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AN OASIS OF HEALING, PART 9 of 13

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Some people respond quickly and dramatically to treatments that support
the body’s own immune function. Fredrick arrived at Oasis terrified and
barely able to swallow, from huge tumors pressing on his neck and
tongue. He describes them as “melting away” in just two weeks. He
explains here what he’s doing that he feels makes the most difference in
his treatment:

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TREATMENTS AT OASIS, part 7 of 13

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Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide: It’s found in nature, in breast milk, it’s just H2O2. It’s a natural byproduct of cellular respiration. But it’s toxic to cancer cells. At Oasis, over 90 minutes, a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution drips into the vein in your arm.

It kills viral and bacterial cells. I proved this on myself by putting a highly diluted (8%) solution on a little wart I got on my arm about a year ago. It burns a little when I put it on. But in a week, the solution has almost eaten the wart completely, while surrounding tissues are fine. Hydrogen peroxide administered via IV was first used in WWII, when field hospitals discovered how powerful it was in preventing gangrene.

When H2O2 is injected, the chemical reaction that occurs is that a single oxygen atom is spun off and only water (H2O) remains. The oxygen kills cancer cells on contact since cancer cells require tremendous energy and must live in an oxygen-deprived environment.

Aerobic organisms, such as probiotics in the gut, thrive in the presence of hydrogen peroxide.

If this solution is so simple and effective, why doesn’t modern medicine use it anymore? Simple: you can’t patent it. Therefore you can’t make money on it. It has fallen by the wayside but is a good first-line antibiotic without side effects. (Do not drink it, though—some people do, but you won’t achieve the effects putting it into your stomach, the reasons why would take me a few paragraphs—it needs to reach your blood circulation.) Some people bathe in a diluted peroxide, and many, including Dr. Christian Bernard (who performed the first heart transplant) used it several times daily to reduce arthritis and aging.

UV Light: Blood is removed and exposed to UV light in a vial, killing cancer as well as other pathogens. Dr. Lodi says, “Hemoglobin has the exact same structure as chlorophyll, except hemoglobin has iron, and chlorophyll has magnesium. Why did nature give us photoreceptive cells? We must be capable of converting light into energy!”

(Many recent studies on Vitamin D are now confirming this. Contrary to what has believed for decades, several types of cancer have an inverse relationship with sun exposure, including skin and breast cancer—the more sun exposure, the less cancer people get! Sun is carcinogenic in combination with excess Omega 6 fats, Dr. Lodi says in one of his articles. Omega 6 overdose is the result of refined oils in the diet, in fried foods, prepared salad dressings, and much more.)

In 1941, American Journal of Surgery published Surgeon George Maile’s work with UV light, curing six years of septic patients. Septic is when infection is rampant, everywhere in the body. These patients are virtually always in intensive care, and many die. With UV treatment, 100% of the mild cases were cured, 100% of the moderate cases were cured, and 55% percent of the moribund patients were cured. That’s beyond statistically significant. That’s astonishing. But traditional medicine ignores it.

Intravenous Sodium Selenite: This is a little-known therapy being used by only one other doctor in the United States. Sodium selenite is a potent oxidative version of the essential trace mineral Selenium that attacks destructive cancer cells: it’s a non-toxic chemotherapy.

Dr. Lodi brought it into his practice recently because of a paper published in Sweden reviewing a variety of studies, all of them very exciting for cancer treatment. Early studies in the 1960’s and beyond showed phenomenal cancer prevention in animals. In one, mice were given a carcinogenic compound, but 100% in the group supplemented with selenium were alive 25 days later, and in the control group that did not take selenium, all were dead.

A well known 1996 study (Clark et al) in the U.S. documented a 50% reduction of prostate cancers and 25% reduction of all cancers for people taking this nutrient in supplement form over 10 years. Yu et al showed an even better 35% cancer reduction after 8 years. (Participants took 200 mg of selenized yeast.)

Looks like low to moderate long-term use of selenium orally is a great preventative. But for therapy, high doses are toxic to malignancies. Oral administration of high doses have side effects including nausea, which are bypassed with intravenous administration.

IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy, or low-dose chemo): A cancer cell is 19 times less efficient than a normal cell, with 19 times more insulin receptors. With this treatment used since 1933, you first starve cancer cells of sugar (patients are required to fast), creating an insulin-receptive environment. Then injection of extremely low-dose chemo goes directly to cancer cells, without hair loss and other toxic side effects.

Patients undergoing IPT at Oasis of Healing wear ice helmets to prevent chemicals from getting to hair follicles and cause hair loss. They put ice packs on their hands and feet to prevent the chemicals from getting to their extremities and causing neuropathy. That written, I had read of it for years, but I’m here to say it’s low toxicity, and that’s a relative assessment—it’s not “no-toxicity.” One Oasis patient told me the next day that she pulled over on the way home from her treatment and threw up. Others did have symptoms. I shiver thinking about what it would be like to have 10 times that much.

The criticism of IPT is that clinical trials haven’t been completed. Clinical trials are expensive and completed by drug companies trying to get FDA approval. Why would a company whose drug is already approved pay for a study to show that using only 10 percent of that drug may be more effective with this targeted therapy as the massively more profitable standard dose is, with (clearly) fewer side effects and no deaths associated with it? No drug company is stepping forward to conduct the study but Dr. Lodi claims to have used it successfully with hundreds of patients. And Dr. Lasalvia in Uruguay published a small government-funded trial showing that insulin plus a low dose of chemotherapy is far more effective than high-dose chemo.

Acupuncture: A real Chinese practitioner, Dr. Lu, discovers where energy pathways are blocked and releases them, to improve the body’s ability to heal itself. I had never done it before. The needles in my legs did not hurt.

Lymphatic drainage therapy: The lymph system is so important. A sedentary lifestyle causes many people’s lymphatic fluids and tissues to become a stagnant swamp. We need the lymph system to actively, dynamically clean the blood, critical not only to avoid lymphatic cancer itself, but also to help in cleaning the debris in the bloodstream as cancer tissues are breaking up in the healing process. Brandi, a former ER nurse, has an interesting, comfortable one-hour lymphatic drainage protocol using an electrical system developed 14 years ago in Europe.

 

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Christine chooses integrative medicine for breast cancer, OASIS, part 5 of 13

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I met Christine, who obtained a list of “cured” patients from An Oasis of Healing who agreed to talk to other patients. Christine told me she called every single one of them. (I obtained the same list and will invite those former patients to share their stories in my book.) They all answered the phone and told her that, indeed, they were healthy and well after undergoing treatment with Dr. Lodi.

She told me that the things she’s been most impressed with at Oasis is that ‘the staff here walks the talk.” It’s true, and that struck me, too. Dr. Lodi is virtually the only M.D. I know who is a raw vegan (since the year I was born, 1967!), and his staff is all fit and healthy, and you see them all drinking vegetable juices or green smoothies. I’m going to show you a video later with one of the healers there who eliminated debilitating lupus with a high-raw (80%) diet.

 

Enjoy Christine’s story here:

 

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Type 1 Diabetes, OASIS OF HEALING, part 3 of 13

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This is Dr. Kirt Tyson, who was recently in a documentary about eliminating diabetes in 30 days with Dr. Gabriel Cousens. He’s not a 1.5; he’s a true Type I, diagnosed in 2005, no longer using insulin. Check it out!

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I’m doing classes in UTAH in January, and we have lots more coming up

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Tomorrow I begin writing about the amazing week I just spent speaking and studying with Dr. Thomas Lodi, M.D. at The Oasis of Healing in Arizona. I hope the words I write and the videos I share give shape to the journey a cancer patient takes who chooses the path less traveled, to educate and empower  herself.

Julie from Houston sent me this photo after winning a BlendTec Total Blender! I am back home in OREM, SANDY, and LAYTON in January—so if you love someone who needs my message that it’s totally possible to get your health and your ideal weight back, with simple whole foods, have them sign up and I will fill their bucket for the journey with love and information.

I’m also working it out to speak with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. in IRVINE, CA, Dec. 12, on my cancer research tour, so don’t miss that one if you live near there. She’s an M.D. who treats cancer holistically and I want to go check out her hyperbaric chamber and other cutting-edge ideas to support the immune system, rather than nuke it, in America’s failed “war on cancer.”

And we’ve got ST. GEORGE, LAS VEGAS, SAN DIEGO, FT. LAUDERDALE, and ORLANDO coming up. I would like to plan a trip to CHICAGO so write us at amanda@greensmoothiegirl.com if you want to help with that one.

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A Year Without Sugar

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It’s been 2 months since I bet Matthew Flinders $10,000 that I wouldn’t eat sugar for a year. Here, he and I talk about it. It’s just NO BIG DEAL! (Kristin is behind the camera, if you’re wondering why I’m assuring her that I still love her even though she ate treats all through Texas and Mexico.) I want a REAL challenge! One idea: we ban all sweeteners, for a year. Second idea: Dr. Tom Lodi and I made a pledge to go to Panama and do a 42-day water fast. (When he can get away from his practice and I can get away from four minors I happen to be raising by myself. AS IF!) As he says, “Your first 50 years are free. You have the EARN the next 50!” I’m learning how to earn them, and that’s why YOU’RE here, to earn yours too! Let’s do it together!

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Cool Things Going on at GreenSmoothieGirl.com

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First of all, two things for locals:

One, I’m teaching my free class in January in OREM, SANDY, and LAYTON again. If you’ve missed it, or want friends to come, everybody’s up for hearing a message of health and hope in that dreary month of January post-holiday blues, right? (Off the subject….I’ll tell you more about this soon, but I’ve been hard at work developing the best detox ever, with a Canadian doctor specialized in human detoxification. I’m hoping to kick it off in January.)

Two, my daughter and I are raising money for Ecuador orphans by providing you a solution for your teachers, neighbors, and extended family. Check out our 12 Steps COOKIE MIXES and SPROUTED ALMONDS (Teriyaki, Chocolate, or Candied) for the holidays! I love giving my neighbors things that make them healthy instead of sick as we head into “flu season!”

It’s local pickup only—no shipping on this one, sorry.

But we WILL ship two things that we’ve got coupons on right now: $2 off Cocoa Mojo with Coconut Milk Powder (super healthy hot cocoa!), my kids’ favorite thing in the winter. CocoaDiscount is your coupon code.

And we have a Holiday recipe book, to make your Thanksgiving and Christmas favorites, but far more nutritiously—buy 3, get one free with the coupon holiday freeholidaybook.

Finally, in December, I teach free lectures in IRVINE (CA) and SAN DIEGO (CA), as well as ST. GEORGE (UT) and LAS VEGAS (NV). And in February in FT. LAUDERDALE and ORLANDO.

Hope I get to meet you soon!

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TEXAS, PART 5 of 7: Video of WENDY and JANET in AUSTIN

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As Kristin says, our Texas trip was “pure abundance.” She and I always talk about relationships that are “all good things,” versus relationships or activities or thoughts that are scarcity-oriented or damaging rather than nurturing. We met lots of Texans who are gravitating towards a lifestyle of abundance, even while the culture around them sinks further into “scarcity places” of obesity, illness, and loss.

(Do we not become obese from a long period of scarcity thinking? For instance, “If I don’t eat this now, I don’t know when I’ll get it again.” Or, “I’m so tired, this is the only pleasure in my day.”)

A group of moms packed into a car for the drive into Austin and enthusiastically told me their stories after class. Two of them, in this video, are busy, with 4 and 6 children, respectively. They pretty and young—but Janet overcame some absolutely debilitating health problems. Both of these moms confess to doing my entire 12 Steps program.

What a rush, to know that 10 children are the beneficiaries of the effort of these two women. I’m so proud of young moms who take the time to become educated, and then opt out of “what everybody else is doing.” Listen to their story here (I somehow heard Wendy’s friends calling her Whitney, so Kristin was tasked with covering that up in this video—sorry I’m a moron, Wendy!):

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Texas, part 4 of 7: Video with Cancer Survivor Shelly in San Antonio

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Kristin and I got up early and went for a long run on the River Walk. I said to her, “Why don’t we live here?” I always say that, when we discover stuff like how there are bike trails all around Denver, or it’s warm all winter in Mesa, or there’s a health-food store on every other corner in California.

Then when we were packing up after our class at a beautiful church out in the woods, we got in the car and it was full of…..mosquitoes! Ahhhh. THAT’S why we don’t live here. We slapped ourselves silly on the drive to Houston and escaped with, oh, only a dozen mosquito bites apiece or so?

My favorite thing about Southerners is their openness—not just to us, but to each other. I remarked to Kristin later that what struck me about all my Texas classes, but especially Houston, was that I’d be talking to someone about a problem she was having, and the person behind her in line would poke into the convo and say, “I can help you with that.”

For instance, a 26-y.o. woman who just completed treatment for ovarian cancer, bald and swollen from steroids, wants to eat whole, raw plant foods. But she’s on disability income. I talked to her about joining a co-op and the woman behind her in line said, “I’ll tell you exactly where the co-ops are—let’s talk.”

The community that builds around the movement we’re in warms my heart. I love seeing GSG readers form co-ops for the group buy. These things, as I write in the Intro to 12 Steps, are more valuable than just hooking up with resources. The women I met early in my search for answers were my teachers, my guiding stars. I learned so much from Charlene Stott, Brenda Corbridge, Gwen Lund. Now I stand on my own two feet, but I see them around town and I feel great affection for them.

Talking to Shelley really made my day. She’s not only recovering from breast cancer and chemotherapy by embracing antioxidant-rich foods, but she’s had some other exciting “side effects” of nutrition treatments, which has flowed to her young-adult son. Watch my very short video with her:

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Texas Part 3 of 7: Houston’s Stephanie–a Green Smoothie Transformation

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Stephanie was smack on the front row in Houston, a gorgeous tiny little mom who has lost 50 lbs. doing green smoothies. (Check out her before-and-after photos!)

Her husband was with her, and Stephanie said he’s gone from “couch potato to marathon runner.” Stephanie told me that despite the oohs and aaahs about how she looks, “What happened is more on the inside than on the outside!” I believe she would endorse my statement that a change in fuel impacts your emotional and psychological health as much as your physical health.

Here’s her story:

Since Green Smoothie Girl was so pivotal in my own transformation, it is poetic that I now get to share my story here with Robyn and her readers.

Just a few short years ago, I was overworked, overstressed, and overweight. I was living in a daze and life was not joyful. I was headed in the wrong direction and I was bringing my family with me.  I had to hit rock bottom before I decided to make any changes. I was a junk food junkie, not spending much time in the kitchen and never shopping in the produce section.

I had already tried diet pills, the no-carb diet, boxed food delivered in the mail, and counting points. I knew that I did not need a temporary diet, I needed a permanent change. I learned about a Raw Foods lifestyle and my interest was piqued. However, there was one major problem. I really did not like eating vegetables.

I soon discovered that I could drink them instead. I am a visual learner, so I hit YouTube to learn more. And voilà – I discovered Green Smoothie Girl. I soon bought some fruits and veggies and pulled out my 15 year old blender and went to town. I LOVED them! Before long I purchased a Vitamix and decided that I would replace 2 meals a day with green smoothies and incorporate more whole foods into my diet.

Magical things happened! As my diet cleaned up, my head cleared. The weight was coming off (50 lbs total) and I was feeling really good.  The fog had lifted. I decided that I was not going to return to my legal career.  I had a new passion for everything associated with health and wellness. I researched more, and the more I learned, the more I wanted to share with others.

This led me to enroll at The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I am now working as a Health Coach and a Raw Food Chef and have a new zest for life!  I became “The Nutrition Mom” and my message is “Simple-Healthy-Solutions.” Eating does not have to be so complicated.  Let’s bring it back to basics.

I coach others to take one step at a time. I feel so blessed to not only teach people about proper nutrition, but to go on the journey with them.  I meet them where they are and give them the support that they need along the way. It’s a beautiful journey.

Thank you Robyn, for sharing your message.  You have set me, and so many others, on a new path and I am forever grateful.

Stephanie Merchant, Health Coach

TheNutritionMom.net

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