Alternative protocols I employed to fight cancer naturopathically

Gerson, Budwig, Acupuncture, Muscle testing, Quantum biofeedback

In addition to western medicine, I employed alternative protocols to not only mitigate the toxic effects of conventional treatment, but to kill cancer.

Gerson Therapy

Dr. Max Gerson developed this protocol, which incorporates an organic, vegetarian diet, raw juices, coffee enemas, and supplements as a non-toxic alternative treatment regimen for cancer and other chronic diseases. Charlotte Gerson, his daughter, created the Gerson Institute (www.gerson.org) to increase awareness of the protocol world-wide. There are two clinics (Mexico and Hungary) that are basically immersion programs. But you can educate yourself as to the principles and incorporate them into your own regimen easily enough.

I will cover the importance and details of these principles in later sections. I incorporated them and I believe they served me well… an organic (avoiding toxins), plant-based (better to survive cancer) diet with raw juices (nutritional bullet to boost immunity, help fight cancer and survive chemo) and coffee enemas (for regular detoxification). While the protocol involves having juices and coffee enemas several times a day, I didn’t find that to be practical. I continue to juice every day and have a coffee enema around once a month. Stop giggling, what are you, twelve? : )

Budwig Protocol

German biochemist Dr. Joanna Budwig developed a dietary protocol that consists of consuming flaxseed oil and quark several times a day. The theory is that these two ingredients combine to re-energize and oxygenate cells to allow them to successfully combat cancer cells. Flaxseeds contain Omega-3 fatty acids, which have been found to boost immunity, and fight cancer.¹ Omega-3s contain lignans, which are phyto-estrogens that block estrogen receptors.

My take? Avoiding toxins and ingesting Omega-3s are consistent with my own protocol. However, fish oil is 8x more effective at fighting breast cancer than flax.² I did this protocol for 6 months. My intuition tells me that this exact protocol didn’t play a big role in my miracles and frankly, I got really tired of the mixture. I do regularly use flaxseed oil on my salads and grind fresh seeds to put in my juice. I take fish oil daily. Find out more at www.budwigcenter.com

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medical protocol that is thousands of years old. It is based on balancing energy, or chi, along pathways, or meridians. Trained practitioners take pulses to determine energy imbalances and insert needles at specific points along these meridians to stimulate various physiological systems. By balancing yin and yang, acupuncture can balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. By correcting imbalances, it can improve digestion and sleep, relieve pain, and boost the immune system. It increases white blood cell counts and improves immune activity, making it useful in fighting chronic diseases. It is also very helpful at mitigating the side effects of CCT. Some feel it is even effective at defeating cancer by itself.¹

I went to a community acupuncture clinic while undergoing chemo and radiation. Such clinics make it affordable to go three times a week. I went before or after (or both) my weekly chemotherapy infusion and radiation treatments, so I got a lot of experience in finding when it worked best for me. It was so very effective in helping my body deal with the huge amount of toxicity I was subjecting it to.

I honestly don’t think I could have made it through the number and intensity of treatments I endured without it. And I don’t think I could have killed the sheer numbers of tumors without those treatments so, both were needed. Chemo and radiation to kill the tumors… and acupuncture to survive those. I feel it helped me with nausea and appetite, fatigue, insomnia, protecting my organs from toxicity, the pain of radiation, and keeping my blood counts up.

A year after cancer treatment, I still could not use my right leg effectively because of neuropathy. Physical therapy had not been effective. I had kind of pictured that my healed broken hip must be pinching a nerve somewhere because my leg was semi-paralyzed. I went in to my acupuncturist for a general energy-balancing tune-up and mentioned it. He said, “Well, if it’s CIPN (chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy) and not a pinched nerve, I can treat it.” I said, “Go for it.” (because every doctor had told me CIPN was permanent). He spent an hour and a half on me and incorporated ‘cupping’ for the first time. I walked out of there cured of my neuropathy and paralysis, went skiing that afternoon, and could suddenly ski moguls again! I love acupuncture!

Acupuncture vs. Cancer: Re-Engaging the Body’s Immune System

Muscle Testing and your higher healing self

Has a chiropractor or osteopathic doctor ever performed a resistance exercise on you (raising your arms against applied pressure, for example)? That’s muscle testing or, applied kinesiology. I have to admit, the first time I did it, it tripped the ‘woo-woo’ alarm. Preposterous, I thought! Until it wasn’t. Sometimes, they ‘calibrate’ you by having you say something you know to be true and perform the exercise and then with something you know to be false. Damned if it isn’t right… every time. And I can’t consciously over-ride or trick it.

Basically the principle is that your subconscious knows what is good for you and what isn’t based on quantum physics, the vibrational frequencies of substances and how they resonate with yours. Like acupuncture, it is based on energy pathways in our bodies, imbalances of which can indicate, and sometimes cause, deleterious health conditions. It is used to diagnose and treat those imbalances, as well as nervous system problems and nutritional deficiencies or excesses. I began to open my mind to it around the time that I grasped the concept of a ‘higher healing self’ who knows best how to help your body heal.

Your brain is a supercomputer subconsciously calculating things your conscious mind isn’t always aware of. Some call this intuition. I have gained an absolute trust in my intuition, or higher healing self, to know what is best for me. I access that knowledge by asking…through meditation and muscle testing.

I use it to determine which substances my body needs, what brand, or in what dosages. Say I am in a health food store choosing a supplement. I close my eyes and calibrate myself by asking known truths and falsehoods to fall forward for yes, backwards for no, neutral is neutral. Then I hold a substance, ask if it is something that serves my body to have, if my dosage should be as directed, etc. It sounds like voodoo but you can get good at it and the consistency will make a believer out of you. I am not an expert on it and I don’t feel qualified to tell you what is best for you.

But I wish you the confidence in your ability to know your own body and the challenges facing it, to allow your subconscious computer to process the information you feed it, and to get the answers you need from your ‘higher healing self.’ Whether you are processing the options your doctor is presenting you, or reading about concepts in this book, be aware of your conscious and sub-conscious emotions and reactions. Perhaps you are shouting, “Hogwash!” Perhaps that is your truth. Or perhaps after accessing your subconscious through meditation, dreaming, or muscle testing, another truth presents itself. Trust in this power to know things you didn’t know you knew.

For more information on muscle-testing…

Quantum biofeedback

In Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong, I told stories to illustrate the opening of my scientific mind to things I couldn’t explain. Life’s events had led me to the conclusion that ‘magic is just what science hasn’t figured out how to explain yet.’ It doesn’t mean things aren’t true just because we can’t explain them. I hope they will be proven and explained. The thing I bought into with the biggest woowoo factor (I can’t understand or explain it) is the quantum biofeedback device I described in that book. As the late Richard Feynman (a brilliant physicist) said, “quantum mechanics displays numerous peculiarities including the inability of anybody, including me, to understand it.”

This device, also known as the SCIO or, Scientific Consciousness Interface Operations system works on the principle that everything in the universe vibrates at a sub-atomic level with its own unique vibrational frequency signature and that our bodies will respond to those things as a function of our own individual states. It measures resonance, reactivity, and resistance and, based on a body’s pattern of responses, identifies stressors and blockages to health. I wish that I could explain it in a way that is understandable and believable. I wish that the inventor wasn’t such a strange person as to invite skepticism.

All I can say is it took 5 minutes to tell me what took modern medicine 2 months (and 4 pathology labs) to determine… that I had cancer. It helped me identify a hereditary disease responsible for the high rates of cancer in my family and helps me monitor and treat my health. It ‘accesses information and communicates through quantum subspace,’ the space between atoms. I don’t know what that means but sometimes using it is like muscle testing. Perhaps they work on the same principle by accessing the subconscious knowledge our bodies possess. I have used it with hundreds of people. Every single time, it has blown me away by its insights into that person’s health challenges. The makers are very careful not to make claims about ‘diagnosing’ or ‘curing.’ But I don’t really know what other words to describe what I’ve witnessed.

Many people have asked me about this device after reading about it in my previous book. I apologize that I am not providing you with more information that proves or explains how it works. But I am going out on a limb here with my credibility by stating that it unequivocally has worked for myself and others. If you get an opportunity to try it, I urge you to do so with an open mind.

Accidents happen. That’s what everyone says.

But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents,

only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.

— J. Michael Straczynski, (as Dr. Manhattan)

This post on alternative protocols is from Book 2 of my Thrive Tribe Series, What I Did and Do and Why, a naturopathic protocol that helps me to survive and thrive, available from the bookstore, starting at $7. I am posting the entire book sequentially, in its entirety, on this blog once a week. Subscriptions are free.

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