𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 — 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 — 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧

By Pete Wurst

Most people don’t realize that chemotherapy didn’t originate in medicine…

It came from chemical weapons.

In World War I, mustard gas was deployed as a deadly weapon, causing blistering skin, blindness, and destruction of mucous membranes.

But its most striking effect came later — exposure to it severely suppressed bone marrow and white blood cells.

Fast forward to World War II — when the U.S. was secretly experimenting with chemical agents, a leaked ship carrying mustard gas exploded in Italy, exposing hundreds of soldiers and civilians.

The aftermath revealed the gas's profound effect on lymphoid tissue.

That observation led researchers at Yale to test nitrogen mustard on mice with lymphoma — and tumors shrank.

Thus, the first modern chemotherapy drug was born — not from medical discovery — but from warfare chemicals repurposed to treat cancer.

Mustard gas wasn’t the only war-era toxin converted into treatment. Several chemotherapy agents still used today (like cyclophosphamide and cisplatin) trace back to military-grade toxins or industrial waste chemicals — not healing substances.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬?

Even in the early 1900s, cancer was still extremely rare.

It wasn’t until industrial toxins, pesticides, synthetic hormones, pharmaceuticals, and processed foods flooded the world that cancer exploded.

Instead of asking why cancer was increasing, medicine focused only on how to attack it.

Rather than looking at:

• The immune system

• The mitochondria

• The lymphatic system

• The gut-brain axis

• The emotional terrain

…it was reduced to a war metaphor — a tumor to be bombed and poisoned into submission.

The same terrain that had allowed cancer to develop was ignored.

The shift from terrain-based medicine (used for centuries) to symptom suppression wasn’t scientific advancement — it was industrial ideology. The body became a battlefield, not an ecosystem.

🏛️ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 “𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞” 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

By the 1970s, the “War on Cancer” was declared under President Nixon.

Billions were poured into cancer research.

But nearly all of it went toward:

• Chemotherapy drug development

• Radiation techniques

• Surgical innovations

Not toward:

• Prevention

• Nutrition

• Detoxification

• Root causes

Why?

Because:

• Natural therapies can’t be patented

• No one can own broccoli, melatonin, or enzymes

• Pharmaceutical companies fund medical schools, journals, and cancer foundations

• The FDA requires billion-dollar trials that only Big Pharma can afford

• The AMA and oncology boards punish doctors who deviate from “standard of care”

It wasn’t just neglect — it was a full-scale system of suppression.

In many countries, it's still illegal for a doctor to offer an alternative cancer protocol without also recommending chemotherapy — even if the chemo has little success for that cancer type.

In fact, by the 1980s:

• The Gerson therapy (juicing, detox, nutrition) was outlawed in the U.S.

• Clinics using ozone, laetrile (B17), or cannabis oil were shut down or exiled

• Doctors were stripped of licenses for recommending natural cancer protocols

• Books and research were buried, and the media labeled them “quackery”

This wasn’t science.

It was corporate protectionism.

💰 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥

Chemotherapy drugs today are among the most expensive in all of medicine — many costing over $100,000 per year.

• Oncologists often profit directly from selling chemo drugs to patients

• Insurance companies only reimburse approved drugs — not nutrition, detox, or IV vitamin C

• Clinical trials are designed around drug development, not metabolic healing

• Charities and cancer walks raise money that flows back into pharmaceutical pipelines — not holistic healing centers

And yet…

➡️ Many cancers have low 5-year survival rates despite chemo

➡️ Chemo can shrink tumors short-term but cause long-term recurrence

➡️ It often damages mitochondria — the very system responsible for cancer regulation

➡️ It weakens immunity, causes secondary cancers, lead to resistance, and accelerates aging

➡️ It triggers oxidative stress and inflammation

Even with all that — it's still offered as the only acceptable treatment, while those pursuing natural or integrative therapies are labeled “dangerous,” “misinformed,” or worse.

And if a patient declines chemo? They’re often dropped by their oncologist. Informed consent becomes coercion. Options become ultimatums.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫

Cancer is not a random curse.

It is a metabolic, mitochondrial, emotional, environmental, and immunological crisis.

It grows when the terrain is disrupted — and it often recurs when the root causes are ignored.

💊 Chemotherapy has a place. Some cancers respond well in the short-term. But it should never be the only option. And it should never be forced — especially when safer, supportive, and healing-based therapies exist.

You deserve informed consent. You deserve choice. You deserve to know the full truth.

If natural medicine truly didn’t work — the system wouldn’t have spent the last 75 years trying to ban it, bury it, and blacklist the doctors who use it.

🌿 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝: 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬

The truth is, there are dozens of therapies that:

• Support the immune system

• Restore mitochondrial function

• Reverse metabolic dysfunction

• Detoxify environmental toxins

• Reduce inflammation and tumor growth

• Improve quality of life, energy, and resilience

But you won’t hear about:

• High-dose IV vitamin C (selectively toxic to cancer cells)

• Mistletoe therapy (used in over 60% of cancer centers in Germany)

• Hyperbaric oxygen (starves tumors of anaerobic conditions)

• Ketogenic diets (starve cancer of glucose)

• Medicinal mushrooms, melatonin, curcumin, and quercetin (anti-cancer synergy)

• Lymphatic drainage, coffee enemas, castor oil packs, and biofield therapy

• Trauma healing, breathwork, EMDR, and somatic therapies — which regulate immune function at the root

These approaches don’t just attack tumors.

They shift the terrain that allowed cancer to grow in the first place.

🔬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧…

Imagine if the “War on Cancer” had been about:

• Cleaning up the food system

• Teaching emotional healing and trauma resolution

• Restoring detox pathways

• Funding mitochondrial research

• Educating on toxic-free environments

• Ending pharmaceutical monopolies

• Personalizing therapies instead of one-size-fits-all poisons

We’d be living in a very different world.

Cancer rates would likely be plummeting. Survivors would be thriving, not merely surviving. And cancer would be seen not as a mystery — but as a message from the body asking for restoration.

🩺 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

❓ Why is the immune system allowing cancer to grow?

❓ What toxic exposures, traumas, or nutrient imbalances triggered this?

❓ What’s disrupting the mitochondria and cellular signaling?

❓ How can we restore the body’s natural ability to detect and clear abnormal cells?

Until we ask these — we’re just fighting a war without understanding the battlefield.

🔎 It’s time to stop asking “what kills cancer cells?” and start asking:

“What restores the body’s ability to heal?” 100%