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Seed Cracker Recipe Video

https://youtu.be/W7aBPnDq_a8 Recipe I use raw, unsalted, organic ingredients from my local food coop, whenever possible. Otherwise, I shop at a local supermarket that carries various natural...

ASCO 40th (2004)

Breast Cancer and Targeted Therapies I attended the 40th annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The meeting coincided with my 30th anniversary in the cancer field,...

Surprising Power of Supermarket Mushrooms

What about button Mushrooms? Most readers have heard about the healing powers of exotic medicinal mushrooms, such as reishi, shiitake, and maitake. But what about the white button mushroom...

Vitamin D Question

Conflicting Opinions Most medical authorities agree that the majority of people would benefit from a vitamin D supplement but there are a lot of conflicting opinions about what constitutes the...

History of the Vitamin C Controversy

History of the Vitamin C ControversyKedar N. Prasad, Ph.D, author of Fighting Cancer with Vitamins and Antioxidants, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,...

Do B Vitamins Interfere with Chemo?

Supplementation with Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) and Vitamin B12 Supplementation with folic acid (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 midway through a major clinical trial lessened toxicity from the drug...

Treatment of Premalignant Lesions with Vitamin A

Leukoplakia or Erythroplakia If you have any of the premalignant conditions (such as leukoplakia or erythroplakia) you should ask your doctor about the use of vitamin A or vitamin A analogs...

Vitamins C, E, and Glutathione with Cisplatin

An Exploration There are presently over 170 peer-reviewed articles on the topic of ascorbic acid and cisplatin. For instance, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can protect against the toxic effects of...

Intravenous Vitamin C

In the News AgainA study carried out by a research team from the Harvard School of Public Health and published July 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine (Fawzi, WW, 2004) showed that a...

Vitamin E – Mixed Tocopherols

Questions of Safety Questions have been raised about the safety of taking vitamin E capsules. In 2005, scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, stated that people who took high doses of...

Selenium

Trace Mineral and NutrientSelenium is a trace mineral that functions as a nutrient in the human body. It also has significant anticancer activity. The inclusion of Brazil nuts (Bertholletia...

More Praise for Vitamin C

Small Change, Large Effect Boosting your daily intake of fruit and vegetables could help protect you against cancer  and heart disease, according to a new study from Cambridge University,...

Vitamins Can Prevent Stomach Cancer

Vitamin C and Beta-Carotene It was a pleasant surprise to see the National Cancer Institute stating that vitamin C and beta-carotene may prevent stomach cancer. This was the conclusion of a...

Tincture of Vanilla Recipe

Tincture of VanillaOne can also make a tincture of vanilla by inserting several vanilla beans, sliced sideways, into a bottle containing 70 to 100 proof (35% to 50% alcohol) vodka. You want to...

RWM’s Smoothie Recipes

For the background and nutrition information on Ralph's Smoothies, see About Ralph's Smoothies Ralph Moss’ Smoothies: Green, Golden, and Purple Before you begin, you will need: A blender with a...

Chaga Tea Recipe

How to Acquire and Make Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) Tea Chaga is readily available over the Internet, including at Amazon.com. One can buy it in powder form or conveniently in capsules. However, I...

Herbes de Provence Against Aging Recipe

How to Acquire and Make Herbs de Provence Astonishingly, some of the things that we normally have in our gardens or kitchen  cabinets proved to be particularly proficient at inhibiting arNOX....

Mushroom Blend Anticancer Synergy

Mushroom Formula The “Five Mushroom” formula is a powerful way to both enhance the immune system and kill cancer cells. Medicinal mushrooms have a synergistic effect among themselves. For...

Chaga Fungus

A Mass of Mycelium Although often called a mushroom, Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is an unusual parasite that grows on the bark of ‘wounded’ trees (with poorly healed branch stubs), mainly birch...

Conflicts of Supplements with Chemotherapy

Increasingly, we hear about oncologists forbidding patients from using all supplements, claiming that these conflict with prescribed chemotherapy. Nowadays, they may ask for a list of a patient's...

Drug-Herb Interactions

It Started with Grapefruits In 1991, Canadian scientists discovered that the level of certain prescription drugs was affected by drinking grapefruit juice. The drugs were blood pressure...

Is Green Tea or EGCG Dangerous?

Conflict between the Drug 5-FU and Polyphenols?We are often told that there is a conflict between the drug 5-FU and the polyphenols such as EGCG in green tea. Here, too, there is no unanimity...

Melatonin

Cherries, Sleep, and Anti-Cancer The French philosopher René Descartes considered the pineal gland, nestled deep within the brain, to be the “principal seat of the soul…and the place in which all...

Coenzyme Q10

Fat-Soluble Nutritional Factor Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat-soluble nutritional factor, similar to a vitamin. It is normally found in most cells, mainly in the energy-generating bodies called...

Is Curcumin Dangerous?

Alleged Interference with Chemotherapy? There is widespread concern among oncologists that turmeric (curcumin) might interfere with alkylating agents, particularly cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®)....

Prescription for Healthy Skin

Hot Tea with a Twist Another way of using food to prevent cancer is to take hot tea with a twist of lemon. A  recent study showed that people who drink hot tea with a twist of citrus peel have...

Sea Vegetables

An Area of Interest for Scientists There are numerous scientific articles on sea vegetables (proponents object to the term seaweed) and cancer, but few clinical trials. A study from South Korea...

The Power of Synergy

Non-toxic TreatmentSince we advocate the simultaneous use of various non-toxic treatments, we should say a word about synergy. Why do we generally avoid very high doses of each individual...

Teas and Cancer

What are you drinking? According to an increasing number of scientists your daily  beverage of choice should be tea. Black and Oolong tea were standbys for hundreds of  years. Then came the taste...

The Rooibos Cantata

Coffee substitute? In Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Coffee Cantata, the young girl, Lieschen, croons:  "Mm! how sweet coffee tastes, More delicious than a thousand kisses, Mellower than...

Spirulina

Blue-Green Algae (Spirulina platensis)Spirulina is a concentrated food supplement derived from blue-green algae (Spirulina platensis) that grows abundantly in water. It is defined as a “water...

Metatrol and Head and Neck Cancer

Fermented Wheat Germ Extract A clinical trial was carried out at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic of Semmelweis University, Budapest, under the direction of the late Prof. Ottó Ribári...