Dr. Harold W. Manner: The Man Who Cures Cancer

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That, of course, is a startling statement for a respected scientist to make in the face of FDA/AMA harassment (if Dr. Manner cannot back up his claims, he can-quite simply-kiss his J0-year-long career goodbye) . . . and, for that reason, MOTHER Associate Editor Bruce Woods recently flew to Chicago to interview the controversial head of Loyola University's Biology Department.

The following conversation-which took place while the two men inspected some of the mice that Dr. Manner and his graduate students have treated-may, upon occasion, surprise you and further destroy what little faith you have left in our federal a government. But it may also give you a great deal of hope. 

PLOWBOY: Dr. Manner, your research may well bring nutritional cancer therapy out from under what I can only call the medical establishment's carefully maintained cover-up. Could you tell me how your work-your career came to put you in the laetrile "hot seat"?

DR. MANNER: My entire professional life-and that "life" began in 1949-has revolved around the study of illness. I've always felt there must be a reason why we're still faced with such things as "incurable diseases". After all, we have scientific minds capable of putting men on the moon . . . yet we haven't even begun to control these horrible maladies. Why? My work has been dedicated to answering this question and -over the years-I've developed a kind of philosophy, based upon two beliefs, that has guided my research.

The first of these points, put simply, is, "Don't fool with nature", because-as soon as you upset the natural balance of the body-you set yourself up for some serious consequences. This view led me to think that perhaps many of the so called"metabolic diseases" were really only the result of a nutritional imbalance.

The other point in my "system" is the belief that we often can't find a cure for an illness because we don't know its cause . . . and we're ignorant of these causes, I think, because most medical research has gone in the wrong directions.

For example: Most of the researchers who've studied these incurable diseases have spent their time searching for bugs, bacteria, and viruses . . . since microorganisms are known to cause many other diseases. Well, the best microbiologists in the country have been working on this problem for fifty or sixty years and nobody has yet found a micro-organism that causes the metabolic diseases. You'd think people would begin to wonder whether or not the "bugs" are there at all.

Now-because I often haven't been satisfied with the popular answers-my studies have always been somewhat off the beaten track.

When cortisone first came out, for instance-back around 1948-it was touted as the "wonder drug of the century" because it was going to cure arthritis and rheumatism. Well, people did take cortisone and-sure enough-they did get rid of their arthritic pain . . . but-in some cases-they also developed peptic ulcers, moon face, and had all sorts of sodium changes in their bodies.

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