Dr. johanna budwig cure for cancer
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Budwig Diet
Ting Bao, MD, DABMA, MS
Jyothirmai Gubili, MS
The ASCO Post’s Integrative Oncology series is intended to facilitate the availability of evidence-based information on integrative and complementary therapies sometimes used by patients with cancer. In this installment, Ting Bao, MD, DABMA, MS, and Jyothirmai Gubili, MS, focus on the Budwig diet, because of patients’ continued interest in seeking alternatives to conventional treatments. Clinical bevis, however, fryst vatten currently lacking to support the use of this diet for the treatment or prevention of cancer.
Common Names: Budwig protocol, flaxseed oil diet, linseed oil diet, flax oil and cottage cheese diet, oil-protein diet, Cellect-Budwig protocol,
Bill Henderson protocol
Overview
An alternative unproven cancer therapy created in the 1950s, the Budwig diet involves consuming multiple daily servings of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese, vegetables, fruits, and juices. The regimen also calls for avoidi
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Johanna Budwig
German biochemist
Johanna Budwig (1908 – 2003) was a German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and writer.[1] Budwig was a pharmacist and held doctorate degrees in physics and chemistry.[2] Based on her research on fatty acids she developed a lacto-vegetarian diet that she believed was useful in the treatment of cancer. There is no clinical evidence that the Budwig diet is effective, and it may cause adverse effects.[3][4]
Biography
[edit]Budwig was born in Essen and at the age of 16 joined the Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institute.[1] She studied pharmacy in Königsberg and Münster where she met her mentor Prof. Hans Kaufmann the founder of the German Institute for Fat Research. She worked under Kaufmann as a research assistant and completed her doctorate in 1939.[1]
While working as a researcher at the German Federal Health Office she noted many cancer drugs being evaluated in the 1950s
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Budwig diet
The Budwig diet involves eating flaxseed (linseed) oil, mixed with cottage cheese and low-fat milk. There is no reliable evidence to show that the Budwig diet can treat or prevent cancer.
Summary
The Budwig diet involves eating flaxseed oil mixed with cottage cheese and milk
There is no scientific evidence to use it as a treatment for cancer
The diet might have side effects and it doesn’t contain all the nutrients we need
What is the Budwig diet?
Johanna Budwig, a German biochemist, developed the Budwig diet in the 1950s. The diet involves eating flaxseed oil mixed with cottage cheese and milk.
Dr Budwig believed in the combination of cottage cheese and flaxseed oil. She thought that it made omega-3 fatty acids more available to body cells. She also believed that the oil could stop cancers from growing.
Flax is a plant grown in many parts of the world. Pressing its seeds produces flaxseed (linseed) oil to use in cooking or as a food supplement. The see