Defeat Cancer (10 page)

It’s important to support the entire body and all of its systems, so that it can better fight cancer, and we do this in our practice. Conventional oncologists don’t do this though. They don’t care if their patients eat ice cream, but we do. We worry about everything, because we want every system in our patients’ bodies working well and functioning as close as possible to 100 percent capacity. Only then can they effectively fight cancer.

The supplements that I prescribe to my patients include a variety of vitamins, herbs, anti-oxidants, trace minerals and glandular formulas. We are big on glandulars, which are comprised of concentrated animal glands and organs that contain minute amounts of hormones and other beneficial factors to heal and balance the body. All of our glandular formulas and other animal products come from New Zealand, a country that has never had mad cow disease and which remains the cleanest, most unpolluted place on earth. New Zealand has the strictest cattle-raising laws in the world, so they
have been able to avoid mad cow and other diseases. Some of the glandular formulas that we use include freeze-dried heart, adrenal glands, dried ovaries, and lungs, which are effective for supporting the body in a variety of ways. For instance, if patients have weak lungs, I might give them a lung glandular formula. Some of my colleagues laugh at me for doing this kind of therapy, but I tell them that it really works, because, for instance, there are growth factors in the freeze-dried lung of an animal that heal human lung tissue. In the 1940s, doctors used to treat heart failure with beef heart, and it worked. Then, after World War II, pharmaceutical companies began to really push drugs and everyone forgot about these old folk remedies, but they really work! So we use a lot of glandular products in my practice, along with vitamins, minerals, and trace elements.

In summary, we try to get every system in the body to work right, by giving our patients the right diet and supplements, and by making sure that they aren’t taking the wrong ones. It’s just as important to get the wrong supplements and foods out of the diet as it is to bring in the right ones.

While we use dietary, vitamin, mineral, and other supplements to help our patients function at top physiological efficiency, we use pancreatic enzymes to directly attack their cancers. My average patient takes anywhere from 90-110 enzyme capsules per day, which are spread throughout the day. We really load them up on enzymes, but this is necessary in order for them to overcome cancer. Overall, my average cancer patient takes over 175 pills a day, most of those being enzymes.

In orthodox medicine, pancreatic enzymes are thought to have just one function: to help digest food. They are excreted by the pancreas into the intestinal tract, where they break down carbohydrates, fats and proteins arriving from the stomach. Orthodox medicine doesn’t recognize Dr. Beard’s theory that pancreatic enzymes represent the body’s main defense against cancer, which is how we use them at
our office. Again, pancreatic enzymes control placental growth, and since cancer cells result from misplaced placental cells, pancreatic enzymes also control cancer cell growth. We treat cancer according to Dr. Beard’s theory, which was developed over 100 years ago, published in the mainstream scientific literature, and then totally ignored.

The third component of our treatment plan, and also the most controversial, is detoxification. When cancer cells die, a lot of toxins get released in the body, so it’s important for people with cancer to detoxify themselves. Detoxification is also important during cancer treatment because the body is repairing itself, and a lot of toxins get released during that process.

We are all exposed to thousands of chemicals every day: heavy metals, pesticides, and so on. There are thousands of chemicals in our water, air, and food, and many of those toxins are stored in our cells, where they remain like a ticking time bomb. In addition, cancer cells produce all kinds of foreign molecules, such as abnormal enzymes and proteins, which are toxic to the cells. Now, when the body repairs itself and tumor tissue is broken down, all kinds of toxic wastes get released into the bloodstream. The liver and kidneys filter out these toxins, but these organs get overloaded, so we have a series of procedures at our office which we recommend that our patients use to mobilize, neutralize, and excrete all of this toxic stuff out of their bodies.

One of these is the infamous coffee enema, which, paradoxically and ironically, and despite all of the criticism against it, came from conventional medicine. Up until the 1960s, most nursing textbooks recommended them for patients. The Merck Manual, which is a compendium of orthodox treatments, listed coffee enemas as a treatment up until the 1970s. My eccentric and brilliant mentor, Dr. Kelley, who was a dentist and the first person to revive Dr. Beard’s work, incorporated coffee enemas into his patients’ protocols because they came out of the Merck manual and they help the
liver to function better, which is also why we incorporate them into our protocols.

In addition, we recommend intestinal cleanses, juicing, skin brushing (which is an old technique used to stimulate lymphatic drainage), as well as other things to assist the detoxification organs with the process of toxin removal. All of these strategies can be done at home, including our five-day liver and intestinal cleanses, and juice fasts. We have patients who come to us from all over the world, and we teach them how to do everything here so that they can do our protocols at home.

Before we take on new patients, we determine whether or not we will be able to help them. If they contact us from Memorial Sloan-Kettering, half-conscious and with a breathing tube, we know that they aren’t going to be able to do our program, because they have to be able to swallow the pills that we give them. Patients also have to have the motivation to want to do it. Just because their cousin or grandmother wants them to do it, isn’t good enough. They have to be interested in it. So we select patients who can physically do the program and who want to do it. I also do the program myself for general prevention against cancer. I have taken a lot of pills for 29 years, but it’s no big deal to me. It’s a question of mindset. If people think that taking pills and drinking carrot juice is going to be a nightmare, then it will be. Most of my patients are enthusiastic, appreciate the program, and want to be here, so they just dive in and do it. Usually compliance to the regimen and ability to do it are a non-issue.

Many of my patients had health problems before getting cancer, including typical epidemic degenerative diseases like heart disease, diabetes, allergies and high cholesterol; basically, all kinds of problems. So when they come to my office for treatment, we give them the full package. We treat all of their problems, not just their cancers. Often, when we give them the nutrients that they need, their other health problems resolve. And people do come to us for
treatment for other diseases besides cancer or along with cancer. We just accept it and do what we have to do. People are afflicted with a lot of health problems. That’s just the reality of life today.

If you look at my website, you will see that, overall, most of our patients do well. However, this includes only those who comply fully with the program. The success rate for pancreatic cancer is lower because it’s a very aggressive disease, but many do well over the long term, as evidenced by the case reports on my website. Usually those that don’t do well have a really advanced stage of cancer.

So what do I mean when I say that my patients “do well?” The current drug that is used to treat pancreatic cancer, and which was given FDA approval, extends the patient’s life by a month, on average, and this is definitely not what I mean by “doing well!” If I only extended my patients’ lives by one month; if that was the best that I could do for them, I would quit my job. I would go sell shoes, literally! What I mean by “doing well” can be defined by the testimonials that are on my website. For example, I had a patient who was diagnosed in September 1991 with metastatic pancreatic cancer that had spread to his adrenals, lungs, and bones. He also had four tumors in his liver, and he was seventy years old at the time. The man lasted until he was seriously injured in an automobile accident and died in a rehab center. He didn’t die of cancer. All of his tumors disappeared and he lived for fifteen years beyond his diagnosis. His case is how I define “doing well,” and represents the average improvement and survival rate that we see and expect at our office.

I receive oncology journals here at my office. Recently, I read about a supposedly miraculous new immune therapy for melanoma. The results of its use show that, on average, it extends the patient’s life by one or two months, which increases the two-year survival rate statistics for metastatic melanoma from 10-12 to 20 percent. It’s an improvement, but it’s not the same as having most of your patients
still alive after a minimum of five years—which are the typical results that we get at my office. But the medical community gets hysterically excited over new drugs that provide small, incremental increases in average survival rates. To me, this is sad, not a great victory.

I started practicing medicine in 1987, and at that time, I had a patient who had an aggressive, metastatic, stage four breast cancer. She came to see me after having done chemotherapy, and is still alive and well today, with no evidence of cancer in her body. She has so far lived for 23 years past her original diagnosis. There are many people like her who have come to see me, and who are now living normal, healthy lives, after having had terrible, terminal cancers.

There are other doctors who claim to treat cancer with pancreatic enzymes, but I don’t know them or what the quality of their work is. They, and others, know about Dr. Beard’s work, and there are other scientists who have rediscovered his work, but I’m not sure what similar therapies are out there, or how good they are. I’m not saying I’m a genius. Dr. Beard was the genius. I was just smart enough to realize that he was right.

I first met Dr. Kelley (the dentist who first introduced me to Dr. Beard’s work) when I was a medical student, hoping to spend the rest of my life at the prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. I watched Dr. Kelley perform miracles with his patients, and I asked him how much healing depends upon nutritional factors, and how much of it depends upon biochemical, psychological, and spiritual factors. Being the bright young medical student that I was, I expected him to say that it’s all nutritional, but instead, he said, “Healing is 100 percent biochemical.” He waited five seconds and then said, “It’s also 100 percent nutritional.” After
another five seconds, he said, “And it’s 100 percent psychological and spiritual.” He added, “Someday, you are going to appreciate that.” Well, it took me awhile to appreciate his perspective, because I was very biochemically-oriented at the time, and thought that healing meant giving patients a pill. I now know that it’s not that simple, and that psychological and spiritual aspects play an important role in healing, too, because we aren’t just white rats running around in a cave; we are far more sophisticated than that. Our minds influence our biochemistry, and our biochemistry influences our minds.

Stress is a great enemy to our health, and if people have constant marital stress, for example, that stress can undermine the physiological repair of their cells. Hans Selye, MD, a Canadian endocrinologist, dedicated 50 years in Montreal to studying the physiological effects of stress upon humans, and came to the irrefutable conclusion that psychological stress has enormous effects upon the body. Doctors who don’t address the issue of stress are going to miss opportunities to help their patients, but it can sometimes be a tricky matter. If a patient with breast cancer is married to an abusive alcoholic, for instance, it will be tough for her to find peace and healing at home. As her doctor, I would want to guide and help her through that situation, because this kind of constant psychological stress could be really physiologically debilitating and impact her healing.

Healing isn’t just about taking some enzymes; patients have to adjust their lives as necessary, and do what they can to get them in order. Some patients might need just a bit of counseling, while others require serious marital counseling. Emotional detoxification, along with the right nutritional protocol, is important.

When it comes to making spiritual recommendations for people’s healing, everyone has different needs. I have Muslim patients from the Middle East, as well as evangelical Christians, so any recommendations that I make for their spiritual health must correlate with what’s suitable for their particular mindset. I have to tailor it
to their background and needs, and just as one diet doesn’t work for everybody, so one type of spiritual practice doesn’t work for everyone, either. That said, many people who come to my office have already addressed the spiritual side of healing, because they tend to be holistically oriented anyway, and understand the role that spirituality plays in health.

Belief patterns also play an important role in healing. The man that I mentioned earlier, who in 1991 had stage four pancreatic cancer, was quite intelligent; he had a master’s degree in archeology, and was an expert in 19
^th
century French art. He knew that he had stage four pancreatic cancer, in his liver, lung, bones, and adrenals, but he believed that chemotherapy wasn’t going to work for him and that it would be a waste of time. He was given eight weeks to live. This was in 1991, when I had only been in practice for four years and wasn’t yet famous. This man had read about me in some alternative medicine journal, and when he walked into my office, there was something about me that just “clicked” for him, and he said to me, “I know this (my condition) is serious. I’m going to do the best I can, and having met you, I know that you are going to do the best that you can (for me). I believe I’m going to get well, and if I don’t, I’m still going to do the best I can.” He wasn’t afraid or in a state of panic. I don’t know that I could have been so calm had I been in his shoes. But he got well. It was amazing. He didn’t care that his doctor had said, “You are wasting your money on quackery and you’re going to die!” ...along with all the usual stuff that conventional doctors say.