No Vitamins Or Herbs Allowed During Traditional Cancer Treatment

Article by Karl Loren

Maybe you have heard about it?

When you enter most hospitals, for any serious procedure, certainly including any cancer treatment or surgery, you will be asked "innocently" about what "drugs" you are taking.  That seems logical and right.

They will also ask you about vitamins and herbs.  You answer, maybe even bragging, thinking to impress the nurse with all your effort to take good care of yourself.

If the place is particularly restrictive, the nurse will remain very polite, and agreeable, and ask you even more about the brands, the dosages, and for other items you may be "taking" or "doing" to "help your health."

Again, you think you are showing how good you have been?

Wrong!  They want to be sure they know about this stuff so that they can then tell you, very firmly, NOT to take it for one week, say, before surgery, or during treatment, or while you are in the hospital.

If you ask, "Why?"  One answer they will give you is, "Well there are so many different vitamins, and herbs, mostly without a 'standard' of content, that you can't possibly know whether or not something in that stuff could conflict with some of the many drugs you may have to take during treatment."

If you try to convince them that the stuff is OK, forget it.

Why?

Partly because there is a deeper, more sinister reason.

The worst thing they fear is being sued, or having you die, and some angry family member starts making noise, about police or lawsuits.  If they do the standard thing, and do it very standardly, they probably can't be found "liable."

They don't want to go to jail because you screwed up by eating some vitamin!

But, if they don't find out that you are taking "raw garlic juice" for instance, and it happens that one of the drugs they give you conflicts with garlic juice, then their FAILURE to find out about the garlic juice is their mal-practice, and their exposure to lawsuit.

So, very much of what the doctor does is to cover his rear end and protect himself from liability and mal-practice.

If you delve into an even deeper reason, particularly for cancer treatment, you find that many of the things you are taking are probably aimed at "fighting free radicals."  They may be called "anti-oxidants."  Many of the things you are taking may help your immune system.

Well, wake up to the sad truth that cancer drugs are designed to kill cancer cells, but cancer cells are killed by the very same things that also kill good cells.  So, when you get chemotherapy, or radiation, they are TRYING to create free radicals in your body -- deadly free radicals.  Chemotherapy is really about the most toxic stuff you can get in your body.  They WANT it to be toxic because they want to kill the cancer.

If you take something that "detoxifies" your system, or builds your immune system, or helps your health in some other ways, they consider that these things are working directly AGAINST the action of the radiation or drug.

So, don't expect to get any agreement, for instance, that you can take gobs of Vitamin C while you are getting chemotherapy!  Vitamin C would counteract the effects of the chemo!  You might think that is a "good thing," but they don't see it that way.

Really, they are right.  Once you have put yourself into the hands of the medical system, it is dangerous to NOT follow their directions and rules.  If you feel like ignoring those rules, first find out WHY they don't want you to take those things, and then make up your mind.

If you tell them you want to take them, the answer will always be, "NO!"

So, get some "friendly doctor" who is not involved in the treatment, to explain things to you -- particularly what restrictions they are likely to put on your diet and supplements.  Make sure you understand why they do this.

IF, big IF, you are confident in your understanding, and want to do something different from their orders, recognize that if they catch you in lying to them their attitude can get hostile, or at least very firm.

I had a doctor, recently, get very angry at something I did.  In a 1 hour "consultation" with him he took at least 20 minutes to tell me how wrong I was and how my "wrongness" delayed the insurance approval, the assignment of a specialist, the treatment itself.  I had to sit and be very polite.  When you are in the clutches of the medical system, you don't have much room to have your own opinion, much less act on it.

Usually the doctors don't mind if you take minerals or homeopathic remedies because they don't think these "do any harm" to their treatments.

Germanium, for instance, can be considered a "mineral."  It is actually classified as a "semi-metal" but few would understand that.  If you want to take germanium, which would deliver powerful and large amounts of extra oxygen into your system at the same time as they are poisoning the system, you have to make that decision very personally and privately.  I do NOT recommend you violate any of their orders.  But, on your own determination, you can make any decision you wish.

Herbs are a special case.  Herbs tend to be very irregular in their content.  The doctor can't possibly know about all the many herbs, or how they were processed, or from whom you got them.  So, they will always tell you, "Take no herbs."

It is your body, but you are in THEIR care because YOU didn't make very good decisions sometime in the past.

One final thought, since I'm involved this as I write:  Cancer cells grow more rapidly than other cells.  So, the theory behind radiation and chemotherapy is to find a way to "interrupt" the reproduction cycle of cells.  That is, one way to "kill a cancer" is to stop the reproduction of new cancer cells.  Since cancer grows rapidly, they say, any treatment that prevents reproduction of cells will be most effective on cancer cells.

The doctors realize and even acknowledge that their treatment will damage all the other cells, too, but they figure that it is worth the damage to stop the cancer.

What they don't tell you is that the cells in the immune system reproduce far more rapidly than cancer cells.  So, radiation and chemotherapy directly and drastically affect the immune system.  That's rather OK with the doctors because they don't think your immune system can help much anyway.  So, for them, it is OK to greatly damage the immune system in order to stop the cancer.

You realize that it is ONLY the immune system which handles cancer naturally, and while "your cancer" obviously did not get handled by your immune system (or you wouldn't have it!) you might think that the immune system should be boosted particularly during a time when the body is being invaded by radiation and toxins.

If you find some substance which you think will improve the immune system -- that would be the substance you should take LOTS of before, during and after chemotherapy or radiation.

Tell your doctor?  Did they tell you the truth about the effects of chemo or radiation on your immune system.  Even if you have to put yourself in their hands for treatment, because there is no other "approved" standard, you don't have to accept everything they say or do.

It takes great courage to be in the situation of having to deal with a heart attack or cancer and to feel that you HAVE to have medical help, but yet make your OWN decision on what to do about your own body.

Courage!

The survivors have that quality!

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