Interview with Dr. Buttar Part 1
Part 1
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Dave: Hi folks, this is Dave Bernstein. Welcome to Story of Survival. Today, we’re speaking with Dr. Rashid Buttar, from North Carolina. He’ll be telling us about his own personal experience with his patients’ stories of survival, how they not only survived cancer, but thrived in its aftermath. Without further ado, let’s go ahead and welcome Dr. Buttar. Dr. Buttar, how are you, today?
Dr. Buttar: I’m doing great, thank you.
Dave: Thanks so much for joining us. I really appreciate it. I would like you to tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, your background, and bio.
Dr. Buttar: I am a physician who has been practicing now for nineteen years. I’ve been blessed that I’ve been able to take care of patients from 34 different countries. We’ve gotten a lot of accolades for our accomplishments in medicine. My background is in general surgery. That’s what I did, general surgery and trauma medicine. For whatever reason, there is a whole story and I know we don’t have time to go into it, but I was compelled to start looking at cancer.
I’ve never had any personal history nor has anybody personally close to me died from cancer. I don’t have any kind of exotic story. It’s been the one thing in my career as a doctor that I’ve had some very strong feelings towards, for whatever reason.
When I was an intern, a resident, a medical student, there were experiences that I had with patients and cancer that I just did not want to deal with. I knew I did not want to deal with oncology, with internal medicine. My reason for wanting to go into surgery was to be able to see the tumor, cut it out, look at it, spit on it, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and be done with it.
After a number of years of doing that while in training, I realized that it’s not the answer. Many of these patients that we would take the tumors out and throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and think everything was fine and have no evidence of it being in the body anymore, six months or a year later it would recur. There’s been a personal interest. Why it started, how it started, I can’t tell you but we have made our name in the medical realm in cancer and in autism. Those are the two areas that we’re known in.
Dave: I know you opened the Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research in 1996. You’ve got a mission statement that I want to read. “It’s not only to extend your patients’ lives, but to improve the quality of that extended life.” What does that mean to you? What are some of the things that you’ve seen that people have been able to accomplish after being at your clinic?
Dr. Buttar: The philosophy that we have in a nutshell is 1) detoxification and 2) immune modulation. In cancer specifically, there are five steps that we go through. If you
do those five steps, which are essentially physiological optimization, detoxification, immune modulation, target acquisition, and then maintenance, these five steps, if we can do that, which all are specific that go through those first two things I said, detoxification and immune modulation, if you can do that, not only are you going to extend life, but you’re going to improve the quality of that extended life and in all areas of chronic disease, not just in cancer but in anything that you’re dealing with.
That statement is a slogan that we came up with a long time ago. We have a very specific mission statement that is on the walls of our clinic, which is “To make the change the world is waiting for.” By extending life, not only the length of the life but the quality of that extended life, we believe that we are making the change the world’s waiting for.
Dave: Have patients already been diagnosed by the time they get to you, or do you assist in diagnosis as well?
Dr. Buttar: Absolutely not, we do not diagnose cancer. We are not in the business of diagnosing cancer. In fact, if somebody comes to us primarily with the concern that they may have cancer, we’ll do our stuff but we send them to a standard, conventional oncologist and let them make their diagnosis. Then they can come back to us if that’s what they choose.
There are a number of reasons for that. I believe that many times, in fact one of the most prominent people in the field of alternative medicine, Burton Goldberg, and I’ve been given the liberty of using his name, he is the guy who put out The Guide to Alternative Medicine, the big phone book looking silver book you’ve probably seen.
Burton himself was diagnosed with cancer and he went to Germany for treatment. The German doctor he went to see plus two other people, doctors who were close to him, they all said the same thing, “Before you do anything, go talk to Buttar.” He came to North Carolina and he became my seventh person with a diagnosis of cancer who did not have cancer.
This opens up another can of worms. Many time people are diagnosed with cancer that didn’t really have cancer. They go through the treatment and then they end up dying from the chemotherapy. The statistics are very clear. In fact, 42% to 46% of the patients that die of cancer die of malnutrition. The remaining 54% or so of the patients – what’s the cause of death? Some people say it’s the treatment of the chemo and radiation. How many people actually die of cancer?
Cancer is a wasting away type of disease so when people truly just die of cancer, if they’ve never had any type of treatment; they’re not going to die from the
cancer itself. They usually die from renal failure, or liver failure, a common cold or pneumonia or something like that. The cancer basically eats away at their body.
When we’re talking about what caused the person to actually die, what is the actual cause of death in cancer patients? We have to start looking at not only the nutritional aspect and all these other components that we’re dealing with. These components of nutrition versus some of these side effects of the treatments versus the body wasting away; these are the issues that we have to look at.
When we start talking about who made the diagnosis, what was their motivation when they made the diagnosis? Cancer is a very big business so we don’t make the diagnosis of cancer at all. In fact, probably the first dozen patients or so that we had successes with cancer, when they went back to their oncologists, their oncologists said, “Well, we’re not really sure if you had cancer.”
That was a very frustrating thing so now I will not even see a person; we won’t even start the treatment until we have an independent, third-party pathology report that confirms the patient had cancer. Once we have that, then we will go ahead and start treating them. This way, I have something tangible that says this person has cancer and this is what the path report shows. Otherwise, the results come back and they say, “We’re not really sure this person really had cancer,” when we know that they had cancer. Or, they’re being treated for cancer when they didn’t have cancer, as I used the example with Burton.
That’s the reason, and a very long answer to your question, but that’s the reason that we don’t diagnose cancer. We will usually only see a person once they’ve been diagnosed with cancer, but if somebody does come to us and they’re concerned about that, we’ll do our own workup and tell them what we see but we’ll tell them they need to go see a conventional oncologist before we start any kind of treatment and that we need to have that pathology report so we have something definitive to rely upon.
Dave: It absolutely sounds like a responsible thing to do here. When people get to your clinic, that education that we just discussed, are you educating them, as well, as to what they should have in hand by the time they get to you?
Dr. Buttar: That’s a great question. In fact, today was a perfect example of somebody that came all the way from Wisconsin with cancer and they did not bring any of their medical records. I just had a meeting with my head of clinical staff to tell them to make sure new patients know to bring their records, because we didn’t have any records for this gentleman.
We do try to educate people on what they need to bring with them but we also educate people before they ever make the decision to come here. My goal is not that the patient comes here. I don’t care where the patient goes. I just want them to be aware of what the real issues are.
The real issue is what causes cancer. People say, “We don’t really know what causes cancer.” That’s what the big picture out is, that “we really don’t know what causes cancer. We’re against cancer and we’re going to stamp it with this chemo, radiation, and surgery.”
The cause of cancer is very, very clear. You’d have to be an absolute imbecile not to know what the cause of cancer is. It’s toxicity. Toxicity causes a change in the internal environment of the body and the body then compensates. It’s trying to survive against it. It’s a nutritional depletion. The body is run down. It’s not getting what it needs, and then it’s latent with all these toxic substances in the body, and in order to survive it goes into this rapid state of proliferation. I’m going to come back and explain a little bit more in detail and give you an analogy that will hopefully make it clearer.
To answer your original question, the goal is to educate the individual, worldwide, to make the people aware, and to allow people to become empowered with knowledge. With knowledge comes power. They understand that what they’re experiencing when they get cancer or when one of their loved ones get cancer, they understand what’s truly going on. Then it gives them the options of what they can do.
When I said options, I’m not talking about coming to us; because the options are which way do they really want to go. Which way do they really want to proceed? There are many doctors that can help patients using different methods than we’re using but the same type of philosophy. The goal is to educate and empower the masses of what’s happening to the fields of chronic disease, specifically cancer and heart disease, the way we’re going about it.
In fact, if you look at all chronic disease, the way we’re going about it with chronic disease is we’re regressing and becoming more and more primitive. In fact, I believe that right now in history, history will remember us as being one of the most primitive periods in the evolution of medicine and the healing arts. We’re trying to cover up symptoms.
Cancer is kind of like a dashboard on a car that starts blinking with a red light. That red light tells us something and in many cases, the red light is warning us that damage has already started and is going to continue to worsen unless something is done about it.
Our modern, conventional, traditional method of treating that red light, that cancer, that warning of pain or whatever the difficulty the person is experiencing, whatever the symptom is, is to go in and take the fuse out rather than fixing the problem or looking at the engine and trying to figure out what is causing that light to flash and taking care of the problem at the source.
Our solution in modern medicine is to take the fuse out. There is no more blinking light. As soon as there is no more blinking light, the illusion is this problem has been covered and is taken care of. It’s been solved. Now you don’t see a blinking light so everything is fine, until the engine blows.
That is the problem. We have to start looking at the source of the problem and the source of cancer, where did it all start? It started from a level of toxicity on board a physiology that didn’t have sufficient nutrient basis to protect itself.
Dave: That dashboard analogy was amazing. In fact, to our listeners out there, you might want to rewind this and listen to that again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a car and the light comes on and you just ignore the light, ignore the light, and then you wonder why something’s not going right there.
Dr. Buttar: Here’s a little component to this. I want you to think about this part because this really is a frustration for me as a physician and seeing how doctors deal with patients. If you were to take your car with that flashing light to a mechanic and the mechanic told you that the way we’re going to deal with this is we’re going to take the fuse out. If they take the fuse out and the light is not flashing, what would you say to that mechanic? What would your response be to that mechanic?
Dave: I might have an attitude about it, I can promise you that. Sometimes you think you know more than the mechanic does.
Dr. Buttar: You know that, yourself, as little as you may know about car engines, that the solution is not to take the warning light out, but rather to look at the engine and figure out what the problem is. Am I correct?
Dave: Yes, absolutely
Dr. Buttar: If your doctor is going to go in and take that flashing warning out and not look at the engine and try to figure out what the problem is, that’s the same thing as a mechanic ignoring the problem with the engine and trying to take the fuse out. When a doctor gives you a drug and says, “I’m not sure what’s going on here, let’s try this drug,” do you know what the number one, most prescribed medication in the entire northern hemisphere and possibly in the world is? Prozac. It is the most widely prescribed drug, in know in the United States, and I
think it’s North America. It may be in the entire world – the most prescribed drug. Why is that?
When patients come to the doctor and they’re not feeling well, not feeling healthy, their systems aren’t working right and the doctor does all the blood work and there is nothing wrong chemistry wise, and the labs are fine. They say, “I think you’re depressed. Here, take this medicine.”
Of course the person is depressed if they’re not feeling well. The blood work won’t show if their bodies are toxic with certain types of substances and if their systems aren’t working right. You look at the blood work; the blood work doesn’t show anything. They say, “Okay, you’re depressed.” Yes, of course they’re depressed, but the depression was caused by a physiological imbalance.
I’ve had patients come to me that were told by multiple doctors that they should be on antidepressants and when the patient refused or the antidepressants didn’t work and their symptoms got worse, the doctors tried to put them on neuroleptics, on antipsychotic medication. This is how ridiculous our system has become.
Dave: I totally agree. Briefly we talked about attitude here. Based on your experience, how important is the role of attitude during and after cancer treatment? Do people need to go in with a great attitude, right from the get-go?
Dr. Buttar: We have a philosophy of treating based upon the seven toxicities. Please remind me to give the resource we have that’s free for everybody that will help a lot of people regarding this. The fifth of those seven toxicities is called “emotional/psychological toxicity.” I believe that is the number one defining factor between success and failure of a patient that’s suffering from cancer, whether they survive or they fail. Surviving meaning that they’re continuing and failing meaning that they transition to the next phase of whatever we believe, whether we believe there’s life after death or whatever a person believes. They’re no longer on the planet, or what we would conventionally call death.
I don’t believe in death. I believe there is something that happens afterwards and everybody else may have their own different belief. If we were defining success as continuing on this planet and failure as moving onto the next realm, the number one defining factor there is that fifth toxicity, the emotional/psychological component. That has everything to do with attitude.
Attitude is a huge component of that, your mindset, what you believe, what you’re willing to do, the action you take, where your attention is going, are you focusing on the cancer and giving it more energy or are you focusing on you being better? What are you visualizing? What do you want in life? What has been the past
think it’s North America. It may be in the entire world – the most prescribed drug. Why is that?
When patients come to the doctor and they’re not feeling well, not feeling healthy, their systems aren’t working right and the doctor does all the blood work and there is nothing wrong chemistry wise, and the labs are fine. They say, “I think you’re depressed. Here, take this medicine.”
Of course the person is depressed if they’re not feeling well. The blood work won’t show if their bodies are toxic with certain types of substances and if their systems aren’t working right. You look at the blood work; the blood work doesn’t show anything. They say, “Okay, you’re depressed.” Yes, of course they’re depressed, but the depression was caused by a physiological imbalance.
I’ve had patients come to me that were told by multiple doctors that they should be on antidepressants and when the patient refused or the antidepressants didn’t work and their symptoms got worse, the doctors tried to put them on neuroleptics, on antipsychotic medication. This is how ridiculous our system has become.
Dave: I totally agree. Briefly we talked about attitude here. Based on your experience, how important is the role of attitude during and after cancer treatment? Do people need to go in with a great attitude, right from the get-go?
Dr. Buttar: We have a philosophy of treating based upon the seven toxicities. Please remind me to give the resource we have that’s free for everybody that will help a lot of people regarding this. The fifth of those seven toxicities is called “emotional/psychological toxicity.” I believe that is the number one defining factor between success and failure of a patient that’s suffering from cancer, whether they survive or they fail. Surviving meaning that they’re continuing and failing meaning that they transition to the next phase of whatever we believe, whether we believe there’s life after death or whatever a person believes. They’re no longer on the planet, or what we would conventionally call death.
I don’t believe in death. I believe there is something that happens afterwards and everybody else may have their own different belief. If we were defining success as continuing on this planet and failure as moving onto the next realm, the number one defining factor there is that fifth toxicity, the emotional/psychological component. That has everything to do with attitude.
Attitude is a huge component of that, your mindset, what you believe, what you’re willing to do, the action you take, where your attention is going, are you focusing on the cancer and giving it more energy or are you focusing on you being better? What are you visualizing? What do you want in life? What has been the past
Part 1
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Dave: Hi folks, this is Dave Bernstein. Welcome to Story of Survival. Today, we’re speaking with Dr. Rashid Buttar, from North Carolina. He’ll be telling us about his own personal experience with his patients’ stories of survival, how they not only survived cancer, but thrived in its aftermath. Without further ado, let’s go ahead and welcome Dr. Buttar. Dr. Buttar, how are you, today?
Dr. Buttar: I’m doing great, thank you.
Dave: Thanks so much for joining us. I really appreciate it. I would like you to tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, your background, and bio.
Dr. Buttar: I am a physician who has been practicing now for nineteen years. I’ve been blessed that I’ve been able to take care of patients from 34 different countries. We’ve gotten a lot of accolades for our accomplishments in medicine. My background is in general surgery. That’s what I did, general surgery and trauma medicine. For whatever reason, there is a whole story and I know we don’t have time to go into it, but I was compelled to start looking at cancer.
I’ve never had any personal history nor has anybody personally close to me died from cancer. I don’t have any kind of exotic story. It’s been the one thing in my career as a doctor that I’ve had some very strong feelings towards, for whatever reason.
When I was an intern, a resident, a medical student, there were experiences that I had with patients and cancer that I just did not want to deal with. I knew I did not want to deal with oncology, with internal medicine. My reason for wanting to go into surgery was to be able to see the tumor, cut it out, look at it, spit on it, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and be done with it.
After a number of years of doing that while in training, I realized that it’s not the answer. Many of these patients that we would take the tumors out and throw it on the ground, stomp on it, and think everything was fine and have no evidence of it being in the body anymore, six months or a year later it would recur. There’s been a personal interest. Why it started, how it started, I can’t tell you but we have made our name in the medical realm in cancer and in autism. Those are the two areas that we’re known in.
Dave: I know you opened the Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research in 1996. You’ve got a mission statement that I want to read. “It’s not only to extend your patients’ lives, but to improve the quality of that extended life.” What does that mean to you? What are some of the things that you’ve seen that people have been able to accomplish after being at your clinic?
Dr. Buttar: The philosophy that we have in a nutshell is 1) detoxification and 2) immune modulation. In cancer specifically, there are five steps that we go through. If you
do those five steps, which are essentially physiological optimization, detoxification, immune modulation, target acquisition, and then maintenance, these five steps, if we can do that, which all are specific that go through those first two things I said, detoxification and immune modulation, if you can do that, not only are you going to extend life, but you’re going to improve the quality of that extended life and in all areas of chronic disease, not just in cancer but in anything that you’re dealing with.
That statement is a slogan that we came up with a long time ago. We have a very specific mission statement that is on the walls of our clinic, which is “To make the change the world is waiting for.” By extending life, not only the length of the life but the quality of that extended life, we believe that we are making the change the world’s waiting for.
Dave: Have patients already been diagnosed by the time they get to you, or do you assist in diagnosis as well?
Dr. Buttar: Absolutely not, we do not diagnose cancer. We are not in the business of diagnosing cancer. In fact, if somebody comes to us primarily with the concern that they may have cancer, we’ll do our stuff but we send them to a standard, conventional oncologist and let them make their diagnosis. Then they can come back to us if that’s what they choose.
There are a number of reasons for that. I believe that many times, in fact one of the most prominent people in the field of alternative medicine, Burton Goldberg, and I’ve been given the liberty of using his name, he is the guy who put out The Guide to Alternative Medicine, the big phone book looking silver book you’ve probably seen.
Burton himself was diagnosed with cancer and he went to Germany for treatment. The German doctor he went to see plus two other people, doctors who were close to him, they all said the same thing, “Before you do anything, go talk to Buttar.” He came to North Carolina and he became my seventh person with a diagnosis of cancer who did not have cancer.
This opens up another can of worms. Many time people are diagnosed with cancer that didn’t really have cancer. They go through the treatment and then they end up dying from the chemotherapy. The statistics are very clear. In fact, 42% to 46% of the patients that die of cancer die of malnutrition. The remaining 54% or so of the patients – what’s the cause of death? Some people say it’s the treatment of the chemo and radiation. How many people actually die of cancer?
Cancer is a wasting away type of disease so when people truly just die of cancer, if they’ve never had any type of treatment; they’re not going to die from the
cancer itself. They usually die from renal failure, or liver failure, a common cold or pneumonia or something like that. The cancer basically eats away at their body.
When we’re talking about what caused the person to actually die, what is the actual cause of death in cancer patients? We have to start looking at not only the nutritional aspect and all these other components that we’re dealing with. These components of nutrition versus some of these side effects of the treatments versus the body wasting away; these are the issues that we have to look at.
When we start talking about who made the diagnosis, what was their motivation when they made the diagnosis? Cancer is a very big business so we don’t make the diagnosis of cancer at all. In fact, probably the first dozen patients or so that we had successes with cancer, when they went back to their oncologists, their oncologists said, “Well, we’re not really sure if you had cancer.”
That was a very frustrating thing so now I will not even see a person; we won’t even start the treatment until we have an independent, third-party pathology report that confirms the patient had cancer. Once we have that, then we will go ahead and start treating them. This way, I have something tangible that says this person has cancer and this is what the path report shows. Otherwise, the results come back and they say, “We’re not really sure this person really had cancer,” when we know that they had cancer. Or, they’re being treated for cancer when they didn’t have cancer, as I used the example with Burton.
That’s the reason, and a very long answer to your question, but that’s the reason that we don’t diagnose cancer. We will usually only see a person once they’ve been diagnosed with cancer, but if somebody does come to us and they’re concerned about that, we’ll do our own workup and tell them what we see but we’ll tell them they need to go see a conventional oncologist before we start any kind of treatment and that we need to have that pathology report so we have something definitive to rely upon.
Dave: It absolutely sounds like a responsible thing to do here. When people get to your clinic, that education that we just discussed, are you educating them, as well, as to what they should have in hand by the time they get to you?
Dr. Buttar: That’s a great question. In fact, today was a perfect example of somebody that came all the way from Wisconsin with cancer and they did not bring any of their medical records. I just had a meeting with my head of clinical staff to tell them to make sure new patients know to bring their records, because we didn’t have any records for this gentleman.
We do try to educate people on what they need to bring with them but we also educate people before they ever make the decision to come here. My goal is not that the patient comes here. I don’t care where the patient goes. I just want them to be aware of what the real issues are.
The real issue is what causes cancer. People say, “We don’t really know what causes cancer.” That’s what the big picture out is, that “we really don’t know what causes cancer. We’re against cancer and we’re going to stamp it with this chemo, radiation, and surgery.”
The cause of cancer is very, very clear. You’d have to be an absolute imbecile not to know what the cause of cancer is. It’s toxicity. Toxicity causes a change in the internal environment of the body and the body then compensates. It’s trying to survive against it. It’s a nutritional depletion. The body is run down. It’s not getting what it needs, and then it’s latent with all these toxic substances in the body, and in order to survive it goes into this rapid state of proliferation. I’m going to come back and explain a little bit more in detail and give you an analogy that will hopefully make it clearer.
To answer your original question, the goal is to educate the individual, worldwide, to make the people aware, and to allow people to become empowered with knowledge. With knowledge comes power. They understand that what they’re experiencing when they get cancer or when one of their loved ones get cancer, they understand what’s truly going on. Then it gives them the options of what they can do.
When I said options, I’m not talking about coming to us; because the options are which way do they really want to go. Which way do they really want to proceed? There are many doctors that can help patients using different methods than we’re using but the same type of philosophy. The goal is to educate and empower the masses of what’s happening to the fields of chronic disease, specifically cancer and heart disease, the way we’re going about it.
In fact, if you look at all chronic disease, the way we’re going about it with chronic disease is we’re regressing and becoming more and more primitive. In fact, I believe that right now in history, history will remember us as being one of the most primitive periods in the evolution of medicine and the healing arts. We’re trying to cover up symptoms.
Cancer is kind of like a dashboard on a car that starts blinking with a red light. That red light tells us something and in many cases, the red light is warning us that damage has already started and is going to continue to worsen unless something is done about it.
Our modern, conventional, traditional method of treating that red light, that cancer, that warning of pain or whatever the difficulty the person is experiencing, whatever the symptom is, is to go in and take the fuse out rather than fixing the problem or looking at the engine and trying to figure out what is causing that light to flash and taking care of the problem at the source.
Our solution in modern medicine is to take the fuse out. There is no more blinking light. As soon as there is no more blinking light, the illusion is this problem has been covered and is taken care of. It’s been solved. Now you don’t see a blinking light so everything is fine, until the engine blows.
That is the problem. We have to start looking at the source of the problem and the source of cancer, where did it all start? It started from a level of toxicity on board a physiology that didn’t have sufficient nutrient basis to protect itself.
Dave: That dashboard analogy was amazing. In fact, to our listeners out there, you might want to rewind this and listen to that again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a car and the light comes on and you just ignore the light, ignore the light, and then you wonder why something’s not going right there.
Dr. Buttar: Here’s a little component to this. I want you to think about this part because this really is a frustration for me as a physician and seeing how doctors deal with patients. If you were to take your car with that flashing light to a mechanic and the mechanic told you that the way we’re going to deal with this is we’re going to take the fuse out. If they take the fuse out and the light is not flashing, what would you say to that mechanic? What would your response be to that mechanic?
Dave: I might have an attitude about it, I can promise you that. Sometimes you think you know more than the mechanic does.
Dr. Buttar: You know that, yourself, as little as you may know about car engines, that the solution is not to take the warning light out, but rather to look at the engine and figure out what the problem is. Am I correct?
Dave: Yes, absolutely
Dr. Buttar: If your doctor is going to go in and take that flashing warning out and not look at the engine and try to figure out what the problem is, that’s the same thing as a mechanic ignoring the problem with the engine and trying to take the fuse out. When a doctor gives you a drug and says, “I’m not sure what’s going on here, let’s try this drug,” do you know what the number one, most prescribed medication in the entire northern hemisphere and possibly in the world is? Prozac. It is the most widely prescribed drug, in know in the United States, and I
think it’s North America. It may be in the entire world – the most prescribed drug. Why is that?
When patients come to the doctor and they’re not feeling well, not feeling healthy, their systems aren’t working right and the doctor does all the blood work and there is nothing wrong chemistry wise, and the labs are fine. They say, “I think you’re depressed. Here, take this medicine.”
Of course the person is depressed if they’re not feeling well. The blood work won’t show if their bodies are toxic with certain types of substances and if their systems aren’t working right. You look at the blood work; the blood work doesn’t show anything. They say, “Okay, you’re depressed.” Yes, of course they’re depressed, but the depression was caused by a physiological imbalance.
I’ve had patients come to me that were told by multiple doctors that they should be on antidepressants and when the patient refused or the antidepressants didn’t work and their symptoms got worse, the doctors tried to put them on neuroleptics, on antipsychotic medication. This is how ridiculous our system has become.
Dave: I totally agree. Briefly we talked about attitude here. Based on your experience, how important is the role of attitude during and after cancer treatment? Do people need to go in with a great attitude, right from the get-go?
Dr. Buttar: We have a philosophy of treating based upon the seven toxicities. Please remind me to give the resource we have that’s free for everybody that will help a lot of people regarding this. The fifth of those seven toxicities is called “emotional/psychological toxicity.” I believe that is the number one defining factor between success and failure of a patient that’s suffering from cancer, whether they survive or they fail. Surviving meaning that they’re continuing and failing meaning that they transition to the next phase of whatever we believe, whether we believe there’s life after death or whatever a person believes. They’re no longer on the planet, or what we would conventionally call death.
I don’t believe in death. I believe there is something that happens afterwards and everybody else may have their own different belief. If we were defining success as continuing on this planet and failure as moving onto the next realm, the number one defining factor there is that fifth toxicity, the emotional/psychological component. That has everything to do with attitude.
Attitude is a huge component of that, your mindset, what you believe, what you’re willing to do, the action you take, where your attention is going, are you focusing on the cancer and giving it more energy or are you focusing on you being better? What are you visualizing? What do you want in life? What has been the past
think it’s North America. It may be in the entire world – the most prescribed drug. Why is that?
When patients come to the doctor and they’re not feeling well, not feeling healthy, their systems aren’t working right and the doctor does all the blood work and there is nothing wrong chemistry wise, and the labs are fine. They say, “I think you’re depressed. Here, take this medicine.”
Of course the person is depressed if they’re not feeling well. The blood work won’t show if their bodies are toxic with certain types of substances and if their systems aren’t working right. You look at the blood work; the blood work doesn’t show anything. They say, “Okay, you’re depressed.” Yes, of course they’re depressed, but the depression was caused by a physiological imbalance.
I’ve had patients come to me that were told by multiple doctors that they should be on antidepressants and when the patient refused or the antidepressants didn’t work and their symptoms got worse, the doctors tried to put them on neuroleptics, on antipsychotic medication. This is how ridiculous our system has become.
Dave: I totally agree. Briefly we talked about attitude here. Based on your experience, how important is the role of attitude during and after cancer treatment? Do people need to go in with a great attitude, right from the get-go?
Dr. Buttar: We have a philosophy of treating based upon the seven toxicities. Please remind me to give the resource we have that’s free for everybody that will help a lot of people regarding this. The fifth of those seven toxicities is called “emotional/psychological toxicity.” I believe that is the number one defining factor between success and failure of a patient that’s suffering from cancer, whether they survive or they fail. Surviving meaning that they’re continuing and failing meaning that they transition to the next phase of whatever we believe, whether we believe there’s life after death or whatever a person believes. They’re no longer on the planet, or what we would conventionally call death.
I don’t believe in death. I believe there is something that happens afterwards and everybody else may have their own different belief. If we were defining success as continuing on this planet and failure as moving onto the next realm, the number one defining factor there is that fifth toxicity, the emotional/psychological component. That has everything to do with attitude.
Attitude is a huge component of that, your mindset, what you believe, what you’re willing to do, the action you take, where your attention is going, are you focusing on the cancer and giving it more energy or are you focusing on you being better? What are you visualizing? What do you want in life? What has been the past
