cottage cheese/flax "cure"

[razzle]

mostly for Nat, but for others who are interested...here's part:

"All that painstaking research led Dr. Budwig to one inescapable conclusion. She theorized that supplying the essential fatty acids in combination with sulphurated proteins could restore health. Could it really be that simple? She was on sound ground in selecting crude unrefined linseed oil as the richest source known of the essential fatty acids. Years of prior research by earlier scientists had already established that fact.

"She began clinical trials by feeding seriously ill cancer patients unrefined linseed oil paired with the sulphurated proteins present in cottage cheese. As weeks of this simple nutritional treatment progressed into three months duration, blood analysis showed that the phosphatides and lipoproteins previously missing began to reappear. Healthy red blood cells began taking the place of the unhealthy greenish-yellow constituents which had been there at the beginning of the trials. More importantly, malignant tumors gradually receded and shrank. Seriously weakened and debilitated cancer patients were no longer anemic and weak, but had been transformed into convalescents on their way to full health.

"Dr. Johanna Budwig had achieved an incredible breakthrough. Along the way, she had documented the dangerous effects of chemically-altered dietary fats and had also proven the life-preserving and restorative properties of the essential fatty acids mated with sulphur-rich proteins. In more than a decade of clinical use, Dr. Johanna Budwig has shown that unrefined linseed oil is a wonder worker of heroic proportions."

Excerpted from the most extensive about-fatty-acids article I read this week at:

http://www.arthritistrust.com/topics/essential.htm

[Natrushka]

Great find, Raz. I've read a lot of this information elsewhere - about flaxoil, but never seen mention of the sulphurated protein connection. I've bookmarked the article for more intense reading, later.

So how does flaxoil and cottage cheese taste?

N

[razzle]

I'll try it for the first time on Tuesday, Nat.

But my fear is, "about how you'd expect." lmao.

[MistyBee]

So, should I get some cottage cheese to have with my flax oil capsule, do you think??

-m-

[Oldsalty]

this article refers to linseed oil. Am I right in thinking that linseed oil and flax oil are one and the same thing ?

[Mila]

Hi!
I've been eating Budwig's "pudding" for about 2 weeks now, and it's delicious (you should spin it in a blender for about 5 min till no longer 'oily'), but the original recipe (1 lb of cottage cheese plus 1 cup of flaxoil and a sweetener, flavored with vanilla extract) is too big. also, it goes rancid very fast even in a dark container in a fridge. so yesterday I switched to 4tbsp of cottage cheese+yogurt mix with 3 tbsp of freshly ground flaxmeal and a sweetener and it it out of this world.

mistybee, to obtain Budwig's proportions you would have to take about 20 capsules of oil with 4 tbsp of cottage cheese/yogurt. also, make sure that oil in your capsules is not rancid. pierce one and taste it, if it is bitter with an almost stinging-like aftertaste or burns your tongue afterwards, almost like cayenne, it is not good.

oldsalty, linseed and flaxseed is the same thing.

Mila

[razzle]

thanks, mila, you trailblazer you!

The proportions given in this article are 1/4 c low fat cottage cheese and 2 T flax (linseed) oil. The proportions are important, but that little of a dose daily is supposed to have benefit. (I believe the cancer patients were taking it three times a day.)

I've tried to figure out what are other food sources of sulfurated proteins, but drew a blank. If anyone knows what this term means and what other sources are, please let me know.

Don't go drinking industrial linseed oil, hoping it's the same thing! :) Real flax oil has a brown particulate sludge at the bottom of it (or visible when you shake it up), will come in an opaque bottle, and will be in the refrigerator section.

[doreen T]

Back in January, I did a lot of research on detoxifying mercury and other toxins from the body. Folks who read my journal may remember that I put a LOT of work into it ... and what I came up with is that sulfur-rich foods are great detoxifyers (sp?). Note that the element is organic sulfur not sulfates, sulfites or metabisulfites, which are inorganic salts. Sulfur binds with mercury and other toxins (fluoride, pesticides and some drug metabolites such as acetaminophen, to name a few) to form harmless metabolites which are then excreted from the body ... partly in the urine via the kidneys, but mostly they're dissolved in bile from the liver, and excreted via the bowel.

Foods that are naturally rich in sulfur include red meats, dairy, egg yolks, legumes, nuts, garlic and onions, brassica family (cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, broccoli, etc), asparagus, fresh coconut.

Udo Erasmus refers often to Budwig's work in Fats That Heal Fats That Kill, and in fact, chapter 63, pp 298 - 303, is devoted to Budwig's research with flax and sulfurated proteins.

Its worth noting that the "cottage cheese" used by Budwig is NOT AT ALL the cottage cheese that we find commercially in nice plastic tubs, with a nice creamy sauce, with salt, mono and diglycerides and modified starch ingredients added. The cottage cheese she used is called Quark .. it's simply cultured skim milk that's had they whey drained off after the milk curds have clumped together. Quark is commercially available in some regions. Another suitable product would be dry curd cottage cheese .. which can be found in the dairy case in soft plastic pouches, wrapped in plain parchment. Unsalted is the preferred kind.

For those interested folks, Johanna Budwig's book The Oil-Protein Diet Cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0969527225/lowcarbcanad/), is featured on the Oils, Fats and EFA's page of our Low Carb Books section, from the orange menu bar at the top :)

Doreen

[doreen T]

Just an added note:

Do not whirl or blenderize flax oil for more than a second or two. The omega 3 polyunsaturate fatty acids in flax will oxidize rapidly ... whirling in the blender will effectively mix lots and lots of oxygen into your flax ... undoing any benefit from the delicate omega 3 oil, and in fact turning it into a harmful, oxidized fat. Oxidized fats become free radicals in the body, and evoke all kind of harmful effects. Best to blenderize the other ingredients first, then add flax oil at the end ... Just give a quick one- or two-second buzz, or best would be to simply stir it in gently with a fork or spoon.

Doreen

[Chris1966]

Whoah, thanks for this last tip. I was wondering if I was doing anything bad to the morning blended shake.

OK, now I am on a search for the prefect morning shake. Doreen, I hope you don't mind if I look at the Journal.

I'll keep my notes in my journal.

[TeriDoodle]

Do not whirl or blenderize flax oil for more than a second or two. The omega 3 polyunsaturate fatty acids in flax will oxidize rapidly ... whirling in the blender will effectively mix lots and lots of oxygen into your flax ... undoing any benefit from the delicate omega 3 oil, and in fact turning it into a harmful, oxidized fat.

WHAT??????????? Aaaaaaaaaaccckkkkkkk!!

[KarenRB53]

I know this is an old thread however I was wondering if anyone still used this "recipe". I had cancer surgery one year ago and followed with chemotherapy...its been 6 months since my last chemo. Since then I've had problems with low oxygen levels. Would this help me if indeed my low oxygen is caused by anemia. My blood levels are still not up to where they should be.