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Table of Contents (articles in order)
Poly MVA and Its Uses in Prostate Cancer
The Vegan Diet How-To Guide for Diabetes
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Poly MVA and Its Uses in Prostate Cancer
September 12th, 2007
Shari Lieberman, Ph.D., C.N.S., F.A.C.N., and James W. Forsythe, M.D., H.M.D.
According to The Prostate Cancer Institute in (Eden Prairie, MN) (1) an organization that maintains one of the leading websites on prostate cancer information and treatment, this disease:

• Is the single most common form of solid tumor in humans
• Is newly diagnosed every 2.6 minutes
• Is present in more than 9 million men
• Kills 1 man every 13 minutes
• Afflicts 1 in 6 men in their lifetimes
• Is second only to lung cancer in annual cancer deaths of U.S. men
• Is high risk for black men (they have incidence and mortality rates as much as 50 percent higher than other racial or ethnic groups)
• Strikes as many men (and causes almost as many deaths annually) as breast cancer does in women but lacks the national awareness and research funding breast cancer currently has
• Is nearly 100 percent survivable if detected early.

Us TOO Inc. (Downers Grove, Illinois; www.ustoo.com), an independent network of support group chapters for men who have the disease, recommends annual testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and digital rectal examinations for all men 45+years old (and men at greater risk beginning at 40). And, while one can argue the accuracy of at least some of these statements, such as “is nearly 100% survivable if detected early,” any man reading this information would certainly be scared to death or at least scared into immediate treatment.

Cancer, in general, is rarely detected early because we simply do not have the technology to do so and is it generally asymptomatic. And there is little evidence to confirm that early prostate cancer detection will confer “100 percent” survival. This statement can give a false sense of security because it does not include the prognosis of hormone refractory prostate cancer, which is more difficult to treat and has a poorer prognosis. (2)

It is also misleading in that it could be argued that, because most prostate cancers are slow growing (as evidenced in autopsies of older men who did not die from prostate cancer and were untreated) that the progression time evidenced in 10, 12, or 15 years after treatment would be expected if left untreated.

While there are some limitations on the use of serum PSA to monitor patients after treatment for prostate cancer, this agent remains the “gold standard” for conventional treatment. (3)

Bio-chemical failure definitions in patients treated with radiation therapy appear to provide a 6–18 month lead time to clinical failure but there are only limited published data to suggest that early intervention of any type (androgen deprivation, radiation therapy, surgery, etc.) affects survival.

Conventional Treatments

What are men being told about the available treatments? A good deal of the information on the Prostate Cancer Institute’s website represents the conventional approach.

According to The Prostate Cancer Institute’s article on treatments, radical prostatectomy is said to have a “success rate” of 70–85 percent. (1) However, a very recent review revealed bio-chemical recurrence-free survival rates of 71 percent at 5 years and 63 percent at 7.5 years. (4) So, clearly, the survival rate decreases with years more distant from diagnosis.

What appeared most predictive of biochemical recurrence was a PSA level of > 10 ng/ml and the highest grades on biopsies, positive margins, perineural invasions, and Gleason score. But the side-effects of radical prostatectomy include incontinence (in about 10 percent of cases) and impotence in 79.6 percent of men reported at 2 years after the procedure. The Institute also reports that laparoscopic prostatectomy that is “less invasive” but still carries the risks of incontinence and impotence associated with the radical procedure. (1)

Watchful waiting is described on the Institute’s website (1) as the option for “a man who has chosen not to have immediate prostate cancer treatment. During the watchful waiting period, the physician keeps the cancer under close watch.” However, watchful waiting is appropriate for men who meet one or more of these criteria: short life expectancy; significant other illnesses; small tumors; low Gleason score; and low PSA level.

The article on the site goes on to say that “the major risk of watchful waiting is that without treatment, cancers can grow and spread quickly (metastatic cancer) so the cancer may escape the prostate capsule between doctor visits.” Finally, this section of the article concludes: “Even slow-growing tumors may suddenly become rapidly growing tumors if left untreated.” This message is clear treat the prostate cancer early regardless of the side-effects of treatment.

The site also describes cryotherapy for prostate cancer eradication. (1) This procedure was noted as conferring a major risk for impotence but the data show that 97.6 percent of patients are still cancer-free at 12 months.

There is also a section on the site on hormonal therapy that describes surgical castration, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone therapy, and combined androgen blockage. (1) All three types of therapy can cause the following side-effects: impotence; loss of sexual desire; hot flashes; weight gain; fatigue; reduced brain function; and loss of muscle mass.

External bean radiation therapy (EBRT) is also described. (1) The article states that “EBRT can be curative if the cancer has not gone beyond the prostate gland.” However, an actual study is quoted on the website that states that, “after 5 years 67% of men with a pre-procedure PSA of 4.1 to 10.0 were still disease free when treated with EBRT alone. To improve success rate EBRT is often used in conjunction with other therapies.” The “other therapies” referred to are often hormonal blockades. Once again, some of the information seems a bit inflated compared to the actual data. The website correctly discloses the potential side-effect: “If the radiation damages nerves that control erections, the patient may lose his ability to get or keep an erection. . . .the probability was about 45 percent.”

Finally, brachytherapy (1) is described as a minimally invasive procedure that implants small radioactive pellets. . . .into the prostate.” And, once again statistics are given: “Long term clinical data supporting the use of brachytherapy has shown that over 87% of men are still free of cancer 10 years after brachytherapy treatment.” However, what is omitted is that high-dose brachytherapy is often combined with EBRT (or hormonal blockade).

A more recent study (5) shows a lower survival rate of 79 percent and suggests using EBRT with brachytherapy. Impotence rates are listed as 6–30 percent on the website but it says that this is the case “although patients receiving brachytherapy often report similar levels of impotence before treatment.” (1) The risk of impotence increases with age; impotence after brachytherapy can often be treated with prescription drugs such as Viagra (Pfizer, New York City).

There does not appear to be any conventional therapy for prostate cancer that does not carry an increased risk of impotence. According to a study on minimizing destruction of vessels that govern erection, (6) what actually causes impotence is radiation to the corpus cavernosum and the internal pudendal artery causing some vessel destruction. This study demonstrated that using coronal, sagittal, and axial magnetic resonance imaging data allows superior definition of the prostate apex so the radiation dose to critical erectile structures can be limited. However, this is rarely if ever done because this approach is costly.

The reasons why prostate cancer treatment is often delayed are fear, anxiety, and depression. I was personally depressed after reading the Institute’s website. (1) Although the website has nurses that one can consult with and an oncologist referral base - and complies with the HON code (Health On the Net Foundation; www.hon.ch/HONcode ) - there is no mention on that site of the hazards and risks associated with any radiation therapy (e.g., a secondary cancer) or the fact that all radiation is cumulative.

Nor was there any link to, or mention of, any alternative or complementary prostate cancer treatment resources on this website although several reports confirm that the prevalence of alternative and complementary medicine use by patients with cancer range from as little as 7 percent to as much as 64 percent. (7,8) Most patients who have cancer combine some form of alternative or complementary therapy with their conventional treatment while only 37.5 percent of patients with cancer surveyed in two studies expected complementary and alternative therapies to cure their disease. (8)

Poly-MVA: An Alternative Treatment

However, because of the overwhelming side-effect of impotence, some men refuse conventional treatment and seek safer, nontoxic alternative treatments instead such as garlic (Alliumsativum), soy (Glycine soja), lycopene, Haelan 951 (Haelen Products Inc., Woodinville, Massachusetts), or Poly-MVA® (see section called About the Product). In 1990, Larry Clapp, Ph.D., J.D., was diagnosed with prostate cancer and refused conventional treatment. Instead he embarked on a lifestyle program of nutrition, natural products, spirituality and detoxification. (9) Heremains in remission today.

Large-scale human studies on many of these natural treatments for treating cancer are simply cost-prohibitive. It costs at least $300 million to bring any cancer drug to market. This makes the “gold standard” validation for many of these therapies as a sole treatment impossible. However, well-documented case studies can serve as an excellent vehicle to explore the potential cancer-ameliorating effect of a natural agent when used as the primary treatment.

Three cases of patients using a proprietary product called Poly-MVA indicate that it may be a good alternative treatment for prostate cancer. The remainder of this article focuses on these cases.

About the Product

Poly-MVA contains a lipoic acid/palladium complex (LAPd) developed by Merrill Garnett, D.D.S. (founder and chief executive officer of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. Islip, New York).The formulation is sold as a dietary supplement under the trade name Poly-MVA and is distributed by AMARC Enterprises, San Diego, California. The formulation’s main active ingredient LAPd is being considered by the pharmaceutical industry under several patents as “synthetic reductase.” (10)

The initials “MVA” stand for “minerals, vitamins and amino acids.” The product is a proprietary formulation that contains palladium, alpha-lipoic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, and cyanocobalamin, formyl-methionine, and acetylcysteine. LAPd is the main active ingredient in both Poly-MVA and in synthetic reductase. 

LAPd complex has undergone extensive toxicologic study. (11) The study was conducted both intravenously and orally. Mice were given doses of 5000 mg/kg (a typical human dose is 20 mg/kg). No deaths or signs of organ damage occurred in the test animals. It was concluded that the LD50of LAPd exceeds 5000 mg/kg. The Ames Test was conducted by the same independent laboratory and yielded negative results. LAPd was also studied for its effectiveness in halting the growth of glioblastoma cells in vivo. (12) Tumors were allowed to grow in mice.

The animals were then divided into 8 groups of 10 mice each. Four groups were given daily intravenous (IV) doses LAPd or placebo. Another four groups were given intraperitoneal doses of 0.05, 1.0, or 2.0 mg per mouse for a total of 4 weeks and tumor volume was measured throughout the study. Compared to the controls who received no LAPd, mice receiving the test material orally or IV at 0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 mg had a significantly reduced growth of the glioblastoma (a 50 percent or greater reduction in tumor size).  sited from polymva.com.
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The Vegan Diet How-To Guide for Diabetes
Introduction- www.pcrm.org Neil Barnard, M.D. Physicians Council for Responsible Medicine.

Diet changes are the cornerstone to treating type 2 diabetes. Current diet recommendations require restricting portion sizes, measuring and weighing foods, and limiting the total amount of carbohydrate. However, evidence suggests that a different dietary approach may be more effective and easier to follow.

The evidence favoring a new approach came first from comparisons of various populations around the world. People whose diets were based mainly on plant-derived foods—that is, rice, noodles, beans, and vegetables—were less likely to develop diabetes, compared with people whose diets are fattier or centered on meatier dishes. For example, among people following traditional Japanese diets, diabetes was rare. Studies show that when people moved from Japan to the U.S. and adopted a Western diet, they were much more likely to develop diabetes.

These studies suggested that meaty, fatty diets cause the body to be more resistant to insulin’s actions. Clinical research studies have shown that adopting a low-fat, plant-derived diet does indeed improve insulin sensitivity, help with weight loss, and reduce blood sugar and cholesterol.

Part of the value of a low-fat, plant-based diet is that it is very low in saturated fat—that is, the kind of fat that is found especially in meats, dairy products, and tropical oils (coconut, palm, or palm kernel oil). To cut fat effectively, you’ll want to do two things:

The first step is to avoid animal-derived products. Needless to say, this eliminates all animal fats. It does something else, too: It eliminates animal protein. While we need protein, we do not need animal-derived protein. Animal proteins accelerate kidney damage in people who have already lost some kidney function. They also increase the loss of calcium from the body (through the kidneys and into the urine), potentially increasing the risk of osteoporosis. Plant sources of protein do not present these problems.

The second step is to avoid added vegetable oils. Although oils are often thought of as healthier than animal fats, they are just as high in calories. For the healthiest diet, you will want to keep oils to a minimum. This guide covers both of these steps.

It also helps you select the most healthful carbohydrate-containing foods, and provides many other ideas for healthful foods to choose.

The way of eating explained in this guide does not require weighing or measuring, and you will never go hungry!

Overall principle: Choose low-fat, low-glycemic-index foods from plant sources. There is no limit on portion sizes of these foods. Avoid all animal products and keep vegetable oils to a bare minimum.

A WORD ABOUT...

Protein: Plant foods have plenty of protein. The recommended amount of protein in the diet for post-menopausal women is 10 percent of calories. Most vegetables, legumes, and grains contain this amount or more. Some that are especially rich (>20 percent of calories) include all the beans, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, and mushrooms. Those seeking extra protein can choose beans or lentils (especially in combination with rice or other grains).

Calcium: Plant-based diets actually reduce calcium requirements. Because diets rich in animal products cause the body to lose more calcium, a person on a vegan diet needs less calcium to stay in calcium balance. Good sources of calcium include broccoli, kale, collards, mustard greens, beans, figs, fortified orange juice, fortified cereal, or fortified, nonfat soy or rice milks.

Vitamin B₁₂: Those following a diet free of animal products for more than three years (or at anytime in childhood, pregnancy, or nursing) should take a B₁₂ supplement of 5 mcg per day. Any common multiple vitamin will provide this amount.

Meal Suggestions

BREAKFAST— Often breakfast can be similar to the one you are accustomed to with a few simple modifications.

If you like extra protein:

• Fat-free meat substitutes (e.g., Gimme Lean fat-free “sausage” or “bacon”)
• Burrito filled with “refried” beans, lettuce, and tomato (no egg or cheese)
• Tofu scrambler

LUNCH— Whether you dine in or out at lunch, there are lots of healthy and delicious options from which to choose. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Salads

• Garden salad with lemon juice, fat-free dressing, or soy or teriyaki sauce
• Legume-based salads: Three-bean, chickpea, lentil, or black bean and corn salads
• Grain-based salads: Noodle, couscous, bulgur, or rice salads
• Commercial bagged salad brands are fine, but look for the fat-free or no-added-fat versions

Soups

• Vegetable-based soups: carrot-ginger, mixed vegetable, mushroom-barley, etc.
• Legume-based soups: black bean, vegetarian chili, spinach lentil, minestrone, split pea, etc.
• Instant or prepared soups as long as they are low-fat and free of animal products.

Sandwiches/Wraps

• Black bean dip, peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla
• CLT: cucumber, lettuce, and tomato sandwich with Dijon mustard on pumpernickel or rye bread
• Hummus sandwich tucked into whole wheat pita with grated carrots, sprouts, and cucumbers
• Black bean and sweet potato burrito with corn and tomatoes
• Sandwich made with fat-free meat alternatives such as barbeque seitan, Lightlife Smart Deli turkey style, or Yves veggie pepperoni slices and your favorite sandwich veggies
  

DINNER — Emphasize vegetables and legumes and grains in all your meals. For many, the evening meal is a good place to try new items. Typically you might start with a bean, rice, or other grain or potato dish and add a couple of vegetables.

Legumes: Use generous amounts of legumes
Pintos, vegetarian refried and baked beans, black beans, garbanzos, kidney beans

Starches: Grains: pasta, brown rice, boxed rice dishes, couscous
Potatoes: Favor sweet potatoes and yams, instead of white potatoes.
Breads: Pumpernickel, rye, or whole-grain breads are preferred. Avoid sweet breads that contain oil, eggs, or milk.

Vegetables:
Try any vegetables you like.

• Steamed
• Roasted with herbs
• Fresh

Main Dishes:

• Pasta marinara: Some commercial sauces are fine (any brand that has less than 2 grams fat per serving and is free of animal products).
• Beans and rice: Try black beans with salsa, vegetarian baked beans, or fat-free refried beans.
• Soft tacos: Prepare this dish with a flour tortilla, beans, lettuce, tomato, and salsa.
• Fajitas: Lightly sauté sliced bell peppers, onion, and eggplant in a nonstick pan, with fajita seasonings.
• Chili: Vegetarian boxed or canned versions are fine.
• Veggie lasagna: Made with low-fat tofu to replace the ricotta, layered with grilled veggies.
• Vegetable stir-fry: Season with soy sauce or other low-fat stir-fry sauce. Be sure to use a nonstick pan. Serve over pasta, beans, or rice.
• Fat-free vegetarian burgers: Look for lentil burgers or other commercial brands.
• Desserts:
• Fresh or cooked fruit
• Fruit smoothie
• Snacks:
• Fruit
• Carrot, celery, or other vegetables with low-fat hummus
• Vegetarian Cup o’ Soup brands (split pea, lentil, etc.)
• Baked tortilla chips with salsa or bean dip
• Air-popped popcorn
• Toast with jam (no butter or margarine)

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