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drugs like aspirin and Tylenol, as well as anti- hopes to be a published paper in the American
biotics that kill the bacteria in our guts, and we Journal of Oncology on the entire world litera-
have a recipe for cancer. ture pertaining to the use and actions of ouabain
The incidence of cancer has skyrocketed (its trade name is Strodival).
with the introduction of vaccines and with the I’ve been using Strodival for heart patients
suppression of the acute sick response. Unlike the for five or six years. It’s been a great help for
primitive man who accepts everything in nature people with angina, heart disease and congestive
and in the body as a natural process, the civilized heart failure. Many have better outcomes, less
man tries to suppress natural processes; he is angina and better exercise tolerance.
afraid of them, or thinks they serve no purpose, But what does ouabain have to do with can-
and cancer is the result. cer and civilization? According to my biochemist
patient, ouabain does two things: it flushes lactic
CARDIOTONICS acid from the cells, and it catalyzes the ability
A fourth component of my cancer therapy of the cells, particularly the heart cells, to me-
involves cardiotonics. Cardiac glycosides are tabolize fats into energy. He calls it the “insulin
novel therapeutic agents belonging to a family of the heart,” or the “insulin of fat metabolism.”
of substances that come mostly from plants. Without the hormone ouabain you have a dif-
They are a source of proteins (glycosides) that ficult time digesting fats, which may be why
stimulate the metabolism of the heart. The two you temporarily seem better on a carbohydrate
main cardiac glycosides are digitalis from the diet. If you don’t have enough ouabain, you can’t
foxglove and a substance called ouabain—which metabolize fats, and you can’t get energy from
I prefer to use—from the strophanthus plant. fats. We actually know the specific biochemical
This African vine was originally used by tribes fat metabolism blockade that it overcomes. But
for hunting. They would dip their arrows into the next question is: how could this substance
a substance taken from the seeds and it would from an African vine have anything to do with
cause a temporary stoppage of the heart in the helping cancer patients in civilization?
animal they shot. What I have learned from this biochemist Excess
Researchers understood that this was a car- and others in studying the history of ouabain is
diac active substance and when they isolated it an interesting revelation. Here is a chemical, a insulin
they found it was a hormone, which they called hormone that is found only in this one African stimulates
ouabain (through French from Somali waabaayo, vine, strophanthus. By an amazing quirk of na- growth, and
“arrow poison”) or strophanthin. Until the 1990s, ture we humans make the exact same chemical
the very similar digitalis was the main treat- in our adrenal glands. You can radioactively tag an increase
ment for heart problems. And there have been a precursors of this hormone and the precursors in lactic acid
number of studies over the years of women with light up in the adrenal glands; ouabain also lights builds up
breast cancer, and men with prostate cancer who up the adrenal glands, proving that you actually
have been put on digitalis for their heart prob- make ouabain from this precursor. It goes into because of
lems. These patients have an incidence of cancer the blood, into the heart and all the other cells in the deficiency
ten times lower than controls and if they already the body, allowing you to use fats as fuel while of ouabain.
had cancer, digitalis lowers their recurrence rate also flushing out lactic acid from your cells.
seven- to twenty-fold. The inability to metabolize fats is in some This leads to
Ouabain is an excellent medicine for the ways exactly the defect we have with cancer. a state of
heart. I have a patient from Germany who has a The inability to use fat as fuel, and therefore acidosis
doctorate in biochemistry. About twenty-eight the reliance on sugar, causes increased levels of
years ago, he had three heart attacks, bypass insulin. Excess insulin stimulates growth, and which is
surgery and stents. Nothing worked, and he was an increase in lactic acid builds up because of essentially
given up for dead. He had heard about ouabain the deficiency of ouabain. This leads to a state of necrosis—
as a medicine for heart attacks and angina. He acidosis which is essentially necrosis—it poisons
found a source of it, started taking it, and he is the cells. it poisons the
still alive today. Recently he sent me what he Cancer cells are cells in a state of acidosis. cells.

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