I eat zero fiber. Fiber ruined my intestines and colon. I was a bloody mess.
Once I removed the fiber my gut was able to heal.
Doctors kept upping the fiber and I kept getting worse and worse. We kept doing the same thing over and over. Suppositories, laxatives, fiber. I no longer do any of this and I fired my doctor I was so pissed.
I’m almost a year fiber free and I no longer suffer from IBD and bloody BM’s. It’s a damn miracle and the doctor will tell is anecdotal, not worth noticing.
Any chemical compound with the same ingredients can be good or bad, depending on the molecular/crystal structure. I also use Epsom salt in my bath, which seems to help with muscle/joint pain, but "Himalayan" salt never did anything, except it tastes sour like lab-made salt, which it probably most of the time is.
Anything produced by pharmaceuticals is most likely bad, but we are on borrowed time, anyway. In fact, I'm certain that most miracle cures have been calculated to interact with other variables, so we are royally screwed, no matter what:
Since 2017, pigs have been injected the same poisons are the convid injections contained. Poultry has also been either exterminated b/o the invented "bird flu" or have been injected... Not sure about lambs, but my wife can cook miracles with lamb. :)
Yes, it’s interesting how conditions usually worsen when various expensive “solutions” come into play. In the case of prebiotics, more bloat and intestinal discomfort… plus the side effects (EFFECTS) of drugs seem to exacerbate and prolong the condition.
Metamucil. They even prescribed it. Wrote a prescription.
Also, Psyllium husk, flax seed.
Always more fiber. My problems would be solved with more fiber.
Once you learn fiber is a bulking agent and it stretches and irritates the colon, you’ll understand how it affects IBD and the eventual long term damage.
I, however, got healthier from psyllium seed powder; with cascara sagrada.It lessons the IBD. Before that I had to take milk of magnesia or tons of magnesium citrate every week
Sometimes fiber helps. For thirty years I had periodic attacks of agonizing IBS. I mean, pain so bad I thought I was going to die, but sort of wished I would. I increased my fiber intake with a couple of teaspoons of Metamucil and some Wasa crackers daily, and haven't had a bad IBS attack for over a decade.
Here are my big red flags with most of these tests. The results are usually predicated on some established standards (or numbers) that may or may not be true. Meaning there is NO one-size-fits-all in testing or interpretation. Many times your body is in a state of flux where it is readjusting itself and some "numbers" may temporarily higher or lower.
It is exactly like blood pressure...you never have one blood pressure. It can be all over the map over a few days or weeks. That is natural as your body adjusts blood pressure according to its needs.
They raise or lower the standards (numbers) to get the most people possible outside the ranges. There is NO real science behind most of it. Then if they see something "they" say is amiss, then they want to do more tests...to be sure.
Whatever test or examination it is, it is not healthy to invade the body. Whatever procedure or operation they do is not conductive to natural health. Yes, there may be some things required to keep you alive, but at what long term cost? The body is the healer, not the drugs and doctors.
In the end, for any test you ascribe to, you are assuming that the medical mafia has the cure if things don't look right. That is a big fat monstrous assumption that is rarely true. Most of what they want you to believe to be cures, are for profit only...theirs, not yours.
i've suspected that about BP for awhile, thanks for pointing it out. Most don't realize this and listen to Dr Quack and start taking BP meds.........over time they become zombies. They have no "get up and go" anymore because the BP meds have quelled the body's natural systems. Plus the MIC (med. indust.complex) scares the hell out of patients that if they don't take the BP meds, they risk a stroke or heart attack! BAM! Dr Quack scores another patient who will be on BP meds forever. Even Dr Quack believes his own lies and probably takes the same meds himself. When was the last time you met an exciting, energized doctor?
1988 is when he retired. He told me to stop eating cheddar cheese, which helped a lot. He diagnosed me with weak muscles. Then in 2007 ,(when I had no income) I had a wonderful, enthusiastic, doctor at the clinic who finally gave me blood tests for dozens of foods to discover my food allergies. That is a main reason I have lived longer than my grandparents did.
Indeed. In measured my blood pressure one day and it was in the hypertension category. Started doing a dry fast and by midday the next day (so basically going without breakfast) it was into the normal category.
Outstanding article, alerting people who have not known about such details. In my last 13 years of working with "doctors," I noticed that about 9 out of 10 "patients" (aka. victims) refuse the procedure despite the sometimes notable financial kickbacks they are offered. Many MDs are also aware of the danger, so they tend to offer a "poop test" that only checks for blood in the stool.
Inflammation, just like fever, can be part of the body's self-healing, so lowering it might do more harm than good, just like steroids.
High-fiber diet is not for everyone. For one, I am a white-rice person, and I am confident that white rice also aids the body's detox process.
Also, I believe in generational immune memory, meaning that what your ancestors ate is probably the best for you (sadly, barely, if at all, available). Introducing new dietary sources can also complicate things.
There is a huge amount of over-diagnosis. Studies show they don't typically catch the fast growing deadly cancers, and instead catch slow growing cancers which would never be a problem. Plus the years of radiation causes a lot of cancer.
Yep, I can relate. I do a Chinese medicine breast massage daily in the shower, with soapy hands, going gently around in a circle for 50 to 70 times, outward. It seems to help make my breasts feel better.
Looking for this disease using colonoscopy in people without known symptoms has no credible scientific support. Despite this, we spend billions of dollars on it every year. The risks include bleeding, colonic puncture, and an occasional death.
In private, gastroenterologists refer to colonoscopy as “extracting a $1000 bill from the bowel.” Wide variations in regional frequency of colon scoping are evidence of overuse. There are standard recommended intervals for repeating the procedure, but some doctors tell their patients to come back for another look more frequently.
In 2018, the American Cancer Society (ACS) reduced the age recommendation for screening colonoscopies from 50 to 45 years old, bringing in millions of extra patients. Most other countries have better control over their physicians. Standard guidelines abroad are to do a colonoscopy only if there is pain, blood in the stool, or other clinical finding.
“Polyp snaring” is the removal of nipple-like fleshy lumps sticking out of the inside of the bowel using wire loops. Since these can sometimes be precancerous, taking them out could theoretically decrease the chances of invasive cancer developing later. The money made from turning this trick is often half a gastroenterologist’s income. But with it comes temptations. An anonymous GI lab nurse working in a respected Los Angeles hospital told me:
About half the docs here are crooks. With every single colonoscopy, they suck a little piece of normal bowel wall into the scope, snip off the healthy tissue, and send it to the lab. They call it a polyp and bill thousands. Since the pathologists get paid just to look at the specimen, they always say the tissue is “non-specific dysplasia” instead of normal. This qualifies as a polyp, at least for billing. These GIs are one-trick ponies when it comes to making money. Colon scoping and polypectomy is all they have besides the occasional ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography), which is a lot harder and more dangerous for the patient.
We now have Cologuard, a $600 Medicare-reimbursed stool test for colon cancer. This pricing is typical—it is as high as the company can get away with. Compared with colonoscopy, which costs over $2000 and has risks, this almost seems reasonable. Cologuard supposedly detects 92 percent of colon cancers and 42 percent of advanced polyps with every use. The gastroenterologist does a colonoscopy if the test is positive. If they find anything, surgery or endoscopic removal is done.
I've read elsewhere that Cologuard admits that on up to 50% of its positive screens, no cancer is found on colonoscopy. So, this is a 50% false positive rate.
This doesn't make for a very specific screening test. Sounds like a test that's great for the patient if negative, and great for the doctor and his wallet if positive.
And if they're looking for DNA, they're probably using PCR. And we all have learned how unreliable *that* can be.
The old fashioned hemoccult was lots cheaper and easier to repeat to evaluate for false positive, it seems.
They just recruit gullible guinea pigs to make some dough. They generate as many positive tests as they have room in their "treatment" pipeline, and overbook slightly as well. Just like airlines. Except you fly to the afterworld.
What is "precancerous"? As well, how does that agree with the metabolic nature of cancer? Also, how do cancerous cells in the colon respond the fenbendazole protocol? Any idea?
Precancerous is a misnomer and used for shroud waving. A polyp is benign or malignant and claiming to be able to forecast that it is going to be cancerous is not based on evidence. There are polyps that have a greater risk of cancerous change based on size, location and microscopic details.
Each year, approximately 52,000 individuals die from colon cancer in the US. According to the most recent data available up to 2023, approximately 80-85% of colorectal cancer cases are detected through directly through routine screening colonoscopies, rather than being diagnosed incidentally or during an evaluation for symptoms.
Zauber, A. G., et al. "Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention." Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 111, no. 4, 2019, pp. 817-824.
Baxter, N. N., et al. "Colonoscopy and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the United States." Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 36, no.15, 2018, pp. 1577-1585.
Lin, J. S., et al. "Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 164, no. 12, 2016, pp. 857-865.
Unfortunately we cannot BELIEVE in the stats we are told nor can we trust the journals and other literature since most have been caught lying and fabricating their information in the past 5 years. Even gov't data sites are now umtrustworthy. The medical industry has gotten itself caught up in a "bonus for injection" plan, including hospitals that I suspect many Americans no longer trust the industry. Some of us will have to go it alone if and when we become "ill" with something and see if natural methods might not work better. We just cannot trust the legitimacy of our once REVERED medical folks, they've been caught cheating!
“Most” is something you cannot demonstrate, and that is a fact. If this is a hill worth risking the tremendous suffering I have seen my family members and my patients needlessly experience over similar unprovable beliefs, I will not debate you. “Dark nights of the soul,” brought about by cancer based in regret are infinitely darker than those brought about by lack of access to simple, accessible preventative measures. Are there deceptive journals & practitioners out there? Most certainly. Are they worth foregoing simple, proven screening measures for colon cancer that may mean the detection of an adenoma at a very early stage? Not in my mind. In any case, I can assure you that, personally, I have never accepted as much as a pen or a calendar from “big pharma” - I’m a forensic psychiatrist by training - and I’ve tried to be as transparent as possible. I wish you the best.
It does not necessarily mean that it is too late for effective treatment, but rather would indicate that cancer has advanced to a more extensive level. This could mean it has progressed beyond early, localized stages. This can limit the treatment options, as some early-stage interventions like minimally invasive surgery may no longer be feasible. It would have a worse prognosis in general, as colorectal cancers detected at a more advanced, symptomatic stage have a poorer prognosis and lower 5-year survival rates compared to those caught early through screening before symptoms appear. Symptomatic colorectal cancer frequently requires a combination of treatments, such as surgery plus chemotherapy and/or radiation, to have the best chance of controlling the disease.
This citation discusses the reduced treatment options:
Tekelab, T., Smith, C., Tekelab, A., Vos, T., & Bell, K. J. (2020). Factors associated with the stage at diagnosis of colorectal cancer: a systematic review. European Journal of Cancer Care, 29(2), e13238.
This citation discusses a worse prognosis:
sai, H. L., Chu, K. S., Huang, Y. H., Su, Y. C., Wu, J. Y., Kuo, C. H., ... & Wang, J. Y. (2016). Predictive risk factors for stage III colorectal cancer patients after curative resection. BMC gastroenterology, 16(1), 1-9.
This citation discuses the need for multi-modal therapy:
Sargent, D. J., Goldberg, R. M., Jacobson, S. D., Macdonald, J. S., Labianca, R., Haller, D. G., ... & Francini, G. (2001). A pooled analysis of adjuvant chemotherapy for resected colon cancer in elderly patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 345(15), 1091-1097.
And this citation discusses treatment complexity:
Liang, P. S., Chen, T. Y., & Giovannucci, E. (2017). Cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. International journal of cancer, 140(10), 2368-2378.
Chelation, for me, was a game changer. An instant read barometer telling you what you put in your body. Try eating junk food after being chelated. Your clean body will slap the snot out of you and explode in ways that you cannot leave the house. All kinds of distress. I was like, "Oh shit, what did I just eat?" Then I wrote it down. Can't eat that anymore. I found out that all boxed and frozen quick foods were an absolute no-go.
Then there was the vitamin D. 20,000 mg a day. I've heard all the opinions that VitD is rat poison but, for me, the proof of it's efficacy has been nothing short of a miracle. How can an anti-cancer vitamin be rat poison? Don't know. Not interested. I haven't been sick in 10 years.
Screening, testing, exams, doctor visits do not exist in my life. Discovering sites like this have validated my long held gut instinct beliefs that something is horribly wrong with our medical system and I do not want to be a party to it. That decision has served me well.
I had my first colonoscopy last May. It was horrible. Aside from the annoying and uncomfortable pre-prep, I immediately came down with some type of lung infection right after. It may have been a reaction to the anesthesia, Idk, but I hated the entire experience and will not be doing one again ( the doctor recommended another in 3 years. Nope). I’ll just eat healthy with lots of fiber and do an annual FIT test.
Great read! Thank you for this excellent summary of the "Scope Scams." Might I suggest a review of another possible scam? I say possible because I just don't know the numbers around coronary calcium scores. It seems to me that these scores are an excuse to start potent cholesterol lowering drugs - sometimes in people > 65 years of age - and we don't know if low lipid levels "dissolve" what appears to be a repair mechanism from the crap we are fed lifelong.
I hear you. I refuse to take statins. And it seems every year they lower the limits, forcing more people to take them. My doctor suggested I take red rice yeast, so I began adding that to my regimen.
Hi Marion. Glad your physician is open to other options. Curious, did her provide any papers about red rice yeast and cholesterol? I'd like to review it. Be well and thanks! Nisha
Actually she had read several studies, but told me I could read about it myself. I told her that was fine since I often do my own investigative research for supplements etc. I'm having my blood retested in Oct to reveal any differences.
A couple decades ago, before I reached the age where I’d be recommended to get a colonoscopy, I read a blog by a person who had a perforated colon due to this procedure. It was horrific and ruined his life. I vowed never to get one for “just in case” screening.
There are cases of people eating a single peanut and dying. …. The experience of one individual has no predictive value for another. No doubt there are terrible docs. There are terrible plumbers and electricians. But no matter the case the worst thing is the “If only I had just ….” feeling that wanders through your brain on your way to palliative care.
Reading this brought up pain & made my head explode. 70 yrs old, last yr perforation during colonoscopy, took 20 days to realize since i aspirated during. Miracle of it all was 2 wk course anti-b's for lungs Saved my life. 2 surgeries, ostomy and thankfully a reversal. Never again I said. Nearly killed me. My Dad had colon cancer so I let my paranoia rule. Start with Cologuard. Trust me the risk may not equal any benefit.
After a lifetime of gut issues, a clue came from my brother whose son is celiac. Gluten? Could it be wheat all this time? I LOVE bread and its in SO many food products. just accepted the gut chaos as normal. After test - its wheat so I went GF for real..... Eczema GONE within months. I mean all over body rashes gone. That alone makes me cry in relief - it was bad. Gut chaos is over. Then I asked "why didn't any of my multiple gastro docs ever test for it?" Diagnoses I did get: Colitis, IBS, IBD, blah blah. Meds and no relief really.
Grateful. I'm grateful every day I figured it out. 💩
I wasn't tested for food allergies until I had no money and got a volunteer doctor. Allergies to wheat rye barley and oats and rice!! I promptly learned to cook from scratch.
Excellent piece. To destroy the body's flora with needless antibiotics - common procedure in my part of Australia - is bad enough. But these colonoscopies! What do they recommend after? A few spoons of yogurt? Pickle juice?
As well as the med cartel there's a new potential danger to my bowels.
I've noted lately how sectors of the keto movement are starting to attack my legumes, fruit and veg. Phyto is the new cholesterol. Surely the way to enjoy and to benefit from meat, fat and fish is to go with appetite and match it all up with plants. Diarrhea and constipation are strangers to me, and I doubt that the harm of junk or fad diet stops there. Maybe the keto extremists know what they're on about, but I'll let others go first.
Anyway, I thank you, and my zillions of good bugs thank you.
It comes down to the individual. Sounds like your diet is working for you and you should stick with it. But there are people who cannot tolerate plant foods AT ALL, and for them the carnivore diet works miracles. You can disparage them as extremists, but sometimes extreme measures are necessary.
I've been hearing plenty on the subject of lectins and other antinutrients, so I'm more skeptical than uninformed on the subject. As said above, the phyto thing is starting to resemble the cholesterol thing of a few decades back. I was wary then, I'm wary now.
I'm a soaker. Living in the bush, I'm always long-soaking legumes, slow-rising freshly milled wheat etc. I can certainly see how a poor understanding of the preparation of grains and legumes can lead to trouble. Vegetables as punishment is another hazard. If I'm not relishing it, I'm not eating it. Better some eggs fried in yesterday's bacon grease than a boiled organic choko in white sauce. Actually, a poke in the eye is better than that.
My general point is that the new keto is starting to resemble vegetable punishment of yore. Complete with technical verbiage and medical terror!
Craig, one problem I have with keto now is that it often consists of food which is monotonous and expensive. In my youth I handled the buying and much of the prep of such cheap items as lamb brains, sweetbreads, pork head, kidneys, livers, tripe, chicken innards, fresh sprats, hard pork back-fat (for terrines) etc. Many keto people seem to miss the spirit of true carnivorous eating and remind me of difficult and picky eaters with a new fad. Not all, of course!
While I'm something of an evolution skeptic I really like the old yarn about humans and canines rifling carcasses left by larger predators and scoring all the marrow, brain etc by using rocks to get through bone. So we and the dogs got smarter through cholesterol! (Silly yarn, but it appeals to me.)
I was told that my last colonoscopy was “very difficult) . I am. 74 yr woman and the prep is harder to tolerate each time. I have POP which causes the lg intestine to sag where it doesn’t belong
. After reading this I believe I will decline another scope as I certainly don’t need a perforation. All my polyps have been benign and wouldn’t you know they find one every time. Glad I came across this article.
It's even worse. In the targeted community, everyone that has had a colonoscopy reports having being illegally implanted with an invasive device. The get paid for it.
I eat zero fiber. Fiber ruined my intestines and colon. I was a bloody mess.
Once I removed the fiber my gut was able to heal.
Doctors kept upping the fiber and I kept getting worse and worse. We kept doing the same thing over and over. Suppositories, laxatives, fiber. I no longer do any of this and I fired my doctor I was so pissed.
https://www.gutsense.org/fiber-menace/about-fiber-menace-book.html
I’m almost a year fiber free and I no longer suffer from IBD and bloody BM’s. It’s a damn miracle and the doctor will tell is anecdotal, not worth noticing.
I declined a colonoscopy. Just not going there.
May I also suggest that pre- and probiotics, produced by the mass murderers, are also part of the depop agenda?
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/prebiotics-and-probiotics-as-parts
I don’t do any pre- and probiotics. I figured it was probably a scam. I also do not take vitamin supplements anymore.
I do add sea salt, magnesium powder, and potassium powder to my water. I also add collagen peptides to my coffee a few times a week.
My diet consists of Beef, Lamb, Bacon, Eggs, and grass fed butter. Raw milk. That’s about it.
It gives me peace of mind. I know where my food comes from and I no longer have to read labels and count calories. Clean eating.
The body is amazing. It can heal itself when you take all the poisons out.
Thank you for sharing. I do not have your intestine problems - that I know of!!
I remember years ago having a chat to a stranger about drinking low fat milk.
This stranger more or less said, why would you drink something that the body cannot digest?
I questioned this and the repeated something like: the body is designed to digest things with no modifications and low-fat anything is modified.
I don't drink low-fat and I don't drink Raw Milk but I do drink BioDynamic milk or milk with fat in it. Same with Butter.
I love sea salt. My doctor has never commented on the 'salt level' and I find that very strange to start off with. But I would still eat salt.
Any chemical compound with the same ingredients can be good or bad, depending on the molecular/crystal structure. I also use Epsom salt in my bath, which seems to help with muscle/joint pain, but "Himalayan" salt never did anything, except it tastes sour like lab-made salt, which it probably most of the time is.
Anything produced by pharmaceuticals is most likely bad, but we are on borrowed time, anyway. In fact, I'm certain that most miracle cures have been calculated to interact with other variables, so we are royally screwed, no matter what:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-do-the-fake-cures-accomplish
Since 2017, pigs have been injected the same poisons are the convid injections contained. Poultry has also been either exterminated b/o the invented "bird flu" or have been injected... Not sure about lambs, but my wife can cook miracles with lamb. :)
I take epson salt bathes. I don’t use the Himalayan sea salt. I order my salt from the sea of Cortez out Mexico. Sometimes I buy the redmen sea salt.
I just try an eat as clean as possible.
Whatever I’m doing is certainly an improvement over the SAD.
I now use magnesium oil on my legs and sometimes I put DMSO on my legs to push it through.
You can also buy magnesium lotion, but most are contaminated with other unnecessary ingredients.
We use Redmond rock salt. Allegedly, it's harmful, but who knows...
As for DMSO, I hope, you know what you are doing:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/why-is-dmso-being-popularized
Mg can also be dangerous depending on its crystal/molecular structure.
It is my understanding that sea salt is better because it has been blessed by the Sun that shines on it!!!
Interesting information you gave, thank you.
This is the salt I’ve been using. I love the flavor.
https://a.co/d/05we3IRO
I wonder if thats because most fiber rich foods are glysophate rich as well
Interesting thought, Rebecca.
That reminds me of Mercola or someone like him recommending oatmeal for detox... Even organic oatmeal is toxic...
Omg! I hate oatmeal. My mom would make us eat cereal. It was fortified. I complained all the time. I wanted eggs and bacon.
One day she came home and threw a box of instant oatmeal on the counter and said, “there your hot breakfast. This was circa 1970
I was heartbroken. It was either cold cereal, or instant oatmeal. lol
I have not had oatmeal since I left my mom’s house.
Yes, it’s interesting how conditions usually worsen when various expensive “solutions” come into play. In the case of prebiotics, more bloat and intestinal discomfort… plus the side effects (EFFECTS) of drugs seem to exacerbate and prolong the condition.
I also do much better without a lot of grain fiber. I do eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which give me fiber and that isn't a problem.
Grains are very problematic for a lot of people, and has gotten worse since all the spraying and hybridization make them even harder to tolerate.
It's anecdotal? This anecdote is all you need.
What kind of "fiber" did they push on you?
Metamucil. They even prescribed it. Wrote a prescription.
Also, Psyllium husk, flax seed.
Always more fiber. My problems would be solved with more fiber.
Once you learn fiber is a bulking agent and it stretches and irritates the colon, you’ll understand how it affects IBD and the eventual long term damage.
I, however, got healthier from psyllium seed powder; with cascara sagrada.It lessons the IBD. Before that I had to take milk of magnesia or tons of magnesium citrate every week
Sometimes fiber helps. For thirty years I had periodic attacks of agonizing IBS. I mean, pain so bad I thought I was going to die, but sort of wished I would. I increased my fiber intake with a couple of teaspoons of Metamucil and some Wasa crackers daily, and haven't had a bad IBS attack for over a decade.
That’s good. And I’m so happy that works you.
Here are my big red flags with most of these tests. The results are usually predicated on some established standards (or numbers) that may or may not be true. Meaning there is NO one-size-fits-all in testing or interpretation. Many times your body is in a state of flux where it is readjusting itself and some "numbers" may temporarily higher or lower.
It is exactly like blood pressure...you never have one blood pressure. It can be all over the map over a few days or weeks. That is natural as your body adjusts blood pressure according to its needs.
They raise or lower the standards (numbers) to get the most people possible outside the ranges. There is NO real science behind most of it. Then if they see something "they" say is amiss, then they want to do more tests...to be sure.
Whatever test or examination it is, it is not healthy to invade the body. Whatever procedure or operation they do is not conductive to natural health. Yes, there may be some things required to keep you alive, but at what long term cost? The body is the healer, not the drugs and doctors.
In the end, for any test you ascribe to, you are assuming that the medical mafia has the cure if things don't look right. That is a big fat monstrous assumption that is rarely true. Most of what they want you to believe to be cures, are for profit only...theirs, not yours.
i've suspected that about BP for awhile, thanks for pointing it out. Most don't realize this and listen to Dr Quack and start taking BP meds.........over time they become zombies. They have no "get up and go" anymore because the BP meds have quelled the body's natural systems. Plus the MIC (med. indust.complex) scares the hell out of patients that if they don't take the BP meds, they risk a stroke or heart attack! BAM! Dr Quack scores another patient who will be on BP meds forever. Even Dr Quack believes his own lies and probably takes the same meds himself. When was the last time you met an exciting, energized doctor?
"When was the last time you met an exciting, energized doctor?"
Ah, good question!
1988 is when he retired. He told me to stop eating cheddar cheese, which helped a lot. He diagnosed me with weak muscles. Then in 2007 ,(when I had no income) I had a wonderful, enthusiastic, doctor at the clinic who finally gave me blood tests for dozens of foods to discover my food allergies. That is a main reason I have lived longer than my grandparents did.
"In the end, for any test you ascribe to, you are assuming that the medical mafia has the cure if things don't look right."
I agree. It makes me sad to see people bragging about getting baseline numbers, then yearly testing, and encouraging others to do the same.
Indeed. In measured my blood pressure one day and it was in the hypertension category. Started doing a dry fast and by midday the next day (so basically going without breakfast) it was into the normal category.
Outstanding article, alerting people who have not known about such details. In my last 13 years of working with "doctors," I noticed that about 9 out of 10 "patients" (aka. victims) refuse the procedure despite the sometimes notable financial kickbacks they are offered. Many MDs are also aware of the danger, so they tend to offer a "poop test" that only checks for blood in the stool.
The "great prostrate hoax" is another such trick:
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-great-prostate-hoax
May I assume that most readers here are already familiar with the breast cancer ploy?
Either way, invented illnesses with real symptoms abound, here are some favorites:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/so-what-is-scurvy-and-why-vitamin
Inflammation, just like fever, can be part of the body's self-healing, so lowering it might do more harm than good, just like steroids.
High-fiber diet is not for everyone. For one, I am a white-rice person, and I am confident that white rice also aids the body's detox process.
Also, I believe in generational immune memory, meaning that what your ancestors ate is probably the best for you (sadly, barely, if at all, available). Introducing new dietary sources can also complicate things.
Please share your data on Brest cancer/mammograms etc
There is a huge amount of over-diagnosis. Studies show they don't typically catch the fast growing deadly cancers, and instead catch slow growing cancers which would never be a problem. Plus the years of radiation causes a lot of cancer.
They "treat," but I don't think they cure.
Chemo is even worse. My estimate is that it would kill 49 out of 50 healthy people, too...
"Cancer survivors" probably never had cancer...
I refused a mammo as well. Had one, hated it long ago, did not return.
I also had a mammogram only once. They found a one inch "lump" but I refused the biopsy (17 years ago)
Yep, I can relate. I do a Chinese medicine breast massage daily in the shower, with soapy hands, going gently around in a circle for 50 to 70 times, outward. It seems to help make my breasts feel better.
It's in my links in my latest post:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/colonoscopy-as-another-invasive-process
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COLON CANCER
Looking for this disease using colonoscopy in people without known symptoms has no credible scientific support. Despite this, we spend billions of dollars on it every year. The risks include bleeding, colonic puncture, and an occasional death.
In private, gastroenterologists refer to colonoscopy as “extracting a $1000 bill from the bowel.” Wide variations in regional frequency of colon scoping are evidence of overuse. There are standard recommended intervals for repeating the procedure, but some doctors tell their patients to come back for another look more frequently.
In 2018, the American Cancer Society (ACS) reduced the age recommendation for screening colonoscopies from 50 to 45 years old, bringing in millions of extra patients. Most other countries have better control over their physicians. Standard guidelines abroad are to do a colonoscopy only if there is pain, blood in the stool, or other clinical finding.
“Polyp snaring” is the removal of nipple-like fleshy lumps sticking out of the inside of the bowel using wire loops. Since these can sometimes be precancerous, taking them out could theoretically decrease the chances of invasive cancer developing later. The money made from turning this trick is often half a gastroenterologist’s income. But with it comes temptations. An anonymous GI lab nurse working in a respected Los Angeles hospital told me:
About half the docs here are crooks. With every single colonoscopy, they suck a little piece of normal bowel wall into the scope, snip off the healthy tissue, and send it to the lab. They call it a polyp and bill thousands. Since the pathologists get paid just to look at the specimen, they always say the tissue is “non-specific dysplasia” instead of normal. This qualifies as a polyp, at least for billing. These GIs are one-trick ponies when it comes to making money. Colon scoping and polypectomy is all they have besides the occasional ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography), which is a lot harder and more dangerous for the patient.
We now have Cologuard, a $600 Medicare-reimbursed stool test for colon cancer. This pricing is typical—it is as high as the company can get away with. Compared with colonoscopy, which costs over $2000 and has risks, this almost seems reasonable. Cologuard supposedly detects 92 percent of colon cancers and 42 percent of advanced polyps with every use. The gastroenterologist does a colonoscopy if the test is positive. If they find anything, surgery or endoscopic removal is done.
I've read elsewhere that Cologuard admits that on up to 50% of its positive screens, no cancer is found on colonoscopy. So, this is a 50% false positive rate.
This doesn't make for a very specific screening test. Sounds like a test that's great for the patient if negative, and great for the doctor and his wallet if positive.
And if they're looking for DNA, they're probably using PCR. And we all have learned how unreliable *that* can be.
The old fashioned hemoccult was lots cheaper and easier to repeat to evaluate for false positive, it seems.
They just recruit gullible guinea pigs to make some dough. They generate as many positive tests as they have room in their "treatment" pipeline, and overbook slightly as well. Just like airlines. Except you fly to the afterworld.
What is "precancerous"? As well, how does that agree with the metabolic nature of cancer? Also, how do cancerous cells in the colon respond the fenbendazole protocol? Any idea?
Precancerous is a misnomer and used for shroud waving. A polyp is benign or malignant and claiming to be able to forecast that it is going to be cancerous is not based on evidence. There are polyps that have a greater risk of cancerous change based on size, location and microscopic details.
FASCINATING INFO.
Each year, approximately 52,000 individuals die from colon cancer in the US. According to the most recent data available up to 2023, approximately 80-85% of colorectal cancer cases are detected through directly through routine screening colonoscopies, rather than being diagnosed incidentally or during an evaluation for symptoms.
Zauber, A. G., et al. "Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention." Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 111, no. 4, 2019, pp. 817-824.
Baxter, N. N., et al. "Colonoscopy and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the United States." Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 36, no.15, 2018, pp. 1577-1585.
Lin, J. S., et al. "Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 164, no. 12, 2016, pp. 857-865.
Unfortunately we cannot BELIEVE in the stats we are told nor can we trust the journals and other literature since most have been caught lying and fabricating their information in the past 5 years. Even gov't data sites are now umtrustworthy. The medical industry has gotten itself caught up in a "bonus for injection" plan, including hospitals that I suspect many Americans no longer trust the industry. Some of us will have to go it alone if and when we become "ill" with something and see if natural methods might not work better. We just cannot trust the legitimacy of our once REVERED medical folks, they've been caught cheating!
“Most” is something you cannot demonstrate, and that is a fact. If this is a hill worth risking the tremendous suffering I have seen my family members and my patients needlessly experience over similar unprovable beliefs, I will not debate you. “Dark nights of the soul,” brought about by cancer based in regret are infinitely darker than those brought about by lack of access to simple, accessible preventative measures. Are there deceptive journals & practitioners out there? Most certainly. Are they worth foregoing simple, proven screening measures for colon cancer that may mean the detection of an adenoma at a very early stage? Not in my mind. In any case, I can assure you that, personally, I have never accepted as much as a pen or a calendar from “big pharma” - I’m a forensic psychiatrist by training - and I’ve tried to be as transparent as possible. I wish you the best.
I'd think that by the time you actually start showing symptoms it's probably too late for effective treatment.
It does not necessarily mean that it is too late for effective treatment, but rather would indicate that cancer has advanced to a more extensive level. This could mean it has progressed beyond early, localized stages. This can limit the treatment options, as some early-stage interventions like minimally invasive surgery may no longer be feasible. It would have a worse prognosis in general, as colorectal cancers detected at a more advanced, symptomatic stage have a poorer prognosis and lower 5-year survival rates compared to those caught early through screening before symptoms appear. Symptomatic colorectal cancer frequently requires a combination of treatments, such as surgery plus chemotherapy and/or radiation, to have the best chance of controlling the disease.
This citation discusses the reduced treatment options:
Tekelab, T., Smith, C., Tekelab, A., Vos, T., & Bell, K. J. (2020). Factors associated with the stage at diagnosis of colorectal cancer: a systematic review. European Journal of Cancer Care, 29(2), e13238.
This citation discusses a worse prognosis:
sai, H. L., Chu, K. S., Huang, Y. H., Su, Y. C., Wu, J. Y., Kuo, C. H., ... & Wang, J. Y. (2016). Predictive risk factors for stage III colorectal cancer patients after curative resection. BMC gastroenterology, 16(1), 1-9.
This citation discuses the need for multi-modal therapy:
Sargent, D. J., Goldberg, R. M., Jacobson, S. D., Macdonald, J. S., Labianca, R., Haller, D. G., ... & Francini, G. (2001). A pooled analysis of adjuvant chemotherapy for resected colon cancer in elderly patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 345(15), 1091-1097.
And this citation discusses treatment complexity:
Liang, P. S., Chen, T. Y., & Giovannucci, E. (2017). Cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. International journal of cancer, 140(10), 2368-2378.
Chemo does not increase longevity.
Chelation, for me, was a game changer. An instant read barometer telling you what you put in your body. Try eating junk food after being chelated. Your clean body will slap the snot out of you and explode in ways that you cannot leave the house. All kinds of distress. I was like, "Oh shit, what did I just eat?" Then I wrote it down. Can't eat that anymore. I found out that all boxed and frozen quick foods were an absolute no-go.
Then there was the vitamin D. 20,000 mg a day. I've heard all the opinions that VitD is rat poison but, for me, the proof of it's efficacy has been nothing short of a miracle. How can an anti-cancer vitamin be rat poison? Don't know. Not interested. I haven't been sick in 10 years.
Screening, testing, exams, doctor visits do not exist in my life. Discovering sites like this have validated my long held gut instinct beliefs that something is horribly wrong with our medical system and I do not want to be a party to it. That decision has served me well.
I had my first colonoscopy last May. It was horrible. Aside from the annoying and uncomfortable pre-prep, I immediately came down with some type of lung infection right after. It may have been a reaction to the anesthesia, Idk, but I hated the entire experience and will not be doing one again ( the doctor recommended another in 3 years. Nope). I’ll just eat healthy with lots of fiber and do an annual FIT test.
Great read! Thank you for this excellent summary of the "Scope Scams." Might I suggest a review of another possible scam? I say possible because I just don't know the numbers around coronary calcium scores. It seems to me that these scores are an excuse to start potent cholesterol lowering drugs - sometimes in people > 65 years of age - and we don't know if low lipid levels "dissolve" what appears to be a repair mechanism from the crap we are fed lifelong.
I hear you. I refuse to take statins. And it seems every year they lower the limits, forcing more people to take them. My doctor suggested I take red rice yeast, so I began adding that to my regimen.
Hi Marion. Glad your physician is open to other options. Curious, did her provide any papers about red rice yeast and cholesterol? I'd like to review it. Be well and thanks! Nisha
Actually she had read several studies, but told me I could read about it myself. I told her that was fine since I often do my own investigative research for supplements etc. I'm having my blood retested in Oct to reveal any differences.
The old joke goes, "What's the definition of a colonoscope?"
Answer: "A long tube with an asshole on each end."
One is wealthier than the other.
A couple decades ago, before I reached the age where I’d be recommended to get a colonoscopy, I read a blog by a person who had a perforated colon due to this procedure. It was horrific and ruined his life. I vowed never to get one for “just in case” screening.
There are cases of people eating a single peanut and dying. …. The experience of one individual has no predictive value for another. No doubt there are terrible docs. There are terrible plumbers and electricians. But no matter the case the worst thing is the “If only I had just ….” feeling that wanders through your brain on your way to palliative care.
I’m sorry to hear that. 🤬
Reading this brought up pain & made my head explode. 70 yrs old, last yr perforation during colonoscopy, took 20 days to realize since i aspirated during. Miracle of it all was 2 wk course anti-b's for lungs Saved my life. 2 surgeries, ostomy and thankfully a reversal. Never again I said. Nearly killed me. My Dad had colon cancer so I let my paranoia rule. Start with Cologuard. Trust me the risk may not equal any benefit.
After a lifetime of gut issues, a clue came from my brother whose son is celiac. Gluten? Could it be wheat all this time? I LOVE bread and its in SO many food products. just accepted the gut chaos as normal. After test - its wheat so I went GF for real..... Eczema GONE within months. I mean all over body rashes gone. That alone makes me cry in relief - it was bad. Gut chaos is over. Then I asked "why didn't any of my multiple gastro docs ever test for it?" Diagnoses I did get: Colitis, IBS, IBD, blah blah. Meds and no relief really.
Grateful. I'm grateful every day I figured it out. 💩
I wasn't tested for food allergies until I had no money and got a volunteer doctor. Allergies to wheat rye barley and oats and rice!! I promptly learned to cook from scratch.
"...may actually create the very conditions it claims to prevent"
And then they'll tell you how lucky you are that they "caught it early".
Excellent piece. To destroy the body's flora with needless antibiotics - common procedure in my part of Australia - is bad enough. But these colonoscopies! What do they recommend after? A few spoons of yogurt? Pickle juice?
As well as the med cartel there's a new potential danger to my bowels.
I've noted lately how sectors of the keto movement are starting to attack my legumes, fruit and veg. Phyto is the new cholesterol. Surely the way to enjoy and to benefit from meat, fat and fish is to go with appetite and match it all up with plants. Diarrhea and constipation are strangers to me, and I doubt that the harm of junk or fad diet stops there. Maybe the keto extremists know what they're on about, but I'll let others go first.
Anyway, I thank you, and my zillions of good bugs thank you.
It comes down to the individual. Sounds like your diet is working for you and you should stick with it. But there are people who cannot tolerate plant foods AT ALL, and for them the carnivore diet works miracles. You can disparage them as extremists, but sometimes extreme measures are necessary.
Point taken. Thanks for your reply.
I've been hearing plenty on the subject of lectins and other antinutrients, so I'm more skeptical than uninformed on the subject. As said above, the phyto thing is starting to resemble the cholesterol thing of a few decades back. I was wary then, I'm wary now.
I'm a soaker. Living in the bush, I'm always long-soaking legumes, slow-rising freshly milled wheat etc. I can certainly see how a poor understanding of the preparation of grains and legumes can lead to trouble. Vegetables as punishment is another hazard. If I'm not relishing it, I'm not eating it. Better some eggs fried in yesterday's bacon grease than a boiled organic choko in white sauce. Actually, a poke in the eye is better than that.
My general point is that the new keto is starting to resemble vegetable punishment of yore. Complete with technical verbiage and medical terror!
Craig, one problem I have with keto now is that it often consists of food which is monotonous and expensive. In my youth I handled the buying and much of the prep of such cheap items as lamb brains, sweetbreads, pork head, kidneys, livers, tripe, chicken innards, fresh sprats, hard pork back-fat (for terrines) etc. Many keto people seem to miss the spirit of true carnivorous eating and remind me of difficult and picky eaters with a new fad. Not all, of course!
While I'm something of an evolution skeptic I really like the old yarn about humans and canines rifling carcasses left by larger predators and scoring all the marrow, brain etc by using rocks to get through bone. So we and the dogs got smarter through cholesterol! (Silly yarn, but it appeals to me.)
I was told that my last colonoscopy was “very difficult) . I am. 74 yr woman and the prep is harder to tolerate each time. I have POP which causes the lg intestine to sag where it doesn’t belong
. After reading this I believe I will decline another scope as I certainly don’t need a perforation. All my polyps have been benign and wouldn’t you know they find one every time. Glad I came across this article.
This is why we don’t do routine bronchoscopy to look for lung cancer
It's even worse. In the targeted community, everyone that has had a colonoscopy reports having being illegally implanted with an invasive device. The get paid for it.