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Rons Health Information Message 0001 - 03/13/2006
Update re Vitamin C - 11/07/2006 - See the section about Vitamin C below.
Over the last few years, I have become acquainted with a number of resources related to fighting cancer as well as other diseases. Also, because I have lost some friends and family to cancer, I have a particular interest in fighting it. I am not a doctor, but merely an interested party. I felt impressed to send this message in the hopes that it may help others dealing with this and other health issues. These are opinions I've formed after doing a substantial amount of reading on the subject. Check out the references and make your own decisions. You must do your own research to determine if these leads will help you. Unfortunately, there's no magic bullet here, but it should point you in the right direction. If you follow through on it, in the way appropriate to your circumstances, you will be healthier and happier. Standard caveat These are my opinions only, based on my research. I am not a doctor, nor a "health professional" of any kind. Use at your own discretion and risk. Please pass this on to anyone you think would be interested.
There are several things you need to know about cancer, or other chronic diseases, and health.
1) Your immune system is one of the BEST, if not THE BEST possible defenses against any disease. It is an enormously complex automated and ADAPTIVE system designed by GOD to keep you healthy. In general, your immune system can detect and fight against almost any disease. The best way to stay healthy, and stay away from the doctor's office, is to keep your immune system healthy, and it will keep you healthy. The best way to recover from illness, when possible, is to balance your immune system, strengthening where necessary, toning down where necessary, and let it do the job it was intended for. Therapies which damage or weaken the immune system, including, in many cases, chemo and radiation therapy, should be the last resort, not the first resort. There is no intrinsic reason for humans to be unhealthy. We are the only chronically ill life form on the planet.
2) Your immune system is your ally, and you want to protect and support it. There are many things which can weaken your immune system, including many types of toxins and germs. However, there is one thing which you cannot see in a beaker or a microscope. That item is STRESS. It has been scientifically proven that stress releases chemicals into the bloodstream which literally DESTROY your immune system. So, if you're continuously or frequently under stress, you are LITERALLY killing yourself. You need to make it a priority to do something about that. You've heard the quote "laughter is the best medicine". Well, there may be scientific basis for that.
3) You need to avoid toxins. Although you may know about the following, I just became aware of it so I'm passing it along. There are many toxins, but one you may be being exposed to and not aware of it is aspertame. This is the artificial sweetener in Nutra-Sweet and it has been used in Diet Coke, may still be, read the label. Cannot detail here, but you just need to stay away from this stuff. (The same is true for other artificial sweeteners.) It is extremely toxic and can be deadly. Here are two quotes from the Dr. Jon website (see below). See the diet coke = death death link. Don't drink Diet Coke, and don't use artificial sweeteners!
--> Inexorably Diet Coke visits a plague of 92 symptoms listed by our FDA on a secret report they'll never show which names diet soda as the first source of aspartame disease. And yes, Death was one of the 92.
--> The poison in Diet Coke is aspartame. As a member of the National Soft Drink Association, Coke opposed FDA approval of aspartame for beverages. Their objections, running to several pages published in the Congressional Record of 5/7/85, said aspartame is uniquely and inherently unstable and breaks down in the can. It decomposes into formaldehyde, methyl alcohol, formic acid, diketopiperazine and other toxins. In a study on 7 monkeys 5 had grand mal seizures and one died, a casualty rate of 86%.
4) Put the right fuel in your body. I'm still studying this and have many changes to implement myself. However, Dr. Joel Wallach, which I reference below, has totally convinced me that it is essential to supplement food intake with vitamin and mineral supplements. You cannot get all the nutrition you need from food, particularly the types of foods we normally eat. Find some good vitamins that are appropriate for you and take them. Particularly, study Vitamin C and other anti-oxidants. See Dr. Jon's website (below). (NOTE Dr. Jon has a huge alternative medicine website. That is his pen name, and I don't think he's a doctor. He also has a crude sense of humor. If you go exploring, you will find some vulgar humor and pictures on the site. He generally warns you first, but there is a picture of a cat flipping a bird to politicians on the main page. I wouldn't view the site with your kids. I don't condone the crudeness, but the health data is very interesting though. Use it for what it's worth.) You can try this link http://preventionforever.com/ . If you or anyone you know have cancer, read this http://preventionforever.com/stopcancer.htm and http://preventionforever.com/cancer.htm . Also check out this link for more information on Vitamin C http://preventionforever.com/ccancer.htm . Here is an interesting quote from this article
---> Almost all animals except the primate (ape) family, which includes humans, produce vitamin C as required within their own bodies. The production of vitamin C in all these other animals is dramatically increased when the animal is stressed with disease or other factors. This is also why most animals can safely eat meat and other food that is "spoiled" for human consumption. The vitamin C that they produce in their body protects them from the bacterial overload in such foods. What does this tell you about the human need for vitamin C when under stress of disease or other factors? We can't produce it in our bodies on demand.
---> As a further matter of interest, a 150 pound ape in a zoo requires a minimum of 4 grams of vitamin C per day just for health maintenance. Since this ape has exactly the same need for vitamin C as humans, isn't it amazing that the FDA and the AMA think we humans only need .075 grams a day? And apes supposedly aren't under as much stress as we humans. Who's correct? You be the judge.
(Update on Vitamin C - 11/07/06 - I have found data that indicates large doses of Vitamin C can reduce critical levels of metals in the body such as copper, manganese, and zinc. It is possible that it may also reduce calcium. I have therefore reduce my daily intake to 2000 mg. You may wish to consult a nutritionist or naturopathic doctor prior to using large daily doses. The original data below is retained for archival purposes.)
When I'm on my preferred vitamin regimen, I take a multi-vitamin and about 4000 mg (4 grams) of Vitamin C every day. I cannot prove it, but I believe I stay healthier. I have read somewhere that you cannot overdose on Vitamin C, and that your body throws off what is unneeded. The converse of that is that it demands more C when it is needed. If the C is not available in the blood stream, your health will suffer. Better to have it there than not. I have also read that, if someone is taking large doses of C and then quits, they can develop the symptoms of scurvy. I think this applies particularly to kids. So, you want to transition into and out of Vitamin plans slowly. Note that dosages, even for high dose alternative health plans, are usually different for kids 12 and under.
Again, it is CRITICAL that you read the relevant data and make your own decisions based on your circumstances.
Here are some options for multi-vitamins. Of course, there are MANY more. I like the high-potency variety with herbs and minerals. Note, some herbs may conflict with some immune system supplements and therapies. The RDA (recommended daily allowance from the government) used to be the MINIMUM RDA, not the maximum. The minimums are way too low for serious health changes in many cases. You will have a hard time even finding a Vitamin C supplement lower than 250 mg.
- search for More Than A Multiple by American Health Products. There is also More Than A Multiple Iron Free version. I've used this product. I have only two misgivings about it. First, you have to take 3 pills per day. This is good for evening out your metabolism but the bottle empties rather quickly. The cost runs about $1 / day. My other misgiving is that I found Sorbitol on the label. This is an artificial sweetener and those are, in general, harmful.You might also check out the Solgar vitamin brand. They are highly regarded. Check out http://www.wholefoods.com/ . Their website says they are the World's leading natural and organic foods supermarket. They have locations in many states http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list_allstores.html including 7 in the Atlanta area where I am. They also have their own brand of multivitamins similar to the Solgar. For young kids and teens, look for products just for them or adjust the dosage of others. Of course, you can always go with something like a name brand such as Centrum. I tend to avoid these and similar ones since they are not usually high potency, they usually follow the RDA which is too low for most things. They also frequently have dyes and sugars.
5) There ARE alternatives. MANY people have recovered from cancer and other chronic diseases by using alternative methods. In many cases, it is NOT necessary to undergo chemo or radiation therapy and endure the side effects, which are almost worse than the disease, including loss of hair, anemia, nausea, and susceptibility to other diseases. One example is Dr. Day, described below. I think the Christian author Larry Burkette also survived cancer by natural methods. One of the biggest problems with these types of therapy, is that they tend to destroy the immune system, the very system which will help you recover from the disease and prevent you from getting others.
6) YOU must seek out the alternatives. You will not be told this by most doctors, or the media. The powers that be have a huge vested interest in maintaining illness, not curing it. Cancer, and all other chronic diseases are big business. If everybody got well, it would cost the medical industry billions of dollars. Even if your doctor is not corrupt, he may have been kept ignorant by the profit driven industry. YOU must seek out a doctor which is devoted to natural drugless healing. They are hard to find but they do exist.
Get your hands on this book Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About - Kevin Trudeau - ISBN 0-9755995-1-8. It will show you why there are huge greedy and corrupt forces at work which don't want you to know about alternative ways to heal yourself. I've only read a couple of chapters, but I recommend it anyway. The author's own life was saved by an alternative treatment illegal here in the U.S. Check out his websites http://www.naturalcures.com and http://www.thewhistleblower.com . He has a newsletter which focuses in more depth on specific diseases. I can think of three problems with this book, and I don't think they should prevent anyone from reading it. 1) He's been criticized for not giving enough specific disease information in the book. There's some validity to that. However, he has to walk a very fine line to avoid being shut down. Our system is so corrupt that it can be illegal to provide truthful information about alternatives that don't involve drugs. See his website and newsletters. 2) As far as I know, it's not Christian based. So, he may recommend treatments from other cultures, like, for example, acupuncture and yoga. My take on that is that if it works, is safe, is affordable, and doesn't contradict something in the Bible, then use it. 3) He recommends a huge assortment of treatments. You cannot possibly do all of them. You're not going to engage in 200 different therapies. You do what you can. And, doing something is certainly better than doing nothing. NOTE: I went to his web site and was disappointed to find that you really cannot get any solid information without joining the website membership. I was still impressed with the book, and am considering joining the website.
7) The focus on individual diseases is largely wrong. We do research on cancer, or chronic fatigue, or aids, or etc. etc. etc. We should be focusing on basic health. New data shows that most people get cancer all the time. There is a good probability that any individual reading this has cancer cells in his or her body. These occur by mutations of normal cells and this is a routine occurrence. What most people reading this do not have, we hope, is rampant out of control cancer. The reason is that your body's immune system recognizes the cancer cells and destroys them. When cancer gets out of control, it is indicative of an unbalanced immune system which can no longer fight off the disease. Also, once cancer occurs, we focus on the tumor(s). We cut them out, or poison them, or irradiate them, and hope they don't come back. This, in and of itself, does not fix the basic health problem which allowed the cancer cells to grow in the first place. In fact, the treatment may make the individual less healthy and more susceptible to a recurrence of the disease. What is needed is to become intrinsically healthy. Once this is done, the body can and will destroy the tumors on its own. If this is not done, cancer, or some other chronic disease, is almost certain to attack.
The resources mentioned here should help you on your way to becoming more intrinsically healthy. There will always be more to learn, and many of these things require lifestyle changes which are hard to do, and I am certainly not an expert, but I am firmly convinced that going down this road leads to a better life. I am trying to do that myself, and I encourage you to do so as well. I have no financial interest in any product mentioned here. See below.
Sincerely,
Ron Frazier
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*** Strongly recommended! If you have any chronic disease, go RIGHT NOW and click this link.
http://www.drday.com/powerplan.htm
- This will allow you to view a slide show from Dr. Day with audio narration. I'll go ahead and warn you that she's selling video tapes. However, I have some of them, and it's good stuff. This is information you need to learn to become healthy.Dr. Day
This is the story of a cancer survivor - an amazing story. Everybody dealing with cancer needs to check out this website. Dr. Day had invasive breast cancer and developed a tumor the size of a grapefruit on her chest. Although terrified, she refused radiation and chemo therapy and determined to heal herself naturally. She developed a 10 step process including nutrition, prayer, exercise, sunlight, lifestyle changes, and other things.
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Recommended. Try this link out. Immune 26 info.
- amazing technology for balancing the immune system. Product name is BioChoice or Immune 26. The product is sold through network marketing, but the data is impressive. - parent company distributing BioChoice. Search the site for information on the Immune 26 product. You may also be able to find a recording on balancing the immune system, but the links seem to have changed since I first looked at it.Hyperimmune Egg - Balancing Your Immune System - Alan Schwartz, M.D.
woodlandpublishing.com - 800-777-2665 - ISBN 1-58054-361-8
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The Power Of Vitamins And Minerals
- vitamins / minerals. Search on this site and do a Google search for Dr. Joel Wallach. Try to get hold of his cassette tapes, Dead Doctors Don't Lie and Live Doctors Do Lie. Also check into his books.-----------------------------
Plague Time - Paul W. Ewald
The Free Press - Division Of Simon & Schuster - ISBN 0-684-86900-4
This book talks about why diseases develop and how they change. Take it with a grain of salt. Much of it is based on evolution. But, while evolution is not a source of the origin of life, things, including diseases, do evolve. It has some good info.
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Dr Jon's Alternative Health Website Pages - mentioned above.
Some of these items are from some alternative health web pages by a man named Dr. Jon. His pages have lots of stuff and some of it looks very useful. Other parts are probably not, or are dated. You'll have to do your own research. As my dad used to say, eat the chicken, throw away the bones. Warning, there is some very crude content here, so I suggest you don't go to those pages. He warns you which ones they are on the menu. The medical and health pages are good. Below are some quotes from his newsletter and some of the web pages.
http://preventionforever.com/ccancer.htm
Particularly look at the cancer data, as well as data on vitamin C. Vitamin C can be very useful in fighting cancer and illness in general.
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(The information in this section was posted by Ron Frazier but not created by Ron Frazier. It comes from another source.)
Dr Jon's Alternative Health Website Pages
Vitamin C's best study was probably in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Sept. 23 1972. During 102 days in winter, 407 on average 25 year old Canadians got 1 g/day + 3 g/day during the first 3 days of any illness. An identical group was given dummy pills. Compared with the vitamin C group, this dummy pill group had 40% more ill people and 58% more doctors visits, and a similar increase in prescription drug use. Statistically this was highly significant but that aspect of this study (drug use and doctors visits) was never followed up. It also was never proven wrong by other studies (Ex. Epidemiology; May '92).
According to these results, 1 g per day of vitamin C with an increase during illness would change the face of everyday medical practice.
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(The information in this section was posted by Ron Frazier but not created by Ron Frazier. It comes from another source.)
Dr Jon's Alternative Health Website Pages
From "drjoncat <drjoncat@yahoo.com>" <drjoncat@yahoo.com>
Date Thu, 09 Jan 2003 021658 -0000
Subject Dr Jon's letter The repressed cancer cure that works
There are many QUACK-clinics which prey on desperate people. The first place I would go if I had cancer would be to my colleague's clinic in Houston.
The following is an actual unedited testimony.
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Burzynski Cancer Clinic
I was away in Houston, Texas to take my brother to the Burzynski Cancer Clinic.
I would like to give you a report of my "experience" at the Burzynski Clinic SO THAT YOU, IF YOU LIKE, CAN FORWARD TO YOUR MAIL LIST. The WORLD needs to know about Dr. Burzynski,s Cancer Clinic.
Keep in mind, Dr. Burzynski discovered this cancer cure in the 70's and has been held back to the point of JAIL by the FDA, court battles, and you name it from our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. He is, now doing, FDA approved "clinical trials".
Here is my story
My brother was diagnosed with Metastatic Malignant Melanoma about 8 weeks ago. He had two tumors in his brain, PLUS MANY tumors in his lungs, liver, neck, and throughout his body with ALL lymph nodes swelled indicating possible tumors in multiple lymph nodes. He was experiencing SEVERE SWEATS EVERY NIGHT, and had a SEVERE cough wherein he could not say a complete sentence without coughing VERY hard, PLUS he had very little energy. At two m "cancer clinics", one that specialized in Melanoma, he was told he had from 3 weeks to 6 months to live. The ONLY treatment available was, FIRST, radiation to his whole head wherein he would PERMANENTLY loose ALL hair including eye brows, and eye lashes, and would be "highly susceptible to stroke" that would cripple or KILL him. SECOND, assuming he survive the radiation, he would received massive Chemotherapy to the fullest extent that his body could stand without dying for 3 to 4 months. THIRD, due to the massive Chemo he would need a bone marrow transplant from one of his two brothers to restore the damage from Chemo. The report had one section near the end of this gruesome report titled, "Alternative Treatments". It was a very short paragraph that said (and I QUOTE) " There are NO alternative treats from Metastatic Malignant Melanoma." I had learned about Dr. Burzynski via Dr. Julian Whittacker in the early 80's and had even sent money to support his legal battle, pay bonds to avoid jail by FDA. I told my brother who had decided to NOT take the radiation and Chemo, AND to just ride it out and DIE. He immediately accepted my offer to drive him to Texas.
Here in what has happened We arrived at the clinic 8/4/00. After consultation with two Oncologist and Dr. Burzynski, it was recommend that we treat the cancer orally with the Burzynski medication rather than intravenously as some patients require that do not still have good body functions and activity. The next day, 8/5/00 he(my brother - Jimmy) began taking one capsule six times per day, then 2 six times then 3 six times, etc. until eventually he will reach 12 six times per day. The reason for the slow increase is to conform with the FDA protocol, AND to allow the body to compensate for the influx of medication. Jimmy had NO, repeat NO, ill effects whatsoever from the medication. On Monday morning Jimmy noticed that the two LARGEST Swollen lymph nodes on his neck (half the size of an egg) "seemed" to be SMALLER. Jimmy had about 15 lymph nodes that you could feel swollen around his neck, under his arms, etc. Jimmy continued to increase by one capsule each day(six times). Jimmy was examined by the Oncologist on Wednesday (THIS WAS AN EXCITING DAY). As he examined Jimmy he said in an excited voice, the swelling is ALL GONE in ALL Lymph glands. He turned to the Doctor recording the findings and said, "Write, ALL swelled glands are normal", and continued to examine. We told the Doctor that Jimmy's cough seemed to be better. The cough was caused by a large tumor the size of a baseball pressing against his wind pipe. Jimmy also seemed to be feeling better. We asked the Doctor, how soon we could leave since Jimmy had NO INSURANCE and the cost of staying in a motel was fairly expensive AND I needed to get back home to my wife. He said if, everything, looked OK on Thursday 8/10 we could go home. On Thursday, another full physical found EVERYTHING AOK, Jimmy was feeling MUCH better, cough even better, sweats the same but he was sleeping better. We were then given a box FULL of bottled capsules, and headed for home.
NOW, as I write this, Jimmy just reported, NO MORE night sweats, NO, repeat NO, coughing, and he is feeling better (energy wise) than he has felt in "months". He plans to go back to work on Monday!!!!!! NOTE He is up to 9 or 10 (not sure) capsules six times per day and STILL NO side effects. He has started the diet recommended by Dr. Burzynski's Staff Dietitian which is designed so as to NOT "feed" the cancer cells.
This letter would be far too long if I began to tell how impressed we were with the HIGH professionalism we saw at the Burzynski Clinic, how impressed with staff, the building, and everything we saw. Jimmy feels that he has beat the IMPOSSIBLE odds with Burzynzki's treatment. I MUST say that MANY prayers have been prayed, and I believe God worked the "miracle" through Dr. Burzynski. We saw MANY patients that had seen similar results. One that had Throat Cancer that completely disappeared in two weeks. Please do NOT get the idea that ALL patients are cured "instantly". Most take longer. All start on the road to health "instantly", but are SO far down the road that it takes longer to get back to good health. Jimmy had only been "sick" a few months ( 2 or 3) before the symptoms began to surface, and he found he had a VERY FAST growing cancer that was spreading RAPIDLY. He was going down FAST, DAILY.
Pass this along for the SOLE PURPOSE of letting other cancer patients know that there IS AN ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT TO ANY CANCER THAT REALLY WORKS. Also, I would ask every person that will, to go to Dr. Burzynski's very detailed website, AND use the links to write your Congress Person, and Representative about a Bill that is before Congress AS WE SPEAK that will restore a parents right to decide treatment for their child. There is a your child named Thomas Navarro that is literally waiting in Houston for the Bill to pass so that he can receive Dr. Burzynski's treatment. There are NO documented records of ANY child recovering from the cancer that young Thomas has, except that Dr. Burzynski has successfully treated 7 out of 8 children with that cancer. THE PROBLEM A child cannot request alternative treatment, and the LAW says that ONLY the FDA can make that decision - the parents cannot. READ the story of Thomas Navarro. My heart goes out to him and his parents. I pray that at least ONE person will read this AND respond to their Political Representative on behalf of this child. ALSO, I pray that those is need of cancer treatment will have the opportunity to consider this cancer treatment. It has certainly worked for my brother, Jimmy. He will continue the medication for 4 to 6 months, and will return to Houston in 8 weeks for more MRI's, and CT Scans, and examinations. NOTE he will be examined and monitored by a local Doctor on a daily basis in accord with the FDA requirements on the Burzynski Clinical Trial Treatments. Hopefully, Burzynski will soon be able to practice his art EVERYWHERE, so that we can FINALLY conquer cancer. The Burzynski Website is http://www.cancermed.com
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(The information in this section was posted by Ron Frazier but not created by Ron Frazier. It comes from another source.)
Anti Cancer Drug
A friend of mine told me about a new miracle pill for CERTAIN TYPES of cancer which works by blocking the cancer cells division (as I understand it). Go to an internet search engine and type in 'gleevec' or possibly 'glivec'. I think the first one is correct but some web sites may spell it the other way. From what I can tell, this leads to an almost complete remission of symptoms in many cases for the particular cancers it's designed for. I think these are about $ 20 / pill.
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I once found a substantial amount of health information on msn.com. The links have changed since then. You could go to msn.com and search for "health" or specific diseases like cancer. In the past, they had specific pages about various diseases.