Cancer is NOT a Disease

Another very hopeful book has come my way: Cancer is NOT a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism by Andreas Moritz

In the first part of the book, the author talks about cancer from a very different perspective while making a very strong case that chemotherapy and radiation should be avoided at all costs. In the second part, he catalogues the range of remedies people are using successfully to stop cancer from killing them.

I wrote of Dr. Tullio Simoncini before, about his perspective that cancer is a fungal growth that can be treated the way other fungal growths are treated. He actually injects a baking soda solution into the body adjacent to tumours. (I wonder if the tablet form of Canesten, the anti-candida treatment for women, might have an active ingredient or two which could be used to treat cancer this way.)

Interestingly, the conditions we associate with fungus are damp and dark, and the condition of the body where cancer flourishes is described as "dampness" in Chinese medicine.  Most of the foods I love and have chosen to sustain myself with for the better part of my life - as advertised on North American TV all day long - are an invitation to cancer to form in the first place: acid-forming (and dampness-forming) foods such as bread, cheese, tomato sauce, meat, and sugar.

One of the remedies in the book is the baking soda cure (see video in previous post), but instead of molasses you can use maple syrup. This is great because I live in maple syrup country, where Mennonite farmers are still selling it from the side of the road this time of year.

I was content to just drink 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water three times a day, but the author explains that the maple syrup-baking soda concoction is a way to supercharge the impact of baking soda on cancer.

Cancer likes to eat sugar to grow and spread. When you mix the baking soda with the maple syrup the cancer cells gobble up the syrup which, like a Trojan horse, delivers the baking soda directly to the site of the cancer, which is what Dr. Simoncini likes to do.

Even though the book suggests that a tablespoon three times a day for several months is enough on its own to tackle a tumour, I'm choosing to continue with my H2O2 treatments.

Hydrogen Peroxide and Baking Soda

After deciding to pursue hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) therapy, I went on a frantic search of the web to find out the closest place where I could do it. For all I knew it wasn't even available or legal in Canada, so I was half expecting to have to leave the country.

In the book 'Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle' by William Campbell Douglass II, MD there is a directory of practitioners, so I started there, first finding some naturopaths in BC. Searching the web, I eventually found some practitioners in Ontario - London, Toronto and Barrie -  but I was really hoping for someone closer.

When I mentioned to Tara that it seemed as though most of the people doing this kind of therapy in Canada are naturopaths, she suggested I contact a friend of ours, Jacinta Willems, a naturopath working in Stratford, to see if she could. Jacinta got back to me right away, telling me that she wasn't qualified to do any kind of intravenous therapy but suggested I contact John Pronk, a naturopath in Palmerston who does chelation therapy.

Chelation therapy is the use of intravenous infusions for a variety of conditions but is so unknown in the mainstream that the spell-check of this blog has underlined it in red. Not surprisingly, most of the Wikipedia entry on chelation is quite dismissive of it value.

I contacted John, who confirmed he is able to offer me intravenous H2O2 treatments, so I booked an appointment. 

Palmerston is a ten-minute drive from my front door. John is someone I met through some friends years ago when he allowed a small group of people to tour his straw bale house, which was then still under construction. John shares the building where his practice is with the local midwifery practice, and it was one of the midwives we knew socially who included us in the house tour.

I don't know about you, but I have always been fascinated by how the universe brings people together with Jungian synchronicity. To find someone so close to where I live - someone I have actually met - who can offer these treatments, has given Tara and I an even greater sense of optimism about this whole situation.

At my first appointment, John took some drops of blood from one of my fingers and put them under a microscope. The LED screen beside the scope showed my blood cells in full colour. John pointed at the condition of my blood which indicated how dehydrated I was, how my blood was full of yeast (candida overgrowth), and how my blood cells looked like they were not producing enough hydrogen peroxide!

Then I remembered the line in Dr Douglass' book saying that 'maybe cancer is actually a hydrogen peroxide deficiency'.

In addition to the H2O2 infusions, John recommended I start taking turmeric, some Candibactin to deal with the candida, and prescribed a glass of water with a half teaspoon of baking soda first thing in the morning.

Dr. Tullio Simoncini is the author of a book on treating cancer with baking soda called 'Cancer is a Fungus'. My cousin Neva recommended a link to a You Tube video (see below) about using baking soda to kill cancer, but at the time I was so overwhelmed by people's recommendations I ignored it. Apparently he injects baking soda adjacent to tumours and has been getting really good results.

So I've started drinking a glass of baking soda solution before meals, and yesterday I had my first H2O2 chelation treatment. It took a couple of hours so I did some reading, meditation and Qigong while I sat in a nice big comfy chair in a room in the basement of John's clinic where the midwives have their practice. One of the midwives, my friend Cathy, was in clinic at the same time. She came in and gave me a hug and a kiss, making me feel even more the sense of  being 'on the right path.'

After the treatment, I was singing and dancing for the rest of the day.

The Next Step

Whenever I share my diagnosis with someone, two things usually happen:

Either the person I am talking to or someone they know has gone through the same thing and they are now cancer free by despite being given a death sentence by their doctors(s);

They recommend a treatment besides chemotherapy or radiation.

The other day when I wrote about hydrogen peroxide therapy, a student of mine whose father has cancer contacted me and gave me the book 'Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle' by William Campbell Douglass II, MD. Once I started reading it, I realized this is the therapy I want to try before I go the radiation route.

Up until now I have been doing a bio-oxidative therapy similar to hydrogen peroxide therapy. It's called Miracle Mineral Solution and, taken orally once a day, is said to have the same result as taking hydrogen peroxide orally three times a day.

The book 'Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle' is an account of the successes Dr Douglass and other doctors have had treating a variety of 'terminal' and/or 'incurable' diseases such as cancer, HIV, sarcoidosis, MS, lupus, emphysema, etc. by administering hydrogen peroxide as an intravenous infusion. He is adamant that someone with my diagnosis cannot hope to transform their condition through oral bio-oxidative treatments alone.

The task I now face is finding someone nearby who offers this kind of treatment. I have been googling for practitioners all weekend and have found several in Toronto and Barrie, but would like someone closer. Someone in Guelph, Stratford or Kitchener/Waterloo would be nice.

Wish me luck.

Medical Qigong

One of the things I did after being told there was a tumour in my esophagus was turn to the field of Medical Qigong.

I have been teaching Qigong classes for almost a decade now, but this is not the same. Medical Qigong, like Reiki, is when a practitioner applies energy to a patient through their hands. There are a couple of well-viewed videos on YouTube showing a small team of Qigong practitioners shrinking tumours. Here's one of them:

A few years ago I bought a Medical Qigong textbook with the intention of studying and becoming a practitioner. For some reason this didn't happen. I looked at the massive book a few times, but for the most part it just collected dust until I pulled it off the shelf a month ago.

I generally don't follow written instructions very well, but I did glean a few points from the book - such as how to breathe -  and combined them with my knowledge and intuition to create my own Medical Qigong application.

The foundation of it is a visualization technique I learned in Japan. In a standing or sitting position, put one hand over the other on the lower abdomen and close your eyes. As you inhale, imagine the energy (Qi) of the earth coming up through your legs and into your lower abdomen. In your mind you swirl the energy around in your abdomen before exhaling and sending it back down your legs and into the earth. My shiatsu teacher, Mishima Sensei, called this 'breathing through your feet'.

Instead of the deep belly breathing I have trained myself to do over the past twenty years, Medical Qigong uses 'reverse breathing'  - where the belly comes in as you inhale - to focus the power of the breath (Qi) in the body before it is released. This also ensures that you are not using the energy from your body, just the energy you are gathering with your breath and mind to deliver healing.

After I finish meditating in the morning, I stay sitting with eyes closed, and place my hands on my lower esophagus. I breathe in 'through my feet', building up a sense of concentrated Qi in my upper abdomen, and then I exhale imagining the energy moving down my arms and out through my hands.

As in the video above, there are certain things the practitioners say - mantras - to help create the right energy for things to shift. In this case, as far as I know, they are saying: 'It is accomplished.'

I decided to personalize the mantra. I alternate between saying 'It is accomplished' and 'Thank you'.

Run from the Cure

The One-Minute Cure

Dr Sherman Lai is a Chinese medicine cancer specialist. During my appointment with him he said the cancer has not started eating my body.

After his assistant assessed my health by putting electrodes on one foot and one hand and running resistance tests, he was able to determine the good news and the bad news. I am stressed, but the levels at which my body is resisting the spread of cancer indicates an above average ability to do so.

Is this because I do Qigong? Meditation? Chinese Medicine or BodyTalk? Who knows? It’s just good news.

He knows that following his medical advice is not the road to a definitive cure, but he is confident that combining radiation therapy to shrink the tumour with his trio of herbal formulas to treat the cancer cells offers me a good chance.

One of the alternative methods I am counting on to shrink the tumour is something called Miracle Mineral Solution. It is a form of oxygenation therapy which can also be done using food grade hydrogen peroxide, something I found out about through a book called the One-Minute Cure by Madison Cavanaugh.

Of course I am meditating and doing Qigong, which Dr Lai said may be a factor in my body’s ability to resist the spread of cancer so well.

Another good piece of news is that esophageal cancer is not aggressive, so we have time to see if we can shrink the tumour (so I can start eating solid food again) with these other therapies before I need to commit to radiation therapy. The spots on the liver may not even be cancer. If they were, Dr Lai suggested I would look sick and, the truth is, with the loss of almost 50 pounds – weight I could afford to lose anyway – I look and feel pretty great. My diet and habits will have to change for good but I welcome this.

The Telling

The hardest part about being told you have cancer is telling other people about it.

A phone call to a family member or a friend can be an emotional ambush, an unexpected visit even more so. While I have made a few telephone calls, I have preferred to write 'press releases' and send them to friends by email or privately through Facebook instead. So far this has worked very well.

One friend suggested I start a blog, but at first it seemed a very narcissistic thing to do. The practicality of it is unmistakeable, however. It gives everyone the chance to hear the same story, and diminishes the number of times I have to tell it.

So, here we are.

Here's one of the 'press releases':

For a while now I have been dealing with something I need to share with you. Last fall, around the time I gave up eating wheat, I started to experience the symptoms of a hiatus hernia. In a few months, as my ability to swallow food diminished I lost 45 pounds, and it eventually got so bad that I could only swallow liquids.

After a visit to St Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener last month it was determined that I have a malignant tumour in my esophagus. The CT scan determined that there are lesions on my liver and it was concluded that I have stage-4 cancer. They are offering chemo and radiation to shrink the tumour, but give me no chance of surviving the cancer beyond 1 – 3 years.

I am of course pursuing alternative treatments and am still considering radiation therapy to shrink the tumour so I can at least start to eat properly. Good nutrition seems to be the best bet for a miracle.

I meditate more than ever, and am doing Qigong and visualization exercises as often as possible since the Doctor of Chinese Medicine, who says the lesions on the liver may not be cancer, has suggested that these practices may be why the cancer hasn’t spread to other parts of the body. He also estimates that this has been going on for 5 – 10 years.

I don’t look sick yet and I am not in any pain, and have the support around me to keep going. Given that the traditions of Qigong and Chinese medicine view everything as energy, I have adopted a language of transformation to describe this challenge. For example, I avoid saying anything to suggest I am ‘fighting’ a ‘battle’ with cancer. Instead I would say that I am dancing with it, working to transform it into something else.

I have called a lot of people to tell them, but it is such a hard call to make, and I love writing so much that I find it more powerful to share this in a letter rather than in a phone call where you wouldn’t know what to say. It is enough to know that I have your support and best wishes. I know that if I asked you for anything you would not hesitate to help me.

So far this experience has proven to be a powerful blessing. It may even turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to me, a massive wake-up call with no ‘snooze button’ within my reach.

Cheers.

Andrew