Article published by John Sammut: Author of the book Eat Your Way Out Of Cancer
Consumption of refined sugar has skyrocketed. Whereas our genes developed in an environment where one person consumed at most 2kg (4ib) of honey a year: human sugar consumption rose to 5kg (11lb) a year in 1830 and a shocking 70kg (150lb) a year by the end of the twentieth century.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
The German biologist Otto Heinrich Warburg won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery that the metabolism of malignant tumours (cancer cells) is largely dependent on glucose consumption and oxygen depletion.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
In fact, the PET scan commonly used today to detect cancer simply measures the areas inside the body that consume the most glucose. If a particular area stands out because it consumes too much sugar, cancer is very likely the cause. PET scans are based on detecting “hot spots” where clusters of cancer cells are feeding on high levels of glucose. When blood glucose is kept at normal levels, cancer growth is slowed and the immune system is strengthened. Trying to beat cancer on a diet that raises blood sugar is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline. And yet, despite this, many oncologists still offer candy to patients after chemo treatments.
Whenever we eat sugar or white flour – foods with a high glycaemic index – blood levels of glucose rise rapidly. The body immediately releases a dose of insulin to enable the glucose to enter cells. The secretion of insulin is accompanied by the release of another molecule called IGF (insulin-like growth factor -1), whose role is to stimulate cell growth. In short, sugar and IGF-1 nourishes tissues and makes then grow faster.
Today we know that the peaks of insulin and the secretion of IGF directly stimulate not only the growth of cancer cells, but also their capacity to invade neighbouring tissues. Believe it or not, it has now be theorized the animal protein increases the release insulin and of IGF-1 (especially from pancreas and by the human Liver) and other tissues more rapidly than refined sugars. This is why high amounts of animal protein and refined sugars should never been given as a nourishing treatment for cancer patients. The primary goal is to starve cancer cells from the main requirement (animal protein and refined sugars.) Putting cancer patients on intravenous fluids or an IV dripwhich may contain dextrose and glucose for energy is the worst treatment hospitals can do to any cancer patient.
Cancer cells consume around 18 times more sugar than normal cells because they have more glucose and insulin receptors on the cell membrane than healthy cells. The higher you blood sugar the more you are feeding (and growing) the cancer.
Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT)
IPT is the historic name for a procedure discovered by Donato Perez Garcia, MD in 1929 that allowed the specific targeting of diseased cells by traditional drugs, thus requiring fractionated dose of the drugs.
IPT was first used on cancer in 1946. IPI as a therapy for cancer is a procedure for administrating FDA-approved chemotherapeutic drugs in fractionated doses directly to the cancercells instead to the whole body.
Why is IPT needed?
Over time conventional chemotherapy dosages may so compromise the patient’s blood counts, immune system, and organ function as to preclude further treatment or even cause organ damage resulting in the patient’s death. Additionally, these are some patients, whose bodies and/or immune system could not withstand the rigors of conventional chemotherapy. IPT gives patients the power of chemo to the cancer cells only, not to the healthy cells. IPT eliminates the “lesser of two evils” decision all cancer patients face when diagnosed. Patients thrive as they experience a gentile and effective answer to cancer. IPT is truly an example of the goal to “First Do No Harm.”
What are the dangers of conventional chemotherapy?
Cancer cells are voracious in fighting for the life-sustaining glucose found in the blood stream. With around 16-18 times the number of insulin receptors of a health cell, cancer cells steal any and all essential nutrients from good cells. This is why, in advanced stages of this disease, a tumour continues to grow while the patient becomes emaciated and simply wastes away: sacropenia and weight loss.
Added to this, because of membrane protection from toxins, standard administrated chemotherapy must be in large enough quantities to force penetration of cell walls. This results in the indiscriminate penetration and killing of both healthy and cancerous cells as well as most frequently leaving the patient with fever, nausea, vomiting, hair loss and diminished quality of life.
To put it in simple terms, conventional chemotherapy: damages the immune system and vital organs; destroys the P53 tumour suppressor gene: distorts the DNA of health cells, making them pre-cancerous; causes cancer to build immunities to the chemos, thus making cancer stronger; and usually side-effects that significantly lessen quality-of-life.
How does IPT work?
Insulin is a hormone that allows cells, including cancer cells guarantee that they will always have enough glucose. Not only that but they also have another mechanism helping them get more and more glucose. I’m taking about insulin receptors.
When insulin comes into contact with a cell, it has to interact with an area on the surface of the cell called an insulin receptor. Insulin can’t work to pump glucose into the cell unless it can find an insulin receptor to work through. So cancer cells are smart. Not only do they make their own insulin, they also create hundreds of times more insulin receptors for the insulin to interact with. All this is to ensure that they have enough glucose to thrive and grow.
So when the blood glucose levels start falling after the insulin injection, cancer cells start to get worried. And they start to activate and increase the number of insulin receptors. The longer they are deprived of glucose, the more they activate these receptors, and the weaker they get. It’s too bad that we can’t just take the bloods glucose level all the way down to zero. If we could do that, every cancer cell in the body would be dead within a matter of minutes. The reason we can’t do this has to do with the brain and muscles. Unlike all of the other cells of the body, nerves cells are not able to survive on only fat, they must have some glucose. That’s why it is impossible to decrease the glucose levels down to zero. We would knock off brain and muscle cells, and put the patient into a coma. So instead, here’s what happens.
Enough insulin is given to the patient (depending on weight, height and stage/age of the patient). These health factors are importantly calculated before the administration of insulin. The insulin takes his or her blood glucose levels down to the point at which their brain cells start to feel pinch. Typically, this is at a low level of about 35-45mg/dl. They may also feel weak, hungry and flushed. The insulin dose is adjusted to keep them in the state for five to six minutes. This is enough time to cause every cancer cell in the body to panic and open all of its glucose flood-gates. Then at the right moment, the magic of IPT occurs.
Steven G. Ayre MD (January 19, 1945 – July 12, 2013)
Dr.Ayre devoted his medical career to improving his personal practice of medicine and improving the experience of people receiving medical treatment for cancer. His life and work are a continued inspiration for the work they do at the Ayre Clinic for Contemporary Medicine. (Illinois USA).
Basically, as Dr Ayre says “cancer cells have around 16 times insulin and IFG-1 receptors more than normal human cells. By inducing hypoglycaemia, this ingenious mechanism causes cancer cells to open their receptors at a rate of 16 to 1, thus allowing the treatment (IPT) to selectively target cancer cells. It typically take 30 minutes to induce hypoglycaemia. Then, 18-fluro-deoxyglucose (a radioactive tracer of glucose) is administrated.
Malignant cells will think that they are going to be fed some sugar, so they open up their cell membranes. At this point, the medical team pull the “bait an switch” on the cancer cells: low doses of traditional chemotherapy is then given intravenously to cancer patient. The cancer cells gobble up the chemotherapy thinking that this is just a normal renewed energy daily source of glucose and are killed instantly by chemotherapeutic doses that are much lower than in typical standard conventional chemotherapy. Health tissue cannot readily absorb the insulin and patients require only 10-25 percent of a standard dose of chemotherapy.
Dr Thomas Lodi is another naturopathic doctor who uses IPT combined with other integrated cancer therapies. He has successfully won the battle against cancer for many of his patients.
So a PET scan and IPT should be a diagnostic and treatment tools for cancer, combined with a healthy dietary plan and other integrated treatments to help patients with cancer.
A newer approach towards prevention, diagnosing and treatment of cancer must be on our health-care agenda. PET and IPT must be two powerful standard tools used integrated with a healthy dietary plan (a plant-based diet) that does not included foods that fuel cancer growth or increase the development of cancer.
Foods to avoid that contain a high glycaemic index
1. Sugar: white or brown, honey, syrups: maple, lactose and dextrose.
2. White/bleached flours, white bread, white rice, overcooked white pasta, muffins, bagels, croissants, rice cakes.
3. White Potatoes
4. Cornflakes. Weetabix, Rice krispies (and most of the other bleached or sweetened breakfast cereals.
5. Refined and processed foods that contain “High Fructose Corn syrup”.
6. Jams and jellies, fruit cooked in sugar, cookies, cakes and milk chocolate bars.
7. Sweetened drinks: industrial fruit juices, sodas and energy drinks
8. Alcohol (except during meals).
9. High natural sugary fruits: bananas
10. Animal-based foods, including saturated fats and oils.
Foods to eat that contain a low glycaemic index
1. Natural sugar extracts: agave nectar, stevia (a Pacific plant)
2. Mixed wholegrain cereals, multigrain bread, quinoa, oats, millet, buckwheat.
3. Lentils, peas, beans, natural corn, sweet potatoes, yarns.
4. Fruit in its natural state: particularly blueberries, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, black berries, lemons, limes, apples, pineapple, kiwifruit and grapefruit.
5. Whole grain rice
6. Water flavoured with natural lemons, thyme or sage
7. Green tea (without sugar, or use agave nectar), which combats cancer directly.
8. One glass of red wine a day with a meal
9. Garlic, onions, shallots, when mixed with other food, help lower insulin peaks.
10. Foods that are anti-cancerous and also contain high amounts of antioxidants and dietary fibre: Green-leafy vegetables and wheat and barley grass: spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, watercress, cauliflower, red cabbage and tomatoes, cucumbers, leeks, onions, garlic, beetroots, apples, avocados, lemons, oranges,limes, cranberries,acai berries, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds: Cocoa powder or nibs, hemp seeds, chia seeds, flaxseeds, almonds, walnuts and Brazilian nuts (contains selenium).
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