A Kinder, Gentler, Safer Treatment through IPT
by Dr. Charlie Schwengel
IPT stands for Insulin Potentiated Therapy for cancer. It is a procedure for targeting smaller amounts of chemotherapeutic drugs directly to cancer cells, making the drugs tougher on the disease and easier on the person being treated.
How is IPT different from conventional chemotherapy?
Conventional chemotherapy tends to flood the body with these drugs so that enough will enter the cancer cells to kill them. But each of our trillions of cells has a membrane, an outer skin, that protects it from toxins. Standard chemotherapy must be given in large enough quantities to force penetration through that membrane. Using IPT however allows easy penetration of smaller amounts of chemotherapy drugs through the cell membrane.
Here is why:
When a doctor administers IPT, the first thing he or she does is to gently lower the patient’s blood sugar level with insulin, the same natural hormone diabetics use. Cancer cells need lots more glucose than healthy cells do. So the membrane of a cancer cell is designed to take in a lot more glucose than healthy cells. In medical parlance we say cancer cells are equipped with many more insulin receptors. As the blood sugar level gradually falls, the cancer cells become ravenous and open their insulin receptors wide to get at what little sugar remains as the blood stream’s supply gradually diminishes.
When the blood sugar level has dropped low enough, the doctor will administer small amounts of chemotherapy. The cancer cells eagerly take it in. The doctor then administers extra glucose to counteract the insulin which brings the patient’s blood sugar level back up to normal again. So, insulin is used to potentiate, or cause the cancer cells to take up the small amounts of chemotherapy very efficiently while targeting the chemotherapy directly to the cancer cells.
IPT uses about 10% of the amount of medications compared to conventional chemotherapy. This means that patients continue to thrive, maintain their lifestyle, and be vital while the cancer is being treated.
Insulin also helps us in another way. Chemotherapy is most effective when it connects with a cancer cell as it is dividing because cells are most vulnerable at that phase in their life cycle. Insulin prompts cancer cells to divide. It is known that the rate of cell division reaches its peak at what is called the “therapeutic moment,” the moment when the doctor determines the blood sugar level has dropped enough and the chemotherapy is administered. Thus, insulin helps us deliver chemotherapy when more cancer cells are most vulnerable.
The cells that turn over the fastest in the human body – the ones most likely to be dividing at any one time – are in the intestine, in our mouths, and hair follicles. That is why the side effects with conventional chemotherapy cause people to go bald and often lead to mouth and stomach ulcers, even organ failure. Without insulin, the conventional large doses of chemotherapy attack whatever cancer cells happen to be dividing, plus the other rapidly dividing cells in the body of which there are many.
What are the benefits of IPT?
< IPT is tough on tumors while being much kinder and gentler for the patient.
< Patients continue to live a normal, vital lifestyles while being treated.
< For any chemotherapy drug that works against a particular type of tumor, it is likely to work better with IPT. For example, a university study as far back as 1981 found that using insulin increased the killing effect of methotrexate, a commonly used chemotherapy drug by a factor of 10,000 times.
< Gentle treatment and the use of complementary therapies to strengthen the immune system may preclude the need for surgery or radiation.
< IPT treatments cost significantly less than conventional chemotherapy.
< IPT is a bridge between conventional and natural medicine.
< IPT can help prevent the growth and spread of tumors while healing is coming forth from within – as Nature meant for it to be.
Comparison of
Standard Chemotherapy vs. IPT LowDose Chemotherapy
| Effect |
Standard |
IPT |
| Aggressively kills cancer |
Y |
Y |
| Anemia |
Y |
Mild or none |
| Cancer is Strengthened |
Y |
N |
| Chemo-Brain Side Effect |
Y |
N |
| Diarrhea |
Y |
N |
| Emotional Side Effects |
Y |
N |
| Hair Loss |
Y |
Mild or none |
| Healthy Cells DNA Distortion Making |
Y |
N |
| Immune System is Damaged |
Y |
N |
| Infections |
Y |
Mild or none |
| Loss of Appetite/Anorexia |
Y |
Mild or none |
| Nausea |
Y |
Mild or none |
| Neutropenia |
Y |
N |
| Reproductive Organs Effected/Sterility |
Y |
N |
| Severe Physical & Mental Fatigue |
Y |
N |
| Thrombocytopenia |
Y |
N |
| Ultimate Increase of MDM2 Leading to Depletion of p53 Gene |
Y |
N |
Dr. Charlie Schwengel
Medical Director
Medicine of HOPE
3295 N. Drinkwater Blvd., #14
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
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