I would have titled this Alternative Medicine: Berkson Cures Pancreatic Cancer, Liver Cancer and All Manner of Liver Disease, but the FDA would put me in jail for making unsubstantiated claims. (I’m hoping they don’t read memes.)
Since Berkson can’t afford to do the zillion-dollar studies required by the FDA to substantiate claims, and since I guess actual cured people don’t count (seriously?), any and all claims made about a couple of frickin’ vitamins curing cancer are labeled “unsubstantiated.”
Maybe the FDA thinks all Berkson’s cures are coincidental? Or luck? Yeah, that’s probably it. Luck. Something, coincidentally, Dr. Berkson’s patients seem to be blessed with an abundance of.
In fact, Dr. Berkson, former investigator of ALA for the FDA, has cured it all and talks about it all the time (see links below). Wonder why the mainstream media doesn’t pick up the story?
It’s probably just as well he doesn’t make headline news. Then the AMA might run him out of the country like they did Hoxsey, Gerson and Caton. I guess Big Pharma doesn’t like competition.
On one of my zillion forums, a woman asked for information on how to cure pancreatic cancer. One of her relatives was just diagnosed and she wants to talk to him about alternative treatments. I wrote to her and sent every link I could find.
I thought maybe some of you might know someone with pancreatic or liver (or any other kind of) cancer or Hep C or other liver disease who could use this information.
The very sad fact is that, if you don’t know anyone now, just keep living. We all will. Please share any info you find here and share what’s new!!! ♥
I hope something helps!!!
✓ Start with some research on Dr. Burt Berkson. (Lots here!!!) Berkson has healed pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, Hep C and all manner of liver disease with LDN and ALA. My husband has a bad liver from hemochromatosis. He takes 4.5mg (about a tsp) LDN and 600mg ALA every day. He’s still with me!
✓ VIDEO: Dr Burt Berkson talks about LDN in Pancreatic Cancer and In Autoimmune Disease at the LDN Conference in LA October 2008: Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | 33 Min. Total
✓ VIDEO: Dr. Berkson speaking at the NIH in 2009: Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | 50 Min. Total (Probably some of the same case studies and information as in 2008.)
✓ VIDEO: Dr Mercola and Berkson talk about ALA in 2009. 6 Min. Total
✓ Berkson’s book on ALA. Available in paperback and Kindle
✓ To learn more about LDN, click here and scroll down to find the LDN section.
✓ This is a link to a blogger who uses Berkson’s ALA and LDN treatment for his Hep C.
✓ This is the transcript of an interview Dr. Berkson gave in 2010 at Prescription2000.
✓ There’s also this story of a woman who cured her cancer using ALA, LDN and baking soda. Why not?
My husband and I have lost too many relatives (both sides of our families) to cancer, and not a single person would consider any alternative treatments, no matter the evidence. They all went with conventional treatments and they are all dead. Maybe they would have died anyway, but at the time, I wanted to shake them and say, “What do you have to lose?”
Now, I wish I had. What did I have to lose?
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Estimado Dr,Berkson; Soy Médico Venezolano y he visto con gran interés sus tratamientos para cáncer de hígado y otros. Si es posible me gustaría saber sobre los cursos que usted dicta y por favor indicar donde los dicte, cuanto duran, el costo de los mismos y que requisitos son necesarios.
Gracias por la atención
Dr. Manuel Salas
Estimado Dr. Salas,
Thank you for your comment!
Dr. Berkson does not have an email address, but you can call him on the phone and talk to him about his treatments and how you can learn to do them.
His contact information is here: http://drberkson.com/.
Thank you for searching for alternative healing for your patients. Personally, I would always go this route first.
Gracias,
Sally
My son has an appointment with Dr Berkson in July. I feel confident that he will help us. My son suffers from PSC (liver disease) and Ulcerative Colitis. So far, none of the UC have really made a difference for my son and I refuse to put him on Imuran. As for the liver, there is no real treatment so we are hopeful that Dr. Berkson’s therapies will help us.
Hi Renee,
I would try the diet from http://www.karenhurd.com
She helps many people get well from UC.
Read her book “And they said it wasn’t Possible”
~Rene’
I had not heard of Karen. Thank you!
Sorry, that message should have read ” So far, none of the UC medications have really made a differnce”
My mother had liver failure and past away in 2008..but your book and the implementation of ALA gave us 4 more years with her. I also was diagnosed with fatty liver recently and have implemented ALA…I thank Dr Berkson for his wonderful work.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing this withea us — I think Dr. Berkson has discovered a cure. More people need to know!!! Good luck with your treatment!
I’m puzzled by the picture of Steve Jobs that is included in your post but not commented about. Did he try the Berkson approach?
No, sadly, he didn’t. I believe he’d be alive today. If you hold your cursor over the photo, you get a photo description that says that. I added that to the post — thank you.
Before making my initial comment I searched hard to find out if Jobs had tried Berkson’s approach but could find nothing one way or the other. Do you have a source for believing he didn’t use Berkson? For obvious reasons, the question is an important one.
I don’t have a source — I read it online (so it must be true.) I must have read it from a reliable source or else I wouldn’t have quoted it, but I don’t remember where. When I get a chance, I will look again. I did not read about Berkson specifically, just that Jobs would not do any alternative therapy. I would include Berkson in that.
Sally, there must be some sort of misunderstanding. Jobs tried a number of alternative approaches, initially strongly rejecting what his doctors recommended. Here is one of many reports:
“Steve Jobs died
regretting that he had spent so long attempting to treat his cancer with
alternative medicine before agreeing to undergo surgery, his biographer
has disclosed.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8841347/Steve-Jobs-regretted-trying-to-beat-cancer-with-alternative-medicine-for-so-long.html
It does not sound like Jobs tried Berkson’s approach. Obviously he did not try the right approach (sorry to sound so cold-hearted). There is also a point of no return when the cancer has won but we are still alive. I don’t think it gets more serious than Stage 4 pancreatic or lung cancer.
Chemo did not cure Jobs. It has a 2% success rate… why anyone would try such a poison is due completely to our faith in men in white coats.
My intent in writing articles about alternative therapies is so that we don’t wait until the we are diagnosed to understand cancer and to figure out what we will do if/when. I want to know NOW. I want to be prepared — there is a 1 in 2 chance my DH will get cancer, a 1 in 3 chance that I will. I know what I will do.
I wonder why this is so important to you?
Sally, the TRUTH is important to me.
I love the title of your blog. ‘Fifty to Life’ is perfect (for folks like us over 50). I love your feisty style of writing. (I’m with you 100% about marijuana/etc.) And I love your wide-ranging investigations. To name just one example, after hearing from you about diatomaceous earth, I spent several hours learning about it, and I’ve ordered a slug of it in order to find out about it first hand.
But, dammit, Sally. It’s important to get things RIGHT — especially when you are putting stuff out for the world to read. I’m sadly coming to the conclusion that things you say cannot be depended on. I can still learn things here — I know how to check things out. But I sure wish I could put a little more confidence in what you say in the first instance. And I worry about anybody who trusts what you say *without* checking it out.
You are on the right track, lol. Please don’t trust everything I say and yes do your own research before bio-hacking. I read lots of blogs by experts and I don’t do what they say unless I research the bejesus out of it first.
I don’t know how long you’ve been bio-hacking (I love that term), but the first few times I did it, I was terrified. Like taking dmsa for the frequent dose chelation therapy. Like taking de the first time. Iodine — although with iodine, I was so desperate to stop the hair loss, I would have suffered almost any side effect. Even after doing all the research and being on yahoo groups and all the bloggers.
Now I’m more blase about it. I don’t have to do weeks of research before trying something.
My question about why it matters about Jobs was because whether or not he tried it, it wasn’t really tied into the topic. It was more of an aside. If Jobs had tried Berkson’s protocol and it was unsuccessful, that would have been worth going on about. I didn’t research Jobs’ choice of therapies and I did read that he had not tried alternative therapies… but it was not an important point to me so I didn’t go any further with it.
Berkson’s protocol and the successes with that are important. I wish Jobs had tried it.
I believe we are about to legalize medical marijuana here. The state is desperately poor and CO and WA are raking in the big bucks. It’s desperately sad watching the legislators pretend they are compassionate when they are really just wanting to fill the pension coffers.
I emailed Steve Jobs after I had heard his cancer had returned, and told him to go see Dr. Berkson. He had already had the cancer return quite some time, before I knew about it, so I was late in my recommendation. I did hear that he was planning a new treatment for cancer, and I wondered if it was from Dr. Berkson, but he died before he was able to do anything else. I keep wondering….
Dear Sally, I am a respected U.S. children’s book author, website anncameronbooks.com.
I like your spirit. I cured Stage 4 colon cancer, a metastasis with two tumors between my lungs, by drinking carrot juice, five cups, that is 1.2 liters, daily. My book about this, Curing Cancer with Carrots, explains some of the reasons the cure works –anti -cancer elements in carrots luteolin and falcarinol, carrots’ anti inflammatory effect which stops angiogenesis, and the reversibility of expression of pro-cancer genes possible through dietary changes, as explained in research on epigenetics.
The reports of others who have succeeded in curing cancer with carrots are of course part of the book. I think you would find it interesting and valuable. It’s an e book available on amazon.com If you have any questions, I would be glad to answer them.
Best to you and your work,
Ann Cameron
Ann, thank you so much for sharing that with me. Congratulations — that takes so much courage to try something like that. I will get the book and read it!!! Carrots are key to the Gerson diet and I’m a big fan of that cure. I’ll report back after I’ve read it! Blessings.
Sally, thank you for spreading the word about Dr. Berkson. Not enough people know about him. Thanks in part to his methods, my husband’s MELD score went from a 28 to an 8 in less than a year, after doctors told him his only hope was a transplant, and they said that he should prepare to go on disability because of his cirrhosis! This time last year he looked like he was knocking on death’s door, he had edema, ascites, had to have 21 liters of fluid drained, he had jaundice, was very crabby and irritable, cold all the time, had just about every symptom of end stage liver disease that you can imagine. Now, one year later, he can beat me walking up five flights of stairs. Part of this is because of PEMF and other things he’s done but I really attribute the majority of his recovery to Dr. Berkson’s time-tested protocol. It’s too bad more people don’t know about it, or believe it. It really does work!! Thanks again for helping to spread the word.
Hi Jake’s Wife, Thank you for sharing your story. I saw your blog too — that is excellent news!!! Yes, let’s keep spreading the word so that more people will know they have options!!! All the best, Sally
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I’ve been fascinated by Dr Berkson for about 8 years. I keep meaning to try ALA but always come across the same stumbling block. I don’t understand all this stuff about R-alpha lipoic acid & S-alpha lipoic acid. Some sites say that the S-ALA wipes out the good work that the R-AlA does & others say that, at the very least, you are only getting half the active ALA that you’re buying. Therefore, the 100mg ALA that I bought from the health food shop is really only 50mg Looking for a more cost effective way of buying larger doses, I found that I could get, from Amazon, 120 X 300mg ALA capsules for 2/3 of the price that I paid for 60 X 100mg capsules, from the well known health food shop. If however, I look for R-ALA, I would pay 50% more for 60 X 240mg tablets. How complicated is that? I would really appreciate some help!
Hi Ruth, we take regular ALA, this stuff http://amzn.to/20zAUo1. This might be the cheapest, it says non-GMO and no fillers: http://amzn.to/1PAiMrc I’ve used some of their other bulk powders with no problems. You have to mix in liquid or yogurt to take.
Here’s one reviewer’s response to the ALA or R-ALA questions: http://amzn.to/1Klz9cj
I did a bunch of research on it years ago while I was doing some chelating with ALA based on Andrew Cutler’s “low-slow” protocol. He advised against R-ALA (don’t remember why exactly) and I’ve basically gone with the plain ALA ever since. Hope this helps!!!
Amazon is almost always cheaper! I’m a fan 🙂