Duncan CrowGermany's Dr. Joanna Budwig is widely credited for promoting flax oil and cottage cheese as a cure for cancer and degenerative diseases. But newer data has emerged that shows where we can improve on the 60-year old "Budwig Diet". Unlike casein in cottage cheese, which has been implicated as a cancer cause, whey has reversed cancer in the research; similarly, unlike flax oil, cod-liver oil has been found to reverse cancer, and each worked even on its own.
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Sulfur-rich protein and calcium in the original "Budwig Diet" is provided by cottage cheese; however, many people can not digest cottage cheese because it is higher in indigestible alpha-casein than either human milk or goat milk. In contrast, whey proteins are more easily assimilated than any other protein you can eat and they do not produce sensitivity or allergy issues. According to the Physicians Desktop Reference for Prescription Drugs, a pure whey isolate is "well-tolerated by even severely milk-sensitive individuals", and practice corroborates that. There are variances in the outcome of the extraction processes, but even whey concentrates are generally well tolerated and whey protein isolates are usually even better tolerated. Although biological incompatibilities do exist in foreign milk, comments that lump 'dairy' products together as problems are quite sloppy because the statement does not apply to high-quality whey, which is widely known to be the most healthy fraction of milk.
Bottom line - once the casein is removed to make cottage cheese, most of the whey is an exact match across the whole mammalian order, it has been used even alone to reduce cancer, and this has been reported in peer-reviewed studies, one of which I have posted in the glutathione references about fourth link down.
Have a good read; it might save your life, even on its own.
For good reason, the Budwig Diet revision changes out the bio-incompatible cottage cheese for compatible whey solids. Yet there's more; unlike cottage cheese, undenatured whey contains the sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine, and other cysteine-bearing compounds including cystine. This is crucial to know as cellular cysteine availability is the rate-limiting factor in production of glutathione, the body's master antioxidant and detoxifier. Glutathione is crucial to life; it's involved in ATP energy generation, immune system support, liver and other organ support, reducing toxin load and oxidative stress, and importantly, it shrinks tumors when levels are maintained. Low levels have much to do with disease and even cancer. Undenatured whey is chemotherapeutic and one brand even carries a method-of-use patent as as a chemotherapeutic.
Whey adheres to the principles of the "Budwig Diet", it will provide huge additional benefit, and it is uniquely alkalizing, in contrast to acidifying cottage cheese and other animal proteins. And, also unlike cottage cheese, several cold-processed wheys are listed in the US Physicians Desktop Reference as a specific anti-cachexia (anti-wasting) food.
The flaxseed oil in the original Budwig Diet provides the fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which was previously considered to be an ' essential ' omega-3 oil; however, more recent science has revealed that ALA is not at all equivalent to omega-3 essential fatty acids EPA (eicosapentanoic acid) and DHA (docosahexanoic acid) , and that there is no known cellular need for alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) independent of its conversion to EPA/DHA. That's right, Virginia, ALA is NON-essential, it's not needed at all, and this can be seen in the study of the survival of breast-fed babies when they have EPA and DHA in their milk but no ALA. So much for the spin that it is "essential" or necessary huh?
In adults the conversion rate from alpha-linolenic acid is tiny. Expect from a 1% to 3% conversion of ALA to EPA and 0.01% to DHA; that is, IF the conversion pathway is not already loaded with omega-6 unsaturated oil as is normally the case in developed countries. Though the newer details have escaped the followers of Joanna Budwig and Udo Erasmus, fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd Chilton fully explains them in his book Inflammation Nation. Chilton says (page 97),
"I wish I could tell you that the alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) in flaxseed oil could replace wild fish as a rich source of EPA and DHA but the scientific literature simply does not support this contention. ...We do the conversion but very slowly, and we also eat a lot of fatty acids such as linoleic acid (LA) that 'compete' for enzymes that convert ALA to EPA and DHA, further limiting its conversion." Further, essential fatty acids research explain why you may need vastly more EPA and DHA than they figured, much more than any ALA supplement could ever provide with its tiny conversion.Thus the omega-6 content of the flax oil, (25% of the amount of ALA as seen in the table below) also inhibits the conversion of the ALA to DHA and EPA, the "real" essential fatty acids.
Composition of flax seed oil:
|
Fatty acid |
Percent |
|
Alpha linolenic (omega-3) |
55 |
|
Linoleic (omega-6) |
13.8 |
|
Oleic |
21.5 |
|
Stearic |
2.2 |
|
Palmitic (saturated) |
7.1 |
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