How Do You See and Treat Cancer Patients in Naturopathic Oncology
Naturopathy
is a system based on the prevention and treatment of disease by not
harming the body, by using natural means and employing techniques
that come from nature. The number one priority is to diagnose and
treat the disease as well as the patient. In Naturopathy treating a
disease is considered a Healing Art which means the doctor must
combine experience, wisdom, intuition and knowledge and offer the
best treatment and remedies that may cure his patient. Naturopathy is
universally recognized as a form of medicine thus the term
Naturopathic Medicine and Naturopathic Physician requires a 4-5 year
curriculum in a recognized college of Naturopathy, but real life
experience and knowledge can only found within each practitioner and
does not come from schooling alone.
It
takes years and even decades before you can really understand what
cancer means and treat cancer patients with success. Even after 50
years I am still learning. Whenever I have a cancer patient in
front of me my mind immediately reacts to classify him from several
aspects: First his age, appearance, physical condition. Then I study
his eyes and look to understand his behavior. Women are usually under
high stress and psychic shock from their first diagnostic, then
surgery and worse going to chemotherapy. Usually there are three
different phases of heavy stress without much comfort received during
medical consultation and during the buildup of the conventional
anti-cancer protocol. With most cancer patients I need to spend more
time with emotional and even spiritual priorities since they are
feeling lost and afraid to die. I always take the time to influence
them positively and teach them that he should be the winner and not
the loser. We give them appropriate writings to read that help to
accept their condition and feel confident.
Then
when you have in hand all the medical reports, the next step for me
is to understand why the patient has a cancer, what is the
hereditary condition, constitution, organ body functions etc... You
cannot only see cancer as a cellular disease since other factors are
probably associated and we know that terrain plays a key role the
same as the nervous system, the liver and the colon. A bad nervous
system is always negative for the patient since it reduces the
capacity of the body to fight and it increases the risk of metastases
spread. I confirm this with Iridology and sometimes perform a brain
chemistry analysis to profile the neurotransmitters.
The
state of body's intoxication is also important to monitor. I always
use a very interesting approach with the science of Iridology or iris
examination, a science that I mastered over the past 50 years having
devoted considerable time in order to detect the various signs
associated with cancer profiles. I even developed a breast cancer
iris profile chart to memorize what the iris can show.
Afterwards
I take a Live Blood Microscopy Analysis to profile the nutritional
status of the patient, oxidative stress condition, any abnormal
condition such as oxidized lipids, platelet aggregation, fungal and
bacterial invasion which are often visible in the blood of a cancer
patient. We have to remember diagnosed cancer patients always suffer
from malnutrition, bowel dysfunction and often a bad nervous system
as observed in their iris, which indeed is reflected in the Live
Blood Analysis observation. We also use the oxidative dried blood
test that to me is very important to define the inflammation stage of
the disease.
I
spent 38 years perfecting this test that I detail in my new book,
Health and Disease Begin in the Colon. For each patient
I administer a physical and psychological assessment questionnaire
with a score ranging from 0 to 5, which are applied to different
questions regarding pain, fatigue, appetite , anxiety etc..
We
then have three basic important approaches to the disease and the
patient. Next comes the molecular markers testing suggested for
patients, especially the P53 tumor suppressor gene for a eventual
mutation of the P53 gene which is associated with every step of tumor
growth and metastasis invasion, and other pro-apoptotic and
anti-apoptotic players. Here we just look at the cell, the Cellular
cycle and know exactly the about the activity of genes and oncogenes.
It serves as a diagnostic, prognostic and follow up of the treatment.
Now we have a full picture of the disease and patient condition,
nutritional need, emotional behavior where we can start a
personalized treatment since each patient's condition is different
from another, especially at the molecular level and their unique
terrain.
We
advise the patient about the anticancer diet he needs to follow. In
this case food acts as medicine. Over the past 50 years I developed a
number of
Dr. Jurasunas with a long term patient and her children
diets
based on my study, experience and results obtained with my patients.
Little by little you find what combination of food is best. In the
beginning I learned nutrition, detox and cancer diet from Dr. Bernard
Jensen and Max Gerson, as well as other pioneers, starting during
1964-1967. I was mainly influenced by Bernard Jensen and later found
out about the work of Dr. Max Gerson. This is the way I started,
later on going to Germany to learn about food that can reactivate
cellular respiration. Over the past few years I have done intensive
study focusing on a variety of natural bioactive agents, vegetables,
fruits, herbal teas that have been extensively studied for their
chemopreventive and targeting properties on a cellular level inducing
apoptosis,blocking up angiogenesis, decreasing inflammatory mediators
and stimulating the immune system. BcL2 for instance is an oncogene
usually over-expressed in most cancers and responsible for cancer
cell resistance to apoptosis and chemotherapy. You can use a wide
range of bioactive agents such as curcumin, resveratrol, apigenin,
green propolis, Maitake, ginseng, and fish peptides that target most
of the genes and even may reactivate mutant P53 to normal function.
Rice bran arabynoxilan (RBAC) from bran rice extract (Biobran) is one
compound that I have used over 20 years which acts as a strong
Biological Response Modifier activating NK cells, dendritic cells and
stimulation of macrophages for example. NK cells in cancer patients
are usually activated to 10-30% of their capacity compared to a
healthy person. Biobran reactivates the production of the enzymes
perforin and granzymes that directly kill cancer cells. I have
published several of my lectures where I explain in detail the
anticancer property of Biobran. Shark cartilage molecules are very
efficient in shrinking tumors by blocking off the tumor's
vascularization. Of course we use other anticancer agents like the
Tegaran compound that targets the cancer cell cycle in every
direction. The aim of our treatment is first to increase the
resistance of the patient to chemotherapy side effects, to maximize
response to chemotherapy and obtain a much better result. The patient
may need some support for his nervous tension, anxiety and here
supplementation may really help.
The
bedrock of my method is always based upon the intake of enzyme yeast
cell preparation made from fresh yeast that contains all the
ingredients that our body needs, especially to regenerate
mitochondrial function, increase energy level and body resistance.
See my lecture, “The Clinical Evidence of Cellular Respiration in
the Treatment of Cancer”, published in the Townsend Letter
magazine.
Sometimes
I will prescribe the Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) to boost energy
and fight severe anemia from chemotherapy. Sometimes it may even save
life of patients, I have several examples. This also supports the
nutritional needs of cancer patients and modifies blood status as
observed with the LBA. We cannot forget detoxification and on this
level, enzyme yeast cells and chlorella seem the perfect combination.
Currently I am writing a course on immunonutrition including Detox,
to be made available for doctors. My new book, Health and
Disease Begin in the Colon Featuring Prof. Serge Jurasunas Natural
Medicine, offers full details on the detoxification methods I
have used over several decades. I especially included a chapter about
enzyme yeast cell and chlorella extract along with special protocols.
I feel this is truly what we call Naturopathic Oncology. My first
article, “Orthomolecular Treatment on Cancer” published in the
Townsend Letter in February, 1999, was the first introduction in the
US to the theory of Otto Warburg and Paul Seeger on cellular
respiration and the enzyme yeast cells preparation. Now one finds
that in every corner of cancer alternative medicine, there is the
question of mitochondrial and cellular respiration.
Of
course we can follow up the result of the treatment to see if it
really works from a scientific standpoint by performing a new
molecular markers testing after 2 months of treatment. This is what I
have been doing with most of my patients over the past decade.
Sometimes we follow up on our patients with such testing for a one
year or even a 2 year period or longer. This is a follow up protocol
where we can always change something in the patient's treatment. The
first thing I work with is the P53 tumor suppressor gene and mutated
P53 in patient with resistant cancer cells. I managed to develop a
treatment that reverses the mutation which was my first victory
published in the Townsend Letter.
Therefore
I introduced in my treatment a method that belongs to molecular
medicine associated with Naturopathic methods which really may be
considered Naturopathic Oncology. But patients can continue to take
the other tests I mentioned every few months, but usually they all
start to feel better. We even have seen multiple large secondary
lesions to the lung, liver and ganglions reduced up to 80% after 3
months of treatment, and an 18 cm stomach tumor eliminated without
surgery from our applied treatment as a support to chemotherapy.
There are so many other examples that
show how we can obtain a much better result, increasing chemotherapy
effectiveness by increasing apoptosis,immune surveillance and by
targeting angiogenesis, of course treating other side of the patient
as detox, bowel function etc. Some of my patients treated some
15-20-30 years ago are still thriving today, feeling healthy with no
recurrence. This includes breast, colon, stomach cancer, leukemia,
and lymphoma. If you look in my book you will find detailed
information. I especially offer real life examples, (many
illustrated) of cancer patients that I have treated during my career.
This
is never easy since your patient is not only a tumor, but a human
being that often suffers and fights for his or her life. Sometimes
the patient is more difficult to handle than the disease itself and
it takes considerable time. Much of ones energy is devoted to trying
to help the patient and change his behavior and attitude where often
I obtained success. One day I decided to create a Mind-Body Institute
in my clinic and set up monthly meetings with a group of cancer
patients, offering helpful lectures. My patients in remission,
already in good health were presenting their own successful cases
describing their own fight telling how they overcame their cancer
disease which motivated and often helped newcomers, sometimes
desperate. This became a real success
How
to treat cancer from a Naturopathic Oncology viewpoint probably
needs a higher level in the way to approach the patient, to
understand what cancer is from every point of view, cellular as well
as the whole body so as especially build up an individualized
protocol that includes anticancer agents that have demonstrated
strong efficiency in-vitro and in-vivo in both animal and human
models. For instance Biobran can enter into this category having been
well documented over the past twenty years.
My
book serves as a bridge between Naturopathy and Molecular medicine
and of course it is also based on Iridology since I also have spent
several decades on the iris examination of cancer patients. Besides
this information I also present a series of very interesting iris
cases related to cancer disease.
Looking
into the iris gives you a good idea about your patient, his genetic
status and often why there is a cancer. I manage to associate
iridology and molecular markers testing so here you really have a
bridge from Hippocrates to cellular theory explaining how the cells
and work both empirically but additionally based on scientific
factual observation.
My
latest article in Townsend Letter of January 2017, “Health and
Disease by Iris Examination”, is well illustrated and serves as a
real guide explaining the advantages of Iridology which to me should
be included in a course on Naturopathic Oncology.
Serge
Jurasunas
Professor
of Naturopathic Oncology.
