Video: Win Against the Challenge of Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Introduction to Sylvie Beljanski and the Foundation 0:00

Welcome, everybody, to another wonderful episode of the Breast Cancer Breakthroughs Summit. And today I have Sylvie Beljanski. She's a French lawyer by trade. So you're probably wondering what is she doing on a breast cancer summit? But she's also a health advocate for holistic medicine public speaker, internationally known and entrepreneur. She's a founder and executive vice president of the Beljanski Foundation. And listen to this. Their mission is to research natural approaches to cancer. So she's the CEO of Maison Beljanski, an international dietary supplement company, and she is the award winning author of Winning the War on Cancer.

Now, when I read this book, it was so touching for me to hear her personal story and how her father really started and spearheaded the research back in the eighties. And she'll tell you the story. But in the end, she proved victorious, and now she is continuing his legacy in Winning The War on Cancer. And she certainly is because the Beljanski Foundation has published many studies and has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt how powerful these natural substances are. So thank you Sylvie for joining us today.

Well, thank you very much for having me, Dr. V All right. So let's talk a little bit about the the core mission and the goals of the Beljanski Foundation. How did all that get started? Oh, so the commission, as you very pointed said, is as a fable. Once history to fund research, we are not doing its own research ourselves.

How the Beljanski Foundation Began 2:00

We are working with a number of academic institutions. So I was a lab to carry research with natural compounds. And the goal of the research is to find ways to address cancer and other degenerative diseases without toxicity. And we found side effects. And over the years indeed we have been quite successful working with a number of reputable institutions like Columbia University or Kansas University Medical Center. We use a number of lethal substances that have proven to be very effective at that.

I think many cancer cell lines at different stages of the disease. And now we are looking at the cancer stem cells. So that's a new frontier of research and we are very, very excited. So why. I'll go ahead. So how it all started? Well, it all started because because as you said, I'm a lawyer and I found myself in a position to fight the French government. When the French government tried to wipe out the research of my father, Dr. Mirko Beljanski. Dr. Mirko Beljanski was a Ph.D. in molecular biology, was did his entire career at the Pasteur Institute in Paris France.

So it was very, very conventional in his approach sense of beginning. But then he found some he found some big difference between natural between healthy cells and cancerous cells. He found that the DNA of cancerous cells, whether it's from animals, plants or humans, is always, always different and always with the same kind of difference. So healthy cells, the two strengths of the DNA, instead of being a nice helix, is kind of distorted with big loops. And my father calls that standardization of the DNA.

And then he said, Well, that's not happened just as a result of a genetic random genetic mutation. It happens because of the environment, mostly, which affects the DNA. Slowly but surely, cumulatively, and induce those kinds of destruction. And as that time back in the 60s, 70s. Speaking of the environment was most unwelcome also when I was going to understanding the genome. And who was that genetic research with solve all the problems led to a lot of patents that we turn into many drugs that would be extremely successful soon and lots of people would become very rich with that.

And suddenly you have a scientist as a pest to institute who says, No, no, no, sorry, the enzyme also plays a very important role. So they find him from the best stone institute that you went on and you found a number of natural animals which are able to do exactly the opposite of carcinogens. Those molecules do recognize these stabilized cells and they target specific particles or cells and they prevent duplication and selectively of cancerous cells. So my father published those results. He got a lot of interest because because that, you know, his selectivity of action means that you do not have to worry about pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer.

So those little extracts target cancerous cells wherever they are located. So a number of our French doctors who have very, very interested the waste is not. You had a nontoxic approach and got no number of doctors using that was growing and growing. And one day now we are in the early nineties the French president Francois Mitterrand was officially diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and it was said that he was not going to finish his second terms.

Research on Natural Compounds and Cancer Cells 7:00

It terms we are seven years. That's it time. But Mitterrand had a mistress who had knew about a good doctor with good results, with a prostate who was prostate cancer. And that's how Mitterrand started to take her Beljanski products And as we know, he was able to finish his second term. So the French FDA was furious that it was, I mean, so official now that some natural compounds could do better since he approved drugs for us, of course, you had the politicians who were also showing us that they had lost the opportunity to such power because the president was supposed to go missing.

And this combination of power and FDA, French FDA. The result was that they sent the military, the French army, a SWAT team to this house, a laboratory, and arrested my father and sprayed The laboratory where my father was with some chemical and a few months later, my father was dying with chronic leukemia, advanced meaning with leukemia, I should say, and asked me know, you know, you're kidding you and that's why I'm beginning. You know, as a lawyer, I started to to say, well, we this cannot be allowed.

We have to do something about that. So I took the case to the European Court of Human Rights. We won an unanimous decision because the French government was absolutely and even to explain and provide any rationale for their position. And there are a host of them, I think, and the very quickly I also I realized that was that was not enough. The most important was scientifically let see. So that's why I created the Beljanski Foundation to carry on with the research. And I have to say that we have been extremely successful with laws of publications.

We have been able to to get published of as a past 15 years. And just for that, it was definitely worth carrying this legacy. It's a beautiful story. I love hearing it every time now, one of the problems with integrative natural medicine is that there is so little research to back up all these beautiful studies and experiences. The fact that the Beljanski Foundation has proven on multiple cancers and multiple studies that these natural extracts target specifically cancer cells and don't harm the healthy cells.

I mean, that is such a powerful thing to have. So tell us a little bit about the the breast cancer breakthrough and the research relating these extracts to breast cancer. So so first, let me tell you that indeed, the emergency Foundation has been able to get an astonishing number of papers published of the past 15 years. It can all be found at Belgian ski. That could be energy. And as i that org's i resources a list of 133 peer reviewed papers left by my father and somewhere else on the foundation of the research.

So with all the new recent publications that we have, then mostly in the US we are getting weak institutions. So indeed over the past few years that we so collaborations that we were able to established first at Columbia University a show that sounds a little context talks called pulp river and of you have on Utoeya when is coming from the Amazons Yosef from Africa are able to target different kind of cancer cells. We worked on prostate cancer cells, ovarian cancer cells and pancreatic cancer cells mostly.

And we are able also to advertise different kind of level of gravity of the disease. For example, for prostate, we have shown that some both extracts were able to have an anti-inflammatory activity against

Breast Cancer Stem Cells and Recurrence Prevention 12:00

prostate benign pleasure and also cancer cells and also advanced cancer cells that do not respond to hormonal treatments. So all the stages and also we have been able to see that there was a nice energy of action with chemotherapies, which is also very important. So was Dr. Hall was a doctor and director of research at at the Belgian Ski Foundation. We looked at ourselves and we said, well, maybe if we are able to address all with the different stages of the disease, we maybe we should look at cancer stem cells because cancer stem cells resist chemotherapies.

Doctors generally do not speak of cancer stem cells because they actually be related to offer. So they just keep a discreet they tell you also to maybe shrinking you are responding why to the treatment and in fact they are not addressing the most aggressive of the cancer process which has those consequences. STEM cells, cancer stem cells and sustains the tumor, sustains the blood. And sometimes when you are ten years or 20 years later, they are able to wake up and create a metastasis. So it is generally after the first treatment that people hear, you know, maybe, you know, you are at risk of of I active or metastasis and you should continue chemotherapy or come back for more chemotherapy, which is going to be ineffective.

And everybody everybody should address cancer stem cells from the very beginning, from the time of the diagnosis is it doesn't make sense if we have something to address them not to do that from the beginning. Don't wait until after the first treatment to suddenly hear about time and and wonder what you can do about that is why we chose cancer. Breast cancer stem cells specifically is because there are some publications already out there about help in I'm going to show me to you showing is that there is some activity on breast cancer and also because breast cancer is a first cause of deaths for women the Wednesday of Wednesday have cancer.

So it is important to knows that one in four women who get cancer gets breast cancer and one out of six is going to die from breast cancer. So it is very that I mean, these some most prominent cancer in women, more and more men also getting breast cancer. So we said, why not try breast cancer stem cells? And we already have had some preliminary results which are very encouraging. We spoke creating cancer stem cells and ovarian cancer stem cells, but this time we are going to do a much bigger study on breast cancer stem cells.

And you just recently hosted an integrative cancer conference in which we raised money for this research. So absolutely, it was in Jacksonville, Florida. I was the first to mention asking to aggressive cancer conference, and we were extremely grateful for all the donors who made a show of generosity. Absolutely something we could not expect. And I am so proud and so grateful to be able to report that a study is fully funded and we are about to start this. The study, which I believe is going going to change the face of breast cancer.

Absolutely. And that's why I am so excited about it, because one of the biggest questions that we get in our community is, I'm afraid the cancer is going to come back. What can I do to keep it from coming back? Because whether they've done conventional treatments or natural medicine, there's always that fear in the back of their mind. And so now we have a product, you know, the the ankle belt pro that I used during my second healing journey. And I still use the maintenance protocol and still take it every day it that specifically attacks those potential breast cancer stem cells that can cause the recurrence.

And when your doctor tells you, you know, you're cancer free or there's no evidence of disease, that's wonderful in a sense. Celebrate that. But at the same time, be aware that there are those cancer stem cells, those baby cancer cells that are lurking and those need to continue to be addressed. So whatever you done from a, you know, an integrative, natural point of view, lifestyle changes, it's important for you to continue to do that and add something as powerful as the Uncle Bell Pro to make sure that those cancer stem cells are kept at bay.

And it is important to remember is that a cardiac or common pool is not toxic. So it is not going to create side effects that are going to impact your quality of life. This is something that you can do for a very long time, actually. And, you know, you brought out a point that and and several natural extracts do this too is that they actually support

Synergy with Chemotherapy and Study Results 18:30

the effectiveness of chemotherapy agents and reduce the side effects at the same time. Have you found that with your products? Yes, absolutely. So the synergy of action between help and chemotherapy and also herbal, Cheryl Materia and chemotherapy has been documented. That stuff results from the studies that we have done already. At the time of my father's with all, chemotherapy is like five five if you as a study we are used in the eighties and now we have been able to show that with this gem, gemcitabine, carboplatin and Colombia with these athletes that with this with Excel.

So that's very interesting because those chemotherapies are different kinds of molecules. So those molecules do not work well always together. You cannot always combine those chemotherapies. But every time we had a nice synergy of action with PALPATE and we saw her share with me, Talia and I have some numbers here, I can tell you. Absolutely. Because I am not good with memory memorizing numbers. So I like to have that with me. But so I example here here with carboplatin. So as he sees of Varian ovarian cancer stem cells, power period that alone suppresses tumor goes by 79% and that reduces acid volumes by 55%.

With 55. That's powerful. Yeah. Alone when power is combined with stromal protein, tumor inhibition reaches 97% and ascites are completely suppressed. Wow. And when it comes to to have also vomiting. Yeah so publication says acetic fluid the volume and the number of non blood cells in acids were significantly reduced. The combination of our show with carboplatin remarkably enhances the letters effect, reducing to Mel birthday from 87% to 90% of percent and volume from 1980 9% to 97%. So that's the and that's enantiomers in is study done in mice but it's it's very is very important too, because acids are very near complication and very common complication of ovarian cancer and getting this kind of results we saw toxicity why not phenomenal phenomenal.

And the sites are this fluid buildup in the belly that often happens in the later stages of the disease. So that's that's unheard of to be able to effect that in such a positive way. So with all this amazing information and all the research backing these products, can the average person purchase these products and start using them in their protocols? How do they go about that? Yes. Yes. So on the website of Michelle Brzezinski, which is a company that sponsors as Sophie Sasha, by providing the stocks, you can find the stocks.

So individual is how buying stocks is available. So it's pallavi and then just longer form called pal. VSM They're all shovel material is also under available under the name of V and in October, possibly to sell plant extracts made of Gordon's gingko extract and it's called ginkgo v so all see available on the website of Ms. on page ASCII and you can get them together under the name of Uncle Ben for beds. For that, you have to go through a doctor because that's the combination is unique to the professional.

Nine I want to say a word about as a gene cause a golden ginkgo biloba. It doesn't have the same direct cancer effect as pulp and or Chevron retail. Yeah, but it has also extremely interesting properties and that's why it's an integrated part of global. My father observes that this golden ginkgo extract the ability to regulate liver enzymes and in particular is able to help with skin fibrosis. So that's very helpful for people who are going on radiation. And a lot of women with breast cancer have radiation.

What we have been able to see

Accessing Beljanski Products and Golden Ginkgo 24:00

as a Beljanski foundation since my father's passing is that it's one of the specific enzymes that as a gingko is able to inhibit is arginine, and arginine is the specific enzymes that help a concept sense create new blood vessels so they can feed themselves. They need a lot of energy, so they create new blood vessels to get more nutrients to themselves. And also that allows them all those blood vessels allow them to fight those cancerous cells to watch other organs. So being able to inhibit arginine we are one famishing starving cancer cells and also we are preventing the spread of cancerous cells.

So that's why this golden gingko extracts, which is, I believe, very unique to what we are doing. It's completely different from A green gingko extract is a part of Onkobel-Pro Wow. I mean, how did your father know to. I made a plant from Africa, plant from South America and the gingko, the golden ginkgo to to put those things together. I mean, what an amazing feat. Well, it created the test at that time. You know, he was a vision. Now he had a thinking of the environment and he created a test to test for compounds to see how much of a destabilization of the DNA they would induce.

And he looked for also molecules that could do the opposite, molecules that would be able to hiney beat cancerous cells. So this is a synthesis of cancer, of DNA synthesis of cancer cells without effect on healthy cells. And he was able to find not one, but two of those molecules. And that's the first he found Rauwolfia Vomitoria which is known actually in ayurvedic medicine for a long time. But it is used traditionally with a reserpine content And the reserpine is toxic. So my father studied several facts and had the idea to remove the reserpine And he has an extract which is reserpine free But alstonine is rich and this alstonine is a compound able to selectively address cancerous cells.

And then because it was a lot of work and quite messy to to remove reserpine from Rauwolfia Vomitoria. He looked for molecules that would be close to alstonine and that's how we found Flavopereirine which is the active of Pao Pereira. What a genius. And we're so grateful. We're so grateful that you are carrying on that legacy and think of the butterfly effect and the number of lives that this has touched and will continue to touch. Absolutely. And I am so grateful to America to have provided the land and opportunity to to carry on this legacy.

Because what we are doing now, it would be absolutely impossible to do it in France Impossible. Everything was done to destroy his research And the only way to make it possible to survive was to immigrate the amazing reception that we had here. where open-minded scientists and doctors were willing to listen to this approach and give it a try.

Legacy of Dr. Beljanski and Closing Remarks 28:30

So thank you. We're happy we're so happy that you've taken the lead and are moving forward with this research. So, Sylvie, thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your foundation and all the work that you've done to improve the lives of countless people around the world. So we appreciate your support and taking the time to help women understand the importance of breast cancer stem cells and how your father's formulas can be helpful. Thank you so very much. Thank you, Dr. V.