A Bitter Kernel of Truth for MSKCC
Fifty Years Later, Sloan Kettering Admits There Was Science Behind Laetrile In 1977, I was fired by the famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City for “failing to carry...
Vitamins & Minerals
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: A Special Gift – Film
Editor's Note: When I was 16, I had the memorable experience of visiting Albert Szent-Györgyi with my father, Dr. Ralph W. Moss, who was then at work on the biography Free Radical: Albert...
Multivitamins on Trial: The Verdict from 5.5 Million People
According to U.S. government sources, about half of all Americans, including 70 percent of seniors, take a multivitamin or mineral pill to supplement their food intake (Gahche 2017). But this...
The Vindication of Vitamin C: Pancreatic Cancer Trial Confirms What Pauling Knew 50 Years Ago
For nearly half a century, high-dose vitamin C (IV-C) in cancer care has been dismissed by mainstream oncology as a dead end. For example, in the standard 1,880-page textbook Cancer: Principles...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Anti-Cancer Supplements
Listed by Cancer Diagnosis There are presently over 1,400 herbs and food supplements in commerce, many of them in use against cancer. Well-meaning individuals (plus numerous self-declared...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Natural Health Products
We only recommend products we believe in. In general, natural medicines are as described on the label. But we also know that some foods, supplements, and natural medicine are subpar. Our Three...
Vitamin D3
Vitamin D and Disease There is probably no stronger association in the dietary field than that between vitamin D and disease, including cancer. The topic is a huge one. A PubMed search of...
Vitamin D and Cancer with William B. Grant, PhD
In this episode, Dr. Ralph Moss talks with William Grant, PhD, one of the leading experts on vitamin D and cancer. Grant is the founding director of Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research...
Vitamin C
Transcript Vitamins and minerals are an essential part of health. But for a lot of people, they're just not very sexy because it seems as if we're always looking for the new new thing, you know,...
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...
Vitamins and Chemotherapy
Few issues create more friction between mainstream oncologists and advocates of complementary medicine than the role of vitamins during chemotherapy. While many researchers consider their use...
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...
Documentation of Effects of Supplements on Various Cancers
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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...
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Neuroblastoma Swedish scientists have published an important paper on the positive impact of omega-3 fatty acids (found mainly in fish oil) on a certain type of childhood cancer called...
Can High-Dose Vitamin C Help Fight Cancer?
Ascorbic Acid, IV-C, IVC There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that vitamin C is useful in the prevention of cancer. Its intrinsically low cost and lack of toxicity make it an extremely...
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,...
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...
Melatonin and Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Amplifying the Effects of IL-2In the mid-1980s, interleukin-2 (IL-2) was much in the news as a high-dose (but also toxic) treatment for renal cell cancer and melanoma. But it was not known as an...
Is Laetrile Really Vitamin B17?
Crucial Facts "Laetrile's history has been complex, tortuous, kaleidoscopic. Beginning inauspiciously like hundreds of other small-time anticancer schemes, Laetrile soared to a notorious...
Melatonin
Transcript There's one particular supplement that really stands out in regard to cancer, and that's melatonin. Melatonin is very unusual in the world of supplements because it's an actual human...
Vitamin D and Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Vitamin D and Carnosic AcidJonathan S. Harrison, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, presented a fascinating paper at an Annual Meeting of the American...
Is Laetrile a Vitamin?
Vitamin B17 It is amazing that although the scientific community rejected the claim that laetrile (the cyanogenic glycoside, amygdalin) is a vitamin, a broad section of the public still accepts...
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...
Taurolidine
Amino Acid Taurine One of the things I learned on a trip to European cancer clinics is that some complementary cancer doctors are using a simple chemical called taurolidine as a novel form of...
Positive Results with PectaSol-C
Modified Citrus Pectin This year also brought a major advance in understanding the effects of modified citrus pectin (MCP) on cancer cells. Scientists at Columbia University published a paper...
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...
Study shows Vitamin C Fights Cancer
Ascorbic Acid Scores Big in Iowa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJSkjuOs5I In late 2018, the use of intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid (vitamin C) scored a big victory when Matthew S....