‘How Maverick Doctors are Shaping the Future of Cancer Treatment: The Gonzalez Protocol®’

The overwhelming effects of contracting cancer could be devastating for patients and their family members, putting them at risk of experiencing uncertainty, loss, and irreversible interruptions in life. Despite advances in cancer research patients are systematically overwhelmed and struggle to navigate treatment among hundreds of old/new drugs.

Meaningful changes can’t happen without those who catalyze such changes – the so called mavericks, like Newton, da Vinci, Galilei, Einstein and Tesla who were multi-dimensional, with their unusual perspectives and skillsets who pushed the boundaries of what’s common or acceptable practice.

Nicholas Gonzalez, M. D. was a maverick who changed the cancer journey into a story of hope. Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez dreamed and created a new paradigm of healthcare, based on nutrition, psychology, and spirituality. He practiced for nearly 30 years, treating cancer and other degenerative diseases unconventionally through nutrition, supplementation, and detoxification.

Through The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation, Dr. Gonzalez’s legacy is very much alive and his pioneering protocol and skills are in good hands as new doctors treat the intreatable with The Gonzalez Protocol®.

‘Childhood Trauma – The Missing Piece of the Autoimmune Puzzle’

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are one of the key root causes for adult autoimmune disease development, addiction, self-neglect, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and obesity. This presentation will equip nutrition professionals, health coaches, and medical providers with a simple methodology for screening and beginning the process of helping their clients to heal from trauma.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know the link between ACEs and adult autoimmune disease development, addiction, self-neglect, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, sexual promiscuity and STIs and obesity.
2. Understand the neurobiology of stress and how early childhood stress sets the body up for adult chronic illness.
3. Learn the ABCs of trauma screening.
4. Be able to apply nutritional and mind-body protocols to effect change in the health trajectory of your clients.

‘WHAT ARE WE MISSING? The Enigma of Holistic Diet Recommendations Reduced Symptomatology, yet (unintended) Weakened Immune System and Increased Mortality’

Oxford Languages defines an enigma as ‘a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.’ Since the 1950’s, autoimmune diseases have been rising exponentially every year ⁱ. And the CDC tells us that pre-Covid life expectancy is going down 1.5 – 6% per year (depending on cultural heritage)ⁱⁱ. Something is terribly out of balance.

For example, how is it possible that the higher the intake of conventional fresh fruits and vegetables, the higher the risk of failed implantation and increased miscarriages? What? Increasing fruits and vegetables reduces fertility and increases miscarriages?ⁱⁱⁱ Yes. That’s an enigma. It’s difficult to understand how we would avoid this conversation with every man and woman of child-bearing age. We know that a high-fat diet (such as Ketogenic, Paleo, Adkins,…), with all of their benefits, are diets rich in choline and L-carnitine, and can induce long-term, a decrease in cardiac function, systemic endotoxemia, and inflammation with an increase in cardiac fibrosis and cardiac remodeling^iv. Short-term benefits do not equate with long-term thriving.

The ketogenic diet (KD) has shown significant success and gained favourable attention due to its antitumor benefits and its potential to reduce (epileptic) seizures. v But it has also been shown to increase cognitive impairment, disturb hippocampal physiology, promotes higher inflammation, higher intestinal barrier dysfunction and higher bile acid dysmetabolism, leading to higher glucose dysmetabolism and hepatic steatosis.vi The KD has also been shown to decrease beneficial probiotics, increase pathogens and reduce microbial alpha diversity in the gut ^vii. Three months on the KD demonstrated that fecal microbiota increased TheDr.com 877-GLUTEN 1 (458-8361) in Desulfovibrio spp. involved in the exacerbation of gut inflammation.viii Shortterm benefits do not equate with long-term thriving.

Vegetarians refrain from consuming all types of meat and seafood. Vegans represent a subgroup of vegetarians, excluding also animal products such as eggs, milk and dairy products, and honey from their diet. Several studies have compared the gut microbiota of omnivores, vegetarians, and vegan individuals. Some of them showed higher ratios of Bacteroides/Prevotella, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Clostridium clostridioforme, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and lower ratios of Clostridium cluster XIVa and Bilophila wadsworthia in vegetarians and vegans compared to omnivores^ix. Both vegans and vegetarians had lower counts of Bifidobacterium and Bacteroides species ^xi. Short-term benefits do not equate with long-term thriving.

The numbers of Clients presenting with Wheat-Related Disorders (WRD) is rising exponentially ^{xii xiii} A gluten-free diet (GFD) is often the corner pin of many of our recommendations. We’ve all heard of its potential value and necessity. And how quickly people ‘feel better’ on a GFD. Rapid short-term benefits are common. Long-term ‘Quality of Life’ benefits are most often limited. Only 8% of celiacs heal on a strict GFD ^xiv. And mortality is increased in numerous studies after diagnosis of CD ^{xv xvi}.Short-term benefits do not equate with long-term thriving ^{xvii xviii}.

For example, in the first year after diagnosis of Celiac Disease, there is an 86% increased mortality from a cardiovascular incident, and 3.87-fold increased mortality from cancer. In the first year after diagnosis ^xix. The universally accepted and exclusive protocol for any Wheat Related Disorder, a Gluten-Free Diet (GFD), usually relieves presenting complaints and yet in numerous long-term studies, demonstrates immune dysfunction and increased mortality? Why? A likely culprit is that people are put on a GFD after diagnosis without supplemental guidance and protocols. Indeed, 70–80% (4 out of 5) patients adherent to a GFD present gluten contamination in their diet ^{xx xxi xxii}, with an average gluten exposure of around 150 mg/day, ^xxiii which is much higher than the considered safe amount of up to 10 mg/day. The GFD is not the treatment for a Wheat Related Disorder (WRD), it is the prerequisite to treatment.

If Practitioners were not familiar with these studies, they’d never know that the patient, who felt so much better initially when put on a GFD, and dies of a heart attack a year later, they’d never know that the poorly monitored GFD may have been a strong contributing culprit that took them ‘over the edge’. With some 90% of adult Celiacs reporting they transgress the dietary pattern, and 58% showing TheDr.com 877-GLUTEN 1 (458-8361) clinical symptoms due to unnoticed consumption of glutenxxiv, we must do a better job on both education and protective prevention. Rapid short-term benefits are common. Long-term ‘Quality of Life’ benefits are most often limited. Short-term benefits do not equate with long-term thriving ^{xxv xxvi}.

Why is this happening and what can be done about it? Bottom line? Our therapeutic diet recommendations (Ketogenic, Paleo, Vegetarian, GF) are therapies targeting metabolic rebalancing and require re-evaluation every 6 months to 2 years.

The good news is with proper preparation, these diets not only eliminate these unwanted health dangers, but can be used as the cornerstone guiding our patients into a balanced lifestyle that, enhances health, reduces inflammation and increases quality of life ^xxvii.

References
ⁱ British Society for Immunology Report Reveals the Rising Rates of Autoimmune Conditions,
https://www.immunology.org/news/report-reveals-the-rising-rates-autoimmune-conditions
ⁱⁱ NCHS Data Brief, no. 427, December 2021CDC https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/index.htm.
ⁱⁱⁱ Chiu YH, Williams PL, Gillman MW, Gaskins AJ, Mínguez-Alarcón L, Souter I, Toth TL, Ford JB, Hauser R,
Chavarro JE; EARTH Study Team. Association Between Pesticide Residue Intake From Consumption of
Fruits and Vegetables and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Undergoing Infertility Treatment With
Assisted Reproductive Technology. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jan 1;178(1):17-26
^iv Impact of Diet on Gut Microbiota Composition and Microbiota-Associated Functions in Heart Failure: A
Systematic Review of In Vivo Animal Studies.
Palombaro M, Raoul P, Cintoni M, Rinninella E, Pulcini G, Aspromonte N, Ianiro G, Gasbarrini A, Mele
MC.Metabolites. 2022 Dec 15;12(12):1271
^v Ketogenic Diet in Cancer Prevention and Therapy: Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Opportunities.
Talib WH, Mahmod AI, Kamal A, Rashid HM, Alashqar AMD, Khater S, Jamal D, Waly M.Curr Issues Mol
Biol. 2021 Jul 3;43(2):558-589
^vi Bilophila wadsworthia aggravates high fat diet induced metabolic dysfunctions in mice. Natividad JM,
Lamas B, Pham HP, Michel ML, Rainteau D, Bridonneau C, da Costa G, van Hylckama Vlieg J, Sovran B,
Chamignon C, Planchais J, Richard ML, Langella P, Veiga P, Sokol H.Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 18;9(1):2802
^vii Food Components and Dietary Habits: Keys for a Healthy Gut Microbiota Composition.
Rinninella E, Cintoni M, Raoul P, Lopetuso LR, Scaldaferri F, Pulcini G, Miggiano GAD, Gasbarrini A, Mele
MC.Nutrients. 2019 Oct 7;11(10):2393

Exhibitors

Demand for “stands” is high and we’re adding new companies as fast as we can organise, so keep checking back, but some of the suppliers confirmed so far include:

• Omnos – Platinum Sponsor

• Lamberts Healthcare – Gold Sponsor

• Omega Diagnotics – Silver Sponsor

• Vitae Health Innovation – Bronze Sponsor
• Boley Nutraceuticals/Totally Derma – Bronze Sponsor
• Cytoplan – Bronze Sponsor
• Genova Diagnotics Europe – Bronze Sponsor
• Gensmart – Bronze Sponsor
• Healy – Bronze Sponsor
• KIB Healthcare – Bronze Sponsor
• Kinetic Enterprises – Bronze Sponsor
• Natures Plus UK – Bronze Sponsor
• New Roots Herbal – Bronze Sponsor
• Nordic Laboratories – Bronze Sponsor
• Nutri Advanced – Bronze Sponsor
• OptiBac Probiotics – Bronze Sponsor
• Pharma Nord – Bronze Sponsor
• The Good Guru – Bronze Sponsor

• Abundance & Health – Exhibitor
• ADM Protexin – Exhibitor
• British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) – Exhibitor
• Institute for Optimum Nutrition – Exhibitor
• Green People Company – Exhibitor
• Rhythm Nutrition – Exhibitor
• The Really Healthy Company – Exhibitor
• Mycology Research Laboratories – Exhibitor
• Salcura – Exhibitor
• The Natural Dispensary – Exhibitor