Comments on: Flaxseed Oil Used to Treat Cancer

by: Jack

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:29:13 +0000

It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place

by: seth

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:45:48 +0000

Here is another article about Budwig:

http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Budwig.html

The Budwig diet curiously combines my two latest nutritional interests: flaxseed oil and fermented foods.

by: donald a,

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:44:46 +0000

dr.budwig noticed the interaction between flaxseed oil and cottage cheese in the 1950’s, being a noted german chemist and all. there are hundreds of testimonials to support what she claimed, and even if you only believe half of what her patients have said, maybe there’s some credibility to it. she did live into her 90’s, so maybe it works for some. seems like a cheap insurance policy if it does some good. we need those omegas in our diet anyway.

by: Adam

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:16:10 +0000

I’ve been eating 1/2 cup of no fat cottage cheese with 1 tbls. of flax 2 or 3 times a day with my nose clip for a few weeks now. Regardless of whether it prevents/cures cancer, it is a good appetite suppressor because of the fat and protein.

by: seth

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:34:00 +0000

MT, yes, the linked-to article is a mess. As I pointed out and as you point out. Whether it is worthless or even harmful, as you seem to say, is a very different question. I assumed that Budwig did in fact publish papers with supporting data but I wasn’t able to find links to them. Someone who wants to know more about this could track them down and decide for themselves. I do endorse trying to find out more about this — especially if you have cancer.

by: MT

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:18:41 +0000

The linked article describes a “proven cure and preventative for cancer” but doesn’t substantiate those claims at all, it simply asserts a theory and protocol. This article is bad science and bad journalism. A disingenuous title misleading readers about the article’s content (low journalistic integrity) and failing to support its claims to even the most basic scientific standard. I wonder if people who follow this link will feel that it has been approved by Seth Roberts, professor and author, and attempt to cure themselves of cancer this way? Reading it, you get the sense the author believes chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer itself, and seems to discourage chemotherapy as a treatment. So I guess we are getting a natural experiment. People being encouraged to refuse treatments offered by the “cancer industry” and to use flax oil and cottage cheese instead. Would be interested to learn which group has better outcomes, but I don’t imagine the data will be collected.

by: John

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:41:04 +0000

Also sounds like a low carb diet. Lots of fat, a nice amount of protein, very low in carbohydrates. The Budwig Diet itself, not so much.

by: david

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:28:15 +0000

The tone of that site sounds nutty BUT I will say that after I started consuming more flax oil (mostly using it to make a salad dressing) for the omega-3s, I happened to eat some yogurt with a spicy Indian meal. I’d been avoiding yogurt since I’d had trouble with dairy in the past, but this was a good quality plain “Bulgarian yogurt with live acidophilus” so there was a good chance it wouldn’t give me any problems. After having the yogurt, I found myself craving the yogurt and now eat a jar a week at least. In addition, I seem more tolerant of dairy in general.

I don’t know if there’s any connection between any of that, but I thought I’d throw that in.

by: Nadav Manham

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:07:01 +0000

Seth,

Apparently Weston Price gave cod liver oil with butter oil, which seems to have improved its effectiveness:

http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/cod-liver-oil-menu.html