Defeat Cancer (44 page)

My interest in alternative medicine dates back to my time in medical school. During my first few years there, I believed in using drugs for treating cancer and other diseases, but after awhile, my perspective changed. I saw that things weren’t working out as they should in conventional medicine, and that the promise of a chemical or drug to treat disease wasn’t holding up. Too many people remained ill, and I observed that those who were taking drugs to be well had to take them indefinitely. If a person has to continue to take a drug in order to be well, then by definition, the drug doesn’t work. If drugs work, people’s health conditions should clear up and they should be able to stop their medicines at some point. My ruthless definition of a cure is: no symptoms remaining, no ongoing treatment necessary. If people have to take drugs for the rest of their lives, that’s not a cure.

While in medical school, I also had a very romantic idea about what practicing medicine should look like, but in actuality, it turned out to be different than what I thought. It was very rough and unkind. So I quit my classes for three years to study natural medicine. I did
end up going back to medical school after that because I wanted to be properly certified in medicine so that I could treat people’s health problems. In London, doctors are required to get two degrees in medicine: a Bachelor’s in Medicine and Bachelor’s in Surgery. Once I became a properly trained medical doctor and surgeon in Britain, I promptly left the system again, to pursue naturopathic and alternative methods of healing. (Author’s note: In some countries, such as Britain and Ireland, the qualifying degree to practice medicine isn’t called a Doctor of Medicine, as in the United States. Instead, it’s called the Bachelor of Science in Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery, and is considered the equivalent of an MD degree in the United States system).

In my early years as a doctor, I pursued areas of medicine which were at the time considered to be radical: I learned about food allergies, environmental and chemical contamination, and other aspects of alternative medicine. Today everybody knows about this stuff, but thirty years ago, few people did, so I was called a quack. Indeed, in those times, conventional doctors referred to my knowledge about food allergies as “Mumby Jumbo!” Within ten years, however, mainstream specialist physicians were sending their wives to my clinic, and by the end of the following decade, these same specialists were showing up to see me themselves! By the end of the 1990s, the British National Health Service began ordering my treatment formulas. So I went from being considered a quack to being highly respected, in about twenty years. That’s fast in medicine.

Getting into alternative medicine was the best thing that I could have done. I took more pleasure in my work and had more time to spend with my patients: on average, two hours per visit. Doctors must get to know their patients. This is the only proper way to practice medicine.

During my first years as a doctor, I was quite a pioneer in the field of alternative medicine, and I made world medical history in 1987,
when a United Kingdom crime court accepted my belief that food allergies could make a person murderously violent. This came about as the result of a case in which an Irish boy tried to strangle someone and the judge assigned him to me for an evaluation, and I discovered that he had a major food allergy—to potatoes! This boy also had allergies to a couple of other foods, including beets and strawberries, which, as it turned out, were responsible for his violent behavior. His story was shown worldwide on Prime TV, and it was a big deal. He was given a conditional discharge from jail, provided he followed my diet. During that time, I was often interviewed on television, and I later discovered that the judge of this boy’s case had tuned into one of my interviews and seen the types of treatments that I do.

My clinical practice in England was based upon three important components, which I called the Three Pillars of Healing. These involved nutrition, chemical clean-up (detoxification) and alternative psychology.

My nutritional protocol for my patients was based upon a concept called nutrition by subtraction, which involves getting rid of foods in the diet that are contributing to symptoms. I found that subtracting harmful foods from my patients’ diets was more important than focusing upon adding in the right ones, because most people are hurt by what they ingest, not by what they don’t. So I would test them for food allergies using an inter-dermal testing technique called Miller’s method. This method, otherwise known as intradermal neutralization therapy, was named after Joseph Miller of Alabama, who developed it. It involves either injecting food extracts under the skin or giving food extract drops under the tongue to determine food allergies. If the body doesn’t react to a particular extract, it produces a small, raised bump on the skin known as a “wheal.” If the body does react, the wheal that’s produced takes on a characteristic appearance; it becomes white, hard and raised with a
sharp edge. Also, the patient may experience symptoms similar to those normally produced by the food. The second part of the technique involves finding the specific concentration of the food allergen extract that will “turn off” symptoms, and then re-injecting that extract back into the patient. How it turns off symptoms is somewhat unknown, but it’s thought to stimulate immune suppressor cells, which reduce the immune system’s response to the offending allergenic food.

This test provided me with in-depth insights into my patients’ physiologies. I would give them a shot of an allergen in the arm, such as wheat, and observe wheals grow rapidly on their skin in reaction to that substance. Often, they would also get symptoms as a result of the shots, and by those, I would know they were allergic to the food extracts that I had injected. Then, I would give them multiple injections of the extract, each one continually weaker than the previous one, until the opposite reaction occurred: a type of “switch off” effect that would turn off their symptoms. I would then use that dose therapeutically to treat their allergies.

I found all kinds of food allergies in my patients using this method, and constructed their diets upon the basis of the results that I got from this testing. I found that taking into consideration their specific type of cancer wasn’t critical for determining an appropriate diet. Rather, it was the status of their immune system and removing anything that burdened that system, which mattered. There’s no faster way to unburden the immune system than to remove inflammatory and allergenic foods from the diet. If there’s one thing that I learned while in medical practice, it was the extent to which the wrong foods can destroy the body. To realize how significant food allergy reactions could be in cancer development was an eye-opener for me.

When I started out in practice, I was one of the first doctors in the UK to mention how important it is for people to remove chemical contaminants from their environments in order to heal from cancer
and other diseases. In a book that I wrote on this subject in 1986, entitled:
Allergies
:
What Everyone Should Know,
I introduced the term human canaries. (Author’s note: Canaries were once regularly used in coal mining as an early warning system. Toxic gases such as carbon monoxide and methane in the mine would kill the bird before affecting the miners. Hence, the phrase “canary in a coal mine” is frequently used today to refer to a person or thing which serves as an early warning of a coming crisis). There are human canaries all around us, showing us, through their environmental illnesses, how we are being poisoned. So I came up with ways that people could eradicate chemicals from their home and work environments, as well as simple tests that they could do to detect those contaminants. One such test was called “the nose survey,” which basically meant that if they could smell a chemical, then it could make them ill.

I wasn’t able to do lab tests at my clinic to determine whether or not my patients were allergic to specific environmental chemicals, but if I took a careful medical history on them, they would end up telling me, either deliberately or inadvertently, what their chemical allergies were, and to what degree they were sensitive to those chemicals. For instance, if I discovered that they felt bad on Monday mornings, this meant that the chemicals that they were allergic to were coming from their office or work environments. If they felt poorly on the weekends, but fine in the office, then another set of chemicals outside of the workplace was causing them problems. I have learned a lot about medicine just by listening to my patients.

I would then tell them to throw away everything in their homes that they suspected were causing their allergies: solvents, plastics, air fresheners, household cleaners and that type of thing. If they didn’t want to do this, I would tell them to put the substances into a plastic bag, seal that bag tight and put it at the back of the garage to see if they observed any changes in the way that they felt.

Women need to understand that cosmetics are lethal. Statistics have shown that the average woman absorbs around two pounds of cosmetics through her skin every year, which her liver then has to
process. When I was in practice, I noticed that whenever my patients stopped using makeup, their blood test results would change for the better, and they would feel better, too—as a result of doing this one thing alone!

If my patients had high levels of liver enzymes (which indicate liver stress), and I could get those to come down through dietary and chemical clean-up recommendations, then their cancer markers would also improve. The liver is a major clean-up organ and when it’s clean, the body can more effectively fight cancer. The liver gets so beat up; it’s constantly getting rid of chemicals and food toxins, so anything that people with cancer can do to reduce their livers’ burden will help them to heal. If they can reduce their bodies’ toxic load, nature will fix their bodies.

I have spent a lot of time studying alternative psychology, which encompasses a number of highly effective techniques for healing disease that’s related to trauma. Such techniques include: NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Virginia Satir’s Conjoint Family Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Robert Assagioli’s Transpersonal Psychology.

A few years ago, I learned about a patented voice machine, called the Vo-Cal 360 (short for Voice Calibration), which can be used to release emotional trauma in cancer patients and thereby facilitate their healing. The Vo-Cal 360 and its more modern counterpart, the Vo-Cal II, function by detecting subconscious trauma that has been stored in the body and which is indicated through the person’s voice. The results are then displayed on a computer screen as a “voice map” which reveals areas of unprocessed emotional trauma in the body and how people’s relationships with different family members have impacted their DNA. Often, the disease imprints that people have in their DNA come from their grandfathers or grandmothers, which means that emotional trauma and its impact upon the DNA can be passed down from several generations.
Sophisticated software then analyzes the voice map and outputs the ideal energetic frequencies to release the trauma that has been stored in the DNA. People have experienced permanent and measurable results because of this therapy, including complete healing from different diseases.

A lady that I know of who had a brain tumor went to see Calvin Young, the developer of the Vo-Cal machine. He told her that he didn’t know if the machine could help her but she wanted to try it out, anyway. She hadn’t done chemotherapy or any conventional treatments. When the machine played the energetic pattern of her voice back to her, she burst into tears, and within minutes, she was wringing her hands, as pain began to course her hands and wrists. A childhood abuse memory had risen to the surface of her mind, and in it, she had been stripped and strapped to a table and abused by a bunch of adults in the forest—and that’s what caused her brain tumor! But the memory had been repressed and didn’t emerge until her session with this machine, when she was in her 40s. After her experience with the machine, she decided that the abuse memory had been the reason for her cancer. Sure enough, she was right, and the tumor went away.

The Vo-Cal 360 actually detects patterns in the voice, and uses those patterns to heal trauma. If people speak about their mothers, a certain audio frequency pattern emerges; if they talk about their fathers, a different audio frequency pattern appears. Just speaking about someone produces a unique voice pattern, and when these voice patterns are replayed to the person who spoke them, it encourages the psyche to push the trauma associated with that person to the surface. The energetic imprint of the trauma is present in the person’s voice, so the woman with the brain tumor, for instance, carried her abuser’s pattern in her voice throughout her entire life. But it wasn’t until her voice pattern was played back to her that the memory of the abuse was driven to the surface of her mind.

New voice patterns emerge every time a trauma is processed, and patients keep speaking new voice patterns until their abusers’ imprints don’t show up in their speech anymore. Once the traumas
have been processed, their voices actually sound different. Healing through the Vo-Cal 360 isn’t just about recognizing specific traumas, though; it’s about releasing them on an energetic level.

Traumas can be buried deep in the mind and body. I once had a patient who was doing the Gerson protocol. She came to me for nutritional IVs, and went into total remission as a result of these therapies, but she also had emotional problems, and I told her that she had to deal with those if she wanted to stay in remission. She didn’t take my advice, thinking the Gerson therapy and my IV treatments to be sufficient, but the end, they weren’t, and she passed away. If people with cancer don’t address their emotional traumas, they leave themselves open to a recurrence of disease.