THE CANCER GENIUS
He is close to curing a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Schwanoma, and mesothelioma. He can cure gliomas, and achieve better than 50% 2-year survival in pancreatic cancer. He has ten ‘HER2-neu’ breast cancer women who have survived 10 years on Avastin and botanicals, and three ‘triple negative’ breast cancer women that are doing well. He is not losing any men from prostate cancer. He is Don Yance, the most brilliant mind in the health field today.
Of course there are no magic bullets in achieving success, and it requires disciplined, resourceful, and open-minded individuals. His comprehensive ETMS approach has been painstakingly developed over 25 years, and it necessitated founding a company to make it fully feasible. Working with Dr. Dwight McKee, an integrative oncologist and UK alumnus, from La Jolla, California, their teamwork is spawning a new era in oncology based on combining extensive tumor and blood information with a highly comprehensive nutritional, botanical, spiritual, and when necessary chemotherapeutic, strategy. In ETMS, the first order of business is to get patients energized and strong. When he cured the son of a NBA team’s owner of rhabdomyosarcoma, Don received the foundational gift for his Mederi Foundation.
Don notes that chemotherapy can be made to work in nearly every case. A fresh tumor sample is sent to one of two labs on the West Coast that tests it for chemotherapy sensitivity. Simultaneously, tissue is sent to a second lab at UT Southwestern for extensive tumor marker analysis to verify that the tumor indeed has markers that the chemotherapy is designed to attack. Other aspects of ETMS assure that chemotherapy progresses smoothly and persistently.
Don, in searching for his calling, was a monk for three years. While trained as a clinical nutritionist, I first met him in his role as the leading master herbalist in the country. For 25 years, Don has spent 1-2 hours daily on the Internet researching botanical, nutritional, and chemotherapy solutions. On his computer he now has acquired a massive database of research that he freely shares with consulting oncologists and practitioners.
An opportunity to study under Don Yance was, for me, too enticing to pass up. Two trips to Oregon for intensive seminars have resulted in a vision of what can be accomplished in Kentucky and the Southeast. You have read in this column the stories of dramatic responses in patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and melanoma that we have been able to achieve in those fully utilizing ETMS. We are achieving good results in a large variety of cancers thanks to Don’s brilliant teaching, at a level of ETMS unavailable elsewhere in the eastern half of the U.S.
With your support, we can bring Don to Kentucky to discuss ETMS. Contact the Midway Center for Integrative Medicine at 859-846-4445. A new level of cancer success can come to all Kentuckians if we chose to seize it. The Midway Foundation for Integrative Medicine is “a foundation for our future”.
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Solutions to Health and Healthcare (published in Health & Wellness Magazine - June 2009)
As we necessarily revamp healthcare, remembering fundamental truths is essential. Heart disease is not an inexorable progression leading to heart attack, stroke, or multi-infarct dementia – it is, primarily, poor nutrition. Cancer is not a monster that inevitably leads to a tortuous death if not caught at the earliest stages – it can be a blessed signal to correct a life out of balance. Alzheimer’s dementia is not an inevitable part of the aging process – it is largely preventable.
The reality is simple enough – heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s are almost exclusively scourges of recent centuries, not primarily because we are living longer, but because we have adopted nutrition and lifestyles that clash with our evolved biology.
Heart disease is reversible. A patient, who experienced angina after each meal, eliminated it in a matter of weeks – primarily with a specific nutritional program. Another coronary patient who struggled with cholesterol in the 300s, unable to tolerate statin cholesterol medicine, after six months on this program is now 33 pounds lighter, cholesterol is 142, and he walks up to 14 miles. Another, who had experienced many heart attacks, came to our office after her last one. I told her she had a choice – she could choose to have coronary heart disease or choose not to. She is choosing not to; in six weeks, she is down 19 pounds and is feeling the best in years. In time, her arteries can return to normal.
Cancer usually means life has been unbalanced. If you understand this and change, not only could you survive the cancer – you could live a fuller, more energetic, and perhaps longer life than otherwise. It is learning about nutrition – returning to our plant-based roots. It is reconnecting with nature – flowers, creatures, and the musical vibrations that make us click. It is living a life fully focused on achieving your vision for a better world, nurturing a garden, connecting with and cultivating friends and supportive family. It is journaling, sharing with groups, and getting sweaty exercise. It’s avoiding chemicals, drinking clean water, maintaining an attractive house, and loving. It is learning what organs are out of balance, what nutrients are deficient or in excess, which ones support relaxation, immunity, and vitality. It is about extensive, regular blood monitoring and thorough new tissue analysis when needed to respond to tumor evolution.
Alzheimer’s prevention is about understanding nutrition, lifestyle, genetics, hormones, blood, and optimizing levels of vital nutrients. While perhaps not preventable in every case, it should be preventable or delayed most of the time. We have often reversed early cognitive issues.
Our healthcare crisis will not be solved by financing more procedures, more medicine, and a vast array of specialists. It will be solved by national policies and primary care that teach and emphasize nutrition, a balanced life, and spirituality, complemented by safe life-replenishing interventions, and through single-payer care for all.
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Vitamin D3
We continue to learn more about vitamin D3. This prohormone never ceases to amaze. With action on 2000 genes (translated: it may work in 2000 different ways) in over 30 separate areas in our body, its long‐term effects are profound. We have seen it partly reverse Alzheimer’s dementia, temporarily (for months) aid in cancer reversal, fix muscle aches, improve mood while reducing sleep needs, and substantially improve autoimmune disease. We probably have done more vitamin D tests than anyone in the state of Kentucky, and therefore recognize how common and undertreated vitamin D deficiency is. We also are finding, to achieve optimal improvements in brain function, it takes blood levels in the upper half of the ‘normal’ range. In those with deficiency, it is essential to do follow‐up testing to confirm that optimal levels are being achieved. Interestingly, an anecdotal report from a nurse in a fertility clinic suggests that optimal doses of vitamin D are having a major impact on fertility. The vitamin D blood test is probably, in my opinion, the single most important test in predicting future health.
Vitamin D is so important for brain health! It:
- Greatly increases brain glutathione levels. Glutathione is –
a. the main detoxifying nutrient in the body
b. one of the most powerful antioxidants. - Promotes growth of brain cells
- May interact with estrogen receptors in the brain.
Who especially needs vitamin D testing and vitamin D?
- Pregnant women during their first prenatal visit, and monthly until
optimal levels (50 – 90 ng/ml) are achieved, and again during mid‐winter - Newborns, toddlers, and preschool children need aggressive
treatment for brain health and to greatly reduce type 1 diabetes, multiple
sclerosis, and Crohn’s disease - School children, to optimize brain heatlh and reduce respiratory
infections - Elderly, to prevent falls and nursing home admission
- Working Americans, to prevent heart attacks and cancer
The Midway Foundation for Integrative Medicine, a 501(c)3 tax‐exempt organization, and offshoot of the Midway Center, is now urging all Kentuckians to be on optimal doses of vitamin D3. Through once a week dosing, we can achieve very good blood levels in our elementary school children for less than a penny a day. We can substantially reduce illness and, in my opinion, substantially improve productivity. In fact it has been calculated in a major study that optimal vitamin D blood levels would reduce death in Americans by 7%! We calculate that a Kentuckian dies nearly every two hours from vitamin D deficiency.
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FOOD ALLERGIES - THE UNRECOGNIZED EPIDEMIC!
Severe daily debilitating headaches had plagued him for years, which began after receiving big doses of antibiotic. Repeated referrals to top specialists yielded no answers. At our office, food allergy testing revealed a strong reaction to cheese. A day after stopping cheese, the headaches disappeared.
Unfortunately, food allergies appear to afflict 90% of our patient population. Three quarters are sensitive to milk products, about 70% to eggs, and perhaps 40% to gluten (mainly wheat). A third are sensitive to pineapple, almonds, and Navy or kidney beans.
They can present in many ways, and are usually present in those with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Symptoms include recurring sinus congestion, ‘brain fog’, urinary symptoms, irritable bowel symptoms, headaches, asthma, joint aches, ADHD, ear infections, and mouth sores. Rashes include eczema, psoriasis, hives, urticaria, rosacea, and seborrheic dermatitis. It can be important in autism, seizures, gallstones, and autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis. The problems we see at our office are not the quick, severe kind such as seen with peanuts. Rather, symptoms are delayed by hours, or even days, after exposure.
Why is this epidemic? Antibiotics, particularly when not followed with probiotic (the good bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus), may be like a tsunami to the intestinal tract that takes one or two years of recovery. Without these bacteria, there is insufficient stimulation of dependent receptors on the intestinal lining, leading to weakening of the intestinal wall. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, or aspirin, can lead to increased intestinal permeability. This allows larger protein food particles to cross into the bloodstream, activating the immune system. Non-organic and processed foods contain chemicals and toxins that can cause intestinal injury. Acidic foods (meat, milk products, processed foods) and coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol can be damaging. Genetically modified food proteins that enter the blood might be particularly allergenic (avoid food labels beginning with an 8). Cortisone asthma or allergy inhalers may lead to pathological organisms in the intestinal tract.
Two approaches to suspected food allergies are 1) new highly sensitive food allergy testing or 2) exclusion of all dairy and flour products, and preferably other highrisk foods. While food elimination is the gold standard, whenever possible get tested. The company we use we think is the best in the business. With state-of-the-art ELISA methodology, they assess for IgE and IgG4 antibodies to 190 different foods. These tests are very sensitive and accurate in our experience, identifying problems missed with other testing. It is transforming our patient care!
If you have persistently not felt well, chances are food allergies are a contributing factor. As allergies trigger inflammation, they increase risk of disease across-the-board from cancer to heart disease to Alzheimer’s disease to arthritis. Along with avoidance of offending foods, we focus on strengthening the intestinal tract with high-quality, diverse probiotics, nutrients such as quercetin that support intestinal health, elimination of unwelcome pathogenic organisms, while quieting the immune system. In time, this may lead to resolution of food allergies.
Please alert friends who have irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, autoimmune disease, allergies, or anyone with unexplained symptoms to get this very sensitive food allergy testing. Research is needed to understand why this is so prevalent. The Midway Foundation for Integrative Medicine supports awareness of issues like this - support can be sent to P.O. Box 277, Midway, KY 40347.
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