Background HTML Whitewashed

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Whispers of Hope




Praying Grace over your Sunday, dear friends...

My Love, Always,
                     Jane


Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Cellect-Budwig Protocol, Part 3

We've learned about the Cellect part of this protocol yesterday...the nutritional supplement that re-balance the bodies bio-chemistry.

Today we learn more about the Budwig side of this equation... and how the two of these therapies work together to make a powerful difference for many cancer patients.

We've included a page on our website outlining the basics of this protocol.

The protocol was developed by a German biochemist, Dr. Johanna Budwig.  In her research she found that many people were becoming deficient in two particular essential fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6. Both of these fatty acids play a big role in protecting our bodies from cancer.

Our bodies use these essential fatty acids, mostly the omega-3, to line and protect the cell membranes. Each and every cell membrane in our body. When we don’t have enough essential fatty acids, the cells are “unprotected.” And when cells are unprotected they occasionally go awry and we know that tumors can develop from cells gone awry.

Dr. Budwig proposed that there is very likely a connection to the deficiency of essential fatty acids and cancer. She believed that cancer was a result of not “too much” cell growth, but of “faulty” cell growth.

When the cells tried to grow and divide, there wouldn’t be enough of the essential fatty acids to completely cover the new cell, so it would remain in the mother cell, but with a full set of new chromosomes. Not normal. Cells gone awry. Cancer potential.

Her simple solution (ok, I imagine it wasn't so simple getting it figured out, but for us, today, it's rather a simple protocol) was to create the Flaxseed Oil and Quark (Cottage Cheese) diet...

She found that the body absorbs the natural essential fatty acids best when combined with a sulfur-based protein. Flaxseed oil is an extremely rich source of both the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Cottage cheese is a perfect sulfur-based protein. Put the two together and there you have the basics for the Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Cheese Diet, a.k.a. the Budwig Diet


If you are considering trying this diet, there are just a few more things to know:

- only use unrefined, cold-pressed flaxseed oil that is sold in a dark, light-blocking bottle and kept refrigerated at all times. I found the Barleans brand at our local health food store.
- always mix the oil and cottage cheese together in a blender or mixer to ensure the essential fatty acids are binding with the sulfur-based proteins.
- when on the flaxseed oil and cottage cheese diet, Dr. Budwig did have some dietary restrictions. She recommended cutting out all animal fats, salad oils, margarines and even butter from your diet, as well as any unrefined sugar, although she allowed unsweetened grape juice and honey. I’ll be honest, we didn’t get quite that restrictive, but in order to be fair and give the diet a chance these are the suggestions she makes.
- start slow at the beginning. Increase the amount of oil gradually. As you know, pancreatic cancer can drastically affect the normal digestive process. Adding in a sudden, huge dose of oils, even good ones, can cause stomach upset. So start slow.

And that brings me to the actual recipe.

Dr. Budwig suggested that the minimum ratio of oil and cottage cheese should be 1 tablespoon flaxseed oil to ¼ cup cottage cheese per day. But she also recommended going as high as 3-6 tablespoons of flaxseed oil to ½ cup cottage cheese per day for cancer patients. Using a blender or mixer, mix the flaxseed oil and cottage cheese until well blended. You can add in fresh or frozen fruits, unsweetened grape juice, honey or milk to taste. Keep this mixture refrigerated and eat it throughout the day.

* Important Note: If you are allergic to dairy products, please talk with your health care provider before trying this diet.  And you know that it goes without saying, that you should always talk with your health care provider about any and all of these alternative/integrative therapies...

{Just thought I should add that 2 cents to the dialogue}

As a matter of fact here is information from the Memorial Sloan Kettering website about the Budwig protocol...

"The Budwig Diet is an unproven anticancer treatment developed by the German biochemist Dr. Johanna Budwig in the 1950s. The diet consists of multiple daily servings of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese, as well as vegetables, fruits and juices. Processed foods, meats, most dairy products and sugar are prohibited. Budwig believed that the combination of flaxseed oil, a food high in polyunsaturated fatty acids, and cottage cheese, would improve cellular function. No large scale clinical studies have been conducted using the Budwig diet.

While a diet consisting of high amounts of vegetables and fruits can be beneficial, diets restricted in meat and dairy products may reduce the intake of essential nutrients leading to nutritional deficiencies. Some variations of the diet encourage daily sunbathing to energize the fatty acids, and a coffee or oil enema. But coffee enemas can result in electrolyte imbalance, infections, proctocolitis (inflammation of the rectum and colon) and burns. High levels of sun exposure can result in increased risk of sunburn and skin cancer."

And then this statement about the Budwig Protocol from traditionally trained oncologist and former cardiologist Dr. Dan Roehm, M.D., FACP in an article in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (1990)  “The diet (Budwig Protocol) is far and away the most successful anti-cancer diet in the world. What she (Dr. Johanna Budwig) has demonstrated to my initial disbelief but lately, to my complete satisfaction in my practice is: CANCER IS EASILY CURABLE. The treatment is dietary/lifestyle, the response is immediate; the cancer cell is weak and vulnerable; the precise biochemical breakdowns point was identified by her in 1951 and is specifically correctable, in vitro (test tube) as well as in vivo (real). I only wish that all my patients had a PhD in Biochemistry and Quantum Physics to enable them to see how with such consummate skill this diet was put together. It is a wonder."

So, it is obvious that there are staunch defenders and believers in the Budwig Protocol and there are just as ardent skeptics of the diet.

If you find an interest in this protocol and believe that it has the potential to be a viable cancer treatment, then the news gets even better, as the Budwig Diet is now part of a far stronger protocol when combined with the Cellect therapy:

The Cellect-Budwig Protocol, created by Michael Vrentas.  (You checked out his videos from Day 6 right?!)

We're just beginning the 31 Day Challenge.  And the Cellect-Budwig protocol is just the first of several potentially powerful alternative pancreatic cancer treatments we'll be looking at... 

That's just a little more Hope for each cancer warrior tonight!

In Grace Always,
                     Jane




Friday, October 7, 2016

The Cellect-Budwig Protocol, Part 2

Yesterday Michael Vrentas gaves us a good overview of the Cellect-Budwig Protocol.

Today, let's break it down into some easy to understand, bite-size pieces, shall we?

First, the Cellect part...

Cellect is a nutritional powder that has been used for years in many cases of chronic illness, including many forms of cancer and other terminal diseases.



It was developed by Fred Eichorn, a bio-chemist, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1976.

Through his research, Fred has come to believe that cancer is not a disease, but rather the body's response to a nutritional deficiency.  Most of the current, conventional treatments attack the symptoms (tumors, for example, that are the result of the cancer) instead of addressing the cause.

Modern medicine tries to remove evidence of the problem, but never corrects the actual problem.  Since the problem has not been corrected, the body will continue to make more of those problem cells and the patient will find that the cancer has returned...

With the product, Cellect, the body's biochemistry is returned to a level that is correct for normal cells, but not conducive for cancer cells, so the cancer cells die off as a result.

Cellect comes in powder form or capsules and Fred encourages patients to follow a good anti-cancer diet... no alcohol, no coffee, no soy, no MSG, no sugar, no processed foods and no fast foods... it's a lot of no's, but if you're facing a cancer diagnosis, cleaning up our diets is one of the easiest of protocols to manage in comparison to the rigors of chemotherapy or radiation!

So, let's see if we've got this...

* According to Fred, cancer is the body's way of saying I'm missing some important nutrients.

* Cellect is his answer to correcting the body's missing nutrients.

* Then once the body is back up to speed and running on all cylinders (nutritionally speaking), cancer cells simply give up.

Yes?  Sounds pretty sensible.  Right?  And yet, I am sure that it's not as simple as that.  Should you be interested in getting really technical, here are some of the studies and detailed chemical explanations:

Fred Eichorn's Cellular and Chemistry Summary

Sloan-Kettering's Report on Cellect

A Case Study:  Pancreatic Cancer and Cellect

 I am not a bio-chemist, so don't take this to the bank, but it sure makes more sense than filling our bodies full of chemo drugs that are so toxic the nurses administering it wear "hazmet" suits.

Dad's blunt analysis of mom's chemo experience still echoes to this day...

"It's dumping a whole lot of poison into mom's body and hoping that it kills the cancer cells before it kills mom."

Yep... That's my Dad.  Always ready with a word of encouragement... Love him to pieces :-)

Tomorrow, we gear up for the 2nd part of this powerful duo:  The Budwig Protocol.

Join us for more hope, more encouragement and more grace...

{Dad will be napping}



Thursday, October 6, 2016

The Cellect-Budwig Protocol, Part 1

The Cellect-Budwig Protocol is actually a combination of two of the fastest acting alternative cancer treatments available.  It is powerful...and yet virtually non-toxic to the body... Sounds intriguing... Yes?!

This protocol was developed by a cancer researcher by the name of Michael Vrentas.  And he can explain it so much better than I...

Your job right now is to turn your speakers on and sit back for the next 10 minutes or so and let Michael share the background and power behind this protocol: 


That was part 1... here's part 2... stay the course, it's only 10 minutes out of your day!  You can so do that for the sake of cancer research!



I believe the swimming pool algae analogy is the best I've yet heard to describe the effects of cancer and cancer treatments!

So, what's your take?  Still intrigued?  Want to learn more? 

We take it apart piece by piece tomorrow... join us??

Graced with Hope this night, Always,
                                                   Jane


Previous                                                                                                Next



Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The Top 3 Alternative Pancreatic Cancer Treatments

The top 3, according to Jane that is... Nothing about this 31 day series is scientific in any way...

{Just thought you should know that.}

However, I'd like to think my research skills aren't too terribly rusty.  These past 6 years since mom's pancreatic cancer diagnosis have seen us digging in deep as we combed the internet, the literature and the well-schooled brains of each of her specialists for hope and healing. 

We have asked questions, read journals and most importantly, we have talked endlessly with other pancreatic cancer patients.

Here, on the blog, and on our website, we have "met" hundreds of fellow cancer warriors... and the question is always, always:

 What treatments are you using???  How are they working???  What more can we do???

And we've shared cheers and prayers from the trenches of this cancer battle ... agonized over the failures and rejoiced over the victories.

Until I realized that the victories almost always ended in agonizing failures.

... I can't even. type. that...  My heart simply breaks...

All these precious ones that we have lost in the past 6 years.  Lost to a cancer whose survival rates with the current Gold Standard treatment have hardly changed at all in over 40 years.  40 years!!!

{I'm shouting... forgive me...}

For those who have followed our journey from the beginning (you are blessing to me...my peeps! I love you, truly), you have probably noticed the shift in our focus...

Conventional, Traditional treatment was mom's mainstay (Chemotherapy and Radiation).  She implicitly trusted her doctors, and I believe, now, that they truly didn't have anything else to offer her.

As we have knelt with, prayed with, and walked with so many pancreatic cancer patients since, I have lost count of the tears we have shed as the Conventional, Traditional treatments for this cancer have failed.  Over and over again.  Utterly devastating, heart achingly personal...

*  71% of pancreatic cancer patients will lose their fight in that first year.
*  93% of pancreatic cancer patients will never make it 5 years out.

2 years ago we dipped our timid toes into uncharted water with this post Back Roads and the Journey Less Traveled that began to explore Alternative Treatments for pancreatic cancer.

And since that post, we have pushed the envelope and shared countless stories about Alternative and Integrated Therapies... Why the shift?  Perhaps Albert Einstein (or was it Benjamin Franklin??) said it best:



Remember the statistics from yesterday?  The statistic I repeated above??  The one about pancreatic cancer survival rates not changing in over 40 years??  With the current traditional therapies??? That statistic??

{Shouting again... Sorry}

40 years of conventional pancreatic cancer treatment... and nothing has changed.  But tomorrow we will get up and do it all over again...

Ok, so here's the thing.  I don't know if the Alternative, Integrated therapies are working to change the story of pancreatic cancer treatments... But I do know that there are pancreatic cancer survivors sharing their stories...

Sharing their stories of success.  Of walking away from this disease whole.

And that is what resonated with me as I watched The Truth About Cancer documentary.  The pancreatic cancer patients who shared their stories, using alternative methods.

And here are the top 3 alternative pancreatic cancer treatments that I heard repeated time and time again through-out the documentary (in no particular order) : 




In the days ahead we will meet Pamela, and Kay and others and learn how these treatments worked in their particular cases and what exactly it means to turn to Integrated Cancer Therapy.

And here's a secret... there are more than these 3 alternative pancreatic cancer treatments.   I just (unscientifically) presented the 3 that seem to be first up in targeting pancreatic cancer.  Targeted treatments that amazingly don't seem to be breaking the body to heal it.

Perhaps there is a little Hope rising this night? 

In Grace, Always,
                  Jane


Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Now It's Getting Personal...

When mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010, I have to admit, I had no idea what the pancreas did. Nor how important that flat, little banana-shaped thing was.

Cancer, yes... that was a word we knew.  A word that filled us with fear and foreboding, spoken in hushed circles or simply not at all.

And yet, up to that point, no one we knew... not a single person, had ever been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

We had no touchstone... or yardstick...  by which to measure our fight.

Maybe that ignorance was a gift during those first few weeks.  For had we known the road we were facing, we just might have laid down in abject submission before the first treatment ever began...











These statistics are appalling!

And yet they were just statistics... until Pancreatic Cancer came to live at our house.

And then it became very, very personal.

This 31 Day Challenge series seeks to share the Truth About Cancer.  All Cancers. Our personal story will always be marred by pancreatic cancer's vicious assault. Yours may be Breast Cancer or Lung Cancer or Leukemia or Melanoma.  The Truth is there are options.

No matter what your cancer has claimed, there can be Hope from here on out.

I encourage each one to start the battle anew.  This very night.

Sit down, open your browser and begin preparing for the battle... Here are some of the websites we have found that may offer other options in that fight... Alternative, Integrated Therapies with track records you can compare to the Traditional or Conventional Methods... choosing the options that speak truth into your unique battle.

The Truth About Cancer

The Cancer Tutor

Cancer Crackdown

From this point forward, our study will focus on therapies and protocols for the pancreatic cancer patient.  It is the passion of our heart to lift, encourage and fight alongside the many diagnosed with this particular cancer.

We could never have imagined the way our life was going to turn out when we hit enter on that first blog post 5 years ago...  Nor the beautiful souls we would meet along the journey...

Like Cheryl and Glenn.  And Michele.  And Gayle.  And Ted.   And the Merimee family.  And Julie.  And Linda.  And so many, many more...  Each one in the fight of their lives... Each story forever marked with pancreatic cancer's telltale scars...

Tomorrow we begin breaking it down.  Are you ready?  Yes?!  We'll be studying The Gerson Therapy, the Essiac Tea Protocol, The Budwig Diet, The Hoxey Formula, Tomography, and Apricot Kernels just to name a few...

The fight is on!  Our stories no longer need be held hostage by cancer's tyrannical grip.  Choosing to step up to the plate instead of laying down in defeat changes everything...

Trusting in Grace Tonight,
                 Jane

Monday, October 3, 2016

The Truth Behind the Cancer Story

If you are here... reading this blog post, then I am guessing that cancer has touched your life in some way.

Perhaps you are scared.  And angry.  And overwhelmed.

And you just want someone to tell you what to do... how to make the nightmare go away...

We've been there.

Our doctors told us that Chemotherapy and Radiation were what we needed to do.  It was the only plan they had.

And mom trusted them.  But their plan failed.

I can only wish that a website like The Truth About Cancer would have been available to us 6 years ago.  Perhaps we would have been able to choose another plan.  A plan to cure the cancer that was eating up her body... A plan to survive the unsurvivable and triumph over the nightmare.

I may not be a conspiracy theorist, but I am 100% passionate about finding a cure for the uncurable.

A Cure for Cancer.  In our lifetime.  So that mothers and fathers and sons and daughters can choose to live another day well, raising their hands high in hallelujah for the precious gift of sharing love together for years to come.

We have that option today.  Integrated cancer therapy.  Choosing what works the best for each cancer case.

For some it will be chemotherapy, for others it may be hyperthermia heat therapy or perhaps targeted immunotherapy.

Today there are choices.  And anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer deserves to know what those choices are and to be given the right to choose the best plan of treatment for themselves.

If I can do anything through this 31 Day Challenge, it will be to encourage you to research hard, to ask tough questions and to never give up...

A great place to start is at The Truth About Cancer website I mentioned above.  It's founder, Ty Bollinger, is an ardent healthcare advocate.  After losing his mother and father to cancer as well as several other family members, he began a quest to learn all he possibly could about alternative cancer treatments and the medical industry.  He refused to accept the notion that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, with their very poor track record, were the most effective treatments available for cancer patients. 

Ty and his team traveled the country and sat down with the foremost doctors, researchers, experts and survivors to discover their proven methods for preventing and treating cancer.  Out of this experience, his unprecedented docu-series was born...

The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest

This was the series that I watched several months ago... the series that began to speak Hope to a broken heart.  The series that I am longing to share with you.

As Ty shares early on, one of the most remarkable discoveries he made on his quest is that the vast majority of all diseases (including cancer) can be easily prevented and even cured without drugs or surgery.

That is Hope.  Spoken loud and clear.

For every cancer patient.  For every family member.  For every loved one fighting this battle.

It is our rallying cry.  Preventing and Curing Cancer.  In our lifetime.

So as we move forward on this journey, we will be digging in deep to uncover the truths about cancer treatments, traditional, alternative, and integrated ... as well as sharing the stories of survivors who are offering hope of life lived well and free of cancer.

Graced to be journeying along this road together,

Always,
         Jane