Of all the appalling things we deal with when it comes to modern medicine, Big Pharma is the worst. The greedy, gluttonous drug industry rakes in multibillion-dollar profits by charging cancer patients as much as six-figures a year for “life-saving” medication that, in fact, offers no confident chance of healing at all.
Recently, a group of 120 leading cancer specialists decided they’d had enough and launched a protest against the greed of Big Pharma, written up in a new paper published in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. I’m more than excited that cancer doctors, of all people, are finally blowing the whistle.
Many patients are required by their insurance providers to pay roughly 20 percent of the total cost of the drug. That quickly adds up to sky-rocketing out-of-pocket payments. Just in the last ten years, average monthly costs for cancer drugs have doubled, up from $5,000 to more than $10,000 per month.
In 2012, 11 out of the 12 new cancer drugs approved by the FDA were priced at well over $100,000 a year. We’re not even talking about miracle drugs here. Only three of the 11 new drugs improved patient survival rates beyond a reasonable doubt. Two of those only boosted survival by two months.
I’m really and truly puzzled that people would pay more than $100,000 for two more months of life, especially two miserable months on chemo. I don’t get it. For this we leave our spouses and children destitute?
BUT NOW YOU HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE, YOU CAN CURE YOUR OWN CANCER!
Some of these patients are just following doctors’ orders, but some are well-informed enough to know what they’re doing — because many oncologists will tell a late-stage patient the ‘official estimate’ of just how much extra time another round of chemo will buy them. Most of the time the answer is “not much.”
And the unofficial estimate is even worse — chemo shortens a life, IT DOES NOT extend it. For the late-stage patient it’s a bust (literally, in terms of their bank account.) Of course, mainstream doctors don’t know the “unofficial” figure — or claim they don’t — but even their “drug-company-provided” estimate that you’ll live two more weeks or two more months or whatever is so absurd, I marvel that patients go for it.
Treating cancer is BIG business in America — in fact, it’s a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.
What’s worse: The powers are suppressing natural cancer cures that could help tens of thousands of people get well and live cancer free with little or no dependence on drugs, surgery and chemotherapy.
The treatment of cancer in the U.S. is one of the most bald-faced cover-ups in medical history. Enough is enough! You deserve to know the truth about the criminality of oncologists and about the dangers of chemotherapy, conventional cancer treatments and the cancer “business.”
Chemotherapy kills more than cancer. Want proof? Did you know that 9 out of 10 oncologists would refuse chemotherapy if they had cancer? That’s up to 91% — a huge percentage that clearly shines a light on the truth: chemotherapy kills. Conventional oncologists are not only allowing this to happen, but they’re also bullying many patients into chemotherapy and surgery right after their diagnoses.
Exposed: Deadly Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse and Kill Patients More Quickly:
http://naturalsociety.com/deadly-cancer-drugs-make-cancer-worse-and-kill-patients-more-quickly/
Please take responsibility for your own health!
How Cannabis Oil Works
Bio Chemist Dennis Hill
First let’s look at what keeps cancer cells alive, then we will come back and examine how the cannabinoids CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) unravels cancer’s aliveness.
In every cell there is a family of interconvertible sphingolipids that specifically manage the life and death of that cell. This profile of factors is called the “Sphingolipid Rheostat.” If endogenous ceramide(a signaling metabolite of sphingosine-1-phosphate) is high, then cell death (apoptosis) is imminent. Ifceramide is low, the cell is strong in its vitality.
Very simply, when THC connects to the CB1 or CB2 cannabinoid receptor site on the cancer cell, it causes an increase in ceramide synthesis which drives cell death. A normal healthy cell does not produce ceramide in the presence of THC, thus is not affected by the cannabinoid.
The cancer cell dies, not because of cytotoxic chemicals, but because of a tiny little shift in the mitochondria. Within most cells there is a cell nucleus, numerous mitochondria (hundreds to thousands), and various other organelles in the cytoplasm. The purpose of the mitochondria is to produce energy (ATP) for cell use. As ceramide starts to accumulate, turning up the Sphingolipid Rheostat, it increases the mitochondrial membrane pore permeability to cytochrome c, a critical protein in energy synthesis. Cytochrome c is pushed out of the mitochondria, killing the source of energy for the cell.
Ceramide also causes genotoxic stress in the cancer cell nucleus generating a protein called p53, whose job it is to disrupt calcium metabolism in the mitochondria. If this weren’t enough, ceramide disrupts the cellular lysosome, the cell’s digestive system that provides nutrients for all cell functions. Ceramide, and other sphingolipids, actively inhibit pro-survival pathways in the cell leaving no possibility at all of cancer cell survival.
The key to this process is the accumulation of ceramide in the system. This means taking therapeutic amounts of CBD and THC, steadily, over a period of time, keeping metabolic pressure on this cancer cell death pathway.
How did this pathway come to be? Why is it that the body can take a simple plant enzyme and use it for profound healing in many different physiological systems? This endocannabinoid system exists in all animal life, just waiting for its matched exocannabinoid activator. This is interesting. Our own endocannabinoid system covers all cells and nerves; it is the messenger of information flowing between our immune system and the central nervous system (CNS). It is responsible for neuroprotection, and micro-manages the immune system. This is the primary control system that maintains homeostasis; our well being.
The Action of Cannabinoids in Cancer Cells:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G_5SpCgfi10
THC kills cancer – Raw Footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xABHbQ-P0d4#!
Dr. Lester Grinspoon discribes his personal experience with medical marijuana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtpxPWjcrw
Cannabis Can Cure Cancer: By Robert Melamede,PhD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734js8ipRZU&feature=player_embedded
Dr. William Courtney Calls Child “A Miracle Baby”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DqHassCMX-0
Raw Cannabis Advantages – by William Courtney, MD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlsBGXNxJYU&feature=player_embedded
Dennis Hill treats his Prostate cancer with cannabis oil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IgtCh7RmfnY
and this one… Part TWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWklpCxg2jc
Scientists Explan: How and Why Cannabis can Cure Cancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=75FQKQOKvVM
Medical Cannabis and Its Impact on Human Health:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Md2WNqqxTQ
Just out of curiosity, how does the work get done at the cellular level, and where does the body make the endocannabinoids? Here we see that endocannabinoids have their origin in nerve cells right at the synapse. When the body is compromised through illness or injury it calls insistently to the endocannabinoid system and directs the immune system to bring healing. If these homeostatic systems are weakened, it should be no surprise that exocannabinoids are therapeutic. It helps the body in the most natural way possible.
To see how this works we visualize the cannabinoid as a three dimensional molecule, where one part of the molecule is configured to fit the nerve or immune cell receptor site just like a key in a lock. There are at least two types of cannabinoid receptor sites, CB1 (CNS) and CB2 (immune). In general CB1 activates the CNS messaging system, and CB2 activates the immune system, but it’s much more complex than this. Both THC and anandamide activate both receptor sites. Other cannabinoids activate one or the other receptor sites. Among the strains of Cannabis, C. sativa tends toward the CB1 receptor, and C. indica tends toward CB2. So sativa is more neuroactive, and indica is more immunoactive. Another factor here is that sativa is dominated by THC cannabinoids, and indica is predominately CBD (cannabidiol).
It is known that THC and CBD are biomimetic to anandamide, that is, the body can use both interchangeably. Thus, when stress, injury, or illness demand more from endogenous anandamide than can be produced by the body, its mimetic exocannabinoids are activated. If the stress is transitory, then the treatment can be transitory. If the demand is sustained, such as in cancer, then treatment needs to provide sustained pressure of the modulating agent on the homeostatic systems.
Typically CBD gravitates to the densely packed CB2 receptors in the spleen, home to the body’s immune system. From there, immune cells seek out and destroy cancer cells. Interestingly, it has been shown that THC and CBD cannabinoids have the ability to kill cancer cells directly without going through immune intermediaries. THC and CBD hijack the lipoxygenase pathway to directly inhibit tumor growth. As a side note, it has been discovered that CBD inhibits anandamide reuptake. Here we see that cannabidiol helps the body preserve its own natural endocannabinoid by inhibiting the enzyme that breaks down anandamide.
This brief survey touches lightly on a few essential concepts. Mostly I would like to leave you with an appreciation that nature has designed the perfect medicine that fits exactly with our own immune system of receptors and signaling metabolites to provide rapid and complete immune response for systemic integrity and metabolic homeostasis.
-Dennis Hill
- See more at: http://www.cureyourowncancer.org/how-cannabis-oil-works.html#sthash.2iUfY7Bm.dpuf