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• A Cancer Control Convention, meeting in Japan, reported that the trace mineral, germanium, in the diet is a significant factor in preventing and eliminating cancer.

• One cancer researcher, who studied in-depth into cancer remedies over the past 150 years, declared that every effective anticancer formula (Glyoxylide, which is the Koch treatment; the Hoxsey herbs; Hypotonic therapy; laetrile; the Gerson method; Krebiozen; and Carcalon) involves extra amounts of potassium. This is very important.

• Be sure to include a significantly higher intake of potassium. Potassium deficiency is considered by Gerson, Scott, and others as a primary contributing cause of cancer.

• Potassium foods include almonds, apples, dried apricots, bananas, beans, beets, broccoli, carrots, dulse, grapes, kale, olives, pecans, rice bran, sunflower seeds, wheat bran, and germ. These foods help the body resist and overcome tumors, cysts, and malignancies.

• Center your diet around potassium foods. Here are more of them:

• Dried apricots, asparagus, pearled barley, dried navy beans, fresh lima beans, raw beets, sprouted bread with no salt, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, caraway seed, cauliflower, celery seed, small leaves of chard, dark raw cherries, dandelion greens, dill seed, endive, unsulphured figs (dried or raw), garlic, concord or emperor grapes, grapefruit, fresh horseradish, fresh lemons, lentils, fresh limes, nectarines, okra, onions, oranges, fresh parsley, dried or raw peaches, Bartlett pears, dry or fresh peas, persimmons, raw pineapple (never canned), raw plums, dried or raw prunes, raw quinces, raisins, wild or brown rice, sage, rolled oats, spinach, squash (acorn, Hubbard, yellow summer), tangerines, raw tapioca, raw turnip leaves, and watermelon.

• Drink potassium broths daily. Prepare them from half-inch thick potato peelings, which are then cooked. Draw off the water and drink it.

• You want foods which are high in iodine and potassium, low in sodium, protein, and fat.

• Potassium ascorbate (12-20 g) can be taken as a partial potassium supplement. This product includes vitamin C.

• Potassium and magnesium are among the more crucial minerals for cancer recovery. Magnesium helps to stabilize cell membranes and elevate immune activity while potassium plays a critical role in membrane permeability. (Magnesium, 400-800 mg daily from aspartate, citrate, or orotate.)

• Magnesium protects against cancer in general (Medical Hypotheses, August 1980).

• Calcium and magnesium have a beneficial effect in helping the body resist colon cancer. Natural iron supplements help prevent thyroid cancer. (But many iron supplements are dangerous! Take blackstrap molasses instead of iron pills.)

• The New England Journal of Medicine reported that calcium may prevent precancerous cells from becoming cancerous. Calcium protects against colon cancer (American Journal of Epidemiology, September 1988).

• Calcium supplements (2000 mg) provide a marked suppression of rectal cancer proliferation. It inhibits early stages of colon cancer in genetically vulnerable individuals.

• Iodine and trace minerals are crucial. You can obtain them by each day eating some Nova Scotia dulse or Norwegian kelp. Both are special seaweeds which have a wide spectrum of trace minerals. Food grown on the continents does not have all those trace minerals; rainwater has gradually depleted the soils.

• Iodine protects against breast cancer (Lancet, April 1976).

• It is very important to keep the iodine level of the blood normal, so both the thyroid and body tissues will have proper cell oxidation. Eat a sufficient amount of dulse, or kelp, each day. (Do not use California kelp.)

• People with myxedema, or underactive thyroids, are more prone to developing cancer. So keep your thyroid in good condition with seaweed.

• Japan and Iceland both have low goiter and breast cancer rates. This may be because their diets are rich in iodine and selenium. Breast cancer has been linked to an iodine deficiency. Japanese women have almost no breast cancer. Colon cancer rates in Japan are also low.

• Studies at the University of Zurich and in London Polytechnic revealed that brewer's or food yeast gives improved resistance against cancer development. Brewer's yeast is one of the best sources of selenium, an important anticancer mineral.

• Selenium made the headlines, at the end of 1996, as a special trace mineral which could dramatically reduce cancer in the human body. It completely inhibited tumor growth in mice inoculated with tumor cells.

• Selenium helps eliminate cancer in five ways: It improves detoxification, bolsters immune function, directly toxic to tumor cells, and may is a valuable anti-proliferative factor (Lancet, July 1983). Selenium intake should not exceed 2500 mcg (2.5 mg) per day.

• Using selenium as a sole therapy, there was a 38.8% favorable response rate in patients with oral cancer.

• High doses of selenium (equivalent to 54 mg in humans) resulted in 83-90% reduction in rate of tumor growth in mice.

• Long-term usage of 5000 mcg of selenium may result in fingernail changes and hair loss. Selenite is more toxic than selenium bound to amino acids (i.e., selenomethionine). Ingestion of 1-5 mg/kg body weight of selenite will produce toxic side effects. This is equivalent to 65,000 mcg in a 65 kg adult.

• Chromium as picolinate is very helpful in working with carcinoma. (400-800 mcg.)

• Zinc as zinc picolinate (30-100 mg) is also a significant help. It protects against prostrate cancer (British Journal of Urology, October 1983).

• Cesium is neither essential nor toxic in cancer reduction. But it slightly alters the pH of cancer cells, rendering them more vulnerable to immune attack.

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