The Fungal Theory

Carol1949, Thanks for the encouragement!  Since I've had a cancer diagnosis and have done so much research, you would think I could adhere to my diet and exercise program but it's so easy to get off track. It helps add reinforcement when I read up on the importance of nutrition and also when I hear about someone doing as incredible as your friend. I want to have that success and know that I'm on the right path!  I had heard of that book and will add it to my (extensive) list of "must haves".  Thanks again!

You know barry, I'm not sure about the DCIS, I'll have to ask that when I call tomorrow.  Is the lump close to the skin?  Mine was, it was on the outer quadrant of my breast and very easy to feel, right under the skin. I wish I would've known about antifungals then. I definitely would have tested the topical thing.  I ordered some oregano oil from Bio-Active nutrients. That stuff is potent! It is 78.6% carvacrol mixed with capric and caprillic acid (found in coconut oil), all anitfungal. I haven't gotten the abscessed root canal tooth out yet so I've been using it nightly on the abscessed area and the swelling is down, no more tenderness and the pus (yuk) appears to be gone and I've only used it 4 nights now.  I also had an itchy patch in my clavicle area that I've rubbed it on nightly and that's gone. I think I will start rubbing it over the scar area from my lumpectomy every night as well. My whole bedroom smells like oregano at night!  Not much for the libido but keeps the bugs away. lol.

Sheila, Thanks for that drug trial info! It says its being done at Indiana University. That's very close to home for me. I had melanoma a few years back and I was treated at the IU hospital. That is also where Lance Armstrong was treated for his testicular cancer.  It will be interesting to see how it turns out.  Do you know how to obtain the results of the trial?

Edit....Whoops, sorry I just took another look. It says it's ongoing for another year. It ends 1/2012 so I guess we wont know for a while.

Motheroffoursons, Happy New Year to you as well!

I guess you are right, we'll just have to agree to disagree and that's fine, if everyone agreed on everything this would world be a pretty boring place, right?  So here I go disagreeing.....

You wrote: I concede that fungi can be systemic infections, however all literature indicates this is in individuals with compromised immune systems. For healthy adults, fungi do not invade the interior tissues.

That is old school thinking. Our lifestyles nowadays are so much more toxic, with fake foods (90% of the foods Americans purchase today are processed), chemicals, sugar (Americans are reported to eat 150-170 lbs of sugar per yr - that's up from about 50 lbs per yr within the last century!  It's tripled!) Fungi thrive in acidic environments and feed on glucose (sugar!) The use of antibiotics has risen enormously as well. We are killing the good bacteria in our bodies. They are over prescribed by our doctors and they are fed and injected into the animals we consume. Just this month a report was issued by the FDA - 129 million lbs of antibiotics were used in the livestock industry in 2009 alone! We are leading lifestyles that "invite" fungi to come and live! Aside from cancer, fungal infections have risen exponentially in the last century.

Next you mention chitin again and you focus intently on it. I addressed that in a post back on Dec 18 so I wont bore anyone with those details again except to say that dimorphic fungal cells have the ability to lose their outer coating (chitin) and infect a human cell. When this happens, it becomes a "hybrid cell". They are now living "Inside" the human cell.  If they dont have their outer coating anymore, of course it wont show up in tissue stainings.  Along with this course of action, a blend is created to from two sets of DNA.  Pathologists are looking for "cancer" characteristics when they are looking at tissue slides; grade, differentation,etc. They dont "stain" or "test" for "fungi". If they dont look for it....they wont find it.  This is why there are erroneous misdiagnosis of cancer such as the stories I posted earlier about the boy with retinoblastoma and the woman with leukemia.  They see differentiated cells and call it cancer, even though it could be fungus that they didn't "test" for.  The one thing they do know is that cancer is altered DNA ...BUT they dont know what causes it to be altered. Does it just happen spontaneously? I think not. Something "alters" our DNA.  According to Fundamentals of Fungi, 3rd edition(Moore-Landecker, E.) Fungi and their mycotoxins are capable of causing genetic variations and mutations.   I think that addresses your points 3 & 4.

Point 5-Fungi and cancer cells do not look alike, for the most part.

Correct...Now that it has infected the human cell, it no longer looks like a fungal cell nor a human cell.  It is something completely different, it is a hybrid cell.

Points 6,7,8-Mitosis...With the new hybrid cell, again, it's neither human nor fungal, it's a hybrid or cancer cell.  We already know a cancer acts differently than a human cell.  It has also been established that in a human fungal symbiosis, the fungi is the dominant force.  

Point 9-  fungi do not have estrogen receptors.

Again, I disagree....Here is a link to a study from the Pubmed website:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC261537/

It speaks about disease due to the thermally dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.  In this case they are saying that estrogens inhibit the transformation of this particular fungi.

Within the abstract it states: We believe that this binding protein represents a P. brasiliensis hormone receptor which can also recognize mammalian estrogens.

Here's a link to another study: http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbclip/pdfs/090441-274.pdf

It states: Fusarium is a fungus that contaminates grains and other plant foods. Several species of the fungus produce a toxin called zearalenone. Zearalenone and its metabolites have estrogenic activity. Contamination of animal feeds with zearalenone causes hyperestrogenic conditions in farm animals. The ginseng extracts in this study were tested for the presence of Fusarium and zearalenone. Unexpectedly, three of the four extracts tested positive for Fusarium, and all four extracts tested positive for zearalenone.

Just a side note to this...This is studied and widely known in among farmers and agriculturalists. If a horse, pig, etc. eats hay or feed contaminated with mold, they very often become infertile because of the mycotoxin zearalenone.  Those are mammals, right?  Why is this not studied in humans?

So these 2 links establishe that not only do fungi have estrogenic receptors, their mycotoxins can cause hyperestrogenic conditions!

Barry, I read something in relation to DCIS that I thought you and others diagnosed with DCIS might find interesting.  Women receive mammograms which report the findings of "microcalcifications".  Doctors of the World Health Organization say that these microcalcifications sometimes indeed progress to "cancer" but only because they are there due to the presence of mycotoxins not because of the presence of the microcalcifications themselves.  As usual, the medical community is quick to diagnose it as cancer and recommend invasive cancer treatments but they are slow to understand how crystals would form in a human female breast in the first place.

Upon careful examination, the tiny crystals are actually calcium oxalate crystals, formed when oxalic acid merges with serum calcium.  Now having calcium serum in your blood stream is a good thing but why would any woman have extremely poisonous oxalic acid in her blood?  Humans can not make this poisonous oxalic acid...but fungus does. 

The following link expands on this.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+to+cure+inflammatory+breast+cancer%3a+fungal+infections+cause+...-a0184141400

We've talked about these microcalcifications found elsewhere in the body such as in fungal sinusitis but why they dont call it cancer there.  Also, a very high percentage of all kidney stones (which btw, some feel are fungally linked) are calcium oxalate formed crystals.  I just wonder why, when these microcalcifications are found in the breast, they are considered precancer but not in stones or sinusitis. 

Jainey, Do you know why they ask you take take it as long as five years? 

Since fungi is sort of like bacteria, in that it can become resistance to therapy. Barry's suggestion was maybe 5 years is too long. It gives it time to mutate and become more virulent.  Your answer about why they stop at 5 years, (the risks out weight the benefits) lends to this theory. 

Ladies, I wonder why most bc therapy's, (chemo, radiation,) are often reported to cause cancer to go into remission but prolonged use leads to more cancer.......

How does mainstream doctors and science answer this? 

barry, Sorry, I forgot about your question above. Here is where I get my oregano oil (and some of my other natural products.)

 http://www.mynaturalmarket.com/bioactive-nutrients-oil-of-oregano-1-oz.html?osCsid=77c83f29b90720e7a4838c44985ebc9e

Since fungus is rarely diagnosed by todays medical community, the general public doesn't realize that fungus has been linked to cancer. As far back as biblical times researchers were linking this disease to fungi. More recently, among others....

In 1829, Dr Thomas Hodgkins, (the same for which the "Hodgkins" cancers are named) believed that cancer growths were parasitic cysts.

In 1860's- Louis Pasteur's laboratory notes indicated, "It is living things, subvisible living things, that are the real cause of fermentation."  These subvisible things he was referring to were yeast cells. 

1920, Dr T.J. Glover and his associates culture an organism described as coccoid, rods, spore-bearing mycelial stages and smaller than bacteria. He developed an antiserum for cancer and though his work was published in the NY Times, it was rejected by the medical community. 

1925, Dr John Nuzum reports consistently culturing a pleomorphic (cell that changes from one form to another) micrococcus from human breast cancer. 

1931, Dr Otto Warburg received the Nobel Prize.  He proved that cancer cells (like fungus cells) obtain nourishment through fermentation of sugars rather than through oxidation, as in the case with other cells. 

1947, Dr's Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe Livingston-Wheeler (M.D.), Eleanor Alexander-Jackson (microbiologist) and Irene Diller, cellular biologist with the Institute of Cancer Research, discovers and studys the acid-fast property of a pleomorphic organism they found in all cancers studied. They used microbes removed from cancer tissue to produce cancer in animals, then recultured the microbes from the animal's tumors. 

Later, 1969, the Livingston-Wheeler Medical Clinic opened.where she successfully treats cancer patients with immunological vaccinations and diet.

1960, Absolute proof that fungus causes cancer is established. Aflatoxin, a toxic mold, is discovered in England, provides the first known scientific link between cancer and fungus.

1960, Dr G. Meinecke discovers many ways in which wall-deficient fungal cells imitate the blood cells of vertebrates.

1972, Oil magnate Doc Pennington is cured of colon cancer by antifingal prescriptions. He spends 125 million of his own money and founds the Pennington Biomedical Center at Louisiana State Univ. to study among other things, the link between yeast, nutrition and cancer.  He died in 1994 and unfortunately, most of the research done at the Pennington Center seems not to reflect Doc Pennington's interest in fungus and it's connection to cancer.

1987. Drs. Krough, Hald and Holmstrup publish findings linking oral cancer with the yeast Candida albicans.

1997, Dr. Mark Bielski publishes information correlating Candida albicans to leukemia.

1999, Intelihealth, home to John Hopkins health information, reports in the Medical Tribune that German Dr. Meinolf Karthaus, discovered a fungal component to leukemia. Three patients who received a cocktail of antifungal drugs (amphotericin B, liposomal amphotericin B and Diflucan) are alive and apparently recovered from their cancer, much to the surprise of their doctors. "It was surprising that they did not relapse and did not die."  He did not know why the treatment was so successful...

Many of these brilliant pioneers were ridiculed and persecuted much as the modern day Oncologist, Dr. Simoncini and Microbiologist, Dr. Robert Young.  When will mainstream medical stop treating our symptoms and start looking for the cause???? 

chiilipadi, maybe you can mention to your docs that you believe the lesions could be fungal since iodine seems to help and see if they are willing to test them.  Goodluck, hope things go your way!