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We offer our patients therapies to heal their emotional traumas. We have psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health practitioners who collaborate with us on this. Psychiatrists prescribe medication for depression, which is necessary for some cancer patients.

I will also spend about 30-45 minutes in an office visit teaching my patients how to do meditation, which I consider to be a critical practice, because the brain is a powerful tool that influences healing. Meditation can be helpful, regardless of people’s religion and who they believe in—whether Jesus, Moses, Buddha, or Mohammad, or even if they are agnostic. It’s important for them to obtain peace in their hearts and minds and ask God to come in and help them deal with their diseases.

One of the meditation exercises that I recommend and which I have developed over the years, involves meditating before eating, three or four times per day, as well as every time people are mad about something. I teach this practice to all of my patients. I also ask their family members to participate in the exercise, so that they won’t end up making fun of them and saying things like, “Come on, you need chemotherapy, vitamins, etc...not this meditation stuff!” Yes, patients need biochemical treatments, but they need spiritual therapy, too, which in my opinion, is really the main thing that influences the course of disease.

We also put our patients into the same room with their family and/or friends to discuss their treatment, and to get them all on the same page, as sometimes, they have differing opinions about which treatments are best. Patients who are mentally competent, however, ultimately need to make the decision about which treatments they should do. Their families shouldn’t decide for them.

First, I would say to those who want to prevent cancer or heal from it: change your garbage lifestyle! Stop smoking, drinking, using recreational drugs, and eating fast foods. Smell the flowers, exercise, and go to church. Stop and be appreciative of your family and your surroundings. Stop watching violent movies and watch funny ones instead. When you spend time with people, elevate them. Don’t tell them how bad things are. (Everyone is a grouch these days!). One of the biggest causes of cancer is other people. Some people bust others’ chops all day long, and say things like, “You’re no good. You’re a failure.” As kids, people used to hear their parents say things like, “I’m going to stick you in the closet and the boogeyman is going to get you” and then their teachers or others would say, “I’m going to flunk you” or “your boyfriend isn’t going to love you.” We preach hate! We need to stop preaching hate and stop trying to keep up with the Joneses’. Health is inversely proportional to the amount of wealth that you are trying to create. Not everyone is destined to be Linus Pauling or Michael Jordan. Time is a gift. Society promotes celebrities, football players, actors, and politicians, and we try to copy these guys, and it makes us sick!

If our patients don’t want to do IPT or can’t afford these treatments, we also have a cancer program which consists of all natural therapies. It includes the use of botanicals, Essiac tea, and substances for pH control. We also recommend teas, coffee enemas, and meditation, among other low-cost treatments for patients who don’t have much money.

We have nutritional cancer-prevention programs, which we recommend that patients come to see us for while they are still healthy, because the most ideal time for people to visit us is before their cancers even start. A famous study done by Tsunco Kobayashi, MD, in Japan, demonstrates how nutrition can prevent cancer. He has a nutritional program for people who want to prevent cancer,
but there are requirements for entrance into this program. Participants must be cancer- free, and have a sibling, parent, or child with cancer. Nobody who has participated in his studies has ever gotten cancer, which demonstrates the power of nutrition to heal cancer. For more information on Kobayashi’s research study, visit Gary Gordon, MD’s, website:
www.gordonresearch.com
, which contains information on a wide range of health subjects, including cancer.

The most important factor affecting patients’ healing is their ability to comply with a treatment regimen. Second in importance is their willingness to change their lifestyles. For instance, they may need to change their profession, or the city that they live in. If they are in an ugly situation and have a spouse that beats them up, then they need to get a divorce! Of course, the type and stage of cancer that patients have also impacts their ability to heal.

Interference of family members is the next greatest hindrance to healing. For instance, when they give negative feedback to the cancer patient, and say things like, “If you don’t do this therapy, you’re going to die,” the patient’s healing is blocked. I’m convinced that the number one cause of chronic illness is other humans. The third roadblock to healing is not having enough money to pay for treatments.

About fifteen years ago, I saw an article which stated that, when it comes to medical treatments, 29 percent of American people will do whatever treatment the government or FDA recommends. Another fifteen to twenty percent will do exactly the opposite of what the government says (some just out of spite). Then there are people in the middle, who waver but who are open to using either alternative or conventional medicine. In my clinical experience, patients choose treatments based on their personal belief systems, lifestyles, or financial abilities. In the end, we must take responsibility for
ourselves and our bodies if we want to be healthy. Somehow, the United States government has convinced us that they will take care of us from cradle to grave, but this is a scary thought indeed! Ultimately, our treatment decisions should be based on the efficacy of different treatments, not the belief system behind them or any other factor.

No doctor has any solid statistics regarding the effectiveness of IPT or any other treatment that we do, although currently, our clinic is performing an FDA-funded, Quality of Life study to ascertain the efficacy of our treatments. This five-year study started in 2010.

I have seen our treatments completely reverse stage four cancers on rare occasion. Furthermore, we’ve never had to hospitalize anyone. We do all of our treatments on an outpatient basis, because IPT and our other treatments are a gentler approach to cancer treatment. (Metronomic chemotherapy is also an approach that has fewer complications for patients).

While I have seen total reversals of cancer in a few patients who have stage three and four cancers, whenever patients reach these stages, my goal is mostly to improve their quality of life. And how well this happens depends upon the person, not the type of cancer that they have. We do see many patients leading normal lives as a result of our treatments though, and participating in activities such as playing golf, going on vacation, and enjoying friends and spouses. Over 90 percent of our patients say that they are satisfied with their experiences at our clinic. Most are really happy to be here, because we lay everything out on the table for them, and treat them with kindness and love.

I have had a couple of patients with stage four cancers who were told that nothing could be done for them, and they have so far lived for a year or two past their original diagnoses. For instance, a woman who came to see us in February 2009, had had a double mastectomy, and undergone chemotherapy and radiation, but these
treatments didn’t work well for her. Her conventional doctors told her that they had done all that they could for her. So she came to me, with stage four cancer and metastases everywhere. We treated her, and her blood tests have been good and her CT scan results have been negative for over a year now. This is exciting news. Is she cured? I don’t know, but she’s working full time, going to church, traveling, and enjoying her husband and kids.

The chances for long-term survival increase if patients exercise, comply with their treatment regimens, and become loving and kind people (if they weren’t before). The fourteenth century physician Paracelsus said, “There are no incurable diseases, just incurable people.”

As a practitioner, my greatest challenge in treating cancer is dealing with medical authorities who do business a certain way and step on doctors’ toes if they don’t like what they do. That said, and in all fairness to the opposition, the Quality of Life study that the FDA has approved for me would have never happened two or three years ago. This year, mainstream physicians have also been referring their patients to me, which is unusual. They are more comfortable doing this now than they were in prior years. So I think we’ve turned a corner when it comes to making people aware of other effective cancer treatments. We are still looking for politicians to get involved, though. To step up to the plate and allow natural remedies to be a part of FDA-approved treatment regimens. I’m in favor of naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, and allopathic medicine all co-existing and being accepted as part of Western medicine, and I’m dreaming of the day when all of us (practitioners) can work together under one roof. It seems as if this is a real possibility and could happen at some point in the future.

Government and commercial opposition (pharmaceutical companies) is the greatest challenge of treating cancer patients. The next greatest challenge is patients not wanting to change their lifestyles. The majority of people with cancer would be content to go through
a drive-thru window, and say, “Give me an IV, don’t ask me questions, and I won’t ask you questions, either,” then leave the drive-thru and live their lives as they please, and yet expecting to get well. Most of them would rather die than change their lifestyles and do what I tell them. They understand that they could die, but they still say, “Well, if I can’t eat whatever I want and have my inappropriate medications and the booze that I drank before, then I don’t want to live, anyway.”

The most important thing that people with cancer can do is become informed about their treatment options. In the Bible, when God went to King Solomon and asked him what he wanted, and told him that he could have anything in the world, Solomon chose wisdom. Information is the most powerful thing on the planet, so patients should know their treatment options. The second most important thing cancer patients should do is feed their bodies with natural, organic foods. Thirdly, they should have a complete understanding of their diseases. I’m a Board Certified surgeon, and I know what the “other side” knows about conventional cancer treatments. If we (doctors) cut out our patients’ tumors with surgery, we still can’t say that they are cured, because cancer is like diabetes. Once you have diabetes, you have it for the rest of your life, and you must manage it, with pills and insulin. Cancer is a chronic disease, too, it’s just more advanced; the last stage of a chronic disease. So once people have cancer, even if their doctors pronounce them cured, they must continue on a treatment regimen for the rest of their lives. Patients must arm themselves with this kind of information.

It’s like this: if you take a beautiful crystal ball and drop it, and it cracks into two pieces, and you put it back together with crazy glue, nobody ever knows that is has been broken. People with cancer are like broken crystal balls that have been put back together with glue, and they need to take care of themselves. Once they get a chronic disease, that disease must be “babysat.” It’s also similar to a car that has been in a wreck and requires more ongoing maintenance than the one that has never been in a wreck. It’s not enough to have a
negative CT scan and blood test results. If people go back to the old lifestyle habits which caused their cancers in the first place, then those cancers will come back. They must be vigilant and find competent practitioners who will care for them for the rest of their lives. They should have doctors who will check up on them no less than twice a year. Those are my recommendations. I tell people: “Don’t give in! Continue on a regimen, and be happy! Don’t forget to be happy, love, and forgive, above all.”

The following is comprehensive site which describes IPT and provides a list of practitioners who use IPT:
www.IPTforcancer.com
.

Last year, some doctors, including me, got together and wrote a book which gives an overview of IPT. The book is called,
A Gentler, Kinder Cancer Treatment.
It can be found on
Amazon.com
. All proceeds go to the Best Answer for Cancer Foundation.

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Dr. Joe Brown graduated from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences in Tempe, Arizona, in July 2005. He was President of his class for a year and a half before becoming President of the Student Government Association (SGA), where he also served on numerous committees and participated in the development of the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME) and Higher Learning Commission (HLC). He is a member of the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OncANP), the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), and Naturopathic Public Awareness Campaign (NPAC). He has also spoken at numerous open house events and taught classes at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Arizona State University, and Rio Salado College. As well, he has been the keynote speaker on alternative cancer therapies at various breast health awareness events, which are held yearly at Del E. Webb Banner Hospital in Sun City, Arizona.