Contents

Introduction

PART I: A New Understanding of Cancer

1: The Failure of the Oncogene Theory

2: The Locus of Cancer

3: What Is Life?

PART II: Potential Therapies

4: Quinton Isotonic Plasma

5: Gerson Therapy

6: Cardiac Glycosides

7: Plant and Mushroom Medicines

8: The Ketogenic Diet

9: Deuterium-Depleted Water

10: NADH

11: Energetic Life Forces

PART III: Practical Steps Forward for Individuals

12: A Basic Cancer Therapy Framework

13: Should You Be Screened for Cancer?

Conclusion

Introduction

Dr. Abel’s significant finding was that other than small-cell lung cancer, in particular, there is no direct evidence that chemotherapy prolongs survival in patients with advanced carcinoma. Abel went on to say that even with lung cancer, the benefit of chemotherapy is “at best rather small.”

Abel’s review of the literature revealed that modern cytotoxic therapy does not appreciably extend the patient’s life, nor has it been shown to improve quality of life. High doses can shrink tumors, but this provides a questionable benefit.

Researchers often measure the success of chemotherapy by whether or not a tumor shrinks and, if so, by how much (not whether or not it prolongs the survival of the patient). The problem is that shrinkage of the tumor doesn’t necessarily relate to improvement in outcomes. For example, it is well known that using antiandrogen therapy for prostate cancer (i.e., hormones) quickly selects for cancer cells that are independent of testosterone (i.e., they don’t need testosterone to grow). Initially, the tumor shrinks by giving anti-testosterone drugs, and a study may measure that initial shrinkage. Still, the residual tumor cells “learn” to grow without testosterone, and they quickly resume growing more aggressively than initial cancer.

In 2004, an independently funded literature review of randomized clinical trials evaluated the effectiveness of chemotherapy in the five-year survival rate for twenty-two central malignancies among Australian and American patients. “The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA.” This includes all stages, not just advanced-stage cancer.

Kolata reported that only 20 percent of patients with metastatic breast cancer, 10 percent with metastatic colorectal cancer, 30 percent with metastatic prostate cancer, and fewer than 10 percent with lung cancer live more than five years. More significantly, none of these numbers has changed much in the past forty years.

PART I: A New Understanding of Cancer

1: The Failure of the Oncogene Theory

The usual oncological strategies are directed at removing (surgery), burning out (radiation), or poisoning (chemotherapy) these fast-growing cells to remove the cancerous growth from the body of the patient.

A simple conception of the cancer process is that the cell enters the cellular growth phase too often and too readily. It has lost connection to the various feedback mechanisms that generally limit the rate and amount of cell division. The result is a disease characterized by increased cell division to the point where a visible tumor or new growth forms. One original hope for oncogene theory was finding mutations in critical genes that played essential roles in controlling growth. Another hope was that cancer involved the mutation in a single gene, leading to a single defective protein, which drove the cancer process forward.

In some cases, researchers discovered that tumors had thousands of different mutations in a single cell, many of which had some role in cell division. There are a few examples in which each cell of the cancer is genetically identical and in which individuals with the same type of cancer have cells with the same genetic makeup. By looking for somatic mutations in cancer cells, we have demonstrated that cancer cells are unfathomably genetically diverse among individuals with the same kind of cancer and even within an individual’s own body or tumor.

A 2018 paper published in The Lancet Oncology looked at women forty years old and younger who developed young-onset breast cancer to determine the effect of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation on outcomes. The study’s authors concluded that “[There is] no significant difference in overall survival or distant disease-free survival between patients carrying a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and patients without these mutations after a diagnosis of breast cancer.” The authors go on to state, “We found no clear evidence that either BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutations significantly affect overall survival with breast cancer after adjusting for known prognostic factors.” Unlike the death sentence, we are told conferred by the BRCA mutation; in fact, the BRCA mutation is heterogeneous, and some of its variations may be protective. As the authors of a 2011 paper titled “The Case against BRCA 1 and 2 Testing,” published in the journal Surgery, stated, “A variation in K1183R is related inversely to cancer risk. It seems that some polymorphisms may have a protective effect.”

Finally, we turn our attention to Gleevec, targeted therapy for a rare form of leukemia called chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), considered the purest example of a single mutation that creates a distinct kind of cancer. Gleevec interferes with the expression of this gene and quickly and dramatically causes remission with no damage to the normal cells. This result was, and is, hailed as the most substantial possible proof of the oncogene theory.

2: The Locus of Cancer

Our cells use glucose to produce energy in our mitochondria, but we also have glycolysis (essentially fermentation). This glycolytic pathway is used by primitive organisms such as yeast to generate power, and mammalian cells will switch to the glycolytic pathway instead of oxidative phosphorylation when there is not enough oxygen and oxidative phosphorylation cannot proceed, or when there is some defect in the oxidative phosphorylation pathway.

The glycolytic pathway is much less efficient in generating ATP than oxidative phosphorylation (2ATP per glucose molecule vs. 36ATP). Furthermore, glycolysis doesn’t fully break down glucose into water and carbon dioxide (CO2) and produces toxic by-products, including alcohol and lactic acid (Warburg Effect).

Approximately 40 percent of the energy they generate is used for mitosis in most cells. Another 40 percent maintains proper electrolyte balance, particularly the balance of sodium and potassium on the inside and outside of the cell. Cell division and the distribution of ions across the cell membrane are fundamental functions in the cell’s life. A cell that doesn’t divide is destined to be a dead cell. A cell that cannot maintain the proper ionic gradient across its membrane loses its charge and cannot integrate into the surrounding tissue and organ.

In a PET scan, the patient is injected with radioactive glucose. Since cancer cells are energy-starved cells and need access to about eighteen times as much glucose as a normal cell to generate the same amount of energy, they will “upregulate” every available mechanism to gain more glucose. Naturally, they never get eighteen times the usual amount, but they increase their glucose uptake enough to light upon the PET scan. 

If you transplant the nucleus from healthy cells into the cytoplasm of healthy cells, you get progeny that is healthy cells. Suppose you transplant the nuclei of cancerous cells, which contain the somatic mutations we are told cause cancer, into the cytoplasm of cancerous cells. In that case, you get cancerous progeny (Dr. Thomas Seyfried research). When researchers transplant nuclei from cancer cells into cells with healthy cytoplasm, the resulting progeny were healthy cells with no sign of cancer. When researchers reversed direction and transplanted healthy nuclei from noncancerous cells into the cytoplasm of cancerous cells, the resulting progeny were cancerous cells.

Because of cancer cells’ massive need for glucose, they forgo metabolic flexibility and rely on glycolysis. Normal, healthy cells, having much less need for glucose, don’t have to do this and therefore still retain the ability to use fats and proteins as fuel sources.

The main flaw, noted by Seyfried, is that no matter how few carbohydrates or even how little food someone eats, the body’s mechanisms for blood-sugar regulation keep blood glucose from dropping to levels that would be effective in killing cancer cells. This is why Dr. Seyfried seems adamant that we need to use blood-sugar-lowering drugs or medicines to augment fasting and the ketogenic diet. 

All of the “water” in our cells is in the fourth or structured phase. As with Jell-O, you can poke holes in it or squish it, and you will never see “water” squirt out because the water is held together in a gel matrix. Jell-O is formed by interacting with a hydrophilic surface (in this case, the gelatin proteins), water, and then a heat source. The role of heat in producing Jell-O is to unfold the proteins to attach to the water molecules. Without the heat, the proteins remain tightly folded and can’t bond to water, and no gel forms. Upon cooling, the characteristic gel forms. The water inside of our cells is similar. You start with water and add protein (some evidence exists that the protein is actin), forming the characteristic fourth-state gel.

• What Ling discovered is that ATP does not produce energy but rather plays the role of heat in biological systems. Specifically, ATP binds to the end of the intracellular structural proteins, unfolding them, allowing them to bind with the water in the cells to form gels. Without ATP, no gel forms, and the function of the cell collapses.
• When appropriately formed in a clear, crystalline, correct bond angle “structure,” the intracellular mesh, because of its specific size, inherently binds to potassium inside the cell and excludes the sodium. This is the actual sodium-potassium pump.
• Without the healthy sodium-potassium gradient, a cell loses its charge and, like a battery, becomes a dead cell. A dead cell loses its “halo,” clumps together with other cells, and forms the characteristic tumor that is one of the hallmarks of cancer.
• The expression of our DNA is nothing more than a result of a properly formed and functioning gel structure in the cell.

Structured water has two unique and fundamental properties. The first is that it has infinite binding sites. The second is that when anything binds with this intracellular crystalline gel structure, it can produce instantaneous effects throughout the entire cell.

The intracellular gel binds to hormones, chemicals, emotions, thoughts, etc.; each creates subtle changes in its configuration, which is then translated into a specific action by the cell. For example, if you put estrogen in the cell, it binds with intracellular gel, subtly changing it; this then creates the unfolding of the DNA so that it facilitates the expression of the part of the DNA that codes for proteins that produce breast tissue. In this way, exposure to estrogen creates the effect desired by the cell.

The spacing of the cells is a function of the charge generated around the cell. This charge around the cell results from the distribution of sodium (Na) and potassium (K) across the cell membrane. By excluding Na from the cell and accumulating K within the cell, the cell generates a halo of negative charges around itself, which creates the normal spatial orientation seen in the tissue when it contacts other similarly negatively charged cells. The separation of Na and K inside and outside the cell, while usually thought to be a function of an embedded Na+/K+ pump in the cell membrane, is a result of specific properties of water.

• Because cancer cells are in chronic energy deficiency, they cannot correctly exclude Na and accumulate K, leading to a weak or absent charge around the cell. Cells with weak or absent charges clump together, leading to the characteristic density of the cancer growth. The rocklike feel is due to the increased thickness of the cancerous cells because they lack the usual charge around the cell and therefore are unable to assume their normal orientation.

The second observable property of cancer cells is that, unlike normal cells, cancer cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes (aneuploid cells). This abnormality suggests that if the number of chromosomes defines the species, in a way, cancer cells are not properly human cells.

40% of the cell’s energy is devoted to cell division or mitosis. Cancer cells are energy-starved cells, leading them to make cell division mistakes. Sometimes the chromosomes don’t separate properly; other times, the spindle that “drags” half the chromosomes to one side half to the other side, doesn’t function properly; there are many other possibilities for error. Furthermore, during cell division, the chromosomes’ genes are exposed to external mutagenic influences (for example, chemicals, radiation, low nutrient levels, glyphosate), leading to the high levels of mutations seen in cancer cells. The bottom line is that the energy dynamics of the cancer cell show us how cancer cells become aneuploid cells and why they have so many more somatic mutations than healthy cells.

If we have cells without the proper spatial orientation but diploid (have a standard number of chromosomes), we have a benign tumor or a cyst. We have a malignant tumor if we generate aneuploid cells that cannot maintain proper spatial relationships with other cells. The clinical disease we call cancer occurs when a combination of these two defects, aneuploid cells that cannot support appropriate spatial orientation.

3: What Is Life?

For there to be life, there must be water. No life has ever arisen out of a completely desiccated, water-free environment. The second thing that’s clear about life is that water brings a particular form to the collection of atoms. The third thing that’s clear about life is that this combination of water and form gives unique qualities. These qualities are related to the molecules they are composed of.

When our life forces are weak or disturbed, cancer arises when the structure of water in our cells is amiss. Therefore, the integrity of the water in our cells and how the water in our cells is structured or formed from these forces of levity and negentropy should be of utmost concern in addressing the problem of cancer.

PART II: Potential Therapies

4: Quinton Isotonic Plasma

Rene Quinton’s discovery that our blood reflects the mineral composition of the oceans led him to propose the idea that health can be defined as the state in which our fluids, including blood, are in their “perfect” condition when they most closely mirror the composition of the sea. Disease, according to Quinton, arises when this internal mineral balance is disturbed. He proposed that the internal fluids are not just a suspension of a particular mix of minerals and water but exist in an organized state. This organized state is another aspect of the health of the organism. When our internal fluids are in perfect mineral balance, in their optimal organized state, we are healthy. When the mineral composition is off, or the organization breaks down, we suffer disease.

Quinton and his colleagues developed techniques to drop a suction apparatus deep within the center of this nutrient-rich vortex and essentially suck the seawater out of the vortex into large tanks. With his method of collecting seawater containing the mineral composition of human blood from a nutrient-rich vortex, Quinton was essentially recreating the heart’s role in a human being.) Quinton knew that this vortexed seawater needed to be microfiltered before use. The purification technique had to preserve the delicate structure of the water created by the vortexing. He did this by developing a series of filters that eliminated everything but the water, the dissolved minerals, and the dissolved “effluent” of the phytoplankton.

In the past few decades, independent studies have documented the safety and efficacy of Quinton plasma to treat conditions including influenza, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, immune dysfunction, diabetes, obesity, progression of atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, and allergic rhinitis.

5: Gerson Therapy

Gerson thought that the foundation of disease was a disruption in the proper sodium-potassium gradient between the inside and the outside of the cell, such that cells begin to accumulate sodium, and disease follows. According to Gerson, disease follows because a cell without this healthy sodium-potassium gradient is an uncharged, therefore dead, cell, so every component of his therapy was based on restoring this sodium-potassium gradient.

Gerson conceived of a diet based on increasing potassium and dramatically reducing sodium. No salt of any type was permitted on the diet. At times, he even excluded celery because it’s a unique plant in that it tends to accumulate sodium. Most animal foods were excluded not because Gerson believed in the healing power of a vegan diet but because animal foods tend to be higher in sodium than plant foods. Gerson insisted on fresh raw liver juice every two hours during the intensive phase of his program and included high doses of animal thyroid, which he said stimulated the sodium-potassium balance and helped drive the sodium out of the cells and the potassium back into the cells. Gerson demonstrated that this extraordinarily high potassium intake coupled with almost no sodium changed the sodium-potassium gradient across the cell membrane with time.

The Norwalk Juicer is the only juicer that left the energy structure of the intracellular component with its “attached” potassium intact enough from the juiced vegetables to be taken up by the cells of his patients. We know now that the intracellular component of a carrot, beet, or apple is structured water, which retains the potassium in its matrix. Like Quinton’s plasma (but without using vortexes), Gerson’s therapy took advantage of the natural tendency of all living things to structure their intracellular space. Gerson’s goal was to extract this intracellular cytoplasmic component intact enough to be taken up and utilized by the sick patient.

Another integral component of Gerson’s therapy was his soup made primarily from plant roots with some other vegetables mixed in. The plants were chosen because of their high potassium content. Making them into a broth was a way to access proteins used as scaffolding for the intracellular matrix. The broth was another method for increasing the intracellular potassium and structuring the intracellular water. This is similar to other well-known cancer therapies that use large doses of collagen, such as Dr. John Prudden’s cartilage therapy or shark cartilage treatments. 

Gerson did include coffee enemas to detoxify to dilate the bile ducts, helping the liver clear toxins through the intestines more efficiently. But even this basic detoxification strategy was thought to help restore the sodium-potassium balance by clearing out toxins accumulated in the intracellular space. One of the primary ways that our intracellular gels get distorted is by introducing toxins that get absorbed into the cells. These toxins then bind with the gel, warping its structure. Distorted gels are not the proper configuration to exclude sodium or bind potassium. As a result, the exclusion of sodium is lessened, the charge across the membrane is weakened, and the cell loses its charge and, therefore, its energy. The cells without charges clump together into a tumor. Eliminating the accumulated toxins in the cells through techniques such as coffee enemas helps reverse this slide into worsening disease.

The Gerson program was a thoughtful and innovative approach to restoring the sodium-potassium balance across the cell membrane. Unfortunately, because this role was never properly understood, even by Gerson himself, the therapy falls short of being the final solution to the problem of cancer.

6: Cardiac Glycosides

Digitalis (foxglove) has been used for treating cardiac arrhythmias and congestive heart failure for centuries. Its leaves contain two active ingredients, digoxin and digitoxin, and initially, the medicine was a preparation of dried Digitalis leaves. Both digoxin and digitoxin inhibit the activity of the sodium-potassium pump by binding to one of its protein components, leading to an influx of calcium into the cells, particularly cardiac cells. Calcium stimulates muscle contraction, which leads to an improvement in the contractile force that the heart can generate, known as an inotropic effect.

It turns out that the various glycosides have different properties. For example, g-strophanthin is water-soluble, whereas digoxin is fat-soluble. Other glycosides also have different effects on the sodium-potassium balance, and in some cases, the result is dose-dependent. Low doses of g-strophanthin stimulate the sodium-potassium pump, whereas high doses inhibit this pump. This also may be true for Digitalis glycosides; digoxin and digitoxin themselves may have slightly different biological effects from each other.

Cardiac glycosides at appropriate doses have a strong stimulation effect on the sodium-potassium pump, thereby restoring the healthy sodium-potassium distribution across the cell membrane restoring the cell’s charge and function. This is exactly what Gerson was trying to accomplish with his intensive therapy.

Digoxin, digitoxin, and g-strophanthin are naturally occurring compounds made in our adrenal cortex, seeming to regulate the sodium-potassium balance of the heart cells. The Digitalis and Strophanthus plants essentially make bioidentical copies of these endogenously produced hormones, which can be used as a medicine to augment the effect. 

G-strophanthin (ouabain) does not work on the sodium-potassium pump. Instead, it is one of the primary catalysts, if not the primary catalyst, for the phase changes within our cells, particularly the heart cells. Once g-strophanthin is bound, even at almost infinitesimally small doses, changes occur within the cell that excludes sodium and concentrate potassium and reenergize the entirety of the cell. 

While there is much to be done to understand how to use Strophanthus seed extracts with cancer patients, many studies already demonstrate its usefulness. Still, the problem of its less-than-dramatic effectiveness means that stimulating the sodium-potassium pump is not the whole story. 

7: Plant and Mushroom Medicines

There are at least two principal ways of knowing. The first is the analytical, reductionist, mechanistic way of science. The second is a more synthetic, intuitive, observational approach. Not only do we need both, but the second approach is more effective when it comes to working with living systems and when it comes to healing, in particular. When the two are in conflict, as they so often are these days, the default approach should be to trust your observations and instincts.

Chaga

Some cancerous growths, particularly the deadly skin cancer melanoma, are black masses of disorganized cells. These melanoma features describe the usual growth habit of the parasitic polyporous fungus called Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus).

It’s a fungus growing almost exclusively on the birch trees of the northern forests. It derives its nutrition from “sucking” the sap of the trees, much like cancer derives its nourishment from “stealing” it from the patient’s blood. Yet Chaga doesn’t kill the tree but eventually comes to a stable and even harmonious relationship with the tree. Some who study Chaga have suggested that birch trees that harbor Chaga may have some inherent advantage compared to those that don’t.

Birch trees synthesize a protein called betulin, which exhibits protective activity against many types of cancer cells, particularly melanoma. Chaga collects this betulin from the birch sap and concentrates it in its fruiting body, the part used to make Chaga tea. Chaga is a dramatic case where the synthetic approach to understanding a plant or mushroom as a medicine aligns perfectly with a reductionist approach.

In every good outcome he has seen with melanoma, the typical response patients give years later is: “I stuck to the diet.” Or “I never missed a mistletoe injection.” Or “I drank Chaga tea or took chaga drops every day.” Worth investigating as support for melanoma.

Burdock

Numerous studies confirm the therapeutic potential of burdock root, which contains a lignan compound called arctigenin, for cancer patients. A recent study confirms that burdock root’s therapeutic potential is based on its ability to deprive the tumors of the glucose they need to fuel their growth. Another study shows green tea, curcumin, and burdock root’s combined effect on breast cancer cells. A 2018 review summarizes the therapeutic potential of burdock root on many different types of cancer, including stomach, lung, liver, and colon cancer, thanks to its arctigenin.

Turmeric

There are cases, reports, and studies showing turmeric/curcumin as an effective treatment for arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and chronic inflammation. At last count, there are 4,660 PubMed references to curcumin and cancer.

For as long as there has been herbal medicine, there have been plant medicines used for their choleretic (bile stimulation) effect. Almost all of them, not coincidentally, have bitter, yellow-colored “sap” in their roots. Three of the most common examples are turmeric, greater celandine, and the well-known herb for treating infections— goldenseal.

People native to India, in the rural areas, generally ate between two and six tablespoons per day of turmeric, always dissolved in ghee and mixed with black pepper. Modern research has shown that we need to take curcumin with fat for our bodies to absorb it and that mixing turmeric with black pepper also facilitates absorption.

When we ingest herbs, our gut microbes need to convert them into secondary metabolites for our bodies to make use of them. If our gut flora is imbalanced, as is the case for virtually all modern people, this conversion doesn’t occur. For this reason, whenever we use plant medicines, we should do so in combination with a gut-restoration program.

There is no effective herb for cancer or any other ailment grown in soil treated with glyphosate (Roundup) since glyphosate inhibits the formation of the secondary metabolites of the plants that are the active ingredients in disease prevention. If we want to optimize our therapy, and we always do with cancer treatment, we need to procure the finest herbs traditionally grown in the location that best suits them. We need cardamom from the cloud forest in Guatemala, nutmeg from the Zanzibar islands off of Tanzania, and turmeric from biodynamic farms in either India or the Hawaiian islands.

Ashitaba

Ashitaba is one of the most nutritious vegetables you can eat. Containing more nutrients per gram than such super-vegetables as kale and rich in soluble vitamins and minerals, ashitaba is worth including in your diet simply as a source of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. But the real magic of the ashitaba plant comes in its thick, sticky yellow sap that oozes out of the cut stem.

Chalcones are potent antioxidants and are currently being intensely investigated for their ability to stop a variety of cancer growths. An excerpt from a review article about the potential for ashitaba chalcones in oncology stated: “Based on the current studies, chalcones are highly multifunctional, and their targets cover almost all of the actions of tumor cells, including growth, proliferation, invasion, and metastasis.”

Mistletoe

Clinical usage and research unequivocally demonstrate that mistletoe use for cancer is safe, extends the quality of life when used in clinical trials with cancer patients, successfully treats pleural effusions that result from lung cancer, improves survival in patients with stage 4 lung cancer, and improves survival in patients with stage 4 cancer of the pancreas. In some cases, mistletoe use can result in remissions, such as remission in a patient with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or a patient cured of cancer that had metastasized to his skull. Installation of mistletoe extracts in the bladder of patients with bladder cancer has been associated with improved outcomes and occasionally complete remission.

Mistletoe therapy can be a safe, effective, and easy-to-administer long-term follow-up strategy if you can remove the original tumor.

With its inherent stimulation of the innate or cell-mediated immune response from an immunological point of view, Fever has been one of cancer’s greatest healers for centuries. Mistletoe therapy, given at the correct dose appropriately, can stimulate this fever response in sick patients. Anything one can do to heat the gel and allow it to cleanse itself through fever to reconstitute a healthier cytoplasm is in the direction of healing. Through its stimulation of warmth in the human organism, Mistletoe helps toward this end.

8: The Ketogenic Diet

The Warburg effect – all cancer cells have defects in their mitochondrial function that prevent these mitochondria from producing the energy needed for optimal cellular function. These defects can be genetic or from radiation, coal tar, and other carcinogens. As a result, the cells shift to the glycolytic pathway and produce energy through glycolysis, otherwise known as fermentation. This is a primitive, inefficient way to produce ATP, one used by single-celled organisms and fungi. The consequence of this glycolytic shift is that the cells, like primitive organisms, get stuck in a continual growth cycle. They lose connection to the tissue they are embedded in and essentially behave like any single-celled organism, which attempts to continually grow and divide as long as there is a good source of food.

Intracellular water structuring is accomplished by the ATP attaching to the ends of the intracellular proteins. As a result of this attachment, the proteins unfold and can function as the seed points for the intracellular water to form itself into a gel. Since the intracellular gel is responsible for the distribution of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane, this distribution will no longer be efficiently performed. The result is a cell without a charge that inevitably will clump together with the surrounding cells, forming itself into a tumor.

Without a properly structured matrix cell division, spindle formation, DNA transcription and translation, and all the other nuclear events we associate with cancer will become chaotic. These characteristic signs of cancer—odd number or types of chromosomes (aneuploidy), mutations, abnormal proteins synthesized—are all secondary effects of this primary mitochondrial/cytoplasmic defect.

Cancer is entirely dependent on using glucose for fuel, having lost the ability to generate ATP from fatty acids. They use the incoming glucose from the carbohydrates in the food; they use gluconeogenesis (new glucose formation) to produce the needed glucose from ingested protein. Then they will facilitate the conversion of body fat into glucose to produce ATP. Once the fat stores are exhausted, the cancer cells boost the conversion of the protein structure of the body into glucose to fuel the cancer growth.

The theory behind the ketogenic diet for cancer essentially says that if you stop eating all foods that contain carbohydrates, especially in the early phases, it will allow the normal cells to feed (on fats) and at the same time starve the cancer cells. Weakened cancer cells, deprived of their usual glucose diet and before they have started to break down the body’s fat and protein stores, should allow a normally functioning immune system to clear out the cancer cells and restore the person to health.

Seyfried suggests that to clinically affect cancer cells through blood-sugar reduction, the sugar must drop in the low sixties or mid-to-high fifties. However, no matter how little the patients ate, their blood sugar drop was never less than seventy. The explanation for this can only be that the body has a good reason and the hormonal mechanisms to prevent the blood sugar from dropping to these deficient levels. Only under the most extreme situations, such as insulin-secreting pancreas tumors, will the body allow the blood sugar to drop to these therapeutically effective levels.

In a paper co-authored by Dominic D’Agostino, research showed that animals who followed a ketogenic diet lowered the amount of deuterium in their cells and tissues. 

9: Deuterium-Depleted Water

Deuterium is one of the two known isotopes of hydrogen. It has one proton and one electron, so it is still electrically neutral, but it has one neutron instead of hydrogen’s none. Its atomic number is therefore two.

If you water plants with it, attempt to germinate seeds, or feed animals, they will fail to grow and soon die. Pure heavy water is a potent biological poison. It was discovered that most naturally occurring nonsalt waters on the earth contain a small amount of naturally occurring D2O. Suppose you test the D2O level of your local municipal water supply, the local stream, or a freshwater lake. In that case, it will typically test out to about 150 parts per million (ppm), a relatively small fraction. If you imagine a liter of water, approximately one drop of the water is D2O rather than H2O. It should come as no surprise that our body fluids also contain D2O at about the same level of 150 ppm.

The freezing point of H2O is 32°F (0°C). The freezing point of pure D2O is 39.2°F (4°C). D2O has a different density, the bond angles are different, and the full spectrum of light absorption is diverse. Because D2O has a higher freezing point than H2O, if you go into the mountains where water in the streams is coming from partially frozen glacial runoff, the water flowing under and around the frozen parts will be naturally lower in deuterium than the still frozen water.

Without deuterium, the cells divide less readily; the more deuterium, the more rapid the cell division. The more deuterium in the cell, the less hydrogen in the cell, the less efficient the generation of ATP becomes. Because ATP is necessary to structure intracellular water properly, an ATP deficiency is one of the primary hallmarks of the cancer process. Hydrogen deficiency then explains the biochemical basis of the mitochondrial dysfunction that is at the root of the Warburg effect. Deuterium is a different-sized and shaped molecule than hydrogen, and D2O has a different size and shape than H2O. Therefore, the intracellular gels formed by D2O will be nowhere near as effective in organizing crucial cellular functions as H2O is. Mistakes in division occur, the cellular charge becomes weak, the energy gradients in and around the cell weaken, and the receptive crystalline gels become distorted.

If you study women with early-stage breast cancer treated conventionally, their mean survival time is generally about 15 to 16 years. If you give these same women one six-month course of DDW, the mean survival time goes up to 18.1 years. If you instead give them two courses of DDW in the first five years, then their mean survival time goes up to 24.4 years.

The patients who received the DDW had a threefold net decrease in their prostate volume, fifteen of the twenty-two had a reduction in the PSA level, and only two died. By contrast, there was no net decrease in the volume of the prostate in the conventional treatment group, only nine of the twenty-two men showed a decrease in PSA, and nine of the patients died. With similarly matched groups, the mean survival time of the conventional treatment group was 15 to 20 months, whereas the group treated with DDW showed a mean survival time of 64.8 months.

Dr. Pollack has undertaken an in-depth study of most of the famous healing waters of the world. One of his findings is that all of these waters, including some forms of DDW, have a characteristic peak of light absorption at the 270 nanometers (nm) band. This band is below the wavelength of visible light, and the bond angles of the hydrogen (or deuterium) with the oxygen are of a characteristic angle. The elements that make up the substance are identical. Their shapes are altered, and the form is everything—at least everything that determines the characteristics of the substance.

When the bond angles on the water have a peak absorption of 270 nm, then that water can heal. If the water doesn’t have a peak absorption of 270 nm, it can’t and won’t be a healing agent. There may be many ways to help the water achieve this structure, and lowering the deuterium levels in the water may be one. Having the water acted on by some external force, as in Lourdes, seems to be another.

Due to their more delicate and precise configuration in space, Fats are unable to incorporate deuterium into these large molecules. The deuterium simply won’t fit into the shape needed for the fat molecule to form. COn the other hand, Carbohydrates easily incorporate deuterium into their less-precise folded structure. Similarly, when you burn carbohydrates for fuel, you generate a lot of deuterium that will be included in your body’s water, and you will pay with poor health in the long run. On the other hand, if you burn fats as fuel, as in the ketogenic diet, you become naturally depleted of deuterium, with all the positive benefits for your intracellular water structure and overall health.

10: NADH

NADH is the biological compound in our cells that delivers hydrogen to the mitochondria, where it is used to fuel oxidative phosphorylation and create ATP and intracellular water. In essence, we need oxygen, which we get through breathing, to combine with the hydrogen delivered from NADH to produce ATP and water. More importantly, NADH is often the limiting factor in the cellular production of ATP and water.

The health of our cells, tissues, and, therefore, our bodies are based on the proper structuring of our intracellular water. This is a consequence of many factors, but two of the most important are the ability of our mitochondria to generate enough ATP to interact with our proteins to structure our water and the purity of the water. NADH interacts directly with both of these, making its mechanism of action and its therapeutic effects clear.

11: Energetic Life Forces

When we are in good health, we easily generate the energy we require, charge our cells, and make the proper amount and type of proteins from our DNA, and thousands of other cellular functions proceed smoothly. When our gels are distorted, we become more susceptible to disease through poisons such as DDT, glyphosate, radiation, electromagnetic forces, aluminum in vaccines, or even destructive thoughts or emotions. Healing, at its core, is restoring the integrity of the intracellular gels to their proper crystalline state.

The energy from the sun is a crucial ingredient for almost all life forms on earth. Similarly, the energy from the planet itself, now being studied as “earthing” or “grounding,” shows that the earth’s energy is imperative for all life forms on earth, including humans. Another source of “good” energy is the energy “emitted” by human beings themselves, especially concentrated in our hands’ palms. This beneficial energy may at least partially explain the benefits we feel from holding the hands of our loved ones or from such things as the “laying on of hands” or Reiki.

Some of Dr. Gerald Pollack’s experiments into water flow also demonstrate this incredible energy. Any hydrophilic tube immersed in a beaker of water will create a small negatively charged gel layer lining the tube. This means that there will also be free protons—the corresponding positive charges liberated when the gels are formed—that go into the liquid water in the center of this tube. These positive ions repel each other and initiate flow within the tube. All the previously mentioned sources of energy increase flow.

If you put your cell phone next to the beaker, you can watch the flow cease. Non-native electromagnetic forces directly inhibit our ability to form crystalline gels in our cells. As a result, no cellular functions will work properly. Non-native electromagnetic forces destroy life by destroying the basis of life, which is the intracellular gel.

Thinking (deciding) is when you pursue a career because the pay and benefits are appealing. Knowing is when you feel called to a profession because of an inner sense of your destiny. Deciding is when you choose a life partner because it’s time to settle down. Knowing is when you realize your future is inexorably linked with that of the person you love. Deciding often comes about through fear, fear of not making a living, being alone, or dying if you don’t do conventional therapy. Knowing comes from a place of freedom, an area in which you know that the choice you make could be no other.

PART III: Practical Steps Forward for Individuals

12: A Basic Cancer Therapy Framework

Doctors are taught to find the diagnosis and then match that with the treatment that corresponds to that diagnosis. It doesn’t matter who you are, why you got these conditions or your opinion about this therapy.

In contrast, traditional or classical homeopathy cares only about the patient’s experience. One person with strep throat will get one remedy; another person with strep throat will get a different remedy for the same disease. Homeopathy is entirely based on the experience of the person. The treatment strategy is to match the person’s experience with the symptom picture caused when you ingest a specific, often poisonous, substance.

While it is clear that the tumor is not the disease—cancer is a cytoplasmic dysfunction—it should nevertheless be recognized that it is a lot to ask of the body to resorb many cancerous cells. His experience suggests that surgically removing whatever can be safely removed, followed by implementing the therapies offered here, produces the best outcome.

Diet

Macros: Look for the best-quality fats, such as grass-fed ghee or butter, coconut oil, and olive oil in unlimited amounts, guided by your taste and instincts. Your protein consumption should be moderate. Carbohydrates should be counted and limited. Each person should strive to consume 20 to 30 grams of carbohydrates twice per day. Many people will initially feel fatigued at this low carbohydrate consumption level; if so, the best strategy is to slowly reduce to this amount and let your body adjust to getting fuel from the fats. This will usually happen in about six to eight weeks.

Timing: The goal of timing is to go through periods of the day and month where you are in ketosis, which means you will burn fat as fuel instead of glucose. The process of ketosis burns your excess fat, reduces inflammation, increases cerebral blood flow, and stimulates apoptosis, one of the most important ways your body rids itself of cancer cells. The simplest and most practical way to time your eating for ketosis is to restrict eating to six hours each day and do water-only fasts for the other eighteen hours (IF).

Bone Broth: Two to six cups of bone broth per day is an integral part of a sound cancer diet. Cells use the proteins in bone broth as the nidus for structuring water inside the cells. Bone broth proteins are made of different amino acids than are meat proteins. These amino acids are often deficient in western diets, leading to weak support structures and poor ability to create healthy intracellular gels.

Vegetables: Fats and proteins are used to build structure, and plant nutrients provide the chemicals that help us prevent and treat disease. In addition to garden vegetables, you should include a variety of nutrient-concentrated wild and perennial vegetables, including plants like wild ramps, artichokes, wild greens, Gynura procumbens (Okinawan spinach), and many others. You should also eat medicinal plants each day, including ashitaba (either fresh or one to two teaspoons of powder per day), burdock root (either new or one to two teaspoons of powder per day), and turmeric (two to four tablespoons per day)—preferably heat these plants or powders in a pan with ghee, then sauté the rest of the dish on top, and finish it with freshly ground black pepper. Finally, you should drink two to four cups of brewed Chaga tea daily, along with two droppers of an alcoholic Chaga extract twice per day to make sure you get both the water- and fat-soluble components of chagaChaga. (Alcohol draws out fat-soluble nutrients.)

• One of the easiest ways to include these vegetables and powders in your diet is to start each day with bone broth soup. To make it, heat a generous amount of grass-fed ghee in the pan, and dissolve one to two tablespoons of turmeric powder until dispersed. Add three to seven different vegetables and sauté them until they are soft. Add the homemade bone broth. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down to a simmer. Add vegetable powders and some powdered sea vegetables, simmer a few more minutes, then spoon into a bowl with a tablespoon of naturally fermented miso and natto.

Ferments: This includes fermented dairy products, such as yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, cheese; soybeans (miso, natto); meat; vegetables; fruits, and grains. Naturally fermented vegetables, especially sauerkraut, are essential. (Add a dollop of sauerkraut to your finished breakfast soup.) Include a small amount of something fermented at every meal to aid digestion.

With your diet, be creative, enjoy your food, experiment, share meals with friends and loved ones, and get to know the people who grow and process your food. This will enrich your life in an untold number of ways.

Supplements

Quinton Isotonic Seawater: Not only is this the best source of all needed minerals, but also it essentially acts like a “structured” water supplement. It comes in either liter bottles or individual packets, and the usual starting dose is thirty milliliters per day, divided into two equal amounts.

NADH: Only the Birkmayer company has an oral form that is fully functional. The usual starting dose is eight tablets twice per day of the Rapid Energy form of NADH on an empty stomach. Let it dissolve thoroughly in your mouth. After a few months at this dose, you can reduce the amount to four tablets of the Rapid Energy NADH twice per day for the next six months.

Strophanthus Extract: The seed extract is the only effective form; homeopathically prepared Strophanthus doesn’t appear to be effective, and pure chemical ouabain seems to have little if any effect. The dose is one capsule three times a day on an empty stomach.

Melatonin: Melatonin is produced not only in the brain but in other tissues such as the intestines, thymus, bone marrow, and the cells of our immune system. It is produced primarily when we are asleep—more abundantly when we sleep in a completely dark room—and its synthesis is inhibited by exposure to non-native electromagnetic fields.

• Some conditions for which melatonin has shown benefit include infections, cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, oxidative stress, Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases, macular degeneration, and cancer. Melatonin accomplishes its effect through various biochemical pathways, including immune stimulation, an increase of apoptosis, protection against radiation damage, telomerase inhibition, and many others. Melatonin supplementation has been shown to improve survival, potentiate chemotherapy, and stimulate tumor regression.

Water

Toxin and additive-free, low-deuterium water that is delivered through naturally vortexing channels. Ideally, instead of expensive individual systems, communities would provide water to everyone. Unfortunately, that ideal situation is far from the reality for most people. Instead, we drink water high in deuterium and full of toxic components such as chloramines, fluorides, residuals from pharmaceutical drugs, and a host of other unwanted substances.

Mistletoe

Helixor sells an unfermented mistletoe preparation made from mistletoe growing on either the fir, apple, or pine trees. These mistletoe products have different properties and are indicated for different kinds of cancer.

For prostate cancer, it is the mistletoe that grows on fir trees. The patient is started on fir tree mistletoe injections subcutaneously in the abdomen three times per week. Starting with series 1, you gradually increase the dose until the mistletoe produces either a localized redness (at least silver dollar–sized) or a fever. The dose remains at this level until the patient stops reacting, at which time you increase the dose by another increment. This three-times-per-week injection strategy creates a kind of dialogue between the patient’s immune system and the mistletoe. They increase the strength until the immune system tells them it has been stimulated. They keep the dose there until no reaction happens, then rise again. They increase from 1 milligram of the weakest fir mistletoe up to 150 milligrams of the strongest pine mistletoe. They always continue with the same tree until no more reactions occur with that form of mistletoe. Providing an ongoing interaction and dialogue between the immune reactivity of the patient and the mistletoe.

Limit or Eliminate EMF Exposure

Normal EMF exposure in the current population is carcinogenic, particularly with the case of brain cancer and even more particularly in the case of brain cancer in children. The relationship is dose-dependent, as expected from any carcinogenic exposure. The higher the exposure, the more likely it is that cancer will develop.

• Bracelets made by Energy Armor are impregnated with crystals that seem to reduce the toxic effects of standard and common EMF exposure. These bracelets are best used with grounding and earthing mats, which Radiant Life sells.
• The second intervention is the sauna therapy within the Faraday cage made by SaunaSpace. Sauna therapy with incandescent and red-light therapy has been shown to mitigate some of the effects of EMF exposure, and this product allows your sauna to be done in a “tent” that shields out EMF exposure.

Other Interventions

Sauna Therapy: Sauna therapy that combines the gel “cleansing” effects of sweating with the immune stimulation of heat, along with the energetic boost from the exposure to specific wavelengths of light, fosters our goal of producing healthier intracellular gels. The sauna device meeting these requirements is the SaunaSpace system. This device combines heat and color therapy in a zero-EMF Faraday enclosure. As with any sauna, its use should be individualized, but generally, people do about twenty to thirty minutes per day.

Vitamin C: High-dose vitamin C turns into hydrogen peroxide inside the cells, which is highly toxic, specifically to many types of cancer cells. It can be considered a minimally toxic form of chemotherapy. Vitamin C is also a necessary cofactor in collagen formation diseases, the proteins that form the intracellular matrix upon which intracellular water is structured. Also, vitamin C helps improve immune function, which will be helpful for many people struggling with chronic disease. Since cancer cells take up vitamin C, which is chemically similar to glucose, more ardently under fasting conditions, you can safely and effectively give high-dose liposomal vitamin C at the end of a short fast to good effect. He starts at hour sixteen of an intermittent daily fast with five grams of oral liposomal vitamin C every fifteen minutes for ten doses. This means an intake of fifty grams of liposomal vitamin C, about the same dose used in most IV therapies. At the end of the ten doses, wait thirty minutes, and then you can break the fast. You can do these two to three times per week in many cancer cases.

Coffee Enemas: The rectally infused caffeine dilates the common bile duct, allowing the bile to drain more easily into the small intestine. Gerson therapy often includes coffee enemas every two to four hours during the intensive phase. Many people find doing a daily coffee enema to help improve their overall well-being and prevent the sick and lethargic feeling that comes with being unable to clear out toxins.

13: Should You Be Screened for Cancer?

The faster-growing cancers, those that lead to the worst prognosis, are missed by the screening and are usually found only through the presentation of symptoms. The natural consequence is that cancer-screening studies will always show higher “cure” rates compared to no screening while at the same time failing to deliver overall better outcomes.

We are told that from the time the first breast cancer cell appears to when it can be seen on a screening mammogram is about eight to ten years. By the time cancer can be felt, it has been present for ten to twelve years. We don’t know if catching cancer two years earlier has any clinical relevance, particularly given the modern treatment for breast cancer. Cancer is a disease of the cytoplasm and the structuring of water inside the cell. Removing the tumor earlier does not change the course of the disease. As Welch and a colleague concluded in a 2011 paper following a large-scale trial, “Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening. Instead, they are either diagnosed early (with no effect on their mortality) or overdiagnosed.”

Dermatologists remove millions of “melanoma” lesions from Americans every year. They, therefore, cure millions of people from deadly melanoma. But as Welch’s study shows, the prognosis for melanoma patients has not changed in decades. The same thing applies to men with prostate cancer. We take out millions of prostates with a small amount of cancer each year only to find that the prognosis is almost identical if we had done “watchful waiting.” Again, “curing” prostate cancer does not affect the patient’s survival.

Marcia Angell, MD, former executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world, made a statement in 2009 that gets to the core of the issues we are facing: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

Conclusion

People and cultures that only see the material nature of life are seeing the world incorrectly and inevitably destroying the life of the only home they have. They attempt to turn life into money and destroy the living earth. This is the story of our culture and of the disease called cancer.