Cancer is so difficult to cure because
it is so profitable to treat
CANCER THERAPY - A
New Direction
Walter Last
The present emphasis in
cancer therapy is to destroy tumours, and all research focuses on finding new ways
for doing this. However, there is little factual evidence that this approach
actually works and benefits patients, while there is mounting evidence that it
is exactly this approach that makes cancer so dangerous. In my more than 30
years of working with cancer patients I started out with this common perception
of seeing tumours as the enemy that should be destroyed but gradually, based on
experience and new independent research, my views changed.
I now regard cancer
cells and tumours as generally harmless, and the common therapies as the main
cause of cancer deaths. I believe with the right strategy no one needs to die
of cancer. Here I want to give a short overview of a proposed change in cancer
therapy.
For more than 100 years
there is increasing evidence for a microbial cause of cancer. I have written
about this in my article Pleomorphic Microbes - The Hidden Cause of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases (1). My present
understanding of the development of cancer is as follows.
Cancer may start with a primary infection which becomes chronic in a
stressed or congested part of the body or, according to Reich (2), microbial activity
may arise spontaneously from the disintegration of unhealthy tissue. The body
limits the infestation by encapsulating it, or alternatively we may regard
tumour formation as a biofilm which microbes use to protect themselves from the
immune system. This is similar to trees forming bark tumours when stung by
certain wasps. As long as the blood is reasonably clean, a tumour is just a
tumour, not malignant and not a cancer.
However, if the immune system is under constant attack as from intestinal
dysbiosis, Candida, toxins invading the blood due to
Leaky Gut Syndrome, stressful events such as emotional trauma, or subconscious
fear and shock due to a cancer diagnosis, then the blood becomes infested with
dangerous (pleomorphic) microbes. Now also any more
or less dormant microbes inside the tumour become active. Cancer-causing
microbes produce metabolites that block the oxidative energy production of
affected cells. Seeger and Budwig showed that there
is a blockage of the cytochrome system. In addition
there may be a blockage of the citric acid cycle by fungal tartaric acid
(3) which competes with malic acid. Cancer microbes
also produce growth hormones which cause the tumour to expand.
In any case, pleomorphic microbes increasingly
block the oxidative energy production of affected cells and they start
producing energy anaerobically similar to fungi. Also
tumour cells begin to look like fungal cells.
Now the tumour is malignant but still contained. This situation may
persist for years with the tumour slowly growing, shrinking, or becoming
dormant for long periods, depending on the vitality of the body, the strength
of the immune system, and especially the acid-alkaline balance or pH of the
lymphatic system. The more the oxidative energy production of tumours is
blocked the more lactic acid is produced, the more malignant they are, and the
faster they grow and metastasise. However, and this is of vital importance,
tumours cannot grow in an alkaline environment.
Cancer cells look, behave, metabolise and spread just like fungi. We can
see this in comparison to Candida. Normally it is just a harmless and possibly
even beneficial intestinal yeast, but when it comes under existential pressure
it transforms into a dangerous and invasive fungal form. It is the same with
cancer cells. When tumours come under increasing pressure from a worsening
microbial presence or from aggressive medical treatment then they become
locally invasive and also tend to form distant metastases.
The trend in modern medicine is to remove even very small tumours. This
causes already present dormant micro-metastases to spring into life years
earlier than they would otherwise have done, leading to an earlier death
(4), especially in younger individuals with strong inflammatory reactions.
Whether conventional tumour treatment leads to metastasis does not depend on
the size of the tumour or its conventionally assigned stage or malignancy but
rather on the microbial condition of the blood and especially the lymphatic pH
(acidity). If conventional treatment is successful in the long-term this means
that the tumour was harmless anyway in regard to microbial presence.
However, even metastases do not normally kill. Tumours only rarely kill
directly by pressing on vital structures, instead more commonly indirectly if
they are attacked by tumour-destroying treatment or by an improved immune
system and release large amounts of toxins. This then causes death due to
massive inflammations and infections often resulting in death from lung
infections, heart or liver failure. It does not matter if conventional or
natural therapies have been used to cause these inflammations. Most cancer
patients with metastases who survive the initial treatments die years later
from cachexia - severe weight-loss and muscle wasting
due to progressive anaemia from the destruction of erythrocytes or red blood
cells by fungal-type blood microbes.
From this we see that there are three possible ways of dying from cancer:
·
Rarely a tumour becomes too large and obstructs
vital organ functions
·
Immune attacks and toxins released by a
disintegrating tumour cause massive inflammations
·
Most erythrocytes are disabled by blood microbes and
unable to supply oxygen
Preventing Cancer
Deaths
If we can prevent these three events then there will be no deaths from
cancer. A recent study shows the general principle how this can be done, even
in a conventional setting with chemotherapy. This is based on the idea not to
destroy the tumour but just give enough chemotherapy to keep it from growing
any further. The researcher
(5) stated: "With a mouse ovarian
cancer model, if you treat it with a very high dose, the tumour goes away. It
looks like you’ve cured it. But a couple weeks later it comes back and starts
killing animals. This is a standard outcome. What we did is use smaller doses
of drugs and applied them when necessary. We were able to keep tumours stable
and mice alive indefinitely."
Instead of using chemotherapy, alkalizing is the method of choice in
natural medicine to stabilize a tumour and keep it from growing any further. For a tumour to spread it needs to
dissolve the surrounding connective tissue but that can happen only if the
tissue is sufficiently acidic to activate the proteolytic
enzymes of the tumour. A 2009
study (6) shows that oral sodium bicarbonate not only inhibits the
growth of tumours and the formation of spontaneous metastases in mouse models of
metastatic breast cancer, it also reduces the rate of lymph node involvement
and hepatic metastases.
These findings were confirmed and surpassed in a January
2013 (7) study which shows in detail how oral bicarbonate not only stops
tumour growth but can also shrink tumours. Bicarbonate alkalises the lymph fluid and inhibits
inflammation so that a gradually shrinking tumour does not cause a problem as long as alkalinity is maintained.
This study provides
fascinating details about tumour growth as a function of acidity. Measurements
inside malignant tumours showed an acidic pH of 6.5 – 6.9 compared to normal
tissue with a pH of 7.2 - 7.4 (pH 7 is neutral). A tumour expanded into the
surrounding tissue only where the pH at the edge of the tumour was lower than
7.2. When one side of the tumour had a pH of 6.7 and the other side 7.3, then
the tumour would shrink at the side of the higher pH and expand into the tissue
at the side with the lower pH. Within a few days
tumours were actually visibly moving around according to the acid-alkaline
balance of their environment.
In untreated mice the whole
tumour and its surrounding tissue were acidic with the lowest pH (6.57) at the
edge of the tumour, while in treated mice the whole tumour and its surrounding
tissue were alkaline with the highest pH (7.26) at the edge of the tumour.
Untreated tumours on average doubled in diameter between days 2 and 16 after
transplanting, while those treated with sodium bicarbonate grew slowly up to
day 8 and then started shrinking to about half that size, but one of four
tumours had already completely dissolved by day 12. The amount of sodium
bicarbonate used was 17 grams per litre of water, and the mice could drink as
much as they liked.
Besides alkalizing
tissue and stopping tumour invasion, oral sodium bicarbonate has another
beneficial effect. This is an increased concentration of carbon dioxide in
blood and tissues, and is called the Bohr effect. It allows more oxygen to be
released from haemoglobin into tissues, and especially into cancer cells. This
would also be important when treating cachexia,
fatigue and muscle pain.
The Bohr effect explains
why tumours shrank in this study at the alkaline side. It is easy to understand
why tumours grew at the acid side which is due to the activation of proteolytic enzymes. Tumour cells usually die only at a pH
above 7.5, and very fast at pH 8. But in this study the pH inside the tumour
remained below 7.3. So why did the tumour shrink at the alkaline side? There
are capillaries inside the tumour. In an untreated tumour or at the acidic side
of the tumour the carbon dioxide concentration is very low. Therefore no or
little oxygen is released from the blood in the capillaries. However, in
bicarbonate-treated tumours or at their alkaline side the carbon dioxide
concentration is much higher, and a fair amount of oxygen is released which can
now normalise the oxygen metabolism of tumour cells, converting them back to
normal tissue cells. This is what causes tumours to shrink at the side exposed
to bicarbonate.
Recently I had a
demonstration how different treatment options tend to play out. In October 2012
a woman with whom I was corresponding was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung cancer
(the last stage before dying). She had a large tumour in her right lung, and a
lot of fluid in lungs and heart. At the same time a famous cricket player and
commentator, Tony Greig, was diagnosed with Stage 1
lung cancer and a small malignant lesion in his right lung. He had surgery and
other conventional treatment. By January Tony Greig
had died of cardiac arrest as a result of his treatment, while the woman who
used alkalising and antimicrobial therapy had no more fluid, the heart was in
excellent condition, results of blood tests were extremely healthy, and she
felt great. The tumour was still the same size as when it was originally
scanned, but one year after diagnosis she was free of tumours or cancer.
Shrinking
Tumours Safely
An interesting presentation by Gershom
Zajicek (Professor of Experimental Medicine and
Cancer Research) “Treatment
accelerates tumor growth” (8) explains recent
research showing the futility and danger of trying to remove or reduce tumours
with conventional therapies because afterwards either metastases develop or
tumours regrow at an increased rate. Especially chemotherapy
(9) was found to make tumours metastasize and grow massively in size
afterwards. As a result, the drugs killed the patients more quickly. When
tumours are stressed they produce stem cells and from these new cancer cells
that are much more malignant and resistant to therapy than they were
pre-treatment. Conventional medicine disguises these facts with statistics by
detecting and removing increasingly smaller and harmless tumours that would
never have posed a threat but counting them as cured cancers. Furthermore,
deaths after cancer treatment are often assigned to other causes, and this
reduces the statistical cancer death rate.
Unfortunately many
natural therapies create problems as well. This is basically the case with all
therapies that destroy tumours and generate powerful inflammations in the
process. Examples of this are the Gerson therapy,
hyperthermia, or when destroying breast tumours with black salve or similar
remedies. While these are usually more successful than conventional medical
therapies, they also can lead to disaster, and younger and healthier
individuals have the most problems because their immune systems produce the
strongest inflammations.
Even destroying tumours
by infusion of sodium bicarbonate as with the Simonchini
method is dangerous and can cause inflammation and death. Such problems with
natural methods could easily be avoided by using in addition anti-inflammatory
measures such as maintaining oral
alkalizing, antimicrobial therapy, and possibly periods of under-eating or
fasting.
Even conventional
research now shows that fasting
(10) blocks tumour growth, and that periodic
fasting (11) is much more effective than unrestricted food intake or
permanent restriction. The advantage of fasting is that it shrinks tumours
without causing inflammation because when the body lacks food it just uses
unhealthy tissue and tumours as energy source. An added benefit is that the
food restriction also suppresses microbial activity. Some famous cancer cures
such as the Breuss Cure or the Grape Cure use this
principle.
Another way of shrinking
and possibly eliminating tumours without creating inflammations is by strongly
alkalizing, as with cesium chloride or with very high
amounts of sodium bicarbonate to keep the urine for several days or weeks above
pH 8. But these therapies can also cause problems, and in most cases I see no
need to go to extremes. However, they can be life-saving with large tumours of
the pancreas or brain that obstruct vital functions, and are never cured by
surgery.
Proteolytic enzymes are frequently used in
natural medicine as they help to remove protein debris and shrink tumours while
at the same time inhibiting inflammations. Favourites are bromelain and papain.
In addition the fibrinolytic enzymes nattokinase and serrapeptase inhibit
excessive blood clumping or hypercoagulation
(12) which is needed for metastases to form.
I believe the most
convenient and reliable treatment is to keep tumours initially stable with alkalizers (13),
e.g. using sodium bicarbonate and potassium citrate spread out during the day,
and subsequently shrink tumours gradually without causing inflammation. This
can be done with a combination of alkalizing, antimicrobial therapy, proteolytic enzymes and periodic raw-food fasting.
A remaining problem is
still the treatment of individuals who used conventional treatment and are now
dying from cachexia. Videos ('Humoral Pathology' and 'Symbiosis or Parasitism') made with Grayfield
microscopy (14) show very clearly that with late-stage cancer most of the
erythrocytes are heavily infested with microbes and unable to function. This
obviously calls for antimicrobial therapy combined with oxygen therapy. Also
individuals with AIDS, TB and various autoimmune diseases frequently die of cachexia which again shows that this condition is not
caused by tumours but rather by microbes.
Growth
Promoters and Inhibitors
To keep a tumour stable it is also important to minimize growth
promoters. The main growth promoter is inflammation which can be controlled
with antimicrobial therapy, alkalizing, fasting, proteolytic
enzymes, antioxidants and anti-inflammatory herbs. Other common growth
promoters are polyunsaturated oils, phosphates or foods high in phosphorus, and
sugar, sweet juices, cereals and grain products, especially more highly refined
varieties, because all of these increase inflammation. Easily digestible
carbohydrates are so harmful with cancer because they are the main food for
cancer cells and microbes. More glucose means more lactic acid and higher
acidity, and this in turn means more inflammation and stronger tumour growth.
Another common growth promoter is insulin-like growth factor-1, or IGF-1,
in cow's milk. While it can stimulate the growth of all tumours, it especially
affects those of the breasts, prostate, lungs and colon. It may be no
coincidence that these are also the most frequent cancers. A universal tumour
growth promoter is chronic stress of any kind, be it emotional, nutritional or
environmental.
Fresh vegetables and their juices, and especially green-leaf vegetables,
beetroot and wheatgrass juice have been shown to be able to improve the oxygen
metabolism of cancer cells, and therefore make them less malignant and possibly
normal. More recently this has also been shown for MSM or dimethylsulfone.
MSM is interesting in
that it gives another hint of what makes cells malignant. Melanoma
(15) cells of a particularly aggressive strain were treated with a 2% MSM
solution. After one day of exposure the cells had become completely normal and
remained so indefinitely. However DMSO did not normalize these cells. The only
difference between MSM and DMSO is an additional oxygen in MSM. I interpret
this to mean that MSM had been enzymatically reduced
to DMSO, and the liberated oxygen was in a form that repaired the oxidative
energy metabolism of the melanoma cells. This confirms the results of the
mentioned bicarbonate study that cancer cells and normal cells can easily be
converted into each other by either blocking or restoring the oxidative energy
metabolism. However, in actual therapy blood microbes may need to be controlled
as well.
DMSO is frequently used as a
carrier in conventional chemotherapy or in antiviral therapy because of its
ability to easily enter affected cells. With
cancer it specifically zooms in on malignant cells and can be used to carry
remedies along, this is especially good for treating brain tumours which are
otherwise difficult to reach. There are also reports of an anti-cancer
effect of DMSO on its own. It is
apparently beneficial with many cancers such as breast, lung and prostate
cancers, lymphomas, and it also normalised leukaemia cells. In one recent study
(16) with highly invasive lung cancer
cells the authors wrote: "We found that DMSO can significantly inhibit
cancer cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and colony formation
capabilities". DMSO also caused cancer cells to die naturally and it has
been shown to protect against radiation damage, especially in regard to cancer
treatment.
There are indications that the DMSO-MSM pair can act as an
additional oxygen delivery system to cells. This is especially important with
advanced cancer and cachexia but also with chronic
fatigue and fibromyalgia or muscle pain. Within the body DMSO and MSM
apparently can be converted into each other. In the oxygen-rich lungs some DMSO
is oxidised to MSM, and in oxygen-starved tissue, such as tumours, MSM gives
off oxygen by being reduced to DMSO. The same oxygen-delivering effect into
tissues with anaerobic metabolism occurs with the redox pair ascorbate-dehydroascorbate (DHA). In this case the beneficial remedy
actually is not vitamin C but oxidized vitamin C.
The oxygen released by MSM or DHA inside tumours or other
anaerobic tissue is highly reactive and forms hydrogen peroxide, which is also
formed by the immune system to kill microbes. With this it is now clear that
MSM and DHA deliver oxygen exactly where it is most needed and, if used in
sufficiently high amounts kill the microbes that are at the root of tumour
development, and also supply the oxygen to restart the oxidative energy
metabolism, thereby normalising cancer cells.
In addition to using
high oral doses of sodium ascorbate and MSM (e.g. 2 to 3 tsp each in divided
doses), it will be beneficial to use a topical solution of MSM in DMSO. MSM may
be dissolved in DMSO at a rate of up to 34 grams per 100 ml. For breast cancer,
melanomas and other tumours close to the skin this solution may be diluted 2 :
1 or 1:1 with water and frequently rubbed onto the skin or kept as a pack over
the tumour site until it appears to normalize. Also see More Energy &
Less Disease with Vitamin
C and MSM.
Remaining
Questions
A main problem with
antimicrobial therapy is the uncertainty of deciding which remedies are best to
clean the blood, and in which dosages and combinations, and for how long to use
them. This could easily be assessed with live blood analysis (LBA) but
therapists who use LBA commonly do not see a sufficient number of cancer
patients for meaningful comparisons. Furthermore, the most effective remedies
against pleomorphic microbes are banned or under
attack from health authorities in most western countries, and it may be risky
to research in this area.
Perhaps a common
databank could be established. Also other aspects would need to be
investigated, such as the influence of intestinal dysbiosis,
Leaky Gut Syndrome, and root-canal fillings on blood microbes, and how best to
normalize conditions. There is evidence that cleaning the blood will also
gradually eliminate tumours or keep them dormant. This, too, needs to be
confirmed or further researched to find the causes of any failures. Until we
have a reliable protocol I recommend using a wide variety of broad-spectrum
antimicrobials with good antifungal properties in different combinations and
dosages as detailed in The Ultimate
Cleanse (17), and with the addition of an electronic blood purifier or
suitable frequency device and, of course, alkalizing to keep urine above pH 7.
In Germany also isopathic remedies for the Enderlein Therapy are readily available. For a detailed program see Overcoming
Cancer (18).
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