Dr. Nick Gonzalez, an alternative cancer treatment specialist, sent me this incredible testimonial from his patient, Carey Reading.  This wonderful, beautiful story is a triumph of the human spirit and a tribute to Dr. Gonzalez’s incredible work. I hope I never have to test it, but were I to get cancer again I would be at his door yesterday. 

Picking up the Pieces - By Carey Reading

I remember the very moment it all began. I had just finished a rigorous pump class at my gym. As usual, I started my stretching routine. When I reached for my left toes to get a nice stretch down my back, I felt a ripping sensation down the bottom right quadrant of my back muscles. I had been a yoga student for years, worked out daily, was a devout vegetarian and was very in tune with my body.  This was my body, actually speaking to me loud and clear, yelling at me from my lower back, "Hey you! I'm Burkitt's Lymphoma, one of the world's deadliest cancers. I'm going to suck all of the life out of you and try to kill you!"

I didn't hear my body's first cry for help.  I had been a model of health, wellness and beauty. Over the next six months this outer exterior of perfection would work against me as the parasite used my body and looks to masquerade around in. On the outside I was a 32 year old, standing 5' 9" and weighed 115 lbs. I was confident and happy, naturally tan with long, thick blond hair. I was on my way to becoming a court reporter, and felt as if the world was my oyster.  On the inside I was dying, quickly and torturously.

After several months of denying what my body was telling me, I sought the advice of two doctors, one allopathic the other naturopathic. I gave them my list of complaints such as; sleeping up to 16 hours a day, loss of appetite and night sweats forcing me to change three times a night and waking in soaking sheets.  The doctor dismissed my symptoms and her advice was, "you need to get a life" and that I “can't just sleep all day.” After she complimented me on my weight and physique she sent me on my way. Based on her blind-sighted "doctors orders" I vowed to myself that I would try harder to be better.

On the doctor's advice, I tried harder and the pain grew stronger.  Regardless of continued unbearable pain, which now spread to my lungs and lower back, I was discouraged to seek any other specialist's input. Even though undiagnosed I had all the symptoms of a cancer patient.

On August 18, 2008, I was diagnosed with stage four Burkitt's Lymphoma, a rare and extremely lethal cancer. I was given seven to ten days to live. I underwent the most aggressive treatment available with the idea to try to kill the cancer without killing me in the process. Finally, I was a candidate for a stem cell transplant. After experiencing a litany of grueling side effects, I was left with the dismal results that my cancer had returned and I was given three to six months to live.

My life took a turn of events when Dr. Gonzalez became an alternative resource.  I was done with the medical community as much as they were done with me. There comes a time in one's life where a window of opportunity presents itself.  For me Dr. Gonzalez was that window.

Dr. Gonzalez's unique combination of attending to the mind, body, spirit and lifestyle of a person is carefully choreographed into his medical approach, lending itself a pain free, holistic treatment. With the consumption of pork pancreas enzymes, supplements, diet and thorough detoxification, my cancer was eliminated safely and quickly.

It has been one year to date, (February 10, 2010) since I first began Dr. Gonzalez's program.  The PET scans and Cat scans over this last year have all shown absolutely no signs of cancer.  While the medical community may not understand my cancer remission, I am confident that Dr. Gonzalez's Treatment has saved my life. I am cancer free and I still have my dignity, mental and physical strength, and independence. There is a place for chemotherapy and it did save my life, but only to a point. My cancer "broke" through the chemo and left me as a shell of a person with a very real death sentence. I thank God Dr. Gonzalez was there to take me in, and pick up the pieces of a once whole person and put me back together again. I am eternally thankful for Dr. Gonzalez's courage to bring a different approach of healing into the world.

It is my ultimate dream to see that the Dr. Gonzalez enzyme therapy protocol would be recognized by the medical community for its life saving ability. With this recognition the insurance industry would then see fit to cover the expenses associated with this treatment. Until then, I wonder if there is a way to raise money for those cancer patients who are in dire need of the Gonzalez therapy and cannot afford it.

 

First week in the hospital.

 

Rough times ahead.

Me and Mom

 

One year after starting my treatment with Dr. Gonzalez.




Cancer free and feeling incredible.




Loving life and eternally grateful to Dr. Gonzalez.

Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

TAKE ACTION - TELL YOUR SENATOR NOT TO CO-SPONSOR THIS BILL

Senator McCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and not chemically altered or 2) if they were sold as supplements prior to 1994, the year that DSHEA was passed. If a supplement fits one of these two descriptions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot arbitrarily ban it or reclassify it as a drug.

These protections are far from perfect. They discourage companies from developing new forms of supplements. New supplements may be arbitrarily banned by the FDA or adopted by drug companies in a way that precludes their further sale as supplements.

McCain’s bill would wipe out even the minimal protections contained in DSHEA. It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

Everyone knows that the FDA is friendly to drug companies (which pay its bills and provide good revolving door jobs) and hostile to supplement companies. Under this bill, this same Agency could quite arbitrarily ban any supplement it wished or turn it over to drug companies to be developed as a drug and sold for multiples of its price as a supplement.

The FDA will like this because it believes that it can more easily control a few industry giants. But isn’t it more likely that the industry giants will eventually gain control over the FDA?

The FDA is already misusing the adverse event reporting process that exists. Drugs rack up thousands of adverse event reports without any action. Just recently, the FDA yanked from the market a supplement product based on just a couple of alleged adverse event reports without even allowing the company (an old and respected firm) to provide any counter-evidence or counter-argument.

The bill also allows the FDA to yank a product (at the company’s expense) if there is a “reasonable probability” that it is “adulterated” or “misbranded”. Let’s remember that “adulterated” could mean there is a minor record keeping error on the producer’s part and “misbranded” can mean that the producer simply tells the truth about the product. An “adulterated” and “misbranded” supplement in Orwellian FDA speak may actually be both completely safe and effective.

We must prevent this bill from gaining traction! Protect your access to supplements by contacting your senators today and asking them NOT to co-sponsor the Dietary Supplement Safety Act but rather to oppose it.

TAKE ACTION

McCain’s Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) appears to be supported by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) which is funded by major league sports teams including baseball, football and others. The recent suspensions of NFL and other professional sports figures is much in the news, and the goal of the sports industry appears to be to shift the spotlight from their players to the supplements industry. In his comments, Senator McCain cited six NFL players recently suspended for testing positive for banned substances and purportedly exposed to these substances through dietary supplements.

The problem here of course is one of illegal sale and use of steroids. So why dismantle the supplement industry in order to control already illegal substances?

The FDA currently has complete and total authority to stop illegal steroids and, more broadly, to regulate dietary supplements. If the agency were doing its job, it could and would have prevented the sale of illegal steroids. The answer to this problem is not to give FDA more power. The Agency simply needs to do its job.

TAKE ACTION

Why would a bill be offered to solve an illegal steroid problem that does not really address the steroid problem but instead gives the FDA complete and arbitrary control over all supplements? The answer is simple.

There are a lot of vested interests which are threatened by supplements. Drug companies do not like them because they represent a low cost, safer, and often more effective alternative to drugs. The FDA does not like them because supplements do not come through the FDA approval process and therefore do not support the FDA budget.

Why not simply require that supplements be brought through the FDA’s drug approval process? Wouldn’t that create a level playing field?

That is probably the argument that Senator McCain has been sold. But it is a completely false argument. The FDA drug approval process costs as much as a billion dollars. It is not economically feasible to spend such vast sums on substances that are not protected by patent, and natural substances cannot legally be patented.

This is the great “Catch 22” of American medicine. The FDA, which is supposed to guard and promote our health, is hostile to the kind of natural medicine—based on diet, supplements, and exercise—that represents the real future of healthcare. The Agency has either been captured by drug interests or is trapped in a catastrophically expensive, toxic, and ineffective patented-drug model.

Senator McCain has no doubt offered this bill in good faith. But he has been sold a bill of goods by special interests. And he has been naïve enough not to know that he is being used.

TAKE ACTION

This exceptionally bad bill also requires the reporting of all minor adverse events related to supplements. This is in addition to the already existing requirement to report adverse events. This will further stack the deck against small supplement companies by creating new, unnecessary, even more cumbersome, and of course very expensive administrative hurdles. The result: the consolidation of the supplement industry into a few big companies. If passed, this bill will likely result in the disappearance from store shelves of many supplements currently on the market. In addition to fewer supplements, there would likely be much lower doses available. Unbridled authority would be handed to the FDA, an agency that needs a top to bottom overhaul, not ever more power over our lives.

If McCain’s bill passes, we can look to Europe for a snapshot of what we may be in for: EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, has sharply reduced the list of available supplements and is in process of reducing potencies to ridiculous levels, such as less beta carotene than can be found in half of a large carrot. Europeans already look to the US to obtain their dietary supplements. If this bill passes, where will we obtain ours?

Please take action immediately. Tell your senators NOT to co- sponsor this legislation and to do everything in their power to defeat it. Then forward this to your friends and family and ask then to do the same!

Gretchen DuBeau
Legal Director, Alliance for Natural Health Int.
Executive Director, ANH-USA

Sincerely,

Suzanne Somers

For more information, please visit www.SuzanneSomers.com.

I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Jonathan Wright for the past several years.  He is the “Father of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy” as the very first doctor to prescribe these natural hormones in the United States.  My last few books detail the benefits of using bioidentical hormones in place of synthetic hormones.  For in-depth information, please reference The Sexy Years, Ageless, and Breakthrough.  Since Dr. Wright is the premier expert in this field, I have asked him to participate in a new series of blogs to explore many of your specific questions about BHRT. Plus, the timing is good for him since he has just released a book entitled, Stay Young & Sexy with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement.  I encourage you to check it out as a comprehensive guide to BHRT.   

 

SUZANNE:  Dr. Wright, I have many women who write to me to ask about menstrual clotting. Most have doctors who say this afflicts some women more than others and there’s not much that can be done about it.  I know you have a fairly simple remedy.  Could you please share this with my readers?     

 

DR. WRIGHT:  Just a few years after opening Tahoma Clinic (it wasn’t named that then) in 1973, I was working with a nurse who, like me, had a background in conventional medicine, but had decided on her own that since our bodies are made up of natural substances and natural energies it made sense to prevent and treat illness with those same natural substances and energies rather than totally un-natural patent medicines. One of her problems was bruising rather more easily than nearly anyone she knew.

 

Even then, it was known that a major function of vitamin K is to stop easy bruising. She’d had her levels measured at the hospital where she worked by the then-current test (which measured blood coagulability), and was told it was said to be “very close to normal”, so that couldn’t be her problem. I advised her to try flavonoids, which can also stop easy bruising by strengthening blood vessels, including tiny capillaries, so they don’t break as easily.

Two or three months later, she reported that her “easy bruising” was a little better, but not that much. With no other remedies available, I advised her to take a larger-than-usual quantity of vitamin K1, 5 milligrams daily. (At that time, the only supplemental forms of vitamin K available were vitamin K1, phylloquinone, and vitamin K3, a semi-synthetic form.)

 

I didn’t see her for at least another six months, when she came back about another concern. When we were done discussing that, she noted that her “easy bruising” was entirely gone, and she’d noticed one other unexpected benefit. Her menstrual clotting—which had been extremely heavy since she’d started her menstrual periods over 20 years before—had entirely gone away. She said: “My clotting with periods has been so that sometimes I missed school or work because of pain. Sometimes the clots were so big I would name them!” She hadn’t mentioned this problem before because, she said, “I thought it was just normal for me. Besides, a few other women I know have the problem, too.”

 

SUZANNE: How long did it take for the Vit K to make a difference?

 

DR. WRIGHT: After starting vitamin K, her first menstrual period was “about the same”, but her second menstrual period had somewhat smaller clots and fewer of them, her third had “very definitely” fewer clots which were also much smaller. By her fourth menstrual period after starting vitamin K, the clots were almost gone, and after that, they were entirely gone.

 

Neither of us could explain it, since the nursing and medical textbooks of the time told us (as they do today) that the principal function of vitamin K is enabling blood to clot normally—without it, there’s too much easy bleeding. Yet vitamin K had not only helped take away entirely her “easy bruising”, but also her menstrual clotting. 

“Please pass this along to any other woman who has menstrual clots” she asked. “I already have, and it’s worked for her, too.”

 

Since that time (1970s, remember), every (yes, every) woman I’ve worked with who’s taken vitamin K for her menstrual clotting has gotten rid of the problem within a few menstrual cycles. It appears that menstrual clotting is—for those women—a physical symptom of not enough vitamin K.

 

SUZANNE:  Thank you, Dr. Wright.  I look forward to sharing more life-changing information from you!

 

Sincerely,

 

Suzanne Somers

 

For more information, please visit www.SuzanneSomers.com