I shouldn't be alife- a cancer story,cancer

Natural and alternative cancer treatment, cures, remedies, nutrition, and herbs

Two leading scientist at the university of California in Berkeley (Professor Peter Duesberg and Messers Bryan Ellison) and author of the book ‘why we will never win the war on AIDS believed that the same establishment that created virus hunters that launched the war on bacteria and polio in the early nineteenth century will always be at play in our war against chronic degenerative diseases using conventional models that have diminishing efficacies. Like microbes, diseased cells develop resistance to monodrug therapies. To find lasting solutions, we must shift our mindset to a mechanism based holistic approach as has been done in organic farming where primary emphasis is placed on creating an enabling soil environment in which insect pests cannot easily survive in nutrient rich soil. This multifaceted holistic approach builds the health of the soil and attacks the pest from several different angles, which is, the exact opposite of the magic silver-bullet approach of drug-based medicine

Dr. Peter Oyakhire reversed his severe, advanced cancer by rebuilding his immune system with natural therapies, so his body could heal itself.

What happened to us

After months of excruciating pains, palpitations, breathing difficulties and night sweats, I began to notice loss of energy during the day and falling asleep at odd times. I also noticed remarkable enlargements in my neck and jaw areas, which made me, look very robust and plump. These occurrences coincided with my yearly routine and I promptly made these complaints to the doctor. I was referred to the hospital where, a diagnosis of Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma was confirmed. My level of physical activity had become too sedentary for my physical health. Like all immigrants that had become accustomed to western diets and lifestyles, my susceptibility to organ degeneration had increased. ‘I thought the big “C” means a death sentence. The cancer of the lymph nodes is one of the most aggressive lymphomas with malignant tendencies. Many people with lymphoma have no symptoms until it has advanced to its late stages. Through the lymph nodes, it can spread to other organs. Lymphoma typically spread to the liver, the brain and the bones where symptoms appear as headaches, night sweats, fatigue, nausea, seizures, vomiting and pain. The difficulty and delay in diagnosing lymphoma, the ambiguity of the symptoms and the lack of early detection mean that for many people, a diagnosis is a death sentence. Non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is the most common cancer of the lymphatic system according to the lymphoma research foundation’.

Starting chemotherapy

I started a chemotherapy regimen that was expected to last about five months. About three months into therapy, I suddenly went into coma as a reaction to the drugs and the doctors discovered I had developed Hepatitis B, liver failure and end stage liver cirrhosis with less than 10% functional liver capacity left. This makes it impossible for me to continue chemotherapy. While I lingered in coma, my wife would dutifully show up at the hospital each morning at about 4’o clock dressed as if she was going to my home going or homecoming. Often, she will not leave until after midnight. We consoled ourselves with the words of country singer Naomi Judd-‘Don’t allow your pain to be a prison, broadened your horizons and made your illness a prism through which you see a higher calling and a new beginning. It is important to step out in faith, pray the answer instead of the problem, live beyond the immediate physical circumstances and strived to pray for hope’. Things got so stirred up inside my body that the cancer, cirrhosis and Hepatitis B were in a progressive state and there was really nothing left to do but to get my affairs in order. We stood on the bible’s scripture- Psalm 118:17 that say ‘you shall not die but live to declare the work of the lord’. Consequently, we have devoted our life to doing just that. . I became an orphaned patient medically. Having a blind faith in the doctors and the medical system puts me in this precarious situation’. Trust must be expected not earned. I developed a new disease called iatrogenic disease. It is defined as ‘induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment of diagnostic procedures’. In an article published in the Journal of American Medical association by Dr Barbara Starfield of the John Hopkins School Of Hygiene And Public Health, She noted that ‘250,000 people die every year in the United States due to doctor’s errors’

The doctors indicated that if I had gotten to the hospital ten minutes late, I would have died. Sick, tired and painfully aware that we had hit the bottom my wife and I turned to the only option left –God. We prayed to God to intervene and to show us what to do and God led us from the valley to the hilltop- a remarkable recovery. We veered from the path of conventional medicine to a trail that led to naturopathy. We realized that the current health care model was built on emergency and interventional medicine during crises. During wars, or outbreaks of epidemic outbreaks, the tools of surgery, antibiotics and drugs were life savers. Ironically in times of peace, people don’t end up in doctor’s office with emergency crises but with misalignments that had become chronic and organic after long standing violations of nature.

My journey through life support

I was put on a ventilator and was intubated to secure the airway after suffering anoxic neuro damage .I had a cascade of chemical activities from reactions that open the gates for toxic reactions hence my systemic liver, lung and kidney collapse. If thing were no done medically to reverse this trend, I would have ended up in a vegetative state in 8 to 10 minutes. I was put on life support; I could neither talk nor blink, and in a state referred to as Catatonic state, with only the severely compromised brain ticking away. My algorithms were very erratic on the monitor. I was on life support and a tube was inserted will to access his lungs to see if miracle can happen as soon as I arrived in the hospital because my airway would have been compromised by the time I got to the hospital. I was artificially kept alive as long as my heart is still registering on the monitor, no matter how poor my algorithm was. I was dead and alive at the same time expecting a miraculous comeback.

I was in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). This is a condition where an individual in a state of coma is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment. The doctors indicated that I lost higher cognitive functioning and have about less than 20% chance of getting one-third of my brain function back. In this condition, my thinking abilities and awareness of my surroundings, to time and persons is lost. Only my non-cognitive function and normal sleep patterns are retained. My body is maintaining only the basic functioning of breathing and circulation and the ventilator and dialysis. I exhibited some behaviors construed as consciousness, such as grinding of his teeth, swallowing, smiling, shedding tears, grunting, moaning or screaming without reason.”From a medical standpoint, my prognosis is poor. Most individuals in coma and PVS condition for more than three weeks most likely never regain physical and intellectual awareness. The patients that do come out of this condition are younger individuals between the ages of 12 and 35 years.

‘There is a clinical condition I had called Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS), defined as the presence of altered organ function in acutely ill patients such that homeostasis cannot be maintained without intervention. It usually involves two or more organ systems. Prognosis gets worse with increasing number of affected organs. Outcome for patients with this condition is predicted using a model called the MODS score. The MODS score has been validated over the years and widely utilized in intensive care units (ICU). It is based on the function of six key organs, namely the pulmonary/lungs, kidney, heart, central nervous system, blood (platelet count) and liver. With Multiple Organ Dysfunction syndrome, I had got to a point beyond conventional medical salvage’ and tied to life support gadgets:I could move or make any form of communication because of the tubes in my throat and though my nasal septum and the following life supports accessories:A pick line is a venous port made under anesthesia for the intravenous administration of blood and drugs into a patient .A port was made on me because I was taking too many medications intravenously and there were already too many scars on my arms from constant poking for blood. Both my elbows were like that of a drug addict. My kidney function had drastically slowed down from toxic overload that resulted from the drugs I took and the inability of my liver to break down toxins for the kidney to excrete. My digestive system had shut down from impacted colon and the inability of the liver to secrete digestive enzymes. I was permanently constipated. A colonoscopy showed diverticular and complete stasis of my colon. My liver had shut down from toxic overload and viral attack.

Before and after pictures of Dr Peter Oyakhire's remakable recovery from cancer, viral hepatitis and liver cirrhosis with holistic remedies

As the battle rages
After two weeks in the intensive care unit, the doctors concluded I have Hepatic encephalopathy and liver cirrhosis caused by a multitude of the medications I was using- a medical mistake. We thank our doctors for trying because according to Albert Einstein- a person who never made a mistake never tried anything. Hepatic encephalopathy was caused because my liver could not completely metabolize all the medications I was taking and the intermediate nitrogenous waste began to accumulate in my brain tissue and lead to my depression and mental disorientations. These bouts of depression and disorientations clearly disqualified me from recombinant interferon therapy-a blessing in disguise.Chemotherapy destroyed my liver.Medically my liver was irreparable damaged by Tylenol, cholesterol lowering drugs and chemotherapy drugs especially Rituxan can which cause serious side effects, some of which can be life-threatening, including: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), infusion reactions, tumor lysis syndrome (TLS), and severe skin reactions. Other serious and life-threatening side effects with Rituxan include: hepatitis B virus reactivation, heart problems, infections, and stomach and bowel problems. Common side effects during Rituxan infusions include: fever, headache, chills and shakes, nausea, itching, hives, cough, sneezing, and throat irritation or tightness.

Developing complications from chemotherapy

My immunity was brought to the lowest ebb. I had developed hepatic coma, caused by end stage liver disease. This makes it impossible for me to continue chemotherapy and my prognosis for a normal life was poor. By the time I woke up from coma, my liver had shut down and my weight had ballooned from 175 pounds to 350 pounds of water weight due to my inability to synthesize albumin, a protein that help maintain water balance in the body. My knees ankles elbows and wrists had become very swollen. My eyes became very yellow and ‘I became totally yellow like deli mustard’. My abdominal distention caused me shortness of breath. I had appetite for no form of food. I passed out blood from my urine, my nostrils, and my rear end coupled with hemorrhoids. I had constant constipation; scaly skin and my skin bled easily. By then I was on wheel chair lacking physical strength or vigor.

Developing liver cirrhosis
Liver cirrhosis is a process where an otherwise jellylike healthy liver becomes stony and hard with scar .If untreated it progresses to hepatocellular carcinoma, a malignant form of liver cancer and one of the fastest growing types of cancer judging by the extensive visualization (blood supply) of the liver. In addition to the cirrhosis, I had developed pre- cancerous cyst all over my liver which required me to be on cancer surveillance for the rest of my life. The liver clinic would not admit because of the unresolved cancer and high viral loads. If about 85% of the liver stops functioning, all the organs in the body would eventually deteriorate.Fulminant Hepatic failure has about 15% survival rate. Chemotherapy robbed me of my liver and my immunity to illness.

Developing adverse reactions to prescribed medications
In the spring of 2004, I started having serious side effects from the drugs I was prescribed. I was getting more lethargic from the water pills and I was urinating more than 9 times daily. I had numbness in all my extremities which the doctor called peripheral neuropathy. I was on fluid restriction and was having serious headaches, dizziness and painful breast enlargements after taking the diuretics. I also discovered that I was bleeding upon urination. I also bleed easily while using the bathroom. My dentitions became very weak and my gingivitis became so profound that when my wife brushed my teeth in the mornings, it was as if blood was gushing out of my mouth. I was always thirsty but was restricted to less than 1 Liter of water daily (about two and a half glasses of water) and put on a salt free diet as salt would facilitate fluid retentions.

When things went out of controll
Things became completely out of control and my wife devised a plan to get me into liver clinic. With my condition critical, she rushed me to the hospital emergency room. This was how I was admitted into the liver clinic. I went through lots of transfusions with platelets, plasma, red blood cells and other clotting factors. My abdomen was so distended that the fluids were pressing on my lungs and I was having breathing difficulties. I developed haital and umbilical hernia due to weaken abdominal muscles. The fact that all the drugs I was using are contraindicated in people with end stage liver disease puts me between the rock and the hard place. I had become tired of being sick and sick of being tired and having lost hope in conventional medicine, I realized that I needed to become my medical detective in other to live any further.We spent precious time asking the wrong people the right questions

The way foward
We got to a point that we want to stop growing in illness and start growing in health. We wanted to turn our adversity in adventure, to appreciate instead of depreciate. Medically I had reached a point of no return but spiritually I had reached God’s turning point. It had become evident that my health would not come from the doctors capsules. I was medically hopeless but divinely hopeful. I had fallen into the non-responsive category. We had no other alternative but alternative remedies. Faith had thrown us from the path of orthodox medicine to the trail of herbal medicine. Food power and faith complemented available orthodox therapy with active participation of health care practitioners that are sympathetic to alternative remedies. We realized that the drugs never healed me because my body never recognized them- only like can heal like.Though the drugs I used cured my symptoms. Cure and care are derived from the Latin root word –to take care of while treat is also derived from old French root meaning to deal with of manage a particular condition toward some logical end. But conventional ‘Cure’, is the suppression of symptoms-the body’s warning signs that something is wrong. - Like cutting a red light signal wire to a car engine. We know that conventional remedies are palliative while nature heals. Ironically, millions who rely exclusively on orthodox medicine die prematurely because they treat their symptoms and never healed their bodies.Adverse reactions to orthodox drugs and the down turn of their physical conditions accelerates their transition

My determination
'I was determined to figure out what else I could do to enhance the long-term effectiveness of these conventional treatments and fully recover physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually by identifying and changing various aspects of my lifestyle. The challenge that I accepted for myself was to see if I could put together alternative remedies, looking for the best ingredients that conventional oncology therapy had to offer and complementing it with additional therapies from the uncharted world of "naturopathy". I wanted to try to "tweak my fate", tipping the scales in my favor for both fighting the disease and achieving the optimal health possible’- a gamble that paid off.

With only a rudimentary knowledge of herbs, I began a frantic research process of testing herbal formulas, alternative lifestyles and healing food combinations using my body as the guinea pig. I read voraciously about herbal healing. Family friends helped me shop for herbs and I began to formulate the many herbal combinations that would eventually save my life. I was amazed as I watched my body restore itself back to life and wholeness, with my viral loads becoming undetectable, the lymphoma that were the size of grape fruits reduced to non-pathological peanut sizes. I went on to aquire a diploma in herbal medicine, a doctor of philosophy in holistic nutrition and a doctorate in natural health from the Claton College Of Natural Health.These were in addition to my doctorate and fellowships degrees in optomerty.

Doing nothing,not an option

My wife and I didn’t just have to lie back for me to die and for her, doing nothing was not an option. As Alexander Graham Bell puts it –sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is opening. She insisted that we deal with my illness as a family- for better or for worse. Getting my mind and body in a condition that would defy and eliminate illness became our priority. We explored all alternative options available as inaction on her part could be deadly. Inspired by the sayings of the famous Chinese physician, Shin-huang-it – “it is the diet which maintain true health that becomes the best drug”, we began to look at a wide varieties of alternatives. While all orthodox efforts were directed towards the germs, no effort had been directed towards my health.-the care of my disease had taken precedence over my health care. Our independent research revealed that originator of modern day germ theory of disease Louis Pasteur recounted these conventional practices to disease management on his death bed with the following words-“I have been wrong, the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything”-the terrain being the human body. Knowing that our words make our world, my wife used those words to redirect her focus on my health and strengthen the terrains of my body. She decided to take the drivers sit and refocus her emphasis on my immunological defenses and taking active role in my health instead of her blind faith in the doctors. She started asking questions. We found out that viruses are like criminals, they don’t have jurisdictional alliance and like all diseases, they succumb to the laws of healthy living.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within a chance to go to work-Nobel Laureate Albert Schweitzer

Blessed to be a blessing

We believe that there is a limit to how far you poison yourself to health with drugs- a diminishing return on your health. Anybody can have an excellent health if they go after it rightfully. By helping others stay healthy we maintain our health. The same power that held the universe together in an orderly fashion can bring order to our body because we are all individually “a mini universe”. Helping others regain order from inside out instead of from the outside is our ultimate goal. We believe with all certainty that when alternative remedies compliment orthodox remedies, the sick benefits. We do not just want to show others a method to heal their illness but show them the principles of healing. We want to bring attention to the severity of degenerative diseases world wide having found that sugar coating doesn’t work for people with degenerative disease. We want to communicate personally to people in the language they can understand and share our new found light with others because as James Keller puts it- a candle looses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. Ironically a lot of people go to early graves before they turn around and get their acts together. We want people to live a health conscious lifestyle and once they have degenerative disease, they are at risk of developing complications as long as they live. ‘You don’t go and get medicine and say you are cured’. Keep your guard up all the time. Organ degeneration is not a death sentence and as long as we make the necessary changes,it becomes a life experience.
You can be empowered also

You may be among the teeming population with chronic degenerative disease, we offer you natural alternative to compliment your doctor’s efforts. We look forwards to the day when medical therapy for liver diseases will combine the best of alternative and convention remedy and demonstrate how a mutually beneficial relationship between orthodox and natural therapies for the good of the patient. We want serve as inspiration to others and hope our story help people to put a face on hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and cancer; not a victim's face because we am not victims survivors. I am the guy I was before except I walk around with scarred liver. Because God had moved me from the valley of the shadow of death to the hilltop of health, I want to be a positive influence on people with positive attitude despite significant ordeals I encountered. The dept and maturity generated from my travails had helped me put a perspective on life and made me master my conditions. As John Gardner puts it, mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather

Developing a workable formular

With my wife’s help, I kept a detailed diary that recorded treatment dates, doctors visits, reactions and adverse reactions to medications and treatments, test dates with doctors names, and copies of test results, telephone numbers of any and all staff involved and any other detail. For us a positive outlooks is just as important as due diligence over the medical aspects of our ordeal. We surrounded ourselves with positive people who kept our spirits up. We fought fear with information. The right information at the right time, inspiration and support network were critical to our triumph over these tragedies. Since the command center of the immune system is in the lymphatic system, a proper knowledge of the workings of this system is critical to your healing.

In understanding the principles behind the the remedies we offer, you should be able to devise a workable formula that suite you lifestyle. As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it-if you learn only methods, you will forever be tied to those methods, if you learn the principle behind those methods, you’ll be free to devise your own method and become the master of your destiny and the author of your experience. The echoes of those kind words are truly endless in my life and we think you should be able to do the following with this information. It is when we resolve the issues in our tissues and work on our mental disposition to illness can resolution emerge.

'Each man is his own absolute law-giver; the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the decreer of his life, his reward and his punishment’-Yogi Ramacharaka

We believe as Claude Bernard puts it that “Illnesses hover constantly above us, their seeds blown by winds, but they do not set in the terrain unless the terrain is ready to receive them”. And there are people who understood that healing will occur naturally in the human body, if it is given what it truly needs. We want to inspire conversations about cancer and infective hepatitis and the prevalence of liver disease and to show the spread of the disease that had grown to Pandemic proportion. Even though there had been advances in modern medicine we think complimentary alternative remedies will improve the quality of life’s of people with liver and contagious diseases that is having a devastating impart on Americans. If you have been told that you have a few month to life we want to reassure you that we have been there and that you have no expiration date as the road to health and happiness is always under construction. We have tenured jobs on that road and like prodigal children we can all partner on this joyous road.When one in one hundred thousand people have a truly functional liver, we think we had reached a critical point in health care that we begin to have a genuine dialogue about organ degeneration.

When a burden become a blessing
Since my recovery, I had developed a manual that show patients the ways and means of the liver and how liver health can be regained with easy to understand remedies. This website is in response to patients who have benefited from my teaching manual and their desire to have this information available to the general public. My income and wealth, is increasingly independent of my time and effort. We have received thousands of testimonials from individuals who have benefited tremendously from our liver regeneration manual. Since the information is for layman, technical terms are avoided except where the meaning would be obscured by their omission. The indulgence of the scientifically trained reader is asked if at times scientific processes are explained in rather homely terms and by their use of unscientific illustration on the ground that this monograph is intended to lead its readers into a clear understanding of diseases. We aim to emphasize lifestyles and attitudinal changes as adjunct to alternative and orthodox remedies. You efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction- John F. Kennedy.

We wish you better health with no pills and the grace to outlive your diagnosis.We pray that the remaining of your days will be the best you ever had

Dr Peter I Oyakhire OD NHD PhD FAAO

The bottom line is this ..: The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things better, evolve and grow.”-Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, Australia

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