Budwig diets and prostate cancer

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have good experience in taking Budwig diets (Flax Oil + cottage

cheese) in treating prostate cancer?

I just heard that Dr. Myers (a well known prostate cancer doctor)

recommended that prostate cancer

patients should not take Flax oil due to the high content of ALA which

grows prostate cancer. Does it mean we should not take Budwig diets?

Jim K

[Guest guest]

Jim I have been on the Bugwig diet (flack seed oil and cottage cheese,) for a

year and a half now now, but I found I had to leave the bread and fruit alone,

as it put my PSA up. but my PSA been slowly come down om the Bugwig diet. I

think the ALA and prostrate cancer debate it still inconclusive.

This is a bit off an article on prostate cancer that mentions ALA it was done

in 2004 by Bonnie Liebman. hope it helps happy new year Ray

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0813/is_6_31/ai_n6156991/

In studies of thousands of men, the risk of prostate cancer is 70 percent higher

in those who consume more alpha-linolenic acid, or ALA--an omega-3 fat found in

meat, vegetable oils, and other foods. (1) (The body may convert ALA to the

longer-chain omega-3s that are found in fish oil.)

" At first we thought that ALA was associated with a higher risk of prostate

cancer because men who consumed more ALA also consumed more meat, " says Walter

Willett, who chairs the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public

Health in Boston. " But now it looks like the ALA in oils like soy and canola are

also linked to prostate cancer. "

So it seems surprising that flaxseed, one of the richest sources of

alphalinolenic acid, lowered PSA levels (from 8.5 to 5.7, on average) in a pilot

study of 15 men who were scheduled to have a repeat biopsy. (2) (The men added

an ounce a day of ground flaxseed to a lower-fat diet for six months.)

" The findings are conflicting, but people don't eat isolated nutrients--they eat

foods, " says researcher Demark-Wahnefried of Duke University in Durham,

North Carolina. " We tested the whole flaxseed, which has a host of

nutrients--not just ALA, but lignans, which are fiber-rich plant estrogens. "

A recent study at the University of Michigan found that ALA promoted prostate

cell growth, she notes. " But that was a study done in cell lines, not in people

or even animals. And they used purified ALA, which is devoid of antioxidants and

is kept at high temperatures, not ALA as it is found in the body. "

Demark-Wahnefried's studies have found that flaxseed slows the growth of

prostate tumors in mice. (3) " Those results, plus the slower cancer growth and

the drop in PSA we found in men who are flaxseed during the month before

surgery, are compelling, " she says. " But I wouldn't stand on a soapbox and tell

men to eat flaxseed. We first need well-controlled trials to find out if it can

help. "

She has now started a clinical trial that will give a low-fat diet supplemented

with flaxseed to cancer patients who are scheduled to have their prostate glands

removed. (Most weeks before the surgery can be performed.)

" Then when the prostate comes out, we can measure the cell proliferation rate, "

she says. " That's more reliable than measuring PSA. "

Demark-Wahnefried suggests several mechanisms to explain why flaxseed might

work. " The lignans could be acting like estrogen, " which slows prostate cell

growth. " Or they could bind to testosterone in the GI tract, just as the

beta-glucan fiber in oat bran binds to cholesterol. That would enhance

testosterone excretion. "

But until more research results are in, it makes sense to avoid too much ALA,

especially from concentrated sources like flaxseed oil supplements.

" We found an increased risk of prostate cancer in men who consumed 1.5 grams of

ALA a day compared to those who got 0.7 grams, " says Ed Giovannucci of the

Harvard School of Public Health. Every 1,000 mg of flaxseed in a typical

supplement contains roughly 500 mg (0.5 grams) of alpha-linolenic acid.

His advice: " ALA is a tough one because we have good evidence that it's

beneficial for heart disease, but men can certainly reduce the ALA they consume

by eating less red meat. " That might protect the prostate without jeopardizing

the heart.

Calcium

Calcium is everywhere--fruit juices, breakfast cereals, pancake mixes, and

dozens of other foods. You'd never guess that too much calcium may raise a man's

risk of prostate cancer. Yet that's what several studies show. (4)

" In earlier studies, we saw roughly four times the risk of advanced prostate

cancer only in men who consumed at least 2,000 mg of calcium a day, compared

with men who consumed less than 500 mg a day, " says Giovannucci.

From: jpking@...

Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:03 PM

Subject: [ ] Budwig diets and prostate cancer

Does anyone have good experience in taking Budwig diets (Flax Oil + cottage

cheese) in treating prostate cancer?

I just heard that Dr. Myers (a well known prostate cancer doctor)

recommended that prostate cancer

patients should not take Flax oil due to the high content of ALA which

grows prostate cancer. Does it mean we should not take Budwig diets?

Jim K

[Guest guest]

A while ago, I found out how the Budwig diets helps our cells fight cancer, I

was reading a book called The Cell Factor, by the famed Cardiologist Dr Ross

. He was talking about the damage, Tran fatty acids, (trans fats) and

saturated fatty acids, (saturated fats) do to our cells . What I'm about to

tell you is a vastly complicated process, so I've had to simplified it a bit, or

maybe a lot but you should get the general idea

How the Budwig diet works

The cells in our body live for about four to seven years, in the time the cells

are a live they get damage by just general were and tear, but the cells can

repair them self. To do this the cell uses many different molecules I just want

to talk about the outer cell wall, or cell membrane. This cell outer wall is

made of fat molecules, now our cells don't know one type of fat molecules, (

fatty acids) from any other type of fat molecules, so when a trans fat molecules

comes a long, the cell grubs it, and uses it to repair the damage in it outer

cell wall.

The problem is that trans fat molecules, are smaller then normal fat molecules,

so nutrients have a hard time getting pass them. they also cause an electrical

problem in the cell. that I don't want to go in to right now. If the cell uses

enough trans fats, in it outer membrane, the cell will evenly start to starve.

One way the cell can get more nutrients, in is the cell can make it self

bigger, but to do this, it has to change the codes in it nucleus. When it dos

this, it still a normal cell until it divides, at most time it will just become

a benign cancer cell, but some times, when it dos divides it can then becomes a

cancer cell, normally these cancer cells, are killed off by our body own immune

system, but if there is to many of them the immune system just gets over whelmed

by them, so the cancer cells now have the time to turn it self into cancer

tumors. How the Bugwig diet comes into this is? flack seed oil is loaded with

amongst other things, Omega 3, and Omega 6, fatty acids. Over time the damage

cells can swop its tans fatty acids with a Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids so

the cell has more nutrients and the cell has more energy but this takes time,

can be months some times it can take years but most cancer patients notice they

seem to have more energy in only after a few Days of starting the Budwig diet

this is be cause the Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids are starting to fix up that

electoral, problem in the cells I was talking about. well all the best Happy

new tear every one. Ray

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