Andreas Moritz is some schmuck offering horrific medical advice about cancer. I’ve never heard so many wrong things about science outside the realm of creationism.
What makes 50% of the American population so prone to developing cancer, when the other half has no risk at all? Blaming the genes for that is but an excuse to cover up ignorance of the real causes. Besides, any good genetic researcher would tell you that such a belief is void of any logic and outright unscientific (as explained in the book).
Crackpot. He may want to define “good” in his description of genetic researchers. It sounds like he is confusing it with “horrible”. Cancer risk is often identified in three primary ways. In no order, there is environment. A smoker or frequent tanner have higher risk because they have carcinogens entering their bodies at higher rates than other people. Then there is familial history. A person with a history of cancer in the family needs to be more vigilant in seeking regular check-ups. This is based on nothing but genetics. Finally, oncologists specifically look at genes to determine whether or not someone has a high risk. BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes indicate a higher risk of cancer if inherited with mutations. This is common among Ashkenazi Jews. This is basically a repeat of point 2. But it’s good to repeat here because, well, cancer is caused by mutations in genes which cause unregulated cell growth which prevents apoptosis or prevents DNA repair.
Cancer has always been an extremely rare illness, except in industrialized nations during the past 40-50 years. Human genes have not significantly changed for thousands of years. Why would they change so drastically now, and suddenly decide to kill scores of people? The answer to this question is amazingly simple: Damaged or faulty genes do not kill anyone. Cancer does not kill a person afflicted with it! What kills a cancer patient is not the tumor, but the numerous reasons behind cell mutation and tumor growth. These root causes should be the focus of every cancer treatment, yet most oncologists typically ignore them. Constant conflicts, guilt and shame, for example, can easily paralyze the body’s most basic functions, and lead to the growth of a cancerous tumor.
Christ. Cancer really hasn’t been that rare throughout human history, but it is more common today. The reasons, however, are not because people are negative nancies. People live longer, are exposed to more carcinogens, and we just plain detect cancer more often than past generations could.
Copying errors are at root here. Moritz is claiming something which is bogus and unevidenced. He is saying a huge swath of the population dies because they are guilty. His ‘evidence’ seems to be anecdotal experience and personal perception. This guy is dangerous, if anything.
If cancer deaths were purely related to one’s emotional state, then it follows that people in Japan, France, and the U.S. must be more chipper than the rest of the world. No, it certainly isn’t about the availability of medical treatment. These people are just happy.
Cancer patients typically suffer from lack of self-respect or worthiness, and often have what I call an “unfinished business” in their life. Cancer can actually be a way of revealing the source of such inner conflict. Furthermore, cancer can help them come to terms with such a conflict, and even heal it altogether. The way to take out weeds is to pull them out along with their roots. This is how we must treat cancer; otherwise, it may recur eventually.
So I guess cancer is a good thing now. Quick! We’ve got to tell the hospitals. We need psychiatrists, not oncologists!
Oh, and children who have faulty genes that cause cancer? Nah. They just don’t have any self-respect. That’s common of children, right?
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This is amazing. Does Moritz realize that 30% of all cancer deaths are due to smoking (or inhaling second hand smoke)? He must think smokers are negative nancies, too. It’s a good thing they’re getting cancer. Otherwise, they’d never find out what was spiritually wrong. I mean, why do we feel so off-put by the idea of cancer? It’s clearly just a method of discovering out innerselves. Or it’s a horrible disease that is caused by a copying error in one cell which is able, through many complex mechanisms, to replicate without ‘fear’ of death while avoiding the attacks of the immune system. I don’t know. I only have empirical evidence to back up my claims.
P.s. This guy is an awful writer, too.
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Michael,
I can only assume you must have had a really bad day when you lashed out at me with such strong words as stupid, schmuck, crackpot, Christ, and dangerous. For a student of science, your emotion-driven arguments don’t really make you very convincing, but rather reflect your anger and unhappiness that obviously cause you to put down those who have a different opinion about things than you have. My well-intended advice to you is to speak your truth, but say it in a friendly tone. You will find that this will earn you a lot more respect and will also help you being a lot less angry. Your anger doesn’t hurt me, it only hurts you.
With regard to the points you have raised, you obviously passed judgment before you studied the matter at hand. If you had actually read my book, Cancer is Not a Disease, It’s a Survival Mechanism, (and Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation), instead of just an article about it, you would have noticed that my arguments are well supported by scientific evidence. I encourage you to read the book with an open mind and then draw your conclusions.
You said this: “A smoker or frequent tanner have higher risk because they have carcinogens entering their bodies at higher rates than other people. Then there is familial history. A person with a history of cancer in the family needs to be more vigilant in seeking regular check-ups. This is based on nothing but genetics.”
You may not be aware of the numerous studies that clearly show most cancers are preventable and, thus, have nothing to do with genetics. For example, new research conducted at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Nebraska has revealed that supplementing with vitamin D and calcium can reduce your risk of cancer by an astonishing 77 percent. This includes breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of cancer. This research provides strong new evidence that vitamin D is the single most effective medicine against cancer, far outpacing the benefits of any cancer drug known to modern science.
Mind you, over 85% of Americans are now vitamin D deficient. To blame genes or familial history for causing cancer, instead of lack of sun exposure which is needed to make vitamin D, or poor diet, smoking, lifestyle, lack of sleep, is therefore unsubstantiated and outright misleading. A recent study (Feb 2009) by the National Institute of Cancer on 550,000 subjects has shown that heavy meat consumption increases the risk of dying form all causes, including cancer, by 20%. How many people are heavy meat eaters in this country? If you do the math you will find that genes are very little impact in cancer statistics, compared with other causes. What people “inherit” are a poor diet and detrimental lifestyle, not just genes.
Trans fatty acids alone cause numerous cancers. Vaccines contain large amounts of carcinogens, such as formaldehyde. Most pesticides are carcinogens, too. Medications oftne suppress the immune system, which is another leading causeo f cancer. Radaition from mammograms and CAT scans are now responsible for 50% of all cancers, killing 3 million people world wide, as documented by the World Health Organization. One mammogram equals a mimumum of 400 chest x-Rays. And there are now studies to prove wireless devices, sucha as clel phone, cause DNA damage. Radiation is a leading cuase of cancer. Genes have nothing to do with that either, except x-rays damage genes and cause them mutate. These are clearly environmental factors.
The cell environment that accumulates the toxic waste from the environment becomes a cess pool of toxins in which normal cell activity becomes impossible. Environment has everything to do with cancer. Genetic mutation is a response to, not a cause of, cell damage. Again, if you read the book, you would be aware of the vast body of scientific research that supports all the arguments I have made.
I am sorry for the people you have put off by your accusations, and thus prevented to find a better way the heal their cancers than what is currently offered by conventional medicine. But I also feel sorry for you because what you have done makes you an even more angry person than you were before.
I certainly wish you well on your path of self discovery. If you ever get to as many cancer patients in your life as I have (close to 8,000), you will find a lot more compassion, humility, and love in your heart than you are now. I encourage you to go this route, it’s truly worthy. When I was your age, I was fanatical, too, and I thought I knew it all. It’s easy to judge others, and not so easy to see their potential. Dealing with terminally ill people for 37 years changes you, I can attest to that. I was terminally ill myself when I was 12, and I died three times in this life. You get a different perspective about life when you go through that. I wouldn’t wish this unto you, but if it happens, it will be good for you.
You have a strong mind, and you are a smart man. Combine this with an open heart, and you will go a long away. By keeping you heart closed, you will be very lonely, sad and angry.
Be well!
Andreas Moritz
I think there’s a misunderstanding. This addresses your first six paragraphs:
We both seem to agree that cancer is caused by environmental effects. I said this. I also pointed out familial cancers are genetically caused. I’m almost being redundant about that.
You point out a number of carcinogens which lead to cancer. I did not say anything to contradict these known causes. What I said was,
In other words, genetic changes are usually found in oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. These changes lead to cancer.
The way I read your reply, it sounds like you think I’m claiming that these genetic changes are not often caused by outside factors. I’m not claiming that.
I am responding to your claim that cancer is caused by a splattering of emotional issues, such as “guilt and shame”. Furthermore, I’m responding to the fact that you think there is a purpose behind cancer, namely to bring inner conflicts to the surface to be resolved. No. It is a result of mutated cells which replicate uncontrollably. There is no purpose other than the mindless survival of those mutated cells.
That’s disconcerting.
Again, if you actually had read my book, and not just a few paragraph from an an article, you would have seen there is plenty of research to show that emotional stress is a huge factor behind cell mutation. There are literally hundreds of studies to prove I am not making it up. Even the simple classical studies of medical students undergoing medical exams, measuring Interleukin 2 and Interferon levels, found that such stress suppresses DNA production of these important drugs, especially when the students felt they performed poorly. Stress leads to an increase in cortisol and unbalanced levels of prolactin, which directly suppresses the immune system. A suppressed immune system has been shown to cause cell mutation. New Russian research shows that emotional states directly influence gene behavior. The German oncologist and Professor of medicine. Dr Hamer, studied 31,000 of his cancer patients and found that their cancers were preceded by emotional conflict or shock, such as a divorce, death in the family, and caused a lesion in a part of the brain that related to the part of the body which developed the tumor. Out of 7,000 of stage 4 terminal patients, 6,000 survived after he helped them heal their emotional conflicts. Stress is still the most powerful and undisputed cause of illness, including heart disease and cancer. How a person responds to conflict and stressful situations determines how severely the cells are impacted. If you took the time to study mind/body medicine, which is no longer outside the realm of science, you may change your mind about the points I have made in my book. It’s easy to call other people dangerous, but as always, when we point the finger at someone else, another finger points back at you. Good advice from an older man who has seen much in his life: When you are angry at someone else, you have the same issues, you just cannot see them in yourself. Your anger and frustration may be triggered by someone else, but it’s never about them. So learn from your anger and you will feel much better because of it.
Given that you wrote that article – and with length – I find it hard for you to fault me for taking cues from it. However, you can feel free to send me your book if you want me to read it so badly.
Michael,
An article can hardly cover the contents of a book that has 260 pages. I am not finding fault for you raising questions about valid points, provided you have researched and investigated the subject matter at hand. It is another matter entirely to call someone who has dedicated his entire life to help others regain their health a stupid and dangerous man without knowing anything about him or his work.
It is not my job to persuade anyone. I am certainly not trying to make you read my book. I provide information to those who are interested in it and I have no problem with those who are not.
I wish you well,
Andreas
You claim that oncologists should waste their time focusing on the guilt and shame you claim – without merit – is the root cause of most cancers, especially those in recent years. That is dangerous advice.
Cancer can hit anybody. Having self-respect, a sense of worthiness, a lack of guilt, and little to no shame will not offer any protection against the disease. People with abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes do not get breast cancer some 80-90% of the time because they coincidentally also have a lot of “inner conflict”.
Dear Michael,
your exchange with Andreas shows a lot of emotion and his replies lots
of informations: i certainly think the latter serves us more than getting into
a game of selfdefense.
Calling someone “stupid, dangerous” even a “schmuck” is not strong
and convincing: it only shows weakness.
Let’s move on and accept the things that work.
His book certainly helped my family: that’s all that counts.
All the best,
Gregor
Switzerland
No one ever said bad, false information couldn’t have a placebo effect.
You’ve been had.
Oh, my! What a rude little schmuck causing such a needles storm, for what? Fame?
If Michael could put his fiery energies to helping instead of flaming, less people would suffer from debilitating diseases.
Bad propaganda is not necessarily a good thing, Michael. I felt hurt reading those rude comments about Andreas. …. my hope is that the people who do read your blog will also follow up reading the comments…and it will be clear to all.
Moritz is giving you hack responses sprinkled in pseudo-kindness. It’s all he’s got since his ideas are pure hackery. He isn’t supported by science in any of his conclusions. His “theory” cannot explain the connection between certain carcinogens – especially tobacco smoke – and cancer rates. The reason is clear: the connection is causal. That’s well established. Is Moritz claiming that cigarette smokers have an especially prevalent rate of feeling guilty and shame versus the rest of us? Does he think that if everyone in the world began smoking cigarettes that cancer rates would remain the same? That would have to be the case to support his crackpot ideas.
If you had made the effort of reading my books instead of just guessing what I wrote, you would have noticed the elaboration on the strong connection between carcinogens, such as formaldehyde, aluminum, and mercury in vaccines, or chemicals in cigarettes, the use of additives in foods, pesticides, etc. etc. and the occurrence of cancer. Your rhetoric questions are irrelevant, because I make no such statements, but to the contrary spend hundreds of pages in my books on such cause-effect relationships. On the other hand, the medical literature is overhelmingly supportive of the claim that 85% of all diseases are caused by stress, which is a purely an emotional response to a perceived threat, one that differs from person to person. The near-constant secretion of stress hormones is an undisputed casue of suppression of the immune system and must be considered in any approach to healing of cancer, which I have included in my book on cancer.
At some stage in your young life you will discover that being unkind to others causes illness, too. I certainly don’t wish this for you.
Be well!
Andreas
85%, Moritz? Really? Up until now I was just dismissing you as a silly, new age hack who genuinely believed this nonsense. Now it’s clear that you’re just a liar.
I’m so tired of this whiny little line of yours. I’ve ignored it to this point, but you harp on it so much, it’s impossible for me to not note it: You wrote the article I am citing. You make ridiculous claims.
I’m in shock – not because you’ve said yet another dumb, poorly reasoned thing, but because I’m sitting here wondering if I should write “Hahaha” or not. Whether or not I want to read your whining is the linchpin which stalls this decision.
You’re making the claim that most diseases (not just cancer anymore, wee!) are caused by stress and other silly things the evidence doesn’t support. If that’s true, then it’s up to you to explain the link between carcinogens and cancer. Furthermore, it’s up to you to explain childhood diseases. Do 85% of infants with diseases just have low self-esteem? Do children suffer from tremendous guilt? And how about the connection between countries with good medical care (i.e., not the crap you offer) and good cancer survival rates? If your “theory” is true, then it must just be a big coincidence that people in Japan survive cancer better than people in Algeria (see link above). How else do you explain the facts? Simply declaring that you spend time discussing relationships between carcinogens and cancer does not mean squat, especially when you follow up that statement by saying that 85% of disease is caused by stress. It has to be caused by stress to fit your predetermined conclusion. You’re nothing but a snake oil salesman.
But hell, I’m just an undergraduate (not a “medical intuitive”) tearing apart your patently silly claims. Go over to PZ Myers’ site in case you missed it.
I am sorry you didn’t care doing a little research of your won before making before making such unprofessional statements as your last one. Already when I was a student of medicine over 35 years ago, one of the world’s most famous and respected researchers, Dr. Hans Selye, proved that over 85% of all diseases were stress-related. Since then his research was confirmed by dozens of large double blind control studies.
I would not be this silly and embarrass myself to make statements of this kind unless they are based on undisputed evidence. However, I admit I didn’t give you the correct up-to-date percentage; stress now causes actually up to 90% of all diseases. Perhaps the most well-known medical institutions in this country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made this statement: “Up to 90 percent of the doctor visits in the USA may be triggered by a stress-related illness.” I know, you prefer to call this “new age hack, lies, and nonsense,” but for your own sake, and not to embarrass yourself any further, you may benefit from learning about psychosomatic illness (since it clearly makes up the vast majority of all diseases).
This article published by USA Today is based on factual research, and may give you some good ideas what stress does to the body (things that every medical student learns at medical school as I can attest to).
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/04/06/stress-part-eight.aspx
If you googled psychosomatic illness, you would find literally thousands of references to medical research about it. For instance, you find that the leading cause of heart disease is happiness rating and job satisfactions; in other words, stress at home and at work. There are now at least 20,000 symptoms of disease linked to stress (out of 44,000 now registered sysmtoms).
Stress is linked to the six leading causes of death – heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide.
This is another good link related to research data on the subejct:
http://articles.directorym.com/Stress-a852965.html
I hope this will change your perspective about the subject, and not be so judgmental the next time, for your own sake.
Wishing you the best of health!
Andreas
You aren’t a professional. You are on equal footing with creationists, one of the main targets of this blog. Notice the complete lack of respect I give those people. Now go look up my responses to things that people like Steve Jones says. In those instances I want nothing more than to be respectful. And the reason? Because I respect those people. I don’t respect you trying to cash in on seriously ill people. Hell, almost every one of your FAQs is about how people can pay you or how they can buy your books (but never at discount…unless they buy at least 10).
The most I seem to be able to find on you is that you’re a medical intuitive. Where did you get your medical degree? I suspect a man like you would have no problem touting an actual degree if you had one. So where’d you attend school?
Oh my… this guy (andreas) sure is a wacky clown eh?
Not that it’s needed, but here’s a little quote that Andreas uses to (presumably) help his case (it doesn’t):
“Up to 90 percent of the doctor visits in the USA may be triggered by a stress-related illness.”
Wow eh!? Sounds like the CDC agrees with this quack… but wait. Let’s look at that quote one more time… they’re talking about “doctor visits” not illnesses! I’m guessing that most “doctor visits” aren’t due to serious illness at all, but perhaps a sore throat or mild cough.
Oh yeah, and that’s before I even get to the “may be” qualifier.
So to sum it up: The CDC states that “up to” 90% of “doctor visits” in fact “may be” triggered by stress-related incidents.
Well that settles it then… give that man (andreas) a medical degree and call him “doctor”! ;)
Lies.
Here’s Dr. Hans Selye’s landmark paper on stress. http://www.icnr.com/articles/thenatureofstress.html
Nowhere does he claim that stress causes 85% of all illnesses. In fact, he says, “Stress cannot and should not be avoided. Everybody is always under some degree of stress. Even while quietly asleep our heart must continue to beat, our lungs to breathe, and even our brain works in the form of dreams. Stress can be avoided only by dying. The statement “He is under stress” is just as meaningless as “He is running a temperature. ” What we actually refer to by means of such phrases is an excess of stress or of body temperature. ”
As for vaccines, Dr Moritz, shame on you for sowing groundless claims that they are carcinogenic. Show ANY peer-reviewed study linking vaccines to cancer! Your body produces more formaldyhyde through metabolism than is in the entire vaccine schedule, and you are exposed to more mercury and aluminum in the environment than from vaccines. And WHY would you look at childhood vaccines as a cause of cancers that typically strike in old age? DOn’t you think other factors in the intervening DECADES might play a greater role?
EDIT by Michael Hawkins: I never edit responses that come on my website (except for the occasional spelling error if I’m feeling generous), but Moritz posted a 9389 word response here. It added up to 17 pages, single-spaced. One gem of a line from it that I happened to read at the end said “All vaccines are poisonous and, as such, act like time bombs that will explode in due time.” That should give everyone an idea of the quackery this man practices. It should also give everyone an idea as to why I can’t leave so much crap up here. No one is going to read it and it takes forever just to scroll through/past it. If Moritz wishes to post it on his own site and put the corresponding link up here, he’s welcome to do that.
To MIchael:
On a different note, if you intent to write a response for me to see, you will be wasting your time. Write for your friends. I will no longer subscribe to this post or read what you write. Too many profanities for my taste, just like the title suggests. I still feel sorry that a young person like you is so filled with envy and blinded by rage.
Well, good. To all my friends: I only know one of you that responded, but I’m glad we’re all so buddy-buddy. I’ve never felt so close to two complete strangers (four if you count the guy who urged I be nicer and the woman who creatively used the same insult on me that I used in the opening post).
And to all my stranger-friends that come from search engines: I’m so glad this post so often shows up on the first page of results. This goes double for my stranger-friends from Google – I’m number 6 on their list. I’m glad I can help the struggle against anti-science nonsense – especially the nicely packaged kind. Oh, how envious I am of such things!
To my BFF, Michael Hawkins; Counteracting this shyster is important, and mockery is as valid a tool to expose scammers, as lies and misrepresentations are to these quacks.
Here’s hoping more potential Moritz marks get to read your postings on him.
Moritz, these claims that 85% of diseases are caused by stress and that stress is a contributing factor to cell mutations (thus leading to cancer), if properly researched, should have entire papers written about them.
Please point me to the papers supporting these two arguments. I want a full citation, including the (respectable) medical journal, what edition and what page number these claims show up at.
Also, a brief excerpt from the medical journal (that isn’t a knockdown argument that the article proceeds to /refute/.) is a bonus.
Andreas: “I will no longer subscribe to this post or read what you write.”
Run away! Run, run away!!
Nobody’s buying your BS here Andreas…
Dear Michael,
It seems to me that you don’t publish postive messages about Andreas. My message a week ago was not published.
Do you have something personal against Andreas Moritz?
Andreas helped me to understand medicine much better.
I’ve read a lot of stuff about mind body medicine and studies for over 20 years Krishnamurti. Andreas has a very good knowledge about all this.
Only with an holistic approach one is enable to see the root cause of illnesses.
Reading his books, he helped me to understand the origin of my gallstones which helped me to dissolve them.
He also helped me to understand the origin of a cyst and I could dissolve it.
Have a look on curezone and you see many other people as I’m.
Andreas has a good knowledge of ayurveda medicine and the most important of all, he is good person.
Read the messages at curezone and you’ll see.
I’ve seen that my message was not published because I indicated a domain (curezone) with the extension “dot” com. Without the extension “dot” com it works.
Michael,
Where can I find Andreas 17 paged response?
Best,
Marko
I didn’t save it as I have no intention of reading such nonsense, but if you click his name on his comment responses here, you can get his website and probably contact information.
Beware of anything he tries selling you.
Wow, woo woo wow. I made the mistake of going to Moritz’ site; Man, that is some major, unadulterated woo. I admit, I’ve only read about this kind of crap; To actually see the whole shebang on one site-hell, he’s selling rocks, for crissakes. And not very big ones at that. I live in the desert, and looking out my front door, it looks like I have a gold mine for a yard, going by how many “healing stones” are out there. If only I could find out the secret to infusing them with the obvious special healing properties that AM infuses his with. I won’t do it of course, because anyone can see how mine are not really healing stones, unlike the good doctor’s. Damn, I never catch a break…
I have recently finished the 5 day liver and GB flush highlighted in his excellent book and I passed ~150 stones varying from 20mm to 2-3 mm!!! It was painless and at no point did I feel pain what so ever.
I just wish there were more people like Moritz rather than the close minded “professionals” my late father saw when he had lung and brain cancer.
If I knew then what I know now I am sure I could have had a better chance of helping him survive.
I have removed fluoride from my diet, eat organic food as it grew and have spent a large sum removing my toxic Amalgam fillings. I’ve had my C1 bone aligned and now try to lead as stress free life as possible…
I feel great. Moritz keep up the great work…
John Shore
This is the key to being a successful snake oil salesmen.
@Michael,
John’s money went to the dentist not to Andreas. ;)
Well, I never claimed to be well versed in dentistry.
Of course, John had to buy Moritz’s snake oil (book) in order to get had in the first place. He’s wasted his money on faulty advice that has no medical basis.
Michael, I respect your opinion but believe me that I too resolved a lot of things (me and people around me) what he wrote.
There is more than traditional medicine. There is p.e. a placebo aand a nocebo effect. The mind has a big part in healing.
Traditional doctors don’t take this much serious. They takes the symptoms of the “illness” as the real cause.
With fear and negative emotions your possibility for health is much less then if things is seen in a wider perspective. Andreas has this knowledge.
About natural food:
Do you know why doctors don’t tell you to take natural products? Because the pharma industry can’t take copyright on natural food so they don’t propose it to the traditional doctors. Many things are resolvable in a diet change. I experienced it myself.
My wife was coughing 3 months last year and 3 months the year before, always in the winter months. Her doctor gave her 2 antibiotic cures last year and 2 the year before. Without any effect. I noted that in the same period she was coughing, she also had boiling gas in her stomach (and reflux) what irritated the bronchial tubes. I told her to take every evening a piece of fresh ginger. She resolved it. Andreas wrote many times about ginger in his books.
Her doctor did not even ask her about other aspects in her life. Who is here the snake oil doctor?
Hm. So, I guess it’s important that she wait 3 months before ingesting the ginger. Prolly have to wait for that boiling gas to subside.
I am so moved by this negativity that i MUST comment. Why are Michael and his friends so adamantly trying to discredit Moritz?
We all know (or should know) that the real cracks and scammers are “traditional” medical doctors who are mainly in it for the profit (and dentists putting crap in our mouths and overcharging us to remove it.) Sadly my family has seen this over and over again only to get true relief from alternative medicine and natural cures.
MAYBE Moritz may not be totally correct in all that he says, but who is????? Noone is perfect….we’re all simply trying to find solutions to our ailments, trying to lead better, healthier lives. So stop the “fight-down”!!!! Before all the chemicals and fancy stuff they now want us to pump our bodies with, the natural remedies worked and for thoses of u in doubt, they STILL work :-)
Just to make things clear, “traditional doctors” from here on out should no longer mean the doctors that work in respectable hospitals but those that have been practicing techniques that rely on old wives’ tales and herbs and such passed down for generations on superstition and “it worked for me” testimonial tales. That, to me, is more “traditional” than working with MRIs, synthetic and laboratory-created medicines and the like. With that said….
Since the placebo effect is a well-documented medical phenomenon, every doctor worth his salt expects it in some form or another. I find it laughable, also, that we’re not supposed to take the symptoms of the illness as a means to find a way to treat a patient, and that you’re broadly generalizing a supposed bad experience on other doctors. Bravo.
Doctors don’t tell you to take “natural” products because for the most part it’s not their job. It’s YOUR job to eat healthy.
Kinda funny, but using ginger in large amounts can also cause stomach problems. Also funny, it seems that your wife’s coughing problem went away anyway in prior years after a short amount of time. Are you absolutely certain it was the ginger performing the miracle?
There we are with that “traditional doctors” misunderstanding. And an excellent case of “it worked for me”. Let me give my own testimonial: modern-day medicine has worked just fine for me, and I and my family have never had to resort to excessive payouts to doctors for little return in terms of services.
A lot of natural remedies and alternative medicines rely almost entirely on the placebo effect, for things that would get better on their own without much help from anything. Strength of will and all that, it’s well documented. So, who’s paying more? The people that sit back and let their illnesses pass, or those that pay for silly cures to things that would go away anyway?
All this woo woo floating around. As to the original post, erv has a lot to say about genes causing cancer.
http://www.quackwatch.org/
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cancer.html
http://nccam.nih.gov/
And from the James Randi Educational Foundation:
http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-04/040706federlein.html
Wow, found this after researching Andreas after seeing him mentioned as believable by some poor schmuck here:
http://skepticdetective.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/should-i-vaccinate-my-baby/
His anti-immunisation video further demonstrates his woo-woo approach to medicine and science…. I second the fact that this man is dangerous.
Michael;
It is disappointing to read your comments full of anger and anxiety. And you call yourself a professional? You don’t seem to pay attention to anything that Moritz is saying except for picking up some quotes and commenting on them. This is a typical reaction of a modern “scientist” who is generally unable to see the whole picture in anything, and trying to make sense just picking unessential details.
For your information, I am not a “creationist” as you like calling it, I hold a doctorate from University of Michigan, and yet I haven’t seen anyone among the “educated” and “professional” people and colleagues who had such understanding of our life and existence, and such insights into the sicknesses and diseases that strike us today.
You don’t seem to have red Moritz’s books carefully, but rather browsed them in order to find something against them. You are just looking for some place to release your anger, and I wish you could find someone else for that.
Having been in academic environment in three different countries for 13 years and having studied in some of the most respected schools in my area of concentration, I have come to realize that the modern system of higher education gives you nothing but “information”. The “knowledge” is acquired by only few who venture outside the academic experience and explore themselves and their world through their own intelligence.
Again, you just seem to be an angry, scared and anxious person, who in his attempt to save obviously failing practices and theories to which he belongs, is rudely attacking a guy who has saved so many lives and cured so many people.
I wish you the best. Just calm down and behave like a “pro” you claim to be.
Henry.
Totally agree with your text Henry.
(and even if I have some troubles to find a new job, I’m graduated as well)
Gee whiz, you two sure sound super educated! Raimond, why don’tcha ask the good Doctor Moritz to front you some of his product line to sell to all your friends and/or fellow alumni? Perhaps Henry could also give you some advice from his many years of woo…I-I mean world-wide studies. A meeting of the minds, in other words. Man, it would be like having two Wile E. Coyotes at the same time! That’s some unimaginable brain firepower right there, uh, unless it’s you guys, ’cause of course you could imagine it. I was talking about us numbskulls who just can’t stop bleating about “evidence” and other such time-wasters.
Several of the posters here have commented on the fact that Micheal is not “calm”. Sometimes frustration and anger are appropriate, such as when confronting a person who is trying to scam people into spending money on dangerous ideas. Would you get angry if a car company was knowingly selling cars with brakes prone to failure and there were multiple deaths? Sometimes being calm is completely inappropriate.
I have no doubt that a large amount of unresolved stress over a long period of time, such as with chronic depression, can weaken the body, but I also have no doubt that causality is hard to prove here. Do “stressed” people smoke more? Eat poor diets? Exercise less? Drink more alcohol? etc., etc.. It takes carefully designed, long term studies to separate correlated events from caused events.
Were Mr. Moritz not requiring Micheal to BUY his book before he will have a discussion with him I might have given him a respectful listen, but he is and so I don’t.
“These reports, the first to specifically focus on cancer survivorship, suggest that there has been marked progress in the treatment of cancer and that a more comprehensive research and clinical focus is needed for post-treatment care of survivors.”
“Among the findings: The number of people living with cancer increased from 3 million in 1971 to 9.8 million in 2001, and 5-year survival of adult cancer has increased from 50% to 64% within that rough time frame. Changes in 5-year survival rates were even greater in childhood cancer: 79% in 2001 compared with 56% three decades ago”.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 96, Number 13, Pp. 1412-1413.
“Studies done over the past 30 years that examined the relationship between psychological factors, including stress, and cancer risk have produced conflicting results. Although the results of some studies have indicated a link between various psychological factors and an increased risk of developing cancer, a direct cause-and-effect relationship has not been proven (3, 4).”
National Cancer Institute, /cancertopics/factsheet/risk/stress/
Mr. Moritz changed his faq page address from /faq.php to faq.htm so the above link would be broken. Just change the .php to .htm.
He says he’s too busy to answer email questions and then explains how to pay for a phone consultation. You get an unspecified discount on purchases if you are “accepted” as a wholesaler (min. 10 item purchase), and an extra 10% off for orders over 50 items.
He does have some free info, though, such as:
“If you suffer any of the following symptoms, or similar conditions, you likely have numerous gallstones in your liver and gallbladder:
# Low appetite
# Food cravings
# Diarrhea
# Constipation
# Hernia
# Flatulence
# Hemorrhoids
# Liver cirrhosis
# Hepatitis
# Most infections
# High cholesterol
# Pancreatitis
# Heart disease
# Brain disorders
# Duodenal ulcers
# Depression
# Impotence
# Puffy eyes
# Skin disorder
# Scoliosis
# Gout
# Stiff neck
# Asthma
# Sciatica
# Joint diseases
* Knee problems
* Osteoporosis
* Obesity
* Chronic Fatigue
* Kidney diseases
* Cancer
* MS and MD
* Nightmares
* Urinary problems
* Hormonal imbalances
* Menstrual and menopausal disorders
* Problems with vision
* Nausea and vomiting
* A ‘bilious’ or angry personality
* Dull pain on the right side
* Difficulty breathing
* Clay-colored stool
* Prostate diseases
* Other sexual problems
* Digestive disorders
* Liver spots, especially those on the back of the hands and facial area
* Dizziness and fainting spells
* Loss of muscle tone
* Excessive weight or wasting
* Strong shoulder or back pain
* Pain at the top of a shoulder blade and/or between the shoulder blades
* Dark color under the eyes
* Morbid complexion
* Tongue that is glossy or coated in white or yellow
* Frozen shoulder
* Headaches and migraines
* Tooth and gum problems
* Yellowness of the eyes and skin
* Numbness and paralysis of legs
* Alzheimer’s disease
* Cold extremities
* Excessive heat and perspiration in the upper part of the body
* Very greasy hair or hair loss
* Cuts or wounds that keep bleeding and don’t heal
* Difficulty sleeping, insomnia
* Stiffness of joints and muscles
* Hot and cold flushes”
Ener-chi, “The Number One Health Risk”
But you have to buy the book to find out how to get rid of all of these ailments. I have to say (and maybe I’m not the best businessman) that if I had that knowledge I would call every researcher in the country and share my secret for free…just to make the world a better place.
Great post Henry. You are kind, eloquent and respectful. Every post written against Moritz comes across so angry and I’m left asking myself, ‘Why is Moritz’s information perceived to be threatening?’ What is the alternative, really? What has conventional medicine really done for cancer? Sorry guys but chemotherapy, radiation, and ectomies are just not good enough. You know Michael, if you came across intelligently (by not using the words ’stupid’) and respectfully, people would be more inclined to listen to what you have to say. We all know the rest of the angry folk are on your side anyway. . .
Grace,
You seem not to have read my previous posts, in which I answered every one of your questions. This is silly. Being angry does not make one wrong. Moritz’s information is perceived to be threatening because he promotes, for financial gain, ideas that can cause considerable harm to people who are sucked into being convinced that his opinion is fact. Could you stop criticizing Micheal’s attitude, which is completely beside the point, and respond to the evidence?
I have posted some factual information from The National Cancer Institute above. Please refute this information, if you can, before bringing up Micheal’s emotional state again.
I still have not gotten an answer from anyone about why Mr. Moritz is profiting off ideas which, if true, could alter the world dramatically for the better. Could someone PLEASE answer this? I have Type 1 Diabetes, a brain injury from a congenital Arteriovenous Malformation, a brain injury from Malarial Encephalitis, and Epilepsy. I pay for “Western” health insurance (which has saved my life more than once), but I get FREE advice from a D.O. who is my brother’s business partner, and advice my acupuncturist whom I pay $5 per session because she knows that I am near destitute. Why is Mr. Moritz so greedy?
Remember, we are not discussing emotional states; we are discussing deeply important issues of health and morality. Calling someone angry is an easy and well recognized way of avoiding answering to factual information. “Just keep to the facts, Ma’am.” as the TV cops used to say.
Haha, you’re seriously going to argue that smokers are positve thinkers? Yeah right. They know smoking is damaging to their health. It’s a concious act of self-hate.
I don’t know how well his cancer cures work because i havn’t personally tried them, but as far as i can tell this guy Moritz knows what he’s talking about when it comes to gallbladder & liver cleanses. i tried it a couple of times and had a nasty amount of stones flush out. He is helping people to help themselves, in a much more affordable way. Compare the prices of what Moritz says you’ll need to use, to a hospital or doctor visit. Major money savings if you go the natural way. The joke’s on you Michael.
So then what of those who smoked prior to anyone knowing that cigarettes were so harmful? We should find a cancer incident rate which is not statistically different from the general, non-smoking population, right?
Oh, and where are your studies which show a causative link between negative thinkers and smokers?
Darn science.
All of you really make me laugh. Thanks for making my day. The argument on both sides doesn’t really solve the question of quackery does it? A blend of modern medicine and natural medicine seems to be the best answer to the problems here. It is true that our parents or grandparents were perhaps healthier than we are due because they grew some of their own foods, but their life span was not as long. We have good medical advancements that weren’t available then that help our expected life spans be longer. The practices of people in other cultures in regards to foods and medical care and how much longer they live is both a scientific fact and “natural” fact. Some people in certain countries and those that eat or don’t eat certain foods certainly do live longer lives. The question here does not seem to be whether or not Mr. Moritz is a quack, but the intolerance of both of these men to come to some type of middle ground. If none of the claims made by either of these “scholars” was true, would we even have to read this? Actual scientists are looking into the benefits of eating a more natural diet and most of the drugs we are given are based on plant properties that have been synthesized. So it seems that the medical community does not completely debunk the naturalist point of view. The only problem I see is that both of these people believe that only they are right and there is no meeting halfway. If someone wants to look into the Moritz books or “read” them online, if you just Google the name of the book, it is possible to read a lot of it online as some sites give you a inner glimpse and some allow you to read most of the book. The only drawback is that in order to have the information you have read with you for reference, you must buy the book. This is true with most books, not just one author. P.S. There are other “practitioners” out there making a lot more money off of their ideas than just Mr. Moritz. What about the “Eat Right 4 Your Type guy? His theories seem much more far fetched than someone who is touting a natural foods diet.
There are a lot of points made in your post, Sandy, and most of them I will let rest as they are. But as for the last one about other people with far fetched ideas, I will address.
I’m not familiar with the specific example you give, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there looking for a quick buck through dishonest means. That’s awful, but it isn’t necessarily dangerous. Moritz, on the other hand, is dangerous. He is giving ‘advice’ which goes against the health of cancer patients. In another book, he claims HIV isn’t contagious. It’s bad enough he’s selling snake oil, but now he’s lacing it with poison.
C’mon Mike, face it; you’re just as bad as Moritz because you point out the poison without patting him on the back for not pointing out how his spiritually-infused rocks aren’t poisonous at all! ( Though perhaps Moritz might add that they should NOT be ingested. )
I think we are living in a time that when a MD makes an error it is part of his job people say. When a person who is good known with alternative medicine makes an error he/she is called a snake oil seller.
Time will change I suppose. What is the value of a MD who has studied 20 or 30 years ago and who learned in his Medical school only 8 hours information about foodstuff.
If I put cognac and not diesel in my car he won’t be happy.
My father had a brain infarct and his MD did not even ask him what he eat every day. Worse he did not even tell him what to eat in the future. Is that also a snake oil seller?
I agree with you that there are people who do or don’t have the knowledge and wants to make a quick buck. (but even people who are MD don’t they?).
Don’t forget that eating and thinking can makes you sick, so eating and (not too much) thinking can makes you also healthy.
Good that someone has the integral knowledge of all this.
Its funny. As I was reading this article, I kept thinking how poorly it was written…and then I caught his comment at the end actually attacking Moritz’s writing…made me laugh.
ha…This article has quite the Fox News flare…perhaps Michael could find employment there, a budding Bill O’Reilly! Yes, I do think the world might need just one more novice commentator. “stupid,” “dangerous,” “crackpot…” very convincing vocabulary! haha.
I feel no need to defend my writing. There are hundreds of posts which do that for me on this blog. However, the person who uses ellipses in her writing may want to rethink laying down criticism.
Yes, but I’m not writing a professional essay:) Just making a comment (see…I just wrote a phrase). oh no!
What is with all these people who think I’m claiming to be a scholar or professional or anything else? I’ve pointed out that I’m an undergrad student within this very comment section.
Mike, please don’t feed the trolls, and Jennifer is one huge troll.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have fed Moritz then.
Well at least I didn’t get dinged on MY writing yet. lol. There is an excellent movie made by a real person with cancer called Crazy Sexy Cancer. You should really watch for it. The woman making it is filming her journey as she finds out she has stage 4 cancer and what she does/does not do to try and “cure” it. Won’t take up all the space here by giving it away, but if any of you have seen it would like your opinion. It is usually shown on the Discovery Health channel. You may also want to scan the Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type website. This guy is saying that based on your blood type you must eat certain things and not others. Some of the suggestions make some sense, but I have yet to find out any scientific research that supports that if you are a type O, you should eat lots and lots of red meat. Cholesterol anyone????
Hahaha…a troll. Sassy!
I did the gall bladder flush. There is nothing new about these type of flushes. They are very very old. The South Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans do these. He did not coin them, but they do work. It doesn’t take buying a book. There is another free website called hulda’s gall bladder flush. I would say that Moritz is making a buck off something he did not create.
ohhh, also, I did not purchase anything from him (book, materials) and did fine with the gall bladder cleanse.
A very emotionally driven forum this one appears to be. The war on cancer hasn’t worked, but the non allopathic side hasn’t had any more victories than the allopathic side. There is a lot of quackery in complimentary therapies but its also there in big pharma as well.
I work around the world on the mind body aspects of cancer for Improvement In the Quality of Life NOT CURING or claiming to cure. I’ve done a few small correctly conducted clinical trials, and there is a lot of other good quality evidence to demonstrate the effects of the mind body connection, but it cannot cure cancer. I spent some time at the Royal Marsden Hospital this year and spoke to lots of victims who had paid up to and over a million pounds for treatment and most of them never make it home, so who’s ripping who off. I felt sorry for the Drs and nurses who had no option but to follow the standard of care regardless of the often pathetic negavtive outcomes. Having said that a lot of people don’t make it home from the alternative clinics either. There is no single cause for cancer so there is going to be no single cure. The MDs are always going to make better diagnosticians than the other side and all cancer IS NOT emotionally inspired, the fear and negative emotions which tend to over ride the psyche after a diagnosis don’t help the body to cure though. The bottom line is that it is very serious disease that does kill and has a better treatment result if it is detected early, even then many of the cancers are going to kill their host regardless of what type of treatment they choose. The disease is an insideous curse that lines the pockets of too many people on both sides of the fence. At the end of the day “The only thing mankind ever cured was fish and bacon.” the body heals itself with the right help including medications, surgury, diet, sun, and a contented attitude. If you smoke and abuse yourself with a poor diet well perhaps you should reconsider your lifestyle and habits to give yourself a better chance. The self abusers so often heard about who live to 100 and smoked and drank everyday etc are mostly urban myths and by far the exception than the rule.
This argument will go on forever until a unified protocol is brought into being and I think unless big pharma owns and controls it, then that is never going to happen. There are three types of lies “Lies, Damn Lies, and Stastics. At the end of the day if you are diagnosed research your treatment outcomes carefully and always get a second opinion before you make your choice. If you liove in a country where cancer treatment is 100% controlled by medicine and you have no other treatment options available, don’t go back to your doctor, go to your travel agent and head for a place like Germany or Switzerland where at least you will have some good evidence based allied therapies available administered by medical staff who are prepered to peek beyond chemo and radiation or use them in conjuction with it.
Thanks for all the swell info, Ricky! I’m gonna need a few weeks to sort through it and determine what the heck you’re talking about, but then, I’m gonna do what you suggest. I think.
Hi and thanks Trog69.
Its a tough call. \After daignosis it is important not to panic and to make an informed choice. Don’t consider all allopathic treatments as guarantees for cure, and if you choose an alternative treatment clinic make sure it is attached to a medical hospital where all options are available to you.
I don’t know if I can say it here but the the Cecil Clinic in Lausanne Switzerland is excellent and so in The Clinique Genolier in Nyon Switzerland. In these two clinics all evidence based treatments from both sides of the fence are available and the medical staff are very caring highly trained. Its the same in mexico, many of the clinics are extremely dubious but there are some good ones. In Italy the De Bella treatment is also strongly evidence based and administered by trained medical staff.
we have a hypothermia frequency treatment in Australia brought into being by a medical specialist called John Holt, clinical and experiential evidence for its success on many cancers was overwhelming, but the powers that be abmonished it although once the press got hold of the story they had to admit his protocol had some valid merit. I was amazed to learn it is now on national health in Germany and one of the first lines of treatment for many cancers in Germany. So who’s right and who’s wrong. Western medicine is based on science and the nature of science is that evidence must be produced. One thing that is a fact is that there are many cancers that there are many cancers for which chemotherpay is basically useless and does nothing more than to induce misery, but there are also new targeted chemotherapy protocols that are prooving to be very succesful with some cancers.
One thing is for sure, at the end of the day we will all meet our maker, and it is more comfortable to do that not ravaged by expensive poison which is what chemo can be if it is not evidence based to show a genuine improvement.
Oh boy, I sure messed that one up.
Pam, also Hulda Clark copied and adapted her liver flush. She added Parasite zapping and black walnut Hull Tincture to it.
Moritz and Clark made it popular and now many people saved their gallbladder.
Deepak Chopra writes about consciousness and the soul. Is he the inventor of consciousness and the soul?
Why can’t you people find another cauldron/bug zapper to brew your concoctions?
trog69 I thought I’d found a forum here that was at least a little bit balanced. What an angry person you must be eveything I have read that you have posted here is either attacking or defensive, so stick to your opinions with your equally attacking undergrad mate and stay on your futile path, do you have shares in Ivax, ot are you like John Reed, on the board of Ivax and British American tobacco as well? For the trillions of dollars that have been wasted since Reagan declared his war on cancer there has been basically no improvements in cure or survival rates. It is a shame that science and reality don’t often make good bedfellows. Another dose of Chemo anybody?
There is no single cause or cure for cancer. The so called science funded by the Pharma industry continuously manipulates stastics and dresses itself in far finer garments than its really entitled to wear. If we stick with the same science of the past we are going to keep getting the same results and dollar for dollar they are quite pathetic. Sure there is a lot of quackery out there, but its on both sides of the fence. Science once asid the earth was flat WRONG. Science once said the Sun revolved around the earth WRONG. Medical science was once adament that all ulcers were caused by stress and stomach acid, then waited 20 years and let a Vet give himself ulcers and cure them countless times before all the old buggers at the med schools retired or dropped dead to save them the embarassment of their stick in the mud incorrectness before he got a nobel prize, and the guy was a Vet not even a doctor. If you are an MD you must have a futile cure rate and should perhaps stick to panel beating the physically injured, if you are also an undergrad well your attitude is understandable. As long as medicine is as one eyed as your opinions seem to be well its going to be a long time before any advances are made. Or maybe your just one of those people who likes to argue and throw mud at any cnace you get. Face it the world is waking up, and as far as cancer treatment is concerned western medicine is not on the winning side anymore.
remember a statue was never built in the name of a critic
everybody’s right. nobody wants illness. different treatments work for different people. Prevention is still the key and alternative cures for cancer really work but one must alter one’s diet and lifestyle redically which is not easy sometimes. EVERY form of cancer/illness treatment is a risk.
The only way to heal the world is to keep an open mind and respect and love everyone. Grab the person you hate the most and tell them how much you love them NOW!
love and health to you all,
blessings,
joy
Andreas Moritz a standard contributor at CureZone has always been a gentleman, but the whole site is infested with greed and behind the scenes less than ethical behavior.
Moderators are not moderate, nor do they allow anything that might interfere with a good sales pitch for product- they use all the tactics that they criticize big pharma
Spam, computer breakins you name it destroying blogs out and out spite. Some alt names have come out of that backdrop of less than ethical behavior.
jinjee, who is well loved and cannot be questioned because the post will be hidden, Talifero as Hanna, Johanna, Invincible, Maya and several otehr identities.
Lapis, Dr Donald Walker of Medical Remore Viewing infamy heals by getting in one’s underwear ! Also bilking older wealthy yoga teachers who call him “Her lover” -join the list of patients, friends and lovers
Let’s see I believe David Wolfe of “Sponge Bob” fame “Best Day Ever” ones ever to uncover will be , Dr Group III, his old partner and Iodine forum guru, Andreas Moritz, and several other colorful dupes
Don and Bob, Did you pay the IRS taxes on your gambling winnings?;}
Wow. CureZone is the motherlode of Woowoowoo. Here’s just the first few Support Forum threads:
• Relationship 4 min
• Mosaic 4 min
• Support Mosaic 4 min
• Favorites 4 min
• Oxygen 8 min
• Peeling Lips 11 min
• The Truth in Medicine 35 min
• Fasting: Water Only. 39 min
• Iodine Supplementation 42 min
• News 63 min
• Diet & Nutrition 63 min
• Spirituality 73 min
• Consciousness 73 min
• Deceased’s Messages 73 min
• Psychic Experiences 73 min
• Astrology 82 min
• Enema & Colonics 96 min
If I were still in the market for a babysitter, a “Yes” to the question “do you post @CureZone?” would kill the deal right there.
Dude, maybe you know something about science but not much about law. If I were Andreas Moritz I would sue your ass and not worry if its “bad karma” for you or for me. He can easily put you to jail for 2 years. You cant publicly offend a person. Thats just one example-
“Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
First of all, yes I do know about the laws which protect me. Second, he could not put me in jail. Here are the reasons you’re wrong.
1. A libel suit is what would need to occur here. Moritz would need to prove that I adversely affected his income while also showing that I said something untrue. In other words, I would have needed to slander him with some falsehood. That has not happened. I took the ridiculous things he has said and gave me opinion on them. That’s protected under the First Amendment.
2. If he brought a suit against me and actually won, I would not be jailed. You have no idea what you’re saying. Criminal cases can result in jail or prison. This would be a civil matter.
3. I can publicly offend whomever I please. Like right now, you’re a complete and utter twit. That was fun. I hope you are offended.