Dr. Moerman's Anti-Cancer Diet
For the enjoyment of the benefits of civilization, mankind has to pay, including the increase in the number of oncological diseases. Disturbed ecology, artificial additives to food, stress, an abundance of chemicals in a person's environment and many other factors affect the tendency for the growth of malignant tumors. The world medical community is trying to actively resist this onslaught - new methods of prevention and treatment of such diseases are emerging. One of the unconventional methods is the Moerman diet.
Content:
- Dr. Moerman and his nutritional system
- The essence of Dr. Moerman's diet
- The principle of building the menu
- List of Recommended Products
- List of prohibited products
- Vitamins and supplements
Dr. Moerman and his nutritional system
This nutritional system is called the Moerman Anti-Cancer Diet, and was developed over 70 years ago. The creator of the method is a doctor from the Netherlands who has lived a long life. Dr. Moerman lived to be 96 years old, and all this time he helped cancer patients. Researchers of the method cite the following data - out of every 150 cancer patients treated by this doctor, 115 left him completely healthy people.
Representatives of the medical community of that time accepted Moerman's ideas with hostility, believing that it was impossible to defeat the disease and prevent the appearance of cancer by changing the diet - this is too primitive. Apparently they were not familiar with Albert Einstein's dictum that "everything that is ingenious is simple."
It all began with the fact that in 1939 L. Brinkman, suffering from stomach cancer, turned to a doctor for help. Medicine recognized him as a hopeless patient who would not be helped even by a radical operation. Since Brinkman had no alternative, he "grabbed hold of the last straw" - a new method of healing from cancer. The treatment took about a year. It included the intake of a mixture of 8 essential elements and dietary nutrition. In addition, the patient trusted the doctor completely and completely, and believed in success. At the end of 1940, an examination showed that Lindert Brinkman was absolutely healthy, and there was no trace of the tumor. Dr. Moerman's first patient lived for 90 years, and during this time he practically did not get sick.
The doctor, inspired by the successful cure of a hopeless patient, began to work on improving his approach.
Over the next 10 years, he solved the following problems:
- How many vitamins and minerals a person needs;
- What is their optimal ratio;
- What additives should be added to the diet of an oncological patient.
The number of hopeless patients whom he managed to cure increased, and in 1897 his diet was officially recognized by the Dutch Ministry of Health as a method of cancer treatment and prevention. In support of Moerman, the scientist L. Polling, twice Nobel Prize winner, spoke out, calling the anti-cancer diet a unique technique.
The essence of Dr. Moerman's diet
The main goal of the method is to improve metabolism, strengthen immunity.
This goal can be achieved by eating natural products and eating regularly:
- Fruit,
- Vegetables,
- Cereals,
- Natural vegetable and fruit juices;
- Mineral and vitamin supplements for food.
The main thing in cancer treatment is to prevent malignant tumor cells from multiplying. Their ability to grow rapidly is limited by a balanced acidic environment. It encapsulates and destroys atypical cells. Healthy tissue cells of the human body receive enough nutrients, which protects them from transformation into malignant formations.
Dr. Moerman argued that natural products already contain a balanced set of enzymes, acids, minerals, vitamins, fructose. Therefore, not a single vitamin supplement will replace them, and products created at industrial enterprises are artificially devoid of these components.
The diet recommended by your doctor is an indispensable addition to the 8 most important minerals and vitamins. He argued that it was useless to apply his recommendations against the background of a diet consisting of fatty, salty foods high in calories.
The basic rules of nutrition for cancer patients according to Moerman:
- You can eat in accordance with your own regime, but it is strictly necessary to follow the diet;
- Adults should consume 1-2 raw egg yolks daily, children 1 yolk. They are prohibited for liver and gallbladder cancer until the condition of patients improves.
- Be sure to eat 3 lemons every day, or drink juice from the same amount of fruit.
- He can eat the foods recommended to the patient separately or together, choosing them according to his preference from the list of recommendations.
- Meals include at least 3 meals, with alternating hot and cold dishes.
Such a diet can be followed not only by cancer patients, but also by completely healthy people. After several months of following Dr. Moerman's recommendations, they will feel healthy.
The principle of building the menu
Here is an example of a one-day menu based on Dr. Moermann's method:
- Breakfast - oatmeal with fruit and skim milk or a sandwich made from wholemeal flour, butter and cheese, lemon juice and 2 oranges, herbal tea, buttermilk.
- 2nd breakfast - a mixture of beetroot and apple juice, fruit.
- Lunch - steamed vegetables seasoned with a slice of butter, whole grain cereal, salad with lemon juice and salad oil dressing, fruit.
- Lunch - whole grain pea soup, wholemeal bread, fruits, vegetables, bioyogurt, buttermilk.
- Dinner - 1-2 yolks whipped with 200 ml of low-fat milk, buttermilk with 200 ml of grapefruit juice, crackers made from unrefined flour.
- Evening - buttermilk with lemon juice.
- Before going to bed - 200 ml of warm low-fat milk.
List of Recommended Products
- Bread and grain crops. Allowed: bread, pasta and crackers from wholemeal flour, bran of wheat, barley, oats, corn, oat, wheat flakes, brown rice. Forbidden: Fine flour products (baked goods, bread, pasta, sauces).
- Milk products. Allowed: homemade and processed cheese, skim and sour milk, butter, sour cream, kefir, buttermilk, feta cheese and other products with lactic acid and acidophilic additives. Forbidden: salty cheeses of high fat content.
- Vegetables. All vegetables are allowed with the exception of potatoes, legumes, red cabbage, white cabbage and sauerkraut. Limited in use: cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, curly parsley.
- Fruit. All fruits are allowed except figs, dates, grapes, rhubarb. It is recommended to eat the fruits raw, in a pinch, stew them. Sugar is not added to the fruit broth, it is not brought to a boil, dried fruits are soaked for a day, draining the water before use.
- Juices. All fruit and vegetable juices are allowed, especially orange juice mixed with lemon, carrot, beetroot juice.
- Spices and flavors. A limited number of the following flavor enhancers are allowed: bay leaf, cream, garlic, black pepper, honey (no more than 1 tsp per day), cold-pressed olive and sunflower oil, lemon juice, nutmeg, herbal tea, bouillon cubes without preservatives …
List of prohibited products
According to Dr. Moerman, the patient's condition can be worsened by the following foods (he forbids them to eat):
- Coffee,
- Alcohol,
- Egg whites,
- Meat and fish, broths based on them,
- Animal fat,
- Food additives and artificial colors;
- Hot-cooked vegetable oils;
- Margarine, baking powder,
- Mushrooms,
- Potatoes,
- Tobacco, cigarettes,
- Fatty cheeses
- Shellfish, broths based on them;
- Tea;
- Refined sugar and products made from it,
- Wheat flour and pastries made from it.
All products, except for the above, are allowed to be used in any combination.
3 golden rules of the Moermann diet:
- Do not eat more than you want;
- Food must be thoroughly chewed;
- Food preparation should not destroy vitamins and minerals in their composition.
Vitamins and supplements
These elements are very important for anticancer therapy, each of them plays an exclusive role in the full activity of the human body.
Vitamins and their dosage:
- Vitamin A - take in the morning at a dosage of 50 thousand IU (protects the skin and mucous membranes);
- Vitamin C - take often throughout the day (at least 5 times) at 250 IU (normalizes cellular metabolism, helps to remove toxins);
- Vitamin E - take at least 5 times a day, 80 IU;
- Vitamins B 1, B 2, PP - 50-100 mcg (responsible for cellular respiration, carbohydrate metabolism);
- Vitamin B 6 - 20-50 μg (destroys pathogenic viruses and bacteria, is responsible for protein metabolism);
- Vitamin B 9 + biotin - 5 μg each (biotin maintains an optimal acid balance in the body);
- Vitamin B 12 - 20 mcg (responsible for blood formation).
Minerals:
- Iodine (3% alcohol solution) - mix 1-3 drops with 300 ml of water, drink 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day (regulates cell oxygenation and energy production from glucose);
- Citric acid - dissolve 10-15 g in 300 ml of water, drink 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day (regulates acid balance, thins blood, prevents blood clots);
- Purified sulfur in powder form - mix 500 mg with oil, take in the morning and evening, (responsible for cellular respiration, elimination of toxins).
B vitamins should not be taken on an empty stomach; the first serving is taken after breakfast, accompanied by a glass of fruit juice. The timing of taking vitamins is related to whether they are fat-soluble or water-soluble.
The Moermann diet is founding associations and research organizations to further the study of therapeutic methods. A growing number of healthy people are adopting cancer-fighting diet therapy.
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The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist
Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).
