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Overview
It takes too long to implement the advances that are being made in
health matters. Many discoveries about PREVENTION of illnesses have been around for years. The main problem is that our
doctors are too busy with damage control and have no time to spend on researching and implementing preventive measures.
It’s not the doctors’ fault. It’s our fault that we do not ourselves research and inform ourselves
of what should be done to stay healthy. It’s our responsibility.
There is a trend of more and more people to understand this and take action in taking preventing measures and taking
some natural supplements. Bell Lifestyle Products has a number of really effective products and the Bell Supreme
Immune Booster is one of the best available. There are over 400 medical studies done on Coriolus Versicolor. One Canadian
medical practitioner is using Bell Supreme Immune Booster and wrote that it boosted white blood cells, natural killer
cells, T cells and B cells count by as much as 300% within 30 days.
Most people will spend all kinds of money for vacation trips,
cars, furniture and don’t realize that spending a thousand dollars on preventive natural supplements a year
would give them a better state of health and happiness in the long run. Waiting until we get sick and then take drugs
or have surgeries is a lot more expensive, painful and a restoration of their good health is never certain.
In car traffic it would be unimaginable not to try to prevent
accidents and injury. We have strict rules and have preventive measures better roads and safer vehicles. Hopefully this
principle will also apply some day to maintaining maximum health.
Prevent many diseases with a strong immune system
Dr. C. Moerman M.D. states that virtually
all diseases stem from a weak immune system. Many other health professionals say the same thing.
Ingredients:
Pure mushroom extract Coriolus Versicolor, 40% polysaccharides in vegetable capsules.
Capsule filling lubricants added: Colloidal silicon, magnesium stearate, microcystaline cellulose 102.
Foreword by Dr. Phil Chan M.D. Former Training Director in Health Education
at Federal Health Canada, Think Tank Advisor to Aboriginal First Nations Tribal Council.
The brochure on the immune system is very easy to read and understand by any
age group. It has endorsements, opinions and research data
to backup the success rate by world-renowned medical experts.
I enjoyed reading the whole brochure, knowing that it can
and will help anyone to understand and remember its key concepts.
An informed patient serves as the best source of intelligenceto
any health practitioner. To a health practitioner, each patient
should be the best reference book as a continued education
learning experience during his/her conventional medical practice.
After all, real education begins in society when formal schooling
ends. Since the doctor cannot find enough time during clinical
consultation visits with each patient, it is the responsibility
of the patient to do research about his/her bodily symptoms/signs
from internet or printed materials and relate this information
as clearly as possible to the doctor, hopefully to arrive
at a good diagnosis and the best choice of medications. Self-help
is prevention of any uncomfortable illness before seeing a
doctor so as to prevent "disease" of the body. Question
everything. Beware of half-truths, my friend; you might get
a hold of the wrong half. That's why an intelligent person
only believes half of what you tell him/her, but only a wise
patient knows exactly which half. Any patient should not have
to wait until disease strikes, as unfortunately most do.
Seek a second opinion - that's what it is - an opinion - or
try another alternative. After all, God created man with a
brain. Remember, an optimist shakes hands, but only a scrutinizing
pessimist shakes his head. In order to keep a sound mind in
a sound body, we need an improved immune system to
run it, especially people affected by a severe illness including
cancer. Taking supplements obviously sounds like the best
solution even in the traditional healing circle, not just
for the patients but also for the practitioners as well. Let's
face it, conventional treatment is like a double- edged sword
- killing germs while weakening the body's systems. Whereas,
alternative medicine can truly rebuild and sustain stronger
immune defenses that fight any opportunistic infections, thus
helping to maintain, regain and prolong life in return. Don't
serve a system; rather the system should serve you wisely!
To be or not to be, that's your biggest decision, my friend!
Foreword by Dr. Frank Palmer Sweet N.M.D.
We are individually responsible for our health and
that means we must learn how to be healthy by preventing illness
and taking care of this most wonderful machine we call the
human body. The immune system is the ultimate protector of
our health. We live in a fragile balance with germs, viruses,
fungi and a host of man made chemicals and synthetic foods
that threaten our health daily. Our immune system is the guard
and the sentinel against the onslaught of potential disease
we are exposed to.
Just as the informative brochure you are about to read states,
Coriolus Versicolor has been used for centuries as a powerful
stimulant to elevate, build, and strengthen your immune system
and thus prevent you from getting both acute and chronic disease.
Remember the old saying: An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Your health and life, as well as those you
love, are at stake. It's much easier to prevent illness than
to treat disease especially those chronic diseases such as
cardiovascular disease (heart and blood vessels), cancer,
autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome,
arthritis and prostate disease. A healthy body with a strong
immune system virtually never gets sick. It is resistant to
disease and is quick to heal itself. It's really that simple.
We are using Coriolus Versicolor in our clinic to protect
and elevate the immune system. We generally recommend one
capsule of 500mg three times per day. For treating a chronic
disease such as cancer, we use 1000mg-9000mg per day. It is
non-toxic and virtually without side effects, except for a
few reported cases of temporary diarrhea if taken in high
doses. I see cancer patients and associate with many cancer
clinics around the world that use Coriolus Versicolor to help
their patients. The object of medicine is to heal the patient
in the most gentle and effective way or, as the first law
of medicine states: "Do no harm." If the immune system is
deficient, many people will tragically die because of infection
and organ damage. Toxic drug treatments also injure and kill
many patients because drugs endlessly chase symptoms without
truly healing the disease.. Idealistically, the mission of
every doctor should be to teach people how to be well and
leave the majority of medicine to the field of trauma care.
My father had a wonderful saying that I never forgot: "Knowledge
is power and knowledge used wisely is intelligence." The more
intelligence you have, the happier your life will be, and
the good you do for yourself, your family and others will
increase. To be truly happy you must have emotional and physical
health. That often begins with a strong immune system.
Foreword by Dr. Chakib Hammoud, M.H, PhD.
A positive energy was felt by reading the information in the
brochure about the much- neglected immune system. I am sure
it will help thousands of men and women to understand how
important it is. A weak immune system leaves us vulnerable
to illness from environmental contacts of carcinogenic agents,
pollutants, radiation, and diets resulting in more faulty
cells than a weak system is able to destroy. Stress also plays
a major role in weakening the immune system, thus decreasing
the body's capacity to destroy malignant cells. Individuals
exposed to both factors simultaneously are at increased risk
of developing malignant diseases. You are doing people a great
service to make them aware of the dangers of a weak immune
system and how to overcome it.
Introduction
The purpose of this brochure is to make you aware of information
on Coriolus Versicolor mushroom extract that has been publicly
available for years on the internet in medical studies and
published in books written by health professionals about the
immune system and preventing an illness. Coriolus Versicolor
is a generic name of the mushroom type and not a trade name.
All the information available today can only be a blessing if we make use of it.
A) In case of ILLNESS, this brochure
is not intended to replace the advice of a physician or other
health care providers. B) For PREVENTION be guided by literature
that is available.
Respect the humble professional who knows that there are thousands
of health discoveries that are not being observed, and be
weary of those who say they know everything. Opinions by health
professionals vary greatly. This is why it is generally recommended
to get second or third opinions when important health decisions
are made. This brochure is recommending natural health products
when they are the best approach alone or in combination with
and in support of conventional treatment. Both are important
for our health. You have to make your own responsible decisions.
For those of us who feel we are at
the pinnacle of knowledge in nutrition, healthcare and medicine,
we should remind ourselves that in a mere 25 years people
will laugh at how backwards and antiquated we were in 2007.
I read excerpts of a book that was printed in 1803, in which
the author actually believed they were at the highest level
of what can be achieved in medicine.
Through the experience I gained in the past ten years by overcoming
my own health problems, I have been able to help hundreds
of thousands of men and women to improve their quality
of life. I suffered for years with arthritis pain, an enlarged
prostate and I was overweight. I realized that many millions
of people have the same health problems and I could help many
of them if I make them aware of the help that is available.
My sixties and my seventies have been the most rewarding years
of my life because I have been able to help so many hundreds
of thousands of men and women with natural health products.
To get the best advice, so you can make informed decisions
on your health, it is important to consult a health professional.
However, ultimately you alone are responsible for your own
health. If you don't take good health for granted and get
all available information, only then you can expect to be
healthy in the long run. Where it is wanted, share your own
wisdom with others to help them. Most people want to talk
about their health concerns and are especially delighted to
relay how they were successful in overcoming their suffering.
After all, if we are not healthy, it's difficult to be happy
and be active in society. There is nothing nobler in our lives
than helping others.
Researched by Nick A. Jerch
Preventing an illness
Dr. Roby Mitchell, Ph.D. and M.D. made this wise statement:
"I want to congratulate you for taking the time to educate yourself on being an active participant in
improving your health. You are, potentially, the best doctor you could ever have."
Coriolus Versicolor Mushroom Extract helps by boosting
your immune system and preventing many health problems before
they get started. Go on the internet and inform yourself.
Type in Coriolus Versicolor to get information. Also try the
North American name Turkey Tail, Trametes, Kawarateke or Krestin.
It grows almost everywhere in the world. Different countries
have different names for the same thing.
Dr. Cornelius Moerman M.D. (on public internet)
states that virtually all diseases stem from a weak immune
system. In our daily food, water and air we take in many thousands
of pollutants, germs, viruses and carcinogens every day and
our immune system has to eliminate them all or we get sick due to cell damage.
Dr. Chakib Hammoud, M.H., PhD., states: A strong
immune system will help to....
- Prevent a breakdown of white blood cells, T and B cells,
killer cells that eliminate in our body bacteria/viruses/pollutants/mutations/
carcinogens/pre-cancerous cells
- Prevent loss of oxygen in our blood supply
- Prevent loss of muscular strength, bone loss, deterioration of organs and brain cells
- Prevent liver and kidney health problems
- Prevent stress & exhaustion
- Prevent breakdown of lymphatic system, thyroid system
- Prevent heart problems
We generally take our immune system for granted and wait until
we get sick. Then we seek help. Fortunately, many men and
especially women are now more health conscious and are interested in a preventive health care.
You are probably wondering, if this natural mushroom product
has been used effectively for a long time in other countries,
why is it used so little in North America? The answer is:
we have to blame ourselves for not telling our health care
providers what we want. Natural health products have only
started to be of major interest to the public in North America
in the last 10 years. Hopefully, they will get the recognition
they deserve and prevent suffering with virtually no side
effects. The Canadian government should be given credit for
starting the new Natural Health Products Directorate. In an
article by Associated Press, Washington, the FDA told Dr.
David Graham, who works in the FDA's office, he can now publish
his research showing that up to 139,000 people had heart attacks
and strokes that could be linked to a single arthritis drug.
30% to 40% of them were fatal! People take notice, and look
for alternatives. This newspaper article tells us there were
over 40,000 deaths in USA and proportionately over 10,000
deaths in Canada due to this one drug alone. Dr. Julian Whitaker
M.D. writes in his medical newsletter that over 100,000 people
in U.S.A. have to be hospitalized every year because of internal
bleeding, liver and kidney failures due to various arthritis
drugs. There were no heart attacks or strokes ever reported
caused by a natural arthritis health product.
When I was in my early sixties, I started to have health problems.
I suffered for years with severe arthritis pain and enlarged
prostate problems and, in both cases, drugs did not help much.
Only when I started selfhelp with natural products did I find
complete relief. Ten years later, I'm still pain free and
have no more prostate problems. I realized then that there
are millions of people with the same health problems. Helping
other people to improve their quality of life has become the
most rewarding part of my life. You can be part of this chain
by helping yourself or others you know that suffer.I'm now
promoting over 50 natural health products and I believe that
Coriolus (short form for Coriolus Versicolor) could be the
greatest help for many men and women. Your immune system should
be your most important health consideration. Coriolus is sold
by different companies in North America. Ours has over 40%
polysaccharides. This is the effective ingredient. Others
we know of have a lot less of this active ingredient in it.
Immune System
This information comes
from the internet and books such as ?Disease Prevention and Treatment?,
which has an advisory board of 48 medical doctors, natural doctors and Ph.D?s.
Our immunity is like a miracle natural healing system that does
amazing things for us. Without this protection working for us
on a daily basis we would quickly become sick and die. We take
our immune system for granted. Most people do nothing to keep
it at its peak performance. We outright neglect it. Yet, it
is our most important defense against illness. If people read
this brochure and give it some thought and actually do something
about it, they will do a great service to themselves and others.
Dr. John Bailar, M.D., PhD., former editorin-
chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute states:
"For diseases, including cancer, to start and continue growing,
they must out-maneuver the many long arms of our immune defenses.
The immune system is both your first and last defense against cancer."
Dr. Ron Kennedy, M.D., Immune
Therapies, Santa Rosa, California, writes: "The human immune system
is designed to defeat all diseases and restore
order to the body. This includes the ability to combat foreign
intruders into our body including cancer cells. It is now known
that cells become cancerous routinely on a daily basis
mainly due to our environmental pollution in food, water and air.
We all have cancer many times in our lives and are unaware of
it, because the immune system destroys the cancer cells before
they can grow and multiply out of control. A combination of two
methods exists for destroying cancer cells: antibodies and natural
killer (NK) cells, specialized cells which track down and destroy
cancer cells. NK cells are our first line of defense. If cancer
cells escape the NKs, Tlymphocites detect the antigens given off
by cancer cells and make antibodies to destroy these cells. From
this point of view, cancer is not an invasion of outside forces
as much as it is a failure of internal immune system forces to
execute normal functions. Therapy, therefore, is designed to bolster
the immune system so that it can do its job." (Coriolus is a therapy
that helped many thousands of people during the past years.)
The immune system is our protection against damage from bacteria,
viruses, pollutants, carcinogens and cancers. It is like the special
police forces you see frequently on TV which are sent out when
there is violence or hold-ups. Your immune system will quickly
go into action if foreign invaders enter your body and need to
be eliminated before they make you sick. Contrary to what most
people would expect, we have daily pre-cancerous or cancer cells
that need to be eliminated by our immune system. The older we
get the more our immune system losesits effectiveness and the
more we are exposed to various diseases including high cholesterol,
diabetes, cardiac disorders, cancer, and viral infections such
as colds and the flu. Medicinal mushrooms have been used effectively
virtually without side effects to treat and significantly improve
our immune system and quality of life. We know that as we get
older our diet may not be the best and we are more likely to get
infections, immune dysfunctions and tumors. To support the immune
system we should eat, whenever possible, organic fruit
and vegetables, whole grains, cold-water fish and lean meats.
We should become more selective in what we eat. We consider grilled
meat one of the luxuries in life. The John Hopkins University
in Baltimore reminds us that when meat is charred in grilling
it may promote the growth of prostate cancer. We do know that
it is impossible to avoid those thousands of pollutants in our
food, water and air. Of 80 people that were tested for known carcinogens,
even those living far away from smokestacks had 45 pollutants
in their blood. Especially for older people, a Coriolus supplement
will help to keep the immune system in the best possible fighting
condition. Not all older people get sick. It's more likely that
those with a weak immune system will succumb to an illness.
The immune system in our body consists of more than 130 subsets
of white blood cells/macrophage, T and B cells. Natural Killers
(NK) cells are a part of our white blood cells. These specialized
cells are produced in the bone marrow. They are stationed everywhere
in our body and are a quick response team that work automatically
without us being aware of their actions. Persons with low NK activity
are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases, viral infections,
chronic fatigue syndrome and cancerous tumors.
Your health care professional can test NK cell activity. One of
the places that does the test is Specialty Labs, Santa Monica,
CA (tel. 1-800-421-7110) or others your health care provider may know.
The tremendous immune enhancing effects of Coriolus is likely
of great benefit to men and women with high stress levels,
exposed to toxins, poor nutritional habits, smokers, heavy drinkers,
chronic fatigue syndrome, peptic ulcers, diabetics, heart disease,
autoimmune deficiencies, multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis, colds, flus, yeast, parasites, cancer and slow healing
wounds.
A daily supplement
of Coriolus is an insignificant expense compared to the money,
heartache and suffering and costly loss of work time that an illness
would cause. Our local daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, wrote
in July 2006 that one treatment of a new cancer drug costs $35,000
to $60,000 with no guarantee of success or extension of life gained.
Dr. Phil Chan, M.D.,
is using the Supreme Immune Booster, Coriolus Versicolor, in his
practice and he observed within 30 days his patients with a depressed
immune system would increase their macrophage white blood cells,
natural killer cells, T and B cells count by as much as 300%.
He also recommends to take this immune booster on an ongoing basis
to be effective as a preventive of illness year-round.
When self-help should be considered
Self-help is suggested to strengthen your immune system. If you have an
illness, consult a health professional.
Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. issues a monthly medical newsletter
and tells his subscribers they should be more skeptical and
question everything before they get into any kind of treatment.
He is very blunt by indicating that most people use proper scrutiny
when dealing with car salesman, real state agents, lawyers and
others that make suggestions to us. However, when we deal with
doctors we are worse than sheep. We assume that every doctor
keeps up-to-date with all the thousands of changes that have
occurred in the last years and knows everything. He assures
his readers that the toxic nature of most drugs they prescribe
make our common diseases look like sniffles. It is we, the patients,
who are finally responsible. If we take what another person
says at face value, simply because he or she is wearing a white
coat, we are neither responsible or reasonable and we must share
the responsibility when things go wrong. Older people especially,
don't dare to raise questions or get second opinions, which they should.
Ideally you and your health care provider should work together
to come up with the very best approach to alleviating a health
problem or preventing a health problem. You should be well informed
about all the benefits and drawbacks of all treatments to the
extent that you can make your own decisions. Like Dr. Mitchell
said, "You are the best doctor you could ever have." Years ago,
I had a family doctor who said we should not think ourselves,
but leave our health care matters to him. We don't have him
anymore. It was at that time I started to have arthritis pain.
If I had followed his advice, I would still have arthritis pain
like those people that write to me saying they suffered with
arthritis pain for 20 or 30 years.
Destiny lead me to self-help when my conventional treatment
options were exhausted. First, like most people, I went to my
family doctor for my arthritis pain. The drugs he prescribed
did not help. Nor did the chiropractor. Physiotherapy made it
a lot worse. Magnets and creams didn't help either.
I endured the worst pain of my life for three years. It was
so bad that I had tears in my eyes. I could get in and out of
the car only by grabbing the roof of the car and lower myself
into the car seat. In desperation, I tried everything. I was
on five Tylenol 3s at a time to be able to function. I read
later on that there are a high number of liver and kidney failures
from doing what I did. I read books. One book suggested shark
cartilage. I took it for a few days and put it away again, telling
myself that if the drugs did not help, how could shark cartilage
help. When the pain got still worse, I took those shark cartilage
bottles out of the cupboard again and, although I was skeptical,
I persisted for two weeks. Suddenly I realized that I had no
more pain. That was ten years ago. I'm taking a few capsules
of our shark cartilage for maintenance every day to remain pain
free. Following this eye-opening experience, I saw an opportunity
to help all those millions of people that suffer daily with
the most painful and longest lasting illness on earth. I received
many letters saying that they suffered for decades with arthritis
pain and drugs did not help much. Only after they tried our
shark cartilage did they finally have pain relief Self-help
with a natural product also alleviated my prostate problem.
If a man has to run urgently to the bathroom every 30 minutes
and cannot fully relieve himself because the prostate is strangling
urine flow, it is a very frustrating health problem day and night.
I had many prescription drugs. Some worked better than others.
However, things were getting worse. Finally the urologist gave
me a new prescription and said, if these pills didn't help,
I should consider surgery. Many surgeries do not go well. Some
men may have to wear diapers, lose their virility, repeat the
operation and suffer other side effects. So I was hesitant about
getting an operation. I was fortunate because, just at that
time, I found out about the recipe for our prostate tea. Within
3 days I had relief from this health problem that I suffered
with for over ten years. In the meantime, I have helped tens of thousands of men all over North America
to have relief and lead a normal life again. This tea is now
also exported to countries overseas. Men write us from India,
Nigeria, Japan, and Korea about how pleased they are to be rid
of this frustrating health problem. After the prostate releases
the strangle hold on the urethra and lets urine flow naturally,
spontaneous blood flow is possible again for good erections.
Many men wrote they are so happy they have their virility back.
Health food stores and pharmacies are stocking our prostate
tea now. My own experience shows that it is best to alleviate
a health problem - using the advice of a health professional
if possible - with a natural medicine and use drugs only where
it is the better choice. Here is another good example in the next paragraph.
Self-help saved my son's life. My son was treated for 15 years
by medical specialists with drugs for intestinal pain and bleeding
and he gradually became sicker. Although he tried to force himself
to eat more, he steadily lost weight. It was hurting us to see
him getting worse. He started to look very thin. This is criminal
ignorance by most medical doctors. They get a lot of instructions
about drugs. Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., writes that his medical
school training included a mere half an hour of nutritional
training. Other medical doctors have made the same comments.
We finally had to turn to self-help. From the book DANGEROUS
GRAINS by Dr. James Braly M.D. and from the book BREAKING THE
VICIOUS CYCLE by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.S.c., we learned
that our son was ill from eating wheat products that carry a
vicious fungus that causes intestinal inflammation. We took
him off all wheat and other grain products and the drugs he
took for 15 years. Within days, all the discomfort and all the
symptoms disappeared and he started to put on weight. After
a few months, he was in perfect health and put on all the weight
he lost over the years. Nobody can appreciate what he suffered
in the past 20 years and nobody can rectify the damage that
was caused to him. The public everywhere should be informed
about this. Also, all government health agencies should know
about this as well as all medical doctors. One quarter of all
the patients of all doctors have this severe health problem
and doctors, in most cases, are unaware of this fungus and prescribe
drugs that may make it worse. Grain allergies can also cause
a few dozen other illnesses, which then are usually treated
with drugs instead of removing the grains that cause it from the diet.
9 Million Canadians and 75 million
Americans are very sick right now from eating wheat
and other grain products including corn that may contain fungi.
Unfortunately, very little is done to help these people or warn
doctors to change their approach of healing. Dr. Braly was not
the first doctor to become aware of this health calamity. In
his book , he lists references from many other doctors that
wrote about this huge health problem. However, they were ignored
then and are still being ignored today. Why? Because our drug
oriented healing approach insists on using drugs for every symptom
instead of looking for the underlying cause. Is this political
motivation to protect the grain farming industry that the government
does not warn one third of the population not to eat wheat?
In regards to my son's suffering, I can only say, I wish we
had turned to selfhelp many years earlier. It was a heart-breaking
experience. Here is proof: 58,000 tonnes
of Canadian wheat were confiscated in Italy in October 2006,
because it had three times the allowable limit of ochratoxin
(toxic mould), says a Hamilton Spectator newspaper article.
In North America wheat like that is fed to people. No wonder
9 million Canadians and 75 Americans are sick from eating wheat
with toxic mould and nothing is done about it. Often enough,
grains with toxic mould are fed to animals; the toxins stay
in the animal and are passed on to people when they eat meat.
Natural Medicine Products
In a feature article TIME magazine wrote: "Call it alternative,
complimentary, integrative or holistic medicine. Whatever name
you choose, such nontraditional therapies such as acupuncture,
homeopathy and yoga have become increasingly prominent - and
provocative - part of the worldwide medical landscape. Even
in the US, long medically conservative, an estimated 50% of
all Americans turn to some type of alternative therapy and US
health insurers are starting to pay for visits to herbalists
or naturopaths. This shift reflects a growing public yearning
for gentler, less invasive forms of healing."
Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., PhD., FRCP. (C),
says: "For the past 50 years I have been demonstrating that
the use of natural nutritional treatment is and must be the
most effective form of medicine and that when it is not used
and the profession depends solely on the use of toxic drugs
the results are abysmal."
Conventional medicine labels all natural medicine as unsafe
and quackery. It is the general population that decides what
is right and what is wrong. You cannot fool all the people all
the time. Natural medicine has virtually no casualties like
the conventional medicine where every year hundreds of thousands
die says by Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D. and N.D. in her book, Death
by Modern Medicine. This is also stated by Dr. John Abramson,
M.D. in Overdosed America. Both conventional medicine and natural
medicine are needed; they are important for the health of the
people. We should not have this ongoing conflict. The patient
should be more important than financial interests.
Alternative medicine, as defined by Harvard physician
David M. Eisenberg, M.D., refers to medicinal therapies
that are not taught in medical school and not used in hospitals.
Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. adds that alternative medicine encompasses
some very effective treatments. Natural substances cannot be
patented, so they are outside the business model of conventional
medicine. And since the pharmaceutical companies virtually own
the medical schools, unpatented natural therapies are not taught.
In short, the low score of alternative approaches to disease
has nothing to do with science - it's economics. In the chapter
about self-help you found my own experience and proof that natural
medicines can work a lot better than drugs. Hundreds of men
and women wrote us about their experience that natural medicines
worked when drugs didn't.
There are times when drugs are preferable and there are times
when natural medicines are far superior to drugs as you can
read in the chapter of self-help. Or go on our web site and
read dozens of true statements with full names and towns from
men and women that suffered for many years until they tried
natural medicines and had relief. The proof is all there. Most
medical doctors don't dare recommend natural products because
they were not taught anything about them. Some medical doctors
have the courage to check out natural medicines and are not
afraid of reprimands by their licensing commission that demands
to use only drugs. One such doctor is Joseph C. Maroon
M.D., Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurological
Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
For years, he prescribed Vioxx, Celebrex, Motrin and other drugs.
He knew about the dark side of these drugs. More than 100,000
men and women are hospitalized with internal bleeding and an
astounding 16,500 die from complications of drugs every year.
So what prompted Dr. Maroon to use an alternative medicine such
as fish oil? Ignoring the raised eyebrows of his colleagues,
he decided to do a study of his own on the alternative of fish
oil. He enrolled 250 patients with back pain. After using fish
oils only, 59 percent discontinued their drugs, 60 percent reported
a decrease in overall pain, and a whopping 88 percent said they
were so satisfied with the improvement that they planned to
keep taking fish oil after the study. Dr. Maroon has not prescribed
drugs for more than two years. That's alternative medicine.
There is an ongoing effort by the pharmaceutical industry to
get all natural health products off the market by lobbying governments
and by engaging drug activists who go to any length to harass
sellers of natural health products. We are being harassed frequently
by these drug activists. We have a letter from one of the drug activists full of foul words like "take this crap off
the market" and "This quackery has to stop" and other gutter words. He was
referring to our shark cartilage, which has helped tens of thousands
to have less arthritis pain or no pain at all with virtually
no side effects. Success rate is 98% and we refunded the money
to those 2% that said it did not help them. All these people
have been taking drugs for may years and had unsatisfactory
relief and severe side effects. However, the drug activists
don't care about the fact that it is helping people better than
the drugs they took. Ask these people which is quackery. Is
it the drugs they took for many years, often with dangerous
side effects, or our shark cartilage that finally brought them
relief with virtually no side effects?
The argument is frequently made by drug activists that natural
medicines are not standardized like drugs. An article by Gary
Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean, MD., ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora
Rasio, MD; Dorothy Smith, PhD, shows a long list of quality
standard infractions by a pharmaceutical giant of 125 or 90%
of all the drugs made by that one company, and the company was
fined $500 million by the FDA. They also had to halt the manufacture
of 73 drugs or suffer another $175 million fine. Another drug
manufacturer was fined $100 million for failing to meet quality
standards. Still another one paid a fine of $30 million to settle
accusations of poor manufacturing practices. The indictments
came after the Public Citizen Health Research Group called for
criminal investigations. These are just a few cases that were
prosecuted. How many other cases there are can only be estimated.
I can only speak for our natural products. When we say it is
100% pure shark cartilage, that's exactly what it is. This applies also to all our other 50 products.
I have a lot of respect for a doctor like Dr. Alvin Pettle,
M.D., F.R.C.S. (C). He wrote: "The education of the physician
shouldn't end at medical school, it should just begin. I thank
my patients for helping me to be more educated about the wisdom
of menopause." Dr. Pettle is one of the pioneers in using natural
bioidentical hormones instead of HRT drugs, which we now know
may cause cancer and heart problems. One more reason to use a natural approach to healing whenever possible.
Charles Simone, M.D., Oncologist, cites numerous references in his book
CANCER AND NUTRITION blowing away the misconception that vitamins
and minerals interfere with chemotherapy and radiation. On the
contrary, some vitamins and minerals used in conjunction have
been shown to protect normal tissue and assist in the destruction of cancer cells.
Support cancer treatment by your doctor by taking Coriolus supplements
I emphasize again that if a person has any illness, including cancer,
the person should seek the advice of his or her physician or
other health care provider. This information is only supplied
to tell people where they can find more information about the
immune system and Coriolus and to discuss the best options a
person has with their health care provider.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote an article and calls Coriolus,
"the Miracle Mushroom." A subtitle says: A Texas man shrank
his liver tumor by 90% - after his doctor gave up on him. Dr.
Walker wrote about a man (His full name is on internet) in Texas
that obtained and read all the studies he could find, which
was part of his self-help.
Only a few excerpts are given of the vast amount of information
of hundreds of pages that is available on Coriolus Versicolor.
Fulllength medical studies are also available; see Information
for Health Professionals where these clinical studies can be
obtained. Here are some excerpts of a CBC-TV Documentary,
Market Place, April 23, 2006, by Wendy Mesley, who recently
went through cancer treatment herself. In this documentary she
repeated that the root of the problem is that not enough efforts
are made in cancer prevention. More lives could be saved in
preventing the disease than in treating people after they get
sick. Damage control is hopeless. Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. writes
in his medical newsletter that no progress has been made in
treating cancer in the last 30 years. Ms. Mesley showed interviews
on TV of drug manufacturers at a convention and asked them,
"How is business?" They all replied business is excellent. Some
say 80% of their business is cancer drugs. Preventing this disease
as well as other diseases can cost as little as a few hundred
dollars a year. As mentioned before, about a dozen years ago
the Toronto Star newspaper reported at a medical doctor convention
in Toronto, a keynote speaker said "We are not in the prevention
business." There is not enough money in prevention for the drug
manufacturers. They are only interested in big money by treating
the disease which costs an average of $60,000.00 per person
(without guarantee of survival) and may run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars per person in repeated treatments. It costs
Canadian taxpayers $14,000,000,000.00 (14 billion dollars) a
year, Mesley says.
As supported by hundreds of clinical trials and medical studies,
Coriolus can be that "tailwind" as stated by Dr. Napier and
be of great help to support your doctor in conventional cancer
treatment. It helps to strengthen the immune system; the stronger
immune system helps to prevent the cancer cells spreading especially
when going through surgery. Once you have studied the information
that is publicly available, you may want to talk things over
with your doctor. Most medical doctors are not familiar with
natural medicines and are afraid to get involved with them to
avoid being ostracized by their peers or their medical college.
You would have to make him/her aware of the benefits of this
natural product. Regardless of how dedicated your doctor is,
he cannot replace your feeling of urgency to live. It is your
life at stake! You have to make the decisions.
Be prepared for negative comments saying natural products are
quackery. Ask those tens of thousands of people we helped with
natural products, like our shark cartilage for arthritis, what
is quackery The drugs they took for with unsatisfactory relief
or our shark cartilage that helped them within a few weeks to
have less pain or be completely pain free. I personally took
drugs for 10 years for my enlarged prostate and had complete
relief within 3 days with our prostate tea and so did tens of
thousands of other men.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., wrote in his medical newsletter:
In 1971 President Richard Nixon made a bold avowal to conquer
cancer. Unfortunately, the same percentage of Americans are
dying today from this diseases as they were over 30 years ago.
In fact cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the number
one cause of death for people under 85.
Dr. Albert Braverman, M.D.,
Oncologist, states: No disseminated neoplasm (cancer) incurable
in 1975 is curable today. Many medical oncologists recommend
chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged
by almost invariable failure. This would indicate that new
ways to tackle this disease are needed. Considering
the hundreds of clinical studies saying that Coriolus has helped
people significantly while going through conventional cancer
treatment, this could be the new way? Dr. Braverman talks about.
German doctors are world leaders
in clinical use of medicinal mushrooms. Dr. Walker visited Dr.
Helmut Keller M.D. before he wrote the article in his book about
Coriolus. He also visited Dr. Friedrich Douwes, who uses this
natural product in his clinic as a main component of his anticancer
therapies. He uses Coriolus either alone or with conventional
chemotherapy for cancer. He says 3 or more grams ( 6 capsules
of 500 mg. each) per day result in anti-tumor activity.
In Japan, the healing potential of this
mushroom has been known for many years and physicians there
have done over 400 clinical studies as they discovered that
they could help men and women by prescribing Coriolus before
surgery to avoid depleting the immune system or boosting it
to the highest possible level for a given person. Health professionals
say this is critical to have a strong defense against spreading
the cancer and early recovery from surgery. They also established
beyond any doubt that Coriolus increases the effectiveness of
chemotherapy and radiation without destroying the immune system.
The Japanese Health Ministry recognized this mushroom as a lifesaver
and money saver for the national health care system. They are
paying over one billion dollars for treatments with Coriolus
and all physicians are using it in their treatment either alone
or with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. There are many
medicinal mushrooms available and Coriolus tested out as by
far the best of the bunch.
Dr. Walker writes about a Japanese medical study of 46 medical
institutions, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, involving
262 gastric cancer patients taking Coriolus before and after
cancer surgery. In the following 5- 7 years, those that took
the mushroom extract survived at a substantially higher rate.
Another Japanese study of breast cancer patients concludes those
that took Coriolus along with chemotherapy had better outcomes.
A further clinical study of 28 patients with acute leukemia
on chemotherapy and Coriolus had a survival time of 21 months;
there was only 12 months survival for the other group.
In USA and Canada many physicians are
using Coriolus. Dr. Walker mentions Kenneth Bock M.D. who uses
this mushroom extract because it increases natural killer (NK)
cell activity. As shown by a number of clinical studies, he
found a few patients with advanced metastatic cancer see their
NK counts jump from 2 to 3 to a normal 20 to 50. If used in
combination with conventional treatment, it makes these toxic
treatments much more effective. Following patients with Stage
I lung cancer over a 10 year period, the tumor shrinkage as
well as survival rate was 39 percent with Coriolus and only
16 percent when receiving only the toxic treatment. More then
twice as many survived with Coriolus. With Stage II lung cancer
the rate was 22 percent tumor shrinkage and survival while taking
Coriolus and a mere 5 percent without it. This study of 185
lung cancer patients shows the mushroom extract can make the
toxic therapies anywhere from 2 - 4 times more effective.
A high safety record: Dr. Steven Bailey,
a Naturopathic Doctor in Portland Oregon says Coriolus is one
of the safest and most effective medicines against chronic diseases.
It does not interfere with your liver or kidneys. He is using
it for cancer patients as well as hepatitis B and C, AIDS, herpes
and general immune system problems.
Why does it take so long for life saving medicines to get recognition?
Coriolus and many other medicinal mushrooms have been used in
Japan for many years, supported with hundreds of medical studies
showing beyond any doubt how effective they are in saving lives.
Why does our government not encourage measures to save lives?
Why did it take from 1928, when Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin to 1946 for the general population to gain access
to penicillin? In those 18 years, many people died that could
have been saved. This applies also to Coriolus. This is a very
sad story for those people that lost family members that could
have been saved. Although new discoveries in the health field
or technology move quickly, the human mind changes slowly.
Dr. Hans Napier, M.D.,
a prominent metabolic doctor, from Hanover, Germany, writes:
"One thing is certain, chemotherapy can produce positive results
of lasting value only when it is encouraged by a strong "tailwind"
from the body's own immune defense system." (The main purpose
of Coriolus is to strengthen the immune system.)
Dr. Lance Liotta, Chief of NCI's Laboratory
of Pathology, states: "Cancer invasion and metastasis (spreading)
is the main cause of treatment failure. That is really what
kills the patient in most cases. Only 1.2 percent of persons
with metastasized (spreading) cancers survive for 5 years."
(By boosting the immune defense system when going through surgery,
Coriolus will help to reduce or prevent the spreading of cancer.)
No less than 11 oncology researchers,
representing 6 medical schools in Japan, conducted a randomized
double-blind trial on 111 patients who had colorectal cancer.
After they had undergone surgical operations for cancers, 56
patients were given Coriolus alone or as an active treatment
substance, and 55 other post surgical patients merely received
a placebo. Comparing the two groups, these eleven medical researchers
advised that there is significant prolongation of disease-free
periods for patients with colorectal cancer who took Coriolus.
Additionally, polymorphonuclear leukocytes from patients treated
with Coriolus showed remarkable enhancement in their activities,
such as random and/or chemotactic locomotion, and phagocytosis.
In conclusion, Coriolus was useful as a maintenance therapy
for patients after their curative surgical operations for colorectal
cancer. The beneficial effects were probably due to the activation
of leukocyte functions as one of the many biological-response-modifying
activities induced by Coriolus.
Dr. Kenneth A. Bock, M.D., Medical Director of two holistic medical
clinics, one located in Rhinebeck, New York, and the other in
Albany, New York, gives a typical case history: My patient M.E.,
60 years old, wanted no conventional therapy for the prostate
cancer. So I started him on alternative medical therapies for
prostate cancer and to improve his deficient NK activity. Coriolus
was a definite part of M.E.'s treatment regimen. Within two
months, the patient's NK activity elevated to 18m/u and two
months after that, his NK cell activity increased to a normal
31 m/u. Now M.E. is doing well physically, and he tells me he
feels great. I would say that this type ofresponse to Coriolus
therapy is usual. The patient's quality of life does improve
dramatically and he or she feels a sense of wellbeing.
Coriolus was selected as the best adjunctive
treatment for cancer. It provides strong benefits for the immune
system when given alone, and it works even more supportively
against cancer after it's applied with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
In fact, out of 200 adjunctive phytochemicals screened for antitumor
activity by Japanese researchers in 1971, Coriolus was the best adjunctive treatment.
At University Hospital of Gunma Medical School of Medicine
in Maebashi, Japan, the researchers suggested that this medicinal
mushroom seemed to protect the immune system's activity from
being suppressed by chemotherapy drugs and by the toxic process
of the cancer itself. Added to that finding, a ten year study
of 185 patients with lung cancer, showed that combining Coriolus
with radiation therapy produced satisfactory tumor shrinkage
and better survival rates for 39% of patients with stage I cancer
and 22% with stage II cancer compared against those patients
with did not receive this combination of therapies whose survival
rate was 16% and 5% respectively.
Dr. Tori Hudson, a professor at the National College of Naturopathic
Medicine in Portland, writes:
" I have just begun using
Coriolus for a man who is facing the recurrence of gastric cancer.
He's had a full gamut of therapies and still shows elevated
cancer markers, which his oncologist finds untreatable. The
patient was referred to me for some alternative cancer therapy
because conventional oncology has nothing more to use on him."
My impression is that patients taking Coriolus experience fewer
side effects from chemotherapy such as fatigue ,nausea, and
low white blood cell counts, but not less hair loss. I have
not measured the natural killer cell counts.
Some of the above copy you
will find on the web site of Pure Health Systems.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote in his book about A.G., a 64 year old
Texas man, who was in treatment for liver cancer. The doctor
treated Mr. G. for liver cancer for six years and then gave
him up as untreatable. Mr. G. wrote: "After the chemo failed,
the doctor threw up his hands, shrugged his shoulders, wished
me good luck, and said there was nothing else he could do. And
surgery couldn't be performed either, because the consulting
surgeon saw that the tumor was wrapped around my vena cava blood
vessel. I told him: 'I totally reject what you are telling me.
I do not accept that nothing can be done to affect the outcome
of this disease.' The doctor replied: Well, I know what I'm
talking about when it comes to cancer. I'm a scientist." Four
years later the patient was healthy again after using the type
of therapies known as CAIM (Complementary/alternative/integrative
medicine) especially including capsules containing the powdered
extract of Coriolus. Mr. G. learned about this remedy on the
internet, having downloaded nearly 400 medical studies, and
he can tell you all about it. Amazingly, his liver cancer was
reduced to less than 10% of its original size. His CEA (carcinoembryonic
antigen) cancer marker fell more than twothirds from 296 to 97.9.
Through a personal friend I was involved
in this: In St. Catherines, Ontario, a daughter asked
her mother's doctor about supplementing her mother's cancer
treatment with a mushroom extract which she heard would improve
the conventional treatment of surgery, chemo and radiation.
When the cancer was in its early stages, the mother's doctor
refused to let her give her mother the mushroom extract. Much
later, the mother's cancer progressed and the doctor finally
said the frightful words: "There is nothing more that can be
done." The daughter now reproaches herself for not being more
decisive and using another possibility to save her mother's life.
Massey University, Palmerston North,
New Zealand, has 14 pages of information on the internet.
Most of it is very technical. The protein-bound polysaccharopeptides
by Coriolus are effective immunopotentiators, which are used
to supplement the chemotherapy and radiotherapy of cancers and
various infectious diseases. After extensive clinical trials,
Coriolos was approved for use in Japan in 1977, and by 1985
it ranked 19th on the list of the world's most commercially
successful cancer medicines.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reviewed more than
2 dozen human studies of Coriolus. Almost all of these studies
were done in Japan and focused on cancers of the esophagus,
stomach, colon or breast. Most of them found that people with
cancer were helped by Coriolus. People who received Coriolus
along with other treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy or
radiation therapy generally had longer disease-free periods
and increased survival rates compared with patients who got
only standard treatment. Side effects from Coriolus in these
studies were very mild.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center web site is extensive and
very technical. Excerpts: Coriolus is a mushroom of the Basidiomycetes class.
It was used initially in traditional Chinese medicine as a tonic,
but recent studies suggest that is has immunostimulant and anti-tumor
properties. Polysaccharide-K (PSK), a proprietary product derived
from Coriolus, was developed for cancer treatment in Japan.
When used as an adjuvant, PSK appears to improve survival rates
in patients with gastric and colorectal cancers. Other Coriolus
extracts, such as polysaccharide-pepptide (PSP) and (VSP) are
available as dietary supplements. When used in conjunction with
chemotherapy, PSP may benefit patients with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer. Other clinical studies using Coriolus extract
alone or in combination with other botanicals also suggest positive
immunomodulatory effects. However, studies on breast cancer
hepatocellular carcinoma and leukemia produced mixed results.
Coriolus extracts are generally well tolerated but minor adverse
effects have been reported when taken in large amounts.
Coriolus is very inexpensive at about
$40.00 per bottle, compared to cancer drugs that run from $40,000.00
to $100,000.00 for one complete treatment. It is well tolerated
with virtually no side effects. This information is repeated
many times on the internet. A Toronto Star article says you
have to distinguish between life-extending rather than life-saving
drugs. Life-extension drugs may still be wanted by people, because
they're at a point in their life where a few months may be very important.
Like Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. says, "in the
end the decision should not be denied to you, whether you want
to supplement your treatment by your doctor."
This natural health product , Coriolus, has virtually no side
effects. By boosting your immune system, it increases the effectiveness
of surgery and/or chemotherapy as well as radiation. For many
people Coriolus may be the extra help that is needed or the
"tailwind" as Dr. Napier puts it. Dr. Mitchell says: "You are,
potentially, the best doctor you could ever have.: Opinions
by your loved ones will help you to make the right responsible
decisions. Our Coriolus comes with a written guarantee, Must
Help or Money Refunded.
I emphasize again that if a person has any illness, including cancer,
the person should seek the advice of his or her physician or
other health care provider. This information is only supplied
to tell people where they can find more information about the
immune system and Coriolus and to discuss the best options a
person has with their health care provider.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote an article and calls Coriolus,
"the Miracle Mushroom." A subtitle says: A Texas man shrank
his liver tumor by 90% - after his doctor gave up on him. Dr.
Walker wrote about a man (His full name is on internet) in Texas
that obtained and read all the studies he could find, which
was part of his self-help.
Only a few excerpts are given of the vast amount of information
of hundreds of pages that is available on Coriolus Versicolor.
Fulllength medical studies are also available; see Information
for Health Professionals where these clinical studies can be
obtained. Here are some excerpts of a CBC-TV Documentary,
Market Place, April 23, 2006, by Wendy Mesley, who recently
went through cancer treatment herself. In this documentary she
repeated that the root of the problem is that not enough efforts
are made in cancer prevention. More lives could be saved in
preventing the disease than in treating people after they get
sick. Damage control is hopeless. Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. writes
in his medical newsletter that no progress has been made in
treating cancer in the last 30 years. Ms. Mesley showed interviews
on TV of drug manufacturers at a convention and asked them,
"How is business?" They all replied business is excellent. Some
say 80% of their business is cancer drugs. Preventing this disease
as well as other diseases can cost as little as a few hundred
dollars a year. As mentioned before, about a dozen years ago
the Toronto Star newspaper reported at a medical doctor convention
in Toronto, a keynote speaker said "We are not in the prevention
business." There is not enough money in prevention for the drug
manufacturers. They are only interested in big money by treating
the disease which costs an average of $60,000.00 per person
(without guarantee of survival) and may run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars per person in repeated treatments. It costs
Canadian taxpayers $14,000,000,000.00 (14 billion dollars) a
year, Mesley says.
As supported by hundreds of clinical trials and medical studies,
Coriolus can be that "tailwind" as stated by Dr. Napier and
be of great help to support your doctor in conventional cancer
treatment. It helps to strengthen the immune system; the stronger
immune system helps to prevent the cancer cells spreading especially
when going through surgery. Once you have studied the information
that is publicly available, you may want to talk things over
with your doctor. Most medical doctors are not familiar with
natural medicines and are afraid to get involved with them to
avoid being ostracized by their peers or their medical college.
You would have to make him/her aware of the benefits of this
natural product. Regardless of how dedicated your doctor is,
he cannot replace your feeling of urgency to live. It is your
life at stake! You have to make the decisions.
Be prepared for negative comments saying natural products are
quackery. Ask those tens of thousands of people we helped with
natural products, like our shark cartilage for arthritis, what
is quackery The drugs they took for with unsatisfactory relief
or our shark cartilage that helped them within a few weeks to
have less pain or be completely pain free. I personally took
drugs for 10 years for my enlarged prostate and had complete
relief within 3 days with our prostate tea and so did tens of
thousands of other men.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., wrote in his medical newsletter:
"In 1971 President Richard Nixon made a bold avowal to conquer
cancer. Unfortunately, the same percentage of Americans are
dying today from this diseases as they were over 30 years ago.
In fact cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the number
one cause of death for people under 85."
Dr. Albert Braverman, M.D.,
Oncologist, states: "No disseminated neoplasm (cancer) incurable
in 1975 is curable today. Many medical oncologists recommend
chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged
by almost invariable failure." This would indicate that new
ways to tackle this disease are needed. Considering
the hundreds of clinical studies saying that Coriolus has helped
people significantly while going through conventional cancer
treatment, this could be the "new way" Dr. Braverman talks about.
German doctors are world leaders
in clinical use of medicinal mushrooms. Dr. Walker visited Dr.
Helmut Keller M.D. before he wrote the article in his book about
Coriolus. He also visited Dr. Friedrich Douwes, who uses this
natural product in his clinic as a main component of his anticancer
therapies. He uses Coriolus either alone or with conventional
chemotherapy for cancer. He says 3 or more grams ( 6 capsules
of 500 mg. each) per day result in anti-tumor activity.
In Japan, the healing potential of this
mushroom has been known for many years and physicians there
have done over 400 clinical studies as they discovered that
they could help men and women by prescribing Coriolus before
surgery to avoid depleting the immune system or boosting it
to the highest possible level for a given person. Health professionals
say this is critical to have a strong defense against spreading
the cancer and early recovery from surgery. They also established
beyond any doubt that Coriolus increases the effectiveness of
chemotherapy and radiation without destroying the immune system.
The Japanese Health Ministry recognized this mushroom as a lifesaver
and money saver for the national health care system. They are
paying over one billion dollars for treatments with Coriolus
and all physicians are using it in their treatment either alone
or with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. There are many
medicinal mushrooms available and Coriolus tested out as by
far the best of the bunch.
Dr. Walker writes about a Japanese medical study of 46 medical
institutions, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, involving
262 gastric cancer patients taking Coriolus before and after
cancer surgery. In the following 5- 7 years, those that took
the mushroom extract survived at a substantially higher rate.
Another Japanese study of breast cancer patients concludes those
that took Coriolus along with chemotherapy had better outcomes.
A further clinical study of 28 patients with acute leukemia
on chemotherapy and Coriolus had a survival time of 21 months;
there was only 12 months survival for the other group.
In USA and Canada many physicians are
using Coriolus. Dr. Walker mentions Kenneth Bock M.D. who uses
this mushroom extract because it increases natural killer (NK)
cell activity. As shown by a number of clinical studies, he
found a few patients with advanced metastatic cancer see their
NK counts jump from 2 to 3 to a normal 20 to 50. If used in
combination with conventional treatment, it makes these toxic
treatments much more effective. Following patients with Stage
I lung cancer over a 10 year period, the tumor shrinkage as
well as survival rate was 39 percent with Coriolus and only
16 percent when receiving only the toxic treatment. More then
twice as many survived with Coriolus. With Stage II lung cancer
the rate was 22 percent tumor shrinkage and survival while taking
Coriolus and a mere 5 percent without it. This study of 185
lung cancer patients shows the mushroom extract can make the
toxic therapies anywhere from 2 - 4 times more effective.
A high safety record: Dr. Steven Bailey,
a Naturopathic Doctor in Portland Oregon says Coriolus is one
of the safest and most effective medicines against chronic diseases.
It does not interfere with your liver or kidneys. He is using
it for cancer patients as well as hepatitis B and C, AIDS, herpes
and general immune system problems.
Why does it take so long for life saving medicines to get recognition?
Coriolus and many other medicinal mushrooms have been used in
Japan for many years, supported with hundreds of medical studies
showing beyond any doubt how effective they are in saving lives.
Why does our government not encourage measures to save lives?
Why did it take from 1928, when Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin to 1946 for the general population to gain access
to penicillin? In those 18 years, many people died that could
have been saved. This applies also to Coriolus. This is a very
sad story for those people that lost family members that could
have been saved. Although new discoveries in the health field
or technology move quickly, the human mind changes slowly.
Dr. Hans Napier, M.D.
a prominent metabolic doctor, from Hanover, Germany, writes:
"One thing is certain, chemotherapy can produce positive results
of lasting value only when it is encouraged by a strong "tailwind"
from the body's own immune defense system." (The main purpose
of Coriolus is to strengthen the immune system.)
Dr. Lance Liotta, Chief of NCI's Laboratory
of Pathology, states: "Cancer invasion and metastasis (spreading)
is the main cause of treatment failure. That is really what
kills the patient in most cases. Only 1.2 percent of persons
with metastasized (spreading) cancers survive for 5 years."
(By boosting the immune defense system when going through surgery,
Coriolus will help to reduce or prevent the spreading of cancer.)
No less than 11 oncology researchers,
representing 6 medical schools in Japan, conducted a randomized
double-blind trial on 111 patients who had colorectal cancer.
After they had undergone surgical operations for cancers, 56
patients were given Coriolus alone or as an active treatment
substance, and 55 other post surgical patients merely received
a placebo. Comparing the two groups, these eleven medical researchers
advised that there is significant prolongation of disease-free
periods for patients with colorectal cancer who took Coriolus.
Additionally, polymorphonuclear leukocytes from patients treated
with Coriolus showed remarkable enhancement in their activities,
such as random and/or chemotactic locomotion, and phagocytosis.
In conclusion, Coriolus was useful as a maintenance therapy
for patients after their curative surgical operations for colorectal
cancer. The beneficial effects were probably due to the activation
of leukocyte functions as one of the many biological-response-modifying activities induced by Coriolus.
Dr. Kenneth A. Bock, M.D., Medical Director of two holistic medical
clinics, one located in Rhinebeck, New York, and the other in
Albany, New York, gives a typical case history: My patient M.E.,
60 years old, wanted no conventional therapy for the prostate
cancer. So I started him on alternative medical therapies for
prostate cancer and to improve his deficient NK activity. Coriolus
was a definite part of M.E.'s treatment regimen. Within two
months, the patient's NK activity elevated to 18m/u and two
months after that, his NK cell activity increased to a normal
31 m/u. Now M.E. is doing well physically, and he tells me he
feels great. I would say that this type ofresponse to Coriolus
therapy is usual. The patient's quality of life does improve
dramatically and he or she feels a sense of wellbeing.
Coriolus was selected as the best adjunctive
treatment for cancer. It provides strong benefits for the immune
system when given alone, and it works even more supportively
against cancer after it's applied with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
In fact, out of 200 adjunctive phytochemicals screened for antitumor
activity by Japanese researchers in 1971, Coriolus was
the best adjunctive treatment.
At University Hospital of Gunma Medical School of Medicine
in Maebashi, Japan, the researchers suggested that this medicinal
mushroom seemed to protect the immune system's activity from
being suppressed by chemotherapy drugs and by the toxic process
of the cancer itself. Added to that finding, a ten year study
of 185 patients with lung cancer, showed that combining Coriolus
with radiation therapy produced satisfactory tumor shrinkage
and better survival rates for 39% of patients with stage I cancer
and 22% with stage II cancer compared against those patients
with did not receive this combination of therapies whose survival
rate was 16% and 5% respectively.
Dr. Tori Hudson, a professor at the National College of Naturopathic
Medicine in Portland, writes:
" I have just begun using
Coriolus for a man who is facing the recurrence of gastric cancer.
He's had a full gamut of therapies and still shows elevated
cancer markers, which his oncologist finds untreatable. The
patient was referred to me for some alternative cancer therapy
because conventional oncology has nothing more to use on him."
My impression is that patients taking Coriolus experience fewer
side effects from chemotherapy such as fatigue ,nausea, and
low white blood cell counts, but not less hair loss. I have
not measured the natural killer cell counts.
Some of the above copy you will find on the web site of Pure Health
Systems.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote in his book about A.G., a 64 year old
Texas man, who was in treatment for liver cancer. The doctor
treated Mr. G. for liver cancer for six years and then gave
him up as untreatable. Mr. G. wrote: "After the chemo failed,
the doctor threw up his hands, shrugged his shoulders, wished
me good luck, and said there was nothing else he could do. And
surgery couldn't be performed either, because the consulting
surgeon saw that the tumor was wrapped around my vena cava blood
vessel. I told him: 'I totally reject what you are telling me.
I do not accept that nothing can be done to affect the outcome
of this disease.' The doctor replied: Well, I know what I'm
talking about when it comes to cancer. I'm a scientist." Four
years later the patient was healthy again after using the type
of therapies known as CAIM (Complementary/alternative/integrative
medicine) especially including capsules containing the powdered
extract of Coriolus. Mr. G. learned about this remedy on the
internet, having downloaded nearly 400 medical studies, and
he can tell you all about it. Amazingly, his liver cancer was
reduced to less than 10% of its original size. His CEA (carcinoembryonic
antigen) cancer marker fell more than twothirds from 296 to 97.9.
Through a personal friend I was involved
in this: In St. Catherines, Ontario, a daughter asked
her mother's doctor about supplementing her mother's cancer
treatment with a mushroom extract which she heard would improve
the conventional treatment of surgery, chemo and radiation.
When the cancer was in its early stages, the mother's doctor
refused to let her give her mother the mushroom extract. Much
later, the mother's cancer progressed and the doctor finally
said the frightful words: "There is nothing more that can be
done." The daughter now reproaches herself for not being more
decisive and using another possibility to save her mother's life.
Massey University, Palmerston North,
New Zealand, has 14 pages of information on the internet.
Most of it is very technical. The protein-bound polysaccharopeptides
by Coriolus are effective immunopotentiators, which are used
to supplement the chemotherapy and radiotherapy of cancers and
various infectious diseases. After extensive clinical trials,
Coriolos was approved for use in Japan in 1977, and by 1985
it ranked 19th on the list of the world's most commercially successful cancer medicines.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reviewed more than
2 dozen human studies of Coriolus. Almost all of these studies
were done in Japan and focused on cancers of the esophagus,
stomach, colon or breast. Most of them found that people with
cancer were helped by Coriolus. People who received Coriolus
along with other treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy or
radiation therapy generally had longer disease-free periods
and increased survival rates compared with patients who got
only standard treatment. Side effects from Coriolus in these studies were very mild.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center web site is extensive and
very technical. Excerpts: Coriolus is a mushroom of the Basidiomycetes class.
It was used initially in traditional Chinese medicine as a tonic,
but recent studies suggest that is has immunostimulant and anti-tumor
properties. Polysaccharide-K (PSK), a proprietary product derived
from Coriolus, was developed for cancer treatment in Japan.
When used as an adjuvant, PSK appears to improve survival rates
in patients with gastric and colorectal cancers. Other Coriolus
extracts, such as polysaccharide-pepptide (PSP) and (VSP) are
available as dietary supplements. When used in conjunction with
chemotherapy, PSP may benefit patients with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer. Other clinical studies using Coriolus extract
alone or in combination with other botanicals also suggest positive
immunomodulatory effects. However, studies on breast cancer
hepatocellular carcinoma and leukemia produced mixed results.
Coriolus extracts are generally well tolerated but minor adverse
effects have been reported when taken in large amounts.
Coriolus is very inexpensive at about
$40.00 per bottle, compared to cancer drugs that run from $40,000.00
to $100,000.00 for one complete treatment. It is well tolerated
with virtually no side effects. This information is repeated
many times on the internet. A Toronto Star article says you
have to distinguish between life-extending rather than life-saving
drugs. Life-extension drugs may still be wanted by people, because
they're at a point in their life where a few months may be very important.
Like Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. says, "in the
end the decision should not be denied to you, whether you want
to supplement your treatment by your doctor."
This natural health product , Coriolus, has virtually no sifluff. In
some European countries, Coriolus versicolor is called "turkeytail" because it is fan shaped and with shades
of brown, white, and graying colour on the upper surface.
In Japan, Coriolus versicolor is known as kawaratake, which
means "mushroom by the river bank."
2.2 Traditional Use
According to the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Coriolus
versicolor has a slightly sweetish taste and possesses ?cold?
proper ties, and exerts its effects via the liver and spleen
into the body. It is considered useful for dispelling heat,
removing toxins, strength ening physique, increasing energy
and spirit, and enhancing the host's immune function.
In the clinical practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Coriolus
versicolor is considered to be beneficial to health and able
to bring longevity if consumed regularly, or is indicat ed for
various types of cancers, chronic hep atitis, and infections
of the upper respiratory, urinary, and digestive tracts (1;2;3).
2.3 Commercial Preparations and Therapeutic Applications
Although the administration of medicinal mushrooms has an established
history of use in traditional oriental therapies, commer cially
prepared aqueous extracts which focuses on polysaccharopeptides
obtained from Coriolus versicolor have been found to be of the
highest therapeutic value (1).
The best know commercial polysaccharopep tide preparations of
Coriolus versicolor are poly saccharopeptide Krestin (PSK) and
poly saccharopeptide PSP. Both products are obtained from Coriolus
versicolor mycelia, with PSK (Krestin) being the Japanese prod
uct, and PSP the Chinese product. Both products are obtained
by batch fermentation with PSK being produced from CM-101 and
PSP from Cov-1 strains of Coriolus versicol or. PSK is recovered
via a hot water extracts of the biomass by salting it out with
ammonium sulfate, whereas PSP is recovered via alcoholic precipitation
from the hot water extract. Both aqueous extracts, although
structurally different, exhibit similar physio logical activities
(1;4;5;6;7).
PSK was approved for medicinal use in Japan in 1977, and PSP
appeared on the market about 10 years later(1) . These prod
ucts are typically prescribed as an adjunct therapy to fight
side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, or to assist
immunologi cal depressed individuals, because of its immunopotentiating
effects (2;3;5;7). Other treat ment options aimed at inhibiting cancer metastasis.
In addition to the clinically tested PSK and PSP preparations,
numerous Coriolus versicolor formulations and extracts are on
the market and sold in various forms (capsules, tablets, syrups,
teas, etc) and under many brand names (1;2).
2.3.1 Immunomodulation Properties of Coriolus versicolor extracts
and its Action on the Side Effects of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy.
In three comprehensive review studies, the evidence concerning
the immunomodulating properties of the Coriolus versicolor polysaccharides
were investigated(2;3;4). Their research showed that in numerous
animal studies it had been documented that PSP or PSK administration
was related to increased (-interferon produc tion, interleukin-2
production and T-cell proliferation and that the polysaccharopep
tides from Coriolus versicolor counteract the depressive effect
of cyclophosphamide on white blood cell count.
In these reviews, the study of randomized, controlled clinical
investigations, using PSK as an adjunctive therapy to conven
tional anticancer interventions, lead the authors to conclude
that for some type of cancers, such as non-small-cell lung can
cer and gastric cancer, patients receiving PSK showed improved
survival rates and overall subjective impressions of improvement, with a tendency to fewer side effects to
their chemotherapy or radiationtherapy.
The dosage schedules in these investiga tions typically called
for 3g/day of PSK for periods of 1 months to up to 5 years (the
latter reflecting the duration of the follow-up time frame of the study).
2.3.2 Antimetastatic Effects of Coriolus versicolor
In a comprehensive review of the litera ture the available evidence
of the effects of PSK in the prevention of metastasis or recurrence
was reviewed(7) . The initial investigations on animals suggested
that the antimetastatic effect of PSK was not only due to immunomodulatory
proper ties, but also associated with such effects such as inhibition
of motility and malig nant progression (e.g. detachment processes
form primary lesion, intravasa tion, migration and re-attachment).
Although several studies were carried out to examine the effects
of PSK as an adjunct to conventional forms of cancer intervention,
none of them had focused specifically on the prevention of metastasis
and recurrence in relation to PSK treatment. However, in one
study, the data set was reanalyzed to investigate the influence
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