Vegan diet guru Dr. Dean Ornish claimed that his diet program may halt the progression of prostate cancer. He performed a study that seems to indicate a strict vegetarian diet, combined with exercise and relaxation therapy, could be able to control the slow-growing cancer.
Two Groups
Ornish and others tested 93 men with prostate cancer. The men were divided into two groups. One group was given no help, and the men in the other group were put on Ornish's program, which includes a vegan diet high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, with fewer than 10 percent of calories from fat, plus daily exercise along with some yoga and meditation.
After a year, on average, standard tests for prostate cancer indicated that the disease had worsened in the group that made no changes, but improved in the group that followed Ornish's program.
Diet or Exercise?
Ornish admitted he did not know which part of his program was the most important. He said that diet alone has not been shown to affect cancer progression.
Dr. Larry Clapp Guest
This study is encouraging, but we have found that while a vegan approach may provide a short-term healing benefit, longer term it becomes a problem for most people, as ample, quality protein and animal-based omega-3 fats (DHA and EPA) are required by most to heal and restore a healthy balance.
Protein is really a quality issue, as Dr. Mercola has pointed out so clearly: what nature provided, grown in nature's way--free-range without chemicals or grains--is among the healthiest food we can eat, along with lots of fresh vegetables.
Also, the study over-relies on PSA as the indicator that cancer has stopped or improved. Our own and widely reported clinical experience has shown the unreliability of PSA to reflect prostate cancer.
We find that the only reliable indicator is to actually measure any prostate tumor and its blood flow with Power Color Doppler Sonography. We regularly see diminished tumors and reduction/elimination of blood flow to support the tumor, over weeks and months, including measuring diminishing prostate size. If reduction is not seen, then it is back to basics to find the cause.
While the healthiest diet, based upon metabolic typing plus cod liver oil and Vitamin K2, such as Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program, is the basis for healing any cancer, especially prostate cancer, more is required for true permanent healing of most people. Cleansing the lifetime of accumulated toxins from your body, your mouth and prostate has proven to be the most important method, by far, to permanently heal the cancer and restore balance to your body. In other words, reverse the cause(s) and your body will heal.
A healthy diet, exercise and one to two months of cleansing, including the mouth, has always produced a major turnaround, reducing symptoms, prostate and tumor size as measured by regular follow-up Sonography, with continued improvement seen over weeks and months of continued healthy eating, after the cleansing. For some, rebalancing of the hormones produces another level of improvement in health of the prostate, bone and brain, general well-being and sexual function.
Dr. Larry Clapp is the author of the bestselling Prostate Health in 90 Days Without Drugs or Surgery. When diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990, Dr. Clapp made a firm decision to deflect falling victim to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy and instead focused on researching the self-healing alternatives to treating prostate cancer. During his seven years of intensive research, Dr. Clapp developed expertise in cleansing, nutritional healing, pH balancing, herbology, homeopathy, bodywork and energetic and spiritual healing. Combining the best of these healing arts, he developed a successful treatment program for prostate cancer, which he used to cure himself. He earned his J.D. degree at the University of Michigan Law School in 1963 and later obtained his Ph.D. at Galien University in London in 1996. Today, Dr. Clapp is cancer-free and uses his research to aid others in treating and curing their prostate cancer without succumbing to harmful drugs or surgery.
Dr. Larry Clapp is the author of the bestselling Prostate Health in 90 Days Without Drugs or Surgery. When diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990, Dr. Clapp made a firm decision to deflect falling victim to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy and instead focused on researching the self-healing alternatives to treating prostate cancer. During his seven years of intensive research, Dr. Clapp developed expertise in cleansing, nutritional healing, pH balancing, herbology, homeopathy, bodywork and energetic and spiritual healing. Combining the best of these healing arts, he developed a successful treatment program for prostate cancer, which he used to cure himself.
He earned his J.D. degree at the University of Michigan Law School in 1963 and later obtained his Ph.D. at Galien University in London in 1996.
Today, Dr. Clapp is cancer-free and uses his research to aid others in treating and curing their prostate cancer without succumbing to harmful drugs or surgery.