Cancer Treatment & Friendly Bacteria

Cancer is a breakdown of the body systems
and Friendly Bacteria is important to restore
the GI Tract which is the lifeline of the body.

Conventional cancer treatment is very expensive, but is there a "Free Cancer Treatment" available?

Fortunately, there is a possibility, if you consider the Friendly-Bacteria in your body as a "soldier" against cancer.

Bifidobacteria under the microscope

This Bacteria plays a very important part of our Gastrointestinal Tract (GI Tract).

It does the part of protecting your body from any harmful pathogens which can be any disease producing agent such as virus, bacteria, germ or other harmful micro-organism.

Do you know that for a normal person, there are about 11 trillion (over 3½ pounds) of these Friendly- Bacteria constantly residing in your GI Tract?

My involvement with Friendly Bacteria began when I was advised to carry several sachets of Friendly Bacteria supplements as a traveling companion.

On my frequent trips to Vietnam, Indonesia and other developing countries where sanitation is questionable, the Friendly Bacteria became my personal life savior.

Cancer treatment and the Friendly Bacteria

There are many types or names of Friendly Bacteria such as:

• Bifidobacteriuminfantis (in short: B. infantis)

• Bifidobacteriumbifidum (B. bifidum)

• Lactobacillusacidophilus (L. acidophilus)

• Lactobacillusbulgaricus (L. bulgaricus)

• Lactobacillusbifidus (L. bifidus)

• etc.

The Bifido type lives mainly in the large intestine, or colon, while the Lacto type lives in the small intestine.

Dr. William Coley

Back in 1891, it was reported in the Annals of Surgery, that Dr. William Coley had successfully employed lactic acid bacteria (Friendly Bacteria) in treating cancer patients. He was one of the early practitioners of alternative cancer treatment methods.

He was following up on previously recorded medical journals of recoveries from diagnosed incurable cancer, after patients were treated with erysipelas (a form of streptococcal bacterial infection).

Fifty years later, researchers continued to publish studies showing a high rate of success for this approach of treatment of cancer pioneered by Dr. Coley.

The theory was that such streptococcal bacterial infections stimulate the body's defense system against cancer cells.

It encourages the production of T-lymphocytes (T cells belonging to the group of white blood cells) and Interferon, which are highly important factors in protection against viruses, bacteria, parasites and tumor cells.

Lactobacillus bulgaricus (LB-51) and Friendly Bacteria

In 1951, Dr. Ivan Bogdanov of the Laboratory for the Research and Production of Biologically Active Substances in Sofia, Bulgaria, managed to culture Lactobacillus bulgaricus (in short: LB-51) for its anti-cancer activity.

Experiments done on mice showed that the LB-51 had an effect to reverse the tumors and also produced a lifelong immunity to the recurrence of such tumors.

In 1967, 45 human trial cases of diagnosed incurable cancer showed major improvements after cancer treatment with LB-51, including two complete remissions of pancreatic cancer, which is normally fatal within one year after diagnosis. This was a great victory for holistic cancer treatment.

At the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, L. acidophilus was also shown to have anti-tumor activity.

When rats, which were fed with meat, were given L. acidophilus, the activities of cancer-producing substances (such as azoreductase, beta-glucuronidase and nitro-reductase) in the bowels were significantly reduced. Similar results were also obtained with human beings receiving L. acidophilus.

In our present day use of nitrates and nitrites as food preservatives (in bacon, ham and canned goods), researchers have found them to be cancer promoters. When they are ingested into the body, they are converted into nitrosamines which are carcinogenic.

Lactobacilli, such as those above, have been shown to breakdown nitrosamines.

Background Reading

Your body produces white blood cells (called leukocytes) when you feed it an ample supply of amino acids, vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B12, B Complex and other minerals and trace elements.

If any of these nutrients is lacking, your defense system is weakened and your body is more vulnerable to sicknesses and diseases. Strong white blood cells are important for natural cancer prevention too.

The introduction of beneficial Friendly Bacteria (or lactic bacteria) such as those listed above, will boost your defense and immunity system.

What is Friendly Bacteria (or lactic bacteria)?

Friendly Bacteria are single celled organisms and have the ability to convert sugar into lactic acid.

They are very useful in digestion and occur abundantly in nature.

They are used in the production of fermented milk, yogurt, kefir and cheese.

They protect the host from the actions of harmful bacteria.

What does Friendly Bacteria do?

In Milk, the Friendly Bacteria turns the sugar called lactose, into lactic acid by bacteria action.

The lactic acid acts as a digestive antiseptic making the calcium and phosphorus in milk, more easily absorbed and use by the body.

When Friendly Bacteria is taken into the intestines, it boost the production of vitamin B3 (niacin) and B6, which in turn supports the immune system and improves the body resistance of the host.

The Friendly Bacteria or lactic bacteria, being acidic in nature, destroy many pathogens because they cannot live in an acid medium.

The Friendly Bacteria hinders the growth of some pathogens responsible for sickness or death, by competing with them for attachment sites and crowding them out of the growing space that they need for multiplication.

For example, researchers have found that B. bifidum destroys harmful bacteria such as:

• Bacillus cereus

• Salmonella typhosa

• Shigella dysenteriae

• Escherichia coli

• Micrococcus flavus

• Staphyloccus aureus

• Pseudomonas fluorescans

Historical Use of Friendly Bacteria

As long as 6000 years ago, Sumerian tablets recorded the common transformation of milk into yogurt, which has an abundant of Friendly Bacteria.

The people found that their food became more attractive, had a longer keeping ability and helpful in treating poor appetite, dysentery, peptic ulcer, diarrhea and similar disorders.

Though not scientifically verified, such folk medicine was common knowledge.

Scientific Investigation of Friendly Bacteria

In 1908, Elie Metchnikoff, a Nobelist at Pasteur Institute observed that the country of Bulgaria had a great number of long living people.

He found that the Bulgarian diet comprised mainly of home-grown vegetables and a great amount of yogurt.

When he looked into the yogurt factor, he proved that the lactobacilli in yogurt had the ability to transform lactose into lactic acid.

The acidic nature then became an unfriendly environment for pathogenic bacteria to survive.

Many dangerous disease causing organisms died or fail to grow in milk that had been acted upon by lactobacilli (the Friendly-Bacteria found in yogurt).

The Friendly-Bacteria had protected the body from the assault of harmful bacteria or other micro-organisms.

Later, Metchnikoff produced lactic bacteria, called "Lactobacillin" in tablet form, for the convenience of therapy by oral administration.

Metchnikoff also observed that breast-fed babies are healthier than bottle-fed babies.

His investigations showed that the Friendly-Bacteria called B. infantis is present in greater numbers in the intestines of breast-fed babies as compared to those of bottle-fed ones.

The B. infantis was able to fight off 99% of the unwanted alien bacteria such as coliforms and enterococci.

These Friendly-Bacteria (both the B. infantis and the Lactobacilli) are present in the body from birth when the baby acquired them by transfer from the mother's body.

They continue to remain and multiply as permanent residents in the intestinal tract, and defend the host against foreign harmful bacteria, thus benefiting the health of the host body.

The dietary addition of L bulgaricus as a Friendly Bacteria supplement was also found to enhance the work of the resident Friendly-Bacteria, besides detoxifying hostile bacteria.

These scientific researches together with others have revealed that the Friendly-Bacteria supports the immune system needed to defend the body, and promotes the absorption and utilization of nutrients.

Friendly Bacteria and Antibiotics

Medical doctors will no doubt swear by the potency of antibiotics in conventional therapy for saving lives.

In emergency crisis, antibiotics do destroy disease-producing bacteria rapidly.

But do you know what is the meaning of "antibiotics"?

Literally, the word "antibiotic" means "against life".

If antibiotics just destroy the life of the harmful micro-organisms then it is very good.

But the action of antibiotics is not selective.

That means it destroys both the harmful bacteria that can cause sicknesses, and the good Friendly Bacteria in the body.

Many would have discovered that after a course of antibiotic treatment, the intestinal flora (Friendly-Bacteria community) can be so severely depleted.

Due to this absence of Friendly-Bacteria, other complications will arise such as digestive upset, diarrhea, flatulence or severe constipation.

Many patients have learnt to increase their live-cultured yogurt intake or supplement their vitamin diet with high potency of L. acidophilus and B. bifidum to prevent secondary problems.

Another problem that can arise from the ingestion of antibiotics is that with the absence of Friendly-Bacteria, other organisms (such as Candida yeast infection), normally kept in checked, will take this opportunity to multiply explosively and become extremely dangerous.

Friendly Bacteria and Lactose Intolerance

Many people cannot digest milk because of their inability to process the lactose, or milk sugar present in fresh milk.

This condition is called Lactose Intolerance.

It affects 2 to 8 percent of people from northern European origin and more that 60 percent of Asian, Middle Eastern and African origin.

Lactose Intolerance is cause by the deficiency of the enzyme Lactase, which digest lactose.

Lactic bacteria (Friendly-Bacteria) produces their own lactase (called beta-galactosidase), which hydrolyzes the lactose in milk into glucose and galactose.

The glucose is used for the manufacture of lactic acid.

The Friendly-Bacteria also stimulates the body to produce its own lactase.

For those who are lactose intolerant, adding Friendly-Bacteria will allow for the needed ingestion of nutrients such as calcium in milk.

Friendly Bacteria has natural antibiotic action

The by-product of Friendly-Bacteria fermentation is:

• lactic acid

• acetic acid

• benzoic acid

• hydrogen peroxide

and they all destroy or inhibit the growth of micro-organisms such as those found in food poisoning (Clostridium botulinum, Salmonellas, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli).

Friendly Bacteria reverse nutrient deficiencies

Friendly-Bacteria fermentation assists in the synthesis of vitamins particularly the B Complex.

Folic acid, niacin (B3), riboflavin, vitamins B6, B12 and pantothenic acid, which are good for the body, are found to have increased after Friendly-Bacteria fermentation in yogurt, sour cream, bifidus milk, kefir, cottage cheese, and cheddar.

A good comparison is as follows:

Friendly Bacteria assist in Liver Detoxification

The function of the liver is to detoxify the blood in the body.

When a person undergoes internal stress from drugs and alcohol and environmental stress such as air pollution, the liver can be over-burdened.

In 1968, researchers used the Friendly-Bacteria, B.bifidum, on 20 patients with liver disease and they found significant improvements.

The presence of toxins such as blood ammonia, free serum phenol and free amino nitrogen, were reduced.

It was found that B. bifidum lowered the pH (made more acidic) in the intestines, and caused the ammonia to be non-absorbable.

Friendly Bacteria and Children

Sometimes mothers do not provide a good portion of Friendly Bacteria for their babies because of their bad dietary habits such as alcohol, tobacco, coffee, caffeinated soft drinks and drugs.

This is possible even when the babies are breast-fed, though they are slightly better than formula-fed.

In such cases, the baby's diet need to be supplemented with Friendly-Bacteria such as B. infantis, to guarantee a healthy environment in the intestines, which eventually means a healthy baby.

A good supply of Friendly Bacteria for babies will:

• restrain any invasion of harmful bacteria in the intestines

• produces acetic acid, which is an enemy of "babies' thrush" and other fungi.

• induces weight gain by promoting the retention of nitrogen.

• helps in the detoxification of the body.

• stimulates the production of antibodies, which builds the immune system.

• helps in the absorption of vitamins and minerals such as calcium which is needed for growth of bones and teeth.

• offsets development of allergies.

• offsets the damaging effects of x-rays, CT scans, and other diagnostic equipment, by restoring the Friendly Bacteria which was destroyed in the gullet.

• increase the amount of lactase, which is needed to digest milk

• and many other substantial benefits.

Pregnant mothers should be encouraged to take Friendly-Bacteria supplements of B. infantis, B. bifidum, and L. acidophilus, to prepare their babies in their womb.

How to take Friendly Bacteria supplements?

Friendly-Bacteria supplements should be taken before meals and washed down with water only.

When food is taken into the stomach, the gastric juice (hydrochloric acid) is released and this will nullify the benefits of the Friendly-Bacteria, if it is ingested together.

In the absence of food, the Friendly-Bacteria will pass through the stomach and be attached to the small and large intestines, where they will remain.

 An example of Friendly-Bacteria supplement

Friendly Bacteria supplements come in many forms such as tablets, capsules and freeze-dried packages.

To be most effective, you need a dosage of at least one billion of live Friendly-Bacteria.

The freeze-dried packages have been found to be the best, as they preserved the enzymes well.

Capsules are not recommended as they harbor moisture within that can cause the bacteria to multiply prematurely before ingestion into the body.

Friendly Bacteria in Food

Since ancient times, the preparation of yogurt as food had been accepted as a means for better nutrition.

The Friendly-Bacteria in yogurt adds value to its nutritional benefits.

Today, people from different countries prepare their own form of yogurt from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, buffalo, horse or llama.

Yogurt has been called by various names such as skyr (in Iceland), taetioc and pauria (in Lapland), mezzoradu (parts of Switzerland), hangop (Holland), pumpermilch (Germany), hocken milk (Denmark), and huslanka (Central Europe).

Even in English, there are various pronunciations such as yoghurt, yaourt, yoghourt, gjaurt, jugurt, yoart, yourt and yahourth.

Yogurt is also mixed with other types of food to provide variety.

Friendly Bacteria is also used in the making of rye bread, sourdough bread and sauerkraut.

My Top 3 references:

1. Bogdanov, Ivan, M.D. Observations on the Therapeutic Effect of the Anti-Cancer Preparation from Lactobacillus Bulgaricus LB-51 Tested on 100 Oncologic patients. Sofia: Laboratory for the Research and Production of Biologically Active Substances, 1982.

2. Muting, D, M.D., Wieschrich, M.D. and J.B. Mayer, M.D. "The Effect of Bacterium Bifidum on Intestinal Bacterial Flora and Toxic Metabolites in Chronic Liver Disease." American Journal of Proctology 19(5), 1986.

3. William H. Lee, R.Ph., Ph.D. "The Friendly Bacteria: How Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria can Transform your Health.", 1988.

Further Readings:

BBC: The vagina naturally contains beneficial bacteria, but the problem with modern medicine is that antibiotics wipe out all bugs, good and bad.

Strains of friendly-bacteria found in the human mouth could be used to block HIV infection, suggest US scientists.

The risk of disease transmission through breast milk might be reduced if infants were first fed a freeze-dried formula full of good bacteria that could capture and potentially destroy deadly viruses.

Probiotics are vital for proper digestion of fats and proteins, synthesizing vitamin K, which is vital for the prevention of osteoporosis and many of our B vitamins, plus they detoxify the intestinal tract and reduce cancer risks.

Kimchi is loaded with vitamins A, B, and C, but its biggest benefit may be in its 'healthy bacteria' called lactobacilli, found in fermented foods like kimchi and yogurt.

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