Antioxidants Or No Antioxidants???

On 4/6/2008 JMinCA wrote:

I was diagnosed with stage 3C colon cancer -- had a large tumor removed from the sigmoid area, then underwent 6 months of chemotherapy -- 5FU and oxaliplatin.  6 weeks since the end of chemo, but my fingers are still very numb.

Well, at any rate, my most recent CAT scan shows "suspiciously enlarged lymph nodes in my upper abdomen". The oncologist hemmed and hawed about what this meant, but I know what it means.  Cancer is still there.  And these are  cells immune to chemotherapy, basically.  And that gives me about a 30% chance of living for 5 years according to the statistics.

So time to look at alternatives.  I've been reading a lot about alternative therapies.  They all have one thing in common -- the "cancer diet" -- lots of juicing, raw foods, no meat, no sugar, etc.  Okay -- got that down. 

But where there is a wide divergence is in the use of antioxidants.  Lots of success stories about IV C.  Some success stories involving CoQ10.  Linus Pauling's Canadian associate even claimed niacin played a big role in stopping cancer, but I haven't seen any follow-up on this.

But then we get the Budwig Diet, which claims large doses of antioxidants are BAD BAD BAD.  The Budwig crowd (which seems to have a very impressive track record) claims that the antioxidants severely interfere with the omega 3's re-establishing the electrical balance of the cells.  Their basic idea is to turn back on the aerobic respiration of cancer cells and they will become normal again.

What's her name -- Donna Summers (?) of Three's Company fame claims she cured herself of stage 4 breast cancer with a mostly raw food diet.  She too believes that antioxidants are ... if not bad, then not needed.

Dr. Day of San Francisco also claims to have cured herself of stage 4 breast cancer with, again, an all natural, mostly raw food diet (and a lot of barley grass powder) and she too says antioxidants are bad, because "you can't improve on God". 

Then there's the "cancertutor" website that has such a mishmash of information that one gets lost.  Some methods say don't use any antioxidants.  Others are based mainly on antioxidants.  Some say NO SUGAR, even fruit sugar -- stay away from fruit!  Others say fruit (and even honey) is a-okay. 

I've just started taking IV C.  I also wanted to do the Budwig diet in conjunction, but I posted this to the Budwig board and they jumped all over me, claiming that the IV C would render the Budwig diet completely ineffective.   They went as far as to say that the antioxidants would turn the omega 3's into "bad oils" and damage my body.

Yet there is one guy on the internet who claims that Budwig kills so many cancer cells so quickly that you must have a strong supply of antioxidants to clean up afterwards.  This is actually contrary to what Budwig claims -- they claim to "convert" cancer cells.  But I have seen posts by "Budwigists" who claim that there can be large die-offs of cancer cells.

Well, I'm completely confused.  Any advice? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know I shouldn't, but this message made me laugh out loud - I so know how you feel - the more I've researched the more confused I am.  I have a headache that won't go away with all the conflicting views and news.  Don't you just wish an oracle would come down and say one thing or another.  The problem is that the reports are all equally credible.  2 men with GBM and months to live are alive years later after having a mix of budwig and cottage cheese, Co Q10 and Graviola (both real people I've spoken to), then Donna as you say and others with the flaxseed oil (same) and then there's a lady with a GBM who had weeks to live and is here a decade later due to taking protocel (known as Cantron), she's a real person and not made up!  Then there are Poly-MVA survivors that are credible and can be verified ...  I know what you mean about the Cancer Tutor website ... and the problem is that these 'advisors' with all the will in the world do not consider the contraindications of what they're recommending as treatments taken together.  I think take anti-oxidants at one end of the day and PolyMVA or FO/CC at the other.  That seems to make sense.  If you look at the people who have been cured just taking FO/CC with graviola, CoQ10, Vitamin C, E etc .... then it seems that some antioxidants DO work.  Look at www.flaxoflife.com and see the links on there.

Thinking of you

Clare