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By Owen R. Fonorow © 2003
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.
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 at:
http://www.herbtime.com/InformationPages/CancerEnzymeTherapy.htm
RECENT SUPPORT
The "laetrile" clinics in
Mexico
claim that they have a "100%" cure rate for cancer, although they
do post a disclaimer: The 100% cure rate applies only if the
patient has not undergone chemotherapy or radiation - and only
in those patients that take the pancreatic enzymes. Several
books have been written that make a connection between Laetrile
and pancreatic enzymes. Reportedly vitamin 'B17' enhances the
anti-cancer enzyme activity.
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. See:
http://www.ralphmoss.com/html/cach377.shtml
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 - http://www.cancerdecisions.com/042603.html
Part 2 - http://www.cancerdecisions.com/050403.html
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.
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, large amounts
of vitamin C might cure a cancer (cause remission) by ridding the
pancreas of mercury. If an acute CoQ10 defiency was the reason the
pancreas was malfunctioning, then supplementing CoQ10 may restart
the production of trypsin, etc. EDTA chelation therapy, another
way to reduce the toxic load reportedly prevents cancer, and the
effect is probably from the same mechanism. Beard's pancreatic
enzyme theory explains why high-dose vitamin C, or CoQ10, or EDTA
works in some people, by correcting the pancreas, and not in those
whose pancreas has failed for other reasons, e.g., from cell
necrosis or viral damage.
CESIUM PROTOCOL
There are theoretical reasons
and experimental findings that indicate fast-growing cancers can
be completely resolved by using a 6 g cesium chloride salt for
30-days. The following 20-year-old paper describes the High pH
Therapy for Cancer treatment:
http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/highpH.htm
In this paper, Dr. A. Keith Brewer mentions the resemblance
between embryonic cells and cancer cells. Another connection
between the high pH therapy and the enzyme therapy is the striking
coincidence that Brewer’s therapy works by raising the pH of the
cancer cell to 8.0 (highly alkaline). This is the same pH in
the small intestine, and it is the pH required to activate
trypsin’s digestive enzyme activity! (The author notes that
stomach, colon and rectal cancer are all common - small intestine
cancer is rare.)
Cesium is far less expensive than high-quality pancreatic enzymes.
While it is unknown whether or not the cesium protocol works in
the complete absence of trypsin in the blood, it is logical to
assume that less pancreatic enzymes would be required in
conjunction with cesium treatment for cancer. (Perhaps 4,500 mg
of pancreatic enzymes with trypsin would suffice, along with 6,000
mg cesium chloride daily, rather than the 45,000 mg of pancreatic
enzymes daily that Kelley and Gonzalez recommend orally to destroy
tumors.)
Experimental science will provide the answer one day.
Cesium therapy has another strong advantage: As the tumor
breaks up, the blood becomes high acidic resulting in the toxemia
and generally a terrible feeling. The highly alkaline cesium
treatment balances the pH, making the blood less acidic. Dr.
Brewer claimed that cesium treated patients are hardly aware of
their tumors breaking up.
RATH VITAMIN C PROTOCOL
There is a sensible
high-vitamin-C protocol that has been found to arrest cancer
growths. It doesn't cure or digest the cancers, but according to
former Linus Pauling associate Matthias Rath, MD, this protocol
restricts or halts the growth of malignant tumors by deactivating
the enzyme that cancer tumors emit, malignin, which allows
the tumor to “eat” through ordinary tissue. Malignin is the mirror
image (sterioisomer) of trypsin. Rath's therapy may allow the body
to digest the tumors more slowly, or the tumor may calcify.
While the jury is still out,
with large tumors, the risk of toxemia may be less using the Rath
protocol than the Beard/Wolf/Kelley enzyme therapy all by itself.
However, only the enzyme therapy has the 100-year track record of
success. This author would recommend Brewer's cesium therapy for
30 days as an adjunct to enzymes before starting the Rath therapy.
The daily protocol from Dr. Matthias Rath is reportedly
14,000 mg Vitamin C
12,000 mg Lysine
2,000 mg Proline
1,000 mg Green Tea Extract (EGCG)
No doubt, this vitamin-C protocol improves the
health of the pancreas.
On the other hand, some authorities believe that oral vitamin C,
especially brands that contain d-ascorbic acid, may in fact
protect the tumor. Only very high intravenous doses of vitamin C
have been shown to reliably destroy tumors. There is enough
question about vitamin C to hold off until after a 30-day cesium
and full pancreatic enzyme protocol. (Vitamin C will improve the
health of the other trillion or so cells in the body, and should
not be eliminated completely.)
COENZYME Q10
There are sound theoretical reasons to add 400 mg
of highly absorbable Coenzyme 10 (CoQ10) to any anti-cancer
protocol. This dosage reportedly initiates complete tumor
regression in breast cancer patients - One report appeared
after a woman in a clinical breast cancer study increased to this
level on her own, and the tumor regressed. Another woman in the
study had the same experience. There were other factors, but CoQ10
is a safe and effective nutrient and may work by stimulating the
production of trypsin in the pancreas. The pancreas normally
has a high concentration of CoQ10. It would be much more
economical to repair the health of your pancreas, if possible,
than it is to buy 45,000 mg of daily enzymes for life.
IODINE
Dr.
David Brownstein lectures that areas with known iodine
(iodide) deficiency have the highest rates of breast and prostate
cancer. And visa versa, breast and prostate cancers rates are low
in areas with high iodine in the soil. He also reveals that in
order for researchers to give laboratory animals breast cancer,
the animals must first be put into an iodine deficient state.
[Video Clip on Iodine and Breast Cancer] .
THE BASIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONTROLLING CANCER
Many
enzyme authorities recommend against most orthodox Chemo/Radiation
therapy in favor of the following protocols:
1.
Have
surgery to remove as much of the tumor mass as possible.
2.
Purchase pancreatic enzymes (e.g. the Kelley or
Wobenzyme oncologic formula). The formula must contain trypsin and
chymotrypsin. Start with 4000 mg daily, and slowly increase to
45,000 mg until effective.
3.
Immediately follow the Brewer Cesium
protocol, including laetrile - apricot seeds, that is given at the
bottom of
Brewer's paper , for 30 days.
Brewer Cesium Protocol
- see details HERE
"Many tests on humans have been carried out by H. Nieper in Hannover,
Germany and by H. Sartori in Washington, DC as well as by a number
of other physicians. On the whole, the results have been very
satisfactory. It has been observed that all pains associated with
cancer disappear within 12 to 24 hr, except in a very few cases
where there was a morphine withdrawal problem that required a few
more hours. In these tests 2 g doses of CsCl were administered
three times per day after eating. In most cases 5 to 10 g of
Vitamin C and 100,000 units of Vitamin A, along with 50 to 100 mg
of zinc, were also administered. Both Nieper and Sartori were also
administering nitrilosides in the form of laetrile. There are good
reasons to believe that the laetrile may be more effective than
the vitamins in enhancing the pickup of cesium by the cells. " -
Keith Brewer
4.
After the Brewer/Cesium protocol (which includes
vitamin C) follow the Rath - Vitamin C/Lysine/EGCG protocol with
400 mg CoQ10 .
5.
Supplement 12 to 50 mg
iodine daily .
6.
Add a good mineral/multivitamin - to cover all
possible nutritional needs.
7.
Avoid refined carbohydrates, especially sugars
which feed cancer.
8.
Avoid supplemental calcium (!)
(Calcium speeds the growth of embryos, and perhaps cancer).
Take supplemental magnesium/potassium
9.
Supplement with pure amino acids, sometimes
called 'stacks' as a replacement for proteins. Amino acids do not
require trypsin for digestion. Try eating proteins every other day
- to rest the pancreas and perhaps allow more trypsin to enter the
blood stream. Another idea is to supplement HCL (Betaine HCL) with
meals to assist the stomach with protein digestion. Note: Take
the pancreatic enzymes separately from Betaine HCL.
Note: The acid contents of the stomach stimulate the secretion of
trypsin in the small intestine. Thus strong antacids, especially
the 'nuclear' acid blockers, such as Nexium and Prilosec, may have
a deleterious effect and should be avoided.
10.
Take supplemental Milk Thistle (silymarin) to
help cleanse and protect the liver from toxemia
11.
Consider supplementing vitamin D (at least 800 IU)
and vitamin K (1-40 mg) (both have shown anti-cancer properties in
several studies)
12.
Have dental amalgams (mercury) removed. Avoid
water with fluoride. Take a natural chelator such as HMD (www.detoxmetals.com).
Consider IP6 supplements, hot saunas, glutathione (NAC),
chlorella, lipoic acid, vitamin C and other natural heavy metal
detoxification treatments to help restore normal pancreatic
function impaired by heavy metal toxins.
The following link to the Cancer Cure Booklet provides the
scientific rationale for the William Kelley enzyme therapy:
http://www.road-to-health.com/am/publish/article_56.shtml
Taken from
www.vitamincfoundation.org
Owen Fonorow, Naturopath, Ph.D.
Vitamin C Foundation
PO Box 3097,
Lisle
IL
60532
www.VitaminCFoundation.org
630-416-1438
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