Dr. William Kelley

Enzymes and Cancer

ABSTRACT
The theory that malignant cancers are false-placentas (partial pregnancies) was first formulated by the Scottish embryologist John Beard in 1902. Beard found that substances secreted by the pancreas would inhibit the growth of cancers before they develop but are missing in the blood of cancer patients. These substances, the digestive enzymes trypsin (and the trypsin precursor chymotrypsin), reportedly “cure” (digest) 100% of fast-growing cancers when taken orally at an extremely high dosage. This author has found evidence that it may be possible to achieve the same cancer-digestive effect, with lower enzyme dosages, by enhancing trypsin's enzyme activity with certain supplements.

THEORY
John Beard was a brilliant biologist whose main research interest was pregnancy, and the placenta in particular. He made or confirmed several crucial observations that led to his theory of cancer. He observed under the microscope that the trophoblast cells that form the placenta looked like cancer cells. Beard then made an extraordinary observation: The placenta stops growing on day 56 of the human pregnancy - on the same day the fetus’s pancreas begins to function. He came to the conclusion that the fetus’s pancreas secreted something that stopped the growth of the placenta. He then surmised, and later proved, that the same substance stopped the growth of malignant cancer. He set out to determine what this pancreatic substance was.

Beard conducted experiments with the juices extracted from young animal pancreases. These juices were injected into cancer tumors and the tumors shrank in both animals and humans. Beard’s work was published in JAMA and he wrote a book on the enzyme therapy for cancer. One hundred years ago, physicians tried to duplicate Beard’s experimental results, but they failed, and the work was almost forgotten.

We now know that “delicate” enzymes can lose their effectiveness if not carefully extracted from young live stock. Even though trypsin was one of the first proteins whose molecular sturcture was deciphered by chemists in the 1960s, we are still not able to synthesize either trypsin or chymotrypsin. As pure trypsin must be extracted intact from young livestock, the cost of supplements with these enzymes is high. The cost at the dosage recommended by enzyme/cancer experts may exceed $2000 per month.

HISTORY
We all begin our lives as a single undifferentiated cell. This cell called a zygote, a sort of "super" stem cell, divides into trillions of progeny. Living cells change after succeeding divisions in the process of differentiation, but not all cells become muscle, bone, eyes, teeth, hair, connective or other tissue. Some cells form into the placenta, a trophoblastic layer of tissue that attaches to the uterine wall during pregnancy. The placenta is discarded by the mother's body after birth.

Beard, the first to observe that placenta cells resemble cancer cells, also saw how malignant cancers act in the same way that placenta cells do in the mother’s womb; -- they attach to the uterus and “eat” through it to obtain a blood supply.

Beard also found other out-of-place trophoblast cells in great numbers throughout the body. These cells are placenta-like, do not differentiate into specific tissue, but lie dormant. Beard called these cells “germ” cells. They have properties similar to stem cells, and Beard believed that these cells are the seeds of cancer.

He theorized that, as we age, the germ cells are likely to receive a signal that causes them to begin growing. The conditions that induce growth might include a hormonal message that the germ cells interpret as a pregnancy. The estrogen-based hormonal signal that mimics pregnancy may be induced by physical trauma, or by other unknown reasons. As this “false-placenta” begins growing, unchecked, it becomes the malignant mass which the medical community calls cancer.


PANCREAS TO THE RESCUE
The pancreas produces the protein dissolving enzymes trypsin (and its precursor chymotrypsin) that Beard believed prevents germ cells from becoming malignant. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine where they help digest “cooked” or denatured proteins. Some of these enzymes enter the blood stream. In theory, when the pancreas is healthy, early-stage cancers (false pregnancies) are destroyed (digested) by pancreatic enzymes in the blood.

Cancer is best understood as pancreas failure to produce trypsin, in the same way that Diabetes (Type I) is a failure of the pancreas to produce insulin. Beard believed that when the health of the pancreas becomes impaired and the output of pancreatic enzymes declines or stops, any malignant cancer cell that begins dividing grows out of control.

In Beard's time it was believed that enzymes taken orally would not enter the blood stream. Even today there is controversy as to whether or not the large enzyme molecules can be absorbed, and whether the enzyme molecule remains intact in the stomach. The reported success rates of Beard's followers tells us that the trypsin enzymes may be taken by mouth, but, very large amounts are required to make them effective against growing cancers.

Note: Cancer patients may not be breaking down oral trypsin. If the cancer patients pancreas is mafunctioning, it is not producing the protein digesting enzyme trypsin, then the body would not readily digest proteins (e.g. enzymes) taken by mouth.


An interesting discovery is that trypsin’s digestive enzyme action on protein is activated by the high pH (8.0 highly alkaline) environment in the small intestine. Cancer of the small intestine is rare. This may help explain the effectiveness of the increasingly popular cesium treatment for cancer. The Cesium treatment raises the pH of the cancer to 8.0 and this may be able to "amplify" the digestive effect of any trypsin present in the blood stream.

MAX WOLF
In the 1940s, researchers discovered that there was “something” in the blood of people without cancer that was completely missing in the blood of people who had cancer. This clue prompted Dr. Max Wolf to read John Beard’s book THE ENZYME THERAPY FOR CANCER AND ITS SCIENTIFIC BASIS.

Dr. Wolf along with his associate Helen Benitez and Dr. Karl Ransberger, a young biomedical researcher from Germany, tested numerous enzymes from animal and plant sources, and created an enzyme formula containing both trypsin and chymotrypsin .  Today, the Wolf/Benitez WoBenzyme® systemic enzyme formula is reportedly the second hottest selling OTC product in parts of Europe - behind ordinary aspirin.

WILLIAM KELLEY
In 1963, a dentist, William D. Kelley, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is almost always quickly fatal, and he rediscovered the connection between pancreatic enzymes and cancer remission. He cured his own cancer - and subsequently hundreds more. However, he was vilified by the medical establishment and became embittered.

NICK GONZALEZ, M.D.
In the 1980s, a young medical student, Nick Gonzalez, was sent by the Sloan-Kettering cancer center to debunk Kelley’s claim of a 100% pancreatic-cancer cure rate. However, after revisiting Kelley’s patient records, Gonzalez became a believer. Dr. Gonzalez recently won a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the study of enzyme therapy for pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Gonzalez's excellent overview of the history of enzyme therapy may be read HERE. Also, Dr. Gonzalez's research using Enzyme Therapy with cancer patients can be read HERE.

If cancers are truly false placentas, malignant tumors would mimic pregnancy in other ways. All trophoblast cells produce a unique hormone called the chorionic gonadotrophic (CGH) which is easily detected in urine. Thus, if a person is either pregnant or has cancer, a simple CGH pregnancy test should confirm either or both. It does so,with high accuracy. Recent research has shown that all cancers tested (80% of all known cancers) emit portions of this "pregnancy" hormone. Click HERE

The University of Michigan Cancer Center has recently proclaimed that current chemotherapy targets the “wrong” cells.

The Ann Arbor researchers discovered that not all cells in a tumor are equally malignant. Only a tiny minority of tumor cells are actually capable of inducing new cancers; the rest are relatively harmless. "These tumor-inducing cells have many of the properties of stem cells," said Michael F. Clarke, MD, a professor of internal medicine, who directed the study. "They make copies of themselves --a process called self-renewal --and produce all the other kinds of cells in the original tumor."


It is clear then that the nation’s top cancer center has unknowingly rediscovered Beard’s thesis.

See the two-part series by Ralph Moss:

Part 1
Part 2

KELLEY ENZYMES

Dr. William Kelley recommends high amounts of pancreatic enzymes - 45,000 mg orally. His formula includes a starch-dissolving enzyme which Kelley believes is important in some cases. The enzyme formula that Kelley stands behind costs, roughly, $2000 per month.

Unfortunately, the larger the cancer mass - which quickly dissolves from oral enzyme therapy - the harder it is for the liver/kidney to rid the body of the residue of it. As a result, many patients taking enzymes die from toxemia as the cancer tumor is digested. Various methods for detoxifying the liver are known, with the “coffee enema” being preferred by Kelley and Gonzalez. Toxemia is the primary reason to have the malignant tumor mass surgically removed.

TREATMENTS

If the Beard theory is correct, malignant cancer only begins after the pancreas fails to secrete sufficient trypsin and chymotrypsin to prevent it from growing. A therapy that restores the health of the pancreas so that it will again begin to secrete the trypsin and chymotrypsin enzymes would result in cancer remissions.

For example, if the heavy metals, e.g. mercury, are building up in the pancreas causing the enzyme secretion problem, then taking natural chelating agents may rid the pancreas of toxic metals and help it to regain functioning. HMD™ has been extensively tested in double-blind, placebo controlled trials and has been shown to help in the elimination of metals from the body as well as help to build the immune system - see www.detoxmetals.com.