As I have often warned, the information promoted on much of the internet and social media is mere propaganda intended to drive profits and power into the hands of unsavory people, and I refer to it in my most recent book[1] on how we can solve Climate Change as “panic-porn.”[2] In regards to the Budwig Diet for cancer, Web MD[3] does an astonishing job of panic-porning, suggesting to me that they are benefitting from bribes or other benefits in some way. Otherwise, what do they stand to gain by publishing such blatant lies? They state:
“No research has shown that the Budwig (diet) can prevent or treat cancer, however. It is also risky as it is restrictive. It can put you at risk for having vitamin and mineral deficiencies.”
Oh sure, a mixture of flax oil and cottage cheese is “risky and restrictive” especially when one considers the excessive volume of food to the tune of a few heaping tablespoonfuls a day. The omega oils and great nutrients in cottage cheese will put you “at risk for having vitamin and mineral deficiencies.” Is there any wonder that our healthcare system has lost credibility, especially when such blatant lies are promoted in favor of the truly “risky” and profitable “cut (surgery), burn (radiation) and poison (chemotherapy)” treatments. We the public as well as the medical professionals are somehow expected to buy into this mass psychosis that is dumped on us by our panic-porned, healthcare system, which strangely fails to promote “causal medicine,” that could educate us about why our brain and body gets sick, so that we can make rational choices to promote wellness. Oh no, our healthcare system promotes “descriptive medicine” which is about finding a DSM5 or ICD10 diagnostic label, which rarely has anything to do with the root physiological causes, and then addressing that diagnostic label with “cut, burn and poison” so-called treatments. Any treatment which could address those root causes, like the Budwig Diet, is then scorned as being “risky and restrictive.” I regularly find myself astonished that healthcare consumers and providers fall for these lies.
The research articles cited on Ty Bollinger’s website alone about the Budwig diet,[4] a combination of high-lignan flax and cottage cheese, therefore doesn’t exist, according to WebMD. The peer-reviewed paper published in Nutrition and Cancer by L Amy et. al. doesn’t exist either[5], in which the authors state:
“The most support for a role of lignans (from flax) in cancer is observed for premenopausal breast cancer. Additional epidemiological studies that use a prospective design and well-developed food databases and questionnaires are needed to adequately evaluate the role of lignans in cancer prevention.”
In true panic-porn style, WebMD lays on the fear factor thick, stating that: “It (the Budwig Diet) is also risky as it is restrictive. It can put you at risk for having vitamin and mineral deficiencies” – as if they gave a flying hoot about vitamin and mineral deficiencies that predispose to cancer or anything else. The more cancer that exists in the world, the more profits and power they have. OK, in all honesty, perhaps if you were a Martian living on Neptune, the Budwig diet could be “restrictive” and “risky” and “put you at risk for having vitamin and mineral deficiencies,” but for Earthlings, which accounts for all of my patients, WebMD’s statement is a sociopathic lie. WebMD stands to benefit from the cancer epidemic, and all of the paranoia, and boldface lies promote that objective, in my humble opinion.
Luke
My sweet, nearly 16-year-old Labrador, Luke, is on the Budwig diet (AKA Buddy Custard – the dog’s brand), along with dozens of other cancer remedies I mix in his organic dogfood (Cornucopia brand[6]). He is also getting conventional IV chemotherapy at the Veterinary Referral Associates in Gaithersburg who provide excellent, conventional, cut (surgery), burn (radiotherapy) and poison (chemotherapy) treatments for doggie cancer. You see, I believe that there is role for the very limited benefits of the “cut, burn and poison” approach to dealing with some cancers. The Veterinary Referral Associates market themselves as promoting “integrative” veterinary practices, but of course, like most oncology human medicine, they don’t have the slightest clue about any of that, in my opinion. Luke’s last ultrasound suggests that his extensive cancer has disappeared completely, so perhaps I will be bathed in his unconditional love for some more years.
After a few rounds of the commercial Budwig diet being added to his dogfood, The Buddy Custard people were so hard to reach, that I decided to improve on the formula which I list below. Luke takes a few nibbles of his dogfood, loaded with the Budwig protocol, hemp oil, a ton of herbs, organic broccoli powder, and other anti-cancer components, and looks me in eye, as if to say, “All these years you have provided me with tasty organic food, and now you expect me to eat this garbage?”
So here it is, a marked improvement on the Budwig Protocol. Golly gee, I should market this and become a millionaire!
Cottage Cheese – Buy the fermented cottage cheese or “Nancy’s” brand in Whole Foods. Try it yourself, and like me, you might agree that it is so much better than any other brand of cottage cheese, that you may never go back to the unfermented, tasteless crap. Why not benefit from the extra probiotics in the Nancy’s brand and make your gut healthier, which by the way, is very important for recovery from cancer or any chronic health problem. As 70% of our immune system is in and around our intestines – same for puppy dogs – to protect us from unfriendly, carcinogenic flora (bacteria, fungus and parasites), do you want your immune system to be distracted in its fight of unfriendly flora or cancer cells, which we all generate every second of our lives? Of course not. We all would like to make rational choices when it comes to cancer, and assist the immune system to divert its attention away from unfriendly gut flora to cancer cells, and other truly pathological agents, like the COVID virus, that your government financed the development of in a germ warfare weapons lab in Wuhan, China, right? Doesn’t that make sense? Remember, WebMD warns that the Budwig diet is “risky and restrictive” simply because you will be empowered to address your own cancer or that in your loved ones (including your pets), in a natural and effective way, and that cuts into their profit margin and their power to successfully propagandize their “panic porn.” The “risk” is to their political power and their profits.
Flax Oil is the other ingredient in the Budwig diet, and of course I have redesigned improvements there also. While you are at Whole Foods, buy organic, high lignan, unfiltered, flax oil, and mix in a few tablespoonfuls with a few heaping tablespoonfuls of Nancy’s brand cottage cheese – and Voila!! – you now have the Dr. Gant’s Super-Duper Budwig Protocol. Buy the unfiltered Flax Oil and shake the bottle up each time you draw off a few tablespoonfuls, as all the unfiltered gunk, including the very therapeutic lignans, can settle to the bottom of the bottle.
I personally do not like the taste of flax oil, so I take it as 3 capsules twice a day, but my Sweet Luke[7] seems to like it fine. Perhaps it’s oily taste offsets some of the nasty tastes of all of the other anti-cancer nutrients in his dogfood that he expresses his daily protests about. I am trying to stave off cancer in my aged body too, so I can continue to write these silly articles for you for years to come. I tell Luke frequently, that we are a couple of old dogs just trying to “keep on keepin’ on.[8]” He never appreciates my humor.
Well, that’s it. Of course, the Budwig Cancer Center provides a lot more anti-cancer remedies, just as we do at NIHA, but the cottage cheese and high-lignin flax oil protocol is what they are best known for, and might I add, what has been studied to be very effective in published, reputable peer-reviewed studies. Which, I might also add, is what WebMD is outright lying about. I will proceed to recommend my spruced up Budwig protocol for all of my cancer patients too, and what the heck? This is not a bad addition to everyone else’s diet, as we all make lots of cancer cells every second of our lives. Might as well add Dr. Gant’s Super-Duper Budwig Protocol to your diet and make the number two cause of death in America, cancer, somewhat less likely for you and for those you love, including your beloved pets.
[1] Gant C (2022) An Earthly Chance: The Only Sane Climate Change Solution Possible is Science-Based, Economically-Responsible, and Healing of Human Beings and Our Environment
[2] Media content that deliberately and enticingly plays on people’s fears about disaster, disease and death. – from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/22380/fear+porn#:~:text=Media%20content%20that%20deliberately%20and,about%20disaster%2C%20disease%20and%20death.
[3] https://www.webmd.com/cancer/what-to-know-budwig-diet
[4] https://dev.thetruthaboutcancer.com/flaxseeds-can-prevent-help-heal-body-cancer/
[5] Amy L. Webb & Marjorie L. McCullough (2005) Dietary Lignans: Potential Role in Cancer Prevention, Nutrition and Cancer, 51:2, 117-131, DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc5102_1
[6] https://www.cornucopiapetfoods.com/
[7] Sweet Luke is actually his American Kennel Club official name, because even as a puppy, he was so sweet, that the breeders actually took him (and not his siblings) into bed with them.
[8] Lyric from a Bob Dillan song: “Genghis Khan and his brother John, couldn’t keep on keepin’ on.”