How to Starve Cancer with Jane McLelland
Dr. Moss and author Jane McLelland speak about topics in her book "How to Starve Cancer Without Starving Yourself". Learn Ralph’s Mushroom Soup RecipeCoffee and Cancer Transcript Welcome...
Dietary Treatments
How to Make Ralph’s Superior Seed Crackers
Fighting Cancer and T2 Diabetes One Seed Cracker at a Time There are many links between a typical high carbohydrate diet and the high rates of T2 diabetes and cancer (especially in the U.S.A.)...
Eggs and Prostate
A Word to the Wise If you have had prostate cancer (PC), or are at high risk of the disease, it would be prudent to stop eating eggs more than occasionally, especially if you live in North...
The Power of Metabolic Therapy
Outstanding Biologist My good friend, Thomas Seyfried, PhD, an outstanding biologist at Boston College, is senior author on an amazing case report of a complete remission in a patient with...
Maitake, The Dancing Mushroom
Sam Donato, New Jersey mushroom hunter (Photo © 2015 M. B. Moss) Maitake, The Dancing Mushroom I was on a site visit to the ProCure Proton Beam Therapy center in Somerset, NJ, when I took time...
Parsley Component Fights Cancer
Parsley Component Fights Cancer In 1936, Albert Szent-Györgyi, MD, PhD, whose biography I wrote (Free Radical), discovered a class of bioactive compounds that controlled hemorrhaging in certain...
Which Anti-Cancer Botanical Extracts Are Most Effective?
One of the hardest questions to answer is which, out of the many supplements really benefits cancer patients? There are many self-interested statements of benefit, but an inadequate amount of...
Does Dairy Cause or Promote Breast Cancer?
Dairy and Breast Cancer A 1995 prospective study from Norway once showed that a high consumption of whole milk (including cheese) increased the risk of breast cancer: "Consumers of 0.75 litres or...
Does Milk Cause or Promote Prostate Cancer?
Few issues are as contentious as the relationship between milk or dairy products and cancer. There are two vociferous camps claiming, alternately, that milk products are harmful and should...
Israeli Supplement Targets Colon Cancer
Coltect A new food supplement from Israel targets colon and rectal cancer, as well as ulcerative colitis and other bowel diseases. The product, which has yet to hit the world market, is called...
Can Fasting Improve Chemotherapy Results?
Fasting is prescribed in the Bible and is considered a path to physical and spiritual purity. There are books, articles and Web sites that advocate fasting, some of them even for cancer patients....
Modified Citrus Pectin Advances
Modified Citrus Pectin Advances There was a major advance in understanding the effects of modified citrus pectin (MCP) on cancer cells. Scientists at Columbia University published a paper showing...
Is There a Cancer Diet?
An Introduction to Diet and Cancer “Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human [and] have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your...
The Gerson Diet
“Gersonism”: A Worldwide Movement A program with an abiding appeal is the so-called Gerson diet. Max Gerson, M.D., (1881-1959) was a German physician of Jewish origin who fled the Nazis in the...
The Budwig Diet and Cancer— Separating Flax from Fiction
The Budwig Diet is one of the most popular home remedies for cancer. Its most famous ingredient is a mixture of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese. It is thus sometimes also called the Oil Protein...
Ketogenic Diet
The Effects of Ketones on Cancer The NCI defines metabolism as: “The chemical changes that take place in a cell or an organism. These changes make energy and the materials cells and organisms...
“The Grape Cure”
Resveratrol: A powerful Health-Restoring Substance Red grape skins contain a substance called resveratrol. According to John Michael Pezzuto, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the...
High Fiber Diet Boosts Immunotherapy for Cancer
A high fiber diet boosts immunotherapy for cancer. Melanoma patients had a five-fold greater chance of responding to immune checkpoint drugs when they had a diverse gut microbiome. This could...
Macrobiotics and Other Plant-Based Diets
But is it effective? It is worth noting that Prof. T. Colin Campbell, of Cornell University, is not the first, and probably not the last, to advocate a whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB) diet for...
Dietary Compounds That Kill Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)
Natural Agents in the Food We Eat “A small number of malignant cancer stem cells are already enough to ensure a continuous supply of cancer cells. These tumor stem cells are resistant to chemo-...
Flax and Flaxseed Oil
Myth, Reality, and The Budwig Diet A comprehensive review by Bangladeshi scientists showed that flaxseeds (Linum. usitatissimum) contain many constituents, such as omega-3 fatty acids, lignans,...
Diet and Lifestyle – Answering the ACS
Physical Activity, Vitamins and Food ChoicesThe American Cancer Society recommends the following guidelines to prevent cancer, as well as heart disease, and other chronic diseases. We will...
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS on Diet and Nutrition
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS, is a well-known expert in the area of nutrition and cancer. He has 40 years experience as a clinical nutritionist, of which 10 years were spent as the Vice...
NCI and CAPCAM, Macrobiotics
The Olive Branch Bears Fruit On February 28, 2002, I attended a meeting of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAPCAM), of which I am a founding member. The...
Calorie Restriction and Related Topics
Autophagy and “Peak Fasting” The concept of autophagy supports the reason for prolonging the (standard) nightly fast. Toshinori Ohsumi, MD, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
The Gerson Dietary Program
One of the Oldest Alternative Cancer Treatment Programs in the World The Gerson dietary program is one of the oldest alternative cancer treatment programs in the world. It offers patients a...
Indo-Mediterranean Diet Prevents Heart Disease
Dramatic Results for the Indo-Mediterranean Diet A fascinating study on diet appeared in the British medical journal Lancet in November, 2002. This study was prompted by the observation that...
Book Review: “We Want to Live” by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
A Raw Food Diet Michael Schachter, M.D., of Rockland County, New York, who treated many cancer patients, returned from the September 1997 meeting of The Cancer Control Society in Pasadena all...