Dear APInternational,

These past months I've been having difficulty explaining my wife’s treatment and success and still reconcile the explanation with Western Medical philosophy. At the same time, we have to deal with our oncologist's demand to continue chemo. After reading this attached article,  I discover that whether or not a tumor is present has significantly less relevance than whether or its metabolic process has been compromised by either a specific nutrition program, herbal treatment or pharmaceuticals. The article is written by a PhD CNC nutritionist and outlines nutritional guidelines and its intended effect. It dovetails nicely to our own experiences with herbal treatments. It seems that western pharmaceuticals are largely in the experimental stage, are expensive, and due to current prejudices are non-mainstream and as such are in danger of not being implemented in a more effective holistic manner. I also imagine that this prejudice against any kind of breaking or effective treatment is readily lifted once an over the counter remedy can be distilled and then patented by a major pharmacuetical firm.

Previously, all I had to go on was that the herbal treatments given to us would elicit this magical immune response, so imagine my concern when our (Eastern) consulting doctor casually mentions a strong immune system is not "all that" indicating the holistic theory involves more than just one result.  The doctor also mentions that Western doctors have found persistent tumors in some of his patients (yet these patients are all still alive and thriving). I couldn't put it all together until my wife's research located this article. See attached or link: http://www.healingjourneys.org/pages/nutrition.html

The revelation is that we are being lied to about our own diagnosis, available treatments and that even more effective treatments for horrid diseases like cancer are available "over the counter" if you do your homework, know were to look and have the courage to be open minded.

The above link addresses a more systemic view of cancer and its metabolic processes focusing on a concept called 'oncostasis' , a term that seems to be related to dormancy. Western doctors will find 'live' tumors in a patient, demand chemo and when treatment is refused call the patient lucky when the following year the same tumor pops up (but it hasn't grown any). Within our experience, Western doctors are at a distinct loss to explain the extended lifespan. Good nutrition, or in our case, effective herbal treatments not only just strengthen immune systems but deal with important concepts such as cancer's relationship to the inflammatory process,  angiogenisis (highly developed blood vessels to a tumor), differentiation (turning 'bad cells' to good ones), and the more obscure relationship to sleep and melatonin production.

The inflammatory process and its direct relationship with cancer is interesting. As do some of our herbs, suppressing the inflammation process seems to halt cancer metabolism. Nutritional concepts such as omega-6 oils (meats, dairy) and omega-3 oils (cold water fish) and their interaction with the COX and lipo-oxegenase enzymes have this impact on tumor viability and the inflammation response. Suppressing angiogenesis is also one of our herbal treatment features and according to the article may involve reducing copper such as is present in lobster tail (30-40 mg) or liver. Bad to good cell differentiation (genetics) and its Vitamin A and D relationship is also addressed as well as, finally, melatonin production and the interesting statistic is that graveyard shift workers can be to 3X more susceptible to cancer. Cancer is also sugar greedy being that it is an anaerobic process using sugar to make energy as opposed to healthy cells using oxygen for energy. One of the teas we take does exactly this, it changes the viscosity of the blood to ensure hemogoblin gets to the smallest capillaries and most distant cells, in a sense strangling bad cells even in the presence of some sugar.

This attached bears careful reading and for me provides a much stronger and easier to relate to context to argue the effectiveness of our herbal treatments. This is fortunate since as a lay person I have difficulty understanding our Vietnamese MD colleagues and the intricacies of the Eastern philosophy.  It is again  noteworthy that although tumors can persist, they can be in oncostasis thus relegated to the status of an obnoxious wart. "Live long and prosper" seems very appropriate here.