A Suppressed Diagnostic Device: Step #1 in an Anti-Cancer Program That I Have Adopted
Remnant Review
I have been investigating alternative cancer protocols for over 50 years.
I first read about Max Gerson's diet-based, juiced-based vegan program in the late 1960's. In mid-2017, I adopted it for about a year as soon as I got the diagnosis of stage III prostate cancer.
I have also received conventional cancer treatments: radiation and anti-hormone therapy. I am still here. So far, so good.
Now I am on a new protocol. My diet is about the same, but there are other features -- features that I think are crucial. To understand what this one is all about, you first need to understand the career of a physician who treated cancer victims, Nicholas Gonzalez.
THE GONZALEZ PROTOCOL
His story is told in detail in a remarkable biography that has only been out a few months: The Maverick M.D.: Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and His Fight for a New Cancer Treatment. It was published by a tiny publishing company that publishes only his books, New Spring Press. Mary Swander wrote it. She is a gifted story teller. From a literary standpoint, her biography is one of the best I have ever read. Her chapters on the medical establishment's persecution of Gonzalez confirm the worst suspicions of the health food/alternative therapies subculture.
I first learned about Gonzalez when I read a book by the cancer victim, actress, and entrepreneur Suzanne Somers: Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who are Curing Cancer–And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place (2008). That is a subtitle guaranteed to alienate the medical profession generally and oncologists specifically. Chapter 8 is the interview with Gonzalez.
Gonzalez was fortunate to have been interviewed by somebody who knows how to do interviews and who also knows how to write persuasively. Somers is a great interviewer. One of my part-time businesses for two decades was to interview people every month for an audiotape series that I produced. I know what it takes to interview people with a story to tell in a way that gets the audience to pay attention to the story.
An interviewer should ask questions that get the person being interviewed to start talking and not stop talking. It is a unique skill. I like to think that I had it. I assure you that Somers has it. She asks questions that her readers would ask if they had sufficient background information. Then she shuts up and lets the interviewee talk.
She also gets to the heart of the story about the person being interviewed. She wrote this at the beginning of chapter 8: “Nicholas Gonzalez is a renegade. It takes great strength of character and a fierce personal belief that you have a better way to be able to stand up to big business, the media, and your peers. Dr. Gonzalez has done this.” She assessed his career and his tenacity accurately.
She lets him describe his two main diets, depending on a patient's metabolism (p. 100). She also provides 12 pages of testimonials from his patients who describe their customized protococols (pages 108-20).
The book was published at a crucial time in his life. He had been practicing oncology for two decades. He did not use radiation. He used diet. In most cases, he was the patient’s physician of last resort. Few people came to him at the beginning of their bout with cancer. They came when nothing else had worked, and they knew they were dying. So did their oncologists. By 2008, he had been harassed for a decade by the medical establishment. He had been sued twice, losing one suit, forcing him into bankruptcy. Other oncologists had been furtively referring patients to him for two decades, but the bad publicity had slowed these referrals. Then Somers’ book appeared. His practice revived.
Sadly, he died in July 2015 at age 67. His death was unexpected. He had no symptoms of poor health. The autopsy revealed nothing specific as a cause.
He made a series of discoveries that would have supplemented or even replaced conventional treatments of cancer if there were not a systematic suppression by governments of alternative therapies.
The story of how he made these discoveries is remarkable. I regard them them as providential.
UNEXPECTED TURNING POINTS
As Swander’s biography shows, his life had several unexpected turning points that led to his discoveries. It also shows that, had he not been a genius, and had he not been fanatical in his pursuit of the truth regarding cancer and its treatment, he probably would have died a respected expert in the field of cancer research. But he would not have discovered a cure for cancer. That is what expert researchers in cancer research achieve, decade after decade: no cure for most cancers and no reduction of the death rates associated with them.
He began his career as a reporter for Time Magazine in 1970. He wanted to write a novel. He thought he had the capacity to do it. He graduated from Brown University magna cum laude in 1970, a recession year. His field was English literature. He had to get a job, so he went to work for Time. Not many young men start out working for Time.
He was assigned to a beat that he did not want, and nobody else wanted: science. Yet he had always liked studying science. It was just not an exciting assignment, or so he thought. It would not advance his career, he thought. He was right about his career. He was wrong about his future.
He was a dutiful reporter for six years. He interviewed top scientists around the country. He also interviewed people involved in cancer research. One of them was Linus Pauling. In 1976, he went to Stanford University to interview Pauling. Pauling was so impressed with him as an interviewer that he recommended that he go to medical school. Initially, he did not take the suggestion seriously, but in the fall, he enrolled in Columbia University to take science courses to prepare him for medical school. He spent three years at Columbia.
He was accepted at Cornell Medical School in 1979. Cornell had a campus in New York City. It was the best medical school for doing cancer research. That was because of the director, Robert Good. Dr. Good was known as the father of immunology. He took Gonzalez under his wing and became a mentor for him.
The next major event in his life took place in July 1981. He had completed his second year of medical school. He received a phone call from an old friend who asked him to meet with a maverick dentist from Texas, William Donald Kelley. Kelley had been quietly treating cancer patients for almost two decades. This was illegal for a dentist, but oncologists kept sending end-of-life patients to him, and they kept getting cured. Word spread. The authorities tried to shut him down once, but this failed. He even wrote a pamphlet on his techniques, One Answer to Cancer. It was suppressed by the government. He was forbidden to sent it through the mail.
Then he treated the wrong man: Steve McQueen, who had stage IV lung cancer. McQueen’s death in Mexico in 1980 was from a needless operation. His death brought bad publicity for Kelley. Kelley had briefly treated McQueen in his terminal stage. Then he sent him to the clinic in Mexico. The media pursued the story, and then pursued Kelley. (In 2010, Gonzalez told the full story of McQueen in chapter VI of his book on Kelley, One Man Alone.)
At first, Gonzalez refused to do the interview. But the intermediary kept insisting, so he finally went to talk with Kelley. That changed his life.
DIETS (PLURAL) AND PANCREATIC ENZYMES
Kelley’s story itself was remarkable. In 1962, he was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer, which was always fatal within a short time. He had a large tumor on his liver. It was so big that it was protruding from his abdomen. His oncologist told him he was going to die. He had adopted four children, and he was afraid they were going to be sent back to the orphanage. So, he did a wise thing. He called his mother. She lived in Kansas. She was a self trained expert in folk medicine. She had read a great deal about diet causing degenerative diseases. She also knew about diets that would reverse some diseases.
She showed up at his office, whereupon she threw out all the food in the office and his home. He was a junk food addict. She put him on raw foods, soaked grains and beans, and juices. She took him off red meat. She loaded him with vegetables and leafy greens. Then she gave him the worst news of all: he had to go through several coffee enemas a day. He refused to do it.
It turns out that coffee enemas were in the Merck manual up through the 1970's. They had been in use for well over a century. Somehow, they clear toxins out of the system. But Kelley didn’t know that in 1962. Neither did his mother. But she knew that the enemas would help him.
Then came the breakthrough. He began having digestive problems because of the change of diet. He went to a local pharmacist, who recommended pancreatic enzymes. Kelley bought a case of them, and began taking them. He took more and more of them. Then he started taking them in between meals. He felt pain in the tumor. He increased the dosage, and the pain increased again. His mother knew what was happening. The enzymes were attacking the cancer. He believed her. He began taking enzymes around the clock. After a week, his appetite returned. Then he got really sick.
That was when he took his first coffee enema. Immediately, he felt better. Then his mother put him on juice fasts. He kept getting better. He survived for a year. Normally, a person with stage IV pancreatic cancer would be dead in six months. It never came back.
That’s when word began to spread about the man with the miracle cure.
Kelley was a prodigious researcher. He eventually discovered the work of Dr. John Beard. Beard was a researcher in Scotland at the turn of the 20th century. He did extensive research on cancer. He came up with a theory. Cancers operate in much the same way that placentas do in mothers during the first 56 days of pregnancy. The placentas grow rapidly and almost wildly. Then, on day 56, the day that the baby begins to secrete enzymes, the placentas stop growing wildly. The placentas are trophoblasts. He concluded that cancer cells are trophoblasts. (Gonzalez wrote this book in 2009: The Tropoblast and the Origins of Cancer.) He then concluded that it would be possible to treat cancer by means of enzymes. He wrote a book on this in 1911: The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer. For a little over a decade after 1906, physicians began treating cancer with pancreatic enzymes, but the practice fell out of favor after World War I. It was forgotten by the end of the 1920's.
Beard's book was extremely rare in 1962, but Kelley discovered it.
Kelley began using pancreatic enzymes in treating the people who came to him. He also began researching why some diets that are essentially vegetarian would not work with some kinds of cancer. He came to the conclusion that it has something to do with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. He then discovered the work a generation earlier by Francis Pottenger, Sr., on the autonomic nervous system. (His son was my physician in 1949-50. His diet, which I adopted at age 7, is discussed by Swander on pages 42-44.) Kelley began to prescribe various vitamins and minerals that would balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Different kinds of cancer afflicted the two groups.
He prescribed a diet of raw organic vegetables and juices to all patients. He had a number of diets, depending on the type of the autonomic nervous system (Gonzalez, One Man Alone, pages 11-13). Patients with hard tumors ate no red meat. They could have fish. Hard tumors of the breast, colon, liver, ovary, pancreas, or prostate, he said, were cancers usually afflicting people with sympathetic-dominant autonomic nervous systems (One Man Alone, p. 19). The parasympathetic patients were told to eat a lot of meat.
No white flour was allowed. Neither was white sugar. Gonzalez's protocol follows these restrictions.
INTERVIEW TO LIFE'S CALLING
When Gonzalez interviewed Kelley in 1981, he knew nothing of all this. But the more he interviewed Kelley that day, the more persuaded he was that Kelley may have stumbled into something really important. Gonzalez had enough information on medicine to ask the right questions. Kelley kept coming up with answers. They began discussing biochemistry.
He asked Kelley what Kelley was after. Kelley said he wanted his protocol to be put to the test by a reputable medical school. Gonzalez realized that he was in a position to help make this possible. That was because his mentor was Robert Good. Kelley knew exactly who Good was.
Kelley immediately invited Gonzalez to fly to Arlington, Texas with him the next day to look through his files of case studies. Gonzalez immediately went to Dr. Good and asked him if he thought it would be wise for him to begin the research the next day. Good told him that he ought to do it. So, Gonzalez went to Texas. That changed his life.
He took notes for two weeks. Then he went back to Dr. Good. The two of them met several times over the next two weeks. Good encouraged him to continue the research. In his third year of medical school, Gonzalez continued to research Kelley’s files that he had brought back. He phoned patients who are still alive. He visited some of them. He called Kelley on the phone continually.
Then, in the spring of 1982, everything was overturned. Dr. Good was demoted as president of Sloan Kettering. He was basically thrown out. Gonzalez’s mentor began a long decline of influence that lasted until he died. Gonzalez’s new advisor at medical school advised him not to have anything to do with Dr. Good. So, Gonzalez ceased meeting with the advisor. He kept doing the research.
After graduation, he flew to Seattle where Kelley was now located. Kelley had left Texas. For the next five years, he worked on what he hoped would be a book on Kelley’s discoveries. But in 1987, Kelley became increasingly paranoid. He severed his connection with Gonzalez. For years, Gonzalez could not get his manuscript on Kelley accepted by any publisher. Kelley grew suspicious. Eventually, he decided that Gonzalez was working for the CIA. Basically, he went off the rails.
There is a Wikipedia entry on Kelley. It is a hatchet piece. It ends with this.
In 1987, Gonzalez opened a tiny practice in New York City. Over the next two decades, he continued to research aspects of enzyme therapy, diet, and supplements. He researched the autonomic nervous system. Other physicians quietly referred their end-of-life patients to him. His protocol kept them alive. He even came up with a new formula for producing pancreatic enzymes that were more effective. He did this research in his kitchen. The success of his protocol increased. He made an arrangement with a New Zealand company to produce these enzymes under exacting conditions. The product is sold under the label Nutricology.
THE HAIR TEST
Essential to his treatment was an accurate diagnosis of an individual’s autonomic nervous system. He had to know whether the person was parasympathetic or sympathetic. He also had to know this with such precision that he could prescribe a wide range of supplements that would move the patient’s system back to neutrality. This, he concluded, is crucial to the successful treatment of cancer. He was convinced that a person’s genetic bias in favor of one or the other was the cause of whichever type of cancer he had.
He developed a hair test. By sending in about 14 strands of hair, a patient enabled Gonzalez to do a detailed analysis of his autonomic nervous system.
I first read about this in 2018. I considered flying to New York City to be treated by his colleague and successor. I realized that this diagnosis was the heart of what I would be paying for. I had no idea how some hair analysis company could analyze 14 strands of hair.
I found out how he did it last week. I read Swander’s biography. In chapter 25, she presents an account of a meeting that Gonzalez had in Israel in 1992 with a cancer researcher from the Netherlands, Hans Moolenburgh. The two became close friends. They had great respect for each other’s work. Here is the crucial paragraph.
Hans also zeroed in on Nick’s use of hair analysis as a diagnostic tool. Again, Hans couldn’t figure out how Nick was getting such specific and detailed information from the small strands of hair that Nick’s patients sent to be analyzed several weeks before their appointments. Then Hans realized that Nick was using an electronic apparatus invented by a San Francisco medical doctor named Albert Abrams, and perfected by an Oxford, England engineer named George de la Warr. Both inventors were attacked as quacks practicing pseudoscience, ridiculed for their research, and driven into bankruptcy. Hans himself had worked with the apparatus and was able to sort out many mysterious patient complaints. But he, like Nick, did not openly discuss the use of the apparatus, always mindful of the reaction they might receive from the traditional medical establishment (p. 187).
This was the first public reference to this device in the literature by Gonzalez or about Gonzalez. I hope it will not be the last.
I have no doubt that it takes time and a lot of patients to learn how to interpret and apply the results generated by this device. Every skill is a combination of what we call science and art. It is a combination of rigorous technique and intuition. This is the central skill associated with Gonzalez’s protocol.
Once a physician or a healing practitioner has the results from the device, the science phase of the protocol is eclipsed by intuition based on long experience. Without the machine, the entire diagnosis process is mostly intuitive. It would be extremely difficult to teach this skill. But, with the machine, the skill of diagnosis becomes teachable. There are objective numbers associated with the diagnosis. The existence of these numbers enables a practitioner to put together a protocol of supplements that will move the autonomic nervous system back into balance.
When a physician has this device, he can then use the pancreatic enzymes to fight the cancer cells. There are organic coffee enemas -- two in sequence, two cups each, ten minutes each, morning and evening -- to remove the toxins produced by dying cancer cells. There is a customized diet to keep the cancer from coming back. In contrast, without this diagnostic tool, the physician is not flying blind, but he is flying without instruments. His guesswork increases dramatically because the numerical analysis provided by the device is not available.
What if the protocol were available on a free market basis? What if it could be used in such a way that the medical authorities, backed by the state, could not do anything about it?
TELEMEDICINE VS. REGULATION
There are countries around the world that do not police and regulate healthcare delivery in the way that the United States and most Western European nations regulate it. Mexico is an example, but much of Asia also qualifies.
Digital communications are essentially free of charge. It doesn’t cost anything to have a Zoom connection with somebody anywhere in the world. Written communications can be through protonmail.com, which is encrypted.
Payments could be made through a bank that is located outside the jurisdiction of the patient's nation.
Consider the hair samples. The required 14 strands of hair can be sent inexpensively anywhere in the urban world. What is missing is the device. A physician who is located outside of the coercive arm of national governments in the West does not have access to this relatively inexpensive device that could be used in hair analysis.
I suspect that hair analysis can be used to treat diseases other than cancer. But I am talking here only of cancer.
Teaching how to use the device is far less rigorous than teaching modern medicine. There can be specialization. A specialist homes in on one disease or a subset of a disease. He doesn’t need three years of medical school and three years of residency in a hospital to enable him to do this. What he needs is a mentor.
THE SCHEMATICS
Today, the Internet allows instant communication of printed documents and especially printed schematics. Schematics are the key.
If someone had one of these devices and could get an engineer to make schematics of it, he could post this anonymously on one or more Web servers outside of the United States or any other nation that seeks to suppress unapproved medical devices. He might even pay for this Web-hosting service from a bank account located outside the United States. Communications with the bank could be by handwritten notes sent by Federal Express. The URL would be registered off shore by a foreign-owned service.
The schematics should be accompanied by an anonymously written PDF report on suggested research projects related to the autonomous nervous system and cancer. It should suggest research into the kinds of supplements that might be required to restore system's balance. There should be a warning against self-treatment. It is "for research purposes only." After all, who opposes scientific research?
The site's anonymous editor should post a PDF Dr. John Beard's 1911 book (now in the public domain) The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Its Scientific Basis. There should be a link to this article: "The Life and Times of John Beard, DSc (1858-1924)," by Ralph W. Moss.
Once the schematics and various suggested research projects are online, they could spread around the world.
Once the schematic is online, the device could be produced in small electronic hobby shops or even manufactured in China. Suppression by any state would be prohibitively expensive. Medical practitioners would be able to put it to productive use. They would not have to be state-licensed medical practitioners. They could be healers of any kind, located anywhere.
Once the schematics are online, the enzyme-based protocol that was begun by John Beard in 1906, extended by William Kelley from 1962 to the mid-1980's, and adopted by Dr. Gonzalez in 1987 will persevere.
Lives are at stake. They will continue to be at stake.
This can be done. It should be done. But will it be done?
CONCLUSION
There is also a legacy at stake: Beard to Kelley to Gonzalez. Without a systematic plan to recruit and train physicians in the use of the hair test analyzer, the legacy will be hampered. Healing professionals and self-treating cancer victims can go to Gonzalez's book on Kelley, One Man Alone, to get minimal information on Kelley's recommended supplements (pp. 27-28). But Kelley did not have access to pancreatic enzymes produced by Nutricology. Who would know how many pills to take every four hours? I take 96 a day, with no food or drink except distilled water for one hour before and after the pills. But I am not self-treating.
Then there are the successions of five-day breaks from the enzymes and the supplements: one break every 20 days. One is the liver flush, which he described to Somers (p. 92). But there are two others: a carrot juice fast, and another sequence involving citrus juices. Who would know about the details of these two breaks unless they were spelled out on a public website?
The device is the missing link. Apprenticeship in the use of the device under the guidance of Gonzalez's former colleague is the only possible source of the training.
The digital clock is ticking.
For several video interviews and presentations by Dr. Gonzalez, go here.