Surviving Cancer on Rachel Ray: Suzanne Somers Speaks Out On Alternative Approaches to Cancer

Posted on November 5, 2009 
Filed Under Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Health & Wellness, Science & Medicine

Suzanne Somers recently appeared on The Rachel Ray Show to discuss her new book, “Knockout,” which examines alternative approaches to the treatment of cancer. Somers’ book was inspired by her personal experiences as she had what many think was a close-call with cancer but was actually a close-call with the medical establishment. Consider Suzanne Somers experience and compare it with that of millions of others in the United States. Then, look into some of the alternative perspectives provided at the end of this article.

Somers was diagnosed with cancer and told she would have to immediately start full-body chemotherapy. After her decision that she’d rather die than undergo the horrors of chemo, she discovered that she didn’t have cancer after all, but rather a fungus. Somers’ detractors – including Rachel Ray to a small degree – warn that celebrities speaking out on medical issues could be dangerous and lead people away from the “medical help they need.” But Somers’ personal story is actually evidence that she could indeed be saving people from a far greater risk in modern, commercialized health care.

Cancer is indeed a frightening word and a scary subject. It is understandable that a culture of people trained to fear a word and seek “expert” assistance would blindly follow any advice given to them by a qualified physician. After all, they’re the experts, aren’t they? Or are they? In my opinion, an expert is someone who is very good at something – not someone holding a piece of paper stating they are legally qualified to do a certain kind of business in a particular country. I’m not bashing doctors; but humans were doing just fine before corporate medicine came along to save them from themselves.

And medicine doesn’t exactly have a stellar record for knowing what they’re talking about – as in Suzanne Somers case, where they almost rushed her into chemotherapy when she didn’t even have cancer. What’s the big deal about chemotherapy? Have you ever seen someone who’s gone through chemotherapy? Of course, the medical establishment has led us to believe that cancer is a death sentence – unless they can save us with drugs, radiation or surgery – and they’ll say that the patient who undergoes chemotherapy and dies would have died anyway. But there is no way to determine that the patient didn’t die, or die quicker, because of the devastating effects of the toxins used in chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy for cancer treatment was stumbled upon after people exposed to Mustard Gas (a chemical warfare agent) during a military operation in World War II were found to have decreased numbers of white blood cells. Medical science reasoned that, if toxins like mustard gas could decrease the number of white blood cells, it might also decrease the number of other rapidly dividing cells. Since then, despite mixed results, medical science has experimented on humans with several other toxic chemicals; completely ignoring the one constant throughout all of medical history – a certain percentage of people are going to respond positively no matter what you do to them as long as they believe it will help. In other words, though a cancer survivor may be convinced that chemotherapy saved their life, there is no way to definitively determine that the survivor did not save their own life despite the chemical assault on their body.

Most doctors are good people who truly want to help. But most doctors – the classic “4-out-of-5 doctors” who recommend or agree on this drug or that toothpaste or mouthwash – simply believe what they paid someone to tell them in medical school. Like most people, they know what they know and believe that their thoughts and beliefs are somehow more “right” than someone else’s. With Western allopathic medicine being one of the leading killers of Americans, it is never safe to assume – under any circumstances – that someone knows more about your body than your body does. No matter how frightened you are, how much you’re paying someone or what route to healing you choose, your body is the only thing that can save you. As ancient wisdom tells us, “The physician treats the wound; but the body heals.” No one outside of you can heal what’s inside of you – no matter how “qualified” they are. As for the “4-out-of-5,” do you really think 80% of any group is right? Do you really think enlightenment is that common? Do you really think that medicine would be in such a terrible state if it were?

Your choice of approaches is completely up to you; and I’m not suggesting that any of them is any better or worse – for you – than any other approach. What is dangerous is the idea that 8-years of school can give a person magical powers or insight. It is this Belief that has led people to blindly hand over their fate to the highest bidder – even though the establishment they trust fails more often than it succeeds. Suzanne Somers is just as qualified to speak out about this as anyone. She witnessed firsthand how medical opinions almost caused her great suffering and could have even killed her had she not trusted her body and taken the initiative to discover that those “qualified” opinions were wrong.

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer’s opinion of chemotherapy is that there should be “a special monument in hell erected to the inventors of chemotherapy.” This is, perhaps, a bit harsh but this doctor’s qualified opinion is clearly not with the “4-out-of-5.” Emotions aside, I believe that we should all seek out the “5th doctor” and listen to what he has to say. If you have cancer, you may be interested in what Dr. Hamer has to say in this free pdf on the German New Medicine: http://www.pilhar.com/News/Presentation_E.pdf . To hear Dr. David Holt speak about Dr. Hamer’s New Medicine as it applies not only to cancer, but to ALL disease processes, check out these two videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPb-rGRBjJs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_DwhHrKoQ .

Dr. Hamer’s views make a lot of sense; and I have personal experience successfully helping clients treat disease with this approach. But Dr. Hamer’s views are not popular with a medical community that believes they will lose a great deal of money if people learn to heal disease from the inside out. Hopefully the medical community will remember that the word, “doctor,” comes from the Latin, “docteo,” which means, “I teach.” There will always be a place for teachers of health; but, if we’re lucky, the days of these teachers pushing dangerous chemicals as cures are coming to an end. Let’s hope today’s doctors learn to put aside their financial fears and step back into their roles as teachers rather than pill dispensers.

Dr. Joseph Mercola is yet another qualified physician skeptical of pharmaceutical-based approaches to health care and even critical of the machine that is modern medicine. His support of a variety of alternatives to conventional medicine hasn’t won him a lot of friends in the Western medical community, but his site: www.DrMercola.com is a valuable resource for anyone seeking alternative approaches to health care. One of the techniques Dr. Mercola promotes and supports is the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) which is a safe, non-invasive technique that has been used successfully with an incredibly wide range of emotional, psychological and even medical conditions. Check out the official EFT website at: www.EmoFree.com and download your Free guide to using EFT at: www.ExploreExpandEvolve.com/free_download.

Dr. William Kelley is another one of the “1-out-of-5 Doctors” who didn’t simply keep preaching and selling what he was told to be the truth. Dr. Kelley’s Counter Perspective on cancer and chemotherapy can be found here: http://www.drkelley.info/index.php?section=Dangers+of+Chemotherapy along with his personal story of how he cured himself from “incurable” pancreatic cancer. There are many such individuals in the world – most cultures have never used chemotherapy or viewed the body and its disease processes as “enemies.” Give yourself a broad perspective and consider the economic machine being used to give Westerners their current set of beliefs and fears of cancer and other disease processes. Then, make a conscious decision about your health. No matter which direction you choose, you should be able to find caring, “qualified” people to help you with your process.

Visit Suzanne Somers’ site at: http://www.suzannesomers.com/Knockout to learn more about her new book.

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