Fraudulent Johns Hopkins Email

Have you received an email containing a collection of cancer related tips and information which claims to originate from Johns Hopkins?   The “John Hopkins” email contains a lot of good information, but some of it is misleading or inaccurate and in many ways is contradicted, not only by doctors but also by nutritionists……

This email has been circulating around for quite a while — I think since about 2008.

Medical clinics do not encourage alternative treatments.    Doctors can lose their license if they recommend alternative treatments to their patients.    Moreover, the fact that these “tips” have been merged with false information about dioxins and plastics further erodes their credibility.   Rolf Halden of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has expertly debunked the rumor linking plastic bottles to cancer.   According to Halden the claim is like an urban legend.

The cancer community is very guarded.    The politics of cancer therapy is more complicated than the science.    There is a disclaimer on the John Hopkins website that says they have never sent this information out in their newsletters.   A lot of the treatments listed in the email come from nutritionists, not doctors, so naturally doctors will not agree with the statements in this email.   Doctors will lose their license if they try to control cancer with nutrition, alternate therapies or anything other than consensus treatments like drugs, chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.   They will encourage changes in diet for support, but they rarely will recommend supplements although they might say you can take a multiple vitamin or digestive enzymes (reluctantly).    They make money every time they prescribe a drug or treat a patient so does posting this on their websites, blogs or newsletters even make any sense?

On the same note, John Hopkins has written rebuttals on their website to all the statements in the email.   But, also keep in mind that they are on the side of medicine.   So with all this in mind you know that they will not support any natural “cure”.

Please read the comments I have made to each issue below and please pass them on to others you know who might benefit from the information in it — someone will benefit from all my research and all the studying I have done over the last year where I blend together the opinions of scientists, nutritionists, cancer clinics who work with alternative treatments, clinical studies and personal experiences of others and myself.

REFERENCE THE ORIGINAL EMAIL HERE

Item 3. If tumors have not yet developed, a strong immune system will keep damaged cells from developing into cancer.   The purpose of the immune system is to get rid of anything foreign in the body and cells that are weak, sick or starting to mutate are considered “foreign”.    Our bodies are fighting cancer all the time, 24 hours a day.   If cancer cells develop into a tumor, a bullet-proof immune system will stop new cancer cells from forming, but will not kill the already existing damaged cancer cells which divide and multiply.

When it comes to cancer and the immune system, it is an issue of recognition.   “The immune system simply does not recognize cancer.   In its complexity, the cancer cell has learned to disguise itself to the immune system as a normal, healthy cell.   Weak cells and cells infected with viruses or bacteria send out danger signals setting the immune system in action.   But cancer cells do not”, explains Elizabeth Jaffee, co-director of cancer immunology and leading expert on cancer and the immune system.

Item 4-5. Nutritional deficiencies can weaken the immune system, but other factors like stress, lifestyle, genetics, toxins, and exposure to chemicals need to be present also.   A healthy person can get cancer from genetics, exposure to chemicals, toxins and stress even though they don’t have any deficiencies when these factors over-power the immune system.   But stress also destroys the immune system and the immune system is responsible for eliminating anything foreign in our bodies including weak and sick cells.   Cancer is like mold in this way:   Mold will not grow unless you give it the right environment which is moisture, darkness and warmth.   Cancer is the same way in that we all have sick or defective cells in our bodies that the immune system eliminates but they will not become cancerous until all the right conditions are present at the same time.   All doctors do agree that a well-balanced diet can keep your cells healthy and can help prevent cancer and yet they say that supplementing your diet with supplements does not help.   That is because synthetic supplements have been used in almost all clinical studies that have been done.   Your body treats synthetic substances as foreign and so the body can’t use them and the immune system eliminates them.   Natural, whole-food supplements are just like eating a plate of food so saying that supplementation doesn’t help is a contradiction when all doctors recommend a well-balanced diet.

Item 6-8. (8) Cancer cells develop a resistance to chemo drugs.   When one drug is no longer effective, the oncologist can put you on another chemo drug and go on from there.   Sometimes the first chemo treatment will totally get rid of the tumor and sometimes it won’t.   Sometimes chemo is stopped when the drug has become ineffective and radiation is done and then a second chemo drug is started.   Some people are under chemotherapy for two to three years using different drugs and the tumors are continually reduced.   Sometimes if their diet is not right, the tumor grows faster after treatments because the cancer is feeding well off the person’s diet.   Diet is very important!!!    Sometimes they can be considered “cured” and then a year later the cancer comes back.   Removing the tumor does not remove the cause.

Item 9. John Hopkins says this is not true.   However, it is known that chemotherapy does destroy DNA and RNA of both cancer cells and healthy cells — it is not selective — and that is why they are currently testing ways to target the cancer cells so they don’t have to treat the whole body with chemotherapy through the blood stream. Healthy cells, protected by the immune system, are more able to handle the attack so therefore the cancer cells are more susceptible to death.    It is simply logical that, when your blood is flooded with strong chemicals like chemotherapy, a lot of damage is done.   That is also why cancer patients lose our hair, become nauseated and are told to exercise good hygiene and increased nutrition, etc.   Prolonged chemotherapy can set things in motion that destroy the cells of the organs which effects the bodily functions which creates complications as nerves that carry messages from the brain to the organs are also destroyed.    Yes, the immune system is compromised greatly also, so that is why chemo patients are told not to be around too many other people, pets, etc., and told they need to exercise good hygiene washing their hands several times a day, etc, because their immune systems are weakened.   So it is not so much the toxic burden (that is what mainly makes you sick because you are being poisoned and your immune system is working overtime) but it is also that all your cells are being attacked and so your whole body cannot function properly.   So if John Hopkins says this statement is not true then it is a contradiction.

Item 10. That is what cancer cells ARE — they ARE mutated cells — they don’t mutate — they multiply.   The definition of “mutate” means “losing its original nature”.   Cancer cells have damaged DNA and when the cells divide, they pass on the same information to the new cells that form duplicating the damaged DNA structure.   (A dog cannot have kittens theory.)   But, yes, chemo makes them more resistant so one chemo treatment is abandoned and another chemo treatment is then started. And, yes, surgery can cause cancer cells to spread IF cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the bloodstream to other parts of the body.

Item 11. The premise is that cancer cells feed on certain foods, and if a person refrains from eating these foods, the cancer will die.   A poor diet and obesity associated with a poor diet is a risk factor for the DEVELOPMENT of cancer.   So, if you already have cancer, continuing on a healthy “anti-cancer” diet is a wise choice so that more healthy cells do not become damaged.

But that’s popular belief, that cancer feeds on certain foods.   As a cancer patient myself, I have been eating whatever I feel like — salt, sugar, ice cream, etc. — and my tumors have not grown or spread in two months (off chemo for two months).   In order for cancer to grow, it has to be fed by its own blood vessels.   There is a long story about this, but the cancer cells grow their own blood vessels and the blood vessels feed the cancer cells nutrition through the blood.   If you can keep the blood vessels from forming off the cancer cells and if you can kill the blood vessels already formed that feed the cancer cells, then they will eventually die off as they reach the end of their natural life/death cycle.

You can also eat things that the cancer cells hate — So it is not really so much what you eat but what you DON’T eat.    Most people DON’T eat what they need to remain healthy.   You need all the antioxidants — flavonoids, carotenoids, cruciferous and grain oils.   Omega 3 fatty acids carry oxygen to the cells and cancer cells hate oxygen.

Oxygen therapies are a tease because your lungs can only supply a limited amount of oxygen to the cancer cells — they will not accept more unless they are open to it.   The cancer cells have a protective protein layer that does not let oxygen into the cell.

Also, while there is such a thing as tumors that produce mucus, the mucus made by a tumor does not result from drinking milk.   Fluids are developed as a type of protection that your body creates as a result of inflammation. Reduce inflammation and you will reduce fluids.

If you give your body the nutrients it needs then it will divide cells properly.   If your body is deficient in particular nutrients for long periods of time (years), then eventually the cells becomes unhealthy and damaged and when that happens the damaged cells reproduce themselves.    Cancer cells are cells with damaged DNA (mutant cells). Interestingly, chemotherapy damages DNA and RNA.      The proof is in the list of side effects.    Go read them.

Item 12. Eating less meat, while a good choice for cancer prevention, does not free up enzymes to attack cancer cells.   Fact is, it takes stronger enzymes to digest meat and cancer patients have fewer of the enzymes necessary to digest meat, particularly pancreatic enzymes.    That is why you get bloating, nausia and gas — from the undigested foods.   You get no nutrition from undigested foods.   Also, digesting meat takes more energy — energy that could be used more productively.    So it makes more sense to get your nutrition from a plant-sourced protein.

Item 14. Just “Vitamin E” doesn’t cause apoptosis.    Only the Beta and Gamma tocotrienols do that as proven in a recent study.   Vitamin E is a complex that contains 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols.   (Not all vitamin E supplements are the same — and not all of them contain all 8 tocopherols and tocotrienols.)   Flor-ssence and Essiac are brand names for nutritional products, they not nutrients.   It is my guess that the person who started this “John Hopkins email” was the same person who sells those products.   Inositol Hexaphosphate, otherwise known as IP-6, is found in fiber rich foods.   It may be a critical factor in the benefits of a high fiber diet.   Studies have shown that IP-6 may provide a variety of health benefits.

G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease – like scurvy or pellagra – aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man’s diet.   That substance is vitamin B17.   In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile.    This theory is not approved by orthodox medicine.   The FDA, the AMA, and The American Cancer Society have labeled it fraud and quackery.   Yet the evidence is clear that here, at last, is the final answer to the cancer riddle.

The B vitamins are water soluble so they have to be replenished daily through diet — your body doesn’t make them.   Cancer cells contain an enzyme that is the only enzyme in the body that will convert vitamin B17 into a form of cyanide which kills the cancer cell.   Normal healthy cells do not have that enzyme.    Foods that contain B17 nutrients that convert to cyanide in the cancer cell are raspberries, bitter almonds (not the “sweet” kind and not roasted or salted), bitter apricot seeds (high content), macadamia nuts, wild blackberries (high content), elderberries (high content), blueberries, alfalfa leaves (high content) and spinach just to name a few — but you have to eat HANDFULLS of them EVERY day so it is more convenient and thrifty to supplement with a natural whole-food supplement.   So anyway, an occasional trip to McDonalds once month won’t kill you but you need to get MORE of the RIGHT things and some people just don’t eat ANY of them.    So you don’t need to deprive yourself of the “naughty” foods, but most people thrive on them (fried foods, frozen prepared foods, dead cereals, breads).    Not good.   Think of them as “treats” and you won’t feel deprived — just keep them at a bare minimum.   You will find that after changing your diet to a more healthy one, in time you will no longer desire the naughty foods — in fact they won’t even taste good to you anymore.

Basically, what I have learned in summation is, if God didn’t make it, don’t eat it.   Basic rule of thumb.

Cooked meat is dead food.   Actually, any cooked food is dead food so you are getting very little nutrition.    Eat as raw as possible to get all the enzymes, electrical charges and nutrients as you can that way.   Cooking destroys most nutrients and which ones exactly are still being discovered — and we still don’t know the importance of some nutrients that are found naturally occurring in a lot of plants.    Some are just now being “discovered” as necessary.

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I started taking muscadine extract (not the same thing as table grapes).   They have done human clinical trials and tumors have disappeared in 7 different cancers.    The FDA has approved additional studies to be done.   I am going to give it about four months to see what happens……I am taking triple dose.

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