Dr. Johanna Budwig And her Protocol
Cancer:
A Problem of Right and Wrong Fats & Lack of Sunlight?
A Problem of Right and Wrong Fats & Lack of Sunlight?
What would you think if you heard
someone claim that there is a diet-based protocol centered on the ingestion of
two simple foodstuffs p lus sunlight that has actually helped heal numerous
cases of cancer including saving the so-called terminally ill - some given a
few hours to live!? If you react like many, you will think that this sounds far
too simplistic to be true.
And yet it is.
As Dr Willner, M.D.,
Ph.D. (The Cancer Solution) writes, "Numerous, independent clinical
studies published in major medical journals world-wide confirm Dr. Budwig’s
findings…. Over 40 years ago Dr Budwig presented clear and convincing evidence,
which has been confirmed by hundreds of other related scientific research
papers since, that the essential fatty acids were at the core of the answer to
the cancer problem…You will come to your own conclusions as to why this simple
effective prevention and therapy has not only been ignored—it has been
suppressed!". Or as someone commented, ”Over the years I have been given a
lot of different advice as well, so when I heard about Dr Budwig’s protocol I
too was very sceptical, until I tried it."
Two important pieces
of advice before we start:
1. If you do decide
to follow the Budwig diet & protocol, give it a fair try, meaning that you
follow Dr. Budwig’s instructions to the letter for a while such as at least 1
to 3 months, and then see how you or the patient fares. Dr. Budwig’s instructions
are very strict and include no supplements apart from yeast flakes (and
possibly plant-derived enzymes for fat/protein digestion, with herbs in their
natural form also being ok), daily fresh ground flax seeds etc. etc. You can
read up on all the details on this site.
Apart from the
possible placebo effect she exerted (as any healing professional who instills
confidence in his patients), Dr. Budwig heavily insisted on her instructions
being closely followed since she believed that only in this manner, success
could be reached.
Don’t get misled by
self-proclaimed “Budwig diet experts” who combine her basic flax oil/cottage
cheese with a regime of their own making which supposedly “reinforces” the
Budwig diet. While these regimes may well be effective against cancer and other
diseases, I have seen no documentation as to whether this is true.
2. Healing Cancer
Naturally considers minerals and trace elements and the ubiquitous lack of them
a major player in cancer genesis and healing. The fact that so relatively few
of those who undertake the Budwig protocol today seem to report dramatic
success when compared to the near 100% success rate claimed by Dr. Budwig who
started treating patients decades ago, might (apart from non-compliance with
her instructions) also be related to the reported significant decline in
mineral and trace element (as well as vitamin) content in today’s foods, caused
by soil depletion and inorganic husbandry. So an important piece of advice
would be to look for and incorporate naturally rich sources of mineral and
trace elements in your diet. More inexpensive sources are, apart from
organically grown foodstuffs, particularly seaweeds which I highly recommend
adding.
Dr. Johanna Budwig
(born 30 September 1908, died 19 May 2003, pronounced Yaw-hun-nah Bood-vig), a
seven-times alternative Nobel prize nominee, was a qualified German
pharmacologist, chemist and physicist with a doctorate in physics who worked as
the chief expert-consultant for drugs and fats at the former Bundesanstalt für
Fettforschung (Federal Institute for Fats Research). Described as ”the world's
leading authority on fats and oils”, Dr. Budwig studied in-depth the effect of
hydrogenated and other denatured fats upon human health and found it to be desastrous,
while she discovered the truly “essential” and powerfully healing nature of
essential fatty acids on all manner of degenerative diseases including cancer.
She authored numerous books (among them Cancer - The Problem and
The Solution, Das Fettsyndrom [The Fat Syndrome,
discussing the links between fats and next to all diseases of the heart and
lung as well as cancer], Krebs, ein Fettproblem [Cancer - A Fat Problem, on the
right choice and use of fats], Der Tod des Tumors [The Death of the Tumor], as
well as numerous scientific papers and treatises in which she published her
findings on the critical importance of the right fatty acids and the
deleterious effect of the wrong fats on human health (the use of “wrong fats”
having become widespread since the invention and ubiquitous introduction of the
hydrogenation process in order to extend the shelf life of fats and to create
margarine).
Three of her works
"FlaxOil As A True Aid
Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer, And Other Diseases" (read excerpts here), "The Oil Protein Diet
Cookbook" and the above-mentioned Cancer - The Problem and
The Solution (excerpts here) have been
translated into English. The former, though a slender volume of only about 60
pages, is “packed with the most clear thinking on the genesis of serious
diseases and health recovery” including healing cancer. The fact that so far
solely three of Dr. Budwig’s works are accessible to the English-speaking world
makes it hard; however, to appreciate the true scope and breadth of her
protocol and cancer treatment approach. While the situation is naturally better
for German readers, even these have easy access only to parts of her work since
a number of her books - in fact, the majority - are currently out of print and
much determination is called for to find a copy of these books in second-hand
stores.
As other researchers
who have offered a non-profitable and effective way of healing cancer (or
keeping it under control by preventing metastasis), Dr. Budwig and her work
have been attacked and silenced by vested medical, industrial and
pharmaceutical interests throughout her life. As summarized by Cliff Beckwith
who has kept his prostate cancer under control for over a decade: "Dr.
Budwig to my knowledge had over 1000 documented successes. However, her work
was not popular with the Oncology Industry in Europe. Her ideas would have
meant a lot of losses in the Food Industry [too]; especially in the fats
industry.
My cousin, Richard
Beckwith, called her probably eleven years ago and talked to her about forty
five minutes. She told him that American doctors had come to Germany and been
impressed with her work. Then they wanted to try to work out some way to have
exclusive rights to her methods in the United States and make a lot of money and
she wouldn't do that.
She believed her work was very important and was anxious to see it carried on but no one seemed interested unless they could make a lot of money.
She believed her work was very important and was anxious to see it carried on but no one seemed interested unless they could make a lot of money.
I had Advanced
[prostate] cancer and I could not wait for scientific confirmation and began to
use these ideas immediately. One thing led to another, none of it planned, and
we have seen many folks recover from cancer or have lives greatly extended. A
lot of that information is at www.beckwithfamily.com.
That is all based on anecdotal evidence. Other than the evidence in Dr. Budwig's records [as far as they are available in English] that is all there is. No one is doing any scientific testing. That is done to prove the value of drugs for profit and one cannot patent Flaxseed Oil.
That is all based on anecdotal evidence. Other than the evidence in Dr. Budwig's records [as far as they are available in English] that is all there is. No one is doing any scientific testing. That is done to prove the value of drugs for profit and one cannot patent Flaxseed Oil.
...In my view there
should be enough on those lists [the evidence reported on two Budwig discussion
lists he founded] and what we have seen to at least cause someone really
interested in human welfare to be curious."And it seems likely that apart from financial interests, human failings such as intellectual pride play a part in the silencing and ignoring of Dr. Budwig’s apparently often life-saving discoveries. Cliff Beckwith again: “For the most part one cannot expect the doctors to place any real credibility to the use of FO/CC [flax oil and cottage cheese]. It seems incredible that anything could be successful other than what they are taught in Med school. Imagine the blow to one's ego if it became official that something with which he or she is not familiar would be found to be much better than the things that were studied 10 years to learn.”
In 1952, Dr. Budwig
wrote in a paper entitled On Fat Biology V. Paper Chromatography of Blood
Lipoids, the Tumour Problem and Fat Research: "It is basically proven that
highly unsaturated fatty acids are the heretofore undiscovered decisive factor
in respiratory enzyme function”, i.e. constitute the second part of the
“equation” that nobelist Otto Warburg* had been unable to find. What sounds
insignificant to the layman’s ears is arguably one of the greatest
breakthroughs in medicinal science: from that moment onward we have known that
the highly unsaturated fatty acid is the decisive factor achieving the desired
effect of cellular respiratory stimulation. Working in conjunction with
sulfurated amino acids (protein), the highly unsaturated fatty acid plays a
part, even the critical part, in the ”bridging” taking place between fats and
protein, in the absorption AND utilization of oxygen, in all growth processes,
in the formation of blood and in many other processes. Working from this
theory, Dr. Budwig was able to help a great many cancer patients with the
scientific oil-protein diet of flaxoil plus cottage cheese she designed (the
“Budwig diet”), which allows cancer cells to start ”breathing” again. A few
physicians followed in her footsteps, such as Dr. Dan C. Roehm from Florida or
Dr. Robert E. Willner (Miami).
Based upon her
research findings, Dr. Budwig was not only against processed foods and
supplements (no pills) but also against chemotherapy, radiation and drugs, and in a less
categorical manner, surgery (see interview). And, rare as that
may be, she also was aware of the critical importance of sunlight as well as the spiritual, mental and emotional factors in healing
cancer and other illness. That said and as hinted at above, it is important to
keep in mind that the fuller details of her published thought on healing cancer
are not currently known/accessible in the English- and most of the
German-speaking world, thus making all efforts presently undertaken at
implementing and spreading the word about Dr. Budwig’s discoveries in English a
grassroots movement liable to be enlarged as more details become known to the
general public via correctly translated editions of more of her books.
* Dr. Otto Warburg,
twice Nobel Laureate, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in
1931 for his research on cellular respiration, explains: “The growth of cancer
cells is initiated by a relative lack of oxygen. Cancer cannot live in an
oxygen-rich environment...Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the
replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body’s cells by an anaerobic
(i.e., oxygen deficient) cell respiration.” Going into greater detail in The
Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer, he writes: “...the cause of cancer is no
longer a mystery, we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its
oxygen requirements. Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary
causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a
few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of
oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar. All normal body cells
meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet
their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are
thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes.” Compare
Otto
Warburg On The Prime Cause & Prevention of Cancer: Respiration of Oxygen
in Normal Body Cells vs. Fermentation of Sugar in Cancer Cells.
The basis of Dr.
Budwig’s diet or protocol is the ingestion of a special oil-protein mixture in
the form of organic cold-pressed flaxseed oil plus cottage cheese or “quark” (a
dairy product readily available in German-speaking countries made from various
types of milk and roughly similar to cottage cheese), to balance an oversupply
of omega 6 fatty acids and hydrogenated fats in the Western diet and to provide
an immediately available abundant supply of essential omega 3 acids. Of all
plant oils, flax oil is the richest source of these omega 3 acids (naturally
occurring variations not considered, 100 g of oil contain 72g of
polyunsaturated fatty acids, 54g of which are omega 3 acids). This oil is
combined with protein (or more precisely, sulphurated amino acids** such as
liberally found in quark/cottage cheese) to allow the highly unsaturated fatty
acids to become water-soluble, thus bypassing the need for an (often) diseased
or impaired liver to break down the unsatured fat by its own efforts. Quote:
“The lipotropic protein connections, e.g. Cystein, as they are found in ...
cottage cheese or nuts are able to make water-soluble the ...highly unsaturated
fatty acids in seed oils. And that is what matters. When you mix together ...
cottage cheese and linseed oil in your blender the fat becomes water-soluble”
and thereby immediately available for use by the body. In this manner, the
necessary “spark plugs” are provided for cells to “breathe”, optimally detoxify
and function, even more so when additionally combining the flax oil cottage
cheese mix with an optimised sugar-free diet devoid of respiratory poisons
[substances which inhibit cellular respiration] but containing much raw organic
food (compare excerpts from Dr. Budwig’s Flax
Oil As A True Aid and Nutrition page).
Dr. Budwig’s diet
(which, when properly applied, is an entire protocol and involves not only
ingestion of the above oil-protein mixture, but also a healthy minimally
processed vegetarian diet, freshly ground
flaxseeds, sunlight, stress management, “Eldi” oils, etc.*, has
literally pulled people back from death’s doorstep. Based on this evidence and
its ease of implementation, it may be the quickest and easiest move to take for
many stricken with a cancer challenge and/or those who are looking for an often
fast-working approach to health recovery. In fact, eminent alternative &
conventional cancer treatment researcher Lothar Hirneise considers Dr.
Johanna Budwig’s protocol the indispensable nutritional basis of any healing
plan for cancer patients.
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| Origional Prescription by Dr. Johanna Budwig |
While Dr. Johanna
Budwig’s proposed diet and basic protocol IS easy to implement in daily life
(see Dr. Johanna Budwig: The
practical implementation of my oil-protein diet), and for “how-to”
details on the Budwig diet, start with Making the Flaxseed Oil
plus Cottage Cheese or Quark Mixture. Budwig Linomel Breakfast
Muesli Recipe, Oleolux Recipe, Quark-Flax Oil Mayonnaise
Recipe as well as the very extensive Budwig Diet & Protocol
FAQ
I have compiled from an authentic Budwig source currently available in English
as well as the 14 original German-language books by Dr. Budwig I own), the
subject of fats and fats metabolism is rather complex and possibly far from
fully understood by scientists today. To facilite both a deeper understanding
of this area and the implementation of Dr. Budwig’s natural cancer treatment
and healing protocol if you are so inclined, I have compiled a file containing
both further “how-to” information on the Budwig diet and protocol and general
and scientific information on fats & essential fatty acids plus related
subjects gleaned from various websites. I have edited the information for link
and other accuracy as well as obvious redundancy. Additionally, I have included
links to further ”fat”, ”flax oil” and ”Budwig” reference pages and a
tabulation of the unsaturated fatty acid content of various oils.
Article from great web site about Budwig Protocol http://www.heallingcancernaturally.com please, visit this site.
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