NORI offers an approach to treatment very different from mainstream oncology. There are two main components to the NORI protocol. The first is dietary which has many scientifically supported concepts related to how food choices influences the tumor microenvironment. Certain foods promote tumor growth while other foods inhibit growth through various mechanisms. A specially designed diet that limits
the intake of certain amino acids can starve cancer cells of these building blocks necessary for cell division. This is the core of the dietary protocol and the specific amino acid is methionine. NORI has researched, developed and evaluated a methionine restricted diet as a standalone therapy for early stage cancers and as a platform from which to administer other treatments. This revolutionary approach has demonstrated very promising results. For late stage cancers, powerful but gentle methods are required to reduce the size of tumors quickly. NORI has developed a nutraceutical cocktail that has demonstrated remarkable potency in treating many forms of cancer. Selenium is at the core of this nontoxic cocktail that gently triggers cancer cells to initiate programmed cell death. The specific form of selenium, sodium selenite has been shown in many scientific studies to be able to kill cancer cells while causing no harm to normal healthy cells. This is an enormously important discovery because conventional chemotherapy kills many more normal healthy cells than cancer cells. Two other components of the nutraceutical cocktail act synergistically allowing very low doses of sodium selenite and a very simple schedule of administration. The combination of a methionine restricted diet and sodium selenite is a very simple, streamlined, natural and very low-cost approach to treating and managing cancer without compromising the health, wellbeing and quality of life of the patient. NORI believes that this is one of the most effective, humane, scientifically supported and rational approaches for cancer treatment. The protocol is a work in progress and will improve with further clinical case studies and research. For now, it is an excellent option for those who wish to avoid the toxicity and risks of conventional oncology. The NORI approach is purely nutritional leveraging diet as much as possible. Very few supplements are incorporated while consuming fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables is at the core of the program. An optimal diet can inhibit angiogenesis, lower inflammation, lower IGF-1 and insulin, lower hormone levels and push the body towards an alkaline pH. Going one step further in limiting the intake of high methionine containing foods, is unique to the NORI nutritional program. There are other nutritional programs designed to starve cancer cells of energy but these have limited value and are very difficult to implement. An example is the ketogenic diet. Methionine restriction is a much simpler and effective approach as the cancer cell can not easily adapt to a low methionine availability. Cancer cells utilize glucose, fatty acids and glutamine for energy and to effectively starve a cancer cell, all three sources must be cut off simultaneously. There are practical limitations to this approach.
