DMSO Potentiation Therapy?

[Guest guest]

Darren,

In the recent thread titled, " Questions for IPT practitioners, cancer

researchers, etc. " , Darren wrote:

<< I know that many use DMSO either transdermally or orally to potentiate

other agents, much like IPT. The big difference is that DMSO can be

purchased at most feed stores for about $6-8 per quart. I'm not sure if that

was

what you were looking for, but I thought I'd throw that out there. >>

Thank you for posting this, Darren.

I have heard the concern raised that DMSO may not be selective enough

towards cancer cells, and that it could potentiate the chemotherapy drugs into

healthy normal cells as well as into cancer cells.

Does anyone have any information on the efficacy and safety of DMSO

Potentiation Therapy (DPT), especially from experienced practitioners?

Here are a couple links on this subject which I had in my files:

Combining DMSO Potentiation Therapy (DPT) and Insulin Potentiation Therapy

(IPT)

_http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Cancer/DPTPlus.html_

(http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Cancer/DPTPlus.html)

DMSO Potentiation Therapy

_http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/DMSO.html_

(http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/DMSO.html)

Thanks much!

Glen from Illinois, USA

[Guest guest]

Sounds to me like people thinking DMSO to potentiate a treatment form need to be

working with someone that knows what works and what doesn't and not most list

members that have little experience other than reading other people's work.

When talking IPT one is talking Alternative treatments and even performing the

task requires an expertise few would have.

Joe C.

[Guest guest]

Most studies have demonstrated that dmso protects the good cells from

chemotherapy.

 

Granted these are animal and cell line studies,...but some carefully chronicled

case histories have shown that dmso prevents bone marrow loss, secondary

cancers, anemia, etc. right in line with the other studies.

 

In fact other substances offer the same protectiveness,

 

chlorophyllin.

Strong antioxidant therapies.

High dose coq10

High dose ascorbates, (once thought to hinder chemotherapy.) 

Xanthenes (found in mangosteen)

 

All of these have shown to potentiate chemotherapy, immune therapy to varying

degrees,

But, not one of these potentiates to the degree that dmso is capable of.

 

Sulfer allergies beware with dmso!!!!

 

[Guest guest]

Joe,

DMSO was a fad about 15-20 years ago at the Mexican clinics. I

wasn't in favorite of it because I did not see any acceleration in

favorable responses, and because it made the whole clinic smell like

DMSO. In 1991 I was medical director of the Manner Clinic in Tijuana.

Every once in a while it pops up again, usually with someone

marketing it with hydrogen peroxide or silver or whatever. I am not

a big fan because it can quench a Fenton reaction or a Haber-Weiss

rxn, so it can put you at cross purposes when a patient is using

wormwood/artemesia or, say, copper diisopropylsalicylate or

Ferrlecit. BTW, ammonium tetrathiomolybdate can kick up artemether,

etc., because it suppresses ceruloplasmin, that is, you can quench a quencher.

DMSO is quite safe, but it is not a miracle drug.

At 02:03 PM 8/5/2009, you wrote:

>

>Sounds to me like people thinking DMSO to potentiate a treatment

>form need to be working with someone that knows what works and what

>doesn't and not most list members that have little experience other

>than reading other people's work. When talking IPT one is talking

>Alternative treatments and even performing the task requires an

>expertise few would have.

>

>Joe C.

[Guest guest]

,

<< DMSO was a fad about 15-20 years ago at the Mexican clinics. I wasn't

in favorite of it because I did not see any acceleration in favorable

responses, and because it made the whole clinic smell like DMSO. >>

<< DMSO is quite safe, but it is not a miracle drug. >>

Have you actually specifically seen DMSO combined with IPT (Insulin

Potentiation Therapy) and/or other chemotherapy?

If so, did both of your above statements apply?

Thanks,

Glen from Illinois, USA

[Guest guest]

Glen,

IPT is a mediocre therapy. Many of the chemos used rely on free

radical reactions that are quenched by DMSO. I do like DMSO with

hyperthermia though. There is real science behind it.

Over the past week I have tried to be more active on the list, but I

am horrified by all overwhelmingly bad information and speculations

re alternative cancer treatment. I don't argue or explain every

little point because those who post are allies in the war against

harmful, expensive, and otherwise wrongheaded conventional meds. I

really don't want to wound their pride by shooting down much of what

they say. I want to see more people enthusiastic about natural

methods of health reclamation.

Today someone posted an unpublished, non-peer reviewed " study " of 10

AIDS patients in a small African hospital. The study was designed to

help market sutherlandia with oleander. The control consisted of 10

patients who took a potion that included unspecified vitamins. The

study was orchestrated by the marketer who developed the

formulation. There was no assessing of viral load, only a CD4 count

and two liver enzymes, and these were measured a total of three times

over a total of two months. There was no testing of the herbal mix

alongside the scores and scores of competing products in this

lucrative market. How does it stack up against such simple

macrophage activators like the very inexpensive beta glucans?

I don't doubt that the product has some activity against HIV and

probably cancer too. It is hard to find things that don't have some

definable activity against AIDS and cancer. When AIDS first started

to appear almost 30 years ago most patients were dead within a year

or two. Now, thanks to a wide variety of options available through

AIDS buyers' club most everyone lasts 15 years up to a normal life span.

There are perhaps a dozen supplements or strategies that routinely

appear on this list that have an almost religious following. Most

have benefit, sometimes great benefit, but not so much you throw out

the rest of your meds and stop your research.

BTW, a day or two ago you asked about using a glutathione derivative

to reduce glutathione and induce apoptosis. The abstracts may sound

wonderful and the researcher might get another grant, but keep in

mind that foreign substances -- be they chemos or natural -- can

stimulate a superfluity of glutathione some three orders of magnitude

-- that is 1,000 fold. Any biochemical process that the body has to

tightly control (such as apoptosis) has very reactive cell signalling

to foster regulation or to trigger back-up pathways. It is more

useful to study those things that are already well understood to

produce the desired effects in the real world, e.g., BSO or sanguinarine.

At 07:04 PM 8/8/2009, you wrote:

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>,

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><< DMSO was a fad about 15-20 years ago at the Mexican clinics. I wasn't

>in favorite of it because I did not see any acceleration in favorable

>responses, and because it made the whole clinic smell like DMSO. >>

>

><< DMSO is quite safe, but it is not a miracle drug. >>

>

>Have you actually specifically seen DMSO combined with IPT (Insulin

>Potentiation Therapy) and/or other chemotherapy?

>

>If so, did both of your above statements apply?

>

>Thanks,

>Glen from Illinois, USA

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