For Informed People Using Alternative Treatments

juneping,

Dr. Servan-Schreiber is very well know for his book,  Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life.  He did far better than originally expected, in terms of survival and passed away in July 2011.

Yes, sadly he did in 2011 but he lived for about 20 years after his original dx. He left a great and interesting body of work which is definitely worth a read.

juneping

 Great video, thanks for sharing!

ooh...I am still in a state of shock. But you're right, his work is def very interesting with science to back it up. I think I'll read his book. 

His lecture was just so funny and informative. 

I read Anticancer and really felt inspired.  Dr. Servan-Schreiber combines anecdotes with empirical evidence.  His anecdotes are a bit...disconcerting at times though.  I was also a bit disappointed to learn after I had read the book that he had died however, he did keep his cancer at bay for a very long time.

3 cups of green tea a day, 30 minutes of daily exercise, meditation and more veggies, and curcumin and less/no dairy, sugars and white flour are his main points.

Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, Director of MDA Integrative Oncology Dept. held a lecture on David Servan-Schreibers anti cancer book which his brother, Camille was the guest speaker. He also wrote a book while he was actively dying titled "not the last goodbye", MDA has a 5 year grant to study his diet and nutrition plan. Google Cohen-Schreiber grant + MDA, I would post link but cannot perform this function from my cell phone for some reason.

flan - sorry about your cat....i missed mine all the time especially after i caught BC...

even though Dr. Servan-Schrieber died but i wouldn't think his theories didn't work, after all he did make it 20 years. i was browsing about him and found a blog which was bashing his studies. the writer had no knowledge of cancer...it just baffles me for someone had no clue and blog about it. i wanted to leave a comment but it's disabled....

2 other books, recommended by Servan-Shrieber are Foods that fight Cancer and Cooking with Foods that fight cancer by Drs. Gringras & Beliveau who are scientists running a large research lab in Montreal. David SS used & recommended their work - interesting and scientific details in layman's language on things like green tea, turmeric, flax, the cabbage family. How the various phytonutrients make the pathways to do things like stop or slow angiogenesis, convince bc cells to stop replicating, etc. They might be able to create an environment that is unfavourable to cancer growth.

 I like SS's book as it allows you to work on things yourself, which is always better than doing nothing, so it gives you a feeling of more control. also, most of it is probably true but not understood well, so I'm so glad to hear of the 5 year study going on at MDA? These kinds of things are, after all, often the bases for chemo & other drugs. 

One thing I read in a book on trees by the world-class biologist Diane Beresford Kreuger (sp?) is: if a child holds a black walnut (and I'm thinking the raw, lime-green tennis ball thing that drops off black walnut trees in my yard and really smells like lime - it's actually juglone, a power toxin/poison secreted by the tree as its main method of defence) - holds a black walnut in the crook of their arm, they will be exempt from childhood leukemia. that phrase just blows me away. sometimes i pick one up and hold it in the crook of my arm, wondering, could it possibly be working on any sneaky little bc buggers that just might be metastsizing in me? Or is it poisoning me? Or would I have to peel it first?  The deadly - and possibly useful to us - poisons that are available in nature. Such as taxol from the yew, (yew berries highly poisonous) and so on - known to us down through the years. I never understood that because plants can't run away from enemies, they must develop poison - and if we can figure it out we can benefit from their evolution.

flannelette.  extremely interesting.  I have a butternut tree here & wonder if it would have a similar-same effect.  the tree is very old & doesn't produce nuts every year but I intend to harvest some this year if it does produce.  I actually have some dark brown dye a neighbor made for me many years ago from the hulls.  must be 25 years ago at least.  it's in an old jam jar & is as pristine as when new:  has never molded or like that.  may have turned to alcohol, I've never opened it.

thinking of getting a dropper bottle from the drugstore, decanting some of that dye & using it topically on the dressing

Hello ladies, what can i eat to help my WBC raise? It is at 29 now. I have nipple reconstruction in two weeks and my primary gave me the results today... Thank you!

I already got blue stains from the coloidal silver I use sometimes to hold down bacteria.   my neighbor used a vice to crack the butternuts.  they do fall, but arn't spiky, very sticky though  

yes a much leaa toxic way to dye skin & hair than the chemicals in the drugstore. I think you remove the hulls &cook them in water for a time  I'm now juicing not every day.  many years ago I read that the hunzas?  lived such a long time.  & the difference to their diet was apricots (I think have a lot of coumarin) & mulberries.  recently here there's dried organic mulberries & fresh organic mulberry juice.  very delicious.  

by the way in in 14 months according to mr google 100 percent of untreated people will be dead.  but they've been diagnosed with biopsy & mamograms presumably which cant do much good except for getting words:  stage, type prognoses.  I'm counting from the first show march 15th 2011.  if I live to the 100 percent dead that would take me to past 5 years survival

Juneping - A special THANK YOU for the link to the Servan-Schreiber video. It hit at the perfect time. I have a friend who just got diagnosed with a Stage 4 brain tumor, mom to 2 young children. She has been somewhat despondent. She cannot read a book right now, given her treatment and surgeries, so this movie was just the ticket we needed to get the information to her (which is even more devastating since she is a brilliant attorney that started one of our city's largest practices.)

This movie gave her hope. It has changed her mood entirely. I thank you sincerely for sharing it. I have been on the Anti-Cancer book bandwagon since the moment I read it. I keep a copy by my bedside, and several on the shelves to give away as sadly, they are needed.