"You are what you eat! Give your body good food and hard work, and your body will take care of you"
Peasant wisdom, Ciociaria area (Italy) , Time immemorial
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
Hippocrates, 460-370 BC
What is Cancer?
Written on: May 2023
Last edited: December 2024
Takeaways
Research has shown that Cancer is not a Genetic disease as our doctors tell us. Instead, Cancer is a Metabolic disease with the genetic mutations as down stream effects. And because it is a metabolic disease, it can be cured or kept at bay with proper nutrition (BeneDiet). There is no need for poisonous chemotherapeutic drugs! I believe in this so strongly that I have put my life on the line to prove it.
For my Leukemia (CLL), I have concluded that for me the BeneDiet is a regimen consisting of: A Carnivore diet; Supplementation with Vitamins mega-doses especial vitamin C; Daily vigorous Exercise; Staying away from all prescription and non-prescription drugs except in emergencies; And staying away from cosmetic procedures and products (see page "My Regimen").
How do I know that my regimen is working? I know because since I have embarked on it, I have been feeling well beyond the wildest imagination! (see page "Body Changes"). Other researchers have also experienced good results with Ketogenic and Carnivore diets. Other people considering proper nutrition to deal with their health issues, would need to change my regimen to suit their particular situation and biochemical individuality.
Preamble
Cancer has a long history, but it is only over the last fifty years or so that it has reached epidemic proportions. Today about 50% of Americans are expected to be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.
The word "cancer" comes from the Greek word karkinos, which means "crab". The Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC) is credited with using the term karkinos to describe lumps of cancerous cells with tentacles that look like a crab. Nowadays the term is used also to refer to cancers that do not form "lumps" such as the leukemias. As none of Hippocrates's writings on his own work have been found, we are left to believe in the writings about him by others. Soranus of Ephesus, a 2nd-century Greek physician, was Hippocrates's first biographer, and later articles appear in the Suda of the 10th century AD.
The current Organized Medicine "Standard of Care" for cancer includes the administration to the patient of chemotherapeutic drugs with the objective of killing cancerous cells. Fundamentally, all these drugs are poisons that kill cells and, unfortunately, they kill all cells whether cancerous or not as they are not able to target cancer cells only. Mostly because all of these drugs are unable to target cancer cells only, they all cause numerous side effects such as other cancers and other ailment including death, they all weaken the patients terribly, and none of them result in cures. In sum, the performance of these drugs has and is being dismal. In spite of all the hype, all the heavy advertising of new drugs, and all the well organized campaigns parading "cancer heroes", the truth remains sobering: this approach to treat cancer with poisonous drugs that kill cancer cells, pursued now for more than one hundred years, has not come up with cures. Cancer patients subjected to the "standard of care" suffer terrible side effects, often are mutilated in terrible ways, and eventually die a terrible death ... just as my sister did. So, nowadays, in spite of the amazing advances in the scientific knowledge and technologies, cancer remains a death sentence for those diagnosed with it.
So, what's up? Something is clearly amiss! Organized Medicine dogma is that cancer is a Genetic disease. Could it be that this dogma of the biological nature of cancer is wrong? Clearly, would we not expect better results if this dogma were right?
Everybody agrees that cancer is due to defective (cancerous) cells that have escaped Body Regulation Systems (BregS) and which, therefore, replicate non stop until they are so many of them that the body cannot function anymore and dies. The bone of contention is what makes cells cancerous. If we know this, then we would be able to focus on the best way to cure cancer.
The Common Understanding
The human body consists of some 50 trillions different cells held together by material referred to as "intercellular cement". Each one of these different cells carries out a specific task and works coordinated with all the others cells with exquisite precision in a "one for all, all for one" spirit to carry out the various vital body functions.
All animal cells, including Humans, have the same structure consisting of an encasing membrane (Plasma Membrane) filled with a gel like fluid (Cytoplasm) with several Organelles floating in the Cytoplasm. Organelles are small "organs" within a cell, each enclosed by a membrane and each performing a specific function. Organelles (such as the Nucleus, Mitochondria and Lysosomes) are responsible for various vital tasks such as energy production (Respiration), protein synthesis, and waste disposal. The structure of the human cell, as currently understood, is illustrated in the figure below.
As these cells age and die off, they are replaced with newly re-created ones, each with exactly the same characteristics as the one being replaced. Of the trillions of new cells being re-created continually to keep replacing those that die, some of them are recreated with defects and these defects make these cells cancerous. Healthy cells can also become cancerous because of environmental exposures to carcinogenics or because of nutritional deficiencies that end up depriving cells of sufficient respiration (9).
To prevent these cancerous cells to start causing problems, the body has a number of specialized cells that mark the cancerous cells for destruction and destroy them. These specialized cells are part of our Immune System whose task is also to mark for destruction invading pathogens (viruses, bacteria, and fungi) and then proceed to destroy them. If the body Immune System is not sufficiently healthy some of the Cancerous cells or pathogens escape destruction and cause cancer or infections.
The Immune System task of recognizing invading pathogens is relatively easy because the cells of these invading scoundrels are markedly different than our own body cells as they are foreign. So, if our Immune System is reasonably healthy, these invaders will be detected and destroyed thus preventing infections.
However, the Immune System task of recognizing the body's own cancerous cells is much more difficult because cancerous cells are not foreign; they are the body's own cells different from healthy cells only in subtle ways. So, cancerous cells are very difficult to tell apart from normal cells! For this reason unless the Immune System is perfectly healthy, some of these cancerous cells will escape detection and subsequent destruction, and will start multiplying. As these cancerous cells are defective, they do not know what to do for the good of our body having escaped all body controls and, as a result, they keep proliferating unchecked. They only know how to multiply for their own selfish purpose and create larger and larger number of cancerous cells forming masses that interfere with the correct functioning of the normal cells and eventually kill the body. These defective cancerous cells proliferating unchecked and crowding out normal cells is what constitute Cancer.
What Makes Cells Cancerous
Organized Medicine dogma maintains that cells becomes cancerous because of mutations (coding errors) in some of their genes in the DNA. This DNA is located in the Nucleus of the cells. Based on this, Organized Medicine maintains that cancer is a Genetic disease which cannot be fixed by any "healing" process. This is being called a "dogma" because it is considered an unquestionable truth which has been just stated but never proved.
Concluding that cancer is a Genetic disease is devastating because it justifies use of chemotherapeutic drugs, radiations, and surgery as the only way to manage cancer.
As an aside, the use of chemotherapeutic drugs and radiations damage the Immune System. As discussed above, a healthy Immune System is key to being able to recover from Cancer. So, how can anybody justify treating cancer with chemotherapeutic drugs and radiations as these damage the very system that we need to restore to good health to recover from cancer?
Research by Otto H. Warburg disagreed with cancer being a genetic diseases almost one hundred years ago. His research proved that cells become cancerous if their Respiration in the cell's Mitochondria becomes impaired by more than about 65% (9, 10, 11). Genetic mutations are subsequent down-stream damages caused by insufficient Respiration. He further proved that all cancer cells get their energy from fermentation of large amounts of glucose even if oxygen is present. This fermentation produces energy and a byproduct called lactic acid which poisons the body. This phenomenon is now referred to as the "Warburg Effect". Healthy cells get their energy from oxidation of glucose with water and carbon dioxide as byproducts. For this research Otto H. Warburg received the Nobel Prize in Physiology (Medicine) in 1931. Warburg discovery, although "earth shaking" has been ignored by Organized Medicine. But lately a number of dissenting researchers have been applying Warburg's discovery to confront cancer, notably, Dr Thomas Seyfried (44).
The "Warburg Effect" justifies the use of Ketogenic or Carnivore diets against cancer. These diets put the body in ketosis, a state in which the body has lots of ketones in the blood with limited amounts of glucose. In this condition, cells have to switch to use ketones, rather than glucose, for energy. Healthy cells are capable of this switch but cancerous cells are not and as a result cancerous cells are starved on these diets.
As an aside, Ketogenic and Carnivore diets minimize the health impacts of Type-1 Diabetes, cure completely Type-2 Diabetes (Also cure obesity, and several other diseases (see page "Root of All Diseases")). This is due to the fact, just noted above, that these diets significantly increase blood ketones and significantly reduce blood glucose. Therefore much less Insulin is required to maintain the blood sugar at the healthy levels for Type-1 diabetes, and for Type -2 diabetes much less Metformin is needed. These are proven facts, not just theory (67)! My wife has been a Type-2 diabetic for some 34 years and when she was able to stick to a ketogenic diet she did not needed her pills! And where do the ketones come from? They come from the digestion of fat in the diet and from the digestion of your own body fat. For this reason these diets are very effective to cure Obesity or trim your weight. And , if you are not obese, these diets will melt away your "love handles" and all the other hanging body flab tha I am sure offend your vanity. Again, these are facts not theory! I have direct experience with my wife and myself. My experience is reported in the "Body Changes" page.
The bottom line conclusion from Warburg's work , and more recently from the work of Dr. Thomas Seyfried (44), is that cancer is a Metabolic disease and not a Genetic disease. Why is this so significant? It is in fact "hearth shaking" because if cancer is a Metabolic disease, it follows that it can be cured with better nutrition. No need for poisonous chemotherapeutic drugs! All we need to get better is just a "wholesome" diet. In the page "Root of All Diseases" I define this wholesome diet and I call it the "BeneDiet".
My experience is showing that for me "wholesome" nutrition consists of a Carnivore diet supplemented with large amounts of Vitamins and supplemented by vigorous daily exercise (See the "Regimen" pages). My experience to-date is proving that my regimen is working very well! How do I know? I know because I feel well beyond my wildest expectations and my health has improved in miraculous ways! (see page "Body Changes"), while at the same my Leukemia blood counts have remained essentially the same.
A Last Remark
Warbug's research and the results obtained applying it to cure cancer, including my own experience so far, do confirm that cancer can be successfully managed with good nutrition and this, therefore, confirms that cancer is a Metabolic disease which can be cured with nutrition. Ketogenic or Carnivore diets appear to work best maybe because glucose stops being available in sufficient amounts and healthy cells are able to switch to use ketones for energy while cancerous cells are not able to switch and thus starve. In final analysis, though, it does not matter whether we understand why these diets and my regimen work. What it matters is that they work! There would be no birds in our skies if birds stopped flying because they could not understand why they are able to fly!
Science may never fully get to understand the workings of our amazing body! In fact, I am convinced that science will never get to the bottom of it. One reason for my conviction is that science is not motivated to understand how to get people physiologically healthy, but rather it is motivated to understand how they can develop drugs that can make more money, even if it is on the back of the health and suffering of people. And in fact science advances have always been fuelled by the desire of some individual, institution, or nation, to achieve more wealth and thus more power. Let's not forget that Alchemy was fuelled by kings who wanted to change lead into gold!
In final analysis, the fact that Ketogenic and Carnivore diets are successful against cancer and other diseases may simply be that these diets simply provide better nourishment which is more in line with what mother nature intended for us. My experience is that these diets have to be adopted within the "BeneDiet" concept for best results. And if a diet is inline with mother nature intentions, it will provide the nourishment that the body needs to fully enable its "Wisdom" to keep itself healthy.
Understanding what is going-on in our cells is definitely useful for several reasons ... but what is more important is the experience that good nutrition does keep us healthy ... even if we do not understand why. Without any doubts, my current regimen (Carnivore diet, Large Vitamin supplementation especially Vitamin C, Exercise, No sugar, No prescription drus or any other drugs, No tattoos, and no cosmetics ) is definitely working very well for me ... with no side effects! I am on cloud nine!!! And I don't care if Organized Medicine does not agree with me ... although I feel sorry for the many that suffer because of the many poisonous drugs being pushed on them.