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Over 625,000 people are expected to die from cancer in America in 2003, and yet, in spite of supposedly the brightest and the best walking the corridors of our leading cancer research institutions, armed with the latest technology and limitless budgets, the incidence rates for cancer continue to rise.

Breast cancer serves as a poignant yardstick. This type of malignancy is now the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 35 and 54. In 1971, a woman's lifetime risk of contracting breast cancer was 1 in 14. Today it is 1 in 8. Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, No. 571 reports:

"More American women have died of breast cancer in the past two decades than all the Americans killed in World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War and Vietnam War combined."

Perhaps the most amazing thing is, most physicians in the world today have absolutely no idea what cancer is, or even how it is contracted. Some believe cancer is age-related. Others believe the cause is parasites. Others yet examine the environmental causal link.

Definition

Cancer can be described as a healing process that has not terminated upon completion of its task. Damage occurs to the body via a number of modalities (e.g. physical blows, viruses, bacteria/fungal/yeast proliferation, radiation, toxins, hormonal imbalances, etc.), and the body attempts to heal the damage. If the healing process replicates damaged cells and does not terminate properly due to malnutrition and certain other causations, the end result will be an ongoing proliferation of mutated healing trophoblastic material - a tumour.

The current of injury

Dr Arthur Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology talks about the healing process in the context of what happens after a heart attack. He writes:

"Many different cardiac abnormalities, especially those that damage the heart muscle itself, often cause part of the heart to remain partially or totally depolarised all the time. When this occurs, current flows between the pathologically depolarised and the normally polarised areas. This is called the current of injury. Note especially that the injured part of the heart is negative, because it is the part that is depolarised while the remainder is positive."

Canadian cancer researcher Ron Gdanski comments also on the current of injury: "…A current of injury is used to polarise the depolarised tissue. The injured part is negative. The current of injury flows from the healthy or 'polarised' to the injured or negative or depolarised area. The current of injury is actually an increased region of measurable ionic activity that exists over the injury, but does not flow elsewhere. The current of injury stays on until the injury is repaired."

The current of injury has been studied extensively and has been manipulated to grow tissue, as Dr Robert Becker describes in his The Body Electric. At the heart of Gdanski's research is the revelation that "…injury disrupts the ionic field of cell-wall membranes, turns on the current of injury, and repair of injury turns it off unless an infection [or ongoing damage to the body] disrupts the healing process."

Years before, Professor John Beard and US biochemist Ernst T Krebs Jr. wrote about how this healing process organises the regeneration of ordered tissue in the same way that cells replicate as a child grows. They discovered the role embryonic stem cells play in the formation of trophoblastic cells which are employed by the body in pregnancy. But it is in their additional role as 'healers' that the importance and potential cancer hazards of stem cells become known. These fibroblasts or neoblasts, as they are known, are primarily employed to repair trauma sites. These cells can transform themselves into any body-part: bone material, blood, tissue or hair depending on the particular morphogenetic stimulus they receive.

When our bodies are damaged in any way, estrogen stimulates the production of these cells for healing the troubled area in the same way they form trophoblast for pregnancy. Usually the cessation of the current of injury terminates this healing process once it is complete. Pancreatic enzymes assist in the stripping down of the protective, cellular coating of healing cells, allowing the immune system, together with other nutrients, such as vitamin B17, to kill the cells. In the event that this process does not terminate satisfactorily, cancer tumours are the result of the ongoing 'rogue' healing process. Notice that the location of resultant cancer or trophoblastic mass is specific to the original area of damage. This too becomes important as we proceed.

For many years, cancer tumours were viewed by specialists as being 'foreign' to the body. In fact, the opposite can be said to be true, according to Beard and Krebs. They were curious as to why cancer existed at all if the immune system was there to repel any foreign invasion. They concluded that the immune system must not be viewing cancer as a foreign threat if the cancer commenced its existence as a healing process natural and familiar to the body.

So here we have three parts to the picture that have to be in place for cancer to initiate:

• Cancer commences with an injury, howsoever caused
• Cancer is the result of normal cellular healing processes that continue in a rogue process due to the fact that the cells being replicated are damaged and do not knit together properly. Thus the repaired tissue is not polarised and so the current of injury does not 'switch off'
• Due to our diets, which generally contain processed foods, cooked to destruction, lacking essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other nutritional co-factors, our immune system is depressed and ineffectual at halting this cellular rogue healing

How parasites cause cancer

Aside from toxins, malnutrition and other more obvious causes for cancer, one key area that is bound up with the cancer enigma is that of parasites.

An impressive body of scientific literature has built steadily over the years demonstrating the damage fungi and yeasts, such as Candida albicans, can wreak in the body. If we return to examine Professor John Beard's assertion that cancer is a healing process that has not terminated upon completion of its task, then the case against rogue critters in the body is hugely compelling.

Ron Gdanski tells us: "Cancers initiate in membrane walls of storage vessels and ducts, such as the lungs, colon, breast, prostate, etc. due to injury. If cells that multiply to repair the injury are infected with bacteria or fungi, the microbes within the cell produce cell-wall proteins and enzymes that mutate the new cell walls. These mutated cells are rejected like a skin graft that does not take. For each normal cell that multiplies, we end up with two cancer cells and one less normal cell. That's how cancer consumes tissue.

Cancer is the continuous multiplication, microbial mutation, and bodily rejection of cells produced normally by the body to repair an injury."

Gdanski is a passionate and extremely articulate advocate of the school of thought that implicates the rabid consumption of sugars and refined, high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods that unbalance the crucial internal environment of our bodies causing usually beneficial microbes, such as Candida, to begin their monstrous breakouts. All of my research corroborates the startling assertion that processed sugar and high-glycaemic foods that break down into glucose in the body are one of the primary causes. How they do this is another astonishing fact in itself.

Yeasts like Candida are single-cell fungi which multiply prolifically when fed organically bound carbon, one essential element that characterises all dead and living matter. Fungi and yeasts are like the hyenas of the veld. They are scavengers. Abundant carbon compounds like sugars are their favourite. The more sugary foods we eat, the more these life-forms feast within us. The symptoms vary from the embarrassing to the annoying to the downright fatal:

Symptoms of parasitic infection

Poor immune function, lack of sex drive, candidiasis, toe-nail fungus, chronic bloating and gas, rectal itching, mouth sores (white patches on the tongue or inside the cheeks), tingling, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), numbness or burning sensations, chronic fatigue (ME), allergies, food sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, thrush, chronic vaginal yeast infections and discharges (usually thick, white), rashes and itching around male genitalia, bladder infections, intestinal cramps, cravings for sugar-rich foods and sweets, cravings for foods rich in yeast and carbohydrates.

The connection between 
parasites and cancer

Yeasts are well known to ferment sugar into alcohol in the absence of oxygen. Breweries depend on it! If we fail to exercise or eat oxygen-rich, organic fruits and vegetables, we are inviting the dangerous and unwelcome proliferation of parasites like Candida by providing them with an oxygen-poor, fermentation-rich breeding ground in which to thrive. The Columbia Encyclopaedia states:

"Their bodies [fungi] consist of slender, cottony filaments called hyphae; a mass of hyphae is called a mycelium. The mycelium carries on all the processes necessary for the life of the organism, including in most species, that of sexual reproduction."

Candida and other trouble-makers have a powerful ability to hurt our bodies, their thread-like mycelia (roots) penetrating and invading the walls of human cells to take root and feed. They discharge their mycotoxin waste products into the cells they infect, which in turn switches on the current of injury that characterises the healing process. If this multiplication of infected cells proceeds in the right oxygen-poor environment, we get rejected, mutated cells which do not knit together correctly, which in turn means the current of injury does not shut down satisfactorily. These rogue (cancer) cells have wall membranes which contain chitin, a protein found abundantly in the skins of fungi, such as mushrooms. This on-going rogue healing process is of course fuelled by the sugary diet of the patient which, in a continuing acidic, anaerobic environment, produces alcohol waste products through fermentation, which in turn fuels the cancer fermentation process further.

Here we have the dynamic connection between parasites/ yeasts/fungi and cancer. Blood clots, stagnant lymph fluids, injuries that won't heal and benign tumours are all prime spots where blood sugars collect and become trapped to provide fodder for opportunistic critters. As they thrive and multiply, fuelled by sugary diets, they damage a whole spread of cells by penetrating their cells walls with their root-like mycelia, depositing their mycotoxins. This in turn triggers the current of injury and the multiplication of stem cells, which replicate these infected cells into tumours, and so on. Notice that because the rogue cells are rejected by the body, the current of injury doesn't switch off because the healing isn't complete, since the new cells are not properly polarised. The result is an on-going proliferation of these cancerous cells.

As these fungi and yeasts thrive, along with the tumours they provoke, they secrete enzymes of their own to depress the immune system of the host and rob surrounding cells of their oxygen, thus expanding the ideal fermentation environment, enabling them to invade and corrupt more cells. Gdanski and others confirm that a single cell mutation alone won't trigger cancer: "A colony of fermenting cells must be formed before a tumour can develop. A quantity of trapped blood in a storage vessel or duct feeds fungi and bacteria, and provides the initial toxins that alter the environment and metabolism of adjacent cells allowing cancer to start."

Gdanski further believes that cancer orthodoxy's dogged assertions that defective genes are the cause of cancer are woefully wide of the mark, since they fail to explain:

• Why the natural process for repair of damaged skin, or the natural growth process itself, starts replication that ends up as cancer
• Why the essential difference between normal cells and cancer cells is how well or poorly they knit together to form new membranes
• Why we do not have cancer of the heart or arteries
• Why up to 96% of cancers occur in cells adjacent to storage vessels and ducts, such as lung, breast, colon and prostate
• Why cancer tumours develop in fast-growing youngsters
• How spontaneous remissions often occur with a change in lifestyle
• Why tumour membrane tissue (chitin) resembles the material that forms the outer membrane of mushrooms (a fungus)

The scientific literature is tantalisingly replete with information on the sugar-yeast-cancer connection. In my book Health Wars, we have an entire chapter dedicated to the dozens of serious health problems excess sugars cause in the body, all studied and annotated by medical science. Interestingly, the few drugs that have worked well with cancer all have one key fact in common: they are anti-fungals and anti-mycotoxic. Nobel laureate Otto Warburg's assertion that cancer only thrives in an environment that has had at least a 35% oxygen reduction also corroborates the precise environment parasites require to thrive. Provocative also is the fact that ALL cancer patients have a parasite problem.

B17 metabolic therapy

The most effective anti-cancer strategy
During the past sixty years, doctors around the world have worked tirelessly, and often under tremendous intimidation from their own medical establishment, to build a nutritional arsenal both to prevent and cure cancer. During my years of research into the disease, I have seen various forms of the following regimen applied by the most successful cancer physicians. The conviction underpinning vitamin B17 metabolic therapy states that:

• Conventional drug and radiation treatments are not only NOT extending life in the major, epithelial cancers, they often kill the patient after wrecking the immune system
• First, the doctor must stop the damage being done to the patient, which has resulted in the cancer (smoking, chemicals, sugar-rich foods, drugs, chemo, etc.)
• Second, the bowel system and associated organs must be cleansed in order to expel toxins and debris efficiently. The patient must be fed a special high-fibre, raw diet, along with certain herbs, aimed at killing yeast, fungi and harmful bacteria, while promoting probiotics (friendlies). This diet must also alkalise the patient's internal environment, thus rendering it hostile to fermentation processes upon which cancer depends to thrive
• Third, the patient is simultaneously fed superfoods and supplements that promote high enzyme activity in the body to chew off the protein coating of trophoblastic (cancer) cells
• Fourth, key nutrients are introduced into the body, such as vitamins B17, C complex and A-emulsion which have a known and proven anti-tumoural, anti-fungal, anti-mycotoxic effect.

Vitamin B17 - nature's miracle food

One of the most studied nutrients of recent times, vitamin B17 is covered extensively in my book, Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth as well as The B17 Metabolic Therapy handbook. This nutrient is contained in foods known as nitrilosides, variously comprising the seeds of the common fruits (excluding European citrus), pasture foods, and many vegetables and pulses. However, it is within the seeds of the humble apricot that the highest concentrations of this nutrient have thus far been found, bound together with enzymes and minerals in their whole-food forms.

Apricot kernels are a favourite of a number of agrarian peoples, such as the Hunzas, Abkhasians and Karakorum, who have no record of cancer in their isolated state. Other peoples around the world consume different sources of vitamin B17 and have similar records of success. According to scientists who have studied and published on the nutrient, B17 must work in conjunction with enzymes, vitamins C, A & E to achieve a targeted anti-cancer mission in the body. It cannot, and does not work alone.

Vitamin B17 is a stable, chemically inert and non-toxic molecule when taken as food or as a refined pharmaceutical in appropriate quantities (Laetrile/amygdalin). However scientists discovered the compound reacts to the enzyme beta-glucosidase, located in huge quantities at the site of cancerous tumours, but not to any degree anywhere else in the body. In this reaction, beta-glucosidase manufactures two potent poisons at the cancer cell site: hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde (an analgesic/painkiller), stabilised with two molecules of glucose. These two poisons, produced in minute quantities at the cancer cell site, combine synergistically to produce a super-poison many times more deadly than either substance in isolation. The cancer cell meets its chemical death at the hands of vitamin B17's selective toxicity.

Scientists studying B17 were aware that indigenous peoples consuming large quantities of nitrilosidic foods were not experiencing any harmful side-effects from this reaction. On the contrary, their lives were characterised by abundant good health and great longevity. Later they found that healthy tissue broke down excess levels of B17 into two nutritious by-products, one of which, sodium thiocyanate, reacts with the precursor hydroxycobalamin in the liver to form the other well known nutrient with the cyanide radical: vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin).

Take action

So let's put it all together and see what we have. Now follows a more expanded bullet-point breakdown of what B17 metabolic therapy is, and the various components doctors use to achieve specific goals within your body.

Preventing cancer

1. DIET: COMMENCE THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT DIETARY REGIMEN
2. DIET: Ensure the majority of your food is whole, organic, high fibre and eaten raw. Remove grains where possible from the diet
3. DIET: Small meals, consumed often
4. DIET: Reduce meat and eliminate dairy intake
5. DIET: Cut out ingestion of sucrose and refined, high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods
6. DIET: Drink 4 pints/2 litres of clean, fresh water each day
7. DIET: Balance any hormonal irregularities - cut out unfermented soy products (soy milk, soy 'meats', etc.)
8. DETOXIFICATION: Remove all toxins and damage triggers from your environment and lifestyle (harmful personal and household products, chemicals, smoking, drugs, SUGAR)
9. DETOXIFICATION: Detoxify your body and kill fungi, yeasts and parasites
10. RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM
11. RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: Nutritional supplementation, including minerals, vitamins, including C complex, B-groups, including B17 (usually taken as apricot kernels), essential fats (the correct omega 3:6 ratio)
12. PREVENTION: Avoid, where possible, drugs, radiation scans and intrusive 'diagnostic' testing
13. PREVENTION: Regular exercise and rest
14. PREVENTION: Be happy and stress-free

Combating cancer - B17 metabolic therapy

1. SUPERVISION: Seek a qualified health practitioner who uses the nutritional approach to cancer
2. DIET: COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN and alkalise your body's internal environment. Cancer thrives on an anaerobic environment which lacks oxygen and becomes a haven for fermentation and the proliferation of bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Alkali solutions prevent these problems because they attract large amounts of oxygen
3. DIET: The main part of your diet will be fresh, organic vegetables, pulses, legumes, nuts and seeds eaten raw. A little broiled fish is OK
4. DIET: Small meals, consumed five to six times a day to even out blood sugar
5. DIET: Drink at least four pints of clean, still mineral water each day (not out of plastic bottles and avoid distilled water). Avoid all alcoholic drinks, including beer (which contains sugar, yeast, grains and alcohol)
6. DETOXIFICATION: Eliminate ALL processed foods, meats, dairy products, sugar, grains, etc. These are often contaminated with chemicals and fungi
7. DETOXIFICATION: Absolutely cut out sucrose, aspartame, saccharin and high-glycaemic carbohydrate foods (foods that break down rapidly into glucose, such as bread, pastas, potatoes, rice, bakery products). Also cut out high-glycaemic fruits such as grapes, raspberries, strawberries, mangoes, etc. Apples and pears in moderation (including their seeds) are OK
8. DETOXIFICATION: Remove all toxic personal care and household products and damage triggers from your environment and lifestyle. Don't smoke and avoid second-hand smoke
9. DETOXIFICATION: Conduct a two-week bowel cleanse with magnesium oxide. Cancer patients should also consider colon hydrotherapy afterwards for extra internal cleanliness
10. ANTI-PARASITE: Take fresh sticks of cinnamon (not the processed supermarket dust), and grind them down in a coffee grinder. Take a teaspoon of this ground cinnamon powder, mixed in a glass of warm water, two/three times a day
11. ANTI-PARASITE: Take wormwood capsules, one four times a day
12. ANTI-PARASITE: Enteric-coated capsules of the following oils are all effective antifungals: oregano, thyme, peppermint, rosemary, garlic
13. ANTI-PARASITE: Colloidal silver, as directed
14. ANTI-PARASITE: Brew Essiac tea properly (see A Guide to Nutritional Supplements) and drink 2oz or more of it 4 times a day
15. ANTI-PARASITE: Take a parasite purge formula (this should contain items such as black walnut, clove, ginger root, anise seed, pau d'arco, peppermint and fennel)
16. ANTI-PARASITE: L-arginine (as directed) to assist in the removal of ammonia waste products
17. ANTI-PARASITE: Take 3-5 grams of water soluble fibre such as psyllium husks or guar gum to help flush out the bowel as the killing proceeds apace. THE ANTI-CANDIDA
18. DIETARY REGIMEN will also provide you with haystacks full of bowel-scraping fibre to help broom your innards clean
19. ANTI-CANCER: Take an enzyme supplement away from food. This should contain, but not be limited to, bromelain (from pineapples), papain (papayas), thymus, trypsin, chymotrypsin, lipase, amylase, etc.
20. ANTI-CANCER: Apricot kernels, 7 g per day, spread throughout the day, for the first few days, increasing as directed to a maximum of 28 g per day (ideal for a 200 lb male). Those with lower bodyweights, (including children and pets), should reduce intakes accordingly (see A Guide to Nutritional Supplements)
21. ANTI-CANCER: 5-10 g vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids) per day. 5 grams amounts to approximately one heaped teaspoon of C complex powder. Take one teaspoon in a bland juice, such as pear, every morning and another at night
22. COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring:
23. Selenium, 200 mcg per day
24. A priobiotic supplement to install beneficial flora
25. BOOSTING IMMUNITY: Astragalus and echinacea for the immune system, as directed
25. PREVENTION: Balance any hormonal irregularities with natural progesterone cream - cut out unfermented soy products (soy 'milk', soy 'meat', etc.)
26. PREVENTION: Indulge in regular and vigorous exercise (unless health problems prevent this) to exercise and pump the lymphatic system, rid the body of waste products and draw oxygen into the body
27. PREVENTION: Avoid behavioural and lifestyle problems that promote stress
28. PREVENTION: Get plenty of regular rest
29. PREVENTION: Avoid radiation scans and intrusive 'diagnostic' testing
29. PREVENTION: The patient may consider absolutely avoiding conventional radiation, chemotherapy and other toxic treatments unless life-threatening tumours require shrinking in a hurry
30. TIP: Consider surgery only if tumours are life-threatening
31. TIP: Find out as much as you can about cancer. Confront it, don't hide from it
32. TIP: Use spiritual contemplation and prayer to focus your mind into taking action consistently
33. TIP: Never give up, no matter how badly off you think you are. Go for it, one day at a time. Remember, "The secret of a long life is to keep breathing."

Herxheimer's reaction

During the detoxification and parasite-killing process, the body may become clogged with catabolic debris, swords, shields, ammunition, dead beasties and their resultant mycotoxins, including ammonia. You may feel ill as your symptoms apparently worsen. This is known as Herxheimer's reaction, after the venerable German dermatologist of the same name. It is temporary and will be experienced in proportion to the vehemence with which you apply your attack strategies. Symptoms may be alleviated by commencing the anti-Candida diet a full two weeks prior to starting on the anti-fungal/yeast supplements.

Maintenance - The open road ahead

Once clear of cancer, avoid the minefields to prevent re-occurrence of illness. THIS IS VITAL. No going back to your wicked old ways. Remember: what you eat determines the condition of your body's immune system, and poor immunity is written on the gravestone of many a promising lad and lass. Solving malnutrition, dehydration and fungal/parasite problems in the body can lead to tremendous health benefits, not to mention burying many of the other vexing diseases which are afflicting us.

© Copyright 2003 Phillip Day

Extracted from The ABC's of Disease

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