Bang for the Buck. Was: Re: VITAMIN 'C' IV

[Guest guest]

Yep, it all boils down to the bang for the buck for most of us.

(Cost/benefit ratio).

When I first found out I had cancer that would no longer respond to

chemo, I started doing IV C. The naturopath also strongly advised me

to to carosine (Sp? -- ginseng extract). Well, sitting there in that

chair getting the drip, I talked to two other cancer patients getting

what she had recommended and they were NOT getting any better. In

fact, they were getting worse. But they did it anyway because they

were told there were no other decent alternative options. (LIE LIE

LIE LIE!!!) And they were paying $3,000 a month for these

treatments!

Well, I " fired " that naturopath after about 3 weeks and found out

much much cheaper and much more cost effective alternative methods

than the IV C.

> >...since many of us do many things to combat cancer, which one do

we give credit to or do we give the credit to all we do? Joe C.

> >

>

> I think we should give the credit to ALL that we do.

> We are very hard workers . . . . I shlep to the gym 4 times a week

and

> exercise even when I don't want to, sit in the sauna for 30

minutes, lie out

> in the sun every sunny day of the year, drive out of my way to get

raw milk,

> or fresh herbs, or organic food (I have a supermarket across the

street from

> me but drive 40 minutes out of the way to shop at Whole Foods),

never drink

> (haven't drank in 16 years) or smoke even when I am really stressed

out by

> all this dental crap.

> Honestly, I would rather any improvements in my scans be from

things I can

> do myself, or from things that are free, like exercise and

sunlight, than

> from anything any health care practitioner does.

> This is what I like about this group. All the great advice, and

sharing of

> what has worked and what is a waste of money.

> I would spend my money again on $125 IV-C treatments (that seems

like a

> reasonable price), but NEVER holistic dentistry again (I paid $17K

for less

> than a days work pulling some teeth and cleaning out 'infection'

(none was

> found on biopsy) and invisible cysts and got NO improvements out of

it . . .

> . and the dentist went out and bought a Harley son the next

day). The

> " infections " are still very hot on bone scan. The holistic dentist

told me

> that he does not believe that people are all equal, that only the

hardest

> workers deserve the best health care. Well, do you know how many

walls I

> will have to paint to pay for his Harley son? Then he tells me

that my

> jawbone lesions (different area than what he worked on) are slowly

improving

> because of all of MY HARD WORK and had nothing to do with his

work . . . .

> he said that doctors are not Gods, they can only offer treatments.

This is

> why I don't get why a conventional dentist will charge $100 for an

> extraction and a holistic dentist will charge $1000 for an

extraction. I was

> lucky to find a dentist who accepted my insurance when I had my

mercury out

> and charged me only $35 per filling to replace with white

composite. I don't

> think I spent more than $400 getting my fillings replaced.

>

> Sunlight, exercise, and good food (anti-cancer diet). That's the

key.

>

> Power to the people.

>