As a Mindset Coach, Author, & Cancer Thriver, my mission is to find freedom with everything life brings…especially those curveballs.
Based in Boulder, Colorado, I work with clients all over the globe through coaching, trainings, and my book baby: My Guru Cancer by Bethany Webb. At the heart of mindset coaching is a form of self-inquiry called The Work of Byron Katie a simple yet powerful process of identifying and questioning thoughts that create stress and suffering. It’s a way to clear the mind and love reality, just as it is. Through inquiry and movement, I love exploring the relationship between the mind & body ~ how our mental BS (belief systems) affect our emotions, physical sensations, and overall health & wellbeing.
In 2015, life gave me a sweet surprise when I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34 and then again as stage IV in 2021. My background has provided the perfect training and inner support system to meet cancer with an open mind, peace, and humor.
Dropping the battle and welcoming cancer as a wise teacher, I continue to learn the beauty of presence, slowing down, deeply listening, asking for support, letting go, and truly living the f*ck out of life! Becoming “free” from cancer has taken on a whole new meaning ~ it’s a state of mind.
“Are you sitting down?” -Dr. I, Spine Specialist (May 27, 2021) Weird. I only had my scan 2 hours ago, why is he calling? Oh shit… “Yes, I’m sitting down.” “I just got off the phone with the radiologist. I’m so sorry but the MRI showed multiple masses in your lumbar spine.” “Is it cancer?” I ask immediately. “It appears so. I know this was a big concern of yours.” (YES it was! WHY wasn’t it anyone else’s concern???) “I recommend you meet with your oncologist as soon as possible to discuss options.” Holy. Crap. If cancer is in my spine…that puts me in stage IV. There is no cure. Terminal. Fucking. Cancer. A flood of every single emotion hits me all at once.
Shock and disbelief…are you f-ing kidding me? Rage…FU to the doctors who didn’t take my complaints seriously 8 months ago. FU to the insurance company who denied my request for an MRI two months ago. FU to you to the universe – how could you let this happen? Despair and sadness…Wait, does this mean I only have a few years to live? I don’t get to see my nieces and godson grow up…I don’t get to grow old with my partner…Is this beautiful life I’ve created in Colorado already over? Images of my body breaking down, wheelchairs, hospice, my family grieving…fill my mind. I don’t deserve this. I did everything the doctors recommended. There was an 85% cure rate! Yet I found a way to enjoy cancer. I wrote a book. I’ve dedicated my life to help others alleviate the suffering around pain and illness. I take care of myself; I love my life. It’s not fair.
576 views Jun 22, 2021 #mbc#breastcancerthriver Well, I’ve got some tough health news to share. It appears My Guru Cancer is back as Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer. It has spread to my bones, liver, and some lymph nodes in my stomach. As heartbreaking as this news has been for me and my loved ones, we remain positive and hopeful. Although there is currently no known cure for MBC, my amazing doctors are saying it is “very treatable” and “for many, many years.” So…my diagnosis? LIVE THE F*CK OUT OF LIFE! This video shares a full update on how I found out, how I’m doing, my integrative treatment plan, mindset, and how you can best support me. GRIEF.
#MyGuruCancer Lesson: Welcome all of your emotions in… they are here to help you process, feel, and move through the pain. I’ve had to live in a state of F this for a bit. I let myself cry, scream, vented my emotions out on paper, stabbed a few potatoes…I let others hold me through the tears. When I drop my resistance to whatever is arising, it’s quite intimate. It may sound strange, but I don’t want to miss a moment of this grief. It can’t be bypassed. I choose to lovely hold it. However, and whenever it shows up. This is life too. And I want to truly live it. To be continued…
A few days after I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I saw this beautiful soul perform on America’s Got Talent. Through every lyric, I watched the tears fall from my eyes. Tim came home and immediately; I pulled him onto the couch to watch it. We held each other and cried some more.
Whoa. She was in the 2% chance of being alive and damn – this girl was LIVING! And then her words: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” Heck YES.
Knowing that I now, too, have entered the land of incurable cancer…this beautiful soul sang right to my heart, giving me hope that anything is possible…to live fully now…and that no matter what life tosses our way, IT’S OKAY Nightbirde – thank you for being such a badass inspiration for our community! We will miss you…RIP sister .
When the mind is open, inner peace is available to us at any moment. More than ever, I am inspired to share my experience and these healing tools with anyone who is ready to reconnect with their natural state of peace, joy, & clarity. When the mind is open, a sweet state of inner peace is available to us at any moment. Yet sometimes our cray cray thoughts can get in the way of noticing this reality. Unravel what blocks you from rocking your natural state of joy…let’s truly live the f*ck out of life!
I choose LIFE! Embracing ALL of it – the joy, adventure, heartbreak, grief. The highs and lows, the sticky mess in between. I’m here for it baby.
Key word = HERE. When I stay HERE, in REALITY, rather than living THERE, in a scary future, it’s so much easier to love the life I have – yes, even my life with stage 4 cancer. But if I’m to fully embrace life, it means I need to fully embrace death too – death is a natural, inevitable part of life. “Let’s face it, bodies don’t make it.” -Byron Katie Facing my fearful beliefs about death – “an early death” “a painful death”, worries of “missing out” and how it will impact my loved ones. Questioning these painful beliefs has led to soooo much more joy, trust, and presence in my life.
· January 28, 2023
Hi all!!! I want to share my badass news… No Evidence of Active Disease for stage 4 breast cancer . I’m soooo freaking grateful!!! I also joked with Tara the week before when she shared her NED news that – “OK I’M NEXT GIRLY!” Dreams do come true . Big hugs to you all!!!
Bethany Webb – Mindset Coach // Author // Stage 4 Cancer Thriver As a Mindset Coach, Author, & Cancer Thriver, my mission is to find freedom with everything life brings. I love exploring the relationship between the mind & body ~ how our mental BS (belief systems) affect our emotions, physical sensations, and overall health & wellbeing. These tools have provided me with a compassionate inner support system to meet Stage IV Breast Cancer (and many other life challenges) with an open mind, heart, and playful sense of humor.
Our Scars Speak: 40. Bethany Webb, Stage 4 Breast Cancer Thriver, Mindset Coach, & Author of “My Guru Cancer” on Apple Podcasts Our guest is Bethany Webb, a Stage 4 Breast Cancer Thriver, Mindset Coach, and Author of “My Guru Cancer.” Bethany shares her breast cancer story and how she utilized her knowledge of mindfulness to alter her mindset towards her diagnosis. Bethany started her mindset journey during her first diagnosis and continues to enhance her learning even during a second diagnosis of Stage 4. She shares the meaning of her motto and life work of “Live the F*@k Out of Life.”
Certifications & Influences My greatest Teacher is and continues to be “Life” itself. I am also grateful to have received the following guidance & support: 200-hr Vinyasa Yoga Certification with Ganga White & Tracy Rich at The White Lotus Foundation 500-hr Yoga Therapy Certification with Michelle Andrie at Priya Yoga Certified Facilitator for The Work of Byron Katie in the Institute for The Work Graduate of The School for The Work of Byron Katie in the Institute for The Work Thai Yoga Bodywork Certification with Chock Petchprom of the Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai
Love & Gratitude for many teachers: My family, students & friends, Byron Katie, Ganga White, Jeff Foster, Brene Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shiva Rea, Hala Khouri, Richard Miller, Gary Kraftsow, Richard Freeman, Julia Cameron, Eckhart Tolle, Gregg Braden, Deepok Chopra, Carolyn Myss, Kenny Kolter, Jessica O’Keefe, Carla Rudiger, Margie Woods, and so many more…
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Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by abnormal cell growth. It is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Aside from conventional cancer treatments, there are some natural and alternative therapies that some people believe to be an effective way to prevent or treat cancer. One popular alternative treatment is the Gerson Therapy, a nutrition system that involves a specialized diet, raw juices, detoxification, and supplements. However, many experts question the safety and efficacy of Gerson Therapy. This article provides a detailed overview of the Gerson Therapy and tells you whether it’s an effective way to treat cancer and other chronic diseases.
The Gerson Therapy — also called the Gerson Therapy diet — is a natural alternative treatment system that claims to “activate the body’s extraordinary ability to heal itself.” It was developed in the early 1900s by Dr. Max B. Gerson, who used it to relieve his migraine. Later, Gerson used this therapy to treat diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. Gerson believed that cancers and other chronic diseases are caused by changes in your metabolism that happen when toxic substances accumulate in your body. Gerson Therapy aims to restore your health by removing toxins and increasing immunity (1Trusted Source).
In 1978, his daughter Charlotte Gerson established the Gerson Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides education and training in the Gerson Therapy. Gerson practitioners are medical doctors or people with a medical, clinical, or naturopathic background who have successfully completed the Gerson practitioner training program. Gerson Therapy has three major components — diet, detoxification, and supplements. People on the therapy must follow an organic, plant-based diet with raw juices, use coffee enemas several times daily for detoxification, and take a wide variety of supplements (1Trusted Source).
Before starting Gerson Therapy, you must apply on their website — by submitting medical records, then undergoing a case evaluation — to see if you are eligible. Although this therapy is meant to treat a wide range of chronic diseases, the Institute mentions that certain conditions do not respond well to the Gerson Therapy. These include brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease, kidney failure, and ileostomy. Gerson Therapy requires a significant financial and lifestyle commitment. It can cost more than $15,000 to start and must be followed for a minimum of 2 years.
SUMMARY The Gerson Therapy was invented by Dr. Max B. Gerson in the early 1900s as a nutrition-based treatment system for chronic diseases, such as cancer.
How does it work? Gerson Therapy is divided into three key components — diet, supplements, and detoxification.
The Gerson Therapy diet Is entirely vegetarian and extremely low in sodium, fats, and proteins, as Dr. Gerson believed that this type of diet helps treat diseases. Anyone on this diet is asked to consume approximately 15–20 pounds (7–9 kg) of organic produce per day. This is said to help “flood the body with nutrients.” Most of that produce is used to make raw juices. Dieters are asked to drink up to one 8-ounce (240-ml) glass of raw juice per hour — up to 13 times per day. Juices must be made using a Gerson-recommended juicer that first grinds the vegetables into a pulp, then extracts the juice by squeezing it under high pressure. The Gerson Institute claims that its approved appliances provide 25–50% more juice than other juicers — and that its drinks are up to 50 times higher in certain nutrients. However, these claims have not been validated by a third party.
Supplements Because the diet is loaded with nutrients, its supplements are not meant to provide more nutrients. Instead, they’re intended to support your cells’ metabolic processes. These supplements include potassium, pancreatic enzymes, Lugol’s solution (potassium iodide and iodide in water), a thyroid hormone supplement, and vitamins B3 and B12. Potassium supplements are a key part of the Gerson Therapy. Dr. Gerson believed that diseased cells contained too much sodium and too little potassium. Once his patients started the Gerson Therapy diet — which is high in potassium and low in sodium — their cells would reportedly shrink, which Gerson believed to be a sign of recovery (1Trusted Source).
Detoxification According to the Gerson Institute, the combined effect of the diet and supplements releases toxins from your body’s tissues. Thus, your liver — which is the main organ that processes toxins — would be working harder than usual. To support your liver, the Gerson Therapy incorporates coffee enemas that allegedly widen your liver’s bile duct so that it easily releases toxins. The bile duct is a small tube that helps carry bile — a fluid that helps break down fatty acids and many waste products — from your liver to your intestines. Dieters are required to do 1 coffee enema per 24 ounces (720 ml or 3 glasses) of juice consumed. However, no scientific studies indicate that coffee enemas can widen your bile duct. What’s more, evidence is lacking that this therapy causes toxins to be released from your cells at all.
SUMMARY The Gerson Therapy’s three major components are an organic, plant-based diet, detoxification, and supplements. The diet and supplements are meant to flush toxins out of your body, while detoxification is supposed to support your liver.
Can it help treat cancer? Although almost no scientific evidence supports the Gerson Therapy’s claims, a few case studies have examined its relationship to cancer treatment. The Gerson Research Organization — a research group that works closely with the Gerson Institute — reported that 153 people with skin cancer on the Gerson Therapy survived much longer than patients on conventional therapy (2Trusted Source). Additionally, in a case study, six people with aggressive cancers who followed the Gerson Therapy survived longer than expected from conventional treatments and experienced improved quality of life (3Trusted Source).
However, these studies are small and don’t provide enough information about the participants, making it hard to tell if these improvements are due to the Gerson Therapy or other reasons. It’s also worth noting that some of these studies were conducted by the Gerson Research Organization, so there may be conflicts of interest. What’s more, reviews by organizations like the U.S. National Cancer Institute have found no evidence that the Gerson Therapy is useful in treating cancers (4Trusted Source).
In fact, a study in people with pancreatic cancer found that those who received traditional chemotherapy survived 3 times longer — 14 months compared to 4.3 — than those on a diet similar to the Gerson Therapy (4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source).
High-quality studies are lacking to determine whether Gerson Therapy combats cancer. Thus, the claims made by the Gerson Institute cannot be backed up.
SUMMARY The claim that the Gerson Therapy treats cancer is lacking in scientific evidence. Few high-quality studies have been done.
Foods to avoid The Gerson Therapy bans foods that are high in protein, sodium, and fat. Additionally, you cannot eat foods with certain compounds that the Institute claims interfere with the healing process. Here is a list of foods you cannot eat on the Gerson Therapy: Meats and seafood: all meats, eggs, seafood, and other animal proteins Protein supplements: all protein powders, including dairy and vegan formulas Dairy: all dairy products, including milks and cheeses — but excluding plain, organic, non-fat yogurt, which is allowed after 6–8 weeks on the diet Soybeans and soy products: all soy products, such as tofu, miso, and soy milk Certain vegetables: mushrooms, hot peppers, carrot greens, radish greens, mustard greens, and raw spinach (cooked spinach is fine) Dried beans and legumes: dried beans and legumes — but lentils are allowed at six months if you’re in good health Certain fruits: pineapples, berries, cucumbers, and avocados Sprouted alfalfa and other bean or seed sprouts: completely banned — unless advised by an experienced Gerson practitioner Nuts and seeds: all nuts and seeds. Oils and fats: all oils, fats, and naturally high-fat foods, such as coconuts, nuts, and avocados — except flaxseed oil, to be used only if prescribed. Salt and sodium: all salt or sodium, including table salt and Epsom salts Spices: black pepper, paprika, basil, oregano, and others Beverages: water (see below), commercial juices, sodas, coffee and coffee substitute (with or without caffeine), black tea and non-herbal teas that contain caffeine Alcohol: all alcoholic beverages Condiments: soy sauce, tamari, liquid aminos, mustard, and others Baked foods and sweets: all cakes, muffins, pastries, candies, and sweets Baking powder and baking soda: completely banned Other prohibited items: toothpaste, mouthwash, hair dyes, permanents, cosmetics, underarm deodorants, lipstick, and lotions Spices and fruit — such as pineapples and berries — are prohibited because they contain aromatic acids, a plant compound. Dr. Gerson believed that aromatic acids interfered with the healing process. As most personal hygiene products are banned, the Institute provides a list of alternative hygiene products that contain permitted ingredients. Notably, you’re discouraged from drinking water while on the diet. Gerson believed that water would dilute your stomach acid and not allow enough room for fresh foods and juices. Instead, you’re encouraged to drink up to 13 glasses of freshly pressed juice or herbal tea per day. Pure Juicer compared to other juicers – Search (bing.com)
SUMMARY The Gerson Therapy is highly restrictive, banning meat, sweets, fats/oils, many common hygiene products, and even drinking water. Keep in mind that avoiding water may be dangerous.
Foods to eat The Gerson Therapy mandates an organic, plant-based diet. You’re encouraged to consume: Fruits: all fresh fruits except berries and pineapple, which harbor aromatic acids Dried fruits (stewed or pre-soaked only): peaches, dates, figs, apricots, prunes, and raisins — all unsulphured Vegetables: all except mushrooms, hot peppers, carrot greens, radish greens, mustard greens, and raw spinach (cooked spinach is fine) Lentils: allowed only at the six-month mark if you’re in good health Grains: rye bread (unsalted, non-fat), brown rice (if prescribed), and oatmeal Dairy: only non-fat, plain, organic yogurt — and only after six weeks Spices (in small amounts): allspice, anise, bay leaves, coriander, dill, fennel, mace, marjoram, rosemary, sage, saffron, sorrel, summer savory, thyme, and tarragon Condiments: vinegar — either wine or apple cider Fats: flaxseed oil — only if prescribed Beverages: freshly pressed juices (as prescribed), caffeine-free herbal teas In addition to the above foods, certain items are permitted occasionally: Bananas: half a banana per week Breads: only whole-wheat rye (unsalted, non-fat) — 1–2 slices per day Quinoa: once a week Yams and sweet potatoes: once a week (regular potatoes are unrestricted) Popcorn: air-popped, as a holiday treat only — a few times per year Sweeteners: maple syrup (grade A dark color — formerly grade B), honey, brown sugar or unrefined blackstrap molasses — 1–2 teaspoons (15–30 ml) of any per day, maximum.
SUMMARY Gerson Therapy is a plant-based diet that relies heavily on fruits, vegetables, and certain grains. You’re required to eat entirely organic foods. Sample meal plan Here is a sample meal plan for one day on the Gerson Therapy: Breakfast a bowl of oatmeal with half of a sliced apple and 1 teaspoon (15 ml) of honey 8 ounces (240 ml) of fresh-squeezed orange juice Snack 2 pieces of fruit of your choice 8 ounces (240 ml) of carrot juice Lunch fresh salad (vegetables of your choice) 1 baked potato 1 cup (240 ml) of warm vegetable soup of your choice with a slice of rye bread 8 ounces (240 ml) glass of carrot-apple juice Snack 2 pieces of fruit of your choice 8 ounces of grapefruit juice Dinner Mixed greens (kale, collards, and Swiss chard) cooked with onions and garlic 1 cup (240 ml) of Hippocrates soup — celery root, potatoes, onion, leek, tomatoes, garlic, and parsley, simmered in water for 1.5–2 hours until soft, then blended 1 baked potato 8 ounces (240 ml) of green juice — lettuces, escarole, beet tops, watercress, red cabbage, green bell peppers, swiss chard, and green apple processed in an approved juicer Snack 8-ounce (240-ml) glass of green juice On top of this, the average participant would drink 7 additional 8-ounce (240 ml) glasses of fresh-squeezed juice per day. Supplements Your specific supplement regimen depends on what you’re prescribed by your Gerson Therapy practitioner. That said, most people take potassium, pancreatic enzymes, Lugol’s solution (potassium iodide and iodide in water), a thyroid hormone supplement, and vitamins B3 and B12.
SUMMARY A typical day on the Gerson Therapy includes plenty of fresh-squeezed juice, supplements, and vegetables.
Potential health benefits Although no comprehensive studies exist on the health attributes of the Gerson Therapy, it may provide some benefits — largely thanks to its nutrient-rich, plant-based diet. Here are some potential benefits of the Gerson Therapy: Higher in many nutrients. Plant-based diets tend to provide more fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals than typical Western diets high in processed foods (6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source). May reduce your risk of heart disease. Diets high in fruits, vegetables, and fiber have been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease (9Trusted Source, 10Trusted Source, 11Trusted Source). May improve kidney function. Plant-based diets may protect against kidney disease and kidney stones (12Trusted Source, 13Trusted Source, 14Trusted Source). May reduce arthritis pain. Plant-based diets have also been linked to reduced arthritis symptoms, such as joint pain, swelling, and morning stiffness (15Trusted Source, 16Trusted Source, 17Trusted Source). May help relieve constipation. The Gerson Therapy and other plant-based diets are high in fiber, which may help relieve constipation and keep your digestive system healthy (18Trusted Source, 19Trusted Source).
SUMMARY While insufficient research has been conducted on the Gerson Therapy, its nutrient-rich, plant-based diet may provide several health benefits — including a reduced risk of heart disease and healthier digestion. Potential downsides and health risks Gerson Therapy has several serious risks and downsides. For starters, coffee enemas — which are done four to five times daily — can be dangerous. Self-administered enemas may damage the area around the anus and cause severe electrolyte imbalances, especially if done more than once per day. What’s more, they may cause serious bacterial infections, rectal burns, and even death (20Trusted Source, 21Trusted Source). Severe electrolyte imbalance has been linked to heart failure and can be fatal (22Trusted Source, 23Trusted Source).
Furthermore, plant-based diets like the Gerson Therapy may not contain sufficient iron, increasing your risk of iron deficiency. Some signs of iron deficiency include low energy, shortness of breath, and anemia (24Trusted Source). Because the diet is so restrictive, social events and travel can be difficult unless you bring your own food. What’s more, the Gerson Therapy restricts many protein-rich foods, such as poultry, soy, and eggs. As cancer often elevates your needs for dietary protein, a protein-restricted diet can be problematic, leading to fatigue and malnutrition in some people (25Trusted Source, 26Trusted Source). Additionally, since the diet discourages drinking plain water, dehydration may occur if you don’t closely follow the recommendations to consume 15–20 pounds (7–9 kg) of organic produce per day and drink raw juice every hour. People with cancer are often at a greater risk of dehydration due to both disease symptoms — such as nausea and diarrhea — and treatments like chemotherapy (27Trusted Source). It’s advisable to discuss proper treatment with your healthcare provider before committing to this diet. Using unapproved alternative treatment methods can lead to dangerous side effects and may worsen your health.
SUMMARY The Gerson Therapy has several health risks, such as low protein intake and an increased risk of mineral deficiencies. Its coffee enemas are particularly dangerous, as they may cause death.
Cheryl Broyles sitting in the waiting room before getting an MRI in San Francisco, California on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at the age of 56. Cheryl has had over sixty MRI’s and has survived 12 years of glioblastoma at the point.
A MIGHTY WARRIOR HAS FALLEN HERE ON EARTH, BUT I AM SURE SHE HAS BEEN GREETED IN HEAVEN!
I am Blogging this to share the news that Cheryl Broyles passed away peacefully on December 3, 2023, at 4:30 PM surrounded by her friends and family. When Cheryl Broyles was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor, her goal was to outlive the disease’s 15-month prognosis long enough for the younger of her two toddler sons to reach kindergarten. She’s had multiple recurrences. UC San Francisco neurosurgeon Mitchel Berger has removed most of these using techniques like Gamma Knife surgery, which shoots intense, regionally precise doses of radiation at cancer cells. Broyles’ survival has been the result of luck, tumor location, and cutting-edge treatment and diagnostics.
She survived and thrived for 23 years with a disease that the survival statistics said should have taken her in about 12-24 months. Those 23 years did not come easy, she never stopped fighting, and in the end it was the exhaustion of those hard won years that caught up to her. She never stopped fighting, and she never let the cancer win, not even once.
Cheryl grew up in Yuba City, California where she attended Sutter High School. She earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. It was at Humboldt that she and Matt met, and dated until they both had graduated with their wildlife degrees. She finished finals on a Thursday, drove to Yuba City to get married Friday, tied the knot on Saturday, and on Sunday they drove to Oregon where they had wildlife jobs. No honeymoon- field season waits for no one. After ten years of marriage and successful career building, and with two young boys, Cheryl was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme. Her sons were 1 and 3 years old. Cheryl’s battle with cancer is reflected in this quote from her, “I’m not going to let the tumor kill my life while I’m still alive”; and that is exactly how she lived after diagnosis.
During her battle she stayed active in the brain tumor community, traveling to participate in fundraising events and to talk to numerous audiences. She spoke with church congregations, pharmaceutical companies, and even testified in front of a FDA subcommittee to support the approval of the Optune Brain Cancer Therapy Device. Most importantly though, she spoke with other survivors. For years she made and posted videos online to provide encouragement and support to brain cancer patients and their families, answering questions and inquiries with compassion and love for as long as she was able. To this end, she kept a website (https://www.cherylbroyles-gbm.com/) where she would write about her journey, hoping to inspire others like her. Through this site, her book “Life’s Mountains”, and her activity on social media, she touched the lives of dozens- if not hundreds- of brain tumor patients and their families. Unfortunately, she was unable to continue these online efforts later in her journey, but she never stopped thinking of those she spoke with, and she never stopped moving forward, remaining as physically active and as active in the community as she could.
She would participate in charity walks, mini triathlons, and 5K runs, while still hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with her family and summiting some notable peaks- Mt Shasta, Mt. Whitney, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Dana, and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Up until 3 years ago she was still backpacking, even venturing off trails into remote areas with her husband. Cheryl always had a love for nature and the outdoors. Prior to her diagnosis, she was a national award winning wildlife biologist working with Spotted owls and other wildlife. She loved spending time outdoors hiking, backpacking, river rafting, alpine and Nordic skiing, and spending time with her husband on their boat.
Cheryl was always very engaged, involved, and aggressive with her treatments- opting to try new and alternative treatments along with aggressive traditional medicines. She participated in two stage 1 clinical trials- one even involved the infusion of cow hemoglobin. In her 23-year battle Cheryl had 6 craniotomies – 2 of which were “awake” surgeries where the surgeon interacts with the patient during surgery to determine areas of the brain that can and cannot be removed. She also had 2 surgeries to her pituitary area through her nose and sinuses. Cheryl also underwent several bouts of Gamma Knife Radiation and several courses of more traditional radiation therapy. She also underwent chemotherapy with a variety of approved and experimental drugs. In addition to these treatments and therapies Cheryl was convinced that having a positive attitude was essential to her long term survival.
Her positive attitude was inspired and maintained through her faith in God. She was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and took the opportunity to share her faith whenever she felt it could be helpful and appropriate. She unabashedly discussed her faith in her book, talks, numerous newspaper interviews, and extensively in her online postings. Cheryl always had a servant’s heart and she donated time and resources to the local food bank and gospel mission, volunteered in schools, and even helped coach little league baseball. She took the time to mentor two middle school aged girls that were experiencing tough things in their personal lives. She was always a compassionate person whose goal was to inspire people with her journey, and to glorify God by showing love and compassion to others.
One of the reasons that she fought so hard against the tumors was so that she could spend time with her husband, two sons, and extended family. At the time of her diagnosis, her goal was to survive long enough to see the boys start elementary school. As time went on, her goal was to survive to the next milestone in the boys’ lives: start elementary school, start middle school, start high school, graduate highschool, graduate college, and get jobs. She also wanted to spend time with her husband, Matt, in his retirement. As the boys grew the family traveled extensively around the United States making several trips by car/RV to the east coast to see extended family.
One goal was to have the boys see every state in the US and that was accomplished before they graduated high school- Almost. One of them made it to all 50, one is still at 49. When she passed, both boys had grown into men. They had both completed college and found jobs in their chosen career fields, and her husband had been retired for 2 years. Cheryl was an amazing wife and mother whose love for her family fueled her in her battle with cancer. In the two years after Matt retired Cheryl and Matt enjoyed camping in their RV and boating while traveling around Oregon and California.
Throughout her battle Cheryl had many medical professionals assist her along the way. Most notably Dr. Nicholas Butowski, Dr. Mitchell Berger, Dr. Penny Sneed, Dr. Michael McDermott, and Dr. Sandeep Kunwar at UCSF. We would like to thank these incredible doctors and the whole UCSF medical staff for their continued care of Cheryl throughout her 23 year battle. We would also like to acknowledge and thank the palliative care staff at Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Additionally, we would like to thank the brain cancer community for their love and support of Cheryl and our family through the years. In particular the Inheritance of Hope Organization and family (https://inheritanceofhope.org/) along with Al Musella at the Virtual Trials (https://virtualtrials.org/musella.cfm). Throughout her fight- and even at the end- Cheryl never gave up, and never gave in to the tumors. Those who knew her knew well that the concept of surrender simply was not in her. When presented with the last recurrence she chose an aggressive surgery with significant risk to her vision and the part of the brain that controls body chemistry and hormones, rather than letting the tumors taker her vision and then her life. The surgery was a success, removing approximately 90% of her tumor.
However, recovery did not go well, likely due to the extensive damage to her brain from previous surgeries and a stroke post surgery. As one of her son’s noted she fought her last match against the tumor and won. She took her gloves off and left them in the ring, retiring an undefeated champ. Cheryl would want her journey to continue inspiring hope in others and to be a reminder for others to never give up. One of Cheryl’s favorite concepts to remember and share with people was that survival statistics apply to populations NOT to individuals and that it’s important to keep fighting because you might be one of the few that beats the statistics significantly.
The following are two of her favorite scripture verses: Joshua1:9 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that testing produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
The root cause and effect of beginning to research cancer in March 2006 was trying to help cancer patients overcome chemotherapy. I see it’s trials and tribulations of the dreadful disease when my father and countless others had side effects and not one oncologist had answers to help them reduce the misery. Chemotherapy and radiation without supplementation are barbaric and inhumane!!!
When I began watching Your HealthTv I learned quickly that when Dr. Richard Becker was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1997. During this time of crisis, he and his wife Cindy immersed themselves in the world of natural healing. Their extensive research led to the formation of BIO INNOVATIONS and creating the synergistic combinations found in the BioNutrients brand of dietary supplements, Presently, Dr. Becker is still currently in remission and in good health.
In 2016, Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton was diagnosed with a brain tumor for the third time. But, after some drastic lifestyle changes and a renewed faith, Hamilton claims he was the recipient of an undeserved miracle. In a recent interview with PEOPLE, Hamilton explained that the pituitary tumor he had been diagnosed with has shrunk without any treatment. “The nature of them is to grow, and without treatment, they have no reason to shrink,” the 58-year-old said. “So, I was the recipient of a spectacular miracle. I’m keeping an eye on it, and there’s no treatment needed at this time.” Hamilton’s healing left many wondering what changes he made to his lifestyle that would have helped things along. The Olympic gold medalist revealed that one thing he did was clean up his diet. “I realized things like that love to feed on sugar, and I go, ‘I don’t really want to do anything to give it anything it wants.’ So I just decided to give up sugar,” Hamilton said. After three months of clean eating, a new scan showed that the tumor hadn’t grown.
“So, I stayed with the program, eliminated all the unhealthy stuff.” In addition to improving his diet, he focused more on his faith, increased his water intake, and added supplements and essential oils to his routine. “It was quite miraculous what happened. I never anticipated that at all.” Even the doctors had no explanation for Hamilton’s improvements. When he asked his surgeon to explain what had happened, he only had a one-word reply. “‘God.’ That’s it,” Hamilton said. “I was just a blubbering mess, like, ‘I’m not worthy of this.’ There are so many other people out there who could benefit from this miracle.” Thereby, Scott Hamilton Refused to Let his Third Brain Tumor Diagnosis to Keep Him from Enjoying Life!!! Outside of his family, Hamilton has been touching the hearts of thousands through motivational speaking engagements and his Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation, which raises funds for cancer research and provides support and resources to cancer patients. “The Cares Foundation started out here in Cleveland as a Cares Initiative. What I to do was thank the Cleveland clinic for giving me my life back,” Hamilton explains. “But he knew there were gaping holes in the cancer community. So, he went online to find out what I needed to know about testicular cancer and all he found were medical journal papers with twelve-syllable words, five to a sentence … So he created ChemoCare.com, which is everything you need to know about chemotherapy in 8th grade English and Spanish. Everydrugislisted. With Everysideeffectislisted. It’s an amazing accomplishment. . Preview EXCLUSIVE: Scott Hamilton Talks Third Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Worry Will Not Add One Hour to My Life….’
This Story is About My Good Friend Mallory Davenport
Take me back to the moment you heard the words that forever changed your life: “Mallory, you have cancer”.
I remember that day so vividly. It was September 15, 2011. My husband Jack and I used to travel all over the U.S with our jobs, and we happened to be working in Frederick, Maryland at the time. I had been sick for a while but thought it was stress due to the high demand of my job. I mean – at 26 years old you don’t expect to get a call telling you you have cancer. But, that is exactly what happened. It was a Monday and I had already been told the previous Friday by the doctors office they couldn’t find anything on the biopsy they had taken. The doctor explained that they had another pathologist look over the biopsy results and abnormal cells were found. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer cells to be exact. I had no clue what lymphoma was! My first thought was “What do I need to do to fix this?” I didn’t cry at the time because I don’t think I really grasped what I was facing. I had to go back to work after I was diagnosed. I remember not wanting to tell anyone because I didn’t want pity or to be treated differently by my friends and colleagues. It was a few days before I was scheduled for my scans. During that time, I Googled Hodgkin’s Lymphoma all day every day. I wanted to understand what I was up against.
Aside from the shock of that moment, can you tell me about the hardest thing you had to power through physically? Mentally?
In the beginning the hardest part was that I had JUST married my soul mate. We had a beautiful wedding. I had a great job for someone my age. We traveled all over the place. My life was just beginning. Then the cancer diagnosis came along and was ripping it out of my hands. I was very scared that Jack would not want to be with me because I had cancer and I would lose my hair during treatment. I felt like he didn’t sign up to have to take care of a sick wife. He reassured me, even to this day, that he didn’t say our vows just to say them. He meant them – He would be by my side in sickness and in health. I was also scared that I would die and miss out on life with my husband. That I would pass away and be forgotten. That was probably the hardest thing mentally that I had to overcome and it took a long time to conquer it. Today, I am dealing more with the physical than when I was first diagnosed. Treatment was very hard on my body. I went through a lot of chemo, high dose chemo, and a stem cell transplant. I’m a very active person. I don’t think there is a day where I don’t have aches, pains, or numbness somewhere. My 30-year-old body feels 60. However, I take everything as a challenge, so I work hard on overcoming any obstacle my body gives me.
Fighting hard to Not to leave What I Loved About My Life. From where did you draw strength?
Getting diagnosed with cancer started my journey through the dark night of the soul. I didn’t understand why God was putting me through this. Jack gave me a book called “Ascent to Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross.” while I was going through chemo. I really didn’t read books of that nature because I could never understand the meaning behind the words. One night I couldn’t sleep so I got up and randomly started reading this book. The words spoke to me, like they could see inside my soul and knew how I felt and what I was going through. After that night, I knew God was preparing me for something bigger than I could understand at that time. All my strength through this entire journey has come from the Lord. He has blessed me beyond belief!
Did you find humor anywhere? If so, tell me about it. Humor is the best medicine for anything. Jack and I find humor in very dark places! I wish I had kept a notebook from my chemo days because I don’t remember all the stories due to my chemo brain. I think having a sense of humor and good attitude really make a difference when you are fighting a deadly disease.
Or did you just have continued grit throughout? Was there a particular moment when you chose fortitude over fear?
Yes, there is a particular moment my journey took a different direction. It was 2014, I was 2 years out from my stem cell transplant. I went to MD Anderson for my six-month scan. I’ve always had that stubborn tumor under my arm that did not go away, and chemo tends to aggravate it. However, my team of Doctors at MD Anderson ,,, were hopeful the stem cell transplant would take care of what the chemo couldn’t. Also, My doctor became concerned because this tumor was starting to slowly grow again. They did another biopsy to determine whether it was still Hodgkins Lymphoma, which it was. Then they discussed more treatment and another stem cell transplant but this time with a donor cell. I had already made my mind up months before that I would not do any more treatment. My body was really struggling from the treatment I had already been through. I was under 100 pounds, there was no way my body could make it through another transplant. I didn’t want to do that kind of intense treatment ….for this one small spot that would only become more aggravated by the chemo. I really had to think about my quality of life. Radiation and surgery were not an option due to my age and the type of cancer I have. My mom was with me for this appointment and she already knew that I wasn’t going to do any more treatment. I had been researching alternative treatments since the beginning of my diagnosis. I explained to my mom that I was going to try a natural protocol and see how it goes. I guess I should have been more upset that they had just told me I still had cancer and needed more treatment, but I wasn’t. I wanted to put my research to the test. I also had a cancer survivors rock climbing trip coming up ( First Descents) and I wasn’t going to let cancer get in the way. Thank God I didn’t because that’s when I met the most amazing person, who has turned into a role model for me, the creator of this site- Natalie.
That was my turning point. I know longer fear cancer.
Mallory and Jack still live a Happy Life Along the Gulf Coast
Was there a particular moment when you realized, “Yep. I am a badass.”? I spent over a month in the hospital during my stem cell transplant. There was one night that I turned for the worse. My nurse found me unresponsive on my hospital bed. My oxygen level was at 47 percent. I remember waking up to numerous nurses surrounding me. They had hooked up all these wires to my chest and they were giving me oxygen. I had no idea what was going on and I couldn’t speak. The chemo had caused my mouth and esophagus to swell so bad I was unable to speak, eat, or drink for almost two weeks. About two years after my transplant when the chemo fog lifted, I was thinking of my time in the hospital and what I had been through. It was hell, but I had made it through.
That was the moment I thought, “I made it through hell…I’m a badass!” I almost didn’t make it out of that hospital, but I did. I refused to give up.
Did you have A fight song or playlist? Also helpful prayer, mantra, or meditation? I had all at some point during my journey but to get me through the really hard times – I listened and read all of Sir Winston Churchill’s speeches. I treated everyday like I was going to war because every day I was fighting to live. Prayer of course was a huge part of my life as well. Meditation came after all my treatment was over and has been a huge help mentally and physically.
Tell me about anything in your life that is better because you once heard, “Mallory, you have cancer”. Was any light able to seep in because of those cracks? Did it illuminate something you didn’t know was there before?
When I look at pictures of myself pre-cancer days, I just don’t know that person anymore. Honestly everything in my life is better since being diagnosed with cancer.
Mallory Davenport Christmas Eve 2023
I’m totally different. The old me was focused on unimportant material aspects of life and not actually living life. I don’t take life for granted like I did before. I’m actually living and enjoying every little thing life throws my way. I even enjoy the hard times that test me, because it helps me continue to grow into a better person.
James McCraw was diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma Multiforme After experiencing seizures, James McCraw was diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma Multiforme (aggressive brain cancer). He went on to have surgery, which removed only ½ of the tumor, underwent chemotherapy and radiation, resulting in a prognosis of only 14 months to live – at best. Refusing to let his fate remain only in the hands of conventional medicine, James began to research and began to embrace an anti-inflammatory diet which included raw garlic, turmeric, cayenne pepper, ginger and more. He learned that targeting cancer stem cells is key to becoming cancer free. Join James Templeton and James McCraw for an inspiring story of how one man beat a death sentence by using simple spices in his own cupboard! Today, James McCraw enjoys riding his bicycle, working out with weights, and maintaining a health blog!
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Check out James McCraw’s book Killing Cancer With Spices Here is the story of James McCraw, a 10 1/2-year survivor of a glioblastoma. It all started in July 2013. It was a strange Monday, in the evening James goes out for dinner and as soon as he has ordered he feels strange, his head continues to stretch to the right, and he cannot speak. He had never felt this way. A waitress noticed that he was having an epileptic attack. Then the attack passed. James got in the car but decided together with his girlfriend to go to the hospital and as soon as he entered the emergency room, he had another seizure. So, they decided to do a resonance that revealed the presence of a brain tumor. The surgery was scheduled for August 13th. The operation was conducted with the semi awake patient. James was released on August 16th. Rehabilitation began in September. The oncologist informed James that he would be lucky to live 9 months after the diagnosis. On 12 September chemotherapy with Temodar began and on 18th radiotherapy. The whole thing lasted for 45 days. Soon James failed in financial problems due to the high treatment costs and then he issued the request for the recognition of his disability and Obamacare. James had to learn to speak again. Even memory had some problems and also the concept of time and mathematics. With language, the biggest problem was finding words. Some problems still persist today. Prior to glioblastoma, James had a normal life, a transportation company, and earned around $ 100,000 a year. By chance James entered a site that talked about using garlic to fight glioblastoma. In fact, it appears that the garlic is able to pass the blood brain barrier and to fight the stem cells of the tumor. James then begins to take two cloves of raw garlic a day after peeling it and leaving it in the air for a few minutes. James remained tumor-free until December 2015 when the tumor returned. James’s oncologist was thinking about a new surgery and chemotherapy but decided to consult a specialist who decided to wait another three months before making a new resonance. James attributes the cause of the recurrence to the fact that he had gone from raw garlic to garlic in tablets for a few months so he decided to return to raw garlic and started looking for other natural methods to combat glioblastoma. He added Curcumin, Ginger, Cayenne pepper, Boswellia, Black Seed Oil to his diet. Every day James took 8g to 12g of curcumin (about 3 tbsp. Tea) with a pinch of black pepper so that curcumin can get through the liver. Curcumin also appears to pass the blood brain barrier and to be capable of attacking the stems of glioblastoma.
After 3 months the tumor was gone. Since James had not done any treatment other than this diet he attributed the result to the diet. Normally glioblastoma, especially if it is a recurrence does not go away on its own, on the contrary, it is normally much more aggressive. Having heard that sugar and carbohydrates feed the tumor, James decided to remove these from his diet. James’s diet also abounds in broccoli, black beans, avocado, ginger, cayenne pepper, almond milk, and other foods that are supposed to exercise an anti-cancer function. A full 7 years have passed and James is fine. Resonances show no signs of his tumor. We don’t know exactly why: James may have been just lucky, he may have to survive anyway. What we know is that he had a grade IV glioblastoma multiforme and that together with traditional therapy i.e. the Stupp protocol he took and continues to take a spices based diet every day, in particular he takes raw garlic, curcumin (3% of turmeric), ginger, boswellia and black seed oil. The important thing though is that James managed to defeat the Terminator!
CategoryStories of glioblastoma 29 Comments Tim Rusling says: 3 November 2020 at 14:03 This is wonderful information. I’m a 14-month [so far] survivor of fourth stage Glio, following a nasty bout of chemo/radiation. I’ve been taking 444mg of Fenbendazole mixed with yogurt and my MRIs and blood work are just fine. But what you gave here is another weapon in the arsenal. Reply Justin says: 30 November 2020 at 05:05 That is amazing, how long have you been taking the Fenbendazole? Do you have any side effects from taking this large of a dose? Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:01 I am still here and working out, riding my bicycle, and drinking coffee. Anyone that want to my Facebook Group The link to get in https://www.facebook.com/groups/512075203087453/ or you go to website beatingthecancer.com I want to help people to learn how to beat cancer Reply James McCraw says: 2 February 2021 at 02:20 Kill the Cancer Stem Cells…That is the only way to kill Cancer. The Cancer Stem Cells about 1% of the tumor. The tumor is not going to kill you. It is metastasis that is going to kill you. Chemotherapy and radiation does NOT kill the Cancer Stem Cells. Chemotherapy and radiation aggravates the cancer causing the cancer to metastasize. I beat my cancer at the grocery store. Cancer Stem Cells(CSCs) have recently been identified in several solid tumors, including: Brain, Breast, Colon, Head and Neck, Liver, Lung, Ovary, Pancreas, Prostate, Melanoma, Multiple Myeloma, Non-melanoma skin cancer, Stomach I have a website beatingthecancer.com Reply Julia says: 30 April 2023 at 12:38 Took 8g to 12g of curcumin (about 3 tbsp. Tea) Where do you buy this curcumin tea? In order to get 12 g of it? If you have cancer, you need 8-12 grams of Curcumin for 3 months per day. The Curcumin Powder – Search (bing.com) is very messy and hard to wipe up. I also use Jarrow Curcumin 95. 8 grams = 16 capsules = about 4 teaspoon Reply sinan küçük says: 3 March 2021 at 17:21 Hi dear James. İ have already found you. My wife is glioblastoma grave iv. We operate on 15 02.2021. We will start radiotherapy on 08.02.2021. I know that if I go only RT and chemotherapy, we have approx 15 month. But you win the war of this tumor. İ want to learn your treatment details. *2 garlic per day to fight GBM. * when we are on radio therapy and CT.“we want to add Curcumin, Ginger, Cayenne pepper, Boswellia, Black Seed Oil to my wife’s diet. Every day i want to take 8g to 12g of curcumin (about 3 tbsp. Tea) with a pinch of black pepper so that curcumin can get through the liver. Curcumin also appears to pass the blood brain barrier and to be capable of attacking the stems of glioblastoma.” As you said. What else can you advise me? Thanks in advance. sinan kucuk instegram: sinan_kucuk mail:vonalisinan@hotmail.com Waiting yours. Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:16 You can get in with me at james_mccraw@beatingthecancer.com or you go to website beatingthecancer.com and you go to Facebook Group “Beating Cancer The link to get in https://www.facebook.com/groups/512075203087453/ Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:29 Take 1-2 cloves of fresh garlic, smash it, grind it and 15 minutes, a chemical reaction needs to take place. If you cook with it, put it last. The more you cook it the weaker it gets…. never do chemotherapy or radiation https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268439/ “subpopulation of tumor bulk and acquire resistance to conventional therapies (Chemotherapy and Radiation) and are considered as the primary tumor initiator cells. Nowadays, the tumor heterogeneity originated from CSCs, and its progenitors are accepted as a mortifying drawback in front of the cancer therapies” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25025713/ The model predicts that for any therapy to provide cure, all cancer stem cells have to be eliminated while the survival of differentiated progeny is less critical. Reply Merry Jacques says: 17 April 2021 at 02:41 Thank you for the information. I had neurosurgery 4 weeks ago and began radiation and chemotherapy in a couple weeks. I am prayerfully optimistic about the prognosis and that Jesus is my healer! God bless you! Merry Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:18 This is what put on Facebook…Does God cure cancer? I don’t believe God cures cancer. God will show you the way to beat cancer, but he will not “cure” cancer. There are many kids that have cancer. Before I discovered garlic, I was watching the Jim Valvano basketball tournament. It was a cancer benefit and is called the “V” Foundation for Cancer Research”. They would cut away to the kids who had cancer. Some of the kids had seizures non-stop or in so much pain. I was literally balling. It was the most horrible sight you could possibly imagine. The poor kids were suffering so much. I made up my mind to research cancer. God loves everyone. God is not that cruel. He showed me how to beat cancer and I believe all cancer, not just brain tumors. There were too many coincidences for me to believe that God was not leading the way. You must open your eyes and know that God is guiding the way. I met a lot of people with cancer. I knew two that died and another one that is making current videos. They both said they left it in God’s hands instead of watching for God to glue them on how to beat cancer. You must watch for signs. God is not going to beat cancer for anyone. You must look for the signs. It is all choices you make and God’s will. The two I was talking about used the standard treatment of care (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation)
Killing the Cancer Stem Cells is the way to becoming cancer free https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25025713/ “The model predicts that for any therapy to provide cure, all cancer stem cells have to be eliminated while the survival of differentiated progeny is less critical” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268439/ “subpopulation of tumor bulk and acquire resistant to conventional therapies (Chemotherapy and Radiation) and are considered as the primary tumor initiator cells. Nowadays, the tumor heterogeneity originated from CSCs, and its progenitors are accepted as a mortifying drawback in front of the cancer therapies” I think the Doctors in that case the Doctors are playing God with the way they are treating cancer. God would not use chemotherapy and radiating to beat cancer. God would use natural products that God created. I moved from Memphis to Collierville for no other reason but safety. I have to go to Memphis because my family is there. There are 3 ways I can go. The interstate is faster but is more dangerous than going down Poplar. There are 2 different ways you can go on the interstate, you can go left or right. If you go left, there is far more danger that you will not make it then if you go right. There is a saying if you go to Memphis, carry a gun.
That does not mean that you are going to live long. But you have choices. I met a lot of people with cancer. I knew one that died and another one that is making current videos. They both said they left it in God’s hands instead of watching for God to show them how to beat cancer. You must watch for signs. God is not going to beat cancer for anyone. You must look for the signs. I was living in Downtown Dallas. I walked past this place numerous times and rode the light rail past it and I used to go to workout right next to it. I walked to the post office before I went to see my mom with Pancreatic Cancer. I came back a different way and I found out It was a Cancer Park. I thought it was because my mother was going to survive. I found out later that it was because I had cancer. Later I found two different Cancer Parks identical to the one in Dallas. One in Memphis and the other in New Orleans. I found them accidentally.
Pennies from Heaven, that is what I called it whenever I would find a penny. I was thinking it came my mom. I would find pennies in the most obscure places. I was driving for Lyft and Uber. One day my engine went out. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I could not buy another car. My mechanic did not think he would find another engine. I had about a 5 mile walk to my apartment. Overton Park was about halfway to my apartment. I stopped to rest and sat down by the statue of E.H Crump. I was worried about what I would do with no car. I found a penny in the crevice of the statue. The next day my mechanic found an engine. This happened all the time. I was desperate. I was thinking about trying Cannabis Oil. It was not easy to get in 2014. I would have to send money via Pay-Pay to Canada. I was on the internet looking for other ways to get Cannabis Oil. I typed in Cannabis Oil and midway down I discovered a website that said garlic will kill cancer and not hurt your normal cells. I did garlic for two years. It wasn’t a coincidence that I went to the deli for a meeting about Lyft and I went on the wrong day. Chris Wark, whom I was not familiar with at the time, was doing a seminar on cancer on the night I went. I asked about garlic and Chris said absolutely. That made my day. All my family and friends thought I was crazy for doing garlic. There were just too many things like that to think I was doing it alone. I think God is involved in my research. You can’t just pray it away. God does not work that way God is not that cruel. I believe in God. God helped me do this research and think God is the reason I wrote this book. I started out doing a Facebook page until I wrote this book. A lot of it is cut and paste from the research I did Reply barb says: 20 October 2022 at 07:41 I agree with you that it is God directing, this is how He leads me also. I Am a 9 year survivor of ependymoma, a tumor on the brain stem. Reply Raunak says: 5 June 2021 at 23:42 My father was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma and the doctor told us that he has only 10-14 months to live. Hey, brother can you suggest to me the curcumin brand that you’ve used. Or any suggestions??? Kindly help Reply Roberto Pugliese (Admin) says: 6 June 2021 at 06:00 You can contact James directly. You can find his mail address on his website. Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:21 You must kill the Cancer Stem Cells to be free of cancer. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25025713/ “The model predicts that for any therapy to provide cure, all cancer stem cells have to be eliminated while the survival of differentiated progeny is less critical.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18030004/ “Recently it is considered that there is a small population of cells with stem cell property 3 only in leukemia but also in solid cancer. These cells show the ability of self-renewal and multi-potential differentiation, and can initiate and maintain a tumor” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268439/ “subpopulation of tumor bulk and acquire resistance to conventional therapies (Chemotherapy and Radiation) and are considered as the primary tumor initiator cells. Nowadays, the tumor heterogeneity originated from CSCs, and its progenitors are accepted as a mortifying drawback in front of the cancer therapies” You can do it with your diet. It is basically an anti-inflammation diet. Reply Nicholas Wallace says: 28 October 2021 at 01:10 I love hearing stories about long term survival in these types of cancers, it gives me hope. I was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma grade IV in my spinal cord a few months ago. I had surgery on August 20th and I’m currently going through radiation and chemotherapy. I’m definitely adding these herbs and spices to my diet once I’m done with radiation. Reply Forrest Frost says: 3 November 2021 at 23:41 Go to Fenbendazole.org. Anyone with cancer needs to take that or Mebendazole which is the prescription version. I suggest you look at the Care Oncology Clinic too. Checkout: Joe Tippin – Search (bing.com) Reply Nicholas Wallace says: 4 November 2021 at 22:11 Is there any research on fenbendazole in glioma and being able to cross the blood brain barrier? Reply Forrest Frost says: 3 November 2021 at 23:41 Go to Fenbendazole.org – Search (bing.com). Anyone with cancer needs to take that or Mebendazole which is the prescription version. I suggest you look at Care Oncology Clinic – Search (bing.com) too. Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:05 Killing the Cancer Stem Cell is the only way to beat cancer The only way to be cancer free is by killing the Cancer Stem Cells. The tumor has a small part that is called the Cancer Stem Cells (usually 1% – 5%), It is the target. Most Oncologists focus on the tumor. That is what they are taught by Big Pharma. It is not the Oncologist fault, they believe it. If you do the traditional cancer therapy, chemotherapy and radiation your cancer is coming back. It might not be immediately, but it will come back. If you kill the Cancer Stem Cells, it will degenerate. If the cancer does not degenerate, then you can do things like fasting or a hyperbaric chamber or whatever else floats your boat. The only time you should use chemotherapy is when the tumor has gotten too big it has impeded on the other organs. Not everyone that has cancer will survive but the Cancer Stem Cells is the only way to be cancer free. Radiation and chemotherapy will give you some more time, but it will be hard on your body. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25025713/ “The model predicts that for any therapy to provide cure, all cancer stem cells have to be eliminated while the survival of differentiated progeny is less critical” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18030004/ “Recently it is considered that there is a small population of cells with stem cell property 3 only in leukemia but also in solid cancer. These cells show the ability of self-renewal and multi-potential differentiation, and can initiate and maintain a tumor” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268439/ “subpopulation of tumor bulk and acquire resistance to conventional therapies (Chemotherapy and Radiation) and are considered as the primary tumor initiator cells. Nowadays, the tumor heterogeneity originated from CSCs, and its progenitors are accepted as a mortifying drawback in front of the cancer therapies” Reply Gordana says: 4 January 2022 at 12:54 I saw that you took 8-12 g curcumin. I wonder if it was really so much curcumin or did you mean curcuma/turmeric powder? It is because there is only 5% of curcumin in curcuma. Reply Roberto Pugliese (Admin) says: 4 January 2022 at 13:03 Dear Gordana, in general the active principles in supplements work only above a certain threshold dose. Nevertheless you can contact James directly, through his blog. All the best. Roby Reply James McCraw says: 12 March 2022 at 19:12 Curcumin is the cancer fighter in turmeric. Curcumin is 3-5% of turmeric. If you are fighting cancer you need 8-10mg of curcumin and then you cut back. Reply If you have cancer, you need 8-12 grams of Curcumin for 3 months per day. The Curcumin Powder is very messy and hard to wipe up. I also use Jarrow Curcumin 95. 8 grams = 16 capsules = about 4 teaspoon Sophorn says: 24 March 2022 at 06:22 Hi James, I found your story very inspirational and am applying your message to my partner who was recently diagnosed with Grade IV Glioblastoma Multiforme in December 2021. Can I just quickly ask what your view on Chemotherapy is? I only ask as Scott is three weeks into his Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy and will then do the 5/23 Chemotherapy session, I am hesitant as this might do more harm than good. We have been talking to each other about it and am considering not doing the 5/23 session and just going in hard with the food/diet that you have highlighted in the blog. Any information/suggestions/feedback will be great !! Thank you Sophorn Reply Roberto Pugliese (Admin) says: 24 March 2022 at 06:55 Dear Sophorn, I’m Roby, the father of Emanuele, you can find the story on this website. I’m the person who created this website and is maintaining it day by day. The protocol you are following is the first line therapy. It has proved in the years to offer the best survival in the average. Each single glioblastoma has its features. The glioblastoma of James was destroyed probably by his therapeutic approach or naturally by its immune system possibly empowered by the supplements taken by James. Other long term survivors followed other approaches. It is not sure anyhow that this approach will work for you partner. My suggestion is that you follow the standard of care and then, in parallel apply additional treatments, for example the ones used by James or any other treatment that you feel could work. Good luck. Reply J says: 9 June 2022 at 03:47 James’ view is he said “never do chemotherapy.” Do tons of raw garlic and curcumin. There’s a guy who did 10 cloves of garlic per day and it got rid of his cancer. Reply MALCOLM says: 30 August 2022 at 06:47 Wow-10 cloves of garlic per day! Based on the photo James posted on Facebook of a 1-1/2-inch clove, I give my wife (diagnosed w/glio 6 mos ago) 10 grams of raw, minced garlic after 15 minutes with honey p/d (usually 2 -3 medium sized cloves). She is afraid to take more. She may take more if someone can convince her it is safe and give suggestions on how to take it. So, please tell me how that guy consumed the 10 cloves daily (average size or weight?) and if he had any side effects. Thank you. Reply Roberto Pugliese (Admin) says: 30 August 2022 at 08:55 My suggestion is that you contact James McCraw directly. Reply James McCraw says: 7 March 2023 at 22:47 That is ridiculous. I take 1 or 2 cloves of garlic per day. If you want more information go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/512075203087453/ or my webpage http://www.beatingthecancer,com Reply mark says: 1 June 2023 at 05:30 Congratulations James, I am a new GBM patient myself, 2 months since diagnosis. Beyond the diagnosis I am quite healthy. I have been eating clean for the past month since I found this site. I added omega 3, turkey tail mushrooms, vitamin D, green tea, removed most carbs, etc., and yes based on your post I am adding raw garlic to my list. I have to admit, I like the heat when I consume it and there are some studies on the effectiveness of garlic use against GBM. I had one question on garlic, do you consume it with anything else or eat it on an empty stomach? My technique is just to cut it into pieces, wait 15 minutes and eat it with some cheese and a cracker and a relatively empty stomach.
I spend most of my life feeling positive, happy, joyous, and so very grateful for this stage 4 cancer journey.
Feeling my feelings, so much moving through in this winter season.
I also have hard times. tender times. angry times. hopeless times.
Both can be present. feeling ALL the feelings is a part of my healing journey.
What has come up this week is a feeling of utter exhaustion. I am soooo tired.
I broke down and cried most of the ecstatic dance this week…. feeling the heaviness of it all.
Grateful for my friends and community for holding me in my tears. Physically, emotionally, spiritually. I am spent.
I feel like I am spinning wheels and not moving forward even though I know I am.
Why should it be so hard to BE HEALTHY?? why the fuck is it a full time job to protect myself from the environment. from food. from our toxic money hungry establishment. from our SICK care system?
I have learned so much this past 7.5 years about what causes cancer and 90% of cancer is NOT GENETIC! That is not what we are led to believe.
So I’m feeling like I’ll never get to just be. to just go to a restaurant or grocery store without having to be vigilant.
Like my familia relationships will never be easeful. That i won’t ever just be at peace.
My whole life I’ve been grinding. trying to make it all ok for everyone and not getting my needs met and i’ve not been so patiently waiting.
and I know things will get easier. I know life has so much magic waiting for me. I know I’m on my path. I trust I’ll heal with my kids. I trust I will be able to stop stressing about $ someday soon. I know the world is waking up. I know healing is happening.
I’ve also made some huge shifts and had some amazing breakthroughs this week too. These are the dialects!
Please know I am ok. please know i share this to normalize these thoughts and feelings. I post this in hopes it meets the right person right where they need to be met and they don’t feel so alone. ✨
It always gets better. Every day is a fresh start. know that whatever you are going through….
You are so very loved. and it will get better. if you are struggling with your cancer healing and have not worked on your emotional healing, boundary setting, you are still people pleasing…. know this is a very important part of true long-term healing. cancersavedmylife
So true Willow. I truly believe doing all of this work helped heal me from ovarian cancer! ❤️❤️❤️❤️I love you girl!
susanmorrisontiktok Oh my gosh. I love this message so much. Because what’s going on emotionally and mentally so significantly impacts our physical beings.
It takes courage to get through most things these days!
whether you are healing cancer, need to leave your marriage, want to move, start a business sharing your gifts, say no to things that don’t serve….it takes a lot of courage.
remember you aren’t alone.
facing our fears is one of the biggest acts of self love there is! it’s simple. it’s not easy.
We have to change our mindset. trust. surrender. move towards the fear.
keep putting one foot in front of the other. step by step move towards that which feels scary or unattainable.
meetwillowstar @susanmorrisontiktok thank you cousin. I appreciate you. yes. it’s so overlooked in western medicine/mainstream society. Healing is so many things. much love!!!
riverrock_diana I love you and so appreciate the amazing work you are doing in this world. Thank you for shining ☀️☀️☀️
💜💚💙💛❤️🤍🧡
Thank you for listening. How are y’all feeling these days?
I already love this new cancer healing center. everything feels so much more supportive to HEALING.
I LOVE that they ask about DISTRESS in your life. and acknowledging that it affects your cancer healing.
So much power in accountability. I know a lot of cancer patients see themselves as victims, and I see how easy it is to fall into that mindset… I often have to remind myself that it can’t be my path… I’m making changes and taking responsibility for my own healing. accountability and growth. When we can take accountability for our own experiences we can really empower ourselves to forever heal and grow. xxxxxxxxxxxx
Each day is a fresh start ✨
to relook at our surroundings. to renegotiate boundaries to take accountability for our reality to shift our perspective to try something new to lay something to rest to learn a new way of doing something to grow to love in a new way to stop self sabotage to love ourselves even more to connect with nature to deepen our spiritual connection
Every day is a fresh start
I’m bringing it back!
Life is a dance. it can be so challenging…and so beautiful.
I’d like to take this time to create a container for us to
CELEBRATE OUR WINS!!🎉🎉
Please list up to 3 things you are proud of yourself for this week.
TOOT YOUR OWN HORN Our society doesn’t show us that it’s ok to be proud of ourselves. often, we have to play down our awesomeness. not here!! Toot your own horn. loud and clear. for all to hear!!!
acknowledge your badass self. pay yourself on the back for doing something hard. or something you’ve been putting off. from the smallest task to the biggest challenge. share your wins!!
I’ll start : I’m proud of myself for growing my mentoring/coaching offerings. I feel so aligned and am helping people.
What a sweet affirmation to receive on the mountain.
YOU ARE ENOUGH!!!
I participated in a 3 day retreat with the amazing @riverrock_diana where we connected deeply with ourselves through our connection to nature and the winter solstice.
She took us to the love portal on the mountain. I was drawn to a little nook within this huge rock formation.
when i landed inside i found this sweet painted rock that says YOU’RE ENOUGH
The irony and beauty of this gift is beyond words. When I was first diagnosed and had just left my 26 year marriage I was seeing a guy for 2 weeks.
i literally asked him if i was “enough” he said – yes you are enough.
guess what- i didn’t hear him say that. I found it while going through texts – years later- when I was writing my book about my dating journey after stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
When I think about that girl who was looking outside of herself for love and validation, I feel sad. then the sadness turns to joy as that girl is now a woman who’s worked so hard to know – i am soooo enough. I know this in my core and do not need anyone else to believe this. This beautiful synchronistic reminder was a gift from mama Shasta and the universe.
i share with you so you know – you are enough!!! don’t ever forget that. you are perfect as you are. you are worthy of love. of healing. of ease. blessings on these last few days of this calendar year knowing. YOU ARE ENOUGH
meetwillowstar41 likes meet Willow star there are so many ways to support our bodies without synthetic drugs. Nature is so healing. These beautiful healing plants are a huge part of my stage 4 cancer healing protocols. I can’t imagine my life without cacao and this magical healing plant. willow star ✨🌟💫 (@meetwillowstar) • Instagram photos and videos
mrchrisjoseph’s profile picture Check out my interview with 7-year, 4th stage breast cancer thriver Willow Star. The episode is on all the major podcast platforms; Spotify link is in the comments.
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“I am worthy”
This belief is an important part of healing. It’s taken me a long time to believe that i’m worthy of a healthy body and mind. I am worthy of love. I am worthy of all I desire.
Know you are worthy too!!! we are worthy. Words matter. perspective shifts are our choice. How we see things affects how we respond.
lingodanna’s profile picture Whoops premature send. Was saying to get your feet under you and then you got to take it from there and do everything you can to keep yourself well. It just pains me when I hear people say they are NED and “cancer free” which none of us truly ever are but we can keep it at bay. And live with it. Then they’re in complete disbelief and feel ripped off when cancer returns. Of course, it does because they’re not really cancer free of all the circulating cells especially with stages 3 & 4. I’m 13 years out and strict as ever, plant-based and no alcohol, limit sugar. We need to be vigilant every step of the way and not slack off. Ok they’d, my rant. Hopefully it helps someone.
Meetwillowstar’s profile picture @lingodanna thank you!! i preach this all the time. with sane intention. hoping it helps someone. 13years!!! go you. ❤️
callie.hall.barrett’s profile picture I had “red devil” Every other week when they gave it to me I said thanks and in my mind pictured it shrinking the tumors :)))
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @callie.hall.barrett amazing. Thank you for sharing! I love it!
saltylibrarian’s profile picture Agree. Calling our medicine poison hurts my heart.
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @saltylibrarian yeah. it’s certainly not helpful. If you decide it’s right for you I believe we have to see it only as a helper. ❤️
mygurucancer’s profile picture Exactly what I did! I called it The Red Angel/Savior and it did exactly that – it shrunk my tumors like magic. It’s also a BEAUTIFUL red liquid given slowly in a syringe – I welcomed it with love + gratitude.
And for all of the chemo I did, each time I called it C-Love 😍
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @mygurucancer awe i see. prayers and blessings on you. trusting in your healing. i always say you shrink em once you can shrink em again. I’m here if you would like support.
mygurucancer’s profile picture @meetwillowstar Thank you! And yes, I might reach out! Your recent scan experience + incredible healing has already inspired me so much! Love you 🤗
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @mygurucancer seriously. message me. I’ve got free space today. I know it’s challenging to see stuff we don’t want to see. and I trust they can shrink as fast as they appear. 😉
lingodanna’s profile picture When I was going through chemotherapy, a friend told me about a woman who would write “healing juice” on the chemo bags. So my friend came in and wrote that on my bags every round and it really planted that seed of healing in my mind. ❤️
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @lingodanna yes yes yes!! love that. it’s so simple and yet we are not shown the way to this. beautiful thx for sharing
eutu29tg’s profile picture Well, if you don’t like chemo. You can not take it and possibly die. Simple choice. And as for thinking of it as poison. What about the poison in the air, water and food that we breathe in and eat everyday. The plastics, the cosmetics, the paint, the hydrocarbons, etc that we have been soaking on for the past couple of generations. I guess they don’t count, eh? I was on high dose chemo for five years. I hated every day of it. But I wanted to live. It was medicine. 28 years later I got to dance with my fellow cancer thriver sister Tara on the beach. When will we dance my friend?
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @eutu29tg yes my friend. you get it. xo poisons are all around. we each need to find our “medicine” whatever that looks like.
bbhwithms’s profile picture 🙌 Absolutely love this. When I was getting infusions for my MS – I spent a lot of time visualizing the medicine battling the disease. I even told my children – who were fairly young at the time – that I imagined the drugs as knights with swords on horses going into my body to fight the bad disease
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @bbhwithms omg!!! yes!! love that visual of knights and swords! what a great way to share with your lil ones. blessings on your healing!
bbhwithms’s profile picture @meetwillowstar 🙌. unfortunately in my case it turned out the knights were fighting the wrong battle and the drugs did far more harm than good – the good news is I now have a whole new set of visualizations – centered around my weed – I imagine the terpenes are like tiny little scrubbing bubbles- washing out all the nasty diseased stuff 👍💚💪🔥
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @bbhwithms awe. Thank you for clarifying. I’ve heard this a lot. and I’m right there with ya with my beloved cannabis. it’s saved my life. 🌲🌲🌲
How are you now?
bbhwithms’s profile picture @meetwillowstar back to loving life and looking forward to my future 👍
Instead of dreading an endless string of tomorrows filled with pain, depression and fog- I look forward to every new day and achieving my goals 👍
Cannabis – and other plant based medicines – Search Videos (bing.com) have given me a new lease on life and I’m excited to share my story to try and help others Currently working on book number two and my husband and I have opened a retreat for others to come learn about growing their own medicines 👍
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @bbhwithms amazing!! love this all. sounds like we could connect more. i’d love to hear more about your offerings. Where are you located. canna has been my savior.
There are so many ways to support our bodies without synthetic drugs. Nature is so healing. These beautiful healing plants are a huge part of my stage 4 cancer healing protocols. I can’t imagine my life without cacao and this magical healing plant.
Thank you. I can see that 3/1 is the proper ratio CBD/THC for stage 4, then what is the suggested dosage? Additionally, we have a couple blocks of cacao so how best to powderize it, and what is the dosage of cacao, and how best to make it palatable? Thank you for excellent product sourcing and loving care. 🙌🙏
The power of suggestion is very strong and real. Don’t mess with it! 🙌
charlestonpierce’s profile picture ❤️🤗❤️
sally.d3asy’s profile picture Doxorubicin got its name as red devil because of its red colour and because of its potential serious side effects. It’s one of the strongest chemotherapy agents. A lady I know is currently on this drug for breast cancer.
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @sally.d3asy thx for sharing. I had no idea it was red. It’s quite an intense name. so that makes sense. blessings on your friend
jamieleighwill’s profile picture Your work & message are SO important. 🙌
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @jamieleighwill thank you so much. I just want people to feel empowered in their healing. western medicine can only offer specific drugs. it’s limited. nature offers a plethora of options. ❤️
behindtheveels’s profile picture Sharing something similar. When my aunt was going for her 12 weekly Paclitaxel when she was initially diagnosed. I noticed a lotta patients dreaded going for the next chemo or usually cried before their next session had a lot of side effects. When we used to go for chemo. We used to be excited for the next one as we viewed it as one step before our healing process. She had extremely manageable side effects. Mindset matters a lot
joyfully_tara’s profile picture Words do matter, I re-named all of my cancer meds… just silly positive names that make me laugh or smile. I make little labels and put them over the box too (those labels/warnings do not feel very healing)
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @wildly_joyful awe, love that! great job. That’s a great perspective and visual shift. i truly believe this makes a huge difference
lingodanna’s profile picture Excellent! And Willow Starr’s friend is right on track doing chemotherapy to jumpstart her healing. What people don’t understand is that chemotherapy does not kill the stem cells. So when you see people who are 15 years out from cancer, and then it returns, it’s usually because they’re told they’re cancer free and they go back to the same life and don’t do anything extra. Chemotherapy it’s just a kickstart to get your feet under
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @lingodanna yup! exactly. That’s what I preach. css as I go back. gotta listen to what your body is needing to change.
h00terslikewh0a’s profile picture @meetwillowstar I sent you a DM ☺️
xvhash’s profile picture 👏 it’s all about perspectives
meetwillowstar’s profile picture @xvhash exactly!! you know it. perspective is completely up to us 🙌
Tara Coyote Stated Willow is such a blessing. So glad you get to live in her wonder and magnificence. Did I ever tell you about my vision quest there when I was 20? She has given me so much throughout my life too. Love you!
This is one of my Favorite Blog Past. Since August 2011, Shannon has been cancer-free!
My Twin Sister Is Part of Me And I’m A Part of She
From the day we were formed, we did see, A wonderful bond that was meant to be.
We laugh, we share, we love, we care, We do funny things that make people stare.
If it weren’t for the love that we share, My life and heart would be so bare.
Our bond is as deep as a bond can be, For our love for each other is shared equally.
Not a day goes by that we’re apart. I love my twin sister with all my heart Shannon Knight Cancer Survivor – Search Videos (bing.com) Is an inspiration to many people from around the world who have been affected by cancer. She’s survived breast cancer not once but twice, including stage four without ever using chemotherapy. Shannon has been cancer free since August 2011, and her inspiring story has given hope to individuals fighting cancer. She has appeared in media through, documentary, radio, book, film, magazine and speaking platforms over the last four years. Shannon shares with everyone how cancer physically, emotionally and mentally affected and changed her. You will be inspired and gain new insight and perspective from her own personal experiences that she shares so genuinely and from her heart.
Wildflower Interview http://onewildflower.com/wildflower-interviews/ I have been through breast cancer twice. Stage 3 and stage 4. It’s been two years for my twin sister Jessie Deconti We were both ER & PR PositiveHER2 Negative We both beat it without chemo.
(we were blessed is all I can say, truly blessed) God bless all of you. There is unity, a sisterhood that starts once we are diagnosed. We go through the feelings of having to be brave/heal/fight/survive and make difficult choices. There is diversity and respect in the many different ways we try to heal. I respect every choice It’s a personal thing trying to figure out how to survive. We have to be there for each other Look What I found, Yikes! Radiation burns! 8 Years Ago! I made it through!
This picture with my brother and twin sister (August 2010.) I was receiving radiation on my sternum (burns from radiation are on the front and back the size of a football), and there were still 4 more weeks of burning in the treatment plan. Yep, just keep burning the burn! You can only imagine my thoughts on the daily 30-minute drive for that appointment. Laying on my back without clothing on my top half with my arms spread out like a “T” for 5 minutes of burn time were also the most intense moments of praying for me. That was my time alone on the table in a room that had thick walls to protect the medical staff from getting radiation, alone time with God and prayer for healing. I received 22 radiation sessions in August and September. I lived in Southern CA without the luxury of air conditioning in my home or car. The oncologist had 40 planned for me, but I developed pneumonia and staph infection in my lungs so holding perfectly still on that table was impossible because of my chronic coughing. When I look at this picture and the tiny black dot on my chest for the cyberknife target point. I am blown away that the doctor said that it was to pinpoint where the radiation would burn the tumor on my sternum. Well, so much for the target! It is like saying you will drop a bomb on a bullseye and presuming there will be no collateral damage! The radiation hit everything in its path including my lungs. Sitting on the bed is me, my brother Matthew and twin sis. It’s crazy because this is where we were seated when I got the phone call from the doctor informing me that my biopsy results were positive for a recurrence of metastatic disease stage 4 breast cancer. It’s even eerier to see me holding the phone which I received my bad news from. The only conventional treatment I tried ever was a bilateral mastectomy with stage three which also had its severe complications for a year because of staph infection. With stage four breast cancer was the radiation… to keep the bone metastasis on my sternum from paralyzing me. Unfortunately, it only worsened my health condition causing staph infection again and pneumonia which led to chronic coughing & severe rib and sternum pain. Instead of continuing with UCLA recommended chemotherapy I made a decision that ultimately saved my life! It was Mexico or bust for me! I understand now why this should be the first choice. The alternative does not destroy you while healing. At least if your body responds and heals you don’t suffer from all the horrific side effects that come with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Giving up was never an option for me, not ever.
My friend’s family and I raised money. I left the United States to San Luis, Mexico for alternative cancer treatment at CMN Hospital. Thanks to Dr. Payan and his medical team I am alive today. His treatment protocol was healthy and not toxic. My body responded favorably to all the healing therapies within 6 months. I was blessed. I only came across this picture today, Mother’s Day because I was searching for a certain one of my mom. Finding this photo threw me in a bit of a spin at first. The shock wore off, and I felt gratitude as I realized how old the picture is. I have had a true blessing of seven healthy years this August. No one saw it possible. Indeed, it is my miracle. I don’t take any day for granted. I was not even a grandmother until over a year after this photo was taken. Now my fifth grandchild is due in a month. It’s also odd little things I will never forget. Like the green paint on the wall; an unfinished project for quite awhile because cancer caused my life to take a sharp turn. There were so many things that felt less important. Trying to figure out how to survive was critical, and exhausting. I was emotionally drained and not given more than a year to live. I can see in my face how sick I was. I could not alleviate the burning because I kept having to get more radiation while I was burned. I had to drink smoothies because my esophagus was inflamed as well. Illness and discomfort is something you see in the eyes. Fear mixed with not feeling well and trying to act normal all the while is evident for me to see in this photo. I think acting like it was all going to be okay was a great coping mechanism built in me to keep fighting and not surrender.
On my way to Mexico I’ll be taking a lot of pictures at CMN hospital and of the humble little town of San Luis. I’m also going to do immune system treatments. I go every year to make sure and keep my immune system strong after the healed me in 2011. I look forward to seeing everyone and meeting patients THE DOCTORS Treated me successfully in February 2011 for stage 4 Breast cancer! No chemo! Getting ready to do bone marrow stem cell transplant When I am around these “great doctors” I feel safe! They should have their own reality show! Ismael too in the back! Bad ass! They are just so cool! Thank you, Dr. Payan, Dr. Rameriz, Dr. Campa, Dr. Ismael at CMN Hospital! LOVE CMN Hospital! If you’ve been a patient or a companion of a patient there, then you know their standard of care includes compassion and professionalism! The attention to detail to make us feel like we are loved is better than any hospital in the US. Four of CMN doctors have known each other since kindergarten, you feel the dedication and camaraderie. Dr. Payan’s niece is the Physical therapist, his sister is in administration, his father is the founder and CEO, it goes on. You hear laughter and see smiling.
Everything is Electricity | Cancer Quick Facts (solitarius.org) Dr. Masuro Emoto intrigues me!! He discovered how beautiful music in the presence of tap water could make beautiful frozen crystal formations. Without music there are no crystal formations at all. He also taped paper strips with different words on bottles of tap water and then photographed the frozen water. Words such as “Thank you,” and “I love you,” caused the tap water to form beautiful crystals! Words such as “You make me sick,” or “You are a fool,” caused ugly, distorted crystals! Dr. Emoto found that simply by praying for the water, by sending it loving thoughts, and by blessing it we can transform the water to beautiful crystals. That being said; Our body is 60% water and CMN Hospital embraces this positive energy as part of the healing. Every day patients get new messages on their IV’s and a prayer is said over treatment . My IV Vitamins with messages of love!! You never know what you’re going to get each day but it’s always something sweet kind and loving! Research Dr. Masaru Emoto the power of positive/negative messages and water!! It’s fascinating and CMN HOSPITAL practices the positive messages during our treatment. My IV bag with positive messages on it.
I took many pictures on my last trip to CMN Hospital getting treatments! You will get only a glimpse of the heart and compassion, the cleanliness and expertise May 2018″ I AM STILL CANCER FREE 7 YEARS AUGUST BECAUSE OF “CMN” I HEALED COMPLETELY FROM stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at CMN CMN Hospital www.cmnact.com includes the bone marrow stem cell transplant and Dendritic cell transplant! Bone marrow stem cell transplant is advanced and healthier than chemo! It is included and safer with a much higher success than chemotherapy.
This procedure can’t be done at clinics! ONLY a hospital with a full staff of orthopedic specialist surgeon Dr. Rameriz, Dr. Payan, and the other team. (I will post my picture in the operating room having it done In photo Dr. Payan (General Hospital, ACT program director and surgeon) Dr. Campa, Anesthesiologist Dr. Ramirez Orthopedic Surgeon. They are like family when you are there, they are like my family now I trust them and I know many of you here on my facebook do too! READ about the study here==> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726163736.htm Ozone Therapy MAHT THERAPY, CLICK LINK TO LEARN WHAT IT IS https://www.cmnact.com/Treatment-Summary.aspx at CMN Hospital Alternative Cancer Treatment. Far Infrared Sauna, Hyperthermia
Feeling Hot, hot feeevvveeeer kick-starts the immune system and makes me sleepy. Cold laser therapy (Used for inflammation) These women cook gluten-free, organic, sugar-free, and dairy-free. — at CMN Hospital Alternative Cancer Treatment. . Free of cancer almost 7 yrs. I’m just here back at CMN in San Luis Mexico to get my immune system boosted! CMN save my life February 2011 without using chemotherapy. If you’ve been a patient there, then you know what I mean when I say they really care about all their patients! My experience at CMN starting from the doctors, nurses and all the way to the dining staff has been consistently more compassionate than any hospital in the US. By my side, they were always uplifting me and reminding me that there is always hope and that it was good that I want to keep trying. They believe in miracles and that we all deserve one and as long is there a breath of hope in me and the strength to fight that I must. And so I did Dr. Payan never said I needed to get my affairs in order and to go home and wait to die. If I believed he believed with me. He made no promises to me but he saw something that proved to be accurate. My will and my intentions to leave no stone unturned even if it meant fundraising (which I did) I would get to Mexico and keep trying! CMN …You saved my life! UCLA gave me 3-12 months to live when I was diagnosed with a recurrence of stage 4 breast cancer. I had metastasis to my lungs and my bones. UCLA recommended radiation and chemo. I did 22 rounds of the planned 40 rounds of radiation to my sternum to try and stop cancer from paralyzing me. All it did was burn me and cause cancer to progress even faster. I refused their chemo, quit radiation and crossed the border instead to CMN Hospital in San Luis Mexico. —> www.cmnact.com It was a life-saving decision I made in February 2011. Now, here I am 7 Yrs later I am cancer free! This hospital and all my friends and family who contributed to Angels for Shannon to get me to the battleground will forever be my angels and heroes. With God and all of your love and support, you saved my life not just physically but emotionally too. I am a changed woman, feel more purpose, and I have a heart mission now to help others as an advocate. www.shannonknight.com During my entire battle with cancer, fear was never replaced with courage. Courage never stepped in and permanently wiped away my fear. On the contrary, fear and courage intertwined, continually swirling about like an erratic dance where light and dark coursed throughout my entire body combatively. I kept finding the light but not without being thrown in the dark over and over again. Most of the time I was able to put on the face of courage each day for my loved ones. It feels good to be further away from the fear as each year of being healed from cancer passes.
Fear/Courage Dark /Light
Episode 12: Shannon Knight: Winning and Thriving Against Cancer and in Life – The School of Transformation I love my life and the transformation that evolved from the pain was worth it in the end.I just couldn’t see it at the time. I will always remember, and I understand. You will get through it and be stronger from it. Sarah McLachlan’s song Fallen will always remind me of my journey. Songs tell pieces of our story, not just the disease for me but also my personal life during both cancer battles. I went through fear daily but I kept finding the courage and returning to the light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqps9ZdMxs0
Killer Drug in Hospitals Fact checks this. If you knew of a prescription drug that was killing 50.9% of its patients within 30 days of taking it would you take it? Would you recommend it? Chemotherapy kills 50.9 % at some hospitals and the percentage is higher at others! I know many people who criticize and are unsupportive to their loved one that is “in the cancer battle.” They are trying to figure out a way to save their own life. In 2010, the toughest thing I ever had to do was find an alternative treatment when I refused the UCLA recommended chemotherapy as my course of treatment. I was diagnosed with a recurrence of metastatic breast cancer stage 4.
My doctor gave me his guess-timate of only 3 to 12 months left for me to live. He was wrong. I’m 7 years cured now because of following my inner guidance. It was a very personal choice trying to figure out what cancer treatment could save my life “safely.” Unless you are diagnosed with cancer, carrying the weight of having to choose what to do to save your life, you can’t fully understand. I know family and friends care, I know they are scared and I know they are suffering too. “I really do but understand how imperative it is for them to listen to their intuition.” For them to trust themselves. I get sick to my stomach… and furious EVERY SINGLE TIME I read a letter where family thinks choosing alternative cancer treatment is irresponsible. When in truth also holistic treatments are not going to cause collateral damage to their immune system. We all know what risk chemotherapy is, it’s a toxic gamble and everyone advised to take it has fear run through them because it is common knowledge that the side effects are gruesome half the time and often times, even fatal. If you can help a loved one get to the battleground of their choice and withhold your support “only because you don’t approve of their choice” of alternative medicine (you’re not noble) I have no words for this… You know that there is no proof chemo is successful even though insurance may cover it. This goes out to all of you who are fighting cancer. Maybe you’ve chosen alternative medicine and some people think you’re crazy for doing so; you’ve lost some of your support. . You are not alone, you are going to make new friends who will become your family and eventually everyone will come back around again for you. It’s just a little bit of time for you to listen to your intuition and stay true to yourself while you make your choices. They’ll be back. Everybody’s learning on this journey and growing and changing. And fear is at the root of their resistance to your choices. You are still loved. Hang onto your faith. God is there. https://youtu.be/B6fA35Ved-Y Top Questions I Am Asked Re: Surviving Stage 4 Breast Cancer Q. What Hospital did I go to for Alternative Cancer treatment? A. CMN Alternative Cancer Treatment www.cmnact.com
Q. What kind and stage of cancer did I have? A. I had stage 4 Breast Cancer ER and PR Positive Her 2 Negative with metastasis to bones and all lobes of my lungs Q. Did I do chemotherapy ever? A. No, Not ever. Q. Did I use hormone blockers since the type of cancer I had was ER PR positive? A. NEVER, neither did my twin sister who had the same type of cancer. I had my ovaries removed (oopherectomy, easy surgery) instead of drug-induced Menopause. giving more money to Big-Pharma and having side effects from Lupron shot, putting myself at risk with secondary Uterine cancer risk with Tamoxfin and many other side effects Q. What diet did you follow while healing your body from cancer? A. I did not use, I am not a vegan, I am not vegetarian and Followed a general healthy diet. It was as organic as possible, I avoid sugar I eat mostly chicken fish and turkey with vegetables and vitamin supplements. It is generally a grain free diet. Q. Am I sure I’m cancer free? A. I get tested and evaluated regularly and am completely Free of Cancer. Q. How long have I been Cancer Free? A. I will be celebrating 7 years in February when I was treated at CMN Q. Where is CMN Alternative Cancer Treatment? A. It is in San Luis, Rio Colorado Sonora Mexico. which is a very quiet little town. The people are kind and receive foreigners warmly Q. Why did I choose CMN Hospital? www.cmnact.com A. It is a well-established advanced and compassionate hospital that has been around for about 35 years. Q. What treatments did you do? A. Dendritic, Bone Marrow, HBOT, UVBI, Ozone, FIR, IV C, IV B17 laetrile, nutrition, and so much more Here is a link to their treatment summary. https://www.cmnact.com/Treatment-Summary.aspx Q. Why are there no patient testimonies on their website. A. CMN Doctors do not believe in exploiting cancer patients for marketing purposes. Patients are fighting for their lives and are scared. Most importantly they believe in the oath they swore. The Hippocratic Oat says to keep patient information private so they absolutely keep it safe from the world wide web. Q. What is the success rate of CMN? To answer this question best. A. I urge you to read my article. https://shannonknight.com/1139/
Support their choice whatever that treatment may be. Love is needed Here is a gift for all cancer survivors and their loved ones.
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Dr Carl O. Helvie – Search (bing.com) (Born. August 13, 1932 – Died December 3, 2019). It was in 1991 when my father was told he had cancer and since his death on April 03. 2006 from Leiomyosarcoma, when I began researching cancer more heavily. And when the student is ready your mentor will appear, Dr. Carl O. Helvie, R.N., Dr. P.H.D., from Gouverneur, New York) then became a second fatherly influence on my life. An American registered nurse and Professor Emeritus of Nursing at Old Dominion University. Helvie was known for his development and implementation of the Helvie Energy Theory of Nursing and Health. As a lung cancer survivor of 45 years. Carl based many of his healing beliefs from Edgar Cayce.
Carl O. Helvie was diagnosed with lung cancer in his 40s. And remained cancer-free convinced that his regimen of federally unapproved laetrile, a vegetarian diet and an assortment of natural medicines, has helped him to reach his 87. Had hoped to reach the age of 100 and beyond. Using Alternative/Integrative Interventions,” in his belief that natural supplements, herbs, enzymes, along with diet, prayer and meditation helped him beat the disease. And attributes his faith, optimism, self-confidence and doctor and an outstanding support system to his long-term survival and was willing to share his life experience.
My doctor who I had found after other doctors told me I had six months to live. Gave me the physical care and I can’t say enough good about him. But within five years after I had overcome cancer, the Virginia Board of Medicine took his license, and all the poor guy did was try to save lives. He was so progressive that everything he told me to do has since become a proven scientific fact, but I added the mental and spiritual care. He had me on a vegan-type diet. There’s research now that shows the value of fruit and vegetables in preventing and treating cancer. He also had me on a no protein diet and there is a whole theory as to why you don’t eat protein when you are battling cancer because lot of cooked food, and especially protein, do not get properly digested. So, the food just sits in your gut and becomes putrefied, which is never a good thing when you’re battling illness. My doctor also put me on pancreatic enzymes which helps to dissolve the outer protective shell of cancer cells.
That’s a very important part of any treatment. Carl always told, I credit a lot of my healing to the power of laetrile (a chemically modified version of a substance found in the kernels of apricots, peaches and almonds). Traditional literature states laetrile has cyanide in it, and we all know that cyanide can kill you or send you to the emergency room. That can be frightening to people. But the cyanide requires certain enzymes to activate it, and cancer cells have those enzymes and normal cells do not. So, it’s really not a health risk from laetrile. When I went through cancer back in the mid 70s. I took the 2,000 milligrams laetrile every day and I also ate 25 apricot kernels at the same time. The apricots kernels are a major source of natural laetrile. They’re very bitter. I chewed them. I would take three or four and I would chew them up and I would have a glass of water ready. The water would taste sweet after the kernels. You get used to it; the same way I got use to a vegan diet. Besides the laetrile, apricot seeds and the vegan diet. Every day I make this drink in my blender. I take six tablespoons of organic 2 percent cottage cheese and three tablespoons of flax oil. I let it sit for five minutes and then put it in the blender. I add a couple handfuls of pecans, my organic berries, such as strawberries, blueberries or black berries. Then I blend it and it is delicious. Cancer diet expert Johanna Budwig is the biochemist who developed it and found it has a whole different chemical composition which takes oxygen to the cells. When I went to the doctor yesterday and had my test, my oxygen level in my cells was at 98 percent. That’s fantastic. A lot of people drink it as a preventive. I recommend at least one meal with salad a day, the limiting of protein intake in a diet that includes lots of vegetables and lots of nuts. I recommend people pray to God every day — or to some higher being — meditate, get out and exercise, even if it’s just walking. And help people. Do what you can every day to help someone and don’t worry about yourself. Recently, I was asking a question: Ken, you knew Carl — where do you think he may have he went wrong to get Stage 4 Cancer and a ruptured intestine when he did so many things right? Answer: I won’t second guess anyone who worked until he was 87 years old. But 0ne item in Carl’s diet. I believe that may have been the cancer culprit. . .. was he eating a pound of nuts per day. Because he was vegan and felt they gave him the much-needed protein he needed to stay healthy. While nuts are a convenient snack that provides quick energy, while eating too many nuts could be hindering your health. While nuts contain anti-inflammatory Omega-3 fatty acids, they are high in Omega-6 fatty acids, which are pro-inflammatory. Striking the right balances is critical and over-eating nuts can actually cause increased inflammation. Nuts are high in phytic acid which is known as an ‘anti-nutrient’. Phytic acid binds to essential minerals in digestive tract and can prevent the minerals from being absorbed. While having nuts or nut butter on occasion is great, overindulging in them can hinder your health.
Aging and Your Immune System: The immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by organisms such as bacteria, parasites, and fungi that can cause infections. The cells that are part of this defense system are white blood cells, or leukocytes. Foreign substances that invade the body are called antigens. No two individuals have the same immune system. Some people seem to be dressed in a suit of armor against infections while others get floored whenever there are bugs about. When it comes to germs, getting older has advantages and also disadvantages. As we age, our immune systems will develop defenses against antigens. We acquire antibodies to the germs we’ve defeated in the past. Because of this phenomenon, adults tend to get fewer colds than children.
Now for some of the bad news: The thymus, which is located behind the breastbone, is one of the organs of the immune system. The thymus is where immune cells white blood cells called T lymphocytes (T cells) mature. The thymus begins to shrink when we are young adults. By middle age it is only about 15 percent of its maximum size. Some T cells kill antigens directly. Others help coordinate other parts of the immune system. Although the number of T cells does not decrease with aging, T-cell function decreases. This causes parts of the immune system to weaken and increases the risk for becoming ill. Macrophages, which are white blood cells that ingest antigens, don’t work as quickly as they used to. This slowdown may be one reason that cancer is more common among older people. There are fewer white blood cells capable of responding to new antigens. Thus, when older people encounter a new antigen, the body is less able to remember and defend against it. The amount of antibodies produced in response to an antigen is less in older people, and the antibodies are less able to attach to the antigen. These changes may partly explain why pneumonia, influenza, infectious endocarditis, and tetanus are more common among older people and cause death more often. These changes may partly explain why vaccines are less effective in older people. Later in life, the immune system seems to become less tolerant of the body’s own cells. Sometimes an autoimmune disorder develops; normal tissue is mistaken for non-self tissue, and immune cells attack certain organs or tissues.
5 Reasons Your Immune Function Weakens with Age. 1. Fewer Immune Cells: Because damaged or aging immune cells are not replaced as you age, you have fewer immune cells as you get older. This also slows healing from both illness and injuries. You can use yoga to support …. the healing process by practicing gentle asanas to improve circulation to healing areas and by practicing your favorite types of conscious relaxation to spend more time in the rest-and-digest state.
2. Increased Propensity towards Autoimmune Disorders: Although autoimmune disorders occur in younger people, the frequency of autoimmune disorders (diseases in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissues) increases with age. Examples include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. If your condition allows it, you may be able to use gentle and restorative asana practices along with quieting pranayama and meditation to support your immune system.
3. Reduced Ability to Detect & Correct Cancerous Cell Defects: As you age, your immune system’s ability to detect and correct cell defects is reduced, resulting in an increase in frequency of cancer. Although yoga can’t treat cancer, you can use yoga for palliative care during treatment and recovery, and to bolster your immune system during the entire process.
4. Chronic Inflammation Gets More Common: As we age our bodies are less able to disarm the inflammatory process, which can lead to chronic inflammation. A healthy immune system uses inflammation to your advantage during acute illness or injury, but chronic inflammation is linked to many serious illnesses, such as autoimmune diseases and heart disease. To reduce your risk of inflammation or prevent chronic inflammation from recurring, use yoga practices to manage your stress levels and foster overall good health.
5. Chronic Stress Weakens the Immune System: While your immune system is initially stronger during periods of acute stress, it starts functioning less well if the stress is ongoing. This increases your risk of contracting serious infections, as some evidence suggests, autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, chronic stress alone can cause life-threatening conditions from heart disease to high blood pressure.
The end part of this post on December 3rd 2019. Carl passed away after making his last post on November 5th on Facebook that he had a ruptured intestine and stage 4 cancer and pray for me. GOD, has it stamped in our DNA our end date and the cause of your death. Which no doctor should be allowed to tell you, If Carl had listened to his doctor back in 1974 – 75 he would have only lived six months.
The mother of two is a passionate supporter of integrative and alternative treatments, including medicinal cannabis. The Portland Beacon (TPB): Can you tell me a bit about your decision to start Firstlightahealingway.com?
Dawn Ann Pugh (DAP): My website, First Light, A Healing Way (www.firstlightahealingway.com), was originally started under the domain name “With the Crack of Dawn”. The name was a play on my name, Dawn. It began with the Facebook page, and then the interest and inquiries inspired my website. I was always a morning person and thought the name was appropriate since I would usually be up early posting new information bright and early. When the domain for With the Crack of Dawn expired, we thought that First Light, A Healing Way was a great replacement for the website name.
This is why the webpage and Facebook page have different names. Facebook would not allow me to update the name of my page due to them thinking that the name was misleading to consumers. My Facebook page, With the Crack of Dawn is a bit different than my webpage. I try to stay updated with the newest information as it is made available, but I also like to lighten things up with some fun posts as well. Highlights like #SundayFunnies offer humor: While still keeping up to date with breast cancer, healthy living, exercise, and accurate cannabis news. I also like to include hometown business events and happenings. Facebook covers a broad base from around the nation, and other countries. I figure that sharing any local business is good business for Portland.
TPB: What are your main goals in operating the site today?
DAP: I began First Light, A Healing Way to be a resource for others that may have faced similar choices and challenges that can come with receiving a cancer diagnosis. I was diagnosed with multiple breast cancers in 2014. I was 39. I discovered that the small lumps I had been observing in my right breast turned into 2 very obvious larger lumps in a matter of hours. Later I found out I had other breast cancers bilaterally as well. In 2014, I could not find many current, let alone reliable sources of information on alternative and integrative cancer treatment choices. So, I decided to blog in hopes of helping others on their journeys. Writing blog posts has been a very therapeutic experience, albeit challenging. It has been a helpful way to vent, or just share my experiences with others. Also, a great way to get feedback, and share support and networking events. Having a reference for patients to go back to for information repeatedly has been my primary focus with the website. I wanted other patients and caregivers to know that there are other options available, or to use in addition to what is presented in most Western medicine doctor practices. Other more natural options. Healthy living overhauls.
It was also created for me to refer patients, family, and friends to when they may have questions on integrative cancer treatments. I am contacted daily by patients and their loved ones concerning the how, what, where, and why pertaining to cannabis medicine. Getting loads of messages daily is fine, but answering them all in a timely fashion became almost impossible.
It takes time to answer everyone thoroughly. It can also be trying mentally to field concerns from folks going through one of the worst times in their life, getting a cancer diagnosis, or having a loved one receive one. For many, going to a provisioning center for the first time can be a scary, intimidating experience as well.
Especially after a diagnosis or traumatic health event. I walk them through the process to make it less intimidating. Less scary. People need information in a timely manner, and this has been the fastest way to get them the answers they need. Having the website available usually lets patients find answers to the most frequently asked questions conveniently from the privacy of their home. Of course, every case is different, so I try to personally address whatever that patient or caregivers’ needs may be. I am not a doctor, but I have been blessed with much experience with cannabis medicines personally, and with many other patients. I am teaching my many specialists about cannabis. I have knowledgeable contacts and resources available for a wide range of questions and needs. It could be anything. Ranging from how to get your medical cannabis card here in Michigan, finding patients a caregiver, to cannabis dosing recommendations for specific needs such as cancer, or seizure disorders.
TPB: How did the diagnosis and the disease impact your career?
DAP: Prior to my cancer diagnosis, I was an expanded dental assistant at a progressive office. I loved my job, and enjoyed a career for over 20 years. I am still not able to perform my job since treatment. Both physically, or cognitively. Personally, it has been one of my biggest challenges. But being a mom is my favorite job by far. My two daughters keep me busy with their schedules. My oldest even helps proofread posts for me. It takes so much time for me to write, correct, and maintain my blog, but it is important to me to share good information, and good energy. It may seem like it has been awhile since a new post, but chronic illness doesn’t care about what you think you can do on a daily basis. I try to add to posts as I feel up to it, save them, and eventually they get done.
There are only so many spoons in a day. Constant patient questions keep me inspired to help others in any way that I can. I try to add blog posts that answer frequently asked questions for cancer patients, and survivors. The main focus of my webpage is support. You can find links to find support groups specific to each patient via social media. There are also valuable local groups listed that can assist patients as they go through treatment. The Capital Area Young Survivors are a great example of support in our area. Support is a crucial part of dealing with any cancer diagnosis. My hope is to not let anyone feel like they are going through cancer or chronic illness alone, no matter what route of treatment they take.
If there is something that I cannot answer myself, I will try my best to get the answer for them or provide resources for them to find the information themselves.
I have included information that I wish I had known prior to treatment, new information, and helpful information on integrative and alternative treatments available. Whole body health. Medicinal essential oils, teas, dietary habits, healthy living, medicinal cannabis, tips for those going through treatment, or those choosing to treat their conditions with other “alternative” routes of medicine.
TPB: Is there anything else you would like readers to know about?
DAP: This is not my job, but after 20+ years of patient care in my bones, I am just as serious when it comes to helping others whenever I am able. Especially after dealing with cancers myself. Cannabis is medicinal and should be respected as so and used responsibly. For many like me, cannabis medicine has been lifesaving.
I have seen miracles.
I feel like we are given different paths for a reason. If sharing what I have learned with others can save anyone else from learning the hard way, I have accomplished much. One less surgery, fewer prescription medicines, and more days with loved ones. Better quality of life. I hope people continue to reference, and refer their friends and family to First Light, A Healing Way for updated information in the future. I am always open to serving up new topics that followers may be interested in.
Photo two is Dawn with Landon Riddle, – Search Videos (bing.com) A pediatric leukemia survivor, during the Cancer and Cannabis Symposium last year. Dawn said, “He is the first pediatric case to have been deemed ‘cured’ by cannabis. He is 6 years out since almost dying with chemotherapy treatment. Using only cannabis and healthy living.”
I’m Willow Star and I’m reintroducing myself here. Facebook
Living and thriving with stage 4 breast cancer (youtube.com) I’ve been thriving after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer 7.5 years ago. I’m so grateful to be here to share his healing from stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. It is very simple. and yet not easy. I believe we need to get to the root cause of “why” cancer came to us. I believe we need to be our own healer and get support from others. I believe we need to think outside the box. I believe we have to believe we can heal. I’m here to inspire. support. educate. Healing is inevitable when we listen to our inner wisdom.
Willow star (@meetwillowstar) I’ve been pondering- why are we so mad at cancer? Cancer is the messenger to let us know our body is sick. Cancer isn’t trying to kill us. In my experience & understanding it’s a warning.
About our toxic environment and foods along with repressed emotions are some of the things making us sick. Chemo and radiation make us sick, while giving us a clean slate. If we don’t heal – why- the cancer came in the first place it generally returns.
Still cancer was just the messenger.
We are canaries in the coal mine. We have to actually work towards freeing ourselves of all of the toxicity in our lives so we can PREVENT cancer. only
10% of cancer is genetic. 90% is environmental. When our bodies are healthy, we generally will not manifest cancer.
I thought I was pretty healthy before my diagnosis. especially compared to others, I learned from looking back I was far from healthy. I was so sick and broken.
Today I encourage you to take inventory. Where can you take small (or big if you are really ready!) steps to create a healthy environment for your physical, emotional, and spiritual body to thrive in?
I am committing to moving my body 20 mins a day 5 of the 7 days to follow. there. I said it out loud! It’s been a challenge. and I know it’s important. they say 20 mins of exercise 5-6 times a week lowers your chances of getting cancer by half!!
Hello friends! it’s been awhile so i thought i would stop by to say hello and reintroduce myself to y’all. i am willow star (formerly keri vaca) and I am 7.5 years out from being diagnosed with stage 4 MBC with liver mets. I have been tumor free for more than 6 years! This cancer diagnosis was the gift I needed to put myself first and to truly HEAL all parts of me. I can say I am living my best life, and that cancer has been the biggest gift.
What i contribute to my healing: I left my marriage (we are great friends), take cannabis daily for tumor shrinking, high dose medicinal mushrooms (chaga, turkey tail and reishi) did the Rife machine, breath work, cold plunge, black seed oil, apricot seeds, soursop tea, tons of green juice, plant forward diet, no fragrance or artificial scents in my home, therapy to address anger and resentment, micro dosing psilocybin, dance multiple times a week, meditation, cacao, parasite cleanse, intermittent fasting, no alcohol, rarely eat sugary treats, no tv or radio, rebounder, positive mindset and FAITH i would be ok!! From Western Meds: I was in Ibrance for 6.5 years, now off. Zoladex for 5 years, now I am off
Currently my only western med is Faslodex and I plan to be off of it soon. I had a shrinking tumor in every tumor before starting western medicine, so I know my protocols worked! My mindset has been a huge part of my healing. The words I speak, the people I connect with, the way I live my life all support a positive vibe. I share this to inspire anyone having a hard time in their healing/diagnosis. know you can heal. know you are loved. know you are not alone.
This was a huge breakthrough with me and my oncologist. This is one of my most important videos I have made. I have wanted to share about estrogen disruptors for years. I can hold back as I know the things I share can be triggering to some and to others they disengage and avoid me. I now know I have to share, even when it feels scary or hard. I had my estrogen spike for a few months. my numbers were sporadic and didn’t make sense. My oncologist wanted to put me back on the drug I went off of almost a year ago. I said I wanted to understand WHY my estrogen spiked….and I found the culprit! She was shocked, I was not. This was a huge breakthrough with me and my oncologist. This is one of my most important videos I have made.
I am also looking for info on natural hormone suppression. Here’s a general list though the best way to know what works for YOU is an RGCC natural agents panel: • Fresh Ground Flaxseed Meal (must be fresh – goes rancid in 3 hrs)
I am Curious if your Oncologist Recommended any complementary therapies for you Facebook
Dina VanDecker- TibbsMy oncologists work with a board certified oncology naturopath as part of the team. I was so blessed for my team. The Cancer center offers all kinds of holistic care including mental health for current patients and survivors. Plus ongoing support and meetings. Now that I am clear I plan on putting in a proposal to volunteer my time, not sure which modality yet. I have studied a lot. The Biggest reco was 10,000 iu vitamin D because of all the research on links between Breast Cancer and deficient Vit D. Vitamin D Shadow Test – Search (bing.com) Also mushroom complex, collagen, liposomal c (after radiation) and some more specific to my needs.
Bethany Webb Yes, both of my oncologists (TX and CO) have recommended acupuncture, yoga, nutrition, massage, Reiki, humor, writing….they admit it’s not in their wheelhouse and I also bring ideas (especially supplements) to them and they either say “yes, that sounds great” or they give me a valid research-based reason why it would conflict with my medications. My cancer center has an integrative wing with many of these complementary therapies too. I also work with a naturopathic oncologist who is $$$ and not covered by insurance. While I LOVE seeing that medicine is moving into a more integrative direction – it still does have a long way to go!
How do you test for vitamin deficiencies? Blood test for Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency The sample is then analyzed by a lab. In some cases, a hair or saliva sample may be collected and anal… Is there a blood test to see what vitamins you are lacking? See more
Thank you Tara Coyote for creating this space! This group was a lifeline for me in the beginning. I don’t know where I would be today without it. I look forward to posting here more.
Alternative Cancer, Lyme, Chronic Disease Advice October 21, 2019 · Unresolved trauma or shock an important cause of cancer Root Cause to Illness & Symptoms: An Intro to German New Medicine (themindbodyrewire.com) Germany’s famous Surgeon and Cancer Specialist Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer was studying psychological aspects of cancer and treatment for ten years. He examined and tested over 40,000 cancer patients. He was amazed at why cancer of an organ does not spread to neighboring organs, e.g. he never saw cancer cervix and cancer uterus in the same patient. He also noted that each of his cancer patients suffered psychological stress or shock during the last 3 to 5 years prior to diagnosis and he was not able to come out of that trauma (Puna Wai Ora Mind-Body Cancer Clinic , 2006-2014 ). Each patient of Dr. Hamer also underwent a CT scan of the head and in all cases he noticed some dark shadow or concentric circles somewhere in the brain. These dark circles would be in exactly the same place in the brain for the particular types of cancer. There was also a 100% correlation between the location of dark circles in the brain, the location of the cancer in the body and the specific type of unresolved conflict. It was very astonishing. Opponent radiologists said that the spots in the CT scans were machine errors (Artifacts). But Siemens Company which made the machine also admitted that these spots are not Artifacts(Hamer). Thus Dr. Hamer concludes that when we are in a stressful conflict which is not resolved, the emotional reflex center in the brain which corresponds to the experienced emotion (e.g. anger, frustration, grief) will slowly break down. Each of these emotional centers are also connected to a specific organ. When a centre breaks down, it starts sending wrong signals to the organ it controls, resulting in the formation of deformed cells in the tissues, cancer cells. He also suggests that metastasis is not the SAME cancer spreading. It is the result of new conflicts that might be brought upon by the very stress of cancer diagnosis or of invasive and painful therapies. Dr. Hamer started to give psychotherapy to his patients along with the treatment. He felt that as soon as psychotherapy shows its effect, the patient is out of this shock (Psychosomatic), cancer cells stop multiplying and the dark circles of brain start to disappear instantly. X-rays of the brain now showed a healing edema around the damaged emotional center as the brain tissue began to repair the affected point. There was once again normal communication between the brain and body. A similar healing edema could also be seen around the now inactive cancer tissue. Eventually, the cancer would become encapsulated, discharged or dealt with by the natural action of the body. Diseased tissue would disappear, and normal tissue would then again appear. This way Dr. Hamer proved that unavoidable stress or conflict is the cause of cancer and other diseases. The paragraph below shows different psychosomatic trauma or shock and the corresponding cancer it causes.
Organ affected by Cancer and Type of Stress connection. Bone – Lack of self-worth, inferiority feeling. Bladder -Ugly conflict, dirty tricks Breast, right -Conflict with husband or partner Breast, left -Conflict concerning child, home, and mother. Cervix -Severe frustration Colon – Ugly indigestible conflict Esophagus -Cannot have it or swallow it Lung – Fear of dying or suffocation, including fear for someone else Kidneys -Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict Liver – Fear of starvation Testes and Ovaries – Loss conflict Breast milk gland -Involving care or disharmony Breast milk duct -Separation conflict Intestines – Indigestible chunk of anger Uterus – Sexual conflict Gall Bladder -Rivalry conflict Adrenal cortex -Wrong direction, gone astray Larynx -Conflict of fear and fright Bronchioles -Territorial conflict Skin – Loss of integrity Prostate -Ugly conflict with sexual connections or connotations Melanoma -feeling dirty, soiled, defiled Pancreas -Anxiety-anger conflict with family members, inheritance Spleen – Shock of being physically or emotionally wounded Rectum -Fear of being useless Stomach-Indigestible anger, swallowed too much Thyroid -Feeling powerless Mouth -Cannot chew or hold it Lymph glands -Loss of self-worth associated with the location.
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer – A controversial doctor A great innovative scientist Ryke Geerd Hamer was born on May 17, 1935, in Meltmann in Germany and grew up in Friesland. At 18, he started a medical and Theology studies in Tübingen University, where he fell in love with a medical student named Sigrid Oldenburg whom he married a year later. He completed his degree in Theology and completed studies of Medicine in 1962 and he got his medical registration in 1963. In 1972 he received the Doctor of Medicine degree in internal medicine and began treating cancer patients in the Tübingen University clinic. He was very intelligent and he made many inventions, including the non-traumatic Scalpel (which was 20 times sharper than the ordinary razor blade), bone cutting saws for plastic surgery and automated massage tables, etc. He earned a lot of money from these inventions and started a clinic in Rome. On August 18, 1978 early morning, a rampaging Italian Prince Victor Emanuel of Savoy shot his son Dirk, who slept unaware in a boat. He was badly injured. Father took care of his son day and night. But on December 7, 1978 Dirk ultimately died in his arms. This was a big shock for the parents. He suffered a loss of confidence and after three years he developed cancer in testes. After a few months his wife also developed breast cancer. He thought it was the result of the shock of his son’s death. Dr. Hamer later named this type of shock, the “Dirk Hamer Syndrome” or DHS.
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He researched cancer patients for many years and proved that each disease is caused by some mental trauma or shock. He experimented on 40,000 patients and based on these experiences, made the five rules of the New German Medicine. The results caused a furor among the doctors but they were not ready to accept these findings. His research did not see any benefits. Finally, in 1981, he presented his research at the University of Tübingen for verification. He wanted that his research should be taught in medical schools, so that the patient could be benefited by this research. But the university refused to even review his research. There was deep conspiracy against Dr. Hamer; he was sued in 1986 by the University and court ordered to confiscate his medical registration. Though his research papers could not be denied in the court. But he did not give up and fought for the truth and science for whole life. His wife could not come out of son’s death agony and eventually died in 1985.
In 1997, he was accused of examining three patients without charging any fee and sent to jail for 19 months as he had no Medical Registration that time. Police took all his research papers and books when he was arrested. His research, study and treatment was so effective that the Public Prosecutor had to admit in the court that 6500 late-stage cancer patients were treated by him, five years later 6,000 of them were still alive. September 9, 2004 he was arrested again at his residence in Spain, and sent to prison in France. This time he was accused that some French patients died after they read his book, while he never met and consulted these patients. He was released from prison in February, 2006 and in March 2007, he was sent to Sendiyard, Norway. Today he has been living in exile in Norway. This is the price he paid for truly serving humanity. Journalists and medical experts portray Dr. Hamer as a quack, a self acclaimed miracle healer, a cult leader, or an insane criminal who denied cancer patients the “life-saving” conventional treatments.
Stages of Cancer Development Phase 1: Inescapable Shock Phase 1 starts about 18-24 months prior to cancer diagnosis. This is where the person with cancer experiences an unavoidable and prolonged emotional stress or trauma, affecting deep sleep and the production of melatonin. Melatonin, a hormone produced in the pineal gland of the brain during deep sleep, is essential for inhibiting growth of cancer cell and is the primary hormone which regulates the immune system; particularly production of interleukin-2 which controls white blood cell immune functions and protects against microbial infection. Without enough melatonin cancer cells flourish. Dr Hamer proved that every cancer has a specific psycho-emotional cause and a part of the emotional reflex centre in the brain is damaged due to the prolonged stress. And as each part of the emotional reflex centre in the brain controls and is connected to a particular organ of the body. When the emotional centre in the brain breaks down, the organ it controls gets wrong and incomplete signals, becomes cancerous.
Phase 2: Adrenaline Depletion In phase 2, stress hormone cortisol levels are raised which deplete adrenaline levels. There are limited reserves of adrenaline in the body and when a person is under constant psycho-emotional stress these reserves are depleted quickly. While insulin helps to shift glucose into cells, the adrenaline is crucial for cell respiration and for converting this glucose into ATP energy for the body and for healthy cell division (which occurs via the metabolic pathway known as Oxidative Phosphorylation and via the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle in the mitochondria of the cell). Without adrenaline to stimulate production of the GDP molecule (which is essential for mitochondrial cell respiration and glucose conversion), the cells Krebs’ Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation metabolic pathway is broken and the cell is starts to ferment glucose instead as a means to obtain some amounts of ATP energy (via Glycolysis), which creates lactic acid state in the body and a low pH environment in the cell. This sets the stage for the cancer-fungus to evolve in phase 3 to ferment rising glucose and lactic acid, causing cell mutation.
Phase 3: The Cancer Fungus In phase 3, somatids (small microorganisms essential for life) that live in our cells pleomorphic into yeast-like-fungus to ferment excess glucose and produce lactic acid in cells (due to the cell fermenting glucose for energy caused by a broken Krebs’ Cycle). In a healthy person, somatids have 3 stages in their life cycle – somatid, spore, double spore. However, in a highly acidic low pH lactic acid environment, somatids pleomorphism into a further 13 stages. These stages include viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus forms which ferment excess glucose and produce lactic acid in the cell. These fungal pathogenic forms then shift to the cell nucleus to produce waste products called mycotoxins, inhibiting repair of cell DNA and also inhibiting the very important tumor suppressor genes. Without this gene p53 which regulates cell death (apoptosis), the cell mutation starts beyond repair, and ‘cell-growth regulating’ proto-oncogenes turn into oncogenes, causing normal cells to mutate into cancer cells.
Phase 4: Niacin Deficiency In phase 4, depleted adrenaline (epinephrine) levels cause a depletion of dopamine in the brain. Adrenaline is made by dopamine, and as more and more dopamine is used up during stress, the amino-acid tryptophan creates serotonin to please the depressed mood. This causes a depletion of tryptophan which is required to produce niacin/niacinamide (vitamin B3) for cell respiration. Normally tryptophan converts niacin and NAD coenzymes which are then required by the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle in the mitochondria for cell respiration, glucose conversion and the creation of ATP energy. Without niacin and NAD coenzymes, the Krebs’s Citric Acid Cycle is broken, causing the cell to ferment glucose for energy, resulting in cell mutation and the formation of cancer.
Phase 5: Vitamin C Deficiency In phase 5, depleted adrenaline levels cause a depletion of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in the adrenal glands. Ascorbic acid is the important substance used by dopamine to make noradrenaline in the adrenal glands, which is then converted to adrenaline. During prolonged stress more and more adrenaline is depleted, meaning more and more ascorbic acid is used up in the creation of adrenaline. During chronic stress the adrenal glands also release ascorbic acid into the body to diminish the stressful impact of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure. Ascorbic acid is essential for preventing cell DNA damage caused by “oxidative stress”, converting oxygen waste products superoxide and hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water within the cell mitochondria throughout the Oxidative Phosphorylation. The continual loss of ascorbic acid (during prolonged chronic stress) thereby increases DNA damage and mutation in cell mitochondria, causing normal cells to turn into cancer.
Phase 6: Immune Suppression In phase 6, the immune system becomes weaker by a subconscious desire to “exit life”; due to elevated stress hormone cortisol levels depleting serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain that cause internal depression. An individual experiencing prolonged stress becomes tired of life and wants to come out of the never-ending stress and pain of life, by sending messages to the immune system to shut down. This occurs at the subconscious level where the immune system receives signals to stop production of interleukin-2- producing T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, macrophages and neutrophils. Without immune defenses, viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus that have pleomorphism within cells in phase 3 continue to grow and newly produced cancer cells go on multiplying.
How to Heal the Psycho-Emotional Trauma The diagnosis of cancer is not a death certificate; it just shows you that your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies are out of balance. It is a simple warning to you that you have not healed old wounds. These should be identified and healed.
Hammer suggested the following treatments to resolve the Psycho-Emotional conflict: 1) You can consult an experienced healer/therapist to heal these wounds. Many CDs and guides are available to help you in healing deeper layers of buried emotions in your subconscious mind. 2) According to Lothar Hirneise, 100% of all late stage ‘miracle’ cancer survivors had all made considerable “systems change” in their lives. This means they had all either left their stressful jobs, ended troubled marriages, shifted to other places or countries for the purpose of removing all stress from their lives. 3) Cancer patients often do not have proper sleep and thus do not produce enough Melatonin. Remember that melatonin is also produced during meditation. So meditate for at least 30 minutes a day or take melatonin orally. 4) High stress hormone cortisol levels deplete adrenaline reserves in the body. It is essential to include one daily activity to relax your mind, for the purpose of reducing stress hormone cortisol levels. Optimally spend 2 hours per day in relaxation. This can include walking on the beach, sitting amongst nature, undertaking yoga, yoga nidra or divine sleep, massage, meditation or visualization. 5) High stress hormone cortisol, low melatonin levels, parasites, pathogenic microbes, chemotherapy and radiation all weaken the immunity. So it is very important to support the immune system during recovery from cancer. We recommend you incorporate at least one therapy to boost and support your immune system. High dose Vitamin C therapy can be used. Visualization helps boost your Immunity. Consider graviola fruit to prevent side-effects of chemotherapy or radiation. Remember that graviola is not compatible with the Budwig Diet. 6) Removing the Cancer-Fungus, without which Cancer could not exist. Prolonged psycho-emotional stress suppresses the immune power. When the immunity is suppressed, somatids – change from harmless to pathogenic viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus forms. Cancer cannot exist without this viral-bacterial-yeast-like fungus. They travel to the cell nucleus and release “mycotoxins” which causes cell DNA damage and the mutation of normal cells into cancer cells, and ferment the glucose in cancer cells. They provide a natural growth factor for cancer cells to metastasize in the body. It is highly recommended you include at least one of the following to remove the cancer-fungus from your body: Apple Cider Vinegar, Garlic, and Soda bicarb, Essiac Tea or Hyperthermia. 7) Toxins which include “mycotoxins” or acidic waste products caused by the cancer-fungus, poor diet, chemicals, alcohol, tobacco, antibiotics, chemo-therapy, fermentation, poor exercise causing build-up of lactic acid, and dead microbes, parasites and cancer cells. These toxins accumulate in the liver which is the master immune system organ. When the liver is flooded with these toxins, the immune system is weakened and you feel sick, and cancer cells, viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus thrives. It is very important to detox the liver, colon (the intestinal immune system), as well as the gall bladder and kidneys, to prevent toxin build up within your body. When you are killing the cancer-fungus or cancer cells using an alternative or orthodox approach, you should detox the body at the same time, because your liver cannot remove all the dead microbes and cancer cells being killed in the process from the body. We suggest you to include at least one therapy to detox the liver and colon on a regular basis e.g. Liver-Colon Cleanse and Coffee Enema. Ozonated Water should be strongly considered for it is a super body detoxifier, except lung cancer patients or lung disease. Niacin (Vitamin B3) is a critical element needed by the body’s cells to function in a healthy way. Without niacin, the Krebs’ Cycle of cells is broken or impaired, and the cell reverts to glycolysis and the fermentation of glucose to obtain energy, causing cancer to develop. Vitamin C can be given 12 grams per day without much difficulty. 500 mg to 1500 mg Niacin (Tab. Neasyn-SR 500) is prescribed per day. 9) Cancer cells can only survive in low pH or acidic environments caused by the lactic acid produced during fermentation and by viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus excreting “mycotoxins” within cells. As cancer cells find it difficult to survive in an alkaline environment of 7.5 or greater, so it is essential to include a 3-step program to restore correct cell pH, which includes: 1) alkaline foods, 2) the removal of lactic-acid forming emotional stress and 3) the dextrorotatory lactic acid which is a key ingredient in sauerkraut and cottage cheese. 10) Cancer sometimes manifests as a direct result of a subconscious desire to “exit life”, caused by the individual feeling overwhelmed by the pains of life and no longer having a strong desire to live. This desire to exit life sends messages to the immune system to shut down. This subconscious desire to exit life must be reversed in order to survive cancer. Visualization and guided-imagery tools help to both heal and reverse this subconscious death wish 11) Prayer connects you to God and helps to overcome the subconscious death wish. When we asked what is the best option to cure last stage cancer, the first reply was a prayer. Ask God to forgive you for any wrong-doings, Tell Him to fill your life with love, health and happiness and diminish pain.
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Niacin (Vitamin B3) is a critical element needed by the body’s cells to function in a healthy way. Without niacin, the Krebs’ Cycle of cells is broken or impaired, and the cell reverts to glycolysis and the fermentation of glucose to obtain energy, causing cancer to develop. Vitamin C can be given 12 grams per day without much difficulty. 500 mg to 1500 mg Niacin (Tab. Neasyn-SR 500) is prescribed per day.
