This chapter offers crucial information about
the relationships between cancer and infectious threats that every cancer
patient and their family must be aware of. The truth that we must stare down is
that cancer and infections cannot be separated from each other.
Cancer—always believed to be caused by genetic cell
mutations—can in reality be caused by infections from viruses, bacteria, and
fungi. “I believe that, conservatively, 15 to 20% of all cancer is caused
by infections; however, the number could be larger—maybe double,” said Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, director
of the Cancer Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical
Center. Dr. Dannenberg made the remarks in a speech in December 2007 at the
annual international conference of the American Association for Cancer
Research.
Whether caused by infections or not, once cancerous
conditions are well underway the weakening of the immune system and the battle
that ensues between the good guys and the bad is cheered on by hordes of
infectious agents that increase in density, power and form as a patient’s
cancers get worse.
Cancer also involves inflammation, acid pH, low oxygen
conditions accompanied by low CO2 levels, lower core body temperatures as well
as nutritional deficiencies and high levels of tissue and cellular toxicity
with heavy metals, chemicals and radiological exposure.
When the body’s (immune system) weakens we get sick from
one of a host of viruses, bacteria and fungi that already live within us but
are dormant. Change pH, oxygen, cell voltage and hydration levels and these
pathogens are ready to jump all over our blood streams and tissues.
Cancer cells love the conditions that healthy cells abhor.
Same goes for all infectious agents. It is impossible to be dying of cancer and
not be dying of infections and nutritional deficiencies at the same time!
Given enough time, cancer will develop whenever there is a
proliferation of damaged cells. When cells are damaged, when their cell wall
permeability changes, when toxins and free radicals build up, when the
mitochondria lose functionality in terms of energy ATP production, when pH
shifts strongly to the acidic, and when essential nutrients are absent, cells
eventually, or sometimes quickly, decline into a cancerous condition.
We can see that when a person has cancer they are literally rotting inside and dying from the loss of function, gathering infectious forces, and losing strength from malnutrition as the cancer cells eat us out of house and home.
We can see that when a person has cancer they are literally rotting inside and dying from the loss of function, gathering infectious forces, and losing strength from malnutrition as the cancer cells eat us out of house and home.
Science Daily reports, “With infectious diseases, it
is often not the pathogen itself, but rather anexcessive inflammatory immune response (sepsis) that contributes
to the patient’s death, for instance as a result of organ
damage. On intensive care units, sepsis is the second-most common cause of
death worldwide. In patients with a severely compromised immune system
specially, life-threatening candida fungal infections represent a high risk of sepsis.”
Credit: Image courtesy of Medical University of Vienna
“The working group led by Karl
Kuchler in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Infection Biology (Max. F.
Perutz Laboratories at the Vienna Biocenter Campus) has now deciphered the
molecular causes of life-threatening inflammatory reactions that are triggered
by fungal infections: two highly aggressive types of phagocytes in the immune system (neutrophils and
inflammatory monocytes), which however also have a high potential for collateral destruction, mediate the inflammatory reaction during
an infection with candida. Certain interferons, the messenger
substances used by the immune system, which are excreted during fungal
infections, stimulate the influx of immune cell types to infected organs and
lead to sepsis.”
“We have been able to demonstrate for
the first time that the targeted blockade of this immune response with
inflammation-inhibiting drugs can significantly reduce candida sepsis and
therefore mortality,” says Karl Kuchler, who used an anti-inflammatory substance in the study.[1]
Science Daily said, “Infectious diseases are the
world’s number-one cause of death, with pathogenic fungi being responsible for extremely dangerous
infections. Worldwide, more than €6 billion are spent each year
on anti-fungal medications, and the total costs of the medical treatment of
infectious diseases caused by pathogenic fungi are estimated in the order of
hundreds of billions of Euros.”
Cancer cells and pre-cancerous cells
are so common that nearly everyone by middle age or old age is riddled with
them, said Dr. Thea Tlsty,
a professor of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco. That
was discovered in autopsy studies of people who died of other causes, with no
idea that they had cancer cells or precancerous cells. They did not have large
tumors or symptoms of cancer. “The really interesting question,” Dr. Tlsty
said, “is not so much why do we get cancer as why don’t we get cancer?”
The earlier a cell is in its path toward an aggressive
cancer, researchers say, the more likely it is to reverse course and go back to
being healthy again. So, for example, cells that are early precursors of
cervical cancer are likely to revert. One study found that 60% of precancerous
cervical cells, found with Pap tests, revert to normal within a year; 90%
revert within three years.
There are certain physical properties of cells that change
that make us call them cancerous. Tumor cells display a characteristic set of
features that distinguish them from normal cells. All cancer cells acquire the
ability to grow and divide in the absence of appropriate signals and/or in the
presence of inhibitory signals.
The spread or metastases of cancer is inversely
proportional to the amount of oxygen and the acidity around the cancer cells.
The more oxygen, the slower the cancer spreads. The less oxygen and the higher
the acidity the faster the cancer spreads. If cancer cells get enough oxygen,
they will die (cancer cells are anaerobic). If you deprive a group of cells of
vital oxygen (their primary source of energy), some will die, but others will manage
to alter their genetic software program and mutate and be able to live without
oxygen.
When the oxygen level drops below 60%, the respiration
process of making energy changes into fermentation in a cancer cell. Normal
cells turn cancerous. Normal body cells need oxygen and are aerobic whereas
cancer cells do not need oxygen and are anaerobic. Healthy cells metabolize,
burn oxygen and glucose to produce ATP.
Dr. Ma Lan and Dr. Joel Wallach point out that one type of
white blood cell kills cancer cells by injecting them with oxygen, creating
hydrogen peroxide in the cells.
Dr. Luke Curtis is reporting on research that deals
with 27 lung “cancer” patients who were later diagnosed with lung “fungus”
instead of lung cancer. “Fungal
infection can present with clinical and radiological features that are
indistinguishable from thoracic malignancy, such as lung nodules or masses.”
Doctors who diagnose lung cancer are unaware of the fact that cancer mimics
fungal infections.[2]
Over one million people worldwide are misdiagnosed with
tuberculosis when in
reality they have an incurable disease with a similar outlook to many cancers,
says a recent report published
in 2011 in theBulletin of the WHO.[3] The
disease called “chronic pulmonary aspergillosis” (CPA) is a fungal infection not a bacterial infection.
Is this incurable, totally drug-resistant TB infection fungal or bacterial? It
looks very much like, or is identical to, TB when doctors look at it on a chest
X-ray and it has very similar symptoms initially. Doctors mistake it for TB and
prescribe antibiotics as standard practice.
Because the X-ray features and symptoms are so similar to
bacterial tuberculosis, doctors fail to recognize it, resulting in many
unnecessary fatalities.- World Health Organization
50% of all patients who develop
pulmonary aspergillosis are unlikely to survive for more than five years, a similar outlook to many
cancers. Deaths from fungal infections are a little like death from
vaccines, invisible and off the radar from most of the medical establishment.
Yet as high as 40% of cancers are provoked by infections, and even though in
most late-stage cancers, the infection is fungal the medical profession
considers it heresy to say cancer and fungus in the same breath.
According to Dr. Milton White, cancer
is “neither the result of a virus nor the consequence of an inherited gene
defect. Cancer is a hybrid. It is due to a plant bacterium (conidia)
derived from an Ascomycete strain of fungus…”
We Better Get the Story Right
with Cancer
In Nature we read, “Although viruses and
bacteria grab more attention, fungi are the planet’s biggest killers. Of all
the pathogens being tracked, fungi have caused more than 70% of the recorded
global and regional extinctions, and now threaten amphibians, bats and bees.
The Irish potato famine in the 1840s showed just how devastating such pathogens
can be. Phytophthora infestans (an organism similar to and often grouped with
fungi) wiped out as much as three-quarters of the potato crop in Ireland and
led to the death of one million people.”
Researchers estimate that there are 1.5-5 million species
of fungi in the world, but only 100,000 have been identified. Reports of new
types of fungal infection in plants and animals have risen nearly tenfold since
1995.
Fungi are dreadful enemies. During their life cycle fungi depend on other living beings,
which must be exploited to different degrees for their feeding. Fungi can
develop from the hyphae, the more or less beak-shaped specialized structures
that allow the penetration of the host. The shape of a fungus is never defined; it is imposed by the
environment in which the fungus develops. Fungi are capable of
implementing an infinite number of modifications to their own metabolism in
order to overcome the defense mechanism of the host. These modifications are
implemented through plasmatic and biochemical actions as well as by a
volumetric increase (hypertrophy) and numerical hyperplasia[4] of
the cells that have been attacked.
In 1999, Meinolf Karthaus, MD watched three different children
with leukemia suddenly go into remission upon receiving a triple antifungal
drug cocktail for their “secondary” fungal infections.[5]
Doctors and Dentists at Fault
Dr. Elmer Cranton,
says that, “Yeast overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by the medical
profession) and can be caused by antibiotics.”
Fungi (e.g.Aspergillus fumigatus) are not affected by antibiotics
and neither are viruses. If not given correct treatment (antifungal medication)
the prognosis is that 50% of those infected will die inside five years. In fact the overuse of antibiotics leads to fungal infections.
Allopathic doctors practicing pharmaceutical medicine are a lost cause now that
the world of pathogens is rebelling against what they have been doing with
antibiotics these past decades.
When fungi become systemic from gut inflammation and the overuse
of antibiotics, you can see how the whole body—again, the eyes, liver,
gallbladder, muscles and joints, kidneys, and skin—becomes involved in
inflammatory bowel disease.- Dr. Dave Holland
Heavy metals create contaminated
environments both inside and outside the cells. These environments attract all
kinds of pathogens—viruses, bacteria and fungi. Many cancers are caused by
infections, which are themselves caused by heavy metal
contamination. According to the observations made by the internationally
recognized medical researcher, Dr. Yoshiaki Omura, all cancer cells have mercury in them. The single greatest source of mercury
contamination is mercury containing dental amalgum and doctors around the world
still inject children with mercury containing vaccines.
Each year in the U.S. an estimated 40 tons of mercury are
used to prepare mercury-amalgam dental restorations. Scientific studies have
concluded that the amalgam is the source for more than two thirds of the
mercury in our human population. On a daily basis each amalgam releases on the
order of 10 micrograms of mercury into the body. This mercury either accumulates
in the body or is excreted via urine and feces into our wastewater systems.
Extremely Dangerous
“Fungal infections cannot only be extremely contagious,
but they also go hand in hand with leukemia—every oncologist knows this. And
these infections are devastating: once a child who has become a bone marrow
transplant recipient gets a “secondary” fungal infection, his chances of
living, despite all the anti-fungals in the world, are only 20%, at best,”
writes Dr. David Holland.
Doug A. Kaufman wrote:
The day I wrote this, a young lady phoned into my syndicated
radio talk show. Her three-year-old daughter was diagnosed last year with
leukemia. She believes antifungal drugs and natural immune system therapy has
been responsible for saving her daughter’s life. She is now telling others with
cancer about her daughter’s case. After hearing her story, a friend of hers
with bone cancer asked her doctor for a prescriptive antifungal drug. To her
delight, this medication, meant to eradicate fungus, was also eradicating her
cancer. She dared not share this with her physician, telling him only that the
antifungal medication was for a “yeast” infection. When she could no longer get the antifungal medication, the cancer
immediately grew back. Her
physician contended that a few antifungal pills surely should have cured her
yeast infection. It is my contention, however, that the reason this medication
worked was because she did have a yeast infection not a vaginal infection for
which this medication was prescribed; a fungal infection of the bone that may
have been mimicking bone cancer.
A medical textbook used to educate Johns Hopkins medical
students in 1957, Clinical and Immunologic Aspects of Fungous Diseases,
declared that many fungal conditions look exactly like cancer!- Doug A. Kaufmann
The Germ That Causes Cancer
The Germ That Causes Cancer
Cancer is a biologically-induced
spore (fungus) transformation disease.- Dr. Milton W. White
spore (fungus) transformation disease.- Dr. Milton W. White
“Tumor-inducing cells have many of
the properties of stem cells,” said Dr. Michael F. Clarke, a professor at the
University of Michigan Cancer Center. “They make copies of themselves—a process
called self-renewal—and produce all the other kinds of cells in the original
tumor.”[6]
According to the Mayo Clinic, cancer
refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and have
the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue.
Our DNA is like a set of instructions for our cells,
telling them how to grow and divide. Normal cells often develop mutations in
their DNA, but they have the ability to repair most of these mutations. Or, if
they can’t make the repairs, the cells frequently die. However, certain
mutations aren’t repaired, causing the cells to grow and become cancerous…or so
the story goes. Yeasts and fungi are, in human terms, abnormal cells that
divide uncontrollably and have the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal
body tissue. We know so little about these terrible invaders but oncologist’s
think they understand a lot about cancer even though they have not cured it.
The shape of the fungus is never defined; it is imposed by the environment in which the fungus develops.
“In some cases, the aggressive power of fungi is so great as to
allow it, with only a cellular ring made up of three units, to tighten in its
grip, capture and kill its prey in a short time notwithstanding the prey’s
desperate struggling. Fungus,
which is the most powerful and the most organized micro-organism known, seems
to be an extremely logical candidate as a cause of neoplastic proliferation, Dr.Tullio Simoncini says, “Candida albicans clearly
emerges as the sole candidate for tumoral proliferation.”
Face the Fungi
Fungi’s relationship to disease remains a difficult and
controversial topic and is not really popular with doctors who hold tightly to
their antibiotics and obsession with bacteria and viruses. Mainstream orthodox
medicine misses the boat entirely on the treatment of fungi, yeast and molds
with both the cancer and diabetes establishments “standards of care” lacking
antifungal medications.
A new area of research being driven
by Dundee life scientists is revealing remarkable abilities of fungi to
interact with minerals and metals. Led by Professor Geoffrey Gadd in the
College of Life Sciences, the research explores the unique taste that fungi seems to have for rock and heavy metal.[7] This
environmental science has demonstrated the incredible power of fungi, to eat
through concrete and to absorb heavy metals such as mercury and uranium in the
environment.
What no one has thought of until now, is the possibility
that fungi may have a stealth mode or several stealth modes with one of them
being subversion through DNA convergence.
New Theory Unveiled
Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus that “escapes
phagocytosis because the spores are surrounded by a thick viscous capsule.” In
the case of histoplasma capsulatum, which itself is a sac fungus, when
confronted by the macrophages, they ingest the fungus, but instead of killing
it and digesting it, something else can take place.
The white cells can end up protecting
the fungus and its DNA as “friend” because it has been incorporated inside the
macrophages effectively hiding the invader from our other immune defenses.
Unfortunately for us fungal cells always become the dominant cells.
An entirely new way of looking at the relationship between
cancer and fungus is seeing that cancer begins when the DNA from Fungus and the
DNA from our white blood cells merge to form a new hybrid “tumor, or sac.” This
hybrid attains a life of it’s own now, bypassing our immune defenses because it
is 50% human, and therefore just enough to be recognized as “self.”
A large and significant number of
independent cancer researchers, scientists, microbiologists and prominent
medical practitioners over the past 100 years have found overwhelming evidence supporting this
cancer-fungus link or
link between cancer and microbes in general. Microbes have always been found to
be present in cancer/tumor cells. There is nothing unusual or new about this
but don’t try to talk to your oncologist about any of this for I can
assure you the odds are high that he or she will not want to know.
The Vitally Important p53 Gene
Along with phagocytosis, our p53 gene
plays one of the most important roles in protecting us against cancer. It not
only stops cancer invasion, but it also kills tumor cells, thereby preventing
cancer from even starting. But in over 50% of all cancers, scientists have discovered that the
patient’s p53 gene was mutated and unable to stop cancer from initiating.
According to the American Cancer Society, the p53 gene is the most studied of
all genes because damage to this gene allows cells with damaged DNA, like
cancer cells, to proliferate.
“Aflatoxin genotoxicity is associated with a defective DNA
damage response bypassing p53 activation.” This means that the mycotoxin,
aflatoxin, found in our food supply, is capable of inactivating the p53 gene.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science stated in 1993, that the
mycotoxin, aflatoxin b1, made by Aspergillus fungus, is known to cause p53
mutations. Mycotoxins, made by fungi, are among the most carcinogenic
substances known to science.
The Aspergillus mold toxin, aflatoxin
B1, inhibits the breakdown of both glucose, or simple sugar, and glycogen.[8] Fungi and the mycotoxins they produce impacts our genetic code,
causing alterations that are found in a majority of cancers, reports Doug
Kaufman. “Altering
a cell’s DNA amounts to changing the environmental code of that cell. Once
changed the cell may respond differently – or not at all to outside hormones
and enzymes that normally stimulate it to perform necessary functions. As one
example of genetic alteration, aflatoxin B1 causes a break in DNA that alters
the p53 tumor expression gene. Changes in this particular gene allow the cell
to proliferate out of control. So it’s no accident that this same mycotoxin can
also go on to cause liver cancer”
Fungi and their mycotoxins manipulate their hosts on the
cellular level, and prevent us from defending ourselves by subverting the
immune system[9].
Fungi are found in foods that
we eat every day.[10] Our
primary concern is the long-term effects of ingesting food contaminated with
low levels of mycotoxins," and that carcinogenic toxins, such as
aflatoxin, a by-product of the Aspergillus molds, is a "common contaminant
of peanuts, soybeans, grains and cassava. It’s a "frequent contaminant of
wheat and corn." Without a properly-functioning immune system, we’re at
risk of succumbing to various infectious and chronic diseases. Fungi invade our
grain food supply because grains-a source of carbohydrates-are their favorite
food.
Fungi are parasites whose mission is
to invade a larger host. Given a chance they will alter our body chemistries to
suit their needs.
In their refutation of the theory of
autoimmunity Kaufman and Holland[11] explain
that in Type 1 diabetes it is entirely plausible that invading fungi have
altered beta cells, remained undetected, yet set off the body’s immune defense
system, which is unable to destroy the offending fungi allowing them to
continue to invade other beta cells and progressively lead to total destruction
and a complete lack of insulin. The extremely manipulative ways that fungi work
to ensure their own food supply is highly characteristic of their nature.
A recent Japanese study suggests that fungal mold toxins have
the ability to signal the beta cells in the pancreas to shut them off by
killing them.[12]
A.V. Constantini, MD, former head of
the WHO Collaborating Center for Mycotoxins in Food has spent 20 years studying
and collecting data on the role fungi and mycotoxins play in devastating
diseases. In his research he found a number of fungi that demonstrate specific toxicity to the
pancreas.
Candida A
When fungal colonization and
mycotoxin contamination is maximal one finds cancer
growing and mestastizing at a maximal rate.
growing and mestastizing at a maximal rate.
Beating Back Late Stage
Infections (Cancer & Fungus) with Sodium Bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate acts as a powerful, natural and safe
antifungal agent,[13] which
when combined with iodine, would probably cover the entire spectrum of
microbial organisms. The efficacy of sodium bicarbonate against certain
bacteria and fungi[14] has
been documented. Its role as a disinfectant against viruses, however, is not
generally known. Sodium bicarbonate at concentrations of 5% and above was found
to be effective with 99.99% reduction viral titers on food contact surfaces
within a contact time of 1 min.[15]
It was not until oncologist Dr.
Tullio Simoncini came along that the concept arose that cancer can be treated
with sodium bicarbonate. My book Sodium Bicarbonate, Rich
Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment continues
to be the only medical bible on this subject.
Over 90, 000 people a year die from
secondary infections in hospitals.
In my Natural Allopathic
protocol we approach
the problem of cancer and fungal infections from a number of different angles.
When it comes to dealing with pathogenic microbes we want to take them head on.
If we eliminate these microbes we lighten the load on the immune system so it
can do its job of eliminating cancer.
Immune systems are normally, in late stage cancer
patients, choking on these harmful microbes. When we rid patients of these
microbes the immune system immediately begins to be supercharged. Many have
experimented through past decades of passing small electric currents and high
frequencies through people and have seen anti-pathogenic effects with viruses,
bacteria and fungi.
What we are talking about here fits
the military tactics that Natural Allopathic Medicine employs when facing off
against cancer. A platoon of white cells are sent to rescue hostages (organs
overrun by cancer), but en route get pinned down by heavy fire from ground
forces (parasites, viruses, fungi and bacteria tying up the immune system).
Then air support (magnesium, bioresonance treatments, iodine,CBD and sodium bicarbonate)
come and obliterate the ground forces leaving the platoon (immune system
agents) free to go and recover hostages (us). We also directly increase immune
system strength using far infrared treatments that raise core body temperature.
[1] Type I Interferons Promote Fatal Immunopathology by Regulating
Inflammatory Monocytes and Neutrophils during Candida Infections.; Olivia Majer, Christelle Bourgeois, Florian Zwolanek,
Caroline Lassnig, Dontscho Kerjaschki, Matthias Mack, Mathias Müller, Karl
Kuchler; PLoS Pathogens, 2012; 8 (7): e1002811 DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002811
[2] Fungal Infection Mimicking Lung
Cancer – A Potential Cause of Misdiagnosis; Letter posted inAmerican Journal of Roentgenology; Guimaraes et al; August
2013, Volume 201, Number 2;http://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.13.10568?journalCode=ajrhttp://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.13.10568?journalCode=ajr
[8] Cheeke P.R. Natural Toxicants in
Feeds, Forages and Poisonous Plants; 1998; Interstate Publishers Inc; Danville,
Il
[9] Kibbler, CC; Principles and Practice
of Clinical Mycology; John Wiley and Sons Ltd. West Sussex England 1996
[13] There has been considerable interest
in the use of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3) and potassium
bicarbonate (KHCO3) to control powdery mildew and other fungal diseases of
plants. The use of baking soda as a fungicide is not a new idea. An article in
the June, 1990 issue of Greenhouse Manager magazine summarizes the results of
three years of testing baking soda as a fungicide for roses. Cornell University
researcher Dr. R. Kenneth Horst observed suppression of PM and blackspot—both
major problems for New York rose growers. Roses were sprayed every 3 to 4 days
with a water solution of baking soda and insecticidal soap. http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/bakingsoda.html
[14] Sodium Carbonate and Sodium
bicarbonate were equal and superior to the other salts for control of green
mold on oranges. Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci. 2007;72(4):773-7.
[15] International Journal of Food
Microbiology. Volume 109, Issues 1-2, 25 May 2006, Pages 160-163. Virucidal
efficacy of sodium bicarbonate on a food contact surface against feline
calicivirus, a norovirus surrogate Yashpal S. Malik and Sagar M. Goyal.
Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Minnesota. The virucidal efficacy of sodium bicarbonate was enhanced when it
was used in combination with aldehydes or hydrogen peroxide.
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