In the first quarter of the XXI century medical achievements helped change cancer prognosis across the oncological spectrum from certain death sentences to more treatable and survivable conditions. But despite those advances, it was enough incentive to get then-candidate Joe Biden to make a pledge.”we will cure cancer” in the 2019 campaign – the problem of uncontrolled cell growth in the human body has not yet been solved.
The frustrating fact that cancer doesn’t have a single silver bullet remedy is because it’s not one disease, but a complex family of more than 200 different diseases. And when you’re faced with human desperation to save a life from such an open-ended scourge, you inevitably encounter pseudoscientific treatment plans peddled by scoundrels and true believers alike. This can take the form of ineffective larks ear candles or juice fasts (RIP Steve Jobs), but they never help the patient to cure their malignant cells.
One of the more blatantly ridiculous examples of “alternative” treatment comes to us from a south London clinic where stage 4 cancer patients are sealed naked in a plastic bag. Then, their bodies were gassed with chlorine dioxide, known as oxidizing industrial bleach. The belief is that the gas will cause severe oxidative stress to the cancer cell, altering its internal pH and forcing the tumor to self-destruct.
As reported NarrativeAccording to Cancer Research UK chief information nurse Caroline Geraghty, there is “no scientific evidence” for this treatment method. It is so harmful to the body that even a stockbrokerthe ice cream manAlistair Jessel, who does this to patients at Battersea Park Clinic, admitted it was “dangerous”. But Jessel, a chivalrous knight and real-life son of an industrial character, is just putting a fresh spin on someone else’s pseudoscientific nonsense.
Its inspiration comes from the German Andreas Kalker, who in 2021 independently published his book Forbidden Health: Yesterday Was Uncurable, and proposed this gas bleaching method as “Protocol G” for the treatment of non-cancerous diseases.
As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has broken a lot of people’s minds, so long sold bits of hokum found a wider audience with the “do your own research” crowd once science-backed medicine became part of a wider culture war. Although he is not behind the same bed”bleaching treatment“Many at the time were using it to treat COVID, Kalker’s book got a boost from that wave of craze. So now it’s revered by people like Jessel and others.bleach community,” I regret to inform you that there is.
Where there is a community of dummies saying “exaaaaactlyyyyy” to each other, there are podcasts to spread that message. In one of them, he Chlorine Dioxide Testimonials (CDT) Live Chat Support GroupJessel preached about chlorine dioxide’s supposed ability to treat not only cancer, but also HIV and autism.
“Having people naked in a bag in a clinical situation is probably what a lot of doctors have to deal with, but as an entrepreneur, sitting in front of a naked person is something I didn’t plan to do in the last couple of years,” Jessel told the hosts, “but what it’s achieved has been really incredible.”
Jessel refused to answer any of them Narrativequestions for the story refer only to Calker’s book. However, he expressed more thoughts about cancer on another holistic medicine podcast. All Good Showclaims that one of her “nine reasons” is a “bad marriage.”
While Protocol G’s ability to remove cancer from the body remains scientifically unproven, Jessel has certainly achieved the ability to remove money from the wallets of suckers. Beyond the harm these quack treatments do to individual vulnerable patients, either financially or physically, or by alienating them from care that will improve their condition, there is a larger concern that needs to be addressed. Charlatans get rich and gain followers. And that equates to political power in our broken world of even more broken institutions. Stories like these may add to the growing concern among those who still believe in science about broader regulation of medicine. Jessel and his clinic may be London’s problem, but the bleaching community has its own metastasizing cells replicating in America. And they are quite US Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr. wants to work with To add bleach to the MAHA menu.
