"He Just Stopped Dying"

A year ago I received a telephone call from a primary care physician in the San Francisco Bay Area. Someone sent him copies of some of my blog essays on glutamine and cancer. In his medical practice, he worked with a number of different Hospice groups. He knew glutamine was an important nutrient, but he didn't know it could be used to treat cancer.

This is the story, paraphrased.

"I had a Hospice patient with terminal pancreatic cancer. He was within weeks of dying. He had bedsores, no appetite, and was in such poor physicial condition that his family began to cry as soon as they saw him. I think they prayed every night that he would die so the suffering would end. Since glutamine is an important nutrient I thought, what the hell. It can't hurt him. So I had the family purchase bulk glutamine and had them prepare it as you suggested. He received 50 grams a day in juice.

One month later, he was discharged from the Hospice. His bedsores healed, his appetite returned and the pasty white color of his skin returned to a normal pink. He just stopped dying.

Do you understand that no one EVER gets discharged from a Hospice. They go there to die not to recover. This man recovered and was sent home. I still can't believe it."

We spent some time talking about the medicinal wonders of glutamine before he hung up. He promised to stay in touch, but he never did. Its the story of my life. I forgot his name and I didn't have the foresight to ask for his telephone number.

In the next series of blogs, I will rereview some of my earlier essays on glutamine and cancer. We now know that glutamine inhibits the mTOR pathway. This pathway is the natural inhibitor of autophagy, the best method of programmed cell death. Therefore, glutamine promotes autophagy, while leucine, an activator of mTOR signaling, inhibits autophagy.

There is much to discuss.

Stay tuned...

Grouppe Kurosawa, Medicine in the Public Interest

http://www.grouppekurosawa.com

Comments

[satx2]

An amazing story.

There are probably 1000s of similar stories. There are certainly a bunch of such stories on Internet. Lot's of reasons to hope one could become one of the stories.

I'm sticking with Dr. Steve. It's not clear yet what to take, in which quantity qty, in which combo. It's more than a little frustrating to see Dr. Steve's evolutions documented in this blog going back a couple years, but I'm sticking it out with Dr. Steve. The alternatives of surgery, radiation, hormone ablation, hard-core chemo all have no guarantee of success/cure, and all have a huge negative impact on long-term quality of life.

[Mouse Glenn]

So I think about this a lot. Doc Martin is a Researcher and by nature he researches. When he finds out new information he is duty bound to share it with us. So this gives the appearance of shifting landscape and treatment protocols. I have been with doc for over two years now and he has only changed the protocol a few times and then not substantially.

Stick with doc steve. He does real research, real science and you can actually speak to the people he has helped. I know. I am one of them.

I feel so good I just got back from an hour at the gym. Doc Steve showed me how. I don't look like a guy that was diagnosed with Leukemia two years ago.

[James]

So glutamine is going to be added to the autophagy protocol? I have all "ingredients" minus the DCA that will probably never arrive.

[Dr. Steve Martin]

Yes sir. But first I am working on some new essays on glutamine.

[Toni Reid]

Hi, Dr.Martin...I have called you on 2 occasions ....(I can't find your #) as you said you would walk me through the methyl jasmonate process....I sent you $360 on 3-23....so I should be receiving MJ beginning of this week...would you be so kind as to send me your #?thanks, Toni Reid

[Pat Ens]

Tony, what are you taking the MJ for? Do you have luekemia and if so, what kind. I have CLL and am looking for some kind of help. Thanks