take this tonic, it must not be used with any kind of thyroid stimulators (e.g.: KC-X) or with CoQ10 (coenzyme Q10).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)