The Health Plus Letter
September 2, 2008 Vol. 6, No. 20
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher
http://www.1healthyworld.com
Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Dr. Charles Simone’s Ten Point Cancer Plan (Part 2)
An Interview with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of Anticancer
Recommendations
Medical Freedom
Contact Information
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter. This week, you will find the second part of my article on Dr. Charles Simone’s Ten Point Plan for preventing and dealing with cancer, as well as two case histories that show what is possible when cancer patients put his plan into action.
You’ll also find an interview with researcher and brain cancer survivor Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of an excellent new book called Anticancer: A New Way of Life, which I highly recommend you read (the book and the interview). I will have more with Dr. Servan-Schreiber in future issues.
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Quote Of The Day
“You’ll only be as happy as you are grateful.”
-- Margaret Moyer (my Mom)
Fast Fact
Approximately 20 percent of people are “aspirin-resistant,” meaning they do not obtain benefit from taking aspirin to prevent blood clotting. (Aspirin resistance can be determined by a simple blood test.)
Source: British Medical Journal 2004;328:477-479 (28 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7438.477
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Dr. Charles Simone’s Ten Point Cancer Plan (Part 2)
Modifying Hormone-Related And Sexual-Social Factors: Certain hormonal factors and sexual-social behaviors can increase cancer risk. Imbalances in sex hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are known to increase the risk of “hormone-sensitive” cancers such as breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer because hormonal imbalances can speed the growth of such cancers.
In recent decades, the spread of certain types of environmental toxins known as xenoestrogens have further increased the risk of hormone-sensitive cancers in people who are exposed to them. The increase in such toxins, as well as poor diet, has resulted in an increase in the incidence of early puberty (11 years or younger) among both boys and girls in the United States. This, in turn, increases the risk of cancer among both groups, but especially among girls who start to menstruate before age 12.
Other hormone-related risk factors in women, according to Dr. Simone, include not getting pregnant, not breastfeeding, getting pregnant late in life, and late menopause. Women who fall into any of the above categories should regularly be screened for cancer.
Birth control pills (oral contraceptives) should also be avoided, Dr. Simone says, as should hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms. According to Dr. Simone, both birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy increase the risk for breast cancer by four percent per each year they are used.
Another area of concern that women should be aware of, Dr. Simone say, is exposure to the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES). DES is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen that was used to prevent miscarriage and other pregnancy problems between 1938 and 1971 in the US. In 1971, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the use of diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy after a relationship between exposure to DES and the development of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix was found in young women whose mothers had taken DES while they were pregnant. Women who took DES during pregnancy also have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to other women.
Although diethylstilbestrol has not been given to pregnant women in the United States for more than 30 years, its effects continue to be seen today. For this reason, Dr. Simone recommends that women who used DES report that fact to their physicians. In addition, he also recommends that the children of such women (both men and women) inform their physicians, as well.
Sexual-social factors that increase the risk of cancer and therefore should be avoided are:
Sexual promiscuity and/or unsafe sex.
Poor hygiene in uncircumcised males.
The use of birth control pills (see above).
The use of sex steroids (androgens) for body-building and other purposes.
Drug use – both licit and illicit drugs can increase cancer risk. Dr. Simone recommends taking drugs only when they are prescribed by a doctor, and to always check to see if such drugs interfere with the function of vitamins and other nutrients.
Learning The Seven Cancer Warning Signs: Early cancer detection greatly increases the likelihood of a complete and lasting recovery. That’s why Dr. Simone encourages everyone to be aware of the most common early warning signs for cancer. They are:
The appearance of a lump or thickening in the breasts or testicles.
Changes in warts or moles, including growth and bleeding, and/or the appearance of dry, scaly, inflamed, or ulcerated patches of skin that does not heal. All of these can be signs of melanoma (skin cancer).
Skin or throat sores that don’t heal, as well as persistent lumps or in the throat, and/or difficulty swallowing. Persistent mouth sores can also be an early warning sign.
Changes in bladder or bowel habits, such as urinary pain or difficulty urinating, constipation, diarrhea, gas pains, rectal bleeding, or blood in the stool.
Persistent cough or hoarseness.
Persistent digestive problems, including indigestion, heartburn, nausea, bloating, and/or loss of appetite.
Unusual bleeding or discharge from the vagina.
If you experience any of the above signs or symptoms, seek immediate medical attention and cancer screening.
Exercising: A regular exercise program is another essential aspect of Dr. Simone’s ten point program. If you aren’t in the habit of exercising, however, he suggests that you first consult with your physician to be screened for cardiovascular risk factors. Once you have your physicians approval, he then recommends that start out slowly, and then increase your routine until your exercising at least four times each week.
According to Dr. Simone, a regular exercise program helps to protect against cancer in a variety of ways. First, it enhances the body’s ability to detoxify and eliminate toxins. At the same time, exercise stimulates NK cell activity, as well as the activity of other cancer-fighting components of your body’s immune system. Exercise also increases blood levels of oxygen, which is another important factor, since cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygen-enriched environment.
Dr. Simone is a big proponent of brisk walking four or more times a week, recommending that people aim to walk two miles or more each time. He says he recommends brisk walking because of how easy it is to do, compared to other types of exercise, and that it does not require any equipment or special clothing to buy, just a good pair of walking shoes.
Managing Stress Levels: Research has shown that stress is a primary contributor to cancer, as well as the vast majority of other health problems faced by our nation today. Therefore, learning to manage stress is vitally important, both for preventing cancer, and for improving the odds for full recovery.
One of the main reasons proper stress management is so necessary to prevent and recover from cancer is because stress, when left unchecked, can significantly suppress proper immune function.
Dr. Simone emphasizes that stress often results from various emotional and personality traits, such as repressing anger, feeling hopeless or helpless, being passive, and seeking to conform to others at the expense of one’s true desires or feelings. “Emotional suppression or being overtly accommodating is a real risk factor for cancer, not simply a reaction to a cancer diagnosis,” he says. “It’s also quite clear that emotional suppression is linked to symptoms of depression and anxiety among cancer patients.”
To manage stress, Dr. Simone recommends that his patients consider psychotherapy and other counseling methods to deal with unresolved emotional issues. He is also a proponent of various mind/body techniques, including guided imagery, biofeedback training, hypnosis, and relaxation therapies, as well as support groups.
Having Regular Physical Exams And Assessing Your Cancer Risk Profile: The finalelement of Dr. Simone’s ten point program is a regular physical exam, including a program to assess cancer risk. Dr. Simone urges every age 35 and older to have a comprehensive medical exam. As part of such an exam, he recommends a thorough physical checkup that includes blood, urine, and stool tests. For people with a known risk for developing throat cancers, he also recommends a fiberoptic laryngoscope exam of the nose and throat. Colonscopy should also be considered for all men and women with a known risk for cancers of the GI tract, and should be part of a medical exam for all people age 50 and older.
In addition, Dr. Simone recommends that women examine their breasts once a month, regardless of their age, and that men do the same for their testicles, especially men between the ages of 20 and 40.
For people who smoke, drink, or otherwise abuse their health, he also recommends an annual chest X ray.
SUCCESS STORIES
Although Dr. Simone’s Ten Point Plan is first and foremost intended to help prevent cancer, it can also be of great benefit to people with cancer as well. As Dr. Simone says, “Our Ten Point Plan has been repeatedly shown to help extend life if the patient actually adheres to it.” The following two case histories illustrate his point.
Beating Prostate Cancer
At age 53, one of Dr. Simone’s male patients was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bladder and into his bones. Prior to consulting with Dr. Simone, the man was given a life expectancy of little more than a year, the average life expectancy for someone with his diagnosis. Once he learned of Dr. Simone’s Ten Point Plan, however, the man committed himself to diligently following all of Dr. Simone’s recommendations.
Prior to being treated by Dr. Simone, the man had a love of many fatty foods, especially ice cream, all of which he was still consuming because his other doctors had never addressed his diet. For the first year that Dr. Simone worked with him, he was allowed only minimal amounts of fatty foods per week, and in the following six months, his fat consumption was eliminated altogether. During this time, the man also followed all of the other guidelines of Dr. Simone Ten Point Plan. One a month, Dr. Simone also gave him an injection of Lupron, a hormone drug that acts to balance testosterone levels. The Lupron injections in conjunction with the man’s strict adherence to Dr. Simone’s Ten Point Plan were the only treatment the man received during the entire 18 months.
Within the first 12 months of his treatment, the man’s PSA level (a primary marker for prostate cancer) was reduced to zero. Six years later, when Dr. Simone last consulted with him, he remained in full recovery and was doing very well, having beaten the death sentence conventional oncology had given him.
Recovery From Metastatic Breast Cancer
Another of Dr. Simone’s patients was a woman who came to him at the age of 37. Years earlier, she had been treated for breast cancer with chemotherapy and radiation. Following her treatment, she was given a clean bill of health, only to have her cancer return shortly afterward in a far more aggressive form. Diagnostic tests showed that her cancer not only was back, but that it had spread into her bones. Her oncologist ordered her to undergo an extensive regimen of both radiation and chemotherapy treatments, which she consented to. But the treatments failed, and by time they were over, the woman was in extreme pain from her bone cancer and told she had only a few more months to live.
When Dr. Simone first met her, his consultation with her revealed that certain of her lifestyle choices were unhealthy and, in his opinion, had probably caused her cancer. He instructed her in his Ten Point Plan, and prescribed various nutritional supplements for her, including his Onccor and Calcor products. The woman agreed to follow his recommendations, but at first she had problems doing so due to her inability to change her unhealthy lifestyle choices. With further encouragement from Dr. Simone, however, she was eventually able to do so.
Within a few weeks of following Dr. Simone’s guidelines, the woman reported improvements in her energy levels and a decrease in her bone pain. Over time, her pain continued to diminish and eventually she became pain free. In addition, she found herself becoming more fulfilled as she gained the strength to pursue her creative passions, especially songwriting. Although she was originally told she only had a few months to live, because of her work with Dr. Simone, she was able to live for another 15 pain-free years.
According to Dr. Simone, both of these cases point out what is possible for cancer patients if they are willing to change their lifestyle and follow his Ten Point Plan. This is especially true for people with cancers that are diet-sensitive or hormone-sensitive, such as breast, prostate, colon, rectal, ovarian, endometrial, pancreatic, thyroid, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Patients with these types of cancer respond the best to Dr. Simone’s Ten Point Plan, he says, although other types of cancer, such as lung, head, and neck, can also respond but not as well. And for diet- and hormone-sensitive cancers, Dr. Simone says that it is only his Ten Point Plan that results in improved survival, not chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. For people with such cancers, he says, “If you change your lifestyle, you will live longer.”
Resources
For more information about Dr. Simone and his work, contact:
Simone Protective Cancer Center
123 Franklin Corner Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Phone: (609) 896-2646
You can also visit www.drsimone.com and www.princetoninstitute.com.
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An Interview with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of Anticancer
Dr. David Servan-Schreiber was only 31 years old, a young doctor on the fast track, when he discovered—while testing out his own brain scanning machine—a brain tumor the size of a walnut. In his book Anticancer, Servan-Schreiber relates both his personal story of his journey to become a brain cancer survivor and the valuable knowledge he learned from it. In concise, easy-to-understand language, he explains what makes cancer cells thrive and what we can do to harness our body’s natural defenses against them. In the following interview, he shares some of his insights.
Q: What have you learned from having cancer?
A: When I was first diagnosed, I was immediately reminded of my own mortality. Clearly, I had seen several of my patients die, was seeing this happen every week in the hospital, but it was as if it didn’t apply to me… At 31 years of age, as a young and ambitious neuroscientist, it was not part of my horizon. Learning I had a brain tumor changed that quickly. And the surprise for me was that it gave life a much greater intensity, flavor, and I would even say beauty. As if I could see for the first time that life was precious.
I learned that my choices, every day, could give meaning to my life, or detract from it. And that this meaning would be the only thing that would survive after me, so I should start to pay attention to it right away. Not wait until some indefinite milestone in the future -- until I’d become a professor, until I had children, or any other such distant goal. I learned to live more meaningfully more purposefully.
And then, when I started learning about how to improve my own biology with a healthier lifestyle, I learned that I could feel a lot healthier with cancer in my body, than before I was ever diagnosed with the illness.
Q: How did you as a doctor experience the shift to become a patient? How has this change in perspective influenced your relationship with your own patients?
A: Before my diagnosis, I was so focused on research that I could not let myself enjoy my work as doctor. I saw it as detracting from the time I could spend in the lab, or from writing research papers. After I went through surgery and treatment for cancer, after the suffering, my perspective changed completely. I knew then, in my flesh, how professionalism combined with the slightest gesture of kindness – picking up a jacket that fell off a chair, walking someone back to the door with a smile – made such an important difference for a patient who is in pain and who is scared of what is happening to them. Because I now knew this, I started to get great pleasure from being able to make this gift to my patients. And I noticed how practicing medicine could be – as my grand-mother had always told me – “the most gratifying work in the world…” Soon after I discovered this, I progressively withdrew from my work in research, turned the direction of my lab to some of my friends and colleagues, and dedicated myself to practicing and teaching clinical care.
Q: In your book, you write that what can be confusing is the great diversity of information you receive as a patient. Your book contains a wealth of information, too. What do you recommend people who have been diagnosed with cancer? How can they find orientation among the plethora of possible methods of treatment?
A: With respect to conventional treatment, I think every patient should have at least two different opinions from two different oncologists. Every doctor I know who has cancer seeks at least two different opinions, more often three or four. It’s normal to explore what are all the options available because there are so many.
Then, I think everyone should know that 1) conventional treatment is indispensable and has the best chance to save your life, but that 2) it is often not enough and that it is also extremely important to help your natural defenses do their work against cancer, to work on your “terrain”.
Conventional medicine generally fails to give enough information about everything we know about strengthening natural defenses, because it focuses on destroying cancer cells and it does not work much with this dimension of “terrain”.
This is why I wrote Anticancer. I collected in it all the stories – personal and scientific – that I wish I had read so as to possibly avoid ever getting cancer, and also that I wish I could have had with me on bed-side table when I went through the experience myself. (In fact, I have to say that I read passages again when I go through difficult times!)
Q: During your recuperation process, you tried a great number of different and sometimes divergent methods of treatment. Is this necessary in order to heal such a complex disease as cancer?
A: All scientists who have studied cancer agree that cancer is the result of many different processes going awry and that it has multiple causes. We all have cancer cells in our body, even when we’re apparently quite healthy. I believe cancer is what happens when the factors that feed cancer growth begin to outnumber the factors that support our natural defenses. If we have cancer, we should then try to reduce as many of the cancer promoters in our lives as possible (tobacco, excessive alcohol, excessive sugar, excessive omega-6 and hydrogenated fats, environmental pollutants), and increase everything that supports our defenses (cancer fighting phytochemicals from specific vegetables, fruits, spices, aromatic herbs, teas, etc., physical activity, stress management techniques that move us out of helplessness and despair, connectedness with our loved ones).
New studies are showing us that people who do this change the expression of the genes in their cells in a way that limits cancer growth in the tissue affected. There is enough science now to conclude that if we combine a sufficient number of changes in our lifestyle we can start to build an anticancer biology. This cannot replace conventional treatments, but it can help us get the most from them.
Q: Is there something like a “message” in your book, something you want to give people with cancer to take along on their journey?
A: Absolutely. The message is very simple. Everyone with cancer is told to be wary about false hopes. This is important, because we don’t want people to think they can avoid conventional treatments and their side-effects. However, I think it is just as important to not fall into false hopelessness! All patients with cancer should know that there are many things they can do to help themselves do better than the stark statistics they’re often given. We can all learn to create an anticancer biology in our body. There is no guarantee that it will stop cancer, but it will often slow it down. And nobody I know ever regretted trying.
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Recommendations
Book
The Titans Curse by Rick Riordan. This is the third book in Riordan’s The Olympians saga, and like the first two books, it’s very enjoyable and something I think kids of all ages (and that includes me!) will really like reading.
Websites and Links
http://www.naturalhealthvillage.com - I often recommend this website of health journalist Peter Chowka. I’m recommending it again for the excellent article and interview he’s posted with the late Anthony Russo, who played an important role in the release of The Pentagon papers and who, more recently, researched what Chowka calls “the medical-industrial complex.” What Russo had to say about that, as well as the rise of alternative medicine, if very interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/5mz3rj - This link will take you to an excellent article by Ben Goldacre, author of the book Bad Science, on the medicalization of everyday life. Highly recommended.
Medical Freedom
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 Freedom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health Freedom (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 there.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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