TDAH e DDA: Como Tratar com Alimentação e Suplementação

Atualizado em 19/12/2018.

O médico psiquiatra Juarez Calegaro afirma que o aspartame, o glutamato monossódico, o ômega 6 e outros produtos presentes na maioria de saborosos temperos, reduzem a capacidade defensiva do corpo afetam o cérebro e ameaçam a saúde em geral.

Problemas de linguagem, memória, habilidades motoras e instabilidade emocional. Estes são alguns dos sintomas que afetam milhares de crianças portadoras da desordem conhecida na medicina como déficit de atenção – DDA – e que pode ser, em parte, prevenida e tratada com alimentação correta.

Essa nova visão do tratamento infantil foi apresentada pelo psiquiatra Juarez Calegaro no IV Congresso Internacional de Nutrição Clínica Funcional, na Fecomércio, em São Paulo, dia 13 de setembro.

Excesso que prejudica

De acordo com Callegaro, o consumo excessivo de alguns alimentos, como carboidratos refinados e aspartame, interferem no funcionamento cerebral, matando as células que fabricam neurotransmissores tranquilizantes, responsáveis por inibir a excitação produzida pelo neurotransmissor glutamato. Em quantidade desproporcional no cérebro, o glutamato provoca os sintomas da hiperatividade.

“O açúcar também estimula a proliferação de cândida, fungo portador de toxinas que bloqueiam a produção de ATP. Essa é a bateria mais usada pelo cérebro para produzir neurotransmissores como o Gaba, cuja função é focalizar a atenção e frear a hiperexcitação psicomotora causadora da hiperatividade” observa o especialista.

O Dr. Calegaro acrescenta que essas toxinas intoxicam o pâncreas, diminuindo a capacidade de suas enzimas quebrarem o glúten do trigo, a caseína do leite e as proteínas da soja, elementos que produzem opioides e anfetaminas que geram dependência, excitação e distúrbios de aprendizagem.

Na mesa, inimigos disfarçados

Outro elemento que eleva o estresse oxidativo no cérebro, atrapalhando seu funcionamento normal e ocasionando a síndrome, é o ômega 6. Trata-se de um nutriente presente em margarinas, em alimentos ricos em gorduras hidrogenadas e em gorduras animais, como carne vermelha, salmões criados em cativeiro, galinhas e ovos de granja. Além de agravar os problemas de aprendizagem e a excitação afetiva e psicomotora, o ômega 6 também provoca depressão do sistema imunológico, facilitando o ataque de vírus que retêm chumbo no cérebro e intensificam o problema.

“Hoje, uma em cada quatro crianças tem acúmulo de chumbo no cérebro. Chumbo e mercúrio são retidos também por substâncias produzidas pela soja, pelo chocolate, café instantâneo e, pasmem, pelo famoso espinafre, tido como alimento muito saudável para as crianças”, explica o psiquiatra.

O mercúrio também é encontrado em restaurações dentárias de amálgama, evite-as, utilize a resina.

O psiquiatra Juarez Calegaro, que é também autor do livro Mente Criativa, a aventura do cérebro bem nutrido, afirma que a exposição aos elementos contaminadores do meio ambiente como agrotóxicos e metais tóxicos, corantes artificiais e gorduras trans agravam igualmente a hiperatividade. Outros vilões são os alimentos que provocam alergia e os que contêm glutamato monossódico, substância presente em mais de cinco mil produtos salgados, como miojo, molho shoyu, os caldos para temperos, salgadinhos Elma Chips, catchup Predilecta e outros. Saiba mais sobre o Glutamato Monossódico aqui.

Cuidados antes da gravidez

É importante ressaltar, no entanto, que não é só a alimentação das crianças que influencia o quadro da hiperatividade infantil: o que as mães comem durante a gravidez e o período de amamentação também faz muita diferença. “Mulheres que desejam ser mães devem fazer o exame de mineralograma capilar e testes de urina seis meses antes de engravidar, para identificar e corrigir caso tenham grandes concentrações desses elementos que geram o distúrbio”, recomenda Callegaro. 

De acordo com o especialista, a boa nutrição evitaria 85% das malformações congênitas responsáveis por problemas neurológicos, como autismo e esquizofrenia. Outro cuidado que deve ser tomado é o controle da concentração de fungos no corpo da mãe, já que crianças contaminadas por cândida no parto têm sua imunidade prejudicada e precisam ingerir substâncias antifúngicas por toda a vida.

Trânsito livre para alimentos saudáveis
 
O psiquiatra lembra, contudo, que há alimentos que combatem os sintomas do déficit de atenção. É o caso de ervas como valeriana e taurina, que agem como calmante através do leite materno. Além disso, é recomendável sempre dar preferência a alimentos naturais e orgânicos, livres de agrotóxicos, corantes e outras substâncias artificiais e altamente prejudiciais ao organismo.


Dr. Mercola discorda do uso de medicamentos ou drogas farmacêuticas. 
Segue um trecho de um artigo dele sobre este tema (fonte)

Enquanto pesquisadores costumavam acreditar que a Ritalina (metilfenidato) era uma droga farmacêutica de ação curta, estudos têm mostrado que tem o potencial para causar mudanças duradouras na estrutura das células e função do cérebro e pode impedir seu crescimento normal, ficar atrofiado.

A Ritalina é a droga farmacêutica prescrita mais frequentemente para crianças com TDAH, mas existem outras com riscos igualmente perturbadores. A Ritalina e outros medicamentos têm sido associados à alucinações, ataque cardíaco, acidente vascular cerebral, aumento do comportamento agressivo, suicídio e até mesmo morte súbita!

Ajudar Crianças Não Significa Dar-lhes Drogas que Alteram suas Mentes

Infelizmente, a Ritalina e outras drogas são o tratamento para problemas comportamentais como TDAH porque é fácil. Tomar uma pílula, leva apenas alguns segundos por dia, enquanto os outros tratamentos para ajudar as crianças com sintomas de TDAH - coisas como desatenção, impulsividade e hiperatividade - demora várias semanas ou meses.

Isto porque, a fim de realmente ajudar as crianças que estão tendo dificuldade de concentração, que se distraem facilmente ou que agem como se tivessem constantemente a sensação de inquietação, você precisa resolver as causas subjacentes e não alterar a criança quimicamente.

As intervenções comportamentais usando o reforço positivo são uma das melhores opções para ajudar as crianças com TDAH, especialmente se elas forem usadas juntamente com alterações nutricionais.

Um estudo descobriu que essas intervenções que incluíam programas individualizados que enfatizavam apoio positivo para reforçar o comportamento em casa e na escola foram altamente eficazes, mesmo em crianças jovens com idades de 3 a 5. Especificamente, as crianças que receberam as técnicas de intervenção tiveram:
• Uma diminuição de 17 por cento na agressividade e uma melhoria de 21 por cento nas habilidades sociais em casa
• Uma melhoria de 28 por cento em ambas as categorias na escola
• Melhorias nas habilidades de alfabetização precoce em até três vezes mais

Então, se você é um pai de uma criança com TDAH, por favor lembre-se de que esta condição muitas vezes melhora dramaticamente com algumas mudanças de estilo de vida naturais.

Na prática médica do Dr. Mercola no Centro de Saúde Natural, aqui está o que recomenda para as crianças e adultos que sofrem de TDAH:

• Aumente a ingestão de ômega-3 (este) com o óleo de krill. Este é o nutriente mais importante para as crianças e adultos com TDAH.
• Beba apenas água como bebida, tomando cuidado para evitar sucos de frutas, refrigerantes e leite pasteurizado.
• Restrinja ou elimine todos os alimentos processados, açúcares e a maioria dos grãos (cereais) de sua dieta.
• Evite alimentos processados, especialmente aqueles que contenham corantes e sabores artificiais e conservantes, que podem agravar ou causar os sintomas de TDAH.
• Passe mais tempo em contato com a natureza.


Outro Trecho de Artigo sobre TDAH e Suplementação de Helen Saul Case (filha do Andrew Saul)

Magnésio e outros nutrientes para o TDAH

O TDAH não é causado por uma deficiência de drogas. Em vez de dar drogas aos nossos filhos, devemos olhar para os benefícios de fornecer-lhes uma nutrição ideal. Crianças com TDAH podem se beneficiar de níveis ótimos de vários nutrientes, incluindo vitamina D (11), ferro (12), niacina (B3), piridoxina (B6), vitamina C e ácidos graxos ômega-3 (13). Além de remover o açúcar refinado da dieta, evitando corantes artificiais e fornecer alimentos saudáveis, o pediatra Dr. Ralph Campbell,  recomenda que um suplemento do complexo de vitamina B seja administrado com café da manhã, um adicional de 100 mg de B6 em outra refeição e 200 mg ou mais de magnésio por dia para crianças com TDAH (13). Outras dicas úteis incluem limitar o tempo de tela e aumentar o exercício, especialmente ao ar livre.
 
Dosagem

A dose dietética recomendada (RDA) de magnésio para crianças de um a três anos é de 80 mg por dia. Crianças de quatro a cinco anos: 130 mg de magnésio por dia. Aos nove anos, nosso governo recomenda que as crianças recebam (pelo menos) 240 mg de magnésio por dia. E aos quatorze anos, entre 360 ​​a 410 mg por dia. Tenha em mente que apenas cerca de 30% a 40% do magnésio dietético é absorvido pelo organismo (14). Lembre-se, muito magnésio em uma forma menos absorvível pode causar fezes soltas. Este efeito colateral pode ser evitado reduzindo a quantidade de magnésio fornecida e fornecendo a forma mais absorvível. Se maiores doses diárias de magnésio forem necessárias, divida a dose em quantidades menores e dê várias vezes ao longo do dia.
 
Forma

O citrato de magnésio oral é barato e razoavelmente bem absorvido. Outras formas de magnésio orais úteis, mas mais caras, incluem o glicinato de magnésio, o gluconato de magnésio, o taurato de magnésio, o malato de magnésio e o cloreto de magnésio. Evite o óxido de magnésio (ele absorve muito mal) e evite tanto o glutamato de magnésio como o aspartato de magnésio (10). O sulfato de magnésio é barato e pode ser obtido transdermicamente por imersão em banhos regulares de sal amargo (sulfato de magnésio) vendido em farmácias.
Como podemos obter magnésio em nossos filhos

Suplementação oral de magnésio:

    Damos aos nossos filhos um comprimido de magnésio mastigável diariamente ou magnésio oral líquido (muitos suplementos também contêm cálcio)
    Nós damos aos nossos filhos uma porção de um comprimido amassado de magnésio próprio para adultos com algo saboroso como mel, maçã ou sorvete
    Para melhor absorção, dividimos a dose e damos magnésio entre as refeições.

Magnésio transdérmico:

Nossos filhos fazem banhos de  sal amargo (sulfato de magnésio) quinzenais. Jogamos um punhado ou dois de  sal amargo no banho e os deixamos de molho na banheira por dez a quinze minutos.

Magnésio dietético:

Nossos filhos comem uma dieta à base de plantas que fornece magnésio de muitas fontes:

    Nós incluímos vegetais orgânicos como cenoura, espinafre e folhas de beterraba em nosso suco caseiro, fresco e cru de vegetais. Eles bebem isso de 2 a 3 vezes por semana.
    Eu incluo o gérmen de trigo em pão, massa de pizza, e smoothies
    Os cajus são oferecidos em seus lanches
    Nós polvilhamos sementes de girassol em suas saladas
    Nós comemos peixe muitas vezes
    Nós incluímos feijão preto e feijão em nossas tacos
    Muitas vezes temos sopas de feijão e lentilha
    Eles adoram guacamole
    Eles comem muitas bananas e berries
    Eles comem iogurte de leite integral
    Eles gostam de manteiga de amendoim
    Eles comem aveia, arroz integral e batatas

Trecho do Artigo do site do especialista ortomolecular, Andrew Saul

A maioria, se não todas as crianças com TDAH são viciadas em estímulos. Elas são pequenas viciadas em adrenalina. A adrenalina é o neurotransmissor catecolamínico do estresse. A superestimulação pode significar superprodução de adrenalina. O excesso de adrenalina é oxidado em adrenocromo, um alucinógeno que provoca uma "viagem" ruim semelhante à do LSD. Comumente, essas crianças que sofrem de esgotamento de adrenocromo, também anseiam pela superestimulação através dieta, principalmente de junk food com corantes (artificiais) e açucarada, que agride ainda mais seu cérebro. O tempo todo, dia após dia. Se você tem um filho com TDAH, tudo isso vai ressoar instantaneamente em você. "Esse é ele!" você dirá. Também descreve perfeitamente um menino que ajudei a criar durante oito anos. Como pré-adolescente, ele estava tendo problemas comportamentais piores do que o normal na escola e em casa. Curiosamente, a criança tomava pequenas quantidades de niacina prescritas por médicos, embora totalizando menos de 150 mg / dia. Não é um mau começo, uma vez que a RDA para crianças é inferior a 20 mg / dia. Mas não foi o suficiente para ser eficaz, e o rapaz foi designado a tomar Ritalina. Mas a farmácia não foi a resposta, pois, quando testada, as drogas geralmente o tornavam pior: mais irritado e ainda mais confrontador, beirando a paranoia. O menino não queria tomar muita niacina, porque se opunha fortemente ao flush (reação que provoca enrubescimento, calor e coceira leve). Sabendo que a dose tinha que ser aumentada muito acima de 150 mg / dia para que houvesse qualquer esperança de sucesso, sua mãe finalmente tentou dar-lhe 500 mg de niacinamida (forma de vitamina B3 que não provoca o flush) três vezes ao dia (total de 1.500 mg). Houve melhora notável. 

Com 3.000 mg / dia, o jovem estava se saindo ainda melhor, mas teve náusea, e a dosagem foi bastante reduzida. Com o tempo, o menino teve um violento episódio psicótico grave o suficiente para que seus pais tivessem que segurá-lo, enquanto o garoto de 13 anos de idade gritava ameaças de morte contra eles. Depois disso, para aumentar a dose de vitamina B3 sem que houvesse náusea, a mãe, agora altamente motivada, migrou para niacina pura, com rubor e tudo. Com cerca de 500 mg a cada duas horas, o menino era uma outra pessoa. Ele era o mais alegre, cooperativo e afetuoso jovem imaginável. 

Adicionando vitaminas C e B6 ao seu regime, ajudou ainda mais. Seu desempenho escolar aumentaram, e os professores o amavam. Quando seus exames de enzimas hepáticas foram elevados, a dose de niacina foi novamente reduzida, mas não tanto dessa vez. Aos 15 anos, sua dose de manutenção foi de cerca de 3.000 mg / dia. Ele se formou no colegial, tinha um emprego remunerado e depois passou para a faculdade. Isso está exatamente de acordo com o que o dr. Abram Hoffer demonstrou repetidamente como eficiente por mais de 50 anos.
 
Leia também: Corantes Artificiais: Um Perigo para seus Filhos!

Fontes:

http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2014/02/hiperatividade-causa-esta-na-mesa-adverte-psiquiatra/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/18/doctors-told-to-curb-use-of-ritalin-in-hyperactive-children.aspx 

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v12n20.shtml?fbclid=IwAR2Ck7LSifmOl8Bz03PHauPV-Y4wG6VoHQHDUZoOwu0Zd4hHyzKzv5ju6lg 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/adhd.html?fbclid=IwAR0o-STfZxNpXvkcojl4EwKHl0XegxAV8owRcNsWZdIr7G6J-uAgy6Phe4w

7 Alimentos Transgênicos que Consumimos sem Saber: Inclusive sua Cerveja

Editado em 08/07/2015.

Há alimentos geneticamente modificados que estão no seu prato, todos os dias, mas passam despercebidos, como imaginaríamos que até a nossa cervejinha seria transgênica? Mas qual é o problema do alimento ser transgênico?

No ano de 2013 um grupo de cientistas independentes liderados pelo professor de biologia molecular da Universidade de Caen, Gilles-Éric Séralini, balançou os lobistas das multinacionais com o teste do milho transgênico NK603 em ratos: se fossem alimentados com esse milho em um período maior que três meses, tumores cancerígenos horrendos surgiam rapidamente nas pobres cobaias. O pior é que o poder dessas multinacionais é tão grande, que o estudo foi desclassificado pela editora da revista por pressões de um novo diretor editorial, que tinha a Monsanto como seu empregador anterior.

O Coordenador do Núcleo de Agroecologia da UEM e Dr. José Ozinaldo Alves de Sena: “O consumidor tem de dizer ‘Não quero mais, não vou comprar nada transgênico’. Estamos sendo ignorantes demais. As consequências são muitas e estão bem comprovadas cientificamente. É claro que os prejuízos não surgem de repente, sempre a curto prazo. Tecnologias desse tipo têm impacto a curto, médio e, principalmente, a longo prazo. Quanto às doenças ao homem, já sabemos que os transgênicos geram alergias, esterilidade, alteração na formação de órgãos, doenças hematológicas e cânceres, por exemplo”

Além disso, há um movimento mundial contra os transgênicos e o Brasil é um de seus maiores alvos. Não é para menos, nós somos o segundo maior produtor de transgênicos do mundo, mais da metade do território brasileiro destinado à agricultura é ocupada por essa controversa tecnologia. Na safra de 2013 do total de milho produzido no país, 89,9% era transgênico. Todos esses dados são divulgados pelas próprias empresas para mostrar como o seu negócio está crescendo.

Clique no link a seguir e saiba: 10 Razões pelas quais Alimentos Transgênicos ou Geneticamente Modificadas são Péssimos para Você.

Leia mais: http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2013/11/transgenicos-dominam-quase-100-das-lavouras-de-soja-e-milho-do-pr/#ixzz3OvX6UNzj

Cerveja

Poucos sabem, mas quando bebem cerveja no Brasil estão geralmente tomando 45% de conteúdo transgênico, uma vez que a cevada vem sendo trocada por milho (que é quase todo transgênico no Brasil). Uma das bebidas mais adoradas pelos brasileiros, a cerveja, geralmente é produzida de malte feito de cevada. Mas algumas receitas permitem o uso de outros cereais. A cerveja brasileira por exemplo na verdade é quase uma bebida alcoólica de milho. Isso mesmo. Uma pesquisa da USP e da Unicamp mostra que cervejas Brasileira possuem 45% de milho em sua composição, percentual máximo permitido pelo Governo. E a para piorar, eles querem que o governo aprove que seja permitido que esse percentual suba para 50%. Leia mais em “Brasileiro Bebe Cerveja com até 45% de Milho Transgênicos!”

Aspartame

É um adoçante muito utilizado na substituição do açúcar e, na verdade, um composto químico artificial, feito em laboratório através da manipulação de vários compostos. Pode ser encontrado em milhares de produtos que consumimos diariamente: refrigerantes, iogurtes, chocolates, doces.

Óleos Refinados

Estão em quase todos os alimentos que contêm gorduras vegetais. Os de soja, canola, milho, palma, girassol ou amendoim são normalmente misturados com óleos alimentares e azeites (exceto extra-virgem) ou comida processada.

Amido de milho, xarope de milho (Xarope de Milho rico em frutose ou Xarope de Alta Frutose ou Xarope de Glucose ou de Frutose ou Xarope de Glicose ou Glucose/Frutose ou ainda, Isoglucose)

Extraídos do milho (grande parte deste grão produzido do mundo é geneticamente modificado), estão presentes em produtos como massas, bolachas, cereais, biscoitos, barras energéticas, comida pré-congelada,  balas, pirulitos, bebidas e águas aromatizadas.Saiba como evitar o "veneno": Xarope de Milho Rico em Frutose ou Xarope de Glucose ou Glucose/Frutose ou Isoglucose aqui.

Margarina

Utiliza gorduras vegetais (de soja, canola, milho, palma, girassol, amendoim) purificadas e hidrogenadas extraídas de plantas transgênicas.

Leite de vaca

A somatropina bovina (BST) é uma forma geneticamente modificada de hormônio de crescimento bovino que provoca um aumento da produção de leite. O seu uso é proibido na União Europeia, mas é autorizado nos Estados Unidos e Brasil.

Salsicha

É uma mistura de produtos e subprodutos de origem animal, mas muitas marcas usam soja e xaropes de milho geneticamente modificados.

Soja e derivados

A soja é a principal solução de alimentação para vegetarianos e vegans, mas 70% da sua produção mundial é geneticamente modificada.  A soja não fermentada não deve ser consumida nunca. Saiba mais sobre os malefícios da soja aqui

Leia mais:    Cientista da UEM: “Transgênicos Geram Alergias, Esterilidade, Alteração na Formação de Orgãos e Cânceres”      

Fonte: 

http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2014/02/7-alimentos-transgenicos-que-consumimos-sem-saber/

http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2013/11/transgenicos-dominam-quase-100-das-lavouras-de-soja-e-milho-do-pr/

http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2014/03/brasileiro-bebe-cerveja-com-ate-45-de-milho-transgenicos/

 Green Savers: 7 Alimentos Transgênicos que Consumimos sem Saber

Leia mais: http://www.noticiasnaturais.com/2014/02/7-alimentos-transgenicos-que-consumimos-sem-saber/#ixzz3ONiQDCbi

Como Evitar e Reverter a Osteoporose?

 
 

Osteoporose é a perda gradual da massa e da densidade óssea ou, para simplificar, é a perda de osso!

O ponto máximo do desenvolvimento ósseo da mulher costuma acontecer quando ela se encontra entre os 20 e os 30 anos de idade, mas naquelas que têm uma dieta alimentar pobre ou que não se exercitam fisicamente, a perda de massa óssea pode começar já nos primeiros anos dessa faixa etária. Pode não parecer, mas as células dos ossos, assim 
como todas as nossas células, são constantemente renovadas. A cada dia, um tecido ósseo novo é formado e algum tecido ósseo velho é retirado de circulação.

Quando se é jovem, esse processo costuma ser rápido e a retirada de osso velho e a entrada de osso novo constituem processos quase simultâneos, caracterizando um equilíbrio dinâmico. Contudo, tanto o tempo quanto a ação de outros fatores faz com que a destruição de osso velho (reabsorção) comece a ser mais rápida do que a formação de tecido ósseo novo. Quando isso acontece, o osso vai ficando fraco e sujeito a quebrar-se até mesmo com pequenos esforços. A perda óssea ocorre mais rapidamente em mulheres do que em homens.

O risco é maior para mulheres pequenas, magras e com ossos finos, e todas, na menopausa, têm a perda óssea aumentada em razão da drástica queda nos níveis hormonais do organismo. Mas a reposição hormonal, para ser efetiva na reversão da osteoporose, precisa ser feita com progesterona bioidêntica, combinada com dieta e exercícios. Isso permite tanto o aumento da massa quanto da densidade ósseas, mesmo que a paciente se encontre em idade avançada. Na prática, os estrógenos podem melhorar a massa óssea por reduzirem a perda, mas a progesterona é mais efetiva porque aumenta, realmente, a formação de tecido ósseo novo.

Até os 20 anos de idade, é fundamental prevenir-se contra a osteoporose. Porém, a partir dos 30 anos, deve-se procurar um médico para estabelecer o padrão ósseo e fazer um bom programa de manutenção dos ossos.

A osteoporose é reversível em qualquer idade, podendo-se recuperar massa óssea suficiente para que a mulher leve uma vida normal, mas o tratamento proposto pelo médico deve ser seguido com dedicação. Nas últimas décadas, novas técnicas têm sido desenvolvidas para determinar com precisão a massa óssea em diferentes partes do esqueleto. O objetivo delas é avaliar a resistência dos ossos, embora se saiba que outros fatores, como as quedas e a força mecânica de traumas, contribuem para a fragilidade esquelética e a maior ocorrência de fraturas.

As técnicas mais utilizadas para detectar a osteoporose são a densitometria e os marcadores ósseos. A densitometria permite diagnosticar o risco de fraturas, identificando os pontos do esqueleto em que existe perda de massa óssea. Já os marcadores são importantes para observar, em um curto período, a velocidade de redução das taxas de remodelação óssea, após começado o tratamento.

A prevenção da osteoporose, em qualquer idade, inclui exercício físico, mas sem excesso para não produzir efeito contrário, e dieta adequada. E essa dieta e/ou suplementação precisa ser rica em cálcio (brócolis, espinafre e demais vegetais de folhas verde-escuro, beterraba, folhagem de nabo, amêndoa, figo e feijão), magnésio (verduras com folhas verde-escuro, castanhas, amêndoas, feijões, banana e damasco), oligoelementos, como zinco e cobre, vitaminas C, D e betacaroteno (provitamina A). E não se deve esquecer de tomar sol (pelo menos quinze minutos por dia), pois o betacaroteno transforma-se em vitamina A sob a ação da luz solar. Todos estes estão presentes neste polivitamínico que ainda contém k2-mk7, boro e vitamina C que também auxiliam na saúde óssea.

Fontes:

http://www.lairribeiro.com.br/osteoporose/

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Supportive Vitamin C Therapy for Cancer Patients

 

A Google search for "cancer vitamin therapy" yields nearly a million results. This page is number 1.

"We have increased the longevity from 5.7 months to approximately 100 months, which is very substantial. There has been a tremendous decrease in pain and anxiety. Vitamin C must be a vital component of every cancer treatment program."

Clinical Procedures in Treating Terminally Ill Cancer Patients with Vitamin C
by Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D

Let me tell you what I am not. I am not an oncologist, I'm not a pathologist, I'm not a GP, I am a psychiatrist. Therefore you may want to know what a psychiatrist is doing messing about with cancer. I think that'sa legitimate question so I'd like to tell you briefly how I got into this very interesting field.

In 1951, I was made director of psychiatric research for the Department of Health for the province of Saskatchewan. I didn't really know what to do. I had one major advantage, I think, over my colleagues. I didn't know any psychiatry. You may laugh but that's very important because I didn't have anyone who could tell me what we could not do. The most important problem at that time was the schizophrenias. (They still take up half the hospital beds, and we still don't have an effective treatment. Dr. Humphry Osmond and I began to research schizophrenia. We developed the hypothesis that those with schizophrenia were producing a toxic chemical made from adrenalin, adrenochrome. Adrenochrome is an hallucinogen which we felt was producing toxemia, in the sense that the adrenochrome worked on the brain in the same way as LSD. That was our hypothesis.

We knew that most hypotheses turn out to be wrong. We didn't think we were going to be correct but we felt that since we didn't have much choice we ought to work with it and we also wanted to develop a treatment for our schizophrenic patients. Those were the days before tranquilizers. We didn't have any effective treatment. We had shock treatment which was only temporarily helpful and insulin coma was going out of style,

Adrenochrome is made from adrenalin, so we thought if we could do something to cut down the production of adrenalin, and if we could also prevent the oxidation of adrenalin to adrenochrome, then we might have a therapy for our patients. And that immediately led us to look at two chemicals. One is called nicotinic acid or vitamin B-3. Vitamin B-3 is known to be a methyl acceptor, which, by depleting the body of its methyl groups could cut down the conversion of noradrenaline to adrenalin and that would be helpful, we thought. Secondly, we wanted to use vitamin C as an antioxidant. Looking back now it seems that we were 30 or 40 years ahead of antioxidant theories, We wanted to decrease the oxidation of adrenaline to adrenochrome. Vitamin C will do it but not very effectively. And that drew our attention to these two vitamins, vitamin C and vitamin B-3. I had an advantage because I had taken my Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota on vitamins, so I knew their background. That's why we started working with these two compounds.

Why did we start working with cancer? We were very curious about what these compounds would do. I recall that in 1952 when I was working as a resident in psychiatry at the Munroe Wing which was a part of the General Hospital in Regina, a woman who had her breast removed for cancer was admitted to our ward. She was psychotic. This poor lady had developed a huge ulcerated lesion, she wasn't healing, and she was in a toxic delirium. Her psychiatrist decided that he would give her shock treatment, which was the only treatment available at that time. I decided I would like to give her vitamin C instead. As director of research, I had the option of going to the physicians and asking them if I could do this with their patients, A friend of mine was her doctor and he said, "Yes, you can have her." He said, "I'll withold shock treatment for three days."

I had thought that I would give her three grams per day, which was our usual dose at that time, for a period of weeks, but when he told me I could have three days only, I decided that this would not do. Therefore, I decided to give her one gram every hour. I instructed the nurses that she was to be given a gram per hour except when she was sleeping. When she awakened, she would get the vitamin C that she had missed. We started her on a Saturday morning and when her doctor came back on Monday morning to start shock treatment she was mentally normal. I wanted to know, if vitamin C would have any therapeutic effect. To our amazement her lesion on her breast began to heal. She was discharged, mentally well, still having cancer and she died six months later from her cancer. This was an interesting observation which I had made at that time and which I had never forgotten.

There was another root to this interest. In 1959, we found that the majority of schizophrenic patients excreted in their urine a factor that we call the mauve factor, which we have since identified as kryptopyrrole. I was looking for a good source of this urinary factor. We had thought that the majority of schizophrenics had it. We thought that normal people did not have it but I was interested in determining how many people who were stressed also had the factor. Therefore, Iran a study of patients from the University Hospital who were on the physical wards. They had all sorts of physical conditions including cancer, I found to my amazement that half the people with lung cancer also excreted the same factor. By 1960, a very famous gentleman of Saskatchewan, one of the professors retired and was admitted to the psychiatric department at our hospital. He was psychotic. He had been diagnosed as having a bronchiogenic carcinoma. It had been biopsied and was visualized in the x-ray and it had also been seen in the bronchoscope. While they were deciding what to do, he became psychotic so they concluded that he had secondaries in his brain. Because he became psychotic, he was no longer operable and instead they gave him cobalt radiation. It didn't help the psychosis any. He was admitted to our ward where he stayed for about two months, completely psychotic. He was placed on the terminal list, I discovered that he was on our ward, so I though he may have some mauve factor in his urine. On analysis he revealed huge quantities.

I had discovered by then that if we gave large amounts of B3 along with vitamin C to these patients, regardless of their diagnosis, they tended to do very well. He was started on three grams per day each of nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid on a Friday. On Monday he was found to be normal. A few days later I said to him, "You understand that you have cancer?" He said, "Yes, I know that." He was friendly with me because I had treated his wife for alcoholism some time before. I said to him, "If you will agree to take these two vitamins as long as you live, I will provide them for you at no charge. In 1960, I was the only doctor in Canada that had access to large quantities of vitamin C and niacin. They were distributed through our hospital dispensary. He agreed. That meant he had to come to my office every month in order to pick up two bottles of vitamins. I didn't know that it might help his cancer. I was interested only in his psychological state. 

However, to my amazement he didn't die. After 12 months, I was having lunch with the director of the cancer clinic, a friend of mine, and I said to him, "What do you think about this man?" And he said, "We can't understand it, we can't see the tumor any more." I thought he'd say, "Well, isn't that great." So I asked, "Well, what's your reaction?" He responded, "We are beginning to think we made the wrong diagnosis." The patient died, 30 months after I first saw him, of a coronary.

Here's another case that is very interesting. A couple of years later, a mother I had treated for depression came back to see me. Once more she was depressed. She said she had a daughter 16, who had just been diagnosed as having an osteogenic sarcoma of the arm. Her surgeon had recommended that the arm be amputated. She was very depressed over this and so I asked her, "Do you think you can persuade your surgeon not to amputate the arm right away? " And I told her the story about the man with the lung cancer. She brought her daughter in and I started her on niacinamide, 3 grams per day, plus vitamin C, three grams per day. She made a complete recovery and is still well, not having had to have surgery. But this time I concluded that maybe B-3 was the therapeutic factor. The reason for that, of course, is very simple. I liked B3 and I didn't have much interest in vitamin C.
When I moved to Victoria, another strange event happened, In 1979, a woman developed jaundice and during surgery a six centimeter in diameter lump in the head of the pancreas was found. They were too frightened to do a biopsy, which apparently is quite standard. 

They thought that the biopsy might disseminate the tumor. The surgeon closed and told her to write her will. They said she might have three to six months at the most. She was a very tough lady and she had read Norman Cousins' book Anatomy of an Illness. So she said to her doctor, "To hell with that, I'm not going to die." And she began to take vitamin C on her own, 12 grams per day. When her doctor discovered what she was doing, he asked her to come and see me, because by that time I was identified as a doctor who liked to work with vitamins.
I started her on 40 grams of vitamin C per day, to which I added niacin, zinc and a multi-vitamin, multimineral preparation. I had her change her diet by staying away from high protein and fat. I didn't hear from her again for about six months. One Sunday, she called me. Normally when I get a call from a patient on a Sunday, it's bad news. She immediately said, "Dr. Hoffer, good news! I asked, "What's happened?" She said, "They have just done a CT scan and they can't see the tumor," So then she said, "They couldn't believe it. They thought the machine had gone wrong; so they did it all over again. And it was also negative the second time." She had her last CT scan in 1984, no mass, and she is still alive and well today.

By this time, I had learned about Dr. Cameron's and Dr. Pauling's work with vitamin C and I began to realize that the main therapeutic factor might be the vitamin C rather than vitamin B-3. The reason I want to present four cases is that one might say that I have seen four spontaneous recoveries. The question is, how many spontaneous recoveries would one physician see in his lifetime? I don't know. Maybe this is not unusual but I think it is.
The last case I'm going to give details of was born in 1908. His mother died of cancer and his father had a coronary at the age of 80. My patient had had a myocardial infarction in 1969, and again in 1977, followed by a coronary bypass. In March of 1978, he suddenly developed pain in his left groin and down the left leg. In February 1979, he developed a bulge in his left groin, and later, severe pain with movement. In surgery, a large mass infiltrating sarcoma was found, part of which was removed, but a mass the size of a grapefruit was left. The tumor was eroding into a ramus of the pubic bone. They concluded that it was not radiosensitive, In March he had palliative radiation to his left half - 4500 rads. The pain was gone at the end of the radiation. On May 28, he developed a severe staph infection, and in June he was very depressed because his wife was dying of cancer and also he was suffering from drainage of chronic infection. In July he still had a purulent discharge in two areas. Now the mass was visible and palpable in the left iliac area above the inguinial ligaments.

In January of 1980, he saw me for the first time. I started him on 12 grams of vitamin C per day and I recommended to his referring doctor that he give him IV ascorbic acid, 2.5 grams, twice per week, which he agreed to. I gave him niacin, vitamin B6 and zinc to balance it out. In April, the mass began to regress and the ontologist wrote, "This is interesting, it must be something else." In other words, the patient said, the vitamin C is helping and the oncologist said, no it isn't, The oncologist put a note in the file, "He's probably responding to chemotherapy." But he had never had chemotherapy. The infection was gone. In May 1980, his x-ray showed reconstruction of the left superior pubic ramus. In July he wrote to me telling how grateful he was to be so well. In February of 1988, he went back to the cancer clinic for some recurrent facial skin carcinoma. He died in the fall of 1989 of coronary disease when he was 81. This man survived 10 years after having been diagnosed with cancer,

My practice began to grow because the first patient felt it was her duty to tell as many people as possible that I had the cure for cancer. Now I should tell you the nature of my practice. In Canada we have a referral service. I do not take walk-ins. Every patient that comes to my office must be referred by their family doctor or by a specialist, During the early years, patients usually went to their doctor and said, "I have had all this treatment, you have told me I'm not going to do any better, will you please refer me to Dr. Hoffer." So I call these patient-generated referrals, The past four or five years, it has swung around and I am now getting a lot more doctor generated referrals. Doctors, themselves are beginning to refer their patients to me.

I would think that 80% of my patients had failed to respond to any of combination of treatment, including surgery, radiation or chemotherpy. Usually the story was that they were told by either the cancer clinic or their doctor that there was nothing more that they could do. Most of them were terminal, but not all. I see three to five new cases of cancer every week. All of them have been treated by their own doctor, their own ontologist, their own surgeon. 

What I do is advise them with respect to diet and the kind of nutrients they ought to take. I am seeing them much earlier in the stage of illness, which I think is very good because the earlier I can get to them, the better are the results.

Here are the results. Generally, the patients were a lot more cheerful. They had less discomfort and they lived a lot longer, A few years ago I was at a meeting at Woods Hole with Linus Pauling. This was a Festschrift for Dr. Arthur Sackler. I told Linus that I thought I had something, that I was beginning to see the impact of adding vitamin C to their program. 

Dr. Pauling encouraged me to work it up, to do a really careful survey and write it up for publication, which I did. I examined every cancer patient referred to me between July 1978 and April 1988 and followed them to January 1990. I did not miss a single case. A total of 134 were seen. And I dated the time that they first saw me as day zero. The only thing I wanted to look at was survival. I wanted hard data, something that couldn't be argued with. I wasn't going to say the patients were better or not better because these are subjective terms. These 134 fell into two groups. It wasn't my fault that this happened because I treated every one of them exactly the same way. I did not plan a double blind prospective study. What I planned and what I did was to advise every patient what I thought they ought to do in terms of their cancer. If they were getting radiation, I suggested they stay with it. If they were getting chemotherapy, I suggested they stay with that. I never advised them about their surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. However, out of these 134, there were 33 who did not or could not follow the program. For example, on chemotherapy, they were so nauseated that they couldn't hold anything down and if they couldn't hold the vitamins down they weren't going to do very much good. There were some who didn't believe in the program.

I remember one woman with breast cancer came to see me and I advised her what to take, sending a consultation letter to the referring doctor outlining what I thought she ought to be taking. When she went back to see her doctor, he laughed at her. He made so much fun of her that she became thoroughly ashamed and she wouldn't follow the program. She died two or three months later. Another case was a doctor who had cancer and was given 30 days. He had left his wife and was running around with his girl friend. Since he knew he was going to die, he decided that he would spend the next 30 days living as riotously as he could. He would travel all across the United States and have as much fun in 30 days as he could. His girlfriend brought him to see me because she wanted him to live longer than 30 days. He didn't believe her and he never started the program. He went to the United States and died 30 days later. These are some examples of people who wouldn't or couldn't follow the program, Or they weren't on the vitamin program long enough. I had found that they must be on the program at least two months before it began to work. These were my pseudocontrols. They're not really a double blind control, it's kind of pseudocontrol which provides an estimate of the kind of patient that I was seeing.

The other 101 did stay on their program at least two months. Some went off in the third or fourth month but they stayed on it for at least two months. I was encouraged by Linus Pauling. I followed them all. First of all, I contacted their doctors. I contacted the patients that were still alive. I contacted their families. I got all their records from the cancer clinics. I had a complete file on every patient I had seen so that I knew within a matter of months exactly what had happened to them. The results were analyzed by Dr. Linus Pauling using a new technique for analyzing cohorts. The data is as follows: 33 controls - they survived an average of 5.7 months, from the first day that I saw them. There were two treatment cohorts: a cohort of 40 females with cancer of the breast, ovary, uterus or cervix. The second cohort of 61 were other types of cancer. The cohorts were divided into two groups. First were the poor responders, those who didn't do well; they survived an average of 10 months, nearly twice as long as the control. The others, the good responders, were divided into two groups. The female group survived an average of 122 months and the other group 72 months. I think this is very significant. There was a tremendous difference in the survival rate. Today, all the controls are dead, 50% of the treated group are still alive. Over the past year, I did another survey and of the remainder only three more have died. It can not be all due to cancer because I'm dealing with a population with ages between 60 and 80. They are going to die of other causes as well. This was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 5, p. 143, 1990.

The Treatment

First of all, as I pointed out, I did not interfere with the treatment done by the oncologists. These patients were treated by their own doctors and I went along with whatever they did. No one can accuse me of depriving these patients of having had the best of chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. What I tried to do was to improve their general health, to improve their immune system, to the point that they could cope more successfully with their tumors. Many of them were depressed when they came to see me, The first thing I would do would be to create a bit of hope. I don't think many doctors in cancer clinics realize the absolute importance of hope.

Let me give you another case. A woman came to see me with cancer of the breast. She didn't want to have any surgery and so she had taken a huge quantity of nutrients, including vitamin A, 500,000 units per day at one of the clinics in the USA, She wasn't doing well, the mass had opened up, she was ulcerated and in a terrible state. When she came to see me, she said to me, "Dr. Hoffer, (she was very depressed) you are my last hope." I asked, "What do you mean?" She replied, "A week ago, when I went to see my family doctor, I asked when can I see you again. He said he would not give me another appointment, because I would be dead within a week," Now, that's very negative, Hope is very important. She didn't die a week later, We started her on the program. Eventually, I persuaded her to have surgery and chemotherapy. She survived more than 30 months after that first day,

Hope is extremely important. Attitude is very important. Patients must want to live. You may be surprised to know that many people, when they are told they have cancer, are quite relieved, because they now know they don't have to live much longer. They are really quite happy to go. So you have to test the attitude of the patient. Those who came to see me, of course, were preselected, they selected themselves. So they did have the right attitude, they did want to live. They have to be optimistic and I do think it helps if they laugh a lot. I agree with Norman Cousins, that if you combine laughter with vitamins, you do get better results.

Then I advise my patients what kind of nutrition they ought to follow. The first thing I try to do is to cut their fat way down. I try to cut it down below 30 percent of calories, down to 20 or 10, if possible. I find that, in our culture, the easiest way to do that is to totally eliminate all dairy products. If you eliminate all dairy products and cut out all fatty meats, it's pretty hard to get too much fat in the diet. So, I put them all on a dairy free program. I reduce, but I don't eliminate, meat and fish, and I ask them to increase their vegetables, especially raw, as much as they can. I think it's a good, reasonable diet, which most people can follow without too much difficulty. Having spent some time with them going over what they ought to eat, I begin to talk about the nutrients. The first one, of course, is vitamin C. I am convinced today that vitamin C is the most important single nutrient that one can give to any person with cancer. The dose is variable. I find that most patients can Lake 12 grams per day without much difficulty, that's the crystallin vitamin C sodium ascorbate or calcium ascorbate. They take one teaspoon three times per day. If they do not develop diarrhea, I ask them to increase it until this occurs and then to cut back below that level. I think in many cases it would be desirable to use intravenous vitamin C and there are doctors now in Canada doing that. The amount that one gives is limited by the skill of the physician, not by the patient.

I also add vitamin B-3, either niacin or niacinamide. I prescribe from 500 mg to 1500 mg per day. Before I did that empirically, now there is a lot of evidence that B3 does have pretty interesting anticancer properties. Two years ago, in Texas at one of the osteopathic colleges, there was an international congress, Vitamin B-3 and Cancer. There is a lot of work being done in this area today. I also add a B complex preparation 50 or 100.  I think vitamin E is an extremely important antioxidant and I use that as well, 800 to 1200 I. U. They also get 25,000 to 75,000 units of beta carotene. I sometimes use vitamin A. I like to use folic acid for lung cancer, and for cancer of the uterus because of work that hag been done showing that folic acid might reverse a positive pap smear to negative. I use selenium, 200 mcg, three times per day. I think the toxicity of selenium has been greatly exaggerated. I had a patient from Chile, a refugee, who developed a severe lymphoma. He was operated on but it came back. He had radiation and it recurred. He had been a patient of mine for the treatment of depression when he developed his cancer. He was given three months to live. I had started him on selenium, 600 mcg per day. Like many patients, he thought if 600 is good, more is even better. He came back and said he was taking 2 mg per day, or 2,000 mcg. I became a bit concerned about that and suggested he cut down to 1,000. In any event, he recovered and he has now been alive for seven years. There is no evidence of tumor, and his major problem today is reorienting himself in a foreign culture. So I use selenium and I use a lot of it. I use some zinc, especially for prostatic cancers and I do use calcium-magnesium preparations. So this is the basic nutrient program that they all follow. 
The cost ranges from $50 to $75 per month. People who are dying from cancer don't mind paying this.

What are this program's advantages? Well, first of all, the increase in longevity. We have increased the longevity from 5.7 months to approximately 100 months, which is very substantial, and half of the patients are still alive. There has been a tremendous decrease in pain and anxiety, even amongst those who were dying. We do not have the final answer, but we have at least a partial answer. The use of nutrients, like vitamin C and B-3 increase the efficacy of chemotherapy by increasing its killing effect on the tumor and decreasing its toxicity on normal tissues. The same has been shown to be true with radiation therapy.

My conclusion is that vitamin C must be a vital component of every cancer treatment program. I believe the other nutrients help, adding 20% to 30% to longevity.
What do we need? We need a definitive study. When I did the study, when I wrote it up with Dr. Linus Pauling, it wasn't our belief that we had answered the question. We hoped that this would stimulate enough interest for the institutes that have the finances and the time to do these studiesto get going and do them properly. We need a definitive large-scale study to tease out the relative value of all the nutrients. This is extremely important. I am not telling you that I have a treatment for cancer; I say that we have improved the results of treatment. 

My conclusion is that the best treatment for cancer today is a combination of the best that modem medicine can offer, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, combined with the best of what orthomolecular physicians can offer, which is nutrition, nutrients and hope.
(Reprinted with the permission of the author.)

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Another Way of Looking at the Treatment of Cancer

 

People with cancer are fairly often cured for no known reason. This is called spontaneous remission, and it happens every day. Somehow, the body has destroyed the cancer by itself. Anything we can do to encourage this is most worthwhile. One way we may be able to assist the body is with vitamins and other nutrients. 

There are several nutritional aspects to look at in cancer treatment. One of the most important is vitamin C. 

 

VITAMIN C AND COLLAGEN 

Vitamin C is essential to the formation of collagen, the protein "glue" that holds our cells together. Think of cells in a cell tissue like bricks in a wall.  The strength of a brick wall is not truly in the bricks, for a stack of bricks can easily be pushed apart. So might a group of cells. Collagen is the "mortar" that binds your cells together, just as mortar binds bricks together. If collagen is abundant and strong, your cells hold together well. If cells stick together, tumors have a tough time spreading through them. Strong collagen can thereby arrest the spread of cancer. 

Cancer cells secrete a substance called hyaluronidase, which helps them eat away at collagen and break out into the rest of the body. This is described in great detail in the book Hyaluronidase and Cancer, by Ewan Cameron, M.D., Pergamon Press, 1966. Dr. Cameron, in a now famous collaboration with Linus Pauling, Ph.D., has offered evidence that high vitamin C levels maximize collagen production. If cancer cells are going to try to spread by destroying a person's collagen, it just makes sense to make lots more collagen to keep them from doing it. 

To do this, a person fighting cancer probably needs enormous amounts of any substance that helps make collagen. One such substance is vitamin C. Curiously enough, persons with cancer commonly have exceptionally LOW levels of vitamin C in their bodies. This might help explain why their collagen has not been able to prevent cancer from spreading. 

There is nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying regular high doses of vitamin C with any cancer patient. 

VITAMIN C AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 

Another reason to use vitamin C in cancer treatments is that vitamin C helps strengthen the immune system. Maximum immune function is vital if we want the body to kill cancer. Yet medical treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy actually weaken the immune system a great deal.  There are, then, really two reasons to bolster immunity with vitamin C. First, large quantities of the vitamin often enable a person to more easily tolerate large doses of radiation and chemotherapy, with far fewer side effects. Second, stronger immune function can only help the patient to fight the disease better in general. 

VITAMIN C AND PAIN RELIEF 

In England, it is not uncommon for terminally ill patients to receive narcotics as strong as heroin to ease their pain. One side benefit of vitamin C studies at Vale of Leven Hospital in Scotland was profound pain relief. Patients given ten grams (ten thousand milligrams) of intravenous vitamin C each day had greatly reduced pain even after the narcotic was discontinued (Cancer and Vitamin C, by Ewan Cameron, M.D. and Linus Pauling, Ph.D., Warner Books, 1981). 

ADMINISTRATION OF VITAMIN C 

Vitamin C is most effective given intravenously. 

Padayatty et al. Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer therapy: three cases. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006. 174(7), March 28, p 937-942. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/174/7/937

Appropriately detailed information for doctors is available in Dr. Cameron's "Protocol for the Intravenous Use of Vitamin C in the Treatment of Cancer" posted on this website under "Cameron Protocol." Additional directions for administering vitamin C by I.V., written by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D., are posted on this website under "Vitamin C I.V." Still more injectable vitamin C dosage information is found in "Significance of High Daily Intake of Ascorbic Acid in Preventive Medicine," by Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., in A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine, Roger J. Williams and Dwight K. Kalita, ed., Keats Publishing Co., 1977. 

Vitamin C may also be taken by mouth, but this is not ideal. To approximate the constancy of an intravenous drip it is necessary to have very frequent oral doses. A dose of the vitamin every half hour that the patient is awake is not excessive. The amount of each dose is the maximum amount that a person can tolerate without diarrhea. Diarrhea indicates bodily saturation with the vitamin. Results may require truly large daily totals.  Remember that oral doses are not as efficient as intravenous vitamin C, so it takes much more to do the job. "C" given orally has to be absorbed through the digestive tract, and a good bit of it isn't. 

Generally speaking, the sicker the patient, the more "C" s/he can hold. Let's say a person has diarrhea at just five hundred milligrams (0.5 g) per dose and a daily total of less than 20,000 mg (20 g). This indicates a NEED for relatively little of the vitamin. A person with pneumonia (or cancer) may have an immune system that would soak up as much as 200,000 mg per day. 

That is a lot of vitamin C, but then we are also asking a lot of it. 

It is important to be consistent with large quantities of vitamin C. It needs to be taken EVERY DAY and VERY OFTEN. Taking the vitamin sporadically is of little value, and may result in a rebound effect of temporary deficiency. Taking too much at one time may result in a false saturation diarrhea. Almost anyone taking 6,000 mg or more of vitamin C AT ONE TIME will experience diarrhea, yet the cancer patient might really be able to hold more than twenty times that amount IF TAKEN IN SMALLER, DIVIDED DOSES throughout the entire day. 

Evidence indicates that vitamin C does not interfere with conventional cancer treatments and may in fact assist them. 

 

NUTRITIONAL APPROACHES OTHER THAN VITAMIN C 

Several vitamins and minerals continue to show value in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Principal among these are vitamin A, vitamin E, and selenium. 

VITAMIN A 

High doses of vitamin A have proved effective against a number of forms of cancer. Vitamin A acceptance as therapy is probably slow due to the potential toxicity of the oil form of the vitamin when taken in enormous quantities for a long time. However, the vitamin A precursor, called carotene or provitamin A, is strictly non-toxic regardless of quantity or duration. It is also more effective against cancer than the oil form. The body internally converts stored beta-carotene into vitamin A on demand. It is the totally safe carotene form that needs to be given, and in very high doses. 

The effective amount of carotene may exceed 500,000 International Units (I.U.) daily. Physicians need to remember that a harmless carotenosis, or orange-colored skin, is the only side effect of massive provitamin A dosage. That amount of carotene can be obtained from six to eight glasses of fresh carrot juice per day. Such a natural source guarantees a mixture of all the different forms of carotene, which is more therapeutically effective than just the beta form.

VITAMIN E 

Vitamin E is an antioxidant and free radical scavenger that seems to help prevent cell damage related to cancer. It is a fat-soluble vitamin with no known toxicity. Doses of 800 to 1200 I.U. are commonly employed. 

SELENIUM 

Regions of the United States with this trace mineral in their soil have less cancer than those regions that don't. Research has indicated that selenium works with vitamin E both to protect body cells and to slow tumor growth. Only a very small amount of selenium is needed for this beneficial effect, probably between 50 and 200 micrograms (mcg) daily. Selenium should not be taken in large amounts. 
 

THE GERSON CANCER THERAPY 

"I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical history." 
(Albert Schweitzer, M.D.) 

In the late 1920's, Max Gerson, M.D. began curing cancer with nutrition. His treatment is detailed in A CANCER THERAPY: Results of Fifty Cases (Third Edition, by Max Gerson, Gerson Institute, CA, 1977). There is no book like this one. It is full of detailed case histories including X-ray photographs, charts and dosage schedules, and lists of all necessary materials. 

The Gerson therapy works towards the detoxification and nutritional restoration of the body, focusing on the liver. This is accomplished primarily through intensive feeding with raw vegetable juices, natural foods, and supplements. It is a labor intensive program, and takes a minimum of 18 months to complete. Hospitalization is not a requirement. Dr. Gerson achieved remarkable results even from diagnosed terminal patients. It would be difficult to justify denying any patient the potential benefits of this proven nutritional program. It can't hurt to try it. 

A site search for “Gerson” from the www.doctoryourself.com mainpage will bring up a good deal of additional information on the Gerson therapy.

CONCLUSION 

Traditional medical treatments have focused on how to go in and kill cancer with chemicals or radiation. It is likely that this approach will change in favor of trying to get the patient's BODY to kill the cancer. A well nourished body will have the best chance of doing this. During the crisis of cancer, the immune system needs to be boosted with appropriately high doses of vitamins C, E, and A as beta carotene and a trace of selenium. 

Oncologists can get nearly as discouraged as their patients when conventional cancer treatments fail. That is the point where hope does NOT have to be lost. If the answer is not here, than maybe it is indeed THERE. Every stone must be turned over in our effort to get well. It is the doctor's duty to do whatever s/he can to help the patient recover. This must include using therapeutic quantities of vitamins. 

Nutritional Support for Cancer Patients: A Typical Alternative Protocol

(Again I state two things: 1. this is just anecdotal information and 2. if you take any of this seriously, consult your health care provider before proceeding with this or any program.)

A.   Digestive enzyme tablets
Two or more multiple digestive enzyme tablets per meal. The theory is that in cancer patients, the liver produces insufficient enzymes.  Cancer patients eat and eat and eat but don't get the good of their food. They are starving to death. Therefore, they need more nutrients than usual.  Enzymes break down food so you can get the nourishment in the food. A "multiple digestive enzyme" preparation is most efficient.

B.   Kelp
5-8 kelp tablets per day. Kelp tablets are an iodine supplement. They have been reported to help resist healthy cell damage from radiation treatments.

C.   Carrot Juice
Drink at least one pint (two glasses) of carrot juice per day.  Goal: up to two quarts (eight glasses). Drink lots of fresh, raw juices. Raw food has lots of enzymes, and carrots are loaded with anti-cancer alpha- and beta-carotenes. About two pounds of carrots makes one pint of juice. Buy 25 pound bags because they keep fairly well. By good tasting produce to get good tasting juice. Yellow sprouts on carrots means they are old.  Brush or scrape the carrots to clean them; no need to peel.

D.   Green Drink
Drink one glass (8 oz.) green drink per day. Green drink is any green vegetable, e.g., celery, cucumber (peel to remove wax), green peppers, lettuce (leaf, like Romaine). Green drink is raw liquid chlorophyll. Both chlorophyll and hemoglobin have remarkably similar structures. For green drink do not use limas, spinach, rhubarb or asparagus. The last three contain oxalic acid.

E.   B-12
     Take one of the following, in order of preference:
     1.   The ideal: intra-nasal B-12 gel or spray
     2.   Injections of 1000 mcg. per week. Ask for a prescription.
     3.   Sublingual B-12. 1,000 mcg per day.
     4.   B-12 supplement: 1,000 mcg or more per day.

F.   Potassium
Potassium is in most fruits and vegetables. Read the potassium chart ("K" stands for potassium) in A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases. Eat no salt and no canned foods; they contain lots of salt. Cancerous cells love sodium, says Max Gerson, M.D.

G.   Protein
Meat:  Avoid it. Try to become a vegetarian. Fish is an excellent complete protein. Broil, bake, or poach in half an inch of apple juice, simmering 6 minutes each side.

Tofu: Soy products in general contain anti-cancer substances. Cut up tofu into small pieces and throw it into whatever you are making.  It will take on the flavor of the recipe.

Cheese: Natural, with no coloring added. Eat cheese if it will keep you off meat.

Yogurt: Low fat, plain. Sweeten it yourself with a little fruit or honey.

Nut butters: Delicious and easy to digest.  Buy them fresh and keep in the fridge.
 Almond butter - may inhibit the growth of tumors.
 Cashew butter - high in the amino acid tryptophan which helps you sleep.
 Peanut butter - select the fresh, natural variety without added fat or sugar.

Milk:  There is nothing like high-quality raw milk. Speaking as a former dairyman, I raised a family on it from infancy. Certified raw milk is inspected daily.  Try to find it in a health food store or from a farmer. If not available, sweet acidophilus milk or watered-down yogurt digests better than pasteurized milk.

Sprouts: Eat two jars full per day. Sprouts are a complete protein, a complete food. A person could survive on a variety of sprouts and nothing else.  Buy untreated seed. Alfalfa is a good one to start with, but include wheat, lentil, mung bean, clover, cabbage and radish. Each day start two more jars. Harvest alfalfa at the end of 4-7 days; the others may be ready sooner. Eat them in a sandwich or as the base of a salad. Dressings and garnishes are okay. Collect 12-15 wide-mouth quart jars and start farming. Ann Wigmore’s books will tell you how to sprout, and why.

H.  Fruits
Eat as many as you wish, any kind, any time.

I. Grains
Whole grain breads, namely100% whole wheat; brown rice; whole wheat pasta.

J. Special Vegetables:
Eat all the cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale and broccoli that you can. Research confirms that these "cruciform vegetables" are naturally rich in several phytochemicals that are like "plant chemotherapy." They fight tumors. 

The other exceptionally fine food class is the legumes: peas, beans and lentils. They are loaded with fiber, protein, minerals, and complex carbohydrates. And, they are really cheap. Eat lots.

K. Good Snacks
Popcorn, fresh, unsalted popcorn. On it put 2 tsp. nutritional yeast flakes which give the popcorn a cheesy taste and additional B-vitamins, chromium and selenium.

Raw Veggies. Keep a tray of all your favorites in the center of your fridge, where you can reach it 24 hours per day. Celery, carrots, peppers, broccoli, black olives, tomatoes, snap peas, etc.

L.   Beverages
Vegetable juices, fresh and raw. (Whenever you cook, or bottle, or can anything, you destroy its natural food enzymes.)
Fruit juices, fresh
Spring water or mineral water
Herbal teas
Green tea or decaf black tea

M.   Vitamins
Vitamins are food supplements or food concentrates. They are not drugs, so the margin for safety is excellent.

Vitamin E

Begin with 200 IU of natural mixed tocopherols and gradually work up to about 1,000 IU daily. If you are on an anticoagulant drug (such as Coumadin), or if you are on medication for high blood pressure, it is likely that your vitamin and drug doses will need to be tailored over a period of weeks.  You can quite easily monitor your blood pressure at home, and your doctor can and should check your prothrombin time for you.  Occasionally blood pressure goes up slightly in folks not used to vitamin E. Know that it is usually temporary. Reduce the vitamin E for a while, then resume a leisurely increase. If your protime gets too long, have your doctor reduce the drug dose, not the vitamin. Vitamin E greatly reduces the side effects of radiation therapy. Vitamin E is the body's number one antioxidant, very valuable in slowing tumor growth and slowing the spread of malignancies. You will very much want to read Vitamin E for Ailing and Healthy Hearts, by Wilfrid Shute, M.D., or any other book by him or his physician brother, Evan. They will walk you through the whole process.

Iron

If your physician says you need iron, take ferrous gluconate or ferrous fumarate iron tablets, which would replace your current prescription of harder-to-handle ferrous sulfate. Chelated iron tablets are better absorbed, therefore, better utilized by the body. Iron is best absorbed if taken with vitamin C but not at the same time as Vitamin E.

Vitamin C

Begin with 1,000 mg a meal for a total of 3,000 mg per day. Your goal is bowel tolerance, which may be anywhere between 20,000 to 100,000 mg per day or even higher. It would be ideal to take some vitamin C every half hour you are awake, which is a real nuisance. Do the best you can to divide the dose for maximum absorption. For maximum stomach comfort, I strongly recommend a “buffered” vitamin C supplement for persons taking a lot. Instead of tablets, try vitamin C powder for economy and a "fewer pills to take" feeling. Mix the powder in a sweet beverage such as fruit juice. Take the amount of vitamin C needed to feel better, to show improved lab tests, and to get well. Patients in remission should continue taking it for life. There are two meanings to that statement. Do not be put off this valuable adjunctive therapy by unscientific scare tactics. Please be certain to read Cancer and Vitamin C by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling. 

The Carotenes and Lycopene Until you can get a juicer, eat lots of yams, sweet potatoes and winter squash.  These are all very high in all the natural carotenes, not just the best known beta- form.  Tomatoes, preferably uncooked, are loaded with lycopene, which is even more valuable than carotene.  Studies in Italy (of course) showed that men that ate five or ten fresh tomatoes daily had almost no prostate cancer.  Red or purple grapes (and fruits and vegetables in general) are high in many other cancer-fighting antioxidants related to the carotenes.  Enjoy!

Selenium Only a minuscule amount is needed, generally around 300 micrograms.  A microgram is a millionth of a gram.  Selenium works closely with vitamin E.  Avoid excesses; more is not better in this case.

Zinc The zinc in your multivitamin (perhaps 15 mg?) is low. Take 50 mg of zinc gluconate or preferably zinc monomethionine. Work up to a goal of perhaps 100 mg per day. Zinc reduces postsurgical healing time and profoundly strengthens the immune system.

Calcium and Magnesium


Tablets can be used to conveniently buffer between-meal vitamin C doses. 1,500 mg of calcium and 500 mg of magnesium is a good target amount.  Divide the doses as much as humanly possible, including snacktime and bedtime. Your body will absorb it much more efficiently that way.

Vitamin B Complex Take one balanced B-50 tablet with each meal, at least. If you are on intense drug therapy or are very fatigued, you can take additional Bs between meals.  Patients on chemotherapy report greatly reduced nausea and much less hair loss when they take their B-vitamins (and C). You have to try this to believe it.

Suggestions


If you get diarrhea, ease up on the vitamin C or the vegetable juices. If not sure which, decrease one, then the other, to confirm which you actually need to reduce. Bear in mind that diarrhea may be due to radiation or chemotherapy treatments. Cheese tends to help stop simple diarrhea.  Chronic diarrhea requires medical attention. 

If you need to sweeten something, try a little honey, sweet molasses or pure maple syrup.

Give this protocol a full four months trial, with your 100% effort, before giving it your final evaluation.

Don't eat anything without reading the label. Don't eat anything unless you know what it is. If you cannot pronounce it, don't eat it.

If your medical doctor is not familiar with orthomolecular (megavitamin) nutrition, hand him or her books, with the bookmarks stuck throughout, and ask, "Have you read what we've read?" Let Dr. Pauling and Dr. Hoffer and Dr. Williams and Dr. Gerson and Dr. Cameron do the talking. When you go to battle, don’t go without your best soldiers. If you are still unfamiliar with these physicians and their work, you are not ready to fight.

No-No’s:

• Avoid sugar 
• Do not smoke. Stop, or at least cut down, immediately. 
• Avoid alcoholic beverages (However, organically-produced red wine in moderation is a reasonable compromise. It is best to dilute it with two parts water before drinking. Grape juice is good, too!) 
• Eat no artificial colorings. 
• Avoid any food with preservatives. 
• Do not consume aspartame (“NutraSweet”). 
• Never eat any product containing saccharine, which has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. 

    Who gets the credit (or blame?) for this therapy? Certainly not me, although I'd love to take the bow. But no, this is the collected, derivative work of many researchers.  I'm not smart enough to come up with all this. I am just barely smart enough to find out who is getting good results... and suggest you copy them.

 

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_2.html

Physicians and patients that are confused by conflicting reports on vitamin C and cancer need to refer to pages 163-180 (Chapter 19) in How To Live Longer and Feel Better, by Linus Pauling, Ph.D. (W. H. Freeman and Co., 1986) and the book Vitamin C and Cancer: Discovery, Recovery, Controversy by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD (Quarry Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1999)  ISBN  1-55082-078-8  

A list of doctors that use or support the use of nutritional therapies for cancer is available from the CANCER CONTROL SOCIETY, 2043 North Berendo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90027 http://www.cancercontrolsociety.com

Information on the successful nutritional cancer therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. is available from the GERSON INSTITUTE, P. O. Box 430, Bonita, CA 91908  http://www.gerson.org

Copyright  C  2004 and prior years Andrew W. Saul. 

Andrew Saul is the author of the books FIRE YOUR DOCTOR! How to be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html ) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html )

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