The Budwig Diet and Protocol: Dieting for Cancer

In my research on cancer diets, I came across this one over and over.  The great thing about this protocol, is that everyone can do it.  It is not expensive, and it is easy to do.  What is the Budwig diet anyway?

First I would like to talk about Johanna Budwig, the person who this diet is named after.  She was a German scientist, and was given the task of studying what trans-fats do to the human body.  At the time, people didn't know if they were good, bad, or indifferent.  So she started her research, and in so doing made some very important discoveries.  If you don't know what trans-fats are, they are simply liquid fats that have had hydrogen added to them to make them solid.

We know them as margarine, Crisco, and other "so called healthy" fats that have replaced the traditional things like butter and lard.  She began to find out that these fats had very bad effects on the body at the cellular level.  They interrupt the normal process of these cells and damage them.


As she did more research, she realized that very sick patients had an imbalance of the healthy omega 3 oils, and tried to figure out how to get these healthy oils back into her patients.  She realized that when you mix flax seed oil, which is a very healthy oil, into quark cheese and blend it, the mixture makes the fats water soluble so they are more easily absorbed by our cells.  Now we don't have quark cheese here in the states, but we do have cottage cheese, which is the next best thing.  This helped her patients immensely, and they began to overcome degenerative disease, including cancer.  When we feed our cells the nutrition they need, they begin to heal.  This mixture also causes oxygen to be delivered to our cells.  Oxygen kills cancer cells, there is much research to show this, but I don't want to get overly technical with why this mixture works so well.  If you do want to learn more about this, go to these websites:

The Health Wyze Report  

Budwig Center Natural Therapies

Cancer Tutor

Johanna also wrote many books, like these two, which you can find on Amazon.com. Click to see more:

So this diet is fairly simple.  In my last blog I warned against sugar and refined flours and grains.  In this diet that remains the same.  The difference is the cottage cheese and flax seed oil mixture that should be eaten every day.  I am going to explain how to make it.

You will need a hand blender and a coffee grinder.  You also need to buy ORGANIC cottage cheese, (lowfat or regular, whatever you can find), flax seed oil that has been refrigerated, (usually at a health food store like Vitamin Shop or Whole Foods), and flax seeds.

I suggest starting with 2/3 cup of cottage cheese.  Mix in 1/3 cup of flax seed oil.  Grind up 2 TBS of flax-seeds in the coffee grinder (always freshly ground), and add them to the bowl.  Use the immersion blender to blend very well, it should look like whipped cream or thick pudding.  You can add 1 TBS of honey and fresh fruit or nuts and that is it.  Notice the ratio of cheese to oil, it is always 2 to 1.  You can make more or less, depending on how much you can eat, but it always has to be made fresh, and not saved in the refrigerator.

You can use organic milk to make it less thick, if you need to.  Some say you can use yogurt if you can not find cottage cheese, but some disagree, so I think I would stick with the original recipe.  Here is a video of how to do this - Budwig Recipe Instructions

So, this can be eaten by everyone.  Even if you don't have cancer, why not eat it to be more healthy, it makes a great breakfast.  She also had people get better from other degenerative diseases like MS, Arthritis, and many more.  It can be taken by patients on or off chemo, but if they are taking chemo (which is killing cells), it may not work as well.

I have had a lot of people ask me about more information on this, so I hope I have helped.  If you know of anyone who has cancer, please spread my blog around to them and at least let them read it.  If you are caring for someone with cancer, please try the cottage cheese/flax seed mixture and feed it to them.  Food is our medicine, and God made our bodies able to heal themselves with proper nutrition.  Be the healer that helps, and let's pass this important information along before we lose another precious person to this horrible disease.