Dear friends,
Just a quick note to first thank you again for the tsunami of suggestions I received from so many of you. Second, I also wanted to let you know that, having carefully considered the Mayo Clinic option, I have decided against it. Instead, I have developed a treatment plan of sorts which combines elements from the different approaches you have suggested. I am already doing better and I am feeling rather hopeful.
Again, thank you for everything, you rock!!
Hugs and cheers,
The Saker
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/08/14/the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-united-states/
“They enter the clean, tiled hallways, confident of finding help with their deadly problems. Met with friendly, smiling receptionist faces, their optimism is boosted, and hope springs anew. They’re plagued by a plethora of diseases. Victims of stroke, heart attack, coronary artery disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, hyperthyroidism, lupus, anemia, myasthenia gravis, kidney malfunction, eye disorders, prostate-breast-colorectal cancers, or simply uncontrollable obesity. They come seeking a cure, but find instead, a broken system in which “cure” is the most dreaded four-letter word. In the world of Big Medicine, there is no profit in finding cures, but handsome rewards in treatment, or preferably surgery. The most dangerous place in The United States is your local doctor’s office. Enter with care and a healthy dose of skepticism.”
Go to the internet first. Identify your problem. Then go to the doctor and tell him/her what you need. Listen to their response. If it does not make sense, go elsewhere. Especially Dermo toligists. Their 15 minute course must be intense.
And there was plenty of that going around 48 years ago today exactly when half a million young Americans and others gathered to show how it could be . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3JvyvgPtN4
My cousin did the same thing. September 2015 he was diagnosed with late stage bladder cancer and doctor’s told him he has to get chemotherapy and removal of his bladder. At 55 years of age he would have to live with a piss bag the rest of his life. He decided not to follow his doctor’s advice and resorted to alternative medicines such as colloidal silver, gold and platinum as well as eating only organic fruits and vegetables and a limited amount of organic meats. He is completely clear of cancer now. I ask him if he has told his doctor that he’s taking the colloidal silver etc. and the doctor can’t or won’t say anything. It just goes over his head.
I am going to Mayo Clinic next week to have an operation for my prostate cancer. I have not followed your site closely recently so I have no idea what you have but I can say not going to Mayo is a mistake. Go to Mayo, the sooner the better. I am not only a patient but am a cancer researcher for four decades.
Mr. Fung, you wrote you’ve been a cancer researcher for forty years.
In your opinion, what are the contributing factors that are responsible
for the genesis of malignant neoplasms in the human body?
Environmental carcinogens no doubt are the major contributors to cancer. For example, radiation contributes to thyroid disproportionally and thyroid cancer is on the rise both in Asia and in the US.
Fear drives us to the oncologists. Pharmaceutical medicine has a dismal rate of success with cancer, chemo has a less than 3% success rate, success being defined as the patient not dying within 5 years. Chemo is a multi billion dollar business model they don’t want ruined by a cure. That aside they never find a cure in a pill for cancer as it is a lifestyle disease, in fact in the distant past it was also very rare.
This site offers some approaches to cancer and should be used as part of your overall research: https://www.cancertutor.com/
Many people have beaten cancer naturally, bear in mind that it is little reported.
I wish you quick recovery. Avoid the big pharma an all of its agents. I guess you are about 20 years younger als me. This is a dangerous period of life ( for males even more). Some 10 years ago I made health statistics: money and time spent on different age groups. Western medicine is a one way street. If you start using it it is like a drug. No surprise, their only tools are drugs.
Make solid exercise program, start in light modes enhance the load accordingly. Consult a chiropraktor and a cardiologist if you are not sure, but your main consulent is your body and soul.
Try TCM – Traditional Chinese Medicine.
I know sometimes it’s necessary to see a doctor. But I also know cases where the hospital killed the patient from negligence or too many surgeries in America.
I knew this one guy in college who said a doctor told his mother that she needed surgery or she would die in 3 months. She refused. And she lived.
I tell my patients with lung cancer that they need surgery, some refuse and opt for chemo-radiation only. Majority of those who refuse die in 1 year, some live more than 5 years, one lived for 11. The surviving rate among those who have surgery is much higher. We are not gods, but only physicians. I know very well that there are doctors who do mostly/only business, however this is not the main trend among us. The expectations from medicine and doctors are unrealistically high due to many reasons, first to big farma.
Thanks, all of you, for your insights and life-saving suggestions. Isn’t it tragic that in the US, over a quarter of a million people die every year because of reactions to pharmaceutical drugs, or because the drugs were wrongly prescribed. Over 250,000 people every year, killed by a dysfunctional health care system. Keep in mind that deaths caused by drug overdoses, or suicides, are not included in this alarming figure. Questions: what is the bigger threat to our “national security”–drug abuse, or “terrorist events”? By any chance, are any CEO’s of the big drug companies serving any time in prison because of all of the people who have died using their products? In the last five years, how many people in the US have died from a verifiable terrorist event? Is the “war on terror” one of the biggest money wasters of all time?
Best wishes for your recovery, more power to your elbow!
Dear Saker,
Your writing has enriched my life for several years now. Thank you for this.
Regarding health, it is difficult. Personally, I agree with many who suggest skepticism regarding American/Western hospitals & their various corporate profit motives. My mother died of cancer in 2007, most likely as a side effect for radiation meant to treat cancer. So, I have good personal reasons to be skeptical.
Having said that, last year I found myself feeling under the weather and a CT scan revealed a tumor. A 15 inch monster that was sucking my energy from the inside. Without hesitation, I did the surgery. They later recommended a round of radiation too. Both seem to have worked even though, in theory, I despise “mainstream” medicine.
I am also reminded of Apple founder Steve Jobs. He delayed cancer surgery for 9 months while pursuing alterntive methods. As it turned out, he probably would have been better off doing the surgery without delay.
Clearly, different things work for different people.
Broadly speaking, I agree with others on a few general principles:
1- Exercise is important. Walking, running, swimming, whatever…but find something. I used to run as much as 10 miles/day before my cancer. My energy is much less now so I only manage a couple of miles at a time these days but I still persist in getting some exercise…even if just walk instead of run.
2- Diet is more difficult. Most important thing is to cast a critical eye on everything that you eat. A diversity of foods, as close to their natural source is probably the ideal. I am not a vegetarian but, for example, the factory produced beef of cows pumped full of chemicals to fatten them up can not possible be good for anybody’s health. A variety of organic meat (if you can find it) probably is good for you.
Generally speaking, I don’t advocate eliminating or banning anything specific—as I think diversity is probably guideline #1—so I’d be careful about anything advocating no meat, no fruit, no vegetables, etc. Having said that, I would suggest eliminating all the fast food & junk food as total chemically laced garbage produced by corporate slave masters.
Sugar reduction also seems to be valid these days as so many modern products are loaded with extra sugar often as preservative but also for it’s addictive qualities.
Of course, the “good food” is more expensive. But what is more valuable than one’s health? If there is any part of one’s budget that should aim for quality (regardless of expense) then food should be priority number one.
Lastly, although I haven’t tested the idea extensively myself, I do like the ideas of athlete Tom Brady and his model wife Gisele Bundchen. Brady’s dietician put him on a strict diet by focusing on a reduction of acidity within his food. Supposedly, this leads to a reduction of inflamation within the body that allows itself to heal naturally and maintain balance. It is actually an old idea with a German scientist named Otto Warburg (a Nobel winner) advocating it during the 1930’s. If you are curious, just do a search for “Tom Brady diet” or something like “acid alkaline diet”.
That summarizes my advice on health. Good luck to you & thanks again for publishing all the great articles.
That is good news Saker. Glad to hear you are feeling better.
Hugs.
Dear Saker,
I’m not sure what symptoms you have, since I haven’t been around that much lately.
I have a malignant brain tumor since 2006. Because I was in good shape (used to do martial arts), I survived. Thanks to the surgery, 6 weeks of radiation therapy (every day) and taking my anti epileptic pills, The surgeon said that he wasn’t sure how long I had to live, but here I am. 11 Years further!!
I had two surgeries again in July 2013 and December 2016. Since January 2017 I have taken chemo pills (yes, pills) and it has taken a toll on my body. I even used cannabis oil last year, before the surgery. It didn’t work, only in the lab used in lab rats. I’m still taking the chemo pills until the end of this year.
My wife and I started eating organic in June 2013 and I must say it was the right choice we have made. The tumor will always grow back, that’s something that we have to live with and I’m OK with that.
BUT it all starts with living healthy. Our diet is about 95% organic. We live in the Netherlands, so it’s quite easy buying organic food.
May I recommend reading a few books about “Ayurvedic Medicine”. It is older than traditional Chinese medicine AND the two first universities in the world were Takshila and Nalanda :-))
Plastic surgeons still use an old Indian surgery technique when reconstructing the nose :-))
Anyway, good luck and please stay away from the fast food :-))
when in doubt follow our biology – and what we evolved to be like (as opposed to predatory Big Pharma, Big Food (with petrochemicals etc) and marketing in general.
Look into fasting as well – it a very powerful tool but because it’s free it’s not advertised – I’ve tried it and it really works.
This is from Rob Wolf’s latest book:
For those interested in the history of cancer and the katogenic diet, read Tripping Over the Truth by Travis Christofferson.
Recent research has suggested that inflammation, overfeeding, elevated blood glucose, and gut dysbiosis may be common triggers that then manifest as different diseases based upon individual genetics. Accordingly ketosis and fasting are helpful for the following reasons:
• Ketones offer an alternate energy source for the brain, thus preventing cell death that may occur with these diseases
• The state of ketosis may encourage damaged mitochondria to repair themselves, halting the disease process
• Cells that are too far gone may undergo apoptosis, thereby reducing inflammation caused by damaged cells
“Pass the grass” LMAO. That is funny.
CBD does not get you high and works like a charm for a lot of conditions. I play chess960 against the computer at the same level on it and off it so it doesn’t affect analysis etc. Doesn’t make me better (only coffee does that) but is very impressive and I can see why the large pharma companies are not wanting it as competition.
Well done, Saker! Good news are rare in these troubled times. Cheers!
Saker, the grass is a very good idea. I take it twice daily by mouth, in the form of doses of cannabis oil, extracting it myself by traditional solvent-extraction methods from my own homegrown. (Careful! Neat it’s very strong. Best to dilute it with olive oil, as I do, to manage the dosing more precisely; otherwise you’ll spend the whole day stoned because of just a tiny bit too much taken.) Been doing this for years now. At 77 I’m still walking miles, sawing my own firewood, and bicycling miles into town regularly over the nearby hill-ridge; etcetera, in the matter of physical exercise, despite a row of cardio-vascular incidents in my fifties and sixties.
Looking into medical cannabis very rapidly produces a plethora of sound information, much of it from highly respect-worthy professional researchers of the highest credentials, on just what a WIDE-ACTING herbal it is: Good for cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular problems, and on, for many different ills. Pretty nearly qualifies for the description: panacea.
I also follow Dr. John McDougall’s highly-persuasive, long-and-wide-experience-honed diet-and-exercise regime (qv), and have recently dumped about 30 pounds of un-needed flab, at about a pound off a week, without any effort at all. And you can use all these approaches in combination with conventional medical ones, if you like. For myself, I have little contact with currently-orthodox Western/USAmerican commercialised medical practice though – which is very prevalent, even here in NHS Britain. Though having said that, our free-at-point-of-need, public health system has cured my of one or two surgery-needing problems, patched me up from accidents a couple of time, and has actually saved my life outright on a couple of occasions. I wouldn’t knock it.
Good luck, good brother. Sending you distant healing help as strongly as I can!
hi folks. do you have knowledge about successful treatment of dementia-Alzheimer by coconut oil? I begin giving to my old father now and i would like some advise
Earlier this year, Jonathan Landsman hosted an “Alzheimers and Dementia Summit,” with a number of eminent practitioners giving talks. I was impressed particularly by one account of a lady in late stage dementia who made a full recovery. Those talks have gone behind a paywall now, but you can get a general idea of what they discussed here: http://alzheimersdementiasummit.com/ Scroll down to the speakers, and click “What You’ll Learn” to get an idea of what they presented. This page also gives links to the speakers’ websites.
There are quite a number of strategies that are worth trying.
For example, I make a tincture of rosemary and sage by packing a bottle with fresh or dried herbs from our garden and filling it with red wine. I let it soak that way a couple of weeks, then enjoy a couple tablespoons once or twice a day. This has improved my and my husband’s memory, and helped a friend who was experiencing severe memory impairment.
I truly wish the best for yu and your father!
Glad you are feeling better, Saker. Hope your health continues to improve.
Dear Saker,
It feels good to read that you are feeling better.
However.
I know that you are a sane man, with a very wise woman on your side. But I want to give you another opinion. Do with it what you want.
If I had a vague but irritating health issue, I would want each and every smart healthcare eye to look on it. Eventually I am the one that is to decide what is going to happen.
Some threads ago, my dear co-commentator ‘bored muslim’ strongly advised you to go to the Mayo clinic, because he had worked there as an interpreter and he knows the doctors there are very good. I would advise you to take his advises seriously.
If you don’t like it what they advise, you are capable enough to say ‘hell, no’, grab your gear and walk away. What are you afraid of?
Just my 2 cents.
Hugs, Rob