CAN TOUCH ALONE CURE CANCER? MAYBE. by Dr. Lane Sebring M.D.

It is a miracle that the imagination ever survives formal education.  Albert Einstein

I would like to take you on a journey that I have recently taken and never would have believed it was possible. We’ve all heard stories of healers who could touch people, and cure their cancer.

About a year ago I ran across an amazing and powerful new treatment for cancer that, for lack of better words, blew me away.  It involved the use of a drug called naltrexone.  Naltrexone was derived from a family of drugs used to treat people for heroin overdose.  The drug attached to endorphin receptors much like heroin, but bound to the receptor more tightly than heroin and thus displaced it from endorphin receptors.  It stimulated the receptor like heroin, but to a far less degree.  In a few moments, patients would awaken as if nothing had happened.  They are then sent home with naltrexone 50 mg tablets to be taken three times a day to decrease withdrawal symptoms.It was observed that heroin addicts who develop cancer but continued to inject heroin frequently shrank the cancers with the heroin.  It was discovered that many cancers such as breast, prostate, colon, brain, lymphoma, and others had receptors for endorphins which, when stimulated, caused the cancer to self-destruct (called apoptosis). It was later discovered that naltrexone – given, not three times a day in a 50 mg dose, but only at bedtime in a miniscule 3 mg dose – could completely eradicate advanced cancer. It needs to be able to act between two and four AM. (It’s even more effective if the patient receives concurrent I.V. alpha lipoic acid).  The therapy is known as low-dose naltrexone therapy. (Google it.)The third annual low-dose naltrexone conference was recently held at Vanderbilt Medical School and has now been written up in peer-reviewed medical journals.  Low-dose naltrexone has also been shown to help people with autoimmune diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and MS.  The evidence shows naltrexone acts at endorphin receptors on T cells.  T cells produce antibodies, and in autoimmune diseases some T cells produce antibodies that attack us in specific areas of our body.  These cells can be reprogrammed by naltrexone so that they stop attacking us.  The effect on autoimmune disease can be mild to profound.  There is also evidence this therapy can redirect T cells (also called natural killer cells) to attack a cancer.  So, what we have here is the specific timing of an endorphin, naltrexone, which can then redirect natural killer cells to recognize and kill a cancer that had been previously missed by the immune system.

Down the road. The journey continues – to acupuncture.  I was first awakened to the power of acupuncture after a four-year battle with a strained supinator muscle in my left forearm.  I had done everything I knew to do, including what the orthopedist and physical therapist suggested.  Every time I would open a chart, I would almost drop it.  Having exhausted what traditional medicine had to offer, I sought out the skills of the local acupuncturist.     She seemed safe enough.  I had known her when she was an ICU nurse fourteen years earlier.  I walked out of that single visit pain-free, having only a click that came and went for about six months, then disappeared.  My mother had cold hands and feet that just ached for over twenty-five years.  One visit to the acupuncturist and they were warm as toast.  She goes back every three months.One day, a thirty-year-old woman came to my clinic with a cluster of complaints.  After performing a history and physical I told her I thought she was low on estrogen.  She said, “That’s funny, that’s what the Chinese acupuncturist in Austin told me – he stuck me with all these needles.”  Did anything happen, I asked.  She replied, “Well, I had to wear bigger bras for the next four months.”  (Her husband said, uh-huh.)  How in the world was acupuncture able to do that?  About a year later, a woman came to my clinic with a very unusual complaint.  Two years earlier, one of her breasts had shrunk from a double D to a B. She had already had a mammogram and a thorough workup that could find nothing wrong.  I advised her she should see an acupuncturist.  She returned to my clinic about a year later and reported that she did not go to an acupuncturist for about six months, thinking I was crazy for suggesting it.  She said she finally went – and, in two months, both breasts were the same size again.The Iceman, the frozen man found in the Italian Alps whose mummified body dated back 5200 years, had fifty-three different acupuncture tattoos.  This is very old stuff.Specific acupuncture techniques have been shown to release endorphins.  Some practitioners use acu-touch instead of acupuncture, producing the same results – the release of endorphins.  So, if expert touch can release endorphins, and endorphins can redirect our T cells to attack cancer cells, and endorphins can direct cancer cells to self-destruct – then, yes, it is quite possible that touch can cure cancer. How beautiful, how magnificent? A mind is a terrible thing to close.