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Intravenous Vita C: A massive dose of Intravenous Vita C is a natural chemotherapeutic agent as well as having many other helpful advantages to an immune-compromised patient. In combination with hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT), it can be very powerful and completely nontoxic—good for the good cells, bad for the bad cells. Dr. Hugh Riordan documented how chronically ill patients, and cancer patients, had very low vitamin C reserves. Both cancer cells, and chemotherapy drugs, gobble up vita C.

The NIH’s Dr. Mark Levine published research on how vitamin C in large amounts behaves as a pro-oxidant, interacting with copper and iron. This interaction creates hydrogen peroxide that is harmless to good cells but lethal to cancer cells. The exciting part of the metabolic process is that cancer cells grab vitamin C because they mistake it for their food, glucose, since it is molecularly similar. (Normal cells have 2 glucose receptors, and cancer cells have 43.) And in Irvine, they administer the megadoses of C with Pentoxifyline (an oxygen transporter) to produce high levels of hydrogen peroxide.

Ron Hunninghake, M.D., writes that IV Vita C boosts immunity, stimulates collagen formation to help the body wall off the tumor, and inhibits an enzyme that tumors use in metastasis to other parts of the body. It induces apoptosis to program cancer cells into dying early. It corrects scurvy, which is a universal deficiency in chemo patients that doctors rarely recognize. (Scurvy causes fatigue, listlessness, bruising, poor appetite, sleeplessness, and low pain threshold.) And IV Vita C does not decrease the efficacy of chemo.

That said, practitioners have told me that they’ve seen remarkable results with IV Vita C, and also they have seen patients who do not seem to respond to it.

Infrared sauna: If you’re paying close attention, you have you noticed this is at EVERY clinic I visit! It must be important! (Also relatively inexpensive—for a clinic, but even for an individual.) In 30 minutes of profuse, induced sweating, with infrared rays stimulating cells up to 2” deep below the skin, you are releasing impressive amounts of toxic chemicals and metals every day you use the sauna. And with this “induced fever,” you are also stimulating and mobilizing immune cells throughout the body in various organs.

Note that on Dec. 20, I wrote on this blog about the group buys we will be doing on infrared sauna to save you a bunch of money on the best brand on the market, if you have about 50” – 70” along a wall to put it in your house / garage / back porch.

Light Beam Generator Lymphatic Therapy: The lymph system is a critically important circulatory system that most medical doctors ignore, far more extensive than the blood system, with over 600 collection sites or “nodes.” Studies show that up to 10 times as much viral matter resides in the lymph system than the blood! And many sedentary people eating the S.A.D. have a swampy, sluggish, acidic lymphatic system in desperate need of stimulation and cleanup.

The light-beam generator focuses on the nexuses of the lymph system, in the neck, under the arms, and the groin. The technology uses very low-current and negatively charged light photons for rapid, safe, natural movement of lymph to aid the body in waste disposal. Anything inflammation-related would benefit from this treatment. Other manual lymphatic drainage and stimulation is helpful to cancer patients as well as part of a detoxification strategy, with skin brushing and infrared sauna, massage, and other lymphatic therapies such as Brandi Owens uses at An Oasis of Healing in Mesa.

Acupuncture: Oncology patients experience a tremendous amount of nausea mostly due to chemotherapy, and acupuncture is well documented to reduce nausea and vomiting. It also helps with pain relief, by opening the flow of energy or “chi” throughout the body’s pathways.

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy: Administered by acupuncturist Dr. Martin Bales, this non-invasive technology re-energizes damaged cells by inducing electrical changes within the cell that restore it to its healthy state. It decreases stress, inflammation, stiffness, bruises. It increases bone density, lean muscle mass, flexibility, strength, endurance, immune function, nerve and muscle responses, and circulation.

Breast Thermography: When my mother went on a mission to Italy for her church, she refused mammography. She’d studied how the radiation is high, which causes breast cancer, and some theorize that smashing a tumor in the breast may cause it to spread. She finally negotiated the ability to use thermography, which is painless, non-invasive, radiation-free.

It’s safe for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and women with implants. And very importantly, it’s the breast-cancer diagnostic tool available to women 25 to 39 years old. The high-res, ultrasensitive infrared camera detects minute changes in vascular tissue, allowing you to find breast disease years before other imaging modalities.

You can find this technology in many areas of the country now, although the high-profit mammography industry still controls the breast-cancer screening industry. (I hope to have a resource for this and many other holistic practitioners and exciting non-invasive screening practices, on GSG in the future.)

You think you might give up all your pleasure in life, if you follow the anti-cancer nutritional program of raw plant food?

Listen to what Andie, a breast cancer patient, has to say. You might be surprised. Whatever she’s having, I want some!

Coffee enemas: Five times a week, Dr. C says, they are mandatory. (Keep in mind the Gerson protocol has people doing them several times a day!) When I tell people how important this treatment is, they are very squeamish. But people feel amazing doing it, it’s very powerful in its health benefits, and if you can just do it a few times, you get used to it and it’s no big deal. It’s only weird the first time! Gerson practitioners are mocked for this practice, but they were in the Merck manual through the 1960’s, discovered by nurses treating WWII patients.

The treatment dilates kidney and liver ducts so they can flush massive amounts of poison directly into the rectum, to evacuate the body quickly. Dr. Max Gerson taught that as his program broke down tumor tissue, that process alone can kill you if you’re not appropriately helping the body efficiently rid itself of waste.

Breast cancer patient Andie, who is 45 but looks 30, has been treated by Dr. Connealy as adjunct to her low-dose chemo. I will have her video for you tomorrow. She does the coffee enemas religiously and says, as everyone I’ve talked to does, that they make you feel wonderful. I asked her if that could be partially related to the CAFFEINE, and she told a funny story about the first time using 7 Tbsp. of ground coffee instead of 7 tsp., and then bouncing off the walls for hours afterward.

Colon cleansing: A dirty colon not only leads to high risk of all cancers, especially colorectal types, but also digestive problems, parasites, and many other issues. She likes the Colonix or Parslex products and cleansing protocols.

Parasite detox: Liliana will use the Biomeridian or Zyto technology to ascertain what parasites you may have. (As I understand it, thousands of vibrational frequencies are stored in the software and tested against your own electrical impulses and many supplements are measured against your own frequencies to ascertain which will work most effectively to kill your parasites.)

Zeolite: This kind of breakthrough restores my enthusiasm for living in the modern age despite having to live with so much toxicity. Perhaps God and Science work together to help human beings find answers. Zeolite is sold only through practitioners. I am working with one though, to get it on my site, because it’s incredible for detoxification.

It uses nano technology to deliver Clinoptilolite (a species of zeolite), which you can find a tremendous amount of research on in PubMed. Its structure properties allow it to adsorb (bind to, for removal) a huge number of toxicants, including the radioactive isotopes everyone is worried about after Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Independent researchers found Zeolite increased urine MERCURY elimination 103,500% over baseline, and also high levels of tin, lead, aluminum, arsenic, and many other toxic elements.

(Using this in conjunction with Far Infrared Sauna treatment is even more powerful. Don’t forget to drink lots of water!)

I have personally used Zeolite with infrared sauna treatments daily for a month, since in addition to Dr. Connealy, another local doctor I work with is very committed to this product.

The same company’s micronized colloidal silver as well (tested to work far better than ASAP brand, which I often recommend to people) and I am very motivated to work with a doc to put these exciting products that solve an important modern problem in the GSG store. If you want some, write Jenni at support123@greensmoothiegirl.com to be waitlisted.

Epson salts: You can get them at any pharmacy, and ½ lb. to 1 lb. in a bath helps you absorb the second most-abundant element in human cells, magnesium. Magnesium deficiency leads to stress-related illness, chronic fatigue, arthritis, osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, and digestive problems. You absorb it easily through the skin, and poorly through the stomach, which is also true with the sulfates in Epsom salts. Sulfates form brain tissue, joint proteins, and the lining of the digestive tract. Getting enough of it helps your pancreas produce digestive enzymes. Both elements help your body detoxify of drugs and environmental chemicals. It also relieves swollen joints, relaxes muscles, kills viruses, and increases perspiration.

Wheat grass juice. Drink shots twice a day. They don’t juice fresh here, but rather use frozen/thawed shots you can buy at the health food store yourself.

What if anytime you ate pork, you had to see a cute little piggy? Do you think people would be less interested in gobbling it up? Check out what happens when people are offered a fried blob of pork in the grocery store, and then they are shown just how fresh that meat might really be! Just a fun video Matthew sent me today—back to hard-hitting content tomorrow!

DIETARY PHILOSOPHY

Dr. Connealy’s program, executed by her nutritionist, Liliana, is 80% alkaline and 20% acid foods (like animal products, grains, berries). They feed patients 20% fat, 30% protein, 50% carbs in the form of veggies, and about 50% raw in the form of vegetables, 2 green juices, and two salads daily. They do not serve any foods with dairy or gluten, and use only minimal grains and starchy vegetables (potatoes, yams, carrots, sweet vegetables). No more than 20 grams of sugar (no refined sugars) per meal.

SUPPLEMENTS DR. CONNEALY PRESCRIBES

Dr. Connealy says, “Every drug causes a nutritional deficiency. You must supply nutrients against the deficiency. For instance, Metformin causes B vitamin deficiency. Statin drugs deplete CoQ10. Red yeast rice also depletes CoQ10.”

I like how she studies the work of other pioneers and revolutionaries in integrative medicine and references and leverages their work regularly. (This is critical so that practitioners build on a foundation and everyone isn’t reinventing the wheel. Some, however, like Stanislaw Burzynski, truly invented “a wheel,” if not “the wheel.”)

She uses some of the research and/or best practices of Dr. Nick Gonzales, the Nobel Prize-winning Otto Warburg, the Gerson Therapy, Ann Wigmore, and more. (In fact, the Gerson Clinic used to be housed in Oasis of Hope, by Dr. Connealy’s partner Dr. Francisco Contreras.)

Tumors are formed, she said, when the immune system is depressed, through too much exposure to toxic chemicals and heavy metals, toxic foods, viral loads, and stresses. It takes about 8 years for a tumor to form. Cancer cells have been coating themselves with fibrinogen glue and mucous, creating 15 layers of protection.

Her philosophy is to use nutraceuticals to slow down the cancer, then stop it, then turn the body around and bring it back to a healthy state. The ideas below are to shift the pH, shut down the blood supply to the tumor, increase natural killer cell production, detoxify the patient, increase antioxidant levels, increase SOD production, strip the glue layer from the cancer cells and kill them.

pH Balancer: This product uses cesium and rubidium together to shift the pH around the tumor to 7.4, as cancer thrives in an acidic environment. This must be done at the cellular level; it is not enough to increase the pH of the blood.

Pancreatic enzymes: Dr. Connealy notes that Drs. William Kelly (and Nick Gonzales) proved that enzymes must be a major part of any integrative treatment of cancer. The kind I have used for years are not effective for me personally, I learned when Liliana tested me using Zyto technology. (Then I came home and had my friend Laura Jacobs test me again, with the same result.) I am switching brands, based on their testing of frequencies of many different products, relative to my own biochemistry. (Sometimes using the same product for a long time causes your body to react to it less effectively. What’s right for me might not be precise for you.)

Dr. Connealy likes Nutrizyme, taken 1-2 hours before meals. It is enterically coated so it can pass through stomach acid and enter the blood stream to break down the fibrinogen glue layer of a cancer cell. This product also has anti-carcinogen factors attached to aid the immune system in killing the cancer cell.

5,000 to 10,000 IU of Vitamin D: It’s absolutely critical as probably the nutrient most linked to cancer prevention. Hundreds of studies now show that cancer could be slashed in half, or better, if people did not fall below Vitamin D minimum thresholds.

4000 mg of oral Vita C: Even the FDA and National Institutes of Health (NIH) now acknowledge, due to incontrovertible evidence, the power of Vitamin C. It may be the best antiviral agent available—I have gotten rid of hundreds of little bugs in my family by administering this amount of it the minute anyone feels ill. Vitamin C increases the antioxidant level in your body on a cellular level, to stop damage to DNA.

Dr. Connealy manufactures VITALITY C that has a neutral pH so high doses will not upset your stomach. Part of the magic of Vita C is that it is mistaken for a glucose molecule by a cancer cell, which has 43 receptors for glucose, compared to a healthy cell that has only 2. When a cancer cells grabs it up, hydrogen peroxide is produced, which kills the cancer cell.

Essential Detox (Badmaev 269): Dr. C believes this to be the best natural antiviral medication and detoxifier of metals and environmental pollutants. It’s made from botanicals based on traditional Tibetan medicine but was developed by physicians in Russia, Europe, and the U.S.

Noni: Morinda Citrifolia increases natural killer cell production, and Dr. C prescribes Nutriceuticals’ freeze-dried Noni fruit in capsules, which retains enzyme activity and is 30 times more powerful than other Noni liquid or capsule.

Ecomer and V-Statin: Ecomer is used to shut down the blood supply to the tumor, as evidenced by 37 clinical trials, using shark liver oil. In addition to its anti-angiogenesis properties, it also increases white and red blood cell and platelet counts in all human beings, and detoxifies mercury by encapsulating it, carrying it through the kidneys with no damage, and excreting it in the urine.

Stress Release: This is fetal wheat tissue product (no fiber, no gluten, only protein) developed over 50 years by a family of botanists from Michigan. They used it in Chernobyl to detox the radiation damage. It increases SOD (Super Oxide Dismutase) in the body that detoxifies poisons from chemo and radiation, which reduces their side effects. SOD is the intracellular garbage man in the body. Fetal wheat protein increased SOD level in 100% of those tested.

Natura Herbals Anti-Cancer Formulas: Dr. Huang Chuan Gui is Asia’s most respected cancer physician, and his family has made herbal medicines for cancer for over 900 years. His proprietary formulas are specifically for the respiratory, digestive, urinary, ductless glands, blood, lymphatic, motor system, and central nervous system.

Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy spoke before I did, in Costa Mesa, to 300 GSG readers, before I began studying with her at her clinic, Center for New Medicine, in Irvine the next day.

We also went to dinner at Jenny Ross’ 118 Degrees restaurant. Fabulous raw vegan food! Jenny is a beautiful young, and very pregnant, mom. She’s also a brilliant chef who healed herself of her health problems, as a young model 10 years ago. Her full-color best-selling recipe book is Raw Basics. Here’s a photo with her, me, and Dr. Connealy.

Oasis of Hope Mexico, right across the border, is much less expensive, and has fewer high-tech treatments available. However, it also has non-FDA treatments available.

Oasis of Hope Irvine, inside Center for New Medicine, allows you to stay in the U.S. and has a wide array of non-invasive testing and treatment technologies available that I’ve not seen elsewhere, likely due to the expense of the equipment for clinics to acquire.

Treatment in Irvine, then, is of course more expensive, about $10K/week. One major celebrity was being treated while we were there (no, I can’t say who). But working-class people were being treated who traveled from other states. It is more expensive than Mexico by about 40% ($6k/week in Mexico). However, you must also pay for your own lodging close by, which can be arranged by Dr. Connealy’s staff, as the facility is not inpatient.

Some time ago, before I met Dr. Connealy, I learned, hearing her speak, that we all have, on average, about 75 million cancer cells. (Since then, I found this in a study from Japan. And since then, I’ve also learned that our bodies manufacture 50,000 or so cancer cells a day.) Your immune system, hopefully, is making quick work of those cells, staying on top of its job. When it doesn’t, mutant cells begin to replicate quickly and form their own vascular system and possibly eventually affect an important physical function…..at which time you discover a lump or bump.

This happens at about the time you have 1 billion cancer cells. (Or later, if it’s an internal organ where functioning has not been noticeably compromised and a mass may become very large before you find it.) By that time, even if you’re told it’s “Stage 1,” the docs I’ve been working with say “there is no such thing.” That is, if you have a lump, that cancer is elsewhere, too.

What’s consistent among all the integrative cancer docs is this information: the tumor does not tell the whole story.

The point isn’t to become fearful. The point is to understand that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Change your ways NOW. Not when you find you’re one of the ½ of men and 1/3 of women who will be diagnosed with cancer. I’m not trying to increase FEAR in people—I’m trying to avoid, actually, that acutely fearful place that we are all hurtling towards if we don’t address the issues of our fuel. Will it be cancer-preventative, or toxic and carcinogenic? There isn’t much that’s “in between.”

Then you can be excited about your future because your disease risk will be LOW. And then you don’t have to say stupid things like junk food addicts do. For instance, “At least I’m going to die happy.” Also, “Everybody dies of SOMETHING.”

(These are the most common, and my least favorite, things that I hear people say who want to feed addictions instead of eat responsibly so they’re around to meet their grandkids.)

One person I know just died last Sunday—it was his second round with cancer and he lived only a few weeks post-diagnosis. He was once a famous boxer, and one of the kindest, gentlest, most service-oriented human beings I’ve ever known. Another (a 30-y.o. mother of two toddlers) was disconnected from life support and died, 2 days after my other friend passed away—due to metastatic breast cancer. That isn’t dying happy. Besides being buried alive or long, slow torture, based on experience with those close to me, I can’t think of many fates worse than chemo and radiation death.

As a few cancer patients who have experience with this have said to me, “There are worse things than death. One of them is chemotherapy.”

Dr. Connealy said to me, “Chemotherapy doesn’t work by itself. We have 50 years of it and death rates haven’t gone down.” (She is right: volumes of data document that.)

These are some of the services available at Center for New Medicine:

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment, Intravenous Vitamin C, Light Beam Generator (Lymphatic Therapy), Ondamed, Biomeridian, and Zyto (biofeedback devices) testing, Breast Thermography (an alternative to mammogram that doesn’t smash your breasts flat, potentially spreading cancer cells, and exposing you to high levels of cancer-causing radiation)

Dr. Connealy explains here how cancer is not a tumor—it’s a systemic problem and therefore must be treated systemically:

Of course, every cancer patient hopes for the words “remission” or even better, “cure.”

Those things are possible and do happen regularly, especially with early-stage cancers. But, one thing that has been a surprise to me in my studies thus far is that practitioners almost universally talk about how cancer does not have to be a death sentence, while admitting that they cannot always make it disappear.

In other words, Contreras and others talk about co-existing with cancer. They tell stories of patients who have spots on their lungs and in their bones, for many years, even decades, without them growing or causing health problems. (This was the case with my grandfather, who had a cancer behind his eye for most of his adult life—you can tell by looking at photos—before it finally killed him in his late 70’s. His M.D., whose treatments my grandfather refused, told him that the healthy diet he ate with my grandmother, for many years, made that possible.)

Co-existing peacefully with cancer is possible due to solid integrative treatment in the beginning, and excellent detoxification practices, mental/emotional self-care, and nutrition for the long haul after that.

Who knows what ONE thing makes the difference. Both Drs. Contreras and Connealy said to me that it’s not just one thing—but many pieces in a puzzle that accomplish these objectives:

–break down tumor tissue

–cut off its blood supply

–oxygenate tumor and surrounding tissues

–alkalize the body and tumor tissue

–detoxify to eliminate chemicals and metals

–strengthen the immune system

–stop feeding the cancer

This whole-body, integrative treatment makes it hard to compete for print in the medical journals. Dr. Contreras said to me, “I hope one day soon, whole-system therapies are published in peer-reviewed medical journals.”

Many patients go in to have their tumor markers monitored, and the tumor masses measured, and then increase their diligence with green juices and avoiding sugars, if there has been any activity, to get it in control.

I’ve talked to patients who have done this for decades—and practitioners who describe it as a common occurrence. Did you see the video of Andie, treated at Oasis of Hope Irvine? She eats a raw vegan diet with virtually no sugar—and thinks cabbage is a treat because her tastes have changed so much. Her breast cancer, which she believes began during her horrific divorce and custody battle several years before a 2-cm. tumor was detected, is not gone—it’s just gone except for scar tissue.

Most patients going to Oasis of Hope are Stage 4. Unfortunately the cancer revolution I predict—Medicare cannot sustain $100K to $1 million chemotherapy invoices, and the American public is getting sick of it—is still in embryonic stages. So people do chemo FIRST and go to the integrative or alternative docs when they are full of cancer.

Dr. Contreras says, of his mostly Stage IV practice, that his statistics “show that we are making progress toward the goal of turning advanced cancer into a chronic disease that can be managed in the long term—rather like diabetes—as opposed to a rapid death sentence.”

He continues, “…our treatment protocols…are in a constant state of evolution. Barely a month goes by that we don’t add some new element to our regimens, or modify them in a way that seems likely to improve their efficacy.”

You know I don’t  promote any “isms”–vegetarianism, veganism, raw foodism.  I’m secretly a fan of all those movements. But I don’t adopt them as extremist positions because I think they send most people running for the hills. And I believe that sticking to the idea of eating MORE PLANT FOODS wins more converts.

But I don’t cook/serve animal flesh in my home. My older daughter, though, is a militant vegetarian.

The younger one, Libby, 14, struggles. She admires her sister’s “cause” orientation, and has “gone veg” several times but it doesn’t stick. She goes to her dad’s where meat is a staple, and she caves in, falls off the wagon. She has been looking at vegetarian vids on youtube and studying the issue.

Today she brought me this typed statement:

“I, Libby Pay, am going vegan. I will not eat anything with eggs or milk. Or meat. So I want to make  special veggie foods for myself since the rest of you drink kefir in the mornings. If I have to drink kefir I will be deeply hurt. Anyways, to make my special food I would like these ingredients. Some of them I have already, but just want to make sure I am allowed to use them. I want to be hardcore vegan. You don’t have to be. But I really want to.”

“Brussels sprouts, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, sweet potatoes, fresh kale (to try this one recipe I found), black beans, that seaweed stuff you buy, big carrots, garlic and onion, green and black olives (not needed, just somewhat wanted!), green beans, cucumbers.”

“I feel very strongly about this. If it gets too hard, I’ll just be vegetarian, but I really want to do this.”

A few hours later, she came in with a binder she’d made, with lots of printed material about cruelty to animals and nutritional support for a plant-based diet, in plastic sleeves. The cover page has this printed, in large text:

“WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT:

“Yes, God may have put them on the earth for us to eat. But in the scriptures it says to eat meat sparingly in times of winter and famine. I don’t think our Heavenly Father intended for the animals we eat to be tortured, stuffed into tight cages for their whole lives, beaten, and to rarely see sunlight. Chickens, pigs, and cows have been chemically altered to grow way bigger than they are supposed to. They put steroids in the animals to make more meat. These animals can’t walk, and are tortured daily.”

I’m so proud of my kids when they stand for something. When it’s something that will benefit them and the world, even better!

Now if I could just get them to take a vigilante stand against SUGAR.

Listen to Roger Doiron’s TedTalk, about how we take control of our food supply and change the world. This video is worth your time:

View Roger Doiron’s TedTalk HERE!

I’m a huge fan of growing your own food. It can truly change your life. It empowers you. It connects you to your food source. It gets you out in the sun with your hands in the dirt, which gives you the most important hormone/vitamin to prevent cancer, and grounds you to help eliminate the harmful electromagnetic frequencies you build up. It saves you money. It will make you feel happy, I promise.

Step 5 in 12 Steps to Whole Foods is all about how to grow an organic garden, in any amount of space, and use everything you grow. Thank you to Marianne, our new webmaster and a longtime GSG reader, for sharing this video with me.