Dr. William Donald Kelley's Research Nutritional Diet for Cancer

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For Dr. Kelley cancer began with eye problems. He was riding down the road and noticed that he was having trouble reading street signs. At 35 years old he had always had 20/20 vision. Over the subsequent months his eyesight got progressively worse and he called his ophthalmologists. The ophthalmologist told him that at 35 he was just getting older and prescribed glasses for Dr. Kelley.

A few months later while he was with his patients (Dr. Kelley was an orthodontist) he noticed that he was having trouble seeing the patient's teeth clearly. He went back to
his ophthalmologist who said "this is interesting, you need bifocals". That didn't sit well on Kelley's soul because he was only 35 years old he thought that was much too young to wear bifocals, but he wore the glasses anyway and they seemed to help.

After three months, he noticed that he could see far distances pretty well and he could read and work on his patients but the intermediate distances were getting fuzzy. This was unusual and he went back to his ophthalmologist who discovered that Kelley needed trifocals. The ophthalmologist was amazed; he had never had a patient who needed trifocals before. It was around this time that Kelley began having muscle cramps in his arms.

Initially, it wasn't too bad and he figured that it was because he was spending so much time working, some days up to 12 hours. The cramps progressed to where they were like severe Charlie horses and moved to his legs as well. Shortly afterwards he developed chest pains. These pains became so severe that he was taken to the hospital a total of three times thinking it was a heart attack but the EKGs were normal.

He went to his local doctor who told him that he was just working too hard and needed to take some time off. Kelley did take some time off, but the pains didn't get any better. Just about the time he began having problems with the muscle pains he also noticed that his hair was falling out. He had a thick head of hair and thinning hair didn't run in his family. At 35, he considered this pretty serious.

He went to his doctor again and his doctor said that it was just a symptom of stress and aging and there was nothing he could do about it. About the time his hair started falling out, he developed crippling depression. Dr. Kelley had never been depressed a day in his life. He worked 12 to 14 hours a day - loved his job, had 4 beautiful children (all adopted) that he adored, had a good wife who was active in community affairs that he loved.

Suddenly he was waking up with crying spells, was losing interest in his family, losing interest in his work and thinking of leaving it all and moving to the mountains of Colorado. He went to his doctor and begged for some anti-depressant drugs, but his doctor refused and told him to just take some more time off. Kelley took more time off but the depression got worst. Just when he was getting suicidal, his stomach expanded suddenly overnight.

His doctor put him in the hospital immediately. Being a well known orthodontist in the Texas community where he lived, all the local surgeons and gastrointestinal doctors were called in. The surgeon took one look at him said "this man has terminal cancer". This was in 1964 and they didn't have CT scans or sophisticated ultra-sound equipment. They just had x-ray machines and simple ultra-sound machines.
They did a series of x-rays that showed that he had lesions in his lungs, a huge tumor in his right hip, his liver was swollen to three times it's normal size and it appeared that he had a pancreatic tumor that had metastasized very quickly. The surgeon said Kelley was too sick to operate and told Mrs. Kelley that he had 4 to 8 weeks to live. The news got worse.

His wife handled this sudden occurrence by leaving Dr. Kelley with 4 young children to raise and dying of cancer. Kelley did what any normal man would do in this situation, he called his mother. Kelley's mother was an unusual character. You have to meet her to fully appreciate her. She raised three sons on dirt poor Kansas farm, 80 acres, during the Depression. Her husband had died of a heart attack.

She got all three sons through college and graduate school. Kelley talked to his mother, told her that he was dying of cancer, his wife left him and he had 4 young children to raise and asked her what he should do. His mother got very angry with him and told him that he was just going to have to get over his cancer. He told her that was impossible, the finest doctors in Texas had examined him and told him that there was no hope.

Mrs. Kelley said "nonsense" and flew down to Texas to help him get better. The first thing she did was to walk into his kitchen and throw all his food away. Dr. Kelley was the preeminent connoisseur of junk food. He knew all the contents of every chocolate bar in the US He basically lived on chocolate bars and Fritos for years. It's not very surprising that at 35 he was dying from terminal cancer.

After his mother threw out all the junk food in the house, she went out and bought fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds - no animal protein. From that day on she put her son a strict vegetarian diet of nothing but raw foods. Absolutely no animal protein, no fish, chicken, red meat of any kind.

This was a hard diet for Kelley to follow. He loved Big Macs and chocolate bars, but his mother wouldn't allow any of those things in the house and he had no choice but to follow her diet. Then to his absolute astonishment he began to feel better – 4 weeks past, 6 weeks past, 8 weeks past and he was still alive.
After three months had passed his mother walked into his bedroom and told him three months had passed it was time to go back to work.

He reminded her that he had terminal pancreatic cancer. She said "you have 4 kids to raise, your wife emptied out the bank account, you're going to work whether you want to or not." The next day he went back to work. He had to nap between patients but he was working. The miracle was first that he wasn't dead
and second that he was getting better. Kelley was a scientist. Scientists aren't like the rest of us.

They ask questions that the rest of us are too lazy to research. Kelley couldn't believe that his mother was the first person to figure out that a diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and seeds can stabilize cancer. So, he went to his local library and luckily his local library had a copy of Max Gerson's 1959 book called "50 Cases". Gerson is an interesting character in medical history.

He was a very prominent physician from Germany who in the 1920s and 30s developed his own nutritional approach to degenerative diseases with a diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and seeds and lots of fresh vegetable juices - 8 to 10 glasses a day. With this diet Gerson had very good success with a whole range of degenerative diseases ranging from arthritis to cancer.

During the 30s with the advent of Nazism, Gerson being Jewish, left the country and settled in New York City where he set up his own clinic. Over a 20 year period, he continued to have success with this diet. Gerson had hypothesized that meat was toxic body, toxic to the liver. Raw foods helped the body
to clean out, stimulated the liver and enabled the immune system to work better.

He wasn't sure of the science but he knew it worked. He published this in 1959. Kelley was excited about this because it confirmed that this diet had the possibility to work. He got progressively stronger for the next three to six months but he stabilized. Kelley was lucky in a very unlucky way.

He was lucky in that his cancer was such that it protruded through his liver and he could actually feel the tumors in his liver. He could monitor the progress of the diet. He knew that if he went off the diet, which would occasionally happen, that the tumors would start to grow within days and when he stuck to the diet religiously his tumors would regress.

About the six or seventh month the tumors stopped regressing and Kelley developed severe digestive problems. Of course, one of the problems with pancreatic cancer is that it destroys the pancreas which produces insulin and digestive enzymes. Without digestive enzymes you can't digest your food.

One of the major problems with pancreatic disease, be it pancreatic cancer or pancreatisis, is severe digestive problems. Bloating, gas, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea - they just can't digest their food correctly. Kelley thought that there had to be some simple solution to this, so he went to his local pharmacy. The pharmacist was a friend of his.

Since this was 1964, the pharmacist handed Kelley a large bottle of pancreative enzymes and told him that this would take care of the bloating etc. Kelley, being a man of excess, bought about 10 cases of the enzymes. He began taking 3 with meals, then 4 with meals - after about 3 days he was taking 50 capsules of enzymes with each meal.

He noticed that when he took a dose of enzymes something would happen. Every time he took a dose of enzymes there would be a twinge of pain in the areas of the tumor in the liver. The tumors began to feel different, they felt like they were getting softer. He could actually begin to feel them shrinking and dissolving after the stabilization on the diet. Kelley couldn't figure out why this was happening.

He couldn't figure out why pancreatic enzymes would cause his tumors to dissolve. Being a doctor and needing to find answers to his questions, he went back to his local library to research. He was fortunate enough to find the name of John Beard in his research. John Beard was an eminent embryologist working out of the University of Edinborough in Scotland during the 1890s.

Beard started out with no interest in cancer, he was an embryologist and his work concentrated on the placenta. After fertilization in a mammal the embryo produces the placenta which literally eats into the mother's uterus. It serves as an anchor for the fetus and also serves as the connection to the blood supply of the mother which feeds the baby and is how the baby gets rid of its waste material.

Beard noticed that in every mammal there was one particular day in the gestation period that the placenta stops growing. In mice it was 10 days, humans it was 56 days. In virtually every human embryo, on the 56th day the placenta stops growing. Beard was particularly interested in this because he thought of the placenta as a type of tumor. It invades the uterus in much the same way a tumor would invade the uterus.

Usually, the placenta reaches a certain phase and stops, but in the women where the placenta doesn't stop growing they develop a very serious cancer called cariocarcinoma which was once the most aggressive cancer around. Now we have a chemotherapeutic agent that knocks it out and today 80 to 90%
of these women are cured. There is a tradition of the placenta acting as a tumor.

Beard thought that if he could find the reason why the placenta would stop growing, he might could find out how to stop cancerous tumors from growing. This lead to 10 years of research. Beard did a variety of animal studies where he would investigate the growth of every organ system, every tissue, every organ trying to find a connection to the cessation of the growth of the placenta. It took him 10 years before he hit on it.

The only connection that existed was that in every mammal the placenta stopped growing the day the embryonic pancreas began to work. This is interesting because the embryo doesn't need the pancreas. It gets all the nutrients it needs from the mother's blood supply, it doesn't need digestive enzymes.

Beard deduced that the only reason the embryo needed digestive enzymes was to stop the growth of the placenta. If they indeed stopped the placenta from growing maybe they could stop tumors from growing. In  1904 Beard presented his hypothesis that pancreatic enzymes represent the main defense against cancer and not the immune system or any other system to the Edinborough Scientific Society.

He was nearly universally laughed at. Nearly because there was one bright army surgeon in the audience who was a cancer specialist and in 1904 there was no known cancer therapy except for surgery. This man had seen too many of his patients die and he was willing to try anything. After the lecture, his army captain went up to Beard and said that he'd like to try this therapy.

Over the next few months, the surgeon and Beard developed an injunctive form of pancreatic enzymes. The first case documented in medical history was a man with a huge tumor sitting in his throat. The army captain injected this man, with Beard's assistance, over the next two weeks with pancreatic enzymes. After two weeks, this tumor was thrown up by this patient.

The tumor was there on the table in front of them. They analyzed the tumor and found that it was completely dead. This was the first case of a patient apparently being cured of cancer by pancreatic enzymes. It was published in the British Medical Journal and cause a lot of controversy. The usual controversy: the patient didn't really have cancer, the results were faked, that wasn't really a tumor, the same thing we hear today.

A number of doctors did get interested in Beard's work and over the years about 40 to 50 papers were   published in various medical journals in the US and Europe documenting the regression of tumors and in fact some cures using injectable pancreatic enzymes. You may wonder why Beard's work never took hold
if it was so good. In fact, in 1911 Beard published a book called "The Enzyme Therapy of Cancer" and about 15 people ever bothered to read it.
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The preceding is the transcript from Dr. Gonzalez's lecture in 1990 to the World Research Foundation. The promotion material that Dr. Gonzalez sends out as information is on C-Search at: http://www.netzone.com/~bryant.