Books on Alternative Cancer Treatments

One of my favorites is: Outs Smart Your Cancer by Tanya Harter Pierce.  This is a great book that gives the detials of how alternative medicine makes it approach too diseases.

I'll have to go home and check my book list. I've read so many, that I need to look back at who was the best.  I agree Bill Henderson book's are good. He does not go into a lot of detail, just good onlines of the background of the protocols.  I also really like Ralph Moss but he has a ebook that is very pricey, but with excellent on going research. He researches all treatments conventional and alternative.

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I recently read Quillin's Beating Cancer book.  I particularly enjoyed some of the background he gives that sheds some light on how we got to where we are.  As I keep reading about nutrition, it counfounds me how little training mainstream doctors receive on this important subject. 

Right now a book I've been reading is "Nourishing Traditions:  The Cookbook that Challenges Politcally Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictorcrats" by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig PhD.  It contains a lengthy introduction, with an especially lengthy section on fats. 

Over the summer I focused on vegan literature and recipes.  I've read some compelling reasons for being vegan, and truly I love the idea of being vegan.  I suck at being vegan though.  Not that I really got there and stayed, but quite frankly my well being took a nosedive in July and I'm still trying to get back the progress I made from march-june.   

So I was somewhat relieved to find kind words being said about consuming animal products.  Fats in particular are labelled as a bad guy, but they get blamed for obesity and heart disease in ways that may be attributable to other reasons.  I especially appreciate a very lengthy bibliography just for the intro of 188 references from a variety of sources.   

Butter gets praise.  Milk doesn't.  I still drink milk.  Always have.  But if I can keep my butter and eggs, maybe I can give a go at giving up milk.  We've all heard about the hormones given to cows to produce more milk.  And I've heard about unsavory things about the cow's food, but I had never heard that they receive large quantities of soybean meal.  Apparently it leads to mastitis, other problems leading to sterlity, liver problems and shortened lives.  Butter is a good source of fat, and we need the fat as a source of vitamins A and D.  It would contain B12 also, except that pasturization kills it.  

She doesn't have one good thing to say about pasturization and touts raw milk products as a much better option.  If raw products aren't available, she recommends pastuerized but not homogenized mlik from cows raised on natural feed.  And even then, she still doesn't have much good to say about milk unless it's used to make cultured milk products like buttermilk, yogurt, butter, cream or cheese.  sigh  

The one thing that really stuck out for me in this intro was her assertion that B12 MUST come from an animal source in order for us to consume it in a way that we can absorb it.  I've been taking superfood since march that I've liked mainly because it's entirely plant based.  According to that source, the B vitamins are readily absorbable BECAUSE it's plant-based, and more specifically, plants that are single-celled, like grasses and seaweed.  Sounds absorbable to me, but what do I know?  This author says the polar opposite.  "Usable B12 is found only  in animal foods." 

"The body stores a supply of vitamin B12 that can last from two to five years.  When this supply is depleted, B12 deficiency diseases result.  These include pernicious anemia, impaired eyesight, panic attacks, schizophrenia, hallucinations and nervous disorders, such as weakness, loss of balanace and numbness in the hands and feet.  One study found that a very high percentage of inmates in psychiatric  wards suffers from low serium levels of B12.  Vitamin B12 deficiency has been found in breast-fed infants of strict vegetarians.  Fermented soy foods and spirulina contain compounds that resemble B12 but these forms are not absorbed by humans because they are not picked up by the "intrinsic factor," a specialized protein secreted in the stomach that allows B12 to be assimilated. In fact, the plant forms of B12 may even created B12 deficiencies.  (Viability of the intrinsic factor depends on a number of factors including calcium status, pancreatic enzymes and proper pH in the upper intestine.  The ability to assimilate B12 frequently declines with age so that many elderly people suffer from B12 deficiency even though they continue to eat animal products.)"

I'm typing this out because I won't remember who wrote it as I venture into the next book, and I'm confounded by the assertion that B12 can only be assimilated from an animal source! Who's right?  Based on how I've been feeling the last two months, I'm guessing it's not the vegan camp.  Excuse me while I go buy some butter and eggs.  lol 

I love stories about survivors.  One of my favorite is "I Beat Cancer - 50 People tell you how they did it." It's has short inspiring stories how all them beat Stage IV cancer.

Swimangel - I will check this book out.

This one's a winner...Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD. The author is a 15 year survivor of brain cancer.

L 

What does he mean that a cause of bc is "root canal teeth"?

Like others I have read a lot and some books inspired me more than others.   I have mentioned 'Your life in your hands' by Jane Plant repeatedly in other posts as I found it very inspiring when I was first diagnosed.  It is written by five time (within five years) BC survivor whose cancer stopped coming back only once she made dietary and lifestyle changes.  She has also published a cook book which I am going through at the moment.  I do have a gripe re this author as she has a website which she charges for.  I think she must have made a considerable amount of money from numerous editions of her books and that she could afford to run a free website particularly as she recommends it repeatedly in her book.