Dr Johanna Budwig's Cancer Cure

[Asyncritus]

I recently came across some extraordinary claims about Dr Budwig.

I sincerely hope they are correct, and that the method may help someone suffering from cancer on the site (and elsewhere).

She is a Nobel nominee, 7 times.

She claims that if you have cancer you do 2 things:

1 Become a vegetarian, and

2 3 times a day, eat 3 tablespoons of cottage cheese (or Quark) mixed or blended with 1 tablespoon of FLAX oil.

3 Flavour the mix with something you like. Honey is good, she says, but doesn't insist on it.

Many given up by the hospitals came to her, and about 90% of them were healed.

She was taken to court because of her claims were thought to be false, but all she did was call up a host of those who had been healed by her methods to testify. Cases quashed.

There are many links. Here is one: http://www.cancertutor.com/budwig/

 

[tim-from-pa]

I rather soak up sunshine on a sunny beach. And also eat delicious animal fats (and meats) and butter. I'm dead serious. I get sick and tired of them telling us how to live, and people HAVE BEEN following that advice, and are fatter and sicker than ever. Like I always say, turn the advice around 180 degrees and go the opposite direction, and you'll be fine. I really believe that.

Oh, and I forgot the alcohol. Go on one of those wine-tours in Long Island or Massachusetts for the next vacation.

 

[Asyncritus]

I rather soak up sunshine on a sunny beach. And also eat delicious animal fats (and meats) and butter. I'm dead serious. I get sick and tired of them telling us how to live, and people HAVE BEEN following that advice, and are fatter and sicker than ever. Like I always say, turn the advice around 180 degrees and go the opposite direction, and you'll be fine. I really believe that.

So do I tim, so do I. I'm a great believer in the Atkins diet principles - which are exactly as you say they are. I got on to it because I got diabetes, and I've been on the lowest medication levels possible for about 11-12 years now.

Oh, and I forgot the alcohol. Go on one of those wine-tours in Long Island or Massachusetts for the next vacation.

Heh heh heh! 2 :clown

In case you ever need her advice, remember who told you about it!

But I have to tell you, she is a great advocate of the sunshine's beneficial effects. So there's a starting point for your investigations into her methods.

 

[Kathi]

I think what we eat and drink has a lot to do with our diseases.All the chemicals in our foods and in our water and in our environment.

 

[tim-from-pa]

I think what we eat and drink has a lot to do with our diseases.All the chemicals in our foods and in our water and in our environment.

And not only chemicals, but nutrients stripped out in processing. It's better to stay away as much as possible from cans, containers, boxes and bags. And then supplement like crazy due to the fact there's probably no "balanced diet" any longer. Even vitamin pills can be compromised with processing.

 

[Kathi]

And not only chemicals, but nutrients stripped out in processing. It's better to stay away as much as possible from cans, containers, boxes and bags. And then supplement like crazy due to the fact there's probably no "balanced diet" any longer. Even vitamin pills can be compromised with processing.

Yes,and I hate the fact that everything has food coloring.Red and yellow are pretty bad.I would like the FDA to ban them.

 

[Claudya]

I recently came across some extraordinary claims about Dr Budwig.

I sincerely hope they are correct, and that the method may help someone suffering from cancer on the site (and elsewhere).

She is a Nobel nominee, 7 times.

She claims that if you have cancer you do 2 things:

1 Become a vegetarian, and

2 3 times a day, eat 3 tablespoons of cottage cheese (or Quark) mixed or blended with 1 tablespoon of FLAX oil.

3 Flavour the mix with something you like. Honey is good, she says, but doesn't insist on it.

Many given up by the hospitals came to her, and about 90% of them were healed.

She was taken to court because of her claims were thought to be false, but all she did was call up a host of those who had been healed by her methods to testify. Cases quashed.

There are many links. Here is one: http://www.cancertutor.com/budwig/

So I've been a vegetarian for almost ten years now, I love cottage cheese (good vegetarian and low caloric source of proteins) and I've been eating flax seeds for a while almost every day. If I ever die from cancer I'll sue that doctor.

Actually there are tons of "alternative medicine" advice out there about how to cure cancer and many of them are quacks.
That diet is certainly healthy, but it seems there is no evidence based proof the diet alone can cure cancer.

 

[Mike S]

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I hadn't heard of Dr. Budwig before. I'll try it

Maybe the best thing about checking this out online is in following various other food links until I found how to deseed a pomegranate without making a mess.

 

[Asyncritus]

So I've been a vegetarian for almost ten years now, I love cottage cheese (good vegetarian and low caloric source of proteins) and I've been eating flax seeds for a while almost every day. If I ever die from cancer I'll sue that doctor.

Actually there are tons of "alternative medicine" advice out there about how to cure cancer and many of them are quacks.
That diet is certainly healthy, but it seems there is no evidence based proof the diet alone can cure cancer.

http://www.cancure.org/budwig_diet.htm
http://www.cancertutor.com/budwig/
http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Protein-Diet-Cookbook-Johanna-Budwig/dp/0969527225

 

[TOG]

I recently came across some extraordinary claims about Dr Budwig.

I sincerely hope they are correct, and that the method may help someone suffering from cancer on the site (and elsewhere).

She is a Nobel nominee, 7 times.

She claims that if you have cancer you do 2 things:

1 Become a vegetarian, and

2 3 times a day, eat 3 tablespoons of cottage cheese (or Quark) mixed or blended with 1 tablespoon of FLAX oil.

3 Flavour the mix with something you like. Honey is good, she says, but doesn't insist on it.

Many given up by the hospitals came to her, and about 90% of them were healed.

She was taken to court because of her claims were thought to be false, but all she did was call up a host of those who had been healed by her methods to testify. Cases quashed.

There are many links. Here is one: http://www.cancertutor.com/budwig/

I started reading that article, and it sounded like an advertisement. I scrolled down to the bottom of the page and, sure enough, there's a link you can use to order the good doctors books. I tend not to trust sites that are trying to sell me something, unless they are well known and reputable sites, such as Amazon.

The TOG​

 

[Asyncritus]

The good doctor's dead. She died at the age of 95 apparently.

There's nothing you need to buy - just flax oil and cottage cheese and mix in the correct proportions, and eat.

Simple as that.

 

[TOG]

I'm sorry. I didn't know she was dead. But if this cure really works 90% of the time, why hasn't it been all over the news, as well as in medical journals. There's just too much about this that doesn't sound right.

The TOG​

 

[Mike S]

I'm sorry. I didn't know she was dead. But if this cure really works 90% of the time, why hasn't it been all over the news, as well as in medical journals. There's just too much about this that doesn't sound right.

The TOG​

It's hard to see how cottage cheese and flax oil could hurt anything.

 

[TOG]

It's hard to see how cottage cheese and flax oil could hurt anything.

It's also hard to see how they could cure cancer. If they could, then the drug companies would be all over it trying to find the active ingredients in the oil and the cheese, so they could use them to make medicines based on them. Do you have any idea how rich the person could become who figured that out?

The TOG​

 

[tim-from-pa]

It's also hard to see how they could cure cancer. If they could, then the drug companies would be all over it trying to find the active ingredients in the oil and the cheese, so they could use them to make medicines based on them. Do you have any idea how rich the person could become who figured that out?

The TOG​

To be a little bit of a conspiracy theorist, sometimes I don't think they want a cure, but "manage" cancer instead, as they do of all disease. There's already big $$$ in chemo that everyone and their brother invests in. Why share the royalties with one hero who finds a cure? I suspect he/she would be found wearing cement shoes in the bottom of a lake somewhere. For this reason, I basically brush off cancer donation calls. If they try to get persuasive and cite statics or appeal to tear-jerking stories after I tell them I'm not interested in supporting them, I get downright rude and say things like I do in these health forums (because they were too persistent and asked for it)

However, I'm of the mindset that when I talk nutrition, it's more of a preventative, perhaps warding it off until old age. If one gets cancer, they are already at a point of no return, because even if it's 'cured', the same mechanism is at work to make it reoccur. So for people who do get cancer, I find that more times than not it's an uphill battle all their lives, be it medical treatment or natural cures--- there's a few exceptions, but perhaps only those who were fortunate enough to catch it early on, and radically change their whole lifestyle (I knew of only one man who lived to normal old age using supplements after being diagnosed with bone cancer decades earlier--- but he caught it in time).

 

[Claudya]

http://www.cancure.org/budwig_diet.htm
http://www.cancertutor.com/budwig/
http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Protein-Diet-Cookbook-Johanna-Budwig/dp/0969527225

To be honest, none of those sites has a lot of credibility.
In a short internet research I found that there is no scientific evidence yet that this diet alone can cure cancer, although animal and cellular research has shown that flax seed oil may have a positive effect reducing the cancer growth rate, but that's far from being enough evidence that it cures all kinds of cancer in humans.
Honestly I believe that if the cure of cancer was that reliable, easy and was known since the 1950s no one would die from cancer any more because those news would spread, and everyone would prefer to eat flax oil and cottage cheese over chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Many scientists would rush to find the active components in the ingredients of that diet because they all want that Nobel prize and the effective meds to sell and make millions.

But I do agree that this type of diet is healthy and nutrition may have a vital role in cancer treatment or prevention. Honestly I feel like buying cottage cheese and flax oil for dinner today because it's healthy and delicious.
Anyway, be careful with people (especially on the internet) who claim they have a simple cure for complex diseases, while ten thousands of doctors and scientists world wide keep failing at it. The alternative medicine community is full of quacks.

 

[Asyncritus]

To be honest, none of those sites has a lot of credibility.
In a short internet research I found that there is no scientific evidence yet that this diet alone can cure cancer, although animal and cellular research has shown that flax seed oil may have a positive effect reducing the cancer growth rate, but that's far from being enough evidence that it cures all kinds of cancer in humans.
Honestly I believe that if the cure of cancer was that reliable, easy and was known since the 1950s no one would die from cancer any more because those news would spread, and everyone would prefer to eat flax oil and cottage cheese over chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Many scientists would rush to find the active components in the ingredients of that diet because they all want that Nobel prize and the effective meds to sell and make millions.

But I do agree that this type of diet is healthy and nutrition may have a vital role in cancer treatment or prevention. Honestly I feel like buying cottage cheese and flax oil for dinner today because it's healthy and delicious.
Anyway, be careful with people (especially on the internet) who claim they have a simple cure for complex diseases, while ten thousands of doctors and scientists world wide keep failing at it. The alternative medicine community is full of quacks.

People are trying to profit from it. Some of those sites and others, promote 'advances' on the diet, which cost money, some more than others.

But it isn't a diet. It's more a treatment for several major conditions.

Simplicity is not a serious objection.

Who would have thought that eating limes or sauerkraut would cure, absolutely cure, that horrendous disease known as scurvy? It's a hideous disease, and killed thousands of sailors before they found out that the cure is so simple.

I guess the drug companies stopped her getting that Nobel prize. There would be such huge losses to them, their eyes would water.

But I'm not advocating anything, merely presenting the facts as I know them. If it should so happen that one of us contracts a cancer, then it would be folly not to at least try this.

So bear it in mind, and maybe you or one of your relatives or friends may have need of it, and may yet bless her memory.

 

[Asyncritus]

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(I knew of only one man who lived to normal old age using supplements after being diagnosed with bone cancer decades earlier--- but he caught it in time).

Linus Pauling lived to 93, despite prostate cancer.

He thought that the vitamin C he was taking warded off the disease. He was taking 23/25 grams per day at the time of his death.

 

[tim-from-pa]

The alternative medicine community is full of quacks.

And therein, my friend, is the problem with many so-called natural products and promoters. They push certain products as "natural" and may even have bad ingredients in them. It's sort of like how much of religion became these days, with false teaching. And then, as the saying goes, the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.

Oftentimes you hear of a natural cure (and I'm not necessarily targeting this thread) and they push it like there's none other like it. I often think to myself, Oh boy! Here's another 'natural' product that probably does not work, then when people complain, the FDA gets involved and lumps all natural products as snake oil cures. I hate it when there's big money-making schemes tainting the rest who really use natural remedies to help with illnesses.

The issue is not only the actual natural medicines, but one's attitude how to take them. What they (erroneously) do is take them in place of medications, but nutrition has to be balanced to work. An example was my late father-in-law. In his last days as he convalesced here in our home, I went over his medicines. One was vitamin E. That was for his skin cancer (the doctor told him to take it), then there was some vitamin C for colds. But then I asked him, where's your vitamin A? Your B-complex? Maybe a multivitamin? You see, they only had it half right and and used single nutrients as medicine for a specific cause just as a doctor gives one blood pressure pill for high readings, and another pill for water retention and so forth. He was not getting complete, balanced nutrition. And then when such "natural" remedies "fail", it does not look good for nutrition. Long story short, I balanced his vitamin pills better and he lost 7 pounds in about a month! He was on the chunky side so a little weight loss did not hurt --- plus he perked up quite a bit and lived another 5 years after mom died even though he was 7 years older than her. He just about hit 90 when he passed. Even I was surprised! He was as sick as a dog with bronchitis when he came over, and I thought then he had a month to live then.

 

[Mike S]

It's also hard to see how they could cure cancer. If they could, then the drug companies would be all over it trying to find the active ingredients in the oil and the cheese, so they could use them to make medicines based on them. Do you have any idea how rich the person could become who figured that out?

The TOG​

I don't care if it doesn't cure cancer, it still seems like a good healthy mixture to me.