Raw Food + Disease

[siobhan]

Hi,
My doctors have told me that my disease is incurable because they do not know what causes it in the first place. Well to me that means I can cure/reverse it. I have macular degeneration and i am only 30. There is no family history and the only thing that I think has caused this is my total lack of respect and mistreatment of my body for the last 15 years. My eating and exercise habits were atrocious and I have been obese most of my adult life.

I've recently started on a 70% raw food diet, which is a huge change from the mostly junk/processed eating habits i had before. Ive lost 11kgs in 5 weeks, my skin has cleared up. I still have greek yogurt, cheese and eggs, but I have added a lot of raw foods to my meals.

The reason I have converted over to eating more raw foods is in the hopes that it will cure my so called incurable disease. I have been told that the human body can regenerate any part of our body but the teeth. Yet the doctors claim that my condition cannot, that once those cells have died thats it tough luck. I was just wondering if anyone else here has had an incurable diagnosis and have succesffuly reversed their disease using the healing power of raw foods and how long it took to see improvment?

Much appreciated.

[StarFire]

Aloha and Welcome to RFT Siobhan.... First - I am sorry you are dealing with this health issue. I have often heard people say that when a disease is 'incurable' that simply means... curable from within. I am a newbie here - I have only been raw for 4 months. I know many people have reclaimed their health thru the raw lifestyle.

Some of the more experienced rawbies will better be able to answer your questions, I just wanted to welcome yu to RFT. This forum is amazing. I'm sure you wll find a lot of answers here as this site is filled with many blessed and awesome people.

Have you ordered a copy of Alissa's book and DVD yet? That is a great place to start ~ it is filled with wonderful information to help guide you thru to asuccessful transition to the raw lifestyle, and will help to intoduce you to all the benefits raw foods can give you!

blessings on your journey Siobhan, may you find health and healing and joy.

[belleadonna]

Well if they don't know what causes your disease, how do they know that it is incurable??

Anyway, I would start juicing lots of fresh organic carrots. If you don't have a good juicer, it is worth the investment. I would do a minimum of 3/ 10 oz glasses a day. More is better. I will do some more investigating and see what I can find.
Keep adding more raw foods too like veggies and fruits.

[adrienne]

i agree about the juice - add some greens in there too, as much as you can
i know someone who had a similiar problem, her eyesight was 20/300 or something crazy like that and she began juicing 3x/day (just that, not even going raw) and this was 2 years ago and within a few months her eyesight improved and now it is 20/30 or almost 20/20 and she is transitioning to a more raw diet and needs to juice less.
good luck and you are not stuck with this diagnosis - you can heal yourself!

[Veganforlife]

Welcome! Incorporate wheatgrass and green smoothies into your diet.

[spicyfull]

I wish you everything you need to Stay RAW.....Welcome to MY World.

[rawbeliever]

sioban, check out the testimonials at halleluja acres.
http://www.hacres.com/testimonies/testimonies.asp

they have testimonies about macular degeneration.

Best wishes to you, stay raw,
Robbie

[siobhan]

Hi,
Thanks to all those that replied. It is a huge relief to know that i will be able to help heal myself. I just get a bit impatient to see any improvement. Thank you for all the advice.

cheers
siobhan

[trinity082482]

Whoa... breathless!~ Your post blew me away. I could feel your frustration and passion to take control of your life fly right through the screen and slap me almost right out of my chair lol... I loved it! It made my night.
I believe if we try hard enough and believe.. we can achieve!