‘Chemotherapy
helps cure cancer… and the earth is flat’
A talk with
independent cancer specialist Lothar Hirneise for ODE magazine October 2003
(used with permission).
by Tijn Touber
‘A tumour is an
incredibly ingenious solution on the part of the body‘
‘Of course
chemotherapy is no fun, but a radical change in your diet and lifestyle is more
difficult. That’s why so few people survive cancer’
‘Cancer cannot
exist without stress. One hundred percent impossible!’
‘Every successful cancer treatment contains three ingredients: thorough
detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work
Cancer is perhaps
the most feared disease in our modern society. For many it’s a death sentence,
as effective treatments are scarce. The Lothar Hirneise travelled the world in
search of successful methods of treatment. His discovery: anyone can find a
solution to cancer. But brazen confidence is an essential precondition. A talk
with an authoritative cancer specialist, who never studied medicine.
We’ve been talking for
an hour when Lothar Hirneise bends over as if to tell me something in
confidence. In a dead-serious tone he says: ‘A tumour is the body’s solution to
a problem. A tumour forms because someone is no longer producing adrenaline,
which is needed to break down sugar. An excess of sugar is dangerous, so the
body produces tumours. Tumours ferment – burn – sugar. They also use a lot of energy – sugar – due to the fast division of
cells. That’s why some tumours grow so fast. Cancer cells function like liver
cells, only much more efficiently. So the tumour helps you to rid your body of
poisons. Without the tumour you would be really ill. I always tell people: "The
tumour is not your problem. A tumour is an incredibly ingenious solution on the
part of the body." When you get healthy, the tumour disappears on its own,
which is why you shouldn’t immediately operate to remove it. First detoxify
yourself. If the tumour continues to grow – which is almost never the case –
you can always operate later.’
‘Cancer is not a
problem. Cancer is a solution.’
That is the provocative
and hopeful vision of Lothar Hirneise. He suspects that in the course of our
evolution our bodies created tumours in order to survive: ‘For instance, too
much sugar in the cells causes blindness – as is the case with diabetics.
Creating a tumour is a solution. An infection in your intestines is also a
potential danger. If it gets too big, the intestines become blocked. Here too,
the body’s solution is a tumour, which produces enzymes that stop the spread of
infection and heal it. The actual tumour then often disappears by itself. Most
cancer patients are very surprised that they have a tumour. They’ve been
healthy for years, never had a fever, never needed a doctor and now suddenly
they have a tumour. Where did it come from? The tumour was helping them stay
healthy, until one day everything fell apart.’
Lothar Hirneise is not a
doctor. But he does have a pioneering – and well-founded – vision on cancer.
Aided by the gründlichkleit, meticulousness, of his native German
culture, reasoning is his forte. Hirneise is a man of research and solid proof;
a man who took an unusual path in becoming an influential, albeit
controversial, cancer specialist in Germany.
Ten years ago Hirneise
was a master in Eastern combat sports and a Kung Fu teacher. He also owned a
successful sporting goods store. In 1996, he sold the shop for a tidy profit
and promised his wife, Chris, and his two sons that after years of hard work
and too much time on the road, he would spend more time at home with them. Then
a good friend was diagnosed with cancer. Hirneise: ‘Before I had the sporting
goods store I spent 10 years working in hospitals. I was educated as a
therapeutic nurse and also studied psychotherapy for four years. So it was not
illogical that my friend called on me for help, but I didn’t know a lot about
cancer. I went in search of information and came across Lynne McTaggart, the
founder of the English magazine What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You and author
of the book of the same title. I attended a conference she organised in London
on alternative cancer treatments. A few of the speakers told somewhat esoteric
stories, but I was impressed by the research results that were presented.’
The What Doctor’s
Don’t Tell You conference in
The quest ultimately led
to the foundation of Menschen gegen Krebs in 1997, which was partly
inspired by People Against Cancer, founded by Frank Wiewel, who Hirneise
had met at the conference in London. Menschen gegen Krebs now publishes
a newsletter, organises lectures, workshops and conference and also offers
assistance by telephone and advice via e-mail. You can become a member and take
advantage of these services for €60 a year. Hirneise levies no additional
charges for his advice. There appears to be a great need among cancer patients
for independent information, which is lacking in the medical world. Hirneise:
‘Most doctors are good professionals, who truly want to help their patients.
But… they’re working in a bad system. After all, from whom does the doctor get
his information? Firstly, from university professors. And how do you become a
professor? By working your way up in the establishment. By repeating what
everyone has already said. There is no other way of becoming a professor in the
scientific community. Then every doctor regularly attends conferences in his
area of expertise. I haven’t been to a single conference in three years that
wasn’t sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. And then there are magazines
and trade journals. They’re full of advertisements from the pharmaceutical
industry. And that’s not even addressing the question of who owns these
magazines. There is only one possible conclusion: within conventional medicine
independence is a thing of the past.’
Hirneise is a great
supporter of an integral approach to cancer treatment, which also includes
non-Western methods: ‘In all the years I worked in hospitals, I never heard
anyone speak of alternative ways to treat cancer. The average doctor knows
nothing of cancer treatments in Russia, India, China or South America, for
example. If I ask a doctor about such a treatment he says: "If it worked,
I would have heard of it." But that is just the point: nothing is
published about those treatment methods in the magazines he reads. This is how
the system maintains itself. Oncologists don’t know anything about it. Frankly,
I think the word "oncologist" isn’t even appropriate for most doctors
involved in cancer. "Chemotherapist" or "radiotherapist" would
be better descriptions. That’s often all they do.’
It is early in the
morning, 8:30 am, and we’re sitting having breakfast in Hirneise’s office on
the top floor of his lovely home looking out on the rolling hills just outside
Stuttgart. The subject has been broached: chemotherapy. Hirneise recently wrote
on a book on the subject with the provocative title: ‘Chemo heilt Krebs und
die Erde ist eine Scheibe’ (Sensei: Kernen, 2002), chemotherapy cures
cancer and the earth is flat. Hirneise’s vision leaves little to the
imagination: chemotherapy – the therapy that so many cancer patients undergo
every day – doesn’t work. ‘I can imagine that in certain cases chemotherapy
could provide a temporary solution, but then as part of a complete protocol
which includes detoxification, nutrition and mental/spiritual support. However,
I am against the way in which the poison is often used. By following the
current protocol, people are being killed. Full stop. Moreover, [doctors] tell
patients that once the tumour is gone, they’re healthy. That is not only
untrue, it is stupid. By the way, I know a lot of doctors and I have a lot of
friends who are doctors, and over a beer they confide in me that they would
never use chemotherapy on themselves or their family. Doctors send patients to
me because they know the conventional treatments don’t work. They tell their
patients: "I have to give you this, but it won’t work. Just go see Mr.
Hirneise." And yet they continue to work within the system. That’s
schizophrenic isn’t it? But a doctor has a lot to lose if he turns his back on
the system: money, career, professional standing – everyone looks up to you if
you’re a doctor. Moreover, if you go against the tide, you are fought tooth and
nail. You have to be able to stand that.’
Hirneise is also a
highly disputed figure. Doctors say he is crazy, dangerous or worse. ‘But I
haven’t come across any doctor who said: "Mr. Hirneise, what you wrote on
page 235 doesn’t make sense because…" There is no scientific discussion.
But that’s not surprising. If I ask them for examples of patients in a late
stage that have been cured thanks to their treatment, they become silent. On
the other hand, I can cite thousands of patients and cases that got better even
though those same doctors gave up on them. I know them, I shake their hands
every day.’
Hirneise has travelled a
lot, has read a lot, and has spoken to doctors and patients all over the world.
He has set down his experiences and research in an impressive number of
statistics. And his conclusion is clear: every successful cancer treatment
includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of
diet and mental or spiritual work. ‘In every clinic I visited it was the same
story, always and everywhere. It is what the people who overcame cancer did. I
have seen people on their deathbeds, where the cancer had spread to their
bones, brains, lungs and bone marrow… and they got better. In the final stage
of cancer, there is no medicine in the world that can save you – conventional
or alternative.’
If it’s so simple and
unequivocal why aren’t more people getting better? ‘Because success demands
discipline and effort. It demands that the patient get moving, become active,
develop a constructive fighting attitude. Most people choose the easy way:
chemotherapy, radiation or an operation. People say: "What do you mean the
easy way? Do you know how horrible chemotherapy is?" Of course
chemotherapy is no fun, but a radical change in your diet and lifestyle is more
difficult. That’s why so few people survive cancer.
"First detoxify,
then a good diet and stay happy," I tell people. "What?" they
cry, "stay happy? Are you completely deranged Mr. Hirneise? I have tumours
everywhere, I can’t even walk and you’re telling me I should have fun?"
Then I tell them that one of two things are going to happen: either you’re
going to die soon or you’re going to stay alive. If you’re going to die soon,
you’re better off having lots of fun now, right? If you’re not going to die,
you’re better off having fun now too because there’s nothing better for your
immune system. It sounds crazy, but I have a lot of fun with people that come
to me. I recently did a seminar with terminal cancer patients – rarely have I
laughed so much. Ego satisfaction, money and sex rule the world. Cancer
patients are just about the only people not interested in these things. It’s as
if you were talking to the Pope or Mother Theresa. I learn a lot from them.
They live one day at a time. They live so differently than the rest of
humanity.’
If fun and a meaningful
life make an important contribution to healing cancer, the question begs
whether their absence encourages the disease. For Lothar Hirneise, cancer
starts with stress: ‘Cancer cannot exist without stress. One hundred percent
impossible! There are a lot of debates on types of stress – physical and
psychological – but for a cell it doesn’t matter where the stress comes from.
Every cancer patient has a sugar problem. Insulin transports sugar to cells.
Adrenaline – and to a lesser extent cortisol and glucagon – takes it away.
Everyone thinks that if you are under a lot of stress, you have an excess of
adrenaline. This is true, but it’s only the beginning. Long-term stress results
in adrenaline shortages. That’s what you see in cancer patients. So the cell is
full of sugar that is not broken down. These cells die. Sugar is a poison; too
much of it destroys your arteries, your kidneys and your bones. The body
combats that danger by creating tumours – as a last resort for getting rid of
the sugar surplus.’
‘For some people, the
solution to the stress that led to the sugar problem will be to change their
diet – because they ate poorly – while for others it will be in the
psychological, spiritual sphere – because they had serious relationship
problems, for example. That’s why a good diet doesn’t work for everyone, which
leads sceptics to say that such a diet "therefore" doesn’t work. It
just depends on where the stress comes from. This is why it’s so important that
the whole person is taken into consideration. That is to say: to talk to the
whole person. Frank Wiewel of People Against Cancer says: "Give me
a half-hour with a cancer patient and I’ll find the problem." My
experiences are the same. Sometimes we need to talk for hours, but we always
find the problem. The problem for doctors is that they aren’t paid to talk to
patients. If two different women with breast cancer go to a doctor, the problem
is clear to him: breast cancer. My experience is that two cases of breast
cancer can be two different diseases. If someone who has lost a son develops
prostate cancer six months later, would you use chemotherapy to heal him?’
In Hirneise’s
experience, if patients track down the cause of their cancer and truly want to
change, even those at death’s door can heal. Paradoxically, the production of
adrenaline gets back on track once people relax. ‘I have a photograph from 1994
of a woman from Karlsruhe, who at that time had cancer in nearly all her bones
and in her bone marrow. She couldn’t get out of bed or her bones would break.
She was on a lot of morphine and nearly died. She’s still alive. I recently
visited her. She’s living a normal life. How much sicker can you be? I know
another woman who died twice and was resuscitated twice. The priest was at her
bedside to administer the final sacraments. She’s doing very well. She’s in her
70s, skis in Switzerland and has a lover who’s 20 years younger.’
Hirneise is all too
aware that in many ways what he says not only flies in the face of the
prevailing view, but moreover is not easy to understand, let alone to apply
once the ‘cancer’ diagnosis has been given. ‘I had to travel around the world
first and only understood it after a couple of years, so how can I expect that
someone will understand it after a one-hour lecture?’ Hirneise is currently training
30 people who, like himself, can talk to patients just after they’ve been
handed their ‘death sentence’. ‘You need someone objective just then who can
think rationally. At that moment your friends and family members are just as
emotional as you are. Most people think the doctor is that objective person. He
is not. You see you’re not just a patient, but also a customer. He has
something to sell, whether it’s a regular or alternative doctor. We could save
a lot of lives if an objective, independent expert talked to patients right
away. Which is why we set up the training course whereby each participant
promises not to practice psychotherapy or any other cancer treatment on his or
her own.’
The second obstacle on
the path to healing is the so-called aftercare. ‘After a treatment, a lot of
patients are asked to come back in three months. Most people can’t sleep for
two weeks just before those three months are up. Talk about stress! Then they
get a blood test and have to wait a week for the results. It makes people
extremely insecure. There is too much opportunity for additional damaging
stress. And for misunderstandings. Most doctors use a language no one
understands. I advise patients to stay away from aftercare. It is too
dangerous.’
An example: ‘A while ago
I gave a lecture after which a man came up, hugged me and said: "You saved
my life." A few months later his daughter called. He had died. What
happened? The children had convinced their father to go to a doctor after all.
He finally did. That was on a Monday. That Saturday he died. The stress, the fear and anxiety around
the doctor’s vague diagnosis had driven him crazy. When people ask me which diagnostic tests
they should and shouldn’t do I tell them: "Can you sleep without that
diagnosis?" If so, don’t do it. If you need the diagnosis to sleep better,
then go ahead. Instead of a blood test, you’re better off looking in the
mirror. Look at your whole body, your skin, etc. That is a better diagnosis.
Then meditate and listen to your body. Listen to what it wants to tell you. You
will discover a great deal, gain a lot of insight. Afterwards you can always go
to a doctor. Don’t just go to a doctor to have your blood tested or have an
x-ray. I know this is a big sacrifice. We think the doctor should know best,
right? Wrong. Believe me, that’s not the way it works. The tumour is not your
enemy. Stress is the true source and no one can handle the stress of too many
tests.’
Perhaps Lothar
Hirneise’s most important message is that each person must find his or her own
path to healing. A doctor can help in this process. But so can a friend.
Everyone can make their own critical assessment of whether a particular
treatment would truly be good for them. Individuality is Hirneise’s
inspiration. A final bit of advice from the man who spoke to so many people
that were capable of overcoming their illnesses: ‘Make a deal with your tumour.
I’ve noticed that a lot of survivors do this. They start a dialogue with the
tumour: "Dear tumour, this is a lose/lose situation. If you get bigger,
I’ll have to die and so will you. Let’s turn this around into a win/win
situation. You get smaller – you don’t have to die, but shrink to normal
proportions – which will mean I can live. In return I’ll…". I tell
patients, you have to be very careful what you promise, because the tumour will
only keep to its end of the bargain if you do too. If you can’t stick to it,
make a new deal. There are some people I cannot help. There was one woman whose
son had unsuccessfully attempted suicide. On his deathbed she pleaded to God to
take her life instead of his. The son lived. A couple of weeks later she had
cancer. I told her to make a new deal with God, to talk to him again. But she
was afraid that God would then take her son’s life. She died shortly
thereafter. No one can help someone like that. That is the power of a contract.
Every person and every illness is unique and has the right to respect and a
very personal approach.’
More information: Menschen gegen Krebs, P.O. Box 1205, 71386
Kernen, Germany. Tel: +49-(0)7151-910217, mgk@krebstherapien.de, www.krebstherapien.de
Three steps to good
health
Detoxification starts with
cleaning the intestines, for example by using enemas (bowel cleanses). It is
also important to have any dead teeth pulled. The root canals of dead teeth are
full of bacteria that attack the liver and lymph system. In addition, the
(levorotatory or left-rotating) lactic acid, which is produced by the cancer
cells, must be removed from the body. Due to a lack of oxygen in cancer cells,
sugar is not entirely broken down and is converted into lactic acid. The lactic
acid travels to the liver, the liver reconverts it to sugar and sugar feeds the
cancer cells. Hirneise: ‘This is a vicious cycle. If I ask oncologists how they
approach the lactic acid problem some say, what lactic acid problem? They don’t
consider it important. But not only will it kill you, it causes a lot of pain,
comparable to when you do intensive sports – the lactic acid build-up in your
muscles.’
Excess lactic acid can
be removed by taking a daily half-hour bath in water heated to 370C,
to which 100 grams of baking soda have been added. The baking soda increases
the water’s pH-value, which pulls the acid from the body. Hirneise: ‘It is
cheap, fast and 100% effective. When the lactic acid has been removed, you’ll
need less morphine or none at all. Every day I talk to people who have been helped
this way. They used painkillers for years. Now they sit for a half-hour in the
bathtub.’ You also need to add dextrorotatory (right-rotating) lactic acid to
your system by eating soft curd cheese, certain types of yoghurt or sauerkraut,
for example.
Healthy food is based on
living products. It’s not about the calories but about life force. Fresh
vegetables and fruits contain light and light is life force.
Thinking positive and a
fighting attitude are essential. But so is visualisation. Ayurvedic and Chinese
medicine stimulate people to see themselves healthy in the future. Hirneise:
‘Imagine, you have a tumour in your knee. Visualise yourself skiing in three
months. See it as if you were sitting in a movie theatre, watching on a big
screen. This creates a suction force towards health. Everyone who survived
terminal stage cancer visualised this – even those who considered it a lot of
rubbish. When I talk to them, they tell me they prayed, for example. I ask them
what prayer is to them. They say: "I told God that if he helped me, I
would do this or that." They saw themselves doing something beautiful in
the future. They saw themselves in the future, completely healthy.’
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