In this blog I combined two bits of information together as one which taught me so much more. Also, I am not criticizing either one (Jessica Ainscough, nor Kris Carr) because they have helped so many others. My own opinion of Gerson Therapy though experience is I know it has helped others. However, depending on the type, grades and severity of your cancer. You may want to research further if Gerson may or may not be beneficial for your type of cancer.
The Wellness Warrior: Denial, Delusion, or Dishonesty?
I’ve been observing a young lady who goes by the title ‘The Wellness Warrior’ and calls herself a ‘Cancer Thriver’ for quite some time now and I’ve come to the point where I can no longer stay silent out of sympathy for her tragic situation. The reason for this; she is lying to herself, lying to her followers, also maybe lying to the public about her situation and deliberately hiding the truth of her condition. This can’t continue, she is influencing people’s health and cancer treatment choices by misleading them. It is unconscionable. I will probably get slammed for speaking out about this but I don’t care, someone has to.
Jessica Ainscough was diagnosed with Epithelioid Sarcoma in her left arm in 2008 at age of 22. According to her own account of the story she had an isolated limb perfusion (high dose chemotherapy just to the arm), but was advised by her oncologist after relapse that amputation, although possibly not a cure, was her best option for survival or living a long life. Jess didn’t think this was an ‘attractive option’ and she decided against it and turned to the Internet looking for better options, which is where she found The Gerson Therapy. In short, Gerson Therapy is a cancer ‘cure’ scam that costs thousands of dollars and involves a restrictive diet and lifestyle of living on juices and doing up to five coffee enemas per day. You can see Jess demonstrating her method for doing the enemas here.
A friend who works in oncology informs me that since Jess abandoned conventional therapy there has been huge advances in treatment. Newer targeted therapies have just about made isolated limb perfusion obsolete. Sadly for Jessica, her adherence to Gerson Therapy and other nonsense for so long has almost certainly cost her any benefit she could have gained from the newer therapies.
Epithelioid Sarcoma is a slow growing cancer. Without treatment, it has a 50-70% 5 year survival rate, and a 42-55% 10 year survival rate. Jess has been living with this cancer for 6 years now, so it is no surprise that she is still alive. In fact, it is almost expected that she would still be alive at this point. Her cancer is simply taking its natural course. There is no miracle here, no story of miraculous survival, and no ‘remission’ as she claims. Just normal disease progression.
The Gerson Institute Stated: On her blog, Jess shared stories about her experiences, giving readers an inside look at life on the Gerson Therapy. She discontinued the Gerson Therapy in 2012 to pursue other therapeutic modalities, and while she didn’t keep in touch with us often, our staff remained big fans of hers and read her website regularly. Jess was a lovely person; her positive attitude and determination were an inspiration to us all. http://gerson.org/gerpress/in-
Just like Kris Carr whom had A battery of tests revealing that Carr was suffering from epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a vascular cancer in the lining of the blood vessels in her liver and lungs so rare that only 0.01 percent of the cancer population has it. Around 200 to 300 cases are diagnosed nationwide every year. The cause: unknown. The cancer was stage IV—incurable and inoperable, the doctor said. “Some people say it could have come on like a meteor shower,” Carr says; others suspect the tumors had been developing her whole life.
Carr hit the books and the Internet. (“I tell people I have a Ph.D. from Google University,” she says, laughing.) She traded in fast food for a vegan diet and swapped martinis for a green brew of cucumbers, kale, celery and sprouts. She formed a “posse” with other young women with cancer. She explored alternative therapies, including massage, meditation, and even spent time in a Zen monastery.
Carr says Demetri believes that she can live her “whole life” with the disease but that it may have to be treated with drugs at some point. “We don’t know. There is currently no cure,” she notes, “but there’s no doubt in my mind that any new information, drugs, and treatment is going to come out of this place [Dana-Farber]. I’m in the right place to be monitored.”
Four years after turning the camera on herself, Carr turned her healing journey into a documentary called Crazy Sexy Cancer, which TLC bought in the fall of 2006. Last year it had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Tex.“I’m not saying that cancer is sexy,” she stresses. “What I’m saying is that we are still empowered. We are still alive and whole. I might have cancer, but I’m dealing with it and I’m still all that. The most important thing is to have a voice and use it.”Carr is among a growing number of people living and thriving with cancer, thanks to medical advances as – well – as a progressive philosophy in oncology that recognizes past mistakes of overtreatment and welcomes alternative medicine as a partner in the healing process. The new approach, she says, shatters the stigma cancer is either a death sentence or something that has to be eradicated—and also opens the door to treatments designed to keep tumors in check, which could buy time while new therapies are developed. “Many amazing new treatments are targeting tumors and leaving the patient with their own lives and their immune systems [intact],” she says. “Plus, there is so much that we as patients can do to help our bodies regain health.”
Carr is currently developing a nonprofit organization that will work with top oncologists on studies and research using data from the more than 1,000 members of her online community (www.crazysexylife.com) and the 5,000 to 10,000 people who visit her Web site (www.crazysexycancer.com) every week. “We want to be the bridge, one of many bridges, between Western and alternative medicine,” she says.
When first diagnosed, Carr viewed cancer as a freight train to death; now she views it as a “catalyst” for change. She changed her lifestyle, met a new community of women and ditched acting for writing, something she never believed she could do. Last year she wrote and published Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips (Globe Pequot Press), a book chock-full of practical advice on everything from doctors, shopping to diet to how to keep your own wits about you when diagnosed with the Big “C” (or any other disease, for that matter). She wrote a companion book, Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey, due out in September—and is set to pen a diet and lifestyle manual to be published next year.
Perhaps most important, she says, cancer led her to her “soul mate.” She recruited Brian Fassett to help her film, edit and produce her documentary. During the project, they fell in love—and Fassett and Carr (who, when first diagnosed, thought she would never date again, let alone marry) got hitched in the fall of 2006. “It was one of the happiest days of my life,” she says. “We vowed to be fellow adventurers. We thought it would be way too melodramatic to say ‘till death do us part.’ This was a day that cancer just was not a part of.” They are now considering having kids. (“Will the hormones wake the sleeping dragon? We don’t know,” she says, “but I refuse to live my life in fear.”) And they have started their own production company, Red House Pictures.
ALSO, Crazy Sexy Cancer is an irreverent and uplifting documentary about a young woman looking for a cure and finding her life. Weeks after she was diagnosed, filmmaker Kris Carr began documenting her story. Taking a seemingly tragic situation and turning it into a creative expression, Kris shares her inspirational story of survival with honesty, courage, and lots of humor. Crazy Sexy Cancer is more than a film, it’s an attitude! It’s about rising to the challenge of life, and no matter what, refusing to give up who you are at your core. This story is as funny as it is frightening, as joyous as it is outrageous. Ultimately, Crazy Sexy Cancer is a thought provoking film about friendship, love and growing up… http://123movies.net/watch/mxy
So how is the 36-year-old Carr today, more than five years since her life-altering diagnosis? “I am happy and, I think, healthier than I was before I was diagnosed.” Her last scan in February showed the tumors are stable.
Looking back on her healing journey, she muses: “The doctors told me to ‘watch and wait.’ What I prefer is the ‘watch and live’ approach. I’m not waiting, putting my life on hold. I’m living my life, just with the knowledge that cancer is in my body.
“I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter. Once I was able to change my proper focus, desperation led to inspiration. I made so many changes, and I thought: This is an awesome life. I mean, honestly, I don’t think anyone has a better life than me. How can you live with the knowledge of cancer? I might not ever be able to get rid of it, but I can’t let that ruin my life…. I think: Just go for it. Life is a terminal condition. We’re all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.”
Credit: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/living-with-cancer-kris-carr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukwLCObc1mE