catherinethegreat
04-19-2005, 02:43 PM
this is an e-mail I got from a guy who had thyroid cancer and was ready to go in for surgery and saw a natropathic doc who put him on a raw diet and some supplements and he is now 80% cured without the surgery/ chemo/ radiation. WOW! I'm totally inspired by this!!!
hi catherine,
andrea just briefly told me about your struggles with your thyroid. my
naturopathic doctor guy is ludicrously great. i can't say enough good
stuff about him.
here's my story:
i found out i had cancer about two years ago and i totally freaked out.
all of the images that popped in my head were of my dad (who died
thirteen years ago of prostate cancer which had spread everywhere -
pancreas, liverÂ…) going very quickly from being a big olÂ’ 230 pound guy
to a tiny little 120 pound guy in a wheelchair wearing depends.
horrible.
to make a very long story short, reacting out of said fear, and not
normally being inclined to turn to alternative medicine, beth and i
found and met with this doctor who we were told is THE guy for thyroid
cancer. he is the director of oncological surgery at cedars sinai. we
scheduled surgery for six days later. in those six days, some crazy
stuff happened, (which iÂ’ll gladly tell you if you wanna hear the long
story) and i cancelled my surgery fifteen hours before it was to
happen. i had been reading so much that my eyes hurt, and in this
crazily synchronous way, we met this naturopathic doctor who totally
changed the course of our lives. everything he said had the ring of
truth to it and he totally convinced me that dealing with the cancer
using natural means made a lot more sense than surgery, radiation and
chemo. originally the plan was to do all the stuff he told me to do
for three months, after which i would get another scan done and then
probably get surgery, radiation and all that fun stuff after that scan
showed me that my tumor was bigger, as i thought it almost certainly
would. but i felt like i had to give it a try.
my endocrinologist thought i was crazy, of course. he warned me that
there was absolutely no way my tumor would do anything but get bigger
and that to hope for anything other than that was foolish. the
oncological surgeon guy understandably said i was playing russian
roulette.
in three months my tumor was over twenty-five per-cent smaller.
it is now over eighty per-cent smaller. what is left may just be scar
tissue. the next scan will tell us more.
the endocrinologist guy is baffled. he says that he would have never
believed my story in a million years if he had not seen it all himself.
he insists that i should keep doing everything iÂ’m doing, because it is
irrefutably working.
for a little over tow years, i have only eaten foods that are
organically grown and about ninety eight per cent of the food i eat is
raw. if you read some of the stuff at
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/rawfood.htm about raw food itÂ’ll
explain some stuff about why, as will
http://www.roxannes-restaurant.com/html/why_body.html. put very simply
— it is widely believed that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline
environment. our bodies are acidic, largely because of the way we eat,
so we are fertile ground for disease. if you are able to flip your bio
chemistry around so that your tissue is alkaline, the cancer cells
will, in effect, be digested by the immune system. iÂ’m grossly
oversimplifying this, but essentially that is the deal and a raw food
diet is the best way to go about doing that. whatever. the thinking
is — if you are able to clear away the toxins and arm the body with
what it needs to heal itself, it will.
so, other than this salt from http://powerorganics.com and celtic sea
salt, i donÂ’t eat any salt in anything.
here’s the rest of the dietary stuff —
no fried foods
no processed / packaged food
no table salt
no flour products
no soy
no sugar
no additives / preservatives
no caffeine
here are some links —
http://www.cancerdecisions.com
http://www.cancer-prevention.net
http://cureamerica.net/needhelp.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/rawfood.htm
http://www.roxannes-restaurant.com/html/why_body.html
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com
http://www.powerorganics.com
http://www.rawfood.com
http://powerorganics.com/saltbook.htm
http://cilantrolive.com/20521_2017.asp
http://cilantrolive.com/20521_1939.asp
http://www.radicalhealth.com
there is some really cool stuff on all of ‘em. some of the stuff seems
a little wacky, but ultimately, i guess it is no wackier than cutting
organs out of the body and then pumping it full of chemicals and
radiation.
here is some the supplement stuff that i take —
( ** I edited this out because I don't want it to be used by anyone as their own treatment ** )
oh, and i take this herbal “cancer formula” that my naturopath guy
gives me and this other stuff he gives me that helps alkalize the body.
the week i cancelled surgery, i started doing all of this stuff
religiously. i also started going to acupuncture once a week, going to
yoga and in addition to going to a psychologist, i started going to
this art therapist who had me read all of this stuff about how the
immune system fights cancer and then every week had me
sculpt/paint/draw something that was an outward manifestation of what
was happening in my body and then would lead me through a visualization
exercise specific to the thing i had just made and what was happening
in my body. pretty cool stuff.
i realize that all of this may sound like i am just another california
ya-ya, evangelizing about some hippy-dippy fad diet / visualization /
health food / yoga / herbal bullshit, as we are wont to do. but,
whatever. my cancer is totally going away, and i didnÂ’t have to get my
thyroid gland cut out, didnÂ’t have to get chemo or radiation and i feel
better than i have ever felt in my life. i donÂ’t mean to make light of
this cancer stuff, either. i am by no means saying, “oh, just eat some
fruits and veggies and go to acupuncture and youÂ’ll be fine." but i am
saying that i decided to not get my thyroid gland cut out, because
though you can always cut it out, you can't put it back. i just
figured delaying it three months while i tried all this wacky shit was
a risk i was willing to take. i assumed that it wouldn't work and that
in three months, i would have the thyroidectomy, but it made sense to
me to give it a shot for three months because losing my thyroid gland
was scary. i mean it regulates your metabolism—among tons of other
things—and no matter what they say, they will never convince me that a
little man-made pill can completely replace all of the functions of the
thyroid gland.
the story with this naturopath guy is that his mom died of cancer when
he was fifteen. his dad died a year and a half later of heart disease.
he vowed then to do everything he could in his lifetime to see to it
that noone had to go through either side of that agian. so he set out
to learn what cancer is, what it does in the body and how to help the
body fight it. he got a phd in biochemistry, became a naturopath and
has been treating people for something like twenty years. when i met
him, he had stopped taking new patients altogether in an effort to
devote his time to writing a book and developing seminars so that he
could help vast numbers of people instead of spending every waking hour
working with a never ending stream of people one on one. he has helped
tons and tons of people. there are several who were terminal cases and
are now fine, years later. at twenty-three, one woman was diagnosed
with stage four ovarian cancer with far-flung metastasis and was given
two weeks to live by the oncologists at memorial sloan-kettering. he
treated her and she made a full recovery. it has now been eight or nine
years and her first child just turned one.
-rick
******
The natropath has been on a raw diet for 20 years!! Isn't that amazing.
I don't know the entire story on him as I have yet to meet him.
But I wanted to share this letter with you because of the amazing healing effects the raw food had on treating my friend of his thyroid cancer! Incredible and inspiring.
*c
hi catherine,
andrea just briefly told me about your struggles with your thyroid. my
naturopathic doctor guy is ludicrously great. i can't say enough good
stuff about him.
here's my story:
i found out i had cancer about two years ago and i totally freaked out.
all of the images that popped in my head were of my dad (who died
thirteen years ago of prostate cancer which had spread everywhere -
pancreas, liverÂ…) going very quickly from being a big olÂ’ 230 pound guy
to a tiny little 120 pound guy in a wheelchair wearing depends.
horrible.
to make a very long story short, reacting out of said fear, and not
normally being inclined to turn to alternative medicine, beth and i
found and met with this doctor who we were told is THE guy for thyroid
cancer. he is the director of oncological surgery at cedars sinai. we
scheduled surgery for six days later. in those six days, some crazy
stuff happened, (which iÂ’ll gladly tell you if you wanna hear the long
story) and i cancelled my surgery fifteen hours before it was to
happen. i had been reading so much that my eyes hurt, and in this
crazily synchronous way, we met this naturopathic doctor who totally
changed the course of our lives. everything he said had the ring of
truth to it and he totally convinced me that dealing with the cancer
using natural means made a lot more sense than surgery, radiation and
chemo. originally the plan was to do all the stuff he told me to do
for three months, after which i would get another scan done and then
probably get surgery, radiation and all that fun stuff after that scan
showed me that my tumor was bigger, as i thought it almost certainly
would. but i felt like i had to give it a try.
my endocrinologist thought i was crazy, of course. he warned me that
there was absolutely no way my tumor would do anything but get bigger
and that to hope for anything other than that was foolish. the
oncological surgeon guy understandably said i was playing russian
roulette.
in three months my tumor was over twenty-five per-cent smaller.
it is now over eighty per-cent smaller. what is left may just be scar
tissue. the next scan will tell us more.
the endocrinologist guy is baffled. he says that he would have never
believed my story in a million years if he had not seen it all himself.
he insists that i should keep doing everything iÂ’m doing, because it is
irrefutably working.
for a little over tow years, i have only eaten foods that are
organically grown and about ninety eight per cent of the food i eat is
raw. if you read some of the stuff at
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/rawfood.htm about raw food itÂ’ll
explain some stuff about why, as will
http://www.roxannes-restaurant.com/html/why_body.html. put very simply
— it is widely believed that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline
environment. our bodies are acidic, largely because of the way we eat,
so we are fertile ground for disease. if you are able to flip your bio
chemistry around so that your tissue is alkaline, the cancer cells
will, in effect, be digested by the immune system. iÂ’m grossly
oversimplifying this, but essentially that is the deal and a raw food
diet is the best way to go about doing that. whatever. the thinking
is — if you are able to clear away the toxins and arm the body with
what it needs to heal itself, it will.
so, other than this salt from http://powerorganics.com and celtic sea
salt, i donÂ’t eat any salt in anything.
here’s the rest of the dietary stuff —
no fried foods
no processed / packaged food
no table salt
no flour products
no soy
no sugar
no additives / preservatives
no caffeine
here are some links —
http://www.cancerdecisions.com
http://www.cancer-prevention.net
http://cureamerica.net/needhelp.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/rawfood.htm
http://www.roxannes-restaurant.com/html/why_body.html
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com
http://www.powerorganics.com
http://www.rawfood.com
http://powerorganics.com/saltbook.htm
http://cilantrolive.com/20521_2017.asp
http://cilantrolive.com/20521_1939.asp
http://www.radicalhealth.com
there is some really cool stuff on all of ‘em. some of the stuff seems
a little wacky, but ultimately, i guess it is no wackier than cutting
organs out of the body and then pumping it full of chemicals and
radiation.
here is some the supplement stuff that i take —
( ** I edited this out because I don't want it to be used by anyone as their own treatment ** )
oh, and i take this herbal “cancer formula” that my naturopath guy
gives me and this other stuff he gives me that helps alkalize the body.
the week i cancelled surgery, i started doing all of this stuff
religiously. i also started going to acupuncture once a week, going to
yoga and in addition to going to a psychologist, i started going to
this art therapist who had me read all of this stuff about how the
immune system fights cancer and then every week had me
sculpt/paint/draw something that was an outward manifestation of what
was happening in my body and then would lead me through a visualization
exercise specific to the thing i had just made and what was happening
in my body. pretty cool stuff.
i realize that all of this may sound like i am just another california
ya-ya, evangelizing about some hippy-dippy fad diet / visualization /
health food / yoga / herbal bullshit, as we are wont to do. but,
whatever. my cancer is totally going away, and i didnÂ’t have to get my
thyroid gland cut out, didnÂ’t have to get chemo or radiation and i feel
better than i have ever felt in my life. i donÂ’t mean to make light of
this cancer stuff, either. i am by no means saying, “oh, just eat some
fruits and veggies and go to acupuncture and youÂ’ll be fine." but i am
saying that i decided to not get my thyroid gland cut out, because
though you can always cut it out, you can't put it back. i just
figured delaying it three months while i tried all this wacky shit was
a risk i was willing to take. i assumed that it wouldn't work and that
in three months, i would have the thyroidectomy, but it made sense to
me to give it a shot for three months because losing my thyroid gland
was scary. i mean it regulates your metabolism—among tons of other
things—and no matter what they say, they will never convince me that a
little man-made pill can completely replace all of the functions of the
thyroid gland.
the story with this naturopath guy is that his mom died of cancer when
he was fifteen. his dad died a year and a half later of heart disease.
he vowed then to do everything he could in his lifetime to see to it
that noone had to go through either side of that agian. so he set out
to learn what cancer is, what it does in the body and how to help the
body fight it. he got a phd in biochemistry, became a naturopath and
has been treating people for something like twenty years. when i met
him, he had stopped taking new patients altogether in an effort to
devote his time to writing a book and developing seminars so that he
could help vast numbers of people instead of spending every waking hour
working with a never ending stream of people one on one. he has helped
tons and tons of people. there are several who were terminal cases and
are now fine, years later. at twenty-three, one woman was diagnosed
with stage four ovarian cancer with far-flung metastasis and was given
two weeks to live by the oncologists at memorial sloan-kettering. he
treated her and she made a full recovery. it has now been eight or nine
years and her first child just turned one.
-rick
******
The natropath has been on a raw diet for 20 years!! Isn't that amazing.
I don't know the entire story on him as I have yet to meet him.
But I wanted to share this letter with you because of the amazing healing effects the raw food had on treating my friend of his thyroid cancer! Incredible and inspiring.
*c