Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #57. Week ending July 18th, 2010
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1. So You Think You've Got Problems?
2. Got Cancer? See Your Travel Agent!
3. Some Amazing Cancer Statistics
4. Lipoic Acid and Toadstools
5. Did Anyone Tell You Fruit Is Bad?
6. What's In A Word?

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This Week's Quote:

"Nothing invigorates the soul who pines and frets in the chains of a diseased body except the cure. It is only when the bodily health is changed for the better that tranquility and comfort again beam upon the mind."

--Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy

1. So You Think You've Got Problems?

This is one of the oldest saws in the philosophical book, isn't it? No matter how bad things are for you, there will always be somebody worse off. That's what they say...

But somebody must be at the bottom of that pile, surely? There must be somebody for whom there is no-one worse off, with which to compare themselves and feel uplifted?

I have one suggestion and that's the subject of a major blog I just posted. It's far too long to pull into here in Serendipity. Please read it on the original blog.

There is nobody worse off nor could there be. Yet this brilliant human being managed to find humor and poetry in what must be the deepest of all abysses of despair and isolation. I loved his book and I hope you will be inspired to read it. I couldn't say more anyway, tears are welling in my eyes as I write this. Go to the blog...

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

2. Got Cancer? See Your Travel Agent

This is a joke from one of my correspondents, Carmi Hazen (aka. Mike). It applies more to US citizens, who have little chance of a cure or therapy here, due to restrictive practises. They are driven to go overseas.

But Mike also sent me a video he supposed I would like. Actually, I didn't. It was one of those phoney con-job videos, claiming that Gerson therapy was THE cure for cancer. There was mushy background music, supposed to transport you to paradise, while they pumped you full of propaganda, which you then accepted without question.

What followed was a slightly unseemly correspondence. Mike thought I was just ignorant and lacking medical insight. I thought he was gullible and lacked any kind of scientific objectivity. What annoys me is that the failures of a method are never mentioned in these propaganda type movies.

It's the same with the Hulda Clark cult: you'd think she helped everyone who ever went to her clinic! No mention of the deaths and failures, or the people who walked out, due to disgusting unsanitary conditions. I can state categorically she has harmed more than helped, just by virtue of the stupid false science she promoted (cancer is not caused by just one chemical nor a parasite that isn't even found in the Western world -- except by her, of course, she finds it on everyone!)

Yet all you ever hear about are her successes, "proving" she was right.

Do NOT write and tell me that it worked for you. I'm glad. But that's not science. Remember I told you in my writings before: if you just do NOTHING, some people will get rid of their cancer. You have to do better than average, placebo or just natural recovery. Dozens, hundreds or even thousands of recoveries do not prove you have any degree of success, if you don't break through the average figures].

Anyway, back to Mike. I know plenty of people helped by the Gerson method, of course. But I also know people who have DIED of cancer while on the Gerson program (and, yes, following every step to the letter).

Look, if your cancer is caused by stress and emotional blockages (most are) you are never going to beat it without addressing those issues. I know Charlotte Gerson defends her income pile by denying that emotion has any part to play in the causation or cure of cancer. Well, she's wrong! Good nutrition can only undo bad nutrition; it can't undo abuse or bereavement.

Anyway, here's my last email to Mike (he's a hardy soul and isn't going to get too upset):

Dear Mike,

Mushy music is NOT science. Gerson got some answers. Not many. I've seen people die on the Gerson therapy. People die on ALL therapies. NOBODY has the answer and inflammatory stupid language like "the cure" is deceiving and hurtful to many on their search. We are still relatively in ignorance of this disease, though we do understand causes much better.

I've assembled all the cures I can think of in Cancer Confidential but none of them, not one, works on everybody.

Don't be so naive. We have decades to go yet.
Keith

I could have added the big question: why does nobody talk about the FAILURES of their therapy? All good science is predicated on failures!

When you have a theory that seems good but then it doesn't work (a failure), that's where all your best breakthroughs come. You have to figure out what's wrong with what you are doing and then get something better.

So when gravity "failed" we got relativity; when heat mechanics "failed" we got quantum mechanics; when indivisibility of the atom "failed" we got atomic energy and weapons.

Let's embrace failure. It's a GREAT starting point for success.

3. Some Amazing* Cancer Statistics (*see "What's In A Word?")

While we are on the subject of cancer...

Some of you will get this as an automated email, when I post it to the system. I just thought we could all share it here first.

Let me give you some figures about the history of cancer that will startle you, maybe even amaze you!

Cancer was virtually unknown throughout history. That alone tells you the belief it’s about genes is nonsense. Genes have been around forever, cancer has not. It was known in ancient times but has been very rare and something affecting only a very small percentage of the population.

In the 1830s Stanislas Tanchou, a French scientist who pioneered the field of statistics, measured the incidence of cancer around Paris. Only 2% of all deaths were cancer-related at that time.

In my eBook “Cancer Confidential” I shared a report from London in Victorian times: A physician at one of London’s main hospitals (Charing Cross) told his medical students that lung cancer was “One of the rare forms of a rare disease. You may probably pass the rest of your student’s life without seeing another example of it”.

Dr. Alton Ochsner (founder of the Ochsner Medical Center, one of the USA’s largest group practices and academic medical centers) reports pretty much the same thing. He recalled, in an article for American Scientist, that in 1919, during his junior year at Washington University, an autopsy on a lung cancer case was carried out by Dr George Dock, the then Professor of Medicine. Dock stressed to his students that the condition was so rare, they might never see another case in their lifetime. In fact Ochsner added that it was 1936 before he saw another lung cancer case.

Today lung cancer is the commonest cancer killer worldwide (1.3 million deaths annually). What changed?

You might well ask.

What these figures are telling us is that CANCER IS A MAN-MADE DISEASE. It didn’t exist in Nature or in primitive societies. Cancer is basically a disease of civilization and has next to nothing to do with genetic factors.

What’s happening here is that bad diet and chemicals are disastrously messing with our genes, switching on bad ones and switching off the good guys (like the so-called p53 gene, which blocks cancer).

The real causes are our appalling dietary habits, continuous daily stress and the pollution we have to contend with.

You need to learn how to prevent these damaging effects. You need "Cancer Confidential". Get a copy here if you haven't already done so (good price just now):

http://bit.ly/CancerConfidential27

4. Lipoic Acid And Toadstools

You hear a lot about alpha-lipoic acid from me; it's a major precursor of glutathione, our most active detox enzyme. But lipoic acid (also known as thioctic acid) has a life of its own!

It's a great chelator; it's water and fat soluble, so it can move around like few other molecules; it lowers blood pressure; helps lower cholesterol; protects the lens and retina in your eyes from degeneration; and it helps vitamins C and E work better. You probably knew.

But you may not have known this: Lipoic acid was first used in clinical medicine to treat people with Amanita mushroom poisoning. This deadly fungus can destroy the liver in a matter of days.

Amanita muscaria or fly agaric, is your classic "fairy toadstool". But it also happens to be deadly poisonous. It looks pretty but don't even touch it! Generally only 10-50 % of people with amanita mushroom poisoning survive.

But with lipoic acid, one group of 75 patients had almost 90% survival (67 patients). That's pretty darned good.

Take 200 mg daily and hold on the toadstools, OK?

Fly agaric

5. Did Anyone Tell You Fruit Is Bad?

Well, too much fruit is bad. Remember, in Nature, we ate fruits mostly in the Fall (autumn), not all year round. Modern supermarkets present us with pretty well every food you can think of, day in day out, the whole year round.

There may be problems. See, fruit contains fructose and it's become abundantly clear that it harms the liver and has other health negatives. Fructose, and especially high-fructose corn syrup, has been identified as the main culprit in the wave of obesity that has swept the "developed" world in the last 2- 3 decades (but not the only culprit).

Of course the food manufacturers, being unscrupulious liars as they are, deny any of this. But science says otherwise. Now an interesting study from the University of Bristol in the UK has shed some new light. Researchers found that a child’s fat cells, grown in the presence of fructose, will mature into belly fat cells. In addition, the cells are less able to respond to insulin in both belly fat and in subcutaneous fat located below the skin.

The failure to respond to insulin is called insulin resistance. It's one of the chief markers of aging and you can learn much more about this in my new book on anti-aging.

What the Bristol researchers did was take early fat cells from children and let them grow and mature in one of two mediums: glucose or fructose. The cells raised in glucose medium were normal; those raised in fructose were weird. They were fatter and the type we call "visceral" fat; belly fat in other words. That's bad.

It seems that by letting kids grow up drinking sodas, colas, and other foods with fructose and corn syrup, we are actually causing obesity to become inbuilt into the cell structure of their bodies.

That's really bad.

MORE INFO HERE: fructose causes belly fat

Of course I'm not telling you not to eat fruit. Just don't eat the schlock. Remember high fructose corn syrup turns up everywhere: coffee flavorings, muffins, cookies and all kind of places than just soda. Simple rule: if somebody made it they probably sweetened it (especially here in the USA where everything is geared to a sweet public taste).

Just go easy on the fruit maybe...

6. What's In A Word?

Amazing

We have a pretty rude expression in England "blows your tits off". Strictly, that's what amazing means, believe it or not.

a- means without, none or taking away; as in a-moral (without morals) or a-symmetrical (no symmetry) or a-vulse (tear off).

Mazos is Ancient Greek for breast. So the the Amazons [a-mazon] were women without breasts; supposedly they cut off their right breast so they could shoot a bow and arrow or use a spear like a man. In fact this is probably a myth: there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the right is frequently covered.

Logically, then, amazing means "takes the breasts off", like the crude British expression.

It's real origin is the Old English (late Saxon) word amasian and it means, of course, causing great surprise or sudden wonder.

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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