“Genetically, in some ways vitiligo and melanoma are polar opposites. Some of the same genetic variations that make one more likely to have vitiligo make one less likely to have melanoma, and vice-versa,” says researcher Richard Spritz, M.D. “Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease, in which a person’s immune system attacks their normal pigment cells. We think that vitiligo represents over-activity of a normal process by which one’s immune system searches out and destroys early cancerous melanoma cells.”

People with vitiligo are at higher risk for various  other autoimmune diseases, such as thyroid disease, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester, or CAPE, a compound isolated from honeybee hive propolis, has been shown in lab tests to halt early-stage prostate cancer by shutting down the tumor cells’ system for detecting sources of nutrition.

"If you feed CAPE to mice daily, their tumors will stop growing. After several weeks, if you stop the treatment, the tumors will begin to grow again at their original pace," says researcher Richard B. Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Chicago Medicine. "So it doesn’t kill the cancer, but it basically will indefinitely stop prostate cancer proliferation."

In this study, CAPE was also effective at slowing the growth of human prostate tumors grafted into mice. Six weeks of treatment with the compound decreased tumor volume growth rate by half, but when CAPE treatment was stopped, tumor growth resumed its prior rate. The results suggested that CAPE stopped cell division rather than killing cancerous cells.

"It appears that CAPE basically stops the ability of prostate cancer cells to sense that there’s nutrition available," Jones says. "They stop all of the molecular signatures that would suggest that nutrition exists, and the cells no longer have that proliferative response to nutrition."

Progesterone’s Health Benefits

In women, the hormone estrogen stimulates growth of tissue inside the uterus. To keep the body from producing uterine overgrowth, the hormone progesterone slows this activity and boosts growth elsewhere. (It helps strengthen bone, for example.) Progesterone restricts estrogen synthesis and suppresses the enzymes that promote estrogen production. It blocks estrogen receptors and suppresses the genes that are encoded to promote estrogen production.¹

We also know that progesterone is beneficially active upon breast tissue. In fact, progesterone reduces estrogen’s stimulation of breast cancer growth. This was described by the authority in modern gynecological endocrinology, Dr. Leon Speroff, who noted, “Evidence indicates that with increasing duration of exposure, progesterone can limit breast epithelial growth as it does with endometrial epithelium… Human breast tissue specimens removed after patients were treated with estradiol and progesterone indicate that progesterone inhibits in vivo [living humans] estradiol induced proliferation.” ²

Breast Cancer Risk

What’s more, the studies all show that while progesterone lowers breast cancer risk, progestins (synthetic forms of progesterone) do not. It is vital to know the difference between these two if you are considering progesterone hormone supplementation. The alleged “experts” from the American College of Gynecology love to denigrate “so-called” bio-identical progesterone while promoting the use of synthetic progestins.

This doesn’t account for the fact that synthetic progestins promote breast cancer and heart disease, while progesterone beneficially lowers breast cancer and heart disease risk.

Startling Studies

The Women’s Health Initiative reported some startling information in 2002. It revealed that even though some 50 million women had been prescribed synthetic oral estrogen plus progestin therapy for better health (in the belief it would lower heart disease and breast cancer risk) since 1972, it was a mistake.

Prescribing artificial hormones was really an experiment. Nobody knew the long-term effect of these synthetic chemicals. The study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that Premarin® (a synthetic estrogen) and Provera® (a synthetic progestin) users had increased rates of heart disease and breast cancer, not lower rates.

This study showed that “absolute excess risks per 10,000 person-years attributable to estrogen plus progestin were 7 more CHD events [heart attacks], 8 more strokes, 8 more pulmonary emboli, and 8 more invasive breast cancers. The benefits were absolute risk reductions per 10,000 person-years of 6 fewer colorectal cancers and 5 fewer hip fractures.” ³

By the way, the risks attributed to oral estrogen are not at all what we find with bio-identical estrogen when applied transdermally (on the skin). This difference is likely due to the way it is metabolized by the liver.

Hormonal Fear

Women continue to be afraid of progesterone, thinking it is the same as progestin. Don’t be confused here. The Women’s Health Initiative again reported this effect of progestin (not progesterone) in 2009 with a study in the New England Journal of Medicine⁴ and in 2010 with a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association ⁵ (JAMA) of more than 16,000 postmenopausal women from 40 U.S. clinical centers during 5.9 years. This research showed that progestins plus oral estrogen caused an increase in breast cancer rates. Don’t be alarmed — this was not progesterone that they were using in the study.

Many other studies confirm this distinct difference between progestins (synthetic) and progesterone. Lyytinen, et al. used estrogen and a progestin and found increased breast cancer rates in 3 years.⁶ The Nurse’s Health Study, which followed 58,000 postmenopausal women for 16 years, found estrogen (oral) alone increased risk for breast cancer by 23 percent, but addition of synthetic progestin resulted in tripling the risk.⁷

In 2000, Rose, et al. reported a study in which they compared risk for breast cancer between 1,897 postmenopausal women on oral estrogen and synthetic progestin versus 1,637 control women who had never used hormone replacement therapy. They found that progestin increased the risk for breast cancer by 25 percent for every five years of use compared with estrogen alone.⁸ In addition to these, I have many more such clinical studies I could share with you.

Mistaken Beliefs

You can see that if most physicians and lay people believe progestins to be equivalent to progesterone, they misinterpret these studies to think progesterone is harmful and can promote breast cancer. Progesterone doesn’t do this. Progestins are not the same as progesterone.

So you may wonder if there are clinical studies to prove that progesterone lowers breast cancer. There are eight such studies, each well-designed and with large, impressive numbers to show clear statistical significance.

Better Heart Health

One other important difference between progestins and bio-identical progesterone is their influence on cardiovascular health. Progestins cause potentially harmful vasoconstriction (blood vessels narrow); progesterone stimulates vascular relaxation. Also, lipid profiles (blood fats) are worsened with progestins, but improved with progesterone. There are plenty of studies to show this in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, too.

There are distinct differences between synthetic progestins and real progesterone.

Biochemically, the body does not even make progestins, nor do we know of any enzymes that the body naturally has that can properly metabolize progestins the way it has for progesterone.

Likewise, the enzymes needed to metabolize progesterone properly into either 11-deoxycorticosterone or 17-hydroxyprogesterone requires enzymes that we know the human body has. However, with progestins, we do not know if there are enzymes that will convert it to something safe or to something that is unsafe over time. Once again, this is according to the bible of female hormone metabolism in medical education today, Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, by Leon Speroff, M.D., and others.

Furthermore, the biochemical structures of several other synthetic progestins have carbon-carbon triple bonds, which are not present in the hormones that humans naturally have. These unnatural synthetic progestins include norethindrone, levonorgestrel and norethindrone acetate.

Hormone Problems

The synthetic hormone problem continues and younger women still receive synthetic progestins for reasons not relating to birth control. Doctors are not acknowledging that the oral contraceptive “pill” (aka OCP) has a link to breast cancer in later years, too. Most studies of OCP and new breast cancers in women before age 40 (the worst ones) show a definite link between cancer and the use of the OCP for long durations. Women who began using the OCP as teenagers (younger than age 20) have a 20 percent relative increased risk for breast cancer. It seems to be related more to the duration of exposure to progestins than the dose for shorter periods of time.⁹ 

All of these facts represent information about progestins and progesterone that most doctors don’t know. But with this knowledge, you can look upon bio-identical progesterone very differently than synthetic progestins. In my next article I’ll share the benefits of natural (bio-identical) progesterone and transdermal estrogen (different safety profile than oral estrogen) for you to consider.

To your best health, 

Michael Cutler, M.D.
Easy Health Options

“PSA (prostate-specific antigen) screening for … men 75 or older is inappropriate,” says Scott Eggener, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine. “Selective screening is reasonable to consider for the healthiest men over age 75, but for the large majority of men in this age group, early detection can lead to treatment of a disease that will probably never cause a problem. A substantial proportion of men over 75 with an elevated PSA will die from something else before a prostate cancer interferes with the quality or duration of their life.”

But doctors and their patients aren’t listening to this advice. Since recommendations in 2008 from the United States Preventive Services Task Force against testing for prostate cancer in men aged 75 years or older, almost half of men in that age group continue to get screening tests. And the number keeps going up, not down.

“There are studies suggesting that vitamin E actually increases the risk of cancer and decreases bone density,” says Chung S. Yang, director of the Center for Cancer Prevention Research at Rutgers. “Our message is that the vitamin E form of gamma-tocopherols, the most abundant form of vitamin E in the American diet, and delta-tocopherols, also found in vegetable oils, are beneficial in preventing cancers while the form of vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol, the most commonly used in vitamin E supplements, has no such benefit.”

“For people who think that they need to take vitamin E supplements,” Yang says, “taking a mixture of vitamin E that resembles what is in our diet would be the most prudent supplement to take.”

A study presented Friday at the World Congress of Cardiology suggests that exercise can help you quit smoking and increase the chances you won’t resume your tobacco habit.

In this research, smokers who stayed active were found to be 55 percent more likely to quit smoking and 43 percent more likely to stay smoke-free.

Taking drags on cigarettes and being sedentary drags down your life expectancy. In contrast, ex-smokers who exercise can, on average, live five years longer.

“Exercise can help smokers to quit and quitting smoking has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing CVD (heart disease) and that must be the goal of all smokers,” says Dr. C.P. Wen of the National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. “If smokers can continue to exercise (and stay off cigarettes) they can reduce their mortality …”

Dangerous Sugar

Various lifestyle factors can contribute to dangerous blood sugar levels. Predominant causes include a diet high in refined sugars, processed foods and simple carbohydrates; excess levels of toxins in the body; ongoing use of specific pharmaceutical drugs; chronic stress or sleep deprivation; and other imbalances. Consider that the number of type 2 diabetes cases that are diagnosed each year continues to break records. This steady climb in new cases is particularly disturbing among teenagers and children, since type 2 diabetes among this vulnerable population was almost unheard of before the 21st century.

It’s clear from these troubling statistics that our society faces a skyrocketing epidemic linked to modern lifestyles and environments. The good news: Metabolic conditions like type 2 diabetes can be successfully avoided or addressed using the right natural approaches.

Early Diagnosis Possible With The A1C Test

Early detection plays a critical role in preventing and reversing serious metabolic health issues and related chronic conditions. The sooner that blood glucose abnormalities are detected, the easier it is to correct them. A simple and accurate way to test long-term blood sugar imbalance is the A1C blood test. Precise and informational, an A1C test can detect chronically elevated blood glucose levels that are often missed with the standard fasting blood glucose test which reads only current blood sugar levels.

The A1C is unique: It shows where blood sugar levels have been during the past two to three months, providing an accurate picture of blood glucose over time.

An international committee of experts from the American Diabetes Association, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the International Diabetes Federation, recommends that the A1C test be the primary test used to diagnose pre-diabetes, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Clinically, however, doctors have been using the A1C only for diabetic patients or for patients they think already have diabetes.

But this simple test could save many more lives if it were included as part of routine screening exams.

As a practicing integrative physician, I’ve observed that merely taking one isolated reading using the standard fasting blood sugar test does not give an accurate determination of how an individual is handling blood sugar over the long term. As a result, doctor and patient may fail to detect harmful blood sugar trends early on, opening the door to serious chronic conditions down the road.

A1C Test Details

The A1C test is also called the hemoglobin A1C test or HgA1C. Hemoglobin is a protein found within red blood cells that retains a record of blood sugar levels. When blood glucose reacts with hemoglobin, the hemoglobin becomes glycated and remains in that state. During the 120 days that red blood cells stay in the blood before being replaced (and during the lifespan of the red blood cell), the hemoglobin preserves an imprinted memory of the body’s blood sugar levels. By measuring this glycated hemoglobin, the A1C test shows how blood sugar levels have behaved over the past two to three months and can detect a chronic imbalance with great accuracy and insight.

Lifestyle: The Benefits Of Diet And Exercise

The most important way to maintain a healthy blood sugar level is to stick to a strictly low glycemic-index diet emphasizing low-sugar foods that sustain and nourish blood glucose. Otherwise, when you eat highly sweetened and processed foods, you spike and crash blood sugar. The second most important factor is regular exercise, which triggers numerous hormonal and biological effects critical for metabolic health and glucose balance.

These lifestyle changes have been shown to be as effective as drug therapy for normalizing blood sugar levels over a short period of time. Furthermore, studies and clinical evidence suggest that over the long term, a healthy lifestyle with proper diet and exercise is the only sustainable solution to keep your blood sugar levels stable and protect overall health.

Recently, a research meta-analysis was published that helped identify the benefits of two different kinds of exercise training programs: combining aerobic exercise with weight lifting or merely taking part in aerobic exercise. The results demonstrate that a combined program of resistance exercise along with aerobic workouts improves blood sugar control beyond just doing aerobics alone. The average effect of the training programs was similar to that of long-term diet and insulin therapy.

Natural Supplements

In addition to diet and exercise, a number of herbs, botanical compounds and nutrients have been shown to help prevent and even reverse metabolic conditions over time. These targeted natural solutions work to:

• Re-sensitize insulin receptors.
• Prevent blood glucose spikes.
• Improve metabolism of fats and sugars.
• Increase antioxidant activity.
• Decrease inflammation.
• Prevent excess blood glucose from wreaking havoc on proteins, cells, tissues and organs.

Some top recommended supplements for metabolic health include:

• Berberis.
• Bitter melon.
• Gymnema leaf.
• Cinnamon.
• Jambolan seed.
• Fenugreek.
• Holy basil.
• Siberian ginseng.
• Astragalus.
• Integrative Metabolic Formula.
• Medicinal mushrooms.
• Alpha lipoic acid.
• Sodium alginates.
• Chromium polynicotinate.

Don’t Let This Silent Culprit Progress Undetected

Ask your health care provider to order the A1C test as part of your annual health exam. With this easy and advanced diagnostic tool, you can catch possible blood sugar problems at an early stage, in time to address them with simple diet, supplement and lifestyle adjuncts, which help reverse unhealthy trends. Even if you eat well and take good care of yourself, you may find that metabolic issues are developing silently as you age.

The A1C test is a good way to gain clear insight into your overall wellness, helping to protect and promote health and vitality throughout your life. For more practical information on all-natural remedies, visit http://www.dreliaz.org/.

Collapsible Medicine

I dare say that the medical establishment would collapse without the cancer industry. How does the medical establishment keep the game going? The answer is the pretense of research.

The key is to keep people asleep and hoping that, just around the corner, research will find the answer. The game is to ever search and never find. Why not, it’s been going on for more than 100 years.

Their bet is that enough cancer victims will go in as raw material to perpetuate the cancer industry. Your guarantee is unbelievable skyrocketing cost, pain and suffering many times before you certainly die.

I can hear it now as the cancer surgeon comes out of the operating room to meet with the family, saying, “We think we got it all.” I am sure that this lie is the most famous in all of modern medicine.

To “get it all,” they would have to cremate the cancer patient, because most of the time cancer is systemic (all over). What crass deception!

How many needless operations do you suppose are done on the basis of phony diagnosis or operations on terminal patients, thus only creating surgical fees and increasing the final suffering of the terminal patient?

But the game goes on, prescribed by the system as cut (operate), burn (radiation) or poison (chemotherapy). A doctor claiming to treat cancer with alternative methods can quickly go to jail.

Modern medicine tightly controls the public mind. It blacks out any serious alternative information. It’s a white-coat cult and the people bow in reverence. You know the syndrome: “My doctor said…”

Cancer Formation

Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D. and Linda L. Isaacs, M.D. have written an excellent book titled, The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer. Their research and the nutritional protocol they recommend is based on the great research and work of Dr. John Beard (1858-1924).

Dr. Beard discovered in his excellent research — that took place around 1900 — that:

“the trophoblast (pre-placenta state of the human fetus) does resemble a typical aggressive neoplasm (pre-cancer) in its general behavior and would seem to serve as an ideal model for the study of malignancy… Although the placenta is a normal tissue, the trophoblastic cells that come before the placenta share several common features with malignant cells. Their high cell proliferation, their lack of cell contact inhibition, their migratory and invasive properties as well as their capacity to escape effectors of the immune system in particular during the first trimester of pregnancy, have led to the definition of the trophoblast as a ‘pseudo-malignant’ type of tissue or as a ‘physiological metastasis’…”

In other words, what goes on in the formation of life is the ideal model for cancer.

The early syncytiotrophoblast (trophoblast) is highly invasive and aggressive tissue just exactly like cancer cells. The trophoblast pre-pregnancy and pre-life is cancer with the same aggressive potential, the same capacity for invasion, migration and angiogenesis (creation of its own blood supply), and is an ideal and exact model for cancer.

Who could have imagined that human life starts like cancer? And what puts a halt to these early cancer-like developments?

Well, there comes a critical period and precise time in the embryo’s life — some seven to eight weeks after conception — when the embryonic pancreas produces digestive enzymes. This is the key that signifies change in the trophoblast from a proliferating and invasive tissue like cancer cells, into the life-sustaining and well-behaved placenta.

Enzymatic Developments

We are talking about the introduction of two powerful digestive enzymes, trypsin and amylopsin. These are essential to start human life. Likewise, these same digestive enzymes are essential to control cancer malignancy as misplaced and uncontrolled trophoblasts try to develop from a vagrant germ cell.

Vagrant germ cells are asexual, and the pancreatic enzymes are responsible for their normal degeneration and suppression in both males and females. This is the now-open riddle for the cure to cancer. Cancer is caused by the lack of these pancreatic enzymes. Likewise, cancer may be cured by the introduction of these enzymes into the diet.

Dr. Gonzalez makes the strong case that oral pancreatic enzymes are sufficient to replace any deficit in his nutritional protocol. Non-invasive, wouldn’t we say? This is a far cry from the Satanic money-motivated cancer industry described above.

Millions Of Victims

Shame on us for our ignorance and negligence. I see millions of mangled and suffering bodies as byproducts of the cancer industry.

So here, described by Dr. Gonzalez, is the human life-beginning process mimicked by the life-destroying process in the form of cancer. The same pancreatic enzymes that trigger life also save life threatened by cancer.

If this were only a theory, I might be among the doubters. But all the biopsied, proven cancer cases — in many cases pronounced “terminal” by orthodox medicine — that were restored to normal health with the nutritional protocol of Dr. Gonzalez and Dr. William Donald Kelley leave no doubt. And with many restored cases came long life, as much as 20 years and more.

You can get the book The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer here. It costs about $50, but is worth $5,000 and maybe $5 million for someone who has cancer. Just the case histories at the back of the book are about as exciting as any life experience that one could imagine.

Why not begin a preventive regimen with Dr. Gonzalez’s nutritional protocol?

According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), some of those labels are lying and the toxic substances are still present in the goo that people are applying to their nails. The regulators picked out two dozen brands to test, chosen at random, and checked them for three particularly toxic chemicals. These toxins, toluene, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and formaldehyde — have been linked to cancer and birth defects.

The State says these products are incorrectly labeled: Cacie Light Free Gel Basecoat, Sation 53 Red-Pink Nail Color, Sation 99 Basecoat, Dare To Wear Nail Lacquer, Chelsea 650 Baby’s Breath Nail Lacquer, Paris Spicy 298 Nail Lacquer, New York Summer Nail Color, Sunshine Nail Lacquer, Cacie Sun Protection Topcoat, Golden Girl Topcoat, Nail Art Top-N-Seal and High Gloss Topcoat.

The makers of Sation products, Miss Professional Nail Products, claim the DTSC tests are mistaken.

A study performed by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, Duke University, University of California San Francisco and Baylor College of Medicine, found a correlation between frequent dental X-rays and the risk of developing meningioma, the most common form of brain tumor in the United States.

People who had a panorex X-ray, a dental X-ray which displays the entire mouth in one view, were found to be at an especially high risk. Children under 10 who had experienced a panorex X-ray were 4.9 times more likely to develop meningioma. Adults with a history of this type of X-ray were 3 times more likely to develop meningioma.

“The findings suggest that dental X-rays obtained in the past at increased frequently and at a young age, may be associated with increased risk of developing this common type of brain tumor,” says Elizabeth Claus, M.D., Ph.D., a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women’s Health and Yale University School of Medicine. “This research suggests that although dental X-rays are an important tool in maintaining good oral health, efforts to moderate exposure to this form of imaging may be of benefit to some patients.”