flax seed oil & cottage cheese

Does it have to be flaxseed oil or can I use ground flaxseed? 

Dear Lainey,

Do yourself a favor if you have time, go to these two sites to learn all you need to learn about Dr. Budvig's protocol: http://clem.mscd.edu/~boettner/CancerTutor/Cancer/Budwig.html   and  http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Budwig.html  

The more I learn about it, the more I am convinced that Dr. Johanna was decades ahead of

most doctors today including Dr. Andrew Weil who I used to admire until I read that he wrote off Dr. Johanna by saying that her methods were "fanciful." I guess his aides never read about the science behind her protocol.  I'm starting the protocol today with my wife to help lower our blood pressure and get our partially-hydrogenated bodies back to what they were meant to be.

Good luck. Lou

Hollyann, its not uncommon for oncologists to recommend against women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer consuming flax seed or soy.  My wife was told to limit soy and flax, and she's premenopausal.  That said, it doesn't make it a fact, as many will admit that they really don't know what it can do to hormone receptor positive breast cancers, positive or negative.  Its so frustrating that preliminary work was done in women with BC on flaxseed supplementation, but it appears no one has continued the work.  That study with the muffins given to women pre-surgery, shrinking the tumors.  I tried to find more work from the same people.  One of them left Canada, went to work in the states on SERMs.  Its almost a paradox, the way some of the  alternative treatments are either deemed good for you or bad for you, depending on who you ask.  So to most of us, we have no way of weighing the alleged benefits vs the alleged risks, so we just stay clear.

Lou, good luck on starting the Budwig protocol!

 I have just been totally amazed, with it. 

 I don't know what it might be doing for my 2006 diagnosed, 2cm IDC, ER/PR+, HER- , cancer, cut out with HUGE margins. For which I refused, any other treatments. No Radiation, no Tamoxifen. 

Until the January 2009, Birad 5 scare, that turned into benign.

 That was it. Enough. Now, I'm on the Protocol. For life. 

And it just goes, beyond, trying to cure the cancer.  I feel so incredibly better, after just three months. I can't even describe it. 

I MISS all of the junk food that I used to eat.  I loved that junk food. Yet, feeling so much better, eating "real" food, I can never go back. 

I'm starting a vegetable garden, this year.  

This is the alternative thread, on this board, and I'll just say that the alternative remedies are working, for me.

Most people, I guess, need "studies" to validate, their treatments. I do not.

I read up, on everything, and then decide for myself. And I've decided on Dr. Budwig's FOCC.

If a treatment makes me feel as great as the FOCC, and its preventing my cancer, from coming back.

I'm doing this for the rest of my life.

Leia 

Try it with some yogurt and a little honey to sweeten it.  I can't stomach the cottage cheese version either.  I also can't fathom flaxseed being sold already ground up.  The omega 3's have a very short shelf life, which is why flaxseed oil is sold in the refrigerated section.  I wonder if storebought ground flaxseed still has all the original nutrients.  You can get a coffee grinder for $10 and some whole flaxseeds for even less.  Grinding your own is quick, easy, and not messy at all. 

Try putting a table spoon of chocolate or vanilla whey protein drink mix. This does a good job of covering up taste.  I found liquid easier to stomach the ground. I'm sure it's probably not best...but if I'm going to eat it... this is how it has to be done

Joyce, that is the exact ratio, 1TBSP oil to 2TBSP cottage cheese. And like you, I mix it with frozen fruits, in my case, the Costco Three Berry mix (defrosted) I'm currently doing 3TBSP oil to 6TBSP cottage cheese.

And I find it delicious.  Although, as people have said, you really need that stick blender to totally pulverize the flax seed oil and cottage cheese. That's critical. 

My sister with the Stage 3 ovarian cancer is totally on the Budwig Protocol. Me? My BC diagnosis is similar to yours, except mine was ER+/PR+. And I'm not totally doing, everything. Yet, I have cut out the processed foods. 

Yet, my thought, I'm WAY ahead of where I was, before. And I'll make slow, improvements.

It can only help.

As I read, somewhere, what's the point of just cutting out a cancer, if you don't address the reason that you got cancer, to begin with? And for my part, I've had two cancers, by now.

The FOCC is addressing the systemic reason that I got cancer, to begin with. Which is not enough oxogen, on the cellular level. And that is what the FOCC provides. Oxygen to the cells. By combining the Omega 3 fats with the cottage cheese, it makes them water soluble so that they can enter the cells, immediately. And regulate normal cell growth and inhibit the irregular growth of the cancer cells. 

In some of Dr. Budwig's testimonials, she's taken patients with Stage 4 cancers, at death's door, and cured them.

I was not "at death's door," with either of my cancers, yet anything I can do to improve my life, and feel better I am going to do. And this FOCC is it. 

As I've said, I've only been on it, three months. And I feel terrific. I wonder how I'll feel, after a year?  

I finished my chemo and then had a bi-lat mast.  The doctor said for practical purposes I am cancer free.  My tumor went from 2.8 to 1.5 but there were still live cancer cells in it.  Being TN there is the chance it will return.  That is what I am dealing with, keeping it from returning for at least 20 years, that would put me at 85, should I reach that and the world does not crumble before then. 

My book says CoQ10  for brain 120-240 mg 2x day, for heart 200mg 4x a day, mouth sores 100 3x day to protect your body during chemo.  So what is a good dose after to keep it away? I also read it needs oil to be absorbed, mine has oil added in the capsule.

Curcumin has Turmeric (a spice) that is suppose to kill cancer cells from what I read.  It also need oil to be absorbed.  Anyone doing this?

Siince going off chemo my chocolate craving has bloomed again.  I need to cut it out, I will do my best not to sneak any today.  I will look for the whey today also.

Joyce

About turmeric - I am doing this. I try to have a quarter-teaspoon a day. Mixing it with a little black pepper increases its absorption by 1,000, according to the book I use Foods That fight Cancer, by Richard Beliveau. for me it's easy: for one meal of the day I heat a little oil, &  some water in a pan, add turmeric & a dash of black pepper, & wilt a big handful baby organic spinach in it. When that's done, I add a spec more oil & make scrambled eggs in the same pan. delish! Or create your own easy way.

I've been reading bits of this thread, am strongly considering reading more & reading the links & starting the Budwig plan, or elements of it. thanks for all the great info, everyone.

I just wanted to update you guys. I started following part of the budwig diet 6 days ago and really followed it more closely the past 4 days. I have two lumps in my breast that are in the diagnostic phase so I can't speak for them, but I have 4 tumors on my arms. Two are gone and two much smaller. I've had them for years and NOTHING has helped until this past week. I have MORE energy. My blood pressure was 110/60. I did add iodine to my diet and told my doctor. My night sweats have decreased. My headaches are gone and my heartburn is gone.

For those who want info on how exactly to follow the Budwig protocol, there is a yahoo group with files on all info.

Here was an encouraging post on there today from someone:

"Earl wrote: 

Went on Budwig (followed the plan rigidly, NO meat , all organic food, flaxseed and flaxseed oil etc.). After 11 weeks got psa score of 4.2 (went down 1.4), free psa went up to 17% (4% increase...which is good)!. Both numbers went in the correct direction... significant good change.

Biopsy indicated precancerous cells are non existent. I will stay with this forever. The secret is to place all good things in the body and remove all the bad"