This is an interesting website on mesothelioma, causes and treatments.
What is interesting is that the site embraces alternative treatments, as
well as the conventional treatments. It describes various treatments
and presents choices; it is so important that people are educated as to ALL treatments, and can then choose their own individual course of action.
Friday, September 21, 2012
The Psychology of the Chemo Sales Pitch
I started wondering why people agree so readily to a toxic regimen that often leads to a painful and prolonged death. How is it that oncologists are so good at talking people into suspending their usual logical approach to life's problems, and agreeing, without question, to go willingly to their deaths? The answer, in my mind, is the very effective groundwork laid by the cancer industry, led of course by Big Pharma, that continuously brainwashes people into believing that chemo (or radiation) is their only hope against the "Big C." The Big C, in my opinion, is not Cancer, but Chemo. Chemo is the Big C to be scared of, not Cancer. Cancer can be managed and overcome through natural, non-toxic approaches. Chemo is not always survivable. Just look at what it does to people externally. We have been trained to overlook the hair loss and the physical ravages of chemo. Chemo patients have been trained to be proud of their hairlessness and weight loss, because they are brave survivors. We have all been trained to wear the ribbons, to walk for the cure. The key to the Chemo Sales Pitch: the cancer industry has tapped into that brave gene that we all have deep down. The trained sales force appeals to the need of people to rally, to try to beat unbeatable odds, and to summon up the courage to "fight the good fight." People, on some sub-conscious level, like to be thought of as martyrs. The cancer industry stumbled upon a great motivator, the "fight-flight response," and coupling that with the "fear factor," they have found that most people, when confronted with their scary death "statistics," will choose to fight.
When I challenged one of several oncologists I consulted about the percentages of my survival that he bandied about, he had no answer. When he recommended chemo, I asked him, "what else do you have?", his response was, "that's it. If you don't do chemo, I don't treat you." Hmmmm. That is odd. Why wouldn't he want to work with me to try to find something else, something non-toxic. Isn't he concerned about ME, about my health? When I met with his nutritionist, I asked what foods I should eat or avoid. The response was, "just follow the food pyramid." WHAT????? Are you kidding me? With that, I turned to my husband and said, "we are out of here." My husband later remarked that the look on the oncologist's face reminded him of the disappointed look of a used car salesman who just lost a sale. No wonder. This oncologist did not count on me exercising my "flight" response. I am not a martyr. I am not going to fight the good fight. The fight against chemo is a losing proposition. The match is fixed before it starts. There is no shot against chemo. Professional athletes cannot survive chemo; how can ordinary people survive it? I am scared of chemo. It is toxic and it just does not work. When my fight-flight response was activated, I chose flight, and I fled for my life. Which, by the way, I still have. Just say no to chemo.
I started wondering why people agree so readily to a toxic regimen that often leads to a painful and prolonged death. How is it that oncologists are so good at talking people into suspending their usual logical approach to life's problems, and agreeing, without question, to go willingly to their deaths? The answer, in my mind, is the very effective groundwork laid by the cancer industry, led of course by Big Pharma, that continuously brainwashes people into believing that chemo (or radiation) is their only hope against the "Big C." The Big C, in my opinion, is not Cancer, but Chemo. Chemo is the Big C to be scared of, not Cancer. Cancer can be managed and overcome through natural, non-toxic approaches. Chemo is not always survivable. Just look at what it does to people externally. We have been trained to overlook the hair loss and the physical ravages of chemo. Chemo patients have been trained to be proud of their hairlessness and weight loss, because they are brave survivors. We have all been trained to wear the ribbons, to walk for the cure. The key to the Chemo Sales Pitch: the cancer industry has tapped into that brave gene that we all have deep down. The trained sales force appeals to the need of people to rally, to try to beat unbeatable odds, and to summon up the courage to "fight the good fight." People, on some sub-conscious level, like to be thought of as martyrs. The cancer industry stumbled upon a great motivator, the "fight-flight response," and coupling that with the "fear factor," they have found that most people, when confronted with their scary death "statistics," will choose to fight.
When I challenged one of several oncologists I consulted about the percentages of my survival that he bandied about, he had no answer. When he recommended chemo, I asked him, "what else do you have?", his response was, "that's it. If you don't do chemo, I don't treat you." Hmmmm. That is odd. Why wouldn't he want to work with me to try to find something else, something non-toxic. Isn't he concerned about ME, about my health? When I met with his nutritionist, I asked what foods I should eat or avoid. The response was, "just follow the food pyramid." WHAT????? Are you kidding me? With that, I turned to my husband and said, "we are out of here." My husband later remarked that the look on the oncologist's face reminded him of the disappointed look of a used car salesman who just lost a sale. No wonder. This oncologist did not count on me exercising my "flight" response. I am not a martyr. I am not going to fight the good fight. The fight against chemo is a losing proposition. The match is fixed before it starts. There is no shot against chemo. Professional athletes cannot survive chemo; how can ordinary people survive it? I am scared of chemo. It is toxic and it just does not work. When my fight-flight response was activated, I chose flight, and I fled for my life. Which, by the way, I still have. Just say no to chemo.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
The Predictable Death of David Rakoff
"Today" reports the news of David Rakoff, a humorist and author with a cynical viewpoint:
"Rakoff opened up about his diagnosis on "The Daily Show" in 2010, once he was undergoing chemotherapy for a malignant tumor. (This was his second go-around with the disease, having faced Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphomia, when he was 22.) As he told host Jon Stewart at the time, 'When it turns out to be your own mortality on the line, people tend to be quite optimistic about their long-term chances for survival. The will to keep on going is incredibly strong.'"
Rakoff was cynical, but not cynical enough. When will people become cynical about the "treatment" of chemo? When will news reports start correctly reporting the cause of death? Instead of writing that the person died of cancer, tell the truth and write that the person died of chemo.
Just say no to chemo.
Friday, April 20, 2012
The Predictable Death of Levon Helm
www.huffingtonpost.com
The Band singer Levon Helm is dead at age 71 after a long battle with cancer, the Times Herald-Record reports. He passed away April 19 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
There is nothing more to be said. If you go to Sloan-Kettering and subject yourself to the mustard gas "treatment" called chemotherapy, your chances for survival are abysmal. Two GM executives, Sloan and Kettering, founded the Cancer Center as a business venture, to MAKE A PROFIT. There is no altruism here, they did not care about anyone's cancer, they cared about the bottom line. The well-meaning medical people who entered the oncology profession may or may not know that they are simply the pawns of Big Pharma. They are agents of death.
It is upsetting that the cancer industry has claimed another rock icon. George Harrison, now Levon Helm. Who's next? When someone with celebrity status is diagnosed with cancer, the fear factor kicks in and they immediately want the best treatment that money can buy. Which, in the conventional world of medicine, is oncology at a cancer center. These rockers were counter-culture their entire lives; why are they now succumbing to mainstream medicine? Fear. Mainstream medicine, for cancer treatment, just DOES NOT WORK. How many more people, whether celebrity or ordinary, have to die to prove that point? What is everyone missing? Why don't people see that taking chemo results in death, not in restoration of health? Take the dead/alive survey: 1) how many people do you know who had cancer and took chemo and are dead? how many are alive? 2) how many people do you know who had cancer and did NOT take chemo and are dead? how many are alive? You can count me in the second group and I am in the alive category.
Wake up America. Your life depends on it.
There is nothing more to be said. If you go to Sloan-Kettering and subject yourself to the mustard gas "treatment" called chemotherapy, your chances for survival are abysmal. Two GM executives, Sloan and Kettering, founded the Cancer Center as a business venture, to MAKE A PROFIT. There is no altruism here, they did not care about anyone's cancer, they cared about the bottom line. The well-meaning medical people who entered the oncology profession may or may not know that they are simply the pawns of Big Pharma. They are agents of death.
It is upsetting that the cancer industry has claimed another rock icon. George Harrison, now Levon Helm. Who's next? When someone with celebrity status is diagnosed with cancer, the fear factor kicks in and they immediately want the best treatment that money can buy. Which, in the conventional world of medicine, is oncology at a cancer center. These rockers were counter-culture their entire lives; why are they now succumbing to mainstream medicine? Fear. Mainstream medicine, for cancer treatment, just DOES NOT WORK. How many more people, whether celebrity or ordinary, have to die to prove that point? What is everyone missing? Why don't people see that taking chemo results in death, not in restoration of health? Take the dead/alive survey: 1) how many people do you know who had cancer and took chemo and are dead? how many are alive? 2) how many people do you know who had cancer and did NOT take chemo and are dead? how many are alive? You can count me in the second group and I am in the alive category.
Wake up America. Your life depends on it.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Predictable Death of Gary Carter
I blogged this Open Message to Gary Carter last June 1:
"Please tell Gary that if he does chemo, he will not survive. Chemo comes from mustard gas from the World Wars. It is toxic and kills the wrong cancer cells. It does not kill the regenerative cancer cells, which is why the cancer often comes back after chemo. It destroys the immune system when you need it the most. All it does is make money for the cancer industry. There are a lot of non-toxic treatments, he needs to do his research and not rush into chemo. I am a cancer survivor only by avoiding chemo. Look at Greta Waitz and Seve Ballesteros. They both were professional athletes and both had chemo. Chemo kills even professional athletes. My book is The Cancer Odyssey at amazon.com. Another good resource is Cancer-Free by Bill Henderson. Also, www.cancer-tutor.com. Start reading--it may save Gary's life."
Gary Carter, predictably, died on February 17th. When will the killing stop?
"Please tell Gary that if he does chemo, he will not survive. Chemo comes from mustard gas from the World Wars. It is toxic and kills the wrong cancer cells. It does not kill the regenerative cancer cells, which is why the cancer often comes back after chemo. It destroys the immune system when you need it the most. All it does is make money for the cancer industry. There are a lot of non-toxic treatments, he needs to do his research and not rush into chemo. I am a cancer survivor only by avoiding chemo. Look at Greta Waitz and Seve Ballesteros. They both were professional athletes and both had chemo. Chemo kills even professional athletes. My book is The Cancer Odyssey at amazon.com. Another good resource is Cancer-Free by Bill Henderson. Also, www.cancer-tutor.com. Start reading--it may save Gary's life."
Gary Carter, predictably, died on February 17th. When will the killing stop?
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Reasonable Doubt
I wrote my book "The Cancer Odyssey: Discovering Truth and Inspiration on the Way to Wellness" to save other people from death by chemo, by raising enough reasonable doubt so that they will do their homework before jumping unquestioningly into chemo-"therapy". The book is available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com also on www.thecancerodyssey.com
Read this book. The life you save may be your own.
Just say no to chemo.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Sorwathe Supreme Quality Green Tea
From "The Cancer Odyssey"...
Saturday, January 29, 2011
49. The Last Word…
I am doing a final review of this manuscript, and drinking a cup of “Supreme Quality Green Tea” from Rwanda, the only tea in the world actually imported by China. We know that green tea contains polyphenols, which are anti-cancer agents. What is interesting about this particular tea is that the packaging states “Believed to inhibit an enzyme responsible for cancer cell growth and said to kill cultured cancer cells with no ill-effect on healthy cells.” This is a claim that could not be made by a green tea imported into the U.S.
My neighbor Bridget’s daughter is undergoing treatment in Germany, almost three (3) years after a renowned cancer center told her she had six (6) months to live and to go home and have a sirloin steak and an ice cream sundae. Today Bridget brought me a website page from Epeius Biotechnologies.1 In Greek mythology, Epeius was the designer of the original Trojan Horse, and Epeius Biotechnologies has developed a “tumor-targeted delivery vehicle,”--a “Trojan Horse.” This is the future of cancer treatments. The new biotech companies are thinking outside of the box, recognizing that the “standard of care” chemotherapy treatments do not work. Mainstream “Big Pharma” is on the wrong track, which is why Bridget’s daughter and others still have to leave the country for beneficial medical care. We need an Epeius, a Trojan Horse, to win the battle against Big Pharma. Twenty-five years ago, Mary Yevchak had to leave the country for beneficial medical care. In the words of the Beatles, “Nothing’s gonna change my world.” Things have not changed much in a quarter of a century in our American world, and things will not change unless we demand change. American citizens should not have to leave this country in the year 2011 to obtain the medical treatment of their choice. Companies should be permitted to import healthy products and to honestly describe what the beneficial effects of those products are, without censure. Demand change. Demand truth. Be inspired by Rwandan green tea. Be inspired by the efforts of Mary Yevchak and Bridget’s daughter, and all others who are fighting, not only cancer, but the larger battle against the cancer industry. Be part of the thought revolution. This is truth. This is inspiration.
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1 Epeius Biotechnologies.
Hi Doug, thank you for your feedback, it is appreciated! The name of the company is Sorwathe Ltd (Sor-Wa-TA). I had just contacted them in Rwanda this week, as I have a small book signing coming up, and I would like to attach a tea bag to each book. Sorwathe is shipping a small quantity of green tea bags to Tea Importers in CT, and the number is below. I had spoken to Phyllis, who had called me back from the second # below. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
In good health,
Margaret
From: Cally Alles [mailto:jcealles@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 5:15 PM
To: mbermel@optonline.net
Cc: TEAIMPORT@aol.com; sales@teaimporters.com
Subject: RE: FW: Green Tea
Dear Ms Bermel,
Thank you for your e mail expressing your appreciation of our green tea. We are honoured that you made mention of our green tea in your recent book. Our Principals are in Connecticut (USA). You can place your order for green tea through them. Their e mail is as shown in cc. Their phone number is +12032263301. (Also 12032266205 - ask for Phyllis). We also have excellent black tea bags.
Our green tea has been rated the best green tea in Africa and we even export it to China!
Kind regards.
Cally Alles
MD Sorwathe.
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Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 12:59 AM
To: Margaret Bermel
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