A Book Review: Using the Rice Bran Arabinoxylan Compound
Review by Burt Berkson, MD, MS, PhD
bberkson@nmsu.edu
Cancer Treatment Breakthrough by Professor Serge Jurasunas.
Holodigm Publications; available at Amazon.com
ISBN-13: 978-0975851616; c. 2021; $29.90 (US)
Though I have personally known Professor Serge Jurasunas for less than a year, I have been familiar with his medical work for some time from reading the Townsend Letter. Professor Serge is a natural medicine trailblazer of the highest order, with over 55 years of experience. He has journeyed into previously unexplored territories and has developed innovative protocols for the treatment of cancer and other maladies. His book, Cancer Treatment Breakthrough, is an informative and instructive journey through the understanding of natural cancer therapies. By reading it, doctors will learn many valuable lessons developed by a master of natural medicine.
Conventional medical therapy for cancer involves surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, and other interventions that are only effective some of the time and may have dreadful adverse side effects. Professor Serge describes natural effective treatment options that are devoid of these injurious reactions.
The book opens with a serious discussion on immuno-oncology, describing the innate and the adaptive immune systems. Professor Serge goes on to depict cancer as an epidemic disease. He writes that there is no magic bullet for treating cancer and that there is a need for therapies without toxicity of chemotherapy. From there he outlines the cell cycle and asks the question, “Can the immune system fight cancer?” In addition, he defines oxidative stress and by what means one can mitigate its harmful effects. Subsequently, the book discusses the p53 mechanism and how it modulates the key regulators of the immune signaling pathways.
The book presents an extensive study on how the natural killer (NK) cells function and explains the way they kill cancer cells using the mechanism of apoptosis through the secretion of perforin and enzymes and the indirect mechanism using cells of the acquired immune system.
Professor Serge explains that cancer is also a disease of the microenvironment, and he describes how a hostile microenvironment may inhibit immune system defenses and aid tumor cell growth. We learn from the book that in a hostile microenvironment, immunosuppressive cells inhibit NK cells and this may encourage cancer cells to thrive.
The second part of the book is about complementary means of diagnosis and is very detailed as it goes on to describe how to teach the immune system to combat cancer.
Professor Serge presents an extensive study on the mechanism of action and the attributes of rice bran arabinoxylan as an immune stimulation agent and a cancer fighter. For 28 years Professor Serge Jurasunas has used rice bran arabinoxylan as a biological response modifier stimulating NK cells to kill cancer.
Rice bran arabinoxylan compound (RBAC) is a shitake mushroom mycelial enzymatic breakdown product of a particular rice bran liberating its medicinal properties. It was developed by Daiwa Japan and has no known toxicity. Besides its effectiveness in stimulating natural killer cell activity, this agent is also very effective medicine for an ailing digestive tract. The book describes how RBAC increases the body’s defensive mechanisms alone and even while a patient is receiving chemotherapy and or radiation.
The book is full of helpful illustrations demonstrating in various ways how the immune system functions and how various agents help a person heal from cancer. Professor Serge Jurasunas describes examples of case histories showing tumor size decrease when he is using RBAC alone. In other cases, he describes a more dramatic decrease in tumor size using chemotherapy plus RBAC. It is not surprising that integrative doctors and some conventional oncologists from many parts of the world are using RBAC for their cancer patients.
In 1964, Professor Serge studied under Dr. Bernard Jensen at Hidden Valley Ranch. After this, Professor Serge went on to become a pioneer in nutrition, with diet and food recommendations becoming the basis of his cancer treatment. A chapter of the book focuses on these recommendations.
Professor Serge’s book is an educative assemblage on alternative cancer therapies. His chapters on immunology and arabinoxylan were particularly informative to me and I enjoyed reading and learning from his numerous successful case histories describing patients who had recovered from serious malignant disease.
The medical establishment finds little or no profit in most alternative cancer protocols and does not respect a treatment option unless it has gone through many years and hundreds of millions of dollars of clinical studies to prove their idea of “evidence-based medicine.” They almost completely ignore interesting and important case studies and series demonstrating successful therapies. Someone once wrote in The Lancet, “If everything must be ‘evidence-based,’ where do the new ideas come from?”
I think that all broad-minded physicians who seek a thorough lesson on how to treat cancer patients alternatively should read this remarkable book and learn from Professor Serge.
Burt Berkson, MD, MS, PhD, is the author of The Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough and co-author of Syndrome X, and User’s Guide to B-Complex Vitamins.
