In the film Healing Cancer from the Inside Out, narrator Mike Anderson explains that carcinogens provide the seeds for cancer, while a diet rich in animal proteins and fats (a typical Western Diet) provides the fertilizer.

To support his arguments, he reminds us that indigenous cultures eating traditional diets have low incidences of cancer. But when they begin eating western diets, cancer rates explode.

In Okinawa, cancer rates are extremely low in the midst of rampant environmental toxicity. When Okinawans immigrate to the United States and consume a Western diet, their cancer rates soar.

Anderson’s final argument is the surprising lack of correlation between smoking rates and lung cancer in the United States. While smoking rates have dropped significantly in the last 50 years, there has been no corresponding decline in lung cancer. Again—carcinogens and toxins are the seeds. Our unhealthy diet provides the fertilizer. Conversely, healthy foods provide the cure.

The Lifecycle of Bile and How the Gallbladder Works

While the following explanation of the gallbladder’s function is very simplistic, it should give an overview that explains the importance of the role bile plays in digestion and toxin removal.

Bile is a bitter, dark green to yellow/brown fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder between meals. The gallbladder concentrates bile’s potency. Bile is discharged to aid in digestion of fat and fat soluble vitamins. Bile is also used to eliminate waste such as excess cholesterol, bilirubin, and toxins.

When we eat fats and proteins, the gallbladder expels stored bile acids into the small intestine where the bile emulsifies fat and fat soluble vitamins, permitting the body to digest fat with pancreatic enzymes called lipase. Up to 95% of the bile is then absorbed back into the blood and transported through the portal vein to the liver. The liver again stores the bile in the gallbladder.

The liver can be easily overwhelmed by a toxic lifestyle. Since the liver uses bile to transport toxins to the kidneys and intestines for elimination, an overburdened body can result in a sluggish liver, kidneys, and gallbladder.

Gallbladder Attack

Gallstones can form in the gallbladder or in the bile duct. There are many theories as to why gallstones form; while it appears there are multiple reasons, a sluggish system seems to play a part in every scenario (this is also true for kidney stones). While conventional doctors often feel that gallstones happen purely by chance, it is apparent all factors that can lead to gallstones are attributed to a toxic and unhealthy lifestyle.

Pain caused by stones in the bile duct or inflammation and swelling of the gallbladder is generally referred to as a gallbladder attack. Conventional medical treatment is removal of the organ.

Without the gallbladder (or if the gallbladder is not functioning properly) the body’s capacity to digest fats and fat soluble vitamins is radically impaired. The body also has a much harder time eliminating toxins. Consequently, excess fat is stored along with toxins. Toxins also circulate throughout the body where they accumulate and cause problems.

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• Natural Remedies for Kidney Stones, Prevention, and What Really Causes them
• Doc Shillington’s Total Body Cleanse

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• Shillington’s Liver & Gallbladder Formula
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The news is not that we are bombarded with cancer causing chemicals in our food, medicine, and our environment, but that the Government’s advisors are actually admitting this.

A recent report from the President’s Cancer Panel, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, is a hard hitting report that calls on America to rethink the way we fight cancer, including, but not limited to, a much more serious regulation of cancer-causing chemicals.

On page five of the report they say, “With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or understudied and largely unregulated, exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is widespread. One such ubiquitous chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), is still found in many consumer products and remains unregulated in the United States, despite the growing link between BPA and several diseases, including various cancers.”

The report also states that only a few of the 80,000 chemicals we use in the U.S. have been tested for safety and “Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.”

Full Report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now

A Simple and Natural Cure for Cancer

Most people dismiss the idea that you can cure any cancer simply, easily, and naturally with a 90% success rate. People in general do not put much faith in alternative medicine or natural cures. Even those who subscribe to the idea of a natural and organic lifestyle tend to dismiss natural cancer treatments, thinking that cancer is too big, too strong, and too deadly for alternative medicine.

Meet Dr. Johanna Budwig

Believe it or not, Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German biochemist with a Ph.D in natural science, cured cancer with a 90% success rate with a very simple, natural, and inexpensive treatment. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in medicine six times.

Dr. Budwig underwent medical training, was schooled in pharmaceutical science, physics, botany, and biology, and was one of the foremost experts in fats. She lived to the ripe old age of 94.

What Have You Got to Lose?

What many people do not know is that most cancers progress very slowly.  Dr. Budwig said that her protocol can restore health to most people in less than three months. Some people have seen cancer completely eradicated in just a few weeks or even days. While conventional doctors typically try to rush their patients into chemotherapy as soon as possible, consider this: cancer typically kills very slowly. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, kills very quickly.

Why not try this alternative cure?

Quark and Flaxseed Oil

Dr. Budwig’s protocol includes a proper diet, which for the unhealthy is likely to be a radical lifestyle change (but so are chemotherapy treatments). Dr. Budwig allows no refined sugars and no animal proteins except for quark (a type of cheese) or cottage cheese.  But the most important part of her program, and certainly the most well known, is the mixture of quark and flaxseed oil.

In the video on the next page, Sandra Olson shows the recipe for the Budwig Protocol. She uses cottage cheese instead of quark.

Fat is fat soluble, which means it has to be processed by bile from the liver and gallbladder. When someone is sick enough to have cancer (or any other inflammatory disease for that matter), their ability to process and absorb fats is drastically reduced. Quark and cottage cheese are rich in sulphurated proteins. When these proteins are mixed with fat, the fat becomes water soluble and no longer needs the liver’s help to be absorbed into the body’s cells. Furthermore, even a healthy body can only assimilated so much fat at once when the fat is not water soluble. Dr. Budwig’s method saturates the body with omega 3 anti-inflammatory fatty acids, a process which oxidizes the cells and restores health at a cellular level.

It’s Not Just for Cancer

Diseases thrive on unhealthy cells and inflammation. In fact, disease is the symptom of unhealthy cells. Raymond Francis put it best, “There is only one disease (malfunctioning cells), and only two causes of disease(nutrition deficiency and toxicity).” Most of our modern diseases from diabetes to cancer to arthritis are inflammatory diseases.

Budwig’s Recipe

You will need organic, cold pressed flaxseed oil and organic quark or organic cottage cheese and a blender (since you are mixing a small amount, an immersion blender works best, or you can use a mixer with a single beater). If you can get cottage cheese or quark made with fresh raw (unpasteurized and non-homogenized) milk, then get it as long as it is organic.

The ratio is 1 tablespoon of flaxseed oil to 2 tablespoons of quark or cottage cheese thoroughly blended so that the oil is no longer visible. Using more quark or cottage cheese is fine, and preferable to not using enough. A total of three to six tablespoons of flaxseed oil a day one is recommended.

Budwig’s Muesli Recipe

Blend 3 Tablespoons of organic flaxseed oil with 6 Tablespoons of low-fat (less than 2%) organic Quark or Cottage Cheese .  Blend until the oil has disappeared. If the mixture is too thick, you can add 1-3 tablespoons of goat’s milk. Do not add water or juice while blending the oil and cheese.

Grind 2 tablespoons of flax seeds and add to the mixture. (Use only freshly ground seeds.)

Mix in 1 teaspoon of raw (non-pasteurized) honey.

Add fruit, nuts or seeds (soak first!), and spices as desired.

Quark Alternatives

Organic cottage cheese can be used in place of quark. Yogurt or kefir can also be used in place of quark but are considered less optimal. The ration is also higher: 3 tablespoons of yogurt or kefir to 1 tablespoon of oil.

Vegan Alternatives

We at OLM tried to find a vegan substitute for quark, but were unsuccessful in finding one high enough in sulphurated protein. There were some vegan sulphurated protein capsules, but the company that we would have recommended quit making them and now we can’t find any available.

Bionatures.com offers “companion nutrients” with sulphurated protein already mixed with flaxseed oil. It should be noted that Dr. Budwig was not a fan of supplements and she believed the quark/oil should be eaten immediately after mixing.

Our Additions

Kill candida and other parasites when trying to eliminate cancer. Rebuild the colon, and clean out the blood.  Eat lots of produce. Checkout the recommended supplements below.

Your Health, Your Responsibility

For more information on Dr. Johanna Budwig, check out Dr. Johanna Budwig’s Healing Diet & Protocol. Also, if you have cancer (or any other disease for that matter), read what Michael Edwards, Editor-in-Chief of OLM would do if he were diagnosed with virtually any disease. The modern medical establishment is a for-profit business. Curing disease naturally is not profitable, but it certainly is possible.

Health can be regained through a combination of an optimal nutrient dense diet, adequate sleep, exercise, and detoxing. If you are wanting to get well, whether you suffer from cancer, diabitits, allergies, migrains, or virtually any other health issue, the first step is repairing the gut. Check out Gluten, Candid, Leaky Gut Symdrome, and Autoimmune Diseases and 

Recommended Reading:

• How to Detoxify From Chemotherapy and Repair the Body
• How to Cure Lyme Disease, and Virtually Any Other Bacterial Infection, Naturally
• What Causes Cronic Inflimmation and How to Stop it for Good
• Gluten, Candid, Leaky Gut Symdrome, and Autoimmune Diseases
• Dr. Max Gerson – Persecuted for Curing Cancer Naturally

Recommended Supplements:

• Organic Whole Flaxseed
• Organic Flaxseed Oil
• SF722 – Thorne Research
• FloraMend – Thorne Research
• Shillington’s Intestinal Cleanse
• Shillington’s Intestinal Detox
• MicroDefense – Pure Encapsulations
• Shillington’s Blood Detox
• Shillington’s Total Nutrition Formula

Cancer treatments have varying survival rates depending on the cancer, the treatment, and how the survival rate is calculated. If you really want to know how successful conventional treatments are at curing cancer, you’ll be hard pressed to find the information.

Cure rates are hard to find. Instead, the medical community publishes 5-year survival rates. If cancer patients die from cancer 5 years and 1 day from the time they were diagnosed, their 5-year survival is still a success to the cancer industry. Furthermore, most cancers are extremely slow moving diseases. If the cancer patient was left untreated, a 5-year survival rate is likely. Proponents of alternative treatments argue that cure rates have not changed in the last 35 years. The 5-year survival rate has improved—but they contend this improvement is due to earlier detection rather than successful medical intervention.

Consider the placebo effect. In 1955 Henry Beecher concluded that between 30 and 40 percent of any treated group would positively respond to a placebo (sugar pill). When new drugs are tested for FDA approval, they go through a placebo test where results are compared to a sugar pill.

New research shows that the placebo success rate may be significantly higher than previously believed, as high as 75%. Furthermore, the bigger the treatment appears to be, the higher the success rate. Patients who believe they underwent surgery experience higher levels of success than those taking a pill.

Chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer has a current 5-year survival rate of 44%. With many other types of cancer, chemotherapy treatment success rates are as low as 1%.

OLM Recommended juicers:

• Hurom Slow Juicer $360
• Omega Vert Juicer $350
• Super Angel All Stainless Steel Twin Gear Juicer $1,000 (no plastic comes in contact with food)
• The Green Star juice extractor $480 to $560 depending on model
• Omega Model 8006 $300
• Norwalk Juicer $2395 (no plastic comes in contact with food)

None of the links above are affiliate links. At some point soon, we plan to put juicers on Green Lifestyle Market. I personally own an older Green Star juice single auger slow juicer.

All of these juicers above produce high-quality nutritious juices. Though this is a lot of money to spend on a juicer, a high-quality juicer is the single most important investment one can make with battling certain diseases like cancer, besides healthy foods of course. Restoring health is priceless!

My two personal favorites are the Omega Vert and the Super Angel, but the Norwalk (left) is often said to be the very best when it comes to nutrition and total juice extraction. I’ve personally used all of the juicers besides the Norwalk. From what I’ve seen on YouTube, if you’re someone who considers time to be very valuable, the Norwalk doesn’t necessarily make sense. It takes much longer to use the juicer properly for maximum yield.

A citrus juice press is also essential for best extraction yield and cleaning time. I personally use the OrangeX Amco Jupiter Mid-Size Commercial Citrus Juicer ($119) and love it.

As I said, I own an older single gear, horizontal juice press, and I also own an OrangeX, and I have used all of the other juicers save the Norwalk, which I know to be a fine machine but it seems a pain in the butt. I plan on purchasing a Super Angel at some point soon. It’s the best I’ve used for all things non-citrus, and there’s the OrangeX for those.

With so many alternative health practitioners talking about essential fatty acids, it’s interesting to see how many of them don’t really know what essential fatty acids are. Most say something like “Omega 3s and Omega 6s are essential fatty acids”. This is an inaccurate statement.

By definition, there are only two essential fatty acids; alpha-linolenic acid (one of many omega-3 fatty acids), and linoleic acid (one of many omega-6 fatty acids). The body can convert these two essential fatty acids into all the other fatty acids the body needs, but the body is not always able to do this adequately for optimum health. For this reason, a wide variety of healthy fats are essential for optimum health.

For more on fat check out our article,  FAT.