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A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW:
COMING HOME FROM CANCER AND DISEASE
By: Richard E. Bergeron III
Introduction
If cancer were a living, breathing creature, it would be a formidable beast. The cruel and heartless monster released from the depths of Hell would take its prey down slowly, turning the body of it’s every victim into its own food. It would rival any bogeyman ever dreamt up and put all other monsters to shame with its sheer ugliness and hearty appetite.
In fact, cancer is still a mystery to modern medicine, an ever unfolding tale of dread and doom. The disease defies every attempt to eradicate it, and it lurks waiting to attack in the shadows of every human life. It will either descend upon us or those close to us, an unannounced and uninvited guest that will not leave without a long fight. Often it reveals itself only after it is too late for the latest technology (approved by our health plans) to cure it.
“In 1986, according to Business Week, $450 million was being spent annually on cancer chemotherapy,” writes Ralph Moss in his book The Cancer Industry. That money spent on 714-X, the treatment I will discuss at length in this book, would be enough to start 1,500,000 cancer patients on their first injection cycles.
If patients now favoring traditional approaches to cancer began jumping to the alternative side, Big Medicine stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars by ‘86 standards. Has anything changed? Yes. The costs are going up. The National Cancer Institute reported that cancer treatment accounted for about $41 billion in 1995, just under 5 percent of total U.S. spending for medical treatment.
The NCI also claims that in the 10 years from 1985 to 1995, the overall costs of treating cancer more than doubled. Ralph Moss describes the problem in The Cancer Industry with his claim, “Although no one consciously planned it that way, cancer generates a great deal of business for the medical profession.” Cancer is also responsible for an economic burden estimated at a whopping $143.5 billion in 1996.* That figure includes losses in time and productivity as a result of cancer-related illness and death.
Cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and lung became the 9th leading cause of death worldwide in 1999. In Europe those cancers were the third leading cause of death, and in the Americas they ranked fourth.
The World Health Report that recorded these numbers also warned, “With current smoking patterns, about 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco.” The Center for Disease Control’s Office on Smoking and Health reports, “Each year, more than 430,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking. In fact, one in every five deaths in the United States is smoking related.” The same office also reports that smoking in the U.S. declined to 25.5 percent of the population in 1994 down from 42.4 percent in 1965. Still, that’s a significant percentage of the population headed for trouble. Even non-smokers are at risk. “Annually, exposure to secondhand smoke causes an estimated 3,000 deaths from lung cancer among American adults. Scientific studies also link secondhand smoke with heart disease,” the CDC asserts. Evidently cigarettes also generate their share of business for the health care industry.
Cash-strapped states have even been funneling money earmarked for smoking related medical costs into other programs, while at the same time many of those states also earn money from cigarette taxes. New Hampshire, the state I now call home, is pouring money from tobacco settlements into education while hiking the cigarette tax at the same time.
Another problem also plagues the American Public. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute declares in Time‘s year 2000 Almanac, “Overweight and obesity continue to be an alarming health problem in the United States, affecting 97 million American adults- an astonishing 55% of the population.” NBC Nightly News reported in May of 2002 that the number of overweight Americans has already jumped to 61% of the population.
Across the country waistlines are growing larger, and the cause seems to be a general lack of exercise and an excess of food intake. There are a world of problems associated with overeating including high blood pressure, heart disease, and even cancer. In fact, the very foods a person eats and the liquids he drinks may be the direct cause of some cancers. The chemicals used in some of the products on grocery store shelves across the country and the world are known to cause cancer in lab tests on animals.
One of the most dangerous foods is also one of the most popular. An April 25, 2002 Reuters report begins, “Potato chips, French fries, biscuits, and bread, eaten daily by millions of people around the world, contain alarmingly high amounts of a substance believed to cause cancer, Swedish scientists said yesterday.”
The piece went on to warn that the toxin Acrylamide is found in very high concentrations “when carbohydrate-rich foods such as rice, potatoes, and cereals are fried or baked.” The danger may not be as prevalent when the same foods are boiled.
The article further explains, “Acrylamide is known to cause damage to the human nervous system, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer says it has been found to induce gene mutations and cause stomach tumors in animals.” One test found that 1 bag of potato chips contained 500 times more Acrylamide than the World Health Organization allows in drinking water. A recent Harvard study concluded that Acrylamide intake is not as threatening as it is being portrayed. The scientists involved there also admit that more research is warranted to guarantee their findings. They also warn that people who eat cereals every day may be getting the most consistent amounts of Acrylamide.
Think about fast food restaurants for a minute. Americans eat 83 million hamburgers a day according to The Food Network. That’s 166 million pieces of Acrylamide-laden bread and 83 million slabs of greasy red meat. The Food Network also reports that the average American eats about 45 pounds of French fries every year. Take those fries and throw them in a vat of boiling oil, and you’re frying up a carcinogen. We must revolutionize the way we eat. Morgan Spurlock’s Documentary Supersize Me addressed this problem on many fronts, but his primary target was McDonalds. As part of his efforts he put different menu items in mason jars to view their decomposition over time. The French fries barely broke down at all while everything else turned to mold.
No matter what you call it: soda, pop, tonic, or coke, any carbonated beverage that contains Aspartame may also be a health hazard. The Department of Health and Human Services lists complaints about several products containing Aspartame. These products include: diet soft drinks, table top sweeteners, puddings, lemonade, Kool Aid, iced tea, chewing gum, hot chocolate, frozen confections, cereal, sugar substitute tablets, breath mints, punch mix, and fruit drinks.
Mark Gold, a research expert, maintains the FDA initially rejected Aspartame because seizures and brain tumors were found in lab animals that were exposed to the artificial sweetener. Gold described how the FDA’s refusal to OK Aspartame went on for eight years, up until Ronald Reagan became president and fired the FDA commissioner.
Then, even after a board of inquiry voted not to approve the product, the new commissioner overruled the board and approved Aspartame. The main problem with Aspartame is that it contains methanol. In fact, Gold declares that heavy users of Aspartame may consume up to 250 mg of methanol a day, which is 32 times the EPA limit. He further explains that when methanol oxidizes inside the body it becomes formaldehyde and formic acid. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen and a neurotoxin, Gold states.
As of April 20, 1995, diet soft drinks accounted for 3021 complaints made to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding Aspartame. The DHHS reports that the symptoms attributed to Aspartame’s ill effects are numerous and include: headache, dizziness/poor equilibrium, changes of mood, vomiting or nausea, abdominal pain and cramps, change in vision, diarrhea, seizures and convulsions, memory loss, fatigue, and changes in heart rate.
Ironically, Aspartame was designed as a sugar substitute. It is used in products that are deemed more healthy than those containing sugar. Sugar may not be the most healthy product to ingest, but in this case it might be better than the alternative. Robert C. Atkins, MD, the inventor of the famed Atkins Diet, always recommended Sucralose and discouraged Aspartame.
So what foods help? Vegetables have been known to provide beneficial results, and an Associated Press piece from the spring of 2002 pronounces, “Broccoli and broccoli sprouts contain a chemical that kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach cancer, say researchers.” The piece goes on to say, “In laboratory tests on mice the chemical, sulforaphane, killed helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that causes stomach ulcers and often fatal stomach cancers.” The article points out that all cruciferous vegetables offer the same effect. Cruciferous vegetables include: cabbage, collards and mustard greens, and Brussels sprouts. Other vegetables that have been known to have positive anti-cancer effects are artichokes, asparagus, carrots, cauliflower, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, and kale.
Drinking tea is also paramount to ultimate health. Taiwanese researchers found that a tea habit helps preserve bone density. A Boston Herald wire report from May 13, 2002 quotes study authors Chih-Hsing Wu and Chih-Jen Chang of the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan. The two scientists state, “The protective effect of tea on bone mineral density of the total body, lumbar spine and hip regions was clearly demonstrated.” The wire report continues, “They concluded it was the duration of habitual tea drinking, not the amount of tea consumed, that conferred the benefit on bones.” A Newsweek blurb points out, “’Brewing is crucial,’ says Dr. Iman Hakim of the Arizona Cancer Center. In one cancer study, she found that instant and bottled teas afforded no protection, because they’re too dilute and low in antioxidants. The stronger the brew, the better.” So, substitute the soda for a good strong cup of tea.
Unfortunately, there is no substitute for a good workout. I’ve heard news reports that claim there will be a simple pill people can take in the future that will keep the body lean and trim. I doubt it will supply the same kind of results as a serious exercise routine can produce.
The Associated Press detailed a study that proves the importance of physical fitness in a May 20, 2002 article. “Researchers followed 25,892 men aged 30 to 87 who took treadmill tests to determine the most exercise they could do. The men were followed for an average of 10 years. In this time there were 133 deaths from cancers related to smoking and 202 deaths from other cancers,” the article explained. Not surprisingly the AP reported, “The most-fit men had a 55 percent lower risk of all-cause cancer death than did low-fit men, and moderately fit men had a 38 percent lower risk, said researchers Chong Do Lee of West Texas A&M University and Steven N. Blair of the Cooper Institute of Dallas.” Experts pointed out that the findings could just mean that the more fit men either were better able to handle treatment or they caught their cancers earlier because they were more health conscious and visited their doctors more often. “To be moderately fit, a person would have to run 20 to 40 minutes, three to five times a week,” the piece continued, “To be most fit, a person would have to be at the recreationally competitive level.”
Another study mentioned in the AP account established that the level of intensity of the exercise was the most important factor. “Researchers at Britain’s Royal Free and University College Medical School followed 7,588 men aged 40-59 for an average of almost 19 years,” the article states. The numbers achieved by this different study were not too far from the one described above. Most-fit men maintained a 46 percent lower risk of developing cancer not related to smoking and a 66 percent lower risk of acquiring cancers related to smoking. Moderately fit men enjoyed a 34 percent lower risk for non-smoking related cancers, and a 43 percent lower risk of cancers connected to smoking. The AP news release went on to clarify, “…The more strenuous the activity, the greater was the benefit.”
Two studies and almost 33,500 men hammer home the point that strenuous and frequent exercise can prolong human life and can even prevent cancer to a certain degree.
Cancer is puzzling at best, mind numbingly complicated and vast in its many different forms and targets at its worst. Dr. Ralph Moss in The Cancer Industry warns, “In fact, 40 percent of all Americans will develop life threatening cancer.”
Tumors can either be benign or malignant, and both cases can often lead to surgery or other methods of treatment. Any course of action can prove to be costly to health insurance companies and to those who are forced to pay out of their own pockets when cancer creeps into their lives. Moss affirms, “But if cancer is a biological puzzle, it is even more a social, economic, and political one. The newspapers, magazines, radio and television are filled daily with a welter of confusing and conflicting stories about it.” Whatever its causes or symptoms, cancer can afflict those who stick to an exercise regimen and eat healthy meals as well as those who lead sedentary lifestyles and observe poor diets.
Cancer has become my enemy, and I’ve grown up listening to all the messages about what causes it, what happens when a person develops it, and how much medicine is involved in treatments. I have seen cancer strike, the trail it leaves, and the physical and mental wounds it opens.
My own mother battled Hodgkin’s Disease (Cancer of the lymph) when she was training to be a registered nurse and dating my father. She beat the cancer and survived to give birth to three children. Amy and Maryjane are my two older sisters, each of us born just over a year apart. What makes Mom’s situation remarkable is not that she won her fight, but the attitude she displayed when she faced her fate.
“I’m not planning to die yet,” she wrote in a 1979 American Journal of Nursing article, “I have to continue with a lot of plans.”
Her fight with Hodgkin’s showed her resolve, and it also gave her a unique understanding of what it was like to be a patient. At the time of her radiation treatments she was working as a candy striper for a local hospital. She later completed nursing school. Her harsh experience with the doctors who treated her left her committed to dealing with her own patients differently, with much more compassion and courtesy.
After fourteen years of marriage to my father, Mom began to feel sick again. This time it was one complication after another. The downward spiral left her right side paralyzed by a stroke. She learned to write with her left hand even though she was born right handed. Amazingly, she not only understood her condition, but was able to communicate that to my father.
“Did I have a stroke?” She asked him in writing one day.
“Yes,” he told her.
Another day found Mom biting down on her oxygen tube, attempting to breathe on her own. At one point she had a nightmare that no one was helping her at the hospital. A crowd of doctors and nurses stood around her in the dream as she cried for help. They didn’t budge, and when she woke up she feared that her dream would become reality and the hospital staff was just going to stand by and let her die. Essentially, she was right, though it didn’t happen quite the way she dreamed it. One Sunday she did die, and she was resuscitated only to later succumb to her deteriorating condition. Infection was the official cause of death, but incompetence coupled with her previous radiation exposure were the true causes of her downfall.
In the aftermath of Mom’s loss, I immediately began to realize how many lives she touched in her 35 years on Earth. The funeral procession was miles long, and my first ride in a limousine was quite an event, though tragic. I can vividly remember how long it took for every car to wind down the narrow cemetery roads and find parking. I was amazed by the crowd. Even more stunning were the vast displays of flowers that buried her coffin as it sat atop the grave. I will never forget that day, and I can’t imagine what it would have been like had she enjoyed a full life.
A negligence trial swept through our lives when Amy, Maryjane, and I were all still in high school. The later settlement yielded trust funds that put each of us through college, but the money couldn’t bring mom back, which was what we all really wanted. I was six-going-on-seven when she died and almost sixteen when the trial began. While I don’t retain many memories from her time with us, I do know she set a powerful example. I recounted one of my strongest recollections for the jury that even today reminds me of how hard she fought for her children, even in the face of death after her stroke. I will describe that moment later in this book.
During my first year of college I learned that my seven-year-old cousin, Katie Hartley, my mother’s niece, was stricken with something called an Undifferentiated Sarcoma. The tumor in her face did not respond well to chemotherapy, and Katie would reach the brink of exhaustion long before her doctor proclaimed she had only three weeks to live. I will illustrate her journey from early diagnosis to her present situation. Since being declared cancer free, she has enjoyed years of superb health.
Katie’s diagnosis seemed so grim at first, and I set myself up for another tragedy. My doubts were close to becoming a reality when she suddenly bounced back due to a last ditch, desperate effort. She had refused more chemotherapy and her doctors claimed her survival was hopeless. Then she met Billy Best.
Seventeen-year-old Billy Best lost an aunt to cancer, his father’s sister, on the very same day doctors diagnosed his Hodgkin’s Disease. A media circus descended on the Best Family when Billy fled his suburban Massachusetts home to avoid chemotherapy treatments. His parents appealed to reporters who then broadcasted his picture over the airwaves with his mother and father’s plea for their son to return home or contact them. Billy ended up in Texas, and he came home only after he and his folks agreed he didn’t have to have any more chemo. Billy began his recovery with Essiac tea as his family investigated other alternative treatments to fulfill their promise not to put him back on chemo.
A Current Affair featured the Best family’s story, and the dramatic turn of events gained national headlines. Bombarded with supportive mail from all over the country, the family prayed together for guidance. A phone call from Richard Atken, a financial advisor to the Clinton white house, answered their prayers by introducing the family to 714-X, a controversial non-toxic cancer treatment. 714-X was helping Atken ride out Lou Gehrig’s disease with surprising grace and a much better quality of life. Billy and his father visited Atken at his Burlington, Vermont home and saw that the man could still drive and perform skills that a patient at his stage should have been unable to accomplish. The visit convinced both Billy and his father to try 714-X for themselves. They were led to French-born Canadian biologist Gaston Naessens, the creator of 714-X.
Naessens is a doctor of biology. He received his degree from a temporary school set up in Southern France during World War II. He never sought an equivalency degree from the post-war government, but Naessens still lives as a model of what doctors should be. He has devoted more than 50 years to intense hematology research. He has managed to defy the odds over the years, and his product brought some patients back from the very brink of certain death. He claims a 75% success rate for treating cancer patients with 714-X. He also asserts that his treatment has been used successfully on 296 different diagnoses.
Because of the well publicized story of seventeen-year-old Billy Best, Katie’s aunt Maryanne relayed his story to Paul and Julie Hartley, Katie’s parents. A meeting was arranged at the Best home in Pembroke. My cousin asked Billy some questions about 714-X.
“Does it hurt?” Katie asked.
“No,” Billy replied.
“Does it make you throw up?” she asked next
“No,” he said.
She thought for a moment and then posed her last question, “Does it make you lose your hair?”
“No,” Billy told her.
“I’ll try it,” Katie told her parents.
Katie saw how healthy Billy looked and knew 714-X was worth a shot. Her father Paul, still a bit hesitant, decided to ask doctors about the treatment. They told him if his daughter tried it she would be ineligible for any further treatment at the hospital. Frustrated, Paul locked eyes with one of the physicians he knew had children and asked, “Father to father, what do you really think I should do?”
“What do you have to lose? There’s nothing else she can stand right now traditionally,” the doctor replied. Paul and Julie both later agreed to give the treatment a chance. Katie began her first 714-X cycle on January 17th, 1996.
Because of Katie’s fateful meeting with the Best family, she was able to travel to Canada in 2001 to personally thank Gaston Naessens for creating the product that she and her family believe saved her life. When Naessens came to Boston for a press conference a few weeks later, Katie and Billy spoke on his behalf. Both Katie and Billy stopped painful treatments and turned to the biologist and his homeopathic remedy as a last hope. Both are still alive today and very healthy, both still use 714-X, and both are among 16 case studies Naessens submitted to the National Cancer Institute for evaluation in August of 2001.
The heart of this book details the lives of the doctor and the patients he gave a second chance to. I wanted my first book to mean something. The kind of pain and suffering that is inflicted upon the victims of cancer due to chemotherapy and radiation is appalling and outright shocking. More surprising is that the cancer industry reaps hundreds of millions of dollars from lucrative toxic drugs. I believe the methods of sapping the body’s strength in order to halt the spread of cancer and ultimately kill it off completely are or at least should be outdated. It is time for better ways of treatment.
I grew up in the eighties and saw inventions like the Walkman sweep the country. Today that machine is deemed obsolete by portable shock-resistant CD players. Computer systems are outmoded after a year in many instances. Why is it that the same results can’t be achieved in the world of cancer treatment? Why are there so many different cancer tests? Why are bald children filling hospital beds in cancer wards?
People like Dr. Ralph Moss claim it is the industry in place that blocks new advances that will doom chemotherapy and radiation to the past. The industry is entrenched against alternative medicine’s painless and non-toxic approaches for reasons that principally involve money and jobs, Moss asserts, and he has the evidence to back it up. I include my own additions to his argument. I will incorporate some choice quotes from Moss’s book The Cancer Industry over the pages that follow. I agree with him, and I’m acting because I want nothing more than to see a huge turnaround.
Instead of giving patients a product that causes pain, nausea, and humiliating hair loss, Naessens has invented a treatment with extremely minimal side effects. Dr. Naessens advocates an entire lifestyle change, vitamin supplements, a special diet, his camphor based liquid injection in 21 day cycles, and the ever important ingredients of family support and faith. Instead of a simple cure, he offers a solution on many fronts, a combination that gives the patient the reigns and lets him blaze his own path. Naessens recommends a package that builds the body back up, jolting the immune system back into the fight against invading cancer cells.
When Katie’s tumor disappeared after treatment with 714-X, her full story came to me one small piece at a time.
I first met Billy at the same Boston press conference where Naessens submitted his 16 best cases for study by the National Cancer Institute. I later sat down and spoke at length with Billy’s parents.
I communicated with Dr. Naessens through his wife Jacinte. He speaks very little English, and I speak no French, so the bridge was necessary. Their cooperation and assistance made this book much easier to complete. Before I sunk myself into my writing, however, another chapter would unfold.
During my senior year of college, cancer struck my family again. My confidence in traditional methods of killing cancer was already weak when my father’s sister began to notice a change in her husband’s health. After a “successful” operation to remove a benign brain tumor, my uncle Don became a bit detached. Complications from the surgery and a horrible infection consumed him seven years later.
Uncle Don died at the age of 45, shortly after the last time I visited with him and his family. He took 714-X when there was no other hope, after the damage had been done. I firmly believe he’d be alive today if he took it instead of undergoing the surgery or at least before the procedure was done. He and his wife were just following what they thought was sound medical advice when they agreed to the operation. Neither of them were prepared for the risks coupled with the procedure and the painful aftermath.
Uncle Don was quiet in the twilight of his life. Pain medication and 714-X alleviated his suffering, but when I saw him he seemed to know he was approaching the end. When I came down from school to visit him one last time I knew he was days from his demise. I shook Don’s hand before I left, and he thanked me for coming. I don’t remember what I said back, but it was difficult to hold back the tears I felt building up.
I never saw him again. His wife and two children lost him forever not long after I left him standing with them at the top of their front staircase. This time I faced a loss when old enough to know just how devastating death can be to a family. I wept often for Uncle Don and for his family. He was a great man, much too young to die, and too kind to deserve his fate. His family and I miss him tremendously.
I look forward to the day when 714-X and other drugs like it replace surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation as standard treatments for cancer. I can imagine the first US patient being prescribed Naessens’ package, the insurance companies agreeing to pay for it, and all of the government agencies finally coming together to put a stamp of long awaited approval on the treatment. I can see the day when our husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles, sons and daughters, cousins and friends will not fade so quickly from our lives at the hands of the scourge that is cancer. Most importantly, I can imagine the dawn of a day when cancer in all its many forms is no more threatening to human survival than a head cold or a case of Chicken Pox.
I am so confident in 714-X, because I took it myself. The homeopathic treatment is valuable in preventing any degenerative disease. As a long time smoker, I decided to quit, change my lifestyle, and protect myself against heart disease and cancer. I quit smoking and gave myself 2 cycles of 714-X injections, though I would later take up the habit again and have to quit once more. I will devote a chapter to each of those 21 day experiences, the second cycle coming after I knew everything there is to know in order to best understand 714-X and how it works.
Come along with me on this journey and you will discover that beating disease is a team effort. To win out, a patient must combine body, mind, and soul and focus all toward the same purpose. With a strong sense of spiritual faith and a background of family support combined with the right treatment, anyone can beat disease. Read on, and you will glance into the lives of patients and their families.
You will witness my own struggle to comprehend loss and death. You will see how Dr. Naessens has battled the machines of our politicized health care industry that have managed to suppress the value of his treatment. “It’s hard to keep a good man down,” Billy Joel sings in his song, “Allentown.” Naessens is living proof of that line. In his seventies now, he still fights on.
I know there are still some valuable aspects to chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. I do not condemn any one traditional approach. My only intent is to argue that maybe these methods are being pushed too much. Scientists at Dana Farber have just recently discovered that some tumors are pre-disposed to spread. This new breakthrough may help determine when a patient needs a more or less stringent course of treatment.
When you read about how the cancer victims in this book faced their fate and fought to come away with their lives and good health, I hope you will be better prepared to face your own battles and those of the people close to you. They were shaken and shattered at their lowest points, but Billy Best and Katie Hartley resolved to live full, vibrant lives even as doctors told them that would be impossible.
My mother struggled to raise a family and keep her health. Struck with further health complications years after beating Hodgkin’s, she hung on to the last breath. Previous radiation treatments may have initially brought her to the hospital, but ultimately her death at the age of 35 was a sad result of substandard care.
Uncle Don was a victim of poor surgical work and regretful medical advice. His world-renowned doctors told him and his wife that his relatively small tumor would take another 50 years to double in size, yet they still recommended removing it. He died at 45. He might have been better off just taking his chances with another fifty years of benign growth.
When I told Dr. Naessens I wanted to write a book about 714-X and indicated I wanted to take the product myself, he sent a 21 day cycle through the mail to me immediately. He had confidence in what he’d produced from years of dedicated research, and I will offer you all of my reasons for believing in him and his product.
Katie Hartley and Billy Best knew their cancer might kill them. My uncle and my mother knew death was near at some point during their struggles. Millions of cancer patients who have been diagnosed with the worst forms of the disease have known well before their death that their chances of survival were slim to none. Katie’s doctor told her that she might just go to sleep one day and not wake up.
Because of Dr. Naessens and his life’s work, Katie can fall asleep at night without having to worry about missing another sunrise.
When standard medicine wakes up to the possibility of seeing things another way, we may all behold the day when people with cancer will no longer have to suffer going bald, losing weight, and wasting away under a regimen of life-draining chemo and radiation. The same day will bring testing that can predict degenerative diseases up to two years before their onset. I embrace that vision, because I know, in time, 714-X’s emergence as a powerful method of compassionate treatment will become reality.
Chapter 1: Gaston Naessens, Somatids, and 714-X
“If Naessens is right, biologists won’t have to rewrite their textbooks. They can throw them away.” Ralph W. Moss, MD, The Cancer Chronicles, December, 1994
Gaston Naessens was born in the northern France textile town of Roubaix in 1924. He was the youngest boy in his family. He had two older sisters and an older brother who was nine years his senior and the closest in age to him. Not surprisingly, he became somewhat of a loner early on in his life.
At the tender age of four Gaston used his alarm clock to make his Meccano set into a moving, motorized device. Later, as a teenager, he built a functional airplane. His mother subsequently torched it before its maiden flight. As soon as she learned it could actually fly, she knew she had to destroy it. During World War II, Naessens even conquered the gas shortage by modifying his motorcycle to run on wood.
In 1935, when Gaston was only 11 years old, he lost his father, a popular banker in their hometown. His mother raised him thereafter. During his teenage years he studied at the University of Lille, but the family’s relocation to southern France after the German invasion suspended his quest for a degree. Some of the professors from his former school formed the Union Scientifique Nationale Francaise that operated during the war in the south of France.
Naessens acquired a biological engineering degree from the temporary school, but he never sought an equivalency degree from the new government after the war. For that reason, those who try to discredit Naessens say he has no official degree.
Naessens was drawn early to the field of Hematology, the study of blood. While a student in this field, he claimed he could see small particles in blood plasma that were dismissed by his mentors. Everyone he asked about them called them artifacts: false or man made images created by manipulation of the specimen. Naessens remained committed to proving that the particles he saw were real and significant. To study them better he thrust himself into a new field of study: microscopy.
Maintaining his career in hematology, Naessens’ hobby became designing his own new microscope. He began this process in 1950, and it evolved into a nine year mission. Once completed in 1959, with the help of artisans from Germany, his microscope achieved a resolution of 150 angstroms. 1 angstrom is 100 millionth of a centimeter. The sharpness of the image produced by his microscope soared above and beyond any other in existence. It allowed him 30,000 x magnification. With his new tool he could also view live specimens. He called his invention the Somatoscope. Even today, more than forty years after its creation, nobody can explain the physics or mathematics involved in the somatoscope, not even Naessens himself.
The somatoscope uses two sources of light. Incandescent and ultraviolet light combine to produce a third wavelength. The new wavelength passes through a monochromator which generates a ray of light. That ray then hits an electrical field that breaks it into three new parallel rays. This process is called the Zeeman effect. One of these new rays then passes through a Kerr cell, increasing the frequency. The light source, completely invisible to the naked eye, analyzes the specimen. Because his own somatoscope is a behemoth, Naessens also invented a condenser in 1998. The condenser can be fitted to conventional microscopes and allows a similar picture to that available under the original somatoscope.
With a new world opened to him, Gaston observed thousands of specimens. From the start of his research with his new scope he was able to confirm his earlier suspicions. In live blood he could certainly distinguish an unknown element, a tiny brilliant particle that maintained a unique rhythm of movement between the blood cells.
His first inclination was to attempt to isolate the particle in a growth medium (an ideal biological environment) to prove it was alive. This was a very difficult procedure for him to master, and it was a frustrating struggle that encompassed several years. He finally accomplished this feat, opening a door to a fascinating new realm of research.
He later named the new particle he discovered the somatid. The word comes from two Greek words: soma, which means body, and tidos, which means creating or building. Once isolated in the growth medium, Naessens discovered his particle was indeed alive. Its development evolved through 16 stages every 90 hours, an always identical regular cycle. The somatid was able to transform itself rapidly from one form to another in reaction to its biological environment. The transformation was spontaneous and occurred without cellular division, a process called polymorphism.
Watching somatids allowed Naessens to discover many different qualities the particles possessed. He discovered they were electromagnetic. He concluded that somatids do not contain DNA, yet they are carriers of genetic information. His research ultimately proved to him that somatids are the smallest unit of life capable of transforming energy into matter, they are the condenser of energy needed to sustain life. He came to believe that cell division is impossible without the growth promoters somatids produce. While a person is alive, the somatid sustains life. After a person’s death, somatids transform the body into its basic ingredients (carbon, mineral salts) and they become dormant in their resistant form. In that stage they are indestructible, and they can survive for years. Perhaps because of these qualities, these tiny particles may hold the key to Cryogenic research.
Excited about his new discovery, Naessens’ next shocking breakthrough allowed him to predict disease. He observed in the living blood of sick people some of the same forms his somatids took in their growth medium. To further explore this development, Naessens enlisted the help of several French doctors and laboratories. The same group of people underwent both traditional testing for disease and Naessens’ live blood testing. From his observations Naessens would confirm or deny the presence of disease. Doctors would not tell Naessens what their own diagnosis was until he’d finalized his live blood analysis of each patient. In more than 10,000 cases Naessens’ established a link between the somatid forms and the state of disease in the patient. He had created his own screening test, and it proved reliable. Conventional lab tests confirmed the biologist’s conclusions on the state of each patient’s health.
Further research allowed Naessens to observe that there was a fundamental difference between the somatids of healthy people and those of sick people. He observed the first three stages of somatid growth in fit people with no disease. The final thirteen stages existed in people in various stages of disease.
Naessens concluded that he could use this new information to discover what causes somatids to change from stage 3 (healthy) to stage four (the onslaught of disease). He called the point between the third and fourth stages the protection gate. In theory, the protection gate sustains equilibrium and prevents disease from taking hold in healthy people.
This theoretical protection gate somehow restrains the further polymorphism of the somatid beyond stage three. Now it was clear to Naessens that his microscope and his research would make the screening and prevention of degenerative diseases possible. He could look at a person’s blood and tell that person if he or she would develop any kind of degenerative disease. His test would be so sensitive that he would be able to predict the beginning of a disease before any conventional medical test could. He could identify the weakening of a person’s natural defenses 18 to 24 months before the localization of disease.
It is therefore understandable that the world of traditional medicine would go to great lengths to discredit Naessens’ research. The somatoscope essentially makes countless conventional testing theories and machinery obsolete. The live blood test Naessens perfected would cost less, involve much less risk, and give a patient much more time to decide how to treat the oncoming disease. Millions, maybe even billions of dollars worth of equipment and services will have to be scrapped if Naessens’ test reaches its full potential.
Since even conventional medicine dictates that early diagnosis means a better prognosis, Naessens became overjoyed. His new test would be a preventive detection method to help patients long before traditional doctors would be able to assist them. While the test is currently restricted to fundamental and clinical research, Gaston and his staff are committed to making this detection method just as available to the public as current traditional testing methods are.
Observation and intense study led Naessens to discover exactly what factors are responsible for the progressive weakening of the protection gate. He concluded that five major factors influence the breakdown of the gate: the progression of stage 3 somatids to stage 4. First of all, toxic products represent great risk. Continuous or extended exposure to toxins can negatively effect the protection gate. Examples are asbestos and cigarettes. Physical traumas can also cause a breech in the gate. Bruises, fractures, sprains, deep cuts, and serious burns are some examples. Even something as subtle as jetlag can disturb the protection gate, though the gate will repair itself within a few days after a long flight. Sudden psychological traumas can also destabilize a person’s equilibrium. An unexpected emotional shock can be responsible for the gate becoming susceptible to a breakdown. The abrupt loss of a loved one, an unpredictable deception, or any psychologically crippling experience that happens without a warning is enough to dismantle the gate. Such situations that are recurring would also present a threat. An ongoing feeling of being trapped can exhaust the natural defenses of the body.
Finally, simple thoughts or beliefs contribute to breaches in the gate. Whether conscious or unconscious, the brain acts upon thoughts, and sometimes that can be dangerous. For instance, if the thought I wish I were sick so I wouldn’t have to work were to be transmitted to the brain, it could change the body enough to allow sickness to overtake it.
Essentially this follows the principle of mind over matter. If you will it, it may happen. This is why the technique of visualizing the destruction of a tumor can sometimes be an effective way to treat it.
Naessens, armed with the knowledge of decades of research, then set about creating a product that could restore the protection gate and possibly even reverse the natural polymorphism of the somatidian cycle.
His next invention would need to meet three requirements. First it had to be non-toxic and have no negative side effects. It would need to sustain life instead of compromising it. Second, the product had to act directly and immediately on the lymph. This condition meant the final creation would have to be a liquid capable of absorption into the lymphatic system. Naessens associates the clogging of the lymphatic system with the onset of disease. The lack of fluidity of the lymph fluid encourages stagnation of cellular toxins. When stagnant, the toxins can no longer be sent into the large blood circulation which eliminates them. Finally, the product would ultimately have to contain Nitrogen. Naessens believes Nitrogen is widely misunderstood, and it is his belief that the element is of paramount importance to our living cells.
Naessens worked from 1972 through 1976 on his liquid. He perfected the product and called it 714-X. The seven stands for the seventh letter of the alphabet: G. The 14 stands for the fourteenth letter: N. The X is the 24th letter of the alphabet and stands for the year of Naessens’ birth: 1924. Therefore he named the product after his initials and birth year. He secured the first patent for his mixture in 1980. The scientific name of the product is a lengthy one: Trimethylbicyclonitraminoheptane Chloride. It is also sometimes called Camphorminium Chloride.
714-X has many ingredients, the most important of which is nitrogen carried by camphor. It also includes the mineral salts ammonium chloride and sodium chloride. Eighteen trace elements make up the rest of the product. They are: Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Bore, Cadmium, Calcium, Chrome, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Magnesium, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Phosphor, and Zinc. The PH of the mixture is 7, making it acceptable for injection. It is essentially a booster shot, and it is not to be confused with a vaccine. 714-X is no vaccine. It does not stimulate antibodies. It does not act directly upon disease.
714-X instead detoxifies and repairs the body’s cells. It contains nothing designed to destroy diseased cells. Rather, it holds vital and essential elements that promote life. It helps fortify the immune system, and the immune system can then fight off disease itself. The more pronounced the disease is, the more toxins pollute the body. These toxins are either introduced by the disease itself or by the treatments for the disease. The more toxins present, the longer it will take to detoxify and repair the diseased cells.
714-X aims to accomplish three tasks. First it is designed to liquefy the lymph. The ammonium chloride and sodium chloride accomplish this goal in a matter of five days in most patients. The proper flow of the lymph allows for the removal of toxins that have stagnated within the lymph. Before tumors develop, calcification often occurs. Like tumors, calcification can be benign or malignant. When the lymph is liquefied, calcifications are broken up and flushed out.
Next, 714-X provides Nitrogen. Nitrogen is an essential component of living matters such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. It is also an integral part of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. Nitrogen facilitates the normal growth and cellular repair of damaged tissues and organs. Nitrogen therefore helps maintain bones, muscles, and other physical aspects of the body. Nitrogen is also important to cancer cells. Healthy cells require oxygen to proliferate. Cancerous cells have a different type of metabolism. They require nitrogen. Cancerous cells secrete CKF, a substance that paralyses the immune system. Once the immune system is disabled, the cancer cells steal nitrogen from healthy cells. A mass of cancer cells cannot grow without a paralyzed or weakened immune system, because it would lack the nitrogen it needs. 714-X gives the cells the nitrogen so they don’t have to destroy the immune system and raid healthy cells to find it. Instead of destroying the diseased cells, 714-X saturates them with nitrogen and saves the immune system. Unhindered, the immune system carries on its regular duties and helps the body kill the cancer cells naturally.
Finally, the trace elements in 714-X act to facilitate the smooth communication between cells. The essential trace elements aid intra and extra cellular interaction. They also maintain the PH of the blood and other body fluids. Since the body does not manufacture these trace elements, they can only be brought in by nutrition or otherwise. 714-X satisfies the body’s need for these elements and promotes proper metabolic function.
714-X is a successful product only when the right conditions are present. The moment biological imbalances become apparent in live blood, the proper elements must be provided to remedy the situation. 714-X accomplishes this task and allows the human body to step in and heal itself. It is primarily designed to be injected into the lymph node in the groin area, and it travels through the large lymphatic circulation once injected. This irrigates three quarters of the body. If the disease is located in the upper right side of the body, the product must be administered to the small lymphatic circulation by a nebulizer. 714-X is also available in ampoules for use with nebulizers, but this procedure is recommended for administration in addition to injections and not in lieu of. Lung, brain, or breast cancer located on the right side are some examples of when inhaled 714-X is required.
714-X should be administered in 21 day cycles. One shot is administered per day, and between cycles there should be a minimum two day break. This allows the body to begin the next cycle of restorative activity.
For preventive treatment (no diagnosis made but natural defenses are weakened) one to three cycles of 714-X are recommended. That should be enough to restore health. 714-X is most beneficial during this stage. It was designed specifically to return the somatidian cycle to its healthy stages before disease has set in and secured a significant foothold. Just like in traditional medicine, the earlier the detection and treatment, the better the results.
In order to cure a certain state of disease, a minimum of six to eight cycles should be anticipated. An advanced state of disease will require more time for 714-X to clean and repair the damage. The progression of the disease and the level of the toxic therapy given for it will ultimately determine how long it will take for 714-X to complete its mission.
714-X always encourages vitality and renewed energy. However, to maximize its potential the product must be combined with a diet that does not interfere with the digestive system. Overloading the digestive organs just leads to energy being taken away from cellular cleansing and repair to be used solely for digestion purposes. Therefore, food items that are difficult to digest should be cut out of any 714-X user’s diet. Foods that carry any kind of toxins should also be cut. Any beverages that meet these conditions should be put aside as well. 714-X is complemented only by a diet that brings nutrients in and doesn’t further intoxicate the body. It is not absolutely necessary to ingest dietary supplements in conjunction with 714-X, but each case is different. Some patients may want to use supplements, and there are only a few supplements that should never be used with the product. Those are: Vitamin B-12, Vitamin E, and anything with shark or bovine cartilage. If small quantities of these discouraged substances are digested in food, it does not present a problem. 714-X users must only avoid the supplements. When found in food they are not concentrated enough to pose a threat.
714-X does not interfere with any conventional therapies. In fact, 714-X aids the healing process. It promotes the return to normal metabolic function after intense conventional therapy has run its course. In most scenarios, particularly in cases of cancer, 714-X should always be administered before surgery if possible. Surgery can cause infection, and the fluidity of the lymph during and after surgery will eliminate any toxins that are introduced to the body as a result of any invasive surgical procedure. 714-X taken prior to surgery reduces the likelihood of metastasis. Since 714-X’s first priority is to deep clean the cells, intensive therapies such as toxic chemotherapy may delay tissue repair. Repairing is the second priority and occurs after cleansing is complete.
Gaston Naessens claims that the patient must do 50% of the work, and 714-X does the other 50%. Each patient must come to terms with the cause of his/her condition. What caused the protection gate to break down in my body? That is the question each patient should ask and try to find the answer to. If the person is a smoker and he/she develops lung cancer, the answer is simple. It may not be as simple if there is a psychological factor involved in the collapse of the protection gate. Therefore, family support, faith, and spirituality are integral factors in recovery. If there is a problem or set of problems impacting negatively on the life of the 714-X patient, he must do his best to correct the issues or baggage that put the unnecessary strain on his life.
From 1976 to 1989, Gaston Naessens operated his own clinic attached to his Rock Forest, Quebec lab. The clinic was shut down in 1989 when Naessens was arrested and charged with murder. Even though Naessens was absolved of the crime after a three week jury trial, the clinic was never allowed to re-open. Naessens’ trial is fully illustrated in Christopher Bird’s Book: The Gallileo of the Microscope.
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