September 10, 2010

How Can I Support The Healing Process When Diagnosed With Cancer ?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 3:08 min

Dr. Douwes talks about the healing process when diagnosed with cancer as part of a holistic cancer treatment approach. Take out as much sugar as you can from your diet such as soda, cake, ice cream, jams, marmalades and other food that are made of sugar. Reduce your consumption of red meat and instead eat fish and poultry.

It is also important to change the cooking oil that you use in your kitchen, use olive oil, flaxseed oil and red canola oil. You also have to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in their normal form.  This is a simple diet program that is not hard to follow because you can eat almost anything and the only thing that is not allowed are sweet tasting foods, since sugar can do harm to the body.

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No, I tell them the main rules of no sugar. That means, you  take  the sugar out of your daily diet. This means no sweet drinks like coke, or sprite or whatever, they are full of sugar. No more jam and marmalade because it’s also sugar and no cake because it has sugar, no ice cream because this has sugar. I allow, because you know that body cannot work without sugar its complex with carbohydrates, it means dark bread, pasta, if possible the natural, with natural wheat. Get rid if or to reduce the consumption of red meat. Instead of red meat, white meat like fish and poultry. The next step is, you know to change the oils in kitchen. Instead of all kinds of oils, just two or three olive oil, flaxseed  oil and canola oil. And with these three, you know it’s perfect because it’s got all the three fatty acids and these have an anti-inflammatory effect because most of these are associated what we call silent inflammation. And then you have to teach that  vegetables are good, salads are good and that fruits are good but fruits are good only in their normal form. Fruit juices for instance are bad because they contain glucose water. If you eat three apples a day wonderful but if you make a juice from three apples and drink it  this is bad. So this is very simple and they learn it and then of course  in the initial phase , we teach them how to stay, let me say very, for a long time with the Budwig diet,  this is easy to accept because you may eat almost everything,  it’s just a question of organization and there is no big learning, the only thing which is not allowed are sweet things because in most of the cases, sugar is bad.

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What Does HOLISTIC CANCER TREATMENT Mean?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 1:43 min

Dr. Douwes talks about what holistic cancer treatment is. Holistic cancer treatment is not just an alternative treatment for cancer and not all alternative cancer treatment are holistic cancer treatment. Holistic cancer treatment cannot be done by a single person. It is a concerted effort of different specialists and you can find these specialists in St. Georg. Holistic cancer treatment is like a mosaic where one part is integral to the other. This concept is explained to patients in St Georg so that they will understand every process as a step to achieve the goals that they want to achieve.


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Here the approach is  holistic. I mean, this word is misused because everybody would ask that some form of alternatives of complementary treatment we call it holistic but the holistic approach is really different and a little more complicated and this cannot be done by one person.

You need a team and we have this team here in St. George,  we have here 8 physicians working in this hospital and everybody has a little specialty here but everything is put together like mosaic. And this is how we can also describe our treatment; it’s a sort of mosaic. That means, every stone is important. If you take out one stone, when you look at it, then it’s maybe very useless, it’s a little stone, but if you put it the way we put it, it’s a sort of artwork finally, then the patient understand, and this is part of our daily training with our patients. Then, we make them understand how important it is to combine this and this and this, to achieve the goal that they want to achieve.

Does Cancer Heal The Life Of The Person Diagnosed?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 1:07 min

Many people who have been through the cancer experience see it as a life changing experience, they suddenly realise and appreciate the value of life and start to do what they love.

Dr Douwes shares his experience.

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How To Change Diet & Lifestyle When Diagnosed With Cancer?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 1:44 min

Dr. Douwes talks about the importance of integrating the family as part of holistic cancer treatment. For a patient with prostate cancer it is preferable that your wife should be with you during your treatment so that the doctor can directly consult with her and make sure that she understands the whole process of the treatment. Having cancer does not change your life alone but the lives of your family also so it is important that they participate in your healing process.

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This is modulation and this is very important to the patient and also of course to  integrate the family. I always tell patient with prostate cancer, “Bring your wife because it is so important that I talk to her. “ First of all you know that she helps you until you get healthy and she understands what we are doing, then it’s perfect. In most cases you know she is very strict and controlling and he tells me after awhile, you know somehow this has  changed not only my life but changed the life of my wife and we are very happy with this because you know see how we look and see, you know what we can do today.

And since this is a work for the both of us we accepted it much easier so this is very important. Then of course that sometimes it also healthful to give some courses,  to give some recipes and say okay you may try this one and it’s not too difficult and more slowly try to adjust your own things and what I do, I like to teach her, you know I ask her to do, I ask her to do this and to do this and I want to have it, yes.

Preventing Cancer Is Much Easier!!!!

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 2:16 min

What would  be the best viewpoint “preventing cancer” ?

Once you are well its no longer a point of talking about cancer treatment, but how to keep health going.

Doctors talk about disease but never about health, doctors learn about pathology but not about how to stay healthy. Medicine does not think about prevention or how to avoid catastrophe but how to get a better a person better.

A normal person would be smart enough to do this but not medicine.

Prevention is a much better medicine.

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What’s The Treatment Process When Someone Is Diagnosed w’ Cancer?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 3:45 min

A healthy person doesn’t have cancer! Dr Douwes says ‘If we make the carrier of the cancer healthy then the cancer can’t grow, the healthier the carrier is the harder it is for the cancer to grow.’ Everybody needs a specific treatment and each person is unique so the approach needs to be uniquely designed. There can be three different women sitting side by side having treatment for breast cancer and each treatment will be different.

The first thing to do when diagnosed with cancer is to make the correct diagnosis, which means not only what type of cancer it is, how far its spread or metastasized, this is important but its only one aspect of holistic cancer treatment.

Holistic cancer diagnosis  is a multifaceted approach starting with the mouth, checking for disease  or amalgams the patient needs to be guided how to get rid of them and heal infections of the mouth. Secondly a stool analysis is essential to establish the bowels are working correctly, this needs to be corrected by using pre and probiotics. Its also important to see how the pancreas,stomach and organs are working. The environment then needs to be considered to establish possible exposure to toxic metals, this comprehensive analysis supports an individual to create good health.

The aim of holistic cancer treatment is to make the patient as possible so as to make it hard for the cancer cells to spread. Lastly, each cancer patient will have a different treatment approach depending on their physical, psyche and mental health.

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The first step is, as I explained already is to make the correct diagnosis. That means not only what type of cancer it is, how far spread is it, whether we have metastasize already. This is one things, important but its only one. Then of course we have to look what else is wrong and we find this by doing specific lab test and of course, the most important thing is, first of all, an excellent check up.

One part of the check up also is to look into the mouth and if you have disease then you should treat this, if you have amalgam you should talk about the patient on how to get rid of it. And if you have infections in the mouth you we have to control this. The next step is how do the bowels work and we do stool analysis to see that the bowel flow is correct or what we call dysbiosis and in case and then we have to collect this by using probiotics to correct it.

Then it is also important how does the stomach, the pancreas and all these organs work. We also do the analysis on the environmental situation. Do they have loads of toxic metals in the system; yes or no. This means that we do the right diagnostic so that we can judge better what can help this patient and the focus is you have to show our support. The carrier, we want to make him as healthy as possible because the healthier the carrier of the cancer is the more difficult it is for the cancer to grow in this carrier.

A healthy person does not have cancer, only people who have somehow problems on one of these level we talked about. The physical, the psyche or the mental. If you do not work on these, you cannot have in the long run a successful treatment of cancer patients. So this is the topic of the first 2 or 3 meetings and then we create for this person a very specific, individual treatment because every one has his own treatment. If you go on our ward and you find 3 patients with breast cancer next to each other, they might have completely different treatments or the approach is completely different because these are 3 individuals need a different approach

Combining Alternative & Conventional Medicine To Cure Cancer?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 4:30 min

You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer and then there is the BIG question, ‘Do I follow orthodox medicine, complimentary medicine, can one help the other, is there a mix that works, whats the benefit?

Then the question becomes ‘How much conventional medicine do we need and how much complimentary medicine?’ and then ‘How do you utilise them to work together so destroy the cancer within the system collectively?’

Understanding creates a peace of mind!

Dr Douwes explains how complimentary and orthodox medicine can work together as a team to maximise your holistic cancer treatment.

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Are There Secret Weapons To Treat Cancer?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 3:27 min

Sometimes doctors have responses in patients that even they do not expect they can achieve.

In this video, Dr Douwes talks about substances that are quite effective in destroying cancer cells that were initially designed not for cancer treatment. From such substances a new form of cancer treatment called metronomic treatment has evolved. An example of these substances is cyclooxygenase-2 which is used normally for the treatment of inflamed joints or rheumatism. Another is a substance that is used for the treatment of diabetes which effectively blocks an important enzyme within the cancer cells preventing its further growth.

These substances are given regularly at a very low dose so as to inhibit the side effects’, it usually has such as negative influence on the bone marrow. In fact, it even has a positive effect on our immune system and at the same time inhibits the formation of vessels. Over the years, metronomic treatments suppress cancer growth with unexpected positive results.

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I found a lot of substances which are not used for cancer treatment but they have extremely good activity in cancer. From this, we generated a form of cancer treatment which we call metronomic. This is a combination of low dose, every day applied substances. For instance, a low dose of cyclophosphamide. This is an cytostatic but it’s dose is so low that it cannot work as an cytostatic but it works in the immune system and especially on the part of the immune system which we don’t want, the suppressive part.

It also has an effect on the formation of new vessels. It has an anti-angio genetic effect. So if you give this in a low dose it has almost no side effects, no negative influence on the bone marrow, positive influence in the immune system and it inhibits the formation of vessels. Then another substance which is not used for cancer treatment, this so called cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors like celebrex which is normally used for the treatment of rheumatism, of inflamed joints. The cyclooxygenase-2 is very active in cancer and it has a lot of inflammatory products and if you block this, then it doesn’t. So if you use on one side this low dose cyclophosphamide, you use cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor then you have already 2 parts of the cancer blocked. If you then use for instance, a substance which is used for diabetes then you regulate the blood sugar by making the normal cells more sensitive to sugar.

We learned also that this substance, for instance, blocks a very important enzyme within the cancer cell. You have, let me see, 3 substances which you give in low dose. Two of them are not created for cancer treatment, you are doing this sort of treatment to reduce the cancer but this is very successful and most of my patients, they need one or two treatments in order to reduce its cancer and then they need only metronomic treatment and they stay on this metronomic treatment for years of course suppress the cancer growth and sometimes we have responses in patients were we, that even we didn’t know or expected that we could achieve it.

Supporting The Immune System To Help Cure Cancer?

with Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 1:51 min

You’ve asked what’s wrong? How can I change it? Where do we have to support the immune system?

Now where do we look for the answers from holistic cancer treatment to create change, well its not always where you think!

Dr Douwes shares some interesting discoveries from Japan and his insights into treatments with unexpected positive activity in cancer or effective cancer treatment for less than $10 daily.

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How Fast Do I Have To Act When Diagnosed w’ Cancer

dr-douweswith Dr. Med Friedrich Douwes

Duration 2:13 min

When someone has just been diagnosed with cancer it can be overwhelming and nerve racking to say the least. Yet Dr Douwes teacher in the United States said ‘In oncology nothing is so urgent that you cannot sleep at night worrying over it,  to do the right thing.’  The focus is often to destruct the cancer, get it out, get rid of it as fast as possible and the concept of healing the body with a holistic cancer treatment  feels disappointing as conventional medicine is about getting rid of the the tumour only not healing the person and creating well being.

Take time, get a second or third opinion, this is an important decision and you have to make your decision with your heart, follow what your heart tells you to do!

Dr. Douwes talks about taking time when diagnosed with cancer. Take your time in deciding on the approach in the treatment of your cancer. Consult other cancer specialists for a second and third opinion. Do not merely focus on the destruction of your cancer cells but also engage in detoxification and boost the parts of your body that are healthy.  A cancer which does not grow is not dangerous, it is just a chronic disease that you can live with. However, the instance that it starts to grow you have to seek active treatment.

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Transcript of Dr Douwes

This is another important aspect that you don’t have to get nervous. I have a very good teacher in the United States and he said to me that Ïn Oncology nothing is so urgent that you cannot sleep a night over it, to do the right thing.” That means, take time and it is also very important to ask for a second or third opinion. This is very important because I always tell my patients that “You have to make your decision with your heart. What your heart says you should do.”

This is  what I told you that patients sometimes get a little disappointed, if I tell them more about how to improve the healthy part of their life and detoxification than how to approach the destruction of their cancer because they are so focused on conventional medicine on the cancer and they say, “Get rid of it, I want to get it out in whatever you do as fast as possible.” This is wrong.

I learned  10-15 years ago that sometimes in the case that we cannot get a cure of cancer then its important to make it a chronic disease that the patient can live with it; that you bring the patient in a sort of equilibrium so that he lives with his cancer and as long as the cancer does not grow the cancer is not dangerous. I sometimes tell people, if you have a node in your chest but it does not grow, don’t be afraid. The minute that its start to grow then we have to be active but as long as you keep it under control you can live with it forever.