Cancer - Why you’re not ’doomed’

 

 

 

 

I once spoke to a gathering of oncologists using the title of 'Serendipity' (fortunate discoveries by accident). 

 

A major event in my life was my 21-year old daughter developing a grade 4, GBM brain tumour; and being told she had a maximum of 5 months to live and that the London Hospitals had never had anyone live more than 18 months.

 

I had studied Biochemistry at Oxford University and specialised in cancer.

 

After two years, Catherine was seemingly cancer-free and several doctors asked that I write down what I had discovered. Never say this to an ex-advertising man. We all have a book in us!

 

And so I wrote "Everything you need to know to help you beat cancer". The first edition sold out in a weekend, even though you could only buy it direct from the Charity we had set up.

 

The aim of the Charity was to put put cancer magazines full of information and tips into patient hands in Hospitals across the UK. And what do you do with the articles? Why not build a website?

 

Then, because of all this, LBC wanted to interview me; and so I came back to the UK for a weekend.

 

Serendipity again - By pure chance, the afternoon I landed and went to the office, top British sportsman Geoffrey Boycott rang me - he had a tumor on the back of his tongue. One Oncologist gave him 12 weeks to live. Another oncologist said they thought they could save him - they would break his jaw, go in and cut the tumour out, give him chemo and radio, but he'd never talk on TV or radio again. I built him a protocol - my first ever- and put in a parasite and anti-viral. 8 weeks later, Geoff told me the staff at his hospital were 'Bloody embarassed'.

 

At the Olympia Health Show the next day, where I was doing the radio interview, a tearful Galina came up to me. She'd been told to go home and write her will. Barely 40, she had grade 4 stage 4 ovarian. Then on the interview Mrs Omar rang in and she had also been told she was doomed with breast cancer and just three months to live.

 

What can I say? They are all alive 22 years later.

 

Doomed? Terminal? Palliative care? Who uses these words?

 

I also learned some important things very quickly:

 

People build bodies conducive to cancer over a six to ten year period, sometimes longer. Their body and their Lifestyle are conducive to cancer. Cancer likes living in their body. Cancer does not happen over night and, importantly, it is never one thing that causes the weak body and cancer. It's a combination of factors.

 

Right from the start, I set out to build these three people 'bodies conducive to health' - cancer doesn't thrive in healthy bodies. I also sought to discover what had caused the cancer and tried to 'shut those doors' too.

 

Anybody can change their health profile by changing their lifestyle. You can start today.

 

Years later, a patient in Marbella, Firouzeh, had a CA125 score of 1500 when she came to me and her oncologist kept telling her that there wasn't much she could do. Seven or more years later she passed away, but Fred her husband told me that an autopsy showed she did not have a cancer cell in her body.

 

In one of our chats, Firouzeh told me that she had 'worked me out'. I 'didn't treat cancer; I treated people'.  

 

She was right. As Dr. Henry Friedman a top Oncologist in the USA once said, "it is naive to believe that any one treatment could cure a cancer". I don't use cancer treatments - I build people a programme that rebuilds their health and 'shuts the doors' to cancer. It's not rocket science. A new lifestyle and a healthy body increases their personal odds of survival. 

 

If I use green juices and flaxseed for glutathione or Hyperbaric oxygen and vitamin D, or iodine, magnesium and CoQ10, it is to make the patient healthy again. So too, if I cut their blood sugar and blood fat, or rebuild their microbiome, or teach them to manage their stress. 

 

I don't have a formula; I have an approach. What I do is personalised to the patient sitting in front of me, their age, history, circumstances and their cancer. It staggers me but even Doctors come to see me (8 in one year alone); one even sent his terminally ill father who went on to survive another 8 years.

 

You can do all this too. Cancer is a 'Wake up' call. You didn't love yourself enough; you didn't nourish yourself enough.

 

 

For roughly the past hundred years, the orthodox cancer industry has been adhering to the Somatic Theory of Cancer. I too learned this at Oxford University. The 'theory' states that you have an irreversible mutation in your DNA, and the only way to deal with this is to cut it out or blow it up. What actually is a 'mutation'? It is an irreversible sequence change inside your DNA. Frankly, it's nigh on impossible that you'd ever develop one. (Unless you have one of the mRNA vaccines with their extra DNA fragments that shouldn't be there.)

 

If you discuss cancer with Oncologists who think outside the box, they would actually all agree that cancer is a loss of a message - it may have gone completely or, more likely, it is still there but imperfect. It could be a message that tells your immune system to recognise a cancer cell, or to make a protein that controls an important health pathway.

 

You will, none-the-less, often her the word mutation - Oncologists may well tell you that you have a mutation or even several (KRAS, EGFR, BRAF etc). But This isn't a sequence change inside your DNA. This is just a dodgy message.

 

Actually, in order to completely lose a perfect message, according to the Somatic Theory, I would need to have a sequence change in BOTH strands of my DNA - the one I got from Dad, and the one I got from Mum - bang opposite each other. That's not a zillion to one chance, that's nigh on impossible. I even said that at Oxford University.

 

And we now know it's not true. Cancer, and lost messages, are not caused by a sequence change inside your DNA.

 

Last year biologist Christine Mayr working in her own laboratory at Sloan Kettering in the USA, led a team which showed (1) that when you get cancer you have NO NEW MUTATIONS inside your DNA. And before I run foul of Dr Fauci again, let me tell you that Mayr has won the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award for her discovery. 

 

She actually went on to say that everybody has been looking in the wrong place for the cellular origin of cancer, and that your perfect DNA is copied into messenger RNA (mRNA), which leaves the nucleus and moves out into the microenvironment of the cell, and this is then copied into proteins, some of which are enzymes.

 

Mayr's laboratory has shown that the mRNA may not be encoding properly. Put simply, the copies made in the microenvironment of the cell are imperfect.

 

Yes, cancer = imperfect messages = the copying process going wrong!

 

 

If the origin of cancer were really a mutation in your DNA, which sits in the cell's nucleus (with a little in the mitochondria), all you would have to do is remove the nucleus from aggressive cancer cells and replace the nucleus of a nice pristine frog embryo with an aggressive cancer nucleus. Then you simply sit back and wait for the aggressive cancer to take over the poor embryo.

 

And what happens? Well, in research in St Jude's Hospital in 2003, absolutely nothing. The microenvironment of the cell controls whether you get cancer or not. The microenvironment is responsible for cancer's origins, not mutations in the DNA in your nucleus. This should have been the writing on the wall for the Big Pharma zealots.

 

The same thing happened when researchers to an aggressive melanoma cell and cloned perfectly healthy mice from it. Imagine that! You could take all your aggressive cancer cells and turn them into the perfect form of yourself!!! 

 

 

But it gets worse for the Somatic THEORY. Stanford were looking at people with an inherited mutation (such as BRCA1 or BRCA2). 3-5 per cent of people have a mutation inherited from Dad or Mum in one strand of their DNA, The scientists, trained to believe in the Somatic Theory, all started studying the clean, good strand opposite the mutation, convinced they'd find a fault. They found nothing. It was perfect. They even went on to conclude that a mutation in your DNA doesn't affect survival times. Wow! More writing on the wall for Big Pharma. 

 

 

So why are the mRNA and perfect proteins being incorrectly made in the microenvironment of the cell? Let's not talk about complicated concepts like free-radicals; let's call it 'pollution'. Changing your Lifestyle can change the pollution levels. Changing your Lifestyle - start with changing your diet, taking exercise, lowering blood sugar and blood fats. 

 

"But my oncologists say it won't make a difference". They are wrong!

 

The most important point about the changes caused by pollutants in your microenvionment is that they are REVERSIBLE - you can clean up your act; you can change your lifestyle, stop smoking, consuming bad fats and oils, your thinking, your own toxic cellular microenvironment. That's Step 1. 

 

We know this to be true. The American Cancer Society conducted research amongst 3800 stage 3 colorectal cancer patients - all had had chemo, all had had surgery. In the seven year trial, those who stuck most closely to the recommended diet and exercise programme had 31 percent longer survival and 42 percent less death in the seven years.

 

 

But, have you ever wondered how disparate factors such as stress, poor diet, a poor gut microbiome or smoking cause the same pollution? This is Step 2. We know that pollutants as diverse as poor diet and stress can cause homocysteine to build up and this causes more methylation and histones which block the message system. Put simply, homocysteine puts bits of string round your copying process so it doesn't encode properly. (Some people tell me that they have the MTHFR mutation and that dooms them to high homocysteine. That's just not true either - diet and supplementation (Fish oils plus B vitamins such B-6, B-9, B12 for example) overcome the gene's effects (4).

 

Professor David Smith of Oxford University was part of a worldwide study and showed that having enough long chain omega 3 in your body (from fish oils) and then taking a daily B complex, could reduce homocysteine and with it, the risk of dementia. A BBC documentary looked at using Turmeric every day in cooking and had a Professor measure the decline in Homocysteine levels. Apparently, that Turmeric could do this came as a huge surprise. Berberine can lower homocysteine; but some drugs (such as metformin) increase it. As do alcohol, stress, smoking and a poor diet.

 

So, there you have it. Some foods and a good diet can REVERSE the build up of a dangerous pollutant in the cellular microenvironment which causes copying of correct messages to be blocked. But your oncologists say changing your diet doesn't make any difference.

  

 

And then there's another reversal system. Here we are today. Humans in an increasingly polluted world. The great apes appeared 15-20 million years ago, but what became humans maybe 4-7 million years ago. To get this far, don't you think our bodies would have an in-built clean up system for the pollutants in the cellular microenvironment anyway?

 

Of course they do! Melatonin and Glutathione are the two biggest antioxidants we naturally make in our own bodies. Just provide the raw materials and they will protect us. And this is Step 3.

 

Melatonin is made by the pineal gland at night time about 30-45 minutes after we go to sleep. It is the biggest antioxidant we make and it is very, very anti-inflammatory. Add these two together and you will quickly understand that it's not so much the sleeping hormone - melatonin is the healing hormone. It's why sleep is so healing. It also balances and normalizes other hormone levels, like human oestrogen and growth hormone and can turn down the level in aggressive cells. Melatonin has five known actions against cancer cells.

 

But, Serendipity again - I was fortunate enough to do a speech with Professor Russell Reiter of UCLA, who has done a stack of research on melatonin - it is melatonin's production by day that really makes its benefits clear - did you know that you can make 100 times more melatonin by day, than you do at night time - if you eat the right foods.

 

The power stations (mitochondria) in your cells - you can have up to a 1000 in a muscle cell - pour out their 'pollution' when you move around, expend energy and feed by day. They pollute the cells' microenvironment especially if you eat badly, smoke, drink alcohol etc.. So, of course, the body would have its own cell clean up system - the Infra Red end of sunlight passes straight through that big black cloud overhead, straight through the branches and leaves of the tree you are sitting under, through your clothes and into your body. And there it turns on the mitochondria to produce ... melatonin. Yes, really, by day! And it starts to clean up your cells. It's why 'Lockdowns' were so dreadful for our health. Melatonin is made by day from Serrotonin.90% is made by your gut bacteria, if you provide them with tryptophan - chicken, turkey, tofu, nuts and seeds.

 

Melatonin can't do it all by itself though; it calls up glutathione to help.

 

Glutathione is made in our bodies largely from the consumption of greens, onions, garlic, whey protein and flaxseed. It's the second largest anti-oxidant we make. But we make 10% less when we reach 40 and about 30% less when we reach 60. This is a major clue to its importance - it protects us from aging and illness. (A word of warning - you must make it, you can't fake it - you shouldn't pop pills or take it IV - you can cause problems in your cells.) For glutathione, the simple question is do you eat enough greens?

 

It's what is going wrong with our Western world. According to research, half of 12-year-olds in New Your cannot name broccoli from a picture!

 

Another big factor is 'do you have the healthy microbiome and the gut bacteria required to make melatonin for you?' 

 

By the way, Melatonin also calls up two other helpers - CoQ10 and total vitamin E are also called up. CoQ10 greatly enhances mitochondrial function; vitamin E (think pumpkin and sunflower seeds) prevents cancer recurrence.

 

 

How important is your microbiome and gut bacteria in processing your foods to make the precursors to glutathione and melatonin? Essential.

 

How important is your microbiome and gut bacteria in cancer reversal? Huge. 

 

The Human Microbiome project concluded "Your microbiome gets ill first, then you get ill. And you cannot get better until your microbiome gets better."

 

How? Why? Well, the health of your body depends on the foods you eat. Make poor food choices and you will make more gut bacteria that make inflammatory molecules. Make healthy food choices (the Dutch research this came from, identified a colourful Mediterranean diet) and you will make more bacteria that make anti-inflammatory molecules.

 

Is inflammation important to cancer? Yes, it encourages metastases and lowers survival. 

 

We've recently had research in that shows that if a woman with breast cancer maintains a poor microbiome, it aids cancer aggression and metastasis. Yes, an unhealthy microbiome makes breast cancer worse!

 

So it's not just that a healthy microbiome turns tryptophan into serotonin (2). The vitamins and glutathione are made from your greens by your gut bacteria. In fact, your gut bacteria have been shown to regulate your glutathione production in your small intestine, colon and liver (3). 

 

Your gut bacteria thus ultimately regulate the health or pollution in your cellular microenvironment.

How do you develop a healthier microbiome - by changing your lifestyle and diet.

 

 

My final observation is that people have been taught to believe that cancer is some out-of-control ogre in your body when actually cancer is quite fragile. You don't have to believe me, go and watch Dr William Li on YouTube. He's helped create eight anticancer drugs.  One of my patients suggested I went and watched a Video of his. "What will I learn?" I asked. "Oh no, you won't learn anything - he's you, 15 years ago!" she replied.

 

He too talks about cancer being fragile - for example, it has a poor blood supply; it picks up what it can find in our polluted bodies.

 

Sadly, it is our mind that creates the 'great fallacy' that we're doomed. Largely because, when you walk through the Hospital entrance this is how all the 'experts' seem to treat you.

 

I once wrote that people with cancer are often the nicest people. But they are so busy helping others, they don't look after themselves. They don't make time for themselves. They often work in the wrong jobs, they don't like to complain and so, in part, they live in a physically and mentally toxic environment. They may even feel they deserve cancer. I regularly have to tell patients not to beat themselves up! I'm probably the prime advocate of the 'Biology of Belief' - Yes, I know it's a book by cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, who told us that the way you think can change the way the electrons spin in your cells.  But I believe that what you believe, happens.

 

As Henry Ford once said, "There are those that believe they can, and there are those that believe they can't, and they're both usually right."

 

If you do develop cancer, just remember - It's wellness that helps people beat cancer, and nature always has a way to make you well. You're not doomed - correcting cancer starts with a proven three step process and then a focus on your microbiome.

 

YOU JUST NEED TO BELIEVE THAT CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE WILL HELP YOU BEAT CANCER.

 

Do you still think that changing your diet will make no difference at all to your survival?