A Tape Transcription by Clifford
Beckwith
(part 1 of 2)
The following is
presented for educational and informational purposes only and in no way should
be construed as giving medical advice.
As I narrate this in
July, l998, seven and a half years have passed since I was found to have stage
four prostate cancer. As I learned later I should have been dead at least seven
years. What follows is an account of things that were done by me and by many other
people and the results that followed.
The accounts that follow
are not to be considered as specific advice, but the information given may be
used by any individual as he or she sees fit, as is the right of any person.
In January 1991 I was
diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer. Bone scans and other tests indicated
no spread so it was decided to operate. During the operation it was discovered
that the cancer had spread to the Lymph glands making it stage four. The
operation was not completed as that would not be the answer.
The only treatment used
was Lupron and Eulexin to cancel the male hormones. I was told the male hormone
does not cause cancer, but if cancer is present it is like throwing kerosene on
a fire.
At the time of the
operation my brother sent me a book entitled The Cancer Answer by Al Carter. He
is a medical research journalist and very knowledgeable. He says scientists can
cure cancer. "I know how, and I learned it from them." It is
available from American Institute of Reboundology, Inc. - 3585 N. University
Ave., Suite 300 Provo, Utah, 84604. He also has a recent video tape on the
immune system as it relates to Cancer. The book or tape can be ordered by
calling 1 - 888 -464 - 5867.
He quoted from another
book, "How to fight Cancer and Win" by Fischer. There are three
chapters on oils describing the work of Dr. Johanna Budwig in Germany. She is a
Biochemist and blood specialist who has been treating cancer of all kinds with
nothing but cottage cheese and Flaxseed Oil for over 16 years. She says that
people with cancer have blood that is low in Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids
and the blood has a greenish cast. Flaxseed oil is 56% Omega 3 and 16% Omega 6.
Recently I read that most people have blood that is 80% deficient in Omega 3.
Dr. Budwig has taken patients sometimes given only hours to live and restored
them to health.
Doctors had attempted to treat patients with sources of Omega 3
but had not been consistently successful. Dr. Budwig's research found that in
order for these fatty acids to be fully available to the body, they must be
tied to a sulfur based protein; the best source of which is cottage cheese.
Depending on the severity of the condition she had her patients use 3 to 6
Tbsps. of Flaxseed oil a day, with at least 4 oz or 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
per day.
I would use at least 1/4
cup cottage cheese per Tbs. of oil. If 4 or less Tbsps were used per day and
I'd split that up so that I took them at 4 different times, although there are
no specific guidelines. I have learned recently that Dr. Budwig recommends that
the oil and the cottage cheese be thoroughly mixed before eating it. I have
realized that an excellent approach would be to mix however many Tbsps. Of Flax
oil one plans to use each day in a bowl with at least a half cup of cottage
cheese and some fruit such as crushed pineapple or frozen strawberries, put it
in the refrigerator and eat a portion of it at different times during the day.
For two and a half years I put a half cup of cottage cheese in a bowl, added a
Tbsp. Of flaxseed oil, mixed in some crushed pineapple or frozen strawberries
or honey and took it to school for lunch. That tasted good. An excellent method
of mixing is with the use of a small hand held blender. Milk or juice may need
to be added to make the mixture thin enough so that the little motor may be
able to handle it.
After 3 months of
treatment, the blood would be bright red, the tumors disappearing and the
amount of oil reduced to 1 Tbs. per day per hundred lbs. body weight for
maintenance. Yogurt will take the place of cottage cheese but more of it is
needed; actually about three times as much and if fruited Yogurt is used it
would need to be even more.
Flaxseed oil is
increasingly available in health food stores though it must be kept fresh and
cold. It will keep a year in a freezer, 4 months in a refrigerator but only 3
weeks at room temperature.
Barlean, in Ferndale WA,
1-800-445-3529, was, I believe, the first company in the US to process Flax oil
for food and is an excellent source. Another source is Flora Inc. in Lynden,
WA; 1-800-446-2110. Nature's Distributors in Arizona, 1-800-624-7114, is also
an excellent source. They have other products also, including "Companion
Nutrients" that are capsules containing dried sulfurated proteins and enzymes
which activate the essential fatty acids. They guarantee that one capsule will
activate one Tbsp. of oil.
We have recently learned
that Omega Nutrition Canada, Inc. 1924 Franklin St. Vancouver. B. C. V5L 1R2
was the first company to process Flax oil in the Western Hemisphere. Omega
Nutrition USA Inc. 5373 Guide Meridian, B22 Bellingham WA 98226 is the US
outlet. Their toll free number is 1-800-661-3529.
They have a variety of
information available on the value and use of Flaxseed Oil and other products
as do the other companies previously cited.
When I began looking for
sources of Flaxseed Oil the sources were quite limited, but, as the realization
of the value of this material has grown, there are now more companies producing
it.
I have been told by one
company that, while they feel their product has somewhat of an edge, all these
oils are good as long as they are cold pressed, fresh and kept cold. This
cannot be over emphasized I would be skeptical of any Flaxseed Oil that was
kept on a store shelf at room temperature.
In "How to Fight
Cancer and Win", an account is given of a young woman, 35, who had cancer
so advanced she could no longer eat. She was given enemas of Flax oil and skim
milk. In a short time she was able to eat and in three months she was home
taking care of her family. The three chapters on oils are worth the price of
the book. Unfortunately, this book is no longer published.
I immediately found a
source of the oil and started. At the time I had no real guidelines so used 2
tbsps of oil a day for six months. At the time of the attempted operation my
PSA count was 75. It was six months before I had the second PSA.
At 4:45 the following
Monday a call came from the doctor's office and the office girl exclaimed
"Mr. Beckwith! Your count is completely normal!" It was 0.1 and 0.1
to 0.4 is normal. From that time until this, October 1996, at 6 month
intervals, the count has ranged from 0.0 to 0.16.
As I revise this in July
of 2001 I want to say that the flaxseed oil was not the only thing that was
being done. I was also on Hormone Blockade which is also very effective for
awhile in lowering the PSA. At the time I discounted it a lot because we had
seen the PSA brought down with flaxseed oil alone in a number of cases and when
I asked the doctor if he had expected the counts to go down that much he said,
"No Way!".
I have a cousin in
California who lost his wife to cancer a number of years ago. He is militantly
trying to get American doctors to look at this approach. He's talked to a group
in Spain using an Omega 3 approach that is getting a 95% cure rate. Nothing in
American medicine approaches that degree of success.
In 1994 he talked to Dr.
Budwig. She said "I have the answer to cancer, but American doctors won't
listen. They come here and observe my methods and are impressed. Then they want
to make a special deal so they can take it home and make a lot of money. I
won't do it, so I'm blackballed in every country." Dr. Budwig has been
nominated for a Nobel prize 7 times, but her methods have incurred the wrath of
the establishment and she is passed over. Especially upsetting is her refusal
to use radiation or chemotherapy.
In the summer of 1991 we
were at a Bible conference in Northern Ohio. While there a friend told me that
he knew a doctor in Northwest Ohio who had developed terminal cancer. He took a
nutritional approach and apparently recovered in 5 months. Now when a patient
of his is diagnosed with cancer, he says "I can tell you the standard
treatments, and I can tell you what works. Which do you want?"
Shortly after I found I
had cancer my brother in California heard of a casual acquaintance who had
prostate cancer and went to see him. He told him of these alternative
approaches and his wife, who is an RN, practically threw him out. She said that
if there were anything that would help, the doctors would be doing it and the
only things that do any good are radiation, operations and Chemotherapy."
About 4 months later I asked by brother how the man was getting along. He said
"He died last week".
One of our teacher
friends at Washburn had a friend in Knoxville who's husband was very ill with
cancer. She told her about Flax oil in case the lady would want her husband to
try it.
Then our friend said the
conscientious little soul asked the doctor and the doctor said, "don't do
that - you might make him sick" I asked our friend later how her friend's
husband's was getting along and she said "she buried him last week."
One can't get much sicker than that.
When we talk about these
things there are a number of reactions. Some would not do ANYTHING that the
that the doctor didn't tell them to do Some are very eager -How soon can I
start? Can I get it tonight? In my case, I felt what in the world do I have to
lose; it is a food, not a drug, and there are no side effects.
We have heard that in
rare cases Flax oil can cause a slight rash. In those cases starting with a
smaller amount will usually eliminate the problem. In cases of allergic
reactions to dairy products, soft Tofu will work fairly well in the place of
cottage cheese.
In the vast majority of
cases we've known about there has been apparent recovery. Where it has not been
successful those with cancer have not used enough in the first place, or switched
to Flax flakes or capsules
Capsules scare me. In the
first place, it takes a number capsules to make a Tbsp. and the sulfur based
proteins are still needed. Also, bottles of capsules are likely to sit around
on shelves at room temperature. I knew of one man who was quite badly off and
began using the liquid oil and began making dramatic improvement. About a year
later I learned that he had died. I later learned that he had switched to
capsules.
Shortly after I found out
I had trouble we learned that a friend of ours had been having trouble since
1987. He'd been to the doctors; they had done various operations and tried
different treatments but he didn't seem to be getting any better.
One day my wife and I
visited him and talked about the oil. He decided to use it and began using it 2
tbsps a day [Now e know that probably was not enough quite]. The doctor said
his bladder had crystallized and lost its elasticity. He couldn't stay out of
the bathroom 15 minutes. He couldn't go to church or carry on other normal
activities. The doctor said it was a condition he'd just have to live with. One
day he went to the doctors for a physical and he told his wife that if he
didn't get a good report he was going to quit using that oil. The doctor
examined him and said, "Mr. C, you've had cancer in your bladder and it's
gone. The bladder is elastic again and everything is back to normal..
In December 1993 we were
having a tree cut and the contractor and I were discussing the oil His
assistant said, "I've heard of that. I knew a man out west who found out
he had colon cancer. He didn't let the oncologist do anything. He just used
Flax oil and cottage cheese and the tumors disappeared."
While at Washburn as a
counselor I knew the head cook had left because of cancer. I was visiting the
school on records day in May 1993 and Nancy, Maxine's sister in law said,
" do you know if Maxine has ever heard about this?"
She called and Maxine
hadn't heard of it. We visited her the next day and she wasn't able to do
anything but lie around and hurt. She had had cancer in one place and had been
treated with chemo and radiation. The next year it appeared in her back and was
again treated and it disappeared. Now it had reappeared in her head. She had 18
shots of radiation and the doctor wanted to do the 19th but she said the 18th
almost killed her and she refused it.
She decided to try the
oil but didn't like it and didn't use it a lot. However, the cancer didn't get
worse. When I told her about the man with colon cancer she said, "I'd
better get with it and began to use it more heavily." Later when we talked
with her she said she was feeling good and the counts were within a normal
range. In march of 1994 her doctor moved out of town and her new doctor
examined her and went over her records and said, "Maxine, this is a
miracle! With all you've been through there is no way you should still be
alive!"
In April 1995 Maxine
called and was exceedingly cheerful. She'd just had a complete physical and her
blood work was excellent. They had done an MRI on her head and everything was
clear, and she was praising the Lord!
Lately, summer 1996, we
heard that Maxine had stopped using the oil. She had another routine checkup
and the counts were well above normal. For her condition, 35 or below is normal.
She immediately began to use the oil again and the count was soon back down to
5. It seems the continuous use of Omega 3 is necessary to keep the body in
shape to eliminate cancer cells. As I write this on Jan 10 1998 Maxine is doing
fine. As this is revised in July of 2001 She is still doing fine. In 1993 her
faint hope was that she could see a couple of grandchildren graduate from high
school. That has happened and she is doing very well.
In the summer of 1991 we
received a call from a man in Morristown who had prostate cancer. His PSA was
38. He started to use the oil but we didn't hear much more for some time. One
day he called and said," My PSA is down to 1.5. Do you think I need to
worry about this anymore?" In Sept. 1996 he called and is still making it
in good shape. He was on no other treatment. He since passed away with
emphysema.
In Feb. 1994 we were
working in Maynardville and talking about Flax oil. One man expressed the wish
that his Dad could hear about it. We sent information and the daughter-in-law,
an RN., got the books. The father had prostate cancer, Soon the whole family
was using the oil. The last time I talked to them the daughter-in-law told me,
"Dad's doing fine. He's doing the same things he always did." I just
heard he's still cancer free and enjoying life.
A friend of ours in
Bristol, TN has an uncle, 72, who was badly off with prostate cancer and
preparing to die. He owned some service stations and was at the point where he
was deciding who was going to get what and felt he didn't have long to go. He
got the information and began using the oil. We didn't hear for some time, but
one day I saw his brother-in-law and he said, "Oh, he's doing great! He's
going to meetings and there's no more thought of dying. He's telling everyone
about the value of Flax oil.
In a Christmas letter,
Dec. 1993, we heard that a friend of ours in Wooster, Ohio, was having a bout
with ovarian cancer. The blood test for that condition is GAC 125 and the
normal is 35 or below. Her count was 75. Later I learned she'd visited my
sister in September and was very apprehensive. She'd had about 4 rounds of
chemo and couldn't take that. We sent information about Flaxseed oil in our
Christmas letter.
Joanie is an RN and she
and her husband had been missionaries in Sri Lanka. They bought the books and
started using Flax oil. In February she was feeling fine. On May 12, 94, she
had a checkup and the count was 2 and she was praising the Lord. In October 94
she had another physical and now the count was 1. Since then there's been no
further indication of cancer.
Since reading from Dr.
Budwig, we've learned that one of the major problems with our diet is the use
of hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. That is the removal of
electrons so the product will keep and not get rancid on the shelves. I've
heard since that the worst food one can eat is margarine and that it is only
one electron per molecule away from plastic. Not only do these foods have no
real value but a burden is placed on the immune system to get rid of the
material. For this reason I bake my own bread so I can use lard and we don't
stint on the butter. I even hate to eat in restaurants because of the use of
hydrogenated oils.
From physicals done in
1994 the doctor said that my bloodwork was excellent and Mary Anna's was the
best he'd seen so far in her case. As I record this in October 1996 all
physicals since then have shown the same result. Though as of July, 2001 I
still have some cancer activity, I am in no danger. A body scan and other tests
done in November were all normal. I quit the Lupron and Eulexin in October of
1995. For a man diagnosed with advaanced, semi aggressive, prostate cancer to
be alive in ten years with all tests normal is not common.
In July 1994, we got a
call from a lady in Jefferson City, TN. Her husband Roy had been found to have
cancer all through his body. It was so extensive that no treatment was being
attempted except for 5 shots of radiation in his right knee that were done in
an attempt to reduce some pain. It hadn't worked and there were to be no more
attempts. He began to use the Flax oil rather heavily; I'm not sure of exact
amount.
I called his wife in
September and she said they couldn't tell anything as yet as his condition was
so massive. I called the day after Christmas and she said Roy had died on
October 19. He'd gone in for a check up and it was found the tumors had all
disappeared except the ones in his lower back and right leg. Now the
oncologists felt he was going to make it but convinced him that if they didn't
give him a massive shot of chemotherapy, he might loose his right leg.
They gave the shot and it
apparently killed him. He didn't even make it out of the parking lot. His wife
never met the oncologist at the University of Tennessee Hospital who gave him
the shot, nor could she find him afterward. She had a hard time finding someone
at UT who would sign the death certificate so she could get the insurance and
have things settled.
The doctors knew the
tumors were shrinking during the time they were doing nothing. I wonder if they
just couldn't admit that anything other than standard treatment could be
effective. As Roy's wife told me about this she cried and said," If only
they had let him alone." Only the fact that Roy knew the Lord somewhat eased
the feelings she felt for UT. Today she wishes she'd had an autopsy but at
those times it's hard to think straight.
Sometimes I'm puzzled at
the refusal of American Medicine to seriously investigate these methods that
seem to have success. We hear blurbs on TV about some new procedure that seems
to promise help down the road; one thought it might help one percent. I'm sure
the oncology industry, with total income next to the energy companies, would
like to find a cure for cancer, but only if it would require thousands and
thousands of dollars in drugs and the services of at least two specialists.
Al Carter says that the
only real defense against cancer is the immune system. Everyone gets cancer
every day but if the immune system is where it should be those cancer cells are
eliminated and we never know it. He says that once a person has developed
cancer, even though treatments get it into remission, it will recur again
unless the body conditions that allowed it to develop in the first place are
corrected. One of the properties of Flax oil seems to be a strengthening of the
immune system. It seems important to use enough oil at first to get the immune
system deficiencies repaired. In rare cases, the liver may not handle oil well.
In these cases, start with small amounts and gradually increase it.
Last Christmas a former
shipmate sent me a newspaper clipping. It was a question written to the
veterinary column. The question was "I have a pet squirrel that is losing
its hair. Is there anything I can do?" The answer was, "Feed it Flax
oil; it will build its immune system and it won't lose its hair."
On August 1, 1995, a
friend of my son's told me his sister, who had majored in cytology at a
Wisconsin college, told him that during her class work she had studied cells
from the bodies of people who had used Flax oil and those cells were covered
with a fatty, protective covering that didn't allow the cells to be invaded and
they were healthy. Then she studied cells from the bodies of people with cancer
and those cells had either no covering at all or it was very thin. The
difference was so pronounced that she began using Flax oil herself right away.
At this point the
essential information has been given. The rest of this tape is an account of
various situations and what has happened, both good and bad.
When I first developed
cancer, there was a young man in our community who had an advanced case of
colon cancer. He'd had quite a lot of chemo and radiation and in a few weeks
was scheduled for a colostomy. He decided he wanted to try this material, and
did, for a short time.
The surgeons told him
that if he got along well they could reverse the colostomy and I'm sure they
told him that what we were doing was foolishness. Later I learned that the
colostomy could not be reversed. As far as I know there is no active cancer,
but his life style has certainly been changed.
The husband of a woman in
our Sunday School class had known something was wrong for three years but
wouldn't go to the doctor to confirm it. Finally he was diagnosed with very
advanced colon cancer. We visited the family in the hospital one day when he
was not expected to live through the night. However, he did get home and began
to use Flax oil, but not a lot. He did not like cottage cheese. One day the
oncologist asked him to come in for a check up to see how much the tumors were
growing. They were not growing, there was no pain, and he had a good appetite.
He felt good enough to work on a fence and drive his pick-up a little. He quit
using even what little oil he did use because he didn't like cottage cheese and
two years later he died from colon cancer.
In early summer of 1994 I
heard from a lady in my hometown. She had breast cancer, a tumor the size of a
baseball, but a nurse friend who works in oncology, told her that it was slow
growing and that if she started then at age 72 with standard treatment she'd be
miserable the rest of her life. She got a bottle of oil and used it. She told
me that after one bottle the pain was gone. However the next bottle she got was
rancid and she was told that that could hurt her. Consequently she didn't use
it anymore. A few months ago she got fresh oil and began using it again.
Recently we were in the area. The lady is 74 now. I couldn't contact her as she
wasn't home, but I know she was working in her flower garden and I heard that
she was doing well. I do know that she was not at death's door. Today, at 78,
she is still making it, but has not stayed with the flax oil and may not make it
much longer. She feels that the flax oil she did use is the reason she is still
alive.
Just before Christmas
1994 we heard of another lady in Massachusetts, a relative of a friend in Ohio,
who had had exploratory surgery and was found to have breast cancer, one large
and one small lump. After one round of chemo she heard of Flax oil and decided
to try it. By the time the second round of chemo was due the small lump had
disappeared and the large one was reduced by half. She declined further chemo
and soon the larger lump had gone as well.
Another member of the
same family, a woman I had known as a beginning teacher when she was a senior
in high school, was found to have breast cancer; one large lump. She used Flax
oil and it was gone in three weeks.
Just up the road from us
lives a lady who is president of Kingswood School and we have known Miss Mary
for many years. In July of 1994 we heard she had colon cancer and went to see
her. Part of the colon was removed and she was undergoing chemo. All she could do
was sit and hurt. She'd decided against more chemo as it was just too miserable
and decided to try Flax oil. Later she told me, "When you walked in the
door I expected to see an emaciated old man. You looked wonderful and that was
enough for me."
Sometime later she told
me she'd told her family doctor what she was doing and he said, "That
won't help you any but it won't hurt you". Then she told her oncologist
and he said "that won't do any good", then he examined her and said,
"That last round of chemo must have been just right. It's killed the
cancer". Shortly after that we received a call from a lady at Kingswood
School and she said "What's that stuff Miss Mary is taking that she heard
about from you folks? She's doing everything she always did."
We're beekeepers and a
friend of ours, a retired serviceman, has had a bout with prostate cancer. He
was treated at the Mayo Clinic and I believe operated on. The PSA was still
rising, around 7.0. He started to use Flax oil and soon the PSA was 1.5. He's
doing fine and really tickled.
A few years ago my
brother in California had a physical. Cancer was found through the spine, into
his skull and in the bladder and one kidney. The prostate was greatly enlarged
and the PSA was 785. The cancer had progressed to where he was unable to eat
and weight dropped from 195 lbs. to 150 lbs.
He improved to the point
that he could eat and began using Flax oil as it should be used. Before long
the PSA had dropped to 8, his weight had gone back to 185 and he was again
working. An herbalist friend told him he could get his own flax seed and boil
them to get the oil and it would be cheaper. He did not realize that heat
destroys Omega 3. The doctors had given him Stillbesterol as a hormone blocker.
He'd quit that because of the side effects. So he was, in effect, doing
nothing.
He'd heard about Laetrile
being used for cancer. It is present in apricot seeds that are sold by the
pound in California. Roger ate apricot seeds as if there would be no apricot
seeds tomorrow. Apricot seeds also contain cyanide and he didn't let up until
he had definite symptoms of cyanide poisoning. He passed away in October but at
least some of the tumors had disappeared. I'm wondering today if he didn't
contribute to his own passing by over doing it on apricot seeds and not using
Flax oil properly.
In early summer of 1994,
Tom, a former teacher and friend, called us to refresh his memory on what we'd
been using for cancer. He'd suddenly found himself unable to swallow freely and
was diagnosed with cancer all through the esophagus with heavy involvement in
the stomach area and elsewhere.
He'd been put on chemo
but couldn't take that and came home. He was told he wouldn't make it for more
than two to four months. He began using flax oil and cottage cheese to the
extent he could get it down and didn't seem to be getting any worse. He used no
other treatment. His problem was he couldn't get enough food down to maintain
weight. A year later a feeding tube was placed directly into his stomach. I
don't know what happened those last months or whether he stayed on the Flax
oil. The doctors would probably have discouraged it. He passed away in late
summer, 1966, about 18 to 20 months later than the time originally thought
possible with standard treatment.
In 1994, through another
cousin, I became reacquainted with my cousin Emily whom I had not seen since
1942. Her husband Bill had had colon cancer for at least two years. Part of the
colon was removed and he'd had a lot of chemo and perhaps radiation. At the
time we were reacquainted, Bill's liver had become heavily involved.
Bill and Emily were
studying and using nutritional approaches and Bill began to use Flaxseed oil
and began to show improvement. He developed a fever and Emily became alarmed
and called the doctor. He scolded Emily for not calling him sooner and put Bill
back in the hospital. Emily tried to smuggle Flaxseed oil and cottage cheese in
to Bill and succeeded for a while but the doctor caught her and wouldn't let
her do it anymore.
Bill stayed in the hospital
for several months and went downhill. Finally he was sent home to die and was
put under hospice care. Now Emily could use the oil and try to get Bill well.
She ran into a lot of opposition from the medical workers. Once the nurse put
her arm around Emily and said, "Emily, you've got to prepare yourself, you
know Bill's going to die," and again, "can he still eat? Is he
constipated yet? You know he will be."
One day Bill had a bad
day and didn't get out of bed. The nurse said, "He'll never get up
again." The next morning Bill was downstairs having a good breakfast.
Perhaps the worst problem was the insistence on trying to keep Bill sedated.
Emily would say, "But Bill isn't in pain."
"No, but you know he
will be, and we want to keep him comfortable." Then the hospice workers
would tell the doctors that Emily was uncooperative and she would be scolded.
I have no doubt the
medical people had Bill's best interests at heart as they saw it. By now Bill
was addicted to drugs and he let them be given. Soon he could no longer
function and died. The real conflict the last months was between those who
insisted Bill had to die because of standard expectations with standard
treatment and those who thought he had a chance to recover.
Those who were giving
standard treatment made it impossible for the alternative methods to have a
chance. Of course, it seems to me that every death from cancer is evidence of
the failure of standard treatments, at least as far as a final cure is
concerned.
Of those who have
apparently recovered that we know of, a significant percentage were given up
for standard treatment. Others abandoned chemo and radiation or never had it in
the first place.
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