The only course of action I could take to buy me some time was chemo called hormone therapy. Modern medicine says that the cancer feeds on dihydrotestosterone so they give you drugs to knock out all the testosterone in your system. Don't ask me why they just don't knock out what causes your body to make dihydrotestosterone, even they cannot answer that question. The depletion of testosterone causes several debilitating effects. My initial reaction was quick and complete, total impotence and total loss of libido. If you have the first one then having the second is the only way to go because you no longer care. What a bitch.
The long term reaction is much more devastating. The lack of testosterone reduced me to an emotional wreck. I would be blubbering into my Wheaties at breakfast, crying over my lunch and don't look at me at tea time or I would burst into tears, and for no apparent reason. Decision making was very difficult for some of the simplest things at times and I was ok at other times. That effect has carried through to the present but to a much lesser degree, thank God, it was a terrible ordeal at times for both my wife and myself. Just let your imagination loose on the scenario of a menopausal female and an andropausal male in the same house. It was not pretty. By March '06 my PSA had dropped to 0.2 and by June '06 was at rock bottom at 0.03. It stayed at less than one until March '07. By May '07 I was back on the score board at 1.5 and by June it was 5.7. The honeymoon was about to end. In hindsight this would have been the time to get off the chemo and to hit the cancer with what I'm doing now but alas I did not have the information then that I do now.
I tried all sorts of alternate therapies with little to no success. The first was paw paw leaf and stem from the male paw paw tree (that's the one with lots of little flowers). I would cut these and cram them into a 5lt pot, cover with water and boil for a few hours covered ten uncover and reduce the water to about a third. I'd bottle this, freeze some and use about 40ml in 750ml of water and drink it at regular intervals during the day. In retrospect about every hour would be best. The active ingredient in this concoction is benzaldahyde which is very closely linked chemically to laetrile (B17). I was very aggressive in my treatments and some had some weird effects. The most severe was apricot kernels. The Doc I was going to said at the time when I told him ".. so your going to poison yourself now...". My reply was "...well you buggers are going too..". He also told me I had two years, be happy. I did appreciate that because it gave me the incentive to beat this thing that was chewing at my bones and I took it as an honest appraisal. What I'm about to describe is my history and not what I am doing now although it does include apricot kernels.
Apricot kernels have an undue reputation that they are poisonous, what a crock. Any medico who says that now immediately goes into my ignorant box because after being on 60 a day for months I was still very much alive and it doesn't kill the Hunzas around the top end of Afghanistan either and that is well referenced. However, I'm getting ahead of myself.
I managed to track down a bloke in Far North Queensland that had survived bowel cancer by using apricot kernels. He had passed on his info to many others and all that had listened and practiced what he said were still alive the others had stuck to mainstream medicine and died. By this time it was firmly fixed in my mind that if I was to survive I was going to have to do it without the assistance of "modern medicine".
Apricot kernels cannot be bought from any shop front in Australia, it's illegal, but you can get them off the Internet, they must be Australian, they are bitter and taste like marzipan, that's the stuff that does the job. American tastes for ever increasing sweetness has breed the good stuff out of their apricot kernels. Kernels imported into Australia are irradiated and will be dead and of no use, that goes for any nuts imported into Aus.
I started on my first protocol based on Dr Joanne Budwig's flax seed oil and cottage cheese I made from raw milk and incorporated into this the apricot kernels. As a consequence my days seemed to be spent just chewing. I would be eating this concoction of cottage cheese and flax seed oil and kernels about four times per day. I had read that the greatest cause of failure was not ingesting enough kernels. The literature tells you that you must not have more than 7-8 per day, that amount might be OK for someone in good health and using it to ward off cancer but as a treatment it's useless. I ended up chewing up to 60 a day. Now that's a lot of chewing and you can get pretty sick of it very quick as I did. I hung in for several months and noticed a few things about my body.
I would have dizzy spells, no not in the car or while driving. It only seemed to happen when I was out on my early morning walk and I couldn't work out why until I noted that I would look up and back over my shoulder and then get dizzy. Looking straight ahead or just looking sideways was OK but not up as well, very strange. After one particular incident where I nearly passed out I went home and took my blood pressure, Bingo - low blood pressure, 130's over low 60's, too low for a big bloke like me. Apparently When I turned my head and looked up I was in conjunction with the low BP restricting the blood supply via my carotid artery to my brain to a point of passing out.
It was about this time I had a visit from my sister (an RN) and her friend from nurse training days who just happened to be an Oncology Nurse. They were both interested in what I was doing, especially as I had no options from their side of medicine. The Oncology nurse when told of the apricot kernels mentioned that "...you don't get much benefit out of nuts..." as the stomach acid doesn't penetrate the chewed up pieces very far. This was to become a very important piece of information for me. After cogitating on it some and chewing on some kernels then spitting them out I noted just how big they were even though they felt like a paste in my mouth. I came to the conclusion I would have to reduce the size of the pieces of kernels. This I did with a small Sunbeam coffee grinder, grinding for about 20sec reduced the kernels to a powder. Was this good, sure was, however, the BP problem was getting worse. Sitting down and not doing much was fine, being active was fine, standing up quickly was a problem but easily taken care of, sleeping was another problem. I developed pain in my hips at around 1-3am and on researching found bad circulation can cause this. Putting 2+2 together I tied the BP problem with the circulation problem and to try and remedy this I found myself eating spoonfuls of curry powder with chillie in it trying to boost my metabolism at 3 am so I could get some sleep. This may seem a little strange and it was but I had to keep pushing on or die, great incentive. From blood gas tests I knew my O2 (Oxygen) levels were very low which in conjunction with the low BP was compounding my problem and according to Otto Warburg's research lack of O2 at a cellular level is the cause of cancer in the first place. I was in a quandry, damned if I do dead if I don't. (I now use half a teaspoon of rock salt before sleep - Sodium chloride akalises your blood allowing it to carry more O2, bumps your BP up bit as well - Sodium Chlorite will do the same thing but tastes like bleach, pwehh, but I take it as well - I'll go into that later)
I just kept on taking the same Flax and Safflower oil with cottage cheese and apricot kernels protocol until an incident while travelling to out daughters, about 1000km drive. I was driving and went up a steep grade in the road at speed. Right at the top of the hill I started to lose colour vision and instantly realised I was about to faint. I pulled over very smartly and turned off the ignition. Then nothing, it seemed that just the stress of what was about to happen pulled me round. This incident changed my driving habits to some degree. Thinking about it later when you increase your elevation above sea level it affects you BP. Sure enough I ended up when visiting my wife's father up in the New England area of NSW at 1000m I just couldn't function and felt very sick, very low blood pressure. As soon as I came back to sea level I was OK. It was after these incidents that I did more research on apricot kernels and found they can lower your BP. I started to think twice about continuing with the apricot kernels.
tbc
Peter
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