Burkitt’s Cancer Discovery

Dennis Burkitt, M.D. of London, England for whom Burkitt’s Lymphoma is named, was one of the world’s most outstanding cancer specialists in medical history. Most of his work was done in Africa during the 1940s. In one of his publications, he reported on a group of American oncologists who visited his hospital in Africa. They left him with a large supply of chemotherapeutic drugs and instructions for use. Dr. Burkitt reported that for the first few years, all his efforts in treating cancer with the drugs ended in the death of his patients with one exception. A young African man was so frightened of the drug, he ran away from the hospital after his first injection and lived in the bush. Several years later, some of the hospital personnel recognized the man, reporting he was alive and well.

From this one survivor, Dr. Burkitt concluded that American chemotherapeutic drugs did have anticancer effects by stimulating the body’s immune system, but the Americans did not know how to use them properly. They were guilty of overkill, of making doses too large and in giving too many dosages, eventually destroying the body’s immune system and ability to heal itself from that point forward. From then on, Dr. Burkitt gave no more than one or two injections of a low dosage; just enough to stimulate the immune system. He then began witnessing recoveries from his cancer patients.

Dr. Burkitt was right. There is never a need to ‘kill’ every last cancer cell. This is impossible, anyway. Many cancer researchers believe all humans are born with cancer cells predisposed in our bodies but they are only able to grow and manifest as tumors when oxygen levels are low due to high levels of toxicity in the body, or when the immune system is impaired.

When fighting cancer or any degenerative disease, try the ‘shot gun approach.’ Investigate every healing methodology you can, both traditional and alternative medicine, and something should work. If you can decipher which method or methods were responsible for your healing success, that’s even better so you will know for sure what to accredit. But if it’s hard to determine if one or a combination of many healing methods was responsible for your healing, then so be it. At least you healed and have a plan to help others. Just remember there are many alternatives to both allopathic and naturopathic cancer remedies.

NUTRITIONAL BACKGROUND FOR DETOXING CANCER

In general, all cancer patients do better if they eliminate red meat during the recovery period. Many cancer patients, probably the majority, have impaired digestion due to either a lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach or a lack of pancreatic digestive enzymes. Both are needed for the proper digestion of meat. If either is lacking, undigested or incomplete digested protein is picked up by the blood, adding toxicity to the body. Undigested protein is highly toxic.

Properly digested protein is not susceptible to anaerobic or putrefactive bacteria. Nonetheless, undigested protein is readily attacked by disease producing bacteria. This creates a series of toxic breakdown by-products, some of which are picked up by the blood, adding to the toxic load in the already diseased body.

There is evidence that all the pancreatic proteolytic (protein digesting) enzyme output is used up in the digestion of protein. None remains to circulate throughout the body where these enzymes can encounter and digest malignant cells or the ‘shell’ built around the cells.

When recovering from cancer, make it easy for your body to digest nutrients, and provide the proper dosage of drugs and cancer treatments to stimulate your immune system.

Posted August 2004 | Permanent Link


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