Do Humans Need To Eat Meat?

Do humans need to eat meat, not if health is a priority.

We receive variations of this question do humans need to eat meat and we wanted to highlight a particular question from a follower. She submitted the question below on our Instagram account and Dr. Thomas Lodi replied which turned into a blog post. Read below for the question and answer.

“Hi! I have a question about your most recent post about the reasoning behind why humans are not meant to eat meat. While I definitely agree the standard American diet includes too much meat, how can we meet the recommended daily intake of Vitamin B12 without ingestion of meat or animal products?

As far as I know, there are no natural plant sources that contain enough of this vitamin to meet our daily needs? I’ve also been taught that Vitamin B12 supplements are never fully vegan/vegetarian and that they’re actually derived from animal products.

This is coming from one teacher I’ve had so I don’t know the validity of that information, but if there is such a thing as a truly vegan/vegetarian Vitamin B12 supplement, can a man-made supplement really be what humans were always meant to ingest? My intention is not to be argumentative, rather I’m asking purely out of curiosity and a desire to expand my knowledge base on the subject! Thank you!”

The following is Dr. Lodi’s reply to the above question which is a good one. His reply should help a number of people understand that meat is not required to be consumed in order to attain our proper levels of B12.

Where does B12 come from do you need to eat meat to get it?

First of all, it needs to be understood that B12 production in nature only occurs in prokaryotes which is bacteria.

Nowhere else in nature is B12 produced. Therefore, we must get away from the false idea that eating an animal, or an animal product will provide us with B12 because the animals produce it. The fact is either the animal either ingested B12 and/or bacteria while they were eating.

Keep in mind that animals always have their mouths on the ground while eating. Hence, soil-based bacteria and feces loaded with bacteria are always entering their mouths.  Additionally, animals may have bacteria in their upper gastrointestinal tracts, which produce B12 and then absorbed into their blood.

The main reason that most animals have B12 is a result of them eating their own feces. This is true especially of cows that are grazing but it is also true of dogs and elephants, etc.

It is important to note that we have bacteria that produce B12 in our intestines however, they reside in our colons, hence we cannot absorb it. B12 is absorbed only in the last part of the small intestine, called the ileum. Since the colon is distal to, i.e., downstream of the ileum, the B12 produced there cannot be absorbed.

Large-scale industrial production of B12 occurs via microbial fermentation predominately using three different bacterial species. There are 7+ species of anaerobic and aerobic species of bacteria that produce B12 naturally.

B12 where does it come from the answer is Bacteria!

The question about whether or not a “manmade” supplement can be used (bioavailable) by the body is being put forth due to a misunderstanding. B12 is never manmade. It requires the metabolic machinery of bacteria to be produced.

It is fine to use B12 supplements as they are vegan/vegetarian.  The only other alternative of actually obtaining B12 is not a favorable one for the majority of humans. It would require eating your own feces.

In conclusion, this leaves us with the two basic alternatives of either eating the corpse of an animal who did eat their own feces, or we can grow the bacteria that produce B12 to do so and then encapsulate it for oral use or prepared for injection.

A very interesting phenomenon occurs in some people. Studies coming from India where they have generational vegetarians and vegans show that since the animal protein is low to absent in these people’s colons due to their dietary habits, the B12 producing bacteria are able to migrate to the small intestines and when they (bacteria) produce B12, it can be absorbed in the ileum.

After replying to her with the answer and asking for permission to use her IG profile name, she replied, “Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me and clarifying this!! I’m currently a student of chiropractic and this question has been on my mind ever since it was brought up in one of my classes several months ago. Feel free to use my profile name! I’m sure others have wondered about this topic as well, so I think making a blog discussing this is a great idea :)”. Her IG handle/profile is: @tiluetkemeyer and we thank her for her question!

Attribution link to Dr. Thomas Lodi’s original post on this question – https://drthomaslodi.com/where-does-b12-come-from/

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A Shortage Of Oncologists In The US

This study reports on why there is a shortage of Oncologists in the US and Dr. Thomas Lodi shares his thoughts on this.

Dr. Lodi recently wrote a blog post on his website and we felt it needed to be shared with our audience at An Oasis of Healing. The entire medical healthcare system needs to be flipped. In today’s society is almost feels like “health” is unattainable and this is false. The healthcare system needs to be focused on health and not disease management.

This study on a shortage of oncologists featured on the ASCO Post website is interesting but not as interesting as a study would be if it was designed to find out why cancer is increasing at such alarming rates. If cancer increasing at alarming rates could be understood then we might just eliminate those reasons and send all of our brightest minds to organic agriculture schools and naturopathic colleges or TCM or Ayurvedic programs to become practitioners of health rather than “disease”.

“Disease” is a myth that has been propagated upon the population for over 100 years now and serves as the principle upon which the medical model is based. We are born in hospitals (childbirth = “disease”) and begin receiving pharmaceutical concoctions on day 1.

We are then scheduled to follow up with physicians (pediatricians) at regular intervals. Parents, educators, legislators and those campaigning for public office (especially president), make it one of their primary concerns/promises to ensure that everyone has “disease insurance”, which is euphemistically referred to as ‘health insurance’.

We seek medical insurance because we are planning on becoming ill. One of the greatest lies ever perpetrated upon the human race is that ‘health is impossible and disease is inevitable’.

By the time we sit at our desks in 1st grade, we will have had > 28 vaccinations, antibiotics, decongestants, cough suppressants, anti-nausea, and diarrhea/constipation medications if we are relatively “healthy”. And now begins the process of ‘good citizen’ programming.

Unfortunately, those children who resist being placed in unnatural situations and follow their instincts to play and explore the world around them receive a diagnosis that requires more mediation that will subdue them and allow them to be chemically fit to attend school. Some children might be put on these drugs before they ever reach first grade since symptoms of ADHD very typically begin to appear between the ages of 3 and 6 years of life.

The Entire Medical System is Based on “Sickness Management” Rather Than Maintaining or Restoring Health

By the time a child reaches puberty, they are veteran medication consumers and everybody has a doctor. In fact, if you don’t have a doctor people consider you strange and cavalier or frivolous and irresponsible.

The lives of the modern “civilized” human being are centered around being sick. As a person progresses through life, they acquire more and more diagnoses, which are merely justifications for prescribing drugs (poisons).

Let us consider for a moment why we become so ill since clearly we were not fitted by nature to become dysfunctional early in life. Well, the root of all this is that humans do not think they are part of nature so they have built artificial environments in which to live and produce and eat “food” that is also artificial rather than natural.  The problem is that we are part of nature and are subject to her laws hence our bodies adapt and these adaptations are called “diseases”.

A Shortage of Oncologists Creates An Opportunity to Turn Sickness Management Towards Maintaining and Restoring Health

Cancer is the adaptation at its finest. These cells have adapted to a situation where their fundamental modality of producing energy in order to function has been damaged significantly requiring them to produce energy in a very primitive manner. These cells actually are reduced to fermenting sugar in order to survive….much like microorganisms.

And, the medical model says that this adaptation is a “disease”, a horrible “disease” that must be eliminated at all costs. Therefore a war ensues between the “general”(doctor), the “soldiers” (nurses and technicians) and the adaptive fermenting cells (“cancer”).

This horrific battle takes place on the body of the unfortunate person who has already been poisoned from the day of conception. We now have two generations of mothers and fathers who were also victims of this tragic drama called modern civilization, based upon the medical model.

Most people die from the “treatment”, not the adaptive response of the body….not the cancer or the heart attack or the stroke. Let us not train more oncologists, let us make sure that they are no longer necessary.

This is the URL to original article here that prompted Dr. Thomas Lodi’s response in this article.

Adam’s Treatment For Hodgkin’s Lymphoma And His Recovery

How An Oasis of Healing’s Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma helped Adam heal from cancer in 10 weeks.

Thirty-year-old Adam of Bozeman, Montana, was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma in April this year. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system. In this case, cells in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system, grow abnormally and can spread beyond it.[1]

When he and his wife, Valarie, an acupuncturist, went to the doctor, they were advised to undergo six months of full dose chemotherapy. Not keen on going through that arduous process and guided by his wife’s knowledge of alternative healing methods, he started making simple but powerful lifestyle changes.

“I immediately started juicing and started to make lifestyle changes. I’ve been in a high-stress environment and I wanted to rest more,” he shared. In preparation for his sessions at the center, he also did acupuncture treatments for three months. Together with a ‘clean diet’, Adam and Valarie saw the value of empowering the body through natural methods.

“From the time he was diagnosed in April to his follow-up PET (positron emission tomography) scan in August, there had been no progression of the cancer,” Valarie said.

A Newfound Family

 When Adam finally checked in at the center, An Oasis of Healing proved to be a true refuge for the couple. “We pretty quickly started making friends and meeting the other patients. The doctors, the nurses, and the whole staff were wonderful. I couldn’t ask for a better-personalized experience,” he noted.

Valarie added, “It felt like family. We met with the doctors right away and we had a really great vibe about how the treatment was going to go.” She also cited the center’s “open and consistent” communication policy and the group counseling sessions, which allow patients to learn and draw strength from each other as they go through their healing journeys together.

Adam’s Educational healing journey during his treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Adam’s journey at An Oasis of Healing has been nothing short of life changing. He describes his experience as “going back home with a whole array of new tools, awareness, direction, and momentum.”

After 10 weeks at the center, he got another PET scan and the results revealed that the cancer was completely gone. But even before getting the test, he resolved to continue his new and healthier lifestyle, primarily because he now fully understands its long-term significance, and not just because he had cancer.

“My understanding deepened… It’s been an educational journey as much as it was healing journey,” he said.

For Valarie, being able to bring their spiritual life into the healing process made a huge impact. After all, cancer does not just affect the physical body. She furthered, “With that collective combination of healing on many levels, I think patients are so much more set up for success and we were able to see that with Adam.”

A Holistic Approach to healing from cancer

 Adam’s journey is just one of many ‘success’ stories. But the success is not just about healing from cancer. At An Oasis of Healing, the true measure of success is keeping cancer away through holistic and sustainable lifestyle changes rooted in a comprehensive cancer care program.

This program—created by founder Dr. Thomas Lodi—is tailor-fit to each patient and is designed to fortify the body to a state of health that will no longer make it conducive for cancer, and in the process, change the way patients perceive health and wellness.

As seen in Adam and Valarie’s story, this approach does not just help people heal from cancer, it changes lives for good.

Find out why Adam recommends An Oasis of Healing to anyone dealing with cancer. Your journey to reclaiming your health begins here. Contact us now and let’s see how we can help.

 

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How Can A Holistic Cancer Treatment Center Help You?

What does a holistic cancer treatment center offer that conventional medicine can’t compete with?

More often than not, conventional medicine’s ‘war’ against cancer can become too strenuous for a patient, as even the healthy cells are attacked, thus causing the immune system to be weaker.

It’s a double-edged sword that further devastates patients and their families. And it’s a dilemma that holistic cancer treatment centers, like An Oasis of Healing, are trying to eliminate.

A holistic cancer treatment approach means that a patient’s treatment program focuses on attacking only the affected cells and boosting the immune system. In the case of An Oasis of Healing, this approach is rooted in three pillars set forth by its founder, Dr. Thomas Lodi:

• Stop making cancer through medically approved therapies and nutritional programs that enable the body to stop making cancer-causing cells;
• Target cancer through effective therapies that do not cause further harm to the body; and
• Enhance the immune system through immuno-oncology therapies and modalities such as yoga, meditation and juice feasting/fasting.

Why should you consider a holistic cancer treatment center?

In An Oasis of Healing, the customized treatment program has a holistic goal. Healing is just the first step. The bigger goal is to change the biochemistry of the body to a state of health where cancer cells will no longer thrive.

A holistic approach to cancer treatment means that patients are provided with tailor-fit support to heal, repair and recover—physically, emotionally and mentally.

This approach to cancer treatment is not new. In fact, as a holistic cancer treatment center, An Oasis of Healing has helped hundreds of patients reclaim their health through a comprehensive cancer care program.

Christine: Taking control of her health 

Abu Dhabi-based Christine was cleared of colorectal cancer by her conventional doctors after a traumatic experience with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. In less than 12 months, her cancer returned. She was now dealing with Stage 4 lung cancer. Not wanting to go through the same ordeal with conventional treatments, she went to Switzerland and researched more about alternative treatment centers. And then she discovered An Oasis of Healing.

The experience was literally, and figuratively, life-changing. Christine felt a sense of agency—that the treatment was a journey towards taking control of her own health, instead of something being forced upon her.

At An Oasis of Healing, she met highly skilled medical professionals and good people who listened to her and managed to make her feel “loved and welcome,”—a simple yet powerful feeling for cancer patients. Learn more about Christine’s journey here.

Edie: A renewed way of life

In 2013, Edie of Tucson, Arizona, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent conventional cancer treatments but two years later, her cancer marker numbers went up again. She tried ‘safe chemo’ but with no success—her markers remained high. Finally, she decided to go to a holistic cancer treatment center after watching Dr. Lodi’s videos.

Edie was almost hopeless when she arrived at An Oasis of Healing but that quickly changed. Three weeks into treatment, her cancer markers dropped. She is determined to continue her personalized treatment program and is learning ways to, not just defeat cancer, but change her life for the better. Learn more about Edie’s journey here.

What can you expect at a holistic cancer treatment center? 

Depending on your unique health situation, doctors and experts at An Oasis of Healing will recommend scientifically proven and advanced treatments or integrative healing modalities that work naturally with the body, and that is based on a deep respect for nature.

These can include chelation therapy, ozone treatments, intravenous hydrogen peroxide, intravenous vitamin C or metabolic medicine. The first step is to open your mind to possibilities beyond conventional treatments. Watch the videos. Read the testimonials. Ask questions.

Reach out to us now and let’s find out how we can help.