My Doctor's Advice

re: My Doctor's Advice

Andy Harmon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:09:46 GMT

Sue,

I'm really appreciating your diary. Thanks so much

re: My Doctor's Advice

bschuster — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:12:41 GMT

Have you considered a natural progesterone cream to deal with the estrogen dominance? i.e. ProgestaCare (Life-flo)

re: My Doctor's Advice

Susan Insole — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:28:36 GMT

I have actually considered natural progesterone - it was advised by a naturopath I go to see in between visits to London to use it. I have now bought some (its actually in an oil) and started it today. I will give an update on how I get on.

re: My Doctor's Advice

cordevries — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:34:04 GMT

Hi,

I am not a doctor but I analyse situations and try to find logical conclusions-answers That is how I came in water-filration. .

Well we all know that our drinking water is polluted with chemicals etc that do not belong in it. But governmental regulations make us belive that our body can endure minimum quantities .

E.g. you daily quantity of chlorination comes to you via tea-coffee, soupe, or other cooking. Filtrate your water with at least a good activated carbon

Go to google and serach for - Chlorination cancer - especially dr Herbert Schwarts

or read Professor Heberer -Technische Universität Berlin- water is a cocktail of hormones and medical remnants.

Furthermore the acid character of our food drinks etc ( cola PH 2,3 !!) decreases the self-cleaning function of our body, which means in fact that chemicals that do not belong in our body are not removed.

And as to our nutrition.........Do we really believe that all the €-numbers are ok ?

Take a look at the Hunza's. A groupe that lives in the Himallaya, studied by Nobel¨prize winner Dr Coanda.......they eat pure, drink pure, have clean air and no stress.................and hardly any medical expenses and yet live up to 130 years.

My suggetion is: start with your drinking water

Cor

re: My Doctor's Advice

Ellie — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:50:58 GMT

I applaud your bravery, as I have also rejected chemotherapy. My doctor also thought I was out of my mind! I did have a lumpectomy and radiation. I am taking Tamoxifen, but also take calcium-d-glucarate, as I understand that it can help move the excess estrogen out of your body. I also take a product called EST-AID, along with CO-Q10, Fish Oil, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Beta Glucan. I have drastically changed my diet and feel that I'm on the right track. Best wishes on your health quest!

re: My Doctor's Advice

jess lawrence — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:22:40 GMT

Hi Sue,

It is really with empathy and fascination that I'm reading your log.

I too recovered from colon cancer without chemo and radiation although it was strongly recommended on three occassions. I had a recurrence last year, only 10 months after the surgery to remove the tumour from my sigmoid colon, and had another suspected recurrence this year. On both occassions I treated the condition with diet only.

I am following the CAAT diet administered thru the A P John Cancer Institute in Florida and my recovery is fully proven with MRI scans and colonoscopies.

This protocol which exploits the unique metabolic and energy requirements of cancer cells and deprives them of nutrients thereby causing apoptosis, also nvolves natural progesterone. This had the added benefit of shrinking a fibriod tumourin the uterues by two thirds in about five months, and also reducing the thickness of the endometrium which was unhealthy for my age. A 3 cm growth which was sticking out of the side of the colon in the area where the previous tumour was, had grown since the surgery, also shrank. In fact it disappeared completely.

The recurrence in my opinion was partly aggravated by using estrogen creme which was presribed after the surgery for menopausal symptoms. A polyp grew within five months of using it. So in my experience natural progesterone can be helpful in treating cancers that are estrogen dependent.

If you want to discuss treatment further and compare notes, please email back and I will leave a number.

All the best,

Jessica

re: My Doctor's Advice

Sue Insole — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:59:28 GMT

Thanks to all for their comments and advice! I do filter my water and have done so since the beginning - I have also bought a magnetic disk to magnetise my water too - I started using it a few weeks ago and I must say the water tastes much better too.

I think that the more chemicals there are in the world around us, through water, pesticides, in the workplace, in traffic, in GM foods and so on, the body becomes overloaded. Add stress and a bad diet to the mix and it becomes overwhelmed. I think that's what happened to me - and many other people too which explains the reason why so many people are being diagnosed with cancer.

I am currently writing an article about xeno-oestrogens that are in such things as washing powder, and conditioner, cleaning materials, shampoo and so on, that are believed to overload the body with oestrogens - and are another reason why there is so much cancer of the breast and prostate. I will be putting on the website when I've finished it.

Thank you for the thumbs up about progesterone - that is good news for me as I had not considered it before now and it is encouraging - especially since I have done some research into these oestrogens that occur in chemicals. Anyone who wants to email me privately can do so on sueinsole@hotmail.com

Thanks again - I am so glad people are finding this interesting.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Neal Bowhay — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:04:08 GMT

Re the importance of oils in cancer prevention.

Recently I came across a book called The Hidden Secret Story of Cancer by Professor Brian Peskin. It contains 500 pages of analysis of hundreds of scientific studies. He looks at all the cancer research for the past century or so, and, by not starting from any preconception, comes up with some interesting conclusions. (He also documents how doctors and food experts are not trained to study the field's own research and operate substantially on interpretation, hearsay and myth.)

He bases a lot of his findings on the work of Dr Warburg,a nobel prize winner who spent 60 years through the first part of the 20th century studying cancer. Warburg found that regardless of any secondary influence, cancer always results from a lack of oxygen in the cells. With rigorous methodology, he repeated this finding over and over. At the time this didn't really go anywhere in terms of cure, and his research was largely overlooked. However, recent hitherto unconnected studies have found that EFAs (essential fatty acids), in particular omega 6 and omega 3, are the oxygen ‘magnets’ used by cells and are ‘essential’ to cell oxygenation.

In the past 100 years the food industry has been industriously destroying EFAs and producing processed fats which, conversely, inhibit cell oxygenation. This has satisfied the target of increasing food shelf life (fats are what gois off most quickly) without regard for food quality. Meanwhile cancer has skyrocketed!

So we have lost the good oxygenating fats and simultaneously filled our cells with damaging (oxygen repelling) fats.

The primary cancer preventative recommended by Peskin (backed by his analysis of numerous studies) is to take the right combination of omega 6 and omega 3. Peskin has developed a formula based on the occurrence of these in different cells in the bodies. He provides evidence that the body can create it’s own derivatives from ‘parent’ omega 6 (linoleic acid) and ‘parent’ omega 3 (alpha linoleic acid). Appparently only small quantities of these derivatives are required.

Peskin reviews a series of studies (not surprisingly unpublicised by the billion dollar fish oil industry) which indicate fish oil is actually harmful and says this is because it overloads the body with derivative fatty acids.

How to start right? Go to health food store and get organically grown, cold pressed flax seed oil and organically grown, cold pressed safflower oil (the latter must indicate high in linoleic acid, not oleic acid – a derivative). Mix them 1 part flax to 1 part safflower and take raw with food, 1 teaspoon twice a day. (Store in the fridge in a dark bottle). A very cheap remedy!

Meanwhile avoid anything with saturated or processed fats! (‘Vegetable oil’ on the label is a sure giveaway).

Otto Warburg also found what he termed ‘cofactors’ assisted in cell oxygenation. Today we would call these chelated minerals.

You will find more information and can order the book at www.brianpeskin.com

re: My Doctor's Advice

Rose Tomson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:38:26 GMT

I used a natural progesterone cream for a few years following the menopause and developed endometrial cancer which resulted in a hysterectomy. I have no idea whether this cream helped or hindered the situation.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Mary Sweeney — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:55:42 GMT

The diary is v interesting Sue - and I wish you the best in your journey. I lost my mother to ovarian cancer in 2004 after an 11-year battle - truly was a battle in her case. They forgot to call her back for chemotherapy after a hysterectomy and the remaining cells ravaged her bowel. Endless hospitals, operations, tons of chemo, and various stoma operations were the rest of her end days. Not pleasant.

Spending most of my teenage life in hospitals visiting her (and my father when he had bowel cancer when i was 17, full recovery, in remission) kinda left quite an impression on me. I am now vegan, as I want to live as healthily as possible and not become victims as my parents were.

Some say diseases have spiritual and emotional origins as well - have you looked into that? Louise Hay and Caroline Myss are good places to start.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Mary Sweeney — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:58:30 GMT

ps - Neil, I love your post. Succinctly sums up what I read about when the doctors told my mother to go home and die as they could do no more for her. I would like to re-post your msg on my blog if I may, as it explains in brief how important oxygen is for cancer prevention.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Mary Sweeney — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:15 GMT

Sorry - one more thing! Carctol - look that up. I got some for my mother, but she fell unconscious the day it arrived. It's sitting under my bed. Making the body more alkaline is very important, which Carctol does - it's a blend of herbs that makes the body more alkaline, which cancer cells hate. Also look up Essiac, another herbal remedy.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Susan Insole — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:42:17 GMT

I have whole pages dedicated to Essiac, essential oils, B17, and nutritional advice on my website so you may want to check that out. I will definitely look up carctol. Thanks for that. I am always researching for information on the web regarding cancer.

re: My Doctor's Advice

Hand Surgeon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:16:55 GMT

Good post, but have you thought about Doctor's Advice before?