Dr. Buttar, Advanced Medicine Monday, Lymphatic Stasis Relief, Statins at 55, Environmental Toxins & More on The Robert Scott Bell Show May 9, 2011

It’s Advanced Medicine Monday with Dr. Rashid Buttar! What’s on tap? Vascular health, cadmium detox, and superbugs! I will ask Dr. Buttar about the importfance of the lymphatic system in cancer as well. Why do oncologists seem to always want to remove lymph nodes? How about gall bladders? Also, The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away http://bit.ly/exj1Va (remember, if you buy the book, you can get a DVD for free!) and Facts on Toxicity http://bit.ly/hQzUiG

Should the DEA be reassigned to garbage (drug) collection? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0D9cmVVBIbgo5M-tuQZcGh3DZBg?docId=5b00bced87814ec09d71d7bea7dd3f1c

What kind of screening do we need to determine whether to put patients on cholesterol-lowering medication? I can’t even drive 55! http://www.topix.com/health/2011/05/call-for-all-to-take-statins-after-55 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13290375

Childhood exposure to environmental toxins costs the U.S. $76.8 billion annually. Are you surprised? http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/224389.php How about some toxic clean up on aisle 4? Do you have anything environmentally friendly? http://www.naturalnews.com/028615_Orange_TKO_cleaner.html

Thank you to everyone calling me on 1-866-939-BELL (2355). Keep them coming!

Phone calls today about the father who saved his infant son’s life with Cannibis oil (against doctor’s orders). http://abcnews.go.com/Health/montana-father-medical-marijuana-cancer-stricken-toddler-son/story?id=13529490

Another call wants to know whey I interviewed Senator Rand Paul, beacuase he is a member of the Tea Party. Are they not for the Patriot Act? We’ll find out… http://teapartygoestowashington.com/ and http://articles.boston.com/2011-02-14/bostonglobe/29337441_1_tea-party-provision-government

And still another caller wants to be kept abreast of Codex Alimentarius. Is the United Nations already in our supplement bottles? http://www.anh-usa.org/main-menu/about/history/

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His 'n' hers columns: "Breast Cancer Answers” By Christopher C. Barr

This week is the first week of 'Breast Cancer Awareness' month. Following is the 'Hers' column after the ‘His’ column last week for 'Prostate Cancer Awareness' month’s last week.

Hold The Mayo!

Some time ago the renowned Mayo Clinic announced that it was leading a nationwide breast cancer study. The stated aim was to find some kind of marker that indicated who was more likely to develop breast cancer.

Two weeks later another report noted that the essential mineral element selenium may guard against breast cancer in the journal Cancer Research. One hope that University of Illinois at Chicago researchers doing this study had was to determine an amount of selenium for doctors to prescribe to protect against cancer.

Another two weeks after that another array of prominent cancer researchers noted their concern to find some kind of marker that gives advance warning of the likelihood of metastasis (the spread of cancer). Metastasis is said to be the cause of death in 90 percent of cancer deaths.

Selenium to the rescue … AGAIN!


Selenium was first noted as a possible anti-cancer substance in 1910. Positive benefit from selenium as part of breast cancer treatment was reported in the British Journal of Medicine in 1935.

Drs. Clayton and Bauman noted that selenium reduced cancer incidence by more than 30 per cent in 1949. That report was made in the journal Cancer Research when it was less than 10 years old more than 50 years ago. That is the same journal referenced above that noted a possible selenium protection against breast cancer in recent years.

Less than 20 years later breast cancer was linked to low levels of selenium. This was noted by numerous researchers separate and apart from one another in a variety of science journals.

Similar reports have surfaced every few years since then about selenium and breast cancer.

Is anyone paying attention?

The Mayo Clinic effort noted in the opening of this column was to seek biological indicators of those more likely to develop breast cancer. They were going to compare tissue specimens of women from 1967 and all the way through the 1970s. Similar studies were conducted during those very same years. It was noted then that American women had substantially less selenium in their tissues than other cultures where breast cancer was much lower.

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers wanting to determine levels of selenium that might be necessary to protect against cancer would find that such levels were already discovered and published in the 1960s and 1970s as well – if they’d bother to look.

Many other current researchers want to find a marker that indicates likelihood of the metastasis that is recognized as the primary cause of cancer deaths. Selenium again was noted as that factor in the late 1970s.

Dr. Gerhard Schrauzer was professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of California at San Diego for decades. He and his colleagues found at that time that breast cancer deaths were directly proportionate to dietary intake of selenium. The lower the selenium intake the higher the rate of death from breast cancer. The higher the selenium intake the lower the rate of death from breast cancer. This was consistent throughout 27 countries (including the United States).

Dr. Schrauzer noted more than 20 years ago that if every woman in America supplemented with 200 micrograms of selenium daily then breast cancer would be significantly diminished.

Cadmium again…

The heavy metal cadmium was linked to breast cancer by researchers at Georgetown University according to a report in the journal Nature Medicine shortly after the announcement of the Mayo Clinic study previously noted.

One researcher noted that the strength of the relationship for cadmium to breast cancer even at very low levels was remarkable and a surprise.

It is remarkable that this surprises researchers. Selenium combines with cadmium to remove it from the body. The more cadmium you have in your body the more selenium will be used to dispel it from your body. Reduced selenium levels have been noted for decades to render one more susceptible to breast cancer.

Cadmium is a common air contaminant due to burning of fossil fuels. It is also abundant in shellfish, liver and kidney. Cigarette smoking is a significant source of cadmium as well. Consumption of refined flours and sugars also contribute to increased cadmium levels.

Déjà vu with Dr. Peter Greenwald

Dr. Peter Greenwald, M.D, is on the board of directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Yes, the same Dr. Greenwald noted last week to dismiss phenomenal anti-cancer results with selenium more than a decade ago with the remark, “We do not recommend supplements.”

The same Dr. Greenwald who has been Director of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control for almost 30 years.

The same Dr. Greenwald who excitedly recommended a drug with much less results than selenium against cancer after just one, small and short study after dismissing a selenium study as only one study though much larger and much longer.

The same Dr. Greenwald who in the year after dismissing selenium for cancer received numerous awards from a variety of cancer groups including the American Charlatancer Society.

One of the NCI duties of Dr. Greenwald is to be in charge of nutrition research. With friends like that who needs enemies?

Certainly Dr. Greenwald is not a best friend of nutrition and likewise that he is no "breast" friend is a certainty.

Tough questions

Why don't researchers put this puzzle together? Are they inept? Are they crooked? What other choices are there? Isn't it way past time to promote selenium supplementation as the most prominent prevention for breast cancer?

Our health care is in the soup largely because the alphabet soup groups make up an AlphaBureauCratic toxic soup. Their research concentrates efforts upon drugs and medical treatments rather than upon healthy habits such as food and nutrients from food.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” the old saying goes. A daily selenium supplement of only 200 micrograms as recommended by Dr. Schrauzer more than 30 years ago would take 40 years to reach just an ounce of prevention. It is not much. It is probably not even enough. It would be a good start and a refreshing change for most women and men alike.

Cancer is not a drug deficiency. It is primarily a dietary disorder due to both subtraction of nutrition and addition of toxic contents.

This nation does not have a health care program. It has a sick care program.

Almost all the money in the health "care" system goes into this sick care program. Much of it is given willingly by the sheeple in marathons, walk-a-thons and other fund raising schemes and scams from false shepherds leading them down a primrose path.

When will someone organize a fundraiser for nutrition programs? Would anyone contribute?

How about working together for real health CARE for a change?

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at Post Office Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com.

"His 'n' Hers Blog: This Week, Prostate Cancer" by Christopher C. Barr

This week is the last week of 'Prostate Cancer Awareness' month and next week is the first week of 'Breast Cancer Awareness' month. Following is the 'His' column to be followed next week by the 'Hers' column.

Prostate prospects prostituted?

Big news in the mainstream press noted a popular male baldness drug treatment prevented prostate cancer. A study to that effect was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The drug finasteride (marketed as Propecia and Proscar) reportedly reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by 25 per cent. This was at a high level of use five times the dosage normally recommended for the drug.

The results of this drug trial were noted as promising.

"This trial proves that prostate cancer, at least in part, is preventable. It is a huge step forward for cancer research", said Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

It was reported that the drug manufacturer plans to seek an expedited decision to allow marketing of this drug as a prostate cancer preventative as soon as possible.

Small step backward

Another report several years before by the mainstream press noted a mineral prevented prostate cancer. A study to that effect was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The essential mineral selenium (called a trace element because its need is so small) reportedly reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by 63 per cent. This was at a moderate level of use though more than consumed in common diets, yet still much less than the amount consumed in other healthful diets.

The results of this nutrient study were noted with considerable caution.

"It's one study with provocative findings that have to be confirmed. We do not recommend supplements", said the same Dr. Greenwald as above, then as now director of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

Greenwald called for additional studies (as in more than one) with many more people before going forward with any selenium recommendations.

Huh?!?!?!?

The drug study excitedly recommended by a prominent NCI Director was much shorter with less than a few hundred men and much less than half the benefit of the nutrient study conducted for more than a decade with more than 1,300 men though somehow decidedly not recommended by the same NCI doctor.

More comparisons

The drug finasteride did exhibit some troubling aspects in the new study. Those tumors that did develop had a greater likelihood of being more aggressive. Impotence was another side effect that presented itself.

The mineral selenium on the other hand exhibited other promising aspects in the previous study completed more than a decade ago. Those who developed cancer while on selenium survived cancer 50 per cent more than those not on selenium. Other studies have noted that higher selenium levels combat impotence.

The cost of the finasteride drug therapy of 5 milligrams is about $5 daily or more.

The cost of the selenium mineral supplement of .2 (that's 'point 2') milligrams (which is 200 micrograms) is about $1 dollar daily or less.

Cadmium again

A Georgetown University study related the mineral cadmium (a toxic, heavy metal) to cancer and to adverse changes in the prostate about the same time as the drug study previously noted. That again ties directly to selenium.

Selenium combines with cadmium to remove it from the body. The more cadmium you have in your body the more that selenium will be used to dispel it from your body. Reduced selenium levels have been noted for decades to render one more susceptible to cancer.

Cadmium is a common air contaminant due to burning of fossil fuels. It is also abundant in shellfish, liver and kidney. Cigarette smoking is another significant source of cadmium. Also consumption of refined flours and sugars contributes to increased cadmium levels.

How is your addition?

Let's sum things up.

A high dosage level of the optional drug finestrade has been shown to reduce prostate cancer by 25 per cent at a cost of about $5 daily or more. There are also side effects as with any drug and some of them may be quite serious. In some instances cancer may even be worse.

Meanwhile, the essential mineral selenium taken in an amount only a tiny fraction of the drug has been shown to reduce prostate cancer by more than twice that of the drug (63 per cent) at a cost that is just a small fraction of the drug price … or less. There are also side benefits associated with the mineral including better survival rates if one does get cancer.

So… what answer do you come up with for prostate cancer?

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at Post Office Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com.