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Eight Questions For Your Cancer Doctor!



Here are eight questions to consider when you are discussing cancer treatment options with your doctors.

1. Is it alright if I tape this conversation?
When life and death decisions are at stake, conversations with oncologists and other physicians take on enormous importance. In addition, sometimes these conversations take place when the doctor is very busy. Given the subject, the hurried bedside manner of some physicians, and the emotional intensity for the patient and family, it can be very hard to listen, understand, and ask appropriate questions. Tape recording important conversations with your doctor(s) about treatment options is an excellent way to provide a record so that you can: 1) concentrate on listening; 2) do not have to worry about taking notes; 3) can focus on your questions; 4) can replay and review the conversation in a less stressful environment such as your own home to fully comprehend what the physician communicated.
An added benefit is that recording the conversation can facilitate more time with the doctor. When the oncologist knows the conversation is taped they may actually give you a few extra minutes. Furthermore, it provides an advantage to both you and your doctors if there is ever a question later about what was or was not promised.
Do not secretly tape record anyone. In many jurisdictions this is against the law. You should always obtain permission by telling your doctor(s) that you want a tape recording of the meeting/consultation so that you can review it later or you wish to share the conversation with a family member who could not be present at the meeting. In fact, it is always a good idea to use the first few seconds of the recording to have all the parties acknowledge that the meeting is being recorded with their permission.

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  2. Did you send my pathology (report and slides) to another hospital for a second opinion?
The pathology of your tumor cells tells pathologists whether you actually have cancer and what kind. Having a second look/opinion by another pathologist from another hospital helps ensure that you have been properly diagnosed. There have been unfortunate situations when patients have been treated inappropriately because the wrong kind of cancer was diagnosed. In many hospitals it is standard practice to "send the slides out" for a second opinion. You may want to check to ensure this step was taken in your case and find out who rendered the second opinion and what they concluded.

3. Do you have any financial or research interest in this treatment you are recommending? For example, are you being paid by a drug company when you prescribe these drugs? Do you consult for the drug company that makes these drugs?
Some oncologists have financial arrangements with various drug makers or other financial incentives that could be construed as a conflict of interest. You should find out whether your doctor(s) has any financial or research interest in recommending a certain treatment.

4. How many patients have you treated with my exact same cancer? Same age and same cancer? Which treatments did you use? Are any of the patients still alive? Can I speak with them?
You want to get a good idea of what the oncologist's experience is with the various treatments being recommended. You should find out how many patients (your age with the exact same cancer) they have treated with each therapy. Ask if you can speak to these other patients. Other patients (like you) who have been administered the same therapy by the same oncologist(s) can provide valuable insight into what to expect.

5. Did any patients have side-effects from the treatment? What were they? What was the worse side-effect? Did anyone die from the treatment, not the cancer?
Some patients do not die from their cancer, but die from the treatment. You should ask questions to learn how toxic the therapy is.

6. Are these drugs FDA approved for treating my cancer?
Many cancer drugs are not FDA-approved for the use for which they are prescribed. (This is called "off-label" use.) In fact, some drugs that are widely used for a particular cancer may never have been approved for safety or efficacy for that use by the FDA. It is valuable to know if any of the drugs the oncologist intends to prescribe would be used "off label" and if so, why the oncologist is comfortable with that use.

7. Can you show me where the survival information comes from? Is it reported in the peer-reviewed published medical literature? Can you give me a copy of the article?
Cancer Monthly provides survival information from the medical/scientific literature - journals your doctors should be familiar with. The oncologist should be able to support any survival/prognosis claim they may make with data or published studies that they can share with you. Be wary, if they can not support their claims of a potential cure with medical studies or with examples of other patients they have treated.

8. What is my prognosis with no treatment?
Comparisons are very seldom made between the results of a clinical trial and those patients who received no adjuvant treatment (i.e. no therapy beyond surgery). When survival and quality of life comparisons are made, they are usually made between two or more treatments, not between treatment and no treatment. It is very difficult, therefore, for an oncologist to objectively answer the question how long did the treated patients live and what was their quality of life compared to those who received no adjuvant therapy. Nonetheless, it may be of interest to ask your doctor for a reference/study that discusses this. Be advised that such studies may not be avail

Reversing Celiac Sprue - Degeneration of the Intestinal Villi


Dear Family and Friends:
I must share with you an incredible testimony of healing that has taken place for
Aliki Pishev who was challenged with a "life threatening disease."  May everyone who reads and understands Aliki's pH Miracle bring hope to others who are in fear, pain and suffering with this message of healing light.
In love and light,
Dr. Robert O. Young 

Dear Dr. Young:

It is 7:30am on Mother's Day and I should be staying in bed for the traditional "breakfast in bed."  Instead, I feel compelled to write to you this important message.

Yesterday, I was at Jeff's training which was awesome and one of the questions was, "What does pH Miracle Living mean to you?"  I responded quickly but now that I've had more time to think, I've come up with a more meaningful answer.

When you are given a diagnosis of a "life threatening disease," you find yourself falling into this abyss of darkness.  You feel helpless, alone and powerless.  In September, I was diagnosed with celiac disease.  I was told that people with celiac have a higher chance of developing other conditions, including lymphoma.  When I asked about this potential danger and whether or not I should be worried, the response was, ".........well, if you notice fatigue, weight loss or high fevers, come in right away."  My immediate thought was, if I wait until then, it will be too late.  I decided not to wait and took matters into my own hands.  I took control of my health.

As a clinical psychotherapist I was comfortable with advocating for my patients.  I had considered myself a healer in some ways.  But now I needed healing and I didn't know where or to who to turn to.  It was an all too familiar place.  A few years ago, I had gone through six years of repeated miscarriages (five losses in total).  The sense of loneliness, pain and fear that one goes through during a health crisis can be quite difficult.

That was when my journey began.  Through a long time friend who herself had some health challenges and regained health, I also took the leap of faith.  It was in January that I spoke with you and to be honest, it was the first time that I felt a surge of hope and joy.  It brings tears to my eyes just remembering the intensity of those feelings.  It felt like someone had thrown me a rope that I could finally hold onto. 

I was suffering from all kinds of symptoms: anemia for two years, elevated liver enzymes for three years, frequent headaches and migraines, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, regular painful mouth lesions/canker sores, low energy, inability to run for two years (after always being a runner), exhaustion.

As you suggested, I did the pH Miracle Whole Body cleanse and the complete program.  I've been drinking the greens faithfully since January.  Three weeks ago, my primary care physician called ecstatic saying, "I have never seen such good blood results on you!! Everything is normal!!!".

Today, I feel like a new person!  My whole life has changed!  I can honestly say I feel the healthiest, probably that I have ever felt.  All my nagging symptoms are gone.  I've resumed running since January and now exercise four times a week (for a 42 year old with 3 young children and a busy job, that's pretty good)!  I've had other surprising benefits as well.  I am sleeping naturally for the first time after years of needing medication to help me sleep. I feel calmer and happier.  People have commented on the changes in me.

So, what does the pH Miracle "LIFE" style mean to me?  I can say it with one word: HOPE.  You, through your research and your products, have given me the greatest gift.  My deepest fear has always been that I would not be around to see my children grow up.  Now I have the tools and knowledge to make sure that I have a long, healthy life.  This is the most valuable gift that we can give to our loved ones and to people everywhere.

On this Mother's Day, an appropriate day for this message, I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I know deep in my soul that God sent you to me, at a time that I most needed his help and guidance.  I've seen what miracles you've created for so many other people who have suffered with their health.  Dr. Young, you have changed my life and I will always be eternally grateful to you.

With the greatest respect,

Aliki Pishev

Alkalizing Health Benefits of Celery



 
Celery leaves have high content of vitamin A (a powerful anti-acid), whilst the stems are an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, B6 and C with rich supplies of potassium, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, sodium and plenty essential amino acids.

Alkalizing nutrients in the fiber are released during juicing, aiding bowel movements. The natural organic sodium (salt) in celery is very
safe for consumption, in fact is essential for the body for building the alkalizing compound sodium bicarbonate. Even individuals who are salt-sensitive can safely take the sodium in celery, unlike table salt (iodized sodium) which is harmful for those with high blood pressure and is not alkalizing.

While many foods lose electrical life force energy during cooking, most of the compounds in celery hold up well during cooking, which are the alkalzing minerals like potassium and sodium.

Alkalizing Health Benefits

Celery has always been associated with the lowering of blood pressure. When combined with other alkalizing green juices, it provides different formula that helps other acidic conditions.

Recent studies have shown that celery might also be effective in combating the acids that cause cancer.

Some of the alkalizing health benefits of celery juice:

Acidity: The important minerals in this magical juice effectively balance the body's blood pH, neutralizing acidity.

Athletes: Celery juice acts as the perfect post-workout tonic as it replaces lost electrolytes and rehydrates the body with its rich alkalizing minerals.

Cancer: Celery is known to contain at least eight families of anti-cancer or anti-acid compounds. Among them are the acetylenics that have been shown to stop the growth of tumor cells. Phenolic which block the action of prostaglandins that encourage the growth of tumor cells. And coumarins which help buffers dietary and metabolic acids from damaging cells.

Cholesterol: This humble pale juice has been shown to effectively and significantly lower total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol by lowering dietary and metabolic acids.

Colon and stomach cancer: The phytochemical coumarins prevent the formation and development of the colon and stomach cancers.

Constipation: The natural laxative effect of celery helps to relieve constipation. It also helps relax nerves that have been overworked by man-made laxatives.

Cooling: During dry and hot weather, drink a glass of celery juice two or three times a day, between meals. It wonderfully helps to normalize body temperature by reducing dietary and metabolic acids.

Diuretic: The potassium and sodium in celery juice helps to regulate body fluid and stimulate urine production, making it an important help to rid the body of excess acidic fluid.

Inflammation: The polyacetylene in celery is an amazing relief for all the acids that cause inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, asthma and bronchitis.

Kidney function: Celery promotes healthy and normal kidney function by aiding elimination of acidic toxins from the body. While eliminating acidic toxins, it also prevents formation of kidney stones.

Lower blood pressure: Drinking celery juice every day for a week significantly helps lower blood pressure by lowering dietary and metabolic acids.  A compound called phtalides help relax the muscle around arteries, dilating the vessels and allowing blood to flow normally. To be effective, drink the juice for one week, stop for three weeks, and start over.

Nervous system: The organic alkaline minerals in celery juice has a calming effect on the nervous system, making it a wonderful drink for insomniacs.

Weight loss: Drink celery juice frequently throughout the day. It helps curb your cravings for sweets and rich food.

Urinary stones, breaking of: The diuretic effect of celery juice also aids the breaking and elimination of acidic urinary and gallbladder stones.

You can expect many more healing benefits from celery juice as you consume its natural alkalizing sodium.

The Alkalizing Health Benefits of Lemon Grass

1 ) Anti Cancer or Anti Acid : As citral is present in lemongrass, and also in lemon peel, it has the advantage of transforming Cancerous Cells. A study in 2006 found that no normal cells were harmed, but the malignant cancerous cells committed cell suicide. This is a seriously amazing find and even more so that lemon grass tea health benefits are found by only using one gram of lemongrass in hot water to get the desired effect .
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2 ) Lemon grass helps to support the İmmune System; The fresh herb also contains small amounts of the Anti-Oxidant or Anti Acid vitamins such as vitamin-C and vitamin-A.

3 ) Detox : Lemon grass will help to cleanse the body by Eliminating Toxic Acidic Substances, cleanses other organs of our body from dieatary, environmental and metabolic acids including kidney, pancreas, liver, bladder etc.

4 ) Lemon grass helps to improve Blood Circulation by preventing the build-up of acidic plague

5 ) Lemon grass helps to buffer metabolic, dietary and environmental acids that cause High Blood Pressure

6 ) Lemon grass help to lower Cholesterol levels by lowing dietary and/or metabolic acids

7 ) Lemon grass helps to cope with Cough and Cold caused by dietary and/or metabolic acid

8 ) Lemon grass contains alkaline elements to buffer the acidic wastes from bacteria and yeast

9 ) Lemon grass helps to improve the elimination of acidic wastes in the alimentary canal

10 ) Lemon grass helps to buffer acids from stress

11 ) Lemon grass helps to deal with the acids that cause menstrual problems

12 ) Lemon grass helps to buffer acids that reduces the body to store these acids in body fat

13 ) The leaves and stems of lemon grass are very good in Folic Acid ;
Folates are important in cell division and DNA synthesis. When given during peri-conception period can help prevent neural tube defects in the baby.

14 ) The herb parts of lemon grass are also rich in many valuable essential vitamins such as pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B-6) and thiamin (vitamin B-1). These vitamins are essential in the sense that body requires them from external sources to replenish.

15 ) Lemon grass herb parts, whether fresh or dried, are rich source of alkalizing minerals such as Potassium, Zinc, Calcium, İron, Manganese, Copper, and Magnesium. (Potassium is an alkalizing mineral that is an important component of cell and body fluids, which helps control heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant or anti acid, superoxide dismutase.)

16 ) Lemon grass has proven beneficial in buffering dietary and/or metabolic acids that cause acne and pimples


17)  Lemon grass is found in a 20 to 1 concentration in the pH Miracle Organic Green Powder and the pH Miracle Doc Broc Greens for the purpose of decreasing dietary, environmental and metabolic acids and protecting the alkaline design of the body

Stop Fooling Yourselves

While on a holiday with a few friends of mine,       Part1     Part2   Part3   Part4

I went for shopping at a famous mall, with one of my friends. As I was going through my shopping list, picking up the choicest of fruits and flavored syrups, my friend came across some champagne bottles. She asked jokingly, "Should we try this out?" I shook my head vehemently saying, "Haha ... I don't drink!" However, my friend wasn't going to quit so easily, so she pulled out the bottle and suddenly yelped in excitement, "Hey, it says 'non-alcoholic champagne'; c'mon be a sport!" To which I replied, "Why would I drink it even if it says non-alcoholic? Who am I fooling - The world or myself?" My friend reflected over my response for while and replied, "Hmm ... makes sense!" and placed the champagne bottle back in place.

There might be many occurrences wherein you may fool yourselves, consciously or inadvertently, isn't it? You set the clock forwarding it by fifteen minutes just to be ahead of your time commitment, and each time you look at the clock, you knowingly subtract those fifteen minutes to make out the precise time. You're very well aware that it runs ahead, then who are you fooling?
We spend hours together in the temple pleasing our Lord; we chant our prayers with supreme dedication and perfect diction, and pleased with our effort we leave the temple. However, the minute we are out and some passerby annoys us, every second sentence is garnished with a fury of words; in fact we wouldn't cringe a bit while choosing bad words. If truth be told, uttering the 'four-letter' word is the latest trend, without which you are considered uncool, if you don't use them. Why do we forget that God doesn't reside only in the temple? Hardly any minutes before we offered our prayers with utmost genuineness, thinking that our life will progress... on what grounds are those prayers of any value when you put out of your mind how to live for the rest of day? We are fooling not only ourselves, but our Almighty too!

We live with the conviction that we will be esteemed wherever we set foot, only if we are beautiful with a fair complexion. A little blemish on the skin and teens go into deep depression! Is true beauty only skin-deep? Is there no worth for a person's character or his purity of heart? Beauty may be found skin-deep, but love isn't (skin-deep)! There is much more to love... yet, every time a new product throngs the market; we buy it believing that we would look stunning in few weeks! How is that possible? This, regardless of the fact that we're well aware that exercising, yoga, drinking ample water and maintaining a balanced diet, cutting down on junk, etc., will give us the desired outcome, we still discover the effortless way out, only to fool ourselves all the way through it.

We don't like it when somebody attempts to fool us. And if suppose you fall prey to it, it leaves you devastated, impairs your self-esteem, upsets your composure, and leaves a dent in your mind. Then imagine how many times we are denting our own image by fooling ourselves, doubting ourselves; only and only to seek the uncomplicated way out.

We look ahead to love and respect from humankind, but before that, stop fooling yourselves. We rather ought to have love and respect for ourselves first, than from this world.
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