Subject: Re: flax oil
From: Raymond Peat <[email-masked]>
To: "Earl Conroy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 08:57:18 -0800

Hi--

	Squamous cell cancer is something doctors just guess about.
Microscopically, a biopsy of a healing wound shows the characteristic
features of cancer, including invasiveness.  It's common to diagnose a
psoriatic or eczematous patch as cancer.  The anti-immune function of those
oils can make an inflammatory reaction subside.  If we look at the
population of the US over the years, the death rate from individual cancers
shows long term trends, and massive campaigns of treatment don't change the
mortality rates, when seen as a population phenomenon, except in the case
of "uterine cancer," because when half of the women don't have a uterus,
uterine cancer won't be so commonly diagnosed.  In the case of childhood
leukemia, the A.C.S. created a huge statistical fraud, taking advantage of
the rapidly changing mortality from nuclear bomb testing fallout, to give
the impression that they had cured leukemia.  The ACS has even secured the
Sec. of Health and Human Services to "validate" clearly fraudulent
statistics claiming that they are "winning the war on cancer."  So, while
more people are dying from cancer, the medical establishment keeps managing
to sell the idea that their therapies are "curing cancer."  And they like
to sell the idea that any old biopsy abnormality proves cancer, so they can
have more cures.  The terminology of grading biopsy specimens has, over the
last thirty years, escalated in the direction that nothing is missed, and
every little thing is made to sound life-threatening; when fraud reaches a
certain scale, it becomes water to the fish who swim in it, and even the
honest fish breathe it.

	Animal studies have the potential to give real information about cancer
biology.

	The flax oil, primrose oil, etc., studies of cancer in animals, including
one done at the Linus Pauling institute, are so blatantly designed for
propaganda effect--and their authors are completely unresponsive to
criticism--that I think it's obvious that commerce, not just innocent
enthusiasm, is the motive for creating it.

	I have already pointed out the scandalous alterations that were made in
Max Gerson's book, not just to sell a few bottles of overpriced oil, but to
get on a big bandwagon, which can make all the difference in a medical
practice that otherwise would lose its promotional glitter.

	In Budwig's letters to editors, claiming that Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and I
were paid by the oil industry to slander her (and in her promoters'
material), she claimed to have degrees in physics and medicine.  Her
insanity isn't relevant to the issue of whether her recommendations work,
she adopted the diet from a sane doctor who worked in Guadalajara, Mexico,
and wrote about it in Prevention magazine in 1954, but her insanity is
relevant to the people who are editing and publishing her books to give
themselves what they think is a credible background to support their
commercial promotions.  A big web of lies is being spun around the poor
crazy woman.

	Around 1950, she worked with a real chemistry professor, who observed
that, with chromatography, a green substance could be extracted from some
cancer patients' blood.  Nothing wrong with that, porphyrins from
hemoglobin breakdown in a sick liver do have some correlation with cancer.
Leonell Strong and his associates did lots of work on that in the thirties
and forties, and the French are currently doing good work with bilirubin's
role in cancer.  But the talk about "greenish" blood is starting to sound
like a health-fair diagnostician's dream.

At 03:07 PM 3/6/99 +1300, you wrote:
>Dear Ray:
>Here's some data I've just taken from the net that seems to verify Johanna
>Budwig's work. This is a very confusing area. I've read Budwig's work and
>know nothing about her qualifications. She appears to have had a PhD in
>biochemistry.
>This data seems to suggest that the results of taking flax oil + cottage
>cheese internally has some fairly quick results in reversing cancer. Using
>the flax oil externally also seems to be effective for skin problems.
>I appreciate your theory about the oxidative capacity of any unsaturated
>oils. Yet, the data seems to mount up suggesting that flax oil can be a life
>saver for some people. Perhaps its the very oxidative capacity that you cite
>that is in fact, its modus operandi.
>The story about the dog is interesting indicating that some factor[s] in
>flax oil is accomplishing some beneficial metabolic activity.
>I'd appreciate your commentary.
>The net data.......
>Subject: The Miracle of Flax
>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:50:25 EST
>From: [email-masked]
>To: [email-masked]
>
>Dear Shirley:
>
>A few months ago, my mother was diagnosed with an aggressively growing,
>squamous cell carcinoma on her left arm. Her doctor wanted to operate
>immediately, but she was opposed to the idea of invasive surgery; so she
>asked her doctor for two weeks to find an alternative. She discovered
>Fischer's "How to Fight Cancer and Win", used the 1 Tbs Flax and 1/4 cup
>cottage cheese, plus she rubbed a little of the oil on the cancerous
>tissue. After two weeks she returned to her doctor with a completely healed
>arm. Her doctor was floored! He insisted that he take another biopsy, even
>though the cancerous tissue was gone. When the results came back negative,
>he dubbed her recovery as "spontaneous remission," failing to believe that
>flax oil had cured my mom of cancer.
>
>I have since found your website, and I have copied much of the info.
>(including Beckworth's testimonial) and have given the info. to people with
>cancer who have found the testimonial pursuasive enough to at least give
>the oil a shot. One man, a friend of my husband's, has already reported
>back that his doctor found that his blood appears to have changed from the
>greenish colour of cancer patients, back to a healthy reddish colour--just
>as
>described in Fischer's book!!
>
>Thank you so much for sharing this information, I'm sure you have saved
>lives!
>
>Incidentally, my mom and dad have been taking flax oil everyday since the
>diagnosis. Each morning, their mostly empty bowls have been given to
>Scooter (their 15 year old Bichen Frise dog), who has been licking them
>clean! Scooter, amazingly, has become a puppy again. All of the effects of
>age that she had displayed are now gone--her cataracts are even going away!
>
>All the best,
>
>Rachel Parent
>
>PS. I would be delighted if you shared my mom's story-and so would she. In
>fact, here is her address in case anyone would like to contact her: Nancy
>Ede P.O. Box 434 Pine Valley, CA 91962
>
>Thanks Again for your wonderful website!
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>Subject: Another Flax Story
>Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 03:45:32 EST
>From: Parentbd <[email-masked]>
>To: [email-masked]
>
>Dear Shirley:
>
>I wrote you about a week ago about my mother who HAD cancer. Well, here's
>another one: I was told today by a friend of ours that the man I mentioned
>before whose blood had turned from greenish to bright red just found out
>that his "terminal" cancer is now in remission! He's been taking the flax
>oil and cottage cheese mixture twice a day for the last 6 months. That's
>all I know right now. I've asked our friend to get more info. from the man
>(he's not personally known to us) and if I can get a testimonial I will
>certainly send it to you!
>
>Thanks for this Website, I hope all with cancer discover it!
>
>Rachel Parent
>
>best wishes,
>Earl
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