The Budwig oil-protein diet is not new, the work of Dr Johanna Budwig (7 times Nobel Prize nominee) has been around for decades as she devoted 50 years of her life to these studies. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 95. But it still surprises me how few people have ever heard of it.
We all know how toxins in the body will damage our health and well being. Well Dr Budwig, a specialist in oils and fats, studied how highly unsaturated essential fatty acids when combined with high quality protein (which makes the essential fatty acids easily soluble), counteract toxins and poisonous build ups in our body tissue.
Budwig found that commercially processed fats and oils damage our cell membranes, lowering the voltage of our cells. We often forget that our bodies are electrical with our cell nucleus being positively charged and the cell membranes being negatively charged. Simply put, pure unsaturated fatty acids have an active electron field that works with our cell membranes to keep them negatively charged (and the cell “battery” live). When these unsaturated acids are processed or cooked at high temperature, they lose their electron field so they can no longer supply our cell membranes. This results in our cells losing their electrical charge (like a flat battery).
When cells begin to divide they should be bipolar (positive nucleus, negative membrane) so that they can divide properly. This is why essential unsaturated fatty acids are “essential”; because without the electron field that they supply, new cells cannot be formed properly and we get chronic diseases. As we are talking about cell reproduction, this can effect literally any part of our body.
It also stops the cell maturation and shedding process, where the cell would normally mature and die off, and then be cleared from our bodies. As the cells do not mature, and do not die, but continue to divide and produce more cells that will not mature and will not die; this leads to tumour production. Where as most cancer therapies look to killing cancer cells and stopping them dividing, Budwig is totally different in that she seeks to enable them to grow and mature, so that they can then die off in the normal way (without chemotherapy and whilst strengthing the rest of the body too).
When living tissue rejects fat, our body has a mechanism to isolate it (which it does to most toxins that it cannot process normally). These “isolated fats”, then get deposited by the body in places where fats would not normally be found. Muscles affected with rheumatism where found to have isolated fats where as healthy muscles did not. Cancer cells contain isolated fats too.
One of the core principle of Budwigs diet is to stop using any processed fats and oils, and to stop cooking with any fat or oil (stop putting toxins in). However, oil with pure unsaturated essential fatty acids should be consumed, but not cooked at high temperature (which takes toxins out).
Budwig recommends Organic Flax Oil as the best source for unsaturated fatty acids. She recommends mixing it with cottage cheese or quark (a German soft cheese) to make the unsaturated fatty acids more soluble and easily absorbed by the body.
The diet is suplemented by massages and enemas with ELDI (Electron Differentiation) oils. This oil is not taken orally.
As such it can help with a number of chronic diseases by removing the toxic load. I tried this diet with my partner, Michele before she passed away. Obviously it did not save her life. However, I think that by the time we started this diet she was too far gone with the cancer and had hardly any appetite left at all. It was very hard to persuade her to eat or do the other parts of her therapy towards the end. However, if you Google “oil protein diet” you will find that many people swear by it and that it has saved an enormous number of other lives.
Furthermore, compared with some of the other cancer diets, it is quite versatile and relatively inexpensive. Many cancer diets (like the Coy diet), whilst effective, require special foods which are expensive. Coy products are also difficult to get outside of Germany too. The popular Gerson diet requires fruit and vegetable juices every hour also gets expensive because of the shear volume of organic fruit and vegetables you need to purchase, not to mention the how much time it takes to preparing it all.
The most exotic items in the Budwig diet are cottage cheese (or quark) and organic flax oil. I know that cost is not the main concern when looking after a loved one, but if you start missing mortgage payments, it puts even more pressure and stress in your lives which nobody needs. Although it was too late in the day to save my Michele, I would still recommend it for the following reason:
- It is quite flexible and versatile, allowing a good variety of different flavours.
- It HAS saved many lives.
- It is not only used by sick people, it is also used by some athletes to get them into peak condition.
- It is relatively inexpensive compared to other cancer diets.
I still use parts of this diet regularly to improve my own health and as a preventative (though I’m not enamoured to try the ELDI oil enema yet). Next posting I will talk more about applying the diet.
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Sadly it’s too late for my Michele, but it might not be for you or your loved one. If you only buy one book this year, I recommend that you make it this one.
