Here is a link on how to get LDN: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hepatitis_Children_and_CAM_Alternatives/ Here is a science paper detailing the mode of action of LDN: http://www.ldn4cancer.com/techpapers/ldn_for_disease_prevention_quality_of_life.pdf Be well with LDN! sunangel   [End]
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I know that a lot of people on this board are like me - they have a natural, and healthy distrust of pharmaceutical drugs. Interferon (for my hep c) about killed me and failed to clear the virus. I went on a 10 week juice fast to detoxify afterward, and that saved my life (posted on this board earlier). I am deeply entrenched in holistic methods and practices. But we should have open minds, not closed minds, and there is an exception to every rule. I AM TELLING YOU, LDN IS THE EXCEPTION. Despite being a loud advocate for natural healing techniques, I have a medical education. I under ...
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Three and half months ago I started taking LDN. My starting viral load was 1.6 million. Three and a half months later, it is 58 thousand. Even if the virus is not completely defeated, this is valuable time for me to heal the liver in the absence of high viral counts. I call LDN the Holistic Drug because, while still a pharmaceutical drug, it is given in a homeopathic dose and it works to strengthen the whole immune system by increasing production of endorphins and enkephalins (endogenous cell messenger opiods). Because of its mode of action it works very well with supplements and diet m ...
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I also have hep c geno 1a. I’m 55, and juice a lot, have had hep c for 35 years or so. I took interferon and it nearly destroyed me. I cleansed and juice dieted for three years after interferon to get to where I am at now. I go to a top notch MD who collaborated in orthomolecular nutrition http://www.orthomolecular.org with the legendary Abram Hofer. We do intravenous lipoic acid, phoshphatidylcholine (reverses fibrosis), glutathione and megadose vitamin c, along with oral supplements. He also just put me on Low Dose Naltrexone http://www.losdosenaltrexone.org . The LDN is the ...
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Hi Gladiola, I can only give you my advice based on my own experiences. No two people react the same. But, in general, the three things to face for you are: 1. viral activity measured by pcr. This means the amounts of viral particles in your bloodstream. Ideally you should try to get the numbers down. Interferon therapy tries solely to target the viral particles, at the cost of everything else. Holistic therapy tries to strengthen the body’s immune system to deal with the virus. 2. Amount of fibrosis, or cirhosis. It is now acnowledged (a new development for the medical establishme ...
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You can easily get by with just the Champion juicer. You just get more yield when you add a hydraulic press. Your liver is responsible for the metabolism of all food groups - fats, sugars and proteins. But meat proteins are hard to digest and hard for your liver to deal with . The beginning of the end for hep c patients is when the ammonia from protein floods the bloodstream, taking the pH of the blood out of range and resulting in dementia. These episodes recur until you one kills you. The idea of restricting protein is basically to give your poor liver a rest. A macrobiotic diet is ...
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Is there a reason not to take both LDN and oleander? LDN seems to be complementary with a lot of nutritional therapies, for instance alpha lipoic acid. My doc has me on a variety of nutrient supplements - phophatidyl choline, ALA, herbal antioxidants, vegetarian proteases, etc. Also juicing and exercise and macrobiotic diet. I had come to the conclusion that complementary therapies were a crock because holistic techniques work to cleanse and detoxify, which is the diametrical opposite of taking drugs, which are toxins. However, because LDN works by stimulating the body’s immune syste ...
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Good point - I fixed it Thanks - Mike   [End]
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Candace Pert, PhD, in her excellent book, Molecules of Emotion, chronicles her discovery of the endorphin receptor, the first one discovered that won her team the Nobel Prize (now there are over fifty identified cell messengers and receptors). She went on to describe how her research led her way out of mainstream medical thought. She expressed great hope that something just like this would be researched. However, her research grant was turned down after initially being accepted, going instead to research on more traditional cancer drugs. So, hundreds of billions of dollars of charitable ...
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Hi, I just posted about this in the above post (Everyone needs to see this). All the pertinent info is at: http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org My prescriiption is coming in the mail - and I am totally against drugs. This stuff doesn’t work like a drug though. I hope this is helpful. The website is mind-blowing, and main stream medical at the same time. sunangel   [End]
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I have to tell you a story. I just visited a very good holistic guy that is an MD. He wrote me a prescriiption for a drug call naltrexone. Naltrexone is a drug that they give to junkies. It is a competitive inhibitor to endorphin, which means that it fills the cell membrane receptor sites that endorphin binds to. They give a high 50 mg dose. So all the sites get filled and when they shoot heroin they don’t get high. Someone started playing around with low doses - 4 mg, which is almost a homeopathic dose. Here’s what happens: the small amounts of the drug bind to some of the cell recepto ...
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Well, you can reproduce the same process by using a champion juicer, which is the same cold grinder and runs about $200 and get a hydraulic press for $150. I think you can get them at the gerson institute website. Then buy filter cloth bags from the Norwalk people and you are ready to go. The hydraulic press is good because you will get more juice out of the pulp than just using a regular champion. But the champion by itself will give you the same qualtiy as a norwalk. The produce is more expensive than regular food though. I hope this helps!   [End]
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Yeah, So to re-cap, the Gerson diet has very little protein. They also exclude all fats and oils except flax oil. I adapted my program and its similarities are the points just mentioned low fat and protein and the use of regular and prolonged juicing. The types of food I eat is much more varied than the Gerson protocol. I go for almost all whole foods, but I also avoid all oils and go light on protein, but I eat some protein in my food because I have a greater requirement due to exercise. I recommend grinding flax seeds in a coffee grinder and putting it on salads rather than the oil. ...
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Good for you! It’s an adventure, but you’ll never higher! The best juicer is a norwalk, but a champion is next best. If you buy a hydraulic press from the gerson site they (champion plus press) simulate the same action as a norwalk. And yes, he did juice raw calves liver. But his institute stopped it because they ran into campylobacter bacterial contamination that strikes the immunocompromised hard. I know, it happened to me after treament (not from liver juice) because the treatment had destroyed my immune system. Very wise move to cleanse too - the ribavarin in very deep in you, ...
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I’m sorry I just ralized I didn’t answer your enema coffee question, and also the question about carrots and beets. I probably use double the coffee I’m supposed to - it just kind of drifted that way over the last few years. Mainly because the buzz is so good! Much better than drinking it. I use a cup of coffee for four one pint enemas - one half gallon total, after boiling. I bring the coffee to a boil, and then turn it down to simmer it for fifteen minutes When done I strain the coffec grains out and fill up four one pint mason jars - fill them to the brim with added water to purge th ...
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Hi Phantom I use s.a. wilsons special enema coffee, but regular organic coffee is good too. Here is Wilson’s link:: http://www.sawilsons.com/ He has coffee that is specially selected and he prepares with as little heat as possible in order to grind it. The problem with regular coffee is it is roasted crispy. The darker coffees have been roasted longer. Then, when you drink it, the stomach acids derange the nutrients even further. Not so with the enema coffee. I always use a big dose - more than recommended. I use a cup of coffee to make four pints of coffee - each pint bei ...
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Actually I just switched the red leaf to green leaf and it tastes better. And yeah, my mix is just personal preference. All the green leafies are good. If you go with whole solid foods - fruits and veggies 75% raw, or a good macrobiotic diet plus juice you can get there without fasting, it just takes a little longer. But if you have hep c you might notice, as I do, that blood sugar cravings disappear, anger is not a problem (your sense of humor will be restored and you won’t be grumpy and hateful), and blood clotting improves. Those are the only symptoms that I feel, or am aware of, but wh ...
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I am lucky enough to have a skilled bodyworker. He is trained in myotherapy but he does all my deep tissue massage work. The liver is mainly hidden on the right side under the ribcage but some of it peeks ou from underneath the diaphragm under the strenum down to the right of the ribcage. So part of the liver is accesible to direct pressue and the rib cage can be pummped to compress the liver underneath. All movements are toward the bile duct, and we can feel and hear the bile gurgling out as he does it. You can also do it yourself with a car buffer or massage thumper. But you have to be e ...
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Hi ReikiMaster, I did not juice fast during treatment. But I had done a moderate amount of fasting prior to treatment and ate a clean raw/veggie diet during. I believe that led to problems on drug therapy for this reason: when cleansing your body is working to eliminate toxins. The drugs are toxins and if as you introduce them constantly, you might not necessarily want to induce purging because then there is a collision in the middle. For me that manifested in dermatological problems that were interesting, but incredibly severe and they made me completely miserable. They also forced me ...
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When looking back over this thread I noticed that I appear to give the impression of having great discipline. That is far from the truth. I have copied part of a blog response I gave to someone considering undergoing drug treatment for hep c. It is from a conventional medicine Hep c blog: I personally made the decision to do the therapy and have not regretted it even though it failed. The reason that I did the drug treatment was because I knew that I did not have the discipline to do it naturally. I knew that in order for my liver to purge, not just bile , but down to the actual organ t ...
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Hi Megan, Yes, that is about a quart and a quarter per juicing, three times a day - three heads each of the lettuce, etc. per day. So, I don’t drink any water. This is my program that I have been doing since the long juice fast, which I am doing for the next eight weeks. AM juice, cardio, juice, core, stretch and balance, rest and lunch - raw, cooked, but all whole foods, no fats or oils except from food matrices, very rare animal protein (sushi hound), beans and rice, bee pollen, then pm juicincg and food prep for the next day. Also oatmeal, quinoa, etc. I eat from the whole food palat ...
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The second best option is to use a Champion juicer, which is slow grind and cold process just like a norwalk, but you take the screen plate out and just pulp it. Then you buy a hydraulic press and squeeze the pulp using a norwalk filter bag. You can find the hydraulic press on the Gerson site. I think the press is about $150 US and a Champion is about $180, but don’t quote me on that. This then gives you the same process as a norwalk. And yes, I have a wheat grass juicer, but I like the volume of the other juice, the wheat grass is so concentrated and I can slam a quart and a half of th ...
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Hi, and thanks for the comment. I use a Norwalk Juicer, which was developed by a pioneer of natural healing, Dr. Norman Walker. (Norman Walker believed that everone should live to 120 - he only made it to 112, but was sharp as a tack mentally and physically his whole life, even after 100.) This is the only juicer that Gerson recommended because centrifugal juicers use spinning metal cages that set up powerful magnetic fields that neutralize the enzymes in the juice. Actually he came to that belief when he switched to a centrifugal juicer and his cancer patients took a sudden downturn in he ...
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I am new to this blog but well-versed in holistic and allopathic hep c treatments. I am also trained in zoology and clinical laboratory science (medical technology). I have had hepatitis c for 30 plus years and I am now 55 years old. I have the worst genotype, 1A, and I underwent drug therapy 3 1/2 years ago, but was unable to finish after 12 weeks due to massive dermalogical allergic symptoms. The treatment nearly destroyed me. Six months later I went to the Gerson clinic in Big Bear. That was essential to restoring function to my liver. The Gerson protocol is for cancer, however, its ...
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