| Insulin Potentiation Therapy, generally referred to by | | | | cancer cells absorb essential nutrients from the blood |
| the initials IPT, is an alternative treatment that uses | | | | stream before normal cells can get to them. This is |
| standard, approved cancer-fighting drugs in much | | | | the reason that, in advanced stages of cancer, |
| lower doses, thereby eliminating many of the | | | | tumors continue to grow and multiply while the |
| debilitating side effects so common with conventional | | | | patient appears to waste away. In addition, because |
| chemotherapy. The side effects are significantly | | | | of the cancer cell's internal protection against toxins, |
| reduced because the chemotherapy doses can be as | | | | normal chemotherapy doses need to be sufficiently |
| low as 10-15% of the standard dosage. | | | | large to force their way into the cancer cells. The |
| IPT was developed by Dr. Donato Perez Garcia | | | | result is the killing of many healthy cells in addition to |
| (1896-1971) in Mexico, who claimed it to be especially | | | | the cancerous ones, frequently inducing in the patient |
| effective with breast cancer. Indeed, that if a cancer | | | | nausea, vomiting, fever, hair loss, etc. |
| can be beneficially influenced by existing | | | | Benefits of IPT |
| chemotherapy drugs, then IPT may also be | | | | * IPT works vigorously against cancerous tumors |
| effective, but without major side effects. Dr Garcia's | | | | whilst being gentle on the patient, who continues to |
| work is today carried on by his grandson, of the | | | | live a normal lifestyle during treatment. |
| same name. | | | | * Standard chemotherapy medications are considered |
| The first clinical trial of IPT for treating breast cancer | | | | to work better in combination with IPT. As a result |
| was undertaken in Uruguay and published in 2003. For | | | | of the low dosage requirement and much reduced |
| the trial, insulin combined with the chemotherapy drug | | | | toxicity, the treating physician has greater freedom |
| methotrexate in low-dose form resulted in | | | | and flexibility in selecting and combining the various |
| significantly stabilising the disease, with reduced | | | | chemotherapeutic agents, resulting in a more highly |
| progressions, as compared with insulin or low-dose | | | | optimized treatment. |
| methotrexate alone. Other studies have been | | | | * Due to the lower dosage requirements, treatments |
| worldwide, although informal. In fact, although little | | | | costs are significantly less than with standard |
| known, IPT has been in use for approaching seventy | | | | chemotherapy. |
| years. | | | | * Side effects are relatively minor. There is no |
| How does IPT work? | | | | vomiting, no high fever, no vomiting and no hair loss. |
| Insulin, which is created naturally in the pancreas, | | | | However, there can sometimes be a little initial |
| regulates many of the body's functions at the cellular | | | | nausea and occasional constipation. |
| level, the most well-known being the level of glucose | | | | IPT Side Effects |
| in the blood. It is suggested that insulin also modifies | | | | IPT causes a reduction in the blood glucose level. This |
| the receptivity of cancer cells to being penetrated by | | | | is known as hypoglycemia and is an expected side |
| chemotherapy agents. Cancer cells grow by secreting | | | | effect of insulin therapy. Be in no doubt, |
| their own insulin-like growth factor and insulin itself | | | | hypoglycemia is a potentially dangerous state for the |
| which draw on the body's nutrients to multiply. In | | | | body, however it is a condition that is quickly and |
| fact they possess many times more insulin receptors | | | | effectively controllable through the administration of |
| than do normal cells, and these receptors will respond | | | | intravenous glucose infusions. This is a standard |
| to administered insulin, which in turn makes them | | | | component of the IPT protocol. |
| hungry for glucose and thus more susceptible to | | | | The information presented here is intended simply as |
| chemotherapy medication. The chemotherapy drugs | | | | that - to make you aware of available treatments |
| are thus able to target more precisely the cancer | | | | which might be worthy of further and more detailed |
| cells, leaving the normal cells relatively unaffected. | | | | investigation. Readers should note that, whilst there |
| What's wrong with traditional chemotherapy? | | | | are many individual anecdotal cases and studies over |
| It is generally recognized that, over time, regular | | | | many years that suggest that IPT may be effective, |
| chemotherapy dosages may so compromise a | | | | there is at present no collection of scientific data to |
| patient's immune system and organ functions as to | | | | validate Insulin Potentiation Therapy as a treatment |
| prevent further treatment or even cause organ | | | | for malignant neoplastic diseases or cancer to the |
| damage resulting in the patient's death. Cancer cells | | | | satisfaction of the United States FDA. As always, |
| are highly active in fighting for the glucose found in | | | | you should seek the guidance of a professional |
| the blood stream. With sixteen times the number of | | | | medical practitioner before taking any medications or |
| insulin and insulin-like receptors found in healthy cells, | | | | undergoing any form of therapy. |