The Health Plus Letter
October 5, 2006, Vol. 4, No. 21
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
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Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Alternative Diagnostic Tests for Cancer
Self Care Tips for Dealing with Blood Clots
Recommendations
Reader Feedback (More On The Limitations of Conventional Cancer Treatments)
Medical F/r/e/edom
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter. This week I’m continuinbgmy coverage of cancer by introducing you to nonconventional diagnostic tests that can be used to detect cancer. You’ll also self-care tips for dealing with blood clots and firsthand testimony from one of my readers about the disfiguring side effects of masectomy.
As always, please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
“I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.”
-- G.K. Chesterton
Fast Fact
The incidence of cancer in the U.S. has increased by more than 400 percent since the "war on cancer" was declared by President Nixon. At the time, one in ten Americans developed cancer; today over 40 percent do.
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Alternative Diagnostic Tests for Cancer
Integrative and alternative physicians have recognized the potential shortcomings of conventional cancer screening tests for decades. As a result, they have turned their attention to finding and making use of the most viable alternative screening methods. What follows are overviews of the most effective of these screening methods.
BioFocus Blood Test—This innovative blood test, which is available from the BioFocus laboratory in Recklinghausen, Germany, is one of the most effective screening methods for cancer. Moreover, the BioFocus Blood Test, also known as the Molecular Tumor Diagnostics Test, is an essential tool for helping oncologists and other physicians to best determine the most effective course of treatment for each individual patient. By using the BioFocus Test to determine the most appropriate course of action for each of their patients, physicians are able to most effectively achieve remission of cancer while simultaneously sparing their patients of harmful side effects. Even if chemotherapy is found to be necessary to treat cancer, the BioFocus Test allows physicians to both select the most appropriate type of chemotherapy and combine it with effective alternative treatment methods, such as insulin-potentiation therapy (IPT). This, in turn, means that much lower than normal doses of chemotherapy need to be used to target and kill cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells undamaged. This alone makes the BioFocus Test something that all cancer patients and their physicians should consider, given how toxic and debilitating conventional applications of chemotherapy are.
The BioFocus Test is based on molecular genetics. It works by screening a sample of a patient’s blood for a wide parameter of genetic molecular markers associated with cancer cells and tumors, while also screening for disseminated cancer cells in the bloodstream Such cells are typically non-detectable by all conventional cancer screening tests until they start to clump together and fo.rm tumors. As a result, the BioFocus test is capable of detecting cancer in its earliest stages, often many months, and in some cases years, before conventional cancer blood and other screening tests.
Just as importantly, the BioFocus test allows physicians to determine what type of cancer is present, even at its earliest stage, in a safe, effective, and noninvasive manner. The reason for this is that specific types of cancer have their own specific genetic markers, or gene coding. For example, the gene codings for prostate cancer can be detected in the blood sample itself by the BioFocus Test, without the need for the far less accurate PSA test.
Another valuable feature of the BioFocus Test is the fact that, once it detects cancer cells and determines which type of cancer is present in the body, it is then able to measure the cancer’s specific metabolic properties and resistance factors. By doing so, it enables physicians to then determine which treatment approaches, including chemotherapy, should it be necessary, will most effectively target and destroy a patient’s specific type of cancer. In essence then, the BioFocus Test makes it possible to individualize each cancer patient’s treatment plan, tailor-making it to their unique needs and the specific makeup of the cancer they have.
Until recently, the BioFocus Test was only available in Germany. Today, however, people in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere can also take advantage of it. All that is required for them to do so is to have a sample of their blood drawn and sent to the BioFocus lab, which will then test the blood sample and provide a full report on their findings, including the best course of treatment.
For more information about the BioFocus Test, including how to draw and prepare blood for shipment to the clinic, contact Burton Goldberg via his website: www.burtongoldberg.com.
Darkfield Microscopy—Darkfield microscopy is rarely, if ever, used by conventional physicians and oncologists despite the fact that it can be an important tool for detecting signs of cancer in the bloodstream. Unlike conventional electron microscopy, darkfield microscropy enables physicians trained in its use to observe microscopic living organisms, including blood cells, as well as the presence of disease-causing microorganisms.
To perform this task, physicians take a drop of a patient’s blood (via a prick of the finger) and place it on a slide under a specially adapted microscope, which then projects the magnified image of the blood (usually a magnification of 1500 times) onto a video screen, where both the physician and patient can observe the bloods internal environment. In essence, the physician is observing the shape and motion of the components in the blood sample, including the cells themselves. This is in stark contrast to conventional microscopy, which is based on measurements of blood samples that reveal very little about the true condition of the blood.
For example, doctors using conventional microscopy and other types of blood testing will often seek to obtain a total white blood count (WBC) of a patient’s immune cells known as neutrophils. Using such methods, they may receive a WBC that falls within the normal range, causing them to assume that their patient is normal and disease-free. Using darkfield microscopy, however, physicians are able to easily see if the neutrophils actually appear normal or have abnormalities consistent with cancer and other disease states. In addition to revealing distortions in the shapes of the cells themselves, darkfield microscopy also shows whether cells are properly moving or are lifeless and immobilized. It can also detect free-radical damage and whether there is cell leakage from within the cell/ular walls due to cell-wall deficiencies.
All of these factors, while not providing definitive proof of cancer, nonetheless are indications that cancer or other disease may be present. Once they are observed, physicians can then order follow-up tests. In this way, cancer can often be detected much earlier than conventional screening tests usually allow for. Equally important, once cancer treatments are begun, continued darkfield blood analysis can provide physicians with solid indications of whether or not their treatment approach is working, based upon whether or not there are positive changes occurring as follow-up blood samples are observed.
Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay—The Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay is a diagnostic test developed by Dr. Robert A. Nagourney, M.D., a board-certified oncologist, heatologist, and pharmacology professor, and founding medical director of Rational Therapeutics of Long Beach, California. Although the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay is not used to screen for cancer, once cancer has been detected, it can be highly effective in screening for and determining which therapeutic agents can most effectively treat each person’s specific type of cancer. In essence, the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay helps physicians to know which conventional and alternative cancer treatments will be most successful at causing cancer cells and tumors to die.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of cancer cells, as opposed to normal cells, is that they do not readily undergo apoptosis, the programmed cell death that is inherent to healthy cells. One of the reasons conventional cancer treatments so often fail is that they are concerned with stopping cancer cells and tumors from further growing. When cancer cell and tumor growth slows or stops, oncologists consider this to be a success, when in fact it usually is little more than a delay of the inevitable death that occurs in the majority of cancer cases that are treated conventionally. Alternative physicians understand that the key to successfully treated cancer lies both in addressing and resolving all of the underlying factors that cause a patient’s specific cancer while simultaneously getting cancer cells to die, not just simply stop growing.
Physicians who elect to use the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay send a living tissue sample of cancer cells (obtained either by a biopsy, in the case of cancer tumors, or a blood sample, in the case of leukemias) to Dr. Nagourney’s laboratory. There, pieces of the specimen are exposed to a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents, as well as other drugs, along with a wide range of alternative remedies that have the potential to kill cancer cells. The Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay then provides Dr. Nagourney and his colleagues with a clear indication of which substances will be most effective for treating the particular cancer that has been tested. In short, the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay makes it possible for physicians to know in advance of the treatment they are considering whether or not it will work. The goal of the test is to discover which substances cause cancer cells to die off within 72 to 96 hours after the cells are exposed to the therapeutic agents while the cancer specimen in grown in a test tube. In this way, the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay provides objective evidence of the likelihood that a specific drug or other anti-cancer agent will work when administered to the person from which the cancer specimen is derived. This, in turn, allows physicians to tailor make a customized treatment plan for each of their patients that will have the highest chance of achieving long-term success.
To learn more about the Ex Vivo Apoptotic Assay, visit www.Rational-T.com.
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Self-Care Tips for Dealing with Blood Clots
Blood clots, also known as thrombi, are formed inside major blood vessels, and are the major cause of many heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular disorders. Symptoms of blood clots are usually not apparent, which is why diagnostic screening on a regular (yearly) basis is recommended.
What To Consider: Blood solidification, or clotting, usually occurs as a healthy response within minutes after the skin is cut or there is trauma that causes bleeding. A clot helps seal the damage. However, blood clotting can be dangerous when it occurs inside healthy blood vessels. Unhealthy clotting can occur from platelets that get “activated” to clump together. This occurs when platelets come in contact with damaged arterial walls, or due to nutrient deficiencies, poor dietary habits, or genetic predisposition. Once platelets get sticky, their shape changes and they easily mesh or clump together, causing a clot.
Another factor that can cause unhealthy blood clots is the production of fibrin, which helps bind the clump of platelets together. Fibrin is the end product of a cascade of coagulation (clumping) factors that occurs with the activation of just one molecule. This, in turn, can lead to the explosion of up to 30,000 molecules of fibrin at the site of injury on the arterial wall.
Factors that can cause a buildup of platelet stickiness and fibrin include: the use of birth control pills, late stages of pregnancy, nutrient deficiencies, smo/king, fr.ee radicals (inadequate antioxidant nutrients), a high-cholesterol diet, low essential fatty acids, a diet high in saturated fat and low in vegetables and fish, and liver disease. Prolonged sitting on long airline flights, especially in cramped conditions, can also increase the risk of developing pulmonary thrombosis. Blood clots forming in the legs or another part of the body break loose and then block one of the arteries to the lungs. Some practical preventive measures during long flights include getting up and walking the aisle every hour, wearing loose, comfortable clothing, periodically stretching the legs and tightening and loosening the muscles of the abdomen and buttocks, and taking some slow, deep breaths.
Studies conducted at Duke Univ/ersity showed that moderate exercise can help protect against heart attacks and strokes by enhancing the body’s natural mechanism for dissolving blood clots. In addition, Duke researchers found that the higher risk of blood clotting in women taking oral contraceptives can be significantly reduced by exercise.
Note: If you take aspirin as a daily preventive therapy, you may want to begin a gut rejuvenation program to stimulate healing and proper gastrointestinal wall functioning, in order to offset aspirin’s traumatization of the gut wall when taken on daily basis. It is a good idea to do a bowel cleanse and rejuvenation several times a year when on daily aspirin (consult your physician for guidance).
Self-Care
Diet: Foods that act to decrease platelet stickiness and fibrin formation include garlic, ginger, onions, and hot peppers (capsicum), all of which protect against heart attack and stroke. Use granulated garlic on food as a regular spice. Fish oils also help to reduce clotting of blood. Increase consumption of cold-water fish at least three times per week. Also decrease sugar consumption as sugar intake increases platelet stickiness.
Nutritional Supplementation: Research in Japan has shown that nattokinase, an enzyme derived from soy, can dissolve blood clots in as little as two hours, making it one of the most effective nutrients for preventing and reversing blood clots. Other useful nutrients include: vitamin B6, garlic capsules, niacin (vitamin B3), lipotropic factors (nutrients useful for liver metabolism of fat), omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, bromelain, vitamin C, vitamin E, magnesium, manganese, and zinc.
Herbs: Hawthorne berry is a very useful herb for helping to prevent blood clots.
Homeopathy: Hamamelis.
Juice Therapy: Combine the juices of garlic, carrot, parsley, spinach, celery, and beet and drink 8-12 ounces daily.
Note: If your symptoms persist despite the above measures, seek the help of a qualified health professional.
(The above information is adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, edited and co-written by Larry Trivieri, Jr.)
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Recommendations
Book
Forbidden History, edited by J. Douglas Kenyon. This is one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read and I highly recommend it. It challenges many of the assumptions we have about our planet’s history, including providing evidence that humans have been alive on this planet far longer than mainstream science admits, and that lost civilizations did exist that possessed technologies far beyond what is commonly believed. As is common in the world of alternative medicine, many of the researchers profiled in this book have been ostracized by their mainstream peers and in some cases prevented from publishing their findings. Reading this book will change your worldview and increase your sense of wonder and mystery about life on planet Earth and beyond.
Website
http://www.cornucopia.org - Visit this site to learn how Wal-Mart is threatening the burgeoning organic farm movement, adding to the reasons why I have boycotted Wal-Mart for years.
Reader Feedback (More On The Limitations of Conventional Cancer Treatments)
Cosette T. writes:
“Dear Larry - As a breast cancer survivor, an article in your latest newsletter, 'Limitations of Conventional Cancer Treatments', had my name written all over it. I cannot let it go by without comment. First of all, your comprehensive presentation of the facts is a rare undertaking, for which I thank you. Even those knowledgeable in alternative medicine, such as myself, will recognize the tremendous number of critical facts you've presented.
Upon my diagnosis, I fought hard to stay in control of my cancer treatment, yet, there was one thing I still had so little knowledge of, simply because there was no viable source for it. God knows how I researched. I am referring to permanent surgical side effects!! Doctors do not go to any great lengths to explain just how severe this can be, certainly, why would they? I had a mastectomy thinking it was the safest way to go, knowing I would not consent to chemo and radiation, frightened not to remove as much as the breast as possible. Had I foreseen the permanent damage my body would suffer, I may ne.ver have had the mastectomy, I may have insisted on lumpectomy. It's not just that surgery itself is so high risk, it's that once the body heals it is left with permanently damaged nerves, tendons, ligaments and scar tissue that occur not only on the surface but internally, as well.
Four years after my mastectomy and reconstruction, I have undergone comprehensive testing to determine the cause of constant pain and loss of abdominal mobility (tissue was harvested from the abdomen to reconstruct the breast). I was told to go home and learn to live with it as no diagnosis could be made for my symptoms. I then came across pictures of an abdominal autopsy, showing long string-like tissues, forming a web that filled in the entire cavity which the body developed in response to the type of reconstruction surgery I had. Statistics showed that going back in to remove those scar tissue fibers just prompted the body to 'grow' even more. Therefore, there is no 'cure' for what ails me.
I just want to make your readers aware that it's often not over when the surgery heals.
The body is subjected to often horrendous, barbaric procedures during major surgeries. One cannot intelligently expect it to be 'good as new' afterward no matter what picture is presented by conventional medical doctors.”
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Medical F/r/e/edom
Please contact and support the following organizations dedicated to protecting our health freedoms.
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org
Alliance for Natural Health – http://www.alliance-natural-health.org (The leading organization fighting to preserve health f/r/e/edom in England and the EU.)
Institute for Health F/r/e/edom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health F/r/e/edom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find th/e/re.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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