Re: calcium & asparagus

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In a message dated 10/06/2001 12:38:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

jinouy01@... writes:

> I understand vegetable juices have more bio-available calcium than

> does milk(?).

It's also my understanding that the calcium in vegetables (particularly

green, leafy ones) and vegetable juices is more bio-available than is the

calcium in milk. For several reasons, I would NOT drink milk if I had cancer,

and I probably wouldn't consume any dairy other than cottage cheese or yogurt

mixed w/flax seed oil.

Other foods/supplements that contain calcium and have cancer-healing

properties include shark cartilage (which contains a HUGE amount of calcium;

I believe bovine cartilage does NOT), grapes, apricot (preferably dried),

dandelion, and bee pollen.

> Also, try ASPARAGUS for cancer. Herbal healer recommends it.

I read somewhere (Moss's _Herbs Against Cancer_?) that several people have

reported recovering from cancer just by eating primarily asparagus. Also, it

contains beta-carotene & abscisic acid (which Livingston emphasized for

healing cancer).

I've read positive and negative things about calcium for people w/cancer. It

has some anti-cancer properties, and several alternative approaches and

alternative cancer doctors

include/recommend up to 1000-1500mg/day of calcium. Also, it may be helpful

to take calcium with mistletoe. And I've heard good things about Calcium

d-glucarate (CDG) and that it's reportedly synergistic w/vit. A. " CDG works

by metabolizing an excess of estrogen in the body. " The Life Extension

Foundation website may have more info on CDG for cancer patients.

However, I believe that , M.D. (are probably other Kelley

therapy practitioners) said that sympathetic-dominant metabolic types (which

includes most patients w/[solid-tumor] cancers other than leukemia, lymphoma,

myeloma, and

melanoma) should generally NOT take calcium but that they should take

magnesium. If I had a solid-tumor cancer (rather than 1 of the above types of

cancer), I

would NOT take calcium supplements unless instructed by a health

practitioner.

According to , leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma,

and melanoma patients are rather consistently

PARAsympathetic-dominant metabolic types. For them,

calcium is reportedly helpful, as is up to 1.5g/day of

calcium ascorbate (a form of vit. C), but magnesium is NOT indicated. I think

it's related to the fact that sympathetics tend to be acidic, whereas

parasympathetics tend to be alkaline.

In a message dated 10/05/2001 9:58:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

myrta@... writes:

> Dr. Gerson suggested no extra Calcium, it is not good for Cancer, check

> for your self in his Book " A CANCER THERAPY " .

Yes, and he added that calcium compound has caused rapid

incurable regrowths of cured osteosarcomas (primary bone cancer). However,

although I wouldn't advise supplemental calcium for most people w/solid-tumor

cancers, I don't think it's dangerous either (except possibly for people

w/osteosarcoma).

> In general there is too much Calcium taken, and not enough Magnesium.

That's consistent w/what says for people who are

sympathetic-dominant.

Leonard