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The Natural Prostate Cure
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Chapter 8: Prostate Cancer
Yes, prostate cancer can be and has been cured naturally, without resorting to drugs, surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. Prostate cancer may actually be cured by diet alone. The best book on this subject is Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, which should be re-titled and re-edited, as it is now out of print. Its author, Dirk Benedict, the actor (The A-Team, Battlestar Gallactica, etc.), got prostate cancer in his thirties, at the height of his career. He decided to go on a “macrobiotic” diet and stop eating meat, poultry, eggs, dairy, refined foods, tropical foods, alcohol, coffee, and sugars of any kind.
The doctors wanted to castrate him, which meant he would die anyway, with a terrible quality of life. He thought about this option and decided that the whole-grain diet, and living another fifty years, sounded better than dying a painful, lingering, premature death, with no testicles. He turned his back completely on the doctors, and never looked back. Within seven months he knew he was basically well and would soon be completely cancer-free. Over twenty years later, Dirk is happy, healthy, vibrant, youthful, and the father of two handsome sons. This inspiring book, relating his true-life story, is vitally important to read. It is also important to read such books as Anthony Satarillo’s Recalled By Life (out of print, but at libraries), Mina Dobic’s My Beautiful Life, and Elaine Nussbaum’s Recovery From Cancer on their healings of cancer in the same way.
The most important factor in curing prostate cancer, or any other cancer, is to change your diet and lifestyle and stop eating fats, oils, dairy, poultry, eggs, red meat, sugar and other sweeteners (even honey and maple syrup), tropical foods, hydrogenated oils, preservatives, chemicals, refined foods, coffee, cigarettes, prescription drugs, and alcohol. A diet based on whole grains, beans, most vegetables, some local fruit, soups, salads, and small amounts of seafood (if you are compatible with it), is the way to cure yourself and get well. There are various books available on macrobiotics, especially my Zen Macrobiotics for Americans. There are some fine authors out there who have written good books on natural diet, such as Susan Powter, Robert Pritikin, Gary Null, Dean Ornish, Neal Barnard, Terry Shintani, and others. Unfortunately, the vast majority of diet books are not good at all.
The white European countries have more prostate (and other) cancers largely because of their high-fat and high-calorie diets. Whole grains are hardly eaten anymore especially in Western countries. Whole grains such as rice, wheat, barley and oats are literally the staff of life and have been the dietary basis of most cultures for thousands of years. Part of eating well is also eating as little as possible, with as few calories as possible. Generally, men need only about 1,800 calories per day, women only about 1,200. The Hutchison Cancer Center (Cancer Epi. Bio. Prev. 11, 2002, pp. 719-25) showed that low-calorie diets help cure prostate cancer.
After you have changed your diet, the second most important thing to do is to take all supplements that have been shown to help. Please remember that supplements are always secondary to good diet, and nothing can compensate for not eating well. The supplements recommended in this book are safe, natural, inexpensive, effective, and proven‑ in medical journals around the world‑ to support good prostate health.
The third step is hormone balancing. Saliva testing of hormones is the greatest medical breakthrough in the last decade, yet most of the public are completely unaware of it, as are medical professionals. Doctors rarely test hormone levels, and when they do, they use unnecessary, expensive, invasive blood testing. Hormones are very powerful, are not to be used casually, and should not be taken without first testing the body’s levels. Hormone testing will become very mainstream in the near future. DHEA, testosterone, pregnenolone, progesterone, melatonin, thyroid (T3 and T4), GH (growth hormone), and cortisol levels are all critical to good prostate health. If you wish to maintain the youthful hormonal levels you had in your thirties, you can use a hormone supplement and monitor your levels every six months with another saliva test.
Fasting is powerful in healing cancer, and even if accomplished just one day per week (supper one day to supper the next day on water only) can change your health completely. Fasting is literally THE most powerful healing method known. Some fine books on fasting have been written by Paul Bragg, Joel Fuhrman, Eve Adamson, Nathaniel Bronner, and Alan Cott. Please remember that true fasting means nothing but water. Prayer is also effective if you have any religious orientation. It is the sincerity of your prayer that counts. Faith is simply trust in the unknown, and trust can and does move mountains.
If you feel you can’t fast and go without food, then go on a diet of, say, only brown rice for a period of time. You can also go on a low calorie, soup-only diet. Soon you will be able to fast one day a week, from dinner to dinner, with no problem. People think of fasting as starvation, deprivation, and hunger. Actually, hunger pangs generally go away after the second day, and a feeling of lightness, elation, and joy take over. This is a most powerful healing method, which also develops character and spirituality.
Recently, a theory called “complementary medicine” has been popularized which uses both traditional allopathic (treat only the symptom) and natural (treat only the cause) medicines. You cannot go north and south at the same time, and you cannot successfully use opposing methods of healing. The best way to get well is to use allopathic medicine ONLY for the incredible diagnostic techniques it employs. You then have a choice of completely avoiding radiation, chemotherapy, prescription drugs, and surgery. These medical methods merely disguise your symptoms and ignore the causes of your illness. Use natural treatments to deal with the very cause of your illness. If you have already had allopathic treatments it may not be too late for you to use natural methods to get well and overcome the very negative and destructive effects of the previous medical treatments.
My favorite success story of healing prostate cancer, naturally, comes from my friend Laddie who, in his fifties, found he had prostate cancer. It was verified by biopsy, and the diagnosis was that he would probably be dead within five years, no matter how many medical treatments he underwent. He said he would rather die of cancer than undergo such torture. His wife, Monica, was determined not to be a widow, and looked into the natural healing of cancer. She read up on macrobiotics and immediately put Laddie on a diet of whole grains, beans, most vegetables, local fruits, and some seafood. All his life, Laddie had eaten meat, eggs, poultry, dairy, sugar, alcohol, coffee, refined foods - the usual American diet. He decided it was time to change what he ate. Monica made his meals every day, packed his lunch, and made sure he stayed with the diet, and didn’t deviate.
Laddie bought all the supplements recommended in this book, and took them every day. Taking supplements was the easy part. They were a fraction of the cost of the toxic prescription drugs he would have used otherwise. He took melatonin and pregnenolone, and used transdermal progesterone cream daily. By using a saliva test, he discovered that his testosterone and DHEA levels were both low. Laddie went against the doctors who believe testosterone is bad for the prostate and increases cancer growth. He took over-the-counter androstenedione to raise his low levels of testosterone, and also took 25 mg of DHEA.
Laddie had never gone without food for more than twelve hours in his life. He started fasting for twenty-four hours, once a week, by skipping breakfast and lunch every Saturday. He also started going on occasional two-day fasts. He knew he was getting well because he FELT better. You could just look at him and see he was getting healthier month-by-month. His friends and relatives felt pity for him and thought that he was in extreme denial. Laddie lost weight, his complexion was clearer, he had more energy, and he simply looked and felt better. His original doctor became very upset as Laddie got healthier and healthier every month, refusing all traditional medical treatments, and telling the doctor that he had raised his testosterone and was taking four other natural hormones. The doctor became so frustrated that he stopped seeing Laddie and referred him to a colleague.
After less than eight months, Laddie knew in his heart he was well. He had never felt or looked better in his life. His PSA reading was down to 0.4, after being over 10.0; normal for a man his age is about 3.0. The second doctor verified he could no longer find any evidence of cancer in Laddie’s body. He tried to tell Laddie that there must have been a “mistake” and that he never had cancer, but Laddie showed him the original laboratory biopsy results. Today, Laddie is a happy, healthy, and thankful man. He eats well, takes most of the supplements, takes all his hormones, and monitors their levels once a year. He still fasts once a week- to celebrate being alive.
Bob Young is a seventy-five-year-old blind jazz musician who lives in New Jersey. Bob was diagnosed with prostate cancer over eleven years ago and refused the conventional medical treatments. He heard one of my radio shows and finally tracked me down on the phone. Since he couldn’t read I sent him some audio tapes to listen to and spoke with him over the phone. His aides also read him my books regularly. He changed his diet and quit eating meat, eggs, poultry and all dairy products. He started eating whole grains and other natural foods. He took all the suggested supplements and tested his basic hormones. Surprisingly his medical doctor was very supportive of his alternative treatment and helped him test his hormones. It took two years because of his advanced, long-term tumor growth and his age, but he finally was diagnosed cancer free both by MRI and sonogram. He enjoys his natural food diet and still takes over a dozen supplements every day and keeps his hormones in balance. Bob is looking forward to another good ten years of life and plays in his jazz band weekly. If an elderly blind man can cure his cancer by changing his life then you can, too. Bob is an inspiration to anyone with a serious illness.
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