Cancer Journal #46 August 14
The cancer friend with whom I visit during Vitamin C infusions infusions sent me a link to a fellow who promotes nutrition and life style changes to combat cancer. Pleasant, well spoken man (his name is Chris Warp, his site, chrisbeatcancer.com) who formulates his case in a way I find 80% convincing. He maintains that we terminal cancer patients have agency. We sure may have done something to get cancer and we can do something else to get rid of it. This is not the message of standard oncology which treats us as de facto hapless victims who can have our lives extended but can't be cured. He maintains that the oncologist's business model, its ongoing existence requires that approach. This would put the well being of the industry over the well being of the patient who is simply to be the passive recipient of oncology treatment during the brief period of our continued life.
Strong stuff. I find it hard to square with my sense of what goes on at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center where everything seems legitimate, providing the best medical care that can be provided. But maybe I'm being fooled by a very good show. I do find it a little odd that my oncologist showed more enthusiasm for prayer than for nutrition. Not that I believe that to be wrong, be sure to understand, but I see it as odd. Like prayer didn't really offer a competing approach but nutrition did so. "Yeah, by all means, pray!" I really have had no indication of agency from Mayo aside from making my appointments and taking my meds. So anyway, I don't know.
The immediate reason for my receiving the link to this Chris Warp was a report from the University of Illinois that horseradish is way better than broccoli at killing cancer. And fancy horseradish has more of the cancer fighting stuff than ordinary horseradish. Fancy is big, eight inches or more. Ordinary is six inches or less. I haven't been able to find either in stores--just the condiment which probably is from ordinary. Eau Claire is the horseradish capitol of the world. I called Huntzinger Farms which makes it that capitol and all they have is horseradish for condiment. I told them about the University of Illinois and they found that interesting and if they get more calls maybe they'll.... A little sad that you can't get fancy horseradish in the horseradish capitol of the world. My wife ordered it on Amazon. Maybe it should be called the horseradish capitol of the world.
Well I love horse radish as a condiment, also Wasabi. There are recipes for fire cider which involve horse radish and other vegetables that are marinated in apple cider vinegar for a month and then taken daily. Some swear by it. There is always some wisdom in old fashion remedies, of which fire cider is one. If you decide to try this, there are many suggestions online. I have a cache of one gallon glass jars if you need one or 50 to store your fire cider.
ReplyDeleteWhat I have been doing is cutting thin slices of horseradish from the very sizable root we got from St Peters Missouri and eating it along with oatmeal than I have as my first meal that I add a bunch of other stuff that I add tooatmeal. I don't find it real pleasant to eat and am open to the idea of infusing it or having it marinate in apple cider. I would feel happier if I could be confident whatever the molecule that does such terrible things to cancer would survive the marinating or infusing or whatever was done with it. Eating it raw has seemed like a way of making sure I'm getting the cancer killer. I should look into it more.
ReplyDeleteI do like the idea of fire cider. Funny but just this morning I had a glass of diluted apple cider vinegar, cayenne pepper and ginger. A little bit too much of a surprise for a stomach that had been resting all night. I kept it down but my stomach would have preferred sending it back to where it came from.