Now that cancer is epidemic in our country, shouldn't we help each other if we think we see any promising alternatives or complimentary protocols for our friends or us?

For instance, I've been reading about the Budwig Diet by Dr. Johanna Budwig, a biochemist and seven-time Nobel Prize nominee. For years Budwig taught that partially dehydrogenated oils are building bulletproof cell walls between our cells' insides and oxygen molecules trying to get to them. Normal healthy cells are aerobic. They need oxygen to work. When oxygen can't get in and the cells have no other choice, they turn anaerobic. Cancer cells are anaerobic. The mortal enemy of anaerobic cells is oxygen. The mortal enemy of cancer cells is oxygen. How do you get oxygen into cancer cells?

Budwig's protocol calls for a mixture of cottage cheese and refrigerated flax seed oil, like the kind in black bottles at Wegman's health food section. Its simplicity turns many skeptics off, but remember, this woman was a doctor and a biochemist, and here is her reason for the combination: when the oil and the cottage cheese are mixed thoroughly, properties including sulfates in the cottage cheese bind with oxygen molecules in the flax seed oil to get past those bad guy cell walls and get oxygen into the anaerobic cancer cells, eventually killing them.

This explanation is simplistic, but search on the Internet. A lot of learned and professional people are convinced that this is very promising for all cancers. Amazon and eBay sell her out-of-print book, “Flax Oil As A True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer And Other Diseases.” If we can look into Dr. Budwig and the Budwig Diet, maybe we can start to help each other and open a dialog about beating cancer any way we can.

Tom Colvin

Auburn