Cliff B.
The husband of a woman in our Sunday School class had known something was wrong for three years but wouldn't go to the doctor to confirm it. Finally he was diagnosed with very advanced colon cancer. We visited the family in the hospital one day when he was not expected to live through the night. However, he did get home and began to use Flax oil, but not a lot. He did not like cottage cheese. One day the oncologist asked him to come in for a check up to see how much the tumors were growing. They were not growing, there was no pain, and he had a good appetite. He felt good enough to work on a fence and drive his pick-up a little. He quit using even what little oil he did use because he didn't like cottage cheese and two years later he died from colon cancer.
from: A Tape Transcription by Clifford Beckwith
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In 1994, through another
cousin, I became reacquainted with my cousin Emily whom I had not seen
since 1942. Her husband Bill had had colon cancer for at least two years.
Part of the colon was removed and he'd had a lot of chemo and perhaps
radiation. At the time we were reacquainted, Bill's liver had become heavily
involved.
Bill and Emily were studying and using nutritional approaches and Bill
began to use Flaxseed oil and began to show improvement. He developed
a fever and Emily became alarmed and called the doctor. He scolded Emily
for not calling him sooner and put Bill back in the hospital. Emily tried
to smuggle Flaxseed oil and cottage cheese in to Bill and succeeded for
a while but the doctor caught her and wouldn't let her do it anymore.
Bill stayed in the hospital for several months and went downhill. Finally
he was sent home to die and was put under hospice care. Now Emily could
use the oil and try to get Bill well. She ran into a lot of opposition
from the medical workers. Once the nurse put her arm around Emily and
said, "Emily, you've got to prepare yourself, you know Bill's going
to die," and again, "can he still eat? Is he constipated yet?
You know he will be."
One day Bill had a bad day and didn't get out of bed. The nurse said,
"He'll never get up again." The next morning Bill was downstairs
having a good breakfast. Perhaps the worst problem was the insistence
on trying to keep Bill sedated. Emily would say, "But Bill isn't
in pain."
"No, but you know he will be, and we want to keep him comfortable."
Then the hospice workers would tell the doctors that Emily was uncooperative
and she would be scolded.
I have no doubt the medical people had Bill's best interests at heart
as they saw it. By now Bill was addicted to drugs and he let them be given.
Soon he could no longer function and died. The real conflict the last
months was between those who insisted Bill had to die because of standard
expectations with standard treatment and those who thought he had a chance
to recover.
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Tape Transcription by Clifford Beckwith
Dear ....
My best friend died a year & a half ago from cancer at age 48. She was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer & given a few months to live. The doctors advised aggressive use of chemo & radiation. She asked her doctor at Stanford Hospital in California "how many people with my diagnosis have you cured?" His reply "NOT A SINGLE ONE." She was gone within six months despite taking all the toxic treatments & drugs. She suffered to the very end. Nausea, weakness, hair loss etc....On the other hand, my Father-in-law was diagnosed last August with stage four colon cancer. He was given about six months to live. Doctor admitted there is no cure only a chance to extend his life a few months at most if he would submit to chemo & radiation. He rejected chemo & radiation & is just following the Budwig diet. He is only following the main principles of the diet. He is actually following his own modified version much to my dismay. The point is that he is actually getting better! His six months are up in February & he shows no signs of dying anytime soon. His blood pressure has normalized for the first time in years & has remained so for the last five months. His need for blood thinner medication has dropped to the lowest level they can prescribe & doctor has decided to take him off of it for the first time in ten years. His liver shows no signs of failing as doctors expected to see by now (it is the mets to liver that he is expected
to die from). He should be loosing weight by now but he has actually gained weight & has a good appetite. Now the doctor has adjusted his death sentence. He said "This looks like it (the dying) is going to be a very long process!" There must be many more people out there that are beating the odds following this protocol that you will never hear about. If they are following it to the letter I have no doubt they will regain their health & beat cancer. If they are like my FIL making up the rules as they go, I think they just might have a chance to beat it too, or at the very least far outlive their doctors predictions.
I would not recommend that anyone modify or make-up the rules as they go for this diet. Doctor Budwig was a scientist with precise knowledge of why each component should be included in the fight for ones life against cancer. I think it foolhardy of anyone to mess with this highly successful protocol. I feel my father-in-law is looking a gift horse in the mouth. He can see that this diet has made a difference in his health, yet he persists in picking it apart & saying he will eat this, but he wont eat that. At this very critical time when one is fighting a deadly killer inside their body I would think one faced with no hope from the medical community would grab hold of this diet with both hands & not let go for anything. I would think they should say "Thank God for every bite of this life giving, healing food." When the healing is complete one can continue on a "maintenance" diet following the diet but allowing the occasional treat or night out. Until that time I would follow this diet to the letter including all aspects of it if at all possible. Every effort we make can be the difference between regaining our health or loosing the fight. If my FIL does not win this battle against cancer I will not consider the Budwig diet a failure, rather that my FIL failed to fight with every weapon Johanna Budwig gave him to use in this war.
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Message to the FlaxSeedOil2 group:
Thu Jul 6, 2006 6:34 pm
Hello Paul and everyone,
Several months ago I was contacted by a 74 year old lady with
advanced Colon cancer. She'd just had surgery, had no appetite and
sounded very frail. She wanted to know what it was I was doing (to
stay in remission), because a friend had told her about my miraculous
recovery from Stage 1V Ovarian cancer (news gets around in a small
town:-) She asked if I'd stop by her house to chat and to give her
the JB information. I agreed. Upon arriving at her home, I smelled
cigarette smoke. When I asked if she smoked, she nodded but said
she'd stop if she had to. She seemed very enthused about the JB
protocol, so I left her a collection of my notes, Sandra Olsen's
summary of the protocol and JB's book: Flax Oil as a True Aid Against
Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases.
She phone me again a few days later. She'd been off the cigarettes
for a week and needed to ask more questions. Within 20 minutes she
and her grandson were sitting at our kitchen table sipping tea. She
wasn't entirely sure if she'd been mixing everything properly, so I
did a demonstration, then placed the bowl and a spoon in front of
her. She loved it.
She bought the JB cook book and her grandson (a chef) followed the
recipes and cooked all her meals. This lady is a believer in
'alternative' therapies, because she (previously) had cured painful
Arthritis with homeopathy and planned on doing the same thing for her
cancer (she's doing this along with the JB protocol).
After ages, her oncologist, finally decided on the chemo he thought
she should have. When she asked how much longer it would give her,
he said, "About six months!" By this time she'd been following the
JB protocol and was already feeling the benefits of it, so she opted
for 6 months of quality life (using the JB protocol) and refused
debilitating chemo. Her Doctor was not pleased.
She phoned me a couple of weeks ago to say that her CEA (tumor marker
for colon Cancer) had fallen to 3 - well within normal levels which
is 'less than 7' I believe (pre-surgery it was 37 or something). Her
other blood tests have been outstanding.
Her family Dr, in absolute amazement, said, 'Your cancer is gone!'
She walks six miles every day on mountainous roads, has gained weight
and looks fantastic! She has already passed her (tongue-in-cheek)
six month deadline and takes great glee in telling her Dr that.
Another friend, dx with Stage 3 Colon Cancer 4 years ago, follows the
Budwig protocol as I do and she wrote to me recently
saying that the Budwig protocol is her mainstay therapy and that she
absolutely believes in its benefits. She started it after surgery
and chemotherapy - so has been on it for over 3 years. And is STILL
in remission.
I can't leave without telling you I had a great annual check up just
2 days ago. In October it'll be 7 years in remission' for me. My Ca
125 (tumor marker for Ovarian cancer) dropped to 2.1 (normal is
<35). My Doctor's eyebrows lifted - she couldn't believe it!
Sandy L. Canada