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"Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore? Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"It is unique in that it offers a complete integration of treatment modalities under one roof—from surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy to naturopathy, mind-body medicine, and nutrition. It has some of the best practitioners I have ever met, including one of my most respected resources, Tim Birdsall, N.D., a naturopathic oncologist. It has hospitals in Philadelphia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Zion, Illinois; and Seattle, and its staff is friendly, supportive, and welcoming. Online Resources The Moss Reports www.ralphmoss." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"High-dose chemotherapy also arrived at a pivotal moment in the history of breast cancer and American medicine, which is particularly prone to embracing excessive treatments. It's a system that values innovation at the expense of caution, that is often swayed more by personality than by science, and that sometimes rewards daredevil doctors at the expense of patients. In the case of high-dose chemo, insurers unwittingly made the treatment a feminist cause by refusing to pay for it." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Researchers in the physiotherapy department at King's College, London, administered a cognitive-behavioral pain management program for patients experiencing chronic pain after cancer treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. A group of patients, most of whom had suffered from breast cancer, were taught cognitive and relaxation techniques and exercise training. They met with a therapist only an average of ten times." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Virtually all of the drugs that we take (medicinal, recreational, chemotherapy, whatever) are processed, purified, and refined in the liver—in preparation for elimination from the body. • Alcohol causes inflammation of the liver's tissue. Once the liver is inflamed, it can no longer filter, which causes it to plug up with fat and become even more inflamed. If we consume enough alcohol, we overwhelm the liver's ability to regenerate itself, and the net result is citrhosis (or hardening) of the liver. • Toxins, heavy metals, and pesticides." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"It was certainly a far more attractive alternative than low-dose chemotherapy, which has often been used to treat MS in the past. The success of Tysabri, which was also being tested for efficacy in treating Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, is based on its ability to bind to a protein on immune-system cells, preventing them from traveling to the brain, where they can then pass into the nervous system and cause the brain and spine lesions that lead to MS symptoms." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"If taken with chemotherapy, these response rates improved by 12 to 28 percent. Maitake inhibits chemical carcinogenesis, that is, chemicals to which we are exposed to in our food, water, and air, or occupationally that can initiate the cancerous process. One study shows that maitake protects healthy cells from becoming cancerous. Twenty five week-old mice were injected in the back only once with a carcinogenic substance (3-MCA, methylcholanthrene). Beginning on the 15th day after the injection, 10 of the mice were fed 0.2 mg of Maitake D-fraction for 15 consecutive days." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"A small study of 15 children taking chemotherapy for bone marrow transplants found that one third of all patients who used a homeopathic preparation called Traumeel S as a mouth rinse did not get stomatitis. Also, 93% of the control patients who received no homeopathic remedy had progressive stomatitis." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Fortunately, the therapeutic horizon for adjuvant chemotherapy has moved away from "killing" cancers to rendering their biology less malignant. The heuristic is lagging. There have been recent reviews of the spectrum of benign breast disorders (Santen and Mansel 2005; Arpino et al. 2005). There are many changes that occur in the normal breast with aging that have no significance but to confound all attempts to find the early malignancy." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"And as a result, most chemotherapy patients eventually give in to conventional medicine and end up generating these stratospheric profits for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture chemotherapy agents. Diabetes is caused (and reversed) by food choice Diabetes is another disease that is primarily caused by dietary factors. Diabetes is caused by the consumption of soft drinks, high fructose corn syrup, refined white sugars, refined white flour, processed grains, processed carbohydrates, and other processed foods." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "Those treatments include chemotherapy, radiation, surgical procedures, and prescription drugs. chemotherapy, as you know, is extremely profitable. These drugs can cost six figures a year for the average person, and yet typically offer little or no benefit in terms of lifespan or quality of life. But they are heavily marketed. The drug manufacturers heavily influence doctors to keep pushing these onto patients." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Certain conditions can bring on hiccoughs such as: drinking a cold drink while eating a hot meal eating hot or highly spiced foods eating too quickly coughing consuming alcoholic beverages in excess smoking crying pregnancy certain prescription drugs such as chemotherapy tumours or kidney disease electrolyte imbalances like hypokalemia or hyponatremia Hiccoughs are said to help dislodge food particles that are stuck in the throat. When a large piece of food is swallowed and our natural swallowing reflex is taxed, pressure is put on the phrenic nerve which stimulates the hiccough." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Her rheumatologist worried about the ramifications of having her on a roller coaster of prednisone and decided to try Imuran, a chemotherapy medication that suppresses the immune system in general, which he and Joy had been hoping to avoid since it carries with it a heightened risk of lymphoma and leukemia. She stayed on Imuran for fifteen months. At that point she seemed stable enough that her doctor began to wean her off it, but suddenly she had another severe flare—her joints swelled and she developed pleurisy, an inflammation of the lining of the lungs. She began having severe migraines." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"It also counteracts chemotherapy nausea," contends Wilson. "There's a lot of uses for it, some that can't be mentioned on camera," Wilson told me when I first interviewed him in Miami. "Just remember: it makes everything sweeter." When, in a subsequent phone conversation, I asked for clarification, he answered forthrightly: "Girls like it a lot because it makes their boyfriends really sweet. They're very candid about why they buy it. One girl said, 'When I suck his dick it's sweet as honey' I even caught my neighbor robbing berries off my bush at two a.m." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In the 30 humans involved in the study all of the pain and side effects associated with the cancer disappeared within three days and the tumors began to shrink, although the longer the patient had participated in chemotherapy, the longer it took him or her to react to the pH therapy.17 I am not suggesting that people with cancer avoid chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or cancer surgery. If you have cancer, you should consult a physician to determine the best course of treatment for your particular form of cancer." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"National Cancer Institute) testing a combination of enzymes and nutrition as an alternative to chemotherapy. "Wobenzym N gives you the same effects as aspirin, ibuprofen, and NSAIDs without any of the side effects," Gordon says. "When you take NSAIDs [nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Advil], you're suppressing key parts of your body that could have helped you heal. With Wobenzym N you're getting at causes, not merely the suppression of the pain. The differences are dramatic." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"People whose tumors mysteriously shrink prior to chemotherapy don't credit their own efforts at, say, positive visualizations, but instead exclaim, "It must be that shiny-headed doctor."80 Others were critical for more basic reasons: at least one standard randomized trial had suggested that in fact all these efforts to cure cancer through an honest reckoning of the repressed issues in one's life made no difference. Women with breast cancer who went through Bernie Siegel's ECaP program turned out to have died at the same rate after ten years of follow-up as a group of matched controls." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Siegel told of two oncologists chatting about a study they were participating in to test a combination of four chemotherapy drugs, which had the initials EPHO. One doctor's patients were doing spectacularly well; three quarters of them were responding to the drugs. But only a quarter of the other doctor's patients were improving. Then the first doctor explained that he had simply rearranged the letters of the drugs so they spelled HOPE. People in the audience listening to Dr. Siegel were blown away by this. Robert Buckman was one of them." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "By the mid-1990s, the word was out on the street that, to maximize one's chance of recovery from cancer, a person should be prepared to undergo not just sessions of chemotherapy or radiation but also regular sessions of bonding with other cancer patients. Here is how one patient, looking back in 1999, remembered that time: When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, a number of well-meaning friends and family members suggested that I join a support group. " - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Melatonin also seems to help reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy as well as some of the complications from it. One study divided thirty people who had advanced brain tumors into two groups and treated one with radiation therapy and the other with radiation therapy plus 20 mg of melatonin. After a year, only one of the sixteen (6 percent) in the radiation-only group was still alive compared to six of the fourteen (43 percent) in the radiation plus melatonin group. Reboot Your Brain Then there's melatonin's most famous use— helping to regulate sleep." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "In 1997, a blue ribbon panel at the National Institutes of Health issued a statement on acupuncture that said, in part: "[Promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"One of the consequences of chemotherapy is neutropenia, a decrease in white blood cells called neutrophils that can leave patients dangerously vulnerable to infection. A study of animals demonstrated that orally administered Ashwagandha extract protected against this decline in infection-fighting neutrophils. (Gupta YK, Sharma SS, Rai K, Katiyar CK. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 2001 Apr;45(2):253-7). Another animal study investigated Ashwagandha extract's effects in normalizing the immune-suppressing effects of chemotherapy." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"The Surrey Cancer Clinic recommended radiation for pain and then chemotherapy because they found it in my liver. They insisted basically without chemo it was no use seeing them anymore! I took five treatments of radiation and no chemo, as I'd seen many friends after chemo and that seems to be of no help. I still go to the cancer clinic every three months for check-ups. My blood test tumor marker was at 85 in January 1998 and had gone down to 48 in June 1998. I am still taking morphine for pain, but I firmly believe without Flor-Essence I would not be here today." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"By evening, Diane had been wheeled back to the Dana-Farber, where she would receive her first doses of chemotherapy. "We were being watched like a hawk," Peters recalls. Other doctors at the Dana-Farber were dubious that a woman could stand the punishing doses of chemotherapeutic drugs—roughly ten times the standard dose—but Diane proved them wrong. She weathered the side effects of the chemo, even as it wiped out her bone marrow. But the treatment's effect on her monstrous tumor seemed nothing short of miraculous. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"As a result, they are more likely to conduct research on chemotherapy rather than on herbal treatments for cancer. It follows inevitably that the body of published research, even with its sample biases, will defend the status quo. PLAN OF THE BOOK It goes without saying that medicine and the medical model, at the very heart of American culture, will not disappear. But the very act of so imagining allows us to evaluate its role: for the good—and also for the harm—it does in contemporary society. Our plan is straightforward." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In 1997, a National Institute of Health Consensus Development Conference concluded that "there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain."6 Interestingly, a common site for these practices is on hospital grounds. Our local hospital, for example, has what is called a "Center for Integrative Medicine" where one can learn about treatments disdained in the recent past." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Endometriosis, a diminished number of oocytes in the ovary, uterine abnormalities, immunologic factors, chromosomal abnormalities, environmental chemicals and toxins, and cancer chemotherapy or radiation can also cause infertility. Infertility is defined as a failure to conceive after 12 months of frequent intercourse without contraceprion in women under 35 years of age or failure to conceive after six monrhs of intercourse without contraception in women 35 years of age or older." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Medication such as anti-depressants, calcium channel blockers, chemotherapy, lithium and narcotics may interfere with the vagus nerve. • Diseases such as Parkinson's disease, hypothyroidism and multiple sclerosis. • Medical tests may find no known reason for this disturbance. What are the Symptoms of Gastroparesis?" - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Women who have been treated with chemotherapy may go into menopause either temporarily or permanently. About 30 percent of these women will have a return of their menses sometime within the first year. Irradiation of the pelvic or abdominal area can also induce menopause. Tamoxifen, another cancer drug used mostly for women who have breast cancer, can either induce menopause in premenopausal women or increase menopause symptoms in postmenopausal women. Several drugs can induce menopause that is reversible once the drugs are discontinued." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Energetic Integrator 10 is particularly susceptible to distortions correlated to physical ot emotional shock and trauma, surgeries, chemotherapy, and exposure to chemicals including asbestos, dioxins, and PCPs." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

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